4. Thirty pence, when a whelp in the kennel:

5. Fifteen pence, from its birth until it shall open its eyes, is its worth.

6. The worth of the king's greyhound, if trained, six score

pence:

7. If untrained, three score pence:

8. When a year old, thirty pence :

9. A whelp in the kennel, fifteen pence:

10. From its berth until it shall open its eyes, seven pence halfpenny.

11. The spaniel of the king,' is a pound in value.

12. The spaniel of an uchelwr, a pound.

13. The spaniel of a free-man, is six score pence in value. 14. The spaniel of an aillt, four pence: the same worth as his cur.

15. The worth of the buck-hound of an uchelwr is the same as that of the king's greyhound.

16. The worth of the greyhound of an uchelwr is equal to half the worth of the king's greyhound.

17. Whatsoever dog belongs to an aillt is of the same value as his cur.

18. Whosoever may possess a cur, though it be the king, its value is four pence.

19. A herd-dog, that goes before the herd in the morning, and follows them home at night, is worth the best ox." 3— Venedotian Code.

1 "Or the queen." Gwentian Code.

3 Animal of the herd it may guard.

2 A high man.

The fox and otter were free hunts to every person on the land of another, "because they were always on the move; for they had no haunts," and by the Dimetian and Gwentian codes, the roebuck also. This must have applied to the hill or greyhound fox. The skins of the fox, otter, wolf, hart, and ox were eight pence each in value, but that of the marten was twenty-four pence, and of the beaver six score pence. Those of the sheep, goat, and roebuck but one penny, and the cow and hind seven pence each.-Venedotian Code.

The milk of the cat, bitch, and mare were considered worthless.-Dimetian Code.

Nothing was to be paid for a cast at a dog, stag, or wild colt in corn. Three legal vessels of generation, a cat, bitch, and squirrel.-Dimetian Code.

49. "There are three legal needles: the sewing needle of the queen; the needle of the mediciner of the palace for sewing of wounds; and the needle of the chief huntsman for sewing the torn dogs: the worth of each of those is four legal pence: the needle of a seamstress in general is a legal penny in value."-Dimetian Code.

51. "There are three one-footed animals: a horse; a hawk; and a greyhound (or covert-hound), whoever shall break the leg of any one of them, let him pay his whole worth."-Dimetian Code.

"There are three animals whose foot and life are of the same worth: a horse; a greyhound; and a hawk: the reason is, because they are unclean, and are worthless when they are lame, as their use depends upon their feet; and, therefore,

their feet are of the same worth as their lives."-Welsh Laws, p. 558.

64. "There are three broods of the same value as their dams, whether there be one or many of them, if they be stolen the litter of a covert-bitch; the farrow of a sow in her sty; and the eyrie of a hawk.”—Dimetian Code.

90. "There are three thieves liable to a camlwrw: a dog stealer; a stealer of herbs, that grow on the earth," &c.Dimetian Code.

"XIV.-OF DOGS.

1. If a dog be killed, or stolen, a camlwrw is to be paid for it.

2. For a mad dog, or for the mischief it may commit, no reparation is to be made: the oath of one person is sufficient to deny a dog.2

3. The king's covert-hound cub, before it opens its eyes, is of twenty-four pence in value:

4. In its couch, it is forty-eight pence in value.

5. In its kennel, it is four score and sixteen pence in value.

6. In its random hunting, it is six score pence in value: 7. When it shall be trained, it is a pound in value.

8. The value of the king's greyhound, from first to last, in law, is half of that of the king's covert-hound, of the same

age.

1 Mulet for wrong, of nine score pence, three kine or more. The Gwentian Code says "there is no dirwy for a dog, though stolen, only a camlwrw." 2 "For it is a back burden of an unclean animal." Gwentian Code.

9. Any one who shall put out the eye, or cut off the tail of the king's covert-hound, is to pay twenty-four pence to the king, for every cow that the dog may be rated at in value.

10. There is one animal which rises in value from four pence to a pound in one day; a covert hound: if it belong to a tacog in the morning its worth will be four pence; and, if it be given to the king, its value is one pound.

11. A stallion when grazing out, and a greyhound without its collar, lose their privilege.

12. A breyr's covert-hound and a king's greyhound, of the same age, are of equal worth.

13. A breyr's greyhound, from first to last, in law, is of half the value of a breyr's covert-hound of equal age.

14. The cub of a villain's cur, before its eyes open. is a curt penny in value.

15. In its couch, it is two pence in value:

16. In its kennel, three pence :

17. At liberty, its value is four curt pence:

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18. Of whatever the kind the dog of a taeog may be, its worth is four pence, unless it be a shepherd-dog, and that is three score pence in value, if it will go before the cattle in the morning, and come behind them at even, and make three turns round them in the night; and that can be certified by the owner, with a neighbour above his door, and another below his door.

1 Churl, or villein.

2 Mote-man, high-man.

3 "Guarding the hindmost." Gwentian Code.

19. A cur, although it belong to a king, or a breyr, is of the same value as the cur of a villain.

20. A dog accustomed to bite, if killed beyond nine paces from the house, nothing is to be paid for it; if it be killed within the nine paces, twenty-four pence is to be paid.

21. There is no legal worth set upon a harrier; for there was not a dog of that kind in the time of Howel the Good; and therefore it is to be appraised.

22. An appraised worth is to be put upon every thing upon which no written legal worth is fixed.

23. If a dog attack any person, let the person place his weapon between him and it; and, if the dog go upon the weapon so as to be killed, nothing is to be paid for it.

24. If a dog bite any person, so that the blood come, the owner of the dog is to pay the worth of his blood to the person bitten; and if he who is so bitten kill the dog before it escape from him, he is to have nothing, but sixteen pence for his blood.

25. If a dog accustomed to bite persons bite three persons,' and is not killed by its master, then it is to be tied to the leg of its master with a rope of two spans in length, and there killed; and let the owner of the dog pay a camlwrw to the king."-Dimetian Code.

By the Dimetian Code a cur dog was worth four curt pennies.

Madness prevailed at times among dogs.-Gwentian Code.

1 "Tear a person three times." Gwentian Code.