HISTORICAL EXTRACTS.
From SOUTH COAST SAUNTERINGS IN ENGLAND.
THERE was printed in the county of Hampshire a curious "Annual Repository," two volumes of which I have been enabled, through the
kindness of a friend, to examine. These are records of the agricultural, social and religious condition of the various parishes in the county and
many entertaining accounts of their antiquities. Of the latter, I was struck with the form of a conveyance by Henry I. (A. D. 1133) of land to
Southwick Priory: "I will and firmly decree that the said canons, their officers and servants, shall have and hold all their possessions .... free and
unmolested from shires and hundreds and all manner of suits, pleas and complaints and payments for murders and larcenies, from homsuchen
and forest law, from scutage and hidage, gelds, denegelds and homgelds, assorts, assizes,
dodande, saides, summages, avepenny and hundred-penny, miskinnings and blodewyte."
--M. D. Conway, Harper's Monthly, Vol. 39, page 344.
