[261] D. B. i. 36 b: ‘T. R. W. femina quae hanc terram tenebat misit se cum ea in manu reginae.’ Ibid. 36: ‘Quidam liber homo hanc terram tenens et quo vellet abire valens commisit se in defensione Walterii pro defensione sua.’
[262] D. B. ii. 172: ‘Hos calumpniatur Drogo de Befrerere pro homagio tantum.’ This seems equivalent to the common ‘commendatione tantum.’ D. B. i. 225 b: ‘fuerunt homines Burred et iccirco G. episcopus clamat hominationem eorum.’
[263] Schmid, App. x.
[264] Æthelst. II. 2.
[265] Also it had declared that every man must have a pledge, and probably the easiest way of fulfilling this command was to place oneself under a lord who would put one into a tithing.
[266] Leg. Edw. Conf. 12, § 5; but this is contradicted by Leg. Henr. 87, § 4.
[267] Æthelr. I. 1, § 2; compare Æthelr. III. 3, § 4.
[268] Leg. Hen. 82, § 6; 85, § 2.
[269] D. B. ii. 18 b: ‘inde vocat dominum suum ad tutorem.’ Ibid. 103: ‘vocavit Ilbodonem ad tutorem et postea non adduxit tutorem.’ Ibid. 31 b: ‘revocat eam ad defensorem.’ D. B. i. 141 b: 142: ‘sed Harduinus reclamat Petrum vicecomitem ad protectorem.’ Ibid. 227 b: ‘et dicit regem suum advocatum esse.’
[270] D. B. ii. 71 b: ‘Phenge tenet idem Serlo de R[anulfo Piperello] quod tenuit liber homo ... qui T. R. W. effectus est homo antecessoris Ranulfi Piperelli, set terram suam sibi non dedit.’ This however is not quite to the point.