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10. Law, the original Proprietor of all Lands.

6.The Custody of Idiots deletion & /deletion add and /add

                                               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 add and /add

                                       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 add and /add even

                 contrary to the Will of the Owner; also 

of pressing Carriages deletion & /deletion add and /add

                       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.