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Footnotes:
[1] We gather from FitzHerbert “On Surveyinge,” chap. xl. (1470 to 1538, A.D.) that this condition of things continued general to the end of the sixteenth century.
[2] Grimm, Stallybras’s ed., i. 90.
[3] Thorpe, “Ancient Laws,” etc., 201.
[4] “Burnt Njal.”
[5] We know very little of the religion of these Teutonic tribes before their conversion, or of its usages. Mr. Kemble had “no hesitation in asserting” that their religion was the same as that of the Scandinavians; he thought that the Mark and system of land occupation which had existed long before in their native seats was introduced in its entirety into their new settlements, and that every Mark had its fanum, delubrum or sacellum; and, further, that the priests attached to these heathen churches had lands—perhaps freewill offerings, too—for their support. Under these circumstances, he argues that nothing could be more natural than the establishment of a baptismal church in every Mark which adopted Christianity and the transference of the old endowments to the new priesthood (“The Saxons in England,” ii. 423).