← Table of contents
The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 469 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.

Reading edition

I find no instance of a hundredes man having the blut-bann or ius gladii: but in the time of Eádgár, he seems to have had power to administer the single and threefold ordeal; whether only in the case of serfs does not appear. Inst. Hundr. Thorpe, i. 260.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings