The King's steward, Treasurer, and comptroller have authority to
question by twelve discreet persons any servant of the king about
making any confederacies, compassings, conspiracies, or
imaginations with any other person to destroy or murder the king
or one of his council or a lord. Trial shall be by twelve men of
the King's household and punishment as by felony in the common
law.
When a land holder enfeoffs his land and tenements to people
unknown to the remainderman in tail, so that he does not know who
to sue, he may sue the receiver of the profits of the land and
tenements for a remedy. And the receivers shall have the same
advantages and defenses as the feoffees or as if they were
tenants. And if any deceased person had the use for himself and
his heirs, then any of his heirs shall have the same advantages
and defenses as if his ancestor had died seised of the land and
tenements. And all recoveries shall be good against all receivers
and their heirs, and the feofees and their heirs, and the co-
feoffees of the receivers and their heirs, as though the receivers
were tenants indeed, or feofees to their use, or their heirs of
the freehold of the land and tenements.
If a person feoffs his land to other persons while retaining the
use thereof for himself, it shall be treated as if he were still
seised of the land. Thus, relief and heriot will still be paid for
land in socage.
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