Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

[69]. Laws of Ine. To fight in the king’s house rendered the offender liable to be put to death.—J. Johnson.

Laws of Alfred. To fight in the presence of an archbishop meant a fine of 150 shillings.—Thorpe, p. 32.

To fight in the house of a common man meant a mulct of thirty shillings, and six shillings to the ceorl.—J. Johnson.

[70]. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, p. 148.

[71]. See example, temp. Cnut. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 174.

[72]. J. Johnson, Ecc. Laws.

[73]. Thorpe, fol. ed. p. 174.

[74]. J. Johnson, Ecc. Laws.

[75]. Thorpe, Laws of Cnut, fol. ed. p. 169.

[76]. Ibid. p 213.