270 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



greyhound : whosoever shall break the leg of any one 

 of them, let him pay his whole worth.' 



In the Gwentian Code, applicable to the district in- 

 habited by the Silures, it is written: 'The protection of 

 the groom of the rein is, to conduct the person ivJiile the 

 smitli of the Court makes four shoes, with their sets of nails, 

 and shall shoe the kings steecU ' The groom of the rein 

 has the king's daily saddle, his panel, his bridle, his spurs, 

 his hose, and his rain-cap when discarded ; also his old 

 horseshoes {hen pedolen), and his shoeing-irons {heijrn 

 pedoli)! ' In the triads of the ' Cyrethian ' we find : ' Three 

 free sons of the bond : a clerk, a bard, and a smith. 

 Three bond sons of the free : the sons of tlie above.' 

 Of the king's hall it is ordered : ' The servants are appor- 

 tioned in three parts, one third to the queen The 



smith igof) of the Court is to sit in a chair before the 

 judge (near a column), which column the silentiary is to 

 strike, on the side furthest from the king, when com- 

 manding silence.' In the ' Leges Wallice,' of about the 

 same date, there is also another paragraph relating to our 

 subject : ' Refugium gwastrant awyn (equisonis) est, con- 

 ducere hominem tanto tempore quanto faber curie faciet 

 HIP" ferra cum clauis, et cum eo ferret dextrarium 

 regis.' ^ 



Oxen alone were used for the plough : ' Neither 

 horses, mares, or cows, are to be put to the plough ; and 

 if they should be put, and abortion should ensue to either 

 mares or cattle, or the horses be injured, it is not to be 

 compensated.' ^ 



' Book i. chap. 6. " Book i. chap. vii. 



^ Venedotian Code. Book iii. chap. 24. 



