well as more property and a higher honour price. According to , each grade of lord increase by 5 for each rank, and also increased the number of clients. In addition, when they travelled they were expected to maintain a retinue with them. A lord not only had greater ability but also needed to take greater steps to preserve their honour, lest they lose their lordship. The order of lords varies, but in it is as follows: ("lord of vassals"), ("high lord"), ("lord of precedence"), and the ("lord of superior testimony"). After the normal lords were the , who was supposed to be heir to the throne. He had higher property qualifications than the , but his prime claim to higher status was that he would one day be king. Kings held the highest status that the laws describe. The basic king had an honour price of seven , and higher kings had yet a higher status. Having the highest status, the king especially was expected to be careful to keep his honour. Cowardice, as demonstrated in flight from battle, as well as taking up manual labour might cost him his honour-price. These grades are generally equated with the seven grades of clerics, although there is some discrepancy as to how the grades line up, with various texts doing it in different ways and selecting only certain lay grades and ignoring others. The ranking of lay grades has been seen by many scholars as rather schematic and not reflecting realities on the ground. Some of the texts give considerable detail on diet, tools owned, the number of livestock, and even the size of the house a person of a given status had. Modern scholars have generally assumed such details rarely match exactly what someone of a given rank had. In addition, contains the fee a client paid to a lord, according to rank from the lowest free man through the noble ranks, even though no noble would be another's client. Poetic grades Paralleling the status of the lay grades are the grades of the (poets). Each poetic rank corresponds to a particular lay (and ecclesiastical) rank, from to king. In these are given as , , , , , , and . These are given the same status as and the same honour prices as the lay grades, and hence have effectively the same rights. The qualifications for each grade