62. #him . . . þe limes#, his limbs. Emphatic is ‘þ{a}t his ribbes him to brake,’ KH 1077. #lof ⁊ grim#: the passage is corrupt: grī may be gri{n} or gri{m}; lof can only be for loþ, as Thorpe suggests in his translation, ‘loathly and grim,’ as if two adjectives for the name of the contrivance. Possibly grine has dropped out after grī; the words are associated in ‘Forðon he me alysde of laðum grine’ = ‘Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo,’ Paris Psalter, xc. 3. But more probably the scribe has heard indistinctly an unfamiliar word such as, wæron loþ engins. It is true that engine, device, machine does not appear in English till 1300, but it is found in Anglo-Norman books in the last half of the twelfth century, and it must have come to England with the castle. 63. #rachenteges#, chains, fetters; but the gloss #collario# racentege (Napier, 2062) is noteworthy in the present connexion. #ð . . . onne#, one of which. 64. This may mean, ‘That was adjusted in this way, namely it is fastened,’ &c., but it is not clear. Perhaps _it_ has been lost before _is_. The contrivance must have resembled that described in Reade’s It is Never too Late to Mend, ch. xi. 66. #bæron#: supply _sculde_ out of _myhte_. 70. #æure umwile#, at regularly recurring times; it became a regular tax. #tenserie#, protection money. Round, 215, quotes from a letter of Pope Lucius to Archbishop Theobald, ‘Quidam etiam sub nomine tenseriarum villas et homines suos spoliant.’ LL. _tensare_ means, to protect, and, through extortion of money on pretence of protection, to rob. See Round, 414 and NED _s.v._ Other references for _tenserie_, _tenser_ are Wistasse le Moine, 2112; Roman de Rou, 9554. 71. Worcester was burnt in 1139, Nottingham in 1140 and 1153, Winchester in 1141, Oxford in 1142, Cambridge by Geoffrey in 1144. 72. Comp. ‘Ærst aswond þat corn here[;] ȝeond al þas kineriche. | þer aft{er} hit wes swa deore[;] & al folc gon to deȝen. | swa þat þu mihtes fare[;] fulle seouen nihte | ꝥ no mihtest þu þurh nene chep[;] finde neouwer na bred. | an b{ur}ȝe and on londe,’ L 31793-31801; ‘ꝥ folc ut of londe[;] flah on ælche ænde. | monie hundred tune{n}[;] bi-læued weoren of monne{n}. | þat lut me uinde mihte[;] me{n} uaren ȝeond londe,’ L 31845-50. 75. #ieden on#, ‘went about asking,’ Norgate. This meaning requires the verbal subst.; rather, ‘subsisted on,’ with _on_ of manner.