[681] D. B. i. 30 b: ‘Huius villae villani ab omni re vicecom[itis] sunt quieti.’
[682] D. B. iv. 99.
[683] Pseudoleges Canuti (= Liebermann’s Instituta Cnuti), 55 (Schmid, p. 430): ‘Comitis rectitudines secundum Anglos istae sunt communes cum rege: tertius denarius in villis ubi mercatum convenerit, et in castigatione latronum, et comitales villae, quae ad comitatum eius pertinent.’
[684] D. B. ii. 118 b: ‘Terre Regis in Tetford ... est una leugata terre in longa et dim. in lato de qua Rex habet duas partes: de his autem duabus partibus tercia pars in consulatu iacet.’ But this seems to mean that only this part of the land is in the county of Norfolk. Ibid. i. 246: in Stafford the king has twenty-two houses ‘de honore comitum.’
[685] D. B. i. 246.
[686] Ellis, Introduction. i. 313. When twenty years after Harold’s death a question about the title to land is at issue, there seems no reason why the jurors should tell lies about Harold.
[687] D. B. i. 154 b.
[688] D. B. i. 172.
[689] D. B. i. 238.
[690] D. B. i. 56 b: Berkshire custom, ‘Qui monitus ad stabilitionem venationis non ibat 50 sol. Regi emendabat.’ See also the Hereford custom, Ib. 179; also Rectitudines (Schmid, App. III.) c. 1.