...church twelve fold (ie twelve times the amount of the penalty for an ordinary breach of the peace)—a bishop's property, eleven fold; a priest's property,...nine fold; a deacon's property, six fold; a clerk's AD603. property, three fold; church frith, two fold, and m(inster) frith, two fold. There is hardly...

...traces of ecclesiastical influence. The Kentish code of King A¿thelberht, who died in 616, begins, “[Theft of] God's property and the Church's shall be compensated twelve fold” (“Godes feoh ¿ ciricean XII gylde”). 4 The Penitential attributed to Theodore of Canterbury, dated...

...laws begin: These are the decrees which King iCthelberht established in the lifetime of Augustine. [Theft of] God's property and the church's shall be...doubly when it affects a church or a meeting place. 23 The preface thus associates ^Cthelberht's decrees with the Christian mission of Augustine, and the...

...laws begin: These are the decrees which King /Ethelberht established in the lifetime of Augustine. [Theft of] God's property and the church's shall be...property nine fold; a deacon's property six fold; a derk's property three fold. Breach of the peace shall be compensated doubly when it affects a church...