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 however it shall be denied, the oath of the person summoned, with that of two men of the same status as himself, denies it.

he smith of a court has the heads of the cattle which shall be slaughtered in the kitchen and their feet, except the tongues. His maintenance, and that of his servant, comes from the court. Gratuitously he does all the work of the court except three works: a cauldron and a broad axe and a spear. A smith of a court has the ceinion of a banquet. He receives four pence from every prisoner off whom he shall remove irons. His land he has free. Legal liquor he has from the court, [viz.] the fill of the vessels used for serving in the court of the ale, and their third of the mead, and their half of the bragod. He is one of the three persons who receive that measure; then the apparitor; lastly the butler. No smith can be in the same cymwd as the smith of a court without his permission. He has the same freedom in grinding at the mill as the king. He has the gobrs of the daughters of the smiths who shall be under him and at his command. Six score pence is the ebediw of the smith of the court, and six score pence is the gobr of his