“The King to _N._ Health. I command you, that without delay, you hold full Right to _N._ of a hundred shillings of Rent in such a Vill, which he claims to hold of you by free service, &c. or the service, &c.; and, unless you do so, the Sheriff of Oxford shall do it, least I should any more hear a complaint for want of Justice. Witness, &c.” CHAP. V. “The King to _R._, Health. I command you, that justly and without delay, you cause _N._ and _A._ his Wife to have their reasonable part which belongs to them of one Messuage, in such a Vill, which they claim to belong to their free Tenement, that they hold of our Lord the King, in such a Vill, by the free service of two shillings by the year; or of one Mark Rent, in such a Vill, which they claim of the free Marriage-hood of the said _A._, of which they complain that _B._, the sister of _A._, has deforced them, or that _G._ has deforced them. And, unless you do so, the Sheriff shall do it, least any further complaint should be made for want of Justice. Witness, &c.” CHAP. VI. These Suits are in the habit of being conducted in the Courts of Lords, or of those who fill their places, according to the reasonable Customs prevailing in their Courts; which are so numerous and various, that it is scarcely possible to reduce them into writing.[427] [Footnote 427: The Regiam Majestatem and Bracton avail themselves of the same excuse, for declining to enlarge on the subject, though the latter observes, that in demanding a view—in vouching to warranty—in proposing exceptions and in waging the Duel, &c. such Courts followed the King’s Court—(329. b.)] CHAP. VII. These Courts are proved to have failed in doing Justice in this manner. Upon the Demandant’s complaining to the Sheriff in the County Courts, and producing the King’s Writ, the Sheriff shall send one of his Officers to the Lord’s Court on the day appointed the parties by the Lord of such Court, in order that the Officer, in the presence of four or a greater number of the lawful Knights of the County, who by the Sheriff’s command shall attend there, might hear and see the proof of the Demandant, namely, that such Court had failed to do him Justice in his Suit. That the fact is so, the Demandant shall prove, by his own oath and that of two others, who have heard and known the fact, and shall swear with him.