Chapter XXIV: Legislation of the Later Kings

Importance of property in cattle 424

_Judicia Civitatis Lundoniæ_: Insurance against
cattle-stealing 425

1042. The Anglo-Saxon Hundred and its _gemôt_ 428

The Danish _wapentake_ 429

The Anglo-Saxon _burh_ and its development into
the borough 429

The _trinoda necessitas_: _fyrd-fare_, _burh-bote_
and _bridge-bote_ 432

The shire and its _gemôt_ 432

Ealdormen, earls and shire-reeves 434

Table of _wergilds_ in the _North-leoda
laga_ 435

_Rectitudines singularum Personarum_ 436

Various classes of dependants; the _geneat_,
_cotsetla_ and _gebur_ 437

Tendency towards administrative strictness. The
offence of _oferhyrnesse_ 438

The _borh_ or warrantor: institution of the
_tithing_ 439

Ordeals 440

Grants of _sake_ and _soke_ 441

Tendencies towards feudalism 441