The freedom of the city can now only be acquired by birth or servitude; but many were formerly admitted by gift and purchase, a fine of from £ 3 to £ 25, according to trade, being charged on the admission of strangers.

But none save Arthur there availed, To sunder out the blade --King Arthur Made King

The hybridizing of US country music with other forms – a kind of indigenization also familiar to scholars of global culture – contributes to the notion of the transnational rural without suggesting a McDonaldsesque ‘McCountry’ homogeneity (the kind of criticism usually levelled at country music mega-stars such as Dolly Parton or Shania Twain; Jensen, 1998).

cis- + alpine → cisalpine (“on this [the Roman] side of the Alps”)