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 of Howel the Good, a third of the live and dead stock of the taeogs came to the maer and to the canghellor; the two parts to the maer, and the third to the canghellor; and the maer shared and the canghellor chose.

n apparitor has his land free, and a mess from the court. Between the two columns he stands while the king shall eat, for it then pertains to him to secure the hall against fire. After meat let him eat along with the servants; after that let him, neither sit nor strike the post nearest to the king. He has legal liquor, to wit, the fill of the vessels used for serving in the court, of the ale ; and their half of the bragod, and their third of the mead. He has the shank of every steer from the court, which is not as high as the ankle. On the ninth day before the calends of winter he receives a coat, and a shirt, and a cap, and three cubits of linen from the extremity of his elbow to the end of his middle finger, to make trowsers for himself; and there is to be no linsey-woolsey in his trowsers. The length of his clothes is only to extend to the tie of his trowsers. On the