[5] But the Auctor Anonymus makes it clear that the king was not asking for the balance of the sums raised, but for the entirety: 'duo illi solidi ... si in unum conferuntur immensum efficere possunt cumulum'.
[6] Stubbs' Const. Hist., i. 381, 582.
[7] Dorset Domesday, p. 144.
[8] Thus accounted for (Rot. Pip., 8 Hen. II):
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paid in | 141 | 10 | 0 |
| Paid out previously | 63 | 0 | 0 |
| Allowed for remissions | 20 | 1 | 2 |
| Balance due | 22 | 13 | 10 |
| —— | —— | —— | |
| 247 | 5 | 0 |
N.B. The roll sums up the remissions as £21 [sic] 1s 2d, but the total of the items is £20 1s 2d.]
[9] Oxfordshire, for instance, where the amounts were £239 9s 3d, £249 6s 5d, £242 0s 10d; or Wiltshire, where they run £388 13s 0d, £389 13s 0d, £388 11s 11d.
[10] L'Aide al Vescunte, as quoted by Miss Norgate, who observes thereon, 'This payment, although described as customary rather than legal, and called the "sheriffs' aid", seems really to have been nothing else than the danegeld.... His (Garnier's) story points directly to the danegeld.'
[11] Const. Hist., i. 382.
[12] In this detail alone Grim appears to have confused it with the uniform two shilling rate of the danegeld. The record in the Testa de Nevill (pp. 85, 86) of the 'auxilium vicecomitis', due from the Vills in the Wapentake of Framelund (Leic.), illustrates well the payment.