out-of-law

Updated: April 30, 2025

"I! Who am I? Out-of-law, and a wolf's-head." "We will put you back into your law, we will give you your lands in full husting." "Never mind a husting on my behalf. Let us have a husting, if we have one, for a better end than that. Now, men of Bourne, I have put the coal in the bush. Dare you blow the fire till the forest is aflame from south to north? I have fought a dozen of Frenchmen.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English