Vidua post mortem mariti sui statim & sine dif­ficultate aliqua habeat maritagium suum & hereditatem suam nec aliquid det pro dote sua ^d nec pro maritagio suo vel pro hereditate sua quam herieditatem maritus suus & ipsa tenuerunt ^e simul die obitus ipsius mariti ^f sui & maneat in capitali Mesuagio mariti sui per quadraginta dies post obitum marili sui infra quos dies assignetur ei dos sua nisi prius fuerit ei assignata vel nisi domus illa sit Castrum & si de castiro recesserit domus ei competens statim provideatur in qua possit honeste morari quousque dos sua ei assignetur ^g secundum quod predictum est & habeat rationabile estoverium suum interim de communi Assignetur autem ei pro dote sua tertia pars totius terre mariti sui que sua suit in vita sua nisi de minori suerit dotata ad Hostium ecciesie. Nulla vidua disiringatur ad se maritan­dam dum voluerit vivere sine marito Ita tamen quod securitatem faciet quod se non rnaritabit fine assensu nostro si de nobis tenuerit vel sine assensu domini sui si de alio tenuerit.

A Widow, after the death of her husband, incontinent, and without any Difficulty, shall have her marriage, and her inheritance, (2) and shall give nothing for her dower, her marriage, or her inheri­tance, which her husband and she held the day of the death of her husband, (3) and she shall tarry in the chief house of her husband by forty days after the death of her husband, within which days her dower shall be assigned her (if it were not assigned her be­fore) or that the house be a castle ; (4) and if she de­part from the castle, then a competent house shall be forthwith provided for her, in the which she may ho­nestly dwell, until her dower be to her assigned, as it ‘ is aforesaid ; and she shall have in the mean time her reasonable estovers of the common ; (5) and for her dower shall be assigned unto her the third. part of all the Lands of her husband, which were his during coverture, except she were endowed of less at the Church-door. (6) No widow shall be distrained to marry herself: * nevertheless she shall find surety, that she shall not marry without our licence and assent (if she hold of us) nor without the assent of the Lord, if she hold of another.’