[568]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 617, 651.
[569]. Ibid. No. 679.
[570]. Ibid. No. 616.
[571]. Ibid. No. 683.
[572]. See the case of the estate at Cowling, in the trial between Queen Eádgyfu and Goda. Cod. Dipl. No. 499.
[573]. Examples of this are found in Cod. Dipl. Nos. 429, 754, 1351, 1354, § 6.
[574]. Cod. Dipl. No. 267. an. 852. The mitta and other measures are unknown. However the sester of corn was one horse-load (Hen. Hunt. lib. vi. an. 1044); quære, What he could carry, or what he could draw? In the middle of the eleventh century, the sester of honey was thirty-two ounces. Cod. Dipl. No. 950.
[575]. They are called clean. These probably were made of flour passed oftener through the boulter. The common loaf had no doubt still much bran in it, and answers to our seconds. But it is probable that bread was generally made of rye.
[576]. Cod. Dipl. No. 226. an. 805-831. The sufl-loaf which I have translated raised, is I presume derived from the word sufflare, and was probably carefully leavened. We unhappily have not the Anglosaxon receipt for beer; but I presume the text implies that fifteen mittan, whatever they were, of malt were to go to the amber. Oswulf’s character for splendid liberality will induce us to believe that he meant the monks to have an Audit ale of their own, as well as our worthy Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.
[577]. Cod. Dipl. No. 220. an. 832.