“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that, without delay, you diligently seek, through your County, A. who has falsely Essoined B. against C. in my Court, and that you safely keep him, until you have my other precept. Witness, &c.” The Defendant himself shall also, in the mean time, be summoned to appear before the King, or his Justices, to show why he has not warranted his Essoiner, and to answer to the principal suit. Besides, the Pledges of the Essoiners shall be summoned, by the following Writ.
CHAP. XV.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. Summon by good Summoners T. that he be before me, or my Justices, at Westminster, in fifteen days from the Pentecost, to show why he has not had I. before me at Westminster, on such a day, to warrant the Essoin that I. made for him in my Court against M. as he pledged himself to have him. And have there the Summoners, and this Writ. Witness, &c.”
CHAP. XVI.
But, if the Tenant appear within the fifteen days, and be willing to replevy the Tenement, let him be commanded to attend, on a day appointed, that he may then have justice done him; and, if he appear on that day, and find pledges, he shall recover his seisin, and may retain it. If he deny all the Summonses, and all the Essoins, and disprove them individually with the oaths of twelve, or if he acknowledge the first Summons, and warrant the three Essoins, and save the fourth day by the King’s Writ of warranty, which he should forthwith produce, he may also retain his Seisin. But, if the Tenant appear not within the fifteen days, the seisin shall, on the following day, be adjudged to his adversary, so that the Tenant shall never again be heard concerning it, unless by the King’s Writ concerning the Right.[63] But the Demandant shall be put into the possession of the Tenement, by the following Writ, directed to the Sheriff.
CHAP. XVII.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that, without delay, you deliver possession to M. of so much land in such a Vill, of which there was a suit in my Court, between him and R.; because the Seisin of such Land is adjudged to the said M. in my Court, for the default of R. Witness, &c.”