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Rh any man die and owe money to the Jews, his wife ſhall have her dowry; and if he left children, neceſſaries ſhall be provided them according to the quantity of the freehold, and the reſidue ſhall go to pay off the debt, ſaving the ſervices due to the lords. The like ſhall be obſerved in the caſe of other debts; and when the heir comes of age, his guardian ſhall reſtore him his land as well ſtocked as he could reaſonably afford out of the profits of the land, coming in by the plough and the cart.

any man hold of any eſcheat, as of the honour of Wallingford and Nottingham, Bonon and Lancatſter, or of other eſcheats; which are in the King’s hand and are baronies, and die, his heir ſhall pay no other relief, nor perform any other ſervice than he ſhould have paid and performed to the baron; and that the King ſhall hold ſuch eſcheats as the barons held them.

fines made for dowers, marriages, inheritances and amerciaments, wrongfully and contrary to the law of the land, be freely remitted, or ordered by the judgment of the five and twenty barons, or of the major part of them, together with the archbiſhop and ſuch as he ſhall call to