THE EULES OF S. ROBERT 131 



The sixth rule teaches you how and when you ought 

 to command your granges to be shut and opened. 



Command your seneschal that your granges everywhere 

 be entirely closed after August, that no servant may open 

 them without special command or letter from you or him 

 until threshing-time come. And then let there be sent 

 a faithful man, or servant whom the provost shall take 

 from that place, and another true man from the town- 

 ship, and all the time let them be present at the opening 

 of the granges, and at the close, at threshing, at winnowing, 

 at the delivery, at the survey by tally. And take care that 

 no servant or bailiff receive the money of the returns, but 

 only the provost and another who shall have wherewithal 

 to answer. 



The seventh rule teaches you how you may know to 

 compare the accounts with the estimate of the ex- 

 tent or the fault of your servants and bailiffs of 

 manors and lands. 



At the end of the year when all the accounts shall have 

 been heard and rendered of the lands, and the issues, and 

 all expenses of all the manors, take to yourself all the rolls, 

 and by one or two of the most intimate and faithful men 

 that you have, make very careful comparison with the rolls 

 of the accounts rendered, and of the rolls of the estimate of 

 corn and stock that you made after the previous August, 

 and according as they agree you shall see the industry or 

 negligence of your servants and bailiffs, and according to 

 that make amendment. 



THE EIGHTH RULE TEACHES YOU THE GENERAL COMMANDMENTS 

 THAT YOU OUGHT OFTEN TO GIVE TO YOUR HOUSEHOLD. 



Exhort all your household often that all those who 

 serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and 



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