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Stat. 3.
Anno vicesimo octavo Edwardi I.
A.D. 1300.

Maintenance of this Statute, the three Knights that be assigned in the Shires for to redress Things done against the said Great Charters, shall be charged, and shall have their Warrant therefore.[1]

  1. ↑ 13 Ed. 1. stat. 2. c. 1.

CAP. XVIII.
Escheators shall commit no Waste in Wards Lands.

[1]FOR Redress of Wastes, and Destructions done by Escheators or Subescheators in the Lands of Wards, as of Houses, Woods, Parks, Warrens, and of all other Things that fall into the King's Hands; (2) the King will, That he which hath sustained Damage, shall have a Writ of Waste out of the Chancery against the Escheator for his Act, or the Subescheator for his Act (if he have whereof to answer) (3) and if he have not, his Majesty shall answer by like Pain concerning the Damages, as is ordained by the Statute for them that do Waste in Wardships.[2]

Enforced by 14 Ed. 3. stat. 1. c. 13.  36 Ed. 3. stat. 1. c. 13. See 12 Car. 2. c. 24. which takes away Wardship by Reason of Tenure.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 571.; 9 Hen. 3. stat. 2. c. 4, 5.
  2. ↑ 3 Ed. 1. c. 21.; 6 Ed. 1. stat. 1. c. 5.; Regist. 72.; Rast. 693.

CAP. XIX.
In what Case the Owner shall have his Lands delivered out of the King's Hands with the Issues.

[1]FROM henceforth, where the Escheator or the Sheriff shall seise other Mens Lands into the King's Hands (where there is no Cause of Seiser) and after, when it is found no Cause, the Profits taken in the mean Time have been still retained, and not restored, when the King hath removed his Hand; (2) the King will, That if hereafter any Lands be so seised, and after it be removed out of his Hands by Reason that he hath no Cause to seise nor to hold it, the Issues shall be fully restored to him to whom the Land ought to remain, and which hath sustained the Damage.[2]

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 572.
  2. ↑ Regist. 314.; Rast. 604.

CAP. XX.
Vessels of Gold shall be essayed, touched, and marked. The King's Prerogative shall be saved.

Vessels of Gold and Silver shall be essayed and touched.IT [1] is ordained, That no Goldsmith of England, nor none, otherwhere within the King's Dominion, shall from henceforth make, or cause to be made, any Manner of Vessel, Jewel, or any other Thing of Gold or Silver, except it be of good and true Allay, that is to fay, Gold of a certain Touch, and Silver of the Sterling Allay, or of better, at the Pleasure of him to whom the Work belongeth; and that none work worse Silver than Money. (2) And that no Manner of Vessel of Silver depart out of the Hands of the Workers, until it be essayed by the Wardens of the Craft; and further, that it be marked with the Leopard's Head; Vessels marked with the Leopard's Head.(3) and that they work no worse Gold than of the Touch of Paris. (4) And that the Wardens of the Craft shall go from Shop to Shop among the Goldsmiths, to essay if their Gold be of the same Touch that is spoken of before; (5) and if they find any other than of the Touch aforesaid, the Gold shall be forfeit to the King. (6) And that none shall make Rings, Crosses, nor Locks,[2] (7) and that none shall set any Stone in Gold,

Altered by 8 & 9 W. 3. c. 8. s. 9. and 6 G. 1. c. 11. s. 41.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 574.
  2. ↑ None shall make annealed Crosses, nor vermillioned Crosses.
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