“Si liber homo spontanea voluntate vel forte necessitate coactus, nobili, seu libero, seu etiam lito, in personam et in servitium liti se subdiderit.” Lex Fres. xi. 1. “Ut nullum liberum liceat inservire ... quamvis pauper sit, tamen libertatem suam non perdat nec hereditatem suam, nisi ex spontanea voluntate se alicui tradere voluerit, hoc potestatem habeat faciendi.” Lex Bajuv. vi. 3. The Anglosaxon law gave this power of voluntary surrender to a boy of thirteen. See Theod. Poenit. xxix. Thorpe, ii. 19. Footnote 347: Gregor. Turon. vii. 45. Footnote 348: “Interea fames dira ac famosissima vagis ac nutabundis haeret, quae multos eorum cruentis compellit praedonibus sine dilatione victas dare manus, ut pauxillum ad refocillandam animam cibi caperent.” Hist. Brit. cap. xvii. Footnote 349: “Ealle ða men ðe heónon heora heáfod for hyra mete on ðám yflum dagum.” Cod. Dip. No. 925. The instance is, I believe, a solitary one in our records, but the cases must have been numerous. Footnote 350: “And eác heó hafað gefreód ða men ða heó þingede æt Cwæspatrike;” And she hath also freed the men whom she interceded for with Cospatrick. Cod. Dip. No. 925. Marculf gives the Frankish formulary, as follows; it is the case of one who has been redeemed from capital punishment: “Et ego de rebus meis, unde vestra beneficia rependere debuissem, non habeo; ideo pro hoc statum ingenuitatis meae vobis visus sum obnoxiasse, ita ut ab hac die de vestro servitio penitus non discedam.” Form. Marculf. ii. 28. -----