[77]. See Saxon Chronicle, J. Ingram’s ed. p. 295. London, 1823.
[78]. Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. p. 204.
[79]. Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 33.
[80]. Often of death for serious offences, but the prisoner’s goods were forfeited for felony; hence it was to the profit of the government to have many felonies. See F. W. Maitland, Const. Hist. Eng. p. 111, and J. Britton, Nichols’ ed. p. 35. Oxford, 1855.
[81]. “To them” (the subject people) “a new tribunal seemed only a new torment.”—L. O. Pike, Hist. Crime, i. 134. London, 1873.
[82]. The hundreds were liable to be fined for undetected murders—as villages now are in India—and also officers for neglect of duty; see T. Madox, History and Antiquities of the Exchequer, chap. xiv. p. 539, etc. London, 1769. J. Britton, F. M. Nichols’ ed. p. 138. This liability was abolished in the reign of Edward III.; see W. S. Holdsworth, Hist. p. 8.
[83]. T. Madox, Hist. Exch. i. p. 425, etc.
[84]. Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 52.
[85]. Infangthef, the right to hang a thief, “hand having and back bearing.” Utfangthef, the right to punish a thief beyond the particular boundary.
[86]. Holdsworth, Hist. p. ii.; and see Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. 452, 453, etc.