49. #he#, resumes the subject #clerek and knyht#: a frequent construction in this poem, comp. 20/66-68, 21/98-105, 24/204, 5; similarly 24/209, 10 where the pronoun is explained by a noun. It is common in AR ‘þe wreche peoddare more noise he makeð to ȝeien his sope,’ 66/17. Borgström takes #he# as referring to #eorl and eþelyng#, l. 44, with #clerek# and #knyht# as object of #demen#, on the ground that clerks and knights did not exercise judicial power. The matter is not so simple. #Clerek# may include bishops, who sat in pre-Conquest shire-courts by the side of the Alderman, and lawyers generally. And #demen# is a word of wide meaning, comp. ‘Ne wandige ná se mæsse-preost no for rices mannes ege, ne for féo, ne for nanes mannes lufon, ꝥ he him symle rihte deme, gif he wille sylf Godes domas gedégan,’ BH 43/9; ‘Ne sceall nan godes þegn for sceattum riht deman,’ Ælf. Lives i. 430/244; ‘And he hæhte alle cnihtes[;] demen rihte domes,’ L 22115. Alfred meant that there should be no discrimination between rich and poor; discrimination between clerk and knight was not likely. #demen riht# is a phrase in which riht is a noun: comp. ‘Se rihtwisa dema sceall deman æfre riht,’ Ælf. Lives i. 430/239: sometimes, as in the quotation above, it means simply, to administer justice. 52, 3. Comp. ‘Ech man sal eft mowen bi þan þe he nu soweð,’ OEH ii. 159/15; i. 137/31, 131/24; all referring to ‘Qui parce seminat, parce et metet,’ 2 Cor. ix. 6: here the reference is to ‘Quae enim seminaverit homo, haec et metet,’ Galat. vi. 8: l. 54 means that the judgment passed on each man is of his own making: comp. 36/115. 55. #on to fone#, may mean, to take on himself; its ordinary use is, to begin, 143/85. Skeat translates, undertake, but in the place referred to in support, L 31415, the meaning is, proceed. T, RJ have cnouen, cnowen; S. mowen: the former has been explained, to study, to know how to. I think these readings are substitutes for something the scribes did not understand, such as, keneliche to kepen, or keneliche him kepen. 56. T has, of here ⁊ of heregong, where _of_ is remarkable: the simple dative in OE., _wið_, 48/321, 141/41, and later _from_ are the usual constructions with _werien_, of the thing guarded against. 57. #gryþ#: ‘pax regia per manum data,’ Liebermann, Ueber die Leges Edwardi Confessoris, 28: here it means vaguely, protection, much as frið with which it is constantly associated; comp. ‘þonne nam man grið ⁊ frið wið hi,’ AS. Chron. 1011; ‘a þisse londe he heold grið[;] a þisse londe he hulde frið,’ L 9912; Orm 116/3380; 116/133. 58. Comp. ‘þe ælc cheorl eæt his sulche[;] hæfde grið al swa þe king sulf,’ L 4260. 59, 60. Comp. ‘cornes heo seowen[;] medewen heo meowen. | al heo tileden[;] ase heo to þohten,’ L 1941. 62. #bihoue#: comp. 91/108: ‘to his awere bihoue,’ L 4565. T has bilif. 63. #lawe#, rule of conduct, practice: at 176/15, habit. In spite of the consensus of the MSS., the reading of the original was probably _lare_.