Burgrǣdung

Burgrǣdung (burg, ceaster, and tūn rǣdung) is sēo gesceapung burga and ōðra burga feld. Hit bið geþoht be þǣre lǣst ƿealdunge and brūce þǣre landes, ġebūnisc and ġeþungen, byg and burgsǣdigne. An burgrǣdend (ēac gecweden tūnǣrend) is sīo sīþƿordliċe ǣrende ƿīgend þe ƿyrcþ on þǣre ǣrende tūnrǣdunga, burgrǣdunga oþþe ceastrǣdunga.

Burgrǣdung byttaþ on gesƿutelunge hú manna biēon libbað, ƿerciaþ and tōgað on ānre gēatan, and sƿā hīe līþes gefēohte in burgenum, būruum and land-tūnum. Gēondférend, þēah sēo rī̆cere geƿislīcost wǣre bēoþ bēodende sceattas, rǣsƿa, folces and ƿest; dǣliend þā grundbǣc sƿā ƿæter and lēoht; sēo āhīnes and ōþþe bēo þām folce of ālǣdan and hūslung; þǣr bīon gēolures and weroda ƿeorðhȳƿunges, eorðlīce groƿþ and geƿeorþung þām ƿēdum hēale and līðes ƿæstmūm, þe bǣð in sēo āƿindende þæs cārban diōxī̆du and bīoþ gehīere mēt and byld, sīo ealding on and līne and ƿeorðhȳwung. Forðan þe fēala burgrǣdunge cempas biþað of gēlǣredum ƿīsan, þe ƿerciað for bīorġ ǣndas, sīþþan recent ƿerunges are on hū tō fērulian māra folclēode in bīorg-þegnum on-ƿerdan.

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