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[1]Queen's groom of the rein has his land free, and his horse regularly from the queen. [2]Where the priest of the household and the steward and the judge of the court are together, the status of a court is in that place although the king be absent.

[3]Maer and canghellor are to keep the waste of a king. A pound and a half comes to the king when a maership or a canghellorship shall be pledged. The maer maintains three persons with himself in a banquet in the king's hall. He distributes the household when they shall go into quarters. On a foray he accompanies the household with three men. He has a progress with three men among the king's taeogs twice in the year. A chief of kindred is never to be a maer or canghellor. A maer is to demand all the dues of the king as far as his jurisdiction of maer extends. Maer and canghellor are entitled to a third of the gobrs of the taeogs' daughters, and a third of the camlwrws and ebediws of the taeogs, and a third of their corn when they shall flee from the gwlad, and a third of their corn and their food from every marwdy of a taeog. A maer is to divide everything, and an apparitor is to choose, for the king. If it happens that the

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