[001] has died without an heir of her body, has shown to us and our council that, whereas [002] there is a plea in our court etc. between the same D. and the aforesaid C. his wife on [003] the one side and the same A. on the other, in which the same D. and C. appointed [004] an attorney, and whereas, there being some1 suspicion that the same C. was dead, [005] the attorneys of the said C., were repeatedly instructed at the complaint of the [006] same A. and of many others to allay such suspicion by producing her before the [007] justices and showing her to be alive, they have in nowise done2 so, whereupon an [008] even stronger suspicion than before has arisen that she is dead and her death [009] concealed to the disherison of the same A., therefore, lest falsehood be preferred to [010] truth, we order you to go in person, taking with you four knights of your county [011] whom you consider lawful for this purpose and the aforesaid A., to such a place where [012] the aforesaid C. resides, as her attorneys recently acknowledged in our court, and [013] cause her to be seen, if she still survives and is alive, by the aforesaid knights and [014] the aforesaid A. and by others of her family whom the same A. shall bring with him. [015] If she is alive, then in what condition you find her and according as you find her [016] certify us or our justices at such a place on such a day, plainly, clearly, and [017] openly, by your letters sealed with your seal and the seals of the four knights [018] aforesaid. And have there the names of the knights and this writ. Witness etc.
When the true heir is dead and another is fraudulently substituted by the guardian or husband.
[020] If the legitimate heir dies in the wardship of a chief lord and he substitutes another, [021] a stranger, in his place, then, on the complaint of the true heir or of another, perhaps [022] him to whom the inheritance belongs as an escheat, as where the true heir [023] who is dead held of the lord king in chief, [or of another,] let this writ issue on the [024] king's behalf.
Writ where the inheritance of the deceased heir ought to be the escheat of the lord king.
[026] The king to the sheriff, greeting. Order A. and B. his wife that rightfully etc. they [027] render to us so much land with the appurtenances etc. which we claim as our [028] escheat and which3 ought to revert to us as our escheat because C., the daughter [029] and heir of D. who held of us in chief, has died without an heir, and in which the [030] aforesaid A. and B. have no entry save this, that the aforesaid A. married the [031] aforesaid B. and later, falsely and to our disherison