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worth exists on a harrier ; on everything which has no legal worth, an appraisement is obtained.

[1]Whoever shall meddle with a king's hart in season, let him pay three kine camlwrw to the king. A stag is of the value of an ox. A hind is of the value of a cow. There are to be twelve privileged pieces in a king's hart in season : tongue, and the three pieces of the neck, lungs, heart, two-loins, shoulder, haunch, stomach, nombles, liver. Three kine camlwrw are paid for every piece. For a king's hart in season, when every camlwrw is reckoned, there are paid two score kine. There are no privileged pieces in a king's hart except from the Feast of Cirig to the calends of December ; and it is not a hart in season except whilst the privileged pieces shall be in it.

[2]If a king's stag be killed in the trev of a breyr in the morning, let the breyr keep it whole until mid-day ; and if the huntsmen do not arrive then, let the breyr cause the hart to be skinned, and the dogs to be lured from the flesh [3] ; and let him take home the dogs and the

  1. V 16 a 11
  2. V 16 a 22
  3. There appears to be some confusion in the various texts as to the dogs and the flesh. Cf. Peniarth MS. 28, et canes pascat de carne, Anc. Laws, ii. 800 ; also 825 ; and the Black Book of Chirk (MS. A), ibid. i. 286 ; also 492, 736.