Every
three years, the officers visited the forests in preparation for
the courts of the forest held by the itinerant justices. The
inferior courts were the wood-mote, held every forty days, and the
swein [freeman or freeholder within the forest]-mote, held three
times yearly before the verderers as justices, in which all who
were obliged to attend as suitors of the county court to serve on
juries and inquests were to be present.
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- The Times: 1154-1215 -
King Henry II and Queen Eleanor, who was twelve years older, were
both intelligent, educated, energetic, well-traveled, and
experienced in affairs of state. Henry was the first Norman king
to be fully literate and he learned Latin. He had many books and
maintained a school. Eleanor often served as regent during Henry's
reign and the reigns of their two sons: Richard I, the Lion-
Hearted, and John. She herself headed armies. Henry II was a
modest, courteous, and patient man with an astonishing memory and
strong personality. He was indifferent to rank and impatient of
pomp to the point of being careless about his appearance. He
usually dressed in riding clothes and was often unkempt. He was
thrifty, but generous to the poor. He was an outstanding
legislator and administrator.
Henry II took the same coronation oath as Edward the Confessor
regarding the church, laws, and justice.
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