Haddan & Stubbs, Councils I (1869), pp. 118-121 — translated from the Latin.

I. Priests about to minister in the temple of God who, for the sake of their gullet, drink wine or strong drink through negligence and not through ignorance, shall do penance three days; but if through contempt of those who rebuke them, forty days.

II. But if they be made drunk through ignorance, fifteen days; if through negligence, forty days; if through contempt, three periods of forty days.

III. He who compels another to become drunk for the sake of good-fellowship shall do penance in like manner as a drunkard.

IV. But he who through the working of hatred or wantonness, that he may shamefully confuse or mock them, compels others to drunkenness, if he do sufficient penance, let him do penance as a murderer of souls.

V. They who fornicate with a woman espoused to Christ or to a husband, or with a beast, or with a male, shall for the rest of their lives live to God, dead to the world.

VI. But he who has sinned with a virgin or a widow not yet espoused shall give her dowry to her parents, and do penance one year. If he have not the dowry, he shall do penance three years.

VII. A bishop wilfully committing homicide, or any fornication or fraud, shall do penance thirteen years; a presbyter, seven, with bread and water, and a dish on Sunday or Saturday; a deacon, six; a monk without orders, four; unless infirmity prevent them.

VIII. He who is polluted in sleep with his will, let him arise and sing seven psalms, and live that day on bread and water. But if not, let him sing thirty psalms.

IX. But he who, willing to sin in sleep, could not — fifteen psalms; but if he did sin but was not polluted, twenty-four; if polluted without his will, fifteen.

X. The ancient saints decreed that a bishop for capital sins should do penance twenty-three years, a presbyter twelve, a deacon seven; likewise a virgin, a reader, and a religious; and a married layman four.

XI. But now the penance of a presbyter in his right mind, and of a deacon and subdeacon, of a virgin and of every man who delivers a man to death, and of him who fornicates with beasts or with his sister or with a married woman, and of him who would slay a man with poisons, is three years. The first year upon the earth, the second laying his head upon a stone, the third let him lie upon an axle; let him feed on bread only and water and salt and a small dish of pulse. But others prefer thirty triduans, or with superpositions [added fasts], with the aforementioned food and bed, the allowance from one ninth hour to the other. There is another penance for three years, but with draughts of ale or milk, with bread and salt; the other of two nights with allowance of a meal, and they ought to pray to God in order through the twelve hours of the nights and days.

XII. Hence it is not lawful for a presbyter to offer sacrifice, or for a deacon to hold the chalice, or to ascend to a higher grade.

XIII. He that takes usury shall lose the things which he takes.

XIV. He that lives on plunder or fraud, half a year.

XV. He that gives a kiss to a virgin in secret shall do penance a triduan [three days].

XVI. He that swears falsely in church shall restore fourfold that for which he swore.

Repeated in the Penitential, XXXV. Capp., c. x. § 4, as ’the Judgement of the Scots.'

[Editorial matter (Haddan & Stubbs):]

Other canons, apparently Welsh and of the period of St David, but of the Welsh origin of which there is some doubt, will be found in Appendix A.

A.D. 589. Ann. Camb. — CXLV. Annus. The conversion of Constantine to the Lord. (AU, 581.) [Constantine was king of Powys, and left his kingdom to enter St David’s monastery (Rhyddmarch, V. S. David); his legend takes him on to Ireland and Scotland (Aberdeen Breviary, Hawke II).]

A.D. ~500-600. The British monastery at Candida Casa [Whithorn] frequented by Irish for instruction:

• Acta S. Tigernach: “The boy (Tigernach), diligently instructed in the disciplines and admonitions of St Monennus in the monastery of Rosnat, which by another name was called Alba,” etc. (Colgan, Acta SS. 438.)
• Acta S. Eugenii: “The holy and wise Nennio, who is called Mancennus, asked those two holy men (Eugenius and Tigernachus) of the king of Britain from the monastery of Rosnat, and received them freely; by whom under ecclesiastical discipline they were nurtured and read dutifully.”
• Acta S. Endei: “His sister said to him (Endeus): Go into Britain to the monastery of Rosnat, and be a humble disciple of Mansenus, master of that monastery.”
• Acta S. Finani: “A pontiff named Nennio, coming from Britain with his people… With the same (Nennio) returning home, he (Finanus) sailed, and in his seat, which is called the Great Monastery, he learned the rules and institutions of the monastic life for some years, a proved monk.”

Two missionary efforts from Ireland to Scotland belong to this period — that of St Moluag or Lugaidh to (the Scotch) Lismore [Ann. Tigern. a. 592: “Obitus Lugide Lissmoer, i.e. Moboc,” i.e. of Lughaidh-Laa = Laa-Moluag, at Lismore in the subsequent diocese of Argyll. See Reeves, Add. Notes to Adamnan, V. S. Columb. p. 371] — and that of St Donnan to the island of Eigg, martyred A.D. 617 [Ann. Tigern. a. 617; and see Reeves, A. pp. 304, 373].

For Welsh bishoprics founded during this century, see below in Appendix C.

Part of 6th or beginning of 7th century: Breiniau Arvon — the privileges of Arvon. Fifteen civil privileges granted to the men of Arvon:

… And if there be who shall doubt one of these privileges, the community at Bangor and that of Beuno shall uphold them.

[A Venedotian form of the Laws of Gwynedd (Laws of Wales, I. 104-107), the latter half of the 6th or beginning of the 7th century, the privileges purporting to be granted by Run, son of the Maelgwn who was king of Gwynedd, to the men of Arvon. The legend however of Beuno connects him with King Cadfan, who is usually assigned to the end of the 7th century and reigned A.D. 575-610 according to the Annals (op. Wharton, A. S. I. xxxii).]