Mund-byrd of the King 50 scillings.
Gif cyning his leode to him gehateð. ⁊ heom mon þær yfel gedo .ii. bote. ⁊ cyninge .l. scillinga.
If the King call his leod to him and any one there do them evil, the bot is twofold and 50 scillings to the King.
Here are two distinct things. The bot is the payment to the person called to the King. While thus in attendance any injury is to be paid for twofold. The payment of fifty scillings to the King is the mund-byrd or payment for breach of his protection or peace.
Clause 3 is as follows:—
Gif cyning æt mannes ham drincæð ⁊ þær man lyswæs hwæt gedo twi bote gebete.
If the King drink at any one’s ‘ham’ and any one there does something wrong, then let him pay twofold bot.
That is, the presence of the King at a subject’s house is the same thing as the subject being in the King’s protection, and the bot for any wrong done to the subject, while the King is there, is doubled.
Clause 4 enacts:—
Gif frigman cyninge stele .ix. gylde forgylde.