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or large timber that can be taken for poles and harrows 

 and other necessary things without buying as well for carts 

 as for ploughs, let them be taken to save money, and for 

 the rest which is not found but what he must buy let him 

 be paid justly. It would be well if he could have carters 

 and ploughmen who should know how to work all their own 

 wood, although it should be necessary to pay them more. 

 At the end of the year ought all the necessary small things 

 and stock, horseshoes, and all things which belong to the 

 manor, small or great, to be seen and put in writing, that 

 one may see another year what thing must necessarily 

 be bought, and make allowance for it and subtract the 

 surplus. 



The office of provost. 



The provost must cause all the hair of the avers to be 

 gathered to make ropes for which he shall have need, and 

 he must cause hemp to be sown in the court to make ropes 

 for the waggons, for harness and other necessary things, 

 and an allowance must be paid for making them if there is 

 any one in the court who knows how to do so. For re- 

 pairing houses, walls, hedges, and ditches if need be an 

 allowance must be paid according to what is right. And 

 the provost must not buy, sell, receive, or deliver anything 

 unless by tally and good witness. And the provost must 

 make all the servants of the court when they come for their 

 labour work in the court in threshing corn or making walls 

 or ditches or hedges or other works in the court to save 

 money. And if there is a servant who knows how to do work 

 in the court for which it would be necessary to pay another 

 highly, let him do the work and pay another in his place. 

 The seneschals or head-bailiffs ought to see all purchases 

 and all sales that the provosts or under-bailiffs make to see 

 that they are well made and to the lord's profit. 



And the seneschals and chief bailiffs who hold court must, 

 immediately after Michaelmas, give up their rolls to the lord 

 or the auditor of the account that they may be able to charge 



