The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2) / A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest

by John Mitchell Kemble

[538]. Ibid. No. 257, an. 844.

[539]. Cod. Dipl. No. 258, an. 845.

[540]. Ibid. No. 261, an. 848.

[541]. Ibid. No. 277, an. 855.

[542]. Ibid. No. 278, an. 855.

[543]. Cod. Dipl. No. 306, an. 875.

[544]. Perhaps in a case of this sort, even Ingulf may be trusted: he tells us, with some reference however to the Norman forms of livery, with which he was familiar, “Conferebantur etiam primo multa praedia nudo verbo, absque scripto vel charta, tantum cum domini gladio, vel galea, vel cornu, vel cratera; et plurima tenementa cum calcari, cum strigili, cum arcu, et nonnulla cum sagitta.” Hist. Croyl. p. 70.

[545]. Cod. Dipl. No. 317.

[546]. Members of the scírgemót or county-court: hence the instrument is of a solemn and legal description. Cod. Dipl. No. 821.

[547]. Cod. Dipl. No. 281.