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Riding Armed, Liveries, Justices of Assize, etc. Act 1399

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1396 c. 1
Year1396
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 20 Rich . II. and Anno Dom.1396. No Man shall ride or go armed. Launcegarys shall be put out.

(20 Ric. 2) C A P. I.

‘FIRST, Whereas in a Statute made the seventh Year of the Reign of the King that now is, it is ordained and assented, That no Man shall ride, armed within the Realm, against the Form of the Statute ofNorthampton thereupon made, nor with Launcegays within the same Realm; and that the said Launcegays shall be utterly put out within the said Realm, as a Thing prohibited by the King, upon pain of Forfeiture of the same Launcegays, Armours, or any other Harness, in the Hands and Possesion of them that bear them from henceforth within the same Realm against the same Statutes and Ordinances, without the King's special Licence:’ Our Lord the King, considering the great Clamour made to him in this present Parliament, because that the said Statute is not holden, hath ordained and established in the said Parliament, That the said Statutes shall be fully holden and kept, and duly executed, and that the said Launcegays shall be clear put out upon the Pain contained in the said Statute ofNorthampton, and also to make Fine and Ransom to the King. And moreover, That no Lord, Knight, nor other, little nor great...

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