 If anyone holding a lay thief of us dies and our sheriff or bailiff shows our letters payment of summons for a death that the deceased does us, it shall be lawful for our sheriff or bailiff to attach, make a list of chattels of the deceased found upon the lay thief to the value of that debt under the supervision of law worthy men, provided that none of the chattels shall be removed until the debt, which is manifest, has been paid to us in full. And the residue shall be left to the executors for carrying out the will of the deceased. And if nothing is owing to us from him, all the chattels shall accrue to the deceased, saving to his wife and his children their reasonable shares.