Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant.

CHAP. VIII. (Book 8)

Henry Fitz-L'Empres, and his Clarendon Constituti∣ons restored to themselves, and purged from the faults wherewith they have been published.

ADoption and right of Bloud gave, after Stephen's Death, the Crown to Henry Plantagenet Fitz l'Empres; His first care tending wholly to the good of the State, was to have the nume∣rous increase of Castles and Forts (which in his Predecessors time through multitude of Province-Tyrants,* 1.1 whom they nourished, were swollen to the number of M.C.XV.) abated; so was it by ex∣press command performed, and the Laws of his Grand-father Beau∣clerc likewise confirmed. A recognition also was made at Clarendon, Praesidente Joanne de Oxoniâ,* 1.2 de mandato ipsius Regis, praesentibus etiam Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Abbatibus, Prioribus, Comitibus, Baronibus & Pro∣ceribus regni, of divers Customes and Rites of Government for deci∣sion of no small controversies between the King, guarded with stout Maintainers of his Crown, and the Prelates, who in their ambitious aims laboured for exemption of their Persons, habits and possessions, from secular Jurisdiction.

I. De advocatione & praesentatione Ecclesiarum; si controversia emerse∣rit inter Laicos, vel inter Laicos & Clericos, vel inter Clericos, in Curiâ D. R. tractetur & terminetur.

II. Ecclesiae de feudo D. Regis non possunt imperpetuum dari absque as∣sensu & concessione ipsius.

III. Clerici rectati & accusati de quâcunque re, summoniti à Justitiâ Regis, venient in Curiam ipsius responsuri ibidem de hoc, unde videbitur Curiae Regis quod ibi sit respondendum, & in Curiâ Eccles. unde videbi∣tur quod ibi sit respondendum, ita quod Justitia Regis mittet in Curiam S. E. ad videndum quâ ratione ibi res tractabitur.

IV. Si Clericus convictus vel confessus fuerit, non debet eum de cae∣tero Ecclesia tueri.

V. Archiepiscopis, Episcopis & personis regni non licet exire regnum absque licentiâ D. Regis:* 1.3 & si exierit (here is the true root of the old restraint from passing the Seas without Licence) si Regi placuerit, as∣securabunt eum quòd nec in eundo nec in redeundo, vel moram faciendo, perquirent malum sive damnum D. Regi.

VI. Excommunicati non debent dare vadium ad remanentiam, nec prae∣stare Juramentum, sed tantum vadium & plegium standi judicio Ecclesiae, ut absolvantur.

VII. Laici non debent accusari nisi per certos & legales accusatores & testes in praesentiâ Archiepiscopi, vel Episcopi; ita quod Archidiaconus non perdat jus suum nec quicquam quod inde habere debeat.

VIII. Si tales fuerint qui culpantur quod non velit vel non audeat ali∣quis eos accusare, Vicecomes requisitus ab eo faciat jurare XII. legales ho∣mines

de vicineto, seu de villâ coram Episcopo, quod inde veritatem secun∣dum conscientiam suam manifestabunt.

IX. Nullus qui de Rege tenet in Capite nec aliquis dominicorum mini∣strorum, sub interdicto (that is a censure Ecclesiastical, whereby the Administration of Sacraments is prohibited in some particular place, or among some certain Persons) ponatur; nisi prius Dominus Rex, si in terrâ fuerit, conveniatur, vel Justitia ejus, si fuerit extra regnum: & rectum de ipso faciat, & ita ut quod pertinebit ad regiam Curiam, ibidem terminetur, & de eo quod spectabit ad Ecclesiasticam Curiam, ad eandem mittatur, ut ibidem tractetur.

X. De appellationibus, sicubi emerserint,* 1.4 ab Archidiacono debent ad E∣piscopum, & ab Episcopo ad Archiepiscopum, & si Archiepiscopus defuerit in justitiâ exhibendâ, ad D. Regem perveniendum est postremo, ut prae∣cepto ipsius in Curiâ Archiepiscopi terminetur controversia: Ita quod non debet ulterius procedere absque assensu D. Regis.

XI. Si Calumnia emerserit inter Clericum & Laicum, vel inter Laicum & Clericum, de ullo tenemento quod Clericus velit ad eleemosynam trahe∣re, laicus verò ad laicum feudum, recognitione XII. legalium hominum per Ca∣pitalis Justitiae Regis considerationem terminabitur, utrum tenementum sit pertinens ad Eleemosynam sive ad feudum laicum, coram ipsa Justitia Re∣gis; Et si recognitum fuerit ad Eleemosynam pertinere, placitum erit in Curiâ Ecclesiasticâ; si vero ad laicum feudum, nisi ambo tenementum de eodem Episcopo vel Barone advocaverint, erit placitum in Curiâ regiâ; sed si uterque advocaverit de feudo illo eundem Episcopum vel Baronem, erit placitum in Curiâ ipsius, ità quod propter factam recognitionem seisi∣nam non amittat qui prius seisitus fuerat, donec per placitum disrationa∣tum sit.

XII. Qui de Civitate vel castello vel Burgo vel Dominico Manerio D. Regis fuerit, si ab Archidiacono vel Episcopo super aliquo delicto ci∣tatus fuerit, unde debeat eis respondere, & ad citationes eorum satisfa∣cere noluerit, bene liceat eum sub interdicto ponere; sed non debet excom∣municari, priusquam Capitalis Justitia D. Regis villae illius conveniatur, ut justiciet eum ad satisfactionem venire; Et si Justitia R. inde defecerit, ipse erit in misericordiâ D. R. & exinde poterit Episcopus eum accusa∣tum Ecclesiasticâ justitiâ coercere.

XIII. Archiepiscopi, Episcopi, & universae personae regni qui de rege tenent in Capite, & habent possessiones suas de D. Rege, sicut Baroniam, & inde respondent Justiciis & Ministris Regis, & faciunt omnes recti∣tudines & consuetudines regias, sicut Barones caeteri, debent interesse judi∣ciis Curiae D. Regis cum Baronibus suis, usque perveniatur ad diminutio∣nem membrorum vel ad mortem.

XIV. Cum vacaverit Archiepiscopatus vel Episcopatus vel Abbatia, vel Pri∣oratus de Dominio Regis, debet esse in manu ipsius, & inde percipiet omnes red∣ditus & exitus, sicut dominicos; Et cum ventum fuerit ad consulendum Ecclesiae, debet D. Rex mandare potiores personas Ecclesiae; & in capellâ ipsius Regis debet fieri electio, assensu D. Regis, & consilio personarum regni quas ad hoc faciendum vocaverit, & ibidem faciet electus homagi∣um & fidelitatem D. Regi, sicut ligio Domino, de vitâ suâ, & membris, & de honore suo terreno, salvo ordine suo, priusquam sit consecratus.

XV. Si quisquam de proceribus deforciaverit Archiepiscopo, Episcopo vel Archidiacono, de se vel de suis Justitiam exhibere, Rex debet justitiare.

XVI. Si forte aliquis deforciaverit D. Regi rectitudinem suam, Archi∣episcopus, Episcopus, & Archidiaconus debent eum justitiare, ut Regi satisfaciat.

XVII. Catalla eorum qui sunt in Regis forisfacto, non detineat Ec∣clesia, vel coemeterium contra justitiam Regis, quia ipsius Regis sunt, sive in Ecclesiis, sive extra fuerint inventa.

XVIII. Placita de debitis quae fide interposita debentur, vel absque in∣terpositione fidei, sint in Curia Regis.

XIX. Filii Rusticorum non debent ordinari absque assensu Domini, de cujus terrâ nati dignoscuntur.

Different in particulars of no slight moment are the reported Claren∣don Constitutions in the greater History of Matthew Paris, first pub∣lished (as I think) by that Reverend Father Matthew Parker, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, whose Archetype, as it was transcribed by a Coun∣trey Vicar, and delivered to the Printer's hands (I have part of that Transcript to witness it, in mine own hands) is but equal in every Iota to the published Copy: But as they are here written I have seen them added,* 1.5 without discrepancy of a syllable, at the end of the Life and Death of St. Thomas of Canterbury, drawn in ancient hand, and out of a quaternity of former Authors, Herbert of Doseham, William a Monk of Canterbury, John of Salisbury and Alan Abbot of Teukesbury, into a just Volume collected: Huic libello nostro (saith the Author, that you may know what work they make here) inserere studuimus funestum illud & famosum Decreti Chirographum, consuetudines (viz.) illas regias apud Clarendonam promulgatas, quas ideò hic interseruimus, ut legant secula post futura, & hinc cognoscant quàm justa, quàm perspicua fuerit gloriosi Neomartyris Thomae, primò Exilii & pòst Martyrii causa. What con∣tention (after confirmation by Oath of the whole Baronage) grew hereupon 'twixt the King and that Canonized Arch-Bishop, is in every Chronologer of those times enough declared. But it cannot be un∣gratefully received, if both for respect to an old English endeavouring Wit, and also for matter, form and phrase of relation, out of Robert of Glocester, be made this superaddition.

* 1.6No man ne might thenche the love that there was Bitwene the K. H. and the gode man S. Thomas; The diuel had enui therto, and set bitwen them feu, Alas, alas thulke stond, vor all to well it greu. Uor there had ere ibe kings of Luther dede As W. Bastard, and his son W. the rede. That Luther Laws made inou, and held in al the lond The K. uold not beleue the lawes that he fond, Ne that his elderne bulde, ne the godeman S. Thomas Thought that thing age right neuer law uas. Ne sothnes and custom mid strength up ihold, And he wist that vre dere Lourd in the Gospel told That he himselfe was sothnes, and custum nought, Theruore Luther custumes he uould graent nought. Ne the K. uould bileue that is elderne ad ihold, So that conteke sprung bituene them manifold. The K. drou to right law mani Luther custume, S. Thomas thom withsed, and granted some.

The Lawes that icholle now tell he granted vawe. Zuf a yuman hath a sone to clergi idraw He ne sall without is lourdes icrouned nought be, Uor yuman ne mai nought be made agen is lourds will free.

In the eighteenth of Clarendon Customs is the substance of this parti∣cular; where Rusticorum interpreted Yumen in this Poet, is menti∣oned: To both, as a Synonymy,* 1.7 is homines used as well in the Law-Annals of later times, and in Writs of Ven. fac. xii tam milites quam alios liberos & legales homines de vicineto, &c. as in older Constitutions before expressed. Gemen is the common allowed Saxon root, whence our now usual name of Yeoman had his beginning: but my conceit with a painted imposture deceives me, if the ancient Latin be not Father of both, but in a Dialect different. Nor let it be a fault ad Appios & Co∣runcas redire, some taste in Yeomen is of Homines, but more of Hemones;* 1.8 which in Ennius and Festus, is not otherwise significant, than Themen in English, altered only in Character in gemen the Saxon word. But to my Law-rhythms again;

Another thing he granted eke as ye mow nouise; Yuf a man of holi Chirch hath eni lay fee; Parson, other what he be, he ssal do therevore Kings service that there ualth, that is right ne be vorlore, In plaiding and in assise be and in judgement also. Bote war man ssal be bilemed, other to deth ido. He granted eke yuf eni man the Kings traitor were, And eni man is chateux to holi chirch bere That holi chirch ne solde nought the chateux there let That the K. there other is as is owne is ne wette. Uor all that the felon hath the Kings it is And eche man mai in holi church is owne take iwis. He granted eke that a chirche of the Kings fe In none stede ene and ever ne ssold igiue be As to hous of religion, without the Kings leve, And that he other the patron the gift first gave. S. Thomas granted well these and other mo, And these other he withsede that did him well woe.

I. Yuf bituene twei leud men were eni striving, Other bituene a leud and a clerc, for holi chirch thing, As vor vouson of chirch whether shold the chirch give, The K. wold that in his court the ple ssold be driue; Uor as much as a leud man that the o parti was Chanliche was under the K. & under no bishop nas.

What he styles Lewedmen, is by our common phrase Lay-men, Leudes in the old Teutonique and Saxon (as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Greek from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.9 i. e. a Stone, referred, as Pindar hath it, to that mythick instauration of hard mankind by Deucalion and Pyrrha) is equivalent to the Multitude or common people, in the present English.

* 1.10For yef a Priest be foule, on whome we trust, No wonder is a leude man to rust.

But then the ignorant are by it noted, rather than who are not Clerks; For the same Jeoffrey in another place saith,

This every leud Uicar and Parson can say.

Robert of Glocester speaks again:

II. Another was no bishop, ne clerc nathe mo, Ne ssolde without Kings leue out of this lond go. And than hii ssolde suere upe the boke ywis. That hii ne sold purchas no uvel the K. ne none of is.

III. The thrid was yuf eni man in mausing were ibrought, And suth come to amendment, ne age were nought, That he ne suore up the boc, ac borowes find solde To stand to that holy Chirch there of him toky wold.

IV. The verth was that no man that of the K. huld ought In cheife or in eni servise in mausing were ibrought, Bote the wardeins of holy chirch that brought him thereto, The K. sede or is bailifes wat be ad misdo, And loked verst were thei to amendment it bring, And vote hii wolde by their leue do the mausing.

V. The vist was, that Bishoprikes and Abbeis also That vacans were of prelas in the K. hand were ido, And that the K. sold all the land as is owne take, Uort at last that him lust eni prelat there make. And than thulke prelat sould in is chapel ichose be. Of is clarks which he wuld to such prelate bise. And than wan he were ichose in is chapel right there, Homage he solde him do ar he confirmed were.

VI. The sixt was yuf eni play to chapitle were idraw, And eni man made is appele, yuf me dude him unlaw, That to the Bishop from Ercedeken is appele sold make, And from Bishop to Arcebissop and suth none other take, And but the Ercebissops court to right him wold bring, That he sold from him be cluthe bivore the King. And from the K. non other mo so that attan end Plaining of holi chirch to the K. shold wend. And the K. amend solde the Ercebissops dede, And be as in the Popes stede, and S. Thomas it withsede.

VII. The seuenthe was that plaiding that of det were To yeld wel thoru truth iplight, and nought ihold nere Althei thoru truth it were, that ple sold be ibrought Bivore the K. and is bailies and to holy chirch nought.

VIII. The eighth was that in the lond citation none nere Thoru bull of the Pope of Rome, and clene bileued were.

IX. The nithe was that Peters pence that me gadereth manion The Pope nere nought on isend, ac the K. echone.

X. The tethe was yuf eni Clarke as felon were itake, And vor felon iproved and ne might it not forsake, That me sold him verst disordein and suth thoru there law, And thoru judgement of the land hong him other to draw. Uor these and vor other mo the Godeman S. Thomas Fleu verst out of Englond and eke imartred was, Uor he sei there uas bote o way, other he must stiffe be, Other holy chirch was isent, that of right was so fre.

Absolution of the Prelates Oath, which among others confirmed what he soon made retractation of, was obtained from Alexander the Third, Bishop of Rome; who gave an insolent repulse to the Kings Ambassa∣dors, sent for his ratification of that which the Baronage had thus con∣cluded. The King herewith exceedingly provoked, made present di∣spatch of Letters to every Sheriff in the Kingdom, thus pronouncing;

XIX. Praecipio tibi, quod si aliquis Clericus, vel Laicus in ballivâ tuâ,* 1.11 Romanam Curiam appellaverit, eum capias & firmiter teneas, donec volun∣tatem meam praecipiam; & omnes redditus Clericorum Archiepis••opi, & pos∣sessiones seisias in manum meam, & omnium Clericorum qui cum Archiepiscopo sunt, patres, matres, fratres, sorores, Nepotes, & Neptes pones per salvos plegios, & catalla eorum, donec voluntatem meam inde praecipiam. Et hoc breve tecum afferas cùm summonitus fueris.

XX. Si quis inventus fuerit ferens literas D. Papae (this is spoken of before in my Poet) vel mandatum, aut Thomae Archiepiscopi, continens interdictum Christianitatis in Angliâ, capiatur & retineatur, donec inde vo∣luntatem meam praecipiam. But in the Annals of Roger of Hoveden,* 1.12 Dedo sicut de Regis traditore & regni, sine dilatione justitia fiat.

XXI. Promulgation also, by way of prohibition, was made of most of the former diminutions of Papal or Episcopal authority: The Cler∣gy-men, that were beyond Sea, under forfeiture of their Livings, were charged, by Summons in their places of due residence, to return.

XXII. Londoniensis & Norwicensis Episcopi summoneantur,* 1.13 & sint coram Justitiariis Regis ad rectum faciendum, quod contra Statuta regni interdi∣xerunt terram Comitis Hugonis, & in ipsum sententiam anathematis in∣tulerunt.

XXIII. Denarii S. Petri colligantur & custodiantur.

XXIV. In the 22th of his Reign at Nottingham, celebravit (saith Hoveden) magnum Concilium de Statutis regni sui, & coram Rege filio suo, & coram Archiepiscopis, Episcopis,* 1.14 Comitibus & Baronibus regni sui communi omnium consilio divisit regnum suum in VI. partes, per quarum singulas tres Justitiarios Itinerantes constituit;* 1.15 Here was the infancy of that form of Circuits by Justices in Eyre, whose names and described limits my Author in a Sexpartite division hath remembred. Et postea (you hear him again) fecit D. Rex omnes praedictos Justiciarios jurare super Sacrosancta Evangelia, quod ipsi bonâ fide & sine malo ingenio, has

subscriptas assisas custodirent, & inviolabiliter ab hominibus regni facerent custodiri; The subscribed Articles with this Title thus he hath Re∣corded:

Assisae Henrici Regis factae apud Clarendon & renovatae apud Northamtune.

XXV. SI quis rectatus fuerit coram Justiciis D. Regis de murdro, vel la∣trocinio,* 2.1 vel roberia, vel receptatione hominum tale facientium, vel de falsoneria, vel iniquâ combustione, per Sacramentum XII. militum de Hundredo, & si milites non adfuerint (I here understand by Milites no other than such as were fendatorii, or held of some Superior by Knight's service, thereby distinguished from milites solidarii or Servi∣entes, i. e. hired Soldiers, and both from the name of dignity used in ceremonious Chivalry far separated) per Sacramentum XII. libero∣rum & legalium hominum, & per Sacramentum IV. hominum de una∣quâque villa Hundredi, eat ad Judicium Aquae (i. e. to the watry Or∣deal, described with the fiery in Lambard's exposition of words before his Saxon Laws, and in the Antiquities of the Church of Britany, published, as I suppose, by Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury) & si perierit, alterum pedem amittat; And apud NORTHAMTVNE additum est pro rigore Justitiae, quod dexterum similiter pugnum cum pe∣de amittat, & regnum abjuret & infra XL. dies à regno exulet; Et si ad a∣quam mundus fuerit, inveniat plegios, & remaneat in regno, nisi ••ecta∣tus fuerit de murdro vel aliquâ turpi feloniâ per commune Comitatus & le∣galium militum patriae: de quo, si praedicto modo rectatus fuerit, quamvis ad aquam mundus fuerit, nihilominus infra XL. dies à regno exeat, & catalla sua secum asportet, salvo jure Dominorum suorum, & regnum ab∣juret in misericordia D. Regis.

XXVI. Nulli liceat, neque in burgo, neque in villa, hospitari aliquem extraneum ultra unam noctem in domo sua, quem ad rectum habere nolu∣erit, nisi hospitatus ille essonium rationabile habuerit, quod hospes domus monstret vicinis suis, & cum recesserit, coram vicinis recedat & per Diem.

XXVII. Si quis seisitus fuerit de murdro, vel de latrocinio, vel ro∣beria, vel falsoneria, & inde sit cognoscens, vel de aliqua alia felonia, quam fecerit, coram praeposito Hundredi, vel Burgi, & coram legalibus hominibus, id posteà coram Justitiis negare non poterit. Et si idem sine seisina coram eis aliquid hujusmodi recognoverit, hoc simul coram Justitiis negare non poterit.

XXVIII. Si quis obierit Francus tenens, haeredes ipsius remaneant in tali seisina, qualem pater suus habuit die qua fuit vivus & mortuus, de Feodo suo, & catalla sua habeant unde faciant divisam defuncti, & do∣minum suum posteà requirant, & ei faciant de relevio & aliis, quae eis facere debent de feodo suo.

XXIX. Si haeres fuerit infra aetatem, Dominus feodi recipiat Homagi∣um suum, & habeat in custodiâ illum quamdiu debuerit; alii Domini, si plures fuerint, homagium ejus recipiant, & ipse faciat eis quod facere debuerit.

XXX. Vxor defuncti habeat dotem suam,* 2.2 & partem de catallis ejus quae eam contingit, which by the Law in those days was a third part, if the dead had left issue, but a moity, if he were 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

XXXI. Si Dominus feodi negat haeredibus defuncti seisinam ejusdem Jeodi quam exigunt, sustitiarii D. Regis faciant inde fieri recognitionem per XII. legales homines, quatem seisinam defunctus inde habuit die qua ficit vivus & mortuus; This is the very Mortdancester; Et sicut re∣cognitum fuerit, ita haeredibus ejus restituant; & si quis contrà hoc fe∣cerit & inde attaintus fuerit, remaneat in misericordiâ Regis.

XXXII. Justitiae Domini Regis faciant fieri recognitionem de disseisi∣nis factis super assisam, à tempore quo D. Rex venit in Angliam proxi∣mo post pacem factam inter ipsum & Regem filium suum.

XXXIII. Justitiae capiant fidelitates D. Regis infra Claus. Pasch. & ad ultimum infrà Claus. Pentecost. ab omnibus videlicet Comitibus; Baroni∣bus, Militibus & liberè tenentibus, & etiam rusticis qui in regno manere voluerint; & qui facere ••oluerit fidelitatem, tanquam inimicus D. Regis capiatur.

XXXIV. Habent etiam Justitiae praecipere quod omnes illi qui nondum fecerunt homagium & ligeantiam D. Regi, quod ad diem, quem eis nomina∣bunt, veniant & faciant Regi Homagium, & ligeantiam, sicut ligeo Do∣mino.

XXXV. Justitiae faciant omnes Justitias & rectitudines spectantes ad D. Regem, & ad coronam suam, per breve Domini Regis, vel illorum qui in loco ejus erunt, de feodo dimi••û milit.* 2.3 & infrà (If the account of a Knights fee be by the annual value, then confidently according to the quadruple proportion of the known Relief, you may affirm it, by xx l. Lands; and so likewise by comparison with Soccage payment upon the Stat. of West. 1. for aid, A fair Fitz chivalier, or a File marryer; but by a calculation prefixed to the red Book of the Exchequer, DCLXXX. Acres make exactly the Summe) nisi tam grandis sit querela, quod non possit deduci sine D. Rege, vel talis quam Justitiae ei reponent pro dubitatione suâ, vel ad illos qui in loco ejus erunt; intendant tamen pro posse suo ad commodum D. Regis faci∣endum.

XXXVI. Faciant assisam de latronibus iniquis, & malefactoribus ter∣rae quae assisa est, per concilium Regis, filii sui, & hominum suorum; per quos ituri sunt Comitatus.

XXXVII. Justitiae provideant quod castella diruta prorsus diruantur, & diruenda benè prosternantur; Et nisi hoc fecerint, D. Rex Judicium Curiae suae de eis habere voluerit, sicut de contemptoribus praecepti sui.

XXXVIII. Justitiae inquirant de Escaetis, de Ecclesiis, de terris, de foeminis quae sunt de donatione D. Regis.

XXXIX. Ballivi D. Regis respondeant ad Scaccarium, tam de assiso redditu, quam de omnibus perquisitionibus suis, quas faciunt in balliviis suis, exceptis illis quae pertinent ad vicecomitatum.

XL. Justitiae inquirant de custodiis castellorum, & qui, & quantum, & ubi eas debeant, & postea mandent D. Regi.

XLI. Latro, ex quo capitur, Vicecomiti tradatur ad custodiendum, &, si Vicecomes absens fuerit, ducatur ad proximum Castellanum, & ipse il∣lum custodiat donec illum liberet Vicecomiti.

XLII. Justitiae faciant quaerere per consuetudinem terrae, illos qui à regno recesserunt, & nisi redire voluerint infra terminum nominatum, &

stare ad rectum in Curiâ Regis, postea ut lagentur, & nomina ut lagorum afferantur ad Pascha, & ad Fest. S. Mich. ad Scaccarium, & exinde mittantur D. Regi.

While thus the King made provident Order for Lay-business, Hu∣go à Petra Leonis, the Pope's Legate in England, laboured for dila••a∣tion of Church; to whom was granted by the King:

XLIII. Quod de caetero Clericus (Matthew Paris his report) non tra∣hatur ante Judicem secularem personaliter,* 2.4 pro aliquo crimine vel trans∣gressione, nisi pro forestâ & laico feudo, unde Regi vel alii D. Seculari laicum debetur servitium.

XLIV. Vt Archiepiscopatus, Episcopatus, vel Abbatiae, non teneantur in manu Regis ultra annum, nisi pro causâ evidente, vel necessitate ur∣gente.

XLV. Vt interfectores Clericorum convicti vel confessi, coram Justici∣ario regni, praesente Episcopo puniantur.

* 2.5XLVI. Quod Clerici duellum facere non cogantur.

XLVII. Statuit apud WOODSTOCK, quod quicunque forisfecerit ei de forestâ suâ, semel de venatione suâ, de ipso salvi plegii capiantur; & si iterum forisfecerit, similitèr capiantur de ipso salvi plegii; si autem ter∣tiò idem forisfecerit, nulli plegii capiantur, sed proprium corpus forisfacto∣ris: which concludes what of his Laws common Histories afford.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Guil. de novo burgo lib. 1. rer. Anglic. cap. 22.
• * 1.2

  Matth. Paris fol. 134.
• * 1.3

  V. in Johan. art. 16.
• * 1.4

  Vide verò Rogerum Hovedenum pag. 303.
• * 1.5

  Ex MS. vita Thom. Can∣tuar.
• * 1.6

  Robert Glo∣cest. hist. Poet.
• * 1.7

  Reg. Indic. fol. 7.
• * 1.8

  Fest. in verb. Hemones. Paul. Merul. ad lib. 1. annal. Ennli.
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  Pind. Olymp. 9.

  Lipsius lib. 5. Poliorceticon
• * 1.10

  Chauc in Pro∣log. and in the Somners talc.
• * 1.11

  Matth. Paris pag. 137.
• * 1.12

  Roger de Ho∣ved. annal. 2. fo. 284.
• * 1.13

  Matth. Paris.
• * 1.14

  Hoveden part. 2. p. 313.
• * 1.15

  Quadriparti∣tam etiam regni ad hunc modum sub eodem prin∣cipe habes divisionem apud eun∣dem, fo. 337.
• * 2.1

  V. Camden in Ord. Angl. pag. 123. qui∣cum conferas Feud. lib. 2. tit. 10. & 21. quin & Mal∣mesb. hist. Nov. lib. 2. fol. 103. l. 25. so∣lidatus, &c. Reg. Brev. Judic. fo. 1. in Hab. fac. vis.
• * 2.2

  Ranulph de Glanv. lib. ••. ca. 5. Bract. lib. 2. de acq. rer. dom. cap. 26. sect. 2.
• * 2.3

  V. Camden in Ordin. Angl. Casum item Nevillae in libr. 7. Relat. D. E. Coke huc refer.
• * 2.4

  Matth. Paris pag. 177.
• * 2.5

  Rog. de Ho∣ved. part. 2. f. 446.