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| | BROUGHT TO BOOK: LORDSHIP AND LAND IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by David Roffe |
 | | However, it was omitted from the Exchequer text and replaced with a statement that land was held libere, that is freely. |
 | | In allodio, 'in freehold', is used in Circuits I (Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, and Hampshire) and V (Gloucester, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire) in a similar fashion, and, like commendatio, the two terms are probably employed to draw the distinction between the respective rights of the commendation and soke lords. |
 | | Selsey (Sussex) and its dependent vills were apparently granted with free men as well as land and slaves by King Æthelwalh to St Wilfred in the seventh century, and sources such as Æthelwulf's first Decimation of 844 show that typical socage services like riding, farm, and witeræde were due from them. |
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