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 he skin of an ox or a cow or a stag or a hind or an otter : twelve pence is the value of each. The skin of a beaver is half a pound in value. The skin of a marten is twenty-four pence in value. The skin of a stoat is twelve pence in value. Of every wild animal killed on another person's land, the owner of the land shall have the hind quarter next the ground if the flesh be eatable. Whatsoever thing the guest men (dofrethwyr) shall show to the taeogs to whose houses they come, the taeogs are to pay for, if they be lost except glaives and trowsers and knives. Their horses are not to be kept by the taeogs except during the night, because they are to pay if they are lost during the night. A king's supperer shall give a penny to the servants to spare the barn and his food. The fore sitter of a cantrev, that is, the footholder, pays a vat of bragod to the king every year. When a person from a border gwlad shall die on the land of another person, sixteen pence does the owner of the land receive for his death clod ; and all the ebediw to the lord because of that. ive persons nearest in worth are to deny a back-burthen unless prosecuted as theft.