Note 39 — PART II. A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE OF THE WALL.
Reading edition
Hodgson, however, distinctly proves, that the cornage, or castle-guard rent of the North of England—originally a payment in lieu of cattle, and called in English, horngeld and neatgeld, cattle-tax, or ox-lay—has nothing whatever to do with sounding the war-alarm by horns.