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Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law

Note 280 — Chapter XIV · THE LAWS OF THE KENTISH KINGS.

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It cannot be right, I think, to reason the other way with Schmid, that as there were 30,000 sceatts in the King’s wergeld of 120 pounds, there must have been 250 sceatts in the pound and 4·166 sceatts in the Mercian scilling instead of four.

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