THE OFFICE OF SENESCHAL 99 



and the best approver among them. And he must see that 

 all the servants of the court rise in the morning to do their 

 work, and that the ploughs be yoked in time, and the lands 

 well ploughed and cropped, and turned over, and sown 

 with good and clean seed, as much as they can stand. 

 And he ought to see that there be a good fold of wooden 

 hurdles on the demesne, strewed within every night to im- 

 prove the land. 



And he ought to see that he have a good fold for wethers, 

 and another for ewes, and a third for hogs, according as 

 there are sheep. And the keeper of the wethers ought to 

 have in his keeping four hundred wethers if the pasture 

 be large, or more, if it is narrow, fewer ; the keeper of the 

 ewes ought to have three hundred in large pasture; the 

 keeper of the hogs two hundred. And the provost ought 

 to see that they be well kept, in the pasture, in the fold, 

 and in houses. The provost ought to see that the corn is 

 well and cleanly threshed, so that nothing is left in the 

 straw to grow in thatches, nor in manure to sprout. The 

 husks, and the trampled corn, and the refuse of the winnow- 

 ing, may be put together and threshed, and then win- 

 nowed and put with the other. And the provost must take 

 care that no thresher or winnower shall take corn to carry 

 it away in his bosom, or in tunic, or boots, or pockets, or 

 sacks or sacklets hidden near the grange. And no comble 

 must be allowed from the grange into the garner to make 

 increase, but for eight quarters let a ninth be taken from 

 the stacks by right measure for increase. Also no bushel, 

 or half-bushel, or cantle shall remain with the provost for 

 the good threshers beyond the said measure ; for the comble, 

 and the bushels, and the half-bushels, and the cantles, and 

 others that they use in the garners without tally or num- 

 ber, bring little profit to the lord. And the seed which is 

 left to sow the fields with, which is carried to the garner, 

 ought not to be measured or tallied again ; and the provost 

 ought to take care of this, that by the seed returned, and 

 the comble of the measure, nor by half-bushels or cantles 



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