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compensated], twelve-fold; a bishop's property, eleven-fold; a priest's
property, nine-fold; a deacon's property, six-fold; a cleric's property,
three-fold; church-frith [breach of the peace of the church; right of
sanctuary and protection given to those within its precincts], two-fold
[that of ordinary breach of the peace]; m....frith [breach of the peace of
a meeting place], two-fold.
2. If the King calls his leod to him, and any one there do them evil, [let
him compensate with] a two-fold bot [damages for the injury], and 50
shillings to the King.
3. If the King drink at any one's home, and any one there do any lyswe
[evil deed], let him make two-fold bot.
4. If a freeman steal from the King, let him repay nine-fold.
5. If a man slay another in the King's tun [enclosed premises], let him
make bot with 50 shillings.
6. If any one slay a freeman, 50 shillings to the King, as drihtin-beah.
7. If the King's ambiht-smith [smith or carpenter] or laad-rine [man
who walks before the King or guide or escort], slay a man, let him pay
a half leod-geld.
8. [Offenses against anyone or anyplace under] the King's mund-byrd
[protection], 50 shillings.
9. If a freeman steal from a freeman, let him make threefold bot; and let
the King have the wite [fine] and all the chattels [necessary to pay the
fine].

10. If a man lie with the King's maiden [female servant], let him pay a
bot of 50 shillings.
11. If she be a grinding slave, let him pay a bot of 25 shillings. The
third [class of servant] 12 shillings.
12. Let the King's fed-esl [woman who serves him food or nurse] be
paid for with 20 shillings.
13. If a man slay another in an eorl's tun [premises], let [him] make bot
with 12 shillings.
14. If a man lie with an eorl's birele [female cup-bearer], let him make
bot with 12 shillings.
15. [Offenses against a person or place under] a ceorl's mund-byrd
[protection], 6 shillings.
16. If a man lie with a ceorl's birele [female cup-bearer], let him make
bot with 6 shillings; with a slave of the second [class], 50 scaetts [a
denomination less than a shilling]; with one of the third, 30 scaetts.
17. If any one be the first to invade a man's tun [premises], let him
make bot with 6 shillings; let him who follows, with 3 shillings; after,
each, a shilling.
18. If a man furnish weapons to another where there is a quarrel,
though no injury results, let him make bot with 6 shillings.
19. If a weg-reaf [highway robbery] be done [with weapons furnished
by another], let him [the man who provided the weapons] make bot
with 6 shillings.
20. If the man be slain, let him [the man who provided the weapons]
make bot with 20 shillings.
21. If a [free] man slay another, let him make bot with a half leod-geld
of 100 shillings.

22. If a man slay another, at the open grave let him pay 20 shillings,
and pay the whole leod within 40 days.
23. If the slayer departs from the land, let his kindred pay a half leod.
24. If any one bind a freeman, let him make bot with 20 shillings.
25. If any one slay a ceorl's hlaf-aeta [bread-eater; domestic or menial
servant], let him make bot with 6 shillings.
26. If [anyone] slay a laet of the highest class, let him pay 80 shillings;
of the second class, let him pay 60 shillings; of the third class, let him
pay 40 shillings.
27. If a freeman commit edor-breach [breaking through the fenced
enclosure and forcibly entering a ceorl's dwelling], let him make bot
with 6 shillings.
28. If any one take property from a dwelling, let him pay a three-fold
bot.
29. If a freeman goes with hostile intent through an edor [the fence
enclosing a dwelling], let him make bot with 4 shillings.
30. If [in so doing] a man slay another, let him pay with his own money,
and with any sound property whatever.
31. If a freeman lie with a freeman's wife, let him pay for it with his
wer- geld, and obtain another wife with his own money, and bring her
to the other [man's dwelling].
32. If any one thrusts through the riht [true] ham-scyld, let him
adequately compensate.
33. If there be feax-fang [taking hold of someone by the hair], let there
be 50 sceatts for bot.
34. If there be an exposure of the bone, let bot be made with 3 shillings.

35. If there be an injury to the bone, let bot be made with 4 shillings.
36. If the outer hion [outer membrane covering the brain] be broken, let
bot be made with 10 shillings.