[235] Ethelred, viii., 22 (Liebermann, i., 266).
[236] See Maitland, Domesday Book, etc., p. 260. He thinks it probable that many grants of similar privileges of an earlier date have perished.
[237] The German sache, preserved in our expression “for God’s sake,” and the like (Maitland, Domesday Book, etc., p. 84).
[238] Sco ealde Hlaefdige is the term used in the Chronicle to describe the queen-dowager. It will be remembered that there was in Wessex a peculiar distaste to the title “Queen”.
[239] By Freeman, Norman Conquest, ii., 124–25 and 615.
[240] For some years the county of Huntingdon was strangely added to Northumbria as a portion of his earldom. For the complicated question of the limits of the earldoms under Edward, see Freeman, Norman Conquest, vol. ii., note G.
[241] Freeman, u.s.
[242] Welisce menn.—Of course the word Wealas and its derivations meant simply non-Teutonic and had no necessary connexion with the British population of what we now call Wales.
[243] Some doubt has been thrown on the early connexion of Godwine with Kent.
[244] “Mycelne ende thes folces,” says the Peterborough chronicler; “thirty good thegns,” say the Abingdon and Worcester chroniclers, “besides other folk.”