or Barons, or others who hold of us in chief by Military Service, shall die, and at his death his heir shall be of full age, and shall owe a relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief; that is to say, the heir or heirs of an Earl, a whole Earl's Barony for one hundred pounds: the heir or heirs of a Baron, for a whole Barony, for one hundred pounds; the heir or heirs of a Knight, for a whole Knight's Fee, for one hundred shillings at the most: and he who owes less, shall give less, according to the ancient custom of fees.-(III. 3.) But if the heir of any such be under age, his Lord shall not have the Wardship of him nor of his land, before he shall have received his homage, and afterward such heir shall be in ward; and when he shall come he to age, that is to say, to twenty and one years, shall have his inheritance without relief and without fine: yet so that if he be made a Knight, whilst he be under age, nevertheless his lands shall remain in custody of his Lord, until the term aforesaid.— (IV. 4.) The warden of the land of such heir who shall be under age, shall not take from the lands of the heir any but reasonable issues, and reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction and waste of the men or goods; and if we commit the custody of any such lands to a Sheriff, or any other person who is bound to us for the issues of them, and he shall make destruction or waste upon the ward-lands, we will recover damages from him, and the lands shall be

committed to two lawful and discreet men of the same fee, who shall answer for the issues to us, or to him to whom we have assigned them: and if we shall give or sell to any one the custody of any such lands, and he shall make destruction or waste upon them, he shall lose the custody; and it shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of the same fee, who shall answer to us in like manner as it is said before.(V. 5.) But the warden, as long as he hath the custody of the lands, shall keep up and maintain the houses, parks, warrens, ponds, mills, and other things belonging to them, out of their issues; and shall restore to the heir when he comes of full age, his whole estate, provided with carriages and all other things, at the least such as he received it. All these things shall be observed in the custodies of vacant Archbishoprics, Bishoprics, Abbies, Priories, Churches, and Dignities, which appertain to us, excepting that these wardships are not to be sold.-(V1. 6.) Heirs shall be married without disparagement.-(VII. 7.) A widow, after the death of her husband, shall immediately, and without difficulty have her freedom of marriage and her inheritance; nor shall she give any thing for her dower, or for her freedom of marriage, or for her inheritance, which her husband and she held at the day of his death; and she may remain in her husband's house forty days after his death, within which time her dower shall be assigned; unless it shall have been assigned before,

or excepting his house shall be a Castle; and if she departs from the Castle, there shall be provided for her a complete house in which she may decently dwell, until her dower shall be assigned to her as aforesaid. (VIII. 8.) No widow shall be distrained to marry herself, whilst she is willing to live without a husband; but yet she shall give security that she will not marry herself, without our consent, if she hold of us, or without the consent of her lord if she hold of another.-(IX. 9.) We nor our Bailiffs, will not seize any land nor rent for any debt, whilst the chattels of the debtor present sufficient for the payment of the debt, and the debtor shall be ready to make satisfaction: nor shall the sureties of the debtor be distrained, whilst the principal debtor is able to pay the debt; and if the principal debtor fail in payment of the debt, not having wherewith to discharge it, or will not discharge it when he is able, then the sureties shall answer for the debt; and if they be willing, they shall have the lands and rents of the debtor, until satisfaction be made to them for the debt which they had before paid for him, unless the principal debtor can shew himself acquitted thereof against the said sureties. -(X. 13) The City of London shall have all it's ancient liberties, and it's free customs, as well by land as by water.-Furthermore, we will and grant that all other Cities, and Burghs, and Towns, and the Barons of the Cinque Ports, and all Ports, should have all their liberties and free customs.

(XI. 16.) None shall be distrained to do more service for a Knight's-Fee, nor for any other free tenement, than what is due from thence.--(XII.17.) Common Pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in any certain place.-(XIII. 18.) Trials upon the Writs of Novel Disseisin, of Mort d'Ancestre (death of the ancestor), and of Darrien Presentment (last presentation), shall not be taken but in their proper counties, and in this manner :We, or our Chief Justiciary, if we should be out of the kingdom, will send two Justiciaries into each county, four times in the year, who, with four knights of each county, chosen by the county, shall hold the aforesaid assizes, within the county on the day, and at the place appointed.--(XIV. 19.) And if the aforesaid assizes cannot be taken on the day of the county-court, let as many knights. and freeholders, of those who were present at the county-court remain behind, as shall be sufficient to do justice, according to the great or less importance of the business.-(XV. 20.) A Free-man shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great delinquency, according to the magnitude of the delinquency, saving his contenement: a Merchant shall be amerced in the same manner, saving his merchandise, and a villain shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he shall fall into our mercy; and none of the aforesaid amerciaments shall be assessed, but by

the oath of honest and lawful men of the vicinage.-(XVI. 21.) Earls and Barons shall not be amerced but by their Peers, and that only according to the degree of their delinquency.(XVII. 22.) No Clerk shall be amerced excepting according to the form aforesaid, and not according to the quantity of his ecclesiastical benefice.(XVIII. 23.) Neither a town nor any person shall be distrained to build bridges or embankments, excepting those which anciently, and of right, are bound to do it.-(XIX. 24.) No Sheriff, Constable, Coroners, nor other of our Bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our crown.- -(XX. 26.) If any one holding of us a lay-fee dies, and the Sheriff or our Bailiff, shall shew our letters-patent of summons concerning the debt which the defunct owed to ús, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff, or for our Bailiff to attach and register the chattels of the defunct found on that lay-fee, to the amount of that debt, by the view of lawful men, so that nothing shall be removed from thence until our debt be paid to us; and the rest shall be left to the executors to fulfil the will of the defunct; and if nothing be owing to us by him, all the chattels shall fall to the defunct, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares.-(XXI. 28.) No Constable, Governor, nor his Bailiff, shall take the corn or other goods of any one, who is not of that town where his Castle is, without instantly paying money for them, unless he can obtain a respite from the