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

[294]. This very assertion proves that the position of the comes was, in itself[itself], inferior to that of the freeman.

[295]. Mor. Germ. xiii. xiv.

[296]. Hist. Dan. p. 6.

[297]. Ibid. p. 144.

[298]. Sax. Gram. Hist. Dan. p. 33.

[299]. Hist. Dan. p. 68.

[300]. Nibelunge Nôt. 66. p. 10, Lachmann.

[301]. Annal. Laurish. an. 796. Pertz, Mon. Germ. i. 182.

[302]. An. 796. Pertz, i. 183.

[303]. Will. Malm. Gest. Reg. i. 213, § 134.