“If any person shall sacrifice a man to the devil, and offer him as a victim to devils after the fashion of pagans, he shall be put to death.”
An explanation of this will be found where Pope Gregory III. answers St. Boniface, who informed him that unfortunate slaves were bought to be thus immolated.
XI. Si quis filiam domini sui rapuerit, morte moriatur.
“If any one shall do violence to his master’s daughter, he shall be put to death.”
XII. Si quis dominum suum vel dominam suam interfecerit, simili modo puniatur.
“If any one shall kill his master or his mistress, he shall be punished in like manner.”
XIV. De minoribus capitulis consenserunt omnes, ad unamquamque ecclesiam curtem et duas mansas terræ pagenses ad ecclesiam recurrentes condonent: et inter centum viginti homines nobiles et ingenuos, similiter et litos, servum et ancillam eidem ecclesiæ tribuant.
“All agreed concerning the smaller congregations, that the colonists frequenting each church should bestow upon it one dwelling, with proper out-offices, and two manses (24 acres) of land; and that they should give to the same church one male slave and one female slave between one hundred and twenty noble and free men, and counting also the conditioned servants.”
In this newly settled ecclesiastical province the provision made for the support of religion consisted of land and slaves.