“The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that, without delay, you take into my hands the half of the lands in such a will, which _M._ claims, as her Dower, against _R._ concerning which there is a suit between them in my Court, and that you make known the day of the caption to my justices. And summon, by good Summoners, the aforesaid _R._, that he be before me[62] or my Justices at Westminster _a crastino octabus clausi Paschæ in quindecim dies_, to hear his judgment, and have there the Summoners and this Writ. Witness Ranulph de Glanville at Westminster, &c.” In addition, let the Sheriff of the County be commanded to take the Essoiners, as Defaulters, and to detain them, and for this purpose the following writ shall Issue: [Footnote 62: Vide Madox’s Excheq. c. 3. s. 3.] CHAP. XIV. “The King to the Sheriff, Health. I command you that, without delay, you diligently seek, through your County, _A._ who has falsely Essoined _B._ against _C._ in my Court, and that you safely keep him, until you have my other precept. Witness, &c.” The Defendant himself shall also, in the mean time, be summoned to appear before the King, or his Justices, to show why he has not warranted his Essoiner, and to answer to the principal suit. Besides, the Pledges of the Essoiners shall be summoned, by the following Writ. CHAP. XV. “The King to the Sheriff, Health. Summon by good Summoners _T._ that he be before me, or my Justices, at Westminster, in fifteen days from the Pentecost, to show why he has not had _I._ before me at Westminster, on such a day, to warrant the Essoin that _I._ made for him in my Court against _M._ as he pledged himself to have him. And have there the Summoners, and this Writ. Witness, &c.” CHAP. XVI. But, if the Tenant appear within the fifteen days, and be willing to replevy the Tenement, let him be commanded to attend, on a day appointed, that he may then have justice done him; and, if he appear on that day, and find pledges, he shall recover his seisin, and may retain it. If he deny all the Summonses, and all the Essoins, and disprove them individually with the oaths of twelve, or if he acknowledge the first Summons, and warrant the three Essoins, and save the fourth day by the King’s Writ of warranty, which he should forthwith produce, he may also retain his Seisin. But, if the Tenant appear not within the fifteen days, the seisin shall, on the following day, be adjudged to his adversary, so that the Tenant shall never again be heard concerning it, unless by the King’s Writ concerning the Right.[63] But the Demandant shall be put into the possession of the Tenement, by the following Writ, directed to the Sheriff. [Footnote 63: The severity of this Law was mitigated by 9 Ed. 3. c. 2. whereby none were to lose their land, by reason of _non-plevin_. A note to this effect is inserted in the margin of our Author; but the reference to the chapter is erroneous.] CHAP. XVII.