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A Translation of Glanville

by Ranulf de Glanville

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Chap. XIV

“The King to the Sheriff, Health. Summon by good Summoners, twelve free and lawful Men of the Neighbourhood of such a Vill, that they be before me, or my Justices, at such a day, prepared upon their oaths, to return, if R. the Father of N. who is within age, was seised in his Demesne of one ploughland in that Vill, of which M. the Son and Heir of I. prays a Recognition of the death of the said I. his Father, against the said N. as of his Fee on the day he died, or as of Ward. And, in the mean time, let them view that Land; and cause their names to be imbreviated. And summon, by good Summoners, the aforesaid N. who holds such Land, that he be then there to hear the Recognition. And have &c.”

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