Note 7 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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Appended to John's charter granting a communa to Bayonne (April 19, 1215) we find a code of communal ordinances based partly on those in the Rouen and Falaise charters and partly on the customs of La Rochelle. In this code the penalty of destroying the offender's house was decreed for a magistrate who accepted bribes,7 for a citizen who shirked his military service,8 for a perjured man,9 for a thief.10