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The Writ of ad quod damnum.

BUt before the granting of any such licence, either to alien Lands holden in chief, or to alien lands in Mortmaine, or release right in Mortmain, or exchange, the ancient use was to have a writ ad quod damnum, contei∣ning the substance of the Kings licence out of the Chancery, directed to the Escheator in the County wherein the Lands lye, to be a∣liened, to enquire and certifie into the Chan∣cery, what damage or prejudice the aliena∣tion thereof will be to the King, or the o∣ther chief Lord, of whom they are holden. And of what tenure and value the Lands be. And whether there remains sufficient free∣lands, besides those to the Alienor, to sustain publick charges, and to be in Assizes and Ju∣ries, &c.

And this is as well where the Alienation is made by the King, or by a Corporation, or a Feme covert, as by any other.

The like inquiry by Writ of ad quod dam∣num, hath been used, before the King made any grant or pardon for alienation, lease, re∣lease,

confirmation or licence, and after the Inquisition returned and certified into the Chancery, to effect the same accordingly, F. N. B. f. 221. & inde us{que} f. 227.

But now experience is to the contrary, in lieu whereof, the use of late hath been to put in the Kings Patents, in these words: absque aliquo brevi de Ad quod damnum, seu aliquibus aliis b••evibus, seu mandatis, super inde haben∣dis, fiendis aut prosequendis.

And one Writ of ad quod damnum will serve for divets Purchasers, and a licence to alien in Mortmain of one King, will serve in the time of another. But not so of Lands holden in chief, 22 E. 3. F. N. B. in brevi, de ad quod damnum.