CHAPTER VII.

_King Ethelwulf’s Alleged Grant of Tithes, pages 53-66._

Dean Prideaux on this grant and on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” 53. Selden’s erroneous view on this grant, 53. Opinions of Saxon Chroniclers on it, 54. Folcland and Bocland defined, 56, 57. Kemble’s six canons to test genuineness of charters, 59. Ethelwulf’s charters thus tested, 59, 60. The Malmesbury Cartulary, 60. Ethelwulf’s second charter of grants, 62. Kemble’s opinion on Ethelwulf’s first and second grants, 64, 65. Charter C, an abridgment of William of Malmesbury’s charter, 65. Selden’s conclusion on Ethelwulf’s charter, 65, 66.