CHAP. XX.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you, that justly and without delay, you cause A. who was the Wife of R. to have her reasonable Dower of the whole Fee that was the said R.’s, exactly and in every thing, save to his Heir the capital Messuage, and that you cause the said Wife to have another messuage, unless any Land in which there is no Messuage may have been named to her in Dower; and it shall not cease, because the Fee of the aforesaid R. is held of my Barony, because, I will not, nor does the Law require, that the Wives of Knights should on account of this lose their Dower. But, of the Chattels that were of the aforesaid R. I command you, that you cause them all to be in peace, so that no part be removed, neither to make division, nor for any other purpose, until his debts are entirely discharged; and of the residue there shall be afterwards a reasonable division made, according to the Custom of my Land. And, if any part of the Chattels of the aforesaid R. shall have been removed since his death, it shall be returned to his other Chattels to pay his Debts. Witness &c.”