Edited sentence: : it was due from the guardian, who might be the father or the brother, of the unfortunate damsel.A case of female incontinence was punished by a fine called Legrewite or Leyr-wite, and the birth of an illegitimate child was followed by another called childwite, which in one of the manors of Bury Monastery was fixed at 2s.A similar practice to freebench applied to the children, who had to follow the conditions of their father.At Farringdon, a tenant's daughter, on being convicted of incontinence, forfeited forty pence (no small sum) in the reign of Henry III, to the lord of the manor; which was only remitted on condition of the offender's appearing in the lord's court, carrying a black sheep on her back, and making confession of her shame.In some cases the young woman went through a grotesque act of penance.The lord had to look narrowly after the morals and marriages of the daughters of his farmers