made and perfeicted, Hoel thā brynging wh him a royal rewarde oute of Wales and beynge accompanied wyth Lamberte byshop of saynt Dauies, Mordefe byshop of Bangor, and Chebure bishop of. S Assaph and Bleyguaret archdeaken of Landaph: toke hys iorney to Rome to haue the said lawe perused and examined bi Anastasius thā bishop there. Which thing aduisedly done, and euerye parte thereof founde to be consonant and agreable wyth gods law, was ratified, confirmed, and published by the bishop, and called the law of Hoel da. And thys was done in the yere of our Lorde. ixc. xiiii. In wytnes wherof, here be olde verses which were made at that time.
Explicit editus legibus Liber bene finitus:
Quem regi scripsit languoridus et quoque fuit.
Hoeli turbe doctor, tunc legis in urbe.
Gornardo cano, tunc iudice quotidiauo
Rex dabat ad partem dextram, nam sumpserat artem.
And it foloweth a litle after in the text of the said law where certayne cases are resolued by these wordes.
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There be thre sondry cases, where the brother (the father beynge tenaunt in Gauel kynd) shal not be perceuer wyth his brother of one venter and one father. The first is, whā a man hath issue two sonnes by one wyfe, one before the espousels solemnised, and the other after He that is borne before the espousels, shall not be partener wyth him that is borne after. The seconde is, whan a Clarke beynge maried hathe issue a sonne, and after that he receyueth the ordre of priestehode, hath issue an other sonne: the sonne that is begoten after the orders ought not to part lands with his brother that was begotten before the orders.
