calends of March he has a coat and a shirt and a mantle and trowsers ; also in the three chief seasons he has a bonnet. He is to share between the king and the maer and the canghellor. He has the odd sheaf, when the corn of fugitive taeogs shall be shared, and their marwdys. When a geldable fugitive shall leave his corn unreaped and when the like occurs in the case of a marwdy, the apparitor has the headlands. He has the bacon in cut and the butter in cut from the marwdys; and the nether stone of the quern, and all the green flax, and the flax seed, and the layer next to the ground of the mow, and the hatchets, the reaping-hooks, the fowls, the geese and the cats. He has a loaf with its enllyn in every house to which he comes on the king's business. Three cubits are to be in the length of his bill, lest he be discovered. He has the bull which shall come among the spoil. When the apparitor shall die, his possessions are at the king's mercy. If the apparitor suffer sarhad while sitting during the pleas of the king, let there be paid to him a sieve full of chaff and an addle egg. The summons of an apparitor, with witnesses or striking the post three times, cannot be denied except by objecting. When
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