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The English Village Community

Note 172 — Chapter V · MANORS AND SERFDOM UNDER SAXON RULE.

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Alfred and Guthrum's Peace, Thorpe, p. 66. 'We hold all equally dear, English and Danish, at viii. half marks of pure gold, except the "ceorle þe on gafol-lande sit, and heora liesingum" (lysingon); they also are equally dear at cc. shillings,' i.e. they are 'twihinde men.'

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