Gross, The Gild Merchant, i, 178-179.
Wilkins, Leges Anglo-Sax., p. 59.
"And if a merchant thrived so that he fared thrice over the wide sea by his own means [cɲæƥte, craft] then was he thenceforth of thane-right worthy." (Thorpe, 81.) The word cɲæƥte is similarly translated in Wilkins's Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ; (ed. 1721, p. 71.) per facultates suas; but there seems no reason why it should not be taken to mean literally a craft or vessel. The passage occurs in a list of "People's Rank" which "formerly" prevailed, and is probably of Athelstan's time, even if it did not form part of the Judicia Civitatis Lundoniæ.—Wilkins, op. cit. p. 70 note.
Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, 105.
Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, p. 114.
-Id. ii, p. 115.
-Id. ii. pp. 117, 118. Annal. Monast., Waverley (Rolls Series No. 36), ii, p. 173.
The towns of Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford, and Derby, which for many years were occupied by the Danes, were so called.
Anglo-Sax. Chron., ii, pp. 118, 119.
-Id. ii, p. 119. Henry of Huntingdon (Rolls Series No 74), p. 180.