maer is unable to maintain a house, let him take to him what taeog he likes for a year from one calends of May to another, and let him enjoy the milk of the taeog during the summer, and his corn in the autumn, and his swine in winter ; and when the taeog shall go from him, let him leave him four large sows and a boar and all the rest of his animals, and four acres of winter tilth and eight acres of spring tilth; and the second year and the third let him do likewise ; not however the same taeog. Afterwards let him subsist upon his own means for three other years ; then let the king relieve him by granting him a taeog under the former regulation, if he will. When a person shall lose his spoil by law, the maer and the canghellor are to have the heifers and the steers and the stirks in two equal shares.
[1]The duty of the canghellor is to hold the pleas of the king in his presence and in his absence. He is to place a cross and restriction in every suit. To the left of the king does the canghellor sit in the three principal festivals, if the king be holding court in his canghellorship. A gold ring and a harp and a throwboard does he receive from the king when he enters into office. In the time
- ↑ V 13 a 5
