Even the taeog was, however, under these laws, hardly a serf. With the exception of his duty to assist the lord in the erection of buildings, and to submit to _kylch_, _i.e._ to the lord's followers, being quartered upon him when making a 'progress,' and to _dovraith_, or maintenance of the chief's dogs and servants, there seems to have been no exaction of menial personal services.[246] «Food-rents.» The taeogs' dues, like those of free Welshmen, consisted of fixed summer and winter contributions of food for the chief's table. In _Gwent_ they had to provide in winter a sow, a salted flitch, threescore loaves of wheat bread, a tub of ale, twenty sheaves of oats, and pence for the servants. In summer, a tub of butter and twelve cheeses and bread.[247] These tributes of food were called 'dawnbwyds,' gifts of food, or 'board-gifts,' and from these the taeog or register land is in one place in the Welsh laws called _tir bwrdd_, or 'board-land' (_terra mensalia_, [p199] or 'mensal land'[248]), a term which we shall find again when we come to examine the Irish tribal system. * * * * * «The caeth or slave.» Lastly, it must not be forgotten that beneath the taeogs, as beneath the Saxon _geneat_ and _gebur_, were the 'caeths,' or bondmen, the property of their owners,[249] without tyddyn and without land, unless such were assigned to them by their lord. These caeths were, therefore, not settled in separate trevs, but scattered about as household slaves in the tyddyns of their masters. IV. LAND DIVISIONS UNDER THE WELSH CODES. There were, then, these two kinds of holdings--those of the free tribesmen, of 'family land,' and those of the taeogs, of 'register land.' There remains to be considered the system on which the holdings were clustered together. «The holdings grouped for payment of the food-rent or tunc pound.» The principle of this it is not very easy at first to understand, and the difficulty is increased by a confusion of terms between the codes. But there is one fact, by keeping hold of which the system becomes intelligible, viz., that the grouping seems to have been based upon the collective amount of the _food-rent_. The homesteads, or tyddyns, each containing its four free erws, were scattered over the country side. But they were artificially grouped together for the purpose of the payment of the food-rent, or _tunc pound_ in lieu of it. And by following the group which pays the [p200] 'tunc pound' as the unit of comparison, the at first conflicting evidence falls into its proper place. In the Venedotian Code the _maenol_ is this unit. In the Dimetian and Gwentian Codes this unit is the _trev_. «In North Wales the _maenol_ the unit for food-rent.» According to the Venedotian Code of North Wales,[250]