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chosen, and the one wisest scholar who was called Blegywryd, to make the good laws and to abolish the bad ones which were before his time; and to place good ones in their stead and to confirm them in his own name. When they had finished making those laws, they placed the curse of God, and the one of that assembly, and the one of Cymru in general upon any one who should break those laws. And first they began with the Laws of a Court as they were the most important and as they pertained to the King and the Queen and the Twenty-four Officers who accompany them,[1] namely, Chief of the Household. Priest of the Household. Steward. Judge of the Court. Falconer, Chief Huntsman. Chief groom. Page of the Chamber. Steward of the Queen. Priest of the Queen. Bard of the Household. Silentiary. Doorkeeper of the Hall. Doorkeeper of the Chamber. Chambermaid. Groom of the Rein. Candlebearer. Butler. Mead brewer. Server of the Court. Cook. Physician. Footholder. Groom of the Rein to the Queen.

[2]A right of all the officers is to have woollen clothing from the king and linen clothing from the queen three times every year ; at Christmas and Easter and Whitsuntide. The

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