[402] “Parentes qui cogente necessitate filios suos alimentorum gratia vendiderint ingenuiati eorum non pare juicant. Homo enim liber pretio nullo æstimatur.” Edictum Theodorici, art. 94.
[403] Thomas Hodgkin, The Letters of Cassiodorus, book viii., letter 33.
[404] Terme et Monfalcon, Hist. des Enfants Trouvés, p. 28.
[405] Terme et Monfalcon, p. 84.
[406] Lerousse, Bathilde.
[407] Lebeau, Hist. du Bas Empire, vol. vi., p. 179.
[408] The History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, vol. i., p. 414, translated by Benj. Thorpe.
[409] Laws of Hloth. and Ead., vi. Ine, vii. Æthels., v. i. By the Salic law also (tit. xxvi., art. 6) twelve was fixed as the age of responsibility.
[410] See Laws of Cnut, lxxvii.
[411] Thorpe, p. 414.