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 the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

hree places where a person is not to give the oath of an absolver : one is, a bridge of a single timber without a handrail. The second is in the gateway of a churchyard, because a person is to sing the ' Pater ' there for the souls (eneit) of the Christians of the world. The third is in the doorway of the church, because a person is to sing the ' Pater ' there before the rood.

When a son is affiliated to a kindred with the oaths of fifty men, the son is to swear before the kindred because it is not lawful to listen to her except in the case of the first oath when she shall say ' Let a snake be begotten' to her.

hen a son is denied by a kindred, the eldest son of the man whose son he is said to be, is to swear first before the kindred.

Three futile crosses there are : a cross placed on a road in corn ; and a cross placed on the bark of a tree lying in a wood ; and a cross which a person places on an altar in a case where a church is not to interfere with him.