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A.D. 1448-9] and Ransom to the King; and the said Persons conversant and Hearers, that is to say, a Knight 100 shillings, an Esquire Forty Shillings, and all other Inhabitants Twenty Shillings: And that the Justices of Peace in the said County for the Time being, shall have Power to inquire, hear, and determine upon the Defaults and Negligences of the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, Ministers, Mayor and Bailiffs conversant and Hearers of the said Hues and Cries. And moreover the King will that the Statute of Westminster primer, touching like Matter, shall be put in Execution.

A.D. 1446-7]

Our Sovereign Lord the King, at his Parliament holden at Saint Edmundsbury, in the Feast of Saint Scolast; that is to say the tenth day of February, the twenty-fifth year of his reign, by the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons of his Realm in the said Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same Parliament, hath approved, ratified and affirmed all manner of Statutes made in any Parliament against Welshmen before this time, not repealed: And morever hath ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all grants of franchises, markets, fairs and other liberties to buy or to sell (to bake, or to brew, and to sell,) within the towns of North, made to any Welshman before this time shall be voided and of no value. And that all the villains of our Sovereign Lord the King within North shall be bound and constrained to do such labour and services as they of right have used to do of old time, notwithstanding any grant made to them or any usage used by them of a later time to the contrary; and that such officers shall have power to compel them to do such labours and services as they have used to compel them before this time lawfully.

A.D. 1448-9]

Whereas at the grievous Complaint of the Commons of the Counties of Hereford, Gloucester, and Shropshire which be adjoining to the Marches of, and of the Commons of the Counties of Somerset,