Dean Prideaux on this grant and on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” 53. Selden’s erroneous view on this grant, 53. Opinions of Saxon Chroniclers on it, 54. Folcland and Bocland defined, 56, 57. Kemble’s six canons to test genuineness of charters, 59. Ethelwulf’s charters thus tested, 59, 60. The Malmesbury Cartulary, 60. Ethelwulf’s second charter of grants, 62. Kemble’s opinion on Ethelwulf’s first and second grants, 64, 65. Charter C, an abridgment of William of Malmesbury’s charter, 65. Selden’s conclusion on Ethelwulf’s charter, 65, 66. CHAPTER VIII. _Tithe Laws Made by Anglo-Saxon Kings, pages 67-80._ Lord Selborne’s denial that tithes are referred to in the laws of Alfred, 68. Fuller’s errors about the tithe laws of King of Kent, 68. Edward and Guthrum II. passed a tithe law, 69. Athelstan’s law on tithes, 70. This is the first general law in England for payment of predial and mixed tithes, 71. Opinion of Lord Selborne and Dr. Lingard on Athelstan’s law, 71. Kemble, Stubbs, and Prideaux express a contrary opinion, and Mr. Thorpe by implication, 71, 72. What constituted a Witenagemót? 73. Kentishmen’s letter to King Athelstan, 75. Lingard and Freeman on this letter, 75. Definition of tithe, 76. Tithe laws of King Edmund, 77. Church-scot, 78. King Edgar’s laws, 79. Threefold division of churches, 80. First English law expressly appropriating tithes, 80. CHAPTER IX. _Origin of our Modern Parish Churches and Boundaries, pages 81-93._ The old minster, 81. Chapels of ease, 81. Landlords’ churches, 81. Church boundaries conterminous with landowners’ estates, 82. Manorial Churches in Domesday with one-third of tithes, 82. Errors created by confounding original meaning of “parochia,” with subsequent meaning, 83. Selden on Edgar’s law, 84. Bishop Kennett on Manorial Churches, 85. The parish bank, 83. Lay patrons had taken two-thirds of tithes for poor and repairing Churches, 86. Edgar’s canons and gloss to same, 86, 87. Origin of his canons, 88. Population of England in Anglo-Saxon times, 91. Population when tithes were first given, 92. Populations in A.D. 787, A.D. 927, and A.D. 960, respectively, 92, 93. Number of Bishops in England in A.D. 705, p. 93. Number at Conquest, 93. CHAPTER X. _The Laws of Ethelred II., pages 94-124._