[308]. “Mund ðǽre betstan widuwan eorlcundre, fiftig scillinga gebéte.” For the mund of a widow of the highest class, that is of earl’s degree, be the bót fifty shillings. Æðelb. § 75. Thorpe, i. 20.
[309]. Eád. Hlóð. § 5. Thorpe, i. 28.
[310]. Eád. Hlóð. § 7, 16. Thorpe, i. 30, 34.
[311]. Eád. Hlóð. § 16. Thorpe, i. 34.
[312]. Leg. Wiht. Thorpe, i. 36.
[313]. I do not think the expression of the Sax. Chron. an. 568 can be considered to contradict this. The ealdormen recorded there are merely princes in a general sense: as are Cerdíc and Cyneríc named an. 495, just as the same Chronicle an. 465 mentions twelve Welsh ealdormen. So also in 653, Peada the king of the Southangles is called aldorman. The Kentish charters in which we find Hamgisilus, dux, and Graphio, comes, are impudent forgeries. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 2, 3, 4.
[314]. Beda, H. E. iii. 24.
[315]. The forged foundation charter of Peterborough mentions the following ealdormen: Immin, Eádberht, Herefrið, Wilberht, Abon.—Chron. Sax. 657. Cod. Dipl. No. 986.
[316]. Cod. Dipl. Nos. 31, 54, 987, etc.
[317]. Ibid. No. 994. Beda, H. E. iv. 13.