_The Laws of Ethelred II., pages 94-124._
His nine laws, by Thorpe, 94, 95. Church Grith law, A.D. 1014, p. 95.
Art. 6 enacts the tripartite division of tithes, 95. Bishop Stubbs’s
views in his history on the tripartite division, 96, 97. His views
in private letters, 97. Origin of Sir Robert Cotton’s library, 98.
His death, 100. Catalogue of library, 100. First printed catalogue,
100. Library vested in trustees, 100. Second catalogue, 100. History
of the “Worcester” volume, Nero, A. 1, p. 101. Lord Selborne’s object
is to upset the Act of A.D. 1014, pp. 101, 102. Selden and Spelman
never saw the Church Grith law, 103, 104. Lambarde, Wheelock, and
John Johnson, never saw it, 104. Thorpe’s opinion of Wilkins’s
“Concilia,” 106. Price’s evidence is worthless, 107, 108. Freeman’s
history, like Stubbs’s, is in favour of the genuineness of Church
Grith law, but contradicts himself in his private letters on same
subject, 108, 109, 110, 111. Old Latin Translators of the Anglo-Saxon
laws omit fifteen Anglo-Saxon laws, 112. Dr. Lingard accepts this law
as genuine, 116. Contents of Worcester volume, Nero, A. 1 stated,
117. Brewer, supported, but Dibden denies, the tripartite division,
119, 120. Mr. Thorpe in favour of the genuineness of this law, 121.
Canute’s laws in three branches, 121. He modelled his laws on Edgar’s
and Ethelred’s, 121. Thirty-six of the forty-four articles in the
Church Grith law are incorporated in Canute’s, 121. How Lord Selborne
disposes of the other eight, 121. When Poor Law Act was passed, why
did not Parliament claim a portion of the tithe for the poor? This is
answered, 123.