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tax levied to provide money to buy of the Danes (v. here; I. 2 c ¶ l)
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  • On þan ylcan geáre áléde Eádweard cyng ꝥ heregyld ꝥ Æþelréd cyng ǽr ástealde,

    • Chr. 1052
    • ;
    • P. 173, 18
    • .
  • Ic ðat só fele síðe só men gildeð hire gilde tó heregilde,

    • C. D. vi. 205, 23.
  • Ab illa magna heregoldi exactione quae per totam Angliam fuit,

    • 180, II
    • .
The following passages give instances of the amounts paid to secure peace:
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  • On þám geáre man gerædde ꝥ man geald ǽrest gafol Deniscan mannum . . . ꝥ wæs ǽrest .x. þúsend punda; þæne rǽd gerǽdde Síríc arceb.,

    • Chr. 991
    • ;
    • P. 127, 2-6
    • .
  • Þá gerǽdde se cyng and his witan ꝥ him man gafol behéte . . . wið þon þe hí þǽre hergunge geswicon . . . him man geald .xvi, þúsend punda,

    • 994
    • ;
    • P. 129, 10-15
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  • Twá and twéntig þúsend punda goldes and seolfres mon gesedde þám here wið friðe.

    • Ll Th. i. 288, ll.

    To Wulfstan such taxes were 'scandlice nýdgyld,' and he reproaches his countrymen,

    'Wé him(the Danes) gyldað singallíce and hý ús hýnað dæghwámlíce,'

    • Wlfst. 163, 10
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  • That payment of the Danes was not always prompt will be seen from the following passage:

    Gens pagana . . . promittebant se ad ecclesiam sancti salvatoris . . . ituros, et eam suis incendiis funditus delere, nisi pecunia, quae eis ab archiepiscopo Sirico promissa fuerat, ad plenum daretur,

    • C. D. iii. 285, 5-11
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    • Ll. Lbmn. ii. 344
    • :
    • Chr. P. ii. 173-175
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