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fold with the fame forms * and folemnities as a
horfe, or any other bead; except in Denmark,
where a proclamation before a court of law was
ordered to precede the fale . According to fuch
principles, the fame cuftom was paid for an im-
ported flave as for an ox, viz. a faiga, or a penny,
if the Have was to be fold f. The flaves being
chained together, were brought to market, and
fold in lots, each lot containing a number of
Haves, which number was very various and un-
certain J. Thus Saint Elegius, bifhop of Noyons,
bought often twenty, thirty, fifty, nay whole fhip
loads in fuch lots, confiding of men, women, and
children, from Germany, Britain, Italy, and the
Levant §. Helmold beheld at once in the mar-
ket at Micklinburgk no lefs than feven thoufand
Danes expofed to fale ||. And at that time certain j
merchants embraced only this branch of trade,
which to them proved highly beneficial. Yet
of all nations, none was more favage than the
inhabitants of Verdun, who having emafculated
the boys, fold them at an immer^f price to the
* The forms are preferved in Marculfi Formulae, xxi. xii„
«[ Leges Scanicte, 1. vi. c. 5.
f H. Goldafti Conftitutiones Imperiales, t. i. p. 210.
| Will. Malmeibur. in vita St. Wulfllani.
§ Du Chefne Scriptor. Rer. Francicar, t. i. p. 628.
|| Helmoldi Chronic. Sclavor, libro ii. c. 12.
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