[32] The 123rd of the novels.
[33] Labbe and Cossart Councils, 9. 119.
[34] Letters of Gregory the Great, lib. xii. ep. xi. (Migne 77, p. 1226).
[35] Another capitulary, dated 832, ordained that if there were an unendowed church it should be endowed with a manse and two villani by the freemen who frequented it, and if they refuse it shall be pulled down.
[36] When Willibrord, a Northumbrian educated at Ripon, was evangelizing Frankish Frisia, 692, etc., Alcuin records that he founded not only monasteries but encouraged the foundation of parish churches. Alcuin, “Opera II.,” tom. 101, p. 834. Migne.
[37] Bede, iii. 17.
[38] Ibid., v. 4, 5.
[39] At the same time, to encourage commerce, a merchant who had made three voyages in his own ship was entitled to the rank of Thane.
[40] The Bishop of Oxford and earlier authorities are of opinion that the “burg geat settl” means the right of jurisdiction over tenants. Sharon Turner conjectures that the place in the king’s hall means a seat in the Witenagemot.
[41] Thorpe, “Ancient Laws,” i. 367.