Note 1113 — APPENDICES. (continued 3)
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"Invadiavit Rotbertus de Belueer pro sex libris Cenomannensium, terram suam quam dederat uxori sue in dotem, ipsa bene hoc concedente, Philippo fratri insuper fide sua in manu Johannis filii Bigoti illud idem sororem suam tenere assecurante" (fol. 116).
[1114] Ed. Pipe-Roll Society.
[1115] "Hiis testibus, Ranulfo vicecomite, Bertha vicecomitissâ, Matilda filia ejus."
[1116] "Hæc dicens vertit se ad comitem Albemarlensem, dataque dextera, 'Do,' inquit, 'fidem quia hodie aut vincam Scottos aut occidar a Scottis.' Quo similiter voto cuncti se proceres constrixerunt" (Æthelred of Rievaulx).
[1117] "Episcopus Wintonie in manu archiepiscopi Cantuarensis coram episcopis affidavit quod si ego decederem castra Wintonie ... Duci redderet."
[1118] "Hunc supradictam conventionem ... affidavit idem Comes (sic) in manu domini Cantuarensis archiepiscopi ... sine malo ingenio tenendam; et cum eo Comes Gloucestrie.... Similiter et dominus episcopus Sarum affidavit in manu ejusdem Legati," etc. (Sarum Charters and Documents, pp. 22, 23).
[1119] Compare the old English term "Handfasting." The law in Austria, it is said, still recognizes the clasping of hands as a formal contract.
[1120] "Placita de debitis, quæ fide interposita debentur, ... sint in justitia regis."