Persons forcibly taking others across county lines to hold them
for ransom and those taking or giving blackmail money and those
who burn barns or stacks of grain shall be declared felons and
shall suffer death, without any benefit of clergy or sanctuary.
No bishop may lease land for more than twenty-one years or three
lives.
No bishop may alienate any possession of their sees to the crown.
Such are void.
Stewards of leet and baron courts may no longer receive, in their
own names, profits of the court over 12d. since they have vexed
subjects with grievous fines and amercements so that profits of
justice have grown much.
Incorrigible and dangerous rogues shall be branded with an "R"
mark on the left shoulder and be put to labor, because banishment
did not work as they came back undetected. If one is caught again
begging, he shall be deemed a felon.
Any innkeeper, victualler, or alehouse keeper who allows drinking
by persons other than those invited by a traveler who accompanies
him during his necessary abode there and other than laborers and
handicraftsmen in towns upon the usual working days for one hour
at dinner time to take their diet in an alehouse and other than
laborers and workmen following their work to any given town to
sojourn, lodge, or victual in any inn, alehouse or victualling
house shall forfeit 10s. for each offense. This is because the use
of inns, alehouses, and victualling houses was intended for relief
and lodgings of travelling people and people not able to provide
their own victuals, but not for entertainment and harboring of
lewd and idle people who become drunk.
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