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 that is, a meer stone or meer timber or other specified thing which shall preserve a boundary, is six score pence in value. Whoever shall breach a meer between two trevs, or shall plough a highway, is to pay six score pence to the king ; and let him restore the meer to its former state. The breadth of land between two trevs, if it be of land, is a fathom and a half ; between two rhandirs, four feet ; between two erws, two furrows. The breadth of a king's highway is twelve feet. Whoever shall hold two lands under one lord, let him pay his ebediw for the one of higher status.

he measure of a king's gwestva from every trev from which a king's gwestva is paid : a horse load of wheat-flour and an ox and seven threaves of oats of one binding, and what shall suffice of honey for one vat. Nine hand-breadths is to be the height of the vat when measured diagonally from the off groove to the near edge ; and twenty-four of silver. A pound is the worth of a king's gwestva; six score pence in lieu of his bread, and three score pence for his enllyn, and three score pence for his liquor. It is so paid moreover unless the food is supplied in its right time, namely, in the winter. From the trev of a maership or can-