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

by John Mitchell Kemble

[318]. Leg. Ælfr. § 37. Thorpe, i. 86.

[319]. “Gif he ealdormon síe, þolie his scíre, búton him cyning árian wille.” Log. Ini, § 36. Thorpe, i. 124.

[320]. Thorpe, i. 134.

[321]. Eádgar, ii. § 5. Thorpe, i. 268.

[322]. Cnut, Sec. § 18. Thorpe, i. 386. And so in the Frankish law the graff or count was to hold his court together with the bishop. Dönniges, p. 29.

[323]. Ælfr. § 38. Thorpe, i. 86.

[324]. Chron. Sax. an. 780.

[325]. Hen. Hunt, book iv. “Anno autem hunc sequente principes et praepositi Nordhumbre quendam consulem et justiciarium suum, quia rigidior aequo extiterat, combusserunt.” This seems like a judicial execution, not a mere act of popular vengeance. Simeon however says, “Osbald et Æðelheard duces, congregate exercitu, Bearn patricium Elfuualdi regis in Seletune succenderunt ix Kal. Jan.,” which can hardly be anything but what is referred to in the entry of the preceding year, where Simeon says of Ælfwald, “Erat enim rex pius et iustus, ut sequens demonstrabit articulus.” Sim. Gest. Reg. an. 779, 780.

[326]. Cod. Dipl. No. 219.

[327]. Ibid. No. 755.