[899] J. H. Böhmer, Jus. Eccles. Protestantium T. V. p. 597.
[900] Ayeen Akbery, II. 498. This work was written about the year 1600 by Abulfazel, vizier of the Emperor Akbar. Gladwin’s Translation was published under the auspices of the East India Company in 1800. See also Ali Ibrahim Khan, in Asiatic Researches, I. 398.
[901] Ali Ibrahim Khan, loc. cit.
[902] D’Achery, Not. 119 ad Opp. Guibert. Noviogent.
[903] Vit. S. Bertrandi Convenar. No. 15 (Martene Ampliss. Collect. VI. 1029-30).
[904] Pet. Cantor. Verb. Abbrev. Not. in cap. lxxviii. (Migne’s Patrol. T. CCV. p. 471).
[905] Natur. Histor. L. VII. c. 2.
[906] “Si titubaverit, si singulos vomeres pleno pede non presserit, si quantulumcunque læsa fuerit, sententia proferatur.”—Annal. Winton. Eccles. (Du Cange, s. v. Vomeres). Six is the number of ploughshares specified in the celebrated trial of St. Cunigunda, wife of the emperor St. Henry II. (Mag. Chron. Belgic.). Twelve ploughshares are prescribed by the Swedish law (Legg. Scan. Provin. Lib. VII. c. 99. Ed. Thorsen. p. 170).
[907] Legg. Æthelstan. iv. § 6; Ætheldred. iii. § 7; Cnut. Secular, § 58; Henrici I. lxvi. 9.
[908] Legg. Scan. Provin. Lib. VII. c. 99 (Ed. Thorsen, pp. 170-2).