[661] D. B. i. 208: ‘Testantur homines de comitatu quod Rex Edwardus dedit Suineshefet Siuuardo Comiti soccam et sacam, et sic habuit Haroldus comes, praeter quod geldabant in hundredo et in hostem cum eis ibant.’ It is here noted that though Harold had sake and soke over Swineshead, it paid its geld and did its military duty in the hundred. Our record would hardly mention such a point unless very often the exaction of geld and military service was one of the rights and duties of the lord who had sake and soke.
[662] In the next chapter we shall speak of the bishop’s land-loans.
[663] See the capitularies of 807 and 808 (ed. Boretius, pp. 134, 137). Also, Fustel de Coulanges, Les transformations de la royauté, 515 ff. It may well be doubted whether the five-hide rule had not been borrowed by English kings from their Frankish neighbours. Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. 208 ff.
[664] D. B. i. 152 b: ‘duo teigni homines Alrici filii Goding.’ Ib. ‘Hoc manerium tenuit Azor filius Toti teignus Regis Edwardi et alter teignus homo eius tenuit unam hidam et vendere potuit.’
[665] D. B. i. 84 b: at the end of a list of royal thegns ‘Omnes qui has terras T. R. E. tenebant, poterant ire ad quem dominum volebant.’
[666] D. B. i. 41: ‘Tres taini tenuerunt de episcopo et non potuerunt ire quolibet.’
[667] D. B. i. 91: ‘Hae terrae erant tainland in Glastingberie T. R. E. nec poterant ab aecclesia separari.’
[668] Hamilton, Inquisitio, pp. xviii. xix.
[669] D. B. i. 66 b: ‘De hac eadem terra 3 hidas vendiderat abbas cuidam taino T. R. E. ad aetatem trium hominum, et ipse abbas habebat inde servitium, et postea debet redire ad dominium.’ Ib. i. 83 b: ‘Ipsa femina tenet 2 hidas in Tatentone quae erant de dominio abbatiae de Cernel; T. R. E. duo teini tenebant prestito.’
[670] D. B. i. 64 b: ‘Herman et alii servientes Regis ... Odo et alii taini Regis ... Herueus et alii ministri Regis.’ Ib. 75: ‘Guddmund et alii taini ... Willelmus Belet et alii servientes Regis.’