[Footnote 196: I know of no authority for this form.] [Footnote 197: The '_Lathes_' of Kent of course point in the same direction.] [Footnote 198: Professor Vinogradoff states, on the contrary, that 'all are irregular in their formation'.] [Footnote 199: _English Village Community_, pp. 54, 139, 396.] [Footnote 200: The phrase 'quot hidæ _sint_ ibi' is of importance because such _formulae_ as 'T.R.E. geldabat pro ii. hidis, sed tamen _sunt_ ibi xii. hidæ', have sometimes been understood to imply two geldable, but twelve arable hides, whereas both figures refer to assessment only.] [Footnote 201: _English Village Community_, 212 note.] [Footnote 202: We might also compare the _droit de gîte_ on the other side of the Channel.] [Footnote 203: I am indebted for these identifications to Mr Eyton's work.] [Footnote 204: It is a further and fundamental error that Mr Eyton speaks of the _firma unius noctis_ as 'borough taxation', whereas it was essentially of the nature of rent, not taxes.] [Footnote 205: I am indebted for these identifications to Mr Eyton's work.] [Footnote 206: We should perhaps read this as explaining the composition of the centuriatus, viz.: 'the priests, the reeves, and six villeins from each Vill'.] [Footnote 207: Of this conflict there is a good instance, almost at the outset of the Cambridgeshire survey (p. 3): 'Hanc terram posuit Orgarus in vadimonio ... ut homines Goisfridi dicunt. Sed homines de hundredo neque breve aliquid neque legat' R.E. inde viderunt, neque testimonium perhibent.'] [Footnote 208: Whittlesford omitted, because in this Hundred no lands were held or claimed by the Abbey.] [Footnote 209: Compare Wilkins, 125 (quoted by Palgrave, _English Commonwealth_, i. 464) on English and 'Welsh' in Devon: 'Disputes arising between the plaintiffs and defendants of the two nations were to be decided by a court of twelve "lawmen"--six English and six Welsh--the representatives of the respective communities. And it may be observed that the principle which suggested this dimidiated tribunal was generally adopted in our border law.'] [Footnote 210: Wharton's _Anglia Sacra_, i. 339.] [Footnote 211: Palgrave's _Commonwealth_, ii. 183.] [Footnote 212: This seems of great importance as a very early instance of the _quatuor villatæ_ system, on which see Gross's 'The Early History and Influence of the Office of Coroner' (_Political Science Quarterly_, vol. vii, No. 4), where the researches of Prof Maitland and others are summarized.] [Footnote 213: Only four, however, of the fourteen actually swore: 'reliquos vero decem quietavit Willelmus abbas, qui parati erant jurare'.]