Note 98 — Chapter II · THE MARK.

Numerous instances may be found in Grimm’s valuable work, Die Deutschen Weisthümer, 3 vols. 8vo. These are the presentments or verdicts of such courts, from a very early period, and in all parts of Germany. It is deeply to be lamented that the very early customs found in the copies of Court Rolls in England have not been collected and published. Such a step could not possibly affect the interests of Lords of Manors, or their Stewards; but the collection would furnish invaluable materials for law and history. We shall have to refer hereafter to the Advocatus or Vogt, the elected or hereditary patron of these and similar aggregations.