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the creditor by their faith, until the time that their lord has paid, and if he is not paid within the said term, when he had handed over these men as security, reason dictates and commands that this creditor is rightly able, since the term has passed and he has not been paid and should have been, to sell that guarantee as abandoned and the fiefs and houses and whatever he held as guarantee for his debt, and to pay himself that which the lord owes to him. And since he will have been paid, then he is required to deliver to the king his liegemen who will render him by right. But if it so happens that a certain man does not wish to enter into this for his lord, reason dictates that he should be disinherited just as is said above in the other judgement, because that is right. And well should you know, that by the requirements of faith and by the assise, the king is required, in all circumstances, in the case that he can, without doing to much damage to the luster of the crown, to deliver his men within a year and a day that they entered into imprisonment or as hostages for him. And thus is the king required by right to give to those men so long as they are imprisoned or as hostage for him, food and drink and clothing, that he has preserved the rents from their fiefs for which they owe him homage and ligesse and this is what is right and reason according to the assise of Jerusalem.

Chapter 9
Since you have hear the rationale and the power of the kind, the law requires that you hear the rationale and the law concerning what the marshall of the kingdom is bound to do, to serve the kind, and what the office of the marshall is, by law.

Know well that the office of marshall of the kingdom is such that that one should be the very first out at with the cry or the royal banner to put in order and to restrain the men of the land so that they do not proceed on their own and are not lost through their foolhardiness. And then once the king has ventured forth, or whoever may be in his place, and then the marshall should arrange his ranks of knights and of turcopoles according to what seems best to him. And so the knights and the turcopoles are held by what is right to do the commandment of the Marshall they ought never to move any squadron nor attack without the commandment of the marshall nor turn back. And the marshall is held as soon as he might have ordered his ranks to come before the king here and understand his wishes and command, whether he will order to attack or to hold or so he must command the other knights or other mounted men and they are held to obey and to fulfill and not go beyond his commands by what is right.