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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)

Note 67 — Chapter VII · OF THE LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE SAXONS.

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Every man not privileged, whether he be paterfamilias, (heorthfest,[A]) or pedissequa, (folghere,[B]) must enter into the hundred and tithing, and all above twelve to swear he will not be a thief or consenting to a thief.—Leges Cnuti, 19.

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