[392] Smith and Chetam, Dict. of Ch. Antiq. Missions (see also Socrates, Ecc. Hist., vii., 30; Ozanam, Civilisation chez les Francs, p. 51).
[393] Thomas Moore, History of Ireland, vol. i., p. 49.
[394] Guizot, Civilization, vol. i., p. 429.
[395] La Boulaye, Recherches sur la condition de la femme depuis les Romains jusque au nos jours.
[396] Ammian. Marcell., xvii., 8.
[397] Codex, second edition of Hessels and Kern, xxviii., section 4, and the Wolfenbuttel edition as quoted by Garabed Artin Davoud-Oghlou, Histoire de la législation des Anciens Germains, vol. i., p. 496.
[398] A sou was worth about 1000 grains of silver and the denier had a weight of about 25 grains of silver. Davoud-Oghlou, vol. i., p. 465.
[399] Leys Salica, column 491.
[400] J. F. A. Payre, Lois des Francs, pp. 82 and 83. The kings and the nobles wore their hair long, while the plain people wore their hair short, as did the Romans for whom these barbarians had a great contempt.
[401] Dugour, p. 93; Davoud-Oghlou, vol. i., p. 613; Lallemand, p. 91.