English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, the Habeas Corpus Act ... II. The proceedings in appeals of murther, the work and power of Parliament, the qualifications necessary for such ... III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others ..., and an abstract of all the laws against papists.

CHAP. VII.

A Widow shall have her Marriage, Inheritance, and Quarentine. The Kings Widow.

A Widow after the Death of her Husband, In∣continent and without any difficulty, shall have her Marriage, and her Inheritance. (2.) And shall give nothing for her Dower, her Marriage, or her Inheritance, which her Husband and She held the day of the Death of her Husband. (3.) And She shall tarry in the chief House of her Husband, by forty days after the Death of her Husband, with∣in which days her Dower shall be Assigned her, (if it were not Assigned her before) or that the House be a Castle. (4.) And if she depart from the Castle, then a competent House shall be forthwith provided for her, in the which She may honestly dwell, until her Dower be to her Assigned, as it is aforesaid; And She shall have in the mean-time her reasonable Estovers of the Common. (5.) And for her Dower shall be Assigned unto her the third part of all the Lands of her Husband, which were his during Co∣verture, except She were endowed of less at the Church door. (6.) No Widow shall be distrain∣ed to Marry her self: Nevertheless She shall find surety, that She shall not Marry without our License and Assent (if She hold of Us) nor without the As∣sent of the Lord, if She hold of another.