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bite iri tniiitli 7 adellad ilsetcti 7 

 fluamberar eland .uii. bliacbia doib oc 

 pendaind INdhi iano doeismet fuili 7 

 marbthai duine .uii. mbliadwr? doib ind 

 durpendid 



§ 12. ISsei rocbualai laisim cid i?idbi' 

 nad caodet' feoil dog;-«s dogni'ad pars 

 isijid chaise de feoil fre terai 7 gorti 

 do teemung isind bliadain. ISs^rf 

 rochualai laisim. IScr? fogni'd i tir da 

 glas iiidtan rombui ind liaguil and. 

 asenad uii anirtfY notreigtis addurtaig 

 xaedon laoi dia caisc doclium na cliuclidiii 

 doib foehetoir co ndenad each di'ob and 

 pars de feoil iri foimtin tevci no boebdu 

 in ando ar niani tbuaslaicea isind ebaisc 

 nipo assa doib iar!<»» cosin caiscc naili 

 po«< andum 



§ 13. Luss boDgar ind domnucb no 

 braisecA no aran fonit^w no meiai 116 

 cnoi bengal" dia domnaieb. ni fogni 

 leisim a catbim na raod sin nach lasna 

 firclerehiu. 



§ 1 4. indti do aos tuatha («o e) arfaom 

 anmcairdini a chongbail do ab uxore 

 s«a i)) bis t;'Ib!<« noctibiw .i. aidcbi 

 dardaoin aidehi sathaim 7 aidcbi ndom- 

 naicli. Cid aidclii luoin ma doio«a 

 Aecfw indtan nibis galar miostai ior 

 bandscal Alegar do neuch a cliongmail 

 uadi iar nanmcbardini petir ind libris 

 clerae»8tis 



§ 15. Epscuip da?io 7 duini sruithi 

 doberad suiri figli is coir [So*"] a denam 

 airriu. ma beitb laa seehdair corgus 7 



those that are given to lust, and that 

 freq^uent various mates and have 

 children bom to them, seven years of 

 penance for them. Also those that shed 

 blood and commit homicide, seven years' 

 strict penance for them. 



§ 12. This I have heard from him: 

 even those "who do not eat flesh 

 regularly take a particle of flesh at Easter 

 to guard against scarcity and hunger 



IQ occurring in the course of the year. 

 This I have heard from him ; this 

 ■was the practice at Tir da Glas when 

 the Eiile was there : the whole con- 

 gregation, when they left the oratory 



15 at noon on Easter Day, used to go 

 straight to the kitchen that each of 

 them might take a particle of flesh 

 there, as a precaution against scarcity 

 or poverty during the year ; for unless a 

 man relaxes at Easter, it would not be 

 easy for them to do so afterwards until 

 the next Easter a year later. 



§ 13. A herb that is cut on Sunday, 



20 or kale that is cooked, or bread that is 

 baked, or blackberries or nuts that are 

 plucked on a Sunday, it is not his 

 practice, nor the practice of true clerics, 

 to eat these things. 



§ 14. If one of the laity accepts 



25 spiritual direction, he is to keep himself 

 from his wife on these throe nights, 

 Wednesday night, Friday night, and 

 Saturday night. As to Sunday night, he 

 is to do so if he can. And when a woman 



30 is in her monthly sickness, a man ought 

 to keep away from her according to 

 the ghostly counsel of Peter in lihris 

 Clementinis. 



§ 15. "Wlien bisliops and elders grant 

 exemption fi-om vigUs, it is right that 



36 this should be done for their sake, 



' £ead chaithet 



