Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794 edition. Excerpt: ...if he cease, &c. a cessuvit doth iSEd. 3. And there is another writ of ceffavit grounded upon" the statute of Wtjl. 1. cap. 41. that if a man give land unto a religious house, or unto another, to find a chaplain to sing divine service, or to find certain tapers to burn before such an image, or to distribute certain bread and beer every week unto poor men; now if these services be not done for two years, nor sufficient distress upon the lands for the time to distrain for them, then he or his heir who gave the lands, shall have a writ of cessavit, thus: The king to the jheriss, &c. command S. bisliop of Worcester, that, &c. he render to H. earl os D. cm messuage, &c. in the town rfV. which M. lately earl of D. brother of the aforesaid H. whose heir he is, gave to W. some t'me b'snop of W. and his successors, bijhops of the place afore: said, to celebrate yearly the obits ofI. the brother, and B. the 'mother of the aforesaid T. and as theobiis of the fame T. and R. of H.. after their decease which ought to revert to the aforesaid earl by form of, &c. because the aforesaid bisjop hath now i) fn Ceffavit the defendat pi?ads upon issue joined. 20 Ed. 3. Cess. that the p!: nntifr had distrained for 53, Vide ante. fealty, pending the writ, and thcre tensedfor two years in celebrating the obits aforesaid, as he faith, &c. witness, &c. And in another form for a chauntry: Command the abbot of N. that &c. he render to B. and C. his wife, one messuage, &c. which R. the great grand-father of the aforesaid C. whose heir (a) floe is, demised to E. some time abbot of N. or to the same abbot and his successors, abbots of N. to find a certain canon for celebrating divine services for the fouls of the ancejlors and...
