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Stat. 1.
Anno vicesimo septimo Edwardi I.
A.D. 1299.
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foresta servetur salvis tamen juramento nostro jure corone nostre & racionibus nostris ac eciam aliorum que quidem per Venerabilem Patrem R. Archiepiscopum Cantuar' ex parte nostra & in nostra presencia tunc pronunciari fecimus et deinde apud Odimere in ipso passagio nostro in Flandr' eandem concessionem sub sigillo nostro observari precipiendo mandavimus & teneri per totum regnum nostrum in quolibet Comitatu. Et quia a tempore illo citra per artacionem & districionem guerrarum eramus occupati muitipliciter & distracti in diversis Patriis & longinqnis propter quod scire nequivimus statum regni nostri Nos diebus istis quatenus nobis vacat nostram continuantes primariam voluntatem habuimus deliberacionem super concessione nostra predicta et ad honorem Dei & sancte Matris ecclesie ac commodum tocius populi regni nostri Volumus quod predicta magna carta de libertatibus observetur in omnibus punctis suis et carta eciam de Foresta secundum subscriptos articulos qui sunt tales Inquisicio vel Visus, &c. [Prout in Cart. de Forest. c. 6. et deinde ad coram eo terminentur.] Quos autem Articulos supradictos firmiter & inviolabiliter observari Volumus & teneri volentes nichilominus quod perambulacio fiat Salvis Temper juramento nostro jure Corone nostre & racionibus nostris atque calumpniis Ac omnium aliorum ita quod perambulacio illa nobis reportetur antequam aliqua Execucio vel aliquid aliud inde fiat quam quidem perambulacionem Volumus quod fiat sicut predicitur adcicius quod fieri poterit post negocia que habemus expedienda cum nunciis qui de Romana Curia sunt venturi que vero ita sunt ardua quod non solum nos & regnum nostrum set totam Christianitatem contingunt & ad ea sanius pertractanda totum consilium nostrum habere plenarie indigemus Et post concessionem nostram sacram sicut superius exprimitur de premissis diligenti Meditacione pensavimus quosdam juris Defectus multimoda gravamina &c oppressiones que pluribus aliis modis prefato populo sunt illata temporibus retroactis & Volumus super illis que nobis occurebant adpresens ad alleviacionem & commoditatem ejusdem populi pro legis certitudine stabilire & remedium apponere in hunc modum.

CAP. I.
No Exception to a Fine that the Demandant was seised. Fines shall be openly read.

[1]FOrafmuch as Fines levied in our Court ought and do make an End all Matters, and therefore called Fines principally, where after waging of Battail or the great Assise in their Cases ever they hold the last and final Place. (2) And now by a certain Time passed, as well in the Time of King Henry of famous Memory, our Grandfather,[2] as in our Time, the Parties of such Fines and their Heirs, contrary to the Laws ⟨and Customs⟩[3] of our Realm of ancient Time used, were admitted to adnul and defeat such Fine, alledging, that before the Fine levied, and at the levying thereof, and since, the Demandants or Plaintiffs, or their Ancestors, were alway seised of the Lands contained in the Fine, or of some Parcel thereof; and so Fines lawfully levied were many Times unjustly defeated and adnulled by jurors of the Country falsly and maliciously procured; No Exception to a Fine, that the Demandant was always seised.(3) [4]we therefore, intending to provide a Remedy in the Premisses, in our Parliament at Westminster have ordained, that such Exceptions, Answers, or Inquisitions of the Country, shall from henceforth in no wise be admitted contrary to such Recognisances or Fines. And further we will, That this Statute shall as well extend unto Fines heretofore levied, as to them that shall be levied hereafter. Fines shall be openly read, and then all Pleas shall cease.And [5]let the Justices see that such Notes and Fines, as hereafter shall be levied in our Court, be read openly and solemnly, and that in the mean Time all Pleas shall cease; and this must be at two certain Days in the Week, according to the Discretion of the Justices.

15 Ed. 2. Conusors shall be personally present.  1 R. 3. c. 7. who are bound by Fines.  4 H. 7. c. 24. how often Fines to be proclaimed.  32 H. 8. c. 36. where Fines levied according to Statute shall bar Entails.  31 Eliz. c. 2. abridging Proclamation; and see farther 1 Mar. stat. 2. c. 7.  23 Eliz. c. 3. And 4 Ann. c. 16.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 128.
  2. ↑ Read Father.
  3. ↑ Add and Customs.
  4. ↑ Rast. 349, &c.; 3 Co. 88.; Fitz. Replic. 62, 63, 66.; 42 Ed. 3. f. 19.
  5. ↑ 18 Ed. 1. stat. 4. of Fines.

CAP. II.
A Sheriff shall levy no more Issues than he hath Warrant for. His Tallies.

A Sherriff shall execute his Warrant in levying of Issues, and no more.WE have also ordained, by the Advice of our Council, That from henceforth Sheriffs shall not be charged of any Issues to be levied, nor shall levy any before they pass out of the Exchequer, there to be delivered by the Extreats of the Justices; (2)
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