[34] See [Appendix B].
[35] A.-S. C., 910, 911.
[36] New English Dictionary, Borough.
[37] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 942. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has three words for fortifications, burh, faesten, and geweorc. Burh is always used for those of Edward and Ethelfleda, faesten (fastness) or geweorc (work) for those of the Danes.
[38] See the illustrations in Wright, History of Domestic Manners.
[39] Bury is formed from byrig, the dative of burh.
[40] Professor Maitland observed: “To say nothing of hamlets, we have full 250 parishes whose names end in burgh, bury, or borough, and in many cases we see no sign in them of an ancient camp or of an exceptionally dense population.” Domesday Book and Beyond, 184.
[41] Schmid, Gesetze der Angelsachsen, pp. 176, 214, 372. It is not absolutely certain that the burh in these three cases does not mean a town.
[42] Schmid, 138. Professor Maitland says: “In Athelstan’s day it seems to be supposed by the legislator that a moot will usually be held in a burh. If a man neglect three summonses to a moot, the oldest men of the burh are to ride to his place and seize his goods.” Domesday Book and Beyond, 185. “All my reeves,” are mentioned in the Preface to Athelstan’s Laws, Schmid, 126.
[43] Schmid, 138. “Butan porte” is the Saxon expression, port being another word for town; see Schmid, 643.