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Chapter 10

Know well that no beast may be registered at the Segrete of the lord for the established payment of forty bezants per horse and thirty bezants per mule without the approval of the marshall of the kingdom because the marshal is held by his faith to oversee whether the horse or the mule should be such a beast that would qualify for the compensation. And if the horse or mule are healthy in all of their limbs, and the the marshall sees and acknowledges that the beasts are as they should be, so he should command the scribes of the Segret of the lord to register those beasts for the payment and they should do it according to his command, because he told them to, and from that time forward, those beasts are compensated for by right of the assise.

Chapter 11

Here we hear the argument concerning the power that the marshall has to stop payment for these men and their fiefs when the liegemen do something they should not do.

If it so happens that any liegeman, whether he be knight or sargent, is not fully equipped in the way he should be, the argument requires and commands it to be judged in this way, that the marshall is obliged by his office and by his faith to oversee with each payment, the equipment that each man has and all the beasts for which compensation is due. And he who does not have such equipment that he should have, he (the marshall) should suspend his fief and his payment should be taken to the lord, until such time as he might have such equiment that he should have. This is the argument and the law, in consequence, if a liege man's beast should die and he has received his compensation he is required by law to have another beast at the service of the lord within a fortnight of having received his payment. And if he does not have another animal within the fortnight of receiving his payment, because he is taking it to be sold