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If there be an injury of the bone, let /bot/ be made with four shillings.
-If a shoulder be lamed, let /bot/ be made with thirty shillings.
-If an ear be struck off, let /bot/ be made with twelve shillings.
-If an ear be pierced, let /bot/ be made with three shillings.
-If an ear be mutilated, let /bot/ be made with six shillings.
-If an eye be (struck) out, let /bot/ be made with fifty shillings.
-If the mouth or an eye be injured, let /bot/ be made with twelve shillings.
-If the nose be pierced, let /bot /be made with nine shillings.
-If the nose be otherwise mutilated, for each let /bot/ be made with six shillings.
-Let him who breaks the chin-bone pay for it with twenty shillings.
-For each of the four front teeth, six shillings; for the tooth which stands next to them four shillings; for that which stands next to that, three shillings; and then afterwards, for each a shilling.
-If a thumb be struck off, twenty shillings. If a thumb nail be off, let /bot/ be made with three shillings. If the shooting [i. e. fore] finger be struck off, let /bot/ be made with eight shillings. If the middle finger be struck off, let /bot/ be made with four shillings. If the gold [i. e. ring] finger be struck off, let /bot/ be made with six shillings. If the little finger be struck off, let /bot/ be made with eleven shillings.
-For every nail, a shilling.
-For the smallest disfigurement of the face, three shillings: and for the greater, six shillings.
-If any one strike another with his fist on the nose, three shillings.
-If the bruise be black in a part not covered by the clothes, let /bot/ be made with thirty /scaetts/.
-If it be covered by the clothes, let /bot/ for each be made with twenty /scaetts/.
-If any one destroy (another's) organ of generation, let him pay with three /leud-gelds/; if he pierce it through, let him make /bot/ with six shillings; if it be pierced within, let him make /bot /with six shillings.
-If a thigh be pierced through, for each stab six shillings; if (the wound be) above an inch, a shilling; for two inches, two; above three, three shillings.
-If a foot be cut off, let fifty shillings be paid.
-If a great toe be cut off, let ten shillings be paid.
-For each of the other toes, let one-half be paid, like as it is stated for the fingers.
-If the nail of a great toe be cut off, thirty /scaetts/ for /bot/; for each of the others, make /bot/ with ten /scaetts/. . . .
Trial By Ordeal
The first ordeal depicted here is the Trial by Cold Water. Briefly stated, the accused was given holy water to drink and then tossed into a river, pond, or other fairly deep body of water. If the man was innocent of the crime he’d been charged with, he’d sink to the bottom. If he was guilty, he would float (apparently sin is very bad for the soul, but makes one hell of a life preserver.) Hopefully the innocent man would be pulled out of the river before he drowned. If not . . . well, his soul was clean. (Not to mention other parts of him, as it was probably the best bath he’d seen in a while)
Trial by Hot Water and Trial by Iron weren’t as likely to end in death of the innocent party. Unless, of course, you died of infection or failed the trial and they hung or beheaded you. In trial by hot water, a stone was placed in the bottom of a cauldron of boiling water. The accused would be required to reach his hand in and retrieve the stone, getting badly scalded while he was at it. The hand was then bandaged and examined in three days.
If the hand was healing cleanly, then the man was presumed innocent. If the burn was infected or not healing cleanly, then he was guilty and remanded for punishment.
Trial by Iron was very similar to Trial by Hot Water. An iron rod was heated until it was glowing and the accused carried it for 9 feet. Again, the hand was bandaged and inspected for infection after three days.
If you consider the hygiene (or lack thereof) in Anglo-Saxon times, it really would take an act of God for a second or third-degree burn to not get infected.
During the trial, the defendant swore: "By the Lord, I am guiltless both of deed and instigation of the crime with which _____ charges me". The oath-helpers simply support that: "By the Lord, the oath is pure and not false that _____ swore".