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mentations ; and when a foretooth is paid for, the worth of a conspicuous scar is to be paid with it. [1]A backtooth is fifty [pence] in value.

[2]Twenty four pence is the worth of a person's blood, for it is not proper that the worth of a man's blood should be as high as the worth of God's blood. Although he was very man, he was very God and he sinned not in his flesh. [3]There are three conspicuous scars upon a person: a scar on a person's face, valued at six score pence ; a scar on the back of the right hand, valued at sixty pence ; a scar on the back of the right foot, valued at thirty pence. [4]The worth of a person's eyelid, as long as the hair is on it, is one legal penny in value for every hair ; if a part be cut away from it, then the worth of a conspicuous scar is paid.

[5]The amount of the galanas of a maer or a canghellor is one hundred and eighty nine kine with three augmentations. The sarhad of each of them is nine kine and nine score of silver. The ebediw of each of them is a pound. The gobr of the daughter of each is a pound, and the cowyll is three pounds, and the agweddi is seven pounds. If a daughter of a maer or a canghellor or one of the principal officers of a court goes away clandestinely without consent

  1. V 19 b 20
  2. V 19 b 21
  3. V 19 b 25
  4. V 20 a 4
  5. V 20 a 8