[376]. “And the king enjoins the reeves in every place to protect the abbots in all their worldly needs, as best ye may.” Æðelred, ix. § 32. Thorpe, i. 346.
[377]. Æðelst. i. Introd. Thorpe, i. 194, 196.
[378]. Eádg. i. § 3. Æðelr. ix. § 8. Cnut, i. § 8. Thorpe, i. 262, 342, 366.
[379]. Æðelst. i. § 10. Thorpe, i. 204.
[380]. Eádm. iii. § 5. Thorpe i. 253. This law uses the word ordalii, which I believe to be an error for hordere, as in Æðelstán’s law, and have rendered it accordingly.
[381]. Leg. Æðelr. i § 4. Thorpe, i. 282.
[382]. Cnut, ii. § 8. Thorpe, i. 380.
[383]. Æðelst. v. § 10. Thorpe, i. 238.
[384]. Cod. Dipl. No. 1323. This writ is directed in the usual form, to the archbishop, the bishop of Rochester, the abbot of St. Augustine’s, the sheriff and the thanes of Kent.
[385]. Cnut. ii. § 70. Thorpe, i. 412. Feorm is the king’s farm or support: and feormfultum a benevolence in aid of the same. It had become compulsory in some cases, and this is what Cnut forbids.