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are duly stocked, and your cattle well guarded and managed, 

 it shall yield three times the land by the extent. If free 

 tenants or customary tenants deny services or customs you 

 will see the definite amount in the extent. 



To KNOW HOW TO SELECT SEEVANTS. 



If you must choose a bailiff or servant, do not choose 

 them for kindred or liking, or other reasons, if they are 

 not of good reputation, and let them be true and prudent 

 and know about cattle and tillage. Have no provosts or 

 messers except from your own men, if you have them, and 

 that by election of your tenants, for if they do wrong you 

 shall have recovery from them. 



Of oveeseeing youe laboueees. 



At the beginning of fallowing and second fallowing and 

 of sowing let the bailiff, and the messer, or the provost, be all 

 the time with the ploughmen, to see that they do their work 

 well and thoroughly, and at the end of the day see how much 

 they have done, and for so much shall they answer each day 

 after unless they can show a sure hindrance. And because 

 customary servants neglect their work it is necessary to 

 guard against their fraud; further, 'it is necessary that they 

 are overseen often ; and besides the bailiff must oversee all, 

 that they all work well, and if tlrey do not well let them be 

 reproved. 



With a team of oxen with two horses you draw quicker 

 than with a team all horses, if the ground is not so stony that 

 oxen cannot help themselves with their feet. Why ? I will 

 tell you : the horse costs more than the ox. Besides a plough 

 of oxen will go as far in the year as a plough of horses, be- 

 cause the malice of ploughmen will not allow the plough [of 

 horses] to go beyond their pace, no more than the plough of 



