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“ÆTHELBERHT
þis syndon þa domas, þe Æðelbirht cyning asette on Augustinus dæge.
18. Gif man mannan wępnum bebyreþ, ðær ceas weorð, 7 man nænig yfel ne gedþ, IV scillingum gebete.”
Translation:
ÆTHELBERHT
These are the decrees which King Æthelberht established in the lifetime of Augustine.
18. If one man supplies another with weapons when a quarrel is taking place, no injury however being inflicted, he [the lender] shall pay 6 shillings compensation.
Full Text: The Laws of King Æthelberht, No. 18, in The Laws of the Earliest English kings
F. L. Attenborough, ed. and trans., The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1922), 6-7. Transcription and translation of the Textus Roffensis,1 the Laws of Æthelberht, no. 18.