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 Cymro is no word ; nor a scholar of a school without consent of his master; nor a woman except as to that over which she has control. Such as these, their suretyship is no suretyship save with consent of their lords. If a surety of a person dies, and there remains a son to him, the son is to stand in place of his father in his suretyship. No one is to receive a debtor as surety, for they [i. e. debtor and surety] are two arddelws; and no one should other than choose his arddelw. If he chooses a debtor, there is no surety. If he chooses a surety, there is no debtor ; and therefore no one can stand as surety and as debtor. A lord is to be surety for all chattels acknowledged to be without surety. If the debtor permit the surety to give the worth of a pound in pledge for a penny, and before the time of the pledge, it [i.e. the pledge] be lost, the debtor is not to pay back save a halfpenny; for that is a third of a legal penny; and he himself debased the status of his pledge. If a surety gives a large thing in pledge for a small thing, the plaintiff is to take it; and although it be lost before the time, the plaintiff is not to restore to the surety save a third. The surety however is to restore the whole to the debtor because he took it unlaw-