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

[366]. The instances cited are Northumbrian, and it is remarkable that the chapter on Wergylds, § 4, reckons the heáhgeréfa as a separate rank, having a high wergyld, but inferior to that of the ealdorman. I am much inclined to think that these were sheriffs.

[367]. Leg. Ini, § 8. Æðelst. v. c. 8. § 2, 3, 4. Æðelwine scírman. Cod. Dipl. No. 761, but Æðelwine scírgeréfa. Ibid. No. 732. Wulfsige preóst scírigman[scírigman]; and Wulfsige se scírigman. Ibid. No. 1288. Ufegeát scíreman. Ibid. No. 972. Leófríc scíresman. Ibid. No. 929.

[368]. Leg. Ini, § 36.

[369]. Cod. Dipl. No. 755.

[370]. Ibid. No. 1288.

[371]. Ibid. No. 729.

[372]. The law of Æðelstán, i. § 12 (Thorpe, i. 206) assumes the presence of the reeves in the folcmót as a matter of course; but this does not particularise the shire-reeves, though these are probably included in the general term. See also Æðelst. iv. § 1. Thorpe, i. 220.

[373]. Leg. Eádg. ii. 5. Cnut, ii. 18. Thorpe, i. 268, 386.

[374]. Æðelst. i. § 26. So again Æðelst. iii. § 7; iv. § 1. Thorpe, i. 212, 219, 222.

[375]. Æðelst. v. § 11. Thorpe, i. 240.