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always receives in the court, and, if the king be not in the court, he receives his mess first after the maer. Every morning he gets a loaf with its enllyn for his morning meal. The aitch-bone he gets of every steer slaughtered in the kitchen. His land he has free ; and clothing he has twice in the year from the king ; and shoes and stockings he gets once.

[1]Land maer has the suet and the lard from the court. He has the skins of the cattle slaughtered in the kitchen which shall be three nights with the cattle of the maer-house. He has the gobrs of the daughters of the men of the maer-trev. Although the servants shall do sarhad to the land maer while on their way carrying drink either from the kitchen or from the mead cellar towards the hall, they are not to make compensation to him. When his sarhad shall be paid, six kine and six score of silver are paid to him. His galanas is paid with six kine and six score kine, with three augmentations.

[2]The right of the chief of song is to sit on the left of the edling. His land he has free. He is to sing first in the hall. A wedding donation he receives, to wit, twenty four pence from every virgin when she shall marry. He

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