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24. If any one bind a freeman, let him make bot with 20 s.h.i.+llings.

25. If any one slay a ceorls hlaf-aeta,(269) let him make bot with 5 s.h.i.+llings.

38. If a shoulder be lamed,(270) let bot be made with 12 s.h.i.+llings.

39. If the ear be struck off, let bot be made with 12 s.h.i.+llings.

40. If the other ear hear not, let bot be made with 25 s.h.i.+llings.

41. If an eye be struck out, let bot be made with 50 s.h.i.+llings.

51. For each of the four front teeth, 6 s.h.i.+llings; for the tooth that stands next to them, 4 s.h.i.+llings; for that which stands next to that, 3 s.h.i.+llings, and then afterward 1 s.h.i.+lling.

(_b_) Vinnian, _Penitential_. Wa.s.serschleben, _Die Bussordnungen der abendlndischen Kirche_, 108 _ff._

This is one of the earliest of the penitentials and belongs to the Irish Church.

1. If one has committed in his heart a sin of thought and immediately repents of it, let him smite his breast and pray G.o.d for forgiveness and perform satisfaction because he has sinned.

2. If he has often thought of the sins and thinks of committing them, and is then victor over the thought or is overcome by it, let him pray G.o.d and fast day and night until the wicked thought disappears and he is sound again.

3. If he has thought on a sin and determines to commit it, but is prevented in the execution, so is the sin the same, but not the penance.(271)

6. If a cleric has planned in his heart to smite or kill his neighbor, he shall do penance half a year on bread and water according to the prescribed amount, and for a whole year abstain from wine and the eating of meat, and then may he be permitted again to approach the altar.

7. If it is a layman, he shall do penance for a whole week; for he is a man of this world and his guilt is lighter in this world and his punishment in the future is less.

8. If a cleric has smitten his brother [_i.e._, a clergyman] or his neighbor and drawn blood he shall do penance a whole year on bread and water; he may not fill any clerical office, but must with tears pray to G.o.d for himself.

9. Is he a layman, he shall do penance for 40 days, and according to the judgment of the priest or some other righteous man pay a determined sum of money.

(_c_) Theodore of Tarsus, _Penitential_, I. Haddan and Stubbs, III, 73 _ff._

For Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury, see W. Stubbs, art. Theodorus of Tarsus in DCB. That he wrote a penitential is not certain. But that he was regarded as the author of a penitential is clear enough. In fact, his name is attached to penitentials in much the same way as Davids name is attached to the whole book of Psalms. For a discussion of the various works attributed to Theodore, see Haddan and Stubbs, _Councils and Ecclesiastical Doc.u.ments_, _loc. cit._ This is a characteristic penitential and may be regarded as following closely the decisions and opinions of Theodore. Much of it is unprintable in English.

Cap. I. _On drunkenness._ 1. If any bishop or other person ordained is customarily given to the vice of drunkenness, let him cease from it or be deposed.

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