[416] Am. Marc. bk. xviii. c. ii. s. 3. [417] _Id._ xxix. c. iv. 7. [418] _Id._ bk. xx. c. viii. 13. [419] Among the '_Præfecti Lætorum et Gentilium_' there is mention of the Præfectus Lætorum _Teutonicianorum_, _Batavorum_, _Francorum_, _Lingonensium_, _Nerviorum_, and _Lagensium_. _Notitia Occ._ cxl. Böcking, p. 120. See also the valuable annotation '_De Lætis._' Böcking, 1044 _et seq._ [420] _Cod. Theod._ vii. 6, 3. _Per viginti juga seu capita conferant vestem. . ._ _Id._ xi. 16, 6. _Pro capitibus seu jugis suis. . ._ [421] _Cod. Theol._ xi. 17, 4. 'Universi pro portione suæ possessionis jugationis que ad hæc munia coarctentur.' [422] _Cod. Theod._ lib. vii. tit. xx. 4. [423] See _Syrisch-Römisches Rechtsbuch aus dem Fünften Jahrhundert_ (Bruns und Sachan), Leipzig, 1880, p. 37; and Marquardt's _Staatsverwaltung_, ii. 220. See also Hyginus, _De Limitibus Constituendis_, Lachmann, &c., p. 205, where there is mention of '_arvum primum, secundum_,' &c., in _Pannonia_. [424] Marquardt, ii. 237. [425] Not that the Roman jugerum was equal in area to the Saxon acre. It was much smaller, and of quite a different shape, at least in Italy. The acreage of the jugum no doubt varied very much, as did also the acreage of the yard-land. [426] It is even possible and probable that the Gallic coinage in Roman times, mentioned in the _Pauca de Mensuris_ (Lachmann and Rudorff, p. 373), 'Juxta Galios vigesima pars unciæ denarius est . . . duodecies unciæ libram xx. solidos continentem efficiunt, sed veteres _solidum_ qui nunc _aureus_ dicitur nuncupabant,'--the division of the pound of silver into 12 ounces, and these into 20 pennyweights--with which we found the Welsh _tunc pound_ to be connected, may also have had something to do with the contents of the centuria and jugum. At all events, the division of the pound into 240 pence was very conveniently arranged for the division of a tax imposed upon holdings of 240 acres, or 120 acres, or 60 acres, or 30 acres, or the 10 acres in each field. In other words, the coinage and the land divisions were remarkably _parallel_ in their arrangement, as we found was also the case with the _scutage_ of the Hundred Rolls, and the _scatt penny_ of the villani in the Boldon Book. [427] Eumenius, _Pan. Constantini_, Marquardt, S. V., ii. 222. [428] _Cod. Theod._ lib. xi. tit. i. 14. [429] See also Ammianus. xxvii. 8, 7. Coote, 131. [430] _Cod. Theod._ lib. xi. tit. vii. 2. Idem A ad _Pacatianum Vicarium Britanniarum_. Unusquisque decurio pro ea portione conveniatur, in qua vel ipse vel colonus vel tributarius ejus convenitur et colligit; neque omnino pro alio decurione vel territorio conveniatur. Id enim prohibitum esse manifestum est et observandum deinceps, quo[d] juxta hanc nostram provisionem nullus pro alio patiatur injuriam. Dat. xii. Kal. Dec. Constantino A. et Licinio C. Coss. (319). [431] Hyginus. Lachmann, &c., i. 205.