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3(.)i APPENDICE.
DU PENKENEDL.
EXTRAITS DES LOIS D'iIOEL, TEXTE GALLOIS ET TRADUCTION ANGLAISE EN REGARD
(2 vol. in-8°, Loodres, 1841).
T. I. L II. Cli. XL, ri. 10, p. 593, Lois d'Hoël. — T. II, p. 1-12, Histoire des peuples bretons.
« A son is not to be chief of kindred after the father , in succession ; for chief of kindredship is during lifc. » (Traduc.)
T. II. L. XIII. Ch. 2, p. 537, ii. 162, 1G3, 1G5.
« Three railh men of kindred; its chief of kindred; its seven elders, as coadjulors of its chief of kindred; and its représentative; ant he is a man of the kindred who shall be chosen on account of his wisdom and bis literary Knowledge; and to be chosen by ballot , or silent vote of the elders of kindred. »
« Three things , if possessed by a man , make him fit to be a chief of kindred ; lhat he should speak on behalf of his kin, and be listened to; that he should fight on behalf of his kin, feared, and that should be bysecurity on behalf of kiskin, and be accepted. »
« Three indispensable of a chief of kindred ; being an efficient man ; and being the chief of a house hold , or a man with a vife and children by legitimate marriage : and every of the kindred is to be a man and a kin to him ; and his word is paramount to the word of every one of the kindred. »
T. II, p. 517, n. 88.
« Three indispensable of a kindred : its chief of kindred ; ils avenger; and its représentative. A chief of kindred is to be the efficient man in the kindred to the ninth descent; and his privilège and office are to move the country and court in behalf of his man; and he is the speaker of is kindred in the conventional raith of country, and il is the duty of every man of the kindred to listen to him , and for him to listen to his man. The avenger of a kindred leads it lo battle and war, as there may be occasion ; and he pursues evildoers, brings them before the court, and punishes them , according to the sentence of the court and judgement of the country. The représentative is the mediating man, in court, and in congrégation, and in combat, and in every foreign affair ; he is lo be one of the wise men of kindred by raith of chiefs of households in the kindred , and to be a coadjutor with the chief of kindred in every raith and convention of country ; and he is to be elected by the raith of hiskindred to the ninth descent by ballot , that is , by tacite vote. »
lloël, T. I. Ch. 18, p. 191, n. 8; et ch. 19, n. 1, Hist. îles peuples bretons, loco supra citât,
« Neither a maer nor a canghellor is to be a chief of a kindred; but and uchelwr of the country. »
« A chief of kindred is to hâve twenty-four pence lor every man who shall will a kinswoman to him; for she herself shall pay her amobyr.
Vl'I'IMUi I . 395
Vnd be i> to bave Iwenly-four pence firom mon youlh that be shall admit tohis L.indred. »
« And he is to ad in coocerl with lus Idnsmao and Irinswoman in every circumstance. »
/6k/. T. 11. ji 543, m. |70| Bit», ili- penptei breioni, Coco •<(.
« Three oolumns of raith ofcountry, of wfaatever Idnd il ma; be : the sovereign of a fédérale coontr) . or the lord or a lerritorj ; cbiefs of Icindreds; and elders of kindred, and wiae meDOf oountry, or représentative, verifled as to privilège by the siient vote ofkrodred, or bj systematic ballot of elder upon elder. ■
ll>nl. . |>. 189, ". 88.
There are Ihree sessions of emergency Becondly, a session of raith of country,
by chîef of kindred on accounl of a plaint of injustice and breach of law by tlic king and his jodges; or, wbere la\\ cannot bcobtained to afford clearand permanent rigbt; and whcrc that Bhall be , it is rigbt for every innato cymro to bave bis raith, and ii|x>n bis chief of kindred dépends the agitation of Bovereignty, with the support and assistance of bis kindred and lus \\ ise men ; and tho country ought not to oppose him, for it is the privilège of a chief of kindred to agilale sovereignty ; and to every innate kymro that privilège pertains, under the protection of the privilège of lus chief of kindred. And the oatli of three hnndred mon legally qualified, or those who hâve a title as landed proprietors, are to confirm what is done by raith ofcountry on the agitation of a man who is an innate kymro under the protection or his chief of kindred. For every kymro has a right to his voire, and his plaint, and his daim, by nalural reason, under the protection of his chief of kindred , and every chief of kindred has a right to his country and lus right; and, whcrc damended, every raith hasrighl to ils sovereignty, » etc.
Ilitl. T. Il, p. 539, il 235.
« Thcre arc three records of kindred : the rerord of the court of law; the record of a chief of kindred conjointly with his seven elders; and the record of bardism ; the record of a chief of kindred dépends upon the judges; the record of a chief of kindred dépends upon his seven elders, to wit, the privilèges and events of (hoir kindred, and the seven elders are to transfer it to the chief of kindred who succeeds the one who may die ; and the records of bardism dépends upon bards authorized as teachers, and by the privilège of session. Thèse three records are called the three authenticated records of country and kindred; and upon them dépends the authenlicating of every degree of descent , and every privilège of arms ; for from the privilège of land originales tho privilège of Brms ; and where the privilège of arms sliall be found authenlicatcd by record and symbole, that becomes a teslimony in every suit as to land and soil. »
îbid. T. I, p. :>',", ii. ôi.
« To the chief of a kindred belongs every office among the kindred ; if he grant an olhce to a son of lus or to a relative of his, such is to pay one pound to the lord; and if he frec either of them . wiihout giving office to him , six score pence is to be paid by that person to the lord. »
VM'JÏNblCE.
Ibid T. 1, p. 780, n. 14.
« Tliree persons lo whom galanas is paid, and who pay galanas to no one : a lord ; for lie receivcs a third for exacting every galanas; the second is , the chief of a kindrcd ; for according to his privilège galanas to relation is paid ; the third is, a father; for a share cornes to him of the galanas of his son to wit, one peuny ; since his son is no relative to him : and no one of those three arc to bc killed for galanas. A sister pays half a brother's share of galanas , and she receives no share of galanas. »
Ibid. T. II. L. XIII. Ch. 5, n. 1-25, p. 529.
« Three daugthers who do not pay amobyrs : the daugther of a king, or lord of a territory ; the daugther of an edling ; and the daugther of a chief of kindred. »
liid. T. II. L. XIII. Cb. 2, n. 56, p. 492.
« Three privileged person against whom thcro is not to be a naked weapon : a bard ; a chief of kindred ; and a messenger of a border country. »
liid. T. II. L. XIII. Ch. 1, n. 30, p. 480.
« There are three pre-eminent moles : a chief of kindred wilh his retinue ; bards, with their wards of noviciates ; and a judge , with his men of the court : for wherever they shall be there they hâve their privilège and maiinenanre. »
Ibid., cod. Démet. T. I. L. II. Ch. 8, n. 20, p. 242.
« Though the raith of a person , concerned as an accessary, fail ; he shall only be liable to dirwy ; unless it be minded to prosecute him for perjury. »
Ibid., p. 437, n. 8.
« Three crimes, which if a man commit in his own country, his son , on that account, is to forfeit his patrimony by law : the killing of his lord; the killing of his chief of kindred ; and the killing of his family représentative : and that because of the heinousness of those crimes. »
