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[1]The fifth day before Michaelmas, the king is to forbid his wood until the end of the fifteenth day after the Epiphany ; and of the swine which shall be found in the wood, the king has the tenth beast until the end of the ninth day ; and thenceforward they are at the king's pleasure.

[2]If sarhad is done to the apparitor whilst sitting during the pleas, there is paid to him for his sarhad a sieveful of chaff and an addled egg. [3]The king is to have of the spoil (anreith), the stud and the goats and the furred clothes and the arms and the prisoners, without sharing them with any one. He is not however to receive the third of the working mares (kessyc tom[4]) because they are spoil (yspeil). [5]Whoever shall speak haughtily to the king or unseemly, let him pay three kine camlwrw twice. [6]When a taeog shall receive land from the king, the king is to have from the taeog three score pence for every rhandir ; and if there be a church on the land of the taeogtrev, six score pence come to the king from the one who shall take it. [7]The ebediw of a bondman to whom the king gives land is four score and ten pence ; and the third comes to the maer and the canghellor. [8]The pet animal of a king's wife or his daughter is a pound in

  1. W 88 b 12
  2. W 88 b 19
  3. W 88 b 21
  4. Originally, keſſẏc tom
  5. W 89 a 4
  6. W 89 a 7
  7. W 89 a 12
  8. W 89 a 14