Dec. 22. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norffolk and Suffolk for the time being. Writ
de intendendo, and order at his peril under pain of the king's wrath
to suffer Queen Anne to have and hold all castles, lordships, manors,
lands etc. in his bailiwick to her assigned by the king in dower and for
life, to enjoy the liberties and privileges hereinafter mentioned, and
to levy and take all fines, ransoms, forfeited issues, the year and a
day and waste, forfeitures and other profits therein, delivering from
time to time estreats to her bailiffs and ministers, and to cause notice
to be given and proclamation made of this command when required
on her behalf; as by divers letters patent the king has assigned to
her divers castles etc. in divers counties with knights' fees, advowsons
of religious houses, hospitals, churches and chapels, wards, marriages
and escheats of all tenants thereof, though elsewhere they be tenants
in chief as of the crown or otherwise, forests, chaces, parks, woods,
warrens, fairs, markets, waters, ways, fisheries, commons, assarts, wastes
and purprestures, arrentations and rents of assarts, wastes and
purprestures made in forests, parks, chaces etc. in the times of former
kings and of the king or hereafter to be made, and fines for entry thereof,
courts, views of frankpledge, hundreds, wapentakes, 'wrek' and
'wayf,' royalties and free customs to the same pertaining, granting
that she shall have for life all fines etc. of men and tenants in the said
lands etc. and in the fees thereof, and all that the king might have
of the year and a day, waste, forfeitures and murders in any courts
of the king made and adjudged, as well before the king and in chancery
as before the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer, justices in eyre for
common pleas and pleas of the forest, justices of the Bench, the steward
and marshals of the household, the clerk of the market, and other his
justices and ministers whatsoever, as fully as if the premises were kept
in the king's hand, so that she may levy and take the same by her
bailiffs and ministers by estreats of such justices in their eyres, of
the steward, marshals and clerk in their sessions, and by estreats
of the exchequer to the said ministers delivered by the sheriffs in
whose bailiwicks such lands etc. are, without let of the king, his bailiffs
or ministers; and that in the said lands etc. and in the fees thereof
she shall have the chattels of felons and fugitives, so that if any of
her men and tenants or others therein ought to lose (admittere) life
or limb for his misdeed, or become a fugitive and will not abide judgment, wherever justice ought to be done in the king's court or any
other, such chattels shall be hers, and it shall be lawful to put her in
seisin thereof without let of the king, his sheriffs or other bailiffs or
ministers; also that in the said lands etc. she shall have the return
of all writs of the king, the summons of all estreats and orders of the
exchequer, and orders and estreats of justices in eyre and other justices
whatsoever, and the execution of writs of summons of estreats and
orders, to be by her bailiffs etc. made, so that no sheriff or minister
of the king shall enter the premises to execute the same save upon default
of her or her bailiffs, and by writs of the king she shall have justices
in eyre whom she shall nominate for pleas of the forest when need
be in all her forests, and all fines etc. and other profits of such eyres
arising for trespasses of vert and venison, misdeeds and other causes,
taking the same by her bailiffs and ministers by delivery to them of
estreats of such justices, and fines etc. and profits of such as be not
of or in her lands etc. she shall take at the exchequer by the hands of
the sheriffs and bailiffs of liberties, as the king should do if the same
pertained to him; and if sheriffs and bailiffs of liberties, hundreds,
wapentakes and trithings shall be remiss in executions for her, whereby
they shall be amerced or fined in the exchequer or other courts, such
fines and amercements shall be hers. |