before the third day of Christmas from the steward, it is right for him to have the skin of a cow between June and the middle of September[1] from him ; and if he remembers not at that time, he has nothing.
[2]A chief groom has the skin of an ox in the winter and the skin of a cow in the summer from the steward, to make halters for the king's horses, and that before sharing the skins between the steward and the officers. A chief groom and the chief huntsman and the foot-holder do not sit by the partition of the hall ; each of them moreover knows his place. A chief groom owns the legs of every steer killed in the kitchen, and salt is given to him with them. He has the share of two men of the grooms' silver. He owns the old saddles of the king's steed and its old bridles. A chief groom and the grooms with him have the wild colts which come to the king from the third of a spoil. To him it pertains to hand over every horse which the king shall give, and he himself gives[3] a halter with every horse, and he has four pence for every horse except three : the horse which shall be given to the priest of a household, and the horse which shall be given to the judge of
