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of this nature at least had not passed out of mind 

 /. Hen. III., whilst rating as already shown con- 

 Danegeid, tinued much longer. Danegeld (exemption from) 

 is named in a Charter to Fountains of I Ric. I. 

 (Ex Rot. Chart. 5 Ed. II. per Inspex.) and also 

 in another* of 1 1 Ric. I. (pp. 8 and 18 No. 67 

 Surtees Soc.), and the following from Madox's 

 Formulare Anglicanum bear on the matter in hand 

 (p. 238) concession by Wm. I. of 8 Hides free 

 from Geld ; (p. 176) Feoffment or Confirmation of 

 the Manor of Bromham by Wm. II. to Battle 

 Abbey, free from ghelds, scots, hidages, danegelds, 

 shires, hundreds, and armies; (p. 291) grant and 

 confirmation to Battle Abbey by Hen. I. free from 

 all gheld, scot, shires, hundreds, hidage, danegeld, 

 and expedition, and (p. 293) King Stephen quit- 

 claims from ghelds, danegelds, Justices' and Sheriffs' 

 Aid,t " et ab omni exercituum expeditione." 



* In 1251 Hen. III. (anno 36) granted lands in England, to 

 Alexander, King of Scotland, free of Danegeld and Hidage 

 (Rot. Parl., i. 1 1 5*). 



Sheriffs' t This Aid is named in Rot. Parl. (12 Ed. IV., vi. 64) 



Aid - A.D. 1472, the Commons praying discharge of it, amongst 



certain old payments, when not able to be levied (citing an 

 unobserved ordinance of 5 Ric. II., that all Sheriffs should 

 account, and be discharged by their oaths) Le Roy s'advisera. 

 The Commons state that these " grete Fermes and Sommes 

 under divers olde names axed " (giving details), " the said 

 Shirefes know nat wher ner howe to levye," and the pre- 

 ceding article (vi., 63) respecting riots in Cumberland further 

 illustrates the matter. The management of the King's 

 interest in the county in 1472 would thus seem to have 

 retained much of the form apparent in the published Pipe 

 Rolls of Hen. II., which themselves appeared to be fore- 

 shadowed in 1086 (D. B.), in which are divers evidences of 



