His murder, and cruel treatment of his followers 419 1037. Queen Emma banished to Flanders 420 Disputes between Harold and Archbishop Ethelnoth 420 1040. Death of Harold: accession of Harthacnut 421 Severe tax laid upon the people 421 1041. Edward, son of Ethelred, invited over from Normandy 421 1042. Death of Harthacnut 422 CHAPTER XXIV. LEGISLATION OF THE LATER KINGS. Importance of property in cattle 424 _Judicia Civitatis Lundoniæ_: Insurance against cattle-stealing 425 1042. The Anglo-Saxon Hundred and its _gemôt_ 428 The Danish _wapentake_ 429 The Anglo-Saxon _burh_ and its development into the borough 429 The _trinoda necessitas_: _fyrd-fare_, _burh-bote_ and _bridge-bote_ 432 The shire and its _gemôt_ 432 Ealdormen, earls and shire-reeves 434 Table of _wergilds_ in the _North-leoda laga_ 435 _Rectitudines singularum Personarum_ 436 Various classes of dependants; the _geneat_, _cotsetla_ and _gebur_ 437 Tendency towards administrative strictness. The offence of _oferhyrnesse_ 438 The _borh_ or warrantor: institution of the _tithing_ 439 Ordeals 440 Grants of _sake_ and _soke_ 441 Tendencies towards feudalism 441 CHAPTER XXV. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. 1042. Accession of Edward 442 1043. Harsh treatment of Queen Emma 442 1045. Edward marries Edith, daughter of Earl Godwine 443 1047. _Foreign relations_: Magnus of Norway 444 1048. Edward joins the Emperor Henry III. against Baldwin 445 1049. Edward’s vow of pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Westminster Abbey planned 445 _Internal History_: ships paid off: army tax (_here-gyld_) abolished 445