[215] Compare Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor, p. 144; Chadwick, Anglo-Saxon Institutions, 239–48, and the remarkable article by Mr. W. J. Corbett in vol. xiv. of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, N.S., on the “Tribal Hidage”.
[216] Cnut, ii., 15 (in Liebermann, i., 320).
[217] Rutland was not, however, formed into a separate county till after the Norman Conquest.
[218] Edgar, iii., 5 (ibid., 202).
[219] Burg is, of course, one of the best-known words of the common Teutonic stock. It is enshrined in Luther’s hymn “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott,” and in hunting for the traces of Roman encampments in Hesse and Nassau, I have found that the name by which they are best known in the countryside is “Die alte Burg”.
[220] Ine, 45 (Liebermann, i., 108); Alfred, 40 (ibid., 72).
[221] Maitland, Domesday Book, etc., p. 184.
[222] IV., 2, 4 and 5 (Liebermann, i., 210).
[223] If Ethelfled’s fortress of Scergeat may be identified with Shrewsbury.
[224] As Freeman puts it: “I believe the cause of this distinction [between Somerset and Northamptonshire] to be that West Saxon England was made only once, while Mercian England had to be made twice” (“The Shire and the Gâ” in English Towns and Districts, p. 124).