Note 43 — INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. THE ENGLISH MANOR.
Margaret Ashley translation
Fustel de Coulanges, L’Alleu, pp. 359, 413. Such a use of the term “free” may, perhaps, help to explain the phrase with regard to the cotsetla in the Rectitudines: “Det super heorthpenig ... sicut omnis liber facere debet” (“eal swâ œlcan frigean men gebyreth”). Thorpe, p. 185.