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to a lord. [1]Three chattels which are secure without surety : chattels which a lord shall give to a man and which come to him by law; and chattels which a wife shall have from her husband [as wynebwerth] when the husband shall have connexion with another woman ;

[A chasm in V supplied from W]

and chattels taken in a war between two lords. [2]Three things common to a gwlad : an army, and pleas, and a church ; for every one is under summons to them.
[3]Three modest blushes of a maid there are : one is when told by her father ' Maiden, I have given thee to a husband '. The second is, bidding her go to her husband to sleep. The third is, seeing her in the morning rising from her husband. And because of each of those three, her husband pays her amobr to her lord, and her cowyll and her agweddi to herself. [4]Three stays of blood are : the breast, and the middle girdle, and the trousers girdle. [5]Three unabashed ones of a gwlad without whom it is impossible to do : a lord and a priest and law.[6] [7]Three hearths which are to do right and to receive it for a person who has no

  1. V 45 b 2
  2. W 102 b 21
  3. W 103 a 3
  4. W 103 a 10
  5. W 103 a 12
  6. [sic]
  7. W 103 a 14