[42]. A vigorous slave trade was carried on just prior to the Conquest.—Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 130.
[43]. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. i. p. 12. Cambridge, 1895.
[44]. Law of Ine, seventh century. “If any one sell his countryman bound or free, though he be guilty, over sea, let him pay for him according to his wer.”—Stubbs, Charters, p. 61. Oxford, 1884.
Law of Æthelred. “Christian men and condemned persons are not to be sold out of the country, at least not into heathen nations.”—Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 135.
A law of William I. was to the same effect.—R. Schmidt, Gesetze, p. 347.
[45]. F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book, p. 31.
[46]. Æthelbert. “If any one slay a ceorl’s hlf-æta, let him make bōt with vi. shillings.”—Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 3.
[47]. Thorpe, 8vo ed. i. p. 626.
[48]. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 127.
[49]. See Theodori liber poenitentialis. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 288. Poenitentiale Ecberti, lib. ii. 3. Thorpe, p. 368.