A Short Account of Danegeld: With Some Further Particulars Relating to Will, the Conqueror's Survey |
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abfolvit Anglos Agelredus Anglia Anglorum Anglos a gravi Anno Domini anno ex quo apud arable land archiepifcopi auxilium Brompton Cartular Carucage centum Chronicon CNUT confilio Danegeld Danegeldum Danes Danicis Danis Daniſh Danorum dimidia ecclefia Edward the Confeffor Engliſh erat Ethelred Ethelredus etiam ex quo pater exercitu Exeter fame fays fcilicet fhillings fhips ficut fingulis folidos funt fuorum furvey fuum geldo gravi tributo Heming Henry of Huntingdon Heregeld hida hide of land hides paid hidis hiſtory Hoc anno Hoveden id eft igitur illis ipfo laſt libras millia millia librarum millium librarum miſtake miſtaken number of hides occafional omni pacem payments pecunia perfon Peter Langtoft Polychronicon primitus propter quae quo pater fuus quod raiſed rapinis rege Regift regni reign Rex Edwardus Sir Henry Spelman Siricus ſtated ſubject tempore regis terrae theſe thoſe tranſcribed treaty tribute tributum ufque vectigali vero virges Worceſter þat
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Page 26 - ... but ancient character, not coeval with the Survey, but of about the time of Henry II. It was given by Mr. Arthur Agard to Sir Robert Cotton, and is marked Tiberius A. VI. 4. Your lordship and the Society will be of opinion that this is a discovery of importance, and what had escaped the observation of Sir H. Spelman, Mr. Selden, and our other antiquarians. A part of this valuable morsel of antiquity is already transcribed, and in a few weeks I hope to be able to communicate the whole of it to...
Page 26 - MS. copy of the inquisition of the jury, containing their survey for most of the hundreds in Cambridgeshire. This MS. is written on vellum in double columns and on both sides of the page. It is bound up with the Liber Eliensis, and begins at p. 76 a and ends at p. 113. It is written in a very fair but ancient character, not coeval with the Survey, but of about the time of Henry II. It was given by Mr. Arthur Agard to Sir Robert Cotton, and is marked Tiberius A. VI. 4. Your...
Page 22 - ... each may not have been the origin of the statement in the Leges Henrici Primi that geld was annually levied at the rate of a shilling on the hide. I now come to the question of exemption. On this Ellis writes : The demesne lands of churchmen and religious houses were uniformly excused The demesne lands of the great lords, and barons, and others who held by military service, were likewise exempted : and partial exemptions were made in favour of the Barons of the Exchequer, the sheriffs of counties,...
Page 14 - ... attention to Mr. Freeman's treatment of these invaluable records. Mr. Webb, who not in this alone appears to distinct advantage, was fully alive to their value. Take for instance the reign of Cnut and the allusion to his geld ('vectigal importabile ') in 1018, or to the earlier exactions of Swegen (1013) 'cum maximum et fere importabile tributum tota Anglia reddere cogeretur. Ob hujus itaque tam gravis tributi exactionem, omnia fere ornamenta hujus ecclesie distracta sunt, tabule altaris, argento...
Page 2 - ... firft ftated tax of that kind mentioned in our hiftorians. It was called Danegeld, as being originally agreed to be paid to the Danes, and, like many other things, continued to retain the name long after it became appropriated to ufes intirely different. Mr. Tate in a lift, inferted by Mr. Camden, in his Britannia, p. 226. and by Sir Henry Spelman, in his Gloflary, p. 292. makes the number of hides of land in England amount to 243,600, confequently the grofs produce of this tax at two {hillings...
Page 25 - In treating of the hundred called Ofwaldes Lau, belonging to the bifhop of Worcefter, its cuftoms and privileges adds, that the truth of the account there given, " Teftimonium totius comitatus Wireceaftre, dato facramento juris "jurandi, firmavit tempore regis Willielmi fenioris, coram " principibus ejufdem regis, Remigio fcilicet Lincolnienfi epifcopo, et " -comite Waltero GifFardo, et Henrico de Fereris, et Adam fratre " Eudonis dapiferi regis, qui ad inquirendas et defcribendas pofleffiones "...
Page 2 - ... Spelman, who describes this tax to be " a tribute imposed on the English, sometimes for pacifying the Danes, sometimes for keeping them off the island," and a little after, " an annual tribute of 8000 pounds, was wrung out of the people." * It was originally an annual tax of two shillings on every hide of land in the kingdom ; and was in its nature a land-tax, and the first of that kind, mentioned by our historians. But this, like many other imposts, retained its name, after it became appropriated...
Page 26 - In searching for the Liber Eliensis I have had the good fortune to discover in the Cotton library a MS. copy of the inquisition of the jury, containing their survey for most of the hundreds in Cambridgeshire. This MS. is written on vellum in double columns and on both sides of the page. It is bound up with the Liber Eliensis, and begins at p. 76 a and ends at p. 113. It is written in a very fair but ancient character, not coeval with the Survey, but of about the time of Henry II. It was given by...