liberty, both personal and political, far earlier than the dwellers on
agricultural land.

959-975-EDGAR.

CAP. 1. "_Secular Ordinance_. Now this is the secular ordinance
which I will that it be held. This, then, is first what I will:
that every man be worthy of folk-right, as well poor as rich;
and that righteous dooms be judged to him; and let there be such
remission in the 'bot' as may be becoming before God and tolerable
before the world."

1016. CANUTE.

CAP. 71. "And if any one depart this life intestate, be it through
his neglect, be it through sudden death; then let not the lord
draw more from his property than his lawful heriot. And according
to his direction, let the property be distributed very justly to
the wife and children and relations, to every one according to the
degree that belongs to him."

CAP. 81. "And I will that every man be entitled to his hunting in
wood and in field, on his own possession. And let every one forego
my hunting: take notice where I will have it untrespaesed on under
penalty of the full 'wite.'"

But even the great code of Edward the Confessor has, for the most
part, to do only with political divisions, what shall be a shire, what
a parish, etc., and certain technical matters that have now grown
obsolete. So we may conclude with the statement, substantially