Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'Seebohm, Frederic
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Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales'
Seebohm, Frederic
Anglo-Saxons; Law, Anglo-Saxon; Law, Medieval; Tribes -- Great Britain
The next two clauses, under the heading ‘Kelchin’ or ‘Gelchach,’ seem to
refer to insult or wounding, (the Welsh _gweli_ = wound). And as the word
_enach_ does not occur again in the laws of Bretts and Scots it seems
probable that it may have been included under this heading, and that
the Kelchin or Gelchach, like the Irish _enach_ and the Welsh _saraad_,
referred quite as much to insults to personal honour as to bodily
injuries.
_De Kelchyn_
[ ]
_Of lee Kelchyn_
* * * * *
Item le kelchyn domini regis est centum vacce. Item le kelchyn
filii regis vel vnius comitis est sexaginta sex vacce et due
partes vnius vacce.
¶ Gelchach le rei · a · C · vacc · a cont v al fiz le rei ·
lx[vi] vac͠c · ⁊ · ii · pars deune vac͠c.
Item þe kelchin of our lord þe king is jᶜ ky. Item þe kelchyn of
a sonne of þe kingis or of an erle is iijˣˣ ky [and sex ky and
twapert of a kow].
* * * * *
Item le kelchyn filii vnius comitis vel vnius thani est
quadraginta quatuor vacce viginti vnus denarii et due partes
vnius oboli. Item le kelchyn filii thani est minor per terciam
partem quam patris sui et sunt viginti nouem vacce [ ]
vndecim denarii et tercia pars vnius oboli. Rusticus nichil habet
de kelchyn.
¶ Gelchac · de thayn · v · de fiz a cunt · est xliiij · vac͠c · &
· xxi · đ · ⁊ deus pars deune mayl.
Item þe kelchin of a thane or of þe sone of ane erle is xliiij ky
and xxi peniis and twapert of a half peny. Item þe kelchin of þe
sonne of a thane is les be thrid part þan of his fader þat is to
say þar pertenis til him xxix ky and xi peniis and þe thrid part
of a half peny. And a carl has na kelchin.
* * * * *
Item si uxor liberi ominis sit occisa vir suus habebit le kelchyn
[ ] parentes eius habebunt le cro et le galnes.
¶ Si fēme a vn franc hūme est ocis · son barō auera le kelchin ·
⁊ ses parens auerūt le cro & le galnis.
Item gif þe wif of a fre man be slayn hyr husband sal haf þe
kelchyn. And hir kyn sal haf þe cro and þe galnes.
* * * * *
Item si uxor rustici sit occisa dominus ipsius terre in qua manet
habebit le kelchyn et parentes eius le cro et le galnes.
¶ Et si fēme a vileyn seit ocis · le seygnur del fe v le vilein
meint auera le kelchin · ⁊ le vilein auera le turhochret a sa
fēme del kelchin · ⁊ le parens [le cro] et le galnis.
Item gif þe woman of a carl be slayn þe lord in quhais lande he
duellis sal haf þe kelchin and hyr kyn sal haf þe cro and þe
galnes.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: Payments for blood drawn.]
_De effusione sanguinis_
[ ]
_Of blude drawyn_
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