[59]. William Andrews, Old-Time Punishments, p. 146. Hull, 1890.
[60]. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 144.
[61]. E. W. Robertson, Scotland, ii. p. 450.
[62]. Pollock and Maitland, Hist. ed. 1898, ii. p. 450.
[63]. See Thorpe, 8vo ed. vol. i. p. 579: “Si quis dominum suum occidet,” etc.
[64]. F. Lindenbrog, Codex legum antiquarum, p. 498.
[65]. For similar laws in ancient Wales and eighteenth-century America, etc., see Westermarck, Moral Ideas, i. p. 518.
[66]. “Imprisonment,” say Pollock and Maitland, “would have been regarded in those old times as a useless punishment; it does not” (as it was then employed and understood) “satisfy revenge, it keeps the criminal idle, and do what we may it is costly.”—Hist. Eng. Law, ed. of 1895, vol. ii. p. 514.
[67]. Grant Allen, Anglo-Saxon Britain, p. 47.
[68]. E. W. Robertson, Scotland, p. 295.