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The twenty-first rule teaches you how your people 

 ought to behave towards your friends, both in your 

 presence and absence. 



Command that your knights, and chaplains, and ser- 

 vants in office, and your gentlemen, with a good manner 

 and hearty cheer and ready service receive and honour, 

 within your presence and without, all those in every place 

 whom they perceive by your words or your manners to be 

 especially dear to you, and to whom you would have special 

 honour shown, for in so doing can they particularly show 

 that they wish what you wish. And as far as possible for 

 sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before 

 your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to 

 you. 



THE TWENTY-SECOND RULE TEACHES YOU HOW YOU OUGHT 

 TO BEHAVE TOWARDS YOUR BAILIFFS AND SERVANTS OF YOUR 

 LANDS AND MANORS WHEN THEY COME BEFORE YOU. 



When your bailiffs and your servants of lands and 

 manors come before you, address them fairly and speak 

 pleasantly to them, and discreetly and gently ask if your 

 people do well, and how your corn is growing, and how profit- 

 able your ploughs and stock are, and make these demands 

 openly, and your knowledge shall be much respected. 



THE TWENTY-THIRD RULE TEACHES YOU TO FORBID DINNERS 

 AND SUPPERS OUT OF THE HALL. 



Forbid dinners and suppers out of the hall, in secret 

 and in private rooms, for from this arises waste, and no 

 honour to the lord or lady. 



The twenty-fourth rule teaches you for what reason 

 the number of parcels. 



Know the reason why you ought for certainty to know 

 the number of your ploughlands, and the number of acres 



