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profits and losses from the bailiff and provost, and how 

 much he will have to seek from both. He ought to 

 ask for his auditors and rolls of account, then he 

 ought to see who has done well and who not, and who 

 has made improvement and who not, and who has made 

 profit and who not, but loss, and those he has then 

 found good and faithful and profitable, let him keep on 

 this account. And if anyone be found who has done harm 

 and is by no means profitable, let him answer for his doing 

 and take farewell. And if the lord observe these said 

 forms, then will each lord live a good man and honestly, 

 and be as he will rich and powerful without sin, and will 

 do injustice to no one. 



The lord ought to command the auditors on the manors 

 to hear the plaints and wrongs of everybody who complains 

 of the seneschal, or provost, or hayward, or any other who 

 is of the manor, and that full justice be done to franks and 

 vileins, customary-tenants, and other plaintiffs, such as by 

 inquest can be had ; and that the auditors do right at 

 their peril. 



The office of the auditoks. 



The auditors ought to be faithful and prudent, knowing 

 their business and all the points and articles of the account 

 in rents, in outlays, in returns of the grange and stock, 

 and other things belonging thereto. And the accounts 

 ought to be heard at each manor, and then one can know 

 the profit and loss, the doings and approvements of the 

 seneschal, bailiff, provost, and others, for as much as they 

 have done of profit or loss can be seen by the account in 

 a day or two, and then can soon be seen the sense or the 

 folly of these said seneschals, bailiffs, and provosts ; and 

 then can the auditors take inquest of the doings which are 

 doubtful and hear the plaints of each plaintiff and make 

 the fines. 



The seneschal ought to be joined with the auditors, not 

 as head or companion of the account, but as subordinate, 



