Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law / Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'

by Frederic Seebohm

[272] Roxburgh Club, p. 138.

[273] Compare ærdian, to inhabit; and so burbærde and theowbærde, as below.

[274] About A.D. 995. Cod. Dip. 1290.

[275] Cod. Dip. mcccliv. See also Liber Eliensis, p. 120.

[276] Alfred, s. 37.

[277] [See supra, pp. 180-185.]

[278] The difference in spelling will be noticed. The Kentish spelling is mostly scætt. Elsewhere the spelling is sceatt.

[279] Schmid, Anhang vii. p. 398.

[280] It cannot be right, I think, to reason the other way with Schmid, that as there were 30,000 sceatts in the King’s wergeld of 120 pounds, there must have been 250 sceatts in the pound and 4·166 sceatts in the Mercian scilling instead of four.

[281] Catalogue &c., Introduction, p. xviii.