LESSON XVI.
Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury, governed the English church from 670 to 690, when he died. The following extracts are from his canonical regulations:
VII. Græci et Romani dant servis suis vestimenta, et laborant excepto Dominico die. Græcorum monachi servos non habent, Romani habent.
“The Greeks and Romans give clothing to their slaves, and they work except on the Lord’s day. The Greek monks have not slaves, the Romans have.”
XVII. Ingenuus cum ingenuâ conjungi debet.
“A free man should be married to a free woman.”
LXV. Qui per jussionem domini sui occiderit hominem, dies xl. jejunet.
“He who, by the command of his master, shall kill a man, shall fast forty days.”
The seventy-first prohibits the intermarriages of those slaves whose owners will prevent their living together.
The seventy-fourth regulates, that if a free pregnant-woman be sold into slavery, the child that she bears shall be free; all subsequently born shall be slaves.