the English Parliament

“ And touching an Heir being fourteen Years old, or above unto his full Age, If he marry without Licence of his Lord to defraud him of the Marriage, and his Lord offer him reasonable [4] and convenient Marriage (without Disparagement) then his Lord shall hold his Land beyond the Term of his Age, that is to say, of One and twenty Years, so long that he may receive the double Value of the Marriage after the Estimation of lawful men, or [5] after as it hath been offered before without Fraud or Collusion, and after as it may be proved in the King's Court. ”

“ Archbishop of Canterbury, and other his Bishops and Suffragans, and before the greater part of the Earls and Barons of England, there being assembled for the Coronation of the said King, and Hellianor the Queen, about which they were all called, where it was treated for the Commonwealth of the Realm upon the Articles underwritten, thus it was provided and granted, as well of the foresaid Archbishops, Bishops, Earls, and Barons, as of the King himself and others. ”