[995] This seems a more probable etymology than the derivation by spelling from Knabe.
[996] Cp. the Rev. G. Hill, Some Consequences of the Norman Conquest, 1904, pp. 60-61.
[997] Green, History (the longer), 1885, i, 79.
[998] Thierry, Histoire de la Conquête de l'Angleterre, édit. 9e, 1851, i, 152-55; Duruy, Hist. de France, ed. 1880, i, 289.
[999] Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond, 1907, pp. 3-5.
[1000] Cp. Buckle, 3-vol. ed. ii, 116, 1-vol. ed. p. 351; Stubbs, Const. Hist. i, 280; Sharon Turner, History of England during the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. i, 213. "The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants ... to their burghs." Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, bk. iii, ch. iii.
[1001] The Conqueror himself not only took pains to protect and attach native freemen who accepted his rule, but sought to retain their laws and usages. Cp. Stubbs, i, 281, 290, 298. The statement that he aimed specially at the manumission of serfs (Sharon Turner, as last cited, i, 135, 136) proceeds on a fabricated charter. That, however, is not later than Henry I.
[1002] Cp. Milman, Latin Christianity, bk. xiv, ch. i.
[1003] E.g. the rivalries of mendicant friars and secular priests and monks, and of the different orders of monks and friars with each other. Cp. Milman, Latin Christianity, 4th ed. ix, 145, 146, 155, 156; Sharon Turner, History of England during the Middle Ages, iii, 123-26, 137, etc. The strifes between popes and prelates are innumerable, in all countries.
[1004] As to this see Dr. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, 3rd ed. 1896, Appendix E. Cp. Green, Short History, ch. ii, § 6, p. 88.