engleshire

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engleshire - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ENGLESHIRE. A law was made by Canutus, for the preservation of his Danes, 
  that when a man was killed, the hundred or town should be liable to be 
  amerced, unless it could be proved that the person killed was an Englishman. 
  This proof was called Engleshire. It consisted, generally, of the testimony 
  of two males on the part of the father of him that had been killed, and two 
  females on the part of his mother. Hal. Hist. P. C. 447; 4 Bl. Com. 195; 
  Spelman, Gloss. See Francigena.