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"If an ear be struck off, let bot be made with twelve shillings. If the mouth or an eye be injured, let bot be made with twelve shillings. For the smallest disfigurement of the face, three shillings; and for the greater, six shillings. If a foot be cut off, let fifty shillings be paid."

Ninety Dooms of St. Aethelbert
Anglo-Saxon England (ca. 604 A.D.)