[232] Another reading has xxx. See Schmid, p. 206. The Latin version has xxv, and the quotation in the Laws of Henry I also has xxv.
[233] 25 × 240 = 6000 pence = 1200 Wessex scillings of 5d.
[234] Catalogue of English Coins, Anglo-Saxon series. Introduction, p. xxxi, to vol. ii.
[235] Thorpe (p. 75) appends this clause to the so-called Laws of Edward and Guthrum. But Schmid considers it as a fragment and places it in his Anhang vii.
[236] Schmid, Anhang vii. 2; Thorpe, p. 79.
[237] A ceorl’s wergeld is cclxvi thrymsas, i.e. cc scillings by Mercian law. 266⅔ × 3 = 800 pence or 200 Mercian scyllings of 4 pence.
[238] From the text of MS. D.
[239] The fragment itself is a combination of two or more. But the statement of wergelds in thrymsas seems to unite them. Schmid also points out that the eorl had not yet superseded the ealdorman. See Einleitung, p. lxv.
[240] 2000 thrymsas of 3d. equalled 1200 Wessex scillings of 5d., so that the ceorl with five hides to the king’s utware became a twelve-hynde man. There is no allusion to the six-hynde status as a halfway step towards the gesithcund status. And the use of the word ‘gesithcund’ seems to throw back the original date of these clauses to that of Ine’s law, the word not being used in later laws. See Schmid’s Glossary, sub voce ‘Gesith.’
[241] I.e. of pure silver. Compare the same phrase ‘de novis et meris denariis’ in the Edictum Pistense, A.D. 864, quoted supra, p. 191, n.