Note 246 — Chapter XIII · EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM.
Reading edition
See Schmid’s Glossary sub voce ‘Eideshülfe.’ There is only one mention of oaths of so many hides in the later Anglo-Saxon laws, viz. in Alfred, s. 11, in which it is stated that a woman must clear herself from a charge of previous unchastity with 60 hides.