HT, YET NEVERTHELESS HIS LAND SHALL REMAIN IN
THE KEEPING OF HIS LORD UNTO THE AFORESAID TERM.
[IV. NO WASTE SHALL BE MADE BY A GUARDIAN IN WARD'S LANDS]
The guardian of the land of any heir thus under age shall take
therefrom only reasonable issues, customs, and services, without
destruction or waste of men or goods. And if we commit the custody
of any such land to the sheriff or any other person answerable to
us for the issues of the same land, and he commits destruction or
waste, we will take an amends from him and recompense therefore.
And the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of
that fee, who shall be answerable for the issues of the same land
to us or to whomsoever we shall have assigned them. And if we give
or sell the custody of any such land to any man, and he commits
destruction or waste, he shall lose the custody, which shall be
committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall,
in like manner, be answerable to us as has been aforesaid.
[V. GUARDIANS SHALL MAINTAIN THE INHERITANCE OF THEIR WARDS AND OF
BISHOPRICKS, ETC.]
The guardian, so long as he shall have the custody of the land,
shall keep up and maintain the houses, parks, fishponds, pools,
mills, and other things pertaining thereto, out of the issues of
the same, and shall restore to the heir when he comes of age, all
his land stocked with {ploughs and tillage, according as the
season may require and the issues of the land can reasonably bear}
PLOUGHS AND ALL OTHER THINGS, AT THE LEAST AS HE RECEIVED IT. ALL
THESE THINGS SHALL BE OBSERVED IN THE CUSTODIES OF VACANT
ARCHBISHOPRICKS, BISHOPRICKS, ABBEYS, PRIORIES, CHURCHES, AND
DIGNITIES, WHICH APPERTAIN TO US; EXCEPT THIS, THAT SUCH CUSTODY
SHALL NOT BE SOLD.
[VI. HEIRS SHALL BE MARRIED WITHOUT DISPARAGEMENT]
Heirs shall be married without loss of station. {And the marriage
shall be made known to the heir's nearest of kin before it is
agreed.}
[VII. A WIDOW SHALL HAVE HER MARRIAGE, INHERITANCE, AND
QUERENTINE (period of forty days during which the widow has a
privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband
died seized). THE KING'S WIDOW, ETC.]
A widow, after the death of her husband, shall immediately and
without difficulty have her marriage portion [property given to
her by her father] and inheritance. She shall not give anything
for her marriage portion, dower, or inheritance which she and her
husband held on the day of his death,
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