Note 454 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.

I do not for a moment imagine that this was an entirely new organization. The document which contains the record seems to be the text of a solemn undertaking, almost a treaty of alliance, between the City and king Æðelstan, for the better maintenance of the public peace. It is perhaps worth attention that the Tyn-manna-tǽl was a denomination peculiar to another large city—York: but the same authority from which we learn this fact, identifies the institution with that in common use throughout the land. Leg. Ed. Conf. xx.