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 grave if they find the grave, and let them swear that he was surety ; and if they do not find the grave, let them swear over the sacred altar that he was surety and that he did not make good his suretyship for him whilst he lived ; and thus he obtains his chattels. Although a surety proceedas to his suretyship in opposition to a lord, he is liable neither to dirwy nor camlwrw. If a person's debtor dies and he does not obtain from anyone the chattels bequeathed, let the surety proceed as to his suretyship for the dead, and let the three degrees of kin nearest to him pay ; and the surety can compel [them] the same as [he could] the debtor, were he alive. Whoever shall confess owing chattels to another, let him pay without delay except in the three principal feasts, at Christmas and Easter and Whitsuntide; that is from Christmas Eve after vespers till the first day [of January] after mass; from Easter Saturday night after the resurrection, till Little Easter Day after mass ; from Whitsun Saturday night after vespers till Trinity Sunday after mass ; for no one should ask of another in those days. No one is to receive a son as surety without consent of his father whilst under his authority ; nor monk, nor friar, without consent of their abbot ; nor alltud, for his word as to a