[Sidenote: Kindred liable for half the wergeld and slayer for the other half.] Another point of interest arises from the last clause. In the absence of the slayer his kindred had to pay only a half wergeld (_healfne leod_). Does this justify the inference that in all cases of wergelds the liability of the kindred was confined to one half? It will be remembered that in the so-called ‘Canones Wallici’ (_supra_, p. 109), if the slayer had fled, the _parentes_ of the slayer had fifteen days allowed for their payment of one half or flight from the country. And only when they had paid their share could the slayer return and make himself safe by paying the other half--the ‘medium quod restat.’ It seems not unlikely that in the Kentish case also ecclesiastical influence had limited the liability of the kindred to the half-wergeld. Clauses 25 and 26 are important, and we shall have to recur to them. [Sidenote: The three grades of læts.] Gif man ceorlæs hlaf-ætan ofslæhð .vi. scillingum gebete. 25. If any one slay a ceorl’s hlafæta, let him make _bot_ with vi scillings. Gif læt ofslæhð þone selestan .lxxx. scill forgelde. Gif þane oðerne ofslæhð .lx. scillingum forgelde. þane þriddan .xl. scillingum forgelden. 26. If [any one] slay a _læt_ of the best class, let him pay lxxx scillings; of one of the second, let him pay lx scillings; of the third, let him pay xl scillings. To these three grades of læts we shall have to return when we sum up the evidence on the division of classes. [Sidenote: Edor-breach.] Next follow three clauses upon edor-breach. The first relates to the breach by a freeman of the enclosure or precinct presumably of a freeman, the penalty being the same as the ceorl’s _mund_. The second imposes a threefold bot upon theft from within the precinct. And the third refers to a freeman’s trespass over the edor or fence. Gif friman edor-brecðe gedeð vi scillingum gebete. 27. If a freeman commit edor-breach, let him make bot with vi scillings. Gif man inne feoh genimeð se man iii gelde gebete. 28. If any one take property [? cattle] from within, let him pay a threefold bot. Gif fri-man edor gegangeð iv scillingum gebete. 29. If a freeman trespass over a fence, let him make bot with iv scillings. After these clauses about _edor-breach_ is the following: Gif man mannan ofslea agene scætte. ⁊ unfacne feo gehwilce gelde. 30. If a man slay another, let him pay with his own money (scætte) and with any sound _feo_ [cattle]. Gif friman wið fries mannes wif geligeð his wer-gelde abicge ⁊ oðer wif his agenum scætte begete. ⁊ þæm oðrum æt þam gebrenge. 31. If a freeman lie with a freeman’s wife, let him pay his wergeld, and another wife obtain with his own scætte and bring her to the other. [Sidenote: Bots for injuries. For eye, hand, or foot 50 scillings.]