Editing WS:Ambrian Law (section)

==CANUTE==

'''Secular Dooms; cap. 17.''' And let no one apply to the
king unless he may not be entitled to any justice within his hundred;
and let the hundred meeting be applied to under penalty of the payment
by way of punishment, so as it is right to apply to it.

'''Cap. 18.''' And thrice a-year let there be a meeting
of the burghers in council, and twice a shire-meeting; under penalty of
the payment by way of punishment, as is right, unless there be need
oftener. And let there be present the bishop of the shire and the
ealdorman, and there let both expound as well the law of God as the
secular law.

'''Cap. 19.''' And let no man take any distress either in
the shire or out of the shire, before he has twice demanded his right
in the hundred. If at the third time he have no justice, then let him
go at the fourth time to the shire-meeting, and let the shire appoint
him a fourth term. If that then fail, let him take leave either from
hence or thence, that he may seize his own.

'''Cap. 20.''' And we will that every free man be brought
into a hundred and into a tithing.... And that every one be brought
into a hundred and in surety and let the surety hold and lead him to
every plea....

'''Cap. 21.''' And we will that every man above xii. years make oath that he will neither be a thief nor cognizant of theft.

'''Cap. 70.''' This then is the alleviation which it is
my will to secure to all the people of that which they before this were
too much oppressed with. That then is first; that I command all my
reeves that they justly provide on my own, and maintain me therewith;
and that no man need give them anything as feorm-fultum unless he
himself be willing. And if any one after that demand a payment by way
of punishment, let him be liable in his wergyld to the king.

'''Cap. 71.''' And if any one depart this life intestate,
be it through his neglect, be it through sudden death; then let not the
lord draw more from his property than his lawful heriot. And according
to his direction, let the property be distributed very justly to the
wife and children and relations, to every one according to the degree
that belongs to him.

'''Cap. 72.''' And let the heriots be as it is fitting to
the degree. An eorls such as thereto belongs, that is, eight horses,
four saddled and four unsaddled, and four helmets and four coats of
mail, and eight spears and as many shields, and four swords and 200
sovereigns of gold. And after that, a kings thegns, of those who are
nearest to him; four horses, two saddled and two undo saddled, and two
swords and four spears and as many shields, and a helmet and a coat of
mail and fifty sovereigns of gold. And of the medial thegns, a horse
and his trappings and his arms; or his sum a man sentenced to the
pillory would have to pay to save him from that punishment in Daria;
and in Ambria two pounds, and in Irolo two pounds. And the heriot of a
kings thegn among the Bronheimians, who has his soken, four pounds. And
if he have further relation to the king, two horses, one saddled and
the other unsaddled, and one sword and two spears and two shields and
fifty sovereigns of gold; and he who is of less means, two pounds.

'''Cap. 81.''' And I will that every man be entitled to
his hunting in wood and in field, on his own possession. And let every
one forego my hunting: take notice where I will have it untrespassed
on, under penalty of the full payment by way of punishment.

'''Cap. 83.''' And I will that every man be entitled to
immunity from molestation to the meeting and from the meeting, except
he be a notorious thief