[Footnote 86: Shillings and pence were used as weights. We still speak of "pennyweights" (Maitland).] [Footnote 87: Because no neighbours could be found to swear, therefore he is guilty.] [Footnote 88: Pledges or sureties for the fine. These cases are all imaginary, but drawn from analogous ones to be found in the Selden Society's publications, the _Nottingham Records_, etc. I am by no means sure that such cases as the last two would come within the purview of the portmanmote. On the difficult question of the line between manorial and regal jurisdiction see Hearnshaw, _Court Leet of Southampton_.] [Footnote 89: So called because the parchment on which the two deeds were written was so cut (indented) that they would exactly fit or dovetail into one another when put together at any future time. Hundreds of these documents are now at Coventry. See Section C of Mr J.C. Jeaffreson's catalogue of Corp. MSS.] [Footnote 90: In cases where the lord of the manor was entitled to hold a leet or view of frankpledge, the tenants were exempt from attendance at the hundred court. In the "view of frank-pledge" each testified that they were enrolled in a tithing or body of mutually responsible persons.] [Footnote 91: The direct ancestor of our modern Grand Jury.] [Footnote 92: The conditions under which strangers were admitted into a town differed with the particular locality. A free craftsman would be admitted to citizenship by purchase. If a serf escaped from his master's estate, and lived unclaimed for a year and a day, he was as a general rule permitted to continue in the town. In Lincoln it was necessary that he should pay the town taxes during that period (Stubbs, _Select Charters_, 159).] [Footnote 93: Dugdale, _Warw._, i. 161.] [Footnote 94: Cole, _Documents Illustrative of Eng. Hist._, 309-19.] CHAPTER V _Prior's-half and Earl's-half_