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OBSCrilE WOUDS IN CHAllTERS. 1C9 aclvocatum sibi nionachum dicat, aLlclucctur ad cum ; quern si pro suo cogiioverit, accipiet do eu rectum ; sin autera, faciat Philippe quod de externo et forisfacto."^ This passage I inter- pret tlius : — If a stranger or foreigner, found in the warren, claims to be an advocarius, or homo de advocatione monachi (that is, of the Prior of Steyning, a cell of Fecamp), then the grantee of the fief shall not treat the stranger as such, or enforce any forfeiture against him, until he has been brought before the prior to see whether the prior avows him as his own ; in Avhich case the jurisdiction of the lord is to be superseded by that of the monastery. This pro^'ision is strictly agreeable to the French rule of customary law, "' L'Adreu emporte iniommcr In the Hundred Kolls, under Lincolnshire (vol. i., p. 381), among the articles of inquiry exhibited to the jury is one " De protectione hominum forinsecorum qui non sunt de homagio T' The answer of the jury is : — " Dicunt quod comes Lincoln' habet hujusmodi protectiones de alienis." This is, in substance, a claim by a great lord of the very Droit de nouvel adi-eu, which has already been referred to. It is worth while to notice a fact suggested by tliis extract from the Hundred Rolls, — that the enumeration of articles of incpiiry contained in the introductory part of that publication, does not truly or completely represent all the subjects upon which the hundred inquests were interrogated. Each answer is commonly preceded by the question, or a mutilated part of the question, to which it applies ; and a comparison of these with the list of articles in the Introduction will easily satisfy any one that the inquiry assumed a wider range than the list would lead us to suppose. E. SMIRK E. 3 Cart. Antiq. S. n". 4. C Dugd. Monast., p. 1 083, new ed.