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 he dirwy and camlwrw of court and llan are doubled. If the fault be done in the churchyard in the place of refuge (ẏnẏ nodua), the amount of the dirwy is seven pounds. The abbot has half the dirwy of a llan, if he is acquainted with literature (kẏuarwẏd ẏnllẏthẏr) and church custom ; and the other half goes to the lay proprietors (meibon lleẏn) of the church. The reason they receive thus when dirwy or camlwrw is due, is because they are the protectors of the llan; and this is why those chattels are given specially to the saint and are not [deemed] of the same status as offerings. The maer and the canghellor do not receive a share of the prid which comes to the lord (teẏrn) for land, nor of twnc nor of thief.

f a ship be wrecked on the land of a lord (teẏrn), the lord has it ; and if a ship be wrecked on the land of a bishop, it is divided between the king and the bishop. When the law of distress is applied in the case of a marwdy or any other suit, the household and the maer are to have the heifers and the bullocks and the yearlings and the sheep and the goats, and they are to have everything in the house except horses and oxen and large cattle and gold and silver and furred