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A.D. 1315.
Anno nono Edwardi II.
Stat. 1.
169

CAP. IX.
Distresses shall not be taken in the Highways, nor in the ancient Fees of the Church.

[1]ALSO the King's Officers, as Sheriffs and other, do enter into the Fees of the Church to take Distresses, and sometime they take the Parson's Beasts in the King's Highway, where they have nothing but the Land belonging to the Church. (2) The Answer. The King's Pleasure is, That from henceforth such Distresses shall neither be taken in the King's Highway, nor in the Fees wherewith Churches in Times past have been indowed; nevertheless he willeth Distresses to be taken in Possessions of the Church newly purchased by Ecclesiastical Persons.[2]

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 627.
  2. ↑ 52 H. 3. c. 15.; Regist. 98, 183.

CAP. X.
They that abjure the Realm shall be in Peace, so long as they be in the Church or Highway.

[1]ALSO where fome flying unto the Church, abjure the Realm, according to the Custom of the Realm, and Lay-men or their Enemies do pursue them, and pluck them from the King's Highway, and they are hanged or headed; and whilst they be in the Church, are kept in the Church-yard with armed Men, and sometime in the Church, so straitly, that they cannot depart from the hallowed Ground to empty their Belly, and cannot be suffered to have Necessaries brought unto them for their Living. (2) The Answer. They that abjure the Realm, so long as they be in the Common Way, shall be in the King's Peace, nor ought to be disturbed of any Man; and when they be in the Church, their Keepers ought not to abide in the Church-yard, except Necessity or Peril of Escape do require so. [2](3) And so long as they be in the Church, they shall not be compelled to flee away, but they shall have Necessaries for their Living, and may go forth to empty their Belly. (4) And the King's Pleasure is, that Thieves or Appellors (whensoever they will) may confess their Offences unto Priests; [3]but let the Confessors beware that they do not erroneously inform such Appellors.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 628.
  2. ↑ Repealed by 1. Jac. 1. c. 25.
  3. ↑ 21 Jac. 1. c. 28. takes away all Sanctuaries whatever.

CAP. XI.
Religious Houses shall not be charged by Compulsion with Corodies, Pensions, Resort, or taking of their Horses or Carts.

[1]ALSO it is desired that our Lord the King, and the Great Men of the Realm do not charge Religious Houses, or Spiritual Persons, for Corodies, Pensions, or sojourning in Religious Houses, and other Places of the Church, or with taking up Horse or Carts, whereby such Houses are impoverished, and God's Service diminished, and, by reason of such Charges, Priests, and other Ministers of the Church deputed unto Divine Service, are oftentimes compelled to depart from the Places aforesaid. (2) The Answer. The King's Pleasure is, That upon the Contents in their Petition, from henceforth they shall not be unduly charged. [2](3) And if the contrary be done by great Men or other, they shall have Remedy after the Form of the Statutes made in the Time of King Edward, Father to the King that

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 629.
  2. ↑ 3 Ed. 1. c. 1.
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