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 drinks three times only in the hall lest there be neglect of the hawks. A horse always in attendance he receives from the king, and two shares of the provender for it. If the falconer kills his horse in hunting or if it should die by chance, he has another from the king. He has every male hawk. He has every sparrowhawk's nest which shall be found on the land of the court. He has a mess of food and a hornful of mead for his provision in his lodging. From the time the falconer shall place his hawks in their mews until he shall take them thence, he gives no answer to any one who shall sue him. He has gwestva once every year on the king's taeogs; and from every taeogtrev he has a crone or four legal pence for food for his hawks. He has his land free. The day whereon he shall capture a notable bird and the king is not in the place, when the falconer comes to the court with the bird with him, the king is to rise to receive him ; and if he rises not, he is to give the garment he may have on, to the falconer. He has the heart of every animal which shall be killed in the kitchen. When the falconer shall be distrained upon by law, neither the maer nor the canghellor shall distrain upon him, only the household and the apparitor.