“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that justly and without delay, you cause to abide, the reasonable Division which R. made to the Brethren of the Hospital of Jerusalem of his Chattels, as it can be reasonably shewn that he made it, and that it ought to be abided by. Witness &c.”
CHAP. XVIII.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you, that you compel R. that justly and without delay, he returns to N. his Chattels, which he claims that he took, unjustly and without a judgment, in his Freehold, in such a Vill, since the Disseisin which he did him, since my Assise, of which he recovered his Seisin before my Justices by a Recognition of Novel Disseisin, as it can be reasonably shewn that he ought to have them, least &c.”[437]
CHAP. XIX.
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you, that you cause a delay until a certain fit time, when you can be present, of the Recognition which is summoned between R. and M. concerning the divisions[438] of such Vills, which by my Justices of those parts is injoined to you and H. to take before you; for the taking of which, as it is said, you have deputed others in your place, because it is not the Custom that when any matter appertaining to my Judges[439] is injoined to others to be executed, that they should transfer over to others again any thing which appertains to my Judge. Witness &c.”
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.”