Note 615 — Chapter X · THE CONNEXION BETWEEN THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM AND SERFDOM OF ENGLAND AND OF THE ROMAN PROVINCES OF GERMANY AND GAUL.
Reading edition
See Ancient Laws of England, Thorpe, p. 79, under wer-gilds, s. vii., where 'hiwisc' = 'hide.' See also 'hiwiski,' 'hiwischi,' for 'familia,' in 'St. Paules Glossen,' sixth or seventh century. Braune's Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, p. 4.