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38 said liege people for the cause aforesaid as it was well lawfull, according as by our said Sovereign Lord the King and his Council afore this time hath been ordained in this behalf: And notwithstanding many of the said rebels being yet alive, and other next of blood to those rebels so dead with their friends, now daily make quarrels and great pursuit against the said faithful liege people dwelling or resiant in those parts and in the Shires being next to surmising in them that they such things as is aforesaid to themselves or to their cousins or friends falsely have done by the which they demand of the said faithful liege people high amends, threatening that they otherwise would be thereupon avenged, whereby the said faithful liege people be many times sore and grievously vexed in many parts and Lordships of  some of them by indictments accusements or impeachments, and some by menaces distresses taken, and some by their body taken and imprisoned until that they have made gree to them in this behalf; or that they would them excuse of the death of such rebels so slain by one assache, after the custom of, that is to say, by the oath of 300 men, and of all such other trespasses before specified acquit themselves; to the great damage and destruction of the said faithful liege people and evil example in time to come: It is ordained and stablished that such quarrel action or demand be not made from henceforth by art nor by engine to any of the faithful liege people by any of them which have been rebels nor by their adherents, be he cousin, ally or friend, nor by any other, upon pain to pay to the party grieved his treble damages, and to be imprisoned by two years after that he be convict, and moreover to make fine and ransom in this behalf before that he be delivered out of prison.

A.D. 1414]

Forasmuch as since the rebellion of the Welshmen now late reformed many of the rebels of, with other their adherents with force and arms in the manner of war, sometimes by day and sometimes by night, have come into the Counties of Salop Hereford and Gloucester and in other places bordering upon the same countries and in divers woods and other places there hid and