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And let all the sheriffs make a list of all fugitives who have fled…
Quote byHenry II of England · 1133–1189
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Assize of Clarendon, § 18. Made by King Henry with the assent of clergy and nobility in 1166. Latin text in: , Select Charters, 9th ed. (1913), pp. 170–173. Translation in: A. B. White; W. Notestein, Source Problems in English History (1915), Appendix, III.
English (original)
And let all the sheriffs make a list of all fugitives who have fled from their counties; and let them do this before the county courts, and they shall bring the names of these men in writing before the justices when first they come to them, in order that they may be sought throughout all England and their chattels seized for the benefit of the king.
— Henry II of England
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