A Critical History of Sunday Legislation From 321 to 1888 A. D.

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D., were passed about 696 A. D. : Law 9. If a slave (esne) do any servile labor, con- trary to his lord's command, from sunset on Sunday eve till sunset on Monday eve, let him make a compensation (bot) of eighty shillings to his lord.
Law 10. If an esne so do of his own accord on that day, let him make a " bot " of six to his lord, or his hide.
Law II. But if a freeman [so do] at the forbidden time, let him be liable to his heals-fang (a fine paid to save himself from the pillory), and the man
...who detects him, let him have half the fine (wite) and the work.
(Thorpe, p. 17.) Among the laws of the eighth century, is one found in the "Canons of Cuthbert," enacted at Clovis Hoo, November, 747 A. D., in the reign of 72 Sunday Legislation.
Eidelbald, King of the Mercians. It runs as fol- lows : In the fourteenth place it is ordained that the Lord's day be celebrated by all, with due veneration and wholly separated for divine service. And let all abbots and priests, on that most sacred day, remain in their monas- teries and churches, and say solemn mass ; and lay aside all external business, and secular meetings, and joumey- ings, except the cause be invincible ; let them by preach- ing instruct the servants subject to them, from the oracle of the holy Scriptures, the rules of religious conversation, and of good living.


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