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 Queen's groom of the rein has his land free, and his horse regularly from the queen. Where the priest of the household and the steward and the judge of the court are together, the status of a court is in that place although the king be absent.

aer and canghellor are to keep the waste of a king. A pound and a half comes to the king when a maership or a canghellorship shall be pledged. The maer maintains three persons with himself in a banquet in the king's hall. He distributes the household when they shall go into quarters. On a foray he accompanies the household with three men. He has a progress with three men among the king's taeogs twice in the year. A chief of kindred is never to be a maer or canghellor. A maer is to demand all the dues of the king as far as his jurisdiction of maer extends. Maer and canghellor are entitled to a third of the gobrs of the taeogs' daughters, and a third of the camlwrws and ebediws of the taeogs, and a third of their corn when they shall flee from the gwlad, and a third of their corn and their food from every marwdy of a taeog. A maer is to divide everything, and an apparitor is to choose, for the king. If it happens that the