Note 292 — Chapter IX · The State.

Wootton Welsh Laws, l. 2, c. 4; l. 5, c. 5, s. 79, 80. Leg. Wil. Conq., 1, 21. Lex. Sal. Tit. 49. Assize Wil. 5. The Frank Hamallus was the “super quem res primitus agnita fuerit, vel intertiata,” the “third hand,” apparently, of the Welsh bargain. From the Conqueror’s laws it would appear that the Norman Hemold-borh was not identical with the Getyma, but he was a character of a similar description. As late as the seventeenth century, the Borch Hamel was well known in the Scottish Highlands, and no cattle was bought without “sufficient caution of burgh and hamer.” Innes’ Sketches, etc., p. 382, note 1.