CHAP. XXIV.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. Summon, by good Summoners, twelve free and lawful Men of the Neighbourhood of such a Vill, that they be before me, or my Justices, such a day, prepared upon their oaths to return, whether one Hyde of Land, which N., the Parson of the Church of that Vill, claims, as held in Frankalmoigne by his Church, against R. in that Vill, be the Lay Fee[470] of the said R., or an Ecclesiastical Fee; and, in the mean time, let them view the Land, and cause their names to be imbreviated. And summon, by good Summoners, the aforesaid R., who holds that Land, that he be then there to hear the Recognition, and have there, &c. Witness, &c.”