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Rh the writ called Precipe be not, from henceforth, granted to any perſon of any freehold, whereby a freeman may loſe his court.

any be diſſeized or delayed 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 determined by the judgment of the five and twenty barons. And ſuch as have been diſſeized 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 prefixed, without appeal.

nothing be given for a writ of inquiſition of life or member, but that it be freely granted without price, and be not denied.

any hold of the King by feefarm, by ſoccage, or burgage, and of any other by knights-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, ,