Note 69 — Book I.
John Beames translation
“There is,” says the Regiam Majestatem, “another kind of Excuse or Essoin which is necessary, that is, when any one is essoined because he is beyond the water of Forth or of Spey; and, if this Essoin is found lawful, forty days shall be granted to him who is excused.” (Vide Reg. Maj. L. 1. c. 8.) The inconveniences resulting from the abuse of the Essoin in our text were remedied by West. 1. cap. 44. Vide Sir Edward Coke’s Comment. 2 Inst. 251.