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Monks' Rules (Author: Columbanus Hibernus)

Rule 14

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If any layman has begotten a son by another's wife, that is, has committed adultery in violating his neighbour's bed, let him do penance for three years, refraining from the more appetizing foods and from his own wife, giving in addition the price of chastity to the husband of the violated wife, and thus let his guilt be cancelled by the priest.’’

cf. Paen. Venniani 36