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[001] or holds for life in whatever way, shall give a relief. Nor shall he who marries a
[002] woman who was for a time in the wardship of her lord.1 Nor he who has been in
[003] wardship, no matter for how long, as long as the lord by virtue of the wardship has
[004] received to the value of a halfpenny. Nor shall he who has once given a relief give
[005] another as long as he lives. Nevertheless, some persons may be in wardship and yet
[006] shall give a relief, but this is only in the special case of the king, because of his privilege,
[007] as where by feoffment of the lord king one ought to hold of him in chief, of him
[008] and his heirs, in fee, absolutely and without condition, or subject to a condition provided
[009] the king is bound to warranty and escambium,2 [for] the king will have the
[010] wardship of all the lands which the heir holds of others by military service, no
[011] matter of whose fee they are, until the heir's majority, and when he comes of age,
[012] his inheritance having been restored to him, he shall give a relief to his lords, not
[013] before, because before that time the tenement, since3 it is in the hands of the lord
[014] king, cannot be distrained.4 [Some who succeed when their lords] 5are within age,
[015] shall give it only when they come to full age, not before,6 7though it is evident that
[016] their tenements held of the ancestors of the heir may be distrained, and though an
[017] heir within age may take homage, and do it, and relief ought at once to follow upon
[018] homage taken.8 9Suppose the heir is found on the hearth,10 or that some ancestor in
[019] his lifetime restores his inheritance to the heir and renounces his own interest; it
[020] seems that the inheritance will never lie vacant and therefore that it cannot and
[021] ought not to be raised, nor any relief given. But in truth, whenever one enters as heir
[022] and by descent11 the inheritance is raised in his person and a relief must be given
[023] immediately after homage taken, which would not be done had he not entered as
[024] heir. 12Quaere whether the free tenants of an heir are bound to contribute to the
[025] paying of his relief. No, it is submitted,13 whether they are nearer or more remote
[026] tenants, since each is bound to relief to his feoffor on the death of his own ancestor.
[027] Quaere if one is a minor and in the wardship of his lord and his tenant dies, leaving
[028] an heir within age, in whose wardship ought that heir to be. And in truth he is in the
[029] wardship of the same chief lord in whose wardship the heir, his warrantor, is [with
[030] all the lands, tenements and rents that are of the fee of that same chief lord, but not
[031] those that are of another's fee,] because then the marriage of the heir and the
[032] wardship of the land of his fee14 will belong



Notes

1. Glanvill, ix, 4; supra 246, nn. 3-5

2. Infra 254, iv, 197, 217

3. ‘eo quod’

4. Infra 254

5-6. ‘fuerint infra ... non ante,’ from lines 7-8

7-8. Reading: ‘licet videatur quod tenementa eorum quae tenuerunt ... heredis distringi ... et quamvis heres ...’; infra 248

9. New paragraph

10. Supra 208

11. ‘descensum’

12. New paragraph

13. Cf. Glanvill, ix, 8

14. From 248, line 1


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