[331] Ibid. 20 § 3.
[332] Ibid. 24.
[333] Selden’s Eadmer, p. 197; Bigelow, Placita Anglo-Norman. p. 7.
[334] D. B. i. 238 b, Alvestone.
[335] Cnut, II. 12. We may construe these terms by breach of the king’s special peace, attacks on houses, ambush, neglect of the summons to the host. In Hereford, D. B. i. 179, the king is accounted to have three pleas, breach of his peace, hámfare, which is the same as hámsócn, and forsteal; and besides this he receives the penalty from a man who makes default in military service.
[336] D. B. i. 298 b.
[337] D. B. i. 87 b: ‘Istae consuetudines pertinent ad Tantone, burgheristh, latrones, pacis infractio, hainfare, denarii de hundret, et denarii S. Petri; ter in anno teneri placita episcopi sine ammonitione; profectio in exercitum cum hominibus episcopi.’ See also the English document, Kemble, Cod. Dipl. iv. p. 233. The odd word burgheristh looks like a corrupt form of burhgrið (the peace of the burh), or of burhgerihta (burh-rights, borough-dues), which word occurs in the English document.
[338] D. B. i. 172, 175.
[339] Cnut II. 12, 13, 14. Perhaps when in other parts of England the pleas of the crown are reckoned to be but four, it is treated as self-evident that the outlaw falls into the king’s hand, as also the man who harbours an outlaw. If fihtwíte is the right word, we must suppose with Schmid (p. 586) that a fihtwíte was only paid when there was homicide. A fine for mere fighting or drawing blood would not have been a reserved plea.
[340] D. B. ii. 179 b: ‘Et iste Withri habebat sacham et socam super istam terram et rex et comes 6 forisfacturas.’ Ibid. 223: ‘In Cheiunchala soca de 6 forisfacturis.’