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Political Condition of the English Peasantry . 289 then J I wish your ships would take full slavers rather oftener !"
Grood morning !" . We passed on , and my master coolly observed" There ' s a young fool who thought to make me confess myself owner of the ' Uncle Sam . ' I ' ve not lost much by her , at any rate ; this is the third successful trip she ' s made , and they ' ve only got her empty now !" Here was certainly dishonesty carried on in the most respectable manner . Mr . Darkle , you practised what you preached !
( To be continued . )
On The Political Condition Of The English Peasantry During The Middle Ages.
ON THE POLITICAL CONDITION OE THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY DUBING THE MIDDLE AGKES .
( Continued from p . 205 . ) DimiF & the later Anglo-Saxon period few new laws relating to
theows are found . In the reign of Alfred a severe statute against violence offered to female serfs would imply that it was a frequent crime . A female serf apparently , had no will in opposition to her master , as a law ordains that if a wyln be corrupted by a married man she becomes free .
The theows , unlike the Boman coloni , could be increased by the reduction of free-men to slavery , and diminished by manumission . There were many crimes for which free-men were reduced to the condition of theows . By the forest laws of King Canute , a
freeman who struck one of the king ' s foresters in the performance of his duty , or killed one of the king ' s deer , was equally reduced to slavery , and became thus a wite-theow , or penal serf . A wite-theow stealing himself , or running away , was hanged . The child of the wite-theow remained free .
Another method was by voluntarily selling and submitting oneself to theowdom , either from actual want , or to secure protection against enemies . Yet , by a law of Ina , the serf was not shielded by his theowdom from the penalty of crimes committed when free . "If any
man be a wite-theow , newly made a theow , and he be accused that he had before theowed ere he was made a theow , then may the accused have one scourging at him ; let him follow him to the scourging according to his value . " This theowdom only affected the children born afterwards . A father might sell his children to theowdom under a certain age . After seven the child could not be sold without his own consent , and
after thirteen he had the power of selling himself . The clergy fixed these limits , and endeavoured to destroy the practice itself . Yet it continued down to a late period ; the English just before the Norman conquest selling their children to the Irish , The clergy protested against the sale of Christian theows to Jews or Pagans , and if the YOL . I . 2 Q
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Political Condition of the English Peasantry . 289 then J I wish your ships would take full slavers rather oftener !"
Grood morning !" . We passed on , and my master coolly observed" There ' s a young fool who thought to make me confess myself owner of the ' Uncle Sam . ' I ' ve not lost much by her , at any rate ; this is the third successful trip she ' s made , and they ' ve only got her empty now !" Here was certainly dishonesty carried on in the most respectable manner . Mr . Darkle , you practised what you preached !
( To be continued . )
On The Political Condition Of The English Peasantry During The Middle Ages.
ON THE POLITICAL CONDITION OE THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY DUBING THE MIDDLE AGKES .
( Continued from p . 205 . ) DimiF & the later Anglo-Saxon period few new laws relating to
theows are found . In the reign of Alfred a severe statute against violence offered to female serfs would imply that it was a frequent crime . A female serf apparently , had no will in opposition to her master , as a law ordains that if a wyln be corrupted by a married man she becomes free .
The theows , unlike the Boman coloni , could be increased by the reduction of free-men to slavery , and diminished by manumission . There were many crimes for which free-men were reduced to the condition of theows . By the forest laws of King Canute , a
freeman who struck one of the king ' s foresters in the performance of his duty , or killed one of the king ' s deer , was equally reduced to slavery , and became thus a wite-theow , or penal serf . A wite-theow stealing himself , or running away , was hanged . The child of the wite-theow remained free .
Another method was by voluntarily selling and submitting oneself to theowdom , either from actual want , or to secure protection against enemies . Yet , by a law of Ina , the serf was not shielded by his theowdom from the penalty of crimes committed when free . "If any
man be a wite-theow , newly made a theow , and he be accused that he had before theowed ere he was made a theow , then may the accused have one scourging at him ; let him follow him to the scourging according to his value . " This theowdom only affected the children born afterwards . A father might sell his children to theowdom under a certain age . After seven the child could not be sold without his own consent , and
after thirteen he had the power of selling himself . The clergy fixed these limits , and endeavoured to destroy the practice itself . Yet it continued down to a late period ; the English just before the Norman conquest selling their children to the Irish , The clergy protested against the sale of Christian theows to Jews or Pagans , and if the YOL . I . 2 Q