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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 133

"Probatio AEtatis" of William De Septvans
from the Surrenden Collection 

the said heir, as of full age, by pretext of the foresaid proof (thus insufficiently made) were delivered out of the King's hands, should be reseized into the King's hands, to whosesoever hands they might have come; together with the issues received therefrom, from the time of the foresaid proof, and should remain in the King's hands until the legal age of the foresaid heir; and that all deeds, writings, and obligations, as well as of statute merchant and of the staple, as all other whatsoever, and also the recognizances by him made before the present time to any persons whatsoever, should be revoked, quashed, and altogether annulled. And that processes should be issued, by writs of ' scire facias,' against all those to whom any lands or tenements of the inheritance of the said William, son of William (after proof of the foresaid age, and livery of the lands and tenements of his inheritance, from our hands had), have been alienated; and also against all those to whom the said William, son of William, has granted any annual rents; also, against all those to whom the said William, son of William, is bound in any debts, by statute merchant or of the staple, or by recognizances, or charters, -writings, or any other deeds; to cause them to come into the King's Chancery, to show if they have or know anything that they can say, for themselves, why the foresaid lands, tenements, and rents, thus alienated, ought not to be reseized into the King's hands, and the charters, writings, statutes, recognizances, obligations, and other deeds which were executed by the said William, son of William, quashed and annulled, as of no effect and in error; and to do and receive what shall be just in this matter."
   "Now we, on the supplication of the said William de Septvans, have thought fit that the tenour of the record and process aforesaid, be exemplified by these presents.
   "In testimony whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made patent.
   "Witness ourself at Westminster, the first day of March, in the forty-first year of our reign.1
   [On the fold.] " Examined by John de Ffolkingham and Robert de Muskham."
   [Sealed with the great seal.]
   "
It is enrolled among the memoranda of the Exchequer, to wit, among the Records of Easter Term, in the forty-sixth year of the within-written King, on the part of the King's Remembrancer, to wit, in a certain process touching the within-written William Septvans."
   1 March, 1366-7.

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