History of England

DOC 7 -- Anglo Saxons Laws

     4. If a freeman steal from the king, let him pay ninefold.
     5. If a man slay another in the king's tun [farm, manor, dwelling, village], let him make bot [compensation] with fifty shillings.
     13. If a man slay another in an eorl's [earl or ealdorman] tun, let him make bot with twelve shillings.
     31. If a freeman lie with a freeman's wife, let him pay for it with his wergeld [money value of a person's life], and provide another wife with his own money, and bring her to the other.
     32. If any one thrust through the riht hamscyld [legal means of protecting one's home], let him adequately compensate.
     34. If there be an exposure of the bone, let bot be made with three shillings.
     35. If there be an injury of the bone, let bot be made with four shillings.
     38. If a shoulder be lamed, let bot be made with thirty shillings.
     39. If an ear be struck off, let bot be made with twelve shillings.
     40. If the other ear hear not, let bot be made with twenty-five shillings.
     41. If an ear be pierced, let bot be made with three shillings.
     42. If an ear be mutilated, let bot be made with six shillings.
     43. If an eye be (struck) out, let bot be made with fifty shillings.
     50. Let him who breaks the chin-bone pay for it with twenty shillings.
     53. Let him who stabs (another) through an arm, make bot with six shillings.
     57. If any one strike another with his fist on the nose, three shillings.
     59. If the bruise be black in a part not covered by the clothes, let bot be made with thirty scaetts [coin worth 1/20th of a shilling].
     60. If it be covered by the clothes, let bot for each be made with twenty scaetts.
     64. If any one destroy (another's) organ of generation, let him pay with three leud-gelds [fine for killing a man]; if he pierce it through, let him make bot with six shillings; if it be pierced within, let him make bot with six shillings.
     65. If a thigh be broken, let bot be made with twelve shillings...
     82. If a man carry off a maiden by force, let him pay fifty shillings to the owner, and afterwards buy (the object of) his will of the owner.
     83. If she be betrothed to another in money, let him make bot with twenty shillings.
 

The Laws of King Wihtræd, Kinf of Kent, 690-725

     16. Let the word of a bishop and of the king be, without an oath, incontrovertible.
     18. Let a priest clear himself by his own sooth, in his holy garment before the altar, thus saying: "Veritatem dico in Christo, non mentior." In like manner, let a deacon clear himself.
     19. Let a clerk clear himself with four of his fellows, and he alone with his hand on the altar, let the others stand by, make the oath.
     20. Let a stranger (clear himself) with his own oath at the altar; in like manner, a king's thane.
     21. Let a ceorlish man [ceorl is a freeman of the lowest class] clear himself with four of his fellows at the altar; and let the oath of all these be incontrovertible.
 

The Laws of Alfred and Edward the Elder, Kings of Wessex (871-924) and Guthrum, King of the Danes

     These are the dooms which King Alfred and King Guthrum chose when the English and Danes fully took to peace and to friendship.

     2. If any one violate Christianity, or reverence heathenism, by word or by work, let him pay as well wer, as wite [Anglo-Saxon fine] or lah-slit [Danish fine],
        according as the deed may be.
 

The Laws of King Edward the Elder, king of Wessex, 901-924

     1. And I will that every man have his warrantor; and that no man buy out of port [market], but have the port-reeve's witness, or that of other unlying men whom
     one may believe.
 

The North People's Law (from the Kingdom of Northumberland)

     1. The North people's king's geld is thirty thousand thrymsas [coin worth 3 denarii/pennies]; fifteen thousand thrymsas are for the wergild, and fifteen thousand for the cynedom [kingdom]. The wer belongs to the kindred, and the cynebot to the people.
     2. An archbishop's and an aetheling's [member of the royal family] wer-gild is fifteen thousand thrymsas.
     3. A bishop's and ealdorman's, eight thousand thrymsas.
     4. A hold's [freeman holding a certain amount of land] and a king's high-reeves [royal official], four thousand thrymsas.
     5. A mass-thane's and a secular thane's [member of the nobility], two thousand thrymsas.
     6. A ceorl's wergeld is two hundred and sixty-six thrymsas, that is two hundred shillings by Mercian law.
 

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