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 chief huntsman has the skin of an ox in winter from the steward to make leashes. For the king's benefit the huntsmen hunt until the calends of December. Thence until the ninth day of December they do not share with him. On the ninth day of December, it befits the chief huntsman to show the king his dogs and his horns and his leashes and his third of the skins. Until the ninth day of December no one, who shall sue a chief huntsman, receives an answer from him unless he be one of the court officers, for none [of the officers] is to postpone [the suit of] his fellow if there be one to determine it. A chief huntsman has the share of two men of the skins from the huntsmen with the covert hounds, and one man's share from the huntsmen with the greyhounds; and from the king's third of the skins he has a third. After the skins are distributed among the king and the huntsmen, let the chief huntsman, and the huntsmen with him, go and take up quarters with the king's taeogs; and then let them come to the king by Christmas to receive their right from him. The place of the chief huntsman, and the huntsmen with him in the hall, is the column opposite to the king. A hornful of mead comes to him from the king