The burdens upon the land and its possessors were as follows:—The sixteen _Trefs_ in the _Cymwd_ possessed by the _Aillt_ paid a rent in kind, termed _Dawnbwyd_, which was similar to the _Biatad_ or food-rent of the Irish system, and were subject to the _Cylch_ and _Dovraith_ of the superior, or refection and quartering, equivalent to the _Conmedha_ or _Coigny_ of the Irish. From the _Trefs_ possessed by the _Uchelwyr_, and the two manors belonging to the _Maer_ and _Cynghellawr_, the king received a _Gwestva_ or food-rent, which corresponds to the _Bestighi_ or food-rent of the house paid by every rank in the Irish tribe to the _Ri Tuath_; but in the Welsh system the payment in kind was, in part, commuted for a money payment, and we find no trace of the subsidy or gift of stock by the superior, in proportion to the return in the shape of food-rent, which characterises the whole relations of the different grades in the Irish tribe to each other.[233] Besides these regular burdens, there were two that may be termed casual. These were the _Ebidiw_ or relief, payable to the superior by the heir of a defunct vassal; and secondly, the _Amobr_, _Gobr Merch_, or maiden fee, that is, a fee paid to the superior by the person subject to that payment on the marriage of a daughter. By the Welsh laws the _Amobyrs_ of the daughters are said to be of equal amount with the _Ebidiws_ of their fathers, and there were three _Ebidiws_—an _Ebidiw_ of a pound, an _Ebidiw_ of six score pence, and an _Ebidiw_ of three score pence. The first was paid by the principal officers of the palace—by the _Pencenedl_ and by the officers of the country, the _Maer_ and the _Cynghellawr_. The second by the superior officers, the _Uchelwr_ or _Breyr_, and the _Gwahalaeth_ or son of a lord; and the third by the king’s _Taeog_, an _Arddelwman_ and an _Alltud_ whom the king has enfranchised.[234] [Sidenote: Fines for Slaughter.]