[37] Archæologia xlii. espec. pp. 464-465.
[38] Ibid. p. 459.
[39] Ibid. 464. Cf. for traces of Iberians in other districts, Greenwell and Rolleston, British Barrows, p. 679.
[40] Germania, cc. 24, 25; and see the commentary of Fustel de Coulanges in Recherches, pp. 206-211.
[41] The passages relating to the subject are brought together in a volume of old-fashioned learning—A Dissertation upon Distinctions in Society and Ranks of the People under the Anglo-Saxon Governments, by Samuel Heywood [1818], pp. 317 seq., 413 seq. Cf. Fustel de Coulanges, L’Alleu, chaps, x., xi.
[42] Penitential of Theodore [xix. 20, in Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes, p. 286; xiii. 3, in Hadden and Stubbs, Councils iii. p. 202]. Penitential of Egbert [Addit. 35, in Thorpe, p. 391.]
[43] Fustel de Coulanges, L’Alleu, pp. 359, 413. Such a use of the term “free” may, perhaps, help to explain the phrase with regard to the cotsetla in the Rectitudines: “Det super heorthpenig ... sicut omnis liber facere debet” (“eal swâ œlcan frigean men gebyreth”). Thorpe, p. 185.
[44] Thorpe, Ancient Laws, p. 45 (Ine, 3).
[45] Ibid. 316 (Theodore).
[46] Ibid. 55 (Ine, 39).