[682]. 3 Edward I. c. 32.
[683]. 12 Charles II. c. 24, ss. 11-12.
[684]. 13 Charles II. c. 8.
[685]. The Statute of Westminster I. (3 Edward I. c. 7) enacted “that no constable or castellan from henceforth take any prise or like thing of any other than of such as be of their town or castle, and that it be paid or else agreement made within forty days, if it be not ancient prise due to the king, or the castle, or the lord of the castle,” and further provided (c. 32) that purveyors taking goods for the king’s use, or for a garrison, and appropriating the price received therefor from the exchequer, should be liable in double payment and to imprisonment during the king’s pleasure.
[686]. For details, see under cc. 30 and 31.
[687]. Hallam, Middle Ages, III. 221.
[688]. See Rotuli de oblatis et finibus, 119.
[689]. See 3 Charles I. c. 1.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE.
Nullus constabularius distringat aliquem militem ad dandum denarios pro custodia castri, si facere voluerit custodiam illam in propria persona sua, vel per alium probum hominem, si ipse eam facere non possit propter racionabilem causam; et si nos duxerimus vel miserimus eum in exercitum, erit quietus de custodia, secundum quantitatem temporis quo per nos fuerit in exercitu.