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 A court physician sits second next to the chief of the household in the hall. His land he has free, and a horse regularly from the king. Gratuitously does he prepare medicines for the household and for the men of the court; for he only receives the bloodstained clothes, unless it be one of the three mortal wounds. A pound does he take without his maintenance or nine score pence together with his maintenance for the mortal wound, to wit, [first] when a person's head is broken so that the brain is seen. A bone of the upper part of the cranium is four curt pence in value if it sounds in falling into a basin; a bone of the lower part of the cranium is four legal pence in value. And [secondly] when a person shall be stabbed in his body so that his bowels are seen. And [thirdly] when one of the four pillars (poſt) of a person's body is broken so that the marrow is seen; these are the two thighs and the two humeri. Three pounds is the worth of each one of those three wounds.

A butler has his land free, and a horse always in attendance from the king. He receives legal liquor, to wit, the fill of the drinking vessels used for serving in the court of the ale, and