Chap. XIII
“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that, without delay, you take into my hands the half of the lands in such a will, which M. claims, as her Dower, against R. concerning which there is a suit between them in my Court, and that you make known the day of the caption to my justices. And summon, by good Summoners, the aforesaid R., that he be before me62 or my Justices at Westminster a crastino octabus clausi Paschæ in quindecim dies, to hear his judgment, and have there the Summoners and this Writ. Witness Ranulph de Glanville at Westminster, &c.” In addition, let the Sheriff of the County be commanded to take the Essoiners, as Defaulters, and to detain them, and for this purpose the following writ shall Issue: