A writ which lay for a widow, when it was judicially as-certained that a tenant to the king was seised of tenements in fee or fee-tall at the day of his death, and that he held of the king in chief. In such case the widow might come iuto chancery, and then make oath that she would not marry without the king’s leave, and then she might have this writ. These widows were called the “klng’s wid-ows.” Jacob; Holthouse
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
