Note 262 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
“By Land in this passage, he means, Land that was held by military service.” (3 Litt. Hist. Hen. 2. 103.) If we may judge from a law of Canute, (LL. Canuti 72.) the marriage of Wards was unknown in his time.—Vide Spelm. Reliq. p. 29.