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

Note 73 — Chapter II · REIGN OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

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The Bishop of Winchester fined for not putting the king in mind to give a girdle to the Countess of Albemarle.—Robertus de Vallibus debet quinque optimos palafredos, ut rex taceret de uxore Henrici Pinel.—The wife of Hugh do Nevil fined in two hundred hens, that she might lie with, her husband for one night; another, that he might rise from, his infirmity; a third, that he might eat.

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