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 of grooms' silver. A steward by law is to place

food and drink before the king, and a mess above him and another below him, in the three principal festivals. A steward has the length of his middle finger of the clear ale from off the lees ; and the length of the middle joint of the bragod; and the length of the extreme joint of the mead. Whoever commits an offence in the entrance of the hall, if the steward catches him by law, he has a third of the dirwy or the camlwrw. If also he catches him below the columns sooner than the chief of the household, he has the third. It pertains to a steward to keep the king's share of the spoil ; and when it is divided, let him take an ox or a cow. It pertains to a steward to swear for the king when there shall be a rhaith on him. He is one of the three persons who maintain the status of a court in the king's absence.

judge of a court does not give silver to the chief groom when he shall have a