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from such as need, nor that the Founders of such Monasteries should overcharge, or grieve them by their often coming. (5) It is provided also, That none high nor low, by Colour of Kindred, Affinity, or Alliance, or by any other Occasion, shall course in any Park, nor fish in any Pond, nor come to eat or lodge in the House or Manor of a Prelate, or any other Religious Person, against the Will or Leave of the Lord, or his Bailiff, neither at the Cost of the Lord, nor at his own.

No Purveyance shall be made of a Prelate without the Owner's Consent

^[1][2](6) And if he come in, or enter with the Good-will, or against the Will of the Lord or his Bailiff, he shall cause no Door, Lock, nor Window, nor nothing that is shut, to be opened or broken, by himself, nor any other, nor no Manner of Victual, nor other Thing, shall take by colour of Buying, nor otherwise; (7) and that none shall thresh Corn, nor take Corn, nor any manner of Victual, nor other Goods of a Prelate, Man of Religion, nor any other Clerk, or Lay-Person, by colour of Buying, or otherwise, against the Will and Licence of him to whom the Thing belongeth, or of the Keeper, be it within Market-Town, or without. (8) And that none shall take Horses, Oxen, Ploughs, Carts, Ships, nor Barges, to make Carriage without the Assent of him to whom such Things belong; and if he do it by the Assent of the Party, then incontinent he shall pay according to the Covenant made between them. (9) And they that offend against these Acts, and thereof be attainted, shall be committed to the King's Prison, and after shall make Fine, and be punished according to the Quantity and Manner of the Trespass, and after as the King in his Court shall think convenient. (10) And it is to be known, that if they to whom such Trespass was done, will sue for Damages, they all be thereto received, and^[3] the same shall be awarded and restored to the double; (11) and they that have done the Trespass, shall be likewise punished in the Manner abovesaid; and if none will sue, the King shall have the Suit, as for a Thing committed against his Commandment, and against his Peace: (12) And the King shall make Enquiry from Year to Year, what Persons do such Trespasses, after as he shall think necessary and convenient;

The Punishment of offenders.

(13) and they that be indicted by such Inquests shall be attached and distrained by the great Distress, to come at a certain Day, containing the Space of a Month, into the King's Court, or where it shall please the King; (14) and if they come not at that Day, they shall be distrained again of new by the same Distress, for to come at another Day, containing the Space of six Weeks at the least; (15) and if they come not then, they shall be judged as attainted, and shall yield double Damages (at the King's Suit) to such as have taken Hurt or Damage, and shall make grievous Fine after the Manner of the Trespass. (16) And the King forbiddeth and commandeth, that none from henceforth do Hurt, Damage, or Grievance to any Religious Man, or Person of the Holy Church, or any other, because they have denied Meat or Lodging unto them, or because that any complaineth in the King's Court that he hath been grieved in any of the Things above mentioned; and if any do, and thereof be attainted, he shall incur the Pain aforesaid. (17) And it is further provided, That the Points aforesaid shall as well bind our Counsellors, Justicers of Forests, and otherout

1. Enforced by 14 Ed. 3 Stat. 2 & 3. c. 1. 18 Ed. 3. Stat 3 & 4 c.4 and 1 R. 2. c. 3. which gives the Prelates an Action and Treble Damages
2. Regist. 98.
3. The words in italics not in the original