408 HISTORY OF CERTAIN 
Beyond these limits, the “ husbandmen” were not 
(from expressions still left to us) probably allowed 
to stray. Hence the expression, a man “ out of 
all bounds,” one off his premises wherein his con- 
dition legally should confine him. Also, ‘“‘bounden 
duty” the special duty of the situation a man fills, 
the duty of a “bondman.” In country districts, 
we now and then find stones set up called, 
‘‘bounden stones,” these marked the bounds or 
limits within which the ‘‘bondmen” had their 
range. The number of “‘bondmen” attached to 
the soil in this way, was called a “band,” and 
‘‘band” still keeps this its literal meaning, as a 
band of thieves, a band of soldiers, &c. Also, by 
referring to the Danish dialect, we deduce from 
it ‘‘boer,” the name by which one of these ‘‘bond- 
men” was distinguished. This we retain still as 
a suffix in the word “neighbour,” a ‘boor,” 
dwelling nigh, one living next in the same ‘“‘bye;” 
“neighbour” then like ‘bye” is more Anglo- 
Danish than Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxons, 
used chiefly “‘nextan” for neighbour, which re- 
ferred to all ranks and conditions among them; 
so did the Danes, but they seem to have had a 
special term for the special condition of the 
‘“‘bondmen” among them. 
