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  • HENFARE
    A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book.
  • HENGHEN
    In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction.
  • HENGWYTE
    Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, c 47, | 17.
  • HENRICUS VETUS
    Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancient English chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman.
  • HEORDFAETE, OR HUDEFAEST
    In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, via., folgeras, (folgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were house-retainers of their lords.
  • HEORDPENNY
    Peter-pence, (q. v.)
  • HEORDWERCH
    In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.
  • HEPTARCHY
    A government exercised by seven persons, or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 500, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, namely, that of Kent by the Jutes; those of Sussex, Wes-sex, and Essex by the Saxons; and those of East Anglla, More...
  • HERALD
    In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carried messages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, or truce. In English law, a herald is an officer whose duty is to keep genealogical lists and tables, adjust armorial bearings, and regulate the ceremonies at royal More...
  • HERALDRY
    The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence In the paper of causes for hearing.
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