CONTENTS
| SECT. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| [CHAPTER I.] THE CURRENCY IN WHICH WERGELDS WERE RECKONED AND PAID. | ||
| I. | CONNECTION BETWEEN THE WERGELD OF 100 HEAD OF CATTLE AND THE MINA OF 100 GOLD STATERS | [1] |
| II. | THE SAME EQUATION REPEATED BETWEEN THE WERGELDS OF WESTERN TRIBES AND 200 GOLD SOLIDI OF CONSTANTINE | [5] |
| III. | THE FRANKISH CURRENCY | [9] |
| IV. | THE NORMAN AND ANGLO-SAXON CURRENCY | [12] |
| V. | THE MINAS WHICH SURVIVED IN USE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE ROMAN POUND | [13] |
| VI. | THE USE OF GOLD TORQUES AND ARMLETS, ETC., INSTEAD OF COINS | [17] |
| [CHAPTER II.] SUMMARY OF THE CYMRIC EVIDENCE. | ||
| I. | THE UNIT OF CYMRIC TRIBAL SOCIETY | [21] |
| II. | THE CONSTITUTION AND WORKING OF THE GWELY | [23] |
| III. | THE LIABILITY OF THE WIDER KINDRED FOR GALANAS IN CASE OF HOMICIDE | [30] |
| IV. | THE FISCAL UNIT FOR THE PURPOSE OF FOOD-RENTS TO THE CHIEFTAINS | [33] |
| V. | THE METHOD OF PAYMENT OF GALANAS BETWEEN KINDREDS | [42] |
| VI. | THE AMOUNT OF THE CYMRIC GALANAS | [46] |
| VII. | THE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF STRANGERS OR NON-TRIBESMEN | [50] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | ||
| THE EVIDENCE OF BEOWULF ON TRIBAL CUSTOM REGULATING FEUDS &c., | [56] | |
| [CHAPTER IV.] TRIBAL CUSTOM OF THE IRISH TRIBES. | ||
| I. | THE ERIC FINE OF THE BREHON LAWS | [73] |
| II. | THE HONOUR-PRICE (ENECLANN) | [80] |
| III. | THE GRADATIONS IN RANK UNDER THE BREHON LAWS | [83] |
| IV. | THE CURRENCY IN WHICH THE BREHON FINES WERE PAID | [97] |
| V. | THE IRISH COIRP-DIRE AND HONOUR-PRICE TRACED FURTHER BACK THAN THE BREHON LAWS | [100] |
| VI. | THE BRETON OR GALLIC WERGELD OF THE SO-CALLED ‘CANONES WALLICI’ | [105] |
| VII. | THE WERGELD OF ANCIENT GAELIC CUSTOM. THE EVIDENCE OF CÆSAR | [115] |
| [CHAPTER V.] THE WERGELDS OF THE BURGUNDIAN AND WISIGOTHIC LAWS. | ||
| I. | THE BURGUNDIAN WERGELDS | [121] |
| II. | THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX WISIGOTHORUM | [126] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF FRANKS AND OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY THE MEROVINGIAN KINGS. | ||
| I. | THE WERGELDS OF THE LEX SALICA | [131] |
| II. | THE DIVISION OF CLASSES AS SHOWN BY THE AMOUNT OF THE WERGELD | [147] |
| III. | TRIBAL RULES OF SUCCESSION IN ‘TERRA SALICA’ | [150] |
| IV. | THE WERGELDS AND DIVISION OF CLASSES IN THE ‘LEX RIPUARIORUM’ | [163] |
| V. | THE ALAMANNIC AND BAVARIAN LAWS | [172] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE TRIBES CONQUERED BY CHARLEMAGNE. | ||
| I. | THE EFFECT UPON WERGELDS OF THE NOVA MONETA | [179] |
| II. | THE LEX FRISIONUM | [194] |
| III. | THE LEX SAXONUM | [213] |
| IV. | LEX ANGLIORUM ET WERINORUM, HOC EST THURINGORUM | [224] |
| V. | THE SO-CALLED LEX CHAMAVORUM | [229] |
| VI. | CONCLUDING REMARKS | [231] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] THE TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEST SCANDINAVIAN LAWS. | ||
| I. | THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF SCANDINAVIA | [233] |
| II. | THE WERGELDS OF THE GULATHING AND FROSTATHING LAW | [238] |
| III. | THE GRADATIONS OF SOCIAL RANK DISCLOSED BY THE WERGELDS ETC. | [260] |
| IV. | THE CLASSES OF FREE MEN AND THEIR RELATION TO LAND | [271] |
| V. | THE LEX SCANIA ANTIQUA | [276] |
| VI. | SCANIAN AND LOMBARDIC CUSTOM COMPARED | [292] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] TRIBAL CUSTOM IN SCOTLAND. | ||
| I. | TRACES OF TRIBAL CUSTOM IN THE LAWS OF THE EARLY KINGS | [297] |
| II. | THE ‘REGIAM MAJESTATEM’ | [302] |
| III. | ‘LEGES INTER BRETTOS ET SCOTOS’ | [307] |
| IV. | RECOGNITION OF THE FOURTH AND NINTH DEGREES OF KINDRED IN SCOTLAND | [318] |
| [CHAPTER X.] ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE NORMAN POINT OF VIEW. | ||
| I. | ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM AS APPLIED TO NORMANS | [321] |
| II. | NORMAN VIEW OF WESSEX CUSTOM | [325] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] DANISH VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM. | ||
| I. | THE ‘DE INSTITUTIS LUNDONIE’—OF CNUT (?) | [337] |
| II. | FRAGMENT ‘OF “GRITH” AND OF “MUND”’ | [344] |
| III. | THE ‘FRITH’ BETWEEN ETHELRED II. AND OLAF TRYGGVASON, A.D. 993 | [349] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE VIKING OR NORTHMEN’S POINT OF VIEW. | ||
| I. | THE COMPACT BETWEEN KING ALFRED AND GUTHRUM, A.D. 886 | [351] |
| II. | THE COURSE OF PROCEDURE IN PAYMENT OF WERGELD | [356] |
| III. | FRAGMENTS OF MERCIAN AND NORTH PEOPLE’S LAW | [360] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM. | ||
| I. | KING ALFRED’S DOOMS | [370] |
| II. | THE DIALOGUE OF EGBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, A.D. 732-766. ECCLESIASTICAL OATHS AND WERGELDS | [377] |
| III. | THE DOOMS OF INE, A.D. 688-725 | [386] |
| IV. | THE POSITION OF STRANGERS IN BLOOD UNDER KING INE’S LAWS—THE SIX-HYNDEMAN | [396] |
| V. | THE TWELVE-HYNDE AND TWY-HYNDE MEN AND THEIR HYNDENS OF OATH-HELPERS | [406] |
| VI. | THE GESITHCUND AND CEORLISC CLASSES IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH LAND | [417] |
| VII. | COMPARISON OF WESSEX AND MERCIAN WERGELDS WITH THOSE OF CONTINENTAL TRIBES | [436] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] THE LAWS OF THE KENTISH KINGS. | ||
| I. | DISTINCTION FROM ANGLO-SAXON LAWS, A.D. 596-696 | [440] |
| II. | THE SCÆTTS AND SCILLINGS OF THE KENTISH LAWS | [443] |
| III. | THE LAWS OF ETHELBERT | [455] |
| IV. | THE LAWS OF HLOTHÆRE AND EADRIC, A.D. 685-6 | [467] |
| V. | THE LAWS OF KING WIHTRÆD, A.D. 690-696 | [476] |
| VI. | THE DIVISION OF CLASSES UNDER KENTISH CUSTOM | [481] |
| VII. | THE AMOUNT OF THE KENTISH WERGELDS | [487] |
| VIII. | RESULT OF THE KENTISH EVIDENCE | [492] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] | ||
| GENERAL CONCLUSIONS | [496] | |
| INDEX | [533] | |
