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Excerpt from Heraldic Anomalies, Vol. 2 of 2 Below the rank of Nobility, and titles personal or official, it has ever been difficult to assign the proper steps and degrees of worth and precedence. The times are past for adjusting such matters by a "Were" or "Weregeld" which was the name given to the fine paid by our ancestors, for causing the death of any person, and which was supposed to express the comparative value of the life lost, and to be paid accordingly to the relations of the deceased, for the injury they had sustained. There were for instance, as our antiquarians tell us, very different fines exacted for "Twelf-hinds" "Six-hinds," and "Twihinds" The "Were" of a Twelfhind, was (as the terms import) double that of a Sixhind, and equal to that of six Ceorls or Twihinds. Their wives were estimated according to similar rates, as Cyrlisca's, Sexhinda's, and Twelflhinha's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.