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A Translation of Glanville

by Ranulf de Glanville

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Chap. XVI

“The King to the Sheriff, Health. Summon, by good Summoners, eight464 free and lawful Men of the Neighbourhood of such a Vill, where the Tenement in question is, that they be before me or my Justices, on such a day, prepared on their oaths to return, whether N., who claims one Hyde of Land in that Vill by my Writ against R., be of such age, that he can and ought to sue; and, in the mean time, let them view that Land, and cause their Names to be imbreviated; and Summon, by good Summoners, him who holds the Land, that he be then there to hear that Recognition. And have, &c.”

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