Excerpt from The Millenary of King Alfred: An Address Delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Monday, the 18th October, 1897 His legislation was deeply infused with conservative, and even a Biblical spirit but in the administration of justice he showed the most trenchant energy and a passionate zeal for reform. He was his own Court of Appeal and judges who laid down false law were made to tremble at his rebuke. How far he organised the local administration of counties is still rather obscure. He certainly improved it as ...
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Excerpt from The Millenary of King Alfred: An Address Delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Monday, the 18th October, 1897 His legislation was deeply infused with conservative, and even a Biblical spirit but in the administration of justice he showed the most trenchant energy and a passionate zeal for reform. He was his own Court of Appeal and judges who laid down false law were made to tremble at his rebuke. How far he organised the local administration of counties is still rather obscure. He certainly improved it as a system, and founded something like a course of regular assizes. He made Wessex an organic Kingdom, and he made Wessex the type for England to follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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