 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pagina’s
...—The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced.—Manumission was frequently granted on a death-bed... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced. Du Cange, ib. vol. iv, p. 467. I shall transcribe... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 474 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced. Du Cange, ibid. vol. iv. p. 467. I shall transcribe... | |
 | William Robertson - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced. Du Cange, ibid, vol.iv. p. 467. I shall transcribe... | |
 | 1836 - 378 pagina’s
...formality of manumission was executed in the church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free, was led round the great altar, with a torch...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words of conferring liberty, were pronounced. Another method of obtaining liberty, was, by entering... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1844 - 168 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious ceremony. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in his hand, and when he had taken hold of the horns of the altar, solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced.... | |
 | 1836 - 1048 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words of conferring liberty were pronounced. Another method of obtaining liberty domestics,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards, Edwards Amasa Parks - 1853 - 518 pagina’s
...substituit servitutis, in ea, qua nati fuerant, manumittentis beneficio, libertate reddantur." vol. n. 11 round the great altar with a torch in his hand; he...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words of conferring liberty were pronounced. Another method of obtaining liberty was by entering... | |
 | William Robertson - 1857 - 576 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church, as a religious solemnity. The person to be set free was led round the great altar with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced. Du Cange, ibid. vol. iv. p. 467. I shall transcribe... | |
 | Anthony Benezet - 1858 - 164 pagina’s
...The formality of manumission was executed in a church or a religious assembly. The person to be set free was led round the great altar, with a torch in...took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the solemn words conferring liberty were pronounced." GROTIUS :—" Those are men-stealers who abduct,... | |
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The perfon to be fet free was led round the great altar with a torch in his hand, he took hold of the horns of the altar, and there the folemn words conferring liberty were pronounced. Du Cange, Ib. voL iv. p. 467. I 
