THE OFFICE OF SENESCHAL 101 



carried into the garner there be harm to the lord by the 

 provost or any other, for this they do as a general rule. 

 And no bailiff or provost shall sell corn or beast without 

 warrant by writ, except the draft beasts and sheep, which 

 ought to be drafted out as is aforesaid. 



No forage or litter of the manor may be sold by the 

 provost, or by another, but the forage must be well kept until 

 it is necessary to take it for the sustenance of the beasts, that 

 no corn may be threshed for want of forage ; and let litter 

 and ferns be gathered together and thrown in roads and 

 paths to make manure. And the provost ought often to see 

 that all the beasts are well provided with forage and kept as 

 they ought to be, and that they have enough pasture without 

 overcharge of the other beasts, and he ought to see that the 

 keepers of all kinds of beasts do not go to fairs, or markets, 

 or wrestling-matches, or taverns, by which the beasts afore- 

 said may go astray without guard, or do harm to the lord 

 or another, but they must ask leave, and put keepers in 

 their places that no harm may happen ; and if harm or loss 

 do come about, let 'the amend be taken from the keepers 

 and the damage made good. Let no provost have power to 

 hold pleas involving penalty or amerciament, but he or the 

 hayward or the bedel may receive the plaints and make the 

 attachments and deliver them to the bailiff. And no provost 

 ought to permit or suffer any man to have his allowance if 

 he be not deserving, nor ought he to allow any overcharge 

 of under-dairywomen in the dairy, nor shall they carry from 

 the dairy cheese, butter, milk, or curds, to the impoverish- 

 ment of the dairy, and the decrease of cheese. Let no 

 provost remain over a year as provost, if he be not proved 

 most profitable and faithful in his doings, and a good 

 husbandman. Each provost ought every year to account 

 with his bailiff, and tally the works and customs com- 

 muted in the manor, whereby he can surely answer in 

 money for the surplus in the account, for the money for 

 customs is worth as much as rent. 



