Note 158 — Chapter II · THE REGALIA, OR RIGHTS OF ROYALTY.
Reading edition
“Dunhelmum veniens, locum quidem natura munitum, sed non facile habitabilem invenit, quoniam densissima eum silva totum occupabat,” etc. Transl. Sci. Cuðb. Bed. Hist. vol. ii. p. 302. The earliest grants of land on which these establishments were placed, usually state the land to be silva or silvatica.