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Stat. Merton - Commons Act 1235

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Vincent
Year1235
PROVISIONES DE MERTON. Statutes made atMerton in Crastino Sancti Vincentii (scil. 23. Jan.) Anno 20 Hen. III and Ann. Dom. 1235 In what Cases Lords may approve against their Tenants.

(20 Hen. 3) C A P. IV.

'ALSO because many great men ofEngland (which have infeoffed Knights and their Freeholders of small Tenements in their great Manors) have complained that they cannot make their Profit of the residue of their Manors, as of Wastes, Woods, and Pastures, whereas the same Feoffees have sufficient Pasture, as much as belongeth to their Tenements; (2) it is provided and granted, That whenever such Feoffees do bring an Assise of Novel disseisin for their Common of Pasture, and it is knowledged before the Justicers that they have as much Pasture as sufficeth to their Tenements, and that they have free Egress and Regress from their Tenement unto the Pasture, then let them be contented therewith; and they on whom it was complained shall go quit of as much as they have made their Profit of their Lands, Wastes, Woods, and Pastures; (3) and if they alledge that they have not sufficient Pasture, or sufficient Ingress and Egress according to their Hold, then let the Truth be inquired by Assise; (4) and if it be found by the Assise, that the same Deforceors have disturbed them of their Ingress and Egress, or that they had not sufficient Pasture (as before is said) then shall they recover their Seisin by view of the Inquest: so that by their Discretion and Oath the Plaintiffs...

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