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 disputing between the guardian and the owner concerning those chattels, the guardian is to swear together with one person nearest in worth of his kindred. The law as to gold is to give it from hand to hand with witnesses into the hand of the guardian to keep. The law as to silver is to count it openly from each hand into the hand of the guardian. One person escapes from an admitted theft with flesh and skin on his back, [viz.], a necessitous alltud who shall have been three nights and three days without alms without relief, and who shall have traversed three trevs daily with nine houses in every trev ; and then owing to hunger shall commit theft and then shall be caught with flesh and skin on his back. He is to be let free without gallows and without payment. One person whose house is not to be a marwdy although he die intestate] ; a judge of a court. One animal which shall rise [in worth] from four pence to a pound in one day ; a covert hound. If a taeog owns it in the morning, it is worth four pence ; and if it be given to the king on that day, it is worth a pound. A stallion grazing out and a greyhound without its collar lose their status. Eight packhorses of a king are ;