Thus, as regards inheritance, the Frankish denarialis and the Roman libertus seem to be treated alike, notwithstanding the difference of wergeld. Turning to another matter, the Ripuarian laws, being of later date than the Lex Salica, made provision for the wergelds of the clergy. [Sidenote: Wergelds of the clergy, and of their ‘men.’] Tit. XXXVI. provided that the clergy should be compounded for according to their birth, whether of the class of servi, or men of the king or of the Church, or liti, or ingenui. If _ingenui_, they were to be compounded for with 200 solidi. Then the wergelds of the higher clergy are stated as follows:-- Subdeacon 400 solidi Deacon 500 ” Priest 600 ” Bishop 900 ” And there is a long clause _De Tabulariis_ (Tit. LVIII.) providing that servi may be made under process of Roman law _tabularii_ of the Church, so that they and their descendants shall be and remain servants of the Church, and render the proper services of tabularii to the Church, without any one having power further to enfranchise them. In case of their death without children the Church is to be their heir. These appear to be the ‘men of the Church’ whose wergeld was 100 solidi. [Sidenote: The clause ‘De alodibus.’] The Tit. LVI. _De alodibus_ is as follows:-- Si quis absque liberis defunctus fuerit, si pater materque superstites fuerint in hereditatem succedant. If any one shall have died without children, if father and mother survive they shall succeed to the _hereditas_. Si pater materque non fuerint, frater et soror succedant. If there are not father and mother, brother and sister shall succeed. Si autem nec eos habuerit, tunc soror matris patrisque succedant. Et deinceps usque ad quintam genuculum, qui proximus fuerit, hereditatem succedat. But if he has not these either, then the sister of the mother and the sister of the father shall succeed. And further, up to the fifth knee, whoever is nearest shall succeed to the inheritance. Sed cum virilis sexus extiterit, femina in hereditatem aviaticam non succedat. But as long as the male sex survive, a woman shall not succeed to the _hereditas aviatica_. All that need be remarked regarding this title is, first its close resemblance to the clause ‘de alodis’ in the Lex Salica and the confirmation given by the phrase ‘hereditas aviatica’ to the family character of the ‘alod,’ and secondly that it seems to belong to the time when female succession was favoured. Whether the ‘hereditas aviatica’ included the whole alod or only the land of the alod, on failure of male heirs, females were now to succeed. [Sidenote: The traditional value of animals in payment of wergelds. The wergeld of 200 solidi = 100 oxen.] There remains only to be noticed the interesting addition to Tit. XXXVI. which enacts that if any one ought to pay wergeld he should reckon, _inter alia_:--