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A.D.1303

Stat. De Protectionibus, made at Westminster 18 die Novembris, Anno 33 Stat. . and Anno Dom. 1304. A Clause to repeal a Protecion of the; King's Service. DWARD by the Grace of God, &c. to all his true and faithful Subjects, Greeting. Forasmuch as many do purchase the Protection of our Lord the King, affirming *falsely [sic] that they were out of the Realm in the King's Service;" '(2) it is provided, That if their Adversary will challenge the Protection, and immediately, when it is shewed in the Court, will aver that they were within the four Seas; and out of the King's Service in a Place certain, so that they might have well come, their Challenge shall be entered, and the Matter shall remain without Day, according to the Nature of the Protection; (3) And when it shall be resummoned, and he cometh into the Court, he shall demand Judgement and Hearing of the Process, and offer to aver his Challenge, if his Adversary will attend; (4) and if the: Country do pass against him that cast the Protection; it shall return to a Default, if he be Tenant; (5) and if he be Demandant, he shall leese his Writ, and shall be amerced unto the King. Given at Westminster the Eighteenth Day of November, the thirty thirdfourth [sic] Year of King Edward, Son of King ,'

A Definition of Conspirators. made Anno 33 I. Stat. 2. and Anno Dom. 1304. Who be Conspirators, and who be Champertors

onspirators be they that do confeder or bind themselves by Oath, Covenant, or other Alliance, that every of them shall aid and bear