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10. Law, the original Proprietor of all Lands.

6. The Custody of Idiots deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Lunaticks, of whom the King has the Ward, & profits arising from their Estates note +C.9. /note during their Lives, by the 17th+ of Edward II.

7. ^deletion The /deletion Farms of the different Counties &c. the County Boroughs, Guild deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Corporations us’d to be farmed out by William & His Successors, for a yearly stipulated rent; thus in Henry II. time the London Weavers paid £12, the Bakers £6. per Annum for the Farms of their Guilds.

8. We shall apply this to Purveyance deletion & /deletion add and /add Preemption, the Crown having a Right immemorial of directing the Purveyors to buy up Provisions &c. for the Use of the Royal Household at a fixed value, in preference to all others, deletion & /deletion addition and /addition even contrary to the Will of the Owner; also of pressing Carriages deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Horses from the subject, upon paying a settled price, for the King’s service; but this Branch was also remov’d by the 12th of Charles II.

9. Profits arising from Forests.

10. Profits arising from the King’s Ordinary Courts of Justice, these consisted in Fines imposed upon Offenders, Forfeitures of Recognizances, and Amerciaments levied upon Defaulters.