Chronicle, but most likely the cause of the error which lies in the other copies, incautious transcribers having been misled by the resemblance between the Saxon þ and _p_ and mistaken the contraction þrittig þūnda for þrittig punda, thirty pounds. It is the custom of the Anglosaxon tongue, in describing measures of land or sums of money, to use the numerals only, leaving the commonest units to be supplied by the reader. Thus if land were intended, thirty thousand would denote that number of _hides_; and where money is intended, at least in Kent, thirty thousand _scæts_[519]. This then I believe to have been the sum paid to Ini, and the regular personal wergyld of a Kentish king. Let us now apply this sum to elucidate the value of the other Kentish wergylds. From a comparison of the compensation appointed for injuries done to the nails of the fingers and toes, Mr. Thorpe, the late Mr. Allen, and I concluded that the value of a Kentish shilling was twenty scæts. But thirty thousand scæts would be fifteen hundred such shillings, and assuming this to be the royal wergyld, we shall find the eorl’s to be 360, the ceorl’s 180 shillings, which amounts are exactly thirty times the value of the several mundbyrds[520]. In the first volume of Mr. Thorpe’s Anglosaxon Laws, at p. 186, there is a document which professes to give the values of different classes in Northumberland. Its date is uncertain, though it appears to have been generally assigned to the commencement of the tenth century. I confess that I can hardly reconcile myself to so early a date, and think it altogether a suspicious authority. It tells us as follows: “1. The Northpeople’s royal gyld is thirty thousand _thrymsas_; fifteen thousand thrymsas are for the wergyld, and fifteen thousand for the royal dignity. The _wer_ belongs to the kindred; the _cynebót_ to the people. “2. An archbishop’s and an æðeling’s wergyld is fifteen thousand thrymsas. “3. A bishop’s and an ealdorman’s, eight thousand thrymsas. “4. A hold’s and a king’s high reeve’s, four thousand thrymsas, “5. A mass thane’s and a secular thane’s, two thousand thrymsas. “6. A ceorl’s wergyld is two hundred and sixty-six thrymsas, that is two hundred shillings by Mercian law. “7. And if a Welshman thrive so well that he have a hide of land, and can bring forth the king’s tax, then is his wergyld one hundred and twenty shillings; and if he thrive not save to half a hide, then let his wer be eighty shillings. “8. And if he have not any land, but yet is free, let him be paid for with seventy shillings. “9. And if a ceorlish man thrive so well that he have five hides of land for the king’s _útware_, and any one slay him, let him be paid for with two thousand thrymsas. “10. And though he thrive so that he have a helm and coat-of-mail, and a sword ornamented with gold, if he have not that land, he is notwithstanding a ceorl.