^6 History of Animal Plagues. 



' Whosoever shall sell a steer to another, it is right for him to 

 be answerable for the three disorders incident to cattle; and, 

 further, for the mange {claiiery) until the feast of Saint Patrick. 

 The person who shall buy it is to keep it in pasture, and in a 

 healthy place, and in a building wherein no mange has previously 

 occurred for seven years; and for the staggers three dew-falls/ 



The teithi of a sow are, that she be not always brimming, and 

 that she do not devour her pigs ; and to be warranted three 

 nights and three days against the quinsey (the original signifies 

 some disorder affecting the throat). ' If the boar be gelded and 

 die, his two testicles are worth two sows, and his carcase equal 

 to another.^ ^ 



Sheep were to be warranted against the rot ' until the calends 

 of May, when she shall have satiated herself three times with the 

 new herbage.^ (B. iii. c. 8.) 



' Whoever shall sell a horse is to insure its dilysrwydd until 

 death ; and against the staggers, for three dew-falls; against the 

 strangles, for three moons; against the farcy, a year; and, in 

 addition, he is to insure it against any inward disorder.' (B. ii. 

 c. 28.) 2 



' Whoever shall sell sheep, let him be answerable for three 

 diseases : the rot '[y lledora), the red-water {ar daris or dauyr rud), 

 and the scab {ar clauri) ; until they obtain their fill three times 

 of the new grass in spring, if he sell them after the kalends of 

 winter.^ (B. ii. c. 12.) ^ 



* The judges of Howel the Good were notable to fix a legal 

 worth on a brock : for, during the year that the swine were 

 affected with the quinsey, it obtained the privilege of a dog (with 

 regard to value), and during the year that there was a madness 

 among the dogs, it then obtained the privilege of a sow.^ (Gwen- 

 tian Code, B. ii. c. 23.) 



In other codes of about the same period we find, for pigs, 

 the following : — 



' Siquis uendiderit sues, debet esse sub tribus : id est, dylys- 

 sruyt (evictione) ; et morbo menyclauch (strumarum) tribus die- 



1 These are from the Venedolian Code. 

 ^ From the Dimetian Code. ^ From the Gwentian Code. 



