or petit-serjeanty ; nor the wardship of such fee-farm
unless it owe military service.

43. The tenants of baronies escheated to the Crown
shall only pay the same relief and
Escheated baronies. 3 .
perform the same services as if the
lands were still held of a mesne lord.

46. Barons who have founded abbeys shall have
Abbeys of private the custody of them when vacant.
foundation.

Ul.— Administration of Law and Justice.
17. Common Pleas shall not follow the King’s court,
Common Pleas. but be held in some certain place,

18, 19. The recognitions of Novel disseisin, Mort
} d’ancester, and Darrein Presentment
Assizes. shall only be held in the court of the
county where the lands in question lie. The King, or in
his absence the chief justice, shall send two justices into
each county four times a year, who, with four knights to
be chosen by the county court, shall hold such assizes. If
all the matters cannot be determined on the day appointed
for each county, a sufficient number of knights and freeholders
 present at the assizes shall stay to decide them.
20. A freeman shall only be amerced, for a small
‘ offence after the manner of the offence,
aa for a great crime according to the
heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement ; and,
after the same manner, a merchant saving his merchandise,
and a villein saving his wainage ; the amercements in aj}
cases to be assessed by the oath of honest men of the
neighbourhood,