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A.D. 1305.
Anno tricesimo tertio Edwardi I.
Stat. 4.
151

An Ordinance for Inquests, made 18 Septembris, Anno 33 Edw. I. Stat. 4. and Anno Dom. 1305.

He that challengeth a Jury or Juror for the King shall shew his Cause.

[1]OF Inquests to be taken before any of the Justices, and wherein our Lord the King is Party howsoever it be; it is greed and ordained by the King and all his Council, That from henceforth, notwithstanding it be alledged by them that sue for the King, that the Jurors of those Inquests, or some of them, be not indifferent for the King, yet such Inquests shall not remain untaken for that Cause; (2) but if they that sue for the King will challenge any of those Jurors, they shall assign of their Challenge a Cause certain, and the Truth of the same Challenge shall be enquired of according to the Custom of the Court; and let it be proceeded to the Taking of the fame Inquisitions, as it shall be found, if the Challenges be true, or not, after the Discretion of the Justices.

II. This Ordinance precedent, and the Ordinance following of the Forest, were made in the Parliament at Westminster, the Sunday next before the Feast of Saint Matthew[2] the Apostle, the three and thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Edward, Son of King Henry.

See farther 25. Ed. 3. stat. 5. c. 3.  7 H. 7. c. 5. and 33 H. 8. c. 23.

  1. ↑ Rast. 115; Fitz. Chall. 17, 63, 65, 107; Bro. Chall. 22, 154.
  2. ↑ Read Michael.

Ordinatio Forestæ, made Anno 33 Edw. I. Stat. 5. and Anno Dom. 1305.

They whose Woods are disaforested, shall not have Common or other Easement in the Forest.

[1]WHEREAS certain People that be put out of the Forest for the Purliew, and by the great Men have made Request to our Lord the King at this Parliament, that they might be acquitted of their Charge, and of Things that the Foresters demand of them, as they were wont to be; (2) our Lord the King answered, first, That where he had granted Purliew, that he was pleased that it should stand in like manner as it was granted, albeit that the Thing was sued and demanded in an evil Point; (3) nevertheless he willeth and intendeth, that all his demean Lands wheresoever they be, that have been of the Crown, being returned by way of Escheat, or otherwise, shall have Estate of Free-chase and Free-warren, and in such manner shall be saved and kept to his life for all manner of Escheats,[2] and for all manner of Things that pleaseth him. (4) And in Right of them that have Lands and Tenements, disaforested for the said Purliew, and such as demand to have Common within the Bounds of Forests, the Intent and Will of our Lord the King is, That from henceforth (where Purliew is) they may claim to be quit of Charge of the Forests. They which will return their Woods into the Forest, shall have Common as they had before.(5) And whereas the King's Beasts cannot have their Haunt and Repair unto the Forest-ground,[3] as they had so long as they were within the Forests, that such Folk shall not have Common, nor other Easement within the Bounds of the Woods, nor of the Lands, the
  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 303.
  2. ↑ Read Beasts.
  3. ↑ Read Ground disaforested.

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