“For three causes a woman loses not her agweddi, although she may leave her husband; to wit, on account of leprosy, bad breath, and default of connection.”—(_Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 365.) These citations are from Aneurin Owen’s translation of the Welsh text of the Welsh laws, published in parallel columns with the Welsh text by the Record Commissioners. These laws are of uncertain date; they are commonly attributed to Howel Dda, but bear interpolations or alterations of much later date. The oldest MSS. of them are of the twelfth century. I add the passages regarding lepers which occur in the Latin versions of the Welsh Laws, the oldest MSS. of which are of the thirteenth century:— “Tribus de causis potest femina habere suum egwedy [suam dotem], licet ipsa uirum relinquat; scilicet, si sit leprosus uir; et si habeat fetidum anhelatum; et si cum ea concumbere non possit.”—(_Liber Legum Howel Da_, lib. ii. cap. xx., sec. xxxi. _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 796; Lond. 1841.) “Tribus de causis habebat femina suum aguedi [suam dotem], licet ipsa virum suum relinquat; id est, si leprosus sit vir; et si fetidum hanelitum habueret; et si cum ea coire non possit.”—(_Liber Legum Howel Da_, lib. ii. cap. xxiii. sec. xiii. _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 827.) “Leprosi cum seculum dimittunt ebedyw [_i.e._ heriot _seu_ caulp] dare debent dominis suis.”—(_Liber Legum Howel Da_, lib. ii. cap. xxii. sec. ix. _Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 797.) The Dimetian Code (of Murder)— “If there be a relative of the murderer, or of the murdered, who is an ecclesiastic in holy orders, or in an ecclesiastical community, or leprous, or dumb, or an idiot, such neither pays nor receives any part of galanas” [assythment, or fines for murder].—(_Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 200.) The Dimetian Code (Triads)— “There are three persons, no one of whom, by law, can be a qualified judge; one of them is, a person having a defect, as one who is deaf, or blind, or leprous, or an insane person,” etc. etc.—(_Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 200.) The next class of passages is taken from what are called the “Anomalous Welsh Laws,” which, in the state they are now found in, are supposed to be of the sixteenth century:— “If a person become a surety, and before the termination of the suit he should become leprous, or a monk, or blind, .... he must fulfil his promise while he lives.”—(_Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 403.) “There is to be no objection to a pleader, but for having violated his religious profession, and quitting the world, or his becoming a separated leper.”—(_Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales_, p. 516.)