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made in a marsh or wood, where the swine may be night 

 and day. And then when the sows have farrowed, let them 

 be driven with the feeble swine to the manors and kept with 

 leavings as long as the hard frost and the bad weather last, 

 and then driven back to the others. And if there is no wood 

 or marsh or waste where the swine may be sustained without 

 being altogether kept on the grange, no swineherd or swine 

 shall be on the manor, except only such as can be kept in 

 August on the stubble and leavings of the grange, and when 

 the corn is threshed for sale, and as soon as they are in 

 good condition and well, let them be sold. For whoever will 

 keep swine for a year from the cost of the grange alone, 

 and count the cost and the allowance for the swine and 

 swineherd, together with the damage they do yearly to the 

 corn, he shall lose twice as much as he shall gain, and this 

 will soon be seen by whoever keeps account. 



The office of shepherd. 



Each shepherd ought to find good pledges to answer for 

 his doings and for good and faithful service, although he 

 be companion to the miller. And he must cover his fold 

 and enclose it with hurdles and mend it within and without, 

 and repair the hurdles and make them. And he ought to 

 sleep in the fold, he and his dog ; and he ought to pasture 

 his sheep well, and keep them in forage, and watch them 

 well, so that they be not killed or destroyed by dogs or 

 stolen or lost or changed, nor let them pasture in moors 

 or dry places or bogs, to get sickness and disease for lack 

 of guard. No shepherd ought to leave his sheep to go to 

 fairs, or markets, or wrestling matches, or wakes, or to the 

 tavern, without taking leave or asking it, or without putting 

 a good keeper in his place to keep the sheep, that no harm 

 may arise from his fault. 



Let all the lord's sheep be marked with one mark, 

 and let no ewes be milked after the feast of our Lady, 



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