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[of corn], because of the advantage he has from the milk, 

 where other servants take it every twelve weeks. And she 

 must winnow all the corn, and shall be paid for a half-day 

 to pay the woman who helps her. And she ought to 

 winnow four quarters of wheat or of rye and six quarters 

 of barley and peas and beans and oriace for a penny, and 

 eight quarters of oats for a penny. And one must always 

 take for four a fifth over for the comble of all kind of 

 corn. Also, one ought to thresh a quarter of wheat or rye 

 for twopence, and a quarter of barley, and peas, and beans, 

 for a penny-halfpenny, and a quarter of oats for a penny, 

 and always allow for four a fifth for the comble. And the 

 dairywoman must take care of all the small animals in the 

 court, as sucking-pigs and peacocks and their issue, and 

 geese and their issue, and capons and cocks and hens and 

 chickens and eggs and their issue. And you must know 

 that a sow ought to farrow twice a-year, having each time 

 at the least seven pigs, and each goose five goslings a-year ; 

 and each hen, for a hundred and fifteen eggs, seven chickens, 

 three of which ought to be made capons, and, if there be too 

 many hen chickens, let them be changed for cocks while they 

 are young, so that each hen may answer for three capons and 

 four hens a-year. And for five geese you must have one 

 gander, and for five hens one cock. And each cow ought 

 to answer for a calf a-year, and each ewe one lamb a-year ; 

 and if there be a cow which has not calved or a ewe which 

 has not lambed in the year, let it be inquired whose fault 

 this is, either the bailiff's or the provost's or the keeper's, 

 for want of keeping or want of food in the summer or 

 winter, or want of a male, or if the provost could have 

 changed it for another in time and did not, and, if it be 

 found to be any fault of these, let them be fully charged 

 for the issue or its value. And also if any [beast] die in 

 any way by their fault, let them answer for the live beast 

 or its value. And if this is a manor where there is no 

 dairy, it is always good to have a woman there, at a much 

 less cost than a man, to keep the small animals there 

 and what there is within the court, and answer for all pro- 



