40. If the other ear hear not, let bot be made with 25 shillings.
41. If an eye be struck out, let bot be made with 50 shillings.
51. For each of the four front teeth, 6 shillings; for the tooth that stands next to them, 4 shillings; for that which stands next to that, 3 shillings, and then afterward 1 shilling.
(b) Vinnian, Penitential. Wasserschleben, Die Bussordnungen der abendländischen Kirche, 108 ff.
This is one of the earliest of the penitentials and belongs to the Irish Church.
1. If one has committed in his heart a sin of thought and immediately repents of it, let him smite his breast and pray God for forgiveness and perform satisfaction because he has sinned.
2. If he has often thought of the sins and thinks of committing them, and is then victor over the thought or is overcome by it, let him pray God and fast day and night until the wicked thought disappears and he is sound again.
3. If he has thought on a sin and determines to commit it, but is prevented in the execution, so is the sin the same, but not the penance.[271]
6. If a cleric has planned in his heart to smite or kill his neighbor, he shall do penance half a year on bread and water according to the prescribed amount, and for a whole year [pg 627] abstain from wine and the eating of meat, and then may he be permitted again to approach the altar.
7. If it is a layman, he shall do penance for a whole week; for he is a man of this world and his guilt is lighter in this world and his punishment in the future is less.