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Devenerunt, an obsolete writ, heretofore directed to the escheator on the death of the heir of the king's tenant, under age and in custody, commanding the escheator that, by the oaths of good and lawful men, he inquire what lands and tenements, by the death of the tenant, came to the king, Dyer, 860.