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单词 the king's highway
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the King's (also Queen's) highway
a. British. the King's (also Queen's) highway: the public road network, regarded as being under royal protection; (esp. in early use) a specific road regarded as belonging to that network.In Old English without the.
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eOE (Kentish) Agreement between Æðelmod & Plegred (Sawyer 1196) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 747 Ab oriente cyniges heiweg. A meritie stret to Scufelingforde.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 95 Forstallynge, wrong oþer let i-doo in þe kynges hiȝe weie [L. strata regia].
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 141 (MED) Richard Ticedwell..grauntid..iiij acris of arable londe towarde þe kinges hall, þe whiche turnin to þe kinges hi wei.
?1564 Proclam. Elizabeth I Conserv. Quenes Swannes (single sheet) It is ordeyned, that euery swanherde intending to kepe any swannes or signettes, that they shal kepe them in a pen..within .xx. foote of the Quenes hygh way.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 155 Ile be buried in the Kings hie way, Some way of common trade, where subiects feete May hourely trample on their soueraignes head.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iv. §67. 228 Shall it bee a fault to straiten and encumber the Kings high way with publique nuisances?
1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 104 It is ordained that W. J. shall remove his Dunghill lying by the Queens high way against his House, before the feast of Easter next, upon the paine of forfeiture ten shillings.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 157 This is not the King's Highway, 't is a Way upon Sufferance.
1791 J. Ritson Jurisdict. Court-leet 31 A certain gutter..by which nasty or stinking water is conducted into the queens highway, to the great nuisance of the queens highway.
1860 F. B. Head Horse & his Rider 143 These hounds..are on that portion of the Queen's highway which connects Northampton with Market Horborough.
1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. 22 The two phrases [‘the king's peace’ and ‘the king's highway’]..come from the time when the king's protection was not universal but particular, when the king's peace was not for all men or all places, and the king's highway was in a special manner protected by it.
1917 Times 6 Feb. 3 Unless the public nuisance is established, no private individual can succeed in getting relief..in a case where the injury complained of..[results] from the use of the King's highway.
1992 Independent 28 Sept. 2/4 These paths are part of the Queen's highway and those who obstruct them are breaking the law.
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