[22]. The Mercian pound was equal to 60 scillings, the Wessex to 48; see H. A. Grueber, Handbook of the Coins, p. ix. London, 1899.
[23]. Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. p. 109.
[24]. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 80.
[25]. W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law, p. 13. London, 1903.
[26]. J. M. Kemble, The Saxons in England, i. p. 149. London, 1876.
[27]. R. Ruding, Annals of the Coinage, p. 110. London, 1840.
[28]. F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 44. Cambridge, 1897.
[29]. “It was at least theoretically possible down to the middle of the tenth century for a man-slayer to elect to bear the feud of the kindred. His own kindred, however, might avoid any share in the feud by disclaiming him; any of them who maintained him after this, as well as any of the avenging kinsfolk who meddled with any but the actual wrongdoer, was deemed a foe to the king.”—Pollock and Maitland, Hist. ed. of 1898, i. 48.
[30]. When a ceorl had been frequently accused, if afterwards he were apprehended he might lose a hand or a foot.—Laws of Ine. R Schmidt, Gesetze, p. 29. Leipzig, 1858.
[31]. See Laws of Ine, sect. 12. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 49.