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A note drawen out of a very ancient booke remaining in the hands of the right worshipfull M. Thomas Tilney Esquire, touching Sir Frederike Tilney his ancestor, knighted at Acon in the Holy land for his valour, by K. Richard the first, as foloweth. Pertinuit iste liber prius Frederico Tilney de Boston, in comitatu Lincolniae militi facto apud Acon in terra Iudeae anno Regis Richardi primi tertio.
Maria dell' Organo, where is mentioned "pratum juris imperii nostri pertinens de Comitatu Veronensi, de Sculdascia videlicet, que Fluvium dicitur"; and in a document published by Ughelli, in speaking of the bishops of Belluno, "Sculdascia Belluni" is used.
If you write my life true, Sir, you must set down, that I, Joseph Munden, comedian, came into the world upon Allhallows Day, Anno Domini 1759, 1759; no sooner nor later, Sir: and I saw the first light the first light, remember, Sir at Stoke Pogis, Stoke Pogis, comitatu Bucks, and not at Lup Lup Magna, which I believe to be no better than moonshine, moonshine; do you mark me, Sir?
Quo quidem opere quid potest esse praeclarius? Mihi vero et Cn. et P. Scipiones et avi tui duo L. Aemilius et P. Africanus comitatu nobilium iuvenum fortunati videbantur, nec ulli bonarum artium magistri non beati putandi, quamvis consenuerint vires atque defecerint.
Eorum miles vltimus fuit Philippus Tilney nuper de Shelleigh in Comitatu Suffolciae, pater et genitor Thomae Tilney de Hadleigh in Comitatu praedicto Armigeri, cut modo attinet iste liber. Anno aetatis suae 64, Anno Domini 1556. The same in English.
H. vidua," "Marg' L. de A. in com' E. Spinster," and "Sara B. de C. in comitatu Eb. vidua," are those of the actual culprits and of their residences. Yorkshire is clearly one of the counties meant. It was, moreover, West's own county. The account of Elizabethan exorcism which we have given is necessarily one-sided.
40 De multis regionibus Imperio Tartariae subiectis. 41 De magnificentia Imperatoris Indiae. 42 De frequentia Palatij, et comitatu Imperatoris praesbiteri Ioannis. 43 De quisbusdam miris per Regiones Imperij Indiae. 44 De loco et dispositione Vallis infaustae. 45 De quibusdam alijs admirandis, per Indorum insulas. 46 De periculis et tormentis in valle infausta.
Per ambitionem==ex vitae splendore et numeroso comitatu. Br. cf. note on ambitio, G. 27. Quaererent interpretarentur. Interpretarentur, not famam but the facts above mentioned, and the necessity A. was under of living as he did. Viso aspectoque. On seeing him and directing their attention particularly to him. XLI. Crimen==public accusation. Querela==private complaint. Princeps, gloria, genus.
"But the year following the grant there was so great a flood of rain, to this day called the great May-day flood, that it ruined the author's ironworks and inventions, and at a market town called Sturbridge, in comitatu Wigorniae, one resolute man was carried from the bridge in the day time."
From this we trace the Italian word contado, by the steps comitatu, comitato, contato, contado. The land division here indicated is indifferently called in the Lombard records territorium, fines, civitas, or judiciaria.
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