[225] Some of these names are probably contained in that curious document, the Tribal Hidage, on which Mr. Corbett has commented in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. xiv., N.S.
[226] See Chadwick, Anglo-Saxon Institutions, 262.
[227] If any exception is to be made to this statement it will be with reference to the half-independent earls of Bamburgh.
[228] The wers are calculated in the Scandinavian or, perhaps, Northumbrian money, the thrymsas, each equivalent to three penings.
[229] See Vinogradoff (The Growth of the Manor, p. 131) on this illustration of “the arrogant superiority of the Danish conquerors”. He remarks on the growth of the pretensions of the invaders since the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum which put the Northmen warriors only on the same level as the twelf-hyndmen, or ordinary thegns.
[230] Schmid, p. 371; Liebermann, p. 444.
[231] This is Professor Vinogradoff’s view, Growth of the Manor, p. 233.
[232] Edward, i., 1 (Liebermann, i., 138).
[233] Edgar, iv., 3 (Liebermann, i., 210). This law is important as it helps us clearly to distinguish between burh, a borough, and borh, an association for mutual defence and for the enforcement of mutual responsibility.
[234] Cnut, ii., 20 (ibid., i., 322).