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TRINODA See also:NECESSITAS
, the name used by See also:modern historians to describe the threefold See also:obligation of serving in the See also:host (See also:fyrd), repairing and constructing See also:bridges (bryc-geweorc), and the construction and See also:maintenance of fortresses (burhbot), to
which all freeholders were subject in Anglo-Saxon times
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The obligations are usually mentioned in charters as the See also:sole exceptions to grants of immunities; sometimes, however, a See also:fourth obligation (singalare praeiium contra (ilium) is reserved, as in the See also:charter granted by Wiglaf of See also:Mercia on the 28th of See also:December 831 (See also:Cod. See also:dip. i
.
294)
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Ceolwulf's charter of 822 to See also:Arch-See also:bishop Wilfred is remarkable, as the military service is there restricted to expeditiones contra paganos ostes (ibid. i
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272)
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The threefold obligation is first mentioned in a Latin charter (expeditions pontis arcisue constructione) of doubtful authenticity, which professes to have been granted by See also:Eadbald of See also:Kent in A.D
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626 (Cod. dip. v
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2), but it is not until the 8th See also:century that it appears in documents which are generally admitted to be genuine
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Although there were corresponding obligations in the Frankish See also:Empire which were called by See also:
Her. iv
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115; Fast. i
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575)
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See Du Cange, Glossarium; W
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Stubbs, The Constitutional See also:History of See also:England, i
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86, 87; J
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M
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See also:Kemble, Codex anglo-saxonicus, passim; Selden, See also:English See also:Janus (See also:London, 1682), p
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43; See also:Walter de See also: (G . J . |
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