queen has a share of all the profits (ennill) of the king from his demesne (oe wlat dilis). The officers of the queen receive a share of all the profits of the king's officers. [1]Three persons who do sarhad to the king ; whoever shall violate his protection, and whoever shall obstruct his wife, and whoever shall kill his man in his presence and in the presence of the company when there shall be greeting and an assembly between him and another regulus (pennaeth). A hundred kine are to be paid as sarhad to the king for every cantrev in his kingdom (teyrnas), and a silver rod which shall reach from the ground to the king's pate when he shall sit in his chair, as thick as his ring finger, with three knobs at the top and three at the bottom as thick as the rod ; and a golden cup which shall hold the king's full draught, as thick as the nail of a ploughman who shall have ploughed for seven years ; and a golden cover thereon as thick as the cup, as broad as the king's face. [2]The status of the Lord of Dinevwr moreover is upheld by as many white cows, with the head of each one to the tail of the other and a bull between every score kine of them, as shall extend completely from Argoel to the Court of Dinevwr.
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