1) If he declares that he has paid toll, he shall produce the
man to whom he paid it, and shall be quit of the charge.
2) If, however, he cannot produce the man to whom he paid it, he
shall pay the actual toll and as much again and five pounds to
the King.
3) If he vouches the tax-gatherer to warranty [asserting] that
he paid toll to him, and the latter denies it, he shall clear
himself by the ordeal and by no other means of proof.
4. And we [the king and his counselors] have decreed that a man
who, within the town, makes forcible entry into another man's
house without permission and commits a breach of the peace of the
worst kind ... and he who assaults an innocent person on the
King's highway, if he is slain, shall lie in an unhonored grave.
1) If, before demanding justice, he has recourse to violence,
but does not lose his life thereby, he shall pay five pounds
for breach of the King's peace.
2) If he values the good-will of the town itself, he shall pay
us thirty shillings as compensation, if the King will grant us
this concession."
5. No base coin or coin defective in quality or weight, foreign or
English, may be used by a foreigner or an Englishman. (In 956, a
person found guilty of illicit coining was punished by loss of a
hand.)
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