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HE King our Sovereign Lord Henry the seventh after the Conquest, by the Grace of God, King of England and of France, and Lord of Ireland, at his Parliament holden at Westminster the seventh Day of November, in the first year of his Reign, to the honour of God and holy Church, and for the common profit of this Realm, by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in the said Parliament assembled and by Authority of the said Parliament, hath done to be made certain Statutes and Ordinances, in manner and form following.

IRST, That where divers of the Kings subjects having cause of Action by Formedon in the descender, or else in the remainder, by force of any tail for Lands and Tenements, bedefrauded and delayed of their said Actions, and oftentimes without remedy, because of Feoffments made of the same Lands and Tenements to persons unknown, to the intent that the demandants would not know against whom they shall take their actions: It is ordeined, established and enacted by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in the said Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same,That the demandant in every such case have his action against the Pernor or Pernors of the profits of the Lands or Tenements demanded, whereof any person or persons been enfeoffed to his or their use, and the same Pernor or Pernors named as Tenant or Tenants in the said action, have the same vouchers, and their lien thereupon, aid prayer, and all other advantages, as the same Pernor or Pernors should have had, if they were Tenants indeed, or as their feoffees should have had, if the same action had been conceived against them. And if it fortune any person to decease so having feoffees to the use of him. or of his heirs, the said heir being within age, against whom such action is brought as Pernor; then the same heir shall have his age in the said action conceived against him, and all other advantages, as if the ancestor had died seised of the said Lands and Tenements so in demand. And also it is ordained by the said Authority, That all recoveries as shall be in any such actions against such Pernor or Pernors, and their heirs, and their said feoffees and their heirs, and the co-feoffees of the said Pernors and their heirs, shall be as good to the recoverers and their heirs, as though the said Pernor or Pernors were Tenants indeed, or feoffees to their use, or their heirs, as is abovesaid, of the freehold of the said Lands and Tenements, at any time of the said action used. Anno