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A.D. 1413] A.D. 1407]

Touching felonies and robberies within any Seigniory of South : It is ordained and stablished that the people of the country where such felons be born received or dwell shall take the same felons, and bring them to the gaol of the same country where they shall be taken; or else they shall be charged, and make satisfaction of the felonies and robberies aforesaid after the performance, and that by the ordinance and award of the Lord of the same Seigniory.

A.D, 1407]

It is ordained and established that no thief nor felon in Wales, openly known, be suffered to disclaim out of the Seigniory where the felony was done; and that such manner of disclaiming be utterly put out; and that as well the said thieves openly known, as other thieves, be put to answer as privy to the indictments or accusement in the same Seigniories where the thieves be taken, without being delivered by disclaiming, or by Letters of Mark in any manner.

A.D. 1413]

Whereas in the time of this rebellion of Wales many of the King's lawful liege people as well Englishmen as Welshmen have been in divers parts of Wales upon the correction of rebels there by the commandant of the same our Sovereign Lord the King and his Council, at the which time some of the said rebels, as well on horseback as on foot, found armed in making of war against their faith and ligeance, were slain, and some maimed, beaten, wounded, taken and imprisoned, their goods and chattels carried away by the