chapter v

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Footnote 7:

Chadwick, _op. cit._

Footnote 8:

Maitland, _Domesday Book and Beyond_, 167.

Footnote 9:

See the account of the council at Bretford, below, page 61.

Footnote 10:

See Plummer, _Life and Times of Alfred the Great_, 67.

Footnote 11:

“Unready” here represents the A. S. _unrædig_—“devoid of counsel”—and is applied to Ethelred because of his independence of the advice of the witan.

Footnote 12:

_E. H. R._, vii., 209.

Footnote 13:

See Eckel, _Charles le Simple_.

Footnote 14:

This identification cannot be considered certain. See Flodoard, ed. P. Lauer.

Footnote 15:

The main features of Norman society in the eleventh century are described in outline by Pollock and Maitland, _History of English Law_, i., chapter iii ., on which the following sketch is founded.

Footnote 16:

The scanty evidence which exists on this matter is summarised by Pollock and Maitland, _H. E. L._,