Note 345 — Chapter VIII · THE UNFREE. THE SERF.
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Such may also have been malefactors, who sought an asylum in church or other privileged lands, and who sometimes formed a very considerable number of dependants or retainers: thus, “Contraxit universam iuventutem Houlandiae [Holland in Lincolnshire] strenuissimus comes Algarus, ... unà cum cohorte Croylandiae monasterii, videlicet CC bellatoribus robustissimis, eo quod maxima pars illorum de fugitivis fuerat.” Hist. Ingulf, p. 865.