[528]. Vit. S. Idae, Pertz, ii. 571.
[529]. This seems the readiest way of accounting for the right of common enjoyed by the king, ealdorman and geréfa, in nearly every part of England; which right they could alienate to others. For the king’s common of pasture, etc. see Cod. Dipl. Nos. 86, 119, 276, 288, etc.
[530]. Cod. Dipl. No. 166. Here, by the way, the comb is used as a liquid measure; very probably of thirty-two gallons, the amount of the old barrel of ale, (the present barrel is thirty-six gallons). So to this day the hogshead is sixty-four gallons or twice thirty-two, the comb; as the quarter is sixty-four gallons, or two combs of dry measure. Even now in some parts of Surrey and Sussex, the peasants use peck for two gallons of liquid measure: I have heard them speak of a peck, and even half a bushel, of gin, brandy, beer, etc.
[531]. The pastus regis is the gite du roi well known in French history.
[532]. Cod. Dipl. No. 288, see also No. 281.
[533]. Cod. Dipl. No. 1063.
[534]. Ibid. No. 313.
[535]. Cod. Dipl. No. 1084, an. 904.
[536]. Ibid. No. 1088.
[537]. Ibid. No. 216, an. 822.