Note 466 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.

In what may be called the Act of Constitution of Orcy’s Gyld at Abbotsbury, this feature is very prominent. I have therefore appended the instrument in an Appendix to this chapter, although as a voluntary gyld it differs in some respect from those heretofore under consideration. The trade-guilds of the Middle Ages paid also especial attention to the religious communion of their members.