Note 288 — Chapter IX · The State.

Assize Dav. 14, 15. I have adopted the reading of the Ayr MS.; xx.ix. instead of xxix., as 180 cows—nine times twenty—were paid as manbote for homicide throughout Scotia. According to the other reading, the fine for homicide “in the king’s gryth” would have been less than elsewhere. Vide Act. Parl. Scot., vol. 1, p. 3.