Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[611] Hist. Engl. Law, i. 550.

[612] Edgar IV. 8. 9.

[613] Ibid. 6.

[614] Leg. Edw. Conf. 24.

[615] Leg. Edw. Conf. 15. Compare Leg. Henr. 91; Leg. Will. Conq. I. 22; Leg. Will. Conq. III.. 3.

[616] Leg. Henr. 7 § 7.

[617] It is possible that the entry (i. 204) which tells how the sokemen of Broughton enjoyed the smaller wites points to a free village court; but we have put another interpretation upon this; see above, p. 99.

[618] D. B. i. 91: ‘Ecclesia Romana beati Petri Apostoli tenet de Rege Peritone.’ Ib. 157: ‘Ecclesia Sancti Dyonisii Parisii tenet de Rege Teigtone. Rex Edwardus ei dedit.’ Ib. 20 b: ‘Abbas de Grestain tenet de Comite 2 hidas in Bedingham.’

[619] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 220.

[620] D. B. i. 218 b: ‘Rex vero Willelmus sibi postea in elemosina concessit, unde pro anima Regis et Regine omni ebdomada 2 feria missam persolvit.’ D. B. ii. 133: ‘et cantat unaquaque ebdomada tres missas.’