WIHTRED
Ðis synd Wihtrgedes domas Cantwara cyninges.
Ðam mildestan cyninge Cantwara Wihtraede rixigendum þe fiftan wintra his rices, þy niguðan gebanne, sextan dæge Rugernes, in þære stowe þy hatte Berghamstyde, ðær wæs gesamnad eadigra geþeahtendlic[1] ymcyme. Ðær wæs Birhtwald, Bretone heahbiscop, ⁊ se ær næmda cyning; eac þan Hrofesceastre bisceop (se ilca Gybmund wæs haten) andward wæs; 7 cwæð ælc had ciricean ðære mægtðe anmodlice mid þy hersuman folcy.
Ðær ða eadigan fundon mid ealra gemedum ðas domas ⁊ Cantwara rihtum þeawum æcton, swa hit hyr efter segeþ ⁊ cwyþ:
1. Cirice an freolsdome[2] gafola;
§ 1.⁊ man for cyning gebidde, ⁊ hine buton neadhæse heora willum weorþigen.
2. Ciricean mundbyrd sie L scll' swa cinges.
3. Unrihthsemde msen to rihtum life mid synna hreowe tofon o]>]>e of ciricean gemanan^ ascadene sien.
4. iEltheodige maen, gif hio hiora hsemed rihtan nyllaS, of lande mid hiora aehtum 7 mid synnum gewiten ;
§ 1. swgese maen in leodum ciriclicaes gemanan ungestrodyne )7oligen.
5. Gif )?9es geweorj^e gesi)7cundne mannan ofer )?is gemot, 'pddt he unriht hsemed genime ofer cyngaes bebod 7 biseopes 7 boca dom, se J^aet gebete his dryhtne c sell' an aid reht.
§ 1. Gif hit ceorlisc man sie, gebete L sell' ; 7 gehwaeder )7aet haemed mid hreowe forlaete.
1 em. Thorpe, geheahtendlic. H.
2 anfreols dome. H. Schmid, following Wilkins, writes Ciricean /r«>l«do//ie; Liebermann, as above.
3 em. Wilkins. genaman. H. ,
