[001] and let the writ say with respect to a plea of land in such [other] county. If several [002] who hold in common and in undivided shares, or a husband and wife, essoin themselves [003] in the same county and lie in different places and in different vills, let the [004] writ be drawn in this way: Send four lawful knights of your county to such a vill [005] to see whether the infirmity by which A. de N. in [our] court etc. essoined himself [006] of bed-sickness against B. with respect to a plea of land is languor or not. And [007] afterwards thus: Also send the same four lawful knights of your county to such [008] other vill to see whether the infirmity1 by which C. de N. in our court etc. essoined [009] himself of bed-sickness against the same B. with respect to a plea of land is languor [010] or not. And let the same be done with respect to any number of parceners ad infinitum, [011] who lie in the same county [but] in different vills and places. And then [012] thus: And if they are languors, since2 the several ought to be considered one, set [013] them a day, a year and a day from the day of their view, at the Tower of London, [014] that they then be present there to answer etc. (as above).3 And let the same be said [015] of a husband and wife if they are essoined together in the same county [but] in different [016] places. If in the same county and in the same place, let the writ then be this: [017] Send four lawful knights of your county to such a place to see whether the infirmities [018] by which such persons, such a one and such, and so on, essoined themselves in [019] our court etc. of bed-sickness against such a one with respect to a plea of land, are [020] languors or not. And if they are languors etc. (as above). If several parceners essoined [021] of bed-sickness lie in different counties, each will have his own writ to the [022] sheriff where he lies,4 according as there is one or more lying in the same county. [023] Since several parceners, as was said above, ought to have only a single languor, [024] when one or several together are essoined of bed-sickness, and a day given to the [025] demandant and the parceners who are5 present in person, or by their essoiners, if [026] they are essoined [of difficulty in coming], they cannot essoin themselves of bed-sickness [027] on any day until it is established whether the first essoinee of bed-sickness [028] has languor or passing illness, because6 if languor were awarded to each of them [029] at different times, and a different year and day given, there would thus be two [030] languors with respect to one plea, which ought not to be.7 But when the first [031] essoinee arises by licence, or if passing illness is awarded him by the knights, and [032] that is established, a parcener, one or several may at once begin to essoin himself