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To afford some protection to lone Normans in the tense period after the Conquest, William I declared that if a murdered man could not be proved to be English, he would be presumed to be Norman, and the hundred fined. By the time of Richard I, it had fallen into disuse, as the nations merged, though it was not formally abolished until 1341.
Englishry, or Englescherie, is a legal name given, in the reign of William the Conqueror, to the presentment of the fact that a person slain was an Englishman. If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, unless it could be proved that he was English. Englishry, if established, excused the hundred. Dr. W. Stubbs (Constitutional History, I 196) says that possibly similar measures were taken by King Canute. Englishry was abolished in 1340.
See Select Cases from the Coroners Rolls, 1265-1413, ad. C. Gross, Selden Society (London, 1896).
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