ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 930.—In this year the gemót met at Nottingham. It was attended by three Welsh princes, the archbishops and sixteen bishops, thirteen dukes, twelve thanes, twelve untitled persons, “et plures alii milites quorum nomina in eadem carta inseruntur.” There are fifty-eight signatures[677]. ----- Footnote 677: Ibid. No. 352. ----- ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 931.—In this year several gemóts were held. First, one at Luton in Bedfordshire, signed by 106 persons[678]. One at Worðig, “cum tota plebis generalitate[679].” One at Colchester[680], and one at Wellow in Wilts[681]. ----- Footnote 678: Cod. Dipl. No. 353. Footnote 679: Ibid. No. 1103. Footnote 680: Ibid. No. 1102. Footnote 681: Ibid. No. 1105. ----- ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 932.—There was a gemót at Amesbury, said to be attended by the dukes, bishops, abbots and “patriae procuratores”[682]. Also one at Middleton, in which the same words occur: the signatures amount to ninety, and comprise four Welsh princes, nineteen archbishops and bishops, fifteen dukes, four abbots, and forty-seven ministri or thanes[683]. ----- Footnote 682: Ibid. No. 361. Footnote 683: Ibid. Nos. 1107, 1108. ----- ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 934.—A gemót was held in London on the seventh of June[684]; but on the twenty-eighth of May there was a great meeting at Winchester, “tota populi generalitate.” The total number of names is ninety-two[685]. Again on the twelfth of September, the king was at Buckingham, and there held a gemót, “tota magnatorum generalitate[686].” ----- Footnote 684: Ibid. No. 361. Footnote 685: Ibid. No. 364. Footnote 686: Ibid. No. 365. ----- ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 935.—On the twenty-first of September in this year there was a gemót at Dorchester, “tota optimatum generalitate[687],” ----- Footnote 687: Ibid. Nos. 367, 1112. ----- ÆÐELSTÁN, A.D. 937.—A gemót was held, “archiepiscopis, episcopis, ducibus et principibus Anglorum insimul pro regni utilitate coadunatis[688].” ----- Footnote 688: Ibid. No. 1113. ----- An undated charter of Æðelstán[689] records a meeting of witan at Abingdon: a grant was made to the abbey. The archbishop, bishops and abbots present solemnly excommunicated any one who should disturb the grant; to which all the people present exclaimed, “So be it! Amen.” “Et dixit omnis populus qui ibi aderat, Fiat, Fiat. Amen.” “And cwæð ealle ðæt folc ðe ðǽr embstód, Sy hit swá. Amen. Amen.” ----- Footnote 689: Ibid. No. 1129. ----- Gemóts of Æðelstán’s, the dates of which are uncertain, were held at Witlanburh[690], Greátanleá[691], Fevershám[692], Thundersfield[693], and Exeter[694]. ----- Footnote 690: Thorpe, i. 240. Footnote 691: Ibid. i. 194. Footnote 692: Thorpe, i. 216. Footnote 693: Ibid. i. 217. Footnote 694: Ibid. i. 220. This however may have been in 926, when Æðelstán was in that city. -----