These strangers may some of them have had land and some of them not. Certainly not all of them were regarded as theows or thralls. To what class, then, did they belong? And how were they treated? What degree of freedom was granted them, and what was their wergeld, if they had any? It is to the Laws of Ine that we must go for the answers to these questions. And we start on the inquiry seeking light also upon the position of the as yet unexplained six-hynde class so often mentioned in the Laws of King Alfred but never in the later laws. The only hint we have had as yet as to the meaning of the six-hynde class is whether gesithcund-men not having land may not have belonged to it. [Sidenote: The _wealh_ or _Wilisc-man_ with five hides was six-hynde.] The wergelds of the ordinary classes of tribesmen were doubtless too well known to require more than incidental mention in King Ine’s Dooms, but there are several clauses or fragments of clauses specially mentioning the wergelds of the _wealh_ and of the _Wilisc_-man. Wealh gif he hafað fif hyda he bið syx hynde. (24) A _wealh_ if he have five hides ‘he shall be six-hynde.’ Gif Wylisc mon hæbbe hide londes his wer bið c.xx scill. gif he þonne hæbbe healfe lxxx scill. gif he nænig hæbbe lx scillinga. (32) If a Wylisc-man have a hide of land his wer shall be cxx scillings, but if he have half a hide lxxx scillings, if he have none lx scillings. Cyninges hors-wealh seþe him mæge geærendian þæs wer-gield bið cc scill. (33) The king’s ‘horse-wealh’ who can do his errands, his wergeld shall be cc scillings. It will be noticed that the wergeld of the _Wilisc_ man with one hide of land is one fifth of the wergeld of the _wealh_ with five hides, so that wealhs and Wilisc men seem to be treated on the same lines--as if the two words meant the same thing. [Sidenote: The Gallo-Roman ‘_wala_.’] It is not easy to draw a distinction between the ‘wealh’ and the ‘Wilisc’ man. ‘Wilisc’ is certainly used as the adjective corresponding to ‘wealh,’ though sometimes (as _e.g._ in ‘Wilisc ale’) for something specially Welsh. In the Lex Salica, as we have seen, the Gallo-Roman living under Roman law, according to the Malberg gloss was a ‘_Wala_’ with a wergeld half that of the ‘ingenuus’ living under Salic law. And, without pushing this meaning so far as Mr. Coote was inclined to do, we may fairly, I think, look upon the word ‘wealh’ as generally embracing not only natives of Wales and West Wales, but also the wider class of persons of the conquered populations, whether Welsh or Britons or Romano-Britons, who were not recognised as of Anglo-Saxon blood. [Sidenote: The _Wallerwente_ of Yorkshire.]