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Vocab Ch. 5
Vocabulary for Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment. | Habeas Corpus |
| any person ranking below a peer; a person without a title of nobility. | Commoner |
| a medieval weapon consisting of a bow fixed transversely on a stock having a trigger mechanism to release the bowstring, and often incorporating or accompanied by a mechanism for bending the bow. | Crossbow |
| a large bow drawn by hand, as that used by English archers from the 12th to the 16th centuries. | Longbow |
| an agreement or treaty establishing this. | Truce |
| a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. | Heretic |
| the “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215. | Magna Carta |
| the series of wars between England and France, 1337–1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais. | Hundred Years War |