So too, as we have seen, under the Bavarian laws the freedman’s wergeld went to his lord.[312] Under the Frisian law the wergeld of the _litus_ went to his lord.[313] Under Ripuarian law even the ‘homo denarialis’--the freedman who became a Frank with a full wergeld--was recognised as having at first no kindred. If he had no children, his property went to the fisc. And it was not till the third generation that his descendants had full rights of inheritance.[314] We have already found abundant evidence of the continued force of tribal custom and tribal instincts in regard to the importance of kindred while considering the meaning and function of the hyndens in connection with the twelve-hynde and twy-hynde classes of the Anglo-Saxon laws. These remarkable correspondences between the position held by the læts in Kent and that of the leysings and freedmen and liti of the Continental laws, without our making too much of them, may fairly be taken as additional evidence of the tenacity of tribal custom in these matters.[315] VII. THE AMOUNT OF THE KENTISH WERGELDS. [Sidenote: Probable Kentish wergelds eorl 600, freeman 200, Kentish scillings.] Once more we return to the amount of the wergelds of the Kentish eorl and freeman. We have seen reason to believe that the payments of 300 and 100 scillings of the laws of Hlothære and Eadric were half-wergelds, and that the full wergelds were 600 and 200 scillings. If they may be so considered they are at once put on line with the Frankish wergelds. The threefold wergeld of the eorl becomes evidently due to his noble birth or official position. And, if the Kentish and Frankish solidi had been alike, the similarity of the wergelds would have been complete. [Sidenote: As in the Frankish laws.] The wergelds of the Frankish group of laws were found to be as follows:-- Lex Salica, Graphio or ingenuus in truste Regis 600 solidi } Frank or Barbarian living under Salic law 200 ” } Lex Ripuariorum, Comes &c. in truste Regis 600 ” } Ingenuus 200 ” } Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, Adalingus 600 ” } Liber 200 ” } Lex Chamavorum, Homo Francus 600 ” } Ingenuus 200 ” } In all these cases the wergeld of the Royal official or person in high rank is threefold that of the _liber_ or _ingenuus_.[316] [Sidenote: Confirmed by comparison with the King’s mundbyrd.] Confining attention now to the position of the Kentish freeman, further confirmation of the view that his wergeld was 200 Kentish scillings may be derived from a comparison of the King’s mundbyrd with his wergeld, and the corresponding Continental payments _pro fredo_ with the wergelds of the _liber_ and _ingenuus_ of the Continental laws.