The blood of a bishop or high prince or a scribe poured on the ground, _si colirio indiguerit_,[86] the ‘sapientes’ judge that he who sheds it shall be crucified or pay seven ancillæ. Here, obviously, the VII. ancillæ are the price of the life of the criminal--the seven cumhals of the coirp-dire. The canon adds the following:-- Si in specie, tertiam partem de argento et comparem verticis de auro latitudinem nec non et similem oculi de gemma pretiosa magnitudine reddat. If paid in specie, one third must be paid in silver, and of gold of the size of the crown of the head, and also the like in precious stone of the size of an eye. These passages seem to have a curious correspondence with the following passage in the Brehon Laws (sequel to the ‘Crith Grabhlach,’ iv. p. 363):-- As to the shedding of a bishop’s blood, if it reaches to the ground as blood that requires a tent the guilty person is to be hanged for it, or it is seven cumhals that are to be paid for his sick maintenance and his eric. If the wound be in his face, the breadth of his face of silver is paid, and of the crown of his head of gold. The canons go on to state that if the blood does not reach the ground _nec colirio indigeat_ the hand of the striker is to be cut off, or the half of VII. ancillæ paid, if the act is done with intention; if not, the price of one ancilla is to be paid. Another clause states that if a bishop be struck or violently handled, without effusion of blood, half the price of VII. ancillæ is to be paid. In all these cases the fines are reckoned in a unit of VII. ancillæ or the half of it. The cutting off of the hand of the criminal is reckoned as equal to half of VII. ancillæ. The VII. ancillæ is the recognised unit. When, in other clauses, dealing with the case of the same things done to a _priest_, a lesser punishment is decreed, still _the price of VII. ancillæ_ is the price of the life of the criminal. If the blood of a priest is shed and reaches the ground, _donec colorium subfert_, the hand of the criminal is to be cut off, or half of VII. ancillæ to be paid, if the act be intentional. If not intentional, the price of one ancilla is enough. In title IV., _Dejectione_, after a clause stating that he who ejects a poor man kills him, and he who meets a person ready to perish and does not succour him kills him, there follows this clause:-- Si quis jecerit episcopum et si mortuus fuerit, accipiatur ab eo pretium sanguinis ejus L. ancillas reddit, id est VII. ancillas uniuscujusque gradus vel l. annis peniteat et ex his accipiuntur VII. ancille de jectione ejus. If any one ejects a bishop and if he should be dead, let there be received for him the price of his blood, let him render fifty ancillæ, _i.e._ seven ancillæ for each grade of rank, or do penance fifty years, and from these shall be received seven ancillæ _de jectione ejus_.[87]