PREOST-SCYRE.-A parish, a priest's shire. p. 66.

PRIMER-SEISIN. The profits for a year which the king had of the lands of his tenant in capite, who died seised. p. 222.

PIE-POUDRE.-An antient court held in fairs and markets. P. 158.

Q.

QUO WARRANTO.-A writ against him who usurps a liberty or franchise without title. pp. 48, 49.

R.

RAPE. A district in Sussex comprising one or more hundreds, which county is divided into six rapes-viz., Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey, and Hastings. p. 56.

REEVE, Prefectus.-Hence shire-reeve, sheriff, port-reeve, &c. p. 59. RELIEF (Sax. Here-geatu, heriot.) — Cowel, in speaking of Relief, says: "This must be understood after the Conquest, for in the time of the Saxons there were no reliefs, but heriots paid to the lord at the death of his tenants, which in those days were horses, arms, &c." p. 221.

RUNING-MEDE, Pratum-concilii (from Sax. Run-council.)—In agro Surriensi, ad ripam Thamesis, ubi augustissimum illud Anglicanarum libertatum diploma, quod Magna Charta dicitur, conditum est et sancitum. Ao 17 Joh. A.D. 1215." pp. 84, 86, note 59.

S.

SAC AND SOC.-The privilege or royalty of holding pleas within a manor. Soka, hoc est secta de hominibus in curiâ vestrâ secundum consuetudinem regni.

Saka, hoc est placitum et emenda de transgressionibus hominum in curiâ vestrâ.

Hlaford-socn, is the protection due from the lord to his vassal.

SACHENTAGE. An instrument of torture by which persons were induced to confess. (From sacu, an accusation; tege, a drawing out, or tege, teag, a band, snare). p. 234.

SCIP-FORTHUNGE.-The naval armament, or expedition, p. 112.

SCIRMAN-Was antiently judge of the county, by whom trials for land, &c., were determined before the Conquest. p. 297.

SCOT-ALE.-A shot, or contribution from the tenants for a provision of ale to entertain the lord, or his bailiff, holding a parock, or meeting on

the place, to take an account of his pannage, i.e. pessona, the profit

arising from the feeding and fatting of hogs with the mast.

SHERWINHOPE, Showinghope, Sheringhope.-An antient lathe in Kent, now

Scraye. pp. 62, 71.

SITHE-CUND-MAN.-A gentleman who had the office to lead the men of a town or parish. Also the military companions or followers of the A.-Saxon chiefs and kings. p. 297.

SULING, Sulinga, Solin', Swollinges.-A plough-land; as much land as could be tilled by one plough. pp. 103, 106, 107, 110.

SULIVA, Sulliva (Sax. Syl.)—A beam, a joist, a sill. p. 117.

SUMER-HUS-SILVER." Homines quoque de Walda debent unam domum æstivalem, quæ Anglicè dicitur sumer-hus, invenire, aut viginti solidos dare."

The lords or owners of the dens, or districts of woods in the Weald of Kent, used to visit those places in summer time, to take care and dispose of their pannage, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer huts, or houses for their reception, or else pay a composition in money. (Cowel, Somner.)

T.

TENSERIE. (Sax. Tenɣe-pice, tenje-ɲize). — A royal tax, census regius, p. 235. "Quæ sit hujus vocabuli significatio, videant alii. (Gibs.) Cens and Censerie in Norman-French signify taxation' and 'tribute,' from census, Latin; c and t are often confounded. (Ingram, Bosworth.)

THEGN (Sax. thenian, to serve.)-A freeman, knight, thane, nobleman. (See title Twelf-hyndman.')

THEGNES-LAND.-He who possessed five hides of land, a church, a kitchen, a bell-house, a judicial seat at the burg-gate, and a seat in the Witena-gemote, became a thane by right. p. 94. (See Twelfhyndman.') TITHING. A district comprising ten families, who were mutual sureties for each other. (From A.-Sax. Teothing, tenth.) Pp. 56, 64.

TRIBUTARIA of Land? pp. 103, 104. I cannot explain this. Qy. May they be parcels of 'folc-land,' taken by the king from the people, and thus granted to the Church? See pp. 98, 99.

TRINODA NECESSITAS.-A threefold necessary imposition, to which all lands were subjected in the Saxon times, i. e. towards the repairing of bridges and highways; the maintaining of castles or garrisons; and an expedition to repel invading enemies. pp. 96, 102, 108, 109; history p. 110 to 134.

of.

TRYTHING. The third part of a shire or province, as Ridings in Yorkshire. pp. 56, 58, 159.

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TWELF-HYND-MAN 2 In the Saxon times every person was valued according TWY-HYND-MAN to his quality or degree.

The lowest in order, that of Ceorls, or husbandmen, was valued at 200 shillings, and they were called twyhyndmen.

The middle, that of the lesser Thanes, or freeholders, were valued

at 600 shillings, and were therefore called sixhyndmen.

The highest, that of Thanes, or noblemen, were estimated at 1200 shillings, and thence called twelfhyndmen. p. 297.

W.

WAPENTACHE.-The hundred, so denominated in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, according to the laws of K. Edward the Confessor. pp. 56, 58, 59, 159.

WEALD.-A forest, wood, grove, weald, wild, wold. Weald-bera. pp. 134, 135; history of Andredes Weald, Anderida. p. 134 to 144.

WED (Vadium, Lat.)-Pledge, security, promise, agreement (hence A.-S. Weddian, to wed, to marry). p, 189.

WER and WITE.-Wer is the price at which every man was valued according to his degree, which, in the event of his being slain, was to be paid to his relatives by the homicide. (See title, 'Twelf-hynd-man.')

WITE was the penalty paid by the homicide to the king, for violation of the public peace; and Man-bóte to the lord of the slain, for the loss of his tenant. pp. 42, 60.

WER also signifies a husband; pep-lear, husbandless. p. 193. (Ll. of K. Ethelred and K. Cnut.)

WITE-THEOW. A penal slave; one who is unable to pay the fines incurred for violation of the law (from theow, servus, a slave, and wite). WITENA-GEMOTE.-The supreme council of the nation, or meeting of the 'Witan.' This assembly was summoned by the king, and its members were the archbishops, bishops, ealdormen. duces, eorls, thanes, abbats, priests. p. 55. See a Kentish Witena-gemote. p. 263. WIUUART-LEST.-An antient lathe in Kent, now Scraye. pp. 62, 302.

X.

XENIUM. Quòd hospitibus dari solet; munus hospitale; a present, gift, or token bestowed upon a friend, guest, or stranger. p. 243.

RECENT STATUTES

RELATING TO

REAL PROPERTY.

THE following Table of " recent Statutes" will, I trust, be found not only a useful, but an interesting Appendix to my history.

The antiquary, the historian, and the legislator will not fail to remark, that the recent improvements in the law (improvements which range over a period of nearly twenty years) have been made in the true constitutional spirit of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and have removed almost the last remaining vestiges of feudal jurisprudence.

The landholder and country gentleman will observe that these "recent Statutes" afford facilities which did not before exist, for the improvement of his estates in the cases of merger of tithes, manorial rights, inclosure of commons, exchange of lands, drainage, &c., and which formerly could only be accomplished at the enormous expense and delay of a special Act of Parliament; whilst the clergy will find enumerated the various Acts regulating the commutation and the recovery of their tithes.

The general reader will duly estimate the important boon conferred upon the people by the valuable improvements in the law in the cases of Wills, Descent, and Inheritance, in simplifying the forms of conveyances and leases, and in the establishment of County-courts, which, in the true spirit of our Saxon constitution, has brought the administration of justice home to every man's door. 210

210 See Laws of K. Edw. the Confessor, C. xxviii, C. xxix, C, xxxi, ante, pp. 57, 58.

To the professional reader (if I may judge from my own experience) the table will be found useful as a ready reference to the present state of the law upon these important subjects.

ACTIONS (Real). See title, "Limitation of Suits."

ANNUITIES. See title, "Apportionment."

APPOINTMENTS (Illusory), A.D. 1830. 1 Will. IV, cap. 46. "An Act to alter and amend the Law relating to Illusory Appointments."

APPORTIONMENT. (Rents, Annuities.) A.D. 1834. 4 Will. IV, cap. 22. "An

Act to amend an Act of the eleventh year of King George the Second, respecting the Apportionment of Rents, Annuities, and other periodical Payments."

ASSIGNMENT (of Terms). See title, "Conveyances."