I will also that all men whom I have brought with me or who have come after me be in my peace and quiet. And if any one of them be killed, his lord shall have his murderer within five days, if he can; and if not, he shall begin payment to me of 46 marks of silver, so long as that lord’s possessions last. And when his possessions fail, the whole hundred in which that murder was committed shall pay the residue in common. And every Frenchman who in the time of king Edward, my kinsman, was in England, sharing the customs of the English which they call lot and scot,[1] shall be paid for[2] according to the law of the English. This decree was established in the city of Gloucester. We forbid also that any live cattle be sold or bought except within cities, and this before three trusty witnesses, and that none sell or buy anything old without surety and warrant. And if any do otherwise he shall pay and pay to the full, and shall afterwards pay a forfeiture. It was also decreed there that if a Frenchman shall appeal an Englishman of perjury or murder, theft, homicide, or “ran,” which is the English term for manifest rape that cannot be denied, the Englishman shall defend himself as he shall prefer, either by the ordeal of iron or by battle. But if the Englishman be sick, he shall find another to do it for him. The one who shall be vanquished shall make amends in 40_s._ to the king. If an Englishman shall appeal a Frenchman and refuse the proof of ordeal or battle, I will that the Frenchman purge himself with an oath unbroken. This also I command and will, that all men have and hold the law of king Edward in lands and all other things, with those additions which I have decreed for the benefit of the English people. Every man who will be holden for a freeman shall have a surety, that the surety may hold and bring him to justice, if he offend in aught. And if any such make default, his sureties shall see to it that they pay simply what is charged against him, and purge themselves of all collusion in his default. The hundred court and the county court shall be convened, as our ancestors decreed. And they who ought justly to come and refuse to come, shall be summoned once; and if they refuse to come the second time, one ox shall be taken, and they shall be summoned a third time; and if they come not the third time, another ox shall be taken; but if they come not a fourth time, there shall be rendered from the goods of the man who shall refuse to come what is charged against him, which is called “ceapgeld”; and further a forfeiture to the king. I forbid any to sell a man out of the country on pain of full forfeiture to me. I prohibit also that any man be killed or hanged for any crime, but his eyes shall be plucked out or his members cut off. And this command shall not be violated on pain of full forfeiture to me. THE ORDEAL OF THE GLOWING IRON. =Source.=--Gengler, _Germanische Rechtsdenkmäler_, p. 759.