+----------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------------+ | | Borh-bryce and | | | | | mund-byrd | Burh-bryce | Fightwite | +----------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------------+ | | (s. 3) | (s. 40) | | | | | | | |Of the king |(5 lbs) 240 _s._ | 120 _s._ |(s. 7) (in the | | | | |king’s doom) | | | | | | |Of the archbishop |(3 lbs) 144 _s._ | 90 _s._ |(s. 15) 150 _s._ | | | | | | |Of other bishops and | | | | | ealdorman |(2 lbs) 96 _s._ | 60 _s._ |(s. 15) 100 _s._ | | | | | | |Of do. in his ‘gemot’ | | |(s. 38) 120 _s._ | | | | | | |Of the twelve-hyndeman| | 30 _s._ |(s. 39) 36 _s._ | | | | | | |Of the six-hyndeman | | 15 _s._ |(s. 39) 18 _s._ | | | | | | |Of the ceorlisc man or| | | | | twy-hyndeman | | 5 _s._ |(s. 39) 6 _s._ | +----------------------+-----------------+------------+-----------------+ II. THE DIALOGUE OF EGBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK A.D. 732-766. ECCLESIASTICAL OATHS AND WERGELDS. There is a gulf of nearly two centuries in the West-Saxon evidence between the laws of Alfred and the ‘Dooms’ of Ine.[245] We are taken at a leap, not only beyond all thought of the Northmen’s invasions, but also half a century behind another great epoch of European importance. The Empire of Charlemagne formed a kind of watershed in Anglo-Saxon as in European history, and was marked, as we have seen, by a permanent change in the currency of the Western world. [Sidenote: Position of Northumbria before the time of Charlemagne.] The Courts of Offa and Egbert were intimately connected with the Imperial Court of Charlemagne, and the transition from the early Anglo-Saxon currency of sceatts to that of the heavier pence was a typical result of the influence of the Empire. It may be that the supremacy of Wessex under Egbert was indirectly another result of it.