Note b — Chapter the thirteenth. Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES.
Reading edition
"Isti vero viri eliguntur per commune consilium, pro communi utilitate regni, per provincias et patrias universas, et per singulos comitatus, in pleno folkmote, sicut et vice-comites provinciarum et comitatuum eligi debent." LL. Edw. Confess. ibid. See also Bede, eccl. hist. l. 5. c. 10.