H.Hunting, p.379.

Some historians (Brady, p.

270, and Tyrrel, vol.ii.p.

182) heedlessly make this sum amount to above eight hundred thousand pounds of our present money; but it could not exceed one hundred and thirty-five thousand.
Five hides, sometimes less, made a knight's fee, of which there were about sixty thousand in England, consequently near three hundred thousand hides; and at the rate of three shillings a hide, the sum would amount to forty-five thousand pounds, or one hundred and thirty-five thousand of our present money.

See Rudborne, p.257.In the Saxon times there were only computed two hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred hides in England.] [Footnote 14: NOTE N, p.266.The legates a latere, as they were called, were a kind of delegates, who possessed the full power of the pope in all the provinces committed to their charge, and were very busy in extending, as well as exercising it.