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ther, and the owner of the wooll is to have the first choice, and 

 to take up a fleece wheare hee hst ; and then, when hee hath 

 done, the procter is to choose a fleece out of the fower which 

 remaine ; which fleece is either to bee pulled in two and equally 

 divided betwixt the owner and procter, or else the owner is to 

 sette dowoie the price of the fleece, and the procter to choose 

 wheather hee will have the fleece and retume backe soe much 

 money as halfe the fleece or the owner's parte commeth to ; or 

 else lett the owner have the fleece, and hee to have halfe the 

 money that the fleece is valued att : for if there be just five, the 

 parson or procter is eyther to have halfe a fleece, or the worth 

 of halfe a fleece ; no we if there bee under five, the procter is to 

 have noe woll ; but looke liowe many odde fleeces there are, the 

 owner is to give him soe many halfe pennies in steade of his 

 tythe : but if there bee above five fleeces remaininge, the proc- 

 ter faUetli a whole fleece ; and is to returne backe to the owner 

 of the wooll as many hal-pennies as there wanteth fleeces of 

 tenne : as if there bee sixe, hee is to have a fleece, and to give 

 the owner 2d. for the 4 fleeces which are wantinge to make up 

 the nomber, 10. 



For Teendinge or Tythinge of Lambes. 

 When the procter or his deputy commeth, you are to sende 

 worde to your sheapheard to bringe downe the lambes to the 

 folde ; and then are yow to take as many barres as will goe 

 cross the folde and to make therein two divisions or pennes, the 

 one whearin to putte your lambes altogeather, and the other to 

 runne them into ; and then, if the number of your lambes bee 

 just forty, or under forty, yow are to lette them runne forth by 

 tennes, and soe soone as yow have letten forth tenne yow are 

 to stoppe them, and the owner is to choose two, wheare hee list, 

 forth of the 10 ; and then the procter is to choose one forth of 

 the eight which remaine ; but the procter is not to take them 

 up and search which are riggons and which not, but onely to 

 looke over them, and to take wheare hee first toucheth ; then 

 as soone as the procter hath made choice of his lambe, hee is to 

 marke it and to leave it in the penne wheare it is, but the owner 

 is to putte forth his nine, and to lette other tenne rmme into 

 the penne, and soe to doe in hke manner. Nowe if the num- 

 ber of your lambes bee above forty, they are to bee runne out 

 of one penne into another, and the procter is to take the 10th 

 lambe as it goeth thorowe, wheather it bee goode or badde : 

 nowe if there bee any odde lambes remaininge att last, yow 

 are to doe just as with your fleeces if they bee above or mider 

 five, for if they bee imder five the procter falleth none, onely 



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