8.
[68] Si quis terram defenderit testimonio provinciae, &c .-- Leges Cnuti, 76: And sethe land gewerod hebbe be scyre gewitnesse.
[69] See, in Madox, the case in Bishop of Bathes Court See also Brady, 272, where the witnesses on one side offer to swear, or join battle with the other.
[70] Parentibus occisi fiat emendatio, vel guerra eorum portetur; unde Anglice proverbium habetur, Bige spere of side, oththe baer; id est, Eme lanceam a latere, aut fer .-- Leges Ed.

12.
The fines on the town or hundred.
Parentes murdrati sex marcas haberent, rex quadraginta.

[This different from the ancient usage, where the king had half.] Si parentes deessent, dominus ejus reciperet.

Si dominum non haberet, felagus ejus, id est, fide cum eo ligatus .-- Leges Ed.

15.
[71] Purveyance.