[1071] Ibid.: ‘praevaricationis delictum secundum quod praesulis ius est emendet.’
[1072] D. B. 174. Compare the entry on f. 175 b relating to the church-scot of Pershore.
[1073] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 217. See also D. B. i. 165 b, Hinetune.
[1074] Heming, i. 81: ‘Edricus qui fuit, tempore regis Edwardi, stermannus navis episcopi et ductor exercitus eiusdem episcopi ad servitium regis.’ D. B. i. 173 b: ‘Edricus stirman’ held five hides of the bishop.
[1075] Heming, i. 77: ‘Et [episcopus] deracionavit socam et sacam de Hamtona ad suum hundred de Oswaldes lawe, quod ibi debent placitare et geldum et expeditionem ... persolvere.’
[1076] Maitland, Northumbrian Tenures, Eng. Hist. Rev. v. 625.
[1077] Hist. Eng. Law, i. 288.
[1078] In this respect Oswald’s leases seem to have closely resembled a form of lease, known as manusfirma, which became common in the France of the eleventh century: Lamprecht, Beiträge zur Geschichte des französischen Wirthschaftslebens, pp. 59, 60.
[1079] Heming, i. 259: ‘Ac primo videndum quae terrae trium heredum temporibus accommodatae sint, post quorum decessum iuri monasterii redderentur, quaeve postea iuxta hanc conventionem redditae, quaeve iniuste sunt retentae, sive ipsorum, qui eas exigere deberent, negligentia, sive denegatae sint iniquorum hominum potentia.’ See also the story told by Heming on p. 264.
[1080] Lamprecht, op. cit. p. 61, says that it was quite uncommon for the French landlord to get back his land if once he let it for three lives. One of the Worcester leases, but one stigmatized by Kemble (ii. 152), is a lease for three lives ‘nisi haeredes illius tempus prolixius a pontifice sedis illius adipisci poterint.’