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

by Frederic William Maitland

[731] D. B. i. 2: ‘Concordatum est de rectis callibus quae habent per civitatem introitum et exitum, quicunque in illis forisfecerit, regi emendabit.’ See the important document contained in a St Augustin’s Cartulary and printed in Larking, Domesday of Kent, Appendix, 35: ‘Et omnes vie civitatis que habent duas portas, hoc est introitum et exitum, ille sunt de consuetudine Regis.’

[732] Schmid, App. XII; Leg. Henr. c. 16.

[733] Fleta, p. 66; see also 13 Ric. II. stat. 1. cap. 3.

[734] Edmund, II. 2.

[735] See also Schmid, App. IV. (Be griðe and be munde), § 15: ‘If any man fights or steals in the king’s burh or the neighbourhood (the ‘verge’), he forfeits his life, if the king will not concede that he be redeemed by a wergild.’

[736] Æthelstan, II. 20.

[737] K. 1334 (vi. p. 195): a contract made at Exeter before Earl Godwin and all the shire.

[738] Edgar, III. 5; Cnut, II. 18.

[739] Mention is made of the walls of Rochester and Canterbury in various charters from the middle of cent. viii onwards: K. vol. i. pp. 138, 183, 274; vol. ii. pp. 1, 26, 36, 57, 86; vol. v. p. 68.

[740] Green, Conquest of England, 189–207.