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quarters and a half in the week, and in the year eight 

 hundred and fifty three quarters and a half. And when 

 you have subtracted this sum from the sum total of your 

 corn, then you can subtract the sum for ale, according as 

 weekly custom has been for the brewing in your household. 

 And take care of the sum which will remain from sale. And 

 with the money from your corn, and from your rents, and 

 from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, 

 arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and 

 your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your 

 stock. But on all manors take care of your corn, that it 

 be not sold out of season nor without need ; that is, if your 

 rents and other returns will suffice for the expenses of your 

 chamber and wines and kitchen, leave your store of corn 

 whole until you have the advantage of the corn of another 

 year, not more, or at the least, of half [a year]. 



The fifth kule teaches you how prudently you ought 

 to act when waeds or escheats fall to you. 



If a ward or escheat fall to you, at once send your 

 letters to two of the most prudent and faithful of the 

 country, with one of your own [people] in whom you have 

 confidence, who in no way desire to have this thing ; and 

 cause the extent of the wardship or escheat to be made in 

 all the things, and make them send you the extent under 

 their seals, and according to what he who counsels you shall 

 say and yourself direct, either keep it or give it whole to 

 one of your people, or to two or three, according as more or 

 fewer of them shall have been in your service, and much 

 toil have undergone about you and for you, and you ought 

 always especially to regard this reason. And by no advice 

 be too hasty in giving the thing until you are most sure 

 what it is and what it is worth. 



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