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 a house stealthily and be laid hold of, his life will be forfeited. A thief who is put to death is not to lose any of his chattels, because both reparation and punishment are not to be exacted ; only payment of the chattels to the loser because he ought not to leave behind an unsatisfied claim. There is to be no galanas for a thief; and there is to be no recrimination between two kindreds on account of him (yrdaw ).

yew of a saint is a pound in value. An oak is six score pence in value. Whoever shall bore through an oak is to pay three score pence. A branch of a mistletoe is three score pence in value. Every principal branch of the oak is thirty pence in value. An apple tree is three score pence in value. A crab tree is thirty pence in value. A hazel tree is fifteen pence in value. Fifteen pence is the value of a yew of a wood. A thorn is seven pence halfpenny in value. Every tree after that is four legal pence in value except a beech tree. That is six score pence in value. Whoever shall fell an oak on the king's highway, let him pay three kine camlwrw to the king, and the worth of the oak ; and let him clear the way for the king ; and when the king goes by, let him