Any person, even a retainer, endeavouring to enter from without by pole, ladder, or rope, might be killed with an arrow or dart, putting himself into the position of an outlaw.

In practice, of course, this law was frequently evaded.

It did not apply to the family of the owner.
Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood.

Putting his fishing-tackle and boar spear down, Oliver took the ladder and threw the end over the stockade.

He then picked up a pole with a fork at the end from the bushes, left there, of course, for the purpose, and with the fork pushed the rungs over till the ladder was adjusted, half within and half without the palisade.