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

by Frederic William Maitland

[761] Sohm, Die Entstehung des deutschen Städtewesens: Leipzig, 1890.

[762] Ellis, Introduction, i. 248–253.

[763] D. B. i. 56 b.

[764] D. B. i. 1. Black Book of the Admiralty, ii. 158: ‘the herring season, that is from S^t. Michael’s Day to S^t. Clement’s (Nov. 23).’ S^t. Andrew’s Day is Dec. 1.

[765] Edward, I. 1; Æthelstan, II. 12, 13; IV. 2; VI. 10; Edmund, III. 5; Edgar, IV. 7–11; Leg. Will. I. 45; Leg. Will. III. 10. See Schmid, Glossar. s.v. Marktrecht.

[766] Edgar, IV. 3–6. We should expect rather 36 than 33, and xxxvi might easily become xxxiii.

[767] K. 280 (ii. 63), 316 (ii. 118).

[768] Kemble, Cod. Dip. 1075 (v. 142); Kemble, Saxons, ii. 328; Thorpe, 136: ‘ge landfeoh, ge fihtwite, ge stale, ge wohceapung, ge burhwealles sceatinge.’ In D. B. i. 173 it is said that the Bishop of Worcester had received the third penny of the borough. Apparently in the Confessor’s day he received £6, the third of a sum of £18. As to the early history of markets, see the paper contributed by Mr C. I. Elton to the Report of the Royal Commission on Market Rights, 1889.

[769] Æthelstan, II. 14.

[770] The general equivalence of port and burh we may perhaps infer from Æthelstan, II. 14: No one is to coin money outside a port, and there is to be a moneyer in every burh.