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Friborgh   Listen
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Friborgh, Friborg  n.  (Written also friburgh and fribourg)  (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.






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... but it directed every minute part in the Saxon polity. A man who did not seem to have the good opinion of those among whom he lived was judged to be guilty, or at least capable of being guilty, of every crime. It was upon this principle that a man who could not find the security of some tithing or friborg for his behavior,[67] he that was upon account of this universal desertion called Friendless Man, was by our ancestors condemned to death,—a punishment which the lenity of the English laws in that ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke



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