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when it shall be fulfilled. And if any one break that term, un-
less it be through the lord’s decree, let him make amends with
thirty shillings, and on a set day fulfil that which he should have
done before.
“ An ox’s bell, and a dog’s collar, and a blast horn, each of these
three shall be worth a shilling, and each is reckoned an informer.
“ Let the iron for the threefold ordeal weigh three pounds ; and.
for the single, one pound.”
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APPENDIX E.
LÆ'NLAND.
The following documents throw light upon the nature of L⅛n-
land, and the conditions under which it was held. The first is a
detailed account given by Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to king
Eadgar, of the plan which he adopted in leasing the lands of his
church : it is reprinted here from the sixth volume of the Codex
Diplomaticus, No. 1287. The second is a statement of the way
in which an estate of six ploughlands at Wouldham in Kent be-
came the property of the Cathedral at Rochester : it is No. 1288
in the same collection.
“ Domino meo karissimo regi Anglorum Eadgaro, ego Osuualdus
Uuigornensis aecclesiae episcopus omnium quae mihi per ipsius cle-
mentiam munerum tradita sunt, apud deum et apud homines gra-
tias ago. Igitur si dei misericordiaSuppeditet, coram deo ethomi-
nibus perpetualiter ei fidelis permanebo, Teminiscens cum gratiarum
actione Iargifluae benignitatis eius, quia per meos illud quod mag-
nopere expetebam mihi concessit internuntios, id est Teverentissi-
mum Dunstanum archiepiscopum et Venerandum Æboluuoldum
Uuintoniae episcopum et virum magnificum Brihtnobum comitem,
quorum Iegatione et adiutorio meam et sanctae dei aecclesiae que-
relam suscepit, et secundum consilium sapientum et principum
Buorum iuste emendavit, ad sustcntamen aecclesiae quam mihi
benigne et Iibens regendam commisit. Quare quo modo fidos mihi
subditos telluribus quae meae traditae sunt potestati per spatium
temporis trium hominum, id est duorum post se haeredum, con-
donarem, placuit tam mihi quam ipsis fautoribus et Consiliariis
meis, cum ipsius domini mei regis Iicentia et attestatione, ut fratri-