The king sent urgent messages to the knights who were so disdainful of Lot, summoning them on their allegiance to hasten to his aid.

Arthur commanded all his lords on their allegiance to meet him at Caerleon in Glamorgan.

Not a knight but was bidden to ride on his allegiance, with all the men and horses that he had.

The Romans desire to make Britain their province, to grow fat with our tribute, and to bring France once more to their allegiance For this cause they have ransacked the east, and carried hither these strange, outland people, who amaze Christendom, to fight in their quarrel.

For himself he would return to Britain, to bring the kingdom back to its allegiance, and to avenge himself on Mordred, who had served his wife and honour so despitefully.

Mordred held Cornwall in his keeping, but for the rest the realm had returned to its allegiance.

They indeed owned their allegiance to the Pope, as the supreme head of the Church, but their fealty was becoming a mockery.

At the Revolution of 1688 he refused allegiance to William of Orange; he was deprived of all his offices and pensions, and as an old man was again thrown back on literature as his only means of livelihood.

Again, our mercantile and commercial classes are thoroughly disgusted and lukewarm in their allegiance.

I need say no more than this to convince your Lordship, that while this state of things subsists (and I much fear that no measure but the establishment of reciprocal trade between Canada and the States, or the imposition of a duty on the produce of the States when imported into England, will remove it), arguments will not be wanting to those who seek to seduce Canadians from their allegiance.

Protection and allegiance were reciprocal.

At his accession he had bound himself by oath to protect the liberties of his subjects, and by the violation of that oath he had released the people from the obligation of allegiance to him.

Before Monk had joined the army, he published[a] three ordinances, by which, of his supreme authority, he incorporated Scotland with England, absolved the natives from their allegiance to Charles Stuart, abolished the kingly office and the Scottish parliament, with all tenures and superiorities importing servitude and vassalage,

It was well known, at this time, that all the provinces of Spain had shaken off their allegiance to the mother country, and declared themselves independent.

And hence thy fire-side chair appears to me A peaceful thronewhich thou wert form'd to fill; Thy childrenministers, who do thy will; And those grand-children, sporting round thy knee, Thy little subjects, looking up to thee, As one who claims their fond allegiance still.

Their allegiance was now transferred to Captain Hardy, and the master of a brig which was in the last stages of senile decay, meeting Nugent in The Goblets, actually showed him by means of two lucifer matches how the collision might have been avoided.

He expatiated upon the advantages which had accrued to Florence under the Headship of the Medici; and he urged upon the assembly to offer their allegiance to Piero's sons, and to give them the authority that their father and grandfather had possessed.

Leaders of men, they became adherents of the aristocratic partythe Ghibellinesand were consistent and energetic in their allegiance to the Emperor.

The members of the State and General Governments are all under oath to support both, and allegiance is due to the one and to the other.

To his sisters he assigned these honors of the vestal virgins, the right to witness horse-races in the same section of seats with him, and the right to have uttered in their behalf as well the prayers which were annually offered by the magistrates and the priests for his welfare and that of the State, and the oaths of allegiance sworn to his empire.

"For a long time, happiness and content prevailed; but they afterwards revolted, and many gave up their allegiance.

Submit to its exactions, but pay it no allegiance, and give it no voluntary aid.

" Thus both the political parties, and the candidates of both, vie with each other, in offering allegiance to the slave power, as a condition precedent to any hope of success in the struggle for the executive chair; a seat that, for more than three-fourths of the existence of our constitutional government, has been occupied by a slaveholder.

I renounce my allegiance to a Constitution that enthrones such a power, wielded for the purpose of depriving me of my rights, of robbing my countrymen of their liberties, and of securing its own protection, support and perpetuation.

And these are the principal reasons of my refusal any longer to acknowledge my allegiance to it, and of my determination to revoke my oath to support it.