Note 472 — Chapter IX · THE MUTUAL GUARANTEE. MÆGBURH. TITHING. HUNDRED.
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“And let every lord have his household in his own borh. Then if any of them should be accused, and escape, let the lord pay the man’s wer to the king. And if any accuse the lord that the escape was by his counsel, let him clear himself with five thanes, being himself the sixth. If the purgation fail him, let him forfeit his wer to the king; and let the man be an outlaw.“ Æðelr. i. § 1. Thorpe, i. 282. “And let every lord have his household in his own borh, and if any one accuse his man of any thing, let the lord answer for him within the hundred, wherein he is cited, as just law is. And if he escape,” etc. Cnut, ii. § 31. Thorpe, i. 394, 396. “Archiepiscopi, episcopi, comites, barones et milites suos, et proprios servientes suos, scilicet dapiferos, pincernas, camerarios, cocos, pistores, sub suo friðborgo habebant, et ipsi suos armigeros et alios servientes suos sub suo friðborgo; quod si ipsi forisfacerent, et clamor vicinorum insurgeret de eis, ipsi haberent eos ad rectum in curia sua, si haberent sacham et socam, tol et theam, et infangenethef.” Edw. Conf. xxi. Thorpe, i. 451.