Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . him should manumit three of hisslaves, and give 35. to each. The laity followed theexample. In the English wills published by Thorpe fa considerable number occur in which the testatorgives freedom to serfs, Queen ^thelflaed sets freehalf of her men in every vill; Wynflaed gives a longlist of serfs by name who are to be freed, and thefreedom of penal serfs is given in nine other wills. * The monks of Jumieges, in the seventh century, fitted out vessels andsailed great distances to redeem slaves. St. Eligius spent large sums in
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . him should manumit three of hisslaves, and give 35. to each. The laity followed theexample. In the English wills published by Thorpe fa considerable number occur in which the testatorgives freedom to serfs, Queen ^thelflaed sets freehalf of her men in every vill; Wynflaed gives a longlist of serfs by name who are to be freed, and thefreedom of penal serfs is given in nine other wills. * The monks of Jumieges, in the seventh century, fitted out vessels andsailed great distances to redeem slaves. St. Eligius spent large sums inredeeming them—20, 50, 100 at a time. Christian missionaries boughtslaves, and trained them as Christians. ?)• Diplomatarium Anglicanum, THE SAXON CLERGY. 83 Still the institution continued. At the end of theSaxon period, a thriving trade in the export ofEnglish slaves was carried on at Bristol, till BishopWulstan put an end to it. The Twenty-ninth Canonof the Synod of Westminster, held under Anselm in1102, enacted that there should be no buying and ^.. Coronation of Harold by Archbishop Stigand. Bayeux tapestry. selling of men in England as heretofore, as if theywere kine or oxen. But this did not put a rtop toit. Slaves were bought and sold by Church dignitariesas late as the fourteenth century, as we shall see in alater chapter, and the status of serfdom continued tothe sixteenth century.
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