Note 151 — Book V.

Bracton L. 1. fol. 6. b. 7. a. But even this period would not operate as a bar to the Lord, if within the year clameum suum qualitercunque apposuerit.—“If he remained quietly” are the words of the Regiam Majestatem, during a year and a day in a privileged Town he became free—but out of a privileged town seven years was the period—but this latter prescription held not good against the King. (L. 2. c. 12.)