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42 our Juftices, as any other Ferfons; and that the aforefaid Points be maintained, obferved, and kept. (18) Likewife the King forbiddeth upon grievous Forfeitures, that no Prelate, Abbot, Man of Religion, or Bail iff of any of them, or of other, receive any Man contrary to the Form aforefaid. (19) And that none shall fend to the Houfe or Manor of a Man of Religion, or of any other Perfon, his Men, Horfe, or Dogs, to sojourn, nor none shall them receive; and he that doth (feeing the King hath commanded the contrary) shall be grievously punished. (20) Yet it is further provided, That the Sheriff from henceforth shall not lodge with any Person, with any more than five or six Horses; and that they shall not grieve Religious Men, nor other, by often coming and lodging, neither at their Houses nor their Manors.

T is provided also, That when a Clerk is taken for guilty of Felony, and is demanded by the Ordinary, he shall be delivered to him according to the Privilege of Holy Church, on fuch Peril as belongeth to it, after the Custom aforetimes used. (2) And the King admonisheth the Prelates, and enjoineth them upon the Faith that they owe to him, and for the common Profit and Peace of the Realm, that they which be indicted of such Offences by solemn Inquest of lawful Men in the King's Court, in no manner shall be delivered without due Purgation,so that the King shall not need to provide any other Remedy therein.

T is provided also, That nothing be demanded nor taken from henceforth, nor levied by the Sheriff, nor by any other, for the Escape of a Thief or a Felon, until it be judged for an Escape by the Justices in Eyre. (2) And he that other wife doth, shall restore to him or them that have payed it, as much as he or they have taken or received, and as much also unto the King.

Oncerning Wrecks of the Sea, it is agreed, that where a Man, a Dog, or a Cat escape quick out of the Ship, that such Ship nor Barge, nor any Thing within them, shall be adjudged Wreck: (2) but the Goods shall be saved and kept by View of the Sheriff, Coroner, or the King's Bailiff, and delivered into the Hands of such as are of the Town where the Goods were found; (3) so that if any sue for those Goods, and after prove that they were his, or prescribedthat they were his or his Lord's or perished [sic] in his Keeping, within a Year and a Day, they shall be restored to him without Delay; and if not, they shall remain to the King, and be seised by the Sheriff's, Coroners, and Bailiffs, and shall be delivered to them of the Town, which shall answer