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swine on public lands. Cf. Chron. da Volturno, a. 972. Chron. Farfensis. Privileg. Lud. Pii, et al. loc. _g_. Terraticum, amount of produce given for right to cultivate. _h_. Pascuarium, payment for sheep pastured on the public land. _i_. Boazia, tax levied on every pair of oxen; probably not developed before XII. century. The taxes and so forth mentioned in this list are by no means all that were levied, but are a fair representation of them. After the year 1000 their feudal character is even more strongly marked. [42:] This statement, while true of all integral parts of the Lombard kingdom, must, however, be modified in regard to the great duchies of Spoleto and Beneventum, which were under a different system of internal government from the kingdom of Lombardy proper--were, in fact, small tributary kingdoms under great dukes enjoying practically royal powers. The Duchy of Beneventum seems to have been divided into _gastaldata_, divisions of territory similar to the _civitates_ of Lombardy, but presided over by a gastald instead of by a _dux_ or _comes_. In the charter of division made between the dukes of Beneventum and of Salerno in the year 851--v. _Muratori_, Ant. Ital. Diss. X.--are mentioned "integra gastaldata, seu ministeria Tarentum, Latinianum, Cusentia, etc." And, at an earlier date, _Paulus Diaconus_--De Gest. Long., Lib. V., cap. 29--tells of a certain "Alzeconis Dux de Bulgaris," to whom Grimoald, Duke of Beneventum, gives "ad habitandum ... Lepianum, Bovianum et Inferniam, et aliis cum suis territoriis civitates; ipsumque Alzeconem mutato dignitatis nomine, de duce gastaldium vocari praecepit." [43:] v. _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. III., Pars II., p. 162D. [44:] _Liutprandi_: Leg. Lib. VI., Leg. 29. v. _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. I., Pars II. [45:] _Muratori_: Ant. Ital. Diss. X., Vol. I., P. I., p. 121. [46:] _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. III., p. 155A. [47:] Ed. _Rhotari_: Leg. 23 and 24. v. _Muratori_: op. cit., Tom. I., Pars II. [48:] _Liutprandi_: Leg. Lib. IV., 7. [49:] _Liutprandi_, Leg. Lib. IV., 8, says: "Si homines de sub uno Judice, de duobus tamen Sculdahis causam habuerint, etc." [50:] _Paulus Diaconus_: De Gest. Lang., Lib. VI., 24. [51:] _Muratori_: Ant. Ital. Diss. X., Vol. I., Parte II., p. 116. [52:] _Ughelli_: Italia Sacra, Tom. V. [53:] _Caroli Magni_, Leg. Lomb. 36: "Ut nullus homo in Placito Centenar
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