APPENDIX E.

Wulfsige thesheriff received the
oath, since he would not go to
the king’s hand : and there was
a good addition of a thousand
men who gave the oath.

Rubric. Thus were the six
ploughlands atWouldham given
to St. Andrew at Bochester.”

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APPENDIX F.

HEATHENDOM.

The following passages of the Anglosaxon Laws contain general
enactments against heathen practices, or references to heathen
superstitions.

“ Gif ceorl biιton wɪfes wisdome deoflum gelde, he sie ealra his
⅛hta scyldig, and healsfange. Gif butwu deoflum geldaS, sɪon
héo healsfange scyldigo, 4 ealra éhta.”—LI. Wihtr. § 12. Thorpe,
i. 40.

“ Gif J>eow deoflum gelda⅞> .vi. scill. gebéte, o⅜<⅛ his hyd.”—-
LI. Wihtr. § 13. Thorpe, i. 40.

“ Gifhwa Cristendom wy∙rde, o<>δe h⅛⅜>endom weor⅞>ige, wordes
o<5⅞∣e weorces, gylde swa wer swa wite, swa Iahslite, be %>am ¾e seo
d≤d sy.”—Eddw. GvL. § 2. Thorpe, i. 168.

“Gif wiccan o¾‰ wigleras, mansworan o<5⅝e mor⅛wyrhtan,
o¾⅞>e fuie, afylede Sébære horcwenan ahwar on lande wurSan
agytene, ‰nne fy⅛ie hi man of eardc 4 cl⅛nsie ¾>a }∣eode, o⅞>⅞⅛ on
earde forfare hy mid ealle, bιιton hi geswican 4 Se deoppor gebé-
tan.”—Eddw. GuL. § 11. Thorpe, i. 172.

“ Ond we cw⅛don be ‰⅛ wiccecræftum, 4 be Iiblacum, 4 be
mor⅞>d⅛dum, gif man ⅜>air acweald wðere, 4 ho his ætsaean ne
mihte, ‰t he bed his feores scyldig.”—TE⅜elst. i. § 6. Thorpe,
i. 202.

“ Dti ⅞⅛ mιinsweria⅞> 4 Iyblac wyrca⅞∣, syn hi a fram élcum
Godes d⅛le aworpene, baton hy to rihtre dædbote gecyrran.”—
Eddm. i. § 6. Thorpe, i. 246.

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