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148 whereof the Escheators have discharged their Hands in Form aforesaid, should belong unto the King, that immediately he in whose Possession such Lands happen to be, shall be summoned by a Writ out of the Chancery, to be before the King at a certain Day wheresoever, &c. to shew if he can say any Thing, wherefore the King ought not to have the Custody of such Lands, according to the Form of the Evidences or Remembrances found for the King; (4) and if he come in, and shew why the Custody of such Lands do not belong, or ought not to belong unto the King, but that it ought to remain to himself, he shall go quit, and retain the Custody;

(5) but if the Party warned doth not come, or if that he come, and can shew nothing to put the King from the Custody, the Lands and Tenements shall be forthwith reseised into the King's Hands, to be kept in Name of Wardship until the lawful Age of such Heirs, as before is said. (6) And as it, is said before, if it be found by Inquests taken by the Escheators, and returned, that the Custody of the same Lands and Tenements contained in the Inquest, and seised into the King's Hands, ought not to remain unto the King, then the Escheator mall be commanded forthwith to discharge his Hands thereof, and to restore the Issues wholly. (7) In like Manner, if it be found afterward by Evidences and Remembrances in the Chancery, Exchequer, or otherwise, as before is said, that our Lord. the King ought to have the Wardship thereof, the King shall be answered for the whole Issues and Profits, by the Hands of such as held the same Lands and Tenements, from the Time they were first taken into- the King's Hands by his Efcheators by the Writs abovefaid. (8) And this Order shall be held from henceforth in the Chancery, notwithstanding a certain Ordinance lately made by our Lord the King, concerning Lands and Tenements taken into his Hands by his Officers, and not to be delivered but by the King himself, and as it is; contained in a certain Dividenda, or Indenture, made between the King himself and his Chancellor, whereof one part remainth in the Custody of the Chancellor

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