[43]. Private temple of worship.
[44]. Dholi.
[45]. An is the oath of allegiance. Three things in Mewar are royalties a subject cannot meddle with: 1, An, or oath of allegiance; 2, Dan, or transit dues on commerce; 3, Khan, or mines of the precious metals.
[46]. I rather describe what they were, than what they are. Contentions and poverty have weakened their sympathies and affections; but the mind of philanthropy must hope that they will again become what they have been.
[47]. Millar’s Historical View of the English Government, p. 85. [See p. [156] above.]
[48]. Hume, History of England, Appendix II. vol. ii. p. 291.
[49]. “1. That no man should be deprived of his fief, whether held of the emperor or mesne lord, but by the laws of the empire and judgement of his peers. 2. That from such judgement the vassal might appeal to his sovereign. 3. That fiefs should be inherited by sons and their children, or in their failure by brothers, provided they were feuda paterna, such as had descended from the father. 4. That the lord should not alienate the fief of his vassal without his consent.”[consent.”]
[50]. By the revised statute, Quia emptores, of Edw. I., which forbids it in excess, under penalty of forfeiture (Hallam, vol. i. p. 184).
[51]. Bhayyad, ‘frerage’.
[52]. Hallam, vol. i. p. 186.