ENGLISHRY, the process by which William the Conqueror protected the lives of his Normans. If a stranger was found slain, and the slayer was not produced in court, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, unless it could be proved that he was English. Englishry, if established, excused the hundred. It is said that Cnut protected his Danes in a similar manner. Englishry was abolished in 134o.
See Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law, vol. i. 67.