The Statutes at Large (Ruffhead)/Volume 1/Dies Communes de Dote (51 Hen3. Stat 3) (1266)
If the Writ do come in octabis Michaelis, Day shall be given until crastino Animarum; (2) If it come in quindena Michaelis, Day shall be given until crastino Martini; (3) If within three Weeks after the Feast of St. Michael, then in octabis Martini; (4) If in mense Michaelis, then in quindena Martini; (5) If in crastino Animarum, then in octabis Hilarii; (6) If in crastino Martini, then in quindena Hilarii; (7) If in octabis Martini, then in crastino Purifications; (8) If in quindena Martini, then in octabis Purificationis; (9) If in octabis Hilarii, then in quindena Pasche; (10) If in quindena Hilarii, then in tribus Septimanis Paschæ; (11) If in crastino Purificationis, then in mense Pasche; (12) If in octabis Purificationis, then in crastino Ascensionis; (13) If in quindena Paschæ, then in octabis Trinitatis; (14) If in tribus Septimanis Paschæ, then in quindena Trinitatis ⟨or in Crastino Sancti Johannis Baptiste.⟩[1]; (15) If in mense Paschæ, then in crastino[2] Johannis Baptistæ; (16) If in quinque Septimanas Paschæ, then in octabis Johannis; (17) If in crastino Ascensionis, then in quindena Johannis; (18) If in octabis Trinitatis, then in octabis Michaelis; (19) If in quindena Trinitatis ⟨or in crastino Sancti Johannis Baptiste,⟩ [3] then in quindena Michaelis; (20) If in crastino[4] Johannis Baptistæ, then in tribus Septimanis Michaelis; (21) If in octabis Johannis Baptistæ, then in mense Michaelis[5]; (22) If in quindena Johannis Baptistæ, then in crastino Animarum[6].
Altered by 32 Hen. 8. c. 21. & 16 Car. 1. c. 6
And see 24 Geo. 2. c. 48. for the further Abbreviation of the Michealmas Term; And the 4th Sect. of the same Statute ordaining that in Dower after Issue joined there need not be above 15 Days between the Teste and Return of the Venire, &c.