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Rh his eldeſt daughter once; and for theſe purpoſes there ſhall but a reaſonable aid be given.

ſhall be diſtrained to do greater ſervice for a knight’s fee, or for any other, frank-tenement than what is due by his tenure.

pleas ſhall. not follow our court, but ſhall be held in a certain place.

of novel diſſeiſin, mordanceſter, and darrein preſentment, ſhall be taken no where but in their proper counties, and in this manner: We, or our chief juſtice (if ourfelves be out of the realm) will ſend two juſtices through every county four times a year; who, with four knights of every county, to be choſen by the county, ſhall take the ſaid aſſizes in the county, at a day when the county-court is held, and in a certain place: and if the ſaid aſſizes cannot be taken upon that day, ſo many knights and free tenants of them that were preſent in the county court that day, ſhall ſtay, as may give a good judgment,