The Statute of Westminster 1275

• What did the Statute of Westminster do?

  Dealt with many of the abuses that his Hundred Roll Commissioners had discovered
• What did it contain?

  51 chapter, dealing with a variety of issues that had been brought to the King's attention
• Included within the Statute was...

  Provisions for dealing with unwanted guests in religious houses, tolls, abuse of wardship and purveyance, etc
• Hue and Cry


  Every man in the neighbourhood should be prepared to pursue felons if the hue and cry is raised