"That from henceforth it shall be lawful to every FREEMEN to sell,
at his own pleasure, his lands and tenements, or part of them: so
that the feoffee shall hold the same lands and tenements of the
chief lord of the fee by such customs as his feoffee held before."

The scope of these laws was altered in the reign of Edward III.
That monarch, in view of his intended invasion of France, secured
the adhesion of the landowners, by giving them power to raise money
upon and alien their estates. The permission was as follows, 1
Edward III., cap. 12:

"Whereas divers people of the realm complain themselves to be
grieved because that lands and tenements which be holden of the
king in chief, and aliened without license, have been seized into
the king's hand, and holden as forfeit: (2.) The king shall not
hold them as forfeit in such case, but will and grant from
henceforth of such lands and tenements so aliened, there shall be
reasonable fine taken in chancery by due process."

1 Edward III., cap. 13:

"Whereas divers have complained that they be grieved by reason of
purchasing of lands and tenements, which have been holden of the
king's progenitors that now is, as of honors; and the same lands
have been taken into the king's hands, as though they had been
holden in chief of the king as of his crown: (2.) The king will
that from henceforth no man be grieved by any such purchase."

De Lolme, chap. iii., sec. 3, remarks on these laws that they took
from the king all power of preventing alienation or of purchase.