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 294 § tat ' *• Anno tricefimo primo Edwardi III, A. D. 1357. 9 H. 3. fiat. c. 35. 4 Mod. 114, US- Ex Rot. in Turr. Lond. le Roi ad grante as dites communes qe pur la dite quinzifme iffint grante nul ore foit demande ne leve al oeps la Roigne einz foient mefmes les communes ent en tout defchargez. Et auilint le Roi ad grante qe tieux efchapes et chateux efteantz en les mains des miniftres le Roi et dautres fingulers perfones qe font en vie foient ajugeez devant gardeins.de la pees en chefcune countee dEngleterre par prefentement auffint come devant Juftlces en Eyre et foient les eftretes par endenture faite entre eux et les coillours de la quinzifme liverez a mefmes les coillours a lever al oeps de la communalte en eide de lour paiement de la dite quinzifme, Iffint qe mefmes' les coillours facent ent diftribution entre les villees folonc la neceffite de chefcune dicellcs et par furveue et ordinances de mefmes les Juftices. CAP. XIV. How Efcapes of Felons, Chatties of Felons and Fugitives, fhall be levied. TEM it is accorded, That the Efcape of Thieves. and Felons, and the Chatties of Felons and of Fugitives, and alfo Efcapes of Clerks convict out of their Ordinaries Prifon, from henceforth to be judged before any of the King's Juftices, fhall be levied from time to. time, as they fhall fall, as well of the Time pail as of the Time to come.' ET outre ceo eft acorde qe les efchapes de larons & felons & les chateux des felons & des futifs & auffinf efchapes des clercs convictz hors de pri- fon de lour ordinairs defore ajugger devant qecun- ques Juftices noftre Seignur le Koi foient leves de temps en temps come ils efcherrent fibien de temps pane come de temps averiir. CAP. XV. At what Time a Sheriff fhall hold his Turn.- Altered by 33 H. 8.C.13. f. : a H. 7. f. 2. 3S H. 6. f. 7. ITEM, Whereas in the Great Charter it is con-' tained, That no Sheriff nor his Bailiff fhall make his Turn by Hundreds, but two Times in the Year, in a Place due and aceuftomed, that is to fay, once after Eq/ler, and another Time after Michaelmas ; (2) and now divers of the Commons have grievoufly complained them, that fome Sheriffs make their ' Turns oftentimes in Lent, when Men ought to in- ' tend Devotion, and other Works of Charity, for ■ Remedy of their Souls ; and fometi me after the Gule ■ the cutting and entring of his Corn, whereby the
 * of Auguft, when every Man almoft is occupied about
 * People perceived them much grieved and difquieted :"

{%) Our Lord the King, defiring the Quietnefs of his People, hath ordained and ftablifhed, That every Sheriff from henceforth fhall make his Turn yearly one Time within the Month after Eajler, and another Time within the Month after Saint Michael; and if they hold them in other Manner, that then they fhall lofe their Turn for the Time.' TEM come en la grant chartre foit contenu qe- nul vifconte ou fon baillif face fon tourne par hundred forfqe deufoitz en Ian en lieu due & accu- ftume ceft aflaver une foitz apres le Pafque & au- trefoitz apres le Seint Michel & ore plufours de la. communalte fe ont grevoufement compleint qaf- cuns vifcontes font fovent lour tourns enQuarrefme qant homme deveroit entendre a devotion & autres oevres de charite pur remed de falme & a la foitz. apres la gule dAugft qant chefcun apoi eft occu- pie entour le fciere & lentrere de fes bledz par quoi le poeple fe font mold grevez &. defeifez noftre Seignur le Roi defirant la quiete de fon poeple ad ordine & eftabli qe chefcun vifconte defore face fon tourn annuelment unefoitz deinz le mois apres Pafqe & lau::efoitz. deinz le mois apres le Seint Michel & fils le tiegnent en autre manere qadonqes ils perdent lour tourn pur le temps. EX vicecorniti Middlefexie falutem. Quedam ordinatlones et ftatuta per nos prelates duces comites barones et communitatem regni ncftri Anglie in parliamento noftro apud Weftm' die Lune proximo poftfeptimanamPafche proximo preterito tento pro communi uc'htate dicti regni facta tibi mittimus fub pede figilli noftri tibi precipientes quod dicta ordinationes et ftatuta in pleno comitatu tuo et aliis locis in balliva tua in locis ubi melius expedire videris publice proclamari et quantum in te eft firmiter teneri et ab aliis obfervari facias. T. R. apud Weftm' primo die Augufti. ■ Per ipfum Regem et confilium, ConfunUia brevia dirignniur Jingulh vicccomitihus per Angliam fub eadem data. The Statute of Herrings^ wade Anno 31 Edw. III. Stat. 2. and Anno Dom. 1357. Orafmuch as the Commons of the Realm of England, at the Parliament holden at JVcfl- minfler the Monday next after the Week of Eajlcr, the Year of the Reign of our Lord the King, Edward the Third of England xxxi, and of France xviii, have complained them to our Lord the King, 3 Ex Rot. in Turr. Lond.. m. 1%. D. OR ce qe la communalte du Roialmc dEn- gleterre en parlement tcnuz a Weftm' le Lundy profchein apres la fymaygne de Pafque Ian du regne noftre dit Seignur le Roi Edward dEngleterre trente primer & de Fraunce difoitifme fad plcinte a noftre Seignur le Roi qe par caufe qe les