THIS IS HUSBANDBY. 



This writing teaches the way in which a man ought to 

 direct bailiffs and provosts about rendering the account of a 

 manor, and how a man ought to look after a manor. 



In the first place he who renders account ought to swear 

 that he will render a lawful account and faithfully account 

 for what he has received of the goods of his lord, and that 

 he will put nothing in his roll save what he has, to his know- 

 ledge, spent lawfully and to his lord's profit. And the clerk 

 shall swear that he has lawfully entered in his roll what 

 he understands his master has received of the lord's goods, 

 and has entered nothing in the roll but what he understands 

 may be to the profit of the lord. And then if he has ren- 

 dered account before see how it compares, and if he is found 

 in arrears of money, or of corn, or of stock, or of any other 

 thing, put the whole in a stated money valuation, and 

 charge it at the commencement of his roll, and then charge 

 it with all other receipts of assise rents and with all other 

 things for which any money can be raised, and charge it 

 with the whole and put it at the end in a sum total and 

 then go on to expenses. 



The cost of carts. 



First as to the cost of carts. It is right that the smith 

 should take a certain sum to find what is necessary in iron 

 and steel for the ploughs and to shoe the horses and avers 

 of the place, as well as one can bargain with him, according 

 to what is paid elsewhere in the country. And then it must 

 be seen if there is underwood on the manor, or large wood 



