Word: veult
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...bills. Two periwigged clerks stood before the silk-robed Lord Chancellor, read out the name of each bill passed at this session of Parliament. After each item (regulation of motor traffic, working hours for barbers, etc. etc.) the first clerk bowed solemnly, the second boomed out "Le Roy le veult...
...usual Royal Assent to the Money Bills passed by Parliament was intoned in archaic Norman French: "Le roi remerci ses bons sujets, accepte leur bénévolence et ainsi le veult!" ["The King thanks his good subjects, accepts their benevolence (grants of money), and so wills...
...clerk intoned in Norman French the immemorial affirmative command: "Le Roi le veult...