Note 447 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.

There is some difficulty in deciding whether the head of the tithing was included in the ten, or beside it. I have proceeded upon the supposition that he was not included, consequently that there were really eleven men in the tithing. The leading authority (Jud. Civ. Lond. Æðelst. v. § 3. Thorpe, i. 230) is totally and irreconcilably contradictory on the point.