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land_n	grant_v	king_n	tenant_n	1,714	5	9.7767	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58387	Reflections upon the opinions of some modern divines conerning the nature of government in general, and that of England in particular with an appendix relating to this matter, containing I. the seventy fifth canon of the Council of Toledo II. the original articles in Latin, out of which the Magna charta of King John was framed III. the true Magna charta of King John in French ... / all three Englished.	Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.; Catholic Church. Council of Toledo (4th : 633). Canones. Number 75. English & Latin.	1689 (1689)	Wing R733; ESTC R8280	117,111	184

paying Relief or making fine The Guardian of an Heirs Land shall take the reasonable Issues Customs and Services without destruction or waste of his Men or Goods And if such Guardian make destruction and waste he shall lose the Wardship and the Guardian shall keep in repair the Houses Parks Ponds Pools Mills and other Appurtenances to the Estate out of the Profits of the Land. And shall take care that the Heirs be married without disparagement and by the Advice of their near Kindred That a Widow shall give nothing for her Dower or Marriage after the death of her Husband but shall be suffered to dwell in her Husband's House Ninety days after his death within which time her Dower shall be assigned her and she shall immediately have her Marriage and her Inheritance The King nor his Bayliff shall not seize any Land for debt if the Debtors Goods be sufficient nor shall the Debtors Sureties be distrain'd upon when the Debtor himself is able to pay the Debt But if the Debtor fail of payment the Sureties if they will may have the Debtors Lands till the Debt be fully satisfied unless the Principal Debtor can shew that he is quit against his Sureties The King shall not allow any Baron to take Aide of his free Tenants but for the Redemption of his Person for the making his Eldest Son a Knight and towards the Marriage of his Eldest Daughter once and hereunto he shall have but a Reasonable Aid That none shall do more Service for a Knights Fee than is due for the same That Common Pleas shall not follow the King's Court but shall be holden in some certain Place And that Recognitions be taken in their proper Counties and after this manner viz. That the King shall send two Justices four times a year who together with four Knights of the same Shire chosen by the Shire shall take Assizes of Novel disseisin Mordancester and Darrein presentment nor shall any be summoned hereunto but the Jurors and the two Parties That a Freeman shall be amerced for a small fault after the manner of the fault and for a great fault according to the Greatness of the fault saving his Contenement A Villain also shall be amerced saving his Wainage and in like manner a Merchant saving his Merchandise by the Oath of good Men of the Vicinage That a Clerk shall be amerced according to his Lay-see in manner aforesaid and not according to his Ecclesiastical Benefice That no Town be amerced for not making Bridges nor Banks but where they have been of old time and of Right ought to be That the measure of Wine of Corn and the breadth of Cloth and the like be rectified and so of Weights That Assizes of Novel Disseizin and Mordancester be abbreviated and so of other Assizes That no Sheriff shall entermeddle with Pleas of the Crown without the Coroners and that Counties and Hundreds shall be at the ancient Farms without any Encrease except the King 's own Demesn Mannors If any Tenant of the King die the Sheriff or other the Kings Bayliff may seize and enroll his Goods and Chattels by the view of lawful Men but yet so as that nothing thereof be taken away till it be fully known whether he owe any clear debt to the King and then the Kings Debt shall be paid and the Residue shall remain to the Executors to perform the Testament of the Dead And if nothing be owing to the King all the Goods shall go to the use of the dead If any Free-man dye Intestate his Goods shall be distributed by his nearest Kindred and Friends and by the view of the Church Widows shall not be distrain'd to marry if they are minded to live unmarried provided they find Sureties that they will not marry without the King's Assent if they hold of the King or without the Consent of their Lords of whom they hold No Constable or other Bayliff shall take any Man's Corn or other Chattels but he shall forthwith pay for the same unless he may have respit by consent of the Seller That no Constable shall distrain any Knight to give Money for the keeping of his Castle if he himself will do it in his own proper Person or by another sufficient man if he may not do it himself for a reasonable Cause And if the King lead him in his Army he shall be discharged of Castleward for the time No Sheriff or Bayliff of the King nor any other person shall take the Horses or Carts of any Free-man to make carriage without his leave The King nor his Bayliffs shall not take any Man's Wood for Castles or other Occasions but by License of him whose the Wood is That the King do not hold the Lands of them that be convicted of Felony longer then a year and a day after which they shall be delivered to the Lord of the Fee. That all Wears from henceforth be utterly put down in Thames and Medway and throughout all England That the Writ called Precipe be not from henceforth granted to any person of any Freehold whereby a Freeman may lose his Court. If any be disseiz'd or delay'd by the King without Judgment of Lands Liberties or other his Right he shall forthwith have restitution and if any Dispute arise upon it it shall be determin'd by the Judgment of the Five and twenty Barons And such as have been disseiz'd by the King's Father or his Brother shall have Right immediately by the Judgment of their Peers in the King's Court. And if the King must have the Term of others that had taken upon them the Cross for the Holy Land the Archbishop and Bishops shall give Judgment therein at a certain day to be prefixt without Appeal That nothing be given for a Writ of Inquisition of Life or Member but that it be freely granted without price and be not denyed If any hold of the King by Fee-farm by Socage or Burgage and of any other by Knight's Service the King shall not have the Custody of the Heir nor of his Lands that are holden of the Fee of another by reason of such Burgage Socage or Fee-farm Nor ought the King to have the Custody of such Burgage Socage or Fee-farm and no Freeman shall lose his Degree of Knighthood by reason of petty Serjeanties as when a Man holds Lands rendring therefore a Knife an Arrow or the like No Bayliff shall put any man to his Law upon his own bare saying without faithful Witnesses That the Body of a Free-man be not taken nor imprisoned nor that he be disseiz'd nor Out-law'd nor Exil'd nor any way destroyed Nor that the King pass upon him or imprison him by force but only by the Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land. That Right be not sold nor delay'd nor denyed That Merchants have liberty to go and come safely to buy and sell without any manner of Evil Tolls by the Old and Lawful Customs That no Escuage or Aid be

to none out of any Tenement whereby a Free-man may lose his Court. One Measure of Wine shall be used throughout our Kingdom and one Measure of Ale and one Measure of Corn to wit the London Quart. And there shall be one breadth of dyed Cloth Russets and Haubergets to wit two Ells within the Lists And concerning Weights it shall be in like manner as of Measures Nothing shall be given or taken henceforth for a Writ of Enquisition of Life or Member but it shall be granted freely and shall not be denyed If any hold of us by Fee-farm or by Socage and hold likewise Land of others by Knight-Service we will not have the Custody of the Heir nor of the Land which is of the Fee of another by reason of such Fee-farm Socage or Burgage unless such Fee-farm owe Knight-Service We will not have the Wardship of the Heir nor of the Land of any Person which he holds of another by Knight-Service by reason of any Petit Serjeanty by which he holds of us as by the Service of giving us Arrows Knives or such like No Bayliff for the time to come shall put any Man to his Law upon his bare word without good Witnesses produced No free man shall be taken nor imprisoned nor disseised nor outlawed nor exil'd nor destroy'd in any manner nor we will not pass upon him nor condemn him but by the Lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to none we will deny nor delay to none Right and Justice All Merchants may with safety and security go out of England and come into England and stay and pass through England by Land and Water to buy and sell without any Evil Tolls paying the Ancient and Rightful Duties except in time of War and then they that are of the Country with whom we are at War and are found here at the begining of the War shall be attach't but without injury to their Bodies or Goods till it be known to us or to our Chief-Justice how our Merchants are entreated which are found in our Enemies Country and if ours be safe there they shall be safe in our Land. It shall be Lawful for all men in time to come to go out of our Kingdom and to return safely and securely by Land and by Water saving their Faith due to us except it be in time of War for some short time for the profit of the Realm But out of this Article are excepted Persons in Prison Persons out-law'd according to the Law of the Land and Persons of the Country with whom we are at War concerning Merchants what is abovesaid shall hold as to them If any hold of any Escheat as of the Honour of Wallingford Nottingham Boloin Lancaster or of other Escheats which are in our hand and are Baronies and dye his Heirs shall owe us no other relief nor do us any other Service then was due to the Baron of such Barony when it was in his hand and we will hold the same in like manner as the Baron held it Men that dwell out of the Forest shall not appear before our Justices of the Forest by common Summons unless they be in suit themselves or Bail for others who are attach't for the Forest We will not make Sheriffs Justices nor Bayliffs but of such as know the Law of the Land and will keep it All that have founded Abbies whereof they have Charters from Kings of England or ancient Tenure shall have the custody thereof whilst they are vacant as they ought to have All the Forests that have been Afforested in our time shall instantly be Disafforested in like manner be it of Rivers that in our time and by us have been put in defence All evil Customs of Forests and Warens and of Foresters and Warenners of Sheriffs and their Ministers of Rivers and of Guarding them shall forthwith be enquired of in every County by twelve Knights sworn of the same County who must be chosen by good Men of the same County And within forty days after they have made such Inquisition the said evil Customs shall be utterly abolished by those same Knights so as never to be revived provided they be first made known to us or to our Chief Justice if we be out of the Realm We will forthwith restore all the Hostages and all the Deeds which have been delivered to us by the English for surety of the Peace or of faithful Service We will wholly put out of Bayliffwicks the Kindred of Gerard de Aties so that from henceforth they shall not have a Bayliffwick in England and Engeland de Cygoigni Peron Guyon Andrew de Chanceas Gyon de Cygoigni Geffry de Martigni and his Brothers Philip Mark and his Brothers Geffray his Nephew and all their Train And presently after the Peace shall be reform'd we will put out of the Realm all Knights Foreigners Slingers Serjeants and Soldiers who came with Horse or Arms to the nusance of the Realm If any be disseiz'd or esloyn'd by us without Lawful Judgement of his Peers of Lands Chattels Franchises or of any Right we will forthwith restore the same and if any difference arise upon it it shall be determined by the Judgement of the Five and twenty Barons of whom mention is made hereafter in the security for the Peace As to all things whereof any have been disseiz'd or esloyn'd without Lawful Judgement of their Peers by King Henry our Father or by King Richard our Brother which we have in our hands or which any other has to whom we are bound to warrant the same we will have respit to the common Term of them that are crost for the Holy Land except such things for which Suits were commenced or Enquest taken by our Order before we took upon us the Cross And if we return from the Pilgrimage or perhaps forbear going we will do full Right therein The same Respit we will have and the same Right we will do in manner aforesaid as to the Disafforesting of Forests or letting them remain Forests which the Kings Henry our Father or Richard our Brother have Afforested and and as to Custodies of Lands which are of the Fee of other Persons which we have held till now by reason of other Men's Fees who held of us by Knight-Service and of Abbies that are founded in other Men's Fees in which the Lords of the Fees claim a Right And when we shall be returned from our Pilgrimage or if we forbear going we will immediately do full Right to all that shall complain None shall be taken nor imprisoned upon the Appeal of a Woman for the death of any other than her Husband All the Fines and all the Amercements that are imposed for our use wrongfully and contrary to the Law of the Land shall be Pardoned or else they shall be determined by the Judgment of the Five and twenty Barons of whom hereafter or by the Judgement of the greater number of them that