FOOTNOTES
[1] Tun, i.e., enclosure or township.
[2] Bot, i.e., amends.
[3] Wite, i.e., fine.
[4] Wed = Pledge against repetition of trespass.
[5] Pannage = Payment for right to graze swine in woodland.
[6] Yardland = 30 acres.
[7] Wer = Amount at which a man’s value to the community is reckoned.
[8] Port = Town not necessarily a sea-port.
[9] Burh = Fortified place, burg, bury.
[10] Oferhyrnes = Fine.
[11] Probably Greatley near Andover.
[12] Frith = Peace.
[13] Books = Written statements of property.
[14] Mass priest is any priest able to celebrate mass; used by Saxons for parish priest.
[15] Franchise = Free community.
[16] Soke = Land belonging to the city but outside the walls.
[17] Plea rolls = Record of appeals heard in the city courts.
[18] Socman = A free holder of land.
[19] i.e. shires, hundreds, tithings.
[20] Carucate = Hide, about 120 acres.
[21] Chirograph is the name for a bond or written record.
[22] Corodiers = Men holding by corrody, i.e. service of providing a night’s lodging.
[23] Mentz = Mainz, ruled by an archbishop.
[24] A mistake, Alexius did not reign till thirty years later.
[25] Title given to the son of the Holy Roman Emperor.
[26] Offenders were mainly members of the Corporation or the University, also some local landowners.
[27] Suburbs of Cambridge, Trumpington above, Chesterton below the town.
[28] The prohibition of iron-tyred carts was common in towns at this period.
[29] Speculators, investing capital in draining.
[30] Denied by Anglicans to-day.
[31] Lays, leys, or leas, is an old name for the common fields about a village.
[32] East India Co. had, in 1757, taken responsibility for the defence of Bengal, and been involved in war with the heir to the Mogul throne, 1759; the Nawab Mir Kasim, 1763; the Mahrattas, 1765; they also sold arms and artillery to natives.