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by these rolls the provosts and bailiffs who must account for 

 the purchases of the court throughout the year. And the 

 provost must answer for the issue of the mares of the court, 

 that is to say, for each mare one foal in the year, and if 

 there be any which has no foal let it be inquired if it be by 

 bad keeping, or want of food, or too hard work, or want of 

 stallion, or because it was barren, that she bore no foal ; and 

 if she could have been changed for another in time and it 

 was not done, let him be charged fully for the issue or the 

 value. And if there be any horse or beast dead in the court, 

 let it be inquired if it was for want of keeping or because 

 the bailiff and provost could have saved it or made any 

 amendment and did not let them pay it themselves, and if 

 they died by mishap that they could not help, as murrain 

 which falls sometimes on beasts, the provost must answer 

 for the skins and hides and flesh and issues, and put it to 

 the profit of the lord as well as he knows or is able. And 

 if there be anything lost in the court or without, or stolen, 

 whether it be live or dead, small or great, where the lord can 

 have any kind of loss, either by fire or any other way, the 

 lord must take [the value] from the provost and the provost 

 must take it from those of the court who may be to blame. 

 And make it known that all the servants of the court, men 

 and women, ought to obey the provost, because he must 

 answer for their doings, and the provost must put those in 

 the court for whose doings he will be answerable. And the 

 seneschal must see that the provost has good pledges for 

 all those in the court who are put there by him, and if 

 the lord receive any damage by the provost, and the pro- 

 vost cannot make good the damage, all those of the town- 

 ship who elected him shall make up for him the amount 

 he cannot pay. And if the lord place any parker or 

 messer or granger or other, whoever he be, and the lord 

 receive damage from any of these he places, he must take 

 the value from them, because he put them there, and 

 nothing from the provost. Make it known that on the 

 manors which are kept by bailiffs they must answer for the 

 manor, just as the provost renders account even so must 



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