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Rh friendfriends [sic] by the view of holy church, ſaving to every one their debts which the dead owed them.

of our conſtables, nor other our bailiffs ſhall take the corn, nor other the goods of any perſon without paying for the ſame preſently, unleſs he have time given him by conſent of the vendor.

conſtables ſhall diſtrain no man who holds by knight-ſervice, to give money for caſtle-guard, if he has performed it himſelf in proper perſon, or by another good man, if he could not perform it himſelf for ſome reaſonable cauſe: and if we lead him, or ſend him into the army, he ſhall be diſcharged of caſtle-guard for ſo long time as he ſhall be with us in the army.

ſheriffs, our bailiffs, or others, ſhall not take the horſes nor carts of any freeman to make carriage, but by leave of ſuch freeman.