§ 2. Trade in the Anglo-Saxon period
[ 2] See next chapter.
§ 3. Internal Trade. Money
[ 3] See note 2, p. [243,] on Markets on Boundaries.
Mere barter, however, is tedious and cumbersome; and although, up to the time of Alfred (A.D. 870), a large proportion, though not the whole, of English internal trade was carried on in this fashion, the use of metals for exchange begins to become common in the ninth century; and in A.D. 900 regular money payments by tenants are found recorded. And when we come to the levy of the Danegeld (A.D. 991)—the tax raised by Ethelred as a bribe to the Danes—it is clear that money coinage must have been widely diffused and in general circulation.
§ 4. Foreign Trade
[ 4] See note 3, p. [243,] on Danish Influence on Commerce.