It is best for thy weal an thou art a theow else Wulfhere would make thee pay thy weregeld twice over.
If a theow [a type of slave] steal, let him make twofold bot [twice the value of the stolen goods].
If a male theow rape a female theow, let him make bot with his testicles.
The third of the laws of Ine enacts that if a theow work on Sunday by his lord's command, the theow shall be exempt from penalty, but his lord shall pay 30s.
If a slave or theow worked on Sunday by his master's commands, he became free; if a freeman worked on that day, by his own consent, he forfeited his freedom.
He left the chapel, and summoned a theowwho was passing the door with a great bundle of cabbages in his arm.
Well," said Fulke, "it is most certain that it was this theow Hyla.
A theow named Gurth, who had been seen by a forester picking wood for fires, was suspected of killing a young boar, which had been found not long after with its belly ripped open by a sharp stake.
It is a strange story," said Geoffroi, "and a pitiful to-do about a theow girl.
