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he render account for everything, and move and change 

 nothing as the provost. All those who hold in villenage 

 on a manor must elect as provost such a one as they will 

 answer for, for if the lord suffer any loss by the fault of 

 the provost, and he have not of his own goods the where- 

 withal to make it good, they shall pay for him the surplus 

 which he cannot pay. 



The return for seed sown. 



All the land ought to be measured in each field by itself 

 and each cultura of the field named by its name, and each 

 meadow by itself, and each pasture and each wood and each 

 waste and turbary and moor and marsh also by themselves, 

 and all by the perch of sixteen feet and a half, because one 

 can in many places reasonably sow four acres with a quarter 

 of seed, where the land is measured by the perch of sixteen 

 feet and a half, and in many places it requires a quarter 

 and a half to sow five acres with wheat, rye, and beans and 

 peas, and two acres with a quarter of barley and oats, but, 

 because some lands must be sown more broadly than others, 

 let there be measured on each manor an acre for each corn, 

 and see with how much one can sow each kind of corn on 

 a measured acre, and thereby can you always be sure of 

 your corn. And because barley is sown in a wheat field 

 and peas and vetches and oats, therefore each cultura which 

 is sown with barley among the wheat must be named and 

 each division of other corn which is sown among the oats. 

 And there where the fields are divided in two, winter seed 

 and spring seed are both sown in one field, for which each 

 division must answer as it was sown with one corn or another. 

 And if there is inhom it must be seen what cultura he 

 takes in inhom, and with what corn he sows each cultura, 

 and such sowing he must tally all by itself and answer for 

 all by itself apart from the other corn. 



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