[153], 6. within the jurisdiction. "Infra bannamleucam," defined by Ducange as a certain territory by the boundaries of which the jurisdiction and immunities of any place, whether a town or monastery, were limited. Bannum is here used in the sense of jurisdiction; and the amount of territory so enfranchised was usually reckoned as a league either way, hence banna leuca or banlieue. The exempt jurisdiction of Bury Abbey was limited to the circuit of a mile within four crosses.
[153], 6. Villeins of Hardwick. The Latin word is lancettos, serfs holding by base services. In one of the cartularies of St. Edmund, the "Lancetti de Hardwick" were to cleanse the latrines of the monastery.
[154], 23. Beodricsworth. This is the ancient name of Bury St. Edmunds. Mr. Arnold says (I. iv.) the name of Beodric "seems to mean 'a table chieftain,' comp. beod. geneat, a table companion. But there is some countenance in the MSS. for Beadricsworth, which would come from beadu-rica, one mighty in war." Seynt Edmunds Biri is first substituted for Beodricsworth in Charters from Edward the Confessor to the Monastery (cf. page 260 and Battely, App. ix. 134).
[155], 14. Aver-peni. The money paid by the tenant in commutation of the service (avera) of performing any work for his lord by horse or ox, or by carriage with either.
[155], 20. Eels from Southrey. Ælgiva, Queen of Canute, gave to the Monastery yearly four thousand eels, with her gifts which pertained thereto at Lakenheath. The manor of Southrey, in Norfolk, with three fisheries, was appropriated to the cellarer (Rokewode, p. 151).
[157], 2. haggovele. Probably head-tax or hearth-tax.
[159], 2. Romans xii. 10.
[159], 9. Summa petit livor. Ovid, Rem. Amoris, 369.
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[163], 8. Habakkuk iii. 2.