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Anno sexto Edwardi I.
A.D. 1278.

albeit their Ancestors died seised thereof. Stat. Gloucest. cap. 4.(4) Touching an Inquest to be made of such as be within Age, the Statute shall run without Limitation of Time. [Id. c.] 5.(5) Touching Alienation of Lands holden by the Law of England, the Statute shall run for such Lands being aliened after the Time of the Statute published. [Id. c.] 6.(6) In like manner the Statute shall extend and run upon the Lands of a Wife aliened by her Husband (whereas no Fine was levied thereof in Court.) [Id. c.] 7.(7) Touching Lands being let in Fee-ferm, to pay therefore yearly the fourth Part of the very Value thereof, the Statute shall run as well unto Lands that were leafed before the making of the Statute, as after, in cafe that the Tenant have withholden above the Space of two Years, after the Statute published, so much as he should have paid to his Lessor yearly according to the Form of the Covenant. [Id. c.] 8.(8) And as to the Punishment of Waste in all Cafes (except it be of Dowers and Wards) it shall be understood of Wastes done sithence the Statute published. [Id. c.] 9.(9) And of the Forfeiture of Treble in Cafes of Wastes of Dowers and Wardships, it shall be understood of Wastes committed after the Statute published. [Id. c.] 10.(10) And as concerning them which do aliene their Dowers, it is to be understood after the publishing of the Statute. [Id. c.] 11.(11) Given at Gloucester the Sunday next after the Feast of Saint Peter ad vinculo, the sixth Year of the Reign of King Edward the First.

A Statute of Quo Warranto, made at Gloucester, Anno 6 Edw. I.[1]

Claiming and using of Liberties, and Causes to seise them into the King's hands. Complaint of Officers.

[2]THE Year of our Lord M.CC.LXX.VIII. the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Edward, at Gloucester, in the Month of August, the King himself providing for the Wealth of his Realm, and the more full Ministration of Justice, as to the Office of a King belongeth (the more discreet Men of the Realm, as well of high as of low Degree, being called thither) (2) it is provided and ordained, That whereas the Realm of England in divers Cafes, as well upon Liberties as otherwise, wherein the Law failed, to avoid the grievous Damages and innumerable Disherisons that the Default of the Law did bring in, had Need of divers Helps of new Laws, and certain new Provisions, these Provisions, Statutes, and Ordinances under-written, shall from henceforth be straitly and inviolably observed of all the Inhabitants of his Realm. (3) And whereas Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other of our Realm, that claim to have divers Liberties, which to examine and judge, the King hath prefixed a Day to such Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other; it is provided and likewise agreed, That the said Prelates, Earls, Barons, and other, shall use such Manner of Liberties, after the Form of the Writ here following.

A Writ to the Sheriff to permit all Men to enjoy those Liberties which they had before.
II. Rex vic' salutem. Cum nuper in parliamento nostro apud Westmonasterium, per nos & concilium nostrum provisum sit & proclamatum, quod prelati, comites, barones, & alii de regno nostro, qui diversas libertates per chartas progenitorum nostrorum regum Anglie habere clamant, ad quas examinandas & judicandas diem præfixerimus in eodem parliamento, libertatibus illis taliter uterentur, quod nihil sibi per usurpationem seu occupationem accrescerent, nec aliquid super nos occuparent. Tibi precipimus, quod omnes illos de comitatu tuo libertatibus suis, quibus hucusque rationabiliter usi sunt, uti & gaudere permittas in forma prædicta, usque ad proximum adventum nostrum per comitatum prædictum, vel usque ad proximum adventum justiciariorum itinerantium ad omnia placita in comitatu, vel donec aliud inde præceperimus: salvo semper jure nostro cum inde loqui voluerimus. Teste, &c.

III. In like Manner and in the same Form Writs shall be directed to Sheriffs and other Bailiffs for every Demandant, and the Form shall be changed after the Diversity of the Liberty which any Man claimeth to have, in this wise:

A Proclamation, that they which claim Liberties, shall shew to the Justices how they hold them.
IV. Rex vic' salutem. Præcipimus tibi, quod per totam ballivam tuam, videlicet, tam in civitatibus, quam in burgis, & aliis villis mercatoriis, & alibi, publice proclamari facias, quod omnes illi qui aliquas libertates per chartas progenitorum nostrorum regum Angliæ, vel alio modo, habere clamant, sint coram justiciariis nostris ad primam assisam, cum in partes illas venerint, ad ostendendum quomodo hujusmodi liber-
  1. ↑ This is a Translation of the first Part of the Statute of Gloucester, as entered on the Roll, and has been printed in the former Editions by Mistake, as of 30 Edw. 1.
  2. ↑ 2 Inst. 279. b.; Kel. 150. pl. 1.

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