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

[578]. Ibid. No. 231.

[579]. Ibid. No. 235.

[580]. Cod. Dipl. No. 235.

[581]. Ibid. No. 1079.

[582]. Ibid. No. 1086. In both cases the rent is called gafol.

[583]. Cod. Dipl. No. 327.

[584]. Ibid. No. 695. I have rendered “forme fæstenes dæg” as if it were Caput jejunii.

[585]. Ibid. No. 699.

[586]. Ibid. No. 1043.

[587]. Gafolbære, gafolmǽd, gafolwidu, gafoltúning. The Saxons knew well enough that all these things were rent; and all land put out upon rent of any kind was gafolland, gafolcund or gavelkind land.