all
mayors, bailiffs, and other officers diligently search and inquire
of all such persons tellers of such tidings and tales not bringing
forth the author of the same, and them set on the pillory as it is
above said." He also proclaimed in 1487 that no one, except peace
officers, may carry a weapon, e.g. bows, arrows, or swords, in any
town or city unless on a journey. He proclaimed in 1498 that no
one may refuse to receive silver pennies or other lawful coin as
payment regardless of their condition as clipped, worn, thin, or
old, on pain of imprisonment and further punishment.

Statutes included:

Lords holding castles, manors, lands and tenements by knight's
service of the king shall have a writ of right for wardship of the
body as well as of the land of any minor heir of a deceased person
who had the use [beneficial enjoyment] of the land for himself and
his heirs as if the land had been in the possession of the
deceased person. And if such an heir is of age, he shall pay
relief to the lord as if he had inherited possession of the land.
An heir in ward shall have an action of waste against his lord as
if his ancestor had died seised of the land. That is, lands of
"those who use" shall be liable for execution of his debt and to
the chief lord for his relief and heriot, and if he is a bondsman,
they may be seized by the lord. The king tried to retain the
benefits of feudal incidents on land by this Statute of Uses, but
attorneys sought to circumvent it by drafting elaborate and
technical instruments to convey land free of feudal burdens.

Any woman who has an estate in dower, or for a term of life, or in
tail, jointly with her husband, or only to herself, or to her use,
in any manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments of the
inheritance or purchase of her husband, or given to the said
husband and wife in tail, or for term of life, by any of the
ancestors of the said husband, or by any other person seised to
the use of the said husband, or of his ancestors, who, by herself
or with any after taken husband; discontinue, alienate, release,
confirm with warranty or, by collusion, allow any recovery of the
same against them or any other seised to their use, such action
shall be void. Then, the person to whom the interest, title, or
inheritance would go after the death of such woman may enter and
possess such premises. This does not affect the common law that a
woman who is single or remarried may give, sell, or m