THE SECOND PART OF SYMBOLEOGRAPHY, Newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the four several Treatises. 1. Of Fines and Concords. 2. Of Common Recoveries. 3. Of Offences and Indictments. 4. Of Compromises and Arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another Treatise of Equity, the jurisdiction, and Proceed of the high Court of chauncery: Of Supplications, Bills, and Answers, And of certain Writs and Commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: Likewise much augmented with divers precedents, very necessary for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. Section, and continuing to the end of Bills and Answers. Hereunto is also added a Table for the more easy and ready finding of the matters herein contained: the new additions having therein this mark ✿ set before them. Ingenij cibus studium, studijque diligentia. AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Wight. ANNO DO. 1601. Cum Privilegio Regiae Maiestatis. Viro jurisprudentiae & pietatis laud illustristrissimo EDWARDO COKE Armigero, serenissimae Reginae Maiestatis Procuratori summo, WILL. WEST veram exoptat foelicitatem. OVum ijs fere omnibus, qui lucubrationes suas de aliquo disciplinae genere in publicum proferunt, in more positum esse videtur (vir illustrissime) ut in Epistolis suis nuncupatorijs duo potissimum sequantur: unum ut illum ipsum, cuius patrocinio niti statnunt, dignis laudibus efferant; alterum, ut operas ipsas grato encomio afficiant: erunt fortasse nonnulli, qui idem a me faciendum arbitrabuntur; a quibus tamen ego long diversum sentio. Vtrumque enim ut vellem maxime certe non possem: Nam ab hoc, ingenioli mei tenuitas: ab illo, pudor quidem ingenitus me remoratur. Et vero, si in laudes tuas excurrerem longius, vereor, ut & ipse hoc non patereris, Et ego, cum corporis, tum animi dotium, quas natura affatim in te quasieffudisse videtur, multitudine obrutus, neque quid prae ceteris dicendum, neque quomodo finis faciendus sit, facile reperire possem: sive de eximia juris nostri scientia, sive de singulari pietate tua dixero, quas in te (vir ornatissime) aetas etiamnum integra, tam mature nobis exhibuit, ut ad quasuis respraeclaras gerendas, non factus, sed natus, esse videaris. Quarum veluti suffragijs ad praeclaramunera iamdudum evectus, alijsque, etiam grandaevis, praelatussis. Sed quidquid ipse de te dixero, dicturus illud sum tenuius, minusque splendidè, quam dici debuisset, & rei dignitas postularet. Itaque maluisilere, ac singulares illas animi, corporisque tui dotes suspicere, quam nihil dicendo, infantiam meam prodere. De opella autem mea gloriosius dicere nihil attinet: Illius enim argumentum eiusmodi est, ut nullius adeo commendatione magnopere egere videatur, quip quodde ijs rebus tractat, quae ad pacem & concordiam, cum constituendam, tum restituendam, spectant maxime: sive enim, tractatum primum de finibus: sive alterum illum de recuperationibus, quae dicuntur: sive tertium de criminibus & accusationibus inde oriundis: sive postremum de compromissis & arbitrijs, contempleris, nihil aliud, quam quietem & tranquillitatem humanae societatis, spirare videntur omnia. Nam arbitria, lites, easque suscitatas, leviter componunt: fines & recuperationes, dominia & proprietates firmant: accusationes, nocentum peccata detegunt, ut nocentes ipsi vel sanentur, vele medio tollantur, ne istorum virus proximos quosque vel conficiat vel inficiat. Et certe haud scio, an pace quicquam augustius ad veram singulorum felicitatem excogitari poterit, illa namque nobiscum commorante omnibus bonis ac commodis abundamus, atque ex animi sententia succedunt omnia. At si dulcissima eius consuetudine privemur, eaque a nobis exulet, statim bello, omnibus malis atque aerumnis expositi, vitam longè miserimam ducimus. Modum autem, quo haec tractavi, laudare, meum non est. Quod si enim is eiusmodi est, qui tibi, alijsque bonis, & doctis viris placeat, satis per se ipsum commendatus erit: sin minus, vana rei non probandae commendatio, ipsam laudabiliorem non efficiet. De animo autem meo, hoc tua pace liberè effari libet, voluisse me prodesse quamplurimis, ijs autem praecipue, qui prima juris nostri tyrocinia exercent. Quod ut melius praestare possem, ista volui qualicunque methodo: cum profectò nulla mihi videatur dicendi ars alia nisi methodus, quae a prioribus natura, ad proxima: quae a notioribus, ad minus nota: quae a generalibus, ad specialia: quae a finitis, ad infinita: quaeque ita demum ab instituto aliquo genere ad media, tum definiendo, tum dividendo, transit, donec tandem in exemplorum infinitate consistat, quam quidem disponendi rationem tibi (vir ornatissime) non ingratam fore confido, cum omnes tuae disputationes, atque adeo dicta omnia, illam ipsam suavissime semper spirare videntur. Te igitur horum maecenatem rogo, pro genuina & laudatissima illa tua in rem literariam, literatosque omnes promovendi, promptitudine, & verae pacis amore singulari, acerrimoque tuo in delicta odio, si alia reipublicae graviora negotia non impediant, hunc libellum cognoscere, suscipere, ac tueri velis; quo mihi animos ad haec augenda & perpolienda, & hijs maiora alacriter aggredienda, addas. Te (vir iurisconsultissime) aeternae pacis author, ad sui nominis gloriam, ecclesiae commodum, & reipublicae tranquillitatem, quam diutissime servet incolumem: Ex aedibus meis Firbectiensibus haud long a Doncastria burgo, in agro Eboracensi, postridie calendas Maias; Anno salutis per Christi solius sanguinem restitutae. 1594. Tibi deditissimus, WILHELMUS WEST. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY Of Fines and Concords. The definition of Fines. FOrasmuch as we have already in our first part Sect. 1. of Symboleography showed the form of divers Conditions and Covenants, aswell for the levying of Fines of lands and tenements, as also to raise and limit the uses thereof: It now seemeth necessary to show how the Notes of writs of Covenants and Concords for Fines, with other necessary circumstances concerning the same are to be made. Wherefore let us first learn what, and how worthy things Fines be. Tremayle 21. E. fol. 4. termeth Fines, covenants made before justices, and entered of record. Browne saith, Fines be fructus, exitus, & finis effectus Legis, Blow. fol. 357. Glanuil in his eight book and first chapter termeth a Fine Amicabilis compositio & finalis concordia ex consensu & licentia domini Regis vel eius justiciariorum. And Bracton tractatu quinto Lib. 5. ca 28. Sect. 7. de Exceptionibus saith, finis ideo dicitur finalis concordia, quia imponit finem litibus, & est exceptio peremptoria. And Glanuil cap. 3. Lib. 9 saith, Talis concordia finalis dicitur, eo quod finem imponit negotio, adeo ut neutra pars litigantium ab eo de caetero poterit recedere. In which books may be seen ancientancient form of levying Fines & their great antiquity: for they be as ancient as any Court of Record, Blow. fol. 357. a. 368. b. which without question were long before the Conquest. So that Fines having their commencement of Record long before the Conquest, ever since have remained in great estimation, as appeareth by a Fine levied before the Conquest touching the possession of the Abbey of Crowland, and divers other ancient Fines levied before that time yet extant, Plow. 357. a. 368. b. But chiefly we are to consider their effects, which be to make certainty and assurance to the parties concerning their estates in lands and tenements, and to end contention, and breed peace and security to all men. As appeareth by the Statute▪ de Finibus 27. Edw. 1. Stat. 1. cap. 1. wherein be these words, Quia fines in Curia nostra levati finem litibus imponere debent, & imponunt: Ideo fines vocantur maxime cum post Duellum & magnam Assisam in suo casu ultimum locum finalem teneant imperpetuum: with which Statute agreeth Bracton tractatu 5. Lib. 5. cap. 28. Sect. 7. de Exceptionibus. And therefore by ancientancient law, Fine and Nonclaime by the space of a year and a day was a peremptory bar to all men, which was abrogated by the statute made 34. Ed. 3. cap. 16. And at this day Fines be of great force, puissance, and worthiness: for being levied and engrossed with proclamations, according to the statute of 4. H. 7. cap. 24. 1. R. 3. cap. 7. 32. H. 8. cap. 36. & 31. Eliz. Reg. cap. 2. They are final ends, and sufficiently conclude, bar, and discharge for ever aswell parties and privies as estrangers to the same, except women covert (other then been parties to the fines) and every other person at the time of the levying of the same fine being within the age of xxi. years, or in prison, or out of the Realm, or of unsound mind, and not parties to such fines: Saving unto estrangers to such fines such right, title, claim, and interest, as they have to the tenements therein contained at the time of thengrossing thereof: so that they pursue the same by action, or lawful entry within five years next after proclamations thereupon made according to the said statutes: And saving to all other persons such action, right, title, claim, and interest, in, or to the tenements in such fines mentioned, as first shall grow, remain, descend, or come to them after the said fine engrossed and proclamations made, by force of any cause or matter had or made before the said fine levied: so that they pursue their action, right, or title within five years next after that it is to them accrued. By which authorities we gather that fines are nothing else, but Instruments 20. Ass. p. 1. 26. Ass. p. 37. Dyer fol. 179. Blow. fol. 146. of record of agreements concerning lands, tenements, or hereditaments, duly made by the Queen's consent & licence, & knowledged by the parties to the same upon a writ of Covenant, a writ of Right, a writ of Customs & Services, Warrantia chartae thereof, or such like, before the justices of the Common place, or others thereunto authorized, & engrossed of record in the same Court, to end all controversies thereof both between themselves which be parties and privies to the same, and all estrangers not suing or claiming in due time. These Fines destroy estates tail, (other than such as be made by the King, the reversion being in the King, 32. H. 8. ca 36. And other than fines of lands restrained from alienation by act of parliament, 32. H. 8. cap. 36. Or levied by an Intrudor of lands seized into the king's hands, as by an heir which holdeth in Capite before Livery sued 1. H. 7. ca 5. for by the Prerogative cap. 13. by his entry he gaineth no freehold.) And in time become perpetual bars against all men, end strife, make peace, breed security and tranquility, which is the very fruit, effect, and end of all godly Laws. Of the parties to fines. IN every Fine two things are principally to be regarded, the persons, Sect. 2. and the action. Persons chiefly regarded in fines be the parties to the fines and the judges. Parties to the fines be the Cognizor and the Cognizee, which are thefficient causes thereof. The Cognizor is he which doth knowledge the fine. The Cognizee is he to whom the fine is levied. In the parties 3. things are specially to be regarded: Their Capacities, Names, and Estates. Touching the Capacity of the Cognizor it is to be considered whether he be a person able to levy a fine or no: namely whether he be void of all such impediments natural and civil as may hinder him in doing thereof. What persons may be Cognizors, and what not? ALl persons male & female may be Cognizors, but such as are prohibited Sect. 3. that to do by nature or law. By nature through defect of the nund, or of the body, but no longer than such defect endureth. This defect of the mind is either natural or casual. Of Infancy. DEfects of the mind by nature is by age which is of Infants, Sect. 4. that is persons under th'age of xxi. years, as by Ideocy which ought not to be Cognizors, because the law intendeth they want understanding and discretion what to do in this behalf: Yet if a fine be levied by an Infant, it cannot be reversed but by himself by writ of Error during his infancy, that the Court may see him and thereby judge his age, 50. E. 3. 5. 17. E. 3. 52. and 78. Impediments of the mind casual such as affect, are furious mad men, Lunatics, Idiots, men having the Lethargy, whereunto may (as it seemeth) be added doting old persons wanting discretion, men drunken, who ought not to be Cognizors, for their fines are not reversable, because the fine itself argueth their abilities, for the law intendeth that judges will receive no cognisances of such persons, 17. E. 3. 5. and 78. 17. Ass. 17. Defects of the body. DEfects of the body be such infirmities thereof by which the principal Sect. 5. senses necessary for understanding and to declare their consents are wanting: Of which sort be such as are blind, deaf, or dumb, naturally. But persons blind, deaf, or dumb accidentally may make cognizance if they can express their meaning by writing. Impediments legal or civil. Legal impediments be when such persons be prohibited by law as Sect. 6. by nature are able to levy fines. And they are either by reason of subjection or joint power. Of legal subjection. Subjection legal is when persons be under the rule of others, as a Sect. 7. feme covert to her husband, 2. H. 5. 9 E. 3. 28. A villain to his Lord 33. E. 3. Persons civilly dead, as Friars, Nuns, Monks, cannons professed, and other like superstitious votaries, who are in subjection to their Sovereigns, 14. H. 8. 16. 2. R. 2. 5. Of coverture. ANd therefore a feme covert within age ought not to levy a fine, Sect. 8. for that she cannot reverse it during the coverture, nor after if the coverture continue till she be of full age, 50. E. 3. 5. 27. Ass. pla. 53. And a feme covert ought not to levy a fine but with her right husband, 7. H. 4. 23. 42. E. 3. 20. But a fine levied by a feme covert without her husband of her own lands wherein she hath fee simple, is an estoppel against her and her heirs, if her husband avoid it not by entry, or otherwise, as he may during his wives life, and after her death during his own life, as if he be tenant by the Courtesy, 17. E. 3. 52. and 78. 17. Ass. 17. 7. H. 4. 23. But if living her first husband she take a second husband, and with him and by his name knowledge a fine, this fine shall not bind her, because she is misnamed, 7. H. 4. 22. and 23. Yet if she with her right husband by a wrong christian name levy a fine, she is estopped during her life, ●. Ass. pla. 11. Brook Fines 117. A feme covert must beware how she with her husband do levy a fine of her jointure, lest she thereby lose her dower, Trin. 19 Eliz. Dyer fol. 359. pla 49. Neither ought the husband without his wife to levy any fine of her lands, for she and her heirs may avoid it after his death, 32. H. 8. cap. 28. 12. E. 4. 12. 42. E. 3. 20. Villains. ANd Villains by knowledging such fines should prejudice their Sect. 9 Lords, thereby bereaving them of the lands aliened, for such fines be good. Persons dead in law. ANd fines levied by persons civilly dead are utterly void. Sect. 10. Imprisonment. ANd if men compelled by threatenings or inprisonment should be Sect. 11. admitted to levy fines, they should thereby be barred, because the law intendeth such persons are at liberty when they knowledge fines 17. E. 3. 52. 78. 17. Ass. 17. Of persons having joint power. Person's prohibited to be Cognizors by reason of joint power, are Sect. 12. they that have joint power and authority with others, as the single members of every Corporation or Society, As a Bishop without his Dean and Chapter, A Dean without his Chapter, An Abbot or Prior without his Covent, A Parson, Vicar, Prebendary, or Chantry priest without their Ordinary, A Mayor without his Commonalty, Masters of colleges without their Fellows, And of other Societies incorporate, may not levy fines, Plow. 375. b. 11. Elizab. fol. 538. a 21. Eliz. 21. E. 4. 13. 11. H. 4. 68 12. H. 4. 11. & 12. 38. E. 3. 33. Blow. fol. 538. a. 20. Eliz. Of the estates of Cognizors. ALbeit every fine be good to bind the parties, yet for the validity Sect. 13. of the fine it is convenient that either the Cognizor or the Cognizee be seized of the lands aliened, 41. E. 3. 14. 22. H. 6. 13. For the fine is void if neither of the parties be seized at the levying thereof, 41. E. 3. 14. 33. H. 6. 18. 3. H. 6. 27. 27. H. 8. 4. and 20. 37. H. 6. 34. 13. Ass. p. 8. 3. H. 7. 9 5. E. 3. 22. H. 6. 57 Yet the vouchee after he hath entered into the warranty may levy a fine unto the demandant, though in facto neither of them is seized: For such vouchee is tenant in law and may confess the action, because of the privity between him and the demandant. But a fine by him so levied to an estranger is void, 8. H. 4. 5. 5. H. 7. 40. Persons attained or wayved in personal actions may alien by fine or otherwise, for their estates remain in them still, though they thereby forfeit the profits of their lands, 9 H. 6. 20. 21. H. 7. 7. And persons attainted of Felony or Treason may not be Cognizors, by reason that by their offences their estates be forfeited, But if they do, their fines be good against all persons but the King and the Lord of whom the lands beholden for their times, 8. Ass. pla. 25. for their estates remain in them during their lives. Also tenant for life may levy a fine sur grant & release of the lands which he holdeth for life, to hold to the Cognizee for life of the tenant for life, and it is no forfeiture, 44. E. 3. 36. But if the estate were larger, or the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que etc. it were a forfeiture of his estate, 4. H. 7. fol. The same law is of such sins by tenant in tail after possibility, tenant in dower, or by the courtesy, 39 E. 3. 16. But such fine of a rent seemeth to be no forfeiture, 2. H. 5. 7. Yet a particular tenant, as in dower, by courtesy, or for life, cannot by fine grant & surrender their estates to thowner of the reversion or remainder, but may by fine grant and release the same, 17. E. 3. 62. 24. E. 3. 26. 20. E. 3. and 14. E. 3. A tenant in comen or jointenant may levy a fine of his part, 26. H. 8. 9 So may a Coparcener of his part, Dyer 334. plac. 30. Pasch. 16. Eliz. A fine levied by the heir who is an Intrudor upon the king's possession is void per le Praerog. cap. 13. 1. H. 7. 5. 24. E. 3. 65. But if such fine be levied without intrusion, it bindeth the Cognizor and his heirs, 1. H. 7. 5. If a disseisor levy a fine with proclamation, and the disseisee within five years after do not enter or caime, he and his heirs be barred for ever, Ploughed. fol. 353. 11. Elizab. inter Stowell & Zouch. Also fines may be levied by the tenant in tail general, or special, And by tenant in fee simple, And by tenant in remainder or reversion. ¶ Having thus passed the capacities and estates of Cognizors, let us have consideration how they may be named. How Cognizors are to be named. TOuching the names whereby parties to fines ought to be named, Sect. 14. for so much as names be to no other end inserted into fines and other writings, then that it may be certainly known, who be the parties thereunto, it is requisite that they be certainly named by their right names of baptism and surnames, whether the same be King, Prince, Duke, marquess, Earl, Vicont, Baron, Lord, or Knight, which be names of dignity, (some of which are sometimes named without their Surnames: as Georg. Comes Salop' without his surname, Iohens Dux Lancastr,) or he be an Esquire or Gentleman, which be names of worship, nobility, and honour, 14. H. 6. 15. 21. E. 4. 84. Whose additions nevertheless of courtesy are communly used in fines: as Io. Byron Miles, H. D. armig. T. L. gener, Or if he be a ●eoman, husbandman, artificer, labourer, or any Ecclesiastical person: as Archbishop, Bishop, Archdeacon, Deane, Parson, Vicar, Clerke, etc. Or any Corporation, or body civil, politic, or corporate, having covent or common seal: as Bailiff and Burgesses, Mayor and Commonalty, or any other fraternity or brotherhood, 11. H. 4. 44. 12. H. 4. 20. 14. H. 4. 21. 7. H. 6. 27. And albeit it be not necessary always in fines to give the parties their proper additions of place, dignity, estate, degree, mystery, or occupation: Yet if there be two or more in one parish of one name and surname, it seemeth requisite for distinction sake, to give them some additions etc. as I. S. signior or junior etc. As if a man have two sons of one name, or the father and his son be of one name, the father shall not carry the addition of signior, but the son of junior, and not the elder brother but the younger, 37. H. 6. 29. 47. E. 3. 16. What persons may be Cognizees in fines, and secondly by what names they must be named. ALl such persons as may be grantees or take contracts, may be Sect. 15. cognizees, as persons of full age, Infants, femes covert, mad men, lunatic, idiots, men imprisoned, men without the Realm, And all Corporations and civil bodies, men attainted of felony or treason, men outlawed in personal actions, bastards, clerks convict, villains, aliens, etc. And if a fine be levied to a feme covert, she needeth not to be examined, because she taketh by the fine: And if she had any better estate before the fine, the fine shall not conclude her to claim it, 3. H. 6. 42. 41. E. 3. 7. 50. E. 3. 9 24. E. 3. 62. Neither shall an Infant being cognizee 〈◊〉 24. E. 3. 62. because the fine is for his benefit. Tenant 〈◊〉 may be cognizee in a fine, by which the cognizee doth confess all his fight, which he hath in the lands, to be the right of the tenant for life, and release and quite claim to him and his heirs, and not commit any forfeiture, for thereby his former estate is not changed, and it may enure to him in reversion or remainder, 1. H. 7. fol. 5. And an Abbot, Deane and Chapter, Mayor and Commonalty, & such like Corporations, may be cognizees in fines: But before the engrossing of the fine to such Corporation, a writ aught to be directed to the justices of the common place, quod permittant finem illum levari, 5. H. 7. 25. 19 H. 6. 25. A Prior may be cognizee, 22. E. 4. 15. E. 4. 22. But persons civilly dead, as Monks, cannons, and Friars, can not be cognizees, because they be under the rule of others, and want civil capacity, 5. H. 7. 25. 19 H. 6. 25. By what names. 2 Cognizees in fines must be named by their right proper names & surnames: for a fine being levied to A. and Sibell his wife, (where her Christian name was Isabella) was holden void. 1. Ass. pla. 1. See the Section how the Cognizors are to be named, and that will satisfy you for the naming of Cognizees. Before what persons Fines may be knowledged. Having thus perused the capacities, estates, & names of cognizors Sect. 16. and cognizees, it is time to inquire of the judges, before whom this business may be handled: Touching which it is to be noted, that of these, some are judges only at the time of the cognisances & certificate thereof. And others at the time of the Concord. And judges of the cognisances, are such persons as have power to take such cognizance, either by virtue of their offices, or by some commission general or special, granted unto them by her Majesty out of the high court of Chancery. All or two of the justices of the Common place may in open court take knowledge of fines, and record them by virtue of their offices, 15. E. 2. cap. And the chief justice of the Common place, by the privilege and prerogative of his place and office, may take cognisance of fines in any place out of the court and certify the same, without writ of Dedimus potestatem, Dyer fol. 224. pla. 31. And it seemeth by the Statute 15. E. 2. that if the parties be not able to travel, two of the justices of the common Bench, with the consent of the rest, or one of them with a Knight, may go unto the parties, and receive and certify their cognisances into the said Court, without any Dedimus potestatem to enable them thereunto. But this course is long sithence discontinued. And it seemeth that ●●stices of Assizes by the general words of their Patents may take and certify cognisances of fines without any special Dedimus potestatem for the words be in effect as followeth, that is to say: Necnon ad recipiend' omnes fines, concordias, & recognitiones in circuitu suo, coniunctim & divisim recognit pro illa vice in circuituillo, non ob●lante aliquo actu, statuto, sive ordinatione in contrarium etc. Yet such justices use not now to certify them without a special writ of Dedimus potestatem, sued forth of the Chancery, directed unto them, and giving them thereby power, to take and certify such cognisances as they have already taken, Dyer fol. 224. plac. 51. 5. Eliz. ●. H. 7. 9 And fines have been levied before justices Errants, Lib. Intrac' titulo Scire fac' in Aid 2. Of a Dedimus potestatem de Fine levando. A Special commission for a fine is a writ of Dedimus potestatem directed Sect▪ 17. to some persons to take the cognisances of the cognisours which is granted out of the Chancery, when Cognisors of fines by reason of infirmity, or other reasonable cause, cannot come to the Court there to make cognisance thereof. This Dedimus potestatem must contain the substance of the writ of Covenant, and recite that it is thereof depending between the party's bearing Teste after the writ of Covenant, which writ of Dedimus potestatem ought to be directed to men of good credit & conscience, and exptert in the laws, who must certify the same with the cognisances to the justices of the common Pleas, as shallbe showed hereafter. And every such Dedimus potestatem to a special commission must be signed by the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, and Lord chief justice of the common pleas, or by some of the justices of the circuit where the land lieth. But now many writs of Dedimus potestatem to take knowledge of fines be directed to men of mean degree and small knowledge, with whom sometimes for fashion sake in such commissions be joined Lords, Knights, and other of good credit: but be seldom used in the execution thereof. By means whereof oftentimes this business is unduly effected, and Recognizances of femes covert within age, and of other women, never duly examined, and of Infants, as also of mad men, Lunatics, Idiots, and men imprisoned, are sometimes certified which would never be suffered, if such Cognisors were for that purpose either brought into the Court, or before any of the justices thereof, or before any Sergeant, or Knight, or man of good conscience and discretion, who would soon perceive their imperfections, and therefore refu●e to take their cognisances in so weighty matters as fines be, which be the most binding bars in the law. Great care and heed therefore in my conceit is to be had, to whom such authority is committed, lest it be so ●●used as is abovesaid. And writs of Error have been brought, because fines have been knowledged by Dedimus potestatem before such as were neither judge, Abbot, Knight, nor Sergeant at the law, And therefore such recognizances have been refused, Br. Fines 120. A justice or other person being cognisee in a fine, may not take cognisance thereof himself: for if he so do, the fine thereupon levied is void, 8. H. 6. 21. And when any cognisance of fines is taken, it seemeth convenient, that the persons, before whom they be knowledge, do sign the note of the cognisance as it is commonly used for the credit thereof, Dyer fol. 320. P. 19 H. 15. Eliz. And now by a late order, all fines taken by Dedimus potestatem by him that is not justice of Assize in that circuit where the land lieth, must be signed by a justice of that circuit, Dyer fol. 220. pla. 15. The form of the Dedimus potestatem appeareth amongst the adjuncts of concord's. judges, to whom cognisances are to be certified, and before whom they are to be recorded. Judges for the recording of fines by the justices of the common pleas Sect▪ 18. only, 15. E. 2. cap. And therefore as is said, all cognisances thereof must be certified thither, for in that Court only all fines are to be levied, Notwithstanding 36. H. 6. 34. And by special grant a fine may be levied in a base Court, 44. Ed. 3. 38. But fines levied in Ancient demesne by any custom seem void, 44. E. 3. 38. And so in other inferior Courts, 50. Ass. pl. 9 Also by the statute of 2. E. 6. ca 28. fines may belevied in the county Palantine of Chester. And by 37. H. 8. cap. 19 fines may be levied of lands in the County Palantine of Lancaster. And by the statute of 5. Eliz. cap. 27. fines may be levied within the county Palantine of Duresme. ¶ Having thus r●n over the discourse of the persons used in fines, order requireth that we should now set upon the very actions of Fines themselves. Of the division of fines. EVery fine therefore is either witohut proclamations, or with proclamations. Sect▪ 19 Fines divided. At this day a fine without proclamation, which is also termed a fine A fine without ploclamation. at the common law, is such a fine, as is levied, after such manner & form as they were usually levied before, 4. H. 7. ca 24. upon which no proclamations were made, which fines do still remain of such force, as they were at the common law, to discontinue the estate of the Cognisor, if they Discontinuance. be executed, 7. Ed. 3. fol. 35. 1. R. 3. cap. 7. Dyer fol. 216. p. 54. 4. Elizab. Blow. fol. 265. b. 4. H. 7. cap. 24. A fine with proclamations (the same is also termed a fine according A fine with proclamation. to the statute) is a fine levied with proclamation after the form & manner ordained by the statutes made 4. H. 7. cap. 24. 1. R. 3. cap. 7. Mar. ca 7. 32. H. 8. cap. 36. 31. Eliz. cap. 2. Blow. fol. 265. b Of fines executed, and executory. ANd every fine, aswell with proclamation as without, is either executed Sect▪ 20. A fine executed. or executory. A fine executed is such a fine, as of his own force giveth a present possession (at the least in law) unto the Cognisee, so that he needeth no writ of Habere facias seisinam for the execution of the same fine, but may enter, of which sort is a fine sur cognisance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done, which is in very deed the surest fine of all, 8. H. 4. 8. 41. E. 3. 14. 42. E. 3. 5. 46. E. 3. 15. 50. E. 3. 9 13. Ass. p. 8. Fines executory be such, as of their own force do not execute the possession A fine executory. in the cognisees, as fines sur cognisance de droit tantum, Fines sur done, grant, release, confirmation, or render: for if such fines be not levied, or such render made unto them that be in possession at the time of the fines levied, the cognisees must needs sue writs of Habere facias seisinam, according to their several cases, for the obtaining of their possessions. Nevertheless, if at the levying of such executory fines, the parties, unto whom the state is thereby limited, be in possession of the lands passed, be needeth no writ of execution for the same, for then such fines do enure by way of extinguishment of right, but altar not the estate nor possession Extinguishment. of the cognisee, but perchance better it, 7. H. 7. 12. and 22. 2. E. 3. 6. 21. E. 3. 44. 8. H. 4. 8. 41. E. 3. 14. 7. H. 4. 23. Again some fines be single, and some double. A Sngle fine is such a fine, by which nothing is granted, or rendered Sect▪ 21. A single fine. back again by the Cognisees, or any of them, to the cognisors, or any of them, 8. H. 4. 8. 24. E. 3. 26. A double fine is a fine containing a grant and render back again either A double fine. of some rent, common, or other thing out of the land, or of the land itself, to all or some of the Cognisors, for some estate, limiting thereby many times remainders to strangers, which be not named in the writ of Covenant, 8. H. 4. 8. 24. E. 3. 26. and 35. Of the parts of Fines, and of the writ of Covenant. IN the form of every fine we are to consider the principal parts thereof, Sect▪ 22. & their Adjuncts, both proper to every part, and common to all. The principal parts of fines be the writ or action whereupon the concord Parts of fines. is made, and the Concord it lelfe. Of writs whereupon fines are levied. THe writ is the very basis, ground & foundation of the fine, whereby Sect▪ 23. the parties have day in court to levy the same, & containeth the parties & things to be passed certainly, And it is most commonly a writ of Covenant, 35. H. 8. Br. Fines 116. Or a Warrantia chartae, 18. E. 4. 22. Or a writ of Right, Or a writ of Mes●e, 26. Ass. pla. 37. Or a writ of Customs and services, 26. Ass. pla. 37. Dyer fol. 179. pl. 46. Whereof Fines be grounded. IN every such writ thessential parts & the adjuncts are to be considered: Sect▪ 24. the principal parts thereof be the parties to the same, whereof we have spoken already, And the things whereof a fine is levied. Of what things Fines may be levied. ANd touching the things whereof fines are leviable, we are first to Sect▪ 25. consider the nature of the things themselves, whether they will pass in fines or no: And then of their names, by which they may pass or not. And how they may be in order placed in the writs: Fines therefore may be levied of all things inheritable being in Esse tempore finis, a●d certainly expressed in the writs, 18. E. 4. 22. as de messuagio, tofto, columbario, gardino, terra. prato, pastura, bosco, subbosco, bruera, mora, iuncaria, marisco, alneto, ruscaria, redditu, per Registrum fol. 2. a de Rectoria Ecclesiae parochialis de M. ac de decimis granorum, garbarum, & foeni, eidem rectory spectant etc. or cum omnibus decimis granorum, garbarum, & foeni eidem Rectoriae spectant, Thel Lib. 8. cap. 9 Sect▪ 2. de Rectoria 2. E. 3. de furlongo terre, 4. H. 6. 14. de passagio ultra aquam de T. de pastura ad certos boves, o●es, & alia averia, ac de communia pro omnibus animalibus, vel pro om●●modis averijs, vel de libera piscaria, libera warrenna, vel de Aduocatione Ecclesiae de D. vel de aliquo seruitio speciali, ut de seruitio unius fe●di Militis, unius paris Calcarium deauratorum, vel de seruitio inveniendi hominem, equitem vel peditem ad eundem, vel ad equitandum cum le Cognisee in exercitu Walliae vel Scotiae, etc. de Piscaria, 13. E. 3. de officio, 27. H. 8. fol. 12. de proficuis officij, 12. E. 3. de Aduocatione, Reg. fol. 165. de Corodio, 18. H. 6. fol. 20. 4. E. 4. 6. de chiminio, 2. E. 3. fol. 49. de proficuo molendini, 18. E. 3. fo. 56. de libero redditu in brevi, and in the concord, Quod predictus A. recogn' praedict' redditum cum pertinent simul cum homagio & fidelitate B. C. & haeredum suorum de totis tenntis quae etc. 1. E. 3. fo. 1. et 5. de frankfold ', 1. E. ●. fo. 1. de Nundinis & Mercatu, 1. E. 3. fol. 4. de franchisia, 1. E. 3. fol. 4. de Minera plumbi, & cuiuscunque geneis metalli cum pertinent, etc. Reg. fol. 165. de decimis garbarum ad Ecclesiam de N. qualiter●unq●e spectant, Reg. fol. 165. de Aduocatione tertiae partis Ecclesiae etc. or▪ detertia part advocationis Ecclesiae, or, de meditate aduocati●●is Ecclesiae, or, de advocatione medietatis Ecclesiae, 45. E. 3. 12. 33. H. 6. fol. 11. de Communia, 4. E. 4. 6. de caruca terre, de pastura ad cen●●●ues, de homagio, de feodo Militis, Reg. fol. 166. 167. And a fine may be of a Rend charge which had no being before, 21. E. 3. 44. Or, of a chief rent or other rend in b●ing, 18. E. 4. 22. Or, of a Seignory, 48. E. 3. 23. Or, of an acquitaile, 50. E. 3. 23. Or, of a chantry, 38. E. 3. 33. And of many other things may fines be levied. And as fines may be levied of things in possession, so may they be levied of a Remainder, or Reversion, 42. E. 3. 7. 44. E. 3. 45. And a Reversion or a Remainder will pass by the name of the lands, 43. E. 3. 22. But where a fine is of a reversion or a remainder, it behoveth the cognisee Of a reversion or remainder. to sue a Quid i●ris clamat against the tenant: When it is of rent, a writ Quem redditum reddi●: And where of a Signiory or services, Per que seruitia, to compel the tenant to attourne, as shall be showed hereafter. Fines may be levied of th'inheritance or freehold of parsonages, vicarages, Of Ecclesiastical lands mad● temporal. portions, pensions, tithes, oblations, or any other Ecclesiastical profit made temporal, and admitted to abide in temporal, hands, and lay uses, by the laws, and statutes of this Realm of England, 32. H. 8. cap. 7. And to conclude, fines be levyable of all things, whereof a Precipe qd ' reddat lieth, as will appear by the examples following. And lands bought of divers persons may pass in one fine, and then Of divers purchase●. the writ of Covenant must be brought by all the vendees against all the vendors: And every vendor must warrant against him and his heirs only: for it is absurd that one man should warrant the sale of an other without consideration. And such joint fines seem reasonable, especially where the several purchases be of so small value as the charges of a fine would exceed the value of some of them. But fines may not be levied of things incertain: as de tenemento, Incerteinty. Tenement. 3. E. 4. 19 11. H. 7. 25. 12. H 7. 6. 47. E. 3. Nor of lands given in tail by the king, for it is void against the issue tail by the King. entail and the king, 32. H. 8. cap. 36. Br. Fines 121. Nor of lands restrained from being sold by act of Parliament, 32. H. Restraint. 8. cap. 36. Nor of lands of the husband or of his ancestors assured for jointure, Dower. joiture. Forfeiture. dower, or in tail, to any woman by means of her husband or his ancestors, for such fine worketh a present forfeiture of her estate, if she grant a greater estate then for her life, 11. H. 7. cap. 20. Blow. fol. 459. Nor of lands seized into the king's hands before Livery or Ouster le Lands seized. main ●●ed, 24. E. 3. 65. Nor of lands in Ancient demesne: for if any fine be levied of such lands, Ancient demesne. it may be reversed by a writ of Deceit, brought by the Lord of Ancient demesne, & thereby he shallbe restored to his signory, and it seemeth to be void between the parties, quia, coram non judice, 7. H. 4. 44. 8. H. 4. 23. 21. E. 3. 20. Reg. fol. 13. b. de Fine adnullando etc. Yet it is holden good to bind the parties, 17. E. 3. 31. and 7. H. 4. Br. Fines 101. which seemeth not to be law. But if such fines be of lands in Ancient demesne and of lands at the Ancient demesne and lay fee. common law, it shallbe still good for the lands at the common law, 7. H. 4. 44. 21. E. 3. 20. By what names things may pass in Fines. NOw that we have partly set down what may pass in fines, let us Sect▪ 26. Names. see by what names the same may pass. An Honour, this may pass by the name of a Manor, or by his proper name: as de honore de Tickhill, or, de manerio de Tickhill. It sufficeth also to demand a Manor by his proper name without naming A Manor. of the Town wherein it lieth, For it may be out of any town, or extend into several towns & counties: as, de manerio de D. cum pertin', yet it seemeth best to express all the several towns into which it extendeth: as, de manerio de S. cum pertin' in D. & E. 19 Ed. 4. fol. 9 ●. 43. E. 3. fol. 9 a. Bracton Lib. 4. cap. 31. Sect▪ 3. 9 E. 4. fol. 61. 9 a 16. ● 17. b. 11. H. 7. fo. 22. b 49. For if any of the towns, into which the manor extendeth, be omitted, nothing of the Manor in that town passeth, 5. E. 4. 103. A Castle or a Hundred may be parcel of a Manor, and pass by the A castle or Hundred. Manor castle. name of the manor, whereof they be parcel, 26. Ass. 54. And one Manor may be parcel of an other, 2. E. 3. fo. 36. And a castle may be demanded by his proper name: as, de castello de B. cum pertin', 1. E. 3. fol. 4. An Hundred may be demanded by itself: as, de hundredo de S. 27. Hundred. H. 6. fol. 2. Mesuagium is a dwelling house. By the name of a Mesuage, may pass A Mesuage. a Curtelage, a garden, an orchard, a dove-house, a shop, a mill, as parcel of an house, Bracton Lib. 5. cap. 28. Sect▪ 1. Blow. fo. 169. 170. 171. The like of a cottage, a toft, a chamber, a cellar, etc. yet may they be demanded by their single names. A Chapel or an Hospital must be demanded by the name of a mesuage, A Chahpell. A Hospital. 13. Ass. 2. A Toft is the place wherein a mesuage hath stood. A Curtelage is a garden, or a yard, or fold, or a piece of void ground, A Toft. A Curtelage. lying near and belonging to a mesuage, Blow. Molendinum is good without adding ventriticum, or aquaticum: albeit A mill the latter be more usual. 44. E. 3. fol. 13. Of a Reversion, by the name of the land, or otherwise, 43. E. 3. 22. A Reversion. Land is to be demanded by the certain measure of the superficial Land. quantity thereof: as hida, carucata, bovata, virgata, acra, roda terrae. In like manner boscus, subboscus, bruera, mora, iuncaria, mariscus, & alnetum, & ruscaria, may be demanded by the number of acres thereof, 16. Ass. 9 Turbarie may be demanded by the name of More. Rend by the multitude and number of the things which are to be rendered: Rend as, x. librar, or sex denar, or uno obulat, or quinque solidat reddit'. Housebote, Haybote, and Plowbote, may be demanded by the name Estovers' of Estovers: thus, de rationabili estoverio in boscis, viz. in decem acris bosci ipsius A. in D. etc. Parsonages, Rectories, Aduowsons', Vicarages, or Tithes impropriate, A Parsonage pass not by the names de Aduocatione Ecclesiae, but de Rectoria Ecclesiae de S. cum pertin'. But when it is but of a presentation, it must be de Aduocatione ecclesiae A Presentation de S. and not, cum pertin'. And of all Vicarages endowed, the writ must be de Aduocatione A Vicarage. Vicariae Ecclesiae de S. and not cum pertin'. And where no Vicarage is endowed, it passeth under these words, de Aduocatione ecclesiae de S. etc. If an entire manor, mesuage, or other entire thing, be divided or parted, Parts severed. and after a fine is to be levied of some of the parts of the thing so severed, them must not the fine be de medietate, or de quarta part, or, other part, of the manor, mesuage, or other thing, but such part must be demanded by the name of a whole thing: As if the manor of D. be divided into 2. parts, the fine of th'one part (if the division be so made, that the manor of that part be not extinct) must be de manerio de D. So, if a mesuage and xx. acres of land be parted into two parts, the fine of th'one part must be de uno mesuagio & decem acris terre etc. and not de medietaie unius mesuagij, & xx. acrarum terre: for the things new divided from the rest, are now become whole things by themselves, though less in quantity then the whole was before division thereof made. If a thing be Twice named. twice named in a writ of Covenant, it hurteth not: as a Manor and an Hundred parcel of the same manor, 27. H. 8. 2. If lands in divers Shires pass, there must be several writs of Covenant divers Shires. thereof accordingly, and but one Concord, Dyer 227. pla. 44. 15. E. 4. 33. Of the names of the place wherein the lands do lie. ANd the place wherein the lands do lie, is taken to be parcel of the Sect▪ 27. Place. name thereof: And therefore we must regard the places wherein the lands do lie, as the shire, Town, Parish, or Hamlet: for a fine is good in a Hamlet, 38. E. 3. fol. 19 8. E. 4. fol. 6. and 7. E. 6. Br. Fines 44. & 91. Hamlet. Town decayed. or in a Town decayed, 7. E. 6. Br. Fines 91. Nevertheless, it is also good to name the Town wherein the hamlet is, as it seemeth, and that with addition, for distinction, if there be divers Towns of the same name in the same County. And if a Manor extend into divers Towns: as, A. B. C. it is good to A manor in divers towns express all or none: as, de manerio de S. in A. B. C. for if any of the towns be omitted, none of the manor in that town passeth. Yet a fine of a manor cum pertin' would have carried the whole manor, 9 E. 4. 6. But if a man have divers Manors of one name: as, South S. & North Two manors of one name. S. it is good, in a writ of one of the same manors, to express certainly which of them is intended to be passed, 47. E. 3. 12. H. 7. 6. Albeit it is thought good enough by the name of the manor of S. without addition: for certainty is always best. How several things must be placed in writs of Covenant. NOw that we have partly learned, of what things fines may be levied, Sect' 28. Orderly placing. and by what names: yet seemeth time to show in what order and form they must be therein placed one before an other, when divers things pass by one writ, for which we may observe these rules. First Worthiest. the more worthy things must be put before things less worthy: as a Mesuage is set before land, a Manor before a mesuage, a Castle before a Manor, 7. H. 6. 39 Plow. 168. 169. Secondly, things general before things special: as land (being the Things general. general, or genus to meadow, pasture, wood, juncaria, mariscus, is first to be placed: And wood (being the general to wood grounds, as alnetum salicetum etc. is to be set before them the writs. Thirdly, entire or whole things are to be set before their parts: as, Whole things Parts. de manerio de C. & medietate manerij de B. cum pertinent etc. Fourthly, parts of things excepted must succeed those things out of Things excepted. which they be excepted. And if there be divers parcels in one writ, that parcel, out of which thexception is to be made, aught to be last placed, Registr̄ fol. 6. as, de manerio de D. cum pertin' in C. (excepto uno mesuagio, duabus acris terre, & advocatione Ecclesie de C. etc.). And every thing excepted aught to be certainly named. It needeth pertinency. not to say cum pertin' after the thing excepted, 40. E. 3. 25. And thexception must always be of such things, whereof the writ will lie, and be mentioned therein, Ploughed. fol. 362. a 362. b 370. a Registr̄ fol. 228. 229. of which for the present, view th'ensample ensuing: videlicet. Praecipe A. B. quod teneat C. D. conuenc' etc. de uno mesuagio, uno cotagio, & medietate unius mesuagij, & decem acrarum terrae cum pertin', excepta una acra terrae in N. etc. And finally the form & order of placing the particulars in a writ of Regula. Covenant, is in all things as in a Praecipe quod reddat of lands. And further, observe the rule of the Register fol. 2. which partly appeareth in these Verses ensuing. suagium, tum, lendinum, umbare, dinun, ra, tum, tura, cousin, ra, Regula. Mes, tof, mol, col, gar, ter, pra, pas, bos, brew, mora. ria, cousin, tum, caria, ditus, junca, maris, alne, rus, red, sectare priora. The writ of Covenant must bear Teste before the writ of Dedimus Writ. potestatem, 35. H. 8. Br. Fines 116. Of Adjuncts proper to the writs whereof Fines be levied. OF Adjuncts proper to writs of Covenant, and other writs upon Sect. 29. which fines be usually levied, some be internal Adjuncts, and some external. Adjuncts internal be the days of return, and the date or Teste of the Adjuncts internal. writ, which be also common to other writs. In the Return it is to be observed, that there be xv. days at the Return. least between the Teste, and the day limited for the return thereof. 12. E. 4. 11. The Teste or date must not be upon any Sunday, or other festival Teste. day, which is not dies iuridicus in Court. External Adjuncts to writs be, the writing, the Latin, the affidavit, external. or composition, the signing, and the payment of the fine, and returning, which be in like manner common to other writs. Touching the writing thereof, it is meet to be fair written without Writing. rasing or interlining of any principal matter therein, for such rasing Rasing. Interlining. False Latin. or interlining will overthrow the writ in some cases, 45. E. 3. 18. Also it behoveth that there be no false Latin in any such writs, 7. H. 6. 34. And therefore such writs should heedfully be examined twice or thrice Examination of Writs. over, for fear of errors. The form used in the returning of such writs will appear amongst Returns. the precedents, for the returns are nothing else but the Sheriffs' answers touching that they are commanded to do by the same writs. Upon what writs fines may be levied. For so much as no fine can be levied but upon some original writ, Originals. Stat. de Finibus, 18. Edw. 1. we are now to consider upon what original writs fines are leviable. A writ of Covenant is the most usual writ whereupon fines are levied, Covenant. Fitz. Nat. bre. fol. 146. f. 35. H. 8. Br. Fines 116. Carliel St. 15. E. 2. Yet may fines be levied upon a writ Warrantia cartae, 18. E. 4. 22. Warrantia cartae. Mesne. Customs & services. Carliel St. 15. E. 2. Or upon a writ of Mesne, 18. E. 4. 2. Or upon a writ de Consuetudinibus & Seruitijs, 22. Ass. p. 37. Pasc. 14. Eliz. Dyerfol. 179. pla. 46. Or upon any writs of Right, 7. E. 3. fo. 335. Blow. fol. 358. Right. Without original. Yet Tremayle justice holdeth, that if in a Praecipe quod reddat against the tenant for life, which maketh default after default, he in the reversion or remainder be received, a fine may be levied of the land between the demandant and him in the reversion or remainder, Ideo Quaere, 21. E. 4. 4. A fine may be upon a writ Quod permittat habere chiminum ultra Quod permittat. terram le Cognizor, 2. E. 3. 19 Fitzh. Fines 102. The several forms of Concords. A Concord is the very agreement between the parties how the Sect. 30. lands shall pass, in the form whereof many things are to be regarded: As if it be single, whether it be sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done, Or, sur grant, done, release, or confirmation. Or if it be a double fine with a render, what estates are to be created thereby, and of the reservation of Rents nomine penae, and clause of distress, and services, with the clause of warranty. For which it is to be noted, that when a fine is levied to divers Cognizees, the right shall be limited to one of them only, and th'estate limited to his heirs only whose right it is knowledged to be, 3. H. 6. 42. 21. E. 3. 33. 43. E. 3. 11 24. E. 3, 64. as this: Et est Concordia talis, scilicet, quod pndictus A. cogn tennt predict ' come pertin' esse ius ipsius B. ut ill', quae ijdem B. & C. hennt de dono praed' A. Et ill' remisit & quiet' clam' de se & haeredibus suis praefatis B. & C. & haeredibus ipsius B. etc. But the king's tenant in Capite may knowledge the right of his lands to be in divers for the king's benefit, in having many such tenants in Capite, 7. H. 7. 4. And likewise the release and warranty must be from the heirs of one of the Cognizors, 44. E. 3. 21. for in a fine from divers, the fee must be supposed to be in one of them only, 21. E. 3. 33. In a fine sur grant and render, none can take the first estate upon the render, but some of the Cognizors, but Reversions or Remainders any estranger may take: For if A. knowledge a fine to B. and B. render to the said A. Habendum sibi & E. uxori eius, and the heirs of theri bodies etc. by this fine E. must have none estate, because she is not named in the writ, 24. E. 3. 28. 30. H. 8. Br. Fines 108. 7. E. 3. 64. And a man cannot by fine by way of remainder reserve a less estate to himself then fee: And therefore if A. knowledge a fine to B. in fee, and he render to A. in tail, the remainder to himself for life, this remainder is void, for A. had fee simple before, 24. E. 3. 28. 14. H. 4. 31. And a Concord cannot be of any other thing than is contained in the writ of Covenant, and not of a foreign thing, if it be not consequent: As in a writ of land, rent, common, etc. may be rendered issuing out of it, 18. E. 4. 22. And a Concord may be with an exception of some part, 44. E. 3. 21. If a man will, he may make a jointure by fine thus: If I. levy a fine to A. in fee sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc. and after A. render to I for life without impeachment of waist, the remainder to B. his wife for term of her life, the remainder to I. and his heirs, 38. H. 8, Br. Fines 108. The Manors & tenements contained in the writ may be divided: As if a fine be levied between R. and M. of two. manors, which M. knowledgeth all his right of the said two. manors to be the right of the said R. as that which &c. for which R. granteth & rendereth th'one manor to M. for life, with two. parts of the other manor, which N. holdeth in dower, To have th'one manor, and two parts of the other manor, to M. for life, the remainder after her death to R. in tail, and that after the death of A, the third part shall remain to an other, 43. E. 3. 11. 45. E. 3. 12. And in like manner a fine is levied of the manor of G. cum pertinent by A. unto C: which A. knowledgeth the right in C, as that etc. and C. granteth and rendereth the same to A. in tail, The remainder of the 4. part of the manor towards the west to the said A. and her heirs, the remainder of an other 4. part towards the East to I. in fee, the remainder of an other 4. part towards the South to one R. in fee, and of the other 4, part towards the North to W. and his heirs, it is good, 44. Ass. p. 11. Or incerteinly by 3. third parts to A. B. and C. in remainder severally, 18. H. 7. Br. Fines 111. A fine levied to one in tail upon condition with remainder is holden to be good, 27. H. 8. 24. Plowd. 34. b. 24. E. 3. 62. Contra per Prisot 33. H. 6. 52. and 44. E. 3. 22. But a fine with a reentry was rejected, 44. E. 3. 22. A lease for years may be made by a fine in this form: The less must knowledge the tenements to be tthe right of the lessor, as that etc. and then the lessor must grant the lands back again to the lessee for so many years as are agreed upon, reserving a rent with a clause of distress: But this fine will not bind the issue in tail, because he taketh by the fine but giveth nothing thereby, Br. Fines 106. tempore H. 8. 36. H. 8. Br. Fines 118. Plow. 455. 14. Eliz. Or, a lease for years may be made by fine to bind the tenant in tail, thus: The tenant in tail and the lessee to knowledge the tenements to be the right of an estranger as that etc. and the Cognizee to grant and render the tenements to the lessee for certain years yielding a rent with a clause of distress, and then grant the reversion to the tenant in tail, 36. H. 8. Br. Fines 118. If an estranger, which hath nothing in the lands, levy a fine to him in the remainder in tail dependent sur estate pur vie, sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done etc. and the cognizee by the same fine render to the cognizor for years, de commencer all Mich. ensuant, and dieth, and all the proclamations are made after his death, The tenant for life after such time as the said leas is limited to begin dieth, it is adjudged a good leas to bar the issue in tail for the term, 14. Eliz. Ploughed. fol. 437. b. inter Smyth & Stapleton, which seemeth contrary to the opinion before, Br. Fines 106. 118. A. by fine granteth his tenements, which I. holdeth for life, and which after his decease etc., to W. for life, rendering rend etc. with a distress, saving the Reversion, 44. E. 3. 45. Fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc., is levied to A. in fee rendering rend, this reservation is void, because the fine is executed, for no reservation can be but of a fine executory, as sur render, 50. E. 3. 9 24. E. 3. 26. 39 E. 3. 1. And if divers join in a fine, the warranty must be by them, and the heirs of one of them which is the owner of the land, 44. E. 3. 1. 21. E. 3. 27. 42. E. 3. 13. 24. E. 3. 66. Contr̄ sur terres de Gavelkind, ibm'. A particular tenant, as for life etc. cannot surrender his term to him in the reversion or remainder by fine: But he may grant and release it to him by fine, 44. E. 3. 36. One Concord may be of lands in several Counties, and the fine pro licenc' concord ' of all extracted entirely: Yet must there be several writs of Covenant, returnable all at one day, 6. Eliz. Dyer fol. 227. pl. 44. 15. E. 4. 33. And finally in Concord, all the special names of things contained in the writ, whereupon the fine is levied, are not to be rehearsed, But only the general words therein mentioned: as manor, tenements, rents, advowson, common, etc. As where the writ is de uno messuagio, uno gardino, uno pomario, decem acr terrae, v. acr prati, x. acr pasturae, iiij. acr bosci, & communia pastur' cum pertin' in C. etc. The Concord hath, Recogn tennta & coinam praedictam cum pertinentijs esse ius etc. But the examples following will more plainly express this, and all the differing forms of Concord's here before mentioned. A writ of Covenant of 3▪ messages, and of common of pasture. PRaecipe etc. de tribus mesuag' etc. come pertin' in D. & T. & de communia Sect. 31. pastur', pro omnibus & omnimodis averijs, ac de pastura pro 400. o●ibus cum pertin' in D. in parochia de C. Et nisi etc. Of one messsage, one curtilage, one garden, of a rent, and of sheepewalke. PRaecipe etc. de uno mesuag', uno curtilagio, uno gardino etc. ac Sect. 32. v. li. reddit' cum pertin' in F. Necnon de libert unius faldagij & cursu ovium cum pertin' in F. Et nisi etc. Of Wood, and a Foldage. PRaec' etc. de centum acr bosci cum pertin' in N. ac de libertate faldagij Sect. 33. pro xl. ovibus cum pertin' in S. Et nisi etc. Of Wood PRaecipe etc. de etc. & quatuor virgat bosci etc. in parochijs de B. Sect. 34. & L. etc. Of 2. parts in 3. parts divided of 8. acres of land, of pasture▪ acres of reed, and of fresh and salt marsh land. PRaecipe etc. de duabus partibus in tres parts diuidend', viii. acr Sect. 35. terrae, lx. acr' pastur', lx. acr' arun dinarum, x. acr marisci frisci, & ma●sci salsi cum pertinent in D. etc. Et nisi etc. Of a parsonage impropriate and of the moiety of the tithes. PRaec' etc. de Rector impropriat de H. cum pertin', ac de medietate Sect. 36. omnium decimarum, granor, bladorum, garbar', & foeni, de terris vocat' le B. lands cum pertin' in H. praedict' &c. Et nisi etc. Of a manor, of rent, and free foldage for sheep. PRaecipe etc. de manner de etc. & decem solid' redd', ac de libero faldagio Sect. 37. ovium cum pertin' in R. & de Hundred ' de L. Et nisi etc. A writ of Covenant by one of the Queen's Secretaries of the 3. part of 4. messages, 4. cottages, one mill, gardens, orchards, lands, meadow, pasture, more turbarie and rent, the 3. part of the view of frank pledge, of goods and cattles wayved, of felons, fugitives, put in exigent, felon● de se, deodans, treasure found, extrahur. and of the 3. part of a Parsonage. PRaecipe W. S. Militi dno M. quod ten' W. C. Milit, principal' Secretary, Sect. 37. dnae Regin̄ conuenc' etc. de tertia part iiij mess. iiij. cotag', unius molendin, x. gardin, x. pomar, 200. acr terrae, 200. acr' prati, 200. acr pastur', 30. acr morae, 30. acr' turbar, & v. s. redd' come pertin' in A. B. C. D. ac de tertia part Vis. franci pleg', bonor & catallor waviat, felon', fugitivorum, vtlag●t̄, in exigent positorum, ▪ de se, deodand', thesaur' inuent', ac extrahur̄ cum pertinentijs in M. etc. Necnon de tertia part Rector̄ ecclesiae de K. cum pertin'. Et nisi etc. A writ of Covenant of Tithes. L●i●. ss. PRaecipe T. N. Milit, qd' ten' T. P. conuenc' etc. de proficuis Sect. 38. granor, foeni, lanae, & agnor, ac de omnimod' alijs decimis cum pertinentijs in M. Et nisi etc. A writ of, Covenant of the Scite of a Monastery of messages, of common of pasture for all manner of beasts, of rent, and of rend hens, and rend work. Derb. ss. PRaec' A. B. quod ten' C. D. conuenc' de situ Monast. de Sect. 39 B. cum pertinent, Ac de xx. messuag' etc. ac de communia pastur' pro omnibus animal', ac de C. s. reddit', ac de redditu C. galinar, & C. oper' cum pertinent in E. & F. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. quod pndictus A. B. recognovit praed' situm tennt, communiam pastur', & redd' come pertinentijs esse ius ipsius C. ut ill' &c. (cum relax ' & warrant' etc. A writ of Covenant against the Father and his son, and heir apparent, of cottages, toftes, barns, watermils, of one windmill, doufehouses, gardens, orchards land, meadow, pasture, wood, marish, furs, heath, moor, rent, half a pound of rent pepper, of a mine of coal, and the advowson of a Church. Linc. ss. PRaecipe F. M. armig', & T. M. filio & haeredi apparent Sect. 40. eiusdem F. quod ten' F. F. & N. R. gentleman conuenc' etc. de manner de T. S. & H. juxta N. super Trentam, Ac de xl. mes. xx. cotag', xl. toft ', thirty. horreiss, ij. molend' aquatic', uno molend' ventritico, iij. columbar, xl. gardin, xl pomar, mill acr terrae, mi●le acris prati, mill acr pasturae, 500 acr bosci, 100 maris. 100 iampn & brewer, 100 acr alnetis, 110. acr iuncar, 500 acr morae, iiij. libr' reddit', & redd' dimid' unius librae piperis cum pertin' in T. etc. Ac etiam de minera carbon̄ cum pertin' in T. & S. Necnon de Aduocac' Ecclesiae de T. & H. Et nisi etc. A writ of Covenant of Dimes and Tithes. Notting. ss. PRaec' D. E. qd' &c. teneat R. Y. armig' conuenc' etc. de Sect. 41. decimis garbarun, granorum, & foeni cum pertin' in R. & W. Ac de decima foeni in V Necnon de decimis lani, agnorum, oblationum, ob●entionū, & emolumentorum, & de omnibus alijs decimis quibuscu●que, venien, crescent, & renovan in W. praedict'. Et nisi etc. A writ of Covenant against the husband and the wife of a Parsonage, and of the advowson of a Vicarage, and of messages, cottages, barns, and gardens. PRaecipe T. B. & A. uxori eius, quod ten' C. W. armig ' Sect. 42. conuenc' etc. de Rectoria de L. ac de aduo●ac' vicar de L. ac de decem mesuag. x. cotag', x. horreiss, x. gardin etc. cum pertin' in L. praed'. Et nisi etc. Praec' etc. qd' just etc. de x. mes. etc. in W. Necnon de Rectoria eccles. de G. & de decim granor, foeni, lane, agnor, & omnium aliar' decimarum quarumcunque in G. praed'. Ac etiam de aduocac' Vicar' ecclesiae de G. praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et nisi etc. A fine knowledged by one to two persons, of six messages with warranty against him and his heirs. Surrey. ss. PRaecipe W. W. quod just etc. ten̄● L. & A. P. con etc. Sect. 43. de sex mesuagijs etc. cum pertiner in C. W. & E. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scil●cet quod praedict' W. recogn' predict ' tenementa cum pertinent esse ius ipsius I. ut ill' quae ijdem I. & A. habent de dono praedict' W. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clam' de se & haered' suis praedict' I. & A. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea idem W. concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod ipse warrant' praedict' I. & A. & haered' ipsius I praedict' tenementa cum pertinent contra praedict' W. & haered' suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine by the husband and wife to two, of messages, toftes, lands, meadows, pasture, and rent, with warranties, against the Conusor and his heirs. Surrey. ss. PRaecipe I. T. & A. uxori eius, quod just etc. ten' W. Sect. 44. R. & R. D. conuenc' etc. de quatuor mesuag', quatuor toftiss, xl. acr terrae, xx. acris prati, 120. acr pastur', & quinque solid' & iiij. denar reddit' cum pertinent in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' I. & A. recogn' praedictum tenementum cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. & R. habent de dono praedictorum I. & A. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de ipsis I. & A. & haeredibus ipsius I. praefat' W. & R. & haeredibus ipsius W. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijden I. & A. concesserunt pro se et haeredibus ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' praedictis W. & R. & haered' ipsius W. praed' tenntum cum pertin' contra predict' I. & A. & haeredes ipsius I. imperpet●um. Et pro hac recogn', remissione, quiet' clamation, warrant', fine, & concord', ijdem W. & R. dederunt praedictis I. & A. ducentas & quadraginta libras sterlingorum. A fine by two, and the wife of the one of them of land, meadow, pasture, and of wood, with warranty against the Conusor and his heirs. Lincoln. ss. PRaecipe R. B. gen, & T. R. & M. vxor' eius, quod ten' Sect. 45. T. B. gen conuenc' etc. de triginta acr terrae, duabus acr prati, tribus acr pasturae, & sex acris bosci cum pertinentijs in C. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' R. T. & M. recognoverunt tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius T. B. ut illa quae idem T. habet de dono praedictorum R. T. & M. Et ill' remiserunt et quiet' clamauer' de ipsis R. T. & M. & haered' ipsius R. praefa● T. B. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem R. T. & M. concesser' pro se & haered' ipsius R. quod ipsi warrant' tenementa praedict' come pertin' praefat' T. B. & haered' suis contra praedict' R. T. & M. et haered' ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine by one and his wife to one of the reversion of the 3. part of 7. messages, of gardens, lands, meadow, pasture, and wood, after the death of one with warranty against the Con●sor and his heirs. Surrey. ss. PRaecipe T. W. & K. vxor' eius, quod just etc. teneant Sect. 46. G. S. conuenc' inter ●os fact', de tertia part, viii. mesuag', sept gardin, lx. acr terr', x. acr' prati, xx. acr pastur', quinquaginta acr bosci cum pertin' in A. B. C. & D. ¶ Et est concordia talis, s●z. quod praedict' T. & K. recogn' tertiam part praedict' come pertin' esse ius praedict' G. & concess. quod eadem tertia par● cum pertin', quam M. B. vid' tenet ad terminum vitae suae de haereditate ip sius K. die quo haec concordia facta fuit, & quae post mortem eiusdem M. ad ipsos T. & K. reverti debuit, reman' praef. G. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. Praeterea ijdem T. & K. concess. pro se & haered' ipsius K. quod ipsi warrant' praefat' G. & haeredib' suis tertiam partem praed' come pertin' sicut praedictum est contra se & haered' ipsius K. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine by a Lord, Baron and his wife, to an archbishop and one other of three manors, messages, toftes, cottages, mills, barns, gardens, lands, meadow, pasture, wood, furs, and heaths, of rent, of the advowson of a Church, and of the view of frank pledge with warranty against them and their heirs. Mid▪ ss. PRaecipe I. L. Militi, dno L. & I. vxor' eius, qd' just & Sect. 47. sine dilatione teneant Reverendo in Ch●isto patri T. Y. permissione divina Archiepiscopo Ebor' Anglie primatis, & G. L. conuenc' inter eos fact' de manerijs de R. K. & M. cum pertin', ac de quinquagint messuagijs quingentis toftiss, ducentis cotagijs, sex molendinis, quingentis horreiss, quingentis, gardin, quinque mill acre terre, mill acris prati, sex mill acr pasture, mill acris bosci, decem mill acr iampnorum & bruere, ac de quingent libr' reddit' cum pertin' in R. C. A. alias S. T. V with▪ & E. Ac de Aduocatione Ecclesie de E. predict'. Ac de Visu franci pleg' de R. C. & A. praedict'. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis, scz. quod praedictus I. L. Miles, dominus L. & I. vxo● eius, recogn' maneria, tennta, redditus, advocationem, & vis. franci pleg' predict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius T. Y. Archiepiscopi Ebor', Et ill' que idem T. Y. Archiepus & G. L. habeant de dono predictorum I. L. & I. uxor eius. Et ill' remiser T. Y. Archiepo & G. L. & hered' ipsius T. Y. Archiepiscopi imperpetuum. Et ulterius ijdem I. L. & I. uxor eius, concesser' pro se & hered' ipsius L. quod ipsi warrantizabunt maneria, tennta, reddit', aduocac', & vis. francipleg' praed' come pertin' praed' T. Y. Archiepo Eborum, & G. L. & hered' ipsius T. Y. Archiepi contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine by two to one of manors, mills, dovehouses rents, & common of pasture, with warranty against the conusors and the heirs of one of them. ET est concordia, scilicet quod praedict' A. & B. recogn' praedict' manner, Sect' 48. molendin, columbar, tennt, reddit', & co●am pastur' cum pertinent esse ius ipsius C. ut ill' quae ijdem C. & D. habent de dono ipsorum A. & B. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clam' de se & hered' ipsius A. praedict' C. & D. & hered' ipsius C. imperpetuum. Et preterea idem A. concessit pro se & heredibus suis, quod ipsi warrant' praedict' C. & D. & hered' ipsius C. praed' manner, molendinum, columbarium, tennt reddit', & communiam pastur' cum pertin' contra se & hered' suos imperpetuum. Et ulterius idem B. concess it pro se & hered' suis etc. (ut supra.) A Fine by one and his wife to one of one manor, of messages, tofts, cottages, barns, one water mill, a fulling mill, a wind mill, a dove-house, gardens, orchards, land meadow pasture, wood, furs, heath, moor, fresh & salt marsh, rent, free fishing, the advowson of a Church by turns with a general warranty. Devon. ss. PRaecipe I. H. & V. uxorieius, quod just etc. ten' R. P. Sect' 49. generos. conuenc' etc. de manerio de B. cum pertin', ac de viginti messuagijs, duobus, toftiss, sex cotagijs, 4. horreiss, uno molend' aquatico, uno molendino ventritico uno columbario, viginti gardinis, decem pomarijs, centum ac● terre, centum acris prati, mill acris pastur', decem acris bosci, viginti acris saliceti, centum acris iampnorum & buere, viginti acris more, viginti acris turbarie, triginta acris mosset, sex acr iuncar, xx. acr marisci frisci, & xx. acr marisci salsi, duobus acris alnetis, x. marcis reddit' cum pertin' in B. C. & D. Necnon de liberis piscar in aquis de O. C. & D. Ac de seperali piscar in aqua de S. Necnon de Aduocatione ecclesiae de B. alternis vicibus cum acciderit. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis, scz. quoth praed' I. & V recogn' maneria, tenementa, reddit', & liber piscar praedict' come pertin', ac advocationem praedictam esse ius ipsius R. ut ill' que idem R. habuit de dono praedictorum I. & V. Et illa remis. & quiet' clam' de ipsis I. & V & hered' ipsius I. predict' R. & heredibus suis imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem I. & V. concesserunt prose & heredibus ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' praedicto R. & hered' & assignatis suis pndict̄ manner, tenementa, redd', & liber piscar cum pertin', ac aduocac' praedict' contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognitione, remissione, quiet' clam', warrant', fine, & concordia, idem R. dedit pndictis I. & V xl. li. A Fine by one de honore D. castro vicecomit' de S. cum hundred▪ insula d● D. baronia de D. hundredo de D. burgo de D. uno feod' milit' de D. Scit', ambit' & precinct, of a monastery, a manor, the scite of a manor, a grange, a park, a prebend, one capital messsage, mosses, tofts cottages, a dove-house a fulling mill, a water mill, a wind mill, and of divers other things. HEc est finalis etc. Anno regni etc. coram etc. Iustic' & alijs dominae Sect' 50. Reg. fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, inter I. A. quer' & M. B. deforc', De honore D. castro vicecomitat de S. cum hundred ' membris & pertinent' suis, Insula de D. Baronia de D. hundred ' de D. burgo de D. uno feod' milit in D. Scit, Ambit, & precinct' nuper Monasterij de D. manerio de D. cum pertin', Sit manerij de D. grangia de C. parco de D. praebend' de D. uno capitali mess. 2. mess. 2. toftiss, 2. cottag', 1. columb. 1. molendino fullonico, 1. molend' aquatico, 1. molend' ventritico, 1. molend' granat', 1. molend' bladar, 1. horreo, 1. gardin, 1. pomar 10. acr terre, 10. acr prati, 20. acr pasture, 4. acr bosci, 40. acr iampnor & bruere, 30. acr more, 50. acr▪ marisci salsi, 9 acr marisci frisci, 30. acr turbar', 9 acr iuncar', 6. acr alnetis, 6. acr mos●eti, 4. acr terr' aqua coopert̄ communia pastur' pro omnibus vel omnimod' animalibus, pro 100 ovibus, 10. equis, vaccis, porcis, spadonibus, etc. libera warrena, liber piscar, libertate faldagij, libera falda, cisio, salm, plumbar, aque , puteo, vigint libr', 10. marcat decem solidor, uno denario, uno obulo & quadrant reddit'. ✿ Acreddit unius paris Chirothecarum, unius par̄ calcarium deaurat, sagitte barbate, unius par̄ calceorum, unius vomeris, 1. libre cere, 1. libr' piperis, 1. libre cumini, 1. clavi gariophili, 1. rose rub, 1. acus & fili, 1. quarterij frumenti, 1, quarter ordei, 2. brac●i caponun, 40. gallorun, 20. gallinarum, mill ovorum, & au carum cum pertin' in D. Ac de communia pasture quam praedict' M. B. habet & habere solebat pro omnibus averijs suis in centum acris pasture ipsius I. A. in D. Ac de omnibus vel omnimodis oblationibus, decimis granorum, garbarum, foeni, lanae, lini, canabis. porcellorum, aucarum, agnellorum, etc. & alijs emolumentis quibuscunque spectant, pertinent, crescentibus sive existent cum pertinentijs in D. Ac de theolonio, stallagio, picagio, pontagio, infra burgum de D. quodam corrodio unius panis, unius lagenae ceruisiae pro omnibus hominibus in D. Et de gurgite & cursu aque current a loco vocat' H. infra & per terr' vocat' K. ad molend' vocat' S. Wera sive veda in D. Ac de vis. franc' pleg' libertate & franchesijs in D. Necnon de custod' sive officio custod' de B. custod' parci & forest de D. Ac de officio Seneschalciae de D. Balliva sive officio ballivat de D. Necnon de Nundinis de D. singulis annis ad festa de N. M. ibidem ●enend, Mercat de D. quiet' sive libero passagio ultra de aquam D. Rectoria de D. advocatione, presentation, donatione, libera dispositione, & iure patronat Ecclesie de D. quadam porcione decimarum aut pencionum in D. Necnon de medietate manerij de D. cum pertin', & de tertia part tennt de C. in tribus partibus divis. Except & omnino reseruat patronagio una cum aduocatione Vicariae ecclesiae de D. & Capell ' eidem Rectoriae annex', ac o●bus decimis granorum, vis. franc' pleg', ac o●bus que ad vis. franc' pleg' pertinent, wardis, maritagijs, eschaet, cattall' felonum, waviat, extrahur, felon' fugitivorum, utlagat, attinct' cum terr' & tenement' utlagat & waivat, quibuscunque ferijs, mercat, wrecc' maris, ac ●ot & tantis iuribus, iurisdictionibus, privilegijs, franches. & libertat tenemnt̄ praedict', aut aliquod eorum concernent & eidem M. B. & heredibus suis ut de manerio de D. spectant. unde placit● conventionis summonit fuit inter eos in eadem Curia. Scilicet, quod praedict' M▪ recogno●it praedict' honorem, castrum, vicecomitatum, Ins●l●m, baroniam, h●ndredum, burgum, feod' milit, scitum, manerium, parcum, prebend', tenement', reddit', communiam pasturae, liberam, warrenam, liberam piscariam, libertatem salin, plumbarum, bullar, puteum, rector, decimas, oblationes, theoloneum, stallagium, picagium, pontagium, corrod', gurgitem, vis, franc' pleg', libertates, franches. custod', officium seneschall', ballivat, nundinas, mercatas, feriam, passagium, wreccum maris, medietatem & tertias partes cum pertinent: Ac advocationes, presentationes, liberam dispositionem, ius patronat, portionem, & pencionem praedictas esse ius ipsius I. illa que idem I. habet de dono pnd' M. Et ill' remis. & quet clam' de se & heredibus suis praed' I. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea idem M. concess. pro se & hered' suis, quod ipse warrant' praed' I. & hered' suis praedict' honorem, castrum, vicecomitatum, insulam, etc. (ut supra) contra se & heredes suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognitione, fine, etc. A Fine of a rent by an Earl and his wife. Nottingh. ss. PRaecipe I. Comiti H. & domine K. uxori eius Comitissae Sect' 51. H. quod just & sine dilatione ten' W. C. conuenc' etc. Te quadraginta libr' annui reddit' exeuntis de maneriis de E. etc. Et nisi etc. Et est Concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' Comes & Comitiss. recognoverunt reddit' praedictum cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. ut illa que idem W. habet de dono praedictorum Comitis & Comitisse. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de se & heredibus suis praefat' W. & heredibus suis imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem Comes & Comitissa concedunt pro se & heredibus ipsius Comitis, quod ipsi warrant' redd' pndict̄ cum pertin' pref. W. & hered' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum, Et pro hac etc. A Fine of the third part of a rent by the husband and wife. Suffolk. ss. PRaec' R. & I. uxori eius, quod teneant H. C. convenc ' Sect' 52. etc. de tertia part quinque libr' sex solid' & octo denar̄ reddit' cum pertinentijs exeun de manerijs de K. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praed' R. & I. recognover tertiam partem praedict' come pertin' esse ius ipsius H. ut ill' quam idem H. habeat de dono praed' R. & I. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de se & heredibus ipsius I. pref. H. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem R. & I. concesser' pro se & heredibus ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' pref. H. & hered' suis predictam tertiam partem cum pertinent contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine of a parsonage exceeding the advowson of the vicarage of the same parsonage. PRaec' etc. Con etc. de Rectoria de T. cum pertin', except Aduocatione Sect' 53. vicar ecclesiae de T. Et nisi etc. Et est etc. quod praedict' A. recogn' Rectoriam praed' come pertin' (except praeexcept) esse ius etc. Et ill' remis. etc. (except precept.) Et praeterea idem etc. concess. pro se etc. quod ipse warrant' predict' &c. Rectoriam praedict' come pertin' (except praeexcept) etc. A writ of covenant brought by three against three of one manor, 10. mesnages, 8. cottages, and of land, meadow, pasture, moor, and of rent. Ebor'. PRaec' C. B. & F. uxori eius quod ten' E. D. & R. con etc. de Sect' 54. manerio de S. cum pertin', ac de x. messuag', viii. cotag', CC. acr terre, CC. acr prati, 160. acr pasture, 300. acr more, & vj. s. redd' come pertin' in A. F. B. & C. Et nisi fecerint etc. A Concord with a Render for life to the husband and the wife being the conusors of parcel of manors and lands contained in the writ of Covenant, the remainder to the first and second begotten son of the conusors in tail, and to the heirs males, and for default of such issue, then to the conusors in general tail, and for default of such issue then to the right heirs of the conusors for ever, with grant and render of x. messages etc. residue of the same manor etc. to the said conusors. ET est Concordia talis, scilicet quod praedictus T. & F. recogn' manner, Sect' 55. tenementa, & redd' praedict' come pertin' esse ius ipsius E. ut ill' que ijdem E. & R. habent de dono predict' T. & F. Et illa remiser & quiet' clam' de ipsis T. & F. & hered' ipsius F. pref. E. & R. & hered' ipsius E. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem T. & F. concesser' pro se & hered' ipsius F. quod ipsi warrant' manerium tennta, & redd' come pertin' pref. E. & R. & hered' ipsius E. contra ipsos T. & F. & hered' ipsius F. imperpetuum. Et pro hac recogn' etc. ijdem E. & R. concesser' pref. T. & F. manner de S. pred' cumpertin ac x. mesuag', viii. cotag'. 20. acr terr', 20. acr prati, 160. acr' pasture, 300. acr' more, 6. solid' redditus cum pertin' in A. & F. predictis, parcellas manner, tenementorum & redd' praedict'. Et ill' eye reddider in eadem curia. ✿ Habendum & tenendum pref. T. & F. pro termino vitae ipsorum T. & F. & alterius eorum diutius viuent' absque impetitione alicuius vasti. Et quod post decessum praedict' T. & F. & eorum alterius diutius viuent', praedict' ꝑcell' maner', ten̄torum, & redd' praed' come pertin' reman' primogentio filio de corporibus praedict' T. & F. inter eos legitim procreat' & hered' mascul' de corpore praedict' primogenit' filii & legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. ✿ Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius primogeniti filii fuer' legitime procreat', praed' parcel ' manner, ten̄torum, & reddit' pred' cum pertin' reman' secundo genito filio de corpore predict' T. & F. inter eos legitime procreat', & hered' mascul' de corpore dicti secundi geniti filii legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. ✿ Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius secundi geniti filijfuer legitime procreat', tunc pnd' parcell' mane●, tenntorum, & redd' praedict' come pertinent reman' hered' de corporibus pnd' T. & F. inter eos legitim procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et si nullus heres de corpor ipsorum T. & F. inter eos fuer' legitime procreat', tunc praedict' parcell' manner, tenntorum, & redd' pnd' cum pertin' remaner inde rectis hered' ipsorum T. & F. imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. Et ulterius ijdem E. & R. concess. praef. T. & F. decem messuag' etc. cnm pertin' in B. & C. praed' residuum pnd' manner tenntor̄ & redd' praedict'. Et ill' eye redd' in eadem Cur'. A Fine of one acre of land, homage, rent, and services. Salop'. PRaecipe E. T. armig', quoth te● N. P. con̄ de una acr terre, & Sect' 56. quindecim solidos redđ cum pertin' in G. & F. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis, scz. quoth praed' E. T. recognovit praed' acr t̄re cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius N. ut ill' quam idem N. habeat de dono praed' E. Et ill' remisit & quiet' clam' de se & heredibus suis pref. N. & heredibus suis imperpetum. Et pnd' E. concessit pref. N. praed' reddit' simul cum homagio & toto seruitio I. H. & heredum suorum detot tenntis quot praed' E. prius tenuit de F. praedict'. Habenđ, percipienđ, & gaudenđ pnd' reddit' simul cum homagio & toto seruitio praed' N. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et praed' E. & hered' sui warrant' pred' N. & hered' suis praed' acr terre & redd' praed' come pertin' simul cum homagio & toto seruitio praed' (sic ut dictum est) contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine of a Manor and seven. knight's fees, homages and services in the same manor, by the husband and the wife and others. INter H. W. & I. B. quer', & T. M. militem, & T. filium eiusdem T. & E. Sect' 57 uxorem eiusdem T. filii, & W. M. deforc', de manerio de T. cum pertin', unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet quod praedict' T. T. E. & W. recogn' praedict' manerium cum pertinent esse ius ipsius H. ut illud quod ijdem H. & I. habeant de dono praed' T. T. E. & W. una cum septem feodis Militum in eodem manerio. Et concesser' praedict' H. & I. praed' manerium & feod' cum pertin' simul cum homagijs & onibus seruitijs M. W. & I. N. & hered' suorum, de tot tenemntis quot de pnd' T. T. E. & W. prius tenuerunt in eodem Manerio. Et ill' eye reddider in eadem cur'. Habend' & tenend' ijsdem H. & I. & hered' ipsi' H. de capital' dominis feodi illius per seruitia que ad praed' Manerium & feoda pertinent imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem T. T. E. & W. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrant' pnd' H. & I. & hered' ipsius H. predict' manerium & feoda cum pertinentijs sicut pnd' est, contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognitione, concessione, warrantia, fine, & concordia, ijdem H. & I dederunt praed' T. T. E. & W. vigint libr' sterlingorum. An old fine in Frankalmoigne of the advowson of a Church, knowledged to a Prior and his Church before justices in Eire, in Anno 55. of King john. HEc est finalis concordia facta in Cur' domini Regis apud Lincoln Sect' 58. in Octab. Sancti Mich. Anno regni Regis Henrici filii Regis johannis 55. coram R A. G. P. W. W. W. H. & I. O. justiciarijs itinerantibus & alijs domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, inter I. D. petent, & Priorem de C. deforc', de Aduocac' ecclesie de D. cum pertinentijs unde placitum conuenc' sum fuit inter eos in eadem Cur', scz. qd' praedict' I. recognovit praedict' Advocation cum pertinent esse ius ipsius Prioris & ecclesie sue sancte Marie de C. ut illa quam idem Prior & ecclesia sua habent de dono W. filii W. antecessoris ipsius I. cuius heres ipse est: Habend' & tenend' eidem Priori & successoribus suis & ecclesiae sue praedict', de praedict' I. & heredibus suis in puram & perpetuam eleemosinam, liberam & quiet', ab omni seruitio seculari & executione imperpetuum. Et praedict' I. & hered' sui warrant', acquietabunt, & defend' eidem Priori & success. suis & eccles. sue praedictam advocationem cum pertin' etc. Et pro hac etc. idem Prior remit praed' I. singulis beneficijs & orationibus que de cetero fient in ecclesia sua predict' imperpetuum. A concord of one messsage etc. in the county Palantine of Lancaster. Lancaster HEc est finalis concordia fact' in Curia dominae Reginae Sect' 59 apud L. die lune in quinta septimana quadragesime, anno regni Eliz. dei gratia Anglie, Francie, & Hibernie Reginae fidei defensor etc. 32. coram I. Clench tertio Baron̄ Scaccar dnae Reginae, & F. R. uno Seruientium dnae Reg. ad legem Iustic' domin' Reg. apud L. & alijs dictae dnae Reg. fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus inter H. T. & R. H. quer', & W. C. gen deforc', de uno mesuag' etc. come pertin' in T. unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scz. quod praedictus W. recognovit etc. A lease for years by fine, if one of the conusors live so long, reserving a rent. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe F. T. & M. uxori eius, quod just etc. ten' I. H. & K. Sect' 60. uxori eius conuenc' etc. Et est concordia etc. scz. quod praedict' F. & M. concess. pnd' I. & K. tenement' predict' come pertin'. Habend' & tenend' eidem I. & K. a festo etc. quod erit in anno etc. complend', si praedict' M. tam diu vixerit. Reddend' inde ad festa etc. per equales porciones soluend', durant toto termino praed' &c. Et si contingat &c. Quere whether this be a good Leas at this day against issue in tail. A Lease for years by fine of one messsage and free fishing, reserving a rent with a clause of distress with a grant of the reversion of the said messsage and free fishing unto one of the conusors in fee. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe T. P. armig', & W. C. gentleman, quoth just etc. ten' I. W. & E▪ M. conuenc' etc. de uno mesuag' etc. come pertin' in H. & B. ac de libera piscaria in aqua de B. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis, scz. quod predict 'T et W. recognover tenement' Sect' 61. & liberam piscariam praed' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. ut illa que idem I. & E. habent de dono predict' T. & W. Et ill' remis. & quiet' clam' de se & hered' suis praefat' I. & E. & hered' ipsius I. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem T. & V concesser' pro se & hered ipsius T. quod ipsi warrant' tennt & liber piscariam predict' come pertin' pref. I. & E. & hered' ipsius I. contr̄ omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognic', remissione quiet' clam', warrant', fine, & concordia, ijdem I. & E. concesser' praef. W. tennt & liber piscar praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddider̄ in eadem cur'. Habend' & tenend' tenementa & liberam piscariam praedict' come pertin' pref. W. & assignatis suis, a festo sancti Martini in hyeme ultimo preterito, usque ad finem termini sexaginta annor extunc ꝓxim sequent & plenary complend'. Reddend' inde annuatim pref. I. & E. & hered' ipsius I. quendam annual▪ reddit' iij. li. vj. s. viii. d'. legalis monete Anglie, ad festa S. Martini episcopi in hyeme & P. per equales porciones durant' terminos praedict' soluend'. Et si contingat praed' annual' reddit' iij. li. vj. s. viii. đ. aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum pndictor̄ quando ut prefertur solui debeat non solut̄ per spacium viginti dier, quod tunc bene liceat & licebit praef. I. & E. & hered' ipsius I. in tenement' praedict' come pertin' intrare & distringere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt' & habitas licite asportare, effugare, abducere, & penes se retinere, quousque de praedict' annual' reddit' iij. li. vj. s. viii. d una cum arreragijs eiusdem si que fuerint sibi plena●ie fuerit sat●sfact' & persolut. Concesser etiam praedict' I. & E. praef. T. tam reversionem tenementorum & libere piscary praedict' come pertinent, quam praedict' reddit' iij. li. vj. s. viii. d. superinde reseruat. Et illa ei reddider̄ in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' tam reversionem tenementorum & libe● piscar praedict' cum pertinentijs, quam praedict' reddit' iij. li▪ vj. s. viii. d. superind● reseruat prefat' T. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Te 〈…〉 etc. ut supra. A lease for years by fine by one and his wife. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe C. & A. uxori eius, quod just etc. ten'. W. S. et Sect. 62. I. uxori eius, conuenc' etc. de etc. expressing the tenements etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. quoth praed' C. et A. recognoue● tennt pndict ' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae ijdem W. et I. habent de dono praedict' C. et A. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clam' de se & haered' suis praefat' W. et I. & haered' ipsius W. imperpetuum. Et praetere● etc. Et pro hac etc. praedict' W. et I. concesser' tennta praedict' cum pertinentijs praef. C. et A. et ill' eye reddider in eadem cur'. Habend' et tenend' tenement' predict' come pertin' praef. C. et A. & assignatis s●is a festo S. Mich. archangeli ultim praeterito, usque ad finem termini & pro termino xl. annorum tunc proxim' sequent et plenary complend'. Et praeterea ijdem W. & I. et haeredes ipsius W. warrant' tennt praedict' cum pertinentijs praefatis C. et A. & assignatis suis, durant termino pndicto contra omnes homines. Et pro hac etc. ut supra. A lease by fine made by tenant for life for xxi▪ years, if she live so long, reserving a rent with a clause of distress, the reversion granted to the Conusors' and after the term ended, then to one P. for xxi. years, reserving ae red Rose, and after the end of that term the remainder to E. and M. in fee. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe I. P. gener & E. uxori eius, & R. L. armig', q● Sect. 63. ten' I. M. conuenc' etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod cum praedict' I. P. et E. habent & tenent sibi pro termino vitae ipsius E. praedict' tenemenr & piscar cum pertin', reversione inde post decessum ipsius E. W. T. & haered' suis spectant, ijdem I. P. et E. et R. concesser' praefato I. M. p̄dic● tenementa et piscar cum pertinentijs: Habend' & tenend' eidem I. et assignatis suis tota vita ipsi▪ E. ✿ Et praeterea praedict' I. F. & E. et R. warrant' praefat' I. M. & assignat' suis tnnta & piscar praedict' come pertin' sicut dictum est contra praedict' I. F. & E. tota vita ipsius E. Et pro ha● concess. warrant', fine, & concordia, idem I. M. concessit praefat' R. tenement' & piscar predict' come pertin', & illa eireddidit in eadem curia. ✿ Habenđ & tenend ' tennt & piscar p●aedict' cum pertinentijs eidem R. pro term●o xxj. annorum proxim' sequent & plenary complend', si eadem E. tam diu vixerit. ✿ Reddend' inde annuatim praefato I. M. & assign' suis xiv. libr' ad festa etc. per equales porciones a●nuatim sol●end' tota vita ipsius E. ✿ Et si contingat etc. concessit etiam praedictus I. M. praefatis I. P. et E. reversionem tenntorum & piscariae praedict' cum pertinentijs, & redditum predict' superinde reseruat, & ill' eye reddid' in eadem curia. ✿ Habend' & tenend' eisdem I. F. et E. de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad praedict' tenementa & piscariam cum pertinentijs pertinent, tota vita ipsius E. ✿ Et post terminum illum finitum, tenement' praedict' come pertin' integre remanebunt P. & assignat' suis pro termino xxj. annorum post festum Sancti Martini in hyeme prox. futur' immediate sequent & plenary complend'. ✿ Reddend' inde annuatim praefatis P. & E. & haered' ipsius P. toto termino praedict' unam Rosam rubeam ad festum S. johannis Bap. annuatim soluend' si petatur. ✿ Et post terminum illum finitum, tenementa praedict' come pertin' integre remanebunt praefat' E. & M. & haered' ipsius E. imperpetuum, de capitalibus dnis feodi illius, per seruitia quae ad praedict' tenementum pertinent imperpetuum. A lease to the wife for xxi. years of two messages, to commence after her husband's death, reserving a Rent, with a clause of distress, the Cognizees grant back the same reversion and rent to the Conusors' in fee. South. ss. PRaecipe C. C. armig. & D. uxori eius, & R. B. generos. Sect. 64. quod ten' H. Met C. M. conuenc' etc. de duobus mesuagijs cum pertin' in parva S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' C. et D. & E. recogn' tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius H. ut ill' &c. Et ill remiser etc. Et praeterea etc. Et pro hac etc. praedict' H. et C. concesser' praefat' R. tenement' praedict' come pertin'. Et ill' ei redd' in eadem curia. ✿ Habend' et tenend' tennt praedict' cum pertinentijs praefat' R. tota vita ipsius R. & immediate post decessum ipsius R. tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs integre remanebunt M. uxori ipsius R. executoribus vel assign' suis, pro termino xxj. annorum extunc proxim' sequent et plenary complend'. ✿ Reddend' inde annuatim praefat' H. et C. et haered' ipsius H. quandam annuitatem sive annual' redditum v. libr' legal' monetae Angl' add festa Sancti Martini Episcopi & Pent per equales porciones annuatim durant̄ eodem termino sol●end', prima solutione inde incipiend' add proxim' festum festorum praedictorum post decessum praedict' R. ✿ Et si contingat praedict' annuit sive annual' reddit' quinque libt̄ aretro fore etc. Concess. etiam praedict' H. et C. praefat' C. C. et D. tam reversionem tenementorum cum▪ pertinentijs, quam praedict' reddit' v. libr' superinde reseruat. Et ill '●is reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habendum, tenendum, & percipiend' praedict' recuperation tenementorum praedictorum cum pertinentijs & redditum praedictum praefat' C. C. et H. & haeredibus ipsius D. imperpetuum. I. R. being tenant in general tail in possession the reversion in fee to C. and T. the same C. and T. by fine grant the land to M. and E. and the said M. and E. render the same again to the said T. Habendum from a certain feast next after the death of the said I. without heir of his body, for the term of 1500. years, reserving i▪ d'. rend, and after the end of the term to P. T. one of the sons of the said T. for ever. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe etc. C. N. et T. T. quod ten' M. B. et E. D. convenc ' Sect. 65. etc. de etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est etc. quod cum I. R. habet & tenet sibi & haered' de corpore suo legitime procreat' ten●ment̄ pnd' cum pertin' reman' inde post decessum ipsius I. si idem I. obierit sine haerede de corpore suo legitime procreat', praefat' C. & haeredibus suis▪ spectant, ijdem C. & T. concesser' tennta praedict' come pertinent praedict' M. & E. & haered' M. imperpetuum. ✿ Tenend' etc. Et praedict' C. & haered' sui warrant' praef. M. et E. & haered' ipsius M. tenement' praedict' cum pertinentijs sicut praedictum est,▪ contra omnes homines imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac concessione, reddition, warrant', fine, & concord', ijdem M. & E. concesse● praedict' T. tenement' praedict' come pertinent. Et ill' e● red▪ etc. ✿ Habend ' etc. eidem T. & assign' suis, a festo S. Martini in hyeme prox. post decessum praedict' I. si idem I. obierit sine haerede de corpore s●o legitime procreat', usque finem termini & pro termino mill & quingent annorum extunc proxim' sequent & plenary complend', absque impetitione alicuius vasti. ✿ Reddend' inde annuatim praefat' M. et E. et haered' ipsius M. unum denar̄ ad festum etc. annuatim soluend' toto termino praedict' si petatur. Et post te●●inum illum finitum, praedict' tenementa cum pertin' integre reman' P. T. uni filiorum praedict' T. e● haered' ipsius P. imperpetuum etc. ut supra. A lease of a messsage by fine for years, to begin at a time to come, with a clause of distress. North. ss. PRaecipe A. B. & E. uxori eius, quod ten' C. D. convent ' Sect. 66. etc. de uno mesuag' etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' A. B. & E. concess. tenement' praedict' cum pertinentijs praefat' C. D. et assignatis suis. Et illa in eadem cur' praef. C. D. reddider: Habendum & tenend' eidem C. D. a festo Pentec' quod erit in ann● domini 1597. usque finem termini viginti unius annorum extunc proxim' sequent & plenar compleno ': Reddend' inde ann●●tim praef. A. B. & E. et haered' ipsius E. septem libr' legalis monetae etc. ad festa S. Martin● Episcopi in hyeme, N. A. P. aequis porcionibus annuatim durant termino praedict' soluend'. Et pro hac etc. A lease of one messsage etc. to diverse for ninety years, if the lessee, his wife, and 2. others live so long reserving a Rent, and the best Beast after the death of every tenant in name of an Heriot, with a clause of distress for the same Rent and Heriot, and after granteth the reversion to the lessor and his wife in fee. Lond. ss. PRaecipe I. R. armig' & M. uxori eius & T. B. quod ten' Sect. 67. R. C. & V. C. conuenc' de uno mesuagio etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' I. M. et T. recogn' tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius V ut ill' &c. cum relaxatione et warrantia. Et pro hac etc. ijdem R. et V concesser' praefat' T. B. praedict' tenementa cum pertin'. Et ill' ei reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habend' & tenendum eidem T. et assign' fuis, a festo Natalis domi●i proxim' futur', usque ad finem termini nonaginta annorum tunc, proxim' sequent et plenatie complend', si ijden T. et I. uxor eius, B. B. et T. B. filii ipsius T. tam diu vixerint, aut eorum aliquis tam diu vixerit. ✿ Reddend ' inde annuatim predict. R. et V et haered' ipsius V quatuor libr' legalis monetae Angliae, ad festa Annunciationis beatae Mariae virgins, Nativit Sancti joh. Bapt. S. Michaelis archang. et Nativitatis dni, per aequales porciones annuatim soluend' toto termino praedict', ac soluenđ post decessum T. B. patris, et post decessum cuiuslibet inde tenentis suum optimum animal nomine heriot. ✿ Et si contingat praedict' reddit' iiij li. aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum pndictor̄ quo ut pfertur solui debeat non solut, aut si contingat pndict̄ optimum animal nomine heriot̄ ut praefertur soluend. post decessum cuiuslibet tenentium praemissor fore insolut aut subtract. ✿ Quod tunc bene licebit praedict. R. et V et haered. ipsius R. in praed' tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare et distring ere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt' et habitas licite abducere, asportare, et effugare, ac penes se retinere, quousque de praedict' reddit' iiij. li. et arreragijs eiusdem (si quae fuerint) una cum optimo animali praedict' quando contigeret plenary fuerint satisfact̄ et persolut. ✿ Concesser etiam praedict' R. et V praedict' I. et M. reversionem tenemētor̄ praedictor cum pertinentijs & praedict' reddit' iiij. li. ac praedict' reddit' optimi animalis nomine haeriotti superius reseruat. Et ille eye reddider in eadem curia. Habendum & tenend' e●sdem I. & M. & haered' ipsius I. et M. & haered' ipsius I de capital' dominis feod' ill' imperpetuum etc. A lease for years to one of the Conusors' of one messsage etc. reserving Rent, with a Nomine pene, and a distress, for the rent and pain, with a grant of the reversion to one of the Conusors' and his wife in general tail. Midd. ss. PRaecipe E. P. armig' & M. uxori eius, & R. B. quod teneant Sect. 68 I. R. & T. S. conuenc' de uno mesuag. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedicti E. P. & M. & R. B. recogn' tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius I. ut ill' quae ijden I. & T. habent de dono praedictor E. M. & R. (cum relaxac' & warrant'.) Et pro hac etc. ijdem I. & T. concess. praefat' R. tenementa predict' cum pertinentijs, Et ill' ei reddider̄ in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eidem R. a festo Sancti Mich. ultimo praeterito pro termino trigint & unius annorum extunc proxim' sequent & plenary complend'. ✿ Reddend ' inde annuatim praedict' I. & T. & haered' ipsius I. viginti libr' legalis monetae Angliae, ad duos anni terminos, viz. ad festum▪ Annunciationis beatae Mariae virgins & Sancti Michaelis archang' per aequales porciones annuatim soluend' toto termino pr●dicto. ✿ Et si contingat praedict' reddit' xx. li aut aliquam inde parcellam aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum pndictorum quo ut praefertur solui debeat non solut̄ per spacium quadraginta dierum, quod tunc forisfaciet praedictus R. praedictis I. & T. & haered' ipsius I. v. li. nomine penae, & qđ tunc & toties bene licebit praed' I. & T. & haered' ipsius I. in praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare & distring ere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt' & habitas licite abducere, asportare, effugare, ac penes se retinere, quousque tam de praedict' xx. li. quam de praedict' quinque libr' nomine penae, ut praefertur forisfact̄ cum arreragijs earum▪ (si quae fuerint) plenary fuerit satisfact & persolut. ✿ Concesser etiam praedict' I. & T. praedict' E. & M. praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs, ac praed' reddit' xx. li. superinde reseruat, ac praedictam summam quinque librarum nomine penae. Et illa eye reddider in eadem curia. Habend' & tenendum eisdem E. & M. et haered' de corpore ipsius E. legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et pro defectu talis exit reman' inde W. W. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum Tenend' etc. A Fine with grant and render of the moiety of a manner to the Conusor for term of life without impeachment of waist, and for sixteen years after her death, than the one moiety of the same moiety, to one in fee, and tother moiety of the said moiety to an other in fee. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe E. A. vid' nuper uxori W. A. Mil' defunct' qđ Sect. 69. ten' T. F. conuenc' de medietate manerij de H. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. quod cum E. A. recogn' etc. Et pro hac etc. idem T. F. concessit praefat' E. A. medietatem praed' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' praedict' medietatem manerij etc. praedict' E. A. pro termino vitae suae ipsius E. absque impetitione alicuius vasti de capitalibus dominis feodiillius per seruitia quae ad predict' medietatem pertinent tota vita ipsius E. & pro termino sexdecim annorum extunc prox' sequent post mortem praedict' E. Et post mortem praedictae E. & post praed' termin sexdecim annorum finitum & determinat, quod tunc una medietas predict' medietatis manerij praed' &c. cum pertinentijs reman' B. G. modo uxori G. armig', et haered' ipsius B. Tenend' de etc. Ac altera medietas praed' medietatis manerij etc. praed' come pertinent reman' E. G. modo uxori N. G. & haered' ipsius E. Tenend' de capitalibus etc. A Render of three messages to one of the Conusors' for life, the remainder to one and his heirs males, the remainder to an other and his heirs for ever. Essex. PRaecipe N. A. & W. A. quod ten' R. C. & T. C. convenc ' Sect. 70. de tribus messuag'. ¶ Et pro hac etc. ijdem R. & R. concesser' praef. W. tenementa pndict̄ cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddider̄ in eadem cur': Habend' & tenend' eidem W. & assign' suis. Tenend' de capitalibus dnis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad praedict' tenementa c●m pertinent pertinent, tota vita ipsius W. Et post decessum ipsius W. eadem tennta cum pertinentijs integre remanebunt I. C. & haered' masculis de corporeipsius I. legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et si nullus haeres sit de corpore ipsius I. legitime procreat', tunc eadem tenementa cum pertinent integre reman' I. C. fratri praedicti I. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. An estate for life to the Conusor and after this death to one I. W. whom the Conusor intendeth to take to his wife for her life in the name of a jointure, and after her death to the ●eires males of the body of the Conusor. ETest concordia talis etc. Et post decessum ipsius I. praedict' &c. Sect. 71. cum pertin' integre remanebunt I. W. filiae I. W. nomine iuncturae, quam (deo dante) idem I. C. ducet in vxo●em. Tenend' de capitalibus etc. tota vita ipsius ja. & post decessum ipsius ja. praedict' &c. cum pertinentijs integre remaneb. haered'▪ masculis de corpor predict' I. C. legitime procreat'. Tenend' de capitalibus dominis etc. A Fine of divers manors, messages, and rend, the which the Conusor do render again to the Conusors', to the use of the wife of the Conusor for her life. Ebor'. ss. PRaec' T. C. armig', W. R. are, T. P. are, & L. B. gen, qđ etc. Sect. 72. ten' I. D. & E. uxori ei' conuenc' de manerijs de C. N. & E. cum ptin, ac de ducentis mess. etc. et de x. libr' reddit' cum pertin' in C. N. et B. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedicti T. C. W. R. T. P. & I. recogn' maneria, tenement', & reddit' praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clam' de se & haeredibus fuis praef. I. & E. & haeredibus ipsius I. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. ijdem I. & E. concesser' praedictis T. C. W. R. T. P. & L. praedict' maneria, tenementa, & reddit' cum pertinentijs, & ill' eye reddider in eadem curia. Habendum & tenendum eisdem T. C. W. R. T. P. & L tota vita ipsius E. & praedict' I. & haered' sui warrant' praedictis T. C. W. R. T. P. & L. pndicta maneria, tenementa & redd' come pertin' si cut dictum est contra omnes homines durant̄ vita praedict' E. etc. A Fine of messages, cottages▪ land, meadow, pasture, wood, heath, linge, rend of a Parsonage & of the advowson of a Church. HEC est finalis concordia facta in Curia dnae Reginae apud W. a Sect. 73. die P. in quindecim dies, Anno regni Elizab. dei gratia A. F. & H. Reginae fidei defensoris etc. a conquestu vices●mo quarto, coram E. A. T. M. F. W. W. P. Iustic' & alijs dominae Reg. fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus, inter I. B. gen & R. C. generof. quaerent, & R. C. seniorem armiger, & R. C. de Gray Inn in comitatu Midd' generos. deforc' de centum messuagijs, centum cotagijs, duobus millibus acr terrae, mill acr prati, duobus millibus acr pasturae, centum acr bosci, mill acr iampnorum & bruerae, & centum solidis reddit'▪ come pertin' in etc. Necnon de Rectoria de K. cum ptinentijs: Ac de advocatione Ecclesiae de K. unde placitum conuenc' sum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet qđ predict' R. & R. recognoverunt praedicta tenementa, redditus, & rectorian cum pertinentijs, ac advocationem pndictam esse ius ipsius I. ut illa quae ijdem I. et R▪ habent de dono praedictor R. et R. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de ipsis R. & haeredibus suis predict' I. et R. et haered ipsius I. imperpetuum. ✿ Et praeterea ijdem R. et R. concesserunt pro se & haeredibus ipsius R. C. senioris, quod ipsi warrant' praedictis I. et R. et haeredibus ipsius I. predict' tennta, reddit', et rectoriam cum pertinent ac advocationem predict' contra predict' R. & R. & haered' ipsius R. C. ●enioris imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac recogn', remissione, quiet' clamac', warrant', fine, & concordia, ijden I et R. dederunt pnd' R. et R. duo mill libr' sterlingorum. A Fine by the husband▪ and his wife of the lands of the wife, with grant and render of the 4. part of 2. messages, 4. tofts, two gardens, two orchards, 200. acres of land, 20. acres of meadow, 40. acres of pasture, 12. acres of wood, and 100 acres of moor in 4. parts divided, the Conusors' do grant the same again to the Conusees for their lives, without impeachment of waist, and after their deaths to one of their sons in general tail, & for default of such issue, then to one other of the conusees sons in general tail, & for default of such issue, then to the 3. son of the conusees in general tail, and for default of such issue to the right heirs of the wife of the Conusor for ever. HEC est finalis concordia facta in Cur' dominae Reg. apud Westm Sect. 74. in Octab sancti Mich. Anno ●egni Eliz. dei gratia Angl' Franciae & Hibern Regin̄ fidei defence. etc. a conquestu xxxuj. coram R. A. T. W. R. W. & T. L. Iustic' et alijs dnae Reginae fidelibus tunc ibidem praesentibus, inter G. I. et W. W. quer', et I. C. & I. uxorem deforc', de quarta part 2. messuagiorum, 4. toftor, 2. gardinor, 2. pomar, ducent acr terr●▪ 20. acr prati, 40. acr pasturae, 12. acr bosci, & 100▪ acrar more cum pertinent in G. & L. in quatuor partes divis. unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem Curia, scilicet quod praedict' I. & I. recogn' praedictam quartam partem cum pertin' esse iusipsius G. ut illam quam ijden G. & W. habent de dono praedict' I. & I. Et illam remis. & quiet' clam' de ipsis I. & I. & haered' ipsius I. praedict' G. & W. & haered' ipsius G. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem Io. & ja. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius la qd' ipsi warrant' praedict' G. & W. & haered' ipsius G. praedict' quartam partem cum pertin' contra pndict̄ I. &. I. & hered' ipsius ●a. imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac recogn' etc. ijdem G. & W concesserunt pndict ' I. &. I. predict' quartam ꝑtem cum pertinentijs. Et ill' eye reddider in eadem cur': Habend' & tenend' eisdem I. & I. de capitalibus dnis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad predict' quartam part pertinent tota vita ipsorum I. & I. & eorum alterius diutius vivent absque impetitione alicuius vasti. Et post decessum ipsorum I. et. I. praedict' quarta pars cum pertinentijs integre reman' B. C. filio praedictorum I. & I. & haered' de corpore ipsius B. legitime procreat'. Tenend' de capitalibus dnis feodi illius etc. imperpetuum. ✿ Et si contingat quod idem B. obierit sine haered' de corpore suo legitime procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius B. predict' quarta pars cum pertinent integre reman' P. C. al' fil' praedict' I. & I. & haered' de corpore etc. Tenend' de capitalib' &c. imperpetuum. ✿ Et si contingat qd' idem P. obierit etc. tunc post decessum ipsius P. pnd ' quarta pars integre reman' R. C. al' fil' pndictor̄ I. & I. & haered' de corpore etc. Tenend' de capitalibus etc. imperpetuum. Et si contingat qđ idem R. obierit etc. tunc post decessum ipsius R. praedict' quarta pars cum pertin' integre reman' rectis haered' praedict' ja. Tenend' de capitalibus dnis feodiillius, per seruitia quae ad praedict' quartam partem pertinent imperpetuum etc. A fine of one messsage and of a 3. part of 4. messages in 3. parts divided, part in possession, and part in reversion, of a third part for term of the life of the tenant in Dower, and for term of the life of an other tenant for term of life. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe I. W. & A. uxori eius, quod just etc. ten' I. E. Sect. 75. & E. E. conuenc' de uno messuag' etc. necnon de tertia part in tres parts diuidend' quatuor messuag' cum pertinent etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod predict' I. et A. recogn' tenementa praedicta ac tertiam partem praedict' cum pertinentijs e●●e i●s ipsius I. de quibus ijdem I. E. et E. E. habeant vn●m mess. cum pertin' in praedictis vill' de T. & B. parcell' tenementorum praedictorum, ac praedict' tertiam partem quatuor messuag' etc. cum pertinentijs in T. et B. parcell' tenementorum pndictor̄ de dono praedictor I. & A. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de ipsis I. & A. & haeredibus suis prae●at̄ I. E. & E. ●. & heredibus ipsius I. imperpetuum. Et concesser' pro se & hered' ipsius A. quod viginti acr terr', sex acr prati, etc. cum pertin' in praedict' villa de B. parcell' tenementor & tertia pars praed' que I. A. & F. uxor eius tenent ad terminum vite ipsius E. de hereditate pred' A. die quo hec concordia facta fuit. Et que post decessum ipsius E. ad praedict' I. A. & heredes suos debuer revertere post decessum ipsius A. integre remaneant pnd' I. & E. & E. E. & hered' ipsius I. imperpetuum. ✿ Concesser etiam pndicti I. W. & A. pro se & hered' ipsius A. quod unum mesuag' cum pertinent in praedict' vill' de B. residuum tenementorum praedict' que I. A. tenet ad terminum vitae suae de hereditate praedict' A. die quo hec concordia facta fuit, post decessum ipsius A. integere remaneat praedictis I. E. & E. & hered' ipsius E. imperpetuum. A Fine with grant and render of the moiety of a manor, reciting that a widow hath the same for her life without impeachment of waist, and after her death to her executors for 16. years without impeachment of waist, and after her death and the end of 16 years, to two and to their wives, and to the heirs of the wives, and after the husbands and their wives, grant the same to the tenant for life in fee, who granteth the same after the end of the said 16 years unto the conusors for term of 21. years without impeachment of waist. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe N. G. & E. uxori eius, W. G. & B. uxori eius, qd ' teneant F. A. conuenc' de medietate manerij de H. cum pertinent etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod cum E. A. vidua nuper uxor W. Sect. 76. A. defuncti, habet & tenet praedictam medietatem manerij de H. cum pertin', Ac praedictam medietatem tenementorum & piscary praedict' come pertinent ad terminum vitae suae absque impetitione alicuius vasti. ✿ Et quod post mortem eiusdem E. praedicta medietas manerij tenementorum & piscary praedictorum remaneant executor' testamenti eiusdem E. ad terminum sexdecem annorum tunc prox' sequent post mortem ipsius E. absque impetitione vasti. Et que post mortem praedictae E. A. ad terminum praedictorum sex decem annorum ad N. G. & E. vxor' eius, & W. G. & B. vxor' eius, & hered' dictorum E. & B. revertere deberent. Praedict' W. G. & B. uxor eius, N. G. & E. uxor eius, concedunt quod dicte medietates dictorum maneriorum, tenntorum, & piscary cum pertin' post mortem praedictae E. A. & post praedict' terminum xuj. annorum finitum & determinat integre remaneant pref. F. A. & here dibus suis. ✿ Tenend' de capital' dnis feod' ill', per seruitia quae ad praedict' medietat dictor● manerij, tenement', & piscar cum pertinent pertinent. Et ill' remis. & quiet' clam' de ipsis W. G. & B. vxor' eius, N. G. & E. uxori eius, & hered' suis prefat' F. A. & hered' suis imperpetuum. ✿ Et preterea ijdem W. G. & B. N. G. & E. concesser' prose & hered' ipsius N. quod ipisi warrant' praedict' reversionem medietatis dictorum manerij, tenntorum, & piscary cum pertinentijs prefat' F. A. & hered' suis contra ipsos W. G. et B. N. G. et E. et heredes suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. idem F. concessit prefat' W. G. & B. N. G. & E. praedict' reversionem medietatis manerij, ten̄torum, & piscar praedict' come pertinent. Et ill' eye reddider in eadem cur'. ✿ Habend' & tenend' eandem reversionem medietatis manerij, tenntorum, & piscary praedict' come pertin' dictis W. G. & B. N. G. & E. a festo Apost' Phillip & jacobi quod tunc proxcrit post finem dictorum sexdecem annorum, usque ad finem & terminum xxj. annorum extunc proxim' sequent et plenary complend', absque impetitione alicuius vasti. A Render of messages etc. to the cognisor for one week, after to a stranger for life, and to his wife for life, if she keep her unmarried, the reversion to an other stranger and his heirs of his body upon M. his wife begotten the Remainder to an other and his heirs. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe I. W. et E. uxori cius, quod ten' W. M. & O. S. convenc ' Sect▪ 77. de duobus messuag' &c. in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et pro hac etc. ijdem W. et O. concesserunt prefat' I. tenement' predict ' come pertinent. Et ill' ei reddider̄ in eadem curia: Habend' et tenend' eidem I. pro termino unius septimanae. Et post terminum illum finitum, predict' tenement' cum pertin' integre remanebunt B. Habend' et tenend' eidem B. de capitalibus dominis feodi illius perseruitia quae ad praedict' tennt pertineant, tota vita ipsius B. Et post decessum ipsius B. praed' tennta cum pertin' integre reman' I. uxori predicti B. ✿ Tenend' etc. tota vita ipsius I. si eadem I. tam diu sola et innupta vixerit. Et post decessum sive sponsalia ipsius I. si quefuerint, praedict' tennta cum pertin' integre reman' E. W. filio et heredi apparenti praedict' I. et hered' de corpore ipsius E. de corpore M. uxori eius inter eos legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et si contingat quod idem E. obierit sine herede de corpore suo de corpore praed' M. inter eos legitim procreat', tunc post decessum ipsor E. et M. tenementa predict' come pertinent integre reman' predict' I. et hered' suis. Tenend' etc. imperpetuum. A Fine of two reversions of ●, messages, one cottage etc., after the deaths of the two tenants for life. Ebor'. ss. PRaecipe R. N. & A. uxori eius, quod ten' G. E. conuenc' etc. Sect▪ 78. de duobus mesuag', uno cotag' etc. in N. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' R. et A. recogn' tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius G. et concessi● prose et heredibus ipsius R. quod praedict' cotagium, viginti acr terr', decem acr prati etc. ꝑcell' tenntorum praedictorum cum pertinentijs in N praedict', que W. B. et A. uxor eius tenent ad terminum vite ipsius A. de hereditate predict' R. die quo hec concordia facta fuit, et que post decessum ipsius A. ad praedict' R. et heredes suos debuerunt revert, integre post decessum ipsius A. ad pndictum G. et heredes suos remaneant. Tenend' etc. ✿ Concesserunt etiam praedicti R. et A. quod praedict' ij. messuag' etc. residua tenementorum praedictorum cum pertinentijs in N. praedict', quae W. P. et D. uxor eius tenent ad terminum vitae ipsius D. de hereditate etc. (ut antea.) Et praeterea praedict' R. et A. et heredibus ipsius R. warrant' tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs prefato G. et heredibus suis sicut dictum est, contra praedictos R. et A. et heredes ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Grant to the cognisee and his wife, and the heirs of their two bodies, with warranty in tail. Ebor. ss. PRaecipe H. F. gen, quod just etc. ten' H. W. et I. uxori eius Sect▪ 79. conuenc' etc. de tenntis in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' H. F. concessit tenement' et reddit' praedict' cum pertinentijs prefat' H. W. et I. Et ill' eye reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' et tenend' eisdem H. W. et I. et heredibus de corpor ipsorum H. W. et I. inter eos legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et praedictus H. F. et heredes sui warrant' praesatis H. W. et I. et heredibus de corpore ipsorum H. W. et I. inter eos legitime procreat' tenement' praedict' sicut dictum est, contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A grant with a render back again for life, without impeachment of waist, divers remainders in tail dividing the lands. Heref. ss. PRaecipe N. B. et A. uxori eius, quod ten' T. R. et R. G. Sect▪ 80. conuenc' etc. de uno mesuag' cum pertin' in E. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' etc. relaxac' et warrant' etc. Et pro hac etc. ijdem T. R. concesser' prefato N. et A. tenement' praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' eye reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habenđ eisdem N. et A. tota vita ipsorum N. et A. et alterius eorum diutius vivent, absque impetitione vasti tota vita ipsius A. Tenenđ etc. Et post decessum ipsorum N. et A. unum messuagium etc. cum pertinentijs in F. praedict' de tenementis praedict' parcell', reman' T. B. uni filiorum praedictorum N. et A. et heredibus masculis de corpore praedict' T. legitime procreat', et tunc post decessum ipsius T. praedict' tenementt de praedict' tenementis parcell' integre reman' I. B. alteri filiorum praedict' N. et A. et hered' mascul' de corpor ipsius I. legitime procreat'. Tenenđ etc. Et si contingat etc. post decessum ipsius I. praedict' tenement' de praedict' tenementis parcel' integre reman' B. F. alteri filio praedict' A. & hered' mascul' de corpore praedict' B. licite procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et si contingat etc. quod tunc tenementa praedict' reman' (to divers others) & rectis heredibus praedict' A. imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. Et pnterea pref. T. & R. concesser' quod post decessun praedict' N. B. & A. vxo● eius, 44. acr terre, duae acr prati etc. cum pertinent in B. praed' de pndictis tenement' residua integre remanebunt praed' B. F. & haered' be corpore suo legitime procreat'. Tenend' etc. Et si conting at quod idem B. obierit sine herede de corpore suo legitime procreat', quod tunc post decessum ipsius B. praedict' tenementa residua integre remanebunt praef. T. F. heredibus & assignatis suis imperpetuum. A Fine to entail lands to the heirs of the body of the conusor of the body of I. C. her husband deceased, with remainder over for default of such issue to the right heirs of the said I. C. etc. Leicest. ss. PRaecipe I. C. armig', quoth ten' M. C. viduae conuenc' de Sect' 81. tribus messuag' etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' I. concessir praedict' M. pndict ' tenement' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' eidem M. & hered' de corpore ipsius M. de corpore I. C. nuper viri sui defuncti legitime procreat', de capital' &c. Et si contingat quod eadem M. obierit sine herede de corpore suo, de corpore ipsius I C legitime procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius M. praedicta tennta cum pertin' integre remaneant rectis heredibus ipsius I. C. defuncti. Tenend' etc. Et praed' I. C. armig' & hered' sui warrant' praed' M. & hered' de corpore suo, de corpore pndicti I. C. defuncti, ac etiam rectis heredibus ipsius I. C. si eadem M. obierit sine haerede de corpore suo, de corpore ipsius I. C. defuncti licite procreat', praed' tennta cum pertin', (sicut dictum est) contra praedictum▪ C. armig' & heredes suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A grant by a Duke and his wife as in the right of his wife to the cognisee for life of the tenant for life with warranty, a render to the cognisor for his wives life, to convey her title to her husband. Warw. ss. PRaecipe T. Duci N. & M. uxori eius, quod ten' T. T. arm Sect' 82. conuenc' etc. detenntiss in W. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. quoth praed' Dux & M. concess. praed' T. T. tenementa praedict' come pertin', & quicquid idem Dux & M. habent in tenementis praedictis cum pertin', ad terminum vitae ipsius M. Etill' ei reddider̄ in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' eidem T. T. & hered' suis de capitalibus dnis feodi illius per seruitia que ad eadem tenementa cum pertinent pertinent tota vita ipsius M. Et preterea ijdem T. & M. concess. prose, quod ipsi warrant' pnd' T. T. & heredibus suis tennta praedict' come pertinent contra omnes homines tota vita ipsius M. Et pro hac etc. idem T. T. concessit tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs praefato Duci. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eadem tennta cum pertinent eidem Duci & hered' suis tota vita praedict' M. Tenend', ut supra. A Fine of the moiety of manors, messages, land, meadow pasture, wood, linge, and heath, more, marish, and rend, the advowson of the moiety of a Church the advowson of the moiety of a Monastery or priory in possession and reversion in fee. HEc est finalis concordia fact' in Curia dnae Reginae apud Westmonaster sect' 83. in crastino sanctae Trinitatis, Anno regni Eliz. dei gratia Angliae, Francie, & Hibern Reginae, fidei defence, etc. a conquestu tricesimo fecundo, coram E. A. etc., Iustic', & alijs dominae Reginae fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus, inter A. M. & L. H. quer', & T. N. & I. uxorem eius, unam consanguinearum & heredun R. E. deforc', de medietate mancriorum de W. & R. cum pertinentijs, ac de medietate octaginta messuag', 40. acr terr', 300. acr prati, 50. acr pastur', 100 acr bosci, 30. acr iampnorum & bruere, 160. acr more, 200. acr marisci, & viginti solid or redditus cum pertin' in W. R. W. P. T. etc. Necnon de Aduo catione medietat ecclesiarum de E. W. P. & R. ac etiam de aduocation medietat Monasterij sive Prioratus de L. unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem curia: Scilicet quod praedict' T. & I. recogn' praedictas medietates cum pertinentijs, ac advocationes praedictas esse ius ipsius A. de quibus ijdem A. & L. habent de dono medietatem praed' manerij de R. cum pertin'. Necnon medietatem octoginta messuag', 260. acr terre, 100 acr prati, 300. acr pastur', 80. acr bosci, 200. acr iampnorum & bruere, 140. acr marisci, 100 acr more, & vj. li. vj. s. reddit' cum pertin', in R. T. H. etc. Ac etiam aduocation medietatis ecclesiae de R. ac aduocac' medietat Monasterij sive Prioratus de L. pcell' medietatis mane●, tenementorum, reddituum, & advocate praedictar de dono praedictorum T. & I. ✿ Et ill' remiser & quiet clam' de ipsis T. & I. & hered' ipsius, I. pndictis A. & L. & hered' ipsius A. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem T. & I. concesserunt pro se & heredibus ipsius I. quod medietas manerij de W. ac medietas 30. messuagio●, 150. acrarum terre, centum acrarum prati etc. cum pertinentijs in W. P. E. & W. praed', ac advocationes medietatis ecclesiarum de P. E. & W. pred', resid' medietatis maneriorum, tenementorum, redditu, & aduocac' praedict', que E. E. tenet ad terminum vite sue de hereditate praedictae I. die quo hec concordia facta fuit, & que post decessum ipsius E. E. ad predict' T. & I. & hered' ipsius I. debuerunt reverter, post decess. ipsius E. E. integre remaneant praed' A. & L. & hered' ipsius A. ✿ Tenend' simul cum praedict' medietate & advocatione que eyes per finem istum remanent de capitalibus dnis feodi illius, per seruitia que ad illas medietates & aduocac' pertinent imperpetuum. Et praed' T. & I. & hered' ipsius I. warrant' praed' A. & L. & hered' ipsius A. praedictas medietates cum pertinentijs, ac advocationes praedictas sicut praedictum est, contra omnes homines imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac recognitione, remissione, quieta clamatione, warrant, fine, & concordia, ijdem A. & L. concesserunt praedictis T. & I. praedict' medietatem manerij de R. & medietatem praedictor tenntor̄ cum pertin' in R. T. H. etc. praedict': Necnon a duocationem medietatis ecclesiae de R. predict', ac advocationem medietatis Monasterij sive Prioratus de L. predict', Et illas eye red diderunt in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' eisden T. & I. & here d'ipsius I. de Capitalibus dominis feodi illius, per seruitia que ad illas medietates & advocationes pertinent imperpetuum. ✿ Et concesserunt etiam praed' A. & L. praedict' medietatem manerij de W. cum pertin', ac praedict' medietatem tennt cum pertin' in W. P. E. etc. pnd', pref. T. & I. Et illas etiam reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' immediate post mortem pnd' E. E. eisdem T. & I. & hered' ipsius I. de capitalibus dnis feo di illius, per seruitia que ad illam medietatem & advocationem pertinent imperpetuum. A grant of lands by fine to two, who render to the cognisor in generaltaile, & for default of such issue to R. T. in general tail, the remainder to the Queen's Majesty her heirs and successors for ever. ET est concordia etc. quod praed' A. recogn' tennt praed' come pertin' Sect' 84. esse ius ipsius I. ut ill' que ijdem I. & D. habent de dono praedict' A. Et ill' remisit etc. Et pro hac etc. ijdem I. & D. concesser' praefat' A. tenement' praedict' cum pertinent. Et ill' ei reddid' in eadem curia: Habenđ & tenend' eidem A. & heredibus de corpore ipsius A. legitime procreat', & pro defectu talis exitus tunc tenement' praedict' cum pertinentijs integre remaneant hered' de corpore R. T. alij praedict' A. & here dibus de corpore eorum legitime procreat': Et pro defectu talis exit, tunc tenement' predict' cum pertinentijs remaneant dominae Elizabethae nunc Reginae Angliae, Franciae, et Hiberniae, hered' et successoribus suis imperpetuum etc. A grant of lands in general tail, to be holden of the grauntor in Socage, with divers remainders over in tail, with warranty against all men. Essex. ss. PRaecipe s. B. agm, qd' ten' W. S. conuenc' de iij. messuag', Sect' 85. etc. cum pertin' in C. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod predict' S. concessit prefato W. tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs, & illa ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eidem W. & hered' de corpore suo legitime procreat' de praedict' S. & hered' suis in Socagio per fidelitarem tantum pro omnibus seruitijs & demandis que ad praedict' tenementa pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem W. obierit sine hered' de corpor suo legitime procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius W. tennta praedict' cum pertinentijs integre remane bunt I. S. Auo praedict' W. et hered' de corpore ipsius I. legitime procreat'. Tenenđ (ut antea.) Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius l. fuer' legitime proc', tunc praedict' tennta cum pertinent integre revertent ad praedict' S. & heredes suos quiet' de al' hered' praedictorum W. & I. Tenend' de capital' &c. Et praeterea praedictus S. & heredes sui warrant' praedict' W. et hered' de corpore suo legitime procreat', et praedicto I. & hered' de corpore suo legitime procreat', si idem W. obierit sine heređ de corpore suo legitime procreat', praed' tenemnta cum pertin' (sicut dictum est) contra omnes homines imperpetuum, Et pro hac etc. A grant of 16 acres of moor in general tail to be holden of the grantor by Knight's service, by suit of court twice a year and vi, s, rent. Essex. ss. PRaec' I. G. gen, quod ten' P. I. con de sexdecim acr more Sect' 86. cum pertin' in K. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. qd' pnd' l. concessit praef. P. tennta praed' come pertn, & ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' et tenend' tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs prefat' P. et heredib●s de corpore suo legitime procreat': Tenenđ de dicto I. et heredibus suis per seruitium militare & sect' curiae suae apud K. bis per annum, ac reddend' annuatim praefato I. et heredibus suis sex solid' &c. ad festa etc. per equales porciones annuatim imperpetuum soluend'. Et praedict' I. warrant' tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs praefato P. et heredibus de corpore suo legitime procr (sicut dictum est) contra praedictnm I. et heredes suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine sur Release of Knight's service, castle guard and murage, upon a writ of Customs and services for a sum of money paid, saving all other services made by consent of the King. HEc est finalis concordia facta in curia domini Regis apud Westmonaster Sect' 87. a die sancti Michaelis in xv. dies, Anno regni regis H. filii regis l. quinquagesimo prim, coram G. de P. et R. de M. Iustic' et alijs domini ●egis fidelibus tun●ibi presentibus, inter, W. de P. quer', ere H. B deforc', de consuetudinibus et seruitijs que idem W. exigerat de praedicto H. de libero tennto suo quod de praeđ W. tenet in W. & W. scz. de unofeodo Militis & dimid' cum pertinent. Et unde idem W. exigebat de praedicto H. quod faceret ei ad wardun Castri de B. quando eueneri●, & ad muragium eiusdem castri cum necesse esset quantum ad praedictum tenementum pertinet. Que seruitia idem H. ei non cognovit. Et unde placitum inter eos in eadem curia summonit fuit, scilicet quod predict' W. concessit pro se & heredibus suis, quod praed' H. & hered' sui & eorum tenent de honore de B. sint quiet' de praedict' seruitijs inperpetuum: Saluis eidem W. & hered' suis omnibus alijs seruic' ad praedict' tenement' pertin', Et pro hac concessione, fine, & concordia idem H. dedit praed' W. decem & octo marcas argent. Et hec concordia facta fuit ex assensu & voluntate eiusdem domini Regis eam concedentis. This old fine is in Dyer, fol. 179. pla. 46. A Fine of a Manor in possession and other lands in reversion. Salop'. ss. PRaec' W. B. quod ten' F. R. conuenc' de manerio de R. cum Sect' 88 pertinent etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedictus W. recogn' manerium & tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius F. de quibus idem F. habet praedict' manerium cum pertin', duo mess. etc. cum ptin in R. praedict' parcell' tenntor̄ praedictor de dono praedicti W. Et ill' remis. etc. Et concessit prose & hered' suis, quod duo mess. cum pertin' in R. praed', residua tenntorum praedictor que A. B. vidua tenet ad terminum vite sue de hereditat etc. post decessum ipsius A. integre reman' praefat' F. R. & hered' suis. Tenend' simul cum praedicto manerio & tenement' parcel' que ei per finem istum reman' de capitalibus dominis etc. Et predict' W. B. & hered' sui warrant' praef. F. & hered' suis praedicta mania & tennta cum pertinentijs sicut dictum est contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine by the husband and his wife of manors, messages, etc. of the adnowson of a Church, of rent, part in possession, and part in reversion, with a render again to the cognisor and his wife for theirlives without impeachment of waist and after to the heirs of the bodies of the conusors, and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the wife of the conu or and for default of such issue, then to the right heirs of T. the cognisor for ever. Midd. ss. PRaecipe T. M. are & M. uxori eius, quod just etc. ten' Sect' 89. etc. A. S. armig' conuenc' de manerio de W. juxta Y. W. in G. & S. cum pertinentijs, Ac de CCC. li. mess. etc. Necnon de advocatione ecclesie W. in G. in comitat' predicto, Et de manerio de D. cum pertinentijs, Ac de x. mess. etc. & seven. s. viii. d. ob. redd' come pertin' in D. in come G. Ac de manerio de S. C. cum pertin', Acde sex mess. etc. cum perrin in S. C. & V in come D. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod pndicti T. & M. recogn' maneria, tenementa, & reddit' predict' cum pertinentijs, Ac Aduocationem praed▪ esseius ipsius A. de quibus idem A. habet praedicta maneria de W. juxta Y. W in D. etc. Acaduocation praedict' in praed' come S. Ac praed' manerium de South C. cum pertinentijs, Ac praedict' tenementa cum pertinent in South C. & V predict, in praed' come D. parcell' manner, tenement', & reddit' praedictor, de dono praedict' T. & M. Et ill' remis. etc. Et concesser' pro se & haeredibus ipsius M. qđ praedictum manerium de S. praedict' in praedicto comitatu S. ✿ Ac etiam praedictum manerium de D. cum pertinentijs in praedicto come C. residuum maneriorum, tenement', & reddit' praedictorum quae F. S. armig' & E. uxor eius tenent ad terminum vitae ipsius E. de haereditate praedict' M. die quo haec concordia facta fuit, Et quae post decessum ipsius E. ad praedict' T. & M. & haeredes ipsius M. debuer revertere post decessum ipsius E. integre remanebunt praedict' A. S. et haeredibus suis. Tenend' simul cum praed' manerijs, tenementis, & reddit' quae ei per finem istum reman' de capital' dominis feod' illius, per seruic' quae ad praedict' manerium, tenementa, reddit', ac advocationem pertinent imperpetuum, ✿ Et praedict' T. & M. et haeredes ipsius M. warrant' praedicto A. et haeredibus suis praedicta maneria, tenementa, redd' come pertinentijs, ac advocationem praedict' sicut dictum est contra omnes homines imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac etc. idem A. concessit praefatis T. & M. praedict' maneria, tenementa, et redd' come pertinentijs, ac advocationem predict'. Et illas eye reddid' in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eisdem T. & M. de capitalibus dominis etc. tota vita ipsorum T. & M. et eorum alterius diutius viuen̄ absque impetitione alicuius vasti. Et post decessum ipsorum T. et M. predict' maneria, tenementa etc. integre remanebunt haeredibus ipsius T. de corporibus ipsorum T. & M. legitime procreat': Tenend' etc. ✿ Et si nullus haeres ipsius T. de corporibus ipsorum T. & M. fuer' legitime procr, tune praedicta maneria etc. integre remanebunt haered' de corpore ipsius M. legitime procr. Tenend' etc. Et si nullus haeres de corpore ip sius M. fuer' legitime procreat', tunc praedicta maneria etc. integre reman' rectis haerepibus ipsius T. imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. A fine of a Reversion of a rent, issuing out of a manor, and 6. messages. Essex. ss. PRaec' etc. quoth just etc. ten' con etc. de quadragintae solidis reddit' cum pertinentijs, exeunt de manerio de F. ac de sex Messuag' &c. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' I. recogn' praedict' red ' Sect. 90. come pertinentijs esse ius ipsius R. & concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod praedict' reddi● cum pertinentijs quem H. T. et A. uxor eius tenent ad terminum virae ipsius A. de praedict' I. die quo haec concordia facta f●●t exeunt de praedicto manerio etc. cum pertinentijs quem I. H. Miles modo tenet, & qui post decessum ipsius A. ad praedict' I. F. & haeredes suos debuit revertere post decessum ipsius A. integre remanebit praedict' R. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praedict' I. F. & haeredes sui warrant' praedict' R. & haered' suis pndict̄ reddit' cum pertinentijs, sicut praedictum est, contra I. Abbat Monasterij etc. & successores suos imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine of the Reversion of a rent. HE▪ Cest finalis concordia facta in curia dni Regis apud W. a die P. Sect. 91. in xv. dies, Anno regni E. filii Regis E. decimo, coram W. B. H. S. I. B. & I. M. Iustic' dni Regis & alijs fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus, inter R. P. quer', & I. B. deforc', de decem marcis red dit cum pertinentijs in B. quem P. de A. tenet ad terminum vitae, unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet, qđ pndict̄ I. concessit pro fe & haeredibus suis, quod praedict' reddit' cum pertinentijs quem praed' P. tenuit ad terminum vitae ex dimissione praedict' I. in pndict̄ villa die quo haec concordia facta fuit, & qui post decessum ipsius P. ad praedict' I. & haeredes suos revertere debuit post decessum ipsius P. integre remaneat praedict' R. & haered' de corpore suo procreat': Tenend' de capital' dominis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad praedict' teddit pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem R. obierit sine h●rede de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius R. pndict reddit' cum pertinentijs integre remanebit rectis haeredibus ipsius R. tenend' de capital' dominis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad praedict' reddit' pertinent imperpetuum. Et pro hac concessione, fine, & concordia, idem R. dedit pr●fat̄ I. centum marc' argenti. A fine of Rend service, and of the Homages & services of divers. Nott. ss. PRaecipe quod just etc. ten' conuenc' etc. de undecim Sect. 92. solidis reddit' cum pertinent in B. Et nisi prius etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' E. recogn' praedict' reddit' cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict' W. Et idem E. insuper concessit eidem W. reddit' illum cum pertinentijs simul cum homagio & totis seruitijs S. F. R. L. & I. D. & hired ' suorum, de tot tenementis quot ipsi seperatim de ipso E. prius tenuerunt in praedict' villa: Habend' & tenendum eidem W. & haered' suis de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruitia quae ad praedict' reddit' pertinent imperpetuum. Et praedict' E. & haered' sui praedict' reddit' cum pertinent sicut pndictum est, pref. W. & haered' suis contra omnes homines warr' imperpetuum etc. A fine of 4 messages, where the husband & the wife sell the wives jointure or Dower absolutely to him in the Reversion. Ehor. ss. PRaec' T. G. armig', & B. uxori eius, quod ten' I. W. & E. Sect. 93. uxori eius conuenc' de quatuor messuagijs etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod cum praedict' T. & B. habeant & teneant tenementa pndicta cum pertinent ad terminum vitae predict' B. reversione inde praedict' E. & haered' suis post decessum praedict' B. spectant, ijdem T. & B. concesser' praef. I. & E. tenementa predict' come pertin', & totum & quicquid in praedict' tenementis cum pertinentijs ad terminum vitae ipsius B. habent, eisden I. & E. in eadem curia reddider: Habend' & tenend' eisdem I. & E. & haeredibus ipsius E. durant tota vita ipsius B. de capital' dominis etc. Et pndicti T. & B. warrant' praef. I. et E. tnnta praedicta cum pertinentijs (sic ut dictum est) contra praedictos T. et B. durant tota vita ipsius B. Et pro hac etc. Tenant for term of life, & her husband granteth her estate for life in a manor messages rend &c. to one B. who in consideration thereof, granteth to the Conusor and his wife, for the life of the wife. Suff. ss. PRaec' L. H. et D. uxori eius, quod ten' B. B. con̄ de manerio Sect. 94. de S. cum pertinentijs, ac de sex Messuag' &c. come pertin' in S. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, qđ praedict' L. & D. concess. manerium, tennta, & reddit' cum pertinent, quae ijdem L. & D. tenent ad terminum vitae ipsius D. reversione inde post mortem eiusdem D. cuidam R. R. & haered' suis spectant, praef. B. B. Habend' sibi & assign' suis, tota vita eiusdem D. Et praeterea ijdem L. & D. concesser', quod ipsi warrant' manerium, tenementa & reddit' predict' come pertinent, praef. B. & assignatis suis, tota vita ipsius D. contra ipsos L. & D. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. idem B. concessit praefatis L. et D. quendam annual' reddit' xl. marc' legalis etc. exeunt de manerio & tenementis praedictis: Habend' & percipiend' eundem annualem reddit' xl. marc' praefatis L. & D. pro termino vitae eiusdem D. ad festa etc. per aequales porciones annuatim soluend'. Et si contingat praedict' annual' red dit &c. A fine of a Reversion of one messsage etc. after the death of the tenant for life. Norff. ss. PRaecipe P. A. quod ten' E. S. conuenc' etc. de uno messuag ' Sect. 95. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedictus P. recogn' tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius E. Et concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, quod praedicta tenementa, quae W. B. et A. uxor eius tenent ad terminum, vitae ipsius A. de haereditate ipsius P. die quo haec concordia facta fuit, Et quae post decessum ipsius A. ad praedict' P. & haeredes suos debuerunt revertere, post decessum ipsius A. integre remanebunt praed' E. S. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. Et predict' P. concessit pro se & haered' suis, qđ ipsi warrant' praedict' tenementa cum pertinent (sic ut dictum est) contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine of a Rent granted out of a Manor for life, with a clause of distress for the same Rent. Leicest. ss. PRaec' A. C. vid', quoth ten' H. C. gen conuenc' de annuo Sect. 96. redd' xl. s. exeunt de manerio de S. cum pertinentijs in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedictus A. concessit praefato H. praedictum redditum cum pertinentijs, Et ill' erreddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & percipiend' praedictos xl. s. eidem H. & assignatis suis, ad festa Annunciationis beatae Mariae virgins, & S. Mich. archang. per aequales porciones, annuatim soluend', tota vita ipsius H. Et si contingat praedict' reddit' xl. s. aretro fore etc. quod tunc bene licebit praefato H. & assignatis suis, tota vita sua, in praedictum manerium cum pertinentijs intrare & distringere &c. Et praedict' A. et haeredes sui warrant' praefato H. et assignatis suis praedict' reddit' xl. s. cum pertinentijs, sic ut dictum est, contra praedict' A. & haeredes suos, tota vita ipsius H. imperpetuum etc. Et pro hac etc. A fine whereby three several Annuities be granted out of a Manor, and after the manor also is granted to one E. for life, and after the death of the said E. the manor etc. to remain to the said E. and his heirs. Staff. ss. PRaec' F. B. vid', E. B. gener, R. B. gener, & R. B. gener, Sect. 97. quod ten' R. G. generos. conuenc' de manerio de H. cum pertinentijs, Ac de decem mesuagijs etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedicti Eliz. Ed. Baldw. Ra. & Rich. recognover praedicta manerium, tenementa, & reddit' cum pertinentijs, esse ius ipsius R. (come Release & warrant '.) Et pro hac etc. idem Rog. concessit praefato Edw. quandam annuitatem, sive annualem reddit' vj. li. xiii. s. iiij. đ. exeunt de & in manerio & tenementis praedictis cum pertinentijs. Et illa ei reddid' in eadem curia: Habend' & percipiend' eundem annualem reddit' vj. li. xiii. s. iiij. đ. praefato Edw. & assignatis suis tota vita sua, ad festa Nativitatis sancti joh. baptist, & Annunciationis beatae Mariae virgins, aequis porcionibus annuatim soluend'. Et si contingat etc. Concessit etiam idem r. quandam annuitatem sive annualem reddit' vj. li. xiii. s. iiij. đ. (ut supra cum claus. district '.) Et ulterius idem R. concessit praefato R. quandam aliam annuitatem etc. vj. li. xiii. s. iiij. đ. modo & forma praedict'. Et praeterea idem R. concessit praefatae E. praedict' manerium, tenementa, & reddit' cum pertinenijs. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' praefat' E & assignatis suis tota vita ipsius E. de caditalibus dominis feodi illius etc. Et post decessum ipsius E. praedict' manerium, tenementa, & reddit' cum pertinentijs integre reman' praefato E. & haeredibus suis. Tenend' de capitalibus etc. A fine of a Rent out of manors to one and his wife in tail general and default of such issue to the right heirs of the husband, with a pain of viii. pound for every five weeks that the Rent is behind, and for every week after the v. weeks, to forfeit viii. li. nomine penae, with a clause of distress. ET pro hac etc. ijdem A. & B. concesserunt praefatis W. et F. quendam Sect. 98. annualem redditum nona ginta libr', de praedictis manerijs & tenementis cum pertinentijs. Et illas eis reddiderunt in eadem curial Habend' & percipiend' praedict' annualem reddit' nonaginta libr', eisdem W. & F. et haered' de corporibus ipsorum W. & F. legitime procreat', ad festa sancti Michaelis archangeli, & Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis perae quales portiones annuatim soluend'. Et si contingat quod ijdem W. et F. obierint sine haered' de corporibus suis legitime procreat', tunc post decessum ipsorum W. & F. idem annualis reddit' nonagint l●br̄imegre remaneat rectis haeredibus ipsius W. ad festa predict ' annuatim soluend'. ✿ Et si contingat praedict' annal' reddit' nonaginta libr' aretro fore in part vel in toto per spacium quinque septimam, post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum, quo ut praefertur solui debeat▪ non solut, (s● legitim modo petatur apud C. praedictam,) quod tunc & toties praedictus W. ●. et haeredes sui forisfacient praedictis W. & F. & haered' de corporibus suis legitime procreat', ac etiam rectis haeredibus ipsius W. si praedicti W. et F. obier sine haeered ' de corporibus suis legitime procreatis, octo libr' nomine penae. ✿ Et sic qualibet septimana, post pndictas quinque septimanas, octo libr', quoties praedict' annualis reddit' nonaginta libr' aretro foret, quod tunc & toties bene liceret praedict' W. & F. & haered' de corporibus suis legitime procreat', ac etiam rectis haeredibus ipsius W. si ijdem W. & F. obier sine haered' de corporibus suis legitime procreat', in praedict' maneria & tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare, & distringere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt' & habitas, abducere, asportare, & effugare, ac penes se retinere, quousque tam de praedicto annual' reddit' nonaginta libr' cum arreragijs eiusdem (si quae fuerint,) quam de praedict' octo libr', ut praefertur, no mine penae, forisfact', post praedict' quinque septimanas, & pro octo libr' pro qualibet septimana post praedict' quinque septimanas, ut praefertur, eisdem plene fuerit satisfact' & persolut etc. A Fine wherein an Annuity is granted out of five acres of land, to one in fee, with a clause of distress, for default of payment of the same Annuity. Essex. ss. PRaecipe T. S. de C. armig', & A. uxori eius, quod ten' Sect. 99 W. D. conuenc' de quinque acr terrae cum pertinentijs in E. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' T. & A. recognoverunt tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs, esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. habet de bono pndictorium T. & a. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de se & haeredibus suis praefato W. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et pr●terea praedict' T. & A. concess. prose & haered' ipsius T. quod ipsi warrant' praef. W. & haered' suis tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs, contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. pndictus W. concessit praefato T. quandam annuitatem sive annualem redditum xx. s. legalis monetae Angliae exeunt & exitur, de, & ex tenementis praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend', tenend', & percipiend' pnd' annuitatem sive annualem reddit' xx. s. praedict', praefato T. & haeredib' suis, ad festa S. Martini Episcopi in hyeme, & Pentecost ', per aequales portiones, annuatim imperpetuum soluendum. Et si, ac quoties, contingat praedict' annuitatem sive annualem rendit xx. s. praedict' aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum, quo ut praefertur, solui debeat, non solut, per spacium quadraginta dierum, quod tunc & toties bene liceat & licebit praefato T. et haerebidus suis in praedicta tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare, & distringere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt', licite asportare, effugare, abducere, & penes se retinere, quousque de tota pndict̄ annuitate sive annual' redditu viginti solid' praedict', una cum arreragijs eiusdem, si quae fuerint sibi sit plenary satisfact' & persolut etc. A fine wherein an annuity is granted in fee, out of 20. acres of land, with suit of Court, and Heriot after decease, recease and alientation of any tenant with a clause of distress for default of payment. South. ss. PRaecipe A. B. & C. D. quod ten' F. G. connenc' de vigint Sect. 100 ac● terrae etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' A. B. & C. D. recognover tenementa praedict' esse ius (ut in fin' sur recognisance de droit, Release, & Warranty,) Et pro hac etc. praedictus T. concessit pfatis A. B. et C. D. quandam annuitatem sive annualem reddit' xii. d'. legalis monetae Angliae exeunt & exitur, de & e● tenementis pndictis cum pertinentijs. Et ill' eye reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & percipiend' praedictam annuitatem sive annualem red dit xii. d'. eisdem A. B. et C. D. & haered' ipsius A. ad festa Sancti Mich. archangeli, & Annunciation beatae Mariae virgins, per aequales porciones annuatim soluend'. ✿ Ac etiam praedict' F. concessit pro se & haeredibus suis, praefatis A. B. & C. D. & haered' ipsius A. a d faciend' sectam annuatim Cur' praedict', A. B. & C. D. & haered' ipsius A. apud manerium suum de C. bis in anno super licitam monitionem inde phabitur. Tenend' etc. Ac soluend' post decessum recessum, & alienationem tam pndicti F. & haered' svorum, quam cuiuslibet alterius tenentis existent liber● tenentis tenntorum pndictor̄, vel alicuius in de parcell', optimum animal' cuiuslibet him di tenant, nomine Heriot. ✿ Et si contingat praedictam annuitatem sive annualem reddit', aretro fore in part, vel in toto, post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum, quo, ut praefertur, solui debeat, non solut, aut sect' cur' pndict̄ non fieri, sive heriot praedict' cum acciderit non solui aut deliberar, qđ tunc bene licebit praedict' A. B. & C. D. ac haered' ipsius A. in tennta pndicta cum pertinent intrare, & distringere, districtionesque sic ibidem capt', licite abducere, asportare, & penes se retineee, donec & quousque tam de praedicta annuitate sive annual' redd' xii. d'. una cum arreragijs eiusdem, si quae fuer', quam de sect' Cur', & Heriot praedict' aretro existent, eisdem A. B. & C. D. & haered' ipsius A. plenary fuer' solut, content, & satisfact' etc. A fine wherein an Annutie is granted out of a manor messages and rent in fee, payable at a certain day, hour and place, with a forfeiture Nomine penae, for the default to payment of the Annuity and pain. Warw. ss. PRaecipe A. B. armig', quoth ten' C. D. conuenc' de manerio Sect. 101. de L. cum pertinentijs. Necnon de quatuor mesuag', & decem solidis reddit', cum pertinent●●s in L. praedict' etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' A. B. recognovit (ve in fine sur recognisance de droit.) Et pro hac etc. idem C. concessit praefato A. quandam annuitatem sive annualem redditum seven. libr' legalis monetae Angliae, exeunr & exitur de et in manerio & tenementis praedictis cum pertinentijs. Et ill' ei reddidit in eadem curia: Habend' & percipiend' praedictam annuitatem sive annualem redditum seven. li. pr●fato A. haered' & assignatis suis, decimo die Sept, inter horam nonam ante meridiem, & horam tertiam post meridiem eiusdem diei annuatim, apud domum sive mansionalem vilgariter nuneupatum S. situate in foro suo vocato le Market stead in villa C. in comitatu D. soluend'. ✿ Et si contingat praedictam annuitatem sive annualem redditum septem libr', aretro fore, in part, vel in toto, perspacium xiv. dierum. post praedictam decimam diem Sept. quo ut praefertur solui debeat, non solut, quod tunc praedict' C. & haeredes sui forisfacient eidem A. & haeredibus suis xijj. s. iiij. d'. nomine penae, toties quoties praedicta nnuitas sive annualis redditus, aut aliqua inde parcella, sic aretro fore contigerit, Et bene licebit praedict' A. & haeredibus suis in praedictum manerium, & caetera praemissa, cum pertinentijs, & in quamlibet inde parcell' intrare, & distringere, tam pro praedicta annuitate sive annuali redditu septem libr', & pro qualibet inde parcell', quam pro praedict' xiii. s. iiij. d'. nomine penae, eidem A. & haeredibus suis forisfact, toties quoties sic aretro fore contig erit non solut, districtionesque sic ibidem capt', & habitas, licite abducere, asportare, & effugare, & penes ●e retinere, quousque tam de praedicta annuitate sive annuali redditu septem libr', quam pro pndictis xiii. s. iiij. d'. nomine penae, toties forisfac' plenary fuer' eidem A. & haeredibus suis satisfact' & persolut etc. A fine in which the Conusors' grant to the conusees in tail, an annual rent of 4. li. issuing out of a manor payable at two feasts in the year, with a clause of distress for the said rend, and for xx. s. Nomine penae, if the rent be not paid. Staff. ss. PRaecipe etc. quod just etc. ten' conuenc' etc. de manerio Sect. 102. de B. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, qđ praedict' I. B. & E. recognoverunt manerium praedict' cum ꝑtinentijs esse ius ipsius R. ut ill' quae ijdem R. et M. habent de dono praedictor I. & E. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clamaver de ipsis I. et E. & haered' ipsius E. praedict' R. et M. & haered' ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijden I. & E. concesserunt ꝓ se et haered' ipsius E. qđ ipsi warrant' pnd' manerium cum pertin' praef. R. et M. et haered' ipsius R. contra omnes homines imperpetuum. ✿ Et pro hac recognitione, remissione, quiet' clamatione, warrant', fine et concordia, ijden R. et M. concesserunt prose & haered' suis, praef. I. et E. et haered' de corpore ipsius E. legitime procreat', quatuor libras reddit', exeunt de manerio predict' cum pertinentijs. Et illum eis reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habend' et percipiend' singulis ann●s, scilicet, unam medietatem inde, ad festum S. Mich. & aliam medietatem inde ad festum Annunciationis beatae Mariae virgins, eisdem I. & E. & haered' de corpore eiusdem E. legitime ꝓcreat, ae quis porcionibus annuatim soluenđ permanus tenentium qui idem manerium cum pertinentijs inposterum tenebunt. Et praeterea ijdem R. & M. concesserunt pro se & haeredibus suis, quod si praedictus redditus ad aliquem terminum, quo solui debeat, aretro fuerit in part, vel in toto, quod tunc bene licebit praef. I. et E. et haered' de corpore ipsius E. legitime procreat', distringere praedict' R. et M. & haeredes suos, ac illos qui idem manerium inposterum tenebunt, per omnia bona & catalla, in eodem manerio cum pertinentijs inuent', pro xx. solid', nomine penae, pro quolibet termino, sic aretro existent' per spacium unius mensis, Et ea retinere usque ad plenam solutionem tam de praedictis quatuor libris reddit', quam de praedictis xx. solid' nomine penae quae eis sic aretro fuerint etc. A writ of Covenant for the Queen, for the tith corn of a parish, and the manner of the endorsement thereof, by her Attorney general. Essex. ss. PRaec' A. B. et C. qđ ten' nobis conuentionem inter nos & Sect. 103. pref. A. et C. factam de omnibus et omnimod' decimis granorum crescent, preuenient, sive renovan, infra parochian de Hoton. Et nisi fecerint, sum per bonos summonit etc. Hoc breve indorsetur sic. ¶ Ed wardus Cook armig' Attorn̄ dominae Reginae generalis pro eadem domina Regina sequitur hoc breve. A Fine knowledged by T. W. to I. R. of one messsage, one barn, of land meadow, and pasture, with warranty against all men. Essex. ss. PRaec' T. W. are quoth just etc. teneat I. R. convenciones Sect' 104. inter eos fact', de uno messuagio uno horreo xxv. acris terre, quatuor acris prati, & decem acris pasture cum pertinent in L. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' T. recognovit tennta praedict' cum pertinenti●s esse ius ipsius I. ut illa que idem I. habet de dono praedict' T. Et illa remisit et quiet clamavit de se & hered suis imperpetuum. Et preterea idem T. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod ipse warrantizabit, tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs pref. I. et hered suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione etc. A Fine knowledged by T. B. and E. his wife of a manor of two messages of land, pasture, wood and rent and v. s. rend to I. K. with warranty against all men: And the said I. K. by the same fine granteth and rendereth back again the premises to the said conusors, and to the heirs of the said T. one of the said conusors for ever. PRaecipe T. B. & E. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant Sect' 105. W. L. et I. K. convenciones inter eos fact' de manerio de W. cum pertinent ac de duobus messuagijs, octaginta acris terre, centum acris pasture, sexaginta acris bosci, & quinque solid' redditus cum pertin' in H. & B. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praed' T. et E. recognoverunt maneria tenementa & reddit' praedict' cum pertinent esse ius ipsius W. ut illa que ijdem W. & I. habent de dono praeđ T. et E. et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaverunt de ipsis T. & E. & hered' suis praef. W. et I. & hered' ipsius W. imperpetuum: Et preterea ijdem T. et E. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt maneria, tenement' & reddit' praeđ cum pertinentijs prefat' W. & I. & hered' ipsius W. contra omnes homines imperpetuum: Et pro hac recognicione etc. ijdem W. et I. concesserunt pređ manerium tennta et reddit' praeđ cum pertinent et illa ei reddiderunt in eadem curia. Habenđ et tenenđ eidem T. et hered' suis imperpetuum. A Fine knowledged by H. K. and I. his wife, I. C. and K. his wife to R. G. of one messsage one garden of land & pasture, and the same conusors for them and the heirs of lo do warrant two parts of the premises in iij. parts divided to the c●usee and his heirs against all men for ever. PRaecipe I. H. & I. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant R. G. convenciones inter eos fact', de uno messuagio, uno gardino, 40. acris terre, & quatuor acris pasture cum pertin' in etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, quod pnd' I. & I. recognover tenementa praed ' Sect' 106. come pertinent esse ius ipsius R. ut illa que idem R. habet de dono praedict' H. & I. I. & K. & illa remiserunt & quiet clamaverunt de ipsis H. & I. I. & K. & heredibus suis praefat' R. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem H. & I. I. & K. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' duas partes tenntorum praedict' come pertin' in tres parts dividen pref. R. & hered' suis contra onnes homines imꝑpet. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by I. F. knight and M. his wife and R. H. of two messages, one garden, one or chard, and of land, meadow, and pasture, to T. P. and I. K. with warranty against all men And the conusees by the said fine grant & render to the said R. one of the conusors in the fine vi. acres of land etc. parcel of the premises for one month to come next, & afterwards the same to remain to one I. now the wife of R. N. & R. N. son of the said R and I, during their lives and the longer liver of them. And after their deceases the the said vi. acres of land to remain to I. N. daughter of the said R. and I. his wife, during her life, reserving a rent with clause of distress for non payment thereof. And the residue of the premises, viz. the two messages, one garden, one orchard etc. the said conusees grant and render to R. H. for one month and afterwards to one R. N. & I. his wife. To have & to hold to the said R. & I. during their lives, and the longest liver of them, reserving also thereupon a rent with a clause of distress for non payment thereof. And lastly the said conusees do grant and render the reversion of the whole premises, and the several rents reserved upon the said grants and renders unto the said I. F. and M. his wife, two of the said conusors, and to the heirs of the said I. F. for ever. PRaec' I. F. milit ac M. uxori eius, et R. H. quod just etc. tenent Sect' 107. T. W. & I. K. etc. de duobus messuag', 1. gardin, 1. pomar, 21. acris t̄re, 6. acr prat, & 58. acr pastur' cum pertin' in M. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. qd' pnd' I. M. & R. recogn' tennta pnd' cum pertin' esse ius ipsius T. ut illa que idem T. & I: habent de dono pref. I. M. & R. Et illa remiser & quiet clam' de ipsis I. M. & R. & hered' suis pnd' T. & I. & hered' ipsius T. imperpetuum. Et pnterea ijden I. F. M. & R. concesser' pro se & Warranty. hered' ipsius I. qd' ipsi warrant' tennta pnd' cum pertin' pref. T. & I. & hered' ipsius T. count oens hoines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. ijdem T. & I. concesser' The Render of parcel of the premises. pnd' R. vj. acr terre, 3. acr pastur', et 46. acr prati de tenntis pnd' cum pertin' & illa ei reddider in ead' cur': Habend' et et tenend' eid' R. pro termino uni mensis iam prox' futur'. Et post tmmin illum finit, easd' 3. acr t̄re, 3. acr prat 46. acr pastur' cum pertin' integre reman' cuidan I. modo uxori cuiusd' R. N. & cuidan R. N. filio eorund' R. & I. Habend' & tenend' pref. I et R. tota vita ipsor I. et R. et eor alterius diutius viven: Et post decessun eorund' I. & R. easdem 6. acr tre, 3. acras prati & 46. acr pastur' cum pertin' integre reman' I. M. filie pnd' R. et I. uxoi eius: Habend' et tenend' eid' I. filie tota vita eiusd ' Therent. I. filie reddend' inde annuatim pnd' T. & I. & hered' suis cent & 8. s. 10. d'. ad sestum Annunc' etc. per equales porc' annuatim soluend'. Et si A clause of distress. contingat praed' amnualem reddit' Cviij. s. x. d. vel aliqua inde ꝑcella a retro fore in part vel in toto ꝑaliquod festum festorum pnd' quo sive quibus (ut prefertur) solui debeat non solut. Qd' tunc beneliceat pnd' T. & I. hered' & assignat' suis tam tota vita naturali pnd' I. & R. N. modo uxoris pđ R. & eorum alterius diutius viuen̄ quam tota vita pnd' I. fil' in pnd' 6. acras terre etc. cum pertin' & in quanilibet inde procellam intrare & distringere & distriction sic ibid' capt' liceat inde abducere effugare & penes se retinere quousque de pnd' annuali reddit' Cviij. s. x. d. & de qualibet inde ꝑcella una cum arrerag' eiusd' si que fuerint eis plena. sie satisfact' & ꝑsolut. Et ulterius ijdem T. & I. concesser' pnd' R. H. duo messuagia unum pomatium The render of the residue. unum gardinun, 16. acr terre, 3. acr prati & 12. acr pasture resid' come pertinent tenntor̄ praed'. Et illa ei reddider̄ in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eid' R. pro termino unius mensis. Et post terminum ill' finit, ead' duo messuagia, unum gardin, unum pomar, xuj. acr terre, tres acr prati, et duodecen acr pasture resid' integre remanere ●uidam R. N. & I. uxori eius: Habend' et tenend' eisdem R. R. & I. tota vita ipsor R. R. et I. et hered' eorum alterius Rend for the residue. A clause of distress. diutius viven: Redded ' inde annuatim pnd' T. et I. et hered' eorum xiii. s. legalis monete Angl' add festa praed' per equales portion soluend'. Et si contingat praed' annualem reddit' xiii. s. aut aliquam inde parcellam a retro fore in part vel in toco post aliquod festum festor pnd' qua ut prefert solui debeat non solut. Quod tunc bene licebit praef. T. et I. in praed' duo messuag', unum gardin, unum pomar, xvi. acras terre, 3. acras prati & xii. acras pasture resid' come pertin', & quamlibet inde parcell' intrare & distringere, districtionesque ibidem sic capt', liceat abinde abducere, effugare, The render of the reverfion of all the premises and all the rends reserved. et penes se retinere quousque de pnd' reddit' xiii. s. una cum arrerag' eiusdem si que fuerunt plenary fuerint satisfact' & ꝑsolut: Concesserunt etiam pđ T. et I. K. pnd' I. F. & M. recuperation omnium et singulor tenntor̄ pnd' cum pertin' & oens reddit' pnd' superius reseruat, & illa eye reddider in ead' curia. Habend' et tenend' eisden I et M. et hered' ipsius I. imperpetuum de capital' dnis feodi illius ꝑ seruitia que ad pnd' tennt cum pertin' pertinent imperpetuu. A Fine knowledged by G. H. and D. his wife T. S. Esq. and M. his wife of xl. acres of land to R. B. and W. N. with warranty: And the conusces do grant and render to the said D. and to her heirs, all mines of coals in a close parcel of the premises called Stanley field, with liberty to dig for the same. PRaecipe G. H. arm, & D. uxori eius T. S. arm, & M. uxori Sect' 108. eius quod just etc. teneant R. B. & W. W. convencionem inter eosfact' de 40. acris terre cum pertin' in Stanley & Spendon. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scz. quoth praed' G. D. T. & M. recognoverunt tenementa praed' come pertin' esse ius ipsius R. ut illa que ijdem R. & W. habent de dono praedict' G. D. T. et M. Et illa remiserunt et quiet clamaverunt de ipsis G. D. T. et M. & hered' suis pref. R. et W. et heređ ipsius R. contra praeđ G. D. T. et M. et heređ ipsius T. imperpetuum. Et ꝓ The conusees do grant and ●ender Co●le mines in part of the provisoes to two of the con●sors and liberty to get them. hac recog●icione etc. praeđ R. et W. concesserunt pref. G. et D. omnes mine●as carbonum vocat' all Mines of Coals, existent in quodam campo parcell' tenementorum praeđ vocat' Stanley field: necnon liberum ingressum et egressum in ●t super praeđ camp ad fodend' in mineris illis pro carbonibus illis omni tempore Anni ad libitum ipsorum G. et D. et hered' eiusdem D. Et illa omnia eis reddiderunt in eađ cur'. Habenđ capienđ et percipienđ praedict' miner ingressus, egressus, ac libertat praedict' cum pertinentijs prefat' G. et D. et heredibus ipsius D. imperpetuum. A Fine knowledged by W. K. and K. his wife of the third part of one messsage. one barn, one garden etc. to I. K. and T. H. with warranty against all men: and the said conusees do grant and render to the said S one of the conusors, the said third part of the premises from Micha. or Thannunciation etc. which first shall happen to be next after the death of one E. now the wife of W. T. for the term of xxi years, reserving a rent yearly to the con●sees with a clause of distress for the said rend, And lastly the said conisees grant and render the reversion of the said▪ premises to W. K. and K. h●s wife being ij. of the said conusors in the said fine, and to the heirs of the said K. for ever. PRaecipe W. K. et K. uxori ●ius quod just etc. teneant I. Sect' 109. K. et T. H. convencionem inter eos fact' de tertia part unius mef●agij▪ unius horrei, unius gardini, 30. acrarum terre, duar● acrarum prati, et acrarum pastu● cum pertinent in etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praeđ W. K. & S. recognoverunt tertiam partem praeđ cum pertinenn̄ es●e ius ip sius ●. ut illa que ijdem I. et T. habent de dono praedict' W. K. & S. Et illa remiserunt & quiet cla●auerunt de ipsis W. K. & S. & heređ suis praefat' I. et T. & heređ Warranty. ipsius ●. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem W. K. & S. concesserunt prose & heređ ipsius K. quod ipsi warrant tertiam partem predict' cum pertinentijs prefat' I. et T. et heređ ipsius I. contra omnes homines imperpetuum. The Render. Et pro hac recognicione ijdem I. et T. concesser' praedict' S. tertiam partem praedict' come pertinent & illam ei reddiderunt in eadem curia. Habenđ & tenenđ eidem S. a festo sancti Michaelis Arch. vel a festo Annunc': beat Mariae virginis quod prius & proxim' contigerit vel e●it post mortem cuiusdam E. modo vxor' W. T. & nuper vxor' R. C. def●nct' usque ad finem & terminum xxj. annorum extunc proxim' sequ●● & plenar complenđ: Reddenđ inde per Ann praedict' I. & T. xii. đ. ad festum Annunciacionis beate Mariae virgins & sancti Michaelis Clause of distress for the rent. Archang ' per equales portiones soluend'. Et si contingat praedict' annualem reddit' xii. đ. vel aliqua inde parcella aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedict' quo ut prefertur solui debeat non solut, quod tunc bene licebit prefat' I. et T. hered' & assignat' suis in tertiam pa●tem praedict' come pertinent & in quamlibet inde parcellam intrare et distringere districtionesque sic ibidem capt' liceat abinde abducere, effugare, asportare & penes se retinere, quousque de praeđ annuali reddit' xii. đ. & de qualibet inde parcella una cum arreragijs eiusdem si quefuerint, plenary eyes fuerit satisfact' & persolut. Concesser etiam praedict' I. K. & The grant o● the reversion & the rent reserved upon the leas for 21. years. T. H. praed' W. & K. revercionem 3. partis praed' come pertin' & reddit' p̄đ superius reseruat. Et illa eis rediderunt in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eisdem W. & K. & hered' ipsius K. imperpetuum de capitalibus dominis feod' illius per seruic' que ad eandem tertiam partem pertinent imperpetuum. A Fine knowledged by W. P. and M. his wife of a manor etc. one water mill, one wind mill, iij. dovehouses etc. to E. B. and R. C. and the conusees by the same fine, do grant unto the said M. a yearly rend of xii. li. going out of the said Manor, Habend ' from Michaelmas or Thannunciation next after the death of the said W. P. her husband, and one of the conusors in the said fine during her life, in full recompense of her title of dower or jointure in any of the lands of her said husband, with a clause of distress for the said rend. And lastly the said conusees grant and render again the said manor etc., to the said W. P. the conusor, and husband to the said M. and to his heirs for ever. ET est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' W. & M. recognoverunt Sect' 110. manerium & tennta praed' come pertin' es●e ius ipsius E. & R. ut illa que idem E. & R. habent de dono praed' W. & M. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaver de se & hered' suis prefat' E. & R. & hered' ipsius E. imperpetuum. Et pnterea ijden W. & M. concesser' prose & hered' ipsius W. quod ipsi Warranty. warrantizabunt manerium & tennta praed' come pertin' prefat' E. B. & R. & hered' ipsius E. contra omnes homines imperpetuum: Et pro hac recognicione etc. ijdem R. & E. concesserunt pref. M. quandam annualem reddit' A grant of a rent in recompense of jointure & dower. xii. li. exeun de praef. Manerio & tenementis cum pertin'. Habend' & tenend' & annuatim percipiend' praed' annualem reddit' xii. li. prefat' M. & assignat' suis a festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli vel Annunciac' beat Marie virgins prox. & immediate s●quen̄ post mortem praedict' W. pro & durant vita naturali eiusdem Mariae ad duos Anni terminos viz. ad festa sancti Michaelis Arch. & Annunc' beat Mariae virginis equalibus portionibus annuatim soluend' in plenam recompencionem totius tituli vel juncture sive dotis que eidem M. contingere debent de aliquibus terris vel tenntis pnd' W. P: Et si contingat praed' annual' reddit' xii. li. vel aliquam inde parcellam a retro fore per aliquod festum festorum praeđ quo sive quibus ut prefertur solui debeat. Quod tunc & tocies bene licebit praed' M. & assign' suis in praeđ manner & tenntum sive in aliquam inde procellam intrare & distringere & districtionem sive districtiones sic ibidem capt' abducere, effugare, & penes se retinere quousque de praeđ annuali reddit' xii. li. & de qualibet inde parcella una cum arreragijs eiusdem The render of the manor etc. by the conisees to the conusor and his heirs for ever. si que fuerint plenary satisfact' fuerint & ꝑsolut: Et ulterius ijdem E. & R. concesserunt praed' W. Manerium et tennta pnd' cum pertin' & illa ei reddiderunt in ead' curia: Habend' & tenend' praed' manner cum pertinent pref. W. et hered' suis impertuum. Tenend' etc. A Fine knowledged by I. G. and M. his wife to R. R. knight, Lord R. of one messsage▪ one barn etc. v. s. rend the parsonage of B. and the advowson of the vicarage of B. with warranty against the conusor and his wife▪ & the heirs of the husband. PRaecipe I. G. alias G. & M. uxori eius quod ipse etc. teneat Sect' 111. R. R. milit domino R. convencionem etc. de uno mesuagio, uno horreo, xv. acris terre, 6. acris prati, 20. acris pasture, & v. s. reddit' cum pertinent in B. ac de rectoria de B. praedict': Necnon de advocatione vicar Ecclesiae de B. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' I. et M. recognoverunt praedict' tennta reddit' & rectoriam cum pertinent ac aduocac' praed' esse ius ipsius▪ dni R. ut illa que idem dnus R. habet de pnd' I. & M. & illa remiser & quiet clamaver de ipsis I. et M. & hered' suis praefat' domin' R. & hered' suis. Et preterea ijdem I. & M. concesserunt prose & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' praed' dno R. & hered suis praeđ tennta reddit' et rectoriam cum pertin' ac aduocac' pnd' contra praeđ I. et M. et hered' ipsius I. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by I. S and M. his wife of one garden etc. with two several warranties. The first warranty against the conusors and their heirs only: and in the second, the said I. S and M. his wife grant to warrant the premises for them and the heirs of the husband against all men. PRaecipe I. S. & M. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant N. Sect' 112. W. convencionem inter eos fact' de uno gardino, et decem acr terre cum pertin' in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' I. & M. recognoverunt tennta praed' come pertin' esse ius ipsius N. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clam' de ipsis I. & M. & hered' suis prefat' N. & hered' suis E. imperpetuum. Et The first warranty. pnterea ijden I. & M. concesser' prose & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrantizabunt tennta praed' come pertin' prefat' N. & hered' suis imperpetuum. The second warranty. Et preterea ijdem I. et N. concesser' pro se & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' praed' tennta cum pertin' pref. N. et heređ suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by E. R. of a manor, etc. twelve messages, x. toftes, x. gardens, ij▪ wind mills, etc. and vi. li. rent, with warranty against all men. PRaecipe E. R. armig', quoth just etc. teneat H. W. gentleman, Sect' 113. conventionem intereosfact' de manerio de S. cum pertin', ac de xii. mesuagijs, x. toftiss, x. gard●is, duob' molenđ ventilibus, 600. acris terre, 40. acris prati, 6. acris pasture, ducent acr bosci, quingent acris iampn, et bruere et vj. li. reddit' cum pertin' in etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod prae● E. R. recognovit manerium tenementa et reddit' praeđ cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius H. W. ut illa que idem H. habet de dono praedict' E. Et illa remisit et quiet clamavit de ipso E. et hered' suis praedict' H. et heređ suis imperpetuum. Et preterea idem E. concessit prose et heređ suis quod ipsi warrantitizabunt praedict' H. et heređ suis manner, tenement' et reddit' praedict' cum pertinentijs, contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged within the County of Chester, by H. S. Esq. to W. F. and R. C. of divers manors etc. with warranty against all men. And the conusors by the same fine, grant and render the same manors etc. unto the conusor and his heirs males, and for default of such heirs males, then to certain persons for the life of I. S. brother unto the said conusor, and after his death to his heirs males. And if the said I. S. died without heir male, then to diverse other of the name and kindred of the conusor, and to their heirs males, and for default of such heir, the last remainder in fee to the right heirs of the conusor for ever. HEc est finalis concordia fact' in curia dominae Regis apud Cestri 〈…〉 Sect' 114. die Lune etc. Anno etc. coram M. H. milit justiciario domini Regis et alijs domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus inter W. F. et R. C. queren et H. S. de O. in come Cestrie arm, de manner de O. et O. cum pertinentijs, ac de xiv. messuagijs, 500 acr terre, 200. acris prati, 500 acr pasture, 60. acr bosci, C. acris more & marisci et ij. s. reddit' cum pertin' in O. O. in C. et W. ac de medietate manerij de E. cum pertin' et de 6. messuagijs, C. acris terre, C. acris prati xx. acris pasture, ij. acris bosci, xx. acris iampnorum & bruere cum pertinentijs in E. unde placitum convencionis summonit fuit inter eos in ead' cur', scilicet, quod praed' H▪ recogn' manner tennta & reddit' praed' come pertin', ac praed' medietat suam mnaerij de E. & praedict' tennta in E. praed' come pertinent esse ius ipsius W. utilla que ijdem W. & R. C. habent de dono praedict' H. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaver de ipso H. & hered' suis pref. W. & R. & hered' ipsius W. imperpetuum. Et preterea idem H. concessit pro Warranty. se & hered' suis quod ipse & hered' sui warrant' maneria, tennta & reddit' praed' ac praedict' medietatem praedcti' manerij de E. & praed' tennta in E. praed' come pertinent pref. W. & R. & hered' ipsius W. contra omnes Therender. homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicion remissione, quiet' clam', warranto, fine, & concordiapraed' W. & R. in eadem cur' concesserunt pfato H. M. manner tennta & reddit' pnd' ac pnd' mediet pnd man de E. & pnd' tenementa in E. praed' come pertin' & illa ei reddider in ead' cur': Habenđ eidem H. & hered' masculis de corpore suo legittime procreat'. Et si contingat pnd' H. obire sine hered' maculo de corpore suo legitime procreat'. Quod tunc praed' manner tennta & reddit', ac praed' medietas praed' manerij de E. ac praed' tennta in E. cum pertinent post mortem praed' H. S. R. Remainders in tail. The remainders after the death of I. S. the conusors brother to the ●eires males of the said I. S. The other remainders if the said I. S. die without heir male. S. filio & hered' apparen T. S. arm, R. S. filio, E. S. R. B. & E. B. pro termino vite I. S. fratris praed' H. remaneant. Ita quod manner tennta & reddit' praedict' ac praedict' mediet praed' manner de E. & praedict' tenementa in E. cum pertinentijs post mortem praedict' I. S. hered' masculis de corpore praedict' I. legitime procreat' remaneant. Et si contingat eidem I. S. sine hered' masculo de corpore suo legitime procreat' obire, qd' tunc mane● tenementa & reddit' praedict', ac praeddict' medietas praed' manerij de E. & praedict' tenementa in E. praedict' cum pertinentijs T. S. de S. armig', & hered' masculis de corpore suo legitime procreat' remaneant. Et si contingat praed' T. S. sine hered' masculo de corpore suo legitime procreat' obire, quod tunc praedict' manner, tenementa, & reddit', ac praedict' medietas dict' manerij de E. & praedict' tenementa in E. praed' come pertinent T. S. filio G. S. & hered' masculis de corpore eiusdem T. S. filii pnd' G. legitime procreat' remaneant etc. Et si contingat eid' G. sine hered ' The last remainder in fee to the right heirs of the conusor for ever. masculo de corpore suo legitime procreat' obire quod tunc manner tenementa & reddit' praedict' ac praedict' medietas dict' manerij de E. et tenementa praed' in E. praed' come pertinent rectis hered' prefat' H. S. ●maneant imperpetuum. A Fine knowledged before the justices of Chester by B. P. and E. his wife of a manor etc., one water mill, one dove-house, one garden, i●. orchards etc. with warranty. PRaecipe B. P. & E. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant I. Sect' 115. S. Arm convencionem inter eos fact' de manner de O. all▪ O. ac de uno molendino aquatico, uno columbario, uno gardino, duobus pomarijs▪ centum acr terrae, sexaginta ac● prati, ducent acris pasturae, quadrag●ta acris bosci▪ centum acris bruere, trescent acris more, centum acris tu●barie, quinquaginta acris marisci, triginta acris terrae, aqua coopert̄ cum pertin' in O. alias O. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' B. & E. recognouerun● mancrium & tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius I. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaverunt de se & haered' suis praefat' I. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea praef. B. & E. concesserunt pro se & haered ' Warranty. ipsius B. quod ipsi warrantizabunt manner & tenementa praedict' come pert●en̄ praefat' I. & haered' suis contra praefat' B. & E. & haered' ipsius B. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledged by an Earl and his wife of a manor, advowson, liberties, free warren, and free fishing, and a fold course for 2000 sheep. PRaecipe Tho. comiti Sussex et Fran. uxori eius quod Sect. 116. just etc. teneant Will' Curson are conuenc' inter eos fact' de manerio de B. cum pertmen̄ ac de 80. mesuagijs, 40. cotagijs, 10. toftiss, 100 gardinis, 60. poma●ijs, 400. acris terrae, 60. acris prati, 200. acris pasturae, 20. acris bosci, 40. acris jampnorun & brueres, 200. acris more, 100 acris alnetis et 20. s. red ', cum pertinent in Billingford alias Billingfoorth▪ Bylowe alias Bylingh etc. nec non advocationem ecclesiae de Bylingfoord, ac de libertate unius Foldagijad 2000 ovium, libera warrenna & libera piscaria in B. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' comes & Francisca recognoverunt praedict' maneria tenement' et reddit' cum pertinentijs ac advocationem libertatem liberam warrennam & liberam piscariam praedict' esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. habent de dono praed' commit is et Fr. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaverunt de se & haered' suis Warranty. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijden comes et Fr. concesser' pro se & haered' ipsius comitis quod ipsi warrantizabunt manerium tenementa et reddit' praed' cum pertinentijs ac advocationem, libertatem, liberam warrennam et liberam piscariam praed' praefat' W. & haered suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledged by the husband and the wife, and a third person of certain acres of land meadow and wood, and the husband and the wife warrant the land, to the Conusees and to the heirs of the one of them: and the same Conusces grant and render again the land to E. wife of one of the Conusors' from Michaelmas passed for the term of 99 years without impeachment of waist, yielding a rent to the Conusees, and to the heirs and assigns of one of them, with a clause of distress for non payment of the rent: and afterwards they grant the rent, and the reversion of the lands in fee to one with▪ W. PRaecipe W. Walgrave arm & E. uxori eius & E. E. Sect. 117. quod just etc. teneant R. R. et T. G. convencionem etc. de duabus acr terrae, duabus acr et dimid' prati, et 70. acris bosci, cum pertinentijs in E. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' W. E. & E. recognover praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius R. ut illa quae idem R. & T. habent de dono praedict' W. E. et E. Et illa remiserunt et quiet clamaver de ipsis W. E. et E. haered' suis praedict' R. & T. et haered' ipsius R. imperpetuum: Et praeterea ijdem W. et E. concesserunt pro Warranty. se et haered' ipsius W. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praedict' R. & T. & haered' ipsius R. praedict' tenementa cum pertinent contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione etc. praedict' R. R. et T. Therender. G. concesser' praefat' E. praedict' tenementa cum pertinent & illa ei reddiderunt in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eidem E. a festo sancti Michael●s Archangeli iam ultimo p̄territ̄ usque ad finem & terminum 99 annorum tunc proxim' sequent et plenary complend' absque impeticione alicuius vasti: Reddend' inde annuatim praefat' R. et T. et haered ' Rent. & assignat' ipsius R. duran toto termino praedict' sexagin● solid' & unum denar̄ legalis monete Angliae ad festum Annunciacionis beatae Clause of Distress. Mariae & sancti Michaelis Archangeli equis porcionibus soluend': Et si contingat praedict' reddit' 60. solid' & unius denarij a retro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedict' quibus ut praemittitur solui debeat non solut̄ quod tunc bene licebit praefat' R. & T. & haered' & assignat' ipsius R. in tenementa praedict' cum pertinentiis intrare et distringere, & districtiones ibidem sic capt' abducere asportare & penes se retinere quousque de praedict' reddit' una cum arreragijs eiusdem si quae fuerint plenar̄ fuerint satisfact', content, & persolut. The render of the Rent & reversion of the land to one in ●ee. Et ulterius ijdem R. R. et T. G. concesser' praedict' reddit' praedict' 60. solid' ac unius denarij ac revercionem tenementorum praedict' cum pertinentijs praefat' W. W. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Captain & recognit fuit coram me W. Bendlose seruient ad legem apud S. in parochia de B. etc. A fine knowledged by two unto one, with warranty against all men. ET est concordia talis, scilicet, Quod praed' L G. & T. B. recognover Sect. 118. Fine sur cognisance de droit. tenementa pred' cum pertinent esse ius ipsius I. G. ut illa quae idem I. habet de dono praedict' E. & T. Et illa remiser̄ et quiet clamaverunt de ipsis L. G. et T. & hered' suis praedict' I. G. et haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem L. G. & T. conces●er̄ pro se et hered' ipsius G. Warranty. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praed' I. ●t hered' suis tenementa praed' come pertinent contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledged of two messages and two gardens etc. by the husband & the wife and diverse others, to W. C. with several warranties. PRaec' R. F. & E. uxori eius & G. C. et B. uxori eius qđ Sect. 119. teneant W. C. gen convencionem etc. de duobus mesuagijs, duobus gardinis, uno pomario, 30. acris terrae, decem acris prati, 40. acris pasturae, & xuj. s. redd', come pertinent in W. & D. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' R. & E. G. & B. recognoverunt tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. habet de dono praedict' R. et E. G. et B. Et illa remiser General warranty. & quiet clamaverunt de ipsis R. & E. et G. B. & haered' ipsorum G. E. et B. praefat' W. et haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem C. & E. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt Special warranty. tenementa pred' cum pertinent praefat' W. & hered' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et ulterius ijdem G. et B. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius B. quod ipsi warrantizabunt tenementa pred' cum pertinent praefat' W. & haered' suis contra pred' G. & B. et haered' ipsius B. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledged of four messages, one tofte three barns, three gardens, three orchards etc. to W. S. and N. W. with warranty. INter W. S. & N. W. quer' & O. B. & uxorem eius deforcian̄ de 4. Sect. 120. mesuagijs, uno toft, tribus horreiss, tribus gardinis, tribus pomar, viginti acris prati, sex acris pasturae, cum pertinent in K. & B. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' O. & A. recognoverunt tenementa predict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. & N. habent de dono praed' O. et A. Et illa remiset & quiet Warranty. clama●er̄ de ipsis O. & A. & hered' ipsius A. praed' W. & N. & hered' ipsius W. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem O. et A. concesser' pro se et haered' ipsius A. quod ipsi warrantizabunt pred' W. & N. & hered' ipsius W. pred' tenementa cum pertinent contra praed' O. & A. & hered' ipsius A. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledge by two husbands and their wives of 2. messages, and 2. gardens, with several warranties. PRaecipe G. E. & R. uxori eius A. I. & K. uxori eius, Sect. 121. quod teneant G. T. convencionem etc. de duobus mesuagijs, duobus gardinis, cum perrinentijs in K. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, qđ pnd' G. et R. & A. & K. recognover tennta pred' cum pertinent esse ius ipsius G. ut illa quae idem G. habet de dono praed' G. & R. & A. & K. & illa remiserunt & quiet clamaver de ipsis G. & R. & A. & K. & haered' ipsorum R. & K. praed' G. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijden G. & R. concesser ꝓse & hered' ipsius R. Warranty. 2. quod ipsi war●antizabunt praed' G. & haered' suis praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs contra praedict' G. & R. & haered' ipsius R. Et ulterius ijden A. & K. concesserunt prose et haered' ipsius K. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praed' G. et hired ' suis praed' tenementum cum pertinentijs contra praed' A. et K. et haered' ipsius K. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc., Nota que Dyer chief justice dit que si les femmes fuissent soers que adonques il ne besoigne double guarantee in form avantdit, mes single guarantee est assets bone. A fine knowledged by the husband and his wife, to a man and his wife of one messsage, one garden, one orchard, one barn, one stable, one wharf etc. with warranty. PRaecipe R. I. et H. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant A. Sect. 122. I. et K. uxori eius convenciones etc. de uno mesuagio, uno gardino, uno pomario, uno horreo, uno stabulo, una wharfa, & una acra bosci cum pertinentijs in K▪ supper T. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' R. et H. recognoverunt tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius K. ut illa quae ijden A. et K. habent de dono praedict' R. et H. Et illa remiser̄ et quiet clamaver de ipsis R. et H. et haered' suis praedict' A. et K. et haered' ipsius K. imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem R. et H. concesserunt pro se et Warranty. haered' ipsius H. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praefat' A. et K. et haered' ipsius K. praed' tenementum cum pertinent contra praefat' R. et H. et haered' ipsius H. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by an Earl and his wife, to W. C. of a rent of 40. li. going out of diverse manors with warranty. PRaecipe F. comiti H. & domine K. uxori eius comitisse Sect. 123. H. quod just et sine dilacione teneant W. C. are convenciones etc. de 40. li. redd' exeunt de manerijs de B. S. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est con cordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' comes & comitissa recognoverunt redditum praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. habent de dono praed' comitis & comitisse. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaverunt de se & haered' suis praefat' W. et haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem comes & comitissa concedunt Warranty. pro se & haered' ipsius comitis quod ipsi warantizabunt reddit' predict' cum pertinentijs praefat' W. & haered' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by the husband and the wife, and one R. D. to one R. B. of one manor etc. one messsage called M. etc. with warranty who grant and render the same again to R D. one of the Conusors' for term of xxi. years, to begin at a time to come, reserving a rent: and afterwards the Conusees grant the reversion of the said manor etc. and the reversion to one of the Conusors' and his wife, & to the heir of the husband, to hold of the chief Lords of the fee etc. PRaecipe I. F. & B. uxori eius & R. D. qd' just &c. tenant Sect. 124. R. B. convenciones etc. de manerio de C. & I. cum pertinentijs ac de duobus mesuagijs vocat' B. 20. mesuag', 40. acris terrae, 100 acris prati, 500 acris pasturae, 200. acris bosci, & 40. acris iampnorum & bruerae cum pertinentijs in W. F. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' I. B. et R. recogn' praedict' manner et tenementum cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius R. B. ut illa quae idem R. habet de dono praedict' I. & B. & R. et illa remiser̄ et quiet clamaver de se et haered' suis praedict' R. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem I. et B. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius Warranty. I. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praedict' R. et haered' suis praed' manerium et tenementum cum pertinentijs contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. idem R. concessit praedict' R. praed' manner & tenementum cum pertinent & illa ei reddider etc. Habend' & tenend' predict ' The term & the beginning thereof. R. a festo sancti Michaelis archang. quod erit in Anno domini 1563. usque ad finem termini xxj. annorum extunc proxim' sequent et plenary complend', Reddend' inde annuatim praedict' R. & haered' suis quandam annualem Reddit xxvij. li. & vj. s. legalis monete Angliae ad Rent. festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, & Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis per equales porciones annuatim soluend' proxima solucione inde incipient ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli quod erit in Anno domini 1563. Et si contingat praedict' reddit' xxvij. li. vj. s. Clause of distress. a retro fore in part vel in toto ad aliquod festum festorum praedict' quo ut profertur solui debeat. Quod tunc bene licebit praefat' R. & haeredibus suis in praedict' manerium et tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare et distringere, districtionesque sic inde capt' & habit licet abducere, asportare et effugare ac penes se retinere quousque de praedict' redd' de xxvij. li. vj. s. cum areragijs eiusdem si quae fuerint plenary fuerit The grant of the reversion and the rent to the husband & the wife (being the Conusors') & to the heirs of the husband. satisfact' & persolut: Concessit etiam idem R. praedict' I. et B. revercionem maneriorum & tenementorum praedict' cum pertinentijs ac praedict' reddit' superius express' & reseruat & illa eis reddiderunt etc. Habendum & tenendum eisdem I. et B. & haeredibus ipsius I. de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruicia etc. A fine knowledged by the husband and his wife to one I. L. esquire of 2. manors 4. messages, 6. cottages one dove-house etc. with warranty, in consideration whereof the Conusee granteth a rent of 30. li. to the husband & his wife & to the heirs of the husband, the said rend to begin to be payable at Michaelmas, & the Annunciation of our Lady, which next shall happen after the death of the Conusor & C. his now wife or any other which afterwards shall happen to be his wife, with a clause of distress for the said rend if it be behind, and having been lawfully demanded. PRaecipe R. P. & I. uxori eius quod teneant I. L. arm Sect. 125. convencionem de manerijs de A. et W. cum pertinentijs ac de quatuor mesuag', sex cotag', uno columbario, 200. acris terrae, 40. acris prati, 300. acris pasturae, 20. ac● bosci, 20. acris iampnorum & bruere cum pertinent in W. et W. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' R. P. et I. uxor eius recogn' man & tenementa praed' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. ut illa quae idem I. habet de dono praedict' R. P. et I. vxor' eius. Et illa remiser etc. Et praeterea etc. Et pro hac etc. idem I. L. concessit praefat' A rent granted by the Conusors'. R. et I. uxori eius & haered' praedict' I. annualem reddit' 30. li. soluend' ad duos anni terminos consuet̄ viz. ad festum S. Michaelis Archangeli, & Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis per equales porciones, prima When the rent shall begin to be payable. solucione inde incipiente ad festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli, aut Annunciationis beate Mariae virginis quod proxim' contigerit post mortem praedict' L. & C. nunc vxor' eius existent vel alicuius alterius quam imposterum eius vxor' fore contigerit. Et si contingat predict ' A clause of distress for the Rent after it hath been lawfully demanded. annualem reddit' 30. li. aretro fore in part vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum pnd' quo ut profertur solui debeat non solut̄ per spacium etc. si licite petatur quod tunc etc. A fine knowledged by the husband and the wife to H. C. of the third part of a Rent issuing out of a manor with warranty against all men. PRaecipe R. & I. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant H. Sect. 126. C. convencionem etc. de tertia part v. li. vj. s. viii. denariorum reddit' cum pertinentijs exeunt de manerio de K. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praed' R. & I. recognover tertiam partem reddit' praed' come pertinent esse ius ipsius H. ut illa quae idem H. habet de dono praed' R. et I. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaverunt de se & haered' ipsius I. praef. H. & haered' suis imperpetuum: Et praeterea ijdem R. & I. concesser' pro se & haered' ipsius I. qđ ipsi warrantiz abunt Warranty. praef. H et haered' suis praed' tertiam partem reddit' praed' come pertinent contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by the husband and his wife, to one T. H. of the third part of 34. acres of meadow by these words viz. Concesserunt & reddiderunt &c. during the wives life, with warranty also during her life. PRaecipe H. P. & M. uxori eius quod teneat T. H. convencionem Sect. 127. A fine sur release de do●●er per le husband & le f●mme. etc. de tertia part, 34. acrarum prati, 40. acrarum pasturae, & 20. acrarum bosci, cum pertinentijs in S. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' H. et M. concesserunt & reddiderunt tenementa praedict' come pertinent praefat' T. & haered ' The estate. suis durant vita ipsius M. Et praedict' H. & M. warrantizabunt tennta predict' come pertinent praefat' T. & haered' suis durant tota vita ipsius M. The warranty. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledge by V K. knight to I. S. knight E. G. the Queen's Attorney general and others of two manors: 70. messages, and cottages etc. which the Lady V widow hath for her life of the inheritance of the Conusor the day of the concord made: and after her death is to revert to the Conusor, the which by this fine after the death of the said Lady V is wholly to remain to all the Conusees in the fine, and to the heirs of the said I. S. knight, the first of the Conusees in the said fine, with warranty against all men. PRaecipe V K. milit quod teneat I. S. milit E. G. attornat Sect. 128. A fine of reversion after the death of tenant in Dower. nostrum generalem, R. W. armig' & W. K. gen convencionem etc. de manerijs de H. alias de Prior H. & M. alias Prior M. ac 70. mesuagijs & cotagijs. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, Quod praedict' V recognoverunt maneria tenementa et reddit' praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius S. Et concessit pro se & haered' suis quod manner tenementa & reddit' The widows estate, in the Conusors' inheritance. praedict' cum pertinentijs quae dna V. K. vidua tenet ad terminum vitae suae de haereditate praedict' V. die quo haec concordia facta fuit. Et quod post decessum eiusdem dominae V ad praedict' V & haered' suos The reversion granted to the said Conusees & to the heirs of one of them etc. debuere reverti, quod post decessum ipsius I. S. dominae V integre remanere praedicto I. E. R. & W. et haered' ipsius I. S. imperpetuum. Et praeterea idem V concessit pro se & haered' suis quod ipse warrantizabit manaer̄ tenementa & reddit' praedict' come pertin' praefat' I. E. R. et W. & haered' ipsius I. S. contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione etc. A fine knowledged by a widow and one other to the Precedent and scholars of S. john's college in Oxon, of the Scite and principal house of the college, commonly called the White Friars in the Suburbs of Oxon, and 6. messages, 6. gardens, 6. orchards etc. also in the same Suburbs with warranty. PRaecipe I. P. vidue & E. P. gen quod just etc. teneat Sect. 129. A fine sur cognisance de droit. W. E. Presidenti collegij S. johannis baptist in Academia Oxon & Scholasticis eiusdem collegij conuenc' etc. de Scitu & principali domo collegij unlgarit nuncupat the White Friars in Suburbijs civitatis Oxon̄ cum pertinentijs, ac de 6. mesuagijs, 6. gardinis, 6. pomarijs, 20. acris terrae, duobus acris prati, & sex acris pasturae cum pertinent in Suburbijs civitat praed'. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' I. & E. recognoverunt tennta praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius Presidentis & Scholasticorum ut illa quae idem prese & Scholastici habent de dono praedict' I. et E. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaver de se & haered' ipsius E. praefat' Presidi & Scholasticis & successoribus suis imperpetuum: Et praeterea Warranty. ijdem I. et E. concesserunt pro se & haered' suis, quod ipsi warrantizabunt praefat' Praesidi & Scholasticis & successoribus suis tenementa praedict' come pertinent contra praefat' I. & E. & haered' ipsius E. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine by two men and the wife of one of them, of lands, meadow, and pasture, A fine sur cognisance de droit. Sect. 130. with warranty against the Conusors' vnd the heirs of the husband. PRaecipe B. gen T. R. et M. uxori eius quod teneant T. B. gen convencionem etc. de 30. acris terrae, duabus acris prati, tribus acris pasturae, & 6. acris bosci, cum ●tinentijs in C. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scjlicet quod praed' R. T. & M. recogn' tennta praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius T. B. ut illa quae idem T. habet de dono praed' R. T. et M. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaver de ipsis R. T. & M. et haered' ipsius R. praefat' T. B. & haered' suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem R. T. et M. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius R. quod ipsi warrantizabunt tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs praef. T. B. & haered' suis contra praed' R. T. et M. & haered' ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A fine knowledged by T. N. knight to G. T. Esquire of one manor, one messsage etc. with warranty against all men. PRaecipe T. N. militi qd' just etc. teneat G. T. are convenc ' Sect. 131. A fine sur cognisance de droit. etc. de manerio de T. cum pertinent, ac de uno mesuagio, 100 acris prati, 50. acris pasturae, & 30. acr bosci, cum pertinent in T. & G. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordiatalis, scz. quoth praed' T. N. recognoverunt manner & tenementa praed' come pertin' esse ius ipsius G. ut illa que idem G. habet de dono praedict' T. Et illa remisit & quiet clamavit de se & hered' suis praefato G. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et preterea idem T. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod ipse warrantizabit maneria & tennta Warranty. praedict' come pertinent prefato G. & hered' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by T. M. and K. his wife, to G. S. of the third part of viii. messages, vi. gardens, etc.▪ the which one M. B. widow holdeth for term of her life and which is of the inheritance of the conusors wife, the day of the Concord made, and which ought after the death of the said widow to revert unto the conusor and his wife, as in the right of his wife: and by this fine after the death of the said widow being tenant for life, is to come and remain to the said conusee and his heirs for ever, with warranty against all men. PRaecipe T. W. & K. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant G. Sect' 132. A Fine of a reversion after the death of tenant in dowe● S. convenciones inter eos fact' de tertia part, octo messuag', 6. gardinorum, 6. acr terre, decem acrarum prati, 20. acrarum pasture, 50. acrarum bosci cum pertinent in A. B. C. etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' T. & K. recognover terciam partem praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict' G. Et concesser' quod eadem tertia pars cum pertinent quam M. B. vid' tenet ad terminum vite sue de hereditate ipsius K. die quo hec concordia facta fuit, & que post mortem eiusdem M. ad ipsos T. & K. revertere debet, rem pref. G. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. Et preterea ijdem T. & K. concesserunt Warranty. pro se & hered' ipsius K. quod ipsi warrant' prefat' G. & hered' suis tertiam partem praed' come pertin' sicut praed' est contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by the husband and the wife to one I. I. of ix. messages, ix. A Fine sur conusans de droit. gardens etc. and of the moiety of xx. messages etc. one water mill, one dove-house etc. with warranty against all men. PRaecipe I. P. gener, & E. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant Sect' 133. I. L. convenciones inter eos fact' de novem messuagijs, novem gardinis, trescent acr terre, cent acris prati, cent acris pasture, viginti acr bosci, centum acris iampnorum & bruere etc. Ac de medietate viginti mesuagior, viginti gardinorum unius molendini aquatici, unius columbar, sexagint acris terre, ducent acris prati, trescent acris pasture, sexagint acris bosci, & trescent acris iampnorum & bruere cum pertinentijs in N. B. C. D. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' I. P. & E. recognoverunt praed' tennta & medietatem cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. L. ut illa que idem I. L. habet de dono praed' I. P. & E. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaver de se & hered' suis prefat' I L. & hered' suis imperpetuum: Et preterea ijdem I. P. & E. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt prefato I. L. & hered' suis praedict' tennta & medietatem cum pertin' contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. The order of taking the knowledge of a Fine by Dedimus potestatem directed to diverse, but the knowledge taken only by two of the Commissioners, and the certifying thereof by the Commissioners that took the knowledge. After the Fine is acknowledged, the Commissioners must write under the Concord of the said Fine, as followeth. Captain & recognit die etc. Anno etc. coram A. B. armig', & C. D. gener virtute brevis dominae Reginae de Dedimus potestatem nobis & alijs direct. Commissioners. A. B. C. D. Then writ upon the back of the Dedimus potestatem. Respons. A. B. Arm, & C. D. gener duorum Commiss. infra nominatorum. Execucio istius Commissionis pater in quadam Schedula huic commissioni annex'. Then must the Commissioners subscribe their names. A Fine knowledged by W. D. and I. D. to ●. R. & I. D. of one messsage and one cottage in ipswich, with warranty against all men: In consideration whereof the conusees do grant and render the premises to the said I. D. one of the conusors for term of seven days next following, and afterwards the same premises wholly to remain to one M. G. for her life, and after her death the premises wholly to remain to the said W. D. one of the said conusors and his heirs for ever. PRaecipe W. D. & I. D. quod just etc. teneant I. R. gen, Sect' 134. & I. D. conuenc' de uno messuagio & uno cottagio cum pertin' in I. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' W. D. & I. D. recogn' tenementa praedict' cum pettinentijs esse ius ipsius I. ut illa que idem I. & I. D. habent de dono praedict' W. D. & I. D. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaverunt de se & hered' suis prefat' I. & I. & heredibus ipsius I. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem W. & I. concesserunt pro se & Warranty. hered' ipsius I. D. quod ipsi warrantizabunt prefat' I. & I. & heredibus ipsius I. tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione etc. ijdem I. & I. concesserunt The render. tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs prefato I. D. Et illa ei reddiderunt in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' eidem I. D. pro termino septem dudierū extunc proxim' sequent. Et post termin̄ illum finit praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remanebunt cuidam M. G. Habend' & tenend' eidem M. tenend' de Capitalibus etc. tota vita ipsius M. ●● post decessum ipsius M. praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remanere prefat' W. D. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Tenend' de Capitalibus etc. A Fine knowledged by the husband and his wife to H. S. Esquire, of two messages, two Which houses, two shops, two Chambers, one Stable, and xx. acres of land etc. with warranty against all men. HEC est finalis concordia fact' in curia dominae Reginae apud Sect' 135. A Fine sur conusans de droit. Cestriam die Lune septimo die etc. Anno etc. inter H. S. querentem, & W. G. & S. uxorem eius deforcean̄ de duobus mesuagijs, duobus Salimis vocat' Which house's, alias Salthouses duobus shopis, duobus cameris uno stabulo, decem acris terre 4. acris prati, & sex acres pasture cum pertinentijs in etc. unde placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, Scilicet quod praedict' W. & E. uxor eius recognoverunt tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict' H. S. ut illa que idem H. S. habet de dono praedict' W. & E. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamuerunt de se & heredibus suis praefat' H. & heredibus suis ●perpetuum. Et preterea prefat' W. & E. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius W. quod ipsi & hered' praedict' W. tenement' predict' come pertinent prefat' H. & hered' suis warrantizabunt & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged before the justices of the Common pleas at Westminof two messages, one toft 80. acres of land etc. with warranty against all men. HEc est finalis Concordia fact' in Curia domini Regis apud Westmonaster Sect' 136. in octabis sancti Martini, Anno etc. coram E. M. W. S. H. B. & I. H. Iustic' etalijs dni Regis fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus inter R. Barm, I. L. gen, et R. L. gen. Quer & H. D. & deforcean de duobus▪ mesuagijs, uno tofto, 80. acris terre, xx. acris prati, 40. acris pasture, & tribus acris bosci cum pertinentijs in H. & W. unde placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in ead' curia, scilicet quod praedict' H. recogn' praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius R. B. utilla que ijdem I. R. I. & R. habent de dono praedict' H. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaver de se & hered' suis praedict' R. I. & R. & hered' ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et preterea idem H. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod ipse warrantizabit Warranty. I. & R. & hered' ipsius R. praedict' tennta cum pertin' contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione remissione, quiet' clamantia warranto fine & concordia ijdem R. I. & R. dederunt praedict' H. 38. li. sterlingorum. A Fine knowledged by R. H. of P. to R. B. of the manor of I. with warranty against the conusor and his heirs. PRaecipe R. H. de P. arm, quoth just teneat R. B. R. H. Sect' 137. etc. convencionem inter eos fact' de manerio de I. alias I. cum pertin' ac de 40. messuag', 500 acristerre, 100 acris prati, 500 acris pasture, 100 acris bosci, 100 acris more & marisci cum pertinentijs in I. alias I. W. & N. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' R. H. recognovit maneria ac tennta praed' cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict' R. B. ut illa que ijdem R. etc. habent de dono ipsius R. H. Et illa remisit & quiet clamavit de ipso R. & hered' suis prefat' R. etc. & hered' ipsius R. B. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem R. H. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod ipse warrant' Warranty. maneria & tennta praed' come pertin' pref. R. etc. & hered' ipsius R. imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. This is the Fine as it is engrossed of Record, whereof the Fine next before is but the note. HEc est finalis concordia fact' in cur' dominae Reginae Cestrie apud Sect' 138. Cestr die Lune etc. viz. 4. die Septembris Anno etc. coram I. T. a●, Iustic' dictae dominae Reginae Cestr̄ apud Cestriam & alijs dictae dnae Reginae fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus. Inter R. B. R. H. & H. H. quer' & R. H. de P. arm, deforcien de manerio de I. cum pertinent ac de etc. unde placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet, quod R. H. recognoverit man & tenementa praed' come pertinent esse ius praedict' R. B. ut illa que ijdem R. R. & H. habent de dono ipsius R. H. Et illa remiser & quiet clamaverunt de ipso R. & hered▪ suis praefato R. etc. et hered' ipsius R. B. Et preterea ijdem R. H. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod ipse warrantizabit manerium & tennta praed' come pertinent prefat' R. R. & H. & hered' ipsius R. B. imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione warranto, fine & concordia ijdem R. etc. dederunt praef. R. H. centum libras Argenti. The nine Proclomations of the Fine next before made according to the statute of 2. Ed. 6. made for Fines with Proclamations with in the County Palantine of Chester. ¶ Prima Proclamac' fact' fuit die Mercurij ista eadem Sessione, Secunda proclamac' facta fuit die iovis ista eadem Sessione: Quarto proclamac' fact' fuit in plena Sessione hic apud etc. tent' die etc. Anno etc. Et sic de ceteris etc. Three Proclamations in every Sessions. A Fine knowledged by A. B. to T. F. and G. H. osa Manor with warranty against all men: And the conusees in the same fine grant and render again the said manor to the said A. B for one week, and afterwards to N. M. for xxi years to begin ofter the feast of Saint Martin the Bishop, in winter reserving a red rose at Midsummer, if it be asked. And after the end of the said term of xxi. years, the said manor etc. wholly to remain to the said A. B. the conusor and his heirs for ever. PRaecipe A. B. quod just etc. teneat T. F. & G. H. convenciones Sect' 139. de manerio etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' A recognovit tentum praedict' come pertin' esse ius ipsius T. ut illa que idem T. & G. habent de dono praedict' A. Et illa remiser̄ et quiet clamaver de se & hered' suis prefat' G. et hered' suis imperpetuum. Et preterea idem A. concessit pro Warranty. se et heređ suis quod ipse warrantitizabit tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs praefat' T. & G. et heređ ipsius T. contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. ijdem T. & G. concesserunt & in eadem The render. curia reddiderunt tennta praedict' come pertinent praefat' A. pro una Septimana. Et post terminum illum finit̄ tenementa cum pertinent integre remanere N. M. & assignat' suis pro termino xxj. annorum post festum sancti Martini Episcopi in hieme proxim' futur immediate sequent & plenary complend'. Reddend' inde annuatim prefat T. & G. & hered ' Rent. ipsius T. durant toto termino praed' unam rubram rosam ad festum Nativitatis sancti Io. Bapt si petatur. Et post terminum illud finit̄ tenementa Remainder in fee to the con●sor. praedict' come pertinent integ● remanere praedict' A. & hered' suis imperpetuum etc. A Fine knowledged by R. B. of two messages etc. to I. A. with warranty against all men: and the conusee granteth the premises again to the conusor for one week, & afterwards to one W. B. for life reserving a rent, and afterwards to the conusor for his life, & after to S. B. his wife for her life, and after to I. B. son of the conusor and his wife for life: and afterwards the said conusee granteth the reversion of the premises and the rent to the said R. B. the conusor and his heirs for ever. PRaecipe R. B. gen quod just & teneat 1 A. convencionem etc. de duobus mesuagijs etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praedict' R. recognovit tennta pndict ' Sect' 140. come pertinent esse ius ipsius I. A. ut illa que idem ●. habet de dono praed' R. B. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaverunt de se et hered' suis prefat' I et hered' suis imperpetuum. Et preterea idem R. B. concessit ꝓ Warranty. se & hered' suis quod ipse warrant' tennta praed' come pertin' praef. I. A. & hered' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicione etc. idem I. concessit praefat' R. B. etc. et illa eireddiderunt in eadem curia. Habend' et tenend' tenementa praed' come pertin' prefat' R. B. pro The Render. termino unius Septimane, et post terminum illum finit̄ remanere W. B. pro termino vite ipsius W. B. Reddend' inde per Annum prefat' I. A. et Rent. hered' suis xl. li. adqnatuor Anni terminos viz. ad etc. per equales porciones soluend. Et post decessum ipsius R. B. rem inde S. B. vxor' praed' R. pro termino vite ipsius S. Reddend' ut supra. Et post decessum ipsius S. B. rem inde I. B. filio praed' R. pro termino vite sue reddend' inde ut supra: Nec non prefat' I A. concessit prefat' R. S. reversionem & reddit' tenementorum The grant of the reversion and the rent. praed' come pertin' & illa ei red diderunt in eadem curia. Habend' & tenend' reversionem & reddit' tennt praed' come pertin' eidem R. S. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Tenend' de Capital' dnis feodi etc. A Fine of a rent issuing out of vi. messages, and vi. gardeus, with warranty against all men. PRaecipe W. A. & A. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant Sect' 141. R. B. conuenc' de uno annuali reddit' de v. li. exeun de & in sex mesuagijs, vj. gardinis cum pertinentijs in L. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod praed' R. recognovit manner praed ' come pertinent esse ius ipsius H. ut illa que idem H. habet de dono praedict' R. Et illa remiser & quiet clam' de se & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et praed' R. concessit pro se & hered' ipsius W. quod ipsi warrant' reddit' praed' come pertinent praefat' R. B. & hered' suis imperpetuum contra omnes homines. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by R. L. of a manor etc. to H. C. with warranty against all men. In consideration whereof the conusee by the same fine granteth to the conusor and his heirs, one annuity of vi●. li, issuing out of the same manor, to be paid yearly at the mansion house of the said conusor, at a certain day and hour, imposing a pain of xvi●. s. to be forfeited in default of payment of the said annuity with a clause of distress for the said annuity and pain. PRaecipe R. L. quod just etc. ten' H. C. conuenc' etc. de manerio etc. in O. etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' R. recogn' manerium & Sect' 142. tenement' praed' come pertin' esse ius ipsius H. ut illa que idem H. habet de dono praed' R. & illa remiser & quiet clamaver de se & hered' suis imperpetuum: Et preterea praed' R. concessit pro se & hered' suis quod Warranty. ipse warrant' mane● praed' come pertin' pref. H. & hered' suis contra omnes The grant of an Annuity. homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. praed' H. concessit praed' R. quandam annuitatem sive annualem reddit' viii. li. legalis monete Angliae exeun & exitur de & in manner praedict' come pertinent & ill' ei reddiderunt in ead' Cur': Habend' & percipiend' praed' annuitatem sive annual ' The day hour & place of payment of the said annuity. reddit' viii. li. prefat' R. hered' & assignat' suis in viii. die Septembris inter horam nonam et duodecimam ante merid' eiusdem diei apud domum suam mansionalem in villa de R. in come S. soluend'. Et si contingat pnd' annuitatem sive annualem reddit' viii. li. are trofore in part vel in toto ꝑ spac' xx. dierum post praed' viii. diem Sept̄ in quo ut profertur solui debeat non solut. Quod tunc praedict' H. & hered' suiforiffac' eidem R. & hered' suis xviij. s. legalis monete Angliae nomine pene toties quoties predict' annuitat sive annualem reddit' aut aliquam inde partem aretro fore contigerit. Et bene licebit praefato R. et hered' suis in praed' manner cum Clause of distress for the annuity and the penalty. pertin' & in quamlibet inde parcellam intrare & distringere tam pro predict' annuali reddit' octo librarum & pro qualibet inde parcella quam pro praed' xviij. s. nomine paene eid' R. et hered' suis forisfact' toties quoties sic a retrofore contigerit non solut̄ districtionesque sic ibidem capt' & habit liceat abducere asportare & effugare & penes se retinere quousque tam de praedict' annuitate sive annuali reddit' octo librarum quam de praedict' xviij. s. nomine pene quoties sicforistact' fuerit idem R. & hered' sui fuerint satisfact' & ꝑsolut. A Fine knowledged by A. B. Es. of ● messages etc. to S. H. in tail general to hold of the conusor and his heirs by the xl. part of a knights see, and xv. s. iiij d. rent, with warranty against all men. PRaec' A. B. a●, quoth just etc. teneat S. H. conuenc'de duobus Sect' 143. mesuagijs etc. cum pertin' in M. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praed' A. B. concessit tennta praed ' An estate in general tail. come pertin' prefat' S. & hered' de corpore ipsius S. legitime procreat'. Tenend' de dno A. & hered' suis per qua●ragesimam partem unius feod' milit, & per reddit' xv. s. iiij. d'. per annum ad festum etc. 〈◊〉 soluend'. The 〈◊〉 Et preterea pred' A. concessit pro se & hered' sius quod ipse warrant' tenementa praedict' cum pertinontijs prefat̄● et hered' de corpore Warranty of the estate 〈◊〉 suo legitime procreat' sicut praedict' est contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by A: B. and M. his wife, of a manor etc. to S. P. reciting that where the said conusors hold the said manor for the life of the said M. the reversion thereof to the said conusee and his heirs belonging, the said conusors grant to the conusee all that their estate in the said manor during the life of M. one of the conusors, with warranty against them during the life of the said M. PRaecipe A. B. & M. uxori ●ius quod just etc. teneant S. P. convencionem etc. de manner etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet quod cum praedict' A. & M. habeat & Sect' 144. teneat pro termino vite ipsius M. maner' pnd' etc. come pertinent recuperation inde praedict' S. P. & hered' suis spectant ijdem A. & M. concesse●▪ praed' S▪ manner praedict' come pertinent, & totum & quicquid in man●rio praeđ etc. habent eid' S. durant vita ipsius M. Et praedict' A. & M. warrantizabunt praedict' S. & heređ praedict' S. manerium etc. cum pertinentijs sicut praedict' est contra praedict' A. & M. durant tota vita ipsi●s M. Et pro hac etc. A Fine knowledged by I. C. and This wife of ij. messages, one barn etc. to one H. P. with warranty: And the said H. P. in consideration of the said fine granteth and rendereth again by the same fine, the premises to the conusors for one day, and afterwards to I. P. widow for her life▪ and after her death the presses wholly to remain to H. P. and his heirs for ever. PRaecipe I. C. & T. uxori eius quod just etc. teneant H. conuenc' etc. de duobus messuagijs, uno horreo etc. Et nisi etc. ¶ Et est concordia talis, scilicet, quod praedict' I. et T. recognoverunt Sect' 145. tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius H. ut illa que idem H. habet de dono praedict' I. et T. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clam' de se & Warranty. hered' suis prefat' H. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Et preterea praedict' I. & T. concesserunt pro se & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant tenementa praedict' come pertinent prefat' H. & hered' suis contra omnes homines The Render. imperpetuum. Et pro hac recognicion etc. praedict' H. concessit tenementa praedict' come pertinent prefato I. & illa eye reddider in eadem curia: Habend' & tenend' eisdem I. & T. protermino unius diei. Ita quod post ●undem terminum finit, tenementa praedict' come pertinent integre remaner I P. vid' pro termino vit̄ eiusdem I. Et post mortem praedict' I. messuag' & horteum praedict' &c. integre remanere H. P. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius etc. Et quinque acras terre, & unam acr prati, cum pertinentijs resid' tenementorum praedict' integre remanere A. P. & hered' suis imperpetuum. Tenend' etc. The taking of the knowledge of the Fine. Captain et recognit coram Ia●obo Dyer milit capitali Iustic' de Communi banco Anno regni Reginae nunc secundo. Notes to be observed in Fines. 1 Nota que ascun foits plusors choses passa en le Praecipe q ne sont nosme en le concord. 2 Nota q un clause de Reentrie ne poit estre en un fine. 3 Nota q si home purchase diverse parcels de terr' de diverse homes il purroit passer touts les parcels e● un common fine, mes covient que il aver several guarantees de chescun de les parties pur lour several parcels. 4 Nota que Catlyn chief justice deal bank le roy dit que south no●me de bois, haut bois & Subbois passera en un fine. 5 Nota que per Dyer un Render ne poet estre fait mes tantum a luy que est nosme en le fine: mes un remainder poet estre limited a un, per fine comment que il ne soit nosme en le Praecipe. A fine knowledged by the husband and wife unto two of 30. messages, of lands, pasture, wood, linge, heath, and rend in divers places: The Conusees render the same again to the said Conusors' for term of their two lives, with divers remainders over after there deaths in general taeile to the children of the said Conusors'. And for default of issue of the said Conusors' to the right heirs of the wife of the Conusor for ever. HEC est finalis concordia facta in curia domini regis apud Westmon Sect. 146. in crastino Ascensionis domin● Anno regni Henrici octavi dei gratia Angliae & Franciae regis fidei defensoris, & domini Hibern a conquestu▪ decimo nono coram R. B. A. F. T. E. & W. S. Iustic'. Et postea in octabis sancti Trinitatis Anno regni eiusdem regis Henric' supradicti ibidem concesser' & recordat coram eisdem Iustic' & alijs domini regis fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus. Inter W. H. & I. R. quer' & I. S. & T. uxorem eius, deforc' de triginta mesuagijs, ducentis acris terre, trescentis acris pasturae, decem acris bosci, ducentis acris jampnorum & bruere, & trigint solidat redditus cum pertinentijs in P. F. etc. unde placitum convencionis sum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet, quod praedicti I. C. et T. recogn' praedict' tenement' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. R. ut illa quae ijdem I. & W. habent de dono praedictorum I. C. et T. Et illa remiserunt & quietum clamaverunt de ipsis I. C. & T. et haered' ipsius T. praedictis W. et I. R. imperpetuum. Et praeterea Warranty general. ijdem I. C. & T. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius T. quod ipsi warrant' praedictis W. & I. R. & haered' ipsius I. R. praedict' tenement' cum pertinent contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac recogn', The render. remissione quieta clam', warrant' fine & concordia ijdem W. & I. R. concesserun● praedictis I. C. & T. praedicta tenement' cum pertinent Et illa eis r●ddiderunt in eadem curia▪ Habend' & tenend' eisdem I. C. & T. de capitalibus dominis feod' illius per seruicia quae ad praedictum tenement' pertinent tota vita ipsorum I. C. & T. & alterius eorum diutius viventis. Et post decessum ipsorum I. C. & T. praedict' tenement' cum pertin' integre reman' I. C. filio praedictorum I. C. & T. & hered' de corpore suo legitime procreat' tenend' de capitalibus dominis feod' illius per seruicia quae ad praedict' tennt pertinent' imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem I. C. filius obierit sine haered' de corpore suo legitime procreat' tunc pos● decessum ipsius I. praedict' tennta cum pertinent integre reman' R. C. alter filiorum praedictor I. C. patris & T. & haered' de corpore suo legitime procreat' tenend' de capitalibus dominis feod' illius per seruicia quae ad praedict' tennt pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat idem R. obiere sine haered' de corpore suo legitime ꝓcreat̄ tunc post decessum ipsius R. praedict' tennta cum pertinent integre remanere haered' de corporibus praedict' I. C. patris & T. legitime procreat'. Tenend' de capitalibus dnis feod' illius per seruicia quae ad praedict' tennt pertinent imperpetuum. Et si nullus haeres de corporibus praedictorum I. C. patris & T. fuerint legitime procreat' tunc praedict' tennt cum pertinent integre reman' rectis haeredibus praedict' T. Tenend' de capit●libus dominis f●od ' illius per seruicia quae ad praedict' tennta pertinent imperpetuum. ✿ ● Adjuncts of Concord's. THe Adjuncts of a Concord, be also of two sorts: Internal, and external Sect. 147. Internal be such as be contained within the very Concord itself. Of which sort be the clause of reservation of service, rent, or other thing, the clause of nomine penae, the clause of distress, and the Reservation. Nomin penae. Distress. clause of warranties: All which clauses of reservations, nomine penae, distress, and warranty, are to be made in such words, and in such forms, as the like are made in Instruments extraiudiciall: for which see Leases and Grants of rents charge in the first part of Symboleography, If the following example do not sufficiently satisfy your desire herein. And Warranties be sometimes general, that is to say, against all Warranty. men: Some against all, except certain persons: some against certain persons only: some against every Cognizor, and his heirs severally: and some against one of the Cognizors, and his heirs only: some of all the lands in the fine: some of all, except part: and some of part only, certainly expressed. The external Adjuncts of Concords be the licence of alienanation, the Dedimus potestatem, the examination of the parties, & the cognizance. The licence of alienation is a power or authority given Licence. Alienation. by her Majesty to the parties, that lands may be aliened without incurring the danger of contempt. And every such licence is either to alien lands holden in Capite, or to alien lands into Mortmain. The licence of alienation of lands holden in Capite may vary from the fine, and be good, 32. H. 8. Br. Alienations 4. 30. For the obtaining of which licence the Clerk of the licences doth use to draw a dogket in paper, containing the effect of the fine, feoffment, Dogket. or other deeds, whereby the alienation is to be made. And thereupon affidavit or composition must be made for the value Assida●i●. of the lands, which are to pass thereby, which is to be signed by the Doctor of the Chancery that hath power to take oath: Then the Queen's fine is to be paid to the Receivor of fines, who will sign the dogket: And afterwards the same is to be signed by two of the commissioners of the office of fines & licences, and upon that dogket, the Clerk of the licences is to make the licence, and get it sealed with the great Seal, which licence is to be made in form following. A licence of Alienation of lands holden in Capite. ELizabeth dei gratia etc. Omnibus, ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Sect. 148. salutem. Sciatis, quod nos de gratia nostra speciali, ac pro tribus libris nobis solut̄ in hanaperio nostro, concessimus, ac licentiam dedimus, ac per praesentes concedimus, ac licentiam damus, pro nobis & haeredibus nostris, quantum in nobis est, dilecto nostro I. F. quod ipse totam medietat manerij de C. cum pertinentijs, ac quadraginta mesuag', vigint̄ cotag', quadragint̄ gardin̄, quinquagint̄ acras terrae, quadragint acras prati, trescent̄ acr pasturae, thirty. acr bosci, trescent̄ acr morae, & viginti libr' reddit', cum pertinentijs in W. & alib● in comitatu nostro N. eidem mediet pertinent' sive spectant, parcell' inde reputat aut accept̄ existent, quae de nobis tenentur in Capite, dare possit & concedere, alienare, vendere, barganizare, feoffare, warrantizare, aut cognoscere, per finem in curia nostra coram justiciarijs nostris de communi banco, aut aliter, seu aliquo quocunque modo, dilecto nobis E. R. Habendum & tenendum eidem E. haeredibus & assignatis suis, de nobis & haeredibus nostris, per seruic' inde debita & de iure consueta imperpetuum: Et eidem E. quod ipse dictam medietat manerij praedicti, ac caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentijs a praefato I. recipere possit, & tenere, sibi, haered', & assignatis suis, de nobis & haeredibus nostris, per seruitia praedict' imperpetuum, sicut praedictum est, tenore praesentium similiter licentiam dedimus, ac damus specialem: Nolentes quod praedict' I. aut heredes sui, vel praedict' E. haeredes vel assignati sui praedicti, ratione praemissorum, per nos haeredes vel successores nostros, Iusticiar', Eschaetor, Vicecom, Ballivos, aut alios officiarios seu ministros nostros, haeredum vel successorum nostrorum quoscunque inde occasionentur, molestentur, perturbentur, vexentur, in aliquo, seu graventur, aut eorum aliquis occasionetur, molestetur, perturbetur, vexetur in aliquo, seu gravetur. In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipsa apud Westmonasterium ultimo die etc. A licence to alien in mortmain. ELizabeth dei gratia etc. Omnibus etc. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra Sect. 149. speciali, ac pro xl. solid' nobis solut̄ in hanaperio nostro, concessimus, ac licentiam dedimus, ac licentiam damus, pro nobis & haered' nostris, quantum in nobis est, R. S. quod ipse Aduocationem de L. Abbati & Conuentui de L. in comitatu E. dare possit & concedere: Tenendum sibi & successoribus suis de dict̄ domina Regina & haeredibus suis, in liberam, puram, & perpetuam Elemosynam imperpetuum. Ac eisdem Abbati & Conuentui, quod ipsi Aduocationem illam a praefato R. S. recipere, & Ecclesiam illam appropriare, & eam sic appropriatam in proprios usus tenere possint sibi & successoribus, de ipsa Regina & haeredibus suis, in liberam, puram, & perpetuam Elemosynam imperpetuum: Nolentes etc. ut supra. Quod permittant finem levari. ANd after that such licence is had, the use was (which is not now Sect. 150. in use) to have a writ, mentioning the licence and the effect of the fine, directed to the justices of the common Place, commanding them, quod permitātt finem illum levari, Registr̄ fol. 167. a. 1. E. 3. cap. 12. 34. E. 3. cap. 15. 33. H. 6. fol. 2. The form of which succeed. ¶ Regina, justiciarijs suis de banco, salutem: Cum per literas nostras patentes, de gratia nostra speciali, concesserimus I. S. quod ipse de manerijs suis de F. & W. cum pertinent, quae de nobis tenentur in Capite, feoffare possit K. etc. (recitando totam cartam) prout in literis nostris praedictis plenius continetur, ac breve nostrum de conuentione pendeat coram vobis in banco praedicto, inter prae dictos I. & K. de manerijs praedictis, ad finem inde inter eos, secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angliae leuand', ut accepimus: Vobis mandamus, quod finem illum inter partes praedictas de manerijs praedictis, coram vobis in eodem banco levari permittatis, juxta tenorem literarum nostrarum praedictarum▪ Teste etc. But before 20. H. 3. the king's tenant in Capite might have aliened his free lands without licence, 14. H. 4. 3. 20. Ass plac. 17. as it seemeth. The writ of Ad quod damnum. But before the granting of any such licence, either to alien lands Sect. 151. holden in chief, or, to alien lands in Mortmain, or, release right in Mortmain, or exchange, the ancient use was to have a writ of Ad quod dampnum, containing the substance of the King's licence out of the Chancery, directed to the Escheator in the County wherein the lands lie, to be aliened, to inquire and certify into the Chancery, what damage or prejudice thalienation thereof will be to the king, or the other chief Lord, of whom they are holden, And of what tenure and value the lands be, And whether there remain sufficient free land besides those to the alienor, to sustain public charges, and to be in Assi●es and juries etc. And this is aswell where the alienation is made by the king, or by a Corporation, or a feme covert, as by any other. The like inquiry by writ of Ad quod damnum, hath been used before the king made any grant, or pardon, for alienation, lease, release, confirmation, or licence, and after the Inquisition returned and certified into the Chancery, to effect the same accordingly, Fitzh. Nat. bre. fol. ●21. & inde usque fol. 227. But now experience is to the contrary, in lieu whereof the use at this day is, to put in the king's patents, these words: Absque aliquo brevi de ad quod damnum, seu aliquibus alijs brevibus, seu mandatis, superinde habendis, fiendis, aut prosequendis. And one writ of Ad quod dam●um will serve for divers purchases, And a licence to alien in Mortmain of one king, will serve in the time of an other. But not so of lands holden in chief, 22. E. 3. Fitzh. Nat. bre. in brevi de Ad quod damnum. I purposely omit here the form of such writs de Ad quod damnum, because they be so grown out of use. Of a Pardon for Alienation. But if perchance any alienation of land holden in Capite, be made Sect. 152. without licence, a pardon must be sued, the fine of which is the value of lands by one year, and the mean profits between the Inquisition A fine of pardon. and the pardon, 31. H. 8. Br. Alienation 29. unless the Commissioners will more favourably compound for the same, as in some cases upon reasonable cause showed, they use to do, which pardon being purchased, the purchasor is to hold his land still, 14. H. 6. 26. 50. Ass. p. 2. 1. E. 3. ca 12. 34. E. 3. ca 15. But the fine of a licence, to alien lands holden in Capite, is, the third Fine of a licence. part of the yearly value thereof, 26. H. 8. Br. Alienation 29. But if alienation of lands into Mortmain be made without licence, Mortmain. the king may seize them as forfeited or escheated, Magna charta cap. 36. Westm 2. cap. 32. And for a licence thereof to be granted, the fine thereupon to be paid, is the value of the land by three years, 26. H. 8. Br. Alienation 29. But variance between the licence and the fine is not material, if it Variance. be all one alienation, 32. H. 8. Br. Alienation 30. And it seemeth that a fine sur release, or other release, is none alienation, Release. & therefore no fine due for the same, P. 37. H. 8. Br. Alienation 31. But fines are payable, and licences to be sued upon common Recoveries, Recoveries. 39 H. 6. 32. H. 8. ca 1. 4. E. 3. Devise by will is an alienation, 3. Ma. 1. Br. Alienation 37. Will. Of the Dedimus potestatem to take cognizance of a fine. A Dedimus potestatem to take knowledge of a Fine, is, as aforesaid, Sect. 153. a writ Commissionall directed to one, or more, giving them power to take and certify to the justices of the common Place, the cognizance of the Cognizees, when they can not conveniently travel to do it in Court, and it ought to recite the substance of the writ of Conenant, And bear Teste or date after it, Fitz. nat. fol. 146. g. The form of the writ of Covenant, & Dedimus potestatem. with the returns thereof, ensue: The writ of Covenant. Elizabeth dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regina, fidei defensor etc. Vicecom Ebor' Salutem: Praecipe T. B. armigero, & A. uxori eius, quod just & sine dilatione teneant W. P. gener, conventionem inter eosfactam de manerio de T. cum pertinentijs: Ac de duobus messuagijs, tribus cotagijs, quinque toftiss, uno columbar, quinque gard●is, quinque pomarijs, centum & decem acris terrae, quinquaginta acris prati, quinquaginta acris pasturae, decem acris bosci, centum acris i●mpnorum & brewer, quadraginta solidat reddit', & communia pasturae pro omnimodis animalibus, cum pertinentijs in W. & B. Et nisi fecerint, & praedictus W. fecerit te securum de clamore suo prosequend', tunc summ̄ per bonos summonit praedictos T. & A. quod sint coram justi ciarijs nostris apud Westmonaster in octab. Sancti Michaelis, ostensuri quare non fecerint, & habeas ibi sum & hoc breve. T. etc. xiii. die N. anno regni nostri quadrages. And the fine thereof is entered under the writ, thus: Pro vigint solid' solut firmar fine dominae Reginae virtute warrant' Fine. regij. Then must the writ of Covenant be endorsed thus: Per E. S. pro fine infrascr', qđ affid' quoth Endorsement. tennt infrascr non exec' val' x. libr' per annum. The Sheriff return. Pledg' de pros. johannes Do. Richardus Roose. Sum johannes Den. Richardus Fen. The Commiss. of fines. W. L. T. W. R. Ewer armig Vic'. The Dedimus potestatem thereof. Elizabeth dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reg. fidei defensor etc. Charissimo consanguin̄ nostro Gilberto Comiti Salop', ac pndicto ac fideli nostro I. D. militi dno D. Necnon dilectis & fidelibus suis G. S. militi, & C. C. militi, Ac dilecto nobis W. West armig', Saluten: Cum breve nostr' de conuentione pendeat coram Iustic' nostris de banco, inter W. P. gener, & T. B. armigerum, & Annam uxorem eius de manerio de T. cum pertinent: Ac de duobus messuag', trib' cotagijs, quinque toft̄, uno columbar̄, quinque gardinis, quinque pomarijs, centum & decem acris terrae, quinquaginta acr prati, quinquaginta acris pastur', decem acr bosci, centum acr iampnorum & bruere, quadragint solidat reddit', & coina pastur' pro omnimodis animalibus cum pertin' in W. & B. in Com̄ Ebor', ad finem inde inter eos coram Iustic' nostris pndict̄ in banco pndict̄, secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angl' leuand': Ac praefati T. & A. adeo impotentes sui existunt, qđ absque maximo corporum suorum periculo, usque Westm ad diem in dicto brevi contentum, ad cognitiones, quae in hac part requiruntur, faciend', laborare non sufficiunt ut accepimus: Nos statuim eorundem T. & A. compatientes in hac part, dedimus vobis, quatuor, tribus, vel duobus vestrum, potestatem recipiend' cognitiones, quas ijdem T. & A. coram vobis, quatuor, tribus, vel duobus vestrum, facere volverint de praemissis, Et ideo vobis, quatuor, tribus, vel duobus vestrum, mandamus, quod ad praefat' T. & A. personaliter accedentes, cognitiones suas praedictas recipiatis, & cum eas receperitis, praefat' Iustic' nostris inde, sub figillis vestris, quatuor, trium, vel duorum vestrum, distincte & apart reddatis certiores, ut tunc finis ille, inter partes praedictas, de praemissis, coram Iustic' nostris praedictis in banco praedicto levari possit, secundum legem & consuetudinem supradictam, mittentes eisdem Iustic' hoc breve, teste meipsa apud West. 14. die N. Anno reg. nostri tricesimo qinto. Garth. The name of the Curcester. The said Dedimus potestatem, must be endorsed, thus: Per dominum custod' magni sigilli Angl' add Instanc' peten. The Lord keeper's name. Io. Puckering Cancel. The justice of the circuit. Fr. Beaumont. Executio istius brevis patet in quad' schedula eid' annexa. return. The Praecipe and Concord which must be filled to the Dedimus potestatem. Eborum. ss. PRaecipe T. de P. armigero, & A. uxori eius, quod just Bre conuenc'. etc. teneant W. P. gener, conventionem etc. de manerio de T. cum pertinent, Ac de duobus mesuagijs, tribus cotagijs, quinque toftiss, uno columbar, quinque gardinis, quinque pomarijs, centum & decem acris terrae, quinquaginta acris prati, quin quaginta acris pasture, decem acris bosci, centum acris iampnorun & bruere, quadraginta solidat redd', communia pasturae pro omnimodis animalibus cum pertinentijs in W. & B. Et nisi etc. Et est concordia talis, scilicet, qđ praedicti T. & A. recognoverunt praedict' manerium, columbare, tenementa redditus & communiam pasture cum ꝑtinen̄●esse ius ipsius W. ut illa quae idem W. habeat de dono praedictor T. & A. Et illa remiserunt & quiet clamaverunt de ipsis T. & A. & haeredibus ipsius T. praed' W. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum. Et praeterea ijdem T. & A. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius T. quod ipsi warrant' praed' W. & haered' suis praed' manerium, columbar, tenement', reddit' & communiam pasture cum pertinent, contra se & hered' & assign' ipsius T. ac contra hered' & assign' I. B. armiger, ac contra omnes homines clamant seu habent aliquod ius, titulum, statum, usum, interest, aut demand', de, aut, in eisdem manerio, columbar, tenemento, reddit', & communia ꝑastur cgm pertinentijs, aut, de, aut, in, aliqua inde parcel', per, de, vel, sub eisdem T. & I. haered' vel assign' suis, vel, haeredum feu assignat' eorum alterius: Et pro hac etc. Captain & cognit apud K. in Comitatu Eborum, decimo nono die januarij, Anno regni Reginae Elizab. etc. quadragesimo, coram, The Commissioners names G. Shrew. W. West. The names of the parties T. B. A. B. Dedimus potestatem super breve de consuet̄ & seruicijs pro fine inde leuand'. Regina etc. dilecto & fideli suo R. H. uni Iustic' suorum de Banco, Salutem, Cum breve nostrum de consuetudinibus & seruicijs, pendeat coram vobis, & socijs vestris Iustic' nostris de banco, inter W. B. armigerum, & E. A. armig erum de consuetudinibus & seruicijs, quae idem E. eidem W. facere debet, de libero tenemento suo, quod de eo tenet in N. ut in homagijs, fidelitate, relevijs, & alijs, in comitatu S. Nosque ad petitionem praedictorum W. & E●licentiam nostram eis dederimus inde cōcordand', ac praefat' W. & E. adeo impotentes sui existant, quod absque maximo corporum suorum periculo, usque Westmonaster, ad diem in dicto brevi nostro contentum, ad cognitiones, que in hac part requirunt, faciendas, laborare non sufficiunt ut accepimus, nos statuimus corundem W. et E. compatientes in hac part, dedimus vobis potestatem recipiendi cognitiones, quas ijdem W. et E. coram vobis facere volverit de premissis: Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad praef. W. & E. personaliter accedentes, cognitiones suas praedictas recipiatis: Et cum eas receperitis, praefatos socios vestros inde distincte et apart reddatis certiores, ut tunc finis ille inter partes praedictas de premissis, coram vobis & socijs vestris praedictis in banco praedicto, secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angl', levari possit, Et habeas ibi tunc hoc breve T. etc. Of the Queen's silver. THe Queen's silver is the fine, which is paid unto her Majesty for Sect' 154. her highness licence of concord, which upon writs of Covenant, be taxed after the rate following: That is to say, for lands of the yearly value of Li. s. đ. is paid Li. s. đ. 3. 6. 8. 0. 6. 8. 5. 6. 8. 0. 10. 0. 7. 13. 4. 0. 13. 4. 8. 13. 4. 0. 16. 8. 11. 0. 0. 1. 0. 0. 12. 0. 0. 1. 3. 4. 14. 6. 8. 1. 6. 8. 15. 6. 8. 1. 10. 0. 17. 13. 4. 1. 13. 4. 18. 13. 4. 1. 16. 8. 20. 0. 0. 2. 0. 0. 22. 0. 0. 2. 3. 4 24. 6. 8. 2. 6. 8. Every 5. marks and 20. shillings, payeth fine— 6. s. 8. From 5. marks and 20. s. unto 5. marks and 40. s. payeth— 10. s. And above 5. marks & 40. s. unto 10. marks and 20. s. payeth— 13, s. 4. † And in like proportion for all other fines. And it is commonly entered by the Clerk of the Queen's silver, in this form. Ebor'. ss. I. W. dat Reginae x. s. pro licentia concordandi cum E. Entry of the Queen's silver. W. armig' & I. uxore eius, de placito conventionis, de uno messuagio, decem acris terre, decem acr prati, & decem acris pasture, cum pertinentijs in D. reciting the substance of the writ. Et habent Cirographum per pacem admiss. coram R. W. uno Iusticiariorum dnae Reginae de banco, Iusticiar' in patria. Observations necessary at the knowledging of Fines. WHen a Fine is to be knowledged, it is meet, that before the Sect' 155. The tytling of the note. parties come before the judges, or Commissioners, the titling of the writ of Covenant and Concord be fair written, according to the parties minds, and duly examined, and also signed, or subscribed by all the Cognisors. It is also requisite that either the Cognisors be known to the Justices, Knowledge of the Cognisor. or Commissioners, that must take the Cognisance thereof, or that some other credible person, known to him which taketh the cognisance, who knoweth the party, be present: And do sufficiently inform the Judge, that they be the self same parties, against whom the writ is brought: for some will covenously knowledge fines in the name of others that be owners of the land, 34. H. 6. fo. 19 And if a Feme covert be cognisor, she must be persuaded to yield her Examination of wives. consent and be fully agreed with, before she be examined, for in all cases, where a Feme covert is to departed with any thing by fine, she must be examined by the Justices or Commissioners that take the cognisance, and confess that she doth make cognisance freely, and not through fear or compulsion of any, before the cognisance will be accepted. But where she is to take benefit by a fine, she shall never be examined, 42. E. 3. 7. 3. H. 6. 42. 46. Ed. 3. 15. 8. H. 6. 4. 24. Ed. 3. 62. Statut de Finibus 18. Ed. 2. Also the yearly value of lands should be set down under the Concord, Value. And some honest person, which knoweth the land, brought thither, to make oath for the value thereof: For without such oath, or, composition, Oath. the fine can not pass. And composition with the Commissioners will not readily be made Composition without oath, or some late fine, licence, or other matter of record, to inform the Commissioners of the value thereof: Which being done, the writ of Covenant is again there to be entered, & the fine thereof (if it be finable) must there be paid to the Receiver, and then the writ must be signed by the said Commissioners, & that done, the said writ must be sealed, and returned with the Concord and Dedimus potestatem, if the cognisance was taken by Dedimus potestatem, and then the said writs must be taken out & signed by the Custos brevium, & thence they must be carried to the Clerk of the Queen's silver, who must take a note thereof for the entry of the Q. silver, & sign the same again, and then must they be delivered to the Chyrographer of fines, to be engrossed and proclaimed. The examples whereof appear in their apt places. How, and when, cognisances of Fines must be certified, and what may hinder the same. IF they, which have taken cognisance of a fine, will not certify the same Sect' 156. Certificate. in convenient time, a Cerciorari is to be awarded unto them, comprehending the matter of the Dedimus potestatem, & commanding them to certify etc. which, if they do not, there lieth against the Commissioners, an Alias, Pluries, and Attachment etc. Fitz. na br. 147. b. But they are not bound to certify such recognizances, but within the Time. year after such caption thereof, but if they do, it is good enough, 23. Eli. ca 3. And with every such certificate they must certify the day and year wherein the same was knowledged. Thus, capt' apud R. in come Ebor' xx. die Octob. A nno regni Eliz. Reginae tricesimo nono. Else no Clerk or officer may receive the same, but shall for fait for every Forfeiture. writ otherwise received v. li. 23. Eliz. ca 3. If any of the partics to a fine die after recognizance thereof & before it be certified, it ought not to be certified, 1. H. 7. 9 33. H. 6. fo. 52. Dier fo. 146. pl. 68 7. Eliz. But if such cognisance of a fine be certified, and the Queen's silver entered, Q. silver. the fine is good, and may afterwards be engrossed, though it be in an other term. Thus. Haec est finalis concordia facta etc. in craft ' Pur beat Mariae, & postea concessa & recordata in quindena Paschae Dyer fol. 220. pl. 15. & fol. 254. pl. 104. If the Justice or Commissioner, that hath taken the knowledge of a justice or commissionerdieth fine, die before it be certified, their executors or administrators may certify the note of the fine, to the Justices of the Common place, by writ of Cerciorari out of the Chancery to them directed, 8. H. 4. 5. 1. H. 7. 9 Fi. nat. br. fol. 147. b. The form of which Cerciorari is such. Regina dilectae sibi B. W. vid' executrici testamenti T. W. nuper unius Cerciorari exec' Iusti● ' super cogniti●nem finis. Iustic' nostrorum de Banco salut, volentes certis causis certiorari super quadam cognitiones cuiusdam finis inter T. D. & I. G. de uno mess. cum pertin' in T. in come E. per praed' nuper Iustic' capt', ac in custodia tua ratione execuc' testamenti pnd' existent ut dicitur, tibi pncipimus qd' cognitionem pnd' Iustic' nostris apud Westin̄ sub sigillo tuo distinct & aꝑte sine dilatione mittas, & hoc bred, ut ijdem Iustic' ulterius ad finem illum leuand' fieri fac ' quod de iure, & secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angliae fuit faciend', ●. etc. In like manner, if a justice having taken cognisance of a fine, be discharged justice discharged. of his office, before he have certified the same, he may not certify it without a like writ, notwithstanding that he be restored to his place again, 8. H. 4. 5. 1. H. 7. 9 And thereupon it hath been used that a writ hath been directed to the said justices to receive the same cognisance, but I see no use thereof at this day, F. N. 147. b Butler if the king die after the Cognisance taken, and before the certifiing The king's death. thereof, the justices cannot then certify, Nam per mortem seu dimissionem regis, cessat potestas judicis, 1. H. 7. 9 yet learn, for I think the statute of 1. E. 6. cap. 7. doth remedy this mischief, for the words thereof be these in effect, viz. By the death and demise of any king, no action, bill, or plaint, that shall depend between party and party in any Court of record, shallbe discontinued or put without day. But if the king die after the king's silver is entered & before the fine be engrossed, the writ of Covenant may be resummoned, and the fine engrossed, 1. H. 7. 9 If a feme sole by Dedimus potestatem, knowledge a fine, and before Feme. the return thereof marry, this fine may be certified & engrossed as of a feme sole, because the taking of her husband after the fine knowledged is her own voluntary act, and such fine shall bar her and her heirs for ever, Dyer fo. 246. pl. 68 Mich. 7. & 8. Eliz. Every writ of Dedimus potes●atem, to spiritual Commissioners for Signed. the taking of the cognisance of fines, aught to be signed by the L. chancellor, or L. Keeper, or chief justice of the Common place, or the justice of the circuit where the land lieth. Of thenrolment of writs of Covenant, Dedimus potestatem and knowledges thereupon, which is termed the foot of the fine. BEfore thengrossing of the fine by the Cirographer, the writ of Covenant, Sect▪ 157. the writ of Dedimus potestatem, with the knowledges and notes of the same, must be enrolled in a roll to be of record for ever, to remain enrolment. in the safe custody of the chief Clerk of the Common place (which is Custos brevium) & his successors, who must have xxii. d. fee for entering Custos breui● Fee. of the Concord, to th'intent that if the notes of the fines in the custody of the Cirographer be imbesilled, execution may be had upon the said roll, Imbeselling. Proclamations. The foot of the fine. 5. H. 4. cap. 14. Upon this Roll the Proclamations are endorsed and these notes are termed the foot of the fine. Dyer fol. 321. plac' 19 15. Eliz. Of the note of the Fine. THe note of the fine, is a note thereof made by the Cirographer before Sect▪ 158. The note of the fine. it be engrossed, which beginneth thus: Ebor'. ss. Inter A. B. quer', & C. D. deforc' de duobus messuagijs, duobus cottagijs, centum acr terre, quadraginta acr prati, viginti acr pasture, una acr bosci, octo acr jampnor & bruere, & uno denario reddit' cum ptin in A. unde placit conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos etc. scz. qd' pnd' C. recogn' tennta & redditus pnd' cum pertin' esse ius ipsius A. & concessit pro se & heredibus suis, qd' praed' tennta & reddit' cum pertin', que pnd' G. & I. tenent ad terminum vite ipsius I. de hereditate pnd' C. die quo hec concordia factafuit, & que post decessum ipsius I. ad pnd' C. & heredes suos debuerunt reverti, post decessum ipsius I. integre remaner praed' A. & heredibus suis, tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius, per seruitia, que ad praed' tennta & reddit' pertinent, imperpetuum: Et pro hac recogn', concessione, fine, & concordia, idem A. dedit pred' B. 100 marcas sterl'. Upon which note, before the engrossing of the fine (if it be of a remainder, reversion, rent, or signory) writs of Quid juris clamat, per que seruitia, or, quem redditum reddit, must be sued as the case requireth, Plo. fol. 43. b. 22. H. 6. 13. Quid juris clamat. QVid juris clamat, is a judicial writ, and issueth out of the Record Sect▪ 159. of the fine, remaining in the keeping of the Custos brevium of the common place, Plo. 43. b. before it be engrossed for after engrossing, it cannot be had, Plo. fo. 431. b. 22. H. 6. 13. fo. Natu. br. 147. a which lieth for the grauntee of a Reversion or Remainder, when the particular tenant will not atturne, to enforce him to atturne, 22. H. 6. 13. Plo. 431. b And it is made in this form. Rex vicecomiti salutem. Pr. tibi quod venire facias coram Iustic' nostris Suummons. etc. tali die, G. & A. uxorem eius, ad cognoscendum quid juris clamant in uno messuagio, & decem bovatis terre, cum pertinen in B. quae tennta cum pertin' M. que fuit uxor G. in curia nostra etc. concessit A. de B. per finem ibi inde inter eosfactum. Et habeas etc. And the final cause of this writ of Quid juris clamat is, that the grantee, or cognisee of the reversion or remainder, may by that attournement of the particular tenant, be enabled (if cause be given) to bring an action of waist, or, to avow for rend reserved, or services behind, which he cannot do without attournement, Plo. fo. 431. b. 22. H. 6. 13. Tenant 〈◊〉 shall atturne, though the writ suppose her to be tenant Tenant ●n dower. for life, because she claimeth no greater estate than franktenement, Hill 31. E. 3. Fitz. Quid juris clamat 3. yet it seemeth she thereby looseth her warranty, and advantage to be newly endowed, if she be evicted, 10. E. 3. Fitz. Quid juris clamat etc. 41. If a gift be for life, the remainder for life, the writ must mention the Brief. remainder, Hill' 3. E. 3. 15. E. 3. Fitz. Fines 9 It is meet therefore to learn who are compellable hereby to atturne, and who not, and by whom. What persons may obtain attournement by Quid juris clamat, and what not. THe grantee of a reversion void of impediments, 34. H. 6. b. Fit. na. Sect▪ 160. Grauntee de reversion. Infant. br. fo. 168. b. Fitz. nat. br. 147. a But an Infant cannot, because, if a lease for life without impeachment of waist be pleaded in bar, he cannot co●fesse it, 43. E. 3. 5. contra 23. E. 3. Fitz. Quid juris etc. 42. If the cognisor have nothing in the reversion, the tenant shall not atturne, Nothing in the reversion. Lib. Int fo. 536. A feme Covert without her husband, albeit the fine was levied when Feme covert. she was sole, 11. H. 4. 7. If there be divers pleas, and one die hanging the plea, yet shall the tenant divers. atturne to the rest, 48. E. 3. 32. Or if divers sue the writ, and one be nonsuit, yet attournement shall divers. be unto the other without summons and severing of the other, 46. Ed. 3. 32. Abbotavera attournement dun ten' pur vie sans mre licence & nest Abbot. forfeiture, 17. E. 3. 7. If cognisee disseise the tenant of part, he shall have no atturnment, Disseisor. 19 E. 2. Fitz. Quid juris etc. 46. What persons be compellable to atturne by Quid juris clamat, and what not. THe writ of Quid juris clamat, lieth against the particular tenant of Sect▪ 161. T. for life. the land for life, 34. H. 6. b. Na. br. fol. 168. b. Fitz. nat. fo. 347. a 49. h. though he be but tenant for life of land holden in Capite or a feme covert, Feme covert. 45. E. 3. 11. And a tenant for years shall atturne, 3. H. 4. 3. T. for years. T. in tail. T. in tail after pos●. But tenant in tail is not compellable because of the estate of inheritance which is in him, 38. E. 3. 20. Nor tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct for the inheritance which was once in him, 43. Ed. 3. 1. 46. E. 3. 13. & 27. A particular tenant of lands holden in Capite, is not ●●pellable to T. for life of lands in capite atturne without sight of a licence of alienation, lest his lands should be be subject to a fine for the alienation, without licence, 45. E. 3. 6. If A. and B. have an estate for ten years, as executors, and B. have Executors. five years in reversion in his own right, he must atturne, because he is possessed of the whole term, & the atturnment of one executor of a term is good enough, 32. E. 3. ●itz Quid juris clam' 5. per Stanhoppe. But if A. lease to B. and C. for vi. years, and after confirm the estate T. pur vi● ou● A. pur ans. of B. for life, the note of the fine shall make mention of B. only, per Seton, 32. E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur clam' 5. If tenant in dower, or, by courtesy, grant their estate, yet the Quid iur T. Dower. T. Courtesy. clam' lieth against them, for none but they can be tenant in dower, or by the courtesy, 18. E. 3. 5. If a lease for years with livery, be upon condition, that if the lessee T. for years upon condition pay x. li. such a day, or the lessor die within the term etc. he shall have fee: If before the day the lessor alien by fine, this tenant shall attourne (Saluis advantagijs.) And yet if he pay the x. li. at the day, or, the leassor die during the term, the lessee shall have fee, 6. R. 2. Fitz. Quid juris clamat 20. If a Quid juris clamat be against two, as tenants in comen, he which Verse T. in comen. appeareth must atturne, if he plead not that they are joint tenants, 16. E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur clam' 21. If a particular tenant grant over his estate after the note levied, yet After assignment. must he atturne, 17. E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur̄ clamat 11. If the tenant attorne once upon the grant of the cognisor, he shall attorne Once attorne. no more, 4. E. 2. Fitz. Quid iur̄ clamat 45. If a joint tenant, or, tenant in comen, of a reversion, grant his part joint tenant. Tenant in comen. by fine, the particular tenant shall not be compelled to attorne. 5. Ed. 3. Fitz. Quid juris clam' 40. Upon a lease for life upon condition, that if the lessee die, within 20. Tenant for life upon condition years, that his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall hold unto the end of 20. years, the lessee shall attorne as tenant for life, with protestation to save his interest. 16. E. 3. 20. E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur clam' 22. 31. If the reversion of 2. joint tenants for life be granted by fine, supposing joint tenant of a reversion. th'one to be sole tenant, the tenant is not compellable to attorne, 32. E. 3. Fitz. Quid juris clam' 5. per Seton. But tenant by Statute or Elegit seemeth not compellable to attorne, T. by Elegit. because the cognisor cannot compel him to account, and he may hold the lands after his sum satisfied, until he have levied his damages, 6. E. 3. 53. Fitz. Fines 99 E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur clam' 47. Nor a tenant for life, where the husband sole is cognisor of his wife's Baron sole cognisor. land: for if he do at torn, the wife suruyving her husband may enter for forfeiture, 27. E. 3. And a Clerk, which hath no lay fee, is not compellable to attorne, 38. A Clark E. 3. 28. Nor a tenant for life in reversion or remainder, 34. H. 6. b. Reversion. Nor tenant in frankmariage, Lib. intr, Quid juris clamat 11. Frankmariage Infant. Idiot. Nor an Infant, 43. E. 3. 1. Nor a Lunatic, madman, or Idiot, as it seemeth, because of their disabilities. But attournement made by such persons, as are able, but not compellable to attourne, is good, 12. E. 4. Natu. br. fo. 170. b. And an attornement may be with an exception, if the tenant have a With exception. lease for life without impeachment of waist, as he may atturne saving his advantage, & it shallbe so entered, 45. E. 3. 11. 24. E. 3. If the tenant have covenants to repair etc. 48. E. 3. 32. Or have an Annuity Covenants. out of the land, 48. E. 3. 32. Or covenant of warranty or acquitaile, Annuity. Warranty. Acquittal. Grant. 41. E. 3. 48. Or to fell trees, he may atturne, saving these advantages. If A. seized of lands in fee, thereof enfeoff B. to those of the said A. for life, and after to those of his executors & assigns for xx. years after Rem in fee. his death. And then to those of C. in fee, Quere if A. shallbe compelled to atturne in Quid iur̄ clamat, supposing him tenant for life only, & not mentioning the term, without saving of his term by protestation, Dye● fol. 309. pl. 77. 14. Eliz. No view lieth in Quid iur●s clamat, 15. E. 4. 28. What pleas will bar the plaintiff of atturnment. IF the tenant plead that he is seized in fee the day of the note levied without Sect' 162. Seisin in fee. that, that he was then seized for life without showing how he is so seized, 15. E. 4. 28▪ 1. H. 7. 27. Or if the tenant for life plead, that before the fine, an stranger was The conusor had nothing. seized in fee, and released unto him in fee. Without that, that the recognisor had any thing in the lands, the day of the note levied, 3. H. 4. 3. If a particular tenant plead, he holdeth not of the cognisor the day of Nontenure. the note levied, he must show what estate he claimeth, and from whom, 3. E. 3. 6. Fitz. Quid juris clamat 6. 14. E. 3. Fitz. Quid iur 9 But if he claim fee, he shall not show how, 14. E. 3. 3. Fitz. Fines 7. Seisin in fee. but traverse that he holdeth for life, 1. H. 7. 27. Leassee for viii. years upon condition, that if the lessor alien within the Sesi. de tali ●atu qual▪ etc. term, he shall have fee, cannot allege that, and say that he claimeth estate according to the tenor of his deed, but must plead his estate certainly, 2. E. 2. Fitz. Quid juris clamat 38. If the tenant confess for part, and plead a plea which may forfeit his For parcel. estate therein, he must attorne by and by, 11. H. 4. 57 Contra 22. 3. 18. Fitz. Fines 33. Release of the cognisor before the cognisans, to the heir, or his ancestors Release. in fee, is a good bar, 44. E. 3. 34. If leassee pur ans claim pur vie, & fail de ceo, il forfeit son term, Forfeiture p●●● pur ●ns. 6. R. 2. Fitz. Quid iur 20. Plesingtons' case. What Process lie in a Quid juris clamat. THe Process, in a Quid iur̄ clamat, is summons & distress infinite, Sect. 163. Process. Correction. Natur. br. 169. a. but if the tenant appear, & plead no good bar, & yet will not atturne, he shall be imprisoned. 37. H. 6. 14. But if the tenant disclaim, and it be found against him, he shall atturne, Disclaimer. 4. E. 3. 27. But if the tenant for life, years, in dower, by courtesy, or extent, by plea claim fee, or fee ta●e, and it be found otherwise, he doth forfeit his estate, 15. E. 4. 28. nat br fol. 168. b. And the tenant may atturne by dedimus potestatem, the form whereof Att. by D●▪ Po. ensueth, Regist. 167. b. Regina dilecto & fideli suo I. M. militi etc. Cum breve nostrum de conuentione pendeat, coram vobis & socijs vestris iusticiarijs nostris de banco, inter R. & P. de centum acris etc. quas I. tenet ad vitam suam de praefato P. ad finem inde inter praefatos R. & P. secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angliae, leuand', per quod vicecomiti nostro Norff. per breve nostrum mandavimus, quod venire faciat coram praefatis iusticiarijs nostris, praedictam I. ad diem in brevi illo contentum, ad cognoscendum quid juris clamat h●bere in terra praedicta, ac praefata I. adeo impotens sui existat, quod usque bancum praedict', ad diem sibi datum, absque maximo corporis sui periculo laborare ●on sufficit, ad cognoscend' quid juris clamat habere in terra praedicta: no● statui ipsius I. compatientes in hac part, dedimus vobis potestatem recipiendi cognitionem, & testificandi atturnamentum, quae praefata I. coram vobis facere volverit in hac part: Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad praefatam I. personaliter accedentes, cognitionem quam coram vobis in hac part facere volverit, recipiatis: Et cum eam receperitis, & ipsa coram vobis, prout moris est, se atturnaverit, praedictos socios vestros de cognitione praedicta distinct & aperte certificetis, praedictum atturnamentum testificantes, ut finis ille, inter parts praedict', de terra praedicta coram vobis & socijs vestris praedictis, in banco praedicto levari possit, secundum legem & consuerudinem supradictas, Et habeatis etc. By default after appearance, distring' add atturnand ' shall be awarded, Default. 2. E. 3. 9 Nonsuit in Quid iur̄ clam', is not peremptory, 18. E. 3. Fitz. quid Nonsuite. iur, 27. 24. E. 3. Fitz. quod etc. 39 The writ of Summons in Quid juris clamat, is after this manner. ELizab. Dei gratia etc. vic' Ebor' salutem: Pr. tibi, quod venire fac ' Sect. 164. Summons. coram Iustic' nostris de banc. a die Pasch. in xv. dies, A. B. ad cognoscend ' quid iur̄ clam' in uno messuagio, & decem acr terr', cum pertinent in B. quae M. N. in cur' nostra etc.▪ concessit C. D. per finem ibi inde inter eos factum, & habeas ibi etc. T. etc. Upon which writ none essoin lieth, 9 H. 6. 22. 33. H. 6. 5. essoin. At the return of which writ, the sheriff doth return him summoned, thus endorsed upon the back of the writ, Pleg. infra nominat A. B. I. M. R. L. E. R. vic'. And if the pl appear, and the tenant make default, the entry is Default, thus: Pr. fuit vic' Eb. quod venire fac' hic a die Pasch. in xv. dies, A. B. ad cogn̄ quid iur̄ clam' in uno mesuagio etc. come pertin' in B. quae M. N. in cur' Reg. hic concessit C. D. per finem hic inde inter eos factum: Et modo ad hanc diem ven' praedict' C. per H. I. att̄ suum, & praed' A. B. non ven', & manucapt fuit per I. M. & K. L. Ideo ipse in mina etc. Et pr̄ est quod distr̄ eum per omnes terr' & catalla Distr. sua etc. Et qd' de exitibus etc. Et quod habeat corpus eius hic a die s. trin in 3. sept, ad cogn in form praed' &c. Et idem dies datur praed' C. hic etc. At the return hereof none essoin lieth because it is judicial. essoin. 9 H. 6. 22. 33. H. 6. 5. The distress in Quid juris clamat. Elizabeth Dei gratia etc. vic' Ebor' salutem: Pr. tibi, quod distr A. B. per omnes terr' & catalla sua in balliva tua, Ita quod nec ipse, nec aliquis per ipsum, ●is manum apponat, donec aliud a nobis inde habueris praeceptum, & quod de exitibus eorundem nobis respondeas, ita quod habeas corpus eius coram Iustic' nostris apud West', a die sancte trinit in tres sept, ad cognoscend' Quid juris clamat in uno mesuagio etc. come pertin' in B. quae M. N. in cur' nostra coram Iustic' nostris apud W. concessit C. D. ꝑ fine● inde ibid' inter ●os factum, & ad audiend' inde judicium suum pro pluribus defaltis, Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. If at the day of the return hereof the parties appear, the entry is thus. Alias, prout patet termino S. Trinitatis ultimo praeterito, Rot 60. contin●tur sic. ss. Pr. fuit vic' E. quod distr A. B. per omnes etc. ut supra in brevi inde, until (& ad audiendum etc.) And then, Et modo hic ad h●nc diem ven' tam praed' C. D. ꝑ atturn suum praed', quam praed' A. B. in propria persona sua, & super hoc idem E. B. petit andit brevis praed', & ei legitur, petit ●tiam audicum note unde breve praed' emanavit, & ei legitur in haec verba▪ E. ss. inter C. D. quaerent etc. as the note is: And then if the tenant will atturne generally, the entry further is: Quia Atturnment general. audita & intellecta, idem A. B. dicit, quod ipse clamat tenere predict ' messuagium etc. ad terminum vitae suae, prout per notam praedictam supponitur, quodque ipse paratus est se praefat' C. D. inde atturnare, & se ei in curia hic inde attornavit, & cogn etc. Et fecit fidelitatem, ideo finis inde ingrossetur. Or if atturnment be made out of the Court, the cognizee may inform the Court thereof, and at his suit then this entre shallbe. videlicet. Et modo hic ad hunc diem ven' praedictus C. D. in proptia persona sua, & dicit quod praedictus A. B. atturnavit ei inde in propria persona, & petit quod finis inde suo periculo ingros●et●r, ideo finis inde periculosuo ingrossetur etc. But if the Cognizee appear, and will atturne specially, it may be Atturnment special. done in this manner. viz. Praec' fuit etc. ut supra. Reciting the process, and the tenant demanding and having oyer, of the writ, and note of the fine, he may plead thus, viz. Et super hoc, idem A. dicit, qd' ipse tenet tennta predict' cum pertinentijs ad terminum vitae suae, ex dimissione M. N. per quandam chartam suam indentat, Cuius alteram partem sigillis p̄di●t̄ M. N. signat, idem A. hic in Curia, ꝓfert, cuius tenor sequitur in haec verba. This indenture made etc. rehearsing the whole Indenture, & saluis sibi omnibus advantagijs & condicionibus script' pred' dic', qd' ipse paratus est prefat' C. D. de tenntis predictis, virtute notae predict' attornare. Et predict' C. D. non cogn script' praedict' dic', qd' ex quo idem A. B. tenet tennta pndict̄ cum pertinentijs, ex dimissione pndict̄ M. N. secundum vim & effectum note praedicte, petit quod idem A. B. se inde ei atturnet etc. Et predictus A. B. dic' quod, saluis sibi omnibus advantagijs & beneficio scripti predicti, paratus est se inde eidem C. D. de tenementis praedictis atturnare etc. Et postmodo idem A. B. saluis sibi advantagijs scripti praedicti, se praefat' C. D. hic in cur' atturn, & cogn etc. Et fecit ei fidelitatem etc. Ideo finis inde engross. etc. But if the tenant will plead in bar, he may do it thus, if he be tenant Bar. in frankemariage: Pr. fuit etc. ut supra. Et praedictus A. C. dicit, quod quidam P. N. paterpred ' M. N. cuius Done in frankmariage. heres ipse est etc. per cartam suam dedit tent' praedicta cum pertinent eidem A. B. in libero maritagio, cum E. filia sua, saluand' sibi reversionem etc. qui quidem E. obijt sine exit de corpore suo procreat', Et sic dicit quod ipse tenet tenementa praedicta per formam cart predict', Et quod reuerc' inde post mortem suam spectat ad predict' R. M. & petit iudiciu● si ipse detali statu suo se alicui inde atturnare debet etc. & profert hic in curiam cartam praedict', quod donum praedict' in forma praed' testatur etc. Et praedict' C. D. dicit, quod die, quo nota finis praed' levauit, scilicet 9 die etc. praedict' A. tenet praedict' tennta ad terminum vitae suae, prout per notam praedict' supponitur, absque hoc quod ipse tunc tenui● tenementa praedicta in liberum maritagium, prout ipse superius allegavit, Et hoc petit quod etc. Ideo xii▪ etc. Or thus if the tenant claim fee, or be not tenant. Quibus lectis, idem A. B. dic', quod ipse, virtute note praed', se praefat' C. D. atturnare non debet, quia quoad unum mess. etc. quae sunt in praedict' villa de S. de tenntis praed' in nota praedict' contentis, idem A. B. dicit, quod ipse, tempore leva cionis note illius, fuit seisitus de predicto messuagio etc. in dnico suo ut de feodo, ex dono & feoffamento cuiusdam L. T. sib● inde facto: Absque hoc, qd' ipse tempore levationis notae illius, tenuit medietatem illam ad terminum vitae tantum, prout per notam illam supponitur. Et hoc etc. unde petijt judicium, si ipse, virtute notae predict', se praefat' C. D. de praedictis messuagijs etc. atturnare debet etc. Et quo ad tennta pndicta, residua tenementor̄ in nota predict' contentor, idem A. B. dicit, quod ipse, nec tempore levationis notae pndict̄, nec unquam postea tenuit eadem tenementa, imo quod, W. A. qui adhuc in vita existit, adtunc fuit inde tenens, ut de libero tennto suo, & adhuc existit. Et hoc etc. unde etc. ut supra. Et praedictus C. D. dicit, qd' ipse ab attorn̄ praedict' A. B. virtute notae praedictae, habend' praecludi non debet, quia quo ad pndict̄ messuag' in L. predict, idem C. D. dicit, quod praedictus A. B. tempore levationis notae illius, tenuit messuag' illud cum pertinentijs ad terminum vitae suae tantum, prout per notà illam supponitur. Et hoc petit qd' &c. Et praedict' A. B. similiter: Et quoad tenementa praedict' residua dicit, qd' tempore levationis notae praedictus A. B. fuit tenens eorundem ad terminum vitae, fuae, prout per notam illam supponitur, Et hoc paratus etc. unde petit judicium, & pđ praedict' A. B. fe inde atturnet. Et praedictus A. B. dicit, qd' ipse, tempore levationis notae praedict', non fuit tenens praedictor residuorum tenementorum ad terminum vitae suae, prout etc. Et de hoc etc. Ideo xii. etc. Or thus where the Cognizor hath nothing in the Reversion. Pr. fuit Vic' E. etc. ut supra. Omnibus lectis & auditis, idem A. B. dicit, quod ipse virtute notae praedict', se praefat' C. D. atturnare non debet, quia dicit, quod pndict̄ M. N. qui recognovit tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius C. D. etc. nihil habuit in Reversione corundem tenntor̄ cum pertinentijs, tempore levationis notae praedict', Et hoc paratus est verificare, unde petit etc. ut supra. Et praedictus C. D. dicit, quod praedict' A. B. tempore levationis notae praedictae, scz. in octabis sancti Hillar̄ etc. tenuit tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs ad terminum vitae suae, Reversione inde post eius mortem praefat' M. N. qui recogn' etc. & haered' suis spectant, prout per notam predict' supponitur, Et ho● petit qd' inquiratur per patriam Et praedictus A. B. similiter. Ideo xii. etc. But if the tenant claim an estate tail by devise, thus: Omnibus lectis & auditis &c. idem A. B. dicit qđ ipse, virtute notae Devise i● tail. illius, se praefat' C. D. de tenntis praedict' atturnare non debet, quia dicit, quod antequam praedict' M. N. aliquid habuit in tenntis praedictis cum pertinentijs, quidam I. E. fuit seisitus de tenntis praedict' in dnico suo ut de feodo, quodque eadem tennta cum pertinent tenètur, & tempore levationis notae praedictae tenebantur de W. S. in socagio per fidelitatem e● etc. idemque I. sic inde seisitus existens, primo die Maij ultim praeterito condidit testam & ultimam voluntatem suam in scriptis, & per eandem legavit praefat' A. B. tennta praedict' per noina etc. habend' sibi & haered▪ de corpore suo legitime procreat': Et postea ibm' obijt, post cuius mortem praedict' A. B. in tennta praedict' come pertin' intravit, & fuit inde seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo talliato, viz. sibi & haered' per formam statuti & ultim voluntatis praedict'. Et hoc etc. unde etc. Et praedictus C. D. dicit, quod ipse, per alique praeallegata ab atturnamento praedict' A. B. virtute notae praedictae, praecludi non debet, quia dicit quod bene & verum est, quod praedict' I. E. fuit seisitus ut sup●a, prout in brevi praedicto superius allegatur: Sed idem C. D. dicit quod idem I. E. per idem testamentum & ultimam voluntatem suam, inter alia legavit tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs etc. per noina praedict', praefat' A. B. pro termino vitae suae, Et postea idem I. E. obijt, post cuius quidem I. E. mortem, idem A. B. in tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs intravit, & fuit inde seisitus in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento per formam testamenti & ultimae voluntatis praedict', Absque hoc, qd' idem I. E. per testament & ultimam voluntatem suam praedict', legavit praefato A. B. etc. ut supra, prout praedict' A. B. superius allegavit. Et hoc etc. unde etc. praedict' A. B. ut prius dicit etc. (ut supra in brevi) prout ipse superius allegavit. Et de hoc etc. The tenant may atturne for parcel excepting the rest and plead thereunto. Et modo ad hunc diem hic in curia venit tam praedictus E. I. per W. Atturnment for part, and plea to the rest. W. Atturnatum suum, quam praedict' I. E. in propria persona sua, & super hoc praedict' E. I. ꝑ atturnatum suum praedict' petijt, qđ praed' I. E. ei indeatturnet etc. Et praedict' I. E. petit auditum brevis predict', & ei legitur etc. Petit etiam auditum notae finis, unde bred predict' e manavit, & e●legitur in haec verba: Inter R. quaerentem, & P. deforciant etc. rehearsing the whole note. Quibus lectis & auditis, idem I. E. quo ad tennta praedicta, exceptis decem acris in D. inde parcell', dicit qd' ipse paratus est pfato R. inde atturnare, Et se ei in curia hic atturn de tenntis praedictis, exceptis praedict' decem acris terrae, Et cogn etc. & fecit fidelitatem etc. Et quo ad praedict' decem acras terrae in D. idem I. E. dicit, qd' ipse tempore levationis notae predict, fuit seisitus de eisdem x. acris terrae cum pertin', in dominico suo ut defeodo, absque hoc qd' ipse, pnd' tempore levationis notae pnd', easdem x. acras terrae cum pertin' tenuit ꝓ terminovitae tantum, ꝓut etc. Ideo finis inde ingrossetur, Dyer so. 212. p. 35. 4. Eliz. And when the tenant doth atturne, the note of the fine is to be delivered to the Chirographer: And then must be written upon the back side of the same note overthwart, these words. Infranoinat A. B. attornavit se infrascript C. D. virtute huius notae, ꝓut patet Trin 39 Eliz. Rot 9 Attorney in Quid juris clamat. Upon such a plea pleaded, that the tenant may forfeit his estate, he Sect. 165. may make an Attorney, 21. E. 3. 48. Or if the tenant suggest in Chancery that he will plead so as he forfeit his estate, he may make Attorney by Ded. pot. in form following. Elizab. dei gratia etc. dilecto & fideli suo Fr. B. etc. cum br̄e nostrum de convencione pendeat coram vobis & socijs uris justiciarijs nostris de Banco, inter R. & P. de centum acris etc. quas I. tenet ad vitam suam de praefato P. ad finem inde inter pfatos R. & P. secundum legem & consuetudinem regn●●r̄i Angl', leuand', per qd', vic' nostro Ebor' per breve nostrum mandavimus, qd' venire fac' coram pfatis justiciarijs nostris, praed' I. ad diem in breu●illo contentum, ad cognoscend' quid juris clamat habere in troth praed', Et ex part dicti I. datum est nobis intelligi, qd' ipsa sup finem praed' atturnare non debet, co qd', ante levacionem note finis praed', quidam S. existent seisitus de t̄ra illa in dominico suo ut de feod', illam dedit prefat' I. & haered' de corpore suo, Et ipse ad diem sibi datum in banco pnd' materiam illam ad bred praed' placitabit, Et tamen adeo impotens est & senio confectus, quod usque bancum praed' add diem sibi datum, absque maximo corporis fui periculo, laborare non sufficit ad placitand' placitum illud, nos statui eiusdem I. compatientes in hac part, dedimus vobis potestatem recipiend' atturnat, quem coram vobis in loco suo atturnare volverit in hac part, ad lucrandum vel perdendum, Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad prefat' I, personaliter accident, atturnat, quem loco suo atturnare volverit in hac part, recipiatis, & de nomine eiusdem atturnati, nobis in cancellaria nostra, sub sigillo vestro, distinct & apart constare faciatis, remittentes nobis hoc breve, Teste meipsa etc. The return of the same. I. point loco suo A. B. atturnatum suum, versus R. in placito in q●id juris clamat, ad lucrandum vel perdendum. An atturnment by Dedimus potestatem. And as the tenant may make an attorney by Dedimus potestatem, ●o he may atturne, The form whereof followeth, Regina, dilecto & fideli suo I. de M. salutem. Cum breve nostrum de convencione pendeat, coram vobis & socijs vestris justiciarijs nostris de banco, inter R. & P. de centum acris etc. quas I. tenet ad vitam suam de praefato P. ad finem inde inter praefatos R. & P. secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angl' leuand', per quod vicecomiti nostro Norff. per breve nostrum mandavimus, quod venire faciat coram praefatis Iustic' nostris, praed' I. ad diem in brevi illo contentum, ad cognoscend' quid juris clamat habere in terra praed', ac praefata I. adeo impotens sui existat, quod usque bancum praed' add diem sibi datum, absque maximo corporis sui periculo, laborare non sufficit, ad cognoscend' quid juris clamat habere in terra praedicta: Nos statui ipsius I. compatientes in ha● part, dedimus vobis potestatem, recipiendi cognitionem, & testificand' atturnamentum, quae praefat' I. coram vobis facere volverit in hac part, & ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad praefatam I. personaliter accedentes, cognitionem, quam coram vobis in hac part facere volverit, recipiatis: Et cum eam receperitis, & ipsa coram vobis, prout moris est, se atturnaverit, praedict' socios vestros de cognitione praedicta distinct & apart certificetis, praedictum atturnamentum testificantes, ut finis ille inter partes praedictas de terra praedicta, coram vobis & socijs vestris praedictis in banco praed', levari possit secundum legem & consuetudinem supradictas. Et habeatis etc. After issue joined the tevant may be essoined, thus, Eborum ss. A. B. verse. C. D. in placito quid juris clamat in uno messuagio etc. unde Iur' per W. C. in quindena Hill. etc. If the issue be found with the p●, the judgement is in this form, judgement. Et super hoc, visis praemissis, & per justiciarios plenius intellectis, considerate est, quod praed' C. D. pro seisina, deten cum pertinent, versus prefat' A. B. occasione clam' & placiti pred', forisfactis habend' (si volverit) prosequatur, ac etiam, quod finis predict', si volverit, ingrossetur, & predict' A. B. in misericordia etc. But Atturnements entered upon Record, before the party mentioned to atturne do first appear in Court, in person, or by attorney, warranted by the hand of one of the justices of th'one Bench or of tother, or one justice of assize upon a writ of Quid juris clamat, quem reddit' redd', or, per quae seruicia, as the case requireth, is void without writ of error, 23. Eliz. ca 3. Upon which judgement the cognizee may have execution by habere facias seisinam in this form, Regina, vic' Ebor' salutem: S●iatis qd', cum C. D. in curia nostra coram justiciarijs nostris apud W. per considerationem eiusd' curiae, recuperavit seisinam suam versus A. B. de uno messuagio cum pertinent in L. qd' M. N. in eadem curia concessit prefato C. D. per finem inde inter eosfactum, ideo tibi pncipimus, quod eidem C. D. plenariam seisinam de messuagio praedicto cum pertinent sine dilac●one habere facias, & quid inde feceritis, scire facias praefatis justiciarijs nostris apud W. in Octabis S. Martini, & habeas ibi hoc breve T. etc. Distringas ad atturnand. And upon the judgement to atturne, doth issue a Distringas ad atturnand', after this manner, Elizab. dei gratia &c. vic' E. salutem. Pr. tibi quod distringas A. B. per omnes terras etc. Ita quod sit coram Iustic' nostris de banco ad atturnand' C. D. in placito de quid juris clamat in uno mess. cum pertinent in L. quod M. N. in curia nostra etc. concess. pfato C. D. per finem inde inter eos factum. Et unde consideratum est in eadem curia, qđ praed' A. B. se praefat' C. D. inde atturn. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. Quem redd' reddit. Having thus perused the writ of Quid juris clamat in every circumstance, Sect. 166. we are now in like manner to peruse the writ of Quem redd' reddit. The writ of Quem redd' reddit, is a writ judicial, and issueth Definition. out of the note of the fine against the tenant of the land, to compel him to atturne to the Cognizee, upon the grant of a rend charge, or rend seck issuing out of the land, Nat. br' fol. 170. b. The form whereof ensueth: Elizabeth Dei gratia etc. Vic' E. salutem. Praec' etc. tibi, quod venire Writ. fac' hic a die S. Mich. in quindecim dies E. F. ad cognoscend' quem reddit' reddere consuevit, exeun de uno messuag' cum pertin' in E. quem A. B. in curia nostra coram justiciarijs nostris de banco, concessit C. D. per finem inde inter eos fact'. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. If upon this writ, the defendant appear not, a Distringas goeth forth, in this form: Regina, Vic' Ebor' salutem. Praecip tibi, qd' distringas E. F. per omnes terras etc. Et quod de exit eorundem respond', & habeas corpus eius hic etc. in octab. sancti Mich. proximo futuro: Ad cognoscend' quem reddit', exeun de uno messuagio cum pertinent in L. quod A. B. in curia nostra etc. concessit C. D. per finem inde inter eos fact, & ad audiend' judicium suum inde de pluribus defaltis. Et habeas etc. At which day if the tenant appear, the entry may be in this form: E. F. in mina pro pluribus defaltis etc. Prfuit vic' E. quod distringeret praedict' E. F. etc. ut in alijs brevibus de distring. supra. Et modo hic ad hunc diem venit tam praedictus C. D. per W. W. Atturnat suum, quam praedict' E. F. in propria persona sua. Et praedict' C. D. pet, quod praedict' A. B. se ei de redditu praedict' atturnet etc. Et praedictus E. F. petit audit brevis praedict', & ei legitur. Petit etiam audit note finis unde idem breve emanavit, & ei legitur in hec verba. Inter C. D. quer' etc. reciting the note in Latin etc. In which case, if the tenant atturne, the entry shall be, as in a Quid Attornement entered. juris clamat, and so shall the judgement & execution be also Mutatis mutandis. But that tournament must be in Court, 9 H. 6. 21. 8. H. 6. 15. If this writ be against divers defendants, & some appear, and some divers tenants. make default these, which appear, shall not atturne without the rest, until they appear, and after make default, 8. H. 6. 15. If the tenant once appear, and after make default, a Distring ' add atturnand ' Default. shallbe awarded, 9 H. 6. 8. H. 6. 15. Cognisee of a rend charge, or rents for years, shall not have atturnment, Quere, Dyer fol. 140. pl. 37. & 38. The tenant can not plead by Attorney, but ex consensu querentis, 1. Attorney. H. 7. 27. In Quem redd' reddit, the tenant appearing, is to demand what the plaintiff hath to show for the rent, and then he must show the commencement thereof, and his title thereunto, which the plaintiff may answer, 31. H. 6. 8. 36. H. 6. In Quem redd' reddit, if the tenant will disclaim, he may plead that Disclaimer. he was not tenant of the land, the day of the note levied: for this writ lieth against none but him, which is then tenant, 8. H. 6. 15. I writ thus briefly of this writ, because it so much resembleth a Quid juris clamat. Per que seruitia. PEr que seruitia is a judicial writ, issuing from the note of a fine, & Sect' 167. lieth for the Cognisee of a manor, signory, chief rent, or other services, to compel him that is tenant of the land at the time of the note of the fine levied, to attorne unto him, 43. E. 3. 8. H. 6. 17. Plow. 46. b. which is made thus. Regina etc. Vic' K. salutem. Praecipimus tibi, quod venire facias coram The writ. justiciarijs nostris apud W. in crastin etc. S. F. R. L. etc. ad L. etc. ad cognoscend' per que seruitia tenent tennta sua cum pertin' in B. que seruitia E. L. in curia nostr' coram justiciarijs nostris apud W. conces●it W. B. per finem ibi inde inter ●os factum. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. If the Lord grant the services of his tenant by fine, or otherwise, the Lord before attornement shall have such things, as lie in prender: as the ward of the body of the heir and of the land, escheats etc. But not such things as lie in render: as, rents, and relief, heriots, & other feruivices, for he cannot avow for them before the atturnment. If a man grant the services of his tenant for life, this writ lieth, Br. Sur grant for life. Per que seruitia 13. If services be granted to I. S. for life, the reversion to N. N. and I. S. die before atturnment, he in reversion shall have Per que seruitia, 20. H. 6. 7. If Per que seruitia be brought against diverse, of which some only appear, they are compellable to atturne, 21. E. 3. 48. T. 32. E. 3. Upon whose alienations the tenant is not compellable to atturne. IF tenant in tail of services levy a fine thereof, the tenant of the land Sect' 168. T●● tail. is not compellable to atturne, 48. E. 3. 23. Because that if the cognisor die, the tenant is subject to the distress both of the cognisee & of the issue in tail, 24. E. 3. 25. 43. E. 3. Nevertheless upon a fine with proclamation in such case, which barreth the issue in tail, the tenant seemeth compellable to atturne. If a fine be levied by him which was never seized of the services, the Conisor never seized. tenant is not compellable to atturne, H. 6. E. 2. If the tenant for life, or any other particular tenant of services, which To a particular tenant. have them not in fee, levy a fine thereof, the terre tenant is not compellable to attorne. ltin North. 3. E. 3. If one joint tenant of a seiguiory grant etc. the tenant is not compellable jointenancy. to attorne, 9 E. 2. Against whom a Per que seruitia lieth, and whom not. IT lieth against him only, that is tenant of the land at the time of the Sect' 169. Terre tenant. note of the fine levied, 8. H. 6. 17. 18. E. 4. 10. And therefore must not vary from the fine, 18. E. 4. 10. 45. E. 3. 25. E. 3. 50. Therefore it seemeth that if he, which is tenant at the levying of the note do die, or alien before attornement had, that neither his heir nor the alienee is compellable to attorne, H. 26. E. 3. 56. 18. E. 4. 25. E. 3. 50. 10 yet his attornement is good, Ibid' M. 31. E. 3. Are Pioresse recluse is compellable to atturne, 43. E. 3. And an infant A Recluse. 26. E. 3. 62. And a man only dumb, by writing or signs, 26. E. 3. 62. But a man surde & mute, is not compellable to atturne, 26. E. 3. 62. Mute. Deaf. Madness. Nor a man de non sane memoriae, as a madman, a lunatic, an Idiot, 26. E. 3. 62. Nor a tenant by courtesy for the feebleness of his estate, 9 E. 3. 31. T. by courtesy. Late feoffment. He that is enfeoffed by the Lord post Stat. Quia emptores etc. is not compellable to atturne, for he holdeth of the Lord peramount, 39 E. 3. 19 The writ of Per que seruitia, aught to show the quantity of the tenancy Quantity. H. 14. E. 3. for it is traversable T. 20. E. 3. H. 26. H. 6. All persons, that may be Cognisees, may have this writ. Per que seruitia, aught to be in the County, where the fine is knowledged, County. albeit the manor be in one County, and the services in an other County, 21. E. 3. 18. Nonsuite in this action is not peremptory, 24. E. 3. 25. nor the death Nonsuite. of the Cognisor after the note levied. Per que seruitia lieth a year or more after the note levied, 29. E. 3. 46. Time. Attorney. After peremptory issue joined, the tenant in Per que seruitia, may make Attorney, for if the issue be tried against him, it doth countervail atturnment, and then he may be distrained before atturnment, 48. E. 3. 24. 39 E. 3. 26. Nontenure the day of the note levied, is a good bar in Per que seruitia, Nontenure. 8. H. 6. 17. 21. H. 4. 72. It is also a good plea, that before the note levied, the Cognisor granted Former grant. the services to an other, and that he thereupon did atturne, 9 E. 3. 31 The tenant in Per que seruitia, cannot disclaim, but may plead Non Disclaim. tenure, ut supra, 21. H. 4. 72. After judgement, process is Distringas ad atturnandum, 4. E. 3. 2. E. Process post judicium. 3. 9 5. E. 4. 2. If the mesne levy a fine of his mes●altie to A. for life, the Remainder Atturnment with an exception. to B. in fee, A. bringeth a Per que seruitia, and the tenant atturneth, having his acquittal, yet shall not he in the remainder avow, before he also acknowledged the acquitaile, 18. E. 4. 7. But a feme Covert tannot confess acquitaile in Per que seruitia, because Feme covert, Acquitaile. she is not examinable in this suit, 9 E. 2. 45. E. 3. And the tenant may atturne saving Acquitaile and warranty according to a deed thereof. M. 15. E. 3. 5. H. 5. E. 3. E. Itinere North. A man may grant services, before he have seisin thereof in fait. H. 6. Seisin. E. 2. Fitz. Per que seruitia 22. It seemeth, upon the grant of a Manor cum pertin', the services pass A manor. without atturnment, as parcel of the Manor, & that the Lord may avow without atturnment, 26. H. 6. Fitz. Per que seruitia 21. If the tenant in Per que seruitia, appear & confess the action at the Fine. Imprisonment. Distringas ad atturnand ' after judgement, & will not atturne, he is punishable, by imprisonment, or fine, at the discretion of the Court, as it seemeth, 3. E. 3. Itin North. Fitz. per que seruitia 17. Coparceners, jointenants, and tenants in common, may not fourch essoin. by essoin, to essoin severally, but have only one essoin, as one sole tenant might have. W. 1. cap. 42. 3. E. 1. Rast ' es●oine 4. Of the Engrossing of Fines. WHen the note of the fine is made with the Custos brevium, if it Sect' 170. be of lands in possession, or, when atturnment is made, if it be of a reversion, remainder, rents or services, then may it be engrossed by the Chirographer. And the Engrossing of a fine, is nothing else but the entering of the concord Engrossing thereof with the Chirographer, and the writing and delivery of the Indentures thereof. Fitz. na. 147. a 5. H. 4. ca 14. which be called the Chirographe of the fine, and is made in form following, viz. Haec est finalis concordia, facta in curia dnae Reg. apud Westm, a die Fine en tail de reversion de rent. Pasch. in 15. dies, Ann regni Eliz. etc. 39 coram Edmundo Anderson. T. Walmsley, R. O. & R. B. Iustic' dnae Reg. & alijs fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus, inter A. B. quer', & L. C. deforc', de decem mercat̄ reddit' cum pertin' in B. quem P. de A. tenent ad terminum vite, unde placitum conventionis sum fuit inter eos in ead' cur', scz. quoth praed' L. concessit pro se & heredibus suis, quod praed' redd' come pertin', quem praed' P. tenuit ad terminum vite ex dimissione pnd' L. in praed' vill', die, quo hec concordia facta fuit, & qui post decessum ipsius P. ad praedict' L. & heredes suos debuit reverti, post decessum ipsius P. integre remaneant praedict' A. Rem as heirs de corpse. & hered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de capital' dominis feodi illius per seruitia que ad praed' redd' pertinent imperpetuum: & si contingat, Rem as droit heirs. quod idem A. obierit fine herede de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius. A. praed' redd' come pertin' integre remanebit rectis heredibus ipsius A. tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruitia que ad praed' redd' pertinent imperpetuum: Et pro hac concessione, fine, & concordia, idem A. dedit pref. L. centum marcas argenti. And so of others according to the diversity of their cases. Of the Tabling of fines engrossed. The Chirographer of fines of the common plecs, for ever must write Sect' 172. Tables. and make one table for every county, where her majesties writ runneth, containing the contents of every fine, that shall pass in any one term, as the name of the County, towns, and places, wherein the tenements mentioned in any fine be, the name of the plaintiff & deforceant, & of every manor named in any fine. And the first day of the next term, after thengrossing of every such fine, shall fix every of the said tables in some open place of the court of Common pleas, and so every day of the said term during the sitting of the said Court, and the said Cirographer shall deliver to every sheriff of every County, his undersherife, or deputy, fair written in parchment, a perfect content of the table so to Contents. be made for that shire in the term that shall be next before thassizes to be holden in the same county, or else mean between the term and the said assizes to be set up the first day & every day of the next assizes in some open place of the Court, where the justices of assizes than shall sit, to continue there so long as they shall sit in the said Court, if either the Chirographer or sheriff fail herein, he forfaiteth v. li. and the Chirographers fee, for every such table is iiii. d. 23. Eliz. cap. 3. How many proclamations are to be made upon fines, and when. Four proclamations only are now to be made upon every fine with Sect' 172. proclamation, that is to say, one in the term in which the fine is engrossed, and in every one of the three terms next ensuing the engrossing thereof, one proclamation, 31. Eliz. cap. 2. But if any of the same proclamations fail, by reason of the adiornement Adiournement. of any of the said terms by writ of adiournement duly made, yet is such fine good, and a good fine with proclamations, as if the same had been proclaimed, 1. Mar. ca 7. But if any proclamation be made upon a sunday, it is error, because it Sundays is not dies juridicus, Dyer fo. 128. pl. 53. 55. 2. Eliz. Of Proclamations of fines at the assizes and general Sessions how they must be certified. TO the end better notice of fines may come to them, to whom it appertaineth, Sect' 173. Sessions it is ordained by the said statute of 4. H. 7. ca 24. That the justices of the common place shall send a transcript of such fines to the justices of assizes in the counties where the lands do lie, to be proclaimed Assizes. openly and solemnly at all the assizes, which shallbe there in holden, within one year after the Engrossing of such fines: And that the like Transcript be made to the justices of the peace, there to be proclaimed at four general Sessions in the said Counties, and both the same proclamations to be made and certified into the common place the second day of the return of the term than next following: And it is to be noted, That while the said fines are read, all pleas must cease, 4. H. 7. cap. 24. The form of every such proclamation is thus: After the crier hath Proclamation. made an O yes for silence, saying: O yes, les fines lies, or to that effect, the Cirographer or his deputy, readeth the fines thus: Ebor'. A Fine with proclamations between A. B. plaintiff, and C. D. deforciant of tenements, in D. etc. If the cognisees in fines die, before thengrossing thereof, no Proclamations Cognise● dead. shallbe made, because they had their election to have the fine with proclamations or without, which election is now by their death determined, Dier fo. 254. pl. 104. 8. Eliz. Blow. fo. 266. b. Of the Enrolment of all the parts of fines after the engrossing thereof and Proclamations passed. BY the Statute of 23. Eliz. ca 3. it is ordained, that there shall be for Sect' 174. Office of enrolment of fines etc. ever and office of enrolment, called the office of Inrolments of fines & recoveries: And the justices of the common pleas, for the time being, other than the chief justice, shall have & take the care & charge of & for the Inrolments aforesaid, see the examinations thereof, and write their names unto the rolls thereof, & have & enjoy the said office & the disposition thereof, & carefully see & look to th'execution thereof. And have for the enrolment & examination of every such fine vi. s. viii. d. And for every exemplification of every such enrolment of any fine v. Exemplification. s. for one years search iiii. d. for every sheet of paper containing xiiii. lines iiii. d. And the justices of the common place have power to take order in all things convenient for the said Inrolments, and upon examination in the said court to assess fines and amerciaments upon persons offending, for Punishment. their misprisions, contempts, or negligences for not doing or misdoing of any thing, of, in, or concerning any such fines, as they shall think meet and convenient, 23. Eliz. ca 3. And every writ of Covenant, and other writ, whereupon any fine is enrolment of fines. levied, the return thereof, the Dedimus potestatem made for the knowledging thereof, the return thereof, the concord, the note, and foot of every such fine, the proclamations made thereupon, and the king's silver, upon the request or election of any person, may be enrolled in the said office: And the Inrolments of the same, or of any part thereof, shallbe of as good force and validity in the Law to all intents, for so much of any of them so enrolled, as the same being extant and remaining were or aught by Law to be, 23. Eliz. cap. 3. Of the exemplification of the parts of fines enrolled. WHen any of the parts of a fine be enrolled according to the said Sect' 175. statute, then may the same be exemplified, either under the seal of th'office, or under the great seal of England: But to exemplify such a fine under the great seal hath this discommodity, that if any errors remain in the record of the same fine, they be not amendable after the exemplification thereof, 23. Eliz. ca 3. but it seemeth this extendeth only to fines levied before the same statute of 23. Eliz. ca 3. These Inrolements and exemplifications seem very necessary, because that by the privity and warrant of the said Court, many errors happening in the former records thereof may be amended, and these Inrolements will suffice, if the former record thereof or any part thereof, be imbeselled or otherwise defaced, 23. Eliz. cap. 3. The Exemplification of a fine enrolled according to the statute of 23. Eliz. ca 3. Elizabeth Dei gratia etc. Omnibus, ad quos presentes litere pervenerint, salutem: Sciatis, quod inter Irrotulamenta brevium & aliorum depend' pro finibus secundum formam statuti de termino Pasche, apud Westm Anno regni nostr' 29. rotulo 7. continetur sic. ss. Essex ss. Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Reginae, fidei defensor etc. vic' Essex, salutem. Praecipe E. W. armig', & I. uxori eius, quod just & sine dilatione teneant I. W. & I. S. conventionem inter eos factam, de duobus messuagijs, duobus gardinis, duobus pomar, xx. acris terre, xx. acris prati, xl. acris pasture, & C. acris iampnorum & bruere, cum pertin' in B. & W. Et nisi fecerint, & praed' I. & I. fecerint te securum de clamore suo pros. tunc sum per bonos sum praedictos E. & I. quod sint coram justiciarijs nostris apud Westm in Octabis Sancti Michaelis, ostensuri, quare non fecerint, Et habeas ibi sumin, & hoc breve T. meipsa apud Westm 17. die Septembr, Ann regni Reg. nunc 40. ✿ Pleg' de pros. Iohan Do, Richardus Roose. ✿ Sum Iohan Den, Richardus Fen. ✿ Georgius T. are vic' ss. ✿ I. W. dat dominae Reginae sex solidos & octo denarios pro licen concord' cum E. W. armig' & I. uxore eius de placito conventionis de duobus messuagijs, duobus gardinis, duobus pomarijs, xx acris terre, xx. acris prati, xl. acris pastur', & centum acris iampnorum & bruere cum pertin' in B. & W. Et habet Cirr̄ per pacem admiss. ✿ Coram R. H. uno Iustic' dominae Reg. de banco Iustic' in patria, ss. ✿ Elizabeth dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae, fidei defensor etc. dilecto & fideli suo R. H. uni Iustic' suorum de banco, Salutem. Cum breve nostrum de conuenc' pendeat coram vobis & socijs vestris Iustic' nostris de banco, inter I. W. & I. S. E. W. armig', & I. uxorem eius, de duobus messuagijs, duobus gardinis, duobus pomarijs, xx. acris terre, xx. acris prati, in B. & W. in comitat' Essex, ad finem inde inter eos coram vobis & socijs vestris praedictis in banco praedicto secundum legem & consuetudinem Regni nostri Angl' leuand', Ac ijdem E. & I. adeo impotentes sui existunt, quod absque maximo corporum suorum periculo usque Westm ad diem in brevi pndicto content, ad cognitiones, que in hac part requirunt faciend' laborare non sufficiunt, ut accepimus: Nos statui eundem E. & I compacientes in hac part, dedimus vobis facere volverint de premissis, Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad praef. E. & I. personaliter accedentes, cognitiones suas praedictas recipiatis: Et cum eas receperitis, praefatos socios vestros inde sub sigill' vestris distinct & apart reddatis certiores, ut tunc finis ille inter partes praedictas, de premissis, coram vobis & socijs vestris praedictis in banco praedicto levari possit, secundum legem & consuetudinem supradictas, Et habeatis ibi tunc hac breve, T. meipsa apud Westmon 18. die Septemb. Anno regni nostri 40. ✿ Respons. infra nominat R. H. adhoc breve. Execuc' istius brevis patet in quadam scedula huic brevi annex'. ✿ Et est concordia talis, scilitet, quod E. & I. nominat in breve huic scedul' annex', recogn' ten' in dicto breve specific' come pertinentijs, esse ius I. W. in eodem brevi nominat, ut ill' que ijdem I. & I. S. in dicto breve nominat habeant de dono praedict' E. & I. Et ill' remiser & quet clam' de se & hered' suis prefat' I. & I. & hered ipsius I. W. imperpetuum, Et preterea ijdem E. & I. conc' pro se & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant' tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs praefat' I. & I. & hered' ipsius I. W. contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et pro hac etc. Ijdem I. W. & I. S. concess. tenementa praedicta cum pertinentijs praef, E. & I. ✿ Et ill' cis reddider̄ in eadem Cur'. Habend' & tenend ' eisdem E. & I. & hered' de corpore ipsius E. per praedictam I. legitime procreat', & pro defectu talis exitus, te●ta praedicta cum pertin', integre reman' praefat' I. & hered' de corpore ipsius I. legitime procreat', & pro defectu talis exitus, tennta praedicta cum pertin', integre reman' rectis hered' ipsius E. imperpetuum. Tenend' &c. R. H. ss. ✿ Haec est finalis concordia facta in cur' Dominae Reginae apud Westm, in Octabis sancti Michaelis, Anno regni Elizabeth, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae & Hyber' Reginae, fidei defence. etc. a conqun decimo, coram I. D. R. W. I. W. & R. H. Iustic' & alijs dominae Reg' fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus, Int I. W. & I. S. quer', & E. W. am̄, & I. vxor' ei' deforc' de 2. mess. 2. guard ', 2. pomarijs, xx, acr prati, xl. acris pasture, & C. acris iampnorun & bruere, cum pertinent in B. & W. unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadem cur', Scilicet quod praed' E. & I. recogn' praedicta tenementa cum pertin', esse ius ipsius I. W. ut ill' que ijdem J. & I. S. habeant de dono praedictorum E. & I. Et ill' remiser & quiet' clam' de ipsis E. & I. & hered' suis, praed' I. & I. & hered' ipsius I. W. imperpetuum. Et preterea ijdem E. & I. concesser' pro se & hered' ipsius I. quod ipsi warr' praedictis I. & I. & hered' ipsius I. W. praedicta tennta cum pertinentijs contra omnes homines imperpetuum: Et pro hac recogn', remissione, quiet' clam', warrant, fine, & concordia, ijdem I. & I. concesser' praedictis E. & I. praedicta ten' cum pertinentijs. Et ill' eye reddider in cadem Cur', Habend' & tenend' eisdem E. & I & hered' de corpore ipsius E. per praedictam I. legitime procreat', de capitalibus dominis feod' ill' per seruic', que ad predicta tenementa pertinent, imperpetuum, Et si contingat quod ijdem E. & I. obier sine hered' de corpore ipsius E. per praedict' I. legitime procreat', tunc post decessum ipsor E. & I. praed' tennta cum pertin' integre reman' hered' de corpore ipsius I. legitime procreat', Tenend de capitalibus dominis feod' ill' per seruic', que add praed' tennta pertinent, imperpetuum. Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius I. fuerit legitime procreat', tunc praedicta tennta cum pertinentijs integre remaneb. rectis hered' ipsius E. Tenend' de capitalibus dnis feod' ill' per seruic' que ad praedict' tenementa pertinent, imperpetuum, secund' form statut'. ✿ Prim proclam facta fuit 22. die Novemb. termin sanct' Michael' Anno undecimo Reg. infrascr. Secunda proclam 24. die Novemb. eodem termino. Tertia ꝓclam 26. die Novemb. eod' termino. Quarta proclam 29. die novem. eodem termino. Quinta proclam facta fuit septimo die Feb. term' sanct ' Hill' Anno 11. dict' Regin̄ infrascr. Sexta procl' 9 die Feb. eodem termino. Septima procl' 10. die Feb. eod' term'. Octava procl' 12. die Fe▪ eod' term'. Nona procl' facta fuit 14. die Maij term' Pasc. ann 12. Reg. infrascr. Decima ꝓcl' 17. die M. eod' term'. Vndecim procl' 23. die M. eod' term'. Duodecima ꝓcl' 23. die M. eod' term'. Tertia decima procl' facta fuit 22. die Junii term' Sanct' Trin Anno undecimo Reginae infrascr. Quartadecima procl' xxv. die Junii eod' termino. Quintadecima procl' 27. die Junii eod' termino. Quae omnia & singula ad requisitionem W. W. generos. tenore presentium duximus exemplificand'. In cuius rei testimonium sigill' nostrum ad brevia in banco sigilland' deputat' praesentibus apponi fecimus T. F. W. W. & F. R. Iustic' de Banco praed ' apud Westm die Anno Reginae nunc xx. etc. W. P. & R. How fines executory be executed. THe execution of a fine, is the obtaining of actuail possession of the Sect. 176 things contained in the same, by virtue thereof, and it is either by entry into the lands, or by writ. By entry into the lands, as if upon a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done, If the cognizor remain still in possession, And the cognizee by virtue of such fine enter upon him, as he lawfully may, without any writ of habere fac' seisinam, because such fine is executed, 41. E. 3. 14. 42. Edw. 3. 5. And if fine be levied to the husband and wife in special tail, the rem to the heirs of the body of the husband, and the wife dieth without issue, the remainder is executed in possession in the husband, for the estate tail meeteth with the freehold and drowneth it. 7. H. 4. 23. Execution of fines by writ. EXecution of fines by writ, is either by Habere facias seisinam, or by Sect. 177. Scire facias. A writ of Habere facias seisinam, in this case is a writ judicial, issuing out of the Record of a fine executory, directed to the Sheriff of the county where the land lieth, commanding him to give the cognizee or his heirs seisin of the land, whereof the fine is levied, And this writ lieth within the year, after the fine, or, judgement upon a Scire facias. And may be made in these forms. Regina Vic' etc. Praecipimus tibi, quod sine dilatione habere facias B. K. seisinam suam de uno messuagio cum pertinentijs in N. quod A. T. in curia nostra etc. reddidit praedict' B. per finem inde inter eos fact' secundum. Teste etc. Duodecem etc. de visu etc. Et qui nec E. nec R. et A. vxor' eius aliqua Veni●e fac' en Scire fac' sur fine sur issue si les parties fuerent seisie all remps del fine levy etc. etc. ad cognoscend' si tempore levationis cuiusdam finis levati in curia domini E. nuper Regis etc. apud Westm in crastin etc. anno etc. coram R. B. et socijs suis tunc justiciarijs ipsius nuper Reg' de banco, Et postea in crastin animarum etc. anno etc. ibidem concess. et recordat coram eisdem nuper justiciarijs et alijs eiusdem nuper regis fidelibus, tunc ibi praesentibus, inter T. K. et R. F. quaerent, & I. B. et I. vxor' eius Concess. & recordat. deforc', de quatuor solidis reditus cum pertinentijs in S. unde praedict' G. in curia nostra etc. petit executionem versus praefat' R. et A. virtute Fine de rent. finis praedict', ac de alijs tenementis & red ditibus in codem fine contentis, praedict' T. K. et R. & praedict' I. B. et I. qui fuerunt parts fini illi, fuerunt seisiti de praedictis quatnor solidis reditus, cum pertinentijs, prout per eundem finem supponit, per quod praedict' E. executionem praedict' quatuor solid' reditus cum pertinentijs versus praefatos R. et A. virtute finis praedict' habere debeat, sicut idem E. dic' vel non, immo nec praedict' T. K. & R. nec praedicti I. B. et I. qui fuerunt parts fini praedicto, tempore levationis eiusdem finis aliquid habuer in praedictis quatuor solidis reditus, cum pertinentijs, nec in mesuag', unde supponit reditum illum provenire, per quod praedict' E. ab executione praedict' 4. solid' reditus cum pertinentijs versus praefatos R. et A. virtute finis praed' habend' excludi debeat, sicut ijdem R. & A. dicunt, quia tam etc. Scias, quod est cons. in curia nostra, quod W. L. & alij &c. habeant Habere facias seisinam sur rec' en scire fac' horse de fine ꝑ confession. executionem versus W. T. de decem acris terre cum pertinentijs in D. virtute cuiusdam finis inde levati in curia domini E. nuper regis etc. apud W. a die etc. anno etc. coram R B. & socijs suis tunc justiciarijs eiusdem progenitor̄ nostri de Banco, inter I. G. iuniorem & W. G. quaerentes, & E. P. & M. vxor' eius deforc', de praedictis decem acris terre cum pertinentijs, ac de alijs terris & tenementis in eodem fine contentis, per cognicionem praedict' W. T. actionis praedict' W. L. & al', & ideo tibi praecipimus, quod eisdem W. L. & al', de praedict' decem acris terrae cum pertinentijs sine dilacione plenariam seisinam habere facias etc. Scias, quoth considerate est in curia nostra etc. quod T. B. consang' & Habere facias seisinam sur recovery ꝑ def. en Scire fac' horse de fine. haeres W. fratris P. filius W. & M. uxoris eius, henat executionem versus R. R. etc. de xl. acris cum pertinentijs in B. virtute cuiusdam finis in cur' domini E. nuper Regis etc. apud W. etc. inter praefat' W. & M. quer', & W. de B. & R. fil' W. etc. deforciant etc. de tenntis praedictis levatis ꝑ default ipsorum etc. Et ideo tibi praecipimus, quod eidem T. B. de praedictis tenntis cum pertinenti's sine dilatione plenariam seisinam & executionem habere facias. Teste etc. Hebere facias scirm sur rec' per def. en Scire fac' horse de fine. Rex vic' salutem. Scias quod consid' est in curia nostra coram justiciarijs noster is apud W. quod T. B. consanguin & haeres W. B. habeat executionem versus R. D. de manerio de A. cum ꝑtinentus in come tuo, virtute cuiusdam finis levati in curia dni E. nuper Regis Ang●●● etc. apud W. a die etc. anno etc. coram R. B. & socijs suis tunc justiciarijs ipsius nuper Regis de banco. Et postea in octab. etc. anno etc. ibm' concess. & recordat, Concess. & recordat. inter praefatum W. querentem, et A. deforciant de manerio pndict̄ per defalt̄ ipsius R. Et ideo tibi praecipimus, quod eidem T. B. de manerio praedicto cum pertinentijs sine dilatione plenariam scisinam & executionem habere facias. Teste etc. Scias, quoth considerate est in curia nostra etc. qd' R. M. et R. A. consanguineus Habere facias seisinam sur recovery ꝑ verdict en Scire facias horse de fine. et heres H. de B. et M. uxoris eius, habeant executionem versus I. C. etc. de duabus partibus manerii de Y. cum pertinentiis, virtute cuiusdam finis levati in cur' domini E. nuper Regis etc. apud W. in crastino etc. anno etc. coram T. W. & sociis suis tunc Iusticiar' etc. de banco, inter H. B. et M vxor' eius quer', et B. D. et B. vxor' eius deforciantes, de praedict' manerio cum pertinentiis, ac de Aduocatione Ecclesiae eiusdem manerii, prout per quandam iuratam coram dilectis et fidelibus nostris I. T. oer W. A. duobus justiciariis nostris de communi banco, per Nisi prius. formam statuti nostri inde provisi, die etc. apud R. inde inter eos capt', compertum fuit: Et ideo tibi praecipimus, quod eisdem R. et R. de duabus partibus praedict' cum pertinentiis, sine dilatione executionem & plenariam seisinam habere facias. Teste etc. Of Execution of fines by Scire facias. A Writ of Scire facias upon a fine, lieth in the same case that a writ Sect. 178. of Habere facias seisinam doth, saving that it is to be sued a year and a day after the fine is levied, whereby the Sheriff is commanded to warn the terre tenant to appear, and show cause if he can, why the Cognisee or his heirs should not have execution, At the return where of, if the tenant appear, and show no cause to the contrary, the plaintiff shall have an Habere facias seisinam, ut supra. And the form of divers Scire facias in like case ensue: Rexvic' salutem. Cum quidam finis levasset in curia domini E. filii Scire fac' horse the fine for the heirs in tail. Regis H. progenitoris nostri, scilicet apud W. in octab. etc. anno regni sui tricesimo quarto, coram R. H. et sociis suis tunc justiciariis ipsius ꝓgenitoris nostri de banco, inter G. P. & I. uxorem eius quer', per W. F. posit in loco eorum ad lucrand' vel perdend', & S. H. deforciantem, Attorney in fine. de manerio de C. cum pertinentiis, unde placitum conventionis summonitum fuisset inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet quod praedict' G. recogn' manerium praedict' cum pertinentiis esse ius ipsius S. ut illud quod idem S. habuisset de dono praedict' G. Et pro illa recognitione, fine, & concordia, idem S. concessisset predict' G. et I. praedict' manerium cum Render to the husband and wife, and to the heirs of the husband of pertinentiis, & illud eis reddidit eadem curia: habend' & tenend' eisdem G. & I. & haeredibus, quos idem G. de corpore ipsius I. ꝓcreasset, de pndicto S. & haeredibus suis imperpetuum, reddendo inde per annum unam Rosam ad festum etc. pro omni seruitio, cons. et actione ad praedict' S. et haeredes suos pertinent, et faciend' inde capitalibus dominis 〈◊〉, pro praedict' S. et haeredibus suis, omnia alia seruitia, quae ad manenum illud pertinerent: Ita quod si contingeret, quod praedict' G. ob●ret sine herede de corpore ipsius I. procreat', tunc post decessum ipsorum G. et l. praedictum manerium cum pertinentijs integre remaneneret 〈◊〉 W. fratri eiusdem G. et haered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de praedict' S. & haeredibus suis per praedicta seruitia, sicut praedictum est, imperpetuum, Et si contingeret quod praedictus W. obiret sine haerede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsius W. praedict' manerum cum pertinentijs integre remaner' I. fratri eiusdem W. et haered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de praedicto S. et haeredibus fuis per praedicta seruitia, sicut praedictum est imperpetuum, Et si contingeret praedict' I. obire sine haerede de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius I. praedictum manerium cum pertinentijs integre remaneret ●. fratri eiusdem I. et haered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de praedict' S. & haeredibus suis per seruitia praedict', sicut praedictum est, imperpetuum: Et si contingeret quod predictus E. obiret sine haerede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsius E. predict' manerium cum pertinencijs integre revertatur ad praedict' S. & haeredes suos, quiet' de alijs haered' ipsorum G. & I. W. I. & E. tenend' de capitalibus dnis 〈◊〉 ꝑ seruitia, quae ad illud manerium pertinerent, imperpetuum: Ac iam ex insinuatione I. L. & M. uxoris eius unius, ac T. V et T. vxor' eius, alterius, necnon H. B. tertij consang' & haered' pred' G. & I. de corporibus su●s procreat' accepimus, quod pndict̄ G. & I. mortui sunt, Et quod quidam T. L. & R. I. praed' manerium cum pertin' modo ingressi sunt, & illud ten●nt contra formam finis praed', Et quia volumus ea, q●ae cur' ꝓgenitoris nostri acta sunt, debite executioni demandari, tibi pncipimus, qđ ● probos & legales homines de balliva tua Scire facias praefat' T. L. & R. qd' sint coram justiciarijs nostris apud W. in octab. etc. ostensu● si quid ꝓ se habeant aut dicere sciant, quare praedict' manerium cum pertinentijs, quod ipsi tenent in forma praedicta, post mortem praedict' G. & I. praefat' M. T. & H. consanguin haered' ipsorum G. & I. de corporibus suis procreat', remanere non debent juxta formam finis praedicti, si sibi viderint expedir, Et habeas ibi nomina eorum, per quos eis scire fecer, & hoc breve, Teste etc. Rex vicecom̄ salutem: Cum quidam finis levasset in curia dni E. nuper Sc●●e facias pur le heir de cestuy en ●●●em̄. regis Angl' avi nti, tali die, & anno, coram A. & socijs suis tunc Iustic' eiusdem avi nostri de Banco, inter W. quaerentem, & R. deforciant, de manerio de T. cum pertinent', unde pla●itum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, s●ilicet quod praedict' R. recogn' praedictum maneri●m cum pertin' esse ius ipsius W. ut illud quod idem W. habuisset de dono praedict' R. & pro illa recognitione, fine, & concordia, idem W. concessisset praedict' R. praed' manerium cum pertinentijs, habend' & tenend' eidem R. de praedicto W. & haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo procreatis tota vita ipsius R. reddend' inde per annum etc. Et post decessum ipsius R. praedictum manerium cum pertinentijs Render pur vie oue reverter a luy en tail & remainder ouster in tail. integre revertat ad praedict' W. & haeredes suos, quiet' de haered' praedict' R. tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius, per seruitia, quae ad illud manerium pertinerent, imperpetuum, & si contingeret quod praedictus R. obiret sine haerede masculo de corpore suo procreato praedict' manerium cum pertinentijs integre remaneret T. fratri ipsius W. & haeredibus masculis de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruic' praedict' imperpetuum: Ac iam ex insinuatione A. filii & haeredis praedict' T. accepimus, quod praedict' R. iam obijt, & quod praedict' W. obijt sine herede masculo de corpore suo procreato, & qd' I. unum messuagium etc. cum pertinent', quae fuerunt parcella manerij praed', modo ingressus est, & illa tenet contra formam finis pred', Et quia volumus ea etc. ostens. si quid pro se habeat aut dicere sciat, quare pndictum tenementum cum pertinent, praed' A. filio & heredi pndicti T. remanere non debeat, juxta formam finis praedicti, fi sibi viderit expedire etc. Et habeas etc. Et modo hic ad hunc diem venit tam praedictus I. S. per S. atturnatum Scire facia● verse several tenants. Retur scire fecit. Cozenage allege. suum, quam praedict' W. & A. per F. atturnatum suum, & vicecomes mand' quod scire fecerit eisdem W. & A, essendi hic ad hunc diem ostensur seperatim in forma praedicta▪ per R. & S. probos etc. & super hoc praedict' I. dicit, quod ipse est consang' & heres predict' I. & E. videlicet etc. & petit versus praedict' W. & A. seperatim executionem in forma praedicta etc. Et iam praedicti W. & A. quoad predicta tenementa, unde executio A bar that the parties to the fine had nothing in the land at the time of the fine, but I. whose estate the tenant hath. versus eos secuta est, quam praedict' R. & I. quo ad praedicta tenementa, unde executio versus eos seperatim petita est, singulatim dicunt, quod nec praed' I. nec praed' W. & B. quos per finem praedict' supponit esse partes finis illius, nihil habuer in tenementis pred' cum pertinent', unde executio versus W. & A. sepetatim petita est, tempore levat eiusd' finis, imo quidam I. C. fuit inde seisitus tempore levationis finis illius, cuius quid I. C. statum in tenntis illis, unde executio versus eos petita est, quam praed' R. & I. seperatim habent in tenementis praed' unde executio versus eos singulatim petita est, seperatim petunt judicium, si praed' I. executionem inde versus eos habere debeat etc. Et praed' I. dicit, quod tempore levationis finis illius, praed▪ I. & I. qui fuerunt partes finis illius, fuerunt Issue that I. was seisied at the time of the fine levied. seisiti de tenementis praed' come pertinent, unde executio versus praed' W. & A. seperatim in forma & modo praedict' secuta est, prout per finem illum supponiour, & hoc petit etc. Ideo xii. etc. Cum quidam finis levasset in curia domini E. quondam regis Angliae Scire facias super fine. avi nostri, a die sanctae Trinitatis in quindecim dies, anno etc. coram I. de B. & socijs suis tunc justiciarijs ipsius au● nostri itinerantibus apud Ebor', inter Alinam quaerent, & A. defend' de decem libratis terrae cum pertinentijs in A. in manerio de L. in comitatu de N. unde placitum conuenc' summonitum fuisset inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet qd' praedict' Adam recognovit praedicta tenementa cum pertinentijs, ut in dominicis, redditibus etc. et omnibus alijs rebus ad praedicta tenementa pertinentibus, esse ius ipsus Alani, praeterea idem A. dedit et concessit praedicto Alano quinque marcas reditus cum pertinentijs in A. in comitatu K. & totum manerium de B. cum pertinentijs in comitatu tuo, ut in dominicis etc. habendum et tenendum eidem Alano & E. uxori eius, et haeredibus de corporibus ipsorum Alani et E. procreatis, de capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum imperpetuum, faciend' inde omnia seruitia, quae ad praedict' tenementa pertinent, & praedictus A. & heredes sui warr' eisdem Alano & E. & haeredibus suis praedictis, omnia praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs, per praedict' seruitia contra omnes gentes imperpetuum, & si contigerit quod praedict' A. et E. obirent sine herede de corporibus ipsorum Alani & E. procreat', de capitalibus dominis feodorum illorum imperpetuum facien̄ inde omnia seruitia quae ad pred' tennta pertinent: et praedict' A. & haeredes sui warr' eisdem Alano & E. et haeredibus suis praed' omnia praed' tenementa cum pertinent per praed' seruitia contra omnes gentes imperpetuum, & si contigerit quod predicti A. et E. obirent sine herede de corporibus ipsorum Alani et E. procreat', tunc post decessum ipsorum Alani et E. predicta tenementa cum pertinentijs ad praefatum Adam et haeredes suos integre reverterentur quieta de alijs heredibus ipsorum A. & E. imperpetuum, ac iam ex insinuatione Anthonij de L. et I. consanguineorum & hered' predicti Adae ac cepimus, quod praedict' Alanus & E. iam obierunt, et quod johannes silius et haeres eorundem Alani & E. obijt sine haerede de corpore suo procreato, et etiam Wilhelmus filius pndicti Alani & E. et frater & haeres predict' johannis iam obijt sine haerede de corpore suo procreato, & qd' quaedam johanna, quae fuit uxor johannis de W. predict' manerium de B. cum pertinent ingressa est, & illud tenet contra formam finis pndict̄: Et ideo tibi praeceperimus, qd' ꝑ bonos & legales homines de comitatu tuo scire faceres pndict̄ johannae, quod esset coram Iusticiar' nostris apud Westm a die sancti Michaelis in quindecim dies proxim' praeterito, ostensura si quid pro se haberet vel dicere sciret, quare pndict̄ manerium de B, cum pertinent, praedicto Antho. et I. consanguineis & hered' praedicti Adae reveiti non deberent, si sibi vidisset expedire, ac pro eo quod idem I. postea in eadem curia nostra dixit quod predict' Antonius sequeretur executionem sinis pndicti de medietate praedicti manerij de B. cum pertinent, versus predictam johannam. Eadem johanna venit in eadem curia et dixit, quod ipsa tenet predictum manerium de B. cum pertinent per nomen manerij de R. ex dimissione N. de C. et quod reversio inde post mortem eiusdem Iohannae ad praedict' N. spectat, sine quo non potest predicto Anthonio de pndicta medietate manerij predict' respondere, & petit auxilium de ipso Nicholas. Et ideo tibi praecipimus, quod per bonos etc. scire facias praedicto N. quod sit etc. apud Westmon a die etc. ad respondent' prefato A. simul cum predicta johanna de praedicto placito si volverit▪ Et habeas ibi nomina etc. Teste etc. Cum quidam finis levasset in cur' dni E. nuper Regis Angliae avi nostri Scire facias sur aid. xv. termino Trin, anno etc. coram A. & socijs suis tunc Iusticiar' ipsius au● nost● itinerantibus, apud E. inter B. quer', & C. defor● ', de decem librat redit' cum pertinentijs in B. in manerio de S. in comit' E, unde placitum conventionis summ̄ fuisset inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet, quod praedict' C. recogn' tennta praed' come pertinent, ut in dnicis, redit' etc. & omnibus alijs rebus ad predict' tennta pertinent, esse ius ipsius B. Praeterea idem C. dedit & concessit praedict' B. quinque marc' redit' cum pertinentijs in A. in comitatu S. & totum manerium de D. cum pertinent in eodem come ut in dominicis: habend' & tenend' eidem B. & E. vxor' eius, & haered' de corporibus ipsorum B. et E. exeuntibus, de capitalibus dominis feodi illius imperpetuum, faciend' inde omnia seruitia quae ad predict' tenementa pertinerent: Et predict' C. & haered' sui warrant' eisdem B. & E. et haered' suis predict', omnia predict' manner cum suis pertinentijs per praedict' seruitia contra omnes gentes imperpetuum: Et si contingat quod praedict' B. & E. obierent sine haered' de corporibus ipsorum B. et E. procreat', tunc post decessum predict' B. et E. praedict' tenement' cum pertinentijs ad praefat' C. & haeredes suos integre reverterentur quiet' alijs haered' ipsorum B. & E. imperpetuum: Ac iam ex insinuatione R. & K. consang' & haered' predict C. accepimus, quod predict' B. & E. iam obierunt, et quod I. filius et haeres eorundem B. & E. obiit sine haerede de corpore suo procreato, et etiam W. filius praedict' B. & E. frater et haeres praedict'▪ I. iam obijt sine haerede de corpore suo exeunt, et quod quaedam I. quae fuit uxor I. W. pndict̄ manner de D. cum pertinentijs modo ingressa est, et illud tenet contra formam finis predict', Et ideo tibi precipimus, quod per probos etc. scire fac' praefat' I. quod esset coram etc. tali die ostensur si quid etc. quare predictum manerium cum pertinentijs, predict' R. et K. consanguin & hered' praedicti C. reveru non deberet▪ si sibi vidisset expedire, ac pro eo quod idem K. postea in cadem curia nostra ven' & dic' quod pndict̄ R. sequeretur executionem finis pndicti de medietat man erij pndicti de D. cum pertin' versus pnd' I. eadem I. tali▪ die ven' in ead' cur' nostra, & dicit qd ' ipsa tenet manner praed' de B. cum pertinent per nomen manerij de R. ex dimissione N. C. & qd' reversio inde per mortem praed' I. add praedict' N. spectat, sine quo non potest praedict' R. de predict' medietate manerij pndicti respondere, & petijt auxilium de ipso N. Et ideo tibi precipimus, qd' per probos scire fac' praefat' N. quod sit etc. ad respondend' praed' R. simul cum praedict' I. de praedict' placito si volverit. Et habeas etc. Dominus Rex mand' justiciarijs suis hoc breve suum clausum in haec Mittimus del transcript del fine, & Scire facias inde. verba. Edwardus etc. (recitand' totum breve,) tenor praedict' finis unde in brevi praed' fit mentio, (vel sic) Transcript praed' finis, unde in brevi praedict' fit mentio, sequitur in haec verba. Haec est finalis concordia etc. recitand' & totum &c. Et modo scz. tali die isto eodem termin̄ venit hic Scire fac. for the heir of him in the remainder against the terre tenant. in cur' A. ex part praedict' T. & dicit qd' praed' R. mortuus est, & similit qd' praed' W. obijt sine haered' masculo de corpor suo ꝓcreat, & qd' I. in unum mess. etc. cum pertin', quae sunt parcell' manerij predict', modo ingressus est, et ill' tenet contra formam finis praed', Et petit breve Vic' S. dirigend', ad praemuniend' pref. I. essendi hic ostens. si quid etc. quare eadem messuag' etc. come pertin', quae dictus T. damat inform pnd', post mortem pred' W. praef. T. consang' & hered' praed' R. remanere non debet juxta Several Scire fac' into several counties upon one fine. formam finis pnd', eo qd' pred' W. mortuus est sine haered' mascul' de corpore suo ꝓcreato, & ei conceditur returnabil' hic tali die. vel sic, Et per separalia bria, viz. unum Vicec' dicti come B. aliud Vic' N. tertium Vic' H. dirigend', ad praemuniend' eundem I. essendi hic, ostensur etc. Precept fuit vicecom̄, cum quidam finis jevasset in cur' dni reg. etc. Scire fac' for him in the rem. die etc. anno etc. coram etc. justiciarijs ipsius progenitoris dni regis nunc de Banco, inter W. & I. uxorem eius querent, & I. E. deforc' de uno messuagio etc. cum pertinentijs in L. unde placitum convencionis summ̄ fuisset inter eos in ead' curia, scilicet quod praedictus W. recogn' tenementa praedict' come pertinent esse ius ipsius I. ut illa quae idem I. habuisset de dono praed' W. & pro illa recognitione fine et concordia idem I. concessisset Render to the husband and wife, & to the heirs of the body of the husband. predict' W. et I. praedict' tenntum cum pertinent, & illa eis reddidisset in eadem curia, habend' & tenend' eisd' W. et I. & haeredib' ipsius W. de corpore suo procreat', de capitalibus dnis feodi illius per seruicia quae ad tenementum praedict' pertinerent imperpetuum, & si contingat quod idem W. obiret sine herede de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsorum W. & I. praed' tennta cum pertinentijs integre remanerent I. filio eiusdem W. & haeredibus de corpore suo procreatis, Rem in tail. tenend' de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per seruicia, quae ad praedict' tennta pertinerent imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem I. obiret sine Rem to the right heirs. haerede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsius I. praedict' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remanerent rectis haeredibus ipsius W. tenend' de capitalibus dnis feodi etc. ut supra: Ac iam ex insinuatione T. consang' et haered' praedict' I. fil' W. acceperat Rex, quod idem W. mortuus est fine herede de corpore suo procreat', & quoth pnd' I. iam obijt, & quod quidem A. tennta praedicta cum pertinentijs, modo ingressus est, & ea tenet contra formam finis praed', Et quia etc. quod p probos etc. Scire facias praefat' A. quod esset hic ad hunc diem etc. ostensur si quid etc. quare praed' tennta cum pertinent, que ipse tenet in forma praed', post mortem praedict' W. & I. uxor eius praefat' T. ut consang' & hered' praedict' I. fil' W. remanere non debent juxta formam finis praed', si etc. eo quod praed' W. obijt sine herede de corpore suo exeunt etc. Et modo hic ad hunc diem venit tam praedict' T. per A. atturnatum suum quam praed' A. per S. atturnatum suum, & vicecomes mandavit quod preceperat I. L. ballivo libertatis etc. cui etc. qui eidem vic' sic respond', quod scire fecit pref. A. essendi hic ad hunc diem, ostensur in forma pnd', ꝑ T. & G probos etc. Et super hoc pnd' T. dicit, quod ipse est consang' & heres praed' I. filii W. viz. fil' 1 fil' ipsius I. fil' W. etc. & petit versus prefat' A. executionem etc. Et super hoc, praed' W. H. dicit quod praed' W. frater G. in fine praed ' Cozenage. nominat, apud S. in come N. quandam E. P. ad ipsam in vxor' ducend': eadem que E. ipsum W. adeum in virum habend', insimul affidarunt, Et post banna inter eos per tres dies festivos a se distantes in ecclesia etc. publice proclamat, fuer' disponsalia inter eos in fancy ecclesiae illius solemnit, celebrat, infra que disponsalia, ijdem W. & E. habuerunt exit inter se T. apud H. in eodem come N. genitum & natum, Qui quidem T. apud T. in come N. in ecclesia sanct' A. ibidem duxit in uxorem quandam N. ijdenque T. & N. post sponsalia inter eos ibid' celebrat, habuerunt exit inter eos quendam H. ibid' genitum & natum, ac idem H. apud dictam villam N. in eod' come in pnd' ecclesia etc. duxit in uxorem quandam I. ijdemque H. & I. post sponsalia inter eos ibidem celebrat, habuerunt exitum inter eos praedict' W. H. qui nunc sequitur genitum & natum, & sic idem W. H. que nunc sequitur dic', quod ipse est consang' & heres praed' W. fratris G. de corpore ipsius W. fratris G. procreat', videlicet fil' praed' H. fil' dicti T. fil' eiusd' W. fratris G. & petit versus pnd R. S. sen etc. exec' etc. Praec' fuit vic', cum quidam finis levasset in curia d●i E. nuper Reg. Fine jevied to one by a garden. Angl' &c. in oct' etc. anno etc. coram etc. per breve ipsius nuper Reg. inter S. P. & I. vxo● eius & S. fil' eorundem S. & I. quer', per E. custodem ipsius S. fil' eorundem S. P. & I. ad lucrand', & W. P. personam ecclesiae de T. & I. H. capellan deforc', de duobus messuagijs etc. cum pertin' in T. S. & W. unde placit conventionis sum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scz. quoth praed' S. P. recogn' tenementa praedicta cum pertin' esse ius ipsius W. ut illa que ijdem W. & I. tunc habuerunt ex dono praed' S P. & pro eadem recognitione, fine & concordia, ijdem W. & I. concesserr pnd' S. P. & I. & S. filio eorund' S. & I. praed' tenementa cum pertinent, & illa cis reddiderunt in eadem curia, Habend' & tenend' eisd' S. P. & I. & S. filio eorundem S. & I. & heredibus ipsius S. filii eorumdem S. & I. de corpore suo procreat', de capital' dnis feodi illius per seruitia que ad praedict' tenementa pertinerent imperpetuum, & si contingeret quod idem S. filius eorundem S. & I. obiret sine herede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post pecessum ipsorum S. & I. & S. filii eorundem S. & I. praedicta tennta cum pertin' integre remanerent hered' masculis de corporibus ipsorum S. & I. exeuntibus, tenend' de capital' dnis feodi illius per seruitia, que ad praed' tennta pertinerent imperpetuum, & si nullus heres masculus de corporibus ipsorum S. P. & I. foret procreat', tunc praed' tennta cum pertin' integreremanerent M. sorori pnd' S. filie praed' S. & I. & hered' de corpore suo procreatis, tenenđ ' de capital' dnis feodi illius per seruitia que ad pnd' tennta pertinerent, imperpetuum, & si contingeret qd' eadem M. obiret sine hered' de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius M. pnd' tennta cum pertin', integre remanerent I. sorori eiusdem M. & hered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de capital' dnis feodi illius ꝑ seruitia que ad pnd' tennta pertinent imperpetuu, & si contingeret qd' eadem I. obiret sine herede de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsius I. pnd' tennta cum pertin' integre rem rectis hered' praed' S. P. tenend' de capital' dnis feodi illius per seruitia que ad pnd' tennta pertinerent imperpet, ac iam ex insinuatione I. A. consang' & her pnd' M. de corpore suo procreat', acceperat Rex, quod pnd' S. P. & I. mortuisunt sine her̄ masculo de corporibus suis procreato, et pđ S. silius praeđ S. et I. mortuus est, sine her̄ de corpor suo procreato quodque praeđ M. similiter obijt, & quod quidam R. L. Scire fac' for the heir of him in the Rem. & alij, mes. etc. pđ cum pertin' modo ingressi sunt, & illa tenent contra form̄ finis praedict', et quia etc. scire fac' prefat' R. L. et al', quod essent hic ad hunc diem scz. a die etc. ostensur, si quid etc. quare mes. pđ cum pertin', que ipsi tenent in form praeđ, post mortem praeđ S. P. et I. et S. etc. ac pref. M. prefat' I. A. consang' et her ipsius M. de corpore suo procreat', rem non debeant juxta formam finis pđ, eo quod praeđ S. P. et I. mortui sunt sine her̄ masculo de corporibus suis procreat', et praed' S. filius praeđ S. et I. mortuus est sine hered' de corpore suo procreat', si etc. Et modo hic ad hunc diem ven' tam praedict' I. A. ꝑ T. B. attorn̄ suum, quam praeđ R. L. et al' per I. K. attorn̄ suum, & vic' mand', quod scire fecit eisdem R. L. & alijs essendi hic ad hunc diem, ostens. in forma praed' per I. C. et alios probos etc. super quo idem I. A. dicit, quod ipse est consang' & her praed' M. de corpore suo procreat', videlicet filius I. fil' W. fil' S.. fil' praeđ M. Et pet̄ executionem de tenementis praeđ sibi adiudicare etc. Et praedict' Confession of the fine. R. L. et alij dicunt, quod ipsi non possunt dedicer̄ finem praed, nec quin praeđ S. P. per finem illum recogn' tennta praedict cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict' W. P. ut illa que idem W. ac praed' I. tunc habuerunt de dono praedict' S. P. nec quin pro eadem recogn'▪ fine et concordia, ijdem W. et I. per finem illum concesserunt tenementa illa, tenend' prefat' S. P. et I. S. fil' eorundem S. & I. et illa eis reddiderunt in cadem curia, habend' & tenend' eisdem S. P. et I. et S. filio eorunđ S. & I. et her̄ ipsius S. fil' eorundem S. et I. de corpore suo procreat', Ita quod si contingeret, quod idem S. fil' eorumdem S. et I. obiret sine heređ de corpore suo procreat', tunc post decessum ipsorum S. P. et I. et S. fil' eorundem S. et I. predict' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remaner heređ mascul' de corporibus ipsorum S. P. et I. exeunt, et si nullus heres masculus de corporibus ipsorum S. P. et I. foret procreat', tunc tennta praeđ cum pertinentijs integre remanerent praefat' M. sorori pđ S. fil' praedict' S. P. et I. & heređ de corpore suo procreat', nec quin praedict' S. P. et I. mortui sunt sine herede masculo de corporibus suis procreat', nec quin praedict' S. fil' praedict' S. P. et I. mortuus est sine herede de corpore suo procreat', nec quin praedict' M. similiter mortua est, nec quin praedict' I. A. est consang et heređ praeđ M. in forma qua idem I. A. superius supponitur, sed omnia & singula premissa bene concedunt, Ideo cons. est quod judgement daver execut. praeđ I. A. habeat executionem versus praedict' R. L. et al' de tenement' praeđ cum pertinent etc. Et modo hic ad hunc diem venit tam praedict' E. in propria persona Sci. fe. return. sua, quam praeđ T. B. per W. atturnatum suum, Et vic' manđ quod scire fecit etc. Et super hoc praedict' E. dicit, quod ipse est consang. & heres praedict' E. videlicet fil' R. fil' I fil' A. fil' W. fratris R. patris ipsius Cozenage alleged. E. & petit versus pref. T. B. execuc' etc. Et praedict' T. dicit, quod praeđ E. executionem etc. virtute finis praeđ versus eum habere non debet, Bar que aut fuit heir que estate il ad. quia dicit quod quidam R. pater ipsius R. patris E. quandam I. R. adeam in vxor' ducenđ, ac eadem I. ipsum R. ad cum in virum capienđ, apud R. in comitatu N. adinuicem affidarunt, Et post modum bannis inter ipsos per tres dies festivos a se distantes in Ecclesia parochiali de R. sole mniter proclam, ceterisque concurrent̄ in ea part canonice requisitis, sponsalia inter eosdem R. et I. in fancy Ecclesie ciusdem fuerunt legittime ac solemniter celebrat, infra que sponsalia ijdem R. et I. apud R. praedict' habuerunt exitum inter eos ibidem genitum & natum predict' R. patrem praedict' E. ac quendam S. medium, & post ipsius S. nativitatem, praedict' W. in fine praedict' nominat, ipso W. iumore, cui praedict' E. sefacit consang. etheređ, et praedict' R. pater R. et I. postea obier, et praedict' R. fil' R. fil' R. habuit exitum ibidem praedict' E. & obijt, ipsaque E. postea obijt sine herede de corpore suo exeunte, dicto W. E. viro suo in dicto fine nominato ipsam superuivente, et ipse W. postea obijt, post cuius mortem praedict' T. & M. in praedictum messuag. etc. in praedict' villis de E. et M. intraverunt ut in remanere suo pđ, et inde scisit fuerunt in dnico suo ut de feođ talliato virtute finis pđ, & obierunt sine he● de corporibus suis exeunt, post quorum mortem, quidam I. R. ut consang' et heres praeđ E. viz. fil' S. fratris R. patris praedict' E. in tennt illa cum pertinent intravit, & inde fuit seisitus in dnico suo ut de feodo virtute finis praed', cuius quidè I. R. statum pnd' T. B. modo habet in eisden, Et hoc etc. unde pet etc. si execuc' etc. Et praed' E. dicit, qd' ipse ab executione mess. etc. in praed' villis de E. Cozenage maintain. & M. versus pref. T. hēd', peraliqua pallegata, excludi non debet, Quia dic' qd' divante pnd' sponsaliaint pref. R. patrem R. & I. R. vxor' eius celebrata, idem R. pater ipsius R. ipsam I. ad eam in uxorem ducend' ac eadem Lipsum R. ad ipsum in virum capiend' apud M. in praed' comitatu B. adinuicem affidarunt, ac concurrentibus omnibus & singulis de iure in ea part canonice requisite, sponsalia inter ipos R. & I. in fancy ecclesie etc. fuerunt solemnit ac legitime celebrata, infra que sponsalia, praedict' R. pater R. & I. uxoris e●us apud praedictam villam de M. habuerunt exitum inter se, viz. patrem praedict' E. et praed' W. in fine praedicto nominatum filium suum medium, cui pnd' E. se facit consang' & her & pnd' S. filium suum iuniorem, Absque hoc quod praed' S. fuit filius praed' R. patris R. & I. vxor' eius senior praed' W. prout praed' T. B. superius allegavit, Et hoc etc. unde pet̄ judicium et execution etc. Et praed' T. B. dicit quod predict' S. fuit filius praed' R. patris R. & I. uxoris eius senior pref. W. in forma qua ipse superius allegavit, Et de hoc etc. Et praedictus E. similiter, & quia Iustic' hic nondum avisantur, an dictus exitus placiti predicti triari debet per homines de visu de M. in dicto comitatu E. vel per homines Venue. de visu de R. in dicto comitatu W. aut per homines de uno visu & alio, dies datus est partibus praedict' add audiend' judicium suum, hic in Octabis Hill' etc. Et super hoc praedict' W. L. dicit quod ipse est consang' et heres predict ' Cozenage allege in sci. fac'. M. videlicet fil' 1 fil' I fil' I fil' ipsius M. geniti et nati apud T. in comitatu N. inter I. L. de T. quondam virum praedictae M. et ipsam M. post sponsalia inter eos ibid' celebrata, et petit versus prefat' W. et A. execuc' etc. Et pnd' W. et A. non cogn̄ aliqua in brevi pnd' per praed' W. L. preallagata contenta, ac protestando qd' ipsi ad genitur et nativitat pnd' I. fil' M. tam suspecta extra modum & tempus superius allegat necesse non habent nec per legem terre tenentur mndere, protestand' e●●am qd' pnd' M. primo cepit in virum quend' I. L. de M. qui quid' I. & M. habuerunt exitum inter eos quend' I. idemque I. postea obijt sine ●her̄ masc' de corpore suo et corpore pnd' M. procreat' pro plac' dic' quod praedict' W. ut consang' & her pnd' M. execuc' pđ manerij de W. cum pertinent, unde etc. virtut̄ finis praedict' versus eos habere non debet, quia dicit, quod diu post mortem pđ I. L. de M. et ante aliqua sponsalia inter praeđ I. L. de T et M. habit seu celebrat, tam I. de H. pref. M. ad ipsam in vxor', quam eađ M. ad ipsum I. ad eum in virum habend', apud C. in come S. in simul affidarunt, ibidemque post banna inter eos in eccl' &c. ꝑ tres dies festious a se distant solemnit proclamat, fuerunt desponsalia inter ipsos I. de H. & M. in fancy eiusdem ecclesie celebrat, & ipsi ibidem legitimo matrimonio copulati, infraque desponsalia tota vita ipsius I. de H. ibidem continuata, & ante aliqua sponsalia inter prefat' I. L. de T. & M. habit seu celebrat, praed' I. de H. & M. habuerunt exit inter eos quendam N. apud C. praed' genitum & natum, & finis praed' in forma praed' levauit, & pnd' A. que fuit uxor W. postea obijt, post cuius mortem praed' I. de H. & M. fuerunt seisiti de praedicto manerio de W. cum pertinentijs in dominico suo ut de feodo talliato, feodo & iure simplici in persona ipsius M. quiescente virtute ipsius finis praed', & de tali statu inde obierunt sesit, & de ipsis I de H. & M. descend' idem manerium de W. cum pertinentijs eidem N. ut fil' & hered' ipsorum I. & M. Qui quidem N. in manerium illud cum pertinentijs intravit, & inde fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo talliato feodo & iure simplici inde in persona ipsius N. ut fil' & hered' ipsius M. quiescent per formam finis praedicti, & habuit exit quend' H. apud C. praed' genitum, & obijt, & de ipso N. descend' praedict' manerium de W. cum pertinentijs unde etc. eid' H. ut fil' & hered' eiusdem N. qui quidem H. in manerium illud cum pertin' intravit, & indefuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo talliato, feodo & iure simplici inde in persona ipsius H. quiescente per formam finis praedicti, & sic inde seisitus feoffavit quosdam I. & E. etc. de eodem manerio cum pertinentijs, habend' eyes & hered' suis imperpetuum, virtute cuius etc. in feod', quorum quid' I. etc. statum praed' W. & A. modo habent in eodem manerio etc. & hoc &c. unde petit judicium si praedict' W. L. executionem eiusd' manerij de W. cum pertinentijs virtute finis praed' versus eos habere debeat etc. Et praed' W. L. non cogn̄ aliqua per praef. W. & A. preallegat esse vera, immo minus vera & imaginata, & protestando etiam quod genitur & nativitas praedict' I. L. fil' M. per ipsum W. L. ●n dicta declarac' sua de consanguinitate quo modo est consang' & heres ipsius M. contenta, sunt & fuerunt vere & legitime & non suspectiue allegata, prout per diversa recordat tam in cancellar coram & Cancellario: & in Scaccario coram Baronibus, quam in Thes. domini Regis inter recorda de placit armorum coram nuper Constabulario Ang ' tentis resident▪ necnon & per quam plura evidentia, munimenta, vera, justa & sufficient, ac pro talibus in lege approabata & confirmata plene liquet. Pro placito dic', quod ipse ab executione dictimanerij de W. cum pertinent virtute finis praedict' habend', per aliqua per praedict' W. & A. inde preallegat, excludi non debet, quia dicit quod praedict' I. L. de M. & praed' I. L. de T. fuerunt una & eadem persona & non diverse person, & quod idem I. tota vita sua, tam per nomen I. L. de T▪ quam per nomen I. L. de M. nominatus & cognitus fuit, quodque dicta sponsalia inter prefat' I. L de T. & M. concurrentibus prius, que in ea part de iure canonice require bant, apud praedict' villam de T. in fancy ecclesie parochialis eisudem ville fuer' solemniter celebrata, infra que sponsalia ijdem I. L. & M. habuer exitum inter se praed' I. L. fil' & her praed' M. ibidem genitum & natum, in forma qua praedict' I. L. per dictam declarac' consang' praedict' supponitur, que quidem sponsalia inter ipsos I. L. & T. M. sic celebrat, ibidem continuat fuer' tota vita eiusdem I. & post mortem eiusdem I. praedict' M. cepit in virum praed' I. de H. absque hoc quod praedict' desponsalia inter praefat' I. de H. & M. per praed' W. & A. preallegat habita seu celebrata fuerunt ante dicta sponsalia inter praedict' I. L. de T. & M. celebrat prout ijdem W. & A. superius allegarunt, & hoc &c. unde petitiudicium si executionem etc. Et praedicti W. & A. dicunt, quod praedicta desponsalia inter praedict' I. de H. & M. per praedict' W. & A. preallegata, habita & celebrata fuerunt ante dicta desponsalia inter praedict' I. L. de T. & M. celebrata in forma qua ijdem W. & A. superius allegarunt, & de hoc 'pon etc. Et praed' W. similiter, Ideo praec' est tam vic' N. quam vic' S. quod etc. Et praed' P. dic', quoth praed' W. execuc' versus eum habere non debet, Bar que le demandant fuit nee horse de les espousals. quia dicit quod, ubi praed' W. per breve suum praedict' supponit & asserit se fuisse filium & heredem praed' T. idem W. natus fuit extra omnia sponsalia, & hoc paratus est verificare, unde petit judicium si praedict' W. ut filius & heres praed' T. seu alterius cuiuscunque etc. versus eum habere debeat etc. Et praedict' W. dicit quod praedict' T. pater suus habuit quandam uxorem sibi desponsat A. nomine, de qua ipse natus fuit infra sponsalia inter eos T. & A. celebrata, & hoc paratus est verificare, unde petit judicium si etc. & executionem sibi adiudicari etc. Et praedict' P. dicit, ut prius, quod praedict' W. natus fuit extra omnimoda sponsalia, & non infra sponsalia praedict', prout praedict' W. superius allegavit, Et de hoc pon̄ se super patriam. Et praedict' W. similiter, Ideo duodecim etc. Et praedict' I. P. & A. non cogn̄ quod ipsi, que fuerunt parts fini predict', nec aliquis eorum unquam aliquid habuerunt vel habuit in tenntis & aduocac' in praedict' fine content, dic' quod praefat' E. ut filius & heres praedict' W. execuc'de tennt & aduocation versus ●os habere non debet, Quia dicit quod idem W. cap it in vxor' quendam M. que quidem M. desponsate fuit eidem W. apud E. in come S. & ibidem desponsalia inter eos celebrata fuerunt, & dicit quod idem E. natus fuit apud C. in come S. ante desponsalia, Et hoc parati sunt verificare per patriam de praedict' come S. & qualiter curia hic cons. unde petit judicium siidem E. execuc ' Born before marriage. de ten' & advocatione praed', ut fil' & her praed' E. in hac part versus eos habere debeat etc. Et praed' E. non cognaliqua per praed' I. P. & A. superius allegat, di● ' quod ipse per aliqua pallegat ab executione de tent' & aduocac' praed' virtute finis praed' precludi sive repelli non debet, qui● dicit quod praed' W. pater ipsius E. cepit in vxor' praed' M. viz. apud M. in dicto come E. & ibid' desponsalia inter eos modo legitimo & secundum forum ecclesiasticum celebrat fuerunt, et dicit quod ipse ibid' infra desponsalia illa inter ipsos W. & M. celebrata natus fuit & procreat', & hoc &c. per patriam de praed' come E. & qualiter cur' hic cons. unde pet̄ judicium & execuc' etc. Et praed' I. P. etc. dic' quoth praed' E. natus ●uit apud C. in praed' come S. ante desponsalia inter praed' W. & M. celebrat, & hoc vtus pri parati sunt verificare per patriam, & qualiter cur hic cons. etc. Et praed' E. dicit quod ipse natus fuit & procreatus fuit infra desponsalia inter praed' W. et M. celebrata, videlicet apud M. in predict' come E. & hoc ut prius paratus est verificare per patriam de pred▪ come E. & qualitercumque cu● hic cons. & quia videtur curie hic quod exitus placiti praed' per homines de utroque comitatu pred' tr●ari debet, Ideo prec' est utrisque Trial. vicecom̄ come pred' quod uterque eorum venire facinat hic tali die, duodecimo etc. per quos etc. Rex Io. ead' gratia L. episcopo, salut, cum I. M. filius P. fratris G. B. in Brief all evesto certify bastardy. cur' nostram nobis ꝑ quodd' breve n●um de sci, fac. quosdam I. A. & P. G. de quodam mess. cum pertin' in F. implicaverit, ipsique I. A. & P. juxta debit' premunic' virtute dictio brevis nostri sibi fact, coram nobis comparentes allegaverunt ipsum I. fore bastard ', hoc pretendendo verificare, & quia huiusmodi cause cognitio ad forum mere spectat ecclesiastic' vobis mandamus, quod vocat' coram vobis, quos in ea part fore viderit euocand', diligent inde faciat inquisitionem, & plenariam veritatem inde per literas vestras sub sigillo vestro sigillat̄ nobis in oct' etc. ubicumque tunc fuerimus in Angl', reddat certiores in hoc breve nobis tunc remittentes. Teste etc. Et modo hic ad hunc diem venit tam praed' I. B. per B. atturn suum, quam Return sci. fec. predictus I. H. in propria persona sua, & vic' mand' qd' scire fecer̄ eidem I. H. essendi hic ad hunc diem etc. ostensur in form pnd' per N. B. etc. probos I. to whom the pl' maketh himself heir was seized, whose estate the tenet hath. etc. & super hoc pnd' I. E. petit versus praed' I. H. executionem etc. Et praed' I. H. dic' quoth pnd' I. B. execuc' de mess▪ pnd' cum pertin' virtute finis praed' versus eum habere non debet, quia dicit quod ead' I. fuit seisita de eisdem mess. cum pertin' in dnico suo ut de feodo talliato virtute finis illius, cuius quid' I. statum praed' I. H. modo habet in messuagijs illis cum pertin', & sic dicit quod finis praed' executus fuit in persona praed' I. ꝑ seisinam suam virtute finis illius, & hoc paratus est verificare, unde petit judicium si pnd' I. B. execuc' mess. pnd' cum pertin' virtute finis praed' in form pnd' executi in hoc casu versus eum habere debeat etc. & pnd' I. B. dicit qd' qd' ipse ab execuc' mess. pnd' cum pertin' versus pref. I. H. habenđ ꝑ aliqua pallagata excludi non debet. Quia dicit quod praed' I. non fuit seisita de praed mess. cum pertin' virtute finis praed', in forma qua pređ I. H. superius allegavit, & hoc pet̄ quod inquirat per patriam, & pred' I. H. similiter, Ideo xii. etc. Et praedict' T. R. quoad octo acr bosci cum pertinentijs in praed' villa de H. unde executio modo secuta est versus eum, dicit quod praedict' R. et H. qui fuerunt parts fini praed', tempore levationis eiusd' finis, ante, seu, post, nihil habuerunt in eodem bosco cum pertinentijs unde etc. ut de libero tenemento, immo quedam I. M. tunc fuit inde seisita in dominico suo ut defeodo, cuius quid I. statum inde, praedict' T. R. modo habet, & die impetrac' praedict' brevis de Scirefacias habuit in bosco illo cum pertinentijs, & hoc paratus est verificare, unde petit judicium si praed' P. fil' P. executionem earund' octo acrarum bosci cum pertinentijs virtute finis praedict' in hoc casu verse. eum habere debeat etc. Et quoad praed' centum solidatos redditus cum pertinentijs in eadem villa de H. unde executio similiter modo secuta est, idem T. ulterius dicit, qd' ipse non est inde tenens preceptor neque deforc' redditus illius cum pertinentijs, neque tenens tenementorum, unde idem redditus cum pertin' proven, ut de libero tennto, nec fuit die impetrac' pred' brevis de Scire facias aut unquam postea, Et hoc paratus est verificare, unde quoad reddit' illum cu pertin', pe● judicium de brevi etc. et praed' P. fil' P. quoad dictum redditum centum solid', dicit quod die impetrationis brevis sui de Scire facias, scilicet die etc. anno etc. praedict' T. R. fuit tenens ut de libero tenemento de viginti acris terre cum pertinentijs in praedicta villa de H. unde redditus ille cum pertinentijs provenit, Et dicit q●od idem T. tunc fuit deforc' eiusdem redditus cum pertinentijs ut de libero tenemento, prout per idem breve supponitur: Et petit suo periculo executionem eiusdem redditus cum pertinentijs versus eum adiudicari etc. Ideo etc. quoad redditum illum cum pertinentijs, cons. est quod praedict' P. filius P. habeat inde executionem suo periculo versus prefat' T. R. virtute finis praedict' &c. Et quoad praedict' octo acras bosci cum pertin', unde etc. idem P. fil' P. dicit, quod tempore levationis finis praedict', praed' T. & G. qui fuerunt parts fini illi, fuerunt seisiti de eod' bosco cum pertinentijs unde etc. in dnico suo ut defeodo etc., prout per ●undem finem supponitur, Et hoc petit quod inquirat per patriam et pnd' T. R. similit', Ideo quoad hunc exitum xii. etc. Scias quod cons. est in curia nostra etc. quod P. B. filius et heres P. B. habeat executionem versus T. R. de centum solid' redditus cum pertin' in H. virtute cuiusd' finis icde levat in curia domini E. quondam Regis etc. apud W. in oct' etc. anno etc. coram W. B. et socijs suis tunc justiciarijs eiusdem etc. de Banco, inter R. etc. quer' et T. P. et B. uxorem eius deforc', de redditu praed' come pertinent, ac de alijs terris et tenntis in eodem fine contentis per default etc. Et ideo tibi precipimus, quod eidem P. de reddit' praed' come pertin' sine dilatione plenar̄ executionem et seisinam habere facias T. etc. Scias quod cons. est in cur' etc. quod R. filius et heres R. habeat seisinam & execuc' versus R. D. de manerio de A. cum pertinent in come tuo Henre fac' seisinam sur recovery sur default in scire fac'. per default praedict' R. virtute note cuiusdam finis nuper levati in curia praedict' R. nuper Regis etc. apud W. a die etc. anno etc. coram R. B. & socijs suis justiciarijs praedict' nuper Regis de banco, et postea in oct. etc. anno etc. ibidem concess. et recordat coram eisdem justiciarijs & alijs eiusdem nuper regis fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus, inter R. de A. etc. quer', & I. de S. & E. vxor' eius deforciant, de manerijs de O. et R. cum pertinentijs in come N. et de praedict' manerio de A. in comitat' tuo, & ideo tibi praecipimus, quod eidem R. fil' R. de praedict' manerio de A. cum pertinent sine dilatione plenar̄ seisinam et executionem habere facias T. etc. Postea die et loco etc. venit R. W. infranominat in propria person receit of a feme covert upon her husband's default. sua, et W. N. infranominat solemniter exactus non venit, sed I. uxor eiusd' W. infranominat in propria persona sua venit, et dicit quod maneria infra specificat sunt ius ipsius I. et quod ipsa parata est ostendere, quod praedict' R. W. executionem de manerijs illis virtute finis infrascript̄ habere non debet, unde ex quo venit ante judicium redd' parata praefat' R. inde responder & ius suum defender, pet quod ipsa per default. praef. W. viri sui non amittat inde ius suum, sed quod admittatur inde ad defensionem juris ipsius I. Ideo etc. Certain cases of the nature and form of a Sci. Fa. upon a fine. ANd a Scire fac. to execute a fine, must agree with the fine, and then Sect. 179. Surplusage. it is not material, if one thing be twice demanded thereby, as a manner and a hundred parcel of the same manner, 27. H. 8. 2. A Scire facias may be sued upon the note of the fine, before it be engrossed Upon the note. by the Cirographer, 22. H. 6. 13. But of a fine levied before time of memory, a man shall not have execution A fine before memory. by Scire facias, 1. E. 4. 6. Contr̄ 16. H. 7. 9 Where a fine executory is levied of a Seignory, if the land escheat, Of land in am of the services. or the tenant be foriudged etc. the Cognizee shall have a Scire facias of the land in am of the services, 48. E. 3. 11. A Mittimus maketh no mention whether the fine be engrossed or no, but, cum quidam finis levasset etc. 22. H. 6. 13. If a fine be levied to A. in tail, the remainder to B. in tail, the remainder to C. in fee: And the record is sent into the Chancery, and the first tenant in tail dieth without issue, and the record cometh back into the Bench by Mittimus, at the suit of him in the first remainder, and thereupon he had a Scire facias to execute the fine, & died without issue before execution had, he in the remainder in fee shall not hereupon have a Scire facias, without a new commandment, because the record was once out of the Court, & came again at the suit of him in the first remainder, unto whom he in the remainder in fee is an estranger, yet thissue of him, which removed the record in this cause, might have a Scire facias, without any new commandment, because he is privy, 14. H. 7. 16. 9 E. 4. 15. 11. E. 4. 13. If two sue a Scire fac ' to execute a fine, & the one dieth, the sur●●or shall have a Scire fac ' without any new commandment, 1. E. 4. 13. But if divers persons, as heirs unto A. B. pray a Scire fac ' it is not grauntable, until they have sued several writs to the justices of the bench, commanding them to make execution, 11. E. 4. 13. T. 21. E. 4. In a Scire facias to execute a fine, as cousin and heir to him in the remainder Coment cousin & heir. or reversion, after the death of the particular tenant, the plaintiff needeth not to show how cousin and heir, so long as the plea hath continuance by Idem dies &c. given to the tenant, nor at his appearance, nor until the plaintiff pray execution: And then the comment cousin & heir, is to be entered thus in the Roll only: Et praedictus I. dicit quod ipse est consanguineus & haeres 1 W. videlicet, filius & haeres T. W. fratris & haeredis eiusdem I. W. 33. H. 6. 54. 41. E. 3. 13. & 24. 8. H. 4. 31. In Scire facias by him in the remainder upon an estate tail verse A. Bastardy. B. supposing the donee to be dead without issue, if A. B. plead that he is issue to the donee, and the plaintiff replieth that he is a bastard, it is a good replication, 40. E. 3. 16. Scire facias upon a fine levied to T. R. and W. and to the heirs of Upon estate executed. the body of R. the remainder to the right heirs of the said W. T. died, and R. died without issue, and W. survived and died, his heirs need no Scire facias to execute this fine, because it is executed in his life, by the union of the fee and franktenement in W. 40. E. 3. 20. And so if a fine be levied to baron & feme, and to W. and his heirs, & he dieth, and then the baron and feme do die, the fine is executed for one moiety in the life of W. Fitz h. Scire fac' 19 42. E. 3. 9 24. E. 3. 57 Tenant for life in Scire facias had aid of him in remainder, 41. E. 3. Ayd●. fol. 16. and 20. 22. E. 3. 12. In Formedon in Reverter or Remainder, the demandant must mention Death showed the death of every one, which had estate and survived his ancestor. But not so in a Scire facias sur fine, 42. E. 3. 19 If the plaintiff have several estates created by one fine, needeth but Several estates. one writ of Scire fac'. 43. E. 3. 11. though it be of several things against several tenants, 11. H. 4. 15. 21. E. 3. 14. 24. B. 3. 25. If in a Scire facias the Sheriff cetorne the party summoned, and he Default. appear not, execution shall be awarded, 43. E. 3. 13. ● If a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc. be levied of a reversion Reversion. by the name of the land, it is not executory, 43. E. 3. 15. If the services escheat after a fine levied of the signory, the Cognizee Seignory. shall have execution of the land escheated, 48. E. 3. 11. A Scire fac ' lieth sometimes of things not comprised in the writ: as Of things ou● of the writ. if in a fine sur release, the Cognizee render rend in tail, 49. E. 3. 8. If land be given by fine for life, the remainder to baron & feme in Execution by entry of him in remainder. tail, & the baron dieth, & then the tenant for life dieth, and the feme entereth, the fine is execute, so as their issue needeth no Sci fac' 49. E. 3. 12. Scire facias lieth for the donor in tail against any that abateth after Of a Reversion. the death of the donee in tail by fine without issue, 22. E. 3. 12. Upon general Nontenure pleaded, the plaintiff may take execution at Nontenure general or special. his peril: But special Nontenure seemeth a good plea, 7. H. 6. 25. A man shall not have execution upon nihil returned, because the tenant Nihil returned. may be summoned in the land demanded, 24. E. 3. 25. If a fine be levied to husband and wife in tail, the remainder to his Demy sank. right heirs, & they having issue, the husband dieth, the wife hath issue by another husband and dieth, thissue by the first husband, entereth and dieth without issue and his next heir entereth as into the remainder in fee, against whom the issue by the second husband bringeth a Scire fac ', and recovereth, by reason that the fee could never execute in possession, in th'elder brother, during the state tailly, 24. E. 3. 30. & 62. feoffment with warranty from the plaintiffs ancestor is a good feoffment. plea in Scire facias upon a fine, 22. H. 6. 39 The heir shall have his age in Scire fac' Contr̄ Westm 2. cap. 45. 24. E. 3. 29. & 60. What fines with proclamations bar not thissue in tail. NO fine levied by tenant in tail barreth his issue maintenant, but Sect. 180. where the tenant in tail is cognizor, as if tenant in tail bring a writ of Covenant against an Estranger, and recognise the land to be the right of the tenant in tail, as that which he hath of his gift etc. and the tenant in tail grant and render the land to the cognizor for years, yielding rend etc. & die, this fine is void against thissue in tail. M. 10. & 11. Eliz. Dyer f. 279. p. 7. 36. H. 8. Br. fines 118. A fine with proclamation levied by tenant in tail, the reversion or remainder being in the king, bindeth not thissue in tail, as it seemeth. Br. fines. 121. But if such lands wear entailed by the king, such fine barreth not thissue in tail. 32. H. 8. ca 36. If an Estr levy a fine to tenant in tail sur cognizanee de droit come ceo que il ad de son done, and he render to him a rent in fee, and die after proclamation, yet thissue in tail may avoid it, for he is remitted, and the rent is another thing then the land. 15. Eliz. Plo. fol. 435. b. per Thornton. If tenant in tail of an advowson, grant and render by fine the nomination of the Clerk, it is void. 15. Eliz. Pl. f. 435. b. ꝑ Thornton. If tenant in tail of a rent disseise the tenant of the land, and levy a fine with proclamation of the land, thissue in tail is not barred for the rent, because the fine was not levied of the rent but of the land, per Thornton, and granted 15. Eliz. Plo. f. 435. b. If tenant in tail grant a rent by fine, his issue may avoid it. 15. Eliz. Plow. 436. 14. ass. p. 4. What time after a fine levied, and proclamation made, any man hath to enter or claim by action, or otherwise, & who are thereby barred forthwith, and who not. Hitherto of the forms and execution of fines, now let see how they may be avoided. TO know what time, persons, that have cause to enter or claim, may Sect. 181. enter or claim, after a fine levied, many things are to be weighed: for some persons have more time, & some less: for the discussing of which question, we must not only consider the quality of the persons, which should claim or enter, but also the quality of their rights and estates: And the parsons be either such, as are void of impediments, or such as have impediments: And the same be either parties, or, privies to the fine, or, estrangers to the same. And again, they have either present right, or, future right: And unto those which have future right, such have the same, either wholly after the fine, or, partly before, and partly after: And some of them, have, but one title, and some diverse: And, others have no right to the tenements comprised in the fine, but to some things therein, or, issuing out of the same. Parties to fines, void of impediments at the time of the levying of Parties. the same, and their heirs, are thereby barred presently, & have no time at all, to avoid the same, by entry, or claim, 1. R. 3. ca 7. 4. H. 7. c. 24. whether they be persons, having natural capacities, or, civil. If they be such civil bodies, or, corporations, as have in themselves absolute estate and authority of their possessions, so as they may maintain a writ of Right thereof, as, Mayor and Commonalty, Deane and Chapter, Colleges, societies corporate, & such like, & their successors, are barred by fines presently. Plow. 338. a. T. 20. Eliz. But, Deans, Bishops, Priors, Abbots, Masters of Hospitals, Parsons, vicars, Prebendaries, chantry Priests, and such like, which may not have a writ of Right, but either a juris utrum, Fitzh. Nat. fol. 48. r. or, sine assensu capituli: Fitz. Nat. fol. 118. i. are not barred by such fines if the patron and ordinary join not with them. Plow. 538. a 20. Eliz. 375. b. 11. Eliz. How privies in blood, are bound in fines. ANd by the same statutes 1. R. 3. c. 7. 4. H. 7. c. 24. Privies in blood, Sect. 182. Privies. as heirs of the cognizours, claiming by the same title, that their ancestor had, that levied the fine, be barred presently thereby, whether they be void of impediments, or no. As if lands of Socage tenure, be given to baron & feme, in special tail, the remainder to the right heirs of the baron in fee, & the baron sole levieth a fine with proclamation to his own use in fee, & after deviseth the same lands to A. in fee, & hath issue, & then the baron & feme die, thissue in tail is barred, because he can not otherwise convey himself to the title and descent in tail, then as heir of the body doth of his father and mother. Tr. 18. Eliz. Dyerf. 251. p. 24. 9 H. 8. Dier f. 3. p. 6. 32. H. 8. Br. Fines 109. So if husband & wife, tenants in special tail, have issue, & the wife Privies. die, & the husband marry an other wife & have issue, & levy a fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc. and by the same fine take estate in special tail, the remainder over etc. & die, thissue by the first wife, is barred, because he is privy in blood, the continuance of the possession in the husband notwithstanding, 32. E. 3. Dyer pla. 16. Eliz. f. 334. p. 31. & 32. But if my father's brother disseise him, and levy a fine with proclamation, & my father and my uncle within five years after proclamation die, yet may I avoid it by entre, at any time before th'end of the said five years, not withstanding that I am privy in blood unto mine uncle, for that my title to the land groweth by my father, and not as heir unto mine uncle, P. 19 H. 8. Dyer fol. 3. p. 2. Nevertheless, if my father disseise my grand father of an estate in Privies. fee, and thereof levy a fine with proclamation, & first my grandfather, and then my father die, I am now barred, as privy, because I cannot otherwise convey myself to the lands, then as their unto my father the Cognizor, P. 19 H. 8. Dyer fol. 3. p. 3. Of Estraungers' having present right, and no impediment. BUt strangers to fines (which be all persons not parties nor privies) Sect. 183. and being void of impediments natural & legal, having present right to the lands in the fine, have only five years after proclamations, to enter & claim their right, 1. R. 3. ca 7. 4. H. 7. ca 24. As if one have a Remainder, or a Reversion, depending upon an Tenant in remainder or reversion upon estate for years, or at will. estate for years, or by statute Staple, statute Merchant, or Elegit, and the termor be disseised, and a fine levied etc. and five years passed, they be all barred thereby: for that these Termors might presently have entered, & he in the Reversion or Remainder for such disseisin might have had an Assize: So that Statute 4. H. 7. ca 24. seemeth to bar the termors through negligence, by this word interest, which comprehendeth a term. Blow. fol. 374. a. And if a tenant in tail be disseised, and a fine levied with proclamation, and five years past, and the tenant in tail dieth, thissue in tail is bound for ever, per Dyer and Catlyn, for the right was present to the tenant in tail at the time of the fine levied, and he can not claim, but by the same title, which his father had, which was barred in his life time, Blow. fol. 374. a. Dyer fol. 3. p. 6. 19 H. 8. 7. The like it is of the laches of him in the remainder or reversion, for it barreth him and his heirs, Blow. fol: 374. a. Dyer fo. 3. p. 6. Of Estrangers having present Right and impediments. BUt strangers to fines, pestered with impediments, of Infancy, Sect. 184. coverture, madness, ideocy, lunacy, imprisonment, or absence out of the Realm at the levying of fines, and having then present right, or interest, have yet liberty five years, after such infirmity removed, to make entry, or claim, etc. 1. R. 3. ca 7. 4. H. 7. ca 24. And therefore an Infant hath five years, after he accomplish his full Infants. age (though he be in his mother's womb) Plow. 367. a. because the law intendeth that Infants by reason of their tender years, do want understanding, to know their right, & whether their entries be lawful or no, And how to make their entries and claim, or bring their actions, according to their title, Blow. fol. 359. b. 4. H. 7. ca 24. Yet if my father's brother disseise him, and levy a fine with proclamation, and a year after the proclamation my father dieth, And after, and within five years, my vutle dieth, I by reason of mine Infancy have only so much time to avoid the same, as at the death of my father remained to come of the five years next after the proclamation, & not new five years, because I claim by the same title that my father had in whom the first five years were attached and begun, Dyer fol. 3. p. 2. In like manner, and for the same reason, if the father, or other ancestor, be disseised, and the disseisor levy a fine with proclamation, and within five years after the proclamation, the ancestor dieth, his heir being within age, yet if he make not his entry, or claim, within the first five years after the proclamation, he is barred, Blow. fol. 367. b. 377. a. As it is there adjudged. Mad men, and lunatics, estrangers to fines, have the like liberty, Non sane memoriae. to enter, or claim, that Infants have for their indiscretion, 1. R. 3. c. 7. 4. H. 7. ca 24. Yet, as it seemeth, if non sanitie of memory happen after the fine levied, and before the last proclamation to be made, the parties be not tied to make claim or entry, during the first five years, but shall have five years after they be cured of their said maladies, because they grow by the act of God, Blow fol. 375. a. & 366. a. And a Feme covert, being an estranger to a fine, hath five years, after Coverture. she be discovert, to pursue her right, for that during the coverture, she wanted power to do the same without her husband's consent, who perchance would neither do it, nor suffer it to be done: Howbeit if a Feme sole being an estranger to a fine, and have present right etc. take a husband, who suffereth the five years to incur, she is thereby barred for ever, because it was her own voluntary act and folly to marry such an husband. Ploughed. fol. 366. a. Estrangers to fines, imprisoned at the time of the fine levied, have the Imprisonmnt. like liberty to avoid fines, that Infants have, because the law intendeth, that prisoners are so closely & straictly kept from the conference of others, that they know not, what happeneth abroad, And do also want liberty to take counsel, & make their entrees & claims, & therefore no laches is in this behalf imputed to them. Plo. f. 360. a. & 366. a. But if such imprisonment happen after the fine levied, before the last proclamation made, it seemeth he shall have 5. years after his enlargement, because thimprisonment is not his voluntary act. Plow. 375. a. 366. a. An Estr to a fine, being out of the realm, at the levying thereof, hath Out of England. 5. years after his return to enter or claim, But if he had been in England at the levying of the fine & after had gone beyond the seas, and suffered the 5. years after proclamation to pass, he had been barred. Plo. f. 366. a. 7. Eliz. 4. H. 7. ca 24. But if he be sent beyond the seas in the king's service by his commandment, it seemeth otherwise. And such civil bodies or corporations, as have in themselves absolute Corporations. estate and authority of their possesses so as they may maintain a writ of Right thereof, as, Mayor & Commonalty, Deane & chapter, colleges, societies incorporate, & such like, they and their successors, are barred by fine and nonclaime by 5. years. Plo. f. 538. T. 20. Eliz. But, Deans, Bishops, Priors, Abbots, Masters of hospitals, Parsons, Corporations. vicar's, prebendaries, chantry priests, and such like, having joint power, and which may not have a writ of Right, but either a juris utrum, Fitz. Nat. f. 48. r. or, fine assensu capituli, Fitz. Nat. f. 118. i. are not barred by such fines, and nonclaime by 5. years. Plow. 538. a. 20. Eliz. 375. b. 11. Eliz. Of Estrangers having divers defects, ANd moreover, estrangers to fines, having divers defects or infirmities, Sect. 185. as infancy coverture, non sanitie of memory, imprisonment, absence out of the realm, to avoid fines, must have 5. years after the last of the said infirmities removed. Plow. 375. a. But if they have divers impediments, which be all, once after the ꝓclation, wholly removed, & after, they fall into the like again, and die, their heirs are not to have new 5. years, but the first 5. years, begun in their ancestors, immediately after their first impediments so removed, shall proceed, and non claim of their heirs, during all the residue of the said five years, bindeth them, as their said ancestors should have been bound thereby, if they had remained void of such impediments during all the same five years, Blow. f. 375. a Of Estrangers, without impediments, having future Right for cause precedent. THus much of Estrangers to fines, having present right: now of Sect. 186. such, as have future right, which right is of two sorts: for it groweth, either wholly before the proclamation, or, partly before and partly after the same. And therefore Estr to fines, void of the said impediments, whose right, title, claim, or, interest, first groweth, remaineth, descendeth, or, cometh to them, after the proclamation, by force of any matter or cause had or made before the same, have only five years, after that such right etc. first groweth, descendeth, remaineth, or cometh unto them. 1. R. 3. ca 7. 4. H. 7. ca 24. As if a Morgagee be disseised, and the disseisor doth levy a fine with Proclamation, and the five years after the proclamation the morgageour payeth or tendereth the money according to his bargain, he may lawfully enter at any time within five years after the said payment or tender, because his title first accrueth thereby after the proclamation, by reason of the condition and mortgage made before the same. Blow. fol. 378. a. b. In like manner, and for the like cause, he, which hath a Remainder or reversion, depending upon an estate of freehold, hath five years, after that his remainder or reversion escheweth, to enter etc. And his heir, if he die before entry etc. hath only five years, after the death of the particular tenant, to enter. Blow. fol. 374. a. b. And if the tenant in tail levy a fine with proclamation, after the five years he dieth without issue, the donor hath five years after his death, to bring his formedon in Reverter because he is the first, unto whom the right cometh after the proclamation for cause precedent. Blow. fol. 374. b. And if tenant in tail discontinew in fee, and the discontinue levieth a fine with etc. and five years do pass, and the tenant in tail dieth, yet his issue hath five years after his death to bring his formedon in discender, because he is the first to whom the right of the entail cometh after the proclamation, by force of the gift in tail made before the fine. Plow. 374. a. 19 H. 8. 7. Dyer f. 3. p. 5. Of Estrangers with Impediments having future Right. ANd Estrangers to fines, having future right for any cause precedent Sect. 187. the fine, being affected with such impediments, when their right first accrueth have five years after such impediments removed, to pursue for the same. 1. R. 3. c. 7. 4. H. 7. c. 24. As Infants, aswell those which be borne, as those which be in their mother's womb, when such right happeneth to them. Plo. fo. 367. a. Femes covert, madmen, Lunatics, prisoners, persons beyond the Sea, as appeareth before where it is spoken of them having present right. Plo. 366. a. 7. Eliz. As if a man have issue a son and a daughter, which son purchaseth lands and dieth. And the daughter entereth as his heir, and is disseised by A. who levieth a fine, and five years pass without claim. And x. years after the father hath an other son, which is heir to his brother, h● shall have new v. years after he come to his full age, because he is the first to whom the right descended after the proclamation, by reason of the descent which was before them, Plo. fo. 374. b. But if an estranger to a fine, to whom a Remainder, or other title, first accrueth after the fine, do not pursue his right within v. years, he and his issue are barred for ever, 19 H. 8. Dyer fo. 3. pl. 6. And in like manner, if the first issue in tail, to whom the title of the entail first accrueth, neglect his v. years, the whole estate tail is thereby bound for ever, 32. H. 8. Br. Fines 100 If he, which abaceth after the death of a tenant in fee, make a feoffment upon condition, & the feoffee levy a fine, and v. years after proclamation pass without entry or claim made by his heir, the heir is barred: But if afterwards, the condition be broken, and the Abator therefore enter, than the heir may have an Assize of mortdauncester against thabator, or entry upon him at any time, and he hath no defence. For if he plead in bar of the assize the fine levied to the cognisee, and that he hath his estate, the special matter of the abatement, condition, and reentry, may be pleaded in defesance thereof, for he can never challenge privilege by the state of the cognisor, which he himself defeated, Plo. fol. 358. b. 7. Eliz. Of Estrangers having no right for any cause before the fine. But estrangers to fines, having neither present, nor future right etc. Sect▪ 188. at the levying thereof, by reason of any matter had before the fine, whose right groweth either entirely after the Proclamation, or partly before and partly after, may enter or claim, when they please, within the time of the prescription. As if the father die seized, his eldest son being professed, and the younger son entereth, and is disseised, and a fine with proclamation levied, and after the elder son is deraigned, it seemeth he is bound to no time, Blow. fo. 373. a. So if the husband levy a fine of his own lands, whereof his wife is Dowe● dowable, and die, and five years pass after his death she is not barred of her dower, because her title to be endowed accrueth after the fine levied, namely by the death of her husband, for before his death, she had only a possibility of dower, and not any right, title, or interest thereunto, Plo. fol. 373. a. And if a tenant cease one year, and then a fine with proclamation is levied, And afterwards a tenant ceaseth another year, The Lord may have his cessavit perbiennium xx. years after the Proclamation made, because his right and title groweth partly before the fine, & partly after the fine levied, that is at the end of the two years of his tenant's ceasser, Plo. fo. 373. b. Of Estrangers having diverse future Rights, by diverse titles. But if Estrangers to fines, have several future Rights, by divers titles Sect▪ 189. growing at several times, it seemeth, that they shall have several five years, to make entry or claim, commencing from such time as their several titles first accrue unto them: As if tenant for life, the remainder in fee, make a feoffment in fee. And the feoffee levy a fine with etc. and he in the Remainder suffer the first five years to pass, he is by his laches barred of his entry, for the forfeiture growing by the alienation of his tenant during his tenant for life, because he had present right at the levying of the fine to enter for the same, yet if after the tenant for life do die, he hath other v. years, to bring his Formedon in Remainder, because that is a n●we title or right, by which he could not have his Formedon during his tenant for life, And he had his election to take advantage of the forfeiture or not, Plo. fo. 373. b. Quere, for there Catlyn thinketh otherwise, because his title to the land by the forfeiture accrued to him in the life time of his tenant for life. If I. S. be tenant Pur altar vie, the Remainder to an other for life, the remainder to the same I. S. in fee, and I. S. is disseised, and the disseisor levieth a fine with proclamation, and the five years pass, I. S. is bound for his future and present estate for life: But if cestuy que vie, and he in the mean remainder die, now, I. S. shall have other five years, to enter for his remainder in fee, for it then first remaineth unto him by the death of him in the mean Remainder, & cestuy que vie, for cause grown wholly before the fine, that is, the state so made before, which is an other title, Plowden 367. b. per Welshe, and divers justices, Plow. 367. b. In like maker, if land: be given to I. S. for the life of A. the remainmainder to him for the life of B. the remainder to him for the life of C. and he is disseised, & the disseisor levieth a fine with proclamation, now I. S. for his present right, hath v. years by the first Saving of the Stat. 4. H. 7. cap. 24. And v. years after the death of A. by the second Saving, which is of future right, and other v. years after the death of B. for his second remainder, for quando duo iura in una persona concurrunt, aequum est, ac si essent in diversis, Plo. 368. a. If a man disseise a feme sole, and after marry her, and have issue by her, & the baron is disseised before marriage or after, and a fine with proclamation levied, first the baron, & after the feme, die within the v. years, the issue being of full age, the v. years pass, he is there by bound, as heir to his father, but hath other v. years, after the death of his mother, to enter, for albeit it is but one self same land, yet the heir hath several rights thereunto, growing at several times, th'one as heir to his father, tother as heir to his mother, in regard whereof he hath several times, Plow. 367. b. So if the husband maketh a feoffment of his wives lands upon condition, which is broken, he levieth a fine with etc. the husband hath issue by his wife, and dieth, the first v. years pass, and then the wife dieth, the heir is barred of his entry for the condition as heir to his father, but shall have v. years after the death of his father, to claim etc. because it is a title differing from that which did descend from his father, accrueing to him first by the death of his mother, Plo. 367. a. Estrangers to fines, having neither present, nor future right, to the tenements in the fine, at the levying thereof, but only unto rents, common, etc. issuing out of the same. ANd Estrangers to fines, having neither present, nor future right to Sect▪ 190. the tenements in the fine, but unto some thing, in, or, issuing out of the same, seem not barrable at all, by any such fine & nonclaime. As if a tenant in Ancient demesne levy a fine with etc. at the common law, of his lands in ancient demesne, the Lord in ancient demesne may have his writ of Deceit, and thereby avoid the fine at any time, & thereupon his tenant shallbe restored to the land, because the Lord claimeth not the land, whereof the fine is levied, but his ancient Seignory and services issuing out of the same, Plo. 370. b. It seemeth, such fines do not bar such estrangers, as have rend, common, way, estovers, or any such charge out of the land, for it seemeth that these fines extend only to bind the state, title, right, claim, entry and interest, in, and to the land, and no profits to be taken out of the lands, nor to take power given to executors or others to sell the land. Brooke tit̄ Fines 123. Pleas to a●oide Fines. IT is a good plea to say, that I. S. was seized tempore leuac', and before Sect▪ 191. the fine levied, without that that the parties to the fine, had any thing therein at the time o● the fine levied, 9 H. 4. 27. 3. H. 6. 27. Or to say, that the parties to a fine had nothing &c. but A. B. whose estate he hath. Et de hoc ponit se super prinam, 33. H. 6. 18. 26. H. 6. f. 9 42. E. 3. 20. 4. H. 4. 8. 14. H. 4. 33. 4. H. 7. ca 24. If there be two R. D. of one name, & the one levy a fine of the land of tother, tother may avoid the fine by pleading that there be two of one name, and tother K. D. levied the fine, and not he: And in like manner if any estranger, levy a fine in the name of another, that is owner of the land, 34. H. 6. 19 Contr̄ ten' 19 H. 6. 44. because it is a matter of record, therefore hath no other remedy in such case but an action of deceit. Neither parties to fines, nor their heirs, may plead in avoidance thereof, that before the levying, and at the levying of the same, & since, the demandant, or plaintiff, or their heirs, were always seized of the lands contained in the fine, or, of parcel thereof. Stat de finibus 27. E. 1. ca 1. 12. E. 4, 15 & 19 yet by Fairefax, if tenant in tail, the remainder in fee, levy a fine sur cognisance de droit come ceo etc. he in the remainder, may aver the continuance of possession, notwithstanding the fine and statute, because he is neither the party, nor his heir, and so may a Feme covert, where her husband sole levieth the fine, 12. E. 4. 12. The issue in tail may aver continuance of possession against a fine sur cognisance de droit tantum, or surrender, but not against a fine sur cognisance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done, because that fine is executed, and the other executory, 12. E. 4. 15. & 19 11. H. 4. 85. Of a writ of Error. A Writ of Error to reverse a fine, lieth where there is Error in any Sect' 192. fine, and thereby not the record of the fine itself shallbe removed, but the transcript thereof, upon which transcript of the note of the fine, the plaintiff may assign his errors: And if the justices think, that the point assigned for error, is error, they may send for the note of the fine, & reverse the same, Fitz. nat. fo. 20. f. As if baron and feme levy a fine to an stranger, the feme being within age, they may have a writ of error to reverse the fine, for this cause during her nonage, Fitz. nat. 21. d. 27. ass. pl. 17. 50. E. 3. 4. And when a fine is to be reversed by error, the course is for the plaintiff in the writ, to have several writs of Error, one directed unto the chief justice of the court of Common pleas to certify the record & process of the fine, another unto the Custos br. of the same court to certify the transcript of the foot of the fine, and the third unto the Chirographer to certify the transcript of the record and process of the fine: the several forms whereof be, as followeth. A writ of Error directed unto the chief justice of the court of common pleas. Regina etc. dilecto & fideli suo Edm. Anderson Militi, salutem. Quia in record' & processu, ac etiam in levatione cuiusdam finis in cur' nostra, coram vobis & socijs vestris Iustic' nostris de banco, apud Westm in octabis S. Michaelis ultimo preteritis, per breve nostrum de conuentione inter I. G. seniorem armig' & M. vxor' eius & I. G. iuniorem generosum querent & G. H. deforc', de manerio de G. cum pertin', ac de uno messuagio, xv. cottagijs, quindecim toftiss, quatuor horreiss, quindecim gardinis, duobus pomarijs, ducentis acr terre, octoginta acr prati, centum acr pasture, sex acr bosci trescentis acr more, & communia pasture pro omnibus averijs come pertin' in G. in come Ebor' levat, error interuen●t manifestus, ad grave dampnum ipsius G. sicut ex querela sua accepimus: Nos err●rem, si quis fuerit, modo debito corrigi, & eid' G. plenam & celerens Iustic' fieri volentes in hac part, vobis mandamus quod recordum & processum finis praed', cum omnibus ea tangen, que in custodia vestra existunt ut dicit, nobis sub sigillo vestro distinct & a part mittatis, & hoc breve, Ita quod ea nabeamus in octabis S. Hill', ubicunque tunc fuerim' in Angl', ut inspectis recordo & processu finis pnd', ulterius inde pro errore illo corrigendo▪ fierifaciamus, qd' de iure & secund' legem & consuetud' regni nostri Angl' fuerit faciend' etc. A writ of Error unto the Custos brevium of the Court of Common pleas. Regina etc. dilecto sibi Tho. Spencer armig', custodi brevium svorum de banco salutem. Quia in recordo & processu, ac etiam in levatione cuiusdam finis in cur' nostra de Banco apud Westm in oct sancti Mich. ultim pnterito, coram Ed. Anderson Milite & socijs suis Iustic' nostris de banco pndict̄ per breve nostrum de conuentione inter etc. de etc. Vobis mandamus quod transcriptum pedis finis praed', cum omnibus ill'tangen̄, que in custod' ura existunt ut dicitur, nobis sub sigillo vestro etc. ut Inspect̄ transcript pedis finis praed' ulterius inde etc. A writ of Error unto the Chirographer of fines. Regina etc. dilecto sibi: Th: Crompton Armig ' Chirographario suo de Banco salutem, quia in recordo & processu, ac etiam in levacione cuiusdam finis in curia nostra de banco apud Westm in octabis S. Mich. ultimo preteritis, coram Ed. Anderson Milite, & socijs suis Iustic' nrris de banco pnd', per breve nostrum de conuenc' inter etc. de etc. vobis mandamus, quod trāscr̄ recordi & processus finis pnd', cum omnibus ill tangen, que in custodia ura existunt ut dicitur, nobis sub sigillo uro distinct' & apertemittatis & hoc breve etc. ut inspect' transcript recordi & processus finis-praed' ulterius inde etc. And note that a writ of Error, is not maintenable by an Infant, to reverse a fine for his Infancy, but during his Infancy, 50. E. 3. 4. 17. E. 3. 52. 78. 27. Lib. ass. 53. For what Errors, sins and proclamations be not reversable. No sins, or proclamations upon sins, or common recoveries, shallbe reversable by writ of Error, for false or incongruous latin, razure, interlining, misentring of any warrant of attorney, or of any proclamation, misretorning or not returning of the sheriff, or other want of form▪ in words & not of matter of substance, 23. Eliz. ca 3. Of Error in the proclamation of a fine. If Error be in the procalmations of a fine, they shall be reversed by plea without writ of error, but that fine nevertheless remaineth of good force still, for they are several matters of record, yet if error be in the fine, the proclamations are void, because the fine is the first record whereupon the proclamations depend, & sublato subiecto tollitur eius accidens, Plow. 266. a. Dyer fol. 216. p. 54. 4. Eliz. Of a Cerciorari. IF a man have recovered, and before he have execution, the Records Sect' 193. thereof be removed into the receipt or Treasury, the plaintiff may have a Cerciorari our of the Chancery to the Chamberlain & Treasurer, to remove the tenor of the Record and process thence into the Chancery, And when it is there, it may be sent thence by Mittimus into the Court whence it came, as the King's bench, if it came thence: or into the common Place, if it came thence, and there may execution be sued, 37. H. 6. 16. A Certiorari with a Mittimus, to remove a fine, bearing date before the fine come into the Chancery, is good enough, 1. R. 3. 4. In a writ of Error to reverse a fine, the Record itself shall not be removed, but the transcript thereof, because a record, which cometh into the K. bench, shall not be remaunded: And if the judgement be affirmed, there is no Chirographer to engross the fine, 40. ass. 19 29. ass. 43. Yet 5. Marry, it is holden that in a writ of Error upon a fine, the record itself shallbe certified, so that no more proclamations shall be made thereupon, for if it be reversed, that endeth all: And if the fine be affirmed, the record shallbe sent into the common place by Mittimus, to be proclaimed and engrossed: For if the transcript only should be removed, they might nevertheless proceed in the common place, Br. Tit Record 79. Ideo quere. A Certiorari of the transcript of the foot of a fine. Rex, Thesaurario & Camerarijs, salutem: Quia quibusdam certis de causis certiorari volumus, vel volentes certis de causis cerciorari, vel, quibusdam certis de causis certiorari, super tenore pedis cuiusdam finis levati in curia nostra, coram justiciarijs nostris dudum vel ultimo itinerantibus apud N. in come tali per breve nostrum, vel in curia dni Ed. nuper Regis Anglie avi nostri, vel patris nostri, anno regni sui decimo etc. coram l. & socijs suis tunc lustic' eiusdem avi nostri, vel, patris nostri de banco, per breve suum, inter A. petentem, & B. tenentem, de uno messuagio cum pertin' in N. vobis mandamus quod, scrutatis pedibus finium de eodem itinere tempore praedicto levatorum, vel finium coram pfatis justiciarijs anno praedicto levatorum, qui sunt in Thesaurario nostr' sub custodia vestra ut dicunt, transcriptum pedis finis praedicti nobis in Cancellariam nostram sub sigillo scaccarij nostri distinct & apart sine dilatione mittatis, & hoc breve. Teste etc. Rex dilecto clerico suo W. salutem, volentes certis etc. super tenore A litter de tenore non finis. note cuiusdam finis levati etc. anno etc. inter A. petentem, & C. tenentem etc. vobis mandamus quod, scrutatis notis finium penes vobis residentium, transcript note praed' nobis in Cancellar' nostram sub sigillo vestro distinct & apart sine dilatione, mittatis, & hoc breve, T. etc. Finis levat in curia nostra ann regni nostri decimo, coram W. & socijs suis Aliter cora● Iustic' nunc de banco. tunc Iustic' nostris be banco per breve n●um inter etc. A Mittimus of the Transcript of a fine out of the Chancery into the Common place. DOmin' Rex, mand' Iustic' hic breve suum clam', in hec verba, Hen Sect. 194. etc. Iustic' suis de banco, salutem, transcript pedis cuiusd' finis levat in cur' dni E. nuper Reg. fil' Regis H. nuper Regis Angl' progenitoris nostri, coram R. H. & socijs suis tunc Iustic' ipsius progenitoris nostri de banco apud W. per breve suum inter G. P. & I. vxor' eius quer', et S. P deforc', de manerio de C. cum pertin', nobis in Cancell' nostra de mandato nostro missum, vobis mittimus presentibus inter clus. mandantes, quod inspect̄ praed' ulterius ad prosecutionem I. L. & M. vxor' eius unius, & T. V. & T. vxor' eius alterius, necnon H. B. tertij consang' & hered' praed' G. & I. de corpor suis procreat', fieri facias quod de iure & secundum legem & consuetudin●m regni nostri Angliae fuerit faciend'. Teste meipso apud W. octavo die I. anno regni nostri decimo septimo: Transcript pedis finis, unde in brevi praedict' fit mentio, sequitur in hec verba: Hec est finalis concordia facta in cur' domini Regis apud W. in Oct' sancti M. anno etc. cora● R. H. W. B. P. M. W. H. L. T. & H. S. justiciarijs, & alijs domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, inter G. P. & I. vxor' eius quer', per W. F. posit loco eorum ad lucrand' vel perdend', & S. Attorney in fine. P. deforc' de manerio de C. cum pertinentijs, unde placitum conventionis summonit fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet quod praeđ G. recogn' praeđ manner cum pertinent esse ius ipsius S. ut illud quod idem S. habet de dono praedict' G. & pro hac recogn', fine & concordia, idem S. concessit praed' G. & I. praed' manerium cum pertinentijs & illud eis reddidit in eadem curia, habend' & tenend' eisd' G. & I. & hered', quos idem Render in tail G. de corope ipsius I. procreaverit, de praed' S. & hered' suis imperpetuum, reddend' inde per annu● unam rosam ad festum Nat. Sct Io. Bapt Forteine service. pro omni seruitio considerac' & exactione add praed' S. & hered' suos pertinent: Et faciend' inde capital' dominis feodi illius, pro praed' S. & hered' suis omnia alia seruitia, que ad illud manerium pertinent: Et si contingat Rem in tail. qnod praed' G. obierit sine hered' de corpore ipsius I. procreat', tunc post decessumipsorum G. & I. manner praed' come pertinent integre remanebit W. fratri eiusdem G. & hered' de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de pndict̄ S. et hered' suis per praedict' seruitia, sicut praed' est, imperpetuum: Et si contingat, quod praed' W. obierit sine herede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsius W. praedict' manerium cum pertinent integreremanebit I. fratri eiusdem W. & heredi de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de praedict' S. & hered' suis per praedict' seruitia, sicut praed' est, imperpetuum: Et si contingat, qvod praeđ I. obierit sine herede de corpore suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsius I. praed' manner cum pertinent integre remanebit E. fratrieiusdem I. & her de corpore suo procreat', tenend' de praed' S. & heredibus suis per praedict' seruitia, sicut pnd' est, imperpetuum: Et si contingat quod praed' E. obiret sine herede de Re●erter. corpore suo procreato▪ tunc post decessum ipsius E. praeđ manerium cum pertin' integre revertatur ad praed' S. & hered' suos, quiet' de alijs hered' ipsorum G. I. W. I. & E. tenenđ de capitalibus dnis feodi illius per seruitia, que ad illud manerium pertinent imperpetuum. A Mittimus. REx, justiciarijs de banco, salutem. Mittimus vobis sub pede sigilli Sect' 195. nostri etc. vel sic: Transcriptum pedis, vel sic: Tenorem pedis cuiusdam finis levati in curia dni Edw. nuper Reg. Angl' avi noostri, ann regni sui decimo, coram W. & socijs suis tunc lusticiarijs ipsius avi nostri de banco apud W. per breve nostrum, inter I. querentem, & W. deforciantem de tanto etc. quod vel quem coram nobis in Cancellaria nostr' venire fecimus, vobis mittimus sub pedi sigilli nostri, ut in loquela, que est coram vobis per breve nostrum, inter I. filium I. petentem, & E. tenentem, de eod' mess. etc. securius procedere valeatis etc. T. etc. A Mittimus for the foot of a Fine. Rex Balliuis suis S. salutem. Quia in levatione diversorum finium coram I. S. & W. W. nuper ballivis ville S. inter W. R. & M. vxor' eius quer', & W. T. Capellanum deforc', de oct messuagijs etc. & decem solidat reddit' cum pertinentijs in S. Anno etc. juxta libertates burgensibus villae praedict' per chartas progenitorum nostrorum quondam regum Ang. concess. levat, error interuenit manifestus, sicut per inspectionem tenorum finium p●edict', nec●on recordi & processus levationis eorundem, quae ●oram nobis postea ad sectam W. M. et H. W. de S. consanguineorum Error by the heir upon a fine. et haered' praedict' M. venire fecimus, nobis constat: Et nos in curia nostra coram nobis, ob errores in levatione finium praedict', ac ●n recordo & processu ●orundem comꝑtos, consideravimus qd' pedes finium predict' a fila●ijs finium pndict̄ extrahantur & cancellentur: Et ideo vobis man damus, qd' pedes finium praed'▪ qui in custodia vestra existunt, mittatis coram nobis tali die vbi●unque etc. cancelland', juxta consid' nostram supradictam. Et habeatis ibi hoc breve. T. etc. Whether any but he, which reverseth a fine, may reap benefit thereby. IF the estate, contained i● a fine, be once within fi●e years after proclamations Sect. 196. lawfully defeated, That party hath thereby lost his whole estate both against him which did reverse the same, and all others which had right or title peramont, and made no claim within the five years: Albeit he which brought his action have not judgement & execution within 7. years after the proclamations, P●o. fol. 358. b. In like manner if there b● tenant for life, the remainder for life, the remainder in fee, & the first tenant for life alien, & the alienee levy a fine with proclamations, & the second tenant for life enter or claim (as he may) he defeateth the fine against himself, and him in the remainder also, Ploughed. fol. 359. a. 7. Eliz. Warrantia chartae. A Writ of Warrantia chart, lies where a man by deed of grant, Sect. 197. feoffment, release, or confirmation, or fine, or by exchange, bindeth himself and his heirs to warrant the land to an other, who being tenant of the land is impleaded for the land, or rend out of the same, in an Assis●, or writ of 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of an Assi●e, or in a Scire facias upon a fine, or in any other action real, wherein the tenant may not vouch, he may sue a Warrantia chartae, against him, & his heirs which made warranty. And for a tenant by homage auncestrel, or any particular tenant upon reservation of rent, or for egalty of services upon partition, Fitz. Nat. f. 1●4. d. f. g. h. Fitz. Nat. 135. e. 31. E. 3. 8. E. 4. 11. Rex etc.▪ quod just etc. wa●antizet D. vnu●fi messuagium cum pertinentijs Brief de Warrantia chartae. in R. qd' tenet, & d● eo t●nere cla●nat, & unde chartam suam habet ut dicit. Et si etc. vel sic. Manerium de N. cum pertinentiis, & advocationem eiusdem villae, quae tenet etc. usque ibi, unde chartam suam habet, vel chartam R. patris, vel matris, vel alterius antecessoris praedicti H. cuius haeres ipse est, ut dicit. Et nisi etc. vel De eo quod idem A. wa●antizet praefato D. maneria de N. & K. & hundreda de F. et G. cum pertinentijs, & advocationem Ecclesiae de N. & ideo vobis mandamus etc. But if a man in feoff an other with warranty by ●eede, and the feoffee enfeoff an other, and take estate from him in fee, the first warranty is determined, because he is now in of a new estate, Fitz. nat. fol. 135. a. So if A. disseise B. and enfeoff C. with warranty, who infeoffeth D. with warranty, upon whom an estranger entereth, in wh●se possession B. the disseisor releaseth his right, now all former warranties are extinct: And albeit D. is impleaded, yet shall he not have Warrantia chartae, because he is in of an other estate by wrong, Fitz. nat. 135. g. 21. H. 6. 41. 22. H. 6. 22. If there be three jointenants, and th'one release to the rest, they may Release per jointenants. deraigne the former warranty by voucher, or Warrantia chartae, for they be in a third part by the release, 40. E. 3. 41. Warrantia chartae lieth against a villain, 48. E. 3. 17. Villeinage. The writ of Warr cha●tae must be sued hanging the principal plea, & before judgement: as of Assize, or Entre in nature of assize, 48. E. 3. 22. Registr̄ orig' f. 158. a. for than if the warrenter do die, yet the writ shall not abate, but his heir shallbe resummoned to answer upon the same, yet may a Warr' chartae be sued before he be impleaded, quia timet implacitari, & the bls shall recover in valne ꝓ loco & tempore, of such lands as the defendant had at the purchasing of the writ. Fitz. na. f. 134. k. 12. H. 4. 12. 21. H. 6. 41. 22. H. 6. 22. 24. E. 3. 35. But he must not have execution, but if afterwards he be put out by judgement, he shall have his warranty upon his first recovery. 21. H. 6. 41. 21. H. 6. 22. 12. H. 4. 12. In Warr chartae, it is a good plea for the defendant, that hanging the Nontenure. plea, the demandant in the principal plea, hath entered upon the plaintiff being then tenant of the land, or that the plaintiff in this action had nothing in the land the day of the fist writ purchased, nor at any time after. 21. H. 6. 49. 3. E. 3. 45. E. 3. 5. Warr' chartae may be brought in any county, if the deed bear not County. date in a place certain. 31. E. 3. Tenants in comen may join in Warr' Chartae. 28. E. 3. 90. Tenant in comen. I. H. fil' & haer̄ Isabel', quae fuit uxor R. sum fuit ad respond' I. T. & I. uxori eius, de placito quod warr' eyes unum mesuag' come pertinentijs Count per Baron & femme sur fine o●e garr. in S. quod de ●o tenet, & de ●o tenere clam', & unde cartam Isabel' magistris praedict' I. H. cuius heres ipse est habet etc. Et unde etc. dic' quod quidam finis levauit in curia domini reg' nunc in oct' S. Hill', ann etc.▪ coram T. B. & socijs suis tunc Iusti● ' ipsius domini regis de banco, inter ipsos I. T. & I. quer' & R. de B. & praed' Isabel' adtunc vxor' eius, deforc', Inter alia per nomen. Finis de reversion. de mes. praed' come pertin' inter alias tras & tenemnta, per nomen etc. cum pertin' in S. in come pnd', per quem finem, praed' R. & I. concesserunt pro se & haered' ipsius I. qd' quatuor acr terr' cum pertinent' de pnd' tenement, quas G. et M. uxor eius tenuerunt ad tmminum vitae ipsius M. de haereditat pnd' Isab. in S praed', die, qua haec concordia facta fuit, et quae post decessum ipsius M. ad pnd' R. et I. et her ' ipsius Isab. reverti debuerunt, post decessum ipsius M. integre remanerent praed' I. et I. et haered' suis praed', tenend' simul cum praed' tenement' quae eis per finem illum remanserant▪ de praed' R. & Isab. & haered' ipsius I. praed' seruic' sicut praed' est, imperpetuum: Et ijdem R. & Is. similiter concesserunt pro se & haeredibus ipsius I. qd' ipsi warr' praedict' I. et I. et haered' suis predict', praed' tenement' come pertinent' sicut praedict' est contra omnes homines imperpetuum. Et si contingeret quod ijdem I. & I. obirent sine haered' de corporibus suis exeuntibus, tunc post decessum ipsorum I. & I. praed' tenement' Tail. come pertinent', sicut praedict' est, integre reverterentur ad praedict' R. & I. et hered' ipsius I. quieta de alijs haeredibus predict' I. et I. tenendum de capitalibus dominis feodi illius, per seruicia quae ad pred' tenement' pertinent imperpetuum, & praed' R. et I. postea obierunt, ꝑ qd' ad ipsos I. T. & I. pertinuit habend' de praefat' I. H. ut fil' et hered' ipsius I. warr' suam pređ, Ac quidam I, R. arrain quanda assisam noue disseisin' coram T. W. et I. Iustic' domini reg' nunc ad assisas in come praed' capiend' assign', versus ipsos I. T. et I. de praed' tenementis, & ijdem 1 T. & I. saepius requisierunt ipsum I. H, ut fil' & hered' ipsius Isab. ad warr' eisdem I. T. et I. praed' tenement', et idem I. H. tenement' illa sic warr' contradixit & adhuc contradicit, unde dic' qd' deteriorat sunt, & damnum habent ad valenc' 100 li. Et inde produc' sect' etc. I. T. sum fuit ad respondend' H. W. de placito, quod ei unum mes. etc. Count sur fait oue garr. cum pertinent' in B. quae de eo tenet, & de eo tenere clamat, & unde cart̄ suam habet, & unde &c. dic', quod cum praed' I. seisit fuisset de tenement' pnd' cum pertin' in dnico suo ut de feodo, & sic inde seisit, per quandam cart̄ suam, quam idem H. hic in curia ꝓfert, cuius dat' est apud B. tali die, anno etc. dedisset, concessisset, et confirmasset eidem H. tenementa Inter alia per nomen. praed' come pertinent, inter alia terr' &c. per nomen, ut in carta etc. habend' eid' H. haered' et assignat' suis imperpetuum, & obligasset se & hered' suos, ad warr' eid' H. hered' & assignat' suis, tennta praed' come pertin' contra oens homines imperpetuum: Ac idem H. virtute doni illius, de tenntis pnd' seisitus fuisset in dominico suo ut de feodo, quidamque T. arrain vers. ipsum H. quandam assisam noue disseisine de praed' mess. & terr' cum pertin' coram I. M. & I. etc. Iustic' dni regis ad assisas in come praed' capiend' assign', per quod idem H. pendente assisa ill' sepius requisivit praefat' I. qd' ipse praed' mess. etc. cum pertinentijs eidem H. warr', & idem I. messuag' ill' &c. eidem H. huc usque warr' contradixit & adhuc contradicit, unde dic' etc. & inde produc' sectam etc. Et praedict' I. T. in propria persona sua ven', & defend' vim & iniuriam Confession. quando etc. & dicit quod ipse non potest dedicere, quin carta praed' sit factum ipsius I. nec qui● ipse dederit ꝑ certam illam prefat' H. tennta praed cum pertinentijs, nec quin ipse teneat tesita illa eidem H. warrantizare judgement. informa qua idem H. superius versus eum narrate, Ideo cons. est quod praed' I. warrantiz et praefat' H. messuag' praed' et terr cum pertinent, pro loco et tempore etc. Ideo idem I. in mina etc. F. W. generosus sum fuit ad respond' I. B. generoso, et E. B. fil' s●● de placito qd' warrantizet eye sex mesuag', tria gardina, etc. tria pomaria cum pertin' in civitate B. quae tenent et de eo tenere clam', & unde cartam suam habent etc. Et unde ijdem I. & E. ꝑ H. C. attornat suum dic', qd' come pnd' F. nuper seisitus fuisset de tennt pnd' cum pertin' in doinosuo ut def●od ', Et sic inde seisitus existens, quidam finis levauit in cur' dnae reginae nunc hic scilicet apud Westm in Octab. sancti M. anno regni dictae dominae Reginae nunc tertio, coram I. D. H. B. A. B. et R. W. Iustic', Et postea a die Pasche in xv. dies anno regni eiusd' Reg. quarto ibidem concess. et recordat coram eisdem Iustic' et alijs dicte dominae Reg. fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus inter praed' I. & E. quer', et praed' F. deforc', de tennt praeđ cum pertinent', unde placitum conventionis sum fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet qd' praed' F. recogn' ten' pr●d ' come ꝑtinent esse ius ipsius E. ut ill', quae ijdem E. et I. adtunc habuer de dono praed' F. & ill' remis. & quiet' clam' de se & heredibus suis, praed' I. et E. & heredibus ipsive E imperpetuum: Et praeterea idem E. concessit pro se et heredibus suis, qd' ipse warrant' pnd' I. & E. ethered' ipsius E. praed' tenementa cum ꝑtinent̄ contra o ens homines imperpetur: Qui quidem finis in forma praed' levat, habit et levat fuit ad opus et usum eorundem I. et E. et haered' eiusdem E. imperpetuum, Cuius praetextu, ijdem I. & E. fuerunt scisit de eisdem tenement' cum pertinent', viz. idem E. in dominico suo ut de feodo, ac praedict' I. in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento: Et sic inde seisit existent, quidam H. O. coram maiore et vic' ville praedict', die lunae, videlicet, 28. die Augusti, anno regni dictae dominae Reginae nunc octavo, apud Guihaldam civitatis praed' arrain quandam assisam frisce forcie second consuetudinem civitatis illius, in natura assize noue disseisine ad communem legem, versus eosdem I. B. et E. de tenement' pnd' cum pertinent, per quod idem I. et E. pendent assisa illa, sepius requisiverunt pnd' F. qđ ipse tennt praed' come ꝑtinent eisd' I. B. et E. & hered' eiusdem E. imperpetuum warrantizet. Et idem F. tenementa illa cum ptinent̄ eisdem I. & E. huc usque in forma praedicta warrantizare contradixit & adhuc contradicit, unde dic' quod deteriorat sunt, & damnum habent ad valenc' ducentarum librarum, & inde produc' sectam etc. Et praedict' F. in propria persona sua ven', & defend' vim et iniuriam quand' etc. & dic', quod ipse non potest dedicere actionem praedict' I. & E. praed', nec quin finis praed' in forma praed' levat fuit, nec quin ipse ꝑ finem illum teneatur ad warrantizand' tennt praed' come pertin', prefat' I. & E. & haered' ipsius E. imperpetuum, informa qua ijdem I. & E. superius versus eum narraver: Ideo consider est qd' praed' F. warrantizet praefat' I. & E. haered' ipsius E. imperpetuum, tennt praed' come pertin' pro loco & tempore &c. Et nihil de mina pred' F. quia ven' primo die per sum etc. M. 8. et 9 Eliz. Regine Rot. 1822. W. C. armig' sum fuit ad respond' E. B. gener, de placito, quod warrantizet ei quinquaginta & quatuor acr terr', quadragint acr pasturae, et sex acr' bosci cum pertinentijs in E. quas tenet & de eo tenere clamat, & unde cartam svam habet etc. Et unde idem F. in propria persona sua dic', qd' cum ipse seisitus fuisset de pndictis tenntis cum pertinent in dnico suo ut de feodo, (et sic inde seisitus existens) pref. W. per nomen W. C. de I. in come N. alias dict' W. C. de W. in come Suff. armig' x. die I. anno Regni Dnae Reginae nunc 13. per quoddam scriptum suum, qd' idem E. sigillo praed' W. signat, hic in curia ꝓfert, cuius datum est eisdem die et anno, recitand' ꝑ idem script' qd' cum idem W. C. ꝑ nomen W. C. de I. in comitatu N. alias dict' W. C. de W. in come S. armig', simul cum fratre suo C. C. de Lincoln's Inn in come Middl' gen, ꝑ quandam Indent̄ inter praefat' W. & C. ex una part, et E. B. de Lincoln's Inn praed' generos. ex altera part confect' geren dat' x. die F. anno Regni Eliz. Dei gratia Angl' Fr. & Hybern Reg. fidei defensoris etc. decimo, barganizaverit et vendiderit praefat' E. totum statum et interesse sua, de et in illis parcellis terre continent ꝑ estimationem septem acr sive plus sive minus inde habeatur: jacent et existent in parochia de E. in come K. modo vel nuper in tenura vel occupatione cuiusdam W. S. vel assign' suorum, quorum quidem parcell' una parcell' vocat little S. alias dict' Q. et continent ꝑ estimatonem sex acr, sive plus sive minus inde habeat, habend' et tenend' omnia praed' terras et omnia alia praemissa, cum omnibus et singulis suis pertinent, praefat' E. B. haered' et assign' suis ad solum et proprium opus et vs●m ipsius E. B. haered, et assign' suorim ꝑpetuum, prout per praed' Indent plenius apparet, cumque etiam idem W. postea pes nomen W. C. de l. in come N. armig' alias dict' W. C. de W. in come S. arm, simul cum praedict' fratre suo C. C. de Lincoln's Inn in comitatu M. gen, ꝑ quandam Indenturam inter praefat' W. et C. ex una part, & praefat' E. B. de Lincoln's Inn in come M. generos. ex alter● parnte, cōsect', gerent Dat' 29. die Octob. ann regni Eliz. dei gratia Angl, Franc & Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensoris etc. decimo, etiam barganizaverit, et vendiderit praefat' E. omnia terras boscos, et terras boscales ac cetera haereditamenta subscript, per quodcunque nomen seu quecunque nomina vocat', reputat, seu cognit, videlicet, omnia illa terr' vocat' S. alias dict' Q. alias dict' great Q. & the broom, alias dict' S. and the broom, ac omnia alia terras et haereditamenta quaecunque c●tinent̄ ꝑ estimationem quindecen acr, sive plus sive minus inde henat, ꝑ quodcunque nomenseu per quecunque noina eadem siut voc', reputat, seu cognit, modo vel nuper in tenura vel occupatione cuiusdan T. B. ex dimissione cuiusdam I. C. de I. praed' armiger adtunc nuper defunct' quae quidem parcell' jacent & existunt in E. in comitatu K. ac oens illas terr' modo vel nuper in tenura vel occupationoe cuiusdam P. W. de L. in praed' come K. jacent & existent in E. praed', ratione cuiusdam dimissionis eidem P. fact' ꝑ praefat' I. C. continent ꝑ estimationem quinque acr, sive plus sive minus inde habeant, ac etiam omnes illas terr' modo xel nu ꝑ in tenur vel occupac' cuiusd' I. I. ex dimissione praef. I. C. eid' I. I. fact', continent per estim quadraginta & octo acr sive plus sive minus inde habeant, jacent & existent in diversis seperalibus ꝑcell' in E. praed' unde quaed' parcell' sunt voc' seu cognit ꝑ nomen de P. alias dict' B. quaedam aliae parcell' inde sunt vocat' seu cognit per nomen de R. quaedam aliae parcell' inde sunt vocat' seu cognit per nomen de S. dane: Ac etiam oina ill' boscos & terr' boscales infraspec', viz. E. W. continent ꝑ estim duas acr sive plus sive minus inde habeant, le woodland iacenapud Knowel gate in E. pred', continent per estim tres rodas sive plus sive minus inde habeat, S. contin per estim tres rodas sive plus sive minus inde henat, L. alias dict' K. contin per estim unam acr & tres roadas, sive plus sive minus, inde habeat, quae omnia sunt jacent & existent in E. praed' habend' & tenend' omnia praed' terras boscos & terras boscales ac omnia alia pmmissa cum omnibus & singulis suis pertin' prefat' E. B. her & assign' suis, ad solum & proprium opus et usum ipsive E. B. her & assign' svorum imperpetuum, Cumque etiam idem W. simul cum praef. C. fratre suo postea, scil. in cur' dict' cominae Reginae hic apud Westm in oct' sancti M. anno regni dictae dnae Reg. undecimo in partem complementi quarund' concess. & conuenc' in praed' Indentur specificatar, recogn' ora praed' terras, boscos, & haereditament cum suis pertin', per nomen sive nomina 54. acr terr', 40. acr pasture, & sex acr bosci cum pertinent' in E. praed', esse ius praed' E. B. vtill' quae idem E. adtunc habuit de done praed' W. & praefat' C. fratris sui, & ill' adtunc remiserit & quiet' clamaverit de se pref. W. et her̄ suis, praef. E. & hered' suis imperpetuum, & praed' W. per idem script' hic in cur' prolat adtunc approbavit ratificaui● & confirmavit eidem E. B. adtunc in sua plena & pacifica possession' & seisina praemissor ex'sten', totum ius, titulum, statum, & interest sua de, & in pmmissis, quam ora terr' praed', pastur', bosc' terr' boscales, & ceter omnia & singula praemissa cum omnibus & singulis suis pertinent, pref. E her & assign' suis, ad solum & proprium opus & usum ipsius E. her & assign' suorum imperpetuum, Et insuper praed' W. C. ꝑ script' illud obligas●et se & her suos, ad warr' eidem E. her' & assign' suis imperpetuum, omnia pnd' terr', pastur', boscos, & terras boscales, ac cetera omnia pmmissa 〈◊〉 pertin' contra omnes homines imperpetuum, prout per praed' script' hic in cur', ꝓlat plenius apparet, Et idem E. dic' qd' praed' tennta in brevi praed' spec', sunt ead' tenementa in pnd' script' hic in cur', ꝓlat mencionat, et non alia neque diversa, ac quidam H. R. ipso E. detenus praed' come pertin' in form pnd' seisit existen', in curia hic prosecutus est versus ipsum E. B. quoddam breve dominae Reginae de ingressu super disseisinam in le quibus, de tenementis praed' come pertinent', per quod idem E. pendente brevi illo s●pius requisivit praes. W. C. quod ipse tenementa cum pertinent' eidem E. huc usque warrantizaret & idem W. praed' tennta cum pertin' eidem E. huc usque warrantizar̄ contradixit, & adhuc contradicit, unde dicit quod deteriorat est & damnum habet ad valentiam trescentarum librarum & inde producit sectam, etc. Et praed' W. C. ꝑ T. B. atturnat suum ven' & defend' vim & iniuriam quando etc. & dicit qd' ipse non potest dedicere actionem praed' E. praed', nec quin praed' script' hic in curia prolat, sit factum ipsius W. C. nec quim ipse per idem script' confirmaverit praef. E. tennta praed' come pertin', nec quin ipse praed' W. ꝑ scriptum illud teneatur tennt praed' come pertin' eidem E. warrantizare, inform qua idem E. superius versus eum narravit, Ideo cons. est qd' praed' W. C. warrantizet praef. E. praed' tennt cum pertin' ꝓloco & tempore &c. Et nihil de Mīa ipsius W. quia ven' primo die ꝑ sum etc. Hill' 13. Eliz. Ro. fiat similis intratio verse. C. C. mutat mutandis. F. W. gener sum fuit ad respondend' W. R. de placito quod warr' ei octo mesuag', sex gardina, tria pomar, quatuor acr terr', sex acr' prati, & duas acr pasture cum pertinent' in B. & B. quae tenet & de eo tenere clamat, & unde cartam s●am habet etc. Et unde idem W. per W. C. atturn' suum dic' qd' praed' E. nuper fuit seisitus de tenementis praed' come ꝑtin' in dominico ut de feodo, & sic inde seisitus existens idem F. 19 die S. anno Regni dnae Reginae nunc 25. apud B. praed' per quandam cartam suam, quam idem W. R. sigillo pnd' F. signat hic in cur' ꝓfert, cuius dat' est eisden die & anno, dedit & concessit te● praed' come pertinent' praef. W. R. habend' sibi & her suis impepetuum, & ulterius pnd' F. per. cartam praed' tenement' pnd' come pertinent' eidem W. & hered' suis contra omneshomines warrant prout per cartam●llam plen' apparet: virtute quorum quidem don' & concessionis idem W. fuit & adhuc est scisit deten' praed' come pertinent' in dominico suo ut defeodo, Et sic inde seisit existent', quidam D. D. arrain ' versus ipsum W. quandam assisam nove disseisi●e de praed' tenement' come ꝑtinent coram I. C. uno baron̄ Scaccar dnae Reginae, et F. R. uno seruien' ipsius dnae Reginae ad legem Iustic' eiusd' dominae Reginae ad assisas in come praed' capiend' assign' per formam statuti etc. per qd' idem W. R. pendente assisa illa sep●us requisivit praef. F. quod ipse praed' tenement' come pertinent' eidem W. warr', & idem F. ten' illa cum pertinent' eidem W. hucusque warr' contradixit & adhuc contradicit, unde dic' quod deteriorat est & damnum habet ad valentiam centum librarum & inde produc' sectam etc. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY, Of Recoveries for Assurances etc. called common, or feigned Recoveries. IN every Recovery are to be regarded the demandant, Sectio 1. the tenant of the land, & the vouchee, as the efficient causes thereof. The land demanded, as the matter which must as certainly be set down in writs of Entre, as in writs of Covenant, whereupon fines are levied. The end and effect of such recoveries, is to discontinue and destroy estates tails, remainders, and reversions, and baire the former owners thereof. The demandant is he that bringeth the writ of Entre, and may be termed the Recoverer. The Tenant is he, against whom the writ is brought, and may be termed the Recoveree. The Vouchee is he, whom the tenant voucheth, or calleth to warranty for the land in demand. And such persons may be demaundants, tenants, and vouchees, in these recoveries, as may be Cognizors and Cognizees, in writs of Covenant, and by such names, Mutatis mutandis. Saving that if any recovery be had against any tenant in tail, the reversion or remainder being in the Queen, of the gift of the Queen, or of any of her majesties progenitors, kings of England: such recovery will neither bar the issue in tail of his Entre, nor discontinue his estate, nor pluck such reversion or remainder out of her Majesty, 34. H. 8. cap. 20. Quaere tamen si tiel recovery bar lissue in tail, during the continuance of the estate tail, Dyer fol. 132. pla. 1. Item before such persons, by such means, and in such manner may warrants of Attorney be knowledged and certified, as fines knowledged in the Country: saving that the recognisance of warrants of Attorney may be taken by any justice or Sergeant, without a writ of Dedimus potestatem. And fines must be paid upon writs of Entre, as upon writs of Covenant. And all such writs of Entre must be signed by the Queen's Attorney before they can be sealed. In a Recovery with double voucher, the fine must bt sued first to make him tenant at the time of the writ of Entre brought, for every writ of Entre must always be brought against him that is tenant of the freehold of the land demanded at the time of the writ brought, 18. R. 2. and Dyer fol. 252. pla. 98. for that, that the estate of the tenant in tail which is vouchee, is barred in respect of the assets only which is, or may be recovered in value. Blow. Basset vers Manxel fol. 11. a, and of execution sued by the tenant against him. And if the tenant have but an estate for life, or in dower, or by the courtesy: then to have a good recovery thereof, it is meet that such tenant make a conditional Surrender of his estate to him in the reversion, or remainder, to the end he may be a perfect tenant of the inheritance, and then to bring the writ of Entre against him: And after that the recovery is executed, the particular tenant for breach of the condition may enter and enjoy his term, notwithstanding such surrender. See the like Surrender in the Chapter of Surrenders, in the first part of Symboleography. Of what things writs of Entre may be brought, and by what names. PRaecipe quod reddat lieth, de una acra terre, aqua cooperta, vel de Sect▪ 2. acra terre, 12. H. 7. fol. 4. de gurgite, 10. E. 3. & 14. Ed. 3. 842. Fitz. nat. bre. fol. 191. h. Et de passagio ultra a quam, Fitz. nat. br. fo. 191. i. de balliva, 34. Ed. 3. 423. de officio, 27. H. 8. fo. 12. de aduocation ecclesie, aut de quarta part decimar, 34. Edw. 3. deporcione decimarum, Dyer fol. 84. pla. 83. de quadam parcella terre, Dyer fol. 84. pla. 83. de custod' terre & haered', siue custod' terre, Register 161. 22. Edw. 3. fol. 19 Praecipe quod reddat lieth of all manner of Ecclesiastical or Spiritual profits: ut de Rectoria, Vicaria, porcionibus, pencionbus, decimis, etc. per statut' 32. H. 8. cap. 7. de omnibus, & omnimodis decimis maiorius mixtis & minutis infra villam sive hamlet̄ de B. in parochia de A. quoquo modo crescenc', contingent, ac annuatim renovan etc. Thel. lib. 8. cap. 9 S. 2. de quarta part decimarum & oblationum ecclesie sanct' P. etc. 16. Ed. 3. de quadam porcione decimarum, or terre, not showing how much, 1. H. 4. fo. 1. Dyer fol. 84. pla. 83. 84. 85. and 86. In old time de hida terre, per Glanuile, de caruca terre, 4. E. 3. 161. de bouat̄ terre, 6. Ed. 3. 291. de sex pedibus terre in longitudine, & quatuor pedibus in latitud' 14. Ass. 13. A Praecipe quod reddat lieth detofro & situ molendini 14. Ed. 3. de hundredo de C. & ballivato de B. 34. Ed. 1. 3. E. 3. de pastur' ad sex boves 3. Ed. 3. fol. 23. 4. E. 2. de roda terre 3. E. 5. de advocatione 34. E. 1. de quadam portione terre 11. H. 4. fol. 40. 5. H. 7. fol. 9 de medietate unius rodae t̄re 41. E. 3. de shopa, Registr̄ fo. 3. a de 4. acr alnet 11. Ass. 13. de turbar, by the name of More 8. Edw. 3. fol. 387. and it lieth in a Town, and not in a Hamlet, 8. E. 3. fol. 55. 7. E. 3. 9 Of what things a writ of Entre lieth not. PRaecipe quod reddat lieth not, de fossato, nec de stagno, nee de piscaria Sect' 3. 8. E. 3. 381. nec de deaduocatione, decimarum unius carucat t̄re, Registr̄ fo. 29. nec de communia pastur' 27. H. 8, f. 12. de estoverijs 2. E. 3. de homagio & fidelitat, nec de seruitijs faciendis 6. E. 2. A Praecipe quod reddat lieth not de bovat marisci 13. E. 3. fo. 3. de selione terre E. 1. for the incertainty, because a Selon which is a land, sometime containeth an acre, sometime half an acre, sometime more, and sometimes less, It lieth not of a garden, cottage, or croft, 14. ass. 13. 8. H. 6. 3. 22. E. 4. 13. de virgata terre 41. 43. 13. E. 3. defodina, de minera, de mercatu, 13. E. 3. for they lie not in Demesne, but in Gain, nec de superiori camera 3. H. 6. fo. 1. A writ of Entre aught not to contain one self thing twice, as a messsage, & a house parcel of the same messsage, 2. Ed. 4. fol. 28. 46. E. 3. fo. 26. Nor to name a Town and a Hamlet within the same town, 22. E. 3 fol. 14. 41. Ed. 3. fol. 22. In every warrant of Attorney it is good to put 2. Atturneiss at the least for fear of death. In a county Palantine, as Lancaster, Durisme, Chester etc. may be put in a warrant one Attorney, and one of the justices Clerks. If the writ of Entre be returnable Crastino Martini, the writ of Summons ad warr' thereupon must bear Teste from the return of Crastino Martini, and be returnable ix. Returns after the return of the writ of Entre inclusive: that is accounting Crastino Martini for one of the ix. returns, and tres Paschae, which is the ninth return after Crastino Martini for another. And the Teste of the writ of Seisin must be the day of that ninth return, and be returnable xv. days after. Then the writ of Seisin may be returned, that seisin was delivered by virtue thereof to the demandant, by the sheriff of the County where the lands lie upon any day (not being Sunday) between the Teste and return of the said writ of Seisin. Then the writs of Entre, Summons, and Seisin must be returned and filled with the Custos brevium, & the judgement entered by the preignotary, & the warrants of Attorney by the Clerk of the warrants. If a single recovery and a fine be against the tenant, the writ of Entre must bear date and Teste, before the writ of Covenant, and be returned before. If a writ of Covenant be brought against the tenant, and a writ of Entre against the demandant: then the writ of Covenant must bear date, and be returned before the writ of Entre, and this is called a double voucher. A Certiorari to the executor of the justice, before whom the Warrants were acknowledged. ELizab. dei gratia Angl', Franc' & Hiberniae Regina, fidei defensor Sect▪ 4. etc. dilecto sibi I. R. arm executori testamenti Fr. R. nuper unius Iustic' nostrorum de banco salutem. Volentes certis de causis certioraritā super quodam warrant' atturn per quod H. S. posuit loco suo W. B. & R. C. coniunctim & divisim versus R. P. alias W. & R. H. de placito terre in comitatu E. quam super quodam alio warrant' atturn per quod H. L. & I. L. quos praedictus H. S. voc' add warrant', posuerunt locis suis A. B. & F. R. coniunctim & divisim versus praedict' R. & R. H. de placito terre in dicto comit' E. per praefat' F. R. nuper capt', ac in custod' tua ratione executionis testamenti praed' existent ut dicitur. Tibi precipimus quod warrant' praed' Iustic' nostris de banco apud Westm sub sigillo tuo distinct & apart sine dilatione mittas & hoc breve, ut ijdem Iustic' inspect' warrant' praedict' ulterius in quodam brevi nostro de ingr pendent coram prefat' Iustic' nostris apud Westmon̄ inter praefat' R. & R. H. & praedict' H. S. de uno messuagio etc. cum pertinentijs in T. & D. in comit' praedicto, & process, inde fierifac', quoth de iure, & secundum consuetudinem regni nostri Angl' fuerit faciend ' T. meipsa apud Westm 29. die Novemb. Anno regni nostri 34. It is returned thus. Respons. infranominati I. R. ad hoc breve. Execuc' istius brevis patet in quadam schedula huic brevi annex'. Ebor'. ss. Praec' H. S. quod just etc. Redd' R. P. alias W. & R. H. unum messuagium etc. cum pertinentijs in T. & D. quod clam' etc. Ebor'. ss. H. S. po: lo: suo W. B. & R. C. coniunctim & divisim versus R. P. alias W. & R. H. de placito terr'. Ebor'. ss. H. L. & I. L. quos H. S. voc' add warrant' po: lo: suo A. B. & F. R. coniunctim & divisim versus R. P. alias W. & R. H. de placito terre. Captain & cognit apud W. in comitat' C. xvij. die Feb. anno regni dominae Eliz. etc. xxxiiij. I. R. A Recovery with single voucher. Ebor'. ss. PRaec' G. C. armigero, quod just etc. redd' R. C. & R. I. Sect▪ 5. unum messuagium & quatuor acr terr' cum pertinentijs in T. que clam' etc. Et in que &c. Et nisi etc. G. C. po: lo: suo N. M. & M. M. attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus R. C. & R. I. A Recovery with double voucher. Derby. ss. PRaec' N. L. & M. uxori eius, quod just etc. redd' T. S. & Sect' 6. T. C. maneria de N. M. & P. cum pertin', a● 30. mess. 30. tofta, 5. molendina, 30, gardin, 30. pomaria, 1000 acr terre, 1000 acr prati, 50. acr pasture, 40. acr bosci, 1000 acr more, 200. acr iampnorun & bruere, & 3. libras reddit' cum pertinentijs in N. M. P. P. & B. que clam' esse ius & heredit suam, & in que idem N. & M. non habent ingress. nisi post disseisinam quam H. H. injust & sine judicio fecit praefatis T. & T. infra 30. Annos iam ultimo elapsos etc. ut dic', unde que● etc. Et nisi etc. Derby. ss. M. L. & M. uxor eius po: lo: suo, T. B. & W. B. attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus T. S. & T. C. de placit terr' ad lucrand' vel perdendum. Derby. ss. W. B. & T. F. quos N. L. & M. uxor eius vocant ad warrant', po: lo: suo, P. P. & Q. Q. attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus T. S. & T. C. de placito terre ad lucrandum vel perdendum. A Recovery with triple voucher. Essex. ss. PRaec' R. B. & C. S. quod just etc. raddant A. T. armiger, Sect' 7. manner de B. & Q. cum pertinentijs, ac xx. messuag', duodecim tofta, quatuor columbar, mill acr terr', centum acr prati, centum acr pastur', CC. acr iampnorun & bruere, centum acr more, & triginta solid' & unum obul' reddit', ac reddit' unius libre & dimidij piperis, & unius gran̄ piperis cum pertin' in B. & Q. Ac liberam piscariam in aqua de W. necnon advocationem ecclesie de B. que clam' etc. Essex. ss. PR.. B. & C. S. po: lo: suo, W. W. & R. R. attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus A. T. de placito terre. Essex. ss. M. M. gen quem R. B. & C. S. vocant ad warrant' po: lo: suo, I. I. & LL attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus A. T. de placito terre. Essex. ss. G. W. gen quem M. M. voc' indeed warrant' po: lo: suo R. G. & R. S. attorn̄ suos coniunctim & divisim versus A. T. de placito terre. A Recovery of an Adnowson in the County palantine of Chester. PLacita apud Cestr̄ coram R. T. Milit Iustic' dni Regis apud Cestr de Sect' 8. Sessione tent' ibidem die Lune ultim die Septemb. ann regni Eliz. Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hibern Reginae fidei defensor, & in terre Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernice supremi capitis 35. Chestr. ss. H. S. armiger per T. B. attorn̄ suum, petit versus H. D. arm advocationem Ecclesiae de T. quam ei injust deforc' etc. Et unde dic ' quod ipsemet fuit seisitus de ad●ocac' Ecclesiae praedict' ut defeodo & iure infra 30. annos iam ultimo elapsos tempore pacis, tempore dne Reginae nunc, & sic inde seisit eodem tempore ad eandem Ecclesiam presentavit quendam R. A. Clericum suum, qui ad presentationem suam fuit admissus, institutus, & inductue in eadem: Capiendo inde explec', ut in grossis decimis, minutis decim, oblationibus, & obuentionibus ad valenc' etc. ut de iure Ecclesie sue praedicte etc. Et quod tale sit ius suum offered etc. All the parts of a Recovery in a writ of Right de Praecipe in Capite exemplified. ELizab▪ dei gratia etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes litere patentes puenerint Sect' 9 salutem. Sciatis quod I. Comes S. in curia nostra coram justiciarijs nostris apud Westm per breve nostrum de Recto de pcipe in capite, petijt versus T. B. seniorem & I. uxorem eius manner de C. cum pertinent, ac unum mess●ag', 50. acr prati etc. cum pertin' in C. B. & H. juxta T. utius & hereditatem suam: Quod quidem breve una cum retorn̄ eiusdem, ac placitum super idem breve cum omnibus alijs placitum illud tangentibus se quitur in hec verba. Elizabeth Dei gratia etc. Vicecom Heref. salutem. Praecipe T. B. seniori, Le brief. & I. uxori eius, quod just & sine dilatione reddant I. Comiti Salop' manerium de C. cum pertin', ac unum messuag' etc. cum pertinentijs in C. B. & H. juxta T. que clamat esse ius & hereditatem suam, & tenere de nobis in capite. Et unde queritur quod praed' T. & I. ei injust deforceant. Et nisi secerint. Et praed' Comes fecerit te secur de clamore suo prosequen tunc sum per bonos summon pnd' T. & I. quod sint coram Iustic' nostris apud Westm a die Paschae in quindecim dies, ostens. quare non fecer. Et habeas ibi sum, & hoc breve. Teste meipsa apud Westm 2. die Aprilis, Anno regni nostri tricesimo tertio. Pleg' de prosequend' R. D. & I. R. ✿ Responsio I S. Militis Vicec': Sum T. B. & I. uxor eius infrascript Return inde. H. F. & R. L. Placit apud Westmon̄ coram I. P. & socijs suis Iuistic' dni Reg. de banco de termino Paschae, anno regni etc. 6. Rotulo CC. ✿ Heref. ss. joh. Comes Salop', per I. S. Atturnatum suum, petit versus Le d●. T. B. sen & I. uxorem eius, manerium de C. cum pertin', ac unum messuagium etc. cum pertin' in C. B. & H. juxta T. per breve dnae Regin̄ de preci●● in capite etc. ✿ Et unde chcit quod ipsemet fuit seisitus de manerio, Le Co●nt. messuag', terr' etc. come pertinent, in donico suo ut de feodo & iure tempore pacis tempore dominae Reginae nunc, capiendo inde explec', ad valentiam etc. Et quod tale sit ius suum offered etc. ✿ Et praedict' T. & I. per W. B. Atturnatum suum, vener̄ & desendunt Le defend. ius praedict' Comitis et seisinam suam, et maxim de manerio, mesuag' etc. ei warrant' etc. et super hoc praed' Comes petit versus ipsum W. P. Le dd. manerium, mesuagium, etc. cum pertinentijs in forma praed' &c. Et unde dic' quod ipsemet fuit seisitus de praed' Manerio, mesuag' etc. come pertin', in dominico suo ut de feodo et iure, tempore pacis tempore dnae reginae nunc, capiend' inde explec' ad valentiam etc. Et quod tale sit ius suum offered etc. ✿ Et praed' W. P. tenens per warrant' svam defendit ius praed' Comitis Le defence. et seisinam eius & maxim de manerio, messuag', terr' etc. come pertinent, et totum etc. Et ponit se inde in magnam Assisam dnae reginae, et petit Issue ferra le grannd assis. recogn' fieri utrum ipse maius ius habeat tenend' manerium, messuagium, terr', etc. cum pertin', ut tenens per warrant' suam, ut ●a tenet, an praedict' Comes habend' manerium, messuag', terr', etc. cum pertinentijs, ut ea Li: lo: superius pet etc. ✿ Et praedict' Comes petit licentiam inde interloquend' etc. Et habuit etc. ✿ Et postea idem Comes ꝑ Atturnatum suum praedict' reven hic in Default & judgement. Curia, et praed' W. P. licet solemniter exact', non reven, said in contempt cur' defaltam fec', Ideo considerat̄ est quod praed' Comes recuperet seisinam suam versus praed' T. et I. de praed' manner, messuag' etc. come pertin', tenend' eidem Comiti & hered' suis quiet de praed' T. et I. et heredibus suis imperpetuum. Et praedicti T. et I. habeant de terr' praedict' W. P. ad valentiam manerij, messuag', terr' etc. praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et praedict' W. P. in misericordia etc. Warrant' Attornat' inde sequitur in hec verba. Herf. ss. joh. Comes Salop', po: lo: suo I. S. versus T. B. seniorem, et I. uxorem eius de placito terre. Heref. ss. T. B. senior et I. uxor eius, po: lo: suo W. B. versus Io. Comitem Salop', de placito terre. Que oina et singula ad requisitionem praed' Comitis exemplificarifecimus, et magnum sigillum nostrum, quo utimur ad hmndi exemplificationes, necnon ad quecunque brevia iudicialia extra bancum praed' exeunt sigilland', pnsentibus apponi fecimus. Teste I. P. apud Westm xviij. die Maij, anno regni nostri tricesimo sexto. Remissio Curiae in brevi de Recto. EXcellentissimae Principi dnae E. dei gratia etc. T. W. salut in eo per Sect' 10. quem reges regnant, et Principes dominant. Quia A. in curia vestra coram Iustic' vestris de banco per bred vestr de recto D. E. de uno mesuag' cum pertin' in S. quod de me tenetur, licentia mea mediant proponit implacitare, vestre celsitudini regie, tenore presentium significo, me cur' mean vobis inde hac vic' remisisse. Saluo mihi alias iure dnij in casu consimili cum acciderit. In cuius rei testimon has literas meas feci patentes, sigillo meo signat, Dat' 3. die Maij, Anno regni etc. The exemplification of a Recovery enrolled according to the Statute of twenty-three. Elizabeth Cap. 3. ELizabeth Dei gratia Angl' Franciae et Hiberniae fidei defensor Sect' 11. etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes litere nostr' peruenerint salutem, Sciatis quod inter irrotulamenta brum et aliorum dependen̄ pro communibus recuperationibus secund' formam statuti de termino Pasche apud Westmon Ann regni nostri 29. Rotul' primo continetur, sic, Essex ss. ✿ Eliz. Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae et Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor etc. vic' Essex salutem, Praecipe I. W. et I. S. quod just et sine dilatione reddant ●o. St. et R. P. quatuor mesuagia, quatuor gardina, 200. acras fire, 100 acr prati, 300. acras pasture, 40. acras bosci, et 300. acras iampnor et bruere, cum pertin' in B. T. T. C. D. et H. que clamant esse ius et heredit̄ suam. Et in que idem I. W. et I. S. non habent ingress' nisi post disseisinam quam H. H. inde injust et sine judicio fecit pref. I. S. et T. infra triginta annos iam ultimo elapsos ut dicunt. Et unde queruntur quod praed' I. with et I. S. eye deforc', Et nisi fecerint et praed' I. S. et Th. fec er̄ te secur de clamore suo pros. tunc summ̄ per bonos sum praed' I. W. et I. S. quod sint coram Iustic' nostris apud Westm a die sanct' Michaelis in quindecim dies, ostensuri quare non fecerint. Et habeas ibi summ̄ et hoc breve, The doctor which took the affid. for the value. Pledges. Summoners. The Sheriffs name. Summons and warr'. T. meipsa apud Wem 24. die Sept̄ anno regni nostr' decimo. ✿ Gibon. ✿ pleg' de pros. ●o. Do, Rich. Roose. ✿ Sum joh. Den, Rich. Fen ✿ G. T. armig' vic' ss. ✿ Elizab. Dei gratia Angl' Franc' et Hyberniae regina fidei defensor etc. Vic' Essex salut, Sum per bonos sum E. W. armigerum et vxor' eius quod sint coram justiciarijs nostris apud Westm a die sancti Hillarij in xv. dies ad warr' joh. W. et I. S. quatuor mesuag' quatuor gardin, 200. acras terre, 100 acr prati, 300. acr' pasture, 40. acr bosci, et 300. acr iampuorum et bruere, cum pertin' in B. T. T. C. D. et H. que Io. St. et Tho. P. in curia nostra coram justiciarijs nostr' apud Westmon̄ clam' ut ius suum per breve nostrum de ingress. super disseisinam in le post versus eos. Et unde ijdem joh. W. et I. S. in eadem cur' nostr' voc' praedict' Edm. & joh. sum in commit tuo ad warr' versus eos. Et habeas ibi sum & hoc breve T. I. D. apud Westmon xuj. die Octobris, anno regni etc. decimo The protonotary in whose office it is entered. Summoners. The Sheriff. The warrant● of Attorney. ✿ Lone. Sum johannes Den, Rich. Fen, ✿ T. L. arm vic' ss. ✿ Io. St. & Tho. P. po: lo: suo R. E. versus johannem W. & I. S. de placitoterress. johannes W. et I. po: lo: suo I. A. versus Io. S. & Tho. P. de placito terre ss. Edm. W. armig' & joh. uxor eius quos johannes W. et I. S. voc' add warr' po: lo: suo R. C. versus Io. S. & Th. P. de placito terr'. Que omnia & singula ad requisitionem W. W. generos. tenore presentium duximus exemplificand'. In cuius rei Testim sigill' nostr' ad bria in ba●co sigilland' deputat' presentibus apponi fecimusT. F. W. P. & F. R. Iustic' de banco praedicto apud Westmon xuj. die Junii anno regni nostri vicesimo nono. M. The judges which examined their enrolment. M. W. P. and R. Perdon' alien' supper terr' per breve de Ingressu recuperat'. Sect' 12. REgina, Omnibus ad quos etc. salutem. Cum praedictus & fidelis consanguineus nostr' T. Dux' Norff. Comes Mareschallus Angliae, & prenobilis ordinis garterij Miles ' ac dilect' & fideles nostri W. C. Miles principalis Secretary nostr', R. Catl' miles nup scilicet termino etc. anno regni nostr' etc. recuperaverunt versus praedictum & fidelem consiliarium nostrum N. B. Milit dnum custod' magn sigilli nostri Angl', ex eius assensu & ad eius requisitionem per bred nostrum de ingressu super disseisinam in le post, scđm cursum formam & usum communium recuperation manner de Redgrave etc. in come nostr' Suff. ad diversos seperales usus, intention, condition & proposit specificat, & declarat in quibusdam Indentur factis interipsum N. ex una part & praefatos ducem W. R. etc. ex altera part gerent dat' secundo die Octobr, anno Reg. nostri primo prout per easd' Indentur plenius apparet, cumque etiam ijdem dux W. R. etc. in Manner, terr', tenement', & cetera premissa, cum ꝑ●n̄ virtute recuperac' praedict' intraverunt, licentia nostra Regia inde prius non obtent, Et de eisd' premissis fuerunt seisit in dominico suo ut defeodo, ad usus, intentiones, & proposita in praed' Indentur specificat & declarat. Que quidem Manner, messuag' terras tenement' & cetera premissa de nobis tenentur in capite, ut dicitur. Sciatis quod nos de gratiam nostra speciali ac ex ce●ta scientia & mero motu nostris saluo nobis homag' nostr' ꝑdonamus, remittimus & relaxamus pro nobis hered' & successoribus nostr', transgress. in ea part fact' ac omnimod' interaciones, & ingressus in praed' Manner terr' tenement' & cetera premissa, seu aliquam inde ꝑtem sive parcellam, tam ante presentem diem quoquo modo fact', sive perpetrat, quam imposter racion alicuius usus in predict Indentur specific' seu declare fiend' seu habend'. Et ulterius concessimus ac pro nobis hered' & successoribus nostr', quant in nobis est, per presentes concedimus prefat' duci W. R. etc. quod ipsi maneria messuag', terr', & tenement praedicta, ac cetera premissa cum omnibus & singulis suis exit, reddit', profic', & pertin' quibuscunque (except praeexcept) habeant & teneant sibi ac hered' & assign' suis, ad usus, intentiones, & proposita in Indentur predict' content & specificat, de nobis hered' & successoribus nostr' per seruitia inde debita et de iure consueta imperpet, absque impet, molest ', vexacione, impedimnto, seu gravamine, nostri, hered' vel successor' nostr', aut aliquor' Iustic', Escactor, vice comit', ballivorum, autaliorum officiar, ministor', seu subditor' nostror', aut haered' vel successor' nostrorum quorumcunque. In cuius rei etc. And it is to be noted, that of all licences to alien temporal land in Mortmal, the fine to the Queen is 5. years value of the same. Of all licences to alien spiritual land, (as appropriations of Churches, or other benefices spiritual) the fine to the Queen is 4. years value thereof. Of all licences of alienation made of lands holden of the Queen in Capite, the fine is the third part of the value, the tenth deducted. Of all pardons of alienation by the King's tenant in Capite, the fine is one years value thereof. Of all licences of Marriage of the Queen's widow, the fine is the third part of the value of her dower by a year. Of all pardons of the Queen's Widows married without licence the fine is the whole value of her dower by a year. Exemplification of a Recovery with double voucher out of the Prothono●aries office. ELizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Regin̄, fidei defensor Sect. 13. etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes literae nostrae pervenerint salutem. Sciatis quod inter placita terrae irrotulat apud West' coram E. A. Milite & socijs suis Iustic' nostris de banco. Termin S. Hill', anno regni nostri 36, Rotu' x. continetur sic. Eborum. ss. Fr. W. & R. S. in proprijs personis suis, pet versus I. R. duodecim acr' prati cum pertinent in M. & K utius & haereditatem suam, Et in quas idem I. non habet ingressum nisi post disseisinam, quam H. H. inde injust & sine iuditio fecit praefat' Fr. & R. infra triginta annos etc. ✿ Et praedictus I. per W. W. Atturnatum suum venit, Vourcher. & alios voc' add warrant' T. R. Armigerum, qui modo per summ̄ ei in comitatu praedict' fact' per T. I. Atturnatum suum venit, & gratis praedictas duodecim acras prati cum pertinentijs ei warrant' etc. ✿ Et Le dd' vers. le 1. voucher. super hoc praedict' Fr. & R. pet versus ipsum T. tenent per warrant' suam praedictas duodecim acr' prati cum pertinenrijs in forma praedicta etc. ✿ Et unde dic' quod ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de praedictis duodecim acr Le count. prati cum pertinentijs in dominico suo ut de feodo, & iure, tempore pacis, tempore Dominae Reginae nunc, capiendo inde explec' add valenc' etc. Et in quas etc. Et inde produc' sectam etc. ✿ Et praedict' T. Vouch. oustr. Le defence. tenens per warr' suam defendit ius suum quando etc. ✿ Et ulterius voc' inde ad warr' R. H. qui praesens est hic in Curia in propria persona sua. Et gratis praedict' duodecim acr' prati cum pertinentijs ei warrant' etc. Dd ' vers. 2. Vouche●. ✿ Et super hoc praed' Fr. & R. S. pet versus ipsum R. H. tenent per warr' suam praedictas duodecim acras prati cum pertinentijs in forma praedicta etc. ✿ Et unde dic' quod ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de praedict' duodecim Le Count acr' prati cum pertinentijs in dominico suo ut de feodo, & iure, tempore pacis tempore dominae reginae nunc, capiendo inde explec' ad valentiam etc. Et in quas etc. Et inde produc' sectam etc. ✿ Et Le defence. praedict' R. H. tenens per warrant' suam defend' ius suum quand' etc. ✿ Et dic' quoth praed' H. non disse●siuit praefat' Fr. & R. S. de praed' duodecim Non disseisivit. acr prati cum pertinentijs, prout ijdem Fr. & R. per breve & narationem svam praedict' superius supponunt. Et de hoc ponit se super patriam etc. Et praedict' Fr. & R. S. pet licentiam inde interloquendi. Et habent etc. Et postea ijdem Fr. & R. reven hic in curia isto eodem termino in proprijs personis suis. Et praedictus R. H. licet solemniter exact' non reven, said in contemptum curiae recessit, & defaltam fecit. ✿ Ideo considerate Default. judgement. est quod praedict' Fr. & R. S. recuperent seisinam suam versus praefat' I. de praedictis duodecim acr' prati cum pertinent'. ✿ Et quod Recovery in value. idem I. habeat de terr' praedict' T. ad valentiam etc. Et quod idem T. ulterius habeat de terr' praedict' R. H. ad valentiam etc. ✿ Et idem R. Misericordia. in misericordia etc. ✿ Et super hoc praedict' Fr. & R. S. petunt breve dominae Reginae vicecom̄ comitat' praedict' dirigend', de habere faciendo eis plenariam seisinam de praedict' duodecim acr' prati cum pertinentijs. Et eis conceditur, retornabile hic a die Pasche in quindecim dies etc. Quae omnia & singula ad requisitionem praedict' Fr. & R. S. tenor praesentium duximus exemplificand'. In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum ad brevia in banco praedict' sigilland' deputat' praesentibus apponi fecimus. Teste E. A. apud West' duodecimo die Februarij, Anno Regni nostri 36. When the writ of Seisin is returned, the return thereof must be entered upon the same Roll, whereon the judgement was entered, as appeareth in the end of the next section. An other to the like effect. ELizabeth Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reg. fidei defensor Sect. 14. Demand verse ●err̄. etc. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae nostrae peruenerint salutem. Sciatis quod inter placita terrae irrotulat apud West', coram E. A. Milite & socijs suis Iustic' nostris de banco, scil. Termino Michaelis, Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quinto, Rotulo 12. continetur sic. Notting. ss. R. T. & R. B. in proprijs personis suis petunt versus Le Count T. generosum, & W. H. generosum, maneria de H. & M. cum pertinent, ac viginti mesuagia, decem tofta, unum molendinum equinum, duo columbar', triginta gardina, quingent acras terrae, ducent acras prati, sexcent acras pasturae, trescent acras bosci, mill acras iampnorun & bruerae, quingent acras morae, & 20. solid' redd' come pertinent in H. M. D. etc. ut ius & haeredit suam, Et in quae ijdem P. & W. non habent ingressum, nisi post disseisinam, quam H. H. inde injust & sine judicio fecit praefat'. R. & R. infra triginta annos etc. ✿ Et unde dicunt quod Defence per les terres. ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praed' come pertinent, in dominico suo ut de feodo, & iure, tempore pacis, tempore dominae Reginae nunc, capiendo inde explec' add valenc' etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam etc. ✿ Et praed' P. & W. in proprijs personis suis venerunt & defend' ius Demand verse vouchee. suum quando etc. Et voc' indeed warr' G. M. generosum, qui praesens est hic in Curia in propria persona sua. Et gratis, maneria, tenementa, & redditus praed', cum pertinentijs, eye warr' etc. ✿ Et super hoc praedict' R. & R. petunt versus ipsum G. tenent per Count. warrant' suam maneria, tenementa, & redditus, praed' come pertin' in forma praedict' etc. ✿ Et unde dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praedict' cum pertinentijs, in dominico suo ut de feodo, & iure, tempore pacis, tempore dominae Reg' nunc, capiendo inde explec' ad valentiam etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam etc. ✿ Et praedict' G. tenens per warrant' suam defendit ius suum quando Defence per vouchee. Le revoucher. etc. ✿ Et ulterius voc' inde ad warrant' D. H. qui similiter praesens est hic in Curia in propria persona sua, & gratis maneria, tenementa, & reddit' praedict' cum pertinentijs ei warrant' etc. ✿ Et super hoc praedicti R. et R. petunt versus ipsum D. tenent per Demand verse 2. vouchees. Le Count vers 2. vouchees. warrant' suam maneria, tenementa, et reddit' praedicta cum pertinentijs in forma praedicta etc. ✿ Et unde dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de manerijs, tenementis, & reddit' praedictis cum pertinentijs in dominco suo, ut de feodo, & iure, tempore pacis, tempore dominae Reginae nunc, capiendo inde explec' ad valentiam etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam etc. ✿ Et praedictus D. ienens per narrationem suam defendit ius suum Defence per 2. vouchees. Non diss. quando etc. ✿ Et dicit quod praedict' H. non disseisivit prefatos R. & R. de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praed' cum pertinentijs, prout ijden R. & R. per breve & narrationem svam prae dictam superius suppon. Et de hoc ponit se super patriam etc. ✿ Et praed' R. & R. petunt licentiam inde Li. Lo. interloquendi. Et habent etc. Et postea ijden R. & R. reven hic in Curia isto eodem termino in proprijs Le default. personis suis. Et praedictus D. licet solemniter exact' non reven, prijs personis suis. Et praedictus D. licet solemniter exact' non reven, judgmnt inde. said in contemptum curie recessit, & defaltam fecit. ✿ Ideo consideratum est quod praedict' R. & R. recuperent seisinam suam versus prefatos P. & W. de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praedictis cum pertin'. Recovery in value. ✿ Et quod ijdem P. & W. habeant de terra praed' G. ad valentiam etc. Et quod idem G. ulterius habeat de terr' praedict' D. ad valentiam etc. ✿ Et idem D in misericordia etc. Et super hoc praedicti R. & R. petunt Misericordia. breve dominae Reginae Vicecomiti comitatus praedict' dirigend', de habere faciend' eye plenariam seismam de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praedict' cum pertinentijs. Et eis conceditur, returnabile hic a die S. Martini in quindecim dies. Ad quem diem hic venerunt praed' R. & R. in proprijs personis suis. Et vicecomes scilicet I. B. Miles modo mandat quod ipse virtute brevis illius sibi directi vicesimo quarto die, No ultimo praeterit, habere fecerit praefatis R. et R. plenariam seisinam de manerijs, tenementis, & redditu praedictis, cum pertinentijs, prout per breve illudsibi praeceptum fuit etc. quae omnia & singula ad requisitionem praed' R. & R. tenore praesentium duximus exemplificandun. In cuius rei Testimonium sigillum nostrum ad brevia in banco praedicto sigilland' deputat' praesentibus apponi fecimus. Teste etc. Anno Regni nostr' 36. A Dedimus potestatem to take knowledge of a warrant of Attorney of the vouchee. REx & Regina dilecto & fideli suo Ra. Ro. seruienti ad legem salutem. Sect. 15. Cum breve nostrum de ingressu super disseisinam in le post pendeat coram Iustic' de Banco inter W. S. & R. C. gener peten & G. T. milit dominum T. deforc' de Manerio de W. cum pertinent ac de uno messuag' ducent acris terrae, 60 acr prati, 100 acr pastur', 100 acris bosci, 50. acr more, & quinque solidat reddit' cum pertinent in W. & L. in come Salop', & praedict' G. in plena Cur' nostr' ibidem coram Iustic' nostris praedict' comparens vocavit W. C. ad warr' ei Manner praedict' cum pertinent, super quo tunc & ibidem emanavit breve nostrum de sum ad warr' vicec' come praedict' direct' versus eund' W. C. returnabile cor Iustic' noster is pnd' in quindena S. Hill' prox' futur'. Et quia praedict' W. C. adeo impotens sui & senio confect' existit quod usque West' cour Iustic' nostris praed' add diem in dicto breve nostro de sum ad warr' content laborare non suffic' ut accepimus. Nos statut eiusd' W. compacientes in hac part, Deed ' vobis potest' & plen author Attorn̄ vel attorn̄ quem vel quos idem W. C. ad warrant' vocand' lucrand' vel ꝑdend' in placito praedicto coram Iustic' nostris praedict' loco suo coram vobis ponere aut constituere volverit recipiend', Nosque inde in Cancel' nostra de nomine huiusmodi Atturn̄ vel Atturnatorum debite certificand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad praefat' W. C. si commod' add vos laborare non sufficit personaliter accedatis, Attornnque suum vel Attorn̄ suos coniunctim vel divisim in forma praed' recipiatis. Et cum Attorn̄ illum vel Atturn̄ illos sic receperitis, nos inde in Canc' nostra in xv. S. Hillarij ubicunque tunc fuerit sub sigillo vestro debite certificetis, hoc breve nobis remittentes T. etc. It is returned thus. Respond' infranominat R. R. ad hoc breve. Execuc' istius brevis patet in quadam schedula. Huic brevi annex' R. R. Salop' ss. PRaecipe G. T. militi domin' T. quoth just etc. reddat W. S. et R. C. manner de W. cum pertinentijs ac unum mesuag' etc. (ut supra in le Dedimus potestatem verbatim) cum pertinent in W. & L. quae damant etc. Salop' ss. VOc' add warr' po. lo. suo, A. B. et F. R. coniunctim & divisim versus W. S. et R. C. de placito terrae. ¶ Captain et recogn' apud Firbeck in come Eborum decimo die Februarij, Anno Regni dominae nostrae Eliz. etc. 36. Ra. Ro. Dedimus potestatem de attorn' rec' in brevi de ingressu super disseisinam in le post pro tenent'. REx dilecto et fideli suo H. W. militi, Salutem. Cum per breve Sect. 16. nostrum de ingressu super disseisinam in le post pendens coram lustic' nostris de communi banco nostro in't H. D. et T. H. de xx. acris terrae tribus acris prati et xii. acris pasture cum p●●nentijs in M. in comitatu N. Et quia idem T. adeo impor●ns ●●●●nio confectus existit quod absque maximo corporis su● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●usticiar' no●●ris praedictis ad diem in dicto 〈◊〉 no●●re 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non sufficit, ut accepimus. Nos statui eiusdem T. p●e 〈◊〉 in hac part, dedimus vobis plenam pot●statem & aucthoritatem attorn̄ vel atternatos coniunctim vel divisim, quem, vel quos idem T. ad lucrand' vel perdend' in placito praedict', coram lusti● nostris praedict' loco suo coram vobis ponere aut constituere volverit recipiend', nosque inde in Canc' nostra de nomine huiusmodi attorn̄ vel attornatorum debite certificand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad praefat' T. si commode ad vos laborare non sufficiat person●liter accedatis, attorantumque suum vel atturantos suos coniunctim et divisim in forma praedict' recipiat. Et nos in Canc' nostra de nomine huiusmodi attorn̄ vel attornatorum ipsius T. in Crast, Sancti I. proxim' futur' ubicunque tunc fuerit sub sigillo vestro debite certificetis hoc breve nobis remittentes, T. xxv. die Aprilis Anno regni Reginae etc. It is returned thus. REspondend' infranominat H. W. ad hoc breve, execuc ' istius brevis patet in quadam schedula huic brevi annex'. H. W. Nott̄. ss. PRaecipe T. H. quod just etc. reddat H. D. 20. acras terrae etc. ut supra in le Dedimus potestatem verbatim, cum pertinentijs in M. quae damat etc. Nott̄. ss. T. H. po. lo. suo A. B. et F. R. coniunctim & divisim versus H. D. de placito terrae. ¶ Capta et cognit apud Firbecke in come Ebor' decimo die Februarij, Anno regni dominae nostrae Eliz. etc. 36. H. W. Aliud breve de Ded ' potest' rec' attorn' ten' super breve de ingressu. REx reverendo in Christo patri Cuthberto Episcopo D. et W. B. Salutem. Sect. 17. Cum breve nostrum de ingressu super disseisinam in le post pendeat coram Iustic' nostris de Banco inter A. B. milit petentem & C. D. armig' tenentem de quarta part Manerij de F. cum pertin' ac 800. acris terre, 20. acris prati, 220. acris pastur', 300. acris bosci, & quadragint libris redd' cum pertin' in F. praedict' in come Essex. Et quia idem C. adeo impotens sui & senio confectus existit, quod absque maximo corporis sui periculo usque Westm ad diem in dicto brevi content̄ ad personaliter comparend' & ad id quod in eod' tunc ibidem fier̄ expediens foret faciend' & agend', laborare non sufficit, ut accepimus, Nos stat eiusdem C. compacientes in hac part Dedimus vobis & utrique vr̄m coniunctim et divisim plenam potestatem et aucthoritatem recipiendi Attorn̄ vel Attorn̄ praedicti C. quem vel quos idem C. personalit cor vobis vel uno vr̄m versus praef. A. in brevi praedict' pendent coram praef. Iustic' nostris loco suo ponere, attornare, vel constituere volverit ad placita placitand', warr' vocand', lucrand' vel perdend' in brevi illo. Et ideo vobis & utrique vr̄m coniunctim et divisim mandamus quod ad praefar̄ C. si commode ad vos laborare non sufficiat, personalit accedentes, attorn̄ vel attornat quem vel quos idem C. personalit cor vobis vel uno vr̄m in brevi praedict' doram praef. Iustic' nostris pendent versus praef. A. ad placita ibidem ad praef. terminum placitand' warr' vocand', lucrand', vel perdend', loco suo ponere, attorn̄ & constituere, volverit, recipiatis vel unus vestrum recipiat. Et cum attorn̄ vel attorn̄ huiusmodi sic receperitis, vel unus urum receperit, nos inde in. Cancellar' nostra de nomine vel nominibus huiusmodi attornati vel attorn̄ ipsius C. in Oct' Sancti Hill' prox' futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, sub sigillis vestris vel unius vr̄m debite certificetis vel unus vestrum certificet, hoc breve nobis remittentes, Teste etc. ✿ The form of a Recovery with single vowcher. PRaecipe S. H. quod reddat A. B. & C. D. 40. mesuagia cum pertinent in G. D. R. etc. Praed' S. H. ponit loco suo R. F. & T. N. coniunctim & divisim versus praed' A. B. & C. D. in placito terre. W. A. quem predict S. H. vocat' ad warrantiam ponit loco suo G. M. et T. F. coniunctim & divisum versus praedict' A. B. & C. D. in placito terre. Praedict' A. B. et C. D. ponunt loco suo R. C. et F. C. coniunctim et divisim verse. praed' S. H. in placito terre. A common Recovery had by diverse, against one, of diverse manors etc. within the County Palentine of Chester, before the judges of the shires or counties. DE placitis Com̄ Cestriae apud Cestriam coram T. E. armig ' Sect. 18. filio T. E. milit Iustic' dni Regisibm die Martis proxim' post festum exaltacionis sanctae Crucis anno regni regis Henrici octavi post conquestum Angliae octavo. R. E. miles, P. D. miles I,. S. filius & heres apparens T. S. de W. T. S. filius & heres apparens R. S. de S. et G. L. Capellanus, per T. B. attornat suum in cur' domini regis hic petunt verse. H. S. de O. arm manner de O. alias O. cum pertinent' & 14. mesuagia etc. ut ius et hereditatem suam, et in quae idem H. non habet ingr̄m nisi post disseisinam quam Tho. cut inde injust et sine judicio fecerit praefat' R. P. I. T. et G. post quam johannes Scoticus factus fuit comes Cestriae etc. Et unde ijdem R. P. I. T. et G. dicunt quod ipsimet fuer' seseit de eisdem manerijs mesuag', terris, prat, pasturis, boscis, turbar, mosset, et reddit' cum pertinent etc. in dominico suo ut de feodo tempore pacis, tempore domini regis nunc capiend' inde expleciones ad valenc' etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam. Et praedict' H. S. arm' in propria persona sua venit et defendit ius suum quando vocat ad warrant T. N. qui praesens est hic in cur' in propria persona sua & gratis eid' H. S. manerium messuag', terr', tenement', prat, pastur', bosc', turbar', mosset, & reddit', et medietatem manerij de E. superius petit cum pertinent warrantizat. Et super hoc praed' R. P. I. T. et G. petunt versus eunden T. N. tenement' per warrant svam praed' manner messuagia etc. et medietatem manerii de E. cum pertinent in forma praed' &c. et unde dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisit de eisdem maneri●● messuag', terr'. prat, pastur', bosco, turbar, mosset, reddit', & medietatem manerij de E. cum pertinent' in dominico suo ut de feodo, tempore pacis tempore dict' domini regis nunc capiend' inde expleciones ad valenc' etc. & in quae etc. Et inde producunt Sectam. Et praedict' T. N. tenens per warrant' suam defend' ius suum quando etc. et dicit quod praedict' T. C. non dissesivit praefat' R. P. I. T. et G. de praedict' maner', messuag', terr', prat, pasturis, bosc', turbar, mosset, & reddit', & medietat manerij de E. superius petit cum pertinentiis modo & forma prout praedict' R. P. I. T. & G. per breve & narrationem suam praedict' supponunt etc. Et praed' R. E. P. D. I. T. & G. petunt licenc' inde interloquen di hic etc. & habent. Posteaque isto eodem come hic etc. praed' R. P. I. T. & G. per Atturna● suum praedict' reven in cur' domini Regis etc. Et praedict' T. N. tenent per warr' suam licet solemniter exact' non revenit sed in contempt cur' hic recessit & default fecit. Ideo considerat̄ est per juratores come praed' quoth praed' R. E. P. D. I. T. & G. recuperarent seisinam suam versus praedict' H. S. de praedict' Man, messuag', terr', prat, pastur', bosc', turbar mosset reddit' & medietat manerij de E. superius petit cum pertinentijs. Et quod idem H. habeat de terra praed' T. N. ad valenc'. Etidem T. N. in miserecordia. A common Recovery by diverse before the justice of Chester and judges of the same County of a Manor etc. Tempore H. 8. DE placitis come Cestrie apud Cestriam coram T. E. are, Sect' 19 filio T. E. milit Iustic' domini Regis ibidem die martis in prima Septimana quadragessima, Ann Regis H. 8. 21. R. B. W. B. B. B. filii R. B. milit O. B. H. D. filius & heres R. D. armig ' defunct' D. D. de E. & R. C. capellanus per Th. B. atturnat suum in curia domini Regis hic petunt versus R. D. capellan & T. H. de civitate C. manner de W. cum pertinentijs 30. mesuag' unum molendinum aquaticum 500 acr terre, 400. acras prat, 200. acras pastur', 100 acras bosci, 20. acr turbarie, 40. acras terre aqua coopert, & xl. li. reddit' cum pertinent in W. & O. ut ius & hereditatem suam & in que ijdem R. & T. non habent ingressum nisi post disseisinam quam T. C. injust & sine judicio fecit prefat' R. W. B. etc. post quam I. Scoticus fact' fuit comes Cest ' etc. Et unde ijdem R. W. B, etc. dicunt quod ipsimet fuer' seisit de eisdem manner, mesuag' molendino ter●is prat pastur' bos● ' turbar terr' aqua coopert reddit' cum pertinent in dominico suo ut de feod' tempore ●pacis tempore dni regis, nunc capiend' inde expleciones ad valenc' etc. Et in que etc. & inde produc' sectam etc. Et praedict' R. D. & T. H. in proprijs personis suis ven' & defendunt ius suum quando etc. & vocant inde ad warrant W. M. arm qui presence est hic in curia in propria persona sua & gratis manner, mesuagium molendin terr', prat, pastur', bosc', turbar, terr' aquam coopert praedict' eidem R. D. & T. H. warrantiza● etc. Et super hoc praedict' R. W. B. etc. petunt versus ipsum W. M. arm tenemnt̄ per warrantiam suam, praedict' manerium, mesuag' molend' terr, prat, pastur', bosc', turbar, terr' aquam coopert & reddit' superius petit cum pertinent in forma praedict' &c. & unde dicunt quod ip simet fuerunt seisit de eisdem manner, mesuag', molendin, terr', prat, pastur', bosc', turbar, terr' aqua coopert & reddit' cum pertinent in dominico suo ut de feodo tempore pacis tempore dicti domini regis nunc capiend' inde expleciones ad valenc' etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam etc. Et praedict' W. M. armiger tenens per warrant' suam defendit ius suum quando etc. et vocat' inde ad warrantam Th. Needham qui presence est hic in cur' in propria persona sua et gratis manerium mesuag' molend' terr' prat, pastur', bosc', turbar, terr', aquam coopert & reddit' praedict' cum pertinent eidem W. M. warrantizat etc. Et super hoc praedict' R. W. B. etc. petunt versus ipsum Th. Needham tenent per warrant suam praedict' manner mesuag' molend' terr' prat, pastur', bosc', turbar', terr', aquam coopert & redd' superius petit cum pertinent in forma praed'. Et unde dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisit de eisdem manner mesuagijs molendin terr' prat, pastur', bosc', turbar', terr' aqua coopert̄ et reddit' superius petit cum pertinent' in dominico suo ut de feodo tempore pacis, tempore dict' domini Regis nunc capiend' inde expleciones ad valenc' etc. Et in quae etc. Et inde producunt sectam etc. Et praedict' Tho. Needham tenent per warrant' suam defendit ius suum quando etc. Et dic' quod praedict' Th. Cut non disseisivit praedict' R. W. B. etc. de manerio mesuagio, molendino terr' prat, pastur', bosc', turbar', aqua coopert et reddit' cum pertinent' modo & forma proutijdem R. W. B. etc. per breve & narrationem suam superius supponunt etc. Et praedict' R. W. B. etc. petunt licenciam inde interloquendi hic etc. Et habent etc. Postea quae isto eod' come hic etc. ijdem R. W. B. etc. per praedict' Atturnat suum reven in cur' domini regis etc. Et praedict' T. N. tenens per warrant' licet solempniter exact̄ non reuen̄ sed in contemptum curiae hic recessit et defal● fecit etc. Ideo concessum est per judicatores come praedict' quod praeđ R. W. B. recuperarent seisinam versus praed' R. D. & T. H. depraed' manerio messuagijs molendin, terr' prat, pastur', bosc', turbar', terr', aqua coopert, reddit', superius petit cum pertinent' etc. Et quod praed' R. D. & T. H. habeant de terr' praedict' W. M. ad valenc' etc. Et quod idem W. M. habeat de terris praedict' T. N. ad valenc' etc. Et idem T. N. in mina etc. The like common Recovery in the said County of Chester to the next before, and of the same manor and lands in the time of the said king. DE placitis come Cestriae apud Cestr' coram T. E. arm Sect. 20. filio T. B. milit Iustic' domini regis ibm' die Martis post festum decollacionis sancti johannis Baptistae, Anno regni Regis H. 8. post conquestum Angliae 21. R. B. de Cestr R. B. W. B. B. B. filii R. B. milit et O. B. per T. B. Atturnat suum in curia domini Regis hic petunt versus W. M. arm maner' de W. vigintitria mesuag' unum molendinum aquat trescent̄ acras terre viginti acr prati, centum acras pastur', quadriginta acras bosci, decem acr turbar & decem acras terre aqua coopert̄ cum pertin' in W. M. K. & W. ut ius & hereditat suam, & in que idem W. M. non habet ingressum nisi post disseisinam quam T. C. inde injust & sine judicio fecit prefat' R. R. W. B. & O. postquam I. Scotticus fact' fuit comes C. etc. Et unde ijdem R. R. W. etc. dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisit de eisdem manner, mesuagijs, molend', ter●, prat, pastur', bosc', turbar & terr' aqua coopert̄ cum pertinent in dominico suo ut de feodo tempore pacis tempore domini regis nunc, capiend' inde expleciones advalenc'. Et in que &c. Et inde producunt sect' etc. Et praeđ W. M. in propria persona sua venit & defendit ius suum quando etc. Et vocat inde ad warrantam T. N. qui presens est hic in cur' in propria persona sua & gratis eid' W. M. Man et tennta pnd' cum pertin' warrantizat. Et super hoc praed' R. R. W. etc. petunt versus ipsum T. N. tenent per warrantiam suam etc. Manner et tennta praed' superius petit cum pertinent in forma praed' &c. Et unde dicunt quod ipsimet fuerunt seisiti de eisd' tenntis cum pertin' in dnico suo ut de feodo tempore pacis, tempore dict' regis nunc capiend' inde expleciones advalenc' etc. Et in que &c. Et inde producunt sectam etc. Et praed' T. N. tenens per warrantiam svam defend', ius suum quando etc. Et dicit quod praed' T. C. non disseisivit pnd' R. R. W. etc. de tenntis praed' come pertin' modo & forma prout ipsi per breve & narracionem suas superius supponunt etc. Et praed' R. R. W. etc. petunt licenciam inde interloquendi hic etc. & habent &c. Posteaque isto eodem come hic etc. ijdem R. R. W. per Atturnat suum praed' reven in curia dni regis, Et praed' T. N. tenens ꝑ warrantiam suam licet solemniter exact' non reven, said in contempt curie hic recessit & defaltam fecit: Ideo concessum est per judicatores come praed' quod praedict' R. R. W. B. B. et O. recuperarent seisinam suam versus praed' W. M. de tenntis praed' superius petit cum pertin' etc. Et quod idem W. M. habeat de terris praed' T. N. ad valenc' etc. Et idem T. N. in misericordia etc. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY. Of Indictments and Offences. Of Indictments. AN Indictment is a bill or declaration Sect' 1. made in form of Law (for the benefit of the common wealth) of an accusation for some offence, either Criminal or Penal, exhibited unto jurors, and by their verdict found and presented to be true, before an Officer having power to punish the same offence. And such an Indictment is made to the end to compel the party accused to answer thereunto. In every indictment two things seem principally to be considered: First, the very offence, for reformation whereof thindictment is framed. And then the right form of the Indictment itself, according to the distinct quality of every several offence. Wherefore as in my treatise of Extraiudicial Symbolaeography, I have first discoursed bow Obligations spring of consent, & then disclosed the several forms of Instruments thereof: So in this I have thought good first briefly to unfold the sundry natures of Offences and defaults, and how they bind thoffender. And then to lay down the doctrine and several forms of Indictments concerning the same. Offence. AN offence therefore is a fact done unlawful and forbidden by nature Sect' 2. or Law, whether the same be in committing or omitting, whereof th'one for learning sake, may fitly be termed an offence, and tother a default, for in Law, thought is free from offence. Endeavour. But so is not endeavour many times, because therein, is guile and purpose Sect' 3. to offend. Offence private and public. ANd every offence is of thestate, public, or private, and is thereof Sect' 4. so termed. The description of both which offences, is drawn sometime from the manner of doing: but may perchance more fitly be taken from the object which is hurt, unless some think good to conjoin them both. Symphathie between the common wealth and her members. FOr certes, when a private person is offended, it cannot lightly be devied, Sect' 5. but that the common wealth is thereby also offended, and again, the common wealth being endamaged, how can it be chosen but every Subject thereof is also affected, as being a member of the same. So great a Sympathy and mutual suffering being in them, as between the head and members of a natural body. But in as much as some offences done, more merely respect private wealth, and some other more merely the weal public, those be termed private, and these public. Offence public and private. A Public offence, is a grievous fault committed against the common Sect' 6. wealth, A private offence is an offence against the wealth of a private person. Offences blind. EVery offence of his own nature maketh the offendor bound to the Sect' 7. common wealth, or to a private person, or to both, and not only they which actually commit offence, but they also which command, persuade, counsel, procure, abbet, aid or consent that an offence be perpetrated or conceal it being done, are censured to offend. Offences named and unnamed. ANd offences are either named or unnamed. Sect' 8. Offences named be such offences as have certain names in Law. Ofences unnamed. Unnamed offences be those which albeit they been committed, yet Sect. 9 have they no certain name set forth in our law, whereby they may be called. Offences named. Again offences named be either our own or other men's faults, by Sect' 10. which we are bound, and they have a certain name in law, whereby to be termed. Offences simple. Our own proper offences be either simple or mixed. Sect' 11. Our simple offences be such as be committed by our own sayings or deeds, Offences mixed. ANd the mixed be those which be committed by words and deeds both Sect' 12. together. Offences by word. Offence by sayings only, be they by which the mind, dignity, or Sect' 13. fame of an other man (which is compared to life) is hurt & not his body, & these are also done by counsel or by contumelious words. Counsel. BY Counsel, as through wicked persuasion. Wicked persuasion is fraudulent counsel given to any, whereby Sect' 14. his mind is corrupted and made worse to do or attempt any thing naughtily: which yet doth not induce necessity to do the thing, though it bind him that giveth such counsel. Offence by contumelious words. ANd offence or crime by words, is when through perverse words, Sect' 15. the good name, credit, or dignity of a man is impaired. Slander. ANd it is either by voice or writing, and is called Slander, which Sect' 16. is either against God or man. Slander against God. Slander against God, is whereby the Majesty divine is evil spoken Sect' 17. off. Of this sort be blasphemy, Magic, Heresy, Apostasy, and Perjury. Blasphemy. Blasphemy is a wicked saying, or slander pronounced against God, Sect' 18. touching his essence or word revealed. Magic. MAgitions be those which by uttering of certain superstitious words Sect' 19 conceived, adventure to attempt things above the course of nature, by bringing forth dead men's ghosts as they falsely pretended, in showing of things either secret or in places far off, & in showing them in any shape or likeness. These wicked persons by oath or writing written with their own blood, having betaken themselves to the devil, have forsaken God, & broken their covenant made in baptism, and detest the benefits thereof, and worship the devil only. And settling their whole hope in him, do execute his commandments, and being dead, commend both their bodies and souls unto him. South saying wizards. OF this kind of Magicians be all those which ensue, as Soothsayers Sect' 20. or Wizards which divine & foretell things to come & raise up evil spirits by certain superstitious & conceived forms of words. And unto such questions as be demanded of them, do answer by voice, or else set before their eyes in glasses, crystal stones, or rings, the pictures or images of things sought for. Divination. THe professors of ●hart of Divination which be puffed up with prophesing Sect' 21. spirits. And can manifest who hath stolen things, and tell where things lost or stolen be. juggling. IVglers and slighty Curers of diseases which for the curing of all Sect' 22. sicknesses and sores of man and beast, use either certain superstitious words or writings called charms or spells hanged about the neck or some other part of the body. Inchaunting and Charming. Enchanters or Charmers through certain words pronounced and characters Sect. 23. or images, herbs, or other things applied, think they can do what they list, the devil so deceiveth them, or in very deed dispatcheth those things which the Inchantors would have done, from these somewhat differ witches or hags, & Augurers or Soothsayers by birds, di●●ors by seeing thentrails of beasts sacrificed. Witchery. A Witch or hag is she which being eluded by a league made with Sect' 24. the devil through his persuasion, inspiration and juggling thinketh she can design what manner of evil things soever, either by thought or imprication, as to shake the air with lightnings & thunder, to cause hail & tempests, to remove green corn or trees to an other place, to be carried of her familiar which hath taken upon him the deceitful shape of a goat, swine, or calf etc. into some mountain far distant, in a wonderful short space of time. And sometimes to fly upon a staff or fork, or some other instrument. And to spend all the night after with her sweet hart, in playing, sporting, bankqueting, dancing, dalliance, and diverse other devilish lusts, and lewd desports, & to show a thousand such monstruous mockeries. Heresy. Heresy, is a resolute & obstinate error in some article of our christian Sect' 25. faith, 1. Timo. 4. 1. 2. Peter 2. 1. 1. Cor. 11. 19 Rom. 16. 17. Anabaptisme. AMongst Heretics are numbered, Anabaptists, which wickedly iterate Sect' 26. holy baptism, which heinous offence is very grievous, as by which the Majesty of almighty God, and the promise which in the first baptism was effectual, are violated. Apostasy. Apostasy followeth, which is a forsaking of the Christian faith. Sect' 27. And Apostasy happeneth two ways, either when any man partly reuoulteth from true religion into a wicked sect retaining still the name and title of Christianisme, or when the contrary side of the jews or Pagans so please him, that he wholly forsaketh the profession of the Christian both in name and substance. Perjury. Perjury, is a lie affirmed by oath. Sect' 1. So much of slanderous speeches, against God. Slander against man by word. A Slander against man is an injury done to him by words or writings. Sect' 29. By words when any thing is said or done by words to the contempt or reproach of an other. By writing. I Niurie by writing is done by a slanderous libel or picture. Sect' 30. By libel. A Slanderous libel, is when a libel, epigram, rhyme or other writing Sect' 31. is produced, written or composed to the note or contumely of any man, or the same procured to be bought or sold, that by that means the dignity or fame of an other man may be hurt. By Picture. AN infamous or slaunderots picture, is when any man to his infamy Sect' 32. or ignominy is painted in any infamous or dishonest habit or sort, as hanging upon the gallows, or in some evil place or manner. We have showed th'offences committed by words, by which a man's name or dignity is harmed: let us now hasten to those which are done by deeds. Offences by deeds. And they be said to be done by deed, not because they are not also Sect' 33. done of mind and purpose: but for that they chief consist in the fact without which it may uneath be judged of their punishment. And for that such offences are not perpetrated against the mind, but the body either of man or his goods, whether it be done mediately or immediately. Offences by deeds either altogether destroy a thing, or at the least impair the same. Destruction. DEstruction is the utter kill or corrupting of things. And it is either of a fact permanent and apparent: or transitory, Sect' 34. and during but a little while. Facts Permanent. A Permanent fact, is that whose very steps or prints abide, & are Sect' 35. to be seen after th'offence done: of this kind be slaughter & burning. Slaughter. SLaughter is a killing done by any means, and it is either of man Sect' 36. or beast. Homicide. THe slaughter of Man is called Homicide, which is every taking away Sect' 37. of life from any person bond or free, by man done with violence by which the sole is severed from the body, by what manner of means so ever it chance, whether by sword, staff, or other weapon, or by venom or poison, the cause of death be given. Voluntary. HOmicide is either voluntary or casual. Sect' 38. Homicide voluntary is that which is deliberate and committed of a set mind and purpose to kill. Malicious. HOmicide voluntary is either without precedent malice or with Sect. 39 precedent malice. Of homicides voluntary without malice precedent, some are commanded, and some tolerated by law, and others forbidden. Commanded. HOmicides voluntary commanded by law are such as are done either Sect' 40. for justice sake, or upon urgent necessity. For justice. HOmicide for justice sake, is thinflicting of ordinary punishment Sect' 41. upon heinous offenders by death, which is dispunishable, yet in this case it behoveth the judge and other officers to be free from desire of blood and private revenge. Necessary. HOmicide upon necessity is either in the due & orderly execution of Sect' 42. justice, as the kill of thoffenders in felony which resist or fly officers having warrant to arrest, or detain them, or persons pursuing them with hue and cry, or riotors resisting justices of the peace, which come to arrest them, or prisoners resisting their gailors, if such offenders cannot otherwise be attached or holden. So is it of persons riotously assembled resisting persons authorized to apprehend them, 1. Mar. ca 1▪ 2. And likewise of offenders in parks, forests, and warrens, resisting or flying away after hue and cry, 21. Ed. 1. and Burglers and Robbers all which homicides are dispunishable, 26. Ass. 32. and divers other in like cases by sundry statutes. Se defendendo. HOmicide upon necessity in ones own defence is termed Se defendendo, Sect' 43. & is where any man being assaulted by any other, flieth so far as he can without enevitable danger of death, & then in defending himself killeth his adversary, yet for this offence he looseth his goods, & must procure pardon for his life, Glouc▪ cap. 9 43. Ass. 31. Forbidden. HOmicides voluntary forbidden by Law, without precedent malice Sect' 44. is manslaughter or homicide, or by chance medley, which is where two men void of all former malice and evil will, meeting together by chance, & upon sudden falling out, th'one of them killeth tother with violence neither for justice, nor in case of necessity, Blow. f. 100 & 101. 21. H. 7. fol. 23. Homicide malicious. THus much of voluntary homicides without malice precedent, now Sect. 45. of homicide voluntary of malice proceeding which is termed murder, & is the felonious kill through malice prepensed of any person living in this Realm under the Queen's protection. Of a man's self. ANd it is either of himself, or of another. Homicide of the party himself, is termed felo de se. And is Sect. 46. where any man of hatred conceived against himself, doth desperately, wilfully and feloniously kill or destroy himself by hanging, drowning, poisoning or otherwise. Murder. MVrder of others then the self party, is the like wilful and felonious Sect. 47. killing of any other of premeditate malice. And if thoffender did owe by Law unto the party slain any civil obedience, it is in some cases termed petty treason. As if the wife kill her husband, the servant his Master or Mistress, or a Clerk his Ordinary by reason of the reciprocal trust, and loyalty which the law requireth between such persons, and this offence is therefore far more heinous than any of tother of homicides. Homicide casual. THus briefly of Homicides willingly done, Homicide casual which Sect. 48. may also be termed, Homicide by mischance, misfortune, or misadventure, is when he that killeth an other, had no will, intent, mind, or purpose so to do, or the▪ man is slain by some other thing then a man. In which case th●ffender is to have his pardon of course for life & land, but yet must lose his goods. And this homicide is either mearely casual or mixed. By Chance. HOmicide by mere chance, is when by mere fortune against the Sect. 49. mind of the killer, a man is slain. As if one hewing, the are flieth of the shaft and kill one, or if a man lopping a tree warneth the bystanders, that the tree is ready to fall, and yet by the same some of them is slain, or in throwing tiles from an house or such other lawful acts, or the party is killed by some other thing than man by misfortune, as by falling from an horse or cart, by a stroke of an horse or any other movable thing than man, In which case the thing which killed him, and all things that moved the same are forfeited to the Queen, and termed a Deodand, as if a cart wheel go over a man and kill him, the wheel, cart, and all things therein, and the horses that drew the same, be all Deodans, 3. E. 3. undeversus. Omnia quae movent ad mortem, sunt Deodanda. Dyer fo. 78. pl. 37. Mixed. Mixed is when the killers ignorance, or negligence is joined with Sect. 50. the chance, as if a man lop trees by an high way side, by which many usually travail and cast down a bough not giving warning to take heed thereof, by which bough one passing by, is slain, in case he offendeth because he gave no warning that the party might have taken heed to himself. Thus you see the divers kinds of Manslaughter. Slaughter of beasts. THe slaughter of beasts followeth by what mean soever it cometh, Sect. 51. which is a damage done by injury and wrong, guile or default against the Law, which might or aught to have been taken heed of. Of this offence springeth an action to the owner of the beast according as the value thereof shall be esteemed by a jury. Burning. THus far of slaughters of man and beast: burning ensueth which Sect. 52. is also felony, as the wilful burning of a dwelling house, 3. H. 7. 10. And burning of a barn adjoining to a dwelling house by night, 11. H. 7. fol. 1. And burning of a barn with corn not adjoining to a dwelling house by day. Offences transitory. ANd these concerning offences of continuing facts, those follow Sect. 53. which are of transitory or momentary facts, as unlawful copulation, burglary and theft. Adultery and fornication. Unlawful copulation, is every carnal conjunction had out of Sect. 54. lawful matrimony, and it is termed fornication or adultery, which is first either natural or against nature, and either voluntary or violent. Fornication naturally committed, is between man and woman, which if it be perpetrated between kinsfolks, is said to be incest. Copulation vilent is termed a rape or ravishment of a woman against her will, which is carnal knowledge had of a woman, who never consented thereunto before the fact nor after, and this offence is felony in the principal and his aydors, 11. H. 4. 13. 1. E. 4. 1. Westm 2. cap. 13. And carnal abuse of a woman child, under x. years old is felony, 18. Eliz. cap. 6. Sodomy or buggery. COpulation against nature, is by male or female against nature, or Sect. 55. by female with female, or with beasts which is called▪ Sodomy or buggery, 25. H. 8. cap. 5. 5. Eliz. cap. 17. which be felony. Burglary. BVrglarie is a felonious entering into an other man's dwelling house Sect. 56. wherein some person is, or into a Church, in the night time, to the end to commit some felony therein, as to kill some man, or to steal somewhat thence, or to do some other such felonious act there, albeit he execute not the same, if th'intent or fact of this offender be to steal, this is like robbery, If to murder, it differeth not much from murderers, & so of other felonies. Houserobbing. THe offence against the Statutes of 23. H. 8. cap. 1. and 3. Edw. 6. Sect. 67. cap. 9 somewhat resemble this, for by them it is ordained, that if any person do rob another in any part of his dwelling place, or in his booth, or tent, in any fair or market, and the owner of his wife, children or servants being within the same, he committeth felony. Theft. THeft ensueth, in which not so much the destruction of a thing, as Sect. 58. the taking away of the same chanceth. Theft is an unlawful felonious taking away of another man's movable personal goods, against the owners will, with intent to steal them. And it is from the person, or in presence of the owner, or in his absence. From the person. THeft from the owner's person or presence, is of two sorts, th'one Sect. 59 putting thowner in fear, tother not. Robbery. Robbery is a felonious taking away of another man's goods, from Sect. 60. his person, or presence, against his will, putting him in fear and of purpose to steal the same goods. And this robbery is sometime termed violent theft, because the party is in the law thereby terrified. Without fear. THeft from thowners'owner's person, not putting him in fear, is by cutting Sect. 61 or picking his purse, and stealing the money, or purse, or both: this is done slightly, without the owner's fear and privity, But to perfect this offence, an actual possession of the thing taken once severed from the person of the owner, seemeth necessary in the offendor, and that the thing stolen, exceed the value of xii. pence. Theft of goods in the owner's absence, is termed Larceny, which is nothing else but a felonious and fraudulent taking away of another man's movable personal goods, not being upon the person of the owner, nor in his presence. And Larciny in respect of the things stolen, is either great or small: For great Larciny is, when the things stolen though they be taken at several times exceed the value of xii. d. And petty Larcinie is, when the goods so taken exceed not the value of xii. d. Hurting and violence. NOw then crimes coming from the destruction of things, being Sect. 62. thus hastily run over. Let us step on to tother which have their name of the hurting of the thing, and violent hurting destroyeth not the body, but harmeth and anoyeth it, and maketh either the body, or the state and condition thereof worse. Hurts to the body of the common wealth, as treasons. ANd through certain offences is hurt to the common wealth immediately, Sect. 63. and always, or the members thereof. The common wealth is hurt either in respect of the amplitude and majesty thereof, or of the profit and commodity thereof, which is hindered or intercepted. When the Amplitude and majesty thereof is harmed, the offence is called treason. And these treasons be high treason, or petty treason: High treason is, when th'offence is done against the security of the common wealth or of the Queen's most excellent Majesty, who is the true and undoubted Sovereign and chief head thereof: whether it be by imagination, word, or deed, as to compass or imagine Treason, or the death of the Prince, or of the Queen his wife, or his Son and heir apparent, or to deflower the kings wife, or his eldest daughter unmarried, or his eldest sons wife, or levy war against the King in his Realm, or to adhere to his enemies, aiding them, or to counterfeit the King's great seal, privy seal, or money, or wittingly to bring false money into this Realm, counterfeited like unto the money of England, and utter the same. Or to kill the kings Chancellor, Treasurer, justice of th'one bench or of the other, justices in Eire, justices of Assize, justices of Oyer and Terminer being in his place and doing of his Office, 25. Ed. 3. cap. 2. Forging of the king's sign Manuel, or privy signet, privy seal, or foreign coin currant within this Realm, 2. Mar. cap. 6. Diminishing or impairing of money currant, 2. Eliz. cap. 11. & 18. Eliz. cap. 1. The second offence in refusing the oath of supremacy, 5. Eliz. cap. 1. Or the compass to deprive the Q. of her crown, 1. Eliz. cap. 6. Or to destroy the Queen, 1. Eliz. cap. 6. Or to levy war within the realm against the Queen, 1. El. ca 6. Or to affirm that the Queen or the heirs of her body, is not or ought not to be Queen of England, or that any other aught, 1. Eliz. cap. 6. Or intending the bodily harm of the Q. 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to levy war against the Queen. 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to move foreign invasions of this Realm, 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to declare, that the Queen is not Queen, 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to declare that any other aught, etc. 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to affirm the Q. to he an Heretic, Schismatic, tyrant, infidel, or usurpor of the crown, 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to claim the crown after the Queen, 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to affirm that the common Laws or statutes cannot bind the right of the crown, 13. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to maintain the authority of the Bishop of Rome, 5. Elizab. cap. 1. Or to obtain any Bull from Rome, 13. Eliz. cap. 2. Or to give, take or promise absolution thereby, 13. Eliz. cap. 2. Or to conspire to enlarge any imprisoned by the Queen's commandment for treason touching her person or suspicion thereof, 14. Eliz. cap. 2. Or to withhold any of the Queen's Castles, or holds, 14. Eliz. cap. 1. Or any of her ships or ordinance of war, 14. Eliz. cap. 1. Or not to render the same Castles, within six days after proclamation, 14. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to destroy any of the Queen's ships, 14. Eliz. cap. 1. Or to bar any of the Queen's havens, 14 Eliz. cap. 1. Or to persuade any subject from natural obedience, or Religion: or to the obedience of any other, or to be so persuaded, 23. Eliz. cap. 1. Or for jesuits to come into, or be in this Realm, 27. El. ca 2. Or to be a Seminary, and not return into this Religion, within in six months after proclamation, and take the oath of allegiance, 27. Eliz. cap. 2. It is also to be noted, that all manner of accessaries to the several treaons above mentioned, are guilty of high treason. Or of misprision of treason, which is the concealment or not disclosing of known treason: for which thoffenders are to suffer imprisonment during the Queen's pleasure, lose their goods, and the profit of their lands during their lives, 2. R. 3. fol. 9 Offences hindering the commodity of the common wealth. NOw succeed th'offences which hinder the commodity of the common Sect. 64. wealth. The profit of the common wealth is hindered divers ways, as by forestall, engrossing, regrating, by idleness of apprentices, artificers, and servants, decaying of the breed of beasts, destroying of fish, by conspiracies of artificers and chapmen, by not destroying of vermin, as Foxes, Bawsons', Crows, Choughes etc. Or by making or uttering any stuff, victuals, or wares deceitful, corrupt, or insufficient, by not observing due weights, & measures, or by transporting of things needful in England, as raw hides, tallow, wool, lead, corn or grain, by erecting of cottages, and breeding of exceeding many poor people, and by sundry other means, as plainly appeareth by sundry statutes and ordinances made for reformation thereof. Of all which particularly to discourse, would occupy more time than I have now determined to bestow about the same. Forestall, is the buying or bargaining for any victuals or wares, coming to be sold towards any fair or market: Or from beyond the seas towards any city, port, haven, creak, or road of this Realm, and before the same be there. Or the moving of any person to enhance the price of the same victuals or wares, or the dissuading to bring it thither to be sold, 5. Ed. 6. cap. 14. 5. Eliz. cap. 12. 13. Eliz. cap. 25. Regrating, is the buying and selling of any wares or victuals in the same market, or fair, or within four miles thereof. 5. Edw. 6. cap. 14. 5. El. ca 12. 13. Eliz. cap. 25. Engrossing, is buying of Corn growing, or dead victual to sell again: except barley or malt, Oats for Oatmeal, and victuals to retail, badging by licence, and buying of Oils, Spices, and victuals, other than fish and salt. 5. Edw. 6. cap. 14. 5. Eliz. cap. 14. 13. Eliz. cap. 25. Offences against Subjects. IN these few, have we touched such offences as immediately, and always Sect. 65. are committed against the common wealth itself: now will we entreat of those which always for the most part are perpetrated violently against the inferior members of the same (that is to say) either private men themselves, or their goods, which are effected partly by force, and partly without force. Force is an offence by which violence is used to things or persons. And force is either simple or mixed. Simple force is that which is so committed, that it hath none other crime adjoined unto it. As if one by force only entereth into another man's possession, without doing any other unlawful act there. Mixed force is that violence, which is committed with such a fact, as of itself only is criminal: as if any by force enter into another's possession, and kill a man, or ravish a woman there etc. And those offences which are achieved with force, are done by true force, or by force after a certain sort. Those offences which are finished by true force, are either done by men assembled, or without men assembled. And force with men assembled is private or public. Private force is when any with weapons by men assembled, doth invade the goods or body of another, As trespass by entering into ground, or taking his cattle, or other goods, imprisoning of a man's body, or beating of him with ones fist, or rescues of a trespass, pound breach, or otherwise without weapon and such like. Public force is that violence which is done by any men assembled with any kind of weapon whatsoever, as by forcible entry, keeping of possession of Benefices, Chapels, houses, or lands, or offices, unlawful assemblies, routs, riots, rebellions against etc. 1. Mar. cap. 12. 1. Eliz. cap. 17. A forcible entry is a violent actual entry into a house, or land etc. or taking a distress of any person weaponed. Whether he offer violence or fear of hurt to any there, or furiously drive any out of the possession thereof, 5. R. 2. cap. 7. 15. R. 2. cap. 2. 8. H. 6. cap. 7. A forcible detaining or withholding of a possession, is a violent act of resistance by strong hand of men weaponed with harness or other action of fear in the same place or else where, by which the lawful entry of justices or others is barred or hindered, 29. Ass. 49. An unlawful assembly, is the meeting of three, or more persons together, with force to commit some unlawful act, and abiding still, not endeavouring the execution thereof, as to assault or beat any person, or enter into his house or land etc. A rout is an assembly of three persons or more, going on about forcibly to commit an unlawful act, but yet do it not. Brooke tit. Riot, 4. 5. A Riot is the forcible doing of an unlawful act by three, or more persons assembled together for that purpose. A rebellious assembly, is an assembly of twelve persons or more intending, going about, practising, or putting in ure unlawfully of their own authority to change any Laws, or Statutes of this Realm, or to destroy thenclosure of any Park, or ground enclosed, or the banks of any fishponds, pale, or conduit, to th'intent the same shall remain void, or to the intent unlawfully to have common or way in any of the said grounds, or to destroy the Dear in any park, or any warren of Coneys, or dovehouses, or fish in any pond, or any house, barns, mills, or bay, or to burn stacks of corn, or to abaterents, or prices of victuals, 1. Mar. 12. cap. 1. Eliz. cap. 17. Also by the same statutes an unlawful assembly may be of persons above the number of two: but that offence is neither so heinous, nor so sharply to be punished. It followeth how force may be committed without a multitude. This kind of force comprehendeth every harm, hurt, damage, loss, hindrance, and danger besides death, happening to any good, quick or dead, movable or unmovable, or to men, either culpa or dolo, that is negligently or unwittingly, or guilefully or of set purpose, whether it be assaulting, beating, wounding, maiming, or hurting, bruising, or impairing of the body of man or beast by any means: Or the bruising, breaking or impairing of any other thing whatsoever without a multitude, also breaking of prisons, to escape thence, breaking of houses to steal something thence, or to do some felony there, which being in the night is termed Burglary, whereof we have spoken before entreating of theft. In this rank also may be placed the pulling up or removing of meres, bounds, or marks, set for the dividing of one man's land from another's, and many other such trespasses wherein is none apparent force or terror, as to hawk, hunt, fish, or fowl, or to cut, eat, tread or foil grass in another man's soil unlawfully, 11. Ass. 16. 11. H. 8. 4. 16. 21. E. 3. 34. Hitherto of offences done by true force indeed: now of such as are not properly done with force & violence, but by intendment of the law only: of which sort be bribery, extortion, exaction, private imprisonment, and certain other like misdemeanours. Those offences of bribery, extortion, and exaction, are committed when any for fear of his judgement, office, or other power, or authority, or for any other terror exacteth, extorteth, and wringeth money or other things from another man, as Sheriffs, Coroners, or other Officers, Auditors, receivers, Escheators, custos brevium, Chirografers of fines, Admirals, Marshals, Criers, Majors, Bailiffs, Clarks, Wardens of fellowships, judges, Bishops, Ordinaries, or other Officers whatsoever for reformation of which, see the several statutes thereof, in that behalf provided. To this crew as it seemeth, may be referred the exaction of unlawful usury: which is taking of any thing of any man for the lone, or giving day of payment of money, 37. H. 8. cap. 9 13. Eliz. cap. 10. And all unlawful games, which be all games, but shooting, 33. H. 8. cap. 9 And every other taking of more than is due by colour or pretence of right, as the taking of excessive toll by millers, or others, or of excessive prizes for ale, bread, victuals, wares or other things. Offences springing from words and deeds. SO much then of single offences, springing from only words, or only Sect' 66. deeds. Now follow those which issue from both together, as those which arise from the crime of falsehood. The offence of falsehood is a guileful and fraudulent imitation of the truth against the law, and it is committed either by word or by deed. Falsehood by word, is by lying, as if any man should feign unto himself a false name or surname, or say, he is another man than he is, to deceive some other: or by perjury which is a lie affirmed by oath. Falsehood by deed is as if a man write or sign a false testament, or falsely set down therein some legacy or trust to himself, without the mind of the testator, or if a man make a false deed, or account, or other instrument, or if he bribe or corrupt a judge, or do raze, change, or corrupt any writing, to the defrauding of another man, or do convey, remove, or take away, suppress, conceal, or falsely sign a testament or counterfeit an other man's hand in writing, or to counterfeit or utter false money, or to adulterate, embase, shave, file, clip, wash, or impair the currant coin of England, or counterfeit the lands of magistrates, and certificates testimonials, or licences in their names, or to use false weights, measures, or standards not agreeable with the standard. To corrupt or suborn false witnesses. To make false accounts or reckonings. Hitherto may we refer maintenance, and champerty and suits, embracing or enueigling of jurors, forging of false and fraudulent writings, making of fraudulent feoffements, leases, & deeds of gift, or rather false grants, or conveyances of lands or goods, to defraud true creditors, fraudulent conspiring of any man's death, to avow & undertake upon one to defend other men's quarrels, to be patron to the causes of others, by lending of one's name for meed, or favour, of an offendor, or to vex, provoke, or revenge. Also falsely to collude in pleading, or to betray, or to lose his client's cause wittingly, or falsely discontinue & forsake his client's suit. Other men's offences, and how far they bind us. WE have entreated of our own offences: other men's succeed, Sect' 67. namely, when, and how far we are bound by them. And we are bound by other in offences, when we are tied by the faults of our family, or of our beasts. Our family offendeth by lying, or casting, or hanging of any thing in the high way, whereby it is stopped or hindered: which offence is called a Nuisance. We are bound by many trespasses of our wives, but not to sustain corporal punishment for their offences. Also if our beasts or cattle offend in eating other men's corn or grass, or in hurting or killing the beasts, or cattles of others, we are bound by it, or if our dogs, bears, or lions, bores, etc. hurt the goods or cattle of any other, we are bound thereby, for that we ought to govern them. Offences unnamed. Enough of named offences, it remaineth that we view those which be Sect' 68 unnamed. For when the variety of offences grew so manifold, that all could not be distinguished by special names, it was appointed that proper or special names aforesaid, failing, the offence of cozening, and deceit, should come in place. th'offence of cozening taketh place, if any thing be done by guile in, or out of contracts, which will not agree with any of the said offences, as if any use collusion or fraud towards the death, or defrauding of another, shifting or counterfeit ware into the place of others: or to exact a greater sum than is due, or a debt which is paid, or sell, or pledge any thing to two, severally at one time, or that thing which is another man's for his own, knowing it to be another man's: or to pledge copper, or other base metal for gold, or silver etc. Deceit is a subtle wily shift or devise having none other name. Hereunto may be drawn all manner of craft, subtlety, guile, fraud, wiliness, sleightness, cunning, covin, collusion, deceit, devise practice, & offence used to deceive an other man by any means which hath none other proper or particular name but offence. Of Indictments as remedies for the former diseases. THus have we rather slightly shadowed, then perfectly portrayed Sect' 69. the ugly shape of such enormous offences, as with their deformity most blemish the body of our beautiful, (otherwise flourishing) common wealth. Now therefore we are to show the ways how to prepare remedies for the same, which must be done by indictments, in which are chief to be eyed the matter and form. The matter or object of indictments in nothing else but the several offences and facts unlawful, before described, in which the very fact itself and the circumstances thereof are to be weighed. Touching th'offence or fact itself, we are here fully to regard the very nature & quality of th'offence, as whether it be treason, felony, trespass, deceit, or some other offence, & of what several ●●nd it is, & whether it be punishable by the common law, or by some penal statut, that the indictment thereupon may be framed accordingly. The circumstances of the fact are seven, that is to say, cause, person, time, place, quality, quantity, and event. Touching the cause of th'offence we are to weigh ●●●ther th'offence be of cause just or unjust: whether by chance or of malice & purpose, or upon a sudden, or by negligence, or by guile, which maketh some homicides lawful, some punishable, and that in several degrees. The person is in two sorts to be regarded, that is, as he is agent or patiented. For it is not all one for infants and men of full age, and for men Mad, Lunatics, and Idiots, to offend. And otherwise in many cases are they to be punished which offend God, the common wealth, Magistrates, or their Masters and superiors, than they which offend others. The time also in offences maketh difference between offences, as in Larceny and burglary. The place in like manner maketh the self same fact either theft, burglary, or sacrilege. By the consideration of the quality we discern whether an offence be heinous or not, & whether it stand in committing or omitting. The view of the quantity of th'offence showed us whether it be punishable by death or otherwise, & if by death, what manner of death, and regardeth the custom, or iteration thereof. The event looketh to the final cause, purpose, or issue, of the fact, whether it be casual, or voluntary. All which circumstances, are partly seen before, in the very handling of the offences: now let us look more specially into the form of the indictment. Of the form of Indictments. IN the form of every Indictment, besides the ordinary words of Sect' 70. form, precise certainty to every intent is to be as warily looked unto, as in declarations in civil suits & return of Sheriffs, 3. H. 7. fol. 11. & 12. 3. Ed. 4. 21. otherwise is the Indictment insufficient, for Indictments and appeals be the very base and foundation of every criminal controversy. This certainty consisteth, first in the name and surname of the party indicted, both principal and accessory. 2. In the certain name and surname of the party offended. 3. In the certainty of time, wherein the offence is done, as the certain day, year, yea, and many times the very hour is expressed. 4. In the place where th'offence is perpetrated. 5. In the very matter of the fact, & nature of th'offence committed, as whether it be treason, felony, trespass, deceit, penal statute etc. 6. In the name & value of the thing, in which th'offence is done. Unto the name of the party indicted must be united the addition of his estate, degree, or mystery, & the shire, & town hamlet, or place of his then, or late dwelling or commorans: all additions which signify any lawful estate, degree, or mister●, are good: whether they be of dignity by creation, as Duke, Marques, Earl, Vicont, Archbishop, Bishop, knight, sergeant at the law: or without creation, as Baron, Esquire, Gentleman, which are names of dignity without creation. Also Alderman, Doctor, Archdeacon, Deane, Parson, Parish clerk, Widow, singlewoman, be good additions of estate or degree: but farmer, servant, butler, etc. are not, for that they are common to gentlemen, yeomen etc. & so incertein, merchant, grocer, tailor, shoemaker, tanner, currier, broker, husbandman, ostler, haberdasher, miller, draper, goldsmith, butcher, chapman, labourer, spinster, and every other addition of any lawful occupations, be good additions of mystery. But neither Chancellor, Treasurer, Chamberlein, sheriff, coroner, elchetor, bailiff, archdeacon, deacon, prebendary, parson, nor such other names of dignity by reason (only of office) are good, but where such persons be charged for offence, by reason of their offices: nor citizen, for it neither nameth any mystery, art, nor degree: neither extortioner, bankrupt, rogue, vagabond, usurer, heretic, schismatic, dicer, bowler, carder, nor such like, being against the Law. If the place whereof thoffender is or was, be an hamlet, & there be divers hamlets in one town, he may be named either of the town or hamlet: but if it be only a place known a town, and not an hamlet, he must be named of the town, 13. H. 6. fo. 30. if the town where the offendor dwelleth beareth one self name with the parish, he may be named of either: but if there be 2. towns of one name, in one parish, he ought to be named of the parish 4. E. 4. fo. 129. 22. E. 4. fo. 22. & 22. H. 6. fo. 41. Alias dictus in Indictments is not necessary. Thaddition of the degree or mystery must be such, as the party hath at the very time of thindictments: but he may be termed nuper of any place whereof he hath been at any time before, but it is best to name him of the place of which he is or last was thus: Iurato● pro dna reg' presentnquam I. S. nuper de D. in come Essex husbandman etc. And further, the time of th'offence committed must be thus set down, as in personal actions 5. die Feb. anno regni dnae nostr' Eliz. dei gratia Angl' &c. And in some indictments, as of murder, & burglary, the very hour is to be expressed, as hora 6. ante merid' (if it were before noon) & post mer̄ (if it were after) eiusdem diei: if th'offence be committed after noon and before midnight, it must be laid in the same day: if after midnight, and before sun rising, then in the day following: and if the time be expressed by the year of our Lord God (as it may be) than the year beginneth with us evermore upon the 25. day of March: but in Indictments which present that a thing is omitted, or not done, there needeth no time of the not doing or omission thereof be set forth, as that a ditch was not scoured, by means whereof meadows be overflown, and such like. If a man be stricken or poisoned in one county, & dieth thereof in another county, thindictment may be in the county where the death happened 2. & 3. Eliz. ca 24. and if one become accessary in one County to a murder or other felony done in another, he may well be indicted in the county where he was accessary. He which robbeth in the county of D. & is taken with the manner in the county of S. may be indicted of theft where he is so apprehended, but not of robbery, but in the county where th'offence was done. The place is thus to be set down apud B. in comit' C. For it is not good to say in come predict ' referring to the name of the county written in the margin of thindictment: and the place of the offence is sometime more specially set down thus, apud B. in come C. in quodam loco ibidem vocat' the northclose etc. also it is to be regarded, that if a county be divided into several divisions, so that those which be justices in one division, be not justices in another division thereof, as the county of York, which is divided into 3. divisions, called ridings, as the westriding, eastriding, & northriding: it is requisite that it be expressed in thindictment, in which of the divisions or ridings th'offences happened, as apud R. in Westriding in come Ebor' in quodam loco ibid' vocat' the lodge etc. for the Commissions, whereby the justices of peace in such ridings are ordained, have in them such words, as follow, viz. Sciatis quod assignamus vos coniunctim & divisim, & quemlibet vestrum Iustic' n●os ad pacem nostram in partibus de Westriding in come nostro Eborum conseruandam etc. Mandamus enim tenore presentium vic' nostro Eborum quod ad illos dies & loca, que vos vel aliqui hmodi duo vel plures urmm, ut praed' est, scir feceritis venire coram vobis vel hmndi duobus vel pluribus vestrum, ut dictum est, tales probos & legales homines de partibus praedict' tam infra libertates quam extra, per quos rei veritas in premissis melius sciri poterit & inquiri &c. So that the power of such justices extendeth no further than to those ridings only in which they been so made justices, and therefore what is by them done otherwise is coram non judice, and void. Albeit the name of the person to whom th'offence is committed be in many cases required, yet an indictment quod defendens bona & catalla cuiusdam ignoti felonice cepit etc. in theft: or quendam ignotum felonice depredavit etc. in robbery, is good for the Queen's advantage of the forfeiture thereby accrueing, so is it as it seemeth quod vi & armis &c. insultum & affraiam in quendam ignotum fecit etc. Dier fol. 99 pag. 61. & 285. p. 38. But if the goods of a Church be taken away, the Indictment must be quod bona parochianorum in custodia gardianorum Ecclesiae de C. existent ceperunt, & asportaverunt &c. if the goods of a man be taken, who maketh his executors and dieth, the Indictment must be, bona testatoris etc. but if they be taken after the testators death, it shall be bona testatoris in custod' execut existent etc. A grave-stone is de bonis Ecclesiae, coat armour hanged over a tomb, be the goods of the dead man's executors: goods taken from one, are the goods of the trespasser, until the owner have recontinued his property: goods bailed, are said bona, of the owner in custodia ballivi. The names of things in which the offence is committed aught also to be certainly mentioned, in Indictments, dead things may be called, bona & catalla, expressing their names certainly, as appeareth hereafter: but of living things we must not say: bona & cattalla, but unum equum, or 2. equos & ovem, bovem etc. And the value of those things in which offences are committed is usually comprised in Indictments, which seemeth necessary in theft to make a difference from petty Larceny, & in trespass, to aggravate the fault & increase the fine, but no price of things ferae nature may be expressed, as of dear, hares, etc. if they be not in parks or warrens, which is a liberty 8. E. 4. fo. 5. nor of Charters of land. And where the number of the things taken are to be expressed in the indictment, as of young doves in a dove-house, young hawks in a wood, there must be said precij, or ad valentiam: but of one living thing, or of one dead thing only, it is precij, and not ad valentiam, but of divers dead things ad valentiam, & not precij. Of come not currant, it shallbe praecij but of coin currant shall neither be said precij, nor ad valentiam, For the price and value thereof is certain, but of counterfeit coin, shallbe said ad valentiam, & in counterfeiting of coin shall not be said x. li. libras in denarijs dominae Reginae, nor in pecunia dominae Reginae, but ad instar pecuniae dominae Reginae. The very manner of the fact or deed itself, and nature of the offence must also be mentioned in the indictment, as in escape, for prison breaking, must be expressed, for what felony the offendor was apprehended, & imprisoned. And for counterfeiting of money must be showed to what the counterfeit is like, as groats, shillings, etc. And in murder and manslaughter, the stroke whereof death ensued, Dyer fol. 99 pl. 63. And for slanderous words against the Queen, the very words must be certainly set down. And for entry, into house, land or tenements must be expressed, what manner of house, lands or tenements, as a messsage, a cottage, arable land, meadow, pasture, or wood. And where in any Indictment, several acts be said to make up th'offence which may be done at several times and places, both the times & places must be certainly expressed, as in murdar & manslaughter, th'assault and the striking, as apud B. in comitatu E. etc. in quendam I. S. insultum fecit, & ipsum 1 S. cum quodam gladio precij etc. adtunc & ibid' felonice, & ex malitia sua praecogitata percussit & murdravit. And in theft, the thing stolen must certainly be laid down, 22. Ass. pla. 75. & 29. Ass. 45. And an Indictment against an accessary, must show what felony the principal committed, and that knowing it, received the fellow feloniously, 7. H. 6. Touching the several natures of several offences, it is to be noted, that in Indictments of treasons, the fact must be necessarily sai● to be done, proditory: of murder, murdravit: and of manslaughter, and all other felonies, the deed must be said to be done felonice, and in burglary, Burglariter, or intention ad felomam sive murdrum faciend etc. in rape felonice rapuit, in theft, felonice cepit & asportavit, if it be a dead thing: if living, abduxit, or felonice furatus est, In petty Larceny and maim, must also be said, felonice. And notwithstanding the statute of 37. H. 8. ca 8. it is not amiss in every indictment containing felony or trespass, to use the words (vi & armis (viz. gladijs, baculis, cultellis etc. And in a Forcible entre upon the statute 8. H. 6. ca 9 must be manuforti etc. or cum multitudine gentium etc. And in an Indictment found upon statutes, it seemeth not needful to recite the statute verbatim, as hath been heretofore used, and namely, if the statute be general 5. H. 5. 11. 30. ass. 38. But fully & certainly to describe th'offence against the tenor of the same statute. And then conclude with these words. Contra formam statuti in humndi casu provisi & aediti: If there be only one statute of that offence: but if there be diverse concerning the same, than the conclusion must be, Contra formam diversorum statutorum in hmndi casu aedit & provisorum &c. And it is specially to be noted that in Indictments grounded upon penal statutes (other then for tillage) giving the penalty to the Queen only, may be exhibited at any time within two years after the offence. But if the benefit be to the Prince & another person, it ought to be sued for such person and the Prince within one year. And for the Prince alone within three years, if shorter time be not in that behalf limited in such Penal statutes, 31. Eliz. cap. 5. But the forms of Indictments will best appear in the following examples, which for the Readers ease I have here Alphabetically set down as ensueth. For keeping an Alchouse or Tiplinghouse. IVratores pro Domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in dict' comitatu Sect' 67. E. yeoman, vicesimo die mensis Octobris, Anno regni domin' nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, & continue multis diebus postea, viz. usque primum diem dicti Octob. Ann supradicto, apud C. praedict' in comitatu praedicto, obstinate atque ex aucthoritate propria ipsius A. B. sine ulla Iusticiariorum pacis dictae dominae Reginae in comitatu praedicto admissione aut allocatione, assumpsit super se custodire, & custodivit unam communem Tabernam (Anglice vocatam a common Tippling house) & ibidem dicto vicesimo die, & dictis diebus tum postea, communiter & publice vendidit ceruisiam, & potum (Anglice dictum Ale and Beer) diversis dictae dominae Reginae ligeis & subditis. In dictae dominae Reginae contemptum, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti, in parliamento domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae sexti, tento apud Westmon̄ Anno regni dicti domini Edwardi quinto, in huiusmodi casu provis. & editi. For silk in a cap. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. de C. in dicto Sect' 72. Comitatu Tailor, natus infra hoc regnum Angliae, videlicet, apud C. praedictam, sed filius aut haeres apparens alicuius militis, aut filius hominis altioris gradus non existens, nec potens expender per annum viginti libras, in terris, tenementis, feodis, officijs, aut alijs annuis reventionibus, pro termino vitae suae: nec valens ducentas libras de bonis suis proprijs: nec unquam Maior, Balliws, Aldermanus, aut capitalis officiarius in aliqua Civitate, burgo, aut villa corporata existens, nec dictae dominae Reginae seruiens in ordinario (utens dictae dominae Regine liberata) existens: 20. tamen die Octobris, anno regni dicte dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hibernie Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo, apud C. praedictam in comitatu praed', per totum dictum 20. diem Anno supradicto, interiore part cuiusdam pilei sui (Anglice vocati a Cap, quodam serico (Anglice dicto taffeta) (ad valorem 2. solidorum) illicit & palam usus est: contra formam cuiusdam Statuti, in parliamento Philippi & Mariae nuper Regis & Reginae Angliae, tento apud Westm in come Midd', Annis regnorum svorum, primo & secundo in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi. For using the Art of a Mercer against the Statute of Anno quinto of the Queen. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect. 63. E. Mercer, vicessimo die mensis Maij, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae, Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo primo, & multis alijs diebus continue post dictum diem pre spacium duorum mensium, extunc proxsequent̄, vide licet, usque tricesimum diem julij, anno supradicto, apud C. praedict' in comitatu E. predicto, quandam artem, sive mysterium (Anglice dictum Mercerie) illicte pro lucro suo proprio usitavit et exercuit: tunc ibidem vendendo diversas merces (Anglice vocatas Mercerie wares) diversis dicte dominae reginae legeis & subditis: ubi revera idem A. B. nunquam fuit in dicta arte sive mysterio educatus, tanquam apprenticeus per spacium septem annorum, nec idem A. B. eandam artem (sive mysterium praedictum) 12. die januarij anno regni dictae dominae nostrae reginae nunc quinto vsitauerit, aut exercuerit: In magnum dictae Dominae reginae contemptum, ac contra formam cuiusdam Statuti, in Parliamento dictae Dominae reginae nostrae nunc, tento apud Westmonast' Anno regni sui quinto, in hoc casu provisi ac aediti, ut supra dict'. An Indictment upon the Statute of An. 1. Mar. cap. 12. for the assembly of 12. persons assembled together, to the intent to cut down a conduct head and staying there 3. hours after proclamation made that they should departed. IVratores pro domina regina, praesentant, Quod primo die mensis Octobris, Sect. 74. Anno regni dnae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quinto A. B. C. D. E. F. And so reciting xii. persons at the least, with their additions of occupations & dwellings, apud quendam locum infra parochian de O. in comitatu E. pred', (Anglice vocatum le old Court) inter horas decimam et undecimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei, vi & armis, tam invasivis, quam defensivis, videlicet, gladijs, pugionibus, Baculis, arcubus, sagittis, tunicis ferreiss, et tormentis, seipsos congregaverunt, et assemblaverunt: Ac tunc & ibidem intenderunt, conati sunt, practicaverunt & in usu posuerunt, vi & armis, illegitime, et ex aucthoritate sua propria, secare, et prorsus evertere, prosternere ac destruere quoddam caput unius aquae ductus (Anglice vocatum a conduit head) tunc ibidem in fundo cuiusdam R. S. de O. pred', in comitatu predicto generosi existens, et cursum aquae in ipso habens, ea intention, ut idem caput aquae ductus praedicti ex tunc apertum & vacuum remaneret ac iaceret: Et ulterius, quod super quaerimonia inde facta coram T. W. uno Iusticiariorum pacis dictae Dominae Reginae in comitatu E. predicto, omnes & singuli predicti A. B. C. D. E. F. etc. tunc et ibidem per eundem justiciarium requisiti sunt ac iussi (per proclamationem in nomine dictae dominae Reginae tunc & ibidem per cum palam factam) ad habitationes, loca, & domos suas (unde venerant) se inde in pacifico modo retrahere, retirare, discedere et reverti: quae quidem proclamatio tun● ibidem modo & forma sequentibus, habita & facta est, viz. praedictus T. W. lusticiarus tunc ibidem fecit alta voce unum dies, ac tunc ibid' immediate haec verba anglicana sequentia palam, & alta voce The proclamation. pronunciavit, dicens scilicet, The Queen our Sovereign Lady chargeth, and commandeth all persons (being assembled) immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to departed to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act lately made against unlawful and rebellious assemblies: And God save the Queen. Et ulterius, jurarores predicti dicunt, quod non obstante dicta proclamatione modo & forma praedictis per praefatum justiciarium tunc ibidem facta & habita, ijdem tamen omnes & singuli There staying after the proclamations 2. hours. praedicti A. B. C. D. E. F. etc. in dicto loco vocato le old Court infra parochiam de O. predicta in dicto comitatu E. per spacium duarum horarum, immediate & continue post dictam proclamationem sic ut praefertur factam & habitam sequentium, seditiose & felonice insimul remanserunt & continuaverunt, in magnum dictae Dominae reginae contemptum, ac contra pacem, coronam, et dignitatem suas, necnon contra formam diversorum Statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. Against a Barrettor. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect. 75. E. Tailor, secundo die Octobris, Anno regni dictae Dominae nostrae Elizab', dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud C. predictam in comitatu E. praedict', fuit, & adhuc est communis Barectator, & pacis dictae Dominae Reginae perturbator assiduus & publicus, necnon communis ac turbulentus calumniator, conuiciator, pugnator, & litium inter vicinos suos seminator, adeo ut diversas lites, controversias, necnon iurgia, & pugnas adtunc ibidem, et alibi in dicto comitatu E. inter diversos dictae Dominae Reginae ligeos & subditos, movit, procuravit, & excitavit: In magnam dictae Dominae Reginae pacis perturbationem, ac contra formam diversarum ordinationum ac statutorum huius regni sui Angl', in huiusmodi casu antehac provisorum ac editorum. Against a Barrettor. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si R. E. nuper de G. in come D. yeoman, Sect. 76. xx. die etc. apud G. praed' in comitatu praedict', fuit & adhuc est communis barectator, & pacis dictae dominae Reginae perturbator, & oppressor vicinorum suorum, & al' ligeorum dictae dominae Reginae in come D. praedicto, ac communis malefactor, calumpniator, & seminator litium & discordiarum inter vicinos suos predict', ad magnum dispendium, gravamen, & perturbationem vicinorum praedict', & aliorum fidelium ligeorum dictae Dominae in come D. praed', contra ordniationes, leges & statuta huius regni Angl' in huiusmodi cas, edit' & provis. ac contra pacem dictae dominae Reg. coronam etc. For an Affray made at the time that the assizes and jail delivery is holden before the justices of the assize. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si C. P. & W. C. etc. vi & armis videlicet, Sect. 77. gladijs, scutis, & pugionibus apud C. praedict' arraiat̄ & illicit congregat, tempore Assisarum dictae dominae Reginae, adtunc apud C. predict' tentatum, necnon infra precinctnm eiusdem villae, R. W. & R. H. earundem Assisarum justiciarijs, ac Iusticiar' dictae Dominae Reginae ad gaolam de I. in eodem comitatu de prisonarijs in eadem existentibus deliberand' assign', circa deliberationem eiusdem gaolae tunc apud C. predict' existentibus, insultum & affraiam invicem fecerunt, ad magnam perturbationem curiae dictae dominae Reginae, ac Iusticiariorum suorum predict' tunc & ibidem existent', ac in terrorem & perturbationem diversorum subditorum eiusdem Dominae Reginae tunc & ibidem existent', & in malum & perniciosum exemplum omnium ligeorum dictae dominae Reginae, ac contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas etc. For an affray and beating of one at the time of the assizes and jail delivery, holden before the justices of assize. INquiratur si F. F. etc. undecimo die etc. vi & armis &c. Iusticiar' dictae Sect. 78. dominae Reginae ad Assisas in comitatu predicto capiend', necnon ad gaolam eiusdem comitatus apud W. in eodem comitatu deliberand▪ assign', adtunc iudicialiter sedent & existent' in quendam W. C. in pace dei & dictae Dominae Reginae apud W. praedict' existent', ex malicia sua praecogitata insultum fecit, & ipsum W. cum quodam gladio quem idem F. in manu sua dextra adtunc & ibidem habuit & tenuit, percussit super caput suum, dans eidem W. C. diversas plagas, per quas ipsum W. in magno periculo vitae suae posuit, ita quod de vita sua desperabatur, in magnum justiciae & legum huius regni Angl' contemptum, & pernitiosum exemplum aliorum, ac contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae coronam & dignitatem suas etc. Or thus. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si O. P. etc. decimo, apud T. praedict' Sect. 79. in comitatu ●. praedicto, tempore Assisarum, & generalis gaolae deliberationis adtunc & ibidem tent', & sedent adtunc & ibidem Iusticiar' dictae Dominae Reginae ad assis. capiend', necnon ad gaolam dictae dominae Reginae castri de T. predict' in come predict' deliberand' assignatis, vi & armis, & ex malicia sua prae cogitata, in, & super quendam I. C. nuper de S. in comitatu D. yeoman, in pace dei, & dictae dominae Reginae adtunc & ibidem existent', insultum & affraiam fencit, & ipsum verberavit, vulneravit, & maletractavit, & prefatus O. adtunc & ibidem cum quodam gladio valoris iij. solid' & quatuor denarior, quem idem O. in manu sua dextra adtunc & ibidem habuit & tenuit, predict' johannem C. adtunc & ibidem percussit & pupugit, dans eidem I. C. adtunc et ibidem quoddam vulnus sive quandam plagam in latitudine unius pollicis, & profunditate quatuor pollicium, ita quod idem I. C. de vita sua maxime periclitabatur, in magnam perturbationem tam predictor Iustic' dictae Dominae Reginae, adtunc et ibidem in cur' predict' seden̄, quam totius populi, et ligeorum subdit dictae Dominae Reg' de predict' come S. adtunc et ibidem confluenc' et attendenc', ac in magnum contemptum dictae Dominae Reg. ac in justiciae ibid' exequend' et administrand' retardationem manifest' ac contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas etc. For buggery committed by a minister being an Italian borne in the city of Rome, with a boy of xv. years old. IVratores pro domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect. 80. dicto comitatu E. clericus (et alienigena in civitate Romana Italiae natus) decimo die Martij, vi & armis, apud C. predict in comitatu predicto, Anno regni Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, in quendam I. S. de C. pred' in dicto come E. puerum masculum (aetatis non amplius quindecem annorum, ac tunc ibidem in quodam loco vocato le Arbre, in pace der & dictae dominae Reginae existentem) insultum fecit, ac cum dicto I. S. puero predicto sceleratissime, felonice, ac contra naturae ordinem, tunc ibidem rem habuit veneream, dictumque puerum carnaliter cognovit, ac sic cum eodem puero peccatum illud horribile, ac Zodomiticum (Anglice vocatum buggery) ad tunc ibidem felonice commisit, ac perpetravit, contra pacem dictae dnae reginae nostrae, ac contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu ante hac provisi ac editi. For Burglary in a dwelling house in the night time, for taking out of money out of a chest, and for the accessories before the offence, and the accessories after. INquiratur pro domina Regina, quod cum I. H. nuper de H. in Sect. 81. comitatu predicto yeoman, x. die Maij, Anno regni Reginae Elizab. etc. 34. vi & armis &c. domum mansionalem cuiusdam P. armig' apud H. pred in come E pred', circa horam decimam in nocte eiusdem diei, felonice & burglariter fregit & intra●it, & quadraginta libras in pecunijs numeratis, de bonis & catallis predict' P. in quadam cista in domo predict' adtunc existent' inuent' felonice cepit & asportavit, contra pacem dictae dominae reginae, & si quidam Christopherus G. nuper de H. predict' in comitatu S. predict' yeoman, ante feloniam & burglar praed' per ipsum T. H. in forma praedict' fact' & perpetratam, viz. 6. die Maij, anno xiv. supradicto, eunden T. H. apud H. praed' in comitatu E. praedict' ad feloniam & burglariam praed' in forma praedicta sic faciend' felonice excitavit, abbettavit, & procuravit, contra pacem dictae dominae reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suam. Et si quidam I. R. nuper de C. in come S. praedict' yeoman, sciens praefatum T. H. feloniam praedictam in forma predicta sic fecisse & perpetrasse eundem T. H. dicto decimo die Maij, anno supradicto, post felon' praed' per ipsum T. H. sic fact' & perperratam, apud H. praed' in comitatu S. predicto felonice receptavit, confortavit, et hospitavit, contra pacem dictae dominae reginae coronam et dignitatem suam. For Burglary in a dwelling house in the night time, for the assaulting and putting in fear of them in the house, and for taking of money out of a chest. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si N. H. nuper de G. in come E. praedicto Sect. 82. Y. T. E. nuper de M. in come E. praedicto Y. 10. die etc. inter horas undecimam & 12. in nocte eiusdem diei, vi & armis &c. domum mansionalem cuiusdam R. B. apud W. in praedicto comitatu Eborum felonice et burglariter fregerunt & intraverunt, et in ipsum R. B. adtunc & ibidem in eadem domo in pace dei, & dictae Dominae reginae existent', insultum feserunt, & eundem R. adtunc et ibidem in timore corporali vitae suae imposuerunt, ita quod de vita sua desperabatur, & quatuor libr' in pecunijs numeratis in quadam cista infra domum praedictam adtunc existent', de bonis catallis et pecunijs cuiusdam I. B. adtunc et ibidem inuent', felonice & burglar ceperunt et asportaverunt, contra pacem etc. ut supra. For Burglary in a dwelling house in the night time, the taking away of a silver salt, money, and 3. silver pings. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si W. H. nuper de S. in comitatu D. Sect. 83. Dyer, R. C. nuper de M. in comitatu W. yeoman, T. C. nuper de M. praedict' in comitatu W. praedict' yeoman, & T. L. alias dictus L. nuper de M. praedict' in predicto comitatu W. yeoman, & T. P. nuper de C. in comitatu S. yeoman, ultimo die Octobris, anno regni Reg. Eliz. etc. 4. circa horam undecimam in nocte eiusdem diei, vi & armis &c. domum mansionalem cuiusdam Marg. P. viduae apud C. in praedict' come S. felonice & burglariter fregerunt et intraverunt, et unum Salinum argenteum vocat' a Silver salt, ad valentiam quinquaginta solid', x. li. in pecunijs numeratis, tres aciculas argenteas ad valentiam vj. s. viii. đ. & iij. annulos argenteos valour vj. s. de bonis catallis, & pecunijs praef. Marg. adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice ceperunt & asportaverunt, contra pacem etc. ut supra. For Burglary in a dwelling house in the night time, a woman then being in the house, & for taking away of xx. li out of a cupboard in the house. IVratores pro dna Regina praesentant, quod T. S. de W. in dicto comitatu Sect. 84. E. Tailor, quarto die mensis Feb. Anno regni dictae dnae nostrae Elizab', dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. vicesimo nono, vi et armis etc. domum mansionalem cuiusdam N. G. de W. predicta apud S. in dicto come Butcher, noctanter, viz. (inter horas decimam & undecimam post meridiem eiusdem diei) quadam I. uxore ipsius N. G. tunc in eadem domo in pace dei, et dictae dnae Reginae existent, felonice et burglariter fregit & intravit, et viginti libras legalis monetae Angl' de bonis predict' N. G. in quodam abaco in dicta domo existent inventas, tunc et ibidem felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc, coronam, et dignitatem suam. For Burglary in a dwelling house in the night time, for assaulting & putting in fear of them in the house intending to kill, or rob them in the house, and the accessory before the offence committed. INquiratur pro dna Regina, si F. M. nuper de M. in comitatu D. joiner, Sect. 85. duodecimo die Aprilis, Anno etc. circa horam duodecimam in nocte eiusdem diei, vi & armis &c. domum mansionalem cuiusdan T. C. sen, apud C. in come S. pred' burglariter & felonice fregit & intravit, et super quosdam R. S. et I. B. adtunc et ibid' in pace dei & dictae dnae Reg. existent, insultum fecit, & eosdem R. et I. in corporali timore vitarum suarum posuit, ea intentione ad interficiend', vel saltem ad spoliandum pred' T. C. de bonis & pecunijs suis, ad grave dampnum ipsius T. & contra pacem dictae dnae Reg. etc. ut supra. Et si G. B. nuper de C. pred' in come pred' Weaver, ante feloniam predict' in forma predict' sic fact̄ et perpetrat, eundem F. M. apud C. pred' in come D pred' videlicet, vicesimo die januarij Anno etc. ut supra ad feloniam predict' in forma pred' sic faciend' felonice excitaverunt, abbettaverunt, & procuraverunt, contra pacem dictae dnae etc. ut supra. For burning of a dwelling house in the day time, with a pound of gunpowder put in a bundle of straw in the house, the owner of the house them being in the same house. IVratores pro domina regina praesentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect. 86. comitatu E. predicto Uiccualer, octavo die mensis julij, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae reginae, fidei defensoris etc. tricesimo, ad domum mansionalem E. F. de C. predicta in comitatu praedict' generosi, in C. predict' in dict come E. existentem, vi & armis, inter horas sextam et septimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei accessit & cum una libra pulueris tormentarij ad valentiam 12. denar & face quadam ignita, quam dictus A. B. tunc & ibidem in manibus suis tenuit, ignem in quodam fasciculo straminis tunc in dicta domo existentis, ex malicia sua precogitata felonice accendit, unde eadem domus tunc ibidem totaliter cremata & combusta fuit (eodem E. F. tunc in pace dictae dnae reginae in dicta domo sua existent.) Et sic predict' A. B. dicto octavo die julij, Anno supradicto, apud C. praedict', domum mansionalem predicti E. F. predict', modo & forma predict', voluntary ex dicta malicia sua praecogitata, et felonice incendit & combussit: contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nostrae, ac corona, & dignitatem suas. For Burglary and burning of a dwelling house in the night time, having an intent to rob it, & the putting of divers persons in fear then being in the house, and the accessories before the offence, and accessories after the offence. INquiratur pro dna regina, si W. S. nuper de O. in come E. pnd' Smith, Sect. 87. die Feb. etc. 13. circa horam xii. in nocte eiusdem diei, vi & armis, videlicet gladijs, scutis, baculis, arcubus, & sagittis, apud S. in pred' come E. ad domum mansionalem cuiusdam I. C. simul cum alijs veniebat, ea intentione ad spoliandum dictum I. de bonis & catallis suis in eadem domo tunc existent', ac si idem W. super tecturam eiusdem domus vulgariter nuncupat (the covering of the house) adtunc & ibidem cum una scala ascendebat & scandebat, ea intention, per tecturam pndict̄ intrand' & ingrediendum in domum illam. Ac si dictus W. simul cum alijs praedict' I. G. R. C. M. P. & F. G. in eadem domo tunc existent', tantum timorem corporalem tunc & ibidem inferrebant, ita quod de vitis suis desperabat, as si dictus W. simul cum alijs predictis, adtunc & ibidem ex malitia sua praecogitata, eandem domum cum igne tunc & ibidem felonice comburebat, predict' E. R. C. in P. & E. G. in eadem domo existence, contra pacem etc. ut supra. Ac si W. R. de B. in comitatu praed' yeoman, & W. I. de S. in comitatu E. predict' gener ante felon' praedict' per ipsos I. C. & alios factam & perpetratam, praed' W. S. praedicto 27. die Febr anno supradicto apud B. predict' in comitatu predict' ad felon' predict' sic in forma predict' faciend' & perpetrand' felonice excitaverunt, procuraverunt, & abbettaverunt, contra pacem etc. ac si praedict' W. R. & W. S. scientes predict' W. S. simul cum alijs supradictis felon' praed' in forma pndict̄, sic fecisse & perpetrasse, eumdem W. S. postea scilicet 27. die Febr Anno praedict' apud B. praedict' in comitatu E. praedict' felonice receperunt, confortaverunt, hospitaverunt & concelaverunt, contra pacem dictae etc. ut supra. For breaking and burning a barn with corn of divers sorts in it, as well in sheaf as threashed. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si I. M. de D. in come M. yeoman, 3. Sect. 88 die etc. apud I. in come E. vi & armis quoddam horreum cuiusdam I. S. apud I. praedict' in praed' come E. situate & existent felonice fregit & intravit, & quibusdam candelis tunc igne accensis, quas I. M. tunc & ibidem in manibus suis tenuit adtunc et ibidem ex malitia sua prae cogitata et exinstigatione diabolica in horreun praedict' cum diversis granis et garbis, viz. tribus quarterijs ordei, & quatuor quarterijs frumenti, & duobus modijs avenarum & 4. carectat hordei in garbis in eodem horreo adtunc existentibus, ignem accensum adtunc et ibidem voluntary et felonice imposuit, & cum eodem igneadtunc & ibidem horreum praedict' cum omnibus granis & garbis supradictis in eodem horreo adtunc et ibidem existent voluntary, et felonice combussit, & totaliter cum igne illo felonice et voluntary consumpsit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, etc. ut supra. For maint in an Assize of Novel disseisin, for to have the moit ie of the land in question, and one hundredth pounds in money. IVratores pro domina Regina praesentant, quod I. C. T. C. ac I. P. de Sect. 89. O. in comitatu E. yeomen, ac alij (de confederation & covina predictorum I. C. T. C. & I. P. existentes) quoddam placitum Assisae novae disseisinae quod nuper summonitum fuit in curia dictae dominae Reginae, coram dilectis & fidelibus dictae dominae reginae I. S. & I. K. et aliis nuper Iustic' ipsum Dominae Reginae, ad assisam illam capiendam assignatis, per breve ipsius dominae reginae inter W. S. quaerentem, et I. H. tenentem, de quodam tenemento in N. & S. in come E. praed', (viz. pro medietate inde sibi & haeredibus suis inperpetuum) viz. pro C. l●br̄ sterlingor in pecunia numerata in hac part habenda, per conventionem inde inter praedict' N. S. & praefatos 1 C. T. C. et I. P. 20. die mensis Augusti, Anno regni dictae dnae Elizabethae, dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, apud O. predict' in dicto comitatu factam, pro predicto W. S. contra praefatum I. H. dictis die, Anno, & loco, assumpserunt manutenendum, & manutenuerunt: In magnum dictae dominae Reginae contemptum, ac contra formam diversorum Statutorum, huius regnifui Angl' in huiusmodi casu provisorum ac aeditorum. For maintenance in an assize of Freshforce, to have part of the land in question, and part of the damages to be recovered. Ivrat present, quod cum de communi consilio regni domini E. nuper Sect. 90. regis Angl' prima, progenitoris dominae Reginae nunc, provisum sit, Quod nullus Minister, vel aliquis alius manuteneat placita, querelas, vel negocias, quae sunt in cur' domini regis, deter, tenntis, aut alijs rebus quibuscunque, pro part rei petitae, vel aliquo proficuo, per conuentionem factam inde habend', nec aliquis ius suum sub huiusmodi conditione alteri dimittat. Quidam W. P. etc. simul cum R. S. etc. tali die & anno, quandam querelam cuiusdam Ass. friscae que est in curia dominae Reg' nune Civitatis E. coram E. B. Maior & C. D. vicecom̄ eiusdem civitatis, fine brevi ipsius dominae Reg' secund' consue● civitatis praedict', inter quosdam I. R. & T. L. de uno mesuag' cum pertin' in civitate praedict', pro part eiusdem mesuagij▪ viz. pro medietate mesuagij illius, sibi & hered' suis imperpetuum, & alio proficuo, viz. pro medietate damnor in querela assize praed' recuperand' inde habend', per conventionem inter pref. I. ac praed' W. & R. S. apud E. praed' factum assumpsit manutenend', & manutenuit, ad grave dampn ipsius T. L. & contra form̄ provisionis praed' &c. For a Riotous assault and affray made upon a Vicar in his Church, and for the imprisoning of him in a pair of stocks▪ INquiratur etc. A. T. etc. H. S. etc. & W. K. aggregat etc. 22. die julij Sect' 91. etc. vi & armis &c. apud C. in comitatu S. riotos, etc. in R. L. vicariam Ecclesiae parochial' de C. praed', in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae in ecclesia praedict' tunc existent insultum & affraiam fecer, & ipsum R. L. ab ecclesia praedict' tunc violenter & manuforti extraxer & usque cippos duxer, & ipsum imprisonaver & maletractaver & alia enormia ei adtunc & ibidem intuler, ad grave damnum ipsius R. L. contra formam statut' in huiusmodi casum edit' & provisi, & contra pacem dictae dominae etc. For absence from Church for vi. months upon the statutes of primo and twenty-three. of the Queen. IVratores domina Regina super Sacramentum suum presentant, quod Sect. 92. A. B. nuper de C. in come praed' E. Ar̄, qui x. die julij anno regni domin' nostrae Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, fuit aetatis 16. annorum & ultra, non accessit (Anglice did not repair) ad ecclesiam suam parochial' de D. p̄đ nec ad aliquam aliam ecclesiam, capellam, aut usualem locum communis precationis, & ibidem moratus fuit tempore communis precationis, ad aliquod tempus infra sex menses tunc proxime sequentes, sed abstinuit ab eisdem (Anglice hath forborn the same) per spacium praed' sex mensium, contra formam cuiusdam statuti apud Westm in Midd' anno regni dictae dnae Reg. nunc primo, pro uniformitate communis precationis editi & provisi, ac contra form̄ statuti anno regni dictae dnae reg' nunc 23. in hmndi casu editi & provisi, ac in contemptum dictae dnae reginae nunc, & contra coronam, & dignitatem suas. For drawing a dagger upon one in the Churchyard, to the intent to strike him. INquiratur pro domina regina, si O. F. de L. in come E. praedict' generosus, Sect' 93. octavo die etc. in cemiterio ecclesiae parochialis de L. pndicta in dicto comitatu, malitiose extraxit pugionem suum in quendam I. S. de L. praedicta ●eoman, ea intentione ad percutiendum praedictum I. S. cum dicto pugione, contra pacem dictae dominae reginae nostrae tunc, ac contra formam statuti in parliamento domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae sexti (tento apud Westmonaster̄ in comitatu Middlesexiae, Anno regni dictio nuper domini Regis quinto) in huiusmodi casu provisi, ac editi. For fight with a weapon in the Churchyard, contrary to the statute of Anno 5. Ed, 6. Ivrat presentant, quod cum in statuto in Parliamento domini E. nuper Sect' 94. Regis Anglie sexti, apud Westm, anno regni sui quinto, tent', edit', inter cetera stabilit existit etc. Quod sialiqua persona ad aliquod tempus▪ post primum diem diem Maij, tunc proxim' sequent̄ malitiose percuteret aliquam personam, cum aliquibus armis in aliqua ecclesia sive cemiterio, vel post eundem primum diem Maij, extraheret aliqua arma in aliqua ecclesia, seu cemiterio, intentione ad percutiendum alium c●m eisdem armis, quod tunc quelibet persona si● offendens & inde conuict' per veredictum xii. hominum, vel per suam propriam confessionem, vel per duos legales testes, coram Iustic' Assisarum, Iustic' audiend' & ternandi, sive Iustic' pacis in Sessionibus suis, virtute illius actus adiudicaretur per eosdem Iustic' coram quibus talis persona sic convinceretur, ad habend' unam aurium suarum abscissam, & si illa persona sive personae sic offenden̄ haberet sive non haberent aliquas aures, ita quod illiusmodi poenam subirent (ut prefertur) quod tunc ipse vel ipsi signarentur in bucca, Angl▪ cheek, farrocandent Angl', a hot iron habent hanc literam F. per quam ipse vel ipsi cognosci & haberi possint pugnar̄ effectores, & pugnatores, & ultra hoc, quelibet talis persona foret & staret ipso facto excommunicat̄, prout in eodem statuto plenius continet. Quidam tamen G. B. nuper de S. etc. 2. die Junii, etc. vi & armis, viz. etc. cum quodam pugion̄ in quendam T. C. in pace Dei & dictae dominae Reginae existent apud C. in comit' E. praedict' in cemeterio Ecclesiae parochialis de C. praed' insultum fecit, & ipsum T. super caput suumadtunc & ibidem maliciose percussit, & alia enormia ei intulit ad grave damnum ipsius T. & contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. ac contra formam statuti praedicti etc. For absence from the Church for certain Sundays, and Festival days upon the statute of prim● of the Queen. Ivr pro domina Regin̄ presentant quod cum in statut' in parliamento Sect' 95. dnae Eliz. dei gratia etc. annoreg' sui 1. tent' apud W. in come M. inter alia inactitat & ordinat & ordinat existit, quod post festum S. ●o. Baptanno reg' dict' dominae Reg' omnis & singula persona sive person inhabitant in hoc regno Ang ' aut aliquod aliud dominior dict' dominae reg', diligenter & fidelit, habentes nullam legalem seu rationabilem excusationem abessendi, adnitentur adire suam parochialem ecclesiam vel capellam confuetam, vel super rationabile impedimentum, ●liquam visitatum locum, ubi communes precationes, & divina seruitia, in actu illo mencionat celebrate fuerint tempore talis impedimenti, quolibet die Dominico, & alijs diebus ordinat, & usitatis observari ut festivis diebus, & tunc & ibidem manner secundum ordinem & sobrie, durant tempore precum commun, predication, aut alioruum divinorum seruitiorum ibidem vtend' & ministrand', sub paena punitionis per censur as ecclesiae, & etiam sub paena, quod quelibet persona sic offend', forisfaciat pro qualibet tali offensa 12. denarios leuand' per gardianos Ecclesiae parochialis ubi talis offensa foret fact' ad usum pauper inhabit̄ eiusdem parochiae de bonis, terr', & tenement', talis offend' per modum distriction, prout in statut' predict' continet, cumque T. R. de D. in come praed' arm & A. vx' eius, utroque eor exist' aetatis 16. ann & amplius, ac existant parochian, ec●l' ꝑochial' de T. praed', in praed' come E. infra quam quidem eccl' comes precation, & alia divina seruit in statut' praed' spec' post praed' fest' nativit S. Io. Ba. anno 1. supradict', scz. die dnca prox. post festum S. Mich. Arch. anno regni Reg' Eliz. Dei gratia etc. 12. diebus dominicis tunc proxim' sequent & 8. alijs diebus festivalibus easdem 12. dies dominicas interuenient̄ dicebantur & utebantur, praed' I. & A. non habentes legalem nec rationabilem excusationem, seu impediment̄ abessendi ab Eccl' praed', in diebus praedict', tempore praedict' commun precum, predicationum, & diviniorum seruitiorum ibidem tune dictorum, habitorum, & ministratorum non solum non adnitebantur adire Eccles. parochial' de D. praedict' existent eorum Ecclesiam consuetam, in praedict' die domi● proxim' post praedict' festum sancti Michael' Archang ', anno Reg' dictae dnae reg' nunc 34. supradict' & praedict' alijs 12. diebus dominicis tun● prox' sequent, & praedict' alijs octodiebus festivalibus inter easdem 12. dies dominicas interuenient̄ tempor praedict' commun̄ precation & divinorum seruitior ibidem in diebus illis dictor habitor & ministratorum, sed etiam odio habent & contenent Euang' & salub' dei verbum & dict' dominam reg', & leges suas, seipsos voluntar absentaverunt, & uterque eorum voluntary seipsum absentavit ab eccl' praed' die dnca ꝓx' post fest' S. Mich. Arch. anno reg' dict dnae regin̄ nunc 34. suprad' & pndict̄ alijs 12. diebus doncis tunc prox' sequent, & praed' alijs S. dieb festiual' inter easd' 12. dies dncas interuenient̄ tempore praed' communium precum, praedication, & diuin̄ seruicior ibid' in diebus illis, dictor, habitor, & ministrator, contra pacem & in contempt dict dnae reginae nunc & legem suam & coronam & dignitatem suam, ac count form statut' praed', & in pernitiosum exemplum alior malefactor etc. For taking of Coneys in a free warren in the night time. Inquir etc. si E. D. etc. vi et armis viz. baculis, falcastris, arcubus, & sagit● Sect' 96. & alijs arm̄ defensivis, parcum, seu liberam warren C. B. apud A. in commit praed' D. circ' hor̄ 10. in noct' eiusdem diei fregit & intr, & in eođ parco sive liber warren, leporaijs, liciscis et retibus voc' pursnet sine licentia dict' T. B. venabant et 40. cunic' valour 13. s. 4. đ. de bonis & cat ipsius T. B. adtunc & ibid' inuent' ceper & asportaver ad grave damn ipsius T. B. et contra pacem etc. For conspiring and combining to indict one for stealing of a horse of one of the conspirators, and for procuring of divers false suits to be brought and pursued in the names of the conspirators, and of divers others against divers persons. IVratores etc. present, quod I. P. nuper de I. in praedicto comit' E. et Sect' 97. R. B. nuper de C. in praed' comit' E. gener una cum alijs quamplurimis personis adhuc ignot, contra legem domini regis ad formam statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum, conspiration & covina apud T. praed die etc. habit, diversis temporib▪ postea simul unit, confederati, et iurati falso fraudulent & malicrose vener̄ ad vindicand', destruend', perturbanđ, placitand', adnihiland', & similit adnulland' fideles et innocentes ligeos dicti domini regis pro lucro ad eorum proprium usum capiendo, societatem inierunt, & adinuicem iuraverunt, ad simul standum contra dictum dominum regem, et quoscunque ligeos suos in omnibus et singulis materijs placitis et querelis, peripsos et eorum quemlibet motis seu movendis. Et si eorum aliquis cum aliquo, placita, materiam, seu querelam moveret, quod ipsi & eorum quilibet cum eo, sic materiam, querelam, seu placitum movent stare, et perseverare deberent et deberet. Et si aliquis eorum aliquam querelam seu placitum nomine alterius person cuiuscunque, versus aliam personam super se assumpserit manutenend', extunc eorum quilibet querelam, sectam, seu placit praedict', tanquam querelam, sectam, seu placitum, nomine eorum prosecut, manuteneret, foveret et teneret, recto, veritate, Iustic' et iure, omnino postpositis et sublat: Virtute quorum quidem unitionis, conspirationis, iurament, confederationis, et manutentionis, praedictorum I. P. R. B. et al' sic in unum globat, et iurat, postea, videlicet die etc. Anno etc. conspiration inter eos apud C. in comit' praedict', prehabita, quendam I. H. de eo quod ipse die etc. anno etc. unum equum pretij etc. de bonis et catallis praedicti I. P. R. B. apud S. inuent' felonice furatus fuit cepit et abduxit, falso & malitiose indictari procuraverunt. Et praedict' I. P. et R. B. et alij modo et forma praed' uniti et confederati diversa falsa placita, sectas, et querelas innumerabiles, tam nominibus eorum proprijs, quam nominibus aliarum personarum eis falso & maliciose congregat & unit, prosecuti suerunt, et manutenerunt & indies prosequntur et manutenent, videlicet praedict' I. P. ad hundredum domini P. militis apud C. praedict' xiii. die, anno etc. tent', eodem I. adtunc Ballino eiusdem hundred ' existent, ad statum et possessionem R. S. et A. uxoris sue adnulland': Et pro eo quod ad quamlibet curiam hundred ' ibidem successive tenend', praedict' R. uxorem suam ibidem producere nequiret, ita quod excessiva amerciament̄ in status eorum depauperationem fierent & evenirent cōsideration̄ taxator amerciament curie praedicte, semper de covina praedict' praed' I. P. extiterunt, tresdecim querelas de placito transgressionis, nomine W. Y. et R. B. quatuer querelas transgressionis nomine W. E. absque vera materia seu justa causa, seperatim versus praedictum R. S. et A. levauit & intranit, ac praedict' querentes huiusmodi querelas levare procuravit ad grave damnum ipsorum R. et A. et contra formam ordinationis in huiusmodi casu provis. etc. For a conspiracy of divers Bakers touching the making of bread. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant quod A. B. C. D. E. F. & G. H Sect' 98. de M. in dict' comit' L. Pistores 2. die Octobris, Anno regni dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae, sidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo nono, apud M. praedictam, in comit' E. praeđ, insimul convenerunt conspiraverunt, ac mutuo inter se promiserunt, qđ panis denarij de integro f●umento (per eos seu corum aliquem, tum deincepsfaciendus ac vendendus) non amplius quam 2. libras et sex uncias Trocij ponderis habebit et ponderabit (quodcunque imposterum foret unius quarterij frumenti pretium:) in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, ac in extremum pauperum dictae dominae Reginae subditorum gravamen, necnon contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. For the taking of unreasonable distress contrary to the statute of Merton, Anno 52. H. 3. cap. 4. Ivrator pnsentant pro domina Reg' quod cum in statut' in parliament tent' Sect' 99 apud M. anno H. 3. nuper Regis Angl' 52. inter cetera ordinat sit qđ districtiones sint rationabiles & non nimis graves, et qui districtiones fecerint irrationabiles, & indebitas, gravit amercient̄ propter excessivam districtionem ipsorum, prout in staut praed' plenius continetur. Quidam tamen A. B. de etc. statut' praedict' & poenam in eodem contentam minime ponderans 12. die jun, anno regni etc. duas vaccas de bonis & catall' W. F. etc. apud G. etc. in codem comit' N. pro quinque solid' in pecunijs numeratis irrationabilit & excessive distrinixit, & pro distriction● cepit, ubi tempore districtionis & captionis praedict', quarumlibet praedictarum vaccarum precium capitis erat xx. s. contra formam statuti praedict' &c. For the taking of a distress out of his fee, and in the highway contrary to the statute of Mert●n, Anno 52. E. 3. cap. 15. Ivrat presentant pro domina Regina, quod cum in statut' in parliament Sect' 100 tent' apud M. anno H. 3. nuper regis Angl' 52. nulli de cetero liceat ex quacunque causa districtiones facere extra feodum suum, nec in via regia, aut in communistrato, nisi domino regi, aut ministris suis specialem authoritat ad hoc habentibus prout in statut' praedict' plenius continetur. Quidam tamen A. B. & C. D. de etc. statutum praedict' & penam in eodem content̄ minime ponderantes 2. die jun, anno etc. 2. vacc' de bonis & catall' E. D. etc. apud F. etc. extra feod ipsor sive ipsornm alicuius, in commun strato voc' etc. adtunc & ibid' existent' distrinxer, & pro distriction ceper nec tempore distriction praed' A. B. & C. D. non fuer' ministri, nec aliquis eorum fuit ministr̄, dict' dnae regin̄, nec habuerunt, nec aliquis eorum habuit specialem authoritatem ad illud faciendum, contra pacem etc. Against Egyptians upon the statute of primo and secundo of king Philip and Queen Marie. IVr̄ present̄ quod cum in statuto in Parliamento domini P. & dominae M. Sect' 101. nuper regis & Reginae Angl' apud W. die x. No. annis Reg' suorum 1. & 2. tent' aedit inter alia ordinatum existit, etc. quod si aliqua persona, sive person seipsos appellantes Egyptianos qui transportarentur, vel conveiarentur in hoc regnum Angl' sive Walliae, continuarent, & remanerent, infra idem, per spacium unius mensis, quod tunc ipse vel ipsi sic offenden̄, virtute actus praed', adiudicat & estimati essent felones, & proinde sustinerent penas mortis, & forisfact' terrar̄ & bonorum, ut in casu feloniae juxta ordinem communium legum huius regni, Et super examin̄ eroum sive alicuius eorum, triarentur in come, ac ꝑ inhabitantes illius come, velloci, ubi ipsi vel ipse apprehenderentur, sive caperentur, & minime ꝑ medietatem linguae, & amitterent libertatem & privilegium Sanctuarij & cleri, prout in eodem statuto plenius apparet. Quidam tamen M. P. & P. R. de etc. seipsos appellantes Egyptianos, statut' praedict' minime ponderantes, nec penam etc. qui primo die Aprilis, anno etc. in hoc regnum Angl' transportat & conveiat fuerunt, ab eodem primo die Aug ' anno etc. supradicto, usque decimum diem Sept̄ extunc prox' sequent apud C. in praed' come E. continuaverunt & remanserunt in eodem, otiosas vitas suas non relinquentes, nec seipsos in seruitio alicuius habilis & honesti sub diti huius Angl' collocare qrentes, neque seipsos in aliquo opere licito sive occupation honesta exercentes, in dnae Reginae nunc contemptum, ac contra formam statuti praed' &c. Against Egyptians upon the statute of 5. of the Queen. Ivr presentant etc. quod cum in statuto in parliamento dominae Reginae Sect. 102. nunc apud Westmonasterium in come Middel', xiii. die januarij, Anno regni sui quinto tent', edita inter alia etc. quod omnes & singula persona & person que ab, & post primum diem Maij, tunc proxim' sequent̄ vise vel invent forent infra hoc Reg' Angliae sive Walliae in aliquo commercio vel consortio vacabundorum vulgo vocat', sive seipsos appellan̄ Egyptianos vel seipsos simulantes transmutantes sive fucantes Anglic' disguising per eorum vestitum, locutionem, aut aliam gesturam consimiles huiusmodi vagabundis communiter appellat vel seipsos appellantibus Egyptianos, & sic facerent, continuarent, & remanerent in eisdem, aut semel, vel sepe, per spacium unius mensis, quod tunc eadem persona sive person virtute huius actus estimate forent & adiudicarentur felo & felones, & proinde sufferent penas mortis, ac amissionem terrarum & bonorum, ut in easibus feloniae, secundum ordinem communium legum huius regni. Et super eorum sive alicuius eorum examinat in hac part triarentur in comit' ac per inhabitantes comitatus vel loci, ubi ille vel illi apprehenderent sive caperentur, & non per medietat lingue, & amitterent privilegium & beneficium sanctuarij, & cleri, prout in eodem statuto plene liquet. Quidem tamen A. B. C. D. etc. statutum praedictum minime ponderantes nec penam in eodem content̄ verentes, prost praed' primum diem Maij scz. 3. die Aug ' anno regni dominae Reginae nunc 35. apud E. in comitatu praedict', visi & inventi fuerunt in commertio & consortio vagabundorum vulgo vocat' & seipsos vocantium Egyptianos, ac seipsos simulantium, transmutant, & fucant, per eorum vestitum, locutionem, & gesturam, consimiles huiusmodi vagabundis qui vulgo vocantur Egiptiani, & sic fecerunt, continuauerunr, & remanserunt ibidem, & alibi in eodem comit', a praedicto tertio die August' anno twenty-three. supradicto usque vicesimum diem julij tunc proxim' sequent in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, ac contra formam statuti praedicti etc. For pulling out of Eyes. IVratores pro Domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in dicto Sect' 103. comitatu E. Tinker, nono die Septembris, Anno regni dict' dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo nono, in quodam loco apud C. predictam in comit' E. praedicto vocato le Dene) vi & armis in quendam D. E. & C. praedicta in comitatu E. praedicto yeo, in pace dictae dominae Reginae tunc ibidem existentem, insultum fecit, ac tunc et ibidem ex malitia sua precogitata, digitis et unguibus digitorum ipsius A. B. oculosi ipsius D. E. felonice effodit, ac eruit contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nostrae, coronam et dignitatem suam, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti in parliamento domini Henrici olim Regis Anglie quarti, tento apud Westmonast in come Midd', anno Regni sui quinto in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi. For cutting out of Tongues. Ivrat dicunt quod cum pe● statutum in Parliamento domini Regis H. nuper regis Angliae, 4. ann regni sui 5. apud W. tento aedit, ordinat sit, Sect' 104. quod malefactores, qui linguas imputarent, vel oculos evellerent ligeorum domini regis, hoc debit' comperto et probato, quod tale factum ex malitia precogitata fuit perpetratum, penam feloniae incurrerent, prout in eodem statut' plenius continetur: quidam tn̄ I. L. de etc. penam in dicto statut' contentam minime verens, die etc. ann etc. vi & armis, s. etc. felonice ut felo dicti domini regis, insidiand', et insultu premeditat contra pacem domini Regis coronam & dignitatem suam, in illa sua precogitata malitia venit apud H. in comitatu H. et in quendam N. M. adtunc et ibidem in pace dei et domini Reg. existent, insultum fecit, et ipsum verberavit, vulneravit, ac quodam cultello quem praed' I. L. adtunc tenuit in manu sua dext̄ precij ij. s. linguam ipsius M. adtunc et ibid' felonice eruit & amputavit, contra pacem domini Regis etc. ac contra formam & provis. statut' praed' &c. An Indictment against a gaoler for suffering of one committed to him upon suspicion of felony for stealing of a horse to escape. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod ubi quidam A. B. nuper de C. in dicto comitatu K. Shoemaker, sexto die Maij, Anno regni Sect' 105. dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, et Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud C. praedict' in comitatu K. praedict', pro suspicione cuiusdam felony (videlicet, unius Equ●, coloris albi, pretij xl. solid' felonice per eundem A. B. ut dicebatur, capti & abducti) arrestatus est & captus, & coram T. F. uno Iusticiariorum dictae dominae Reginae ad pacem in dicto comitatu conserundam assignatorum ductus, et super inde postea, viz. dictis die anno, & loco, cui●am B. D. in comitatu K. praedicto Yeoman, custodi Gaolae dictae dominae Reginae apud M. in dicto comitatu K. existenti (sub custodia I. F. armigeri, adtunc vicecomitis comitatus K. praedicti, & custodis jail predicte) per quoddam preceptum de Mittimus dicti T. F. justiciarij, idem A. B. traditus est & commissus, ad saluo & secure custodiendum in Gaola prdicta, donec idem A. B. inde foret legitimo modo deliberatus: prefatus tamen I. F. (tunc vicecomes) postea, videlicet, septimo die dicti mensis Maij Anno supradicto, apud M. praed' in comitatu K. pred', praefatum A. B. (ad tunc & ibidem in dictis gaola & custodia existentem) a praed' custodia & gaola, ad tunc & ibidem evadere & ad largum ite voluntary, et felonice permisit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, Coronam, & dignitatem suam etc. another indictment against a gaoler, for suffering of a woman committed to him upon suspicion of felony & murder to escape. INquiratur pro Domina Regina, quod cum quaedam Ma● N. nuper Sect. 106. de B. in pred' come E. Spinster, decimo die Apr Anno etc. pro suspicion felon' & murdr per ipsam M. apud B. predict' in comitatu E. pred' super quendam W. P. fieri & perpetrari supposit, capt' & arrestat fuit apud B. pred' in comitatu E. predicto, & eisdem die & anno pred' M. cuidam Richardo B. de N. in comitatu E. pred' Yeoman, custod' gaolae dictae Dominae Reginae comitatus pred' sub Georgio P. armig' ad tunc vicecomit̄ comitatus praed' & custod' gaolae praed', per quoddam breve de Mittimus W. M. Milit, & I. M. armig' duorum Iusticiar' dictae Dominae Reginae, ad pacem in eodem comitatu conseruand' assign', saluo & secur custodiend' tradita fuit, quousque eadem M. a custodia illa secundum legem & consuetudinem regni Angliae, pro suspicion murdr predict' acquietat sive deliberat̄ foret: Si predict' R. B. de N. predict' in pred comitatu E. Yeoman, postea scilicet vicesimo sexto die Novembris, anno supradicto apud M. predict' in comitatu E. predicto, predict' M. adtunc & ibidem in custodia ipsius R. in gaola dictae Dominae Reginae existentem, a gaola predicta, adtunc & ibidem voluntary & felonice evadere & ad largum ire permisit, contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae nunc etc. An indictment against divers for suffering of one which had confessed a felony before a justice of peace, and delivered to them by the same justice of peace, to be by them conucied to the jail, negligently to escape. Ivr pro domina regina praesentant, quod cum I. B. nuper de C. in pred' Sect. 107. come E. Miller, viii. die Decembris, anno regni reginae Eliz. etc. primo, clausum cuiusdam I. G. apud C. pred' in comitat' E. pred' fregit & intravit, ac unam iwencam coloris Browne precij viginti, s. de bonis & catallis dicti I. G. adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice cepit & effugavit, contra pacem dictae Dominae Regin̄. Et pro felon' predict' per praefat' I. B. sic fact & perpetrat, arrestat fuit, et coram G. R. armiger uno Iustic' dictae dominae Reginae ad pacem in comitatu predict' E. conseruand' assign', necnon etc. per predict' I. G. duct' fuit, & coram dicto G. R. dictus I. B. felon' predict' confessus fuit, & ibidem G. R. per breve de Mittimus, praefat' I. B. pro felon' predict' ad gaolam dictae dominae reginae de I. in come predict', quibusdam I. C. de C. pred' Y. R. B. de eadem Clothier, & Ric' M. de eadem weaver deliberavit, saluo & secur ducend' usque gaolam praed' de I. praedict', ibidem moratur quousque idem I. B. abind secundum legem & consuetud' regni Angl' deliberatus foret: Et si pnd' I. C. R. B. & R. M. dicto viii. die Decem, anno supradict' praef. I. B. apud C. pnd' in pnd' comitatu E. in cor custod' virtute deliberac' pnd' sic existent, ibid' negligent a custod' sua ad largum ire & evadere permiser, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae, coronam et dignitatem suas etc. An indictment against a Coroner upon the statute of Anno 1. H. 8. for extortion in taking of a fee for his view of the body of one slain per infortunium. Ivrat pro dna Reg' praesentant, quod cum per statut' in parliament Sect. 108. dni H. nuper regis Angl' octanis, Anno regni sui 1. ordinat est, & stabilit existit, quod super requisitionem Coronator fact' adveniend' & inquirendum super visum corporis alicuius personae per infortunium occisae, mersae, seu aliter mortuae, Coronator pnd' diligenter faceret officium suum super visum corporis cuiuscunque talis personae, vel personarum, absque aliqua re proinde capiend', sub pena quod quilibet Coronator, qui officio suo ut praedict' est fungi recusaverit, vel rem aliquam ceperit pro functione officij praed', super visum corporis alicuius personae mortuae per infortunium, pro quolibet tempore xl. s. prout in statut' praedict' plenius continetur. Quidan tn W. B. de H. in come praed' gener 12. die Dec' &c. adtunc exist' unus coronator̄ dictae Dnae Reginae in come E. praed', apud M. in come E. predict', colore officij sui pred' extors. & iniuriose cepit ꝓ feodo suo 20. solid' de quodam Roberto S. de B. in comitatu praedict' yeoman, pro executione officij sui praedict' super visum corporis cuiusdam johannis C. nuper de B. in come E. Lab. qui apud B. pred' in comitatu E. pred' 4. die Octob' ann etc. per infortun̄ occis. fuit, in contempt dictae dnae Reg', ad grave damnum ipsius R. S. & contra formam statuti praed', & diversor alior statut' inde edit' & provis. The like against a Coroner upon the statute of An. 1. H. 8. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si A. C. de B. in comitatu E. generosus, Sect. 109. 6. die Junii, Anno etc. unus coronatorum dictae dnae Reginae in dicto comitatu E. adtunc existens, apud B. praedict', in comit' E. praed' colore officij sui predicti, extorsive cepit profeodo suo 20. solid', de quodam I. S. in dicto comitatu generoso, in, & pro functione & executione officij, sui praedicti, super visum corporis R. N. nuper de B. pred' in comitatu E. pred' (qui quidem R. N. 5. die dicti mensis Junii. Anno supradicto apud B. praed' in comitatu E. pred' casu, ab equo suo, per infortunium fuit occisus) in magnum dictae dnae Reginae contempt, ac contra form̄ stat in parliam Dom Henr̄ nuper regis Angl' octavi tento, Anno regni sui primo, in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. For Extortion by an Eschetors' servant, in breaking and entering into a dwelling house, and for seizing and taking out of the same certain leather by colour of his office. Ivr pro dna Reg' present, quod Rob. Bennet de P. in comitat' E. pnd ' Sect. 110. Y. seruiens & minister cuiusd' B. T. Escheat dict' dnae reg' come pred', xv. die julij etc. apud W. in come E. praed' domum mansionalem cuiusdam johannis M. fregit & intr, & 6. tergora corij voc' 12. hides of green leather, ad valenc 8. li. & 6. duodenas pell' vitulor, voc' 6. dozen of Calueskins, ad valenc' 4. li. x. s. quae quidem terg' & pell' adtunc & ibidem inuent', colour officij sui extorsive & injust cepit, scisivit, & asportavit, ad grave damnum ipsius I. contra leges & ordinationes dictae dominae Reginae regni sui Angl', & contra formam diversorum statutorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. An indictment against the register of an Archbishop, for his extortious taking of more fees than he ought, for the probate of a testament. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. de C. in dicto Sect. 111. come E. generosus, primo die mensis Aug ' &c. (adtunc scriba, (sive Registarius) reverendi in Christo patris, D. tunc permissione divina E. Archiepiscopi existens, apud M. in comitatu E. predict' colore officij sui praedicti, extorsiue ac iniuriose cepit de quodam I. S. de M. praedicta in dicto comit' E. Tanner, duos solidos legalis morietae Angl', pro feodo ipsius A. B. pro scriptione probationis unius testamenti cuiusdam R. N. (qui quidem R. N. apud M. praedictam infra dioecesem dicti D. Archiepiscopi vicesimo quarto die julij, Anno supradicto mortuus est) ubi revera idem Testamentum tunc ibidem allatum est ad dictum scribam (sive Registrarium) per dictum I. S. in pergameno scriptum: & ubi omnia bona, jura, & credita dicti R. N. dicto tempore dictae mortis suae non excedebant summam quinque librarum: & ubi etiam tota dicta scriptio probationis testamenti praedicti per praefatum scribam (sive Registrarium) sic ut praefertur facta, non continebat in se qua draginta lineas quarum quaeque linea erat decem pollicium in longitudine: In magnam dicta Dominae reginae contemptum, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento Domini Henrici nuper regis Angliae octavi tento, Anno regni sui vicesimo primo, in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. An indictment against an Escheator, upon the statute of 33. H. 8. for sitting & enquiring by colour of his office, without writ, of lands holden of the Queen, above the yearly value of five pounds. IVratores etc. quod cum in statut' in Parliament Domini H. nuper regis Sect. 112. Angliae octavi apud Westm Ann regni sui 33. etc. quod nullus escheator sederet tantum virtute officij sui pro inquisitione, de tenura, titulo, vel valore aliquarum terrarum, tenementor, siue hereditament, ubi eadem terr', tennta, seu haereditament, sint valoris 5. librar per annum, vel supra, & tent' de domino rege, sine brevi domini Regis sibi inde dirigend', sub pena amittendi & foris faciendi pro quolibet tempore quo sederet & faceret inquisitionem contra formam huius statuti, quinque libras, in qua secta etc. prout etc. Quidam tamen R. B. statutum pred' etc. existent escheator Dominae Reg' in comitatu E. predict' tali die & anno, apud D. in pred' come E. sedebat, tantum colore officij sui ad inquirend' post mort cuiusd' A. E. de tenura, titulo, & valour duorum mes. xl. acrar pasc', 30. acrarum prati, 50. acrar pasturae, & 20. acrar bosci, cum pertinent in O. in come E. praed' annui valoris decem librarum & ultra, et tent' de dna Regina, absque aliquo brevi ipsius domin' sibi inde directo, in dictae Dominae Reginae contemptum, & contra formam et provisionem statuti praed' &c. An inquisition taken before a Coroner upon the view of the body of one which had hanged himself in a leather girdle upon the bough of a tree. INquisitio indentat capt' apud N. in comitat' pred' 13. die April ' anno Sect. 113. etc. 35. coram johann N. gen, uno Coronat dictae domin' Reg' comitatus pred', super visum corporis cuiusdan H. W. de D. in come E. praed' Sho. ibid' mortui jam cent, ꝑ sacrament etc. qui dicunt super sacrament suum, quod pnd' H. 4. die Apr, ann regni dictae dnae Reg' 35. supradicto, circa hor̄ 4. post meridiem eiusd' diei, deum prae oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolic' seduct' in quodam prato cuiusd' W. S. gen apud T. pred' come G. voc' E. Meadow, adtunc & ibid' solus existens, cum uno cingulo corij, precij 1. deanr, qd ipse adtunc & ibid' in manibus suis tenuit & unum finem inde circa collum suum adtunc & ibid' posuit, & circa ramun cuiusdan arboris salicis alter finem indeligavit & seipsum adtunc & ibid' voluntar & felonice suspend', fuffocabat, & strangulabat. Et sicu lur pnd' dicunt super sacramentum suum, qđ pnd' H. W. modo & forma praedict' adtu●c & ibiđ voluntary & felonice, ut felo de se, seipsum murderavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, ac quod idem B. nulla habuit bona seu catalla, terras neque tenementa. In cuius rei testimonium tam praefat' coronat quam iur predict', present sigill' sua apposuer, datum die, anno & loco supradictis. Of Forcible entry upon the Statute of Anno 5. R. 2. for pulling up by the roots of 100 perches of quick set. INquiratur pro Domina Regina etc. quod cum in Statuto in Pa●liamento Sect. 114. Domini R. nuper Regis Angliae secund' post conquest' apud Westm in come Middl', Anno regni sui 5. tent', edit', inter caerere ordi●at̄ sit quod nullus faceret ingressum in aliquam terram sive tenementa, nisrin cas. ubi ingressus datur per legem, & in illo casu, non manuforti, nec cum multitudine gentium, sed licito et quieto modo tantum. Et si quis contrarium fecerit, & inde debite conuict̄ fuerit, per imprisonamen' corpor sui puniatur, & finem ad voluntat domin' Regis fac', prout in eodem statuto inter alia plenius continetur. Quidam tamen T. H. de I. in comitatu E. praedict' Y. etc. et alij malefactores ignot etc. statutum praedict' minime ponderant secundo die M. etc. vi et armis viz. baculis, gladijs, falcastris, et bisurcis, in unam clausum I. C. Militis iacent apud Arrow. in comitat' E. praedicto, in quodam loco ibidem voc' A. super possessionem eiusdem I. C. Militis, ubi ingressus cis aut eorum alicui non datur per legem, illicit ingressum fecerunt, & centum particas sepium vivar, ipsius I. C. Militis, adtunc et ibidem crescent eradicaver, ewlserunt, et spoliaverunt, in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, & add grave damnum ipsius I. C. Militis, et contra formam statuti predict' etc. For forcible Entry upon the statue of An. 5. R. 2. for entering into a messsage and expulsing of the owner thereof. INquiratur pro domina Regina, quod cum instatuto in parliamento Sect. 115. domini Rich' nuper reginae Angliae post conquestum 2. apud Westmonast' Anno regni sui v. tent', ordinat et stabilit existit, quod nulla persona extunc faceret aliquem ingr in aliquas terras vel tenementa, nisi in cas. ubi ingressus ei datur per legem, & in huiusmodi casu, non manufort̄, nec cum multitudine gentium, sed quieto et pacifico modo tantum. Et si aliqua persona extunc de caetero in contratium faceret, et inde debito modo convinceretur, puniretur per imprisonament̄ corporis sui, & ulterius finem et redemptionem eidem domino Regi, ad voluntatem et placitum ipsius domini Regis faceret, prout in eodem statuto inter alia plenius continetur. Sed quidam W. nuper de K. in comitaut E. predict' Husbandman, I. W. senior de E. in comitatu E. predict' Husbandman, & I. W. nuper de E. predict' in comitatu E. predict' Laborer, statut' predict' minime ponder̄, nec paenam in eodem statuto contentam aliqualiter verent̄, sed illud potius contemnentes, xxiv. die januar etc. apud S. in come E. predict', in unum mesuagium sive tenement' existens liber tenement' cuiusdam I. H. illicit et manuforti ingress. fecerunt, ubi nec ipsis nec eorum alicui huiusmodi ingressus datur per legem, ac ipsum I. H. inde injust expuler̄, ipsumque I. sic inde expulsum, a predict' xxiv. die jan. Anno pred', usque ad xxxj. diem eiusdem mensis tunc proxim' sequent̄, illicit et manufort̄ extratenuer̄, in contemptum dictae dnae Reginae nunc, et grave damnum ipsius I. et contra formam statuti pred', ac contra pacem dictae dominae etc. An indictment upon the Statute of Anno 8. H. 6. for entering with force into a barn in the possession of the farmer thereof, and for keeping of the same with force. IVratores pro domina Regina nunc praesentant, quod cum in statuto Sect. 116. in parliamento dni H. nuper Reg. Angl' sexti, apud Westm in come Midd', Anno regni sui 8. tent', aedit, inter caetera continet, quod si aliqua persona sive aliquae personae, de aliquibus terris seu tenntis manufort expuls. seu disseisit sit, vel pacifice expellatur, & postea manufort̄ extra teneat, vel aliquod feoffament̄ vel discontinuatio inde post talem ingressum ad ius possessoris defraudand' & tollend' aliquo modo fiat, habeat in hac part pars gravat, versus talem disseisitor̄ Assisam novae disseisinae, vel breve de transgress. Et si pars gravat, per assisam vel ꝑ actionem transgressionis recuperet, & per veredictum vel aliquo alio modo per debit' legis formam inveniat, quod pars defenden in terr' & tenement' illa, vi ingressa fuit, vel ea per vim post ingress. suum tenuit: recuperet quer' damna sua ad triplum, versus talem defend', & ulterius idem defend' finem & redemption dicto dno Reg. faceret, prout in statuto pnd' plenius continetur. Quidam tamen W. W. nuper de W. in praedict' come E. Husband, & C. D. nuper de W. pred', in praed' come E. Labourer, statutum pred' minime ponderant, nec paenam in ●odem statut' cōtent̄ aliqualiter verentes, nineteen. die Febr. Anno etc. in unum horreum apud W. praed' adtunc existent liberum tenement' R. W. gener, vi & armis, viz. gladiis etc. manuforti & illicit super possessionem cuiusdam A. M. tunc firmarij praed' W. horr praed' intraverunt & ingressum fecerunt, & ipsum A. vi & armis praed' ac manufort & illicit tunc inde expulerunt & eiecerunt, & praef. R. W. inde injust disseisiverunt, et praef. R. W. sic inde disseisitum a praed' nineteen. die Febr. Anno xv. supradicto, usque diem captionis huius Inquisitionis, de praed' horreo vi & armis praed', et manuforti extra tenuer, & adhuc extratenent, in contemptum dictae dnae Reg. nunc, & add grave damnum ipsius R. & contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae, ac, contra formam statuti praed', ubi nullus eorum nec ipsi nec aliquis alius cuius statum ipsi, aut aliquis eorum habuit aut habuerunt, infra tres annos proximos ante ingressum suum praed', aliquid in dictis horreiss etc. aut in aliqua inde parcella habuit etc. An inquisition upon the Statute of Anno 8. H. 6. wherein is found that one was with force and arms expulsed out of the possession of a manor and lands. INquisitio capta apud W. in come S. primo die I. anno regni dnae Elizab. Sect. 117. dei gratia etc. 35. coram R. W. Mil' F. G. arm R. F. Iustic' dictae dnae reginae ad pacem in come praed' conseruand', necnon ad diversa felon', transgress. & alia malefacta in eodem comitatu perpetrat audiend' & terminand' assign' per sacramentum xii. Iur' exist' present, qui dicunt super eorum sacrament̄ quod cum in statuto in parliamento domini H. 6. nuper regis Angl' apud W. anno regni sui octavo tent' edit', inter cetera contineatur quod si aliqua persona de aliquibus terris vel tenementis manuforti expulsa sit vel disseisita, vel pacifice expellatur, et postea manuforti extra teneatur, vel aliud feoffamentum vel discont̄ inde, post talem ingressum, ad ius possessoris defraudand' seu tollend' aliquo modo fiat, habeat pars in hac parta gravata, versus talem disseisitorem. Ass. nove disleisin, vel breve de transgr, Et si pars gravata per Ass. vel per actionem transgr recuperet, & per veredictum, vel alio modo, per debitam legis formam inveniatur, quod pars def. in terras & tenement' ill' vi ingressum fec', vel ea post ingressum suum, per vim tenuerit, recuperet querens damna sua ad triplum versus defend', & ulterius finem & redemptionem domino regifaciat, prout in statuto praedict' plenius continetur. Quidam tamen I. S. nuper de A. in comitatu S. praedict' Yeoman, & alij ad numerum vj. personarum Iur' ignot statutum praedict' minime verent, ix. die Aug. Anno regni dominae nosttae Elizab. nunc Reginae A. 24. R. W. armig' de manerio de G. cum pertinent in A. in comitatu praedict', & de ducentis acris terrae, xx. acr prati, & centum acr pastur', cum prrtinen, in A. praedict' in comitatu praed', vi & armis & manuforti, viz. gladijs, baculis, & cultellis, propulerunt & disseisiverunt, & ipsum six expulsum, & diss. a praed' nono die A. Ann supradict' usque diem captionis huius inquisitionis, manuforti & vi & armis, praed' R. W. extra tenuerunt, count pacem dictae dnae Reginae nunc, & contra formam statuti praed' in hoc casu editi & provisi. For counterfeiting of a protection and putting to it the great seal, taken from other old letters Patents. Ivrat praes. quod R. D. nuper de H. in come H. Husbandman, & Sect. 118. alij machinantes, quomodo populum domini regis nunc subtilissime poterint decipere vel defraudare, & dominum regem, de his quae ad ipsum regem pertinent, & regalia sua, ut de feod' magni sigilli & huiusmodi, exhaeredare, & veram legem Angl', a toto tempore usitatam & approbatam, subvertere & adnullare, xuj. die Februar etc. apud T. in comitatu M. deceptive, falso & proditory quasdam falsas literas patentes, ad similitudinem script' cancellar domini regis, contrafac', quasi essent literae patentes, de protectionoe ipsius reg. sub nomine I. K. clerici hanaperij Domini Regis, ac unius clericorum Cancellariae praedict' script', hunc tenorem continent, viz. H. dei gratia etc. reciting the Letters patents verbatim, Ac cum ijdem R. B. & alij &c. dictas falsas literas patent̄ sic ut premittit, controfecissent, non habentes magnum sigillum dni regis, deceptorie, falso, & proditory, machinant, qualiter ipsi falsas & fictas literas patentes huiusmodi subtilius poterant sigillare, & magnum sigillum dni regis contrafacere, dict 16. die Februarij anno supradict' apud B. in come pred' quoddam magnum sigillum dni regis, super quasd ' patent ipsius dni regis praeante pend', & debit' impositum, acceperunt, assumentes sibi regiam potestatem, & ipsum regem regali sua auctorit (quantum in eis fuit) privant, adtunc & ibid' come quodam cultello arripuerunt, et illud', dictis falsis, fictis et contrafactis literis patent, decept et proditor apposuerunt, et annexerunt, et easdem literas sigillaver, sigill' ill' subtilit recludendo, quasi sic non fecissent, et sic magnum sigillum domini regis ad tunc & ibidem prodit contrafecer, et cum praemissa sic fecissent, dictas falsas et contrafact̄ literas patentes, ac ut praed' sigillatas, 8. die Mart etc. apud villam de S. in comitatu M. ac in diversis locis eiusd' come, tanquam literas patent̄ ipsius domini regis de protect, deceptor, falso, et proditory, publicaverunt, & diversas pecuniarum summas, de diversis ligeis dni reg. receperunt, virtute dictar̄ falsarum fictarum & contrafactarum literarum patent, in deception dni regis, ac populi sui preiudic', et exheredationem manifestam etc. An indictment against a minister upon the Statute of Anno 5. H. 8. for forgeing of an indenture of bargain & sail of lands. INquitatur pro domina regina, quod cum in statuto in parliamento Sect. 119. domini H. 8. nuper regis Angl' apud Westm anno regni sui quint, tent', aedit, etc. quod si aliqua persona sive personae quaecunque post primum diem Junii tunc proxim' sequentem, ex sua propria mente & imaginatione, seu per falsam conspirationem et fraudem, cum alijs, scienter, subtiliter, et falso fabricaret sive faceret, sive subtiliter causaret, seu scienter consentiret fabricari, sive fieri, aliquod falsum factum, chartam, seu scriptum sigillatum, Rotul' curiae, aut testamentum alicuius personae, sive personarum in scriptis, ea intentione, quod status liberi tenementi, seu haereditatis alicuius personae, sive personar̄ de, in, aut ad aliqua terras, tenementa, seu haereditamenta liberae, tenurae, aut customar̄, vel rectum, titulus, sive interesse, alicuius personae, sive personarum, de, in vel ad eadem, sive aliquod eorum, molestari, perturbari, destrui, recuperari, vel onerari, poterit, aut contingeret, aut post praed' primum diem Junii pronunciaret, publicaret, seu ostenderet in evidentiam, aliquod tale falsum & effictum factum, cartam, scriptum, Rotul' curiae, aut testamentum, tanquam vera, sciens eadem facta falsa ac ficta (ut praefertur) ad intentionem supramencionat̄, & inde foret convictus, aut super aliquam actionem sive actiones fabricandi falsa facta, super hoc statut' fundand' ad sectam partis gravatae, vel aliter, secundum ordinem & debit' cursum legum huius Regni Angl', aut super billam vel informationem in Curiam camerae Stell ' exhibend', juxta ordinem & usum Curiae ill': solueret parti gravatae, custagia & damna sua ad duplum, inueniend' seu assidend', in curia ubi huiusmodi convictio foret: ac etiam statueretur super collistrigium in aliqua aperta villa mercatoria, aut alio loco aperto, & ibidem haberet ambas aures suas absciscas, ac nares suas interscissas & in partes divisas, & ferro igneo cauterisatas, sic quod remanere possent pro perpetua nota & signo falsitatis sue, & foresfaceret dominae Regin̄ heredibus & successoribus suis integr exitus & proficua terrarum & tevementorum suorum durant vita sua, ac etiam sufferret & haberet perpetuum imprisonamentum durant vita ipsius, praedictis damnis & custagijs recuperand' ad sectam partis gravatae (ut prefertur) primo solnendis & levandis de bonis et catallis offendentis, & de exitibus & proficuis dictarum terrarum, tenementorum, & hereditamentor̄ huiusmodi partis convictae, aut unius seu utriusque eorum praed' titulo dict' dominae Reginae hered' vel successorum suorum ad eadem, non obstante, prout in eodem statuto inter alia plenius liquet. Quidam tamen T. M. de C. in praedict' come E. Clericus, statutum praed' non ponderans, nec paenam in eodem contentam verens, post praed' primum diem Junii, scilicet etc. apud T. in praedict' comitatu E. exsua propriamente & falsa imaginatione, conspiratione, et covina, quoddam falsum factum, viz. quand' Indenturam, per quam quidam T. A. barganizaret & venderet omnes illas terras & tenementa vocat' etc. cum pertin' in T. in praed' comitatu E. cuidam I. S. scient̄, subtilit, & falso fabricavit et fecit, & eandem Indenturam tunc et ibidem pronunciavit, publicavit, & legifecit, & in evidentiam ostendit, ad molestand', destruendum, & perturbandum statum, possessionem, titulum & interesse praed' T. B. in terris & tenementis predict, per quod idem T. B. de possessione, titulo, et interesse suis, ad tenementa praedict' cum pertinentijs multipliciter pregravat & vexat existit, in dictae dominae Reg' legisque sue contemptum manifestum, & ipsius T. dampnum non modicum & gravamen, ac contra formam statuti praedict' &c. For forestall the Market, and buying saltfish by the way in coming to the Market. INquiratur pro domina Regina quod cum R. N. de civitate N. in comitatu Sect' 120. civet N. mercator possessionatus fuit de mill salsament̄ ut de suis bonis proprijs, si I. T. de civitate N. praed' Fishmonger, tertio die etc. apud N. praed' in come praedict' civet N. & divers. alijs diebus tam antea quam post, praefat' R. N. tunc & ibidem obuiand' cum dictis mill salsament in mercat civitat praedict' in comitatu praed' venditur praed' mill salfament de praeef. R. N. adtunc & ibidem extra mercatum ill' emit & forstallavit, per quod, praed' R. N. praedict' mill salsament̄ ad mercat pnd non adduxit in contempt dnae Reg', ac contra formam diversor statut' in hmndi casu edit & provis, ac contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae. An Indictment upon the statute of Anno 33. H. 8. against a Tipler for keeping of a common bowling Alley, and against divers others for using to bowl in the same Alley. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 121. E. Tipler, secundo die Septembris Anno etc. & continue post dictum diem Anno supradicto, usque primum diem mensis Octobris, Anno supradicto apud C. praedictam in comitatu E. praedict', quendam communem locum iaciendi globos (vocatum Anglice, a common bowling Alley) pro lucro ipsius A. B. proprio, & ad ludendum tunc ibidem cum globis (Anglice vocatis bowls) illicit tenuit, custodivit, ac manutenuit, contra formam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento domini Henrici nuper regis Angliae 8. tento anno regni sui 33. in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi: Et quod I. S. de O. praedict' in dicto comitatu E. Labourer, & tres aliae personae ignotae, dicto secundo die Septembr anno supradicto, dictum communem locum usitaverunt, ac tunc ibidem cum globis (Anglice vocatis bowls) insimul & illicit luserunt, contra formam statuti praedicti etc. An Indictment upon the statute of Anno 8. H. 5. for gild of the hilt of a dagger with the finest gold. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de S. in dicto comitatu Sect' 122. E. Aurifaber, secundo die julij Anno etc. 35. apud S. praedictam in comitatu E. praedicto, quoddam manubrium pugionis ferrei (Anglice dictum a dagger hilt of iron) cuiusdam E. D. de S. praedicta in dicto comitatu E. yeoman, valcris duorum solidorum, auro purissimo ad valentiam quinque solidorum deauravit (Anglice did gild with the finest Gold) in magnum Reipublice detrimentum, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento domini H. nuper Regis Anglie quinti, tento Ann̄ regni sui octavo in hmndi casu provisi & editi. An Indictment against a Blackesmith for selling of a gelding to a Scot to be conveyed into Scotland without the Queen's licence. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod quarto die mensis julij, Sect' 123. Anno regni dict̄ dnae nostr' Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae Franciae, & Hyberniae Reg. fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto A. B. de C. in comitatu E. Blacksmith, apud quendam locum vocatum le ferry (in C. predicta in Comitatu E. praedicto existentem (unum spadonem (Anglice dictum a Gelding) coloris albi, & praetij quatuor librarum legalis monetae Angliae, cuidam A. D. generoso (natione homine Scoto) pro summa quatuor librarum in pecunijs numeratis praedicto A. B. per prefatum A. D. tunc ibidem solutis voluntary vendidit. Ac tunc & ibidem, cundem equmn eidem A. D. ca intentione ad equum praedictum in regnum Scotiae abdueendum & conveiandum (absque aliqua speciali licentia dictae dominae Reginae nostrae nunc, per literas suas patentes sub magno Sigillo Anglie ad idem sicfaciendum inde prius obtenta) voluntary & felonice tradidit ac deliberavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nostrae nunc, ac in eneruationem huius regni sui Angliae, necnon contr̄ formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu preantea provisorum & editorum. For beating of two Horses, of which beating the one of them died presently, and the other was sore hurt. INquiratur etc. si E. H. etc. decimo die etc. vi & armis, viz. etc. duos equos Sect' 124. coloris albi, praecij etc. de bonis & catallis cuiusdam I. F. apud M. in praed' comitatu E. inuent' quodam baculo percussit & verberavit, in tantum quod unus equus equorum praedict' ex percussione & verberatione illi', ibidem incontinenter interijt, alterque equor praed' multipliciter fatigat laesus & deteriorat existit. Et alij enormia eidem I. F. intulit ad grave damnum ipsius I. F. & contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. An Indictment upon the Statute of Anno 13. E. 1. against the inhabitants of a Town for the not taking of such persons which had robhed one of C. li. the party rob making Hue and cry, and giving notice to the inhatants of the same Town of the robbery. INquiratur pro Domina Regina, quod cum in Statuto in parliamento Sect' 125. domin' E. nuper Regis Angliae primi, progenitoris dnae Reginae nunc, apud Winton, Anno regni sui xiii. tent', aedit, inter cetera ordinat sit, pro co quod, de die, in diem roberie, homicidia, incendia domorum, & latrocinia, plus solit tunc fiebant quam antea solebant, & felones non potissent esse attinct' per sacramentum jurat, qui magis voluntary permittebant felonias fieri gentibus extraneis, & felones evadere absque paena, quam malefactores Indictari, ubi maior pars fuerunt gentes de eadem patria, vel ad minus, si malefactores fuerunt de alia patria, eorum receptores fuerunt devisu, ubi huiusmodi malefacta ficbant, & hoc faciebant, pro eo quod sacramenta cisdem Iurator̄ non ministrabantur, nec in patria ubi felony ille fiebant, & quoad restitutionem damnorum, pena ante nunc, non fuit provis. pro concelament̄ & negligentia suis. Idem nuper Rex pro posse huiusmodi felonias debilitand' & decrescend' stabilivit penam in illo casu, ita quod exinde magis pro timore penequam pro pavore sacrament̄, nullis felonibus extunc parcerent, nec aliquis felonias extunc concelaret, & quod proclam fierent in omnibus Comit̄, hundred ', mercat̄, ferijs, & omnibus alijs locis ubi multitudo gentium foret assemblata, sic quod nulli per ignorantiam se possint excusare, & quod quelibet patria extunc sic possit custodiri quod instanter post roberias & felonias factas, recens insecut fieret de villa in villam, de patria in patriam, et etiam inquisitiones fierent, si necesse foret, in villis, ꝑ ipsum qui dominus vel superior esset in villa, & postea in hundred ' et franchesia, & in comitatu, & aliquando in duobus, tribus, vel quatuor come, in casu quando felony fact fuer' in Marchijs & confinijs come, ita quod malefactores potuissent esse attincti. Et si patria de corporibus huiusmodi malefact' non responderet, pena talis esset, quod quelibet patria, scilicet homines in patria commorantes, responderent de roberijs factis & damn, sic quod totum hundred ', ubi roberia facta fuit, cum franchesijs, que essent infra precinctum eiusdem hundredi responderet de roberijs factis. Et si roberia foret in diversis duorum hundred orum, in huiusmodi casu responderent in de ambo hundreda, simul cum franches. que forent infra precinctum hundred ' praedict', et longioris temporis spacium non haberet patria post roberiam et felonias factas, quam xl. dierum, infra quos faceret emend' de roberia vel de malefactis, vel responderet de corporibus malefactorum, prout in statuto praedict' plenius continetur. Ac cum quidam malefactores ignoti 3. die M. Ann etc. apud N. in comitatu E. praedict', que quidem villa est infra hundredum de H. vi & armis, videlicet, gladijs, baculis, & cultellis, in quendam O. C. insultum fecerunt, et centum libras de denarijs ipsius O. ibidem inuent', felonice ab eodem O. spoliaverunt, ceperunt et asportaverunt contra pacem etc. ut alibi, Ac idem O. quam potuit citiss. post feloniam et spoliationem praedict' factas, scilicet 4. die M. Anno etc. supradicto apud N. praedict', per totam eandem villam, hutesium et clamorem de roberia praedicta fecit, & noticiam ibidem inhabitantibus eiusdem ville de roberiailla dedit, et post roberiam xl. dies iam preterierunt. Ijdem tamen inhabitantes emend' de roberia praedict' fact̄ O. hucusque non fecerunt, nec corpora felonum et malefact̄ praedictorum ceperunt, neque de corporibus eorum hususque responderunt, sed malefactores et▪ felones illos evadere permiserunt, in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, et ipsius O▪ grave damnum, et contra formam statuti praedict' etc. An Indistment against divers persons upon the statute of 1. H. 7. for hunting by night, in one of the Queen's parks, and killing of a brace of Bucks with Crossbows, and denying of the same upon their examinations. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod secundo die Augusti, Sect 126. Anno regni Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberdiae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo qninto, inter horas decimam & undecimam in nocte eiusdem diei, A. B. de C. in dicto comitatu E. generosus, D. E. & G. H. de F. in dicto comitatu E. Husbandman, agregatis sibi nonnullis alijs malefactoribus ignotis, ad numerum sex personarum, vi et armis, videlicet, praelongis baculis, arcubalistis, & sagittis, clausum & parcum dictae dominae Reginae nostrae apud O. in dict' comitatu F. fregerunt, intraverunt, & unum par demarū dictae dominae Reginae (Anglice vocat' a brace of Bucks) in dicto ꝑco adtunc & ibidem depascent inuent' illegitime venati sunt, ac cum duobus sagittis ex dictis arcubalistis emissis, & sagittatis, adtunc & ibidem occiderunt, et asportaverunt, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae: Ac quod postea, die sequent, viz. tertio die dicti mensis Augusti, Anno supradicto, T. S. tunc parcarius dictae dominae Reginae dicti sui ꝑci de O. praedicta in comitatu E. praedicto, informavit apud C. praedictam T. W. unum Iusticiariorum pacis dictae dominae Reginae in dicto comitatu E. praedicte, de illicita venatione praedicta, modo & forma praedictis facta, qui quidem justiciarius superinde warrantum suum in scriptis, postea videlicet, dicto tertio die Augusti, Anno supradicto direxit cuidam K. M. uni Constabulariorum Hundredi de S. in comitatu E. praedicto (in quo quidem hundredo site sunt praedict' villae de C. & F.) eo tenore, utidem Constabularius arrestaret praenominatos A. B. D. E. & G. H. ac eosdem coram eodem lusticiario duceret & haberet, ad eos de dicta illicita venatione examinandum. Et quod dicti A. B. D. E. & G. H. postea, scilicet dicto tertio die Augusti Anno supradicto, coram dicto justiciario apud C. praedictam in comitatu E. praedicto per Constabularium praedictum virtute dicti warranti adducti, ac per eundem justiciarium per suam discretionem adtunc & ibidem de dicta illicita venatione, & de factoribus in ea part examinati existentes, praedictam tamen venationem voluntary & felonice concelaverunt, & eorum quilibet voluntary & felonice concelavit: Contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas, necnon contra formam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento domini H. nuper Regis Angliae septimitento, Anno regni sui primo in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. another Indictment against divers persons for hunting in a park in the night time, with iij greyhounds and for killing a Buck, and for using in the same park a net called a Buckestall. INquiratur pro domina Regin̄, si E. P. de C. in comitatu G. gen, H. P. Sect' 127. de C. in comitatu praedict' gen, & R. B. de C. in comitatu praed' yeoman, thirty. die Augusti, Anno etc. circa horam duodecimam in nocte eiusdem diei, agregat, sibi quamplur̄ alijs malefactoribus, & pacis dictae dominae Reginae perturbatoribus ignot, vi & aimis, viz. baculis ferro munit arcubus, sagittis, pugionibus & eultellis, & alijs armis tam invasivis quam defensivis, clausum & parcum Elizab. P. viduae apud H. Sancti Georgij in come praed', injust freger & intraver, & damas ipsius Eliz. adtunc & ibidem in parco praed' cubant & depascent, cum tribus canibus leporarijs vocat' Greyhounds, & uno rete vocat' a Buckstall, quoth in parco praedict' tenend', injust venat sunt & chasianer, & unam damam vocat' a Buck adtunc & ibidem cum canibus predict, riotose ceperunt, occider, & asportaverunt, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, ad grave damnum ipsius Elizab. & contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. An Indictment against divers for chase of a Buck in one of the Qucenes Forestes with a greyhound into cords, where he was hanged and killed. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si R. M. nuper de O. in comit' D. yeoman, Sect' 128. R. P. nuper de P. in come D. praedict' yeoman, xxix. die August' anno etc. forestam dictae dominae Reginae de M. in come D. praedict' freger & intraver, & unam damam vocat' a Buck ad valenc' x. s. adtune & ibidem inuent', sine licentia & voluntate dictae dominae Reginae, cum cane leporario vocat' a Greyhound, fugaver & chasiaver, & dictam damam apud R. infra precinct' forest praedict', cum fuibus Anglice vocat' Halters suspend' & occider, & ipsam damam sic suspens. & occis. injust ceper & asportaver, contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae etc. ut supra. An Indictment against a labourer upon the statute of Anno 13. R. 2. for keeping of a greyhound to course Hares and Coneys, and for killing of a Conie with his greyhound in a Conie garth, not having lands to the vaof xl. s. by year. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 129. E. Labourer (homo laicus existens) a festo S. Bartholm Apostoli, Anno regni dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto continue usque in hunc presentem diem, scilicet decimum diem Decembris tunc poxim̄ scquen apud C. praedictam, in comitatu E. praedicto, habuit & custodivit unum canem (Anglice vocatum a Greyhound) ad venandum & chaceandum lepores & cuniculos: Et quod idem A. B. vicesimo septimo die mensis Augusti, Anno supradicto unum cuniculum valoris 4. đ. in quodam clauso I. S. de C. praedicta in dicto comitatu E. generosi (vocato the Conie garth) infra parochiam de C. praedictam in dicto comitat' existent' cum dicto cane venatus est, & occidit, ubi idem A. B. nunquam habuit terras aut tenementa, ad clarum annuum valorem quadraginta solidorum: In dictae dominae Reginae contemptum, ac contra formam cuiusdam Statuti in parliamento domini Richardi, olim Regis Angliae secundi, tento Anno regni sui tertio decimo, in hoc casu provisi ac editi. An Indictment upon the statute of Anno 38. E. 3. against divers jurors in an Assize for taking of rewards to give their verdict, and also against an imbraceour in the same Assize. IVratores presentant pro domina Regina, quod A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Sect' 130. etc. complices I. K. naming all the jurors) etc. jurat in quadam assisa novae disseisinae (que nnper summonita fuit coram dilectis & fidelibus dictae dominae Reginae I. B. I. C. & N. C. nuper justiciarijs dictae dominae Reginae nunc, ad Assisam illam capiendam, per Breve ipsius dominae Reginae inter W. S. & I. H. detenementis in N. in praedicto comit' E. & postmodum (viz. die Lune etc. Anno etc. coram prefatis I. B. I. C. etc. apud M. in comit' E. praedict' per breve ipsius dominae Reginae si non omnes capt' posit) pro veredicto suo in hac part dicendo, de pref. I. H. diversas pecuniarum summas, videlicet A. B. de praedict' I. H. xl. s. & alia dona, scilicet panem, carnes, & vinum ad valentiam xx. solid' illegitime ceperunt. Et praedictus I. K. (Imbraciator ciusdem Assise ad eandem ducendam & procurandam) de prenominato W. S. summam x marcarum, vicesimo die Augusti, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quinto apud M. predictam, in comitatu E. predicto, illegitime ceperunt. In dicte domine Regine nunc contemptum, ac contraformam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento domini Edw. olim Regis Anglie tertij, anno regni sui tricesimo octavo tento, in huiusmodi casu, provisi ac editi. another Indictment upon the statute of 38. E. 3. against jurors for taking rewards for to give their verdict in an Assize: reciting of the said Statute. Ivrator dicunt, quod ubi in Parliamento domini E. nuper Regis Angl ' Sect' 131. 3. progenitoris domine Regine nunc, Anno regni sui xxxviij. tent', inter cetera concordat existit, quod si aliqui Iur' in Assisa Iur', seu aliquibus inquisitionibus capiend', inter dominum regem & partem, vel inter partem & partem, quicquid capiant, per ipsos, vel per alios, de part conquerent, vel defendant, pro veredicto suo dicendo, & super hoc, per processum in quodam articulo de Iur', anno regni eiusdem domini Regis xxxiiij. factum convincant, sive sit ad sectam partis, aut alterius cuiuscunque person, qui pro domino rege, aut pro seipso prosequi volverit, soluat quilibet dictorum Iur' Decies tantum quantum ipse recepit, & habeat ille qui sectam produxit, unam medietatem, & dominus rex alteram medietat, & quod omnes imbraciatores▪ ducent & procurant tales inquisitiones in patria, pro lucro vel proficuo, puniant eisdem modo & forma, sicut Iur'. Et si Iur' vel imbraciator i● convictus, non habeat unde in forma predicta satissacere possit, hab●● imprisonament unius anui prout in ordinatione & concordia praedictis continetur. Quidam T. H. & I. B. & I. C. jurat in quadam assisa noue disseisine, que nuper summ̄ fuit coram dilectis & fidelibus dominae Reginae I. A. I. C. & D. E. nuper Iustic' dominae reginae nunc, ad assisam illam capiend' assign', per breve ipsius dominae Reginae nunc, inter W. S. de L. & I. P. de ten' in R. & S, Et postmodum, videlicet die Anno etc. coram prefat' I. A. I. B. & I. C. apud W. per breve dictae dominae Reg' sinon omnes capt', posit pro veredicto suo in hac part dicendo, de pref. I. H. diversas pecuniarum summas, viz. praed' T. H. xl. đ. praedict' I. B. xl. s. & praeđ I. C. quinque marcas xx. die Oct', Anno etc. apud etc. ceperunt, in dictae dominae Reg' nunc contemptum, ac contra formam ordinationis & concordie praed' &c. For enclosing of an old common lying to a Town upon the which Common the inhabitants of the said Town have used to have Common for all manner of beasts the whole year. Ivrat presentant quod est, & a tempore quo non extat memoria fuit, Sect' 132. & esse consuevit, apud villam de A. in come M. quedam antiqua communia voc' M. eidem ville adiacens, ac per spacium unius milliarij ab eadem villa extendens, pro omnibus hominibus & tenent infra villam praedict' moram trahentibus, cum bobus, afris, porcis, bidentibus, & alijs averijs suis, per totum annum infra communiam praedict' depascend', quodque omnes illi infra villam praedictam moram trahentes, a tempore quo memoria hominum non existit, infra villam praedictam, communiam pro averijs suis praedictis ibidem habere debuerunt & consueverunt, quousque R. C. cum alijs ignotis de covina sui ei associatis vi & armis, scilicet gladijs, baculis, falcastris, arcubus & sagittis, die etc. anno etc. apud E. in parochia de A. praedict', de communia praed', iniuria sua propria, & absque titulo, clameo, seu possessione per ipsos habitis, 1000 acr ibidem, cum sepibus & fossatis sibi inclusit & obstipavit, & illas sic inclusas & obstipat̄, ut seperale solum suum a praedicto die etc. usque etc. tenuit et occupavit in preiudicium et damnum nocumentum et impedimentum omnium hominum et tenentium predictorum, infra communiam praed' communiam habentium, nec non contra consuetud' p̄đ et contra pacem dicte dominae Reginae etc. For engrossing of Barley growing upon the ground, to the intent to sell it again. Inquirat pro dna Regina si A. B. de M. in come N. die et anno etc. apud Sect' 133. M. in paroch. Sancti johannis infra Warđ Berstret, in comitat' cinitat N. emisset totum hordeum crescent super viginti acras terr' apud M. in pred' come N. ad intentionem dictum hordeum reuend' contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu editi & provisi, ac contra pacem dictae dominae reginae etc. For buying and engrossing of 40. quarters of wheat, to the intent to sell it again. INquiratur etc. si I. C. de N. Dier, tertio die & anno &c. apud N. in Sect. 134. come N. ac diversis alijs diebus, tam ante, quam post, diversa grana, videlicet 40. quarteria tritici etc. ad valenc', etc. emit & engross. et in manibus suis tenuit, ea intentione ad reuend' gran̄ praedict', contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu editi & provis. in contempt etc. ac contra pacem dictae dominae reginae etc. For not keeping alight horse. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod ubi A. B. de C. in Sect. 135. comitatu E. generosus, a primo die Junii, anno regni dictae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, usque in hunc praesentem diem, scilicet primum diem Maij, anno xxxiiij. supradict̄ terras & tenementa in C. praedicta, in dicto comitatu E. eidem A. B. & haeredibus suis in feodo simplici, ad clarum annuum valorem centum marcarum & amplius ultra omnes reprisas habuerit, ac tenuerit: Idem tamen A. B. per totum tempus praedictum, viz. a dicto primo die Junii, Anno supradicto usque nunc, nullum habuit custodivit, manutenuit, aut sustinuit equum castratum (Anglice dictum a Gelding) habilem & idoneum pro levis armaturae equity (Anglice, able and meet for a light Horseman) in dictae Dominae Reginae contemptum, ac in magnam huius regni sui Angliae eneruationem, necnon contra formam cuiusdam Statuti, in Parliamento Philippi & Mariae nuper regis & reginae Angl', tento apud Westm annis regnorum suorum quarto & quinto, in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. For Battery and Mayheme, by cutting of the right thumme. IVratores praesentant pro Domina Regina, quod tertio die Seprembris, Sect. 136. Anno tegni Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quinto A. B. de C. in comitatu Staff. Taylor, vi & armis quoddam clausum cuiusdam I. S. apud C. predictam, in comitatu predict' fregit & intravit, & in dictum I. S. tunc ibidem in pace Dei dictae Dominae Reginae existentem, insultum & affraiam fecit, ac cum gladio districto, ad valentiam decem solidor̄, quem dictus A. B. tunc ibidem in leva manu sua tenuit, eundem I. S. crudeliter verberavit, ac dextrum pollicem dicti I. S. tunc ibidem uno ictu amputavit, ac sic eundem I. S. nequiter & felonice tunc ibidem mahemavit, ad grave incommodum ipsius I. S. ac contra pacem dictae Dom Reg. nostrae, coronam & dignitatem suam. For Maintenance upon the statute of Anno 31. H. 8. against one maintaining in an action of debt. Ivrat praesentant, quod cum in statuto in parliamento Domini H. Sect. 137. nuper Regis Angl' 8. apud Westm. xxviij. die Aprilis, anno regni sui 31. inchoat, tent', & ibidem per diversas prorogationes, usque xxv. diem Maij, Anno regni sui 32. prorogat & continuat, et tunc ibidem tent' per dictum dominum regem, cum assensu dominorum spiritualium & temporalium ac communitatis in eodem Parliamento congregat necnon auctoritate eiusdem Parliamenti, inter alia adtunc & ibidem inactitat existit, Quod nulla persona sive personae cuiuscunque status, gradus, sive conditionis, ipse vel ipsi, fuerit, sive fuerint, extunc de caetero illicit manuteneret sive manutenerent, aut causaret sive causarent, procuraret sive procurarent, aliquam illicitam manutenentiam, in aliqua actione, demanda, secta, sive quaerela in aliqua Curia Domini Regis, Cancellariae, camerae Stellatae, albae Aulae, aut alibi infra aliqua dominia Regni Angl' vel Walliae, sive in Marchijs earundem, ubi aliqua persona sive aliquae personae habent, seu extunc imposterum haberent auctoritatem virtute commissionis Domini Regis suarum literarum patentium, vel brevis ad tenend' placita terrae, vel ad examinandum, audiendum, sive determinandum aliquem titulum de terra, sive aliquam materiam, vel testes concernent titulum, ius, vel interesse, aliquarum terrarum, tenementorum, sive haereditamentorum: Ac etiam quod nulla persona sive personae cuiuscunque status, gradus, vel condition, ipse vel ipsi, fuerit sive fuerint, extunc in futuro illicit retineret sive retinerent, pro manutentione alicuius sectae sive placiti aliquam personam, aut aliquas personas, sive imbrasiaret vel imbrasiarent aliquos liberos tenentes vel iuratores, aut subornaret aliquos testes per literas, munera, promissa, sive aliquem alium sinistrum laborem vel medium, ad manutenendam aliquam mater sive causam, aut ad disturbationem vel impedimentum justitiae, vel ad procurationem sive occasionem alicuius periurij per falsum veredictum, aut aliter in aliquibus curijs antedictis, sub paena forisfaciendi pro qualibet huiusmodi offensa x. li. quarum una medietas esset domino Regi, altera vero illi qui pro eadem prosequi volverit per actionem debiti, billam, quaerelam, sive informationem, in aliqua Curia dicti domini Regis, ubi nullum esson̄, protect', vadiac' legis, sive iniunctio allocabitur, prout in statut' praedict' inter alia plenius continetur. Quidam tamen T. L. statut' praedict' minime ponderans, quandam actionem quae fuit in curia dominae Reginae, coram justiciarijs suis de banco, inter quendam R. B. quaerent, & quend' T. D. de placit dibiti, pro part dicti R. B. versus praef. T. D. xxvij. die Junii, Anno regni dnae nostrae Eliz. nunc Reg. Angliae xxxv▪ apud S. in praed' comitat' E. manutenui● & sustentavit, in justiciae manifestam retardationem, & disturbantiam, ac in dictae Reginae nunc contemptum & praed' T. D. grave damnum, ac contra formam statuti praedict' &c. For Manslaughter by chancemedley, in thrusting of one into the belly with a long sharp piked staff. IVratores praesentant pro domina Regina, quod A. B. de C. in dicto Sect. 138. comitatu E. Shoemaker decimo sexto die Septembris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fide● defensoris, etc. Tricesimo, apud C. predict', in comitatu praed' E. quendam E. F. nuper de C. predicta, in comitatu E. praed' Weaver (cui tunc ibidem fortuito & casu obuiam venit) contumeliosis verbis lacessivit, ac in eumdem E. F. tunc & ibidem, in pace Dei ac dictae Dnae Reginae existentem, vi & armis insultum fecit▪ & ventrem dicti E. F. tunc & ibidem cum baculo longo, cuspide praeacuta capitato (Anglice vocato a long sharp piked staff) quem idem A. B. tunc ibidem in manibus suis tenuit, felonice pupugit & perfodit, dans eidem E. F. vulnus mortale in dicto ventre suo, latitudinis unius pollicis, & profunditatis septem pollicium, de quo quidem mortali vulnere idem E. F. tunc ibidem instanter obijt ac interijt: contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc, & contra coronam & dignitatem suas. For Manslaughter. INquiratur pro dna Regina si R. S. nuper de D. in comitatu E. praed ' Sect. 139. Yeoman 19 die Decemb. Anno etc. vi & armis viz. in quendam T. C. cum quodam candelabro ad valenc' xii. d'. quod idem Richardo▪ in manu sua dextera adtunc & ibidem tenuit, eundem T. super caput suum felonice percussit, dans cidem T. adtunc & ibidem unam plagam mortalem, posteaque idem Rich. corpus eiusdem T. adtunc & ibid' add terram prostrat̄ manibus genibusque suis tam dire & violent quassavit, ita quod pnd' T. de plaga & quassation praedict' instanter interijt, & sic praedict' R. praed' T. modo & forma praed' adtunc & ibidem felonice interfecit, contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae, coronam etc. ut al●bi. For saying and hearing of Mass, contrary to the Statute of 23. of Elizab. IVratores praesentant pro Domina Regina, quod I. R. nuper de C. in Sect. 140. comitatu praedicto E. clericus 8. die Aprilis, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quart̄, apud C. praedictam in comitatu praedicto E. voluntary dixit, & celebravit unam missam contra formà cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento dictae Dominae nostrae Reginae tento apud Westmonasterium in comitatu Middlesexiae, anno regni sui vicesimo tertio in hoc casu provisi & editi, & contra pacem dictae dnae r●ginae, coronam, & dignitatem suam: Et quod Maria B. de C. praedicta in comit' predicto E. vidua, dicto 8. die Aprilis anno supradicto apud C. praedictam, in comitatu praedicto, E. interfuit praesens tempore dictae celebrationis missae predictae, ac eandem missam (sic ut prefertur dictam) adtunc & ibidem voluntary audivit, contra formam statuti pred' ac contra pacem, coronam & dignitatem dictae Dominae Reginae nostrae. An indictment upon the Statute of Anno 1. of the Queen, against a Priest for saying of Mass in the vestry of a Church, and for using in the celebration of the Lords supper other rites and ceremonies then is appointed in the book of Common prayer, in Anno 5. & 6. E 6. and against 2. others for hearing of the same Mass. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si G. C. nuper de E. in comitatu E. Sect. 141. Clericus, xxuj. die Martij. etc. apud E. predict', in comitat' E. predict', in quodam loco ibid' vocat' the Vestry house, juxta Ecclesiam parochialem de E. pred', in comitatu E. pred', voluntar usus fuit privato alio ritu, ceremonia, forma, & modo celebrationis caenae dominicae voc the Lords supper, quam in quodam Libro intitulat, Liber communis precationis & administrationis sacramentorum & aliorum rituum & ceremoniarun Ecclesiae Anglicanae, auctorizat per actum parliamenti tent' in annis quinto & sexto Reg. Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae sexti, declare & mencionat existit, videlicet dicend' & celebrand' unam privatam Missam, contra formam statuti in parliamento dictae dominae reginae nunc apud Westm anno regni sui primo tent' edit' & provis. & contra pacem eiusdem dominae Reginae, coronam etc. ut alibi. Et si T. B. nuper de B. in comitatu predicto Yeoman, & I. M. nuper de W. in comitatu predict' labourer, die & anno supradictis, apud W. predidictam in comitatu predicto, tempore celebrationis predict', caenae Dominicae modo & forma predict', fuerunt presents, & ucluntarie audientes Missam predict' in forma pred' dictam & celebratam contra formam statuti pred', ae contra pacem etc. For counterfeiting and uttering of money, one being accessory to the same after the offence committed. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod T. S. de W. in comitat' Sect. 142. E. Taylor, mechinans dictam Dominam Reginam, & popu●um suum callide & proditorie decipere, 20. die mensis Decembris, Anno regni dictae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angl'. Franciae, & Hyberniae, Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Vicesimo nono, unam peciam monetae apud W. predictam, in comitatu predicto E. de Stanno & alijs mixtis metallis, ad instar & ad similitudinem, bonae & legalis monetae & cunei dictae Dominae nostrae huius regni sui Angl ' (vocat' Angl' a shilling, or piece of twelve pence) falso & proditory fabricavit, cudit & controfecit: posteaque, videlicet, dicto die 20. Anno supradicto eandem peciam (sic ut praemittitur, falso, & proditorie fabricatam & controfactam) diversis ligeis dictae Dominae Reginae, pro vera & legitima moneta huius regni sui Angliae apud W. praedictam, in comitatu E. predicto, falso & proditorie exposuit & utteravit. In magnam subditorum dictae Dominae nostrae deceptionem, ac contra pacem dictae dominae nostrae, coronam, et dignitatem suam, necnon contra formam diversorum statutor in eiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. Et quod M. (uxor T. A. de W. pred' in dicto comitatu E. generosi) sciens praenominatum T. S. proditionem praedictam modo et forma pred', fecisse, & commisisse, eundem tamen T. S. postea, videlicet, secundo die Febr, Anno supradicto apud W. praedictam, in comitatu E. praedict', receptavit, et comfortavit, ac proditionem predict' concellavit, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suam. Against counterfeiting and uttering of money and gold. INquiratur pro Domina Regina si, R. W. nuper de H. in comitatu E. Sect. 143. Smith, I. L. nuper de C. in pred' comitatu E. Glover, & T. B. nuper de D. in pred' comitatu E. Yeoman, Deum prae oculis suis non habenres, sed instigatione diabolic' seduct' machinantesque dictam Dominam Reginan, & populum suum callide, falso, deceptive, et proditor decipere, et defraudare, duodecimo die Martij, Anno Reginae dnae Elizab. etc. sexto, sex pecias Monet̄ apud B. predict' in comitatu predict' E. de cupro et alijs mixtis metallis, ad instar et similitudinem bonae legalis et curren Monet & cunei dictae Dominae reginae huius regni sui Angliae, anglice vocat' shillings, necnon duas pecias e cupro aere et alijs mixtis metallis, ad instar et similitudinem bonae legalis & Current Monetae & cunei auri dictae dominae reginae regni sui Angl', anglice vocat' half Sovereigns, falso & proditory fabricaver cuder & controfecer, ac quasdam earundem peciar sic ut praemittit, falso & proditory fabricat cusas & controf. etc. diversis ligeis dictae dominae reg. provera, legit, & current Monet huius regni Angl' apud B. predict' indict' comitat' E. & alibi in dicto Commit E. postea deceptive, falso, et ꝓditorie exposuer, soluer, et utteraver, in magnum praeiudicium, fraudem, et deceptionem ligeor dict' dom reginae, ac contra pacem eiusdem dominae reg. coronam et dignitatem suam, necnon contra formam diversor statutor in huiusmodi casu aedit et provis. For coining of Money. INquiratur pro domina Regina si H. H. nuper de B. in comitatu F. Sect. 144. Tailor, deum prae oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolica seduct', ut proditor dictae Dominae regin̄, quinto dieMaij, Anno etc. sexdecim pecias Monetae vocat' shillings, de falso & mixed metalload instar cunei huius regni Angliae, vulgariter vocat' Queen Elizabeth shillings, apud B. pred', in comitatu E. pred', falso felonice, & proditory controfecit, fabricavit & cunavit, contra pacem ac contra formam etc. ut supra. For coining and uttering of gold. INquiratur pro Dna Regina si H. A. nuper de B. in comitatu E. Labourer, Sect. 145. & T. S. nuper de T. in comitat' predict' Labourer, die & anno etc. & diversis alijs diebus & vicibus tam antea quam postea, Deum prae oculis suis non habentes, sed instigac' diabolic' seduct', machinantesque dictam dnam Reginam & populum suum callide, falso, deceptive et proditory decipere et defraudare de iniuria sua propria absque auctoritat warrant' sive concessione Regiae Maiestat eye aut eorum alteri concess. octo pecias falsae Monete, adimaginem et similitudinem peciarum monetae aur̄ Anglice vocat' golden Sovereigns of x. s. a piece, apud M. in comitatu E. pred', pro iniquo lucro & advantagio e cupro, falso & proditory deauraver, & easdem pecias falso & proditory sic ut praemittitur, fact, fabricat, controfact', & cunat, diversis ligeis dictae Dominae Reginae provera legitimo & current moneta dictae dominae Reginae regni sui Angl' apud M. praedict', in comitatu E. predict' xx. die Octobris, anno supradicto, ac diversis alijs diebus antea & postea, deceptive, falso, et proditory exposuer, et utteraver in solutionem diversis ligeis dictae dnae reginae, necnon contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu aedit & provis. ac contra etc. Of murder by two with a weapon, and one accessory before the offence committed. INquiratur pro Domina regina, si H. W. nuper de S. in comitatu E. Sect. 146. Taylor, & W. C. de S. in comit' E. predict' Weaver, primo die Martij, anno regni dominae Elizab. dei gratia Angl' Franc', & Hybern reginae, fidei defensor 4. apud C. in parochia de S. predict', in come E. pred', vi & armis &c. in quendam T. B. in pace dei & dictae dnae reginae, adtunc & ibidem existent, insultum fecer, & pred' H. W. cum quodam falcastro Anglice vocat' a Welsh hook, valour xii. d'. quem idem H. in utraque manu sua adtunc & ibidem tenebat, predict' T. B. super dextrum brachium prope manum dextram adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit, dans eidem T. adtunc & ibidem cum falcastro predicto, unam plagam mortalem, profunditatis duorum pollicium, et longitwinis quinque pollicium, de qua quidem plaga mortali, predict' T. adtunc et ibidem instant̄ obijt. Et sic pred' H. W. et W. C. apud S. predictam, in comitatu E. predict', modo & forma predict', praef▪ T. B. felonice, ac ex malicia sua prae cogitat interfecer. & murdraver, contra pacem dictae Dominae reginae nunc, Coronam & dignitatem suas. Et si I. H. de S. pred' in come Accessary. E. pred' Husbandman, ante felon' & murdr pred', per praef. H. & W. sic in forma predict' commiss. et perpetrat, viz. pred' primo die Martij, Anno etc. apud S. predict' in come E. pred' predictos H. W. & W. C. ad felon' & murdrum pred', sic in forma pred' faciend' & perpetrand' maliciose et felonice incitavit, abbettavit, & procuravit, contra pacem dictae etc. ut alibi. Of Murder by two with weapon. IVratores pro Domina Regina prae sentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect. 147. dicto comitatu E. Blacksmith, & D. E. de C. predicta in comitatu E. predicto Butcher, septimo die Septembris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizab. dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo, vi & armis, ex malitia sua praemeditata, in quendam F. G. nuper de B. in dicto comit' E. Yeoman, apud B. predictam in comitatu E. predict' in quodam loco ibidem (vulgariter nuncupato the bowling place) adtunc & ibidem in pace Dei, & dictae dominae Reginae existentem, insultum fecerunt, & praefatus A. B. cum quodam gladio districto, ad valentiam 5. solidor̄ quem ipse in manu sua dextra adtunc & ibidem tenuit, ipsum F. G. super synciput suum voluntary et felonice tunc ibidem percussit, & eo ipso ictu dedit eidem F. G. quandam plagam mortalem, in longitudine trium pollicium, & in profunditate quinque pollicium & dimid' de qua quidem mortali plaga predict' F. G. tunc & ibidem instanter & immediate obijt. Et ulterius, quod predict' D. E. cum quodam Baculo ad valentiam unius oboli (quem ipse in manibus suis ad tunc ibidem tenuit) ipsum F. G. ad tunc et ibidem voluntary & felonice percussit super caput suum, dans eidem F. G. unam aliam plagam mortalem in dicto suo capite, in longitudine trium pollicium, & in profunditate duorum pollicium, unde idem F. G. de plaga ultime pred' obijsset, si non obijsset de ictu illo priore predict', quem predict' A. B. ei primo dederat. Et sic juratores predicti dicunt, quod prae nominati A. B. et D. E. dict 7. die Septemb. anno suprad', apud B. pred' in pred' loco (vocato the bowling place) predictum F. G. modo & forma predictis, ex malitia sua praecogitata, voluntary, & felonice interfecerunt & murdraverunt, contra pacem dict' Dom Reginae, ac contra coronam, & dignitatem suam. For a Murder with a cudgel and flying afterwards. INquiratur pro Domina Regina si I. S. nuper de T. infra parochiam Sect. 148. de C. in comitat' E. predict', Labourer 13. die julij, etc. non habens Deum prae oculis, sed instigatione diabolic' mot & seductus, ex malicia sua praecogitat, vi & armis &c. in quendam Ric' N. apud C. in comitatu E. praedict', adtunc & ibidem existent, m pace Dei & dictae Dominae Reginae, insult & affraiam fecit, ac uno bacillo vocat. a Cudgel nullius valoris, quem idem I. S. adtunc & ibidem in manu sua dextra tenuit, eundem R. N. in dextram partem capitis Rich' adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit, dans eidem R. adtunc & ibidem cum bacillo praedict', plagam mortalem longitudinis trium pollicium, et profunditatis unius pollicis, contundendo caput dicti Rich', de qua quidem plaga mortali, praedictus R. apud K. in praedict' comitat' E. predict' languebat a praedicto 14. die Junii, anno supradicto, usque 27. diem eiusdem Mensis lunij, tunc proxim' sequent. Quo quidem 27. die lunij anno supradicto, praedict' Richardus N. apud K. predict', in predict' comitatu E. ex plaga predict' mortali obijt. Et sic pred' johannes S. eunden R. N. apud C. predictam in comitatu E. praedict', ex malitia sua praecogitata, modo & forma pred', felonice interfecit & murdravit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae coronam et dignitatem suas. Et sic praedictus johannes S. postquam ipse feloniam & murdrum praed', sic in forma Flying. praed' fecisset & perpetrasset, fugam fecit, contra pacem dictae dominae reginae etc. ut alibi. Of Murder and procurement in the highway. INquiratur pro Domina Regina, si P. P. nuper de L. in predict' comit' Sect. 149. E. labourer, 22. die Octob. anno etc. inter horas sextam & septimam post meridiem eiusdem diei, deum prae oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolica motus & seductus, ex malicia sua praecogitata, vi & armis &c. in quendam R. P. in via Regia apud P. infra parochiam de S. in comitatu E. praedicto, adtunc & ibidem in pace Dei, & dictae Dominae Reginae existent' insultum fecit, & cum uno baculo valoris ij. d'. quem idem P. P. adtunc & ibidem in manibus suis tenuit, eundem Rich. super dextram partem capitis sui, adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit, dans eidem Rich, adtunc & ibidem cum baculo praedict' unam plagam mortalem in longitudine duorum pollicium, & in profundit dimid' pollicis, de qua quidem plaga mortali, praedict' R. P. apud E. infra parochiam de S. praedicta in come praedict' E. a praedict' 22. die Octobris, Anno xv. supradicto, usque septimum diem Februarij, tunc proxime sequent languebat, quo quidem 7. die Februar, anno xv. supradicto, idem R. P. apud E. praedict' in comitatu E. praedict', de praedict' plaga mortali obijt. Et sic Iur' praedict' dicunt super sacramentum suum praedictum, quod praedict' P. P. ipsum R. P. infra parochiam de S. praedict' in comitatu E. praedicto, dicto 7. die Februarij anno supradicto, ex malicia sua praecogitat, modo & forma predict felonice interfecit & murdravit, contra pacem dictae etc. ut alibi. Et si Katherma Accessary by procurement. P. vxor' predict' R. nuper de L. praedict', in comitatu E. praedict', Spinster, ante feloniam & murdrum praedict' per ipsum P. P. sic in forma praedict' factum & perpetratum, videlicet xxj. die Octobr, anno xv. supradict' eundem P. P. apud L. praedict' in comitatu E. praedict', ad feloniam & murdrum praeđ, in forma praedict', sic faciend' & perpetrand' felonice excitavit, abbettavit, & procuravit, & contra pacem dictae dominae reginae etc. ut alib. Of Murder and diverse wounds, and accessary by procurement. INquiratur pro domina regina, si T. B. nuper de S. in comitatu E. predict ' Sect. 150. yeoman, & H. O. nuper de S. in eodem come yeoman, 3. die lunij etc. vi & armis ex malitia sua precogitata, in quendam W. B. apud T. in comitatu E. praedicto, in quodam loco ibidem voc' H. adtunc & ibidem in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae existent', insultum fecer, & praedict' T. B. cum quodam baculo ad valenc' duorum denarior quem ipse in ambabus manibus suis adtunc & ibidem tenuit, ipsum W. B. super posteriorem partem capitis sui felonice percussit, & dedit ei unam plagam mortalem latitudine quatuor pollicium, de qua quidem plaga mortali, praedict' W. B. immediate obijt, Et quod praedictus H. O. cum quodam pugione ad valenc' sex denariorum, quem ipse in manibus suis adtunc & ibidem tenuit, ipsum W. B. adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit, dans eidem W. in guttere suo unam aliam plagam mortal' latitudine unius pollicis, & profunditate quinque pollicium, unde idem W. B. de plaga praedicta immedietate obijsset, si non obijsset de ictu praedicto quem praedict' T. ei dedisset prius. Et praedictus T. B. die & anno supradict' adtunc & ibidem cum quodam baculo ad valenc' duorum denariorum quem ipse in manibus suis adtunc & ibidem tenuit, ipsum W. B. super posteriorem partem capitis sui felonice percussit, & dedit ei unam aliam plagam mortalem, latitud' quatuor pollicium, de qua quidem plaga mortali praedict' T. B. adtunc & ibidem immediate obijsset, si non obijsset de ictu praedicto, quem praedict' W. B. esprius dedisset. Et quod praedict' H. O. die et anno supradictis, cum quodam pugione ad valenc' sex denariorum, quem ipse in manibus suis adtunc & ibidem tenuit, ipsum W. B. adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit, dans ei in gutteresuo unam aliam plagam mortalem latitud' unius pollicis, & profunditatis trium pollicium, unde idem W. de plaga praedicta immediate obijsset, si non obijsset de ictu praedicto, quem praedictus T. B. ei prius dedisset. Et si praedict' T. B. & H. O. dicto tertio die lunij, anno supradicto, apud T. praedict', in come E. praedict' in praedict' loco voc' H. praedict' W. B. felonice interfece● et murdraverunt, & si Elizab. B. nuper de S. predict', in come E. praedict' Spinster, uxor praedict' T. B. & I. O. nuper de S. praedict', in praed' come E. Spinster, uxor praedict' H. O. pđ iij. Junii, anno supradict', in praedict' comitat' E. vi & armis &c. in praedict' loco apud T. praedict', vocat' H. exmalitia sua precogitata present̄ fuerunt, abbettantes, anxiliantes & confortantes praed' T. B. & H. O. ad vulnerand' pnd' W. B. & ad feloniam & murdrum praed' in forma praed' faciendum, felonice excitaverunt, & procuraverunt, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas. An Inquisition of murder found before a Coroner upon the view of the body slain, against one for killing of his Mistress with a hatchet on the head, she being then great with child. INquisitio capt' apud H. in come E. etc. coram me Iohan S. uno coron Sect' 154. domini R. in comitatu praedict', die Martis etc. Anno etc. super visum corporis C. nuper uxoris P. B. de H. praed', apud H. predictam felonic' ininterfect', adtunc & ibidem mortui iacent, per sacramentum proborum & legalium hominum de villa de H. & trium aliarum villarum propinquarum, videlicet S. N. & C. prout moris est etc. ad inquirend' qualiter & quo modo praed' C. ad mortem suam devenit, videlicet per sacramemtum A. B. C. D. etc. qui dicunt super sacramentum suum etc. quod ubi praed' C. die, anno, loco, & comit' praedictis, circa horam secundam post meridiem dicti diei Martis fuit in pace Dei, et domini Regis nunc apud H. praed', ibi venit quidam W. B. nuper de C. in comitat' Wigorn Gen, felonice ut felo domini regis nunc insidiand' & ex insultu premeditato, contra pacem eiusdem domini Regis, coronam & dignitatem suas, die, anno, hora, loco, & comitat' praedictis, in predictam C. magistram suam, que adtunc gravida fuit & vicina partui, insultum fecit, & eandem C. cum quadam secur̄ vocat' an Hatchet, precij iiij. đ. quam idem W. tenuit in manibus suis super sinistram partem capitis sui felonice percussit, dans ei plagam mortalem, de qua quidem plaga mortali, eadem C. instanter obijt, & sic praed' W. prefatum C. Magistram suam adtunc & ibidem felonice interfecit, & murdravit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment against a widow for procuring one to murder her child in her presence after she was delivered, by cutting the throat, and against the accessories, before and after the offence committed. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod H. M. nuper de K. in Sect' 155. praedicto comitat' E. vidua, gravida existens cum quadam infant viva, 24. die Maij, Anno regni dictae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Secundo apud K. prredict̄ in comitatu E. predicto, ex Dei providentia parturijt, & peperit unam prolem femellam vivam: posteque quedam jana S. super de W. in dicto comitat' E. vidua, apud K. predict', in comitatu E. predict' vi & armis, ex malitia sua precogitata (dicto xxiv. die Maij, anno supradicto, circa horam undecimam ante Meridiem eiusdem diei) per consilium, mandatum, et procurationem predicte H. M. ac in presentia ipsius H. M. in predictam prolem femellam vivam insultum fecit, & cum quodam cultello (ad valentiam unius denarij) quem eadem Iana tunc in manu sua dextra tenuit, gutter ipsius prolis femelle adtunc & ibidem felonice scidit, dans eidem proli femelle quandam plagam mortalem in gutture suo predicto, de qua quidem plaga mortali proles femella predicta, apud K. predict' in comitat' E. predicto, adtunc & ibidem instanter obijt. Et quod predict' H. M. adtunc & ibidem felonice fuit presens, comfortans, et auxilians ad predict' prolem femellam in forma predicta interficiendam. Et sic prefata H. M. & jana, predictam prolem femellam ex malitia sua precogitata, felonice, & voluntary, interfecerunt, et murdraverunt, contra pacem dicte domine Regine coronam, et dignitatem suas. Et insuper luratores predicti presentant pro dicta Domina Regina, quod Georgius P. nuper de K. predicta in dicto comitatu E. yeoman, nineteen. die Maij, Anno regni dicte domine Regine secundo, ac diversis alijs diebus et vicibus ante feloniam et murdrum predict' in forma predicta perpetrat apud K. predictam in comitatu E. predicto malitiose et felonice consuluit, mandavit, procuravit et abettavit, predict' H. M. ad predictum murdrum voluntarium faciendum, ac ad interficiendum et murdrandum dictam prolem femellam, contra pacem dicte domine Regine: Et ulterius, quod O. P. & A. B. de K. predicta in comitat' E. predict' Spinsters, post murdrum et feloniam predictam in forma predicta facta, scientes prefatus H. M. et I. S. feloniam et murdrum predict' in forma predicta fecisse et perpetrasse, ipsam tamen H. M. apud K. predict', in comitatu E. predicto (xxvij. die dicti mensis Maij, Anno supradicto) felonice receptaverunt, et comfortaverunt, contra pacem dicte Domine Regine nunc, coronam et dignitatem suam. An Indictment of petty treason against a late servant for murdering of his Master, and the accessory before the offence. IVratores pro Domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 153. E. Grocer, nuper seruiens B. D. de C. predicta in dicto comitatu E. Grocer, decimo die Septembris, Anno Regni dicte Domine nostre Elizabethe, Dei gratia Anglie, Francie, et Hybernie regine, fidei defensor etc. Tricesimo quarto in domo mansionali predict' B. D. apud C. pđ in come E. pđ vi et armis, viz. cum gladio et pugione districtis ad valenc' x. solidor (quos idem A. B. tunc ibid', in manibus suis tenuit) in prenominatum B. D. tunc magistrum suum tunc & ibidem in pace Dei et dict Domin Regin̄ existentem, voluntary et ex malitia sua precogitata insultumfecit, & eundem B. D. tunc magistrum suum, adtunc et ibidem cum di●t̄ gladio felonice et proditorie super caput suum fortiter et valide percussit, ita quod dicto ictu, caput ipsius B. D. tunc magistri sui tunc & ibid' in duas partes sidit, dans ei plagam mortalem: unde corpus dict' B. D. immediate ibidem ad terram cecidit, & dictus B. D. instanter ibidem de plaga praedict' mortuus est. Et sic prefatus A. B. apud C. praedict' ex malitia sua precogitata, eundem B. D. magistrum suum praed' modo & forma praedictis, voluntary, nequitur, felonice, & proditory interfecit, contra pacem dictae dominae nostrae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suas. Et quod quidam I. S. de C. praedicta in dicto comitatu E. Grocer (ante proditionem praedict' per praefatum A. B. sic ut praefertur voluntary perpetratam & omissam) videlicet, sexto die Septembris anno supradicto, eundem A. B. apud C. predictam in comitatu E. praedicto, ad proditionem praedictam in forma praedicta perpetrandam & committendam, felonice consuluit, excitavit, & procuravit, contra pacem dicte domine nostre Regine nunc, ac contra coronam, & dignitatem suam. An Indictment of petty treason against a servant for breaking of his masters house, and cutting of his throat with a trencher knife. INquiratur etc. si I. M. de D. in comitatu M. yeoman, homo seruiens Sect' 154. W. R. de S. in comitatu E. praedict', & in seruitio ipsius W. pro hoc integro anno retent̄ duodecimo die Maij anno etc. apud S. in predict' comitatu E. domum predict' W. R. adtunc magistri sui existent vi & armis &c. felonice fregit, & intravit, & in ipsum W. adtunc & ibidem in domo sua propria in pace dei & dicte domine Regine existent insultum fecit & cum uno cultello vocat' a trencher knife precij ij. đ. quem idem I. adtunc & ibidem in manu sua dextra tenuit, predict' W. felonice & proditory percussit, & guttur ipsius W. mr̄● sui pnd' adtunc & ibid' come cultello illo totalit felonice & proditory scidit, dans ei adtunc & ibid' quandam plagam mortal', de qua quid' plaga pđ W. adtunc & ibid' instant moriebat, & sic praed' I. M. pnd' W. R. Magistr̄ suum adtunc & ibidem instanter modo & forma supradict̄, felonice & proditory intfecit & murdravit, contra pacem dicte dne Reg', coronam & dignitatem suam. An inquisition of Murder taken before a Coroner, upon the view of the body wherein is found one to be present and aiding to the same murder. INquisitio capta coram A. B. uno Coronator̄ domini Regis etc. super Sect' 155. visum corporis I. S. etc. qui dicunt quod ita accidit apud M. in comitat' praed' E. die etc. circa horam etc. quod ubi praed' I. S. fuit in pace dei, & dicti domini Regis apud M. eisdem die anno, loco, & hora, ibi venit W. L. de M. & S. T. etc. ut felones dicti domini Regis, & ex malitia sua precogitat, in ipsum I. S. adtunc & ibidem insultum fecerunt, & praed' W. L. quodam pugione precij iij. đ. quem ipse in manu sua dextra tunc tenebat, dict I. S. super sinistr̄ partem corporis sui, viz. subter asellam percussit usque ad corsuum, dando ei plagam mortalem, unde idem I. S. eadem hora tunc & ibidem obijt incontinentur, & sic praed' W. L. pref. I. S. apud M. praed' in praed' come E. felonice interfecit & murdravit, contra pacem dicti dni Reg. coronam & dignitat suas. Et quod praed' S. T. loco die, anno, & hora pnd', praed' felon' fuit presence, assistens, abbettans, procurans, confortans, & manntenens pref. W. L. ad felon' & murdrum pređ informa praed' &c. In cuius etc. For a Nusans of a common bridge in the Queen's high way, over a river which is decayed and not known, who should repair it. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod pons publicus & communis, Sect' 156. situs in alta Regia via super flumen de M. infra parochiam de A. in comitatu E. praed' (vulgariter dictus A.) est, & ꝑ aliquot annos iam proxime elapsos fuit valde ruinosus, & in maximo decasu, ob defectum reparationis adeo utsubditi dictae dominae Reginae, in, super, trans vel ultra dictum pontem, per se, vel cum eorum equis, bigis, aut cariagijs, redire, aut transire, sine magno vite discrimine non audent aut poslunt, ad commune nocumentum omnium vicinorum, & compatriatarum in dicto comitatu E. habitantium, quorum interest ratione negotiorum suorum illac transire: Et ulterius quod prorsus nescitur, que person quaeve terre, tenementa, aut corpora corporata & politica, eundem pontem, aut aliquam inde parcellam, exiure, aut exantiqua consuetudine, reficere & reparare debent, aut consueverunt. For a Nusans of a bridge over a river in the Queen's highway which is decayed, and aught to be repaired by the Queen by reason of a Manor. Ivrator present etc. quod quidam pons situat̄ super a quam de Trent Sect' 157. in parochia de Newarke in come S. vocat' N. Bridge, existens in Regia via, est ruinosus & in magno decasu, ita quod ligei dominae Reg. in, per, super, vel ultra eundem pontem, absque magno periculo transire seu laborare non valent, ad commune nocumentum omnium ligeorum dictae dnae Reg. trans & ultra pontem praedict' transeunt seu transire volentium. Et quod domina regina nunc, ratione tenure seu manerij de N. supra T. cum pertin' in come S. praedict', pontem illum facere, reficere, & emendare debet, & quod eadem domina Regina & omnes progenitores sui, ac omnes alij quorum status eadem domina Regina modo habet in eodem manerio de N. super N. cum pertin' pontem illum facere, reparare, & emendare consueverunt, de tempore cuius contrar memoria hominum non exist it, toties, quoties necesse fuit. In cuius etc. An Indictment against one for pulling down of a stone bridge in a town over which the Inhabitants of the same Town have used to travail time out of mind. IVrator etc. quod cum a tempore quo memoria hominum in contrarium non existit, fuit quidam pons lapideus in W. in come E. praed' voc' A. per & trans quem quidem pontem, omnes inhabitant̄ villae de W. praed' in comitatu praed' per tempus praedict' habere consueverunt ingressum & egressum ad quendam locum vocat' H. pro negotijs eorunđ faciend', tamen I. F. de etc. tali die etc. & anno &c. vi & armis &c. prefat●m pontem effodit, prostravit, & spoliavit, & omnes lapides eiusdem pontis abinde asportavit & ab cariavit, per quod inhabitantes ibidem ingressum & egressum ad praedict' locum pro praedict' negotijs suis faciend' habere non possunt, & alia enormia per eum tunc & ibidem facta sunt ad grave & common nocumentum praed' vicinorum ibidem & contra pacem etc. For Nuisance in the Queen's high way, by enclosing of part of the way. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si E. S. nuper de W. in comitatu W. Sect' 159. praedict' gen, secundo die Maij etc. partem cuiusdam viae regiae in W. in comitatu praedict' ducent a W. praedict' usque ad S. in eodem comitatu, videlicet a W. praedict' usque ad quandam foveam in S. praedict' in praedict' comitatu W. vocat' le common pit, in eadem via existentem, cum sepe & fossa inclusit & obstruxit, & eandem viam Regiam sic inclus. a praedict' secundo die Maij, usque diem captionis huius inquisitionis, in pasturam convertebat, & adhuc custodit, in malum & pernitiosum exemplum aliorum, et ad grave damnum & commune nocumentum omnium ligeorum subditorum dictae dominae Reginae ibidem prope inhabitantium, quorum interest illac transire, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. ac contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. For Perjury in a disposition before Commissioners by Commission out of the Court of wards. IVratores presentant pro domina Regina, Quod F. E. de G. in comitatu Sect' 160. praedicto Tailor, xxiv. die julij, Anno etc. apud M. in comitatu E. praedicto coram A. B. C. D. & E. F. Armigeris, Commissionarijs (virtute Brevis dictae dominae Reginae de Commissione praedictis A. B. C. D. & E. F. directi, & extra curiam Wardorum & liberationum dictae dominae Reginae apud Westmonast' in comitatu Midddlesexiae, praeantea emanantis) pro examinatione quorumcunque testium, tam ex part cuiusdam I. L. de M. praedicta, in comitatu E. praedicto weaver querentis, quam ex part H. M. de N. in dicto comitatu E. yeoman defendentis, in quadam causa (sive materia) inter ipsos I. L. & H. M. tunc in dicta curia Wardorum & liberationum controversa, & ibidem dependente in variantia pro titulo unius messuagij cum pertinentijs in M. praed' in dicto comitatu E. personaliter constitutus, Ac tunc & ibidem existens test is productus per praedictum I. L. ad testificandum & deponendum in causa praedicta, ex part ipsius I. L. & iuratus per Commissionarios praedictos, ad veritatem dicendam super articulis interrogatorijs ei per dictos Commissionarios adtunc & ibidem ministrandis, septimo Articulo Interrogatorio ei adtunc & ibidem per dictos Commissionarios ex part praedicti I. L. ministrato dixit, & super sacramentum suum praedictum affirmavit, & deposuit, prout in hijs Anglicis verbis immediate sequitur, viz. To the seventh Interrogatory he saith by virtue of the said oath, that the said messivage was never occupied by the said H. M. the defendant, prout per dictam dispositionem praed' E. F. inter alia per pfatos Commissionarios in dictam curiam Wardorum & liberationum certificatam & missam, ac ibidem de recordo adhuc remanentem, plene apparet: ubi revera & in facto, dictum messuagium diu occupatum fuit per prenominatum H. M. defendentem. Et sic, idem E. F. dicto vicesimo quarto die Junii, Anno supradicto apud M. praed' in dicto come E. coram prenominatis A. B. C. D. & E. F. (Commissionarijs dictae dnae Reginae sic ut prefertur existentibus) voluntary, & corrupt, periurium commisit voluntarium & corruptum, contra formam divers, statutor in hmndi casu provisorum & editorum. For Perjury in a deposition, before Commissioners by Commission out of the Chancery upon the statute of Anno v. of the Queen. IVratores etc. present quod W. R. 24. die etc. apud A. in come E. coram Sect. 162. I. K. & T. S. armig' & F. T. gener existent' Commisse. virtute brevis dnae Reginae de Commiss. sibi ac alijs direct', ac extra cur' Cancell' dictae dominae Reginae nunc preantea emanautis, ad examinationem diversorum testium, ex part cuiusdam W. C. quer', versus quendam T. N. defendant in quadam materia inter ipsos W. & T. tunc in cur' Cancellar' praed apud Westm in comitatu Mido ' tunc existent dependant in varianc' & controvers. pro titulo diversorum tenementorum cum pertinent vocat' etc. in dict' comitatu Ebor', personaliter constitut̄ ac existens testis, productus per prefat' W. C. ad deponend' in causa praedict', ex part ipsius W. onerat, & iuratus ad veritatem dicend' de interrogatorijs sibi per Commiss. praedict' adtunc ministraud ' xviij. Interrogatorio sibi per prenominat Commiss. adtunc & ibidem ex part praed' W. C. ministrat super sacramentum suum dixit & deposuit modo & form, prout in Anglic' verbis sequitur, viz. to the xviii. he saith &c. recitando verbatim depositionem illam, prout per deposic' pred' W. R. inter alia per prenominat Commiss. in cur' Cancell' praed' certificate, & ibidem de recordo remanen plene liquet, ubi revera praedict' H. S. non causavit etc. neque etc. negando effectum depositionis etc. prout praedict' W. R. falso & corrupt deposuit & iuravit, Per quod idem W. R. praed' 23. die etc. anno 19 supradict' apud A. praed' in dicto comitatu E. coram prefat' I. K. T. D. & F. T. Commiss. virtute brevis dominae Reginae eis directi tunc existentibus, voluntary & corrupt commisit periurium voluntarium & corruptum, in contemptum dictae dominae Reginae & contra formam statuti in Parliamento dictae dominae Reginae tento anno regni sui quinto in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi, ac ad grave damnum praedicti T. N. For taking of Pheasants and Partridges with nets and other engines in an other man's freehold without licence contrary to the Statute of Anno 11. H. 7. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod W. G. de S. in dicto comitatu Sect' 162. E. Labourer, circiter horam decimam ante meridiem vicesimi diei Augusti, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethe▪ Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, in quodam loco infra parochiam de S. praedicta in come E. praedicto (vocat' vulgariter, the Wheat field) qui quidem locus tunc fuit, & adtunc est liberum tenementum A. B. de S. praedicta in dicto comitatu E. generosi (nec unquam fuit in, aut de warrenna ipsius W. G. propria) duos phasianos, & decem perdices, cum quibusdam reticulis, & alijs ingenijs (valoris duorum solidorum (tuncibidem cepit, occidit, & asportavit, sine aliquibus assensu, aggreamento, aut speciali licentia dicti A. B. in hac part habitis aut obtentis: In dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti in Parliamento Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae septimi, tento Anno regni sui undecimo, in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi. For murder by wilful poisoning with herbs in pottage upon the statute of Anno 1. E. 6. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod T. H. de C. in come E. Sect' 163. praed' yeoman, secundo die Dec▪ Anno regni dicte domine nostre Elizab. dei gratia gratia Angl', Franc' & Hyberniae Reg', fidei defensoris etc. 36. apud C. praed' in come E. praedicto, in domo mansionali ibidem cuiusdan W. B. nuper de C. praedicta in docto comitatu E. yeoman, ex malitia sua prepensa & precogitata, voluntary & felonice, porrexit, ac debit in catillo quodam eidem W. B. ad edendum, quedam olera (Anglice vocata Pottage) ex cicuta venenosissima, & alijs herbis virulentis confecta & composita, que quidem olera praedictus W. B. tunc ibidem cum cocleari (quod in manu sua dextra tenuit) comedit, unde praedictus W. B. statim postea ae grotabat, ac a praedicto secundo die Anno supradict̄ in dicta domo sua apud C. praedictam languebat, usque sextum diem dicti mensis Decembris, Anno supradicto, quo quidem sexto die, Anno supradicto, praed' W. B. ex dicto esu olerum praedictorum, in dicta domo sua apud C. praedictam in dicto comitatu E. interijt. Et sie juratores praedict' praesentant, quod predict' T. H. praenominatum W. B. apud C. predictam in comitatu E. predicto, modo & forma supradict̄, ex malitia sua precogitata, voluntary & felonice, veneno predict' interfecit ac murdravit, contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae nunc, ac contra formam statuti in Parliamento Domini Edwardi nuper regis Angl' sexti (tento, apud Westmonast' in comitatu Midd', Anno regni sui primo) in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. For murder by wilful Poisoning of one in a potion. Ivrator pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod H. R. nuper de C. in Sect. 164. come E. Yeoman, 10. die Octob. Anno etc. deum prae oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolica seduct, ex malitia sua prae cogitat, quendam R. F. in pace dei & dictae dominae Reg' existent apud C. pred', in come E. pred' ad bibend' praetextu amoris & amicitiae invitavit, & eidem R. E. adtunc & ibidem potionem quandam veneno intermixtam & intoxicat felonice dedit, quam quidem potionem pred' R. F. ex instigatione & provocatione dicti H. adtunc & ibid' accepti, & eandem potionem super illud immediate bibebat & exhausit, ratione cuius dict' R. F. immediate post potionem pred' sic exhaustam, morbo corrept̄ fuit, ac a pred' 10. die Octob. An. supradict̄, usque quartum diem Febr etc. apud C. pred' in pred' come E. languebat, quo quidem quarto die Febr Ann 8. supradicto, pred' R. F. ex potione & intoxication predict', apud C. pred' in come E. predict'. obijt. Et sic pred' R. H. praefat' R. F. apud C. predict' in come E. predict', modo & forma supradictis, cum potione pnd' veneno intermixta & intoxicat, felonice interfecit, & murdravit, contra pacem dict' Dominae Reginae etc. & contra formam statuti inde in huiusmodi casu editi & provisi. For Murder by wilful poisoning upon the Statute of Ann. 1. E. 6. wherein the Statute is recited. Ivrator praesentant, quod cum in statuto in Parliamento Domini E. Sect. 165. nuper Reg. Angl' vj. Apud Westmonasterium in Comitatu Midd' Anno Regnisui primo, tento, edit' inter al' inactitat existat aucthoritate eiusdem, quod omnis voluntaria interfectio per venenum Anglice Poisoning, alicuius personae sive personar̄, quae ad aliquod tempus extunc imposterum facta, perpetrata, sive commissa foret, adiudicaretur, haberetur & existimaretur voluntarium murdrum de malitia praepensa, quodque offensores in ●a part, eorum coadiutores. abbettatores, procuratores, & consiliatores sustinerent mortem & forisfacturam in quolibet respectu, ut in alijs casibus voluntarij murdri de malitia praepensa, prout in eodem statuto plene liquet, Quidam tamen A. B. nuper de C. in Comitatu E. Labourer, statu● praed' & penam in eodem content̄, parvi pendens, neque timorem dei prae ocnlis suis habens, vicesimo die januarij, Anno etc. apud R. praedict', in praedict' comitatu E. ex malitia sua praecogitata, quendam E. L. voluntary & felonice, per venenum interfecit et murdravit, contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae coronam & dignitatem suas, ac contra formam statuti praedict' &c. For Petty treason against the wife for poisoning her husband, by putting Arsenic and Rosegree in his drink. IVratores etc. quod A. B. de &c. vid' nuper uxor I. B. de F. pred' etc. Sect. 166. contra debitum matrimonij vinculum ac zelum et amorem quem eadem A. B. erga predict' I. B. nuper virum suum gerere deberet, diabolico instinctu ducta, ex malitia sua prae cogitat, machinans & intendens eundem I. B. nuper virum suum vita sua privare, ac ipsum felonice & proditory murdrare xj. die I. etc. apud etc. felonice et proditory posuit in potu ipsius I. B. adtunc viri sui, quoddam venenum mortiferum vocat' arsenic et Rosegre, ac potum illum sic venenatum felonice & proditory adtunc et ibidem praedict' I. B. debit et ministravit bibend' qui quidem I. B. nihil fraudis aut doliversus praedict' A. inde suspiciens, potum illum sic venenatum et intoxicatum adtunc et ibidem per instigationem et provocationem dictae A. bibit: per quod idem I. B. ab eodem xj. die etc. I. usque xxij. diem I. tunc proxim' sequent languebat. Quo quidem xxij. die anno etc. idem I. B. de veneno illo apud F. etc. obijt. Et sic dicunt jurat praed' quoth A. pndict̄ die et anno dictum I. B. adtunc virum suum apud etc. felonice et proditory intoxicavit et murdravit, contra pacem dict' dnae Reginae etc. For the breaking of prison, being imprisoned upon suspicion of the death of a man in the Queen's jail, under the custody of the Constable of a hundred. INquiratur ꝓ dna Regina, si W. H. de C. in comitatu E. yeoman, unus Sect. 167. Constabulario dictae dnae Hundredi sui de T. in comitatu E. praed' (in quo quidem Hundredo sua est villa de C. praed') quendam R. B. nuper de C. praed' in comitatu E. praed' Tailor, vicesimo die Septembris, anno Regni dictae Dnae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quinto apud C. praedictam in dicto comitatu E. pro suspitione cuiusdan feloniae (videlicet pro morte cuiusdam M. N. apud H. in comitatu E. praed' felonice interfecti) cepit & arrestavit: Et ea de causa idem R. B. sub custodia dicti W. H. Constabularij, in prisona dict' dnae Reginae apud C. praed' in comitatu E. praed', postea scilicet dicto vicesimo die Septemb. Anno supradicto fortiter, et duriter detentus fuerit, Ac idem R. B. tune ibidem sic detentus, postea, (videlicet, dictis die & anno) apud C. praed' in comitatu E. praedict', vi & armis, praedict' prisonam ibidem felonice fregit, ac extra custodian dicti Constabularij tunc et ibid', contra eius voluntatem felonice evasit, contra pacem dict' dnae Reginae nostrae nunc, coronam et dignitatem suas, necnon contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. For Pulling of sheep. INquiratur pro domiva regina si N. H. nuper de O. in comitat' E. labourer Sect. 168. xiii. die Maij Anno etc. clausum cuiusdam H. C. apud C. praedict' in comitatu E. praedict', fregit et intravit, ac lanam quatuor ovium volor iij. s. de bonis & catallis dict' H. C. apud O. praed' in comitatu E. praed' a corporibus ou●um praed' adtunc & ibidem existent expilabat, & ipsam janam sic ewlsam, felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. For the felonious taking of a purse, and money and gold in it, from the person of a man. Inquiratur pro domina regina si N, H. nuper de S. in comitat' M. Miller Sect. 169. xuj. die Aprilis, Anno etc. vi & armis, videlicet etc. in quendam Ed. R. apud C. in comitatu M. praed' insultum fecit, & unam bursam valour ij. đ▪ & ix. s. in pecunijs numeratis, & unam coronam gallicam vocat' a French crown valour vj. solid', in bursa praed', adtunc & ibidem existent, de bonis et pecunijs praed' Ed. a persona ipsius E. clam & sine noticia ipsius E. adtunc et ibidem felon' cepit et arportavit, contra pacem dictae dnae reginae etc. ac contra formam statuti etc. For Purse picking. IVratores pro domina regina praesentant, quod I. S. nuper de A. in Sect. 170. comitatu E. Taylor, sexto die julij, Anno regni dictae dnae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angl', Franciae et Hybern̄ Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud A praed' in comitatu E praed', in quodam loco ibidem, (vocato the Elms) vi & armis in quendam R. M. de A. praed' in comitatu E. praed' Grocer, insul●um fecit, & vigint● solidos in pecunijs numeratis in crumena ipsius R. M. tunc ibidem existentes inventos, de praed' crumena ipsius R. M. tunc & ibidem a persona ipsius R. M. (clam et insciente ipso R. M.) felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem dictae dnae reginae, ac contra coronam, et dignitatem suas. For unlawful purveyance of three weathers without authority. IVratores pro Domina regina praesentant, quod primo die julij, Anno Sect. 171. regni dominae nostr' Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quinto, quidam H. W. nuper de G. in comitatu C. Tippler, apud C. in comitatu C. pndicto, prae se ferens, & asserens se esse unum ex provisoribus & emptoribus hospitij dict' Dominae Reginae, dicto primo die, Anno supradicto (quo quidem tempore nullum ostendit aut secum habuit warrantum sub magno aut parvo Sigillo dict' dnae Reginae) apud C. predict' in comitatu C. predict', tres oves castratas (Anglice vocatas Weatheas,) precij viginti solidorum, de bonis & catallis I S. de C. predict' in dicto come C. Yeoman tunc ibidem existent' inventas, sub colore purueianciae pro dicto hospitio, illegitime ac felonice cepit & abduxit: Contra pacem dictae dnae Reg. ac contra forman diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. For the Rape of a maid upon the Statute of Anno 13. Ed. 1. the which is recited. IVratores praesent̄ quod cum in statuto in Parliamento domini E. nuper Sect. 172. regis Angl' primi, Anno regni sui decimo tertio tento, edit', inter alia provisum sit, quod si homo rapuerit vxor', ancillam, sive aliquam aliam faeminam ubi non consentierit nec antea neque postea, habeat judicium de vita & membro, prout in eodem statuto plenius continetur. Quidam I. B. nuper de A. etc. yeoman statutum predict' etc. tali die & Anno Io. O. filiam H. O. ancillam apud W. in comitatu E. predicto, contra voluntatem suam felonice rapuit, contra pacem dict' dominae Reginae etc. ac contra formam statuti predicti etc. For the Rape of a child under the age of ten years, upon the statute of Anno 18. of the Queen. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod G. D. de B. in comitatu Sect. 173. E. predicto Waterman, tertio die julij, Anno regni dict' dominae nostrae Elizabethae, dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, apud B. predictam in dicto comitatu E. (in domo mansionali ibidem cuiusdam A. S. Hosteler) vi & armis in quandam M. N. de B. predicta in dicto comitatu E. puellam, infra aetatem decem annorum tun● existentem, insultum fecit, actunc & ibidem, ●andem M. N. felonice ●c carnaliter cognovit, ac eadem M. N. nequitur abusus est, contra pacem dict' dominae Reginae nunc, ac contra formam statuti in Parliamento dictae dominae Reginae nuuc (tento apud Westm in come Midd', Anno dicti Regni sui decimo octavo) in huiusmodicasu provisi ac editi. For the Rape of a Maid, of the age of 16. years, upon the Statute of Anno 13. Ed. 1. IVratores praesentant pro Domina Regina, quod B. C. de E. in comitatu Sect. 174. F. Taverner, q●into die Octobris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud E▪ pred' in dicto comitatu E. in quodam ibidem loco (vocato le Bower) vi & armis in quandam A. K. de E. pred' in comitatu E. prae dicto, virginem aeratis sex decem annorum, tunc & ibid' in pace Dei & dictae dnae reginae existentem, insultum fecit, ac tunc & ibid' eandem A. contra voluntatem ipsius A. felonice rapuit, & carnaliter cognovit, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae nunc, ac contra formam cuiusdam statuti in parliamento dni Ed. olim regis Angliae primi, tento apud Westm in comitatu Middlesex, Anno regni sui tertio de cimo, in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi. For taking away a maid of the age of xi. years, upon the Statute of Anno 3. E. 1. in which the statute is recited. Ivrat praesent̄, quod cum tn statuto in Parliamento dni E. nuper Reg. Sect. 175. Angl' primi, Anno regni sui tertio tent', aedit, inter cetera ordinat existit, qđ nullus rapiat neque capiat ancillam infra aetatem existent', per assensum suum, vel sine assensu suo, neque dictam ancillam, nec aliam faeminam contra voluntatem suam, & si aliquis hoc fecerit, ad sectam illius qui hoc sequitur infra quadraginta dies, dnus rex sibi fac●et communem justiciam, & si nullus incipiat sectam in hac part infra xl. dies, dominus rex sequetur, & illi qui inuent' fuerint culpabiles, habeant prisonam duorum annorum, & postmodum redimantur ad voluntatem dni Regis prout in eodem statuto plenius continetur. Quidam I. B. nuper de A. etc. statutum pred' minime ponderans etc. I. O. filiam H. O. ancillam, & infra aetatem existentem viz. aetatis xj. Annorum quadraginta diebus elapsis apud W. tertio die S. anno etc. violenter▪ cepit & rapuit, contra formam statut' praedict' ac contra pacem etc. For a Recuse of a woman arrested (amongst divers others) by the sheriffs officers upon a warrant from a justice of the peace in there general Sessions, to put in surety to appear before them at the next Sessions, and in the mean time to be of good behaviour, and for the hurting of one of the said officers with an arrow. IVratores pro dna Regina present, quod cum H. C. R. H. & I. B. are, ac Sect. 176. socij sui Iustic' dictae dominae Reginae ad pacem in comitatu E. conseruand', necnon ad diversa felon' trnns & alia malefact' in eodem comitatu perpetrat, audiend' & terminand' assign', in generali sessione pacis tent' apud T. in comitatu E. predict', die Martis proxim' post festum Sanctae Trinitatis, Anno etc. mandaver vic' eiusdem comitatus E. necnon & eorum cuilibet, quod non omitterent propt̄ aliquam libertatem come E. praedict', quin eam ingrederent seu unus eorum ingrederet, & attachiarent seu unus corum attachiaret corpora O. W. nuper de W, in comitatu T. labourer, & A. I. de W. pred' in comitatu E. pred' servant, & eos coram Iusticiar' praed', vel uno sociorum suorum Iustic' pacis in comitatu E. praed' venir compellerent, seu eorum unus venire compelleret, ad inveniendum sufficientem manucaptionem, qđ ipsi personaliter comparerent coram dictis Iustic' & socijs suis pred', ad proxim' sessionem pacis in come E. pred' tenend'. Et qđ interim se bene gererent erga dictam dnam reginam & cunctum populum suum, secundum formam statuti in hmi cas. aedi● & proviss. Cumque prefat' G. L. & L. R. virtute mandat pndict̄ arrestassent pnd' Agn I. & eam coram Iustic' pred' vel eorum uno ducer voluissent, prout man datum predict' Iustic' predict' in se exigebat, quidam tamen B. A. de W. pred' in comitatu E. pred' gener, & R. W. de W. pndict̄ in comitatu E. pred' Yeoman, leges dictae dominae regin̄ minime verent, ex malic' sua praecogitat in contemptum dict' dnae reginae, legum suarum, ac mandati Iustic' predict', x. die Maij Anno etc. apud W. praedict' in comitatu E. predict' riotos. & illicit assemblati & congregati, in prefat' G. L. & I. R. in pace dei & dictae dnae reg. adtunc & ibidem existent, insult & affraiam fecer, ac praefat' R. W. divers. sagittas Anglic' voc' arrows, versus praef. G. L. & I. R. adtunc & ibidem sagittabat, ea intention, ut praef. Georg. L. & I. R. vulneraret, ac predict' Agnetem in custod' eorund' G. & I. rescusser, ac praef. R. W. cum una sagitta valor̄ unius denar, quam adtunc & ibidem ipse eiaculabat & mittebat versus praef. I. R. e quodam arcu Angl' voc' a Long bow valour ij. s. quem in manu sua leva adtunc & ibidem tenuit, percussit, ac crus dextrum eiusdem I. R. adtun● & ibidem perforabat & transforabat, dans eidem I. R. adtunc ibidem in crure suo pred', unam plagam in profunditate trium policium, ac idem R. W. cum una al' sagitta valor̄ unius denar̄ quam adtunc & ibidem iaculabitur & mittebat versus predict' G. L. e predicto arcu quem in manu sua sinistra idem R. W. adtune & ibidem tenuit, praefat' G. L. percussit, dans eidem G. adtunc & ibidem in infima part sinistri cruris eiusdem G. unam plagam in longitudine dimidij policis, ac in profunditate usque ad ossa praedict' cruris eiusdem G. ac praeterea praefati B. A. & R. W. pred' Angetem I. adtunc & ibidem a custod' dictorum G. H. & I. R. vi & armis recusser, atque eandem Agnetem I. adtunc & ibidem ad largum ire & evadere fecer, contra pacem etc. Of High treason for Rebellious in surrections, and the aydors and comfortors. INquiratur pro domino Rege, si Richardus M. nuper de S. in comitatu Sect. 177. K. ac alij falsi proditores & inimici, metuendissimi, ac christianissimi Principis E. Regis Angliae quarti post conquestum Angl', ignot, die & anno &c. apud Sanct' Elins in insula Vecte in Commit South. se insimul congregaverunt tunc & ibidem vi & armis, viz. gladijs etc. Insurrexerunt quoque ad comfortand' & supportandum 1 nuper comitem W. falsum proditorem & inimicum domin' Regis nunc, apud W. de diversis altis proditionibus erga ipsum regem infra regnum suum Angliae factis, convictum & attinctum, idemque R. M. & alij proditores & inimici predict', predict' I. nuper Comitem W. & complices suos, ut falsi proditores, contra ligeantiae suae debitum, falso & proditory, adtunc & ibidem ad premissa faciend' convenerunt ac confortaverunt, & tunc & ibidem eidem I. nuper Comiti W. & complicibus suis fuerunt adherentes, scientes ipsum I. nuper Comitem W. de proditionibus suis predict' attinctum & convictum, contra ligeantiam suam etc. An other of high treason for rebellious Insurrections, and the aydors and comfortors. INquiratur pro Domino Rege, si W. L. nuper de P. in come M. Marchant, Sect. 178. G. B. nuper de etc. ac quamplur̄ alij falsi proditores, rebelles & inimici ignoti christianissimi Principis E. Regis Angliae iiij. post conquestum, exastensu, voluntate & proposito diversorum aliorum falsorum proditorum et inimicorum Domini Regis, videlicet I. nuper comitis W. & I. nuper comitis K. qui nuper aucthoritate Parliamenti dicti regis apud Westmonasterium etc. tent', de diversis proditionibus erga dictum Regem infra regnum Angl' factis conuict' & attincti existunt iiij. die Martij, et die Mercurij, & diebus Sabbati & dominic' proxim' post festum Pentecostes, & diversis diebus antea & postea, anno regni dicti domini regis tertio, apud P. in comitatu M. praedict' insimulse congregaverunt, & inter se communicaverunt, quomodo ipsi praefatum I. nuper comitem W. & complices suos cum eis adtunc & ibidem super mare in navibus suis (ut falsi proditores) existentes, per nimiam potestatem praedict', I. nuper comitis W. ac praefat' comitis K. & aliorum fasorum proditorum & inimicorum dict' Domini regis, de eorum covina, & falso proposito existent, usque regnum Angliae potuerunt producere: & dictum regem & dominos suos, tam spiiituales quam temporales ꝑ totum posse suum, de regia potestate sua, & gubernatione regni praedicti, per nimiam potestatem penitus deprivar, & gubernationem regni praed', super se accipere & retinere proponent̄, credebantque adtunc & ibidem praedict' W. & G. & alij falsi proditores & rebelles praedicti, quod maxima pars totius regni Angliae cum eisdem falsis proditoribus in falsis opinionibus suis stare voluisset, & ad illud falsum & nefand' propositum suum finaliter perimplend', pndict̄ W. & G. et aid. alij falsi proditores & rebelles pndicti, dictis die & anno apud P. pnd', in dict' comit' M. vi & armis, scilicet, gladijs, glevijs, arcubus, sagittis, loricis, duploidibus defensivis, & alijs armaturis etc. insurrexerunt, & praedict' S. nuper comitem, in cibis, potibus, & alijs necessarijs erga dominum regem falso & proditorie confortaverunt, auxiliaverunt, & supportaverunt, & eisdem nuper Comitibus, ut falsi proditores contra ligeantiae suae debitum adtunc & ibidem fuerunt adherentes, & cum eisdem Comitibus naves suas pnd', (ut falsi proditores) ad proditoria sua proposita praedict' perimplend' & perficiend', conscenderunt & in eis permanserunt: scientes ipsos nuper Comites in forma predicta sic attinct' & conuict', in finalem destructionem dicti domini Regis, ac contra ligeantiam suam etc. For regrating of Corn in a market. INquiratur pro etc. si W. T. de N. in predict' come E. & A. B. etc. I. die Sect. 179. etc. & quampluribus al' diebus antea & postea, fuer' regrat mercati de D. in praed' come E. ac diversa gener gran̄ ad mercat pnd' ꝑ divers. ligeos dict' dnae reg. il' adven, viz. x. quart frum ad valenc' 6. li. apud D. pnd', in pnd' come E. regrataver, ad intention, quod idem frum iterum venderent, ad grave damnum populi dictae dnae Reginae contra formam diuersorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu edit' & provisorum. For regrating of Fish and Butter in a market, and selling of it in the same market. IVratores pro domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. de C. in dicto comitatu Sect. 180. S. Mercer, 20. die julij Anno regni dictae dnae nostrae Elizab. dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud C. praedict' in comitatu E. praedicto, in quodam mercatu tunc ibidem tento, pro 40. solid' monetae, emit, regratavit, obtinuit, & nactus est in possessionem et manus suas, decem paria piscium (Anglice dicta, x. couples of Linges, & tria vasa butyri salsi (Anglice vocata 3. firkins of salt butter) de quodam E. F. qui praed' x. paria piscium, ac dicta tria vasa butyri ad eundem mercatum, ut ea adtunc ibidem venderet, adduxisset: & quoth immediate postea, scil' dicto 20. die Anno supradicto, idem A. B. in dicto eodem pleno mercatu tunc ibidem apud C. praed', in dicto comit' E. tento, eadem omnia dicta paria piscium, ac butyri vasa, cuidam H. R. pro sexagint, as. legalis monetae dictae dominae reginae huius regni sui Angliae, illicit vendidit, in magnum reipubls. damnum, ac contr̄ form diversor statutorum huius regni Angl' in huiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. For a Recuse of one in the stocks for suspicion of felony. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod vicesimo die Junii, Sect. 181. Anno regni dictae Dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae, Ftanciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, quidam A. B. nuper de C. in comitatu E. glover, apud C. praedictam in comitatu E. praedict' captus est & arrestatus per E. F. de C. praedicta in comitatu E. praedicto Yeoman, pro suspicione cuiusdam feloniae, videlicet, unius vaccae ipsius E. F. per praefatum A. B. felonice, (ut idem E. F. tunc asserabat) captae & abductae, & quod idem A. B. immediate postea traditus est per praefatum E. F. cuidam H. M. tunc Constabulario hundredi de N. in comitatu E. praed', in quo sita est villa de C. predicta: qui quidem Constabularius in comitatu E. praedict', postea, viz. dicto vicesimo die Junii, Anno Tricesimo quarto supradicto, eundem A. B. in prisona in cippis ibidem posuit, ad eum saluo ibidem custodiendum, donec idem Constabularius parare possit auxilium ad ducendum eundem A. B. coram aliquo Iusticiariorum pacis dictae dominae Reginae in comitatu E. praedicto, examinandum: Ac quod postea, (scilicet dicto vicesimo die etc. Anno supra dicto) quidam G. L. de C. praedicta in comitatu E. praedicto glover, apud C. praedictam in dicto comitatu E. vi & armis cippos praed' effregit: ac eundem A. B. tunc ibid' existent' ex eisdem custodia, prisona, & cippis felonice cepit, eripuit & rescussit, ac ad largum ire & evadere permisit, contra pacem dictae dnae reginae, coronam, & dignitatem suas. For giving of a Livery. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod T. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 182. E. armiger, secundo die Septembris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae, Frrnciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud C. praed' in comitatu E. praedicto, quasdam liberatas vesture, viz. cuidam A. B. de C. praedict' in come E. pnd' yeoman, tres ulnas panni lanei, colour venetis, precij xx. s. & C. D. de B. in dict' come yeoman, alias tres ulnas similis panni lanei, eorundem coloris & precij, ad duas seperales tunicas pro praefatis A. B. & C. D. inde faciendas, dedit ac distribuit: ubi revera prefati A. B. & C. D. aut eorum alter, nun quam fuerant, aut fuit domestici seruientes, aut domesticus seruiens, officiarij, sive officiarius, Ballivisive Balliws, dicti T. B. aut de consilio ipsius T. B. in una lege sive altera eruditi vel eruditus: In magnum dictae dnae reginae contemptum, ac contra formam diversorum Statutor in hmndi casu ante hac provisorum & editorum. For receiving and using of a Livery. IVratores pro domina regina presentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu E. yeoman, unam liberatam panni, videlicet tres ulnas panni lanei, coloris Sect' 183. venetis (vocati Anglice Watchet) ad valentiam xx. solidor̄ ad tunicam inde sibi faciendam de T. B. de C. praedicta in come E. predicto armigero, apud C. predictam in dictu comitat' E. secundo die Augusti etc. recepit, & eadem tunica a dicto die secundo, anno supradicto, usque tertium diem mensis Septembris, Anno supradicto apud C. praedictam in comit' E. praedict', & alibi in diversis locis infra comitatum praedictum usus est: ubi idem A. B. dicto tempore receptionis liberate praed', aut unquam postea non fuit famiharis, officiarius, balliws, aut de consilio dicti T. B. in una lege aut altera eruditus: In magnum dictae dnae reginae contemptum, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu antehac provisorum, & editorum. For giving, receiving, and using of Liveries upon the statute of Anno 7. H. 4. and Anno 8. H. 6. IVratores dicunt, quod cum in statuto domini regis Henr 4. nuper regis Sect' 185. Angliae, Anno regni sui 7. etc. ac in statut' in Parliamento domini Henrici 6. bonae memoriae, Anno regni sui octavo apud W. tent' & edit', inter cetera continetur, quod non liceat alicui, cuiuscunque status, gradus, seu conditionis fuerit, dare aliquam liberatam vestur̄ vel capic' alicui personae, nisi tantummodo familiaribus, officiarijs, ballivis, & seruientibus suis, ac alijs hominibus de consilio suo in una lege seu altcra eruditis, sub pena centum solid' deterris & tenntis, bonis & catallis hmodi liberat daunt, & quadraginta solid' deterris & tenementis, bonis & catallis huiusmodi liberat recipient̄ sive utent, tories quoties aliqua liberat in contrarium statuti praed' dat' seu accepta fuerit, leuand': quidam tamen R. B. de C. in come H. arm statut' praedict' minime ponderans, quasdam liberatas vesture, videlicet diversas togas coloris frost meadow, quibusdam I. de B. yeoman etc. S. C. de eodem yeoman, qunec sunt nec unquam fuerunt seruient, offic', ballivi seu familiar̄ ipsius R. B. nec in lege una seu altera aliqualit erudit aut instruct', die etc. Anno etc. apud etc. dedit & distribuit. Et praed' I. & S. easdem togas de prefat' R. eisdem die, anno, & loco, contra formam statutorum praed' receperunt, & eisdem togis continue a praed' die &c. usque etc. apud E. F. & S. usi fuerunt, in contemptum dnae Reginae, legisque suae dedecus manifestum, ac contr̄ formam statutorum praedictorum etc. For an affray made by divers at a general Sessions of the Peace. IVratores pro Domina Regina presentant, quod vicesimo nono die Sect' 189. Decembris, Anno Regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo, quinto, apud M. in come G tempore generalis Sessionis pacis in praedicto comitat tunc ibidem tent', & H. C. Milite & socijs suis justiciarijs dictae Dominae Reginae ad pacem in dicto comitatu G. conseruandam assignat', tunc ibidem existentibus, & in plena curia sedentibus, quidam A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. & I. K. de S. in come G. praedict' generosi, Aggregatis sibi nonnullis alijs pacis dictae dominae Reginae perturbatoribus ignotis, ad numerum thirty. hominum, vi & annis, viz. gladijs & pugionibus, armatis, illicit, routose, & riotose, sese assemblaverunt, ac inter se insultum & affraiam maximam tunc & ibidem fecerunt, sese invicem verberantes, & vulnerantes, in magnum terrorem tam dictorum Iusticiariorum tunc ibidem in curia sedentium, quam totius populi dictae Dominae Reginae ad dictam Sessionem pacis tunc & ibidem convenientis, ac contra pacem, coronam, & dignitatem dictae Dominae Reginae nostrae. Or thus. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod I. B. de R. in comitatu E. praedicto yeoman, I. G. de eisdem yeoman, W. B. de P. in comitatu E. praedicto yeoman, & T. K. de eisdem yeoman, undecima die januarij, Anno regni Reginae Elizabethae etc. tertio apud W. in comitatu E. praedict', tempore generalis Sessionis pacis adtunc & ibidem tent', & Iustic' dictae dominae Reginae, ad pacem in comitatu praedict' conseruanđ assign', ibidem existent', vi & armis videlicet, etc. illicit & riotose sese assemblaver, & per instigationem & procurationem praedictorum I. B. et W. B. insultum & magnam affraiam adtunc & ibidem invicem fecer, & commiser, in magnum timorem, tremorem, & perturbationem, tam praedict' Iusticiar' dictae Dominae Reginae adtunc & ibidem, existent quam totius populi & ligeorum subdit dictae dominae Reginae de comitatu S. praed', adtunc et ibidem confluenc', contra formam et ordinationem per Iusticiar' praed', adtunc et ibidem de pace gerend' fact', & in manifestum contemptum dictae dominae Reginae, ac in Iustic' ibidem exequend' & administrand' retardationem manifestam, ac contra pacem dictae Dominae Reginae etc. For a Riot in a Park upon the keeper of the park and his servant, and for hurting the keeper's servant with an arrow. INquiratur pro Domina Regina si E. P. etc. H. P. etc. et R. B. etc. aggregat Sect. 187. etc. riotos. & routose et modo noue insurrectionis, in conveniculis illicitis, et modo guerrino arraiat, vi & armis viz. etc. 30. die apud H. in come E. predict', in clausum & parcum E. P. vidue, ibidem seize illicit, riotose et routose assemblaver, congregaver, et vniuer̄, ad pacem dicte domine Regine disturband', et adtunc et ibidem in quendam A. D. gen, custodem parci predict', et in I. B. famulum ipsius A. in pace dei & dicte domine Regine existent' insultum fecerunt, et predictus G. P. unam sagittam e quodam arcu tent' quem idem G. P. in manbus suis adtunc & ibidem habuit et tenuit, sagittavit. Et eundem I. B. cum sagitta predict', in pectore suo percussit, dans eidem I. B. unam plagam profunditat dimid' pollicis, et latitud' unius pollicis, Ita quod de vita sua desperabatur, et alia enormia eye intuler ad grave damnum ipsorum A. et I. contra pacem dicte domine Regine, et contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu editi et provisi. For Riot in pulling down of Hedges and ditches. INquiratur pro Domina reg' si I. R. nuper de B. in comitatu predict' Sect' 188. yeoman, R A. nuper de G. in comitatu pred' husbandman, et I. B. nuper de D. in comit' pred' Groom, cum multis alijs malefactor eye aggregat, et pacis dicte domine Regine perturbator ignot, modo guerrino arriat, unit, assemblat, & congregat, ad numerum quindecim personarum, per instigationem & procurationem praedict' I. R. in magnum terrorem subditorum dictae dominae Reginae 4. die Maij, anno regni dominae nostrae Eliz. etc. secundo, vi & armis, videlicet, gladijs, falcastris, bipenn, baculis & alijs armis invasivis, clausum R. B. arm apud F. infra parochiam de B. in comitatu praedicto vocat' the M. riotose fregerunt & intraverunt, ac sopes & claus. pred' R. B. ad numerum sexcent pedum, adtunc & ibidem existent', laceraverunt, irruper, & prostraverunt, & fossat ibidem existent', adtunc & ibidem cum ligonibus & bipallijs fodder, planaverunt, & impleverunt, ad grave damnum ipsius R. B. contra formam diversorum Statutorum de Riotis & routis, & alijs conventiculis illicitis inde nuper aedit & provis. & contra pacem dictae oominae Reginae etc. An Indictment against many, for beating and imprisoning of the Sheriffs bailiff, coming with the Sheriffs Replevie to execute it, wherein the Replevie is recited. INquiratur pro domina Regina, quod cum N. W. Miles, vicec' comitatus Sect' 189. E. per warr' suam de deliberatione sigillo suo sigillat, cuius dat' est v. die April ' anno Regni Hen. 8. vicesimo septimo, mandavit cuidam A. B. ballivo suo comit' E. pred', quod deliberaret, seu deliberari faceret cuidam T. H. averia sua que W. S. nuper de S. in comit' praed' E. gener, & P. B. nuper de eadem vill' & comitatu Clothier, cepissent & injust detinebant contra vad' & pleg' ut prefat' Tho. dicebat. Et quod poneret ipsos W. & P. per vadios & saluos pleg. ita quod essent ad proximum comitat' ipsius vice comit' apud I. in come pred', tenend', ad respondendum pref. T. H. de placit praedicto, virtute cuius warrant', praed' A. die & anno supradictis apud S. praedict' requisivit prefat' W. S. quod dimitteret sibi averia praedicta, ad deliberandum eidem pref. T. H. secundum vim, form & effectum warranti praed', si praed' W. ac quidam H. C. nuper de S. in comit' praedicto husbandman, cum multis alijs ignotis ad numerum octo personarum, dicto quinto die Aprilis, anno supradicto apud S. praedict', warrant' praedict' minime ponderantes, vi & armis, viz. gladijs & baculis, in pref. A. insultum fecerunt, verberaverunt, vulneraverunt, & maletractaverunt, ac ipsum A. adtunc & ibidem imprisonaverunt, & detinuerunt, per spacium quatuor dierum & quatuor noctium extunc proxim' sequent, & adtunc & ibidem debitam executionem warranti praedict' contradixerunt, impediverunt, & disturbaverunt, ad grave damnum ipsius C. ac contra pacem dicti Domini Regis, coronam etc. For a Riot in cutting and carrying away of Corne. IVratores etc. quod A. B. & E. D. etc. aggregatis eis quam pluribus alijs Sect' 190. malefactoribus, & pacis dominae Reginae perturbatoribus ignotis, ad numerum quatuor personarum modo guerrino arraiat 3. die Feb. anno etc. vi & armis, viz. gladijs, baculis, & alijs arm̄ tam invasivis, quam defensivis apud F. in come Eborum injust, riotose, & routose, assemblaverunt, clausumque T. L. apud C. adtunc & ibidem injust fregerunt & intraverunt, & decem acris tritici, ad tunc et ibidem crescent̄ valoris etc. de bonis & catallis T. I. praed', adtunc & ibidem inuent' inviste, riotose, & routose, messuerunt, falcaverunt, & asportaverunt, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. For Robbing of one in the highway. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si A. B. de C. in comitatu E. Mariner ' Sect' 191. sexto die mensis Octobris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensor etc. Tricesimo quinto, vi & armis, viz. cum gladio, & pugione (ad valentiam x. s.) districtis, inter horas septimam & octavam ante meridiem eiusdem diei, in alta via Regia juxta quendam locum (vocatum Gad's hill) infra parochiam de F. in comitatu E. praedict', in, & super quendam I. S. de B. in comitatu E. praed', Petite-chapman, tunc & ibidem in pace Dei, ac dictae dnae Reginae existentem insultum fecit, & ipsum 1 S. tunc & ibidem cum dicto gladio percussit & vulneravit, & xx. s. legal' monet Angl' numerate in crumena ipsius I. S. existentes, de bonis & catallis praedicti I. S. adtunc & ibidem inventos, a persona ipsius I. S. tunc & ibidem violenter & felonice cepit & asportavit, in magnum praedict' I. S. terrore●, ac contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, coronam, & dignitatem suas. An Indictment against one for assaulting and beating of two in the high way, to the intent to have killed, or rob them. INquiratur ꝓ dna Regina, si H. B. nuper de B. infra parochiam de W. Sect' 192. in come E. Sadler, xvij. die Novemb. anno etc. circa horam sextam post meridiem eiusdem diei apud O. in come E. praed', in communi via Regia, in quodam loco ibid', voc' C. in quosam T. L. & W. W. adtunc & ibidem in pace Dei, et dictae dnae Reginae existent', insultum fecit, cum quodam gladio precij v j s. quem ipse in manu sua dextra adtunc & ibid' habuit, & ipsos T. L. & W. W. gravit verberavit, vulner, et male tractavit: Ita qđ de vitis suis desperabatur, ea intentione ad interficiend', vel saltem ad spoliand' pred' T. L. et W. W. de bonis et pecunijs suis, et alia enomia eis adtunc et ibidem intulit, ad grave damnum praed T. L. et W. W. contra pacem dicte domin' Reg. etc. ut supra. An Indictment against a Cook for assulting one by the high way, and taking from him his Cloak. INquiratur pro Domina Regina, si I. G. nuper de A. in comitatu E. ●ooke, 13. die Aprilis, anno etc. vi & armis &c. circa horam quartam post meridiem eiusdem diei, apud S. in comitat' E. praed' in via Regia ibidem in quendam I. W. adtunc & ibidem in pace dei, & dictae dnae Reg. existent', insultum fecit, et ipsum Iohan W. adtunc & ibid' in magno timore corporal' imposuit, et unam clamidem vocat' a Cloak, coloris blue, valour et trium solidorum, & quatuor denar̄ in pecunijs numeratis, de b●nis & catallis dicti I. W. a persona eiusdem Iohan adtunc et ibidem inuent' felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem dictae dnae Regin̄ coronam & dignitatem suas, ut supra. An Indictment against one for making an assault and affray, upon one in the new Forest in the highway, and taking from him his purse and thirty. s. in it, and ij. gold rings off his finger. Ivrator etc. quod A. B. nuper de etc. 2. die I. etc. vi et armis, viz. etc. in Sect' 194. nova forest' in quodam loco ibid' voc' I. paroch' de F. in come praed', in quendam homin̄ ignot in regia via ibid' insultum & affraiam fecit, et eum in timor corpor adtunc & ibid' posuit, et thirty. s. in pecunijs numer in quađ crumb ibid' existent, et 2. annul' aureos valour etc. super digit eiusd' home ignot, exist' de bonis & catal' eiusd' hominis ignot, a person sua adtunc & ibid' felon' cepit et asportavit contra pacem etc. Against a Rogue, a Vagabond, and against him which lodgeth and relieveth him. IVratores pro Domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect' 195. comitatu E. Labourer, aetatis 14. annorum & amplius, ac corpore sano, valente, potente, atque ad laborandum habili existens, nullam autem habens terram, nec ullum magistrum, nec aliqua utens licita Merchandiza, arte, vel misterio unde sibi victum parare posset, ac prorsus nesciens rationem reddere quo pacto victum suum legitime acquirit, decimo die Augusti, Anno regni dnae nostrae Eliz. Dei gratia Angl', Franciae, & Hybern Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quinto apud E. infra hundredum de W. in come E. praedicto, & multis alijs in locis dicti comit' E. hac, illac passim vagatus est mendicans, ac per W. P. de E. praedicta, in dicto come E. yeoman, Constabularium dicti hundredi de W. (in quo sita est villa de F. praedicta) postea, viz. undecimo die dicti mensis Aug. Anno supradicto, apud E. praed, in come E. praedicto inventus est vagans, & mendicans, ac per eundem constabularium tunc ibidem deprehensus est inordinate se gerens, tanquam vagabundus, & mendicus valens contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, ac contra formam diversorum Statutorum in diversis Parliamentis dictae dominae Regin̄ nunc inde provisorum & editorum: & ulterius quod G. H. de E. predicta, in come E. yeoman, sciens pref. A. B. modo et forma praedictis vagantem & mendicant̄, eundem tamen A. B. dicto decimo die anno supradicto in domo ipsius G. H. mansionali apud E. praedictam, in come E. praedicto hospitavit, & eidem A. B. tunc & ibidem panem & potum voluntary dedit, in contemptum dictae Dominae Reginae, ac contra form̄ statutorum praedictorum. For breaking of a safe conduct granted by King H. vi. to Merchant strangers of Genua. Ivrat presentant, quod cum illustrissimus princeps Henricus Rex Angliae Sect' 196. sextus post conquestum, per literas suas patentes sub saluo conductu suo, concessit licentiam, & saluum conduct' suum dedit A. B. & D. & alijs alienigenis Mercatoribus de Genua, pro eis, & quadam Navi vocat' (a Carike) & pro bonis, rebus, & merchandisis suis, infra ●andem Navem existent, de transitu portus South in Anglia per mare, versus partes Genuae transferend, et eadem absque aliquibus roberijs, fractione, impeditione, perturbatione, aut captione ipsorum alienigen̄, bonorum, & mercand', sive mercimoniorum suorum praedictorum, per aliquos ligeos dicti domini Regis infra regnum dicti regis Angliae, gaudend', sine impeditione ibidem: quidam H. de D. in comitatu E. armiger, & alij fractores salui conductus domini Regis, de ligeis ipsius dni regis infra regnum Angliae existent ignot̄, vi & armis, videlicet, gladijs, arcubus, sagittis, duploidibus defensivis, & alijs armis defensibilibus, armati saluum conductum praed' minime verentes & spernentes, in praedictos A. B. & al●os alienigenas adtunc & ibid' insultum fecerunt, & ipsos verberaverunt vulnerauer̄, ac maletractaverunt, & ipsos in navi praed', tanquam eorum prisonar̄ adtunc & ibidem ceperunt et custodier̄, & eos in prisona sub custod' sua, diu, videlicet per iuj. dies, quousque ijdem A. B. & D. & alienigenae in eadem navi existent, finem & redemptionem pro saluo conductu et deliberatione suis habend', pro sexcent marcis cum prefat' H. & alijs praedict' fecissent, detinuerunt: contra slawm conductum domini Regis praedict', & contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu provis. et edit' ac contra dignitat regiam, ac in malum exemplum aliorum etc. For Sacrilege or Burglary in a Church in the night time, and the taking away of the Communion cup. IVratores presentant pro Domina regina, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 197. E. praedicto sailor, primo die Septembris, Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, vi et armis ecclesiam parochialem de C. praedicta in dicto comitat' E. felonice, et burglariter fregit et intravit noctanter, viz. inter horas decimam, & undecimam post meridiem eiusdem diei, ac unum calicem argenteum (Anglice vocatum a Communion Cup) add valentiam lx. s. de bonis & catallis parochianorum de C. praed' adtunc existentem in eadem ecclesia, & tunc ibid' inventum felonice cepit, & asportavit, contra pacem dictae dnae Regin̄ nostrae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suam. For Sacrilege or Robbery in a Church, and for the taking away of two Communian Cups, ij. Copes of black velvet, and iij. Surplices. INquiratur etc. si I. M. nuper de D. in comitatu M. & R. H. nuper de eadem Sect' 198. D. praed', in comitatu M. praedict' yeoman, laici home (ut supra) 23. die etc. vi et armis, videlicet gladijs, baculis & cultellis ecclesiam parochialem omnium sanctorum de E. apud E. in come M. praedict' circa horam 12. in nocte eiusdem diei felonice fregerunt & intraverunt, & duos calices de argento & auro, duo vestimenta de nigro velvet vocat' Copes, tres pannos lineos vocat' etc. ad valenc' etc. de donis & ornamentis, de paroch' de E. praedict', in come M. praedict', in custodia I. B. & T. P. custod', et guardian eccles. praedict', adtunc & ibidem inuent', felonice furatifuerunt, ceperunt, et asportaverunt contra pacem dict̄ domini regis, ac contr form statut' eiusdem domini regis anno Reg. sui 33. edit' & provis. etc. For slanderous writing and publishing of the same against the Queen. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect' 199. come E. Clericus, vicesimo quinto die julij, anno Reg. dictae dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Reginae fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto apud G. in comitatu E. praedict', consult et deliberate, cum malitiosa intention, et felonice quoddam scriptum Anglice edidit et publicavit, continens (inter alia) hanc falsam seditiosam et scandalosam materiam, ad defamationem Maiestatis dicte domine Regine nostre nunc, videlicet (reciting the seditious words thereof) contra pacem dicte domine Regine nostre, et regalem maiestatem suam, (cui ne in cogitation quidem detrahere licet) ac contra formam cuiusd' statut' in Parliamento dicte dne Reg. nostr' nunc, tent' apud Westm in come Middlesexiae, ann regni sui vicesimo tertio, in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. An indictment against a Schoolmaster being a Recusant for teaching school in a widows house without licence, & against the widow for keeping him in her house knowing him to be a Recusant. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, quod K. M. de I. in comitatu Sect' 120. School magister, secundo die Septembr, ann regni dicte domine nostr' Elizabethae, dei gratia, etc. Trices. quarto, usque nunc, in domo mansionali cuiusdam E. A. de I. predict', in come pred', Viduae, ausus est, & praesumpsit erudire, & docere pueros dictae E. A. ibid', cum idem K. M. durant tempor predicto non accessit, nec resortavit ad eccl' parochial' de I. pred', in come E. pred', nec ad ullam aliam capellam, aut usualem locum commun precationum, sed se penitus per totum tempus predict', abind absentavit, nullam habens legitimam aut rationalem dictae suae absentiae excusationem, & cum idem K. M. non est per Episcopum diocaesis loci illius, in quo sita est praedicta ecclesia parochialis de I. predicta, aut per eius loci ordinarium, licentiatus, aut allocatus ad erudiendum & docendum: In magnum dictae Dominae nostrae Reginae contemptum, ac contra formam statuti, in Parliamento dictae Dominae Reginae, (tento apud Westmonasterium, in comitatu Middlesexiae, Anno regni sui vicesimo tertio) in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi. Et quod praedictta E. A. voluntary in domo sua pred', per totum tempus predict' custodivit et manutenuit pfatum K. M. modo & forma predict' erudientem & docentem, sciens ipsum K. modo & forma predictis, se absentasse. In contemptum dict' dnae reginae ac contra formam statuti predicti. For words spoken against the Queen, upon the Statute of Anno 23. of her reign. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod infra tres menses Sect. 201. iam ultimo elapsos, videlicet secundo die mensis Octobris, Anno regni Dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Anglie, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quint, G. P. de A. in comitatu G. Labourer, in domo mansionali cuiusdam R. S. infra parochiam de A. predicta in comitatu G. predicto, ac in presentia multorum dict' dominae Reginae subditorum fide dignorum tunc ibidem existentium, consulto, deliberate, ac cum malitiosa intentione adversus dictam dominam nostram nunc, ex imaginatione ipsius G. P. propria, haec falsa: seditiosa, scandalosa dicta, ad scandalum & defamationem dictae Domin Reg. nostr', tunc & ibidem locutus est, ut in his Anglicis verbis sequitur, videlicet (Reciting the words themselves.) In magnum dict' Domin Regin̄ nostr' nunc contemptum, ac contra pacem, Coronan, & dignitatem suas, nec non contra formam statut' in Parliamento dict' Dominae nostr' nuper tento apud Westm in come Middlesexiae, Anno regni sui vicesimo tertio, etc. For slandering of Noblemen. INquiratur pro Domina Regina si R. B. nuper de C. in comitatu D. Sect. 202. Yeoman, deum prae oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolic' seduct', ac ligeantiam suam erga dictam Dominam nunc Elizab. dei gratia etc. parvi pendens, ac leges & statut' huius regni Angliae minime estimans, nec paenam in eisdem content̄ aliqualiter verens, xuj. die Maij, Anno regni Dominae Elizab. etc. apud M. in comitatu D. praedicto, malitiose ex imaginatione sua propria, haec falsa & scandalosa verba ac rumores de magnatibus & proceribus huius regni Angliae subsequentia, prolocut est, videlicet, that etc. Quae quidem omnia, quanquam falsa sint, ut vera retulit, & multa alia verba scandalosa adtunc & ibidem dixit & propalavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suas, & contra formam diversorum statutorum inde nuper edit' & provis. For Shooting hailshot in a handgunne, upon the Statute of 2. E. 6. wherein the statute is recited. INquiratur pro dna regina, quod cum in statuto in parliamento dni Sect. 203. E. nuper regis Angliae sexti apud Westm, Anno regni sui secund', inter alia ordinat & inactitat existit, qđ nulla persona subter gradum dni Parliamenti extunc deinceps sagittaret in aliquo tormento infra civitatem vel villam, ad aliqu● volucrem sive aliam metam super Ecclesiam, domum, aut columbar̄, neque qđ aliqua persona sagittaret in aliquo loco, aliquam sagittationem voc' Haileshot, aut plur̄ glandines plumbeas, quam unam uno tempore, sub paena forisfact' decem librar̄ ꝓ quolibet tempore in quo ipse contra statut' praed' delinqueret, & imprisonament̄ corporis sui ꝑ spacium trium mens. prout in statuto pnd' plenius continetur. Quidam tamen I. C. nuper de B. in comitatu E. Yeoman, statutum pndict̄ minime ponderans, nec paenam in eodem content̄ aliqualiter verens, quinto die Junii etc. in quodam tormento Anglice vocat' a Handgun, onerat pulvere & glandinibus plumbeis, Anglice charged with powder & haileshot, in quandam anatem, adtunc in quadam palude in communi campo voc' Netherfield de B. pnd' in come E. pnd' existent', sagittavit & exoneravit, Anglice discharged, contra formam statuti praedicti, ac contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suam. For being a common Barrator, for keeping a blind Tavern, and receiving suspicious persons, and the wife a Scold. INquiratur etc. si I. S. nuper de C. in come N. Lawrer, est homo malae Sect. 204. conversationis & gubernationis, ac communis barrator & pacis dominae Reginae perturbator. Et quod idem I. S. apud G. praed' in comitatu N. predict' custod', tenet, & occupat quandam domum, sive Tabernam, non habent usuale signum apt apposite, vulgariter dict' a blind Tavern. Et quod primo die I. anno etc. Necnon diversis diebus & noctibus antea & postea, in eandem domum diversos homines malae conversationis, & suspectae, venient omnibus horis, tam noctis, quam diei, recepit & hospit est, per quod vicini sui ac alij ligei populi dictae dnae Reg. ibid' multipliciter vexant, inquietant, & gravantur, & ministri dnae Reg. propter pacis conseruationem, officia sua ibidem exercere & exequi prohibentur, & sepaenumero in periculo amissionis vitae, & laesionis corporum suorum quotidie existunt. Et quod I. uxor predict' I. S. est communis obiurgatrix, tam cum vicinis, quam cum alijs ligeis dictae dominae Reg', per qđ populi dict' dnae Reginae multipliciter molestant, inquietant, & gravant, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. For breaking of a stable and taking out of the same a gelding and a mare, and the accessory after. IVratores pro domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in Sect. 205. comitatu E. Gelder, vicesimo nono die Aug. Anno regni dictae dnae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, vi & armis, quoddam stabulum in domo mansionali cuiusdam I. S. infra parochiam de C. pndicta in comitatu E. praedictexistens, fregit, ac intravit, & unum equum spadonem (Anglice vocatum a Gelding) coloris albi, praetij sex librarum, & unam equam coloris nigri, praetij thirty. solidorum, de bonis & catallis ipsius I. S. tunc & ibidem existentes inventos felonice caepit & abduxit, contra pacem dictae domin' Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas. Et quod K. H. nuper Receipt de C. predicta in comitatu E. predicto Horsecorser, sciens praefatum A. B. feloniam predict' apud C. pred' in comitatu E. pred' modo & forma predict', fecisse & perpetrasse, eundem tamen A. B. apud C. predict' in comitatu E. pnd', thirty. die dicti mensis Aug. anno supradicto felonice recepit, & hospicio excepit, post feloniam pndictam sic per ipsum A. B. ut praefertur factam & commissam: contra pacem dictae dnae nostr' Reginae nunc, & contra coronam, ac regiam dignitatem suas. An indictment against a servant of the age of 19 yares, retained for one year for going away with ten pound, the which his master delivered unto him, in trust to keep it for him. IVratores praesentant pro domina Regina, quod cum A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect. 206. E. Mercer, vicesimo die Septembris, Anno regni Dnae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Anglie, Francie, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, in domo mansional● ipsius A. B. apud C. predict' in comitatu E. pred' deliberasset cuidam E. F. de C. predicta in dicto comitatu E. Mercer, tunc seruienti ipsius A. B. prouno Anno integro retento, ac aetatis novem decem annorum existenti, decem libras in pecunijs numeratis de bonis ipsius A. B. ea intention, ut idem E. F. easdem saluo custodiret, ad usum praed' A. B. tunc magistri sui: Idem E. F. dicto vicesimo die Septemb. Anno supradicto (apprenticius dicti A. B. tunc non existens) apud C. praed' in comitatu E. pnd', a dicto magistro suo una cum predict' decem libris dicti A. B. tunc magistri sui, malitiose & felonice discessit, abijt, & aufugit, ea intention, ad furandum dictas decem libras, contra fiduciam in eo ꝑ ●fat̄ A. B. tunc magistrum suum repositam & collocatam, & ad inde dictum A. B. magistrum suum pnd' defraudandum: contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae, ac contra formam diversorum Statutorum huius regni Angliae in huiusmodi casu, provisorum & editorum. For stealing of a Cow, and the accessories before the offence committed. IVratores pro Domina Regina praesentant, quod A. B. de C. in comitatu Sect. 207. E. Shoemaker, primo die Iu. Anno regni dict' dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Anglie, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, in quodam loco infra parochiam de C. predicta in comitatu E. predicto (vocato the Cow pasture) vi & armis &c. clausum cuiusdam I. S. de D. in comitatu E. predict' Yeoman, fregit & intravit, & quandam vaccam (coloris nigri, praetij xl. solidorum) de bonis & catallis predicti I. S. tunc ibidem existentem muentam, felonice cepit furatus est, & abduxit, contra pacem dict' dominae Reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suas. Et quod quidam G. H. de C. pred' in dicto Procurement. eomitatu E. Butcher, ante feloniam predict', scilicet eodem primo die Junii Anno tricesimo quarto supradicto, eundem A. B. apud C. pred' in comitatu E. predicto, ad feloniam predict' faciendam & perpetrandan, malitiose & felonice excitavit, persuasit, & procuravit, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae, coronam, & dignitatem suam. An indictment upon the Statute of Anno 21. H. 8. against a servant above the age of 18. years, for going away with a bracelet of gold, worth 17. li. delivered to him by his Master to keep, wherein the Statute is recited. IVratores present etc. quod cum per quendam actum in Parliamento Sect. 208. domini H. nuper regis Angliae 8. apud Westmonaster̄ in comitatu Midd', anno regni sui xxj. tent', edit', per dictum dominum regem, cum assensu dnorum spiritnalium & temporalium, ac communitatis in eodem Parliamento congregat, necnon aucthoritate eiusdem, inter alia adtunc ibid' inactitat existit, Quod si aliquis servus, cui eius Magistervel Magistra liberaret aliqua bona valour xl. s. custodiend', discesserit cum bonis illis cum intentione ad furandum vel retrahendum eadem, foret felonia, prout ꝑ eundem actum plene liquet. Qui quidem actus postea per quendam alium actum in parliament dnae Mariae nuper Reg. Angl' apud Westm pnd', ann regni sui primo, tent', edit', fuit repellat & annihilat, ac postea ꝑ quendam alium actum in parliamento dnae Reg. nunc apud Westm pnd' ann regni sui 5. tent', edit', reviuat, & adhuc in vigore existit. Ac etiam cum C. P. armig' secundo die S. anno regni dictae dominae reginae nunc xv. apud G. in comitatu M. pred', liberasset I. G. nuper de E. in comitatu M. pred' Husbandman, adtunc seruient̄ suo & non appren sno existent, & ultra aetat xviij. annorum quoddam brachiale auri, Anglic' a Braselet of gold, valoris xviij. li. etc. de bonis & catallis pred' C. pro eodem C. saluo custodiend'. Pred' tamen I. G. statut' predict' minime ponderans, nec penam in eodem contentam verens, apud G. pred' in dict' comitatu M. eodem 2. die S. anno xv. supradicto, a praef. C. adtunc Magistro suo seipsum retraxit & cum brachiali pred' felonice discessit, ea intentione ad furandum brachiale pred', ad defraudandum pnd' C. Magistrum suum, de brachiali pred', contra fiduciam & confidentiam in eodem I. per praed' C. Magistrum suum reposit, ac contra formam statuti pred' inter ceteros Articulos quorum etc. For converting Tillage into Pasture for Coneys, to the hurt of the neighbours. IVratores praesentant pro domina regina, quod H. W. de A. in comitatu Sect. 209. E. generosus, primo die Novemb. Anno regni dictae dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia etc. Tricesimo quarto, seisitus existens in dominico suo ut de feodo, de, & in 12. acris terrae arabilis in A. predict' in comitatu E. pred' iacentibus, (ac de, aut in aliqua libera warrenna non existentibus, sed per spacium 4. annorum dictum primum diem Novemb. Anno supradicto proxime praecedentium, in cultura et seminatione granorum usitatis & applicatis) dicto primo die Novemb. Anno supradicto, ac diversis alijs diebus et vicibus, antea, et post, pred' xii. acras terrae arrabilis, a cultura predict' et satione granorum, usque in hunc diem praesentem, in pasturam pro cuniculis custodiendis convertebat, et adhuc convertit & custodit: Ad grave nocumentum I. R. R. T. et W. M. de A. predict' in dict' comitatu E. (vicinorum ibidem existentium) ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum et editorum. An indictment against one, for suffering of 3. houses of husbandry to decay and for putting out of the husbandmen, and converting of the land belonging to the same, from tillage to pasture. INquiratur pro domina regina, si I. K. nuper de T. in comitatu E. gener, Sect. 210. primo die Octob. Anno etc. seisit in dominico suo ut de feodo, de et in octo mesuag' agriculturae in T. praedict' in dict' comitatu E. in quibus septem seperales agricolae (Anglice vocat' Husbandmen) adtunc inhabitabant, ac de & in trecent acris terr' arabil' in T. predict' in dict' comitatu E. in cultura et seminatione granorum usitat et applicat adtunc existent', quibus triginta acrae ad minus cum quolibet dictor mesuagior adtunc seperatim occupat et usitat fuerunt. Et quod pnd' I. K. leges & statuta huius regni Angl' parvi pendens, dicto primo die Octob. Anno etc. supradicto, ac diversis diebus, & vicibus, antea & postea, pro ꝓprio lucro & singulari commod' suo, tresagricolas dictorum septem, de tribus de pndict̄ septem mesuagijs adtunc expulit et amovit, et eadem tria mesuagia absque aliquo inhabitant, sive aliquibus inhabitantibus in eisdem, irreparat stare, & in decas. & ruinam cadere, adtunc & deinceps usque diem captionis huius inquisitionis voluntary causavit & permisit. Insuper quod praed' I. K. die & anno supradict̄, ac diversis diebus et vicibus antea & postea, cent acr praedictarum trecentarum acrarum terr' arabil', iacent & existent' in T. praed' in comitatu E. praedict', cum fossat & sepibus vivis inclusit, et illas abind a cultura agriculturae & seminatione granorum usque diem captionis huius inquisitionis in pastur', convertebat et custodiebat, et adhuc convertit et custodit, in malum et pernitiosum exemplum aliorum, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi cas, edit' & provis. etc. An indictment against a Priest for his affirming that the Pope of Rome is supreme head of the Church of England, and against one as accesserie for comforting of him therein. IVratores praesentant pro domina Regina, quod I. S. de C. in comitatu Sect. 211. E. Clericus, xx. die mensis Aprilis, anno regni serenissimae dominae nostrae Elzabethae, Dei gratia Anglie, Francie, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, apud D. in comitatu E. predicto, scienter, considerate, malitiose, & direct palam in praesentia multorum dictae dominae Reginae nostrae nunc subditorum, affirmavit, et defendit aucthoritatem Papae Romani ecclesiasticam in hoc regno Angliae preantea usurpatam, his expressis verbis anglicanis sequentibus, viz. I swear by the blessed Mass, and will avow that our holy father the Pope of Rome, is the supreme head of the Church of England, in magnam derogationem Regiae aucthori●●tis, et prerogativae dictae dominae reginae nostrae, ac contra coronam & dignitatem suam, necnon contra formam divers. statutor in huiusmodi casu editorum & provisorum. Et quod A. B. de D. praedict' in come E. praedict' Waxechandlor, sciens ipsum I. S. dicta verba loquntum esse, ac dictam dicti Papae authoritatem modo & forma ut praefertur, defendisse, ipsum I. S. apud D. praedict', in dicto come E. postea scilicet, xxij. die dicti mensis A. anno supradicto, consolatus est & confortavit, ex industria & ex proposito, & ad eam intention, ut idem A. B. promoveret & efferret praef, dicti Papae authoritatem usurpatam, in pernitiosissimum aliorum exemplum, ac contra coronam, & dignitatem dictae Dominae reginae nostrae nuuc, ac etiam contra formam diversorum statutorum in eiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. An indictment against a Priest, for practising to absolve and persuade a widow woman from her obedience and subjection to the Queen, and to obey the authority of the sea of Rome. INquiratur pro domina regina, si A. B. de C. in dicto comit' E. clericus, Sect. 212. sexto die mensis Maij, anno regni dominae nostrae Elizabethae, dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto apud C. predict' in Comitatu E. praedicto voluntary & proditory, conatus est, & practicavit absoluere, presuadere, & seducere quandam I. W. de C. praedicta in comitatu E. predicto viduam a naturali obedientia & subiectione sua quam eadem I. erga dictam dominam nostram reginam gerere debet, ad obediendum praetensae authoritati Sedis Romanae, tunc & ibidem proditorie prae se ferens & asserens se habere potestatem & facultatem id faciendi, & tunc & ibidem proditorie dicens eidem joannae his anglicis verbis sequentibus, mother joane you will have a black soul (I tell you) if you do not the sooner forsake the Queen (innuendo praedictam dominam nostram reginam nunc) and her heresies, and yield yourself to the obedience of our mother Church the holy See of Rome: contra pacem dictae dominae nostrae reginae, coronam & regalem dignitatem suam, & contra formam statuti in Parliamento dictae dominae nostrae reginae tento apud Westmonast' in come Midd', anno dicti regni sui vicesimo tertio, in huiusmodi casu provis▪ & editi. An indictment against a jesuite, and against one for receiving of him upon the statute of An. 27. of the Queen. INquiratur pro domina Regina. Si E. C. nuper de S. in comitatu E. praedicto Sect. 213. clericus, natus apud S. pred' in comitatu E. praed' atque infra annum iam prox. praeteritum factus & professus jesuita per authoritatem a sede Romana derivatam, proditory apud S. praedict' in comitatu E. praedicto, sexto die julij, anno regni dict' dominae nostrae Elizabethae, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae & Hyberniae reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto, a partibus transmarinis applicuit, & dicto sexto die anno supradicto, & nonnullis alijs diebus tunc proxime sequentibus apud S. predictam in comitatu E. predicto, proditory moram fecit ac remansit: contr̄ formam cuiusdam statuti in parliamento dictae dominae Reg. nostrae nunc tento apud Westm in comitatu Midd' anno regni sui vicesimo septimo, in huiusmodi casu provisi & editi, ac contra pacem dictae dne Reginae, coronam, & dignitatem suas. Et si W. B. de S. praed ' Receipt. in dicto comitatu E. mercator, scienter, voluntary, & felonice, postea scilicet, dicto sexto die dicti mensis julij anno supradicto, predict' E. C. apud S. praedict' in come E. praed' receptavit & comfortavit, dicto W. B. adtunc & ibid' add largum, & extra prisonam existent, ac praef. E. C. huiusmodi jesuitam esse, tunc & ibidem sciente et cognoscente: Contra formam statuti predicti, ac contra pacem, coronam & dignitatem dictae dnae Reginae nostrae. For a Trespass in Corn, grass, and Ploughing. Inquirat pro Domina Regina, si A. B. de C. in come E. Yeoman, xx. Sect. 214. die mensis A. Anno regni dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hybern Reginae, fidei defensoris, etc. Tricesimo quarto, quoddam clausum cuiusdam I. S. apud C. praedict' in come E. praed' (vulgariter voc' Cow lease) vi & armis fregit ac intravit, ac herbas, & blada triticea ipsius I. S. tunc ibidem crescentia (ad valentiam xx. s.) cum quibusdam bobus, & bidentibus ipsius A. B. tunc ibidem depastus est ac consumpsit, necnon solum et fundum ipsius I. S. ibidem, cum quodam aratro subvertir, per quod praedict' I. S. omne commodum et proficuum dicti soli sui per longum tempus postea amisit, Ac alia damna et enormia praedict' I. S. tunc ibidem intulit, ad grave damnum ipsius I. S. contra pacem dictae Dominae nostrae Reginae nunc, coronam & dignitatem suas. For eating Corn with a flock of sheep. Inquirat etc. si I. M. de M. in come E. Shepherd, xx. die M. Anno Sect. 215. regni etc. apud V in come E. praedict' vi & armis, viz. baculis & cultellis clausum I. S. fregit, & blada ipsius I. S. viz. hordea & avenas in thirty. acris terrae tunc ibidem crescent cum grege ovium in custodia sua existent depastus fuit, conculcavit et consumpsit, & alia anormia ei intulit ad grave damnum ipsius I. S. ac contra pacem dict' etc. For Trespass in fishgarthes' in the hands of divers farmers, and for the taking of three Salmon. Ivrat present pro dna Reg. quod W. S. de B. in come L. yeoman, I. W. Sect. 216. de ead' villa, in come L. pnd' yeoman, & I. W. de T. in come L. pnd' yeoman 8, die Martij, Anno etc. circa horam quartam post meridiem eiusdem diei, in S. K. et B. in come L. pnd' vi & armis &c. in quandam piscar voc' Fishgarthes' tunc in tenura & occupatione R. F. C. L. & I. firmar ibid' dict' dnae Reg. intraver & freger, & tres Salmones ad valenc' xx. s. de bonis & catall' pnd' R. F. C. L. & I. L. in piscar pnd' ceperunt & abmde asporeaver, contra voluntatem predict' R. F. etc. ad grave damnum ipsorum R. F. etc. ac contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae nunc etc. An indictment against one for taking above the rate of 10. li. in the 110 li. for the lone thereof for one year. IVratores pro domina Reg. present, quod ubi A. B. de C. in come E. Sect. 217. Merter, primo die O. Anno regni dominae nostrae Elizab. Dei gratia Anglie, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. Tricesimo quarto apud C. praedictam in dicto come E. mutuo dedisset, & accommodasset cuidam D. E. de C. praed' in dicto come E. Shoemaker, summam xx. libr' in pecunijs numeratis de pecunijs dicti A. B. ea intention, ut idem D. E. viginti libras eidem A. B. redderet & resolueret primo die Aprilis tunc proxime futuro: Idem A. B. adtunc & ibidem injust cepit & habuit pre manibus, de prenominato D. E. vigniti sex solidos in luero, usura, & proficuo, pro differendo & dando diem solutionis, sic ut prefertur, earundem xx. libr' a dicto primo die Octo. annc supradict' usque dictum I. diem A. tunc proxime sequentem, qui quidem viginti sex solidi (modo & forma praedictis, pre manibus capti & habiti) multo excedunt & superant ratam & proportionem decem librarum pro centum libr' pro uno anno integro accommod' add damnum non mediocre ipsius D. E. ac in contemptum dictae dominae Reginae nunc, necnon contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu provisorum & editorum. another Indictment of the same effect upon the statute of Anno 37. H. 8. in the which the statute is recited. Ivrator pro domina Regina present̄, quod cum per quendam actum Sect' 218. in Parliamento dnae Regin̄ nunc apud Westm in come Midd' ij. die A. Anno regni sui tertiodecimo, tent' edit' inter alia inactitat fuit, quod quidam actus in Parliamento dni H. nuper Reg. Ang ' 8. apud Westm praed' anno regni sui xxxvij. tent' edit' pro reformatione vsure ab & post xxv. diem Junii prox' sequent praed' secundo die A. Anno regni dictae domin' Reginae nunc xiii supradicto reviuat foret & staret in suo pleno robere vigore & effectu, in quo quidem actu in parliamento dicti nuper regis H. 8. Anno regni sui 37. supradicto tent', & edit', inactitat fuit authoritate eiusdem parliament̄, quod nulla persona sive personae cuiuscunque status, gradus, sive conditionis, ipse vel ipsi foret sive forent, ad aliquod tempus post ultimum diem januarij in actu illo mencionat̄, per viam sive medium aliquarum corruptarum barganiae, accommodationis, excambij, cheuasancie, cautel, sive interesse, aliquar marchandizar̄, mercium, aut alicuius alius rei sive aliquarum aliarum rerum quarumcunque, aut per aliquam aliam corrupt̄ sive deceptivam viam vel mediam aut per aliquam coninam, ingenium, sive deceptivam viam, vel conveiantiam, haberent reciperent, acciperent, sive caperent, in lucro vel proficuo, pro differendo seu dando diem solutionis unius anni integri, de & pro eius vel eorum denarijs, vel alia re que foret debita pro eisdem mercibus merchandisis sive alia re vel rebus, ultra summ̄ decem librar pro centum libris, & sic secundum ratam illam, & non ultra, de & pro maiore sive minore summa, seu pro longiore sive breviore tempore, & non plus sive maius lucrum vel summa inde habend, sub pena forisfaciendi & amittendi pro qualibet offens. triplum valorem mercium, merchandizar̄, & alius reivel rerum sic barganizat, vendit, excambiat, sive accommodat, ac etiam haberet & sufferet imprisonamentum corporis sui, & faceret finem & redemption ad voluntatem dicti domini Regis, de qua quid' forisfactura triplicis valoris praed', una medietas esset dicto dno Regi, & altera medietas illi vel illis qui quo eadem prosequerent̄ in aliqua curiarum dicti nuper regis de recordo, in qua secta nulla vadiatio legis, essonium, sive protectio alocaretur, prout in eod' statut' de ann 27. dicti nuper Reg. H. 8. suprad' plenius continetur: Cumque etiam quidam R. B. de etc. post praedict' 2. diem A. anno xiii. dictae dnae Reg. nunc suprad', scilicet 22. die D. anno regni eiusdem dominae Reg. 21. apud L. in come E. praed', accommodasset cuidam C. F. iiij. li. idem R. B. statut' pndict̄ minime ponderans, nec paenam in eodem content̄ verens, adtunc & ibidem recepit & habuit de prefat' C. F. in lucro & profievo pro differendo & dando diem solutionis earundem iiij. li. ab eodem 22. die D. anno 21. suprad' usque vj. diem A. tunc proxim' sequent viii. s. qui quidem viii. s. in lucro & proficuo pro differendo & dando diem solutionis dictarum iiij. li. a praedict' 22. die D. anno 21. suprad', usque praedict' vj. diem A. extunc prox' sequent, excedunt ratam x. li. pro 100 li. pro uno anno integro contraformam & effectum statuti praedicti, ad grave damnum ipsius C. F. etc. An Indictment against one occupying a Plow-land in the Parish for not coming at the days appointed by the Surveyors of the high ways, to help to amend the high ways within the parish. jurat pro Domina Reg. present, quod ubi die Martis in septim P. iam Sect' 219. ultimo preterito, scilicet 7. die meusis A. Anno regni dictae dnae nostr' Eliz. Dei gratia Ang ' Fr. & Hyb. Reginae, fidei defensoris etc. 34. A. B. tunc Constabularius villae de C. in dicto come E. etc. et D. E. & F. G. tum guardiani ecclesiae parochialis de C. praedict' in comitatu E. praed' existentes, vocatis ad se multis alijs parochianis dictae parochiae de C. tunc & ibidem elegerunt quosdam I. S. & R. N. duas honest' eiusdem paroch' personas, in superuisores pro anno integro tunc proxim' sequent, pro emendatione & reparat altarum regiarum viar̄ infra dict' paroch. de C. ducentium a villis mercatorijs, ad vill' mercatorias: Ac etiam tunc ibid' nominuerunt & appunctuaverunt sex dies, viz. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. & 6. dies mensis Maij tunc prox' sequent, pro dicta emendatione dictarum viar, & nominat pro emendatione illius viae Regiae ibid', que est inter etc. atque de eisdem sex diebus sic per eos, ut prefertur, nominat & appunctuatis dederunt palam postea (scilicet die dominic' dict' Pasch. tunc proxim' sequenti) publicam notitiam in dicta eccles. parochiali. Quidam tamen T. W. tum & adtunc parochianus de C. praed in comit' E. praedict' existeus, ac tum habens & occup in dicta paroch. de G. in comit' E. praedict', unam integram carucatam terrae arabilis (Anglic' dict' a ploughland) ad nullum dictor 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. dierum dicti mensis Maij anno suprad', prorsus invenit, aut misit currum instructum (Anglice dict' awaine, or cart furnished) equis, bobus, aut alijs animal', & necessarijs instrumentis, secund' morem patriae ibid': nec ullos habiles homin̄, erga emendationem & reparation dictarum viar, aut earum aliquam, sive aliquam inde parcellam, sed inde tunc ibid' voluntary fecit defaltam: in dictae domin' Reginae contemptum, ac contra formam divers, statutor in huiusmodi casu provis. & editorum. An Indictment against a Town for not keeping watch according to the statute of Winchester, Anno 13. E. 1. Ivrat pro dna Regin̄ presentant, quoth a x. die jun, anno reg' dict' dominae Sect' 220. nostrae Eliz. Dei gratia Angliae, etc. 35. usque ultimum diem mensis Aug ' anno suprad', homines & inhabitants villae de C. in come E. nullas vigilias a solis occasu usque ad solis ortum, in dicta villa de C. in comit' E. praed', per aliquot homines fecerunt, aut custod' prout deiure & antiqua consuetudine huius regni Ang ' facere debent & solebant: In dictae dnae Reginae nunc contempt, ac contra form̄ cuiusdam statut' in Parliament dni Ed. olim Regis Angl' primi, apud Winton, anno regni sui 13. tento, in huiusmodi casu provis. & editi. An Indictment against the inbabitats of a hundred, for not keeping seawatch at Sandgate, according to the statute of Anno 5. E. 4. Ivrat pro dna Reg. presentant, quod ubi homin̄ & inhabitants hundredi Sect' 221. de F. in comit' M. praed', antiquitus (viz. ante annum regni domini H. nuper Regis Angliae quarti quintum) quasdam maritimas & minutas vigillias (Anglice voc' Seawatch) tempore belli per costeram maris in quodam loco (vocato Sandgate) in dicto comitatu M. per quatuor homines singulis noctibus (a tempore in cuius contrarium memoria hominum tunc non existebat) custodire debebant & solebant: dicti tamen hundredi de F. homines & inhabitants nunc, tempore nuper belli, viz. a 24. die julij, Anno regni dictae dominae nostr' Eliz. Dei gratia etc. 30. usque 34. diem dicti mensis julij, anno suprad', praed' vigilias apud Sandgate praedict', modo & forma praed', facere & custodire voluntary pretermiserunt & neglexerunt, ac in eisdem vigilijs tunc ibid' (sic ut prefertur faciendis ac custod') voluntariam fecerunt defaltam: In dictae dominae Reg' contemptum, ac huius regni sui Angliae discrimen non modicum, ac contra formam statut' in Parliamento dicti domini H. nuper Regis Angliae iiii. tent', regni sui v. praed', in huiusmodi casu provisi ac editi. For killing a man by Witchcraft upon the statute of Anno 5 of the Queen. Ivrator presentant pro Domina Regina, quod S. B. de C. in comitatu Sect' 222. H. vidua, x. die Aug ', anno regni dictae dominae nostr' Eliz. dei gratia, Angliae etc. Tricesimo quarto, ac diversis alijs diebus post dict' x. diem, quasdem artes detestandas Anglice vos ' withcraft and sorcery, nequiter & felonice practicavit & exercuit apud C. praed', in come H. praed', in, super, & count quendam I. N. de C. praed' in dict come H. labourer, per quas quidem arts, dict' I, N. a praed' x. Aug ', Anno 34. suprad usque diem predict' mensis Aug ' anno 34. suprad', periculosissime ac mortaliter aegrotabat & languebat, Ac eodem 24. die Aug ' anno suprad' idem I. N. per arts praed' in dicto come H. obijt. Et sic juratores praedict' presentant, quod eadem Sara ipsum I. N. apud C. praedict', modo & forma suprad', ex malitia sua precogitata, voluntary, diabolic, nequiter, & felonice ꝑ arts praed', occidit ac interfecit, contra pacem dictae domin' Regin̄ nostrae, ac contra formam statuti in parliamento dictae dominae Reg. nostrae (tento apud Westm in come Midd' anno regni sui praed' quint) in huiusmodi casu provisi ac aediti. The like Indictment. Sect' 223. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si Marg. L. de A. in comitatu E. Spinster, 23. die jun, anno regni dnae nostrae Eliz. xv. ac diversis alijs dieb' & vicibus, tam antea quam postea, Deum pre oculis suis non habens, sed instigatione diabolic' seduict, quasdam malas diabolic' arts, Anglice vocat' Witchcrafts, enchantments, Charms, and Sorceries, nequiter diabolic' & felonice apud H. praed', in come E. praed', ex malitia sua precogitata usa fuit, practizavit, & exercuit, in & super quendam W. N. pretextu cuius praed' W. a praed' 13. die jun anno suprad' usque 24. diem Dec' anno regni dictae dnae Reginae Eliz. etc. 35. praedict' languebat, quo quidem 24. die Decemb, suprad', praed' W. ratione practicationis & exercit diabolic' artium praed', apud H. praed' in come E. pnd', obijt. Et sic praed' M. ipsum W. apud H. pnd', in come E. pred', modo & forma supradict̄, & ex malit sua precogitat felonice interf. contra pacem dictae dnae Reginn, & contra form̄ statuti etc. For bewitching a Horse, whereby he wasted and became worse. Sect' 224. INquiratur pro Domina Regina si Sara B. de C. in comitatu Eb. vidua, 20. die Aug. anno regni dictae dnae nostrae Eliz. etc. 34. quasdam artes nequissimas (Anglice vocatas Enchantments and Charms) apud C. pndict̄, in comitatu E. praedicto, malitiose, & diabolic, in, super, & contra quendamequum, coloris albi, precij 4. li. de bonis & catallis cuiusdam I. S. de C. praed' in dicto come E. generosi existentem, exercuit, & practicavit. Per quodidem equws dicti I. S. xx. die praed' apud C. praedict', omnino peioratus est, & vastatus: contra pacem dictae dnae Reg. & contra form̄ statut' ineiusm̄ casu provisi, ac editi. For taking away of a wiidow, and marrying of her against her will contrary to the statute of Anno 3. H. 7. Ivrator presentant pro dna Regina quod A. B. de C. in dicto come E. Sect. 225. Singingman, 2. die Aprilis, anno Reg. dict' dominae nostre Eliz. etc. 35. vi & armis in domum mansional' cuiusd' H. B. de C. praedict', in comit' E. praed', vidue infra parochiam de C. praed', in come E. praed', intravit, (que quidem H. B. tunc sesita fuit in dominico suo ut de feodo, de & in diversis terris & tenementis in C. praed', in come E. praed', clari annui valoris x. li. ultra omnes reprisas existentibus) ac immediate postea, viz. dicto 2. die Aprilis, annosupradict idem A. B. praedict' H. B. tunc ibidem in dicta domo sua in pace dei, ac dictae dominae Regin̄ existentem, ex dicta domo sua mansionali contra voluntatem ipsius H. B. illegittime ac felonice extraxit, eripuit, & abduxit ac eandem H. B. postea (scilicet 3. die dicti mensis Aprilis, anno suprad') in ecclesia parochiali de C. praed' in come E. praedict', cepit in uxorem suam: ubi idem A. B. dicto tempore extractionis & abductionis praedict', nun clamavit, nec clamare potuit, eandem H. B. tanquam Wardam suam, aut tanquam nativam suam: in magnam pacis dictae Dominae Reginae nunc perturbationem, ac contra formam cuiusdam Statuti in Parliamento Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angl' septimi, tento, Anno regni sui tertio, in hui●smodi casu provisi ac editi. An Indictment for Burglary by night. IVratores presentant pro domina Regina quod E. D. nuper de etc. 2. Sect' 226. die I. etc. vi & armis &c. domum mansional' R. H. apud E. in come predict' circiter horam undecimam in noctem eiusdem diei adtunc & ibidem felonice & burglariter fregit contra pacem dictae dnae etc. An Indictment for stealing a Hog in a Common. IVratores presentant pro domina Regina quod F. B. de etc. quarto die Sect' 227. Februarij etc. vi & armis &c. in quandam communiam intra novam Forrestam vocat' H. intra parochiam de C. in C. praedict' fregit & intravit & unum porcum coloris red speckled, precij xii. đ. de bonis & catallis B. D. adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice cepit & effugavit contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. An Indictment for a wilful escape of a Prisoner committed for felony to a Constable to be brought to the common jail, and a Knight who is no justice of peace commanded the said Constable to bring the Prisoner before him, by reason whereof the said prisoner did escape. IVratores presentant pro dna Regina quod cum I. D. nuper de etc. pro Sect' 228. diversis felonijs per ipsum per petrat & pro eisdem felonijs coram A. B. arm uno Iusticiar' dictae dominae Reginae ad pacem Constabular dictae dominae Reginae concordat fuerit, & per undem A. B. sub custod' praed' Constabular pro felonia praed' add generalem gaolem dictae dnae Reginae in come praed' cmmiss. fuit ibidem saluo custodiend' quosque secundum legem & consuetud' huius regni Angliae deliberetur. Et W. P. de etc. Miles non existens Iustic' dictae dnae Reginae ad pacem in comit' praed' misit & precepit quendam I. N. de etc. Constabular etc. ad ducendum praed' I. D. coram ipso. An Indictment for stealing Sheep. Ivrat presentant etc. quod A. B. etc. quarto die etc. vi & armis viz. etc. Sect' 229. clausum T. G. de etc. fregit & intravit & duas oves matrices coloris nigri precij seven. s. de bonis & catallis dicti T. G. felonice cepit abduxit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment against one for breaking of a house, & murdering of one with Cudgel in his bed by pruitie and consent of the wife of the murdered. Ivrat presentant quod etc. Ed. nuper de E. etc. circa horam duodecimam Sect' 230. in nocte eiusdem diei, deum coram oculis non habens sed ex malitia sua precogitata, vi & armis, viz. etc. domum R. P. apud C. in comit' praed' felonice & burgularit fregit & intravit, & in prefat' R. P. adtunc & ibidem nudum in lecto suo iacentem insultum & affraiam fecit, & eum cum uno baculo valoris xii. đ. vocat' a Cudgel, eundem R. P. super caput suum usque ad cerebrum, adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit dans ei plagam mortalem: de qua quidem plaga mortali idem R. P. adtunc & ibidem instanter moriebatur. Et sicidem E. L. eundem R. P. adtunc & ibidem interfecit & murderavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae. Et quod quedam Agnes P. nuper de etc. Spinster uxor praedict' R. P. tertio die Junii Anno etc. ac diversis diebus antea & postea eundem diem & ante feloniam & murdrum praedict' in forma praed' apud W. praed' in C. praed' pref. E. L. ad felonian & murdrem praeđ fact & perpetrand' felonice procurant & abbettavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae. Et etiam quod ead' A. P. scieus praefat' Ed. feloniam & murdrum praedict' in forma praed' fecisse & perpetrasse E. L. praedict' tertio die Junii Anno etc. apud W. praedict' in C. praed' felonice recepravit & confortavit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae. An indictment of Manslaughter. IVratores presentant etc. pro domina Regina, quod A. B. etc. octavo Sect' 231. die I. vi & armis, viz. in Iohan P. apud B. praedict' in pace dei & domin' Reginae existent insultum & affraiam fecit cum manu sua dextra praefat' I. P. in capite suo felonice, adtunc & ibidem percussit dans ei plagam mortalem, de qua quidem plaga praedict' I. P. adtunc & ibidem incontinenter obijt & sic idem A. B. praefat' I. P. adtunc & ibidem felonice interfecit & murdravit, contra pacem dictae dnae Regin̄. An Indictment for using more Arts than one upon the statute of Anno tertio of Ed. 3. INquiratur pro domina Regina quod cum in statuto in parliamento Sect' 232. domini Ed. nuper Regis Angliae tertij post conquestum Anno regni sui tertio tent' inter ceterea ordinat sit & statut', Quod artificiarij & gentes occupationem habentes & quilibet eorum ad suam artem seu occupationem se teneat, & quod nullus exerceat aliam artem seu occupationem nisi tamen eam quam elegit: Et si aliquis in contrarium fecerit per imprisonament̄ corporis sui per spatium duorum annorum puniatur & ulterius finem & redemptionem domino regi fact' prout in eodem statuto plenius continentur: S. A. B. de C. in comitat' N. Baker, alias dictus A. B. de C. in comitat' N. praedict' Milner, Statut praedict' minime ponderans nec penam in eodem statuto content̄ verens, a secundo die julij Anno regni Hen. 8. etc. usque quartum diem Ap. anno 23. domini regis supradict̄ tam artem molendarij quam artem pistoris panis humani apud C. praedict' continue exercebat in dicti domini regis contemptum, ac contra formam Statuti praedict'. An Indictment for regrating of Cor●e. INquiratur etc. Si R. L. nuper de T. in comitat' L. yeoman, & H. D. Sect' 233. nuper de N. in comitat' praedict' yeoman, xx. die Iu. Anno etc. apud B. & T. in comitat' praedict' emerunt et regrataverunt de T. S. R. R. & alijs legijs dni regis 50. quarteria frumnti pretij xxv. li. cent quart hordei pcij 24. li & al' frument & hord' in domibus mancionibus sive ut regratores mercati dicti dni reg' accumulaver & custodiver, ea intentione ut frumentum, hord' & alia grana sub suis custodijs ad suum libitum exponere & vendere potuerunt, ob quod grana in mercat & villis comitat' praedict' multiplicit cariorara & rariora forent in grave damnum populi domini regis in eodem comitatu commorant̄ et in contempt Domini Regis, ac contra formam Statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' et provis. etc. An Indictment for a Robbery done by the high way upon the person of one. Ivrat presentant etc. Quod ubi I. B. de L. gen xiii. die etc. Anno etc. Sect' 234. fuit in pace dei & dicti domini Regis in Regia via apud parochiam Sancti E. in campis in Comitatu M. ibi eisdem die & Anno venerunt I. M. de D. in comitat' M. yeoman, & R. H. de eadem in comit' predict yeoman, laici homines & non infra sacros ordines subdiacon̄ ne ultra existent felonice ut felones dicti domini Regis in praed' I. B. insultum fecerunt & ipsum verberaverunt, vulneraverunt & maletractaverunt. Ita quod de vita eius desperabatur ac viginti solid' in pecunijs numeratis de bonis & catallis ipsius I. B. adtunc & ibidem inuent' & existent' felonice ceperunt & asportaverunt, contra pacem dicti domini regis, ac contra formam Statuti eiusdem domini regis anno regni sui xxij. editi & provis. An Indictment for Burglary in a dwelling house, for putting the household in fear and for the taking away of xx. li. in money. INquiratur etc. Si I. M. de D. in comit' M. yeoman, jaicus homo & non Sect' 235. infra sacros ordines Subdiaconum nec ultra existent duodecimo die etc. Anno etc. vi & armis, viz. gladijs, cultellis, & dagorijs domum & mansorium R. V apud I. in dicto comit' M. scituat & existent eodem R. V & A. uxore eius & alijs seruient sive in eadem domo & mansorio adtunc, & ibidem existent felonice fregit & intravit, ac in timore corporali posuit & viginti libris in pecunijs numeratis de bonis catallis & denarijs ipsius R. V adtunc & ibid' inuent' felonice ceperit, spoliavit, & asportavit contra pacem dicti domini Regis, ac contra formam statuti, eiusdem dni Regis, Anno regni sui 23. editi & provisi. An Indictment of Murder ex propensa malitia fact '. INquiratur pro domino rege si I. D. de D. in comit' praed' yeoman, laicus Sect' 236. homo etc. vi & armis, ac ex sua malitia precogitata in W. H. adtunc & ibidem in pace dei & domini regis nunc existent' insultum fecit & cum uno gladio, pretij xii. đ. quem idem I. in manibus suis adtunc & ibidem tenuit praef. W. H. felonice percussit, & dedit ei tunc & ibidem super caput suum usque cerebrum unam plagam mortalem de qua quidem plaga mortali idem W. H. adtunc & ibidem instanter moriebatur: Et sic idem I. D. prefato W. H. modo & forma praedict' felonice, interfecit & murderavit contra pacem dicti domini Regis coronam & dignitatem suam & contra formam statuti de Anno 23. Regis Hen. 8. nuper edit' & provis. etc. An Indictment for robbing of a church of divers and several things in the same. Inquirat etc. si I. M. nuper de D. in come M. & R. H. nuper de ead' villa & Sect. 237. come pred' yeomen, laici homines, & non infra sacros ordines sub diacon̄ vel ultra existent' xiii. die Maij anno etc. vi & armis, viz. gladijs baculis & cultellis ecclesiam ꝑochialem omnium sanctor de E. apud E. in come pnd' circa horam 12. in nocte eiusdem diei felonice fregerunt & intraverunt & duas callices de argento deaurat, & duo vestiment de nigro velvet, vocat' Copes, tres pannos lineos vocat' Altar clothes, unam tunicam fixam super imaginem beatae Mariae infra eandem ecclesiam cum diversis annulis de auro & lapid' praeciosis in eisd' annex' & affigat ad valenc' 20. li. ac xx. s. in pecunijs numeratis de bonis ornamentis & denarijs parochiarum de E. praedict' in custod' Io. B. & T. P. custod' & gardianorum, bonorum ornamentorum & denarior parochianor parochie de E. praed', & t●nc & ibidem existent extra custod' dictorum gardianorum extra ecclesiam praedict' adtunc & ibidem felonice furati sunt ceperunt & asportaverunt contra pacem dicti domini Regis ac contra formam statuti eiusdem domini Regis Anno regni sui twenty-three. edit' & provis. An Indictment against one being a man of evil behaviour, for keeping of a blind Tavern without a sign, and for receiving and lodging of lewd persons, and that his wife is a cemmon scold. INquiratur etc. S. I. S. nuper de C. in come N. Labourer, est homo Sect. 238. male conversacionis & gubernacionis ac communis barrectator & pacis domini Regis perturbator. Et qđ idem I. S. apud C. praed' in comit' praed' custodit tenet & occupat quandam domum sive Tavernam non habentem usuale signum apart exposit̄ vulgulariter dict' a blind Tavern. Et quod primo die etc. Anno etc. nec non diversis diebus & noctibus antea & postea in eandem domum diversos homines malae conversationis & suspect' venien omnibus horis tam noctis quam di●i recepit & hospitat est, per quae vicini sui & alij legei populi dict' domini Regis ibidem multipliciter vexentur inquietantur & gravent, & ministri domini Regis propter pacis conseruacionem officia sua ibidem exercen & exequen prohibentur & sepenumero in periculo omissionis vitae & lesionis corporum suorum suorum quotidie ponuntur. Et quod I. S. uxor praedict' I. S. est communis abiurgatrix tam cum vicinis quam cum alijs legeis populi dict' domini Regis, per quod multipliciter molestanter inquietanter & gravanter contra pacem dict' Domini Regis. An Indictment for selling Ale in vessels called kilderkins. IVratores praesentant quod I. R. de nova C. in comit' A. pandaxator Sect. 139. & A. I. de ead' C. praedict' Beer cellar, sunt communes pandaxatores in C. praed' et decimo die etc. Anno etc. ac diversis vicibus antea et postea vendider̄ ceruisiam, et ceruisiam per diversa vasa vocat' Kilderkins tam magna quam parva contra formam Statut inde edit' ad grave dampnum populi domini Regis etc. An Indictment of a Priest for keeping of a Concubine. INquiratur pro domino Rege, Si H. R. nuper de K. in comitatu W. Sect. 240. Clericus primo die Decemb. Anno regni Regis Hen. 8. xxij. vi & armis deum prae oculis suis non habens nec legem dei & domini Registimens & ordinem sacerdotalem nihil regardans tanquam Ribaldus et luxuriosus & riotose sicut transgressus malefactor et pacis domini Regis perturbator irregulariter & extra legis morem & honestam vitae vertuosae & sacerdotiae dignitat seipsum utensapud K. praedict' in comitatu praed' hospitium illicitum levauit & custodivit, et quandam A. B. mulierem defamat et stupro●am publice et notorie custodivit occupavit et habuit et ipsam A. B. a praedict' tertio die Decemb. Anno supradicto adtunc & ibidem continuand' & adhuc quotidie & noctuatim manifest & apart custodivit occupavit & habet in communi stupro lemocinum in maximum periculosum exemplum aliorum malefactorum contra pacem dicti domini Regis etc. An Indictment for not coming to the Church, upon the Statute of Anno 1. Elizab. IVratores pro domina regina praesentant. quod cum per statut' in parliamento Sect. 241. dominae Eliz. dei gratia etc. Anno regni sui primo tent' apud W. in come M. inter alia inactitat et inordinat existit, quod post festum sancti johannis baptist. Anno regni dictae dominae Reginae primo, omnis & omnimod' persona & personae inhabitant̄ in hoc regno Angliae vel alibi infra dominacionem dictae dominae Reginae diligenter et credulenter habentes nullam legalem seu rationabilem excusationem abessendi interuenient̄ semetipsos adire ad svam parochialem ecclesiam vel capellam consuet̄ vel super racionabile impediment̄ ad aliquem usitat locum ubi communes praecaciones & divina seruitia dici utent tempore talis impediment̄ super quemlibet diem dominicam & alijs diebus ordinat et usitatis observari durant tempore omnium praedicacionum aut aliorum diu●orum seruitiorum vtend' et ministrand' sub pena punicionis per censuras ecclesiae et etiam sub pena quod quelibet persona sic offendens forisfaciat pro qualibet tali offens duodecem denar̄ leuand' per gardian̄ ecclesiae parochialis ubi tale offensum foret fact' ad usam pauperum inhabitan̄ eiusdem parochiae de bonis terr' & tenement' talis offendent̄ prout in statuto praed' continet: Cumque T. R. de D. in come praed' ar̄, & A. uxor eius existent de parochia ecclesiae parochialis de T. praed' infra quam quidem ecclesiam communes praecaciones & alia divina seruicia in statut' praed' specificat post praed' festum nativitat sancti johannis Baptistae anno primo supradicto, scilicet, die dominica proxime post festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno regni etc. xiii. diebus dominicis tunc ꝓxime sequent & octo alijs diebus festivalibus easdem xii. dies dominicas interuenient̄ decebant et utebant pnd' T. et I. non habentes legalem et rationabilem excusationem seu impediment̄ abessend' ab ecclesia pnd' in diebus pnd' tempore pnd' communium precacionum et divinorum seruiciorū ibid' tunc dict' habit̄ & ministrat̄ non solum nitebunt semetipsos a dire ad ecclesiam existent' eorum ecclesiam consuet̄ in praed' dies dominicas proxime post festum sancti Michael' Archangeli, ann regni &c. supradicto et praed' alijs octo diebus dominicis tunc ꝓx' sequent & praed' alijs octo diebus festiualibus easd' dies dominicas interuenient̄ tempore praed' communium pcacionum & divinor seruic' ibidem in diebus illis dict' habit̄ & ministrat̄, sed etiam odentes & contemnentes evangelium & salubre dei verbum, et dictam dnam Reginam & leges suas seipsos voluntary absentaverunt, et uterque eorum voluntary seipsum absentavit ab ecclesia pnd' die dominica proxim' post festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno etc. supradicto, & pnd' alijs duodecim dieb' dominicis tunc proxim' sequent, & praed' alijs octo diebus festivalibus easdem duodecim dies dominicas interuenient̄ tempore praed' omnium predicationum et diu●orum seruicior ibid' in diebus dict' habit̄ et ministrat̄ contra pacem & contemptum dict' dnae reginae nunc & legum suarum coron & dignitat suas ac contra formam Statut praed' & in pernitiosum exemplum aliorum malefact'. An Indictment for perjury, committed in an answer in the Exchequer at Chester. Ivrat praesentant pro dna Regina, quod cum I. D. de E. in come C. gen in Sect. 242. cur' dnae reginae Scacarij sui Cestr̄ coram R. comite Leic' camerar suo Cestriae apud Cestr in come C. post duodecimam diem etc. Anno etc. exhibuisset quandam billam peticionis versus quendam R. W. nuper de T. in come praed' Milner, de & super injust recup eracionem 36. s. debit' ꝑipsum R. vers. praed' I. D. existent vad' & pleg. cuiusdam W. H. in cur' manerij sive dominij de H. infra ducat Lanc' & 4. s. 8. d'▪ custag' circa eandem sectam ibidem injust recuperat per dictum R. idcm R. in responsione sua in dicta curia Scacarij praedict' ad peticionem praed' super sacrament s●um capt' dixit affirmavit & iuravit haec verba anglicana sequent vel in effectu similia. And for non payment of the residue of the sum of 47. s, being as it should seem by the said Ralph's own confession in the same answer, of the receipt of 36. s. this defendant long after commenced his action of debt against the now plaintiff in the free court of H. ubi dictus W. H. diu ante persoluisset dict' R. summam 48. s. Ita quod nihil remansit illo soluend': Et sic praefat' R. in faciendo & confirmand ' falsum responsum pred' in ea part pred' die M. anno etc. voluntary & corrupt commisit voluntariam periuriam in illo content & contra formam statuti inde edit' & provis. etc. ac contra pacem etc. An Indict' for fishing in a mill pond waters, with hooks & other engines. INquiratur pro dna regina S. T. W. de M. in come pnd' labourer, & H. I. Sect. 243. de W. in come pnd' Tailor, etc. 14. die April ', ann etc. ac diversis temporibus ante pred' diem & post●a apud H. pred' in come pred' vi & armis in uno stagno ibidem vocat' H. Milne pool libero tenement' R. D. gen cum hamis & alijs enginis piscaverit & diversos pisces ceper̄ ad grave damnum praed' R. D. ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment where one is indicted as principal actor, and one other for being present, and for abetting, procuring and comforting of the murderer to do the same. Inquirat ꝓ dna regina, si I. G. alias G. nu ꝑ de etc. xv. die etc. apud H. Sect. 244. in come pnd' vi & armis, viz. baculis etc. felonice ut felo dict' dnae regin̄ ac ex malitia sua pncogitat̄ in quendam I. O. alias D. apud H. pnd' adtunc & ibid' in pace dei & dict' dne regin̄ existent insultum fecer. Et pnd' I. G. alias G. quoddam falcastr̄ anglice a forest bill, pcij 4. d'. quod idem I. G. in manibus suis tunc et ibid' tenebat dict' I. O. alias D. apud H. pnd' ex malitia sua pncogitat̄ supra sinistran part capitis sui percussit usque ad cerebrun dans eidem I. O. alias D. unam plagam mortalem, de qua quidem plaga mortali pnd' I. O. a pndict̄ xv. die Martij anno supradict' usque ad xxj. diem eiusd' Martij Anno pnd' languidus iacebat quo quidem xxj die Martij pnd' I. O. alias D. apud H. pnd' obijt. Et sic pnd' I. G. alias G. die & Annis pnd' apud H. pred' ex malitia sua pncogitat̄ felonice interfecit & murdravit contra pacem dict' dnae regin̄ coron & dignitat suas. Et qđ pred' W. G. alias G. die & ann pnd' apud H. felon' pred' fuit praesens & ut felon' dict' dnae reginae abettan ꝓcuran et confortan & cum praefat' I. G. alias G. die & anno pnd' in forma pnd' fact vi et armis ac cōtr̄ pacem dict' dnae reg' coron et dignitat suas etc. An Indictment of murder. INquiratur pro domina regina si T. H. nuper de E. in come Cestr Labourer, Sect. 145. vicesimo die etc. circa horam sextam post meridiem eiusd' diei apud T. pred' in come C. pnd' ut felo dict' dnae reginae ex malitia sua pncogitat̄ & de insultu praemeditat̄ vi & armis quendam R. B. nuper de T. pred' in come pred' yeoman, adtunc & ibid' in pace dei & dictae dnae reginae existent insultum fec' & cum quodam baculo anglice vocat' a piked staff, precij 4. d'. qđ ipse in manibus suis adtunc & ibid' tenuit pnd' R. B. super caput suum felonice percussit dans ei ad tunc & ibid' unam plagam mortalem longitud' duorum pollicium in sinistra part capitis sui usque ad cerebrum de qua quidem plaga mortali praefat' R. B. languidus iacebat usque ad etc. extunc proxim' sequent: Quo quidem 19 die januarij Anno etc. idem R. B. apud T. pnd' in come pnd' exipsa plaga ei dat' modo & forma pred' moriebat & sicidem T. H. ut felo dictae dominae reginae pred' R. B. felonice interfecit & murdravit contra pacem dnae Reginae coron & dignitat suas. An indictment of Burglary by a woman in the night time, putting the household in fear, intending to have rob them. Inquirat pro domina regina si O. I. de G. in come C. Spinster, 7. die Aprilis Sect. 246. anno etc. apud C. praed' in come praed' noctanter viz. circa horam undecimam post meridiem eiusdem diei domum cuiusdam I. B. apud C. praed' vi & armis &c. felonice ac burglariter fregit & intravit, ea intencione ad furand' bona & catalla ipsius I. ac eundem I. in pace dei dict' dominae Reginae adtunc & ibidem in lecto suo existentem felonice & burglariter in timore vitae suae posuit contra pacem dictae dominae reginae coron & dignitat suas. An indictment for trespass done in a corn field. IVratores praesentant etc. quod W. C. nuper de T. in come praed' labourer, Sect. 247. T. P. etc. tertio die etc. Anno etc. vi & armis clausum I. N. apud S. in come pnd' in quodam campo vocat' S. field fregerunt & intrauerunt, & tres quarterios frumenti ipsius I. W. ad valenc' trium librarum adtunc & ibidem crescent cum quibusdam bigis sive carucis equis & pedibus suis ambuland' convulcaverunt et consumpserunt. Et alia enormia ei intuler̄ contra pacem etc. An indictment of manslaughter before the Coroner of the verge, for the death of a man, upon the view of the dead body. INquisicio capt' apud W. L. in comitatu Surrey infra virgam xxij. die Sect. 248. Maij, Anno etc. coram T. W. gen Coronator̄ hospitij dictae Dominae Reginae super visum corporis I. B. nuper de W. L. in come Surrey yeoman, ibidem jacent mortui & interfecti per sacramentum etc. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum qđ ita accidit qd' nineteen. die Maij Ann etc. apud Southwark in come Surrey infra virgam pred' I. B. veniebat in quendam campum ibidem vocat' S. Georges field circa horas 4. vel 5. post meridiem eiusdem diei, et quod postea dicto decimo nono die Maij Anno etc. apud S. predict' in comitatu Surrey predict' infra virgam inter horas 5. & 6. post meridiem eiusdem nineteen. die Maij R. L. nuper de Westm in come Midd' alias dictus R. L. de W. in come Midd' yeoman, veniebat & intrabat in campum predict' vocat' etc. & ibidem videns & percipiens dictum I. B. tunc esse in campo illo, ambulabat in campo illo versus locum ubi predict' I. B. tunc ibidem fuit: Et praedict' I. B. tunc & ibidem iacens super terram ac videns et percipiens dictam R. L. versus eum venient a terra predict' ibid' surgit ac idem I. B. tunc & ibid' duos gladios vocat' Rapiers in manus suos viz. in quamlibet manum unum gladium. Et tunc et ibid' idem R. L. cepit unum gladium de ferro & calibi ad valenc' quinque solid' ipsius R. L. in manum suam dextram, & unum scutum in manum suam sinistram, ac tunc & ibid' idem A. et R. insimul pugnauer' cum gladijs suis praed', & sic pugnans idem I. ipsum R. tunc et ibid' super sinistran tibiam dicti R. cum uno gladiorum suorum praed' vocat' Rapiers percussit et vulneravit vritute cuius praed' R. ad terram ibidem cecidit. Ac postea dictus R. 19 die Maij Anno pred' apud S. pred' in come pred' infra virgam pred' subito surrexit et idem R. tunc & ibid' cepit gladium suum praed' in manum suam dextram ac vi & armis, viz. cum gladio suo praedict' quem ipse R. in manum suam dextram tunc & ibidem tenuit 19 die Maij Anno etc. apud S. in come S. praed' infra virgam in pred' campo vocat' &c. inter praed' horas 5. et 6. post meridiem eiusdem 19 diei Maij, idem R in ipsam I. B. tunc et ibidem existent insultum fecit & tunc & ibid' come gladio illo quem ipse idem R. tunc et ibid' in manu sua dextra tenuit ipsum I. verberavit, ac gladium illum pred' R. tunc & ibid' felonice et voluntary in corpus dicti I. percussit et imposuit dans eidem I. B. felonice & voluntary cum gladio illo in ventre suo in et per corpus & dorsum dict' 1 unam plagam mortalem profunditat xiv. pollicium & latitudinis duorum pollicium, de qua quidem plaga mortali idem I. apud W. L. in come S. infra virgam postea languebat a dicto 19 die Maij, Anno etc. usque xx. diem dict' mensis Maij tunc proxim' sequent Quo quidem xx. die Maij idem I. B. apud W. pred' in come S. pnd' infra virgam inter horas 3. et quartam ante meridiem eiusdem vicesimi diei dicti mensis Maij Anno etc. ex plaga mortali praedict' obijt. Et sic jurat pred' dicunt super sacrament̄ suum. Quod dictus R. L. alias dictus etc. dicto 19 die Maij Anno etc. apud S. pred' in commit pred' infra virgam vi & armis, viz. cum gladio pred' quem idem R. L. alias dict' R. L. in manu sua dextra tunc & ibid' tenuit ipsum I. B. felonice et voluntary percussit interfecit et murdravit modo & forma pnd' contra pacem dict' dnae reginae Coron̄ et dignitat suas: Et sic idem iurat super sacrament̄ suum dicunt qđ praed' I. B. modo & forma praed' add mortem suum deuen̄ et non aliter nec alio modo. Et quae bona catalla terr' et tennt idem R. tempore feloniae et murdri pnd' fact' habuit vel adhuc habet, idem iurat penitus ignorant. An Indictment where a fellow suspected for stealing two oxen, is committed by a justice of Peace unto the jail, and is delivered to two to be conveyed unto the jail, which suffer the fellow wilfully to escape away. INquiratur etc. Quod cum quidam W. H. are unius Iustic' pacis dicti Sect. 249. dni Regis in come praed' xx. die etc. circa horam decimam in nocte eiusdem diei apud S. in come pnd' virtute officij sui et literar patent dicti dni Regis eidem W. direct', quendam I. nuper de etc. adtuncet ibid' arrestavit et attachiavit ꝓ suspicion feloniae ꝑ ipsum I. ante fact' & ꝑpetrat, viz. pro duobus bobis coloris etc. precij etc. de bonis et catallis cuiusdan R. I. per praed' I. felonice capt' et abduct. Et postea eumdem I. die, anno, hora & loco supradict' ut praed' est arrestat pred' W. H. adtunc & ibid' cōmisi● & liberavit saluo custodiend' quibusdam I. B. et R. D. nuper de etc. in comitatu etc. et specialiter requisit̄ fuerint ex part dicti dni regis ꝑ praefat' W. H. ad saluo et secur custod' et conducend' ipsum I. B. usque gaolam ipsius dni Regis comitat' praed' ibid' morat, quousque per debitam legis formam exoneret & deliberet, praed' tamen I. R. machinant praed' I. in felon' per ipsum fact' favorabiliter ipsum I. a custod' sua praed' qui sic detenebat adtunc et ibid' felonice & voluntary ad largum suum quo voluit felonice abire et evadere permiser̄ contra pacem etc. An Indictment where one is committed to prison to a Sergeant at Mace by the Bailiffs of a town, for resistance, disobeying, and disturbing thence for doing of their office, escapeth out of prison, and goeth away out of the same. INquiratur etc. Quod cum quidam D. E. de etc. die Martij, viz. quinto Sect. 250. die etc. apud P. in come praed' commissus fuit per R. I. gen unus ballivor villae de P. praed' & H. L. gen deputat' I. B. gen alius ballivor eiusd' villae in gaolam sive prisonam villae praed' ꝓ quibusdam resistenc', disobediēc', et malefact' ꝑ ipsum D. C. versus ipsū R. balliwm in execucione officij sui virtute literar̄ dni regis eid' R. direct', ibid' moratur sub salva custod' M. unius seruientium ad clauem ad villam pnd' quousque pnd' D. inde deliberaretur & dimissus esset ꝑ d●bitam legis formam si prefat' D. circam horam 12. in nocte eiusdem diei anno supradict' regni Regis pnd' prisonam in qua detent̄ fuit ut pnd' est adtunc & ibid' malitiose et minus just fregit et ab huiusmodi prisona sine aliqua licencia evaserit & escapuit contra formam statuti dicti domini regis edit' et provis. et contra pacem dictae dominae reginae etc. An Indictment of forcible entry into a messsage with thappurtenances upon the Statute of 8. H. 6. against diverse persons wherein the Statute is not recited. INquiratur etc. Si A. B. & C. D. nuper de etc. assumptis & associate eye alijs Sect. 251. malefactoribus & pacis dni perturbatoribus modo guerrin̄ arriat ad numerum 12. personarum quorum nomina praesens jurat ignoratur decimo die etc. apud D. etc. vi et armis, viz. baculis gladijs cultellis falcastris lapid' et alijs armis defensivis et invasivis in unum mesuagium cum pertinent super pacificam possessionem T. P. intravit & dict P. a possessione sua praed' expulerunt et disseiseverunt et eundem T. sic expulsus & disseisitus a praed' messuagio cum pertinent vi et armis praed' ac manuforti extratenuerunt et adhuc extratenent contra pacem dict' dni Reg. ac contra formam statuti domini Hen. nuper Regis Angliae 6. anno regni sui 8. inde edit' et provis. An indictment upon the statute of Anno 5. Eliz. against such as use any mystery or occupation, not being apprentice to the same for seven years. IVratores praesentant pro dna regina quod cum in parliament̄ dnae Sect. 252. Reginae nunc tent' apud Westm 8. die Maij, Anno regni sui 5. inter alia stabilitat fuit quod post primum diem Maij tunc proxim' sequent̄ non liceat alicui personae sive personis erigere occupare uti vel exercere aliquam artem mister̄ sive occupacionem adtunc usitat vel occupat infra regnum Angl' vel Walliae si non educat in eadem tanquam apprentic' per spatium septem annor ad minus, nec alicui person opus tradere in hmi misterio arte sive occupacione, si non eadem persona fuit apprentic' aut tunc fuit exercit in misterio pnd' tanquam apprentic' ut praed' est, sub pena quod quelibet persona voluntary, offendens vel contrarium faciens forisfaciat pro qualibet tali defalta 40. s. pro quolibet mense prout in statut' pred' plenius liquet & apparet quidam tamen I. S. statut' pred' ac penam in eod' content minime verens sive ponderans non existent apprentic' primo die julij, anno 5. supradicto dnae Reginae nostrae nunc contin̄ usque diem-capcionis huius inquisitionis scilicet ꝑ quatuor mense apud A. in come M. praed' occupavit vel exercivit artem mysterium sive occupacionem in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum ac contra formam statuti praed'. An indictment for a riotous and unlawful assembly putting men in fear, and doing of trespass, & ploughing in a close. Sessio pacis generalis dominae Reginae tent' apud Midd' in come praedict' die Martis viz. quarto die etc. Anno etc. coram H. C. milit G. C. etc. are Iustic' pacis come praed'. INquisic' capt' ibid' ꝑ sacrament T. O. B. D. etc. jurat Qui super sacrament Sect. 253. suum inter alia praesentant quod A. B. nuper de H. in come C. Yeoman, E. D. etc. xxij. d'. die etc. Anno etc. vi & armis apud N. in come pred' riotose seipsos assemblantes & associantes adtunc & ibidem riotose quoddam clausum vocat' etc. cuiusdam R. C. armig' freger & intraver ac seruient & tenentes ipsius R. C. adtunc & ibidem in clauso in opere faciend' ipsius R. C. existent minacitur minat fuerunt & timerent ac herbam ipsius R. C. adtunc & ibidem crescent cum quibusdam averijs non solum depast' fuer' conculcaverunt & consumpserunt sed etiam praedict' clausum cum bobus & arratro arraverunt & subverterunt & alia enormia praefat' R. C. fecerunt in dictae dominae Reginae contemptum manifestum & ipsius R. C. damnum non modicum & gravamen ac contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae. An Indictment of a Priest for saying of Mass in the Vestry of a Church. INquiratur pro domina Regina si G. O. nuper, vicarius de W. in partibus Sect. 254. de L. in comit' praed' clericus xuj. die Martij mane in aurora eiusdem diei Anno regni Elizabethae etc. sexto apud W. praedict' in quodam loco vocat' the Uestrie house juxta Ecclesiam parochialem de W. praedict' voluntary usus fuit privatim alio ritu ceremonia & forma celebrationis cenae dominae vocat' the Lords supper quam in quodam intitulat libr' Communis precationis & administrationis Sacramentorum & aliarum rituum & ceremoniarum Ecclesiae Anglicanae authorizat per Actus parliament tent' in Annis 5. & 6. domini Regis Ed. sexti nuper Regis Angliae declarat & mencionat existit, viz. dicend' & celebrand' unam priuat̄ missam contra formam statuti. An Indictment for moving the Duke of Summer set, and other subjects to rebellion against the king, and to take & imprison the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of North. and the Earl of Penbroke being of the King's privy Counsel. INquiratur etc. Quod T. A. nuper de L. Miles deum pre oculis non habens Sect' 255. sed instigatione diabolica seduct̄ Anno regni Edwar 6. etc. 5. & diversis diebus & vicibus antea & postea apud Sion in comitatu Middlesex' et apud diversa alia loca in dict' comitatu Middlesex' felonice fact' dict' domini regis peraperta verba procuravit movit & instigavit Edward ' Ducem Somerfet, ac quam plures alios subditos dict̄ domini regis ad insurgendum, & ad apertam rebellionem & insurrectionem infra hoc regnum Angliae mouend' contra ipsum dominum regem & adtunc & ibidem felonice capiend' & imprisonand' prenobilem johannem ducem Northumb. tunc comit' War, Will' Marchionem Northampton, & Will' Commit Pembroke adtunc Wilhel' Harbert ipsique duce Northumb. Marchion & Commit Pembroke de private Consilijs dicti domini regis adtunc existent dni regis Coron & dignitat suas & contra formam statur huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. An Indictment of extortion against an escheator. INquiratur pro domina Regina si R. G. nuper de O. in come War die Sect' 256. & anno &c. colore officij Escaetoris in come Leic' exigit & extorcione cepit apud H. in dict' come L. de Griffino R. novem modios tritic' add valenc' 23. s. 4. de bonis & catallis dict' Griff. ad perniciosum exemplum aliorum malefact' ad grave dampnum ipsius G. & contra formam diversorum statut' etc. & contra pacem etc. An Indictment against one for publishing that the Queen had ij. or iij. children by the Lord R. D. Ivrat etc. quod I. nuper de W. in come praed' Labourer, deum pre oculis Sect' 257. non habens sed instigatione diabolica seduct' quinto die etc. Anno etc. apud N. narravit & publicavit de dicta domina Regina nunc hec falsa sediciosa & scandalosa verba anglicana sequent, viz. That the Queen hath had by the Lord ineund' R. D. prenobilis ordinis garterij Milit dominum D. two or three children, contra legeanc' et debit' in magnum scandalum & contemptum dictae dominae Reginae nunc Coron & dignitat suas & contra formam statuti etc. An Indictment of one as a common Barretor, a stirrer up of strife and contention, and a troubler of the Peace. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si I. B. nuper de S. in comitat' etc. yeoman, Sect' 258. 25. die Maij Anno etc. apud S. praedict' nec non diversis diebus & temporibus tam antea quam postea fuit communis barrectator & pacis perturbator ac diversas lites contumelias & discord' in diversos dictae dominae Reginae subdit adtunc et ibidem et alibi in come praed' injust move bat, procurabat et excitabat in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum et ad grave dampnum populi dictae dominae Regin: nec non contra formam diversor statut' etc. ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for clipping and fyling of Gold and silver, and uttering of the same. INquiratur etc. Si E. D. de civitat Coventrie peddler, die et Anno etc. Sect' 259. ac diversis diebus antea et postea in Civitat praedict' 30. pec' auri vocat' Royals, ac 300. pecias argent̄ vocat' groats, bonae et legalis monetae Angliae et cunagij dict' dnae Regin̄, qui lucri causa falso, felonice et proditorie totondit et filavit. Ita quod per toncionem et filacionem illas quelibet pecia auri inde de xii. đ. in suo debit' pondere diminuebatur, Ac quelibet pecia argenti vocat' groats, inde de uno obulo de debito suo diminuebatur, et monetam illam in forma praedict' tonsam ac filat diversis ligeis dictae dominae Reginae apud Civitat praed' in come praedict' falso felonice et proditorie exposuit et utteravit, contra formam statuti etc. ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for enclosing of xx. acres of pasture out of a common field, in the which all the inhabitants of L. have used time out of mind to have common of pasture for all manner of cattle. Ivrat presentant etc. Quod Ed. C. nuper de L. in comitatu predict ' Sect' 260. generos. G. C. nuper de L. etc. decimo die etc. Anno etc. nec non diversis diebus et vicibus tam antea quam postea, vi et armis etc. xx. acr pasture cum pertinentijs in L. praedict' in aperto communi campo ibidem, in quibus omnes inhabitantes villae praedict' a tempore cuius contrar memoria hominum non existit usi fuerunt & consueverunt habere communiam pasture pro omnibus annualibus suis omni tempore anni imperpetuum, cum sepibus et fossatis inclusiverunt, et easdem viginti acras sic inclusas a praedict' decimo die Aprilis anno supradicto usque diem capcionis huius inquisicionis custod' et adhuc custodivit in malum et perniciosum exemplum aliorum ligeorum dictae dominae Reginae, & contra formam diversorum Statut etc. Ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment of wilful Murder of a woman. INquiratur etc. Si T. L. nuper de W. in comitatu etc. Labourer, deum Sect' 261. pre oculis non habens sed instigatione diabolica seduct' 30. die Aprilis Anno regni Elizabeth etc. circa horam nonam eiusdem diei vi & armis apud W. praedict' ex malitia sua precogitat in quandam Marg' T. adtunc et ibidem in pace dei et dictae dominae Reginae existent insultum fecit et ipsam Marg. cum quodam baculo ad valenc' etc. quem idem Th. in manibus suis adtunc et ibidem tenuit, verberavit, vulneravit, et maletractavit. Ita quod praedict' M. a praedict' 30. die Aprilis anno supradicto usque ad quintum diem Maij tunc proxim' sequent languebat, quo quidem v. die Maij Anno supradicto praedict' M. apud W. praedict' de verberatione vulneratione et maletractatione praedict' adtunc et ibidem obijt. Et sic praedict' Th. praedict' M. modo et forma praedict', scilicet, apud W. praedict' die et Anno praed' felonice et voluntary interfecit et murderavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Murder, and the Murderers flying after the said murder committed. INquiratur pro domina Regina, Si T. Barbour nuper de C. in comit' Sect' 262, etc. die et Anno etc. vi et armis etc. ex malitia sua precogitat apud D. in comitat' praed' in quendam W. W. adtunc et ibidem in pace dei et dictae dominae Reginae existent insultumfecit et ipsum W. adtunc et ibidem existent, verberavit, unlneravit, & maletractavit, ac ipsum W. cum quodam baculo ad valenc' etc. quem idem T. B. adtunc et ibm' in manu sua dextra tenebat prefat' W. supra sinistram ꝑtem tibiae suae felonice percussit, dans ei plagam mortalem: Ob quam quidem plagam mortalem prefat' W. a praedict' xx. die etc. anno etc. usque ad octawm diem julij tunc ꝓxim̄ sequent languebat, et de eadem plaga mortali praed' W. etc. apud etc. praed' xx. die julij, anno supradicto moriebatur. Et sic pnd' Tho. B. praed' W. praed' viii. die julij, anno supradict̄, apud B. pnd' felonice murdravit & interfecit, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae etc. Et post feloniam & murdrum sic per praefat' Tho. B. ibifact, praed' Tho. B. ob eandem feloniam et murdrum praed' immediate fugiebat, contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Riot, the riotors weaponed with divers weapons, and armed armed with privy Coats, for breaking and entering into a house, taking and spoling of goods, beating and wounding of divers in the house, breaking of a chest, and taking out of it vi. silver spoons, and the taking, spoiling and carrying away of Oats out of a Barn. INquiratur etc. si l. L. decimo die etc. Anno etc. vi et armis, videlicet Sect' 263. baculis, gladijs, & cultellis nec non tunicis priuat̄ et modo guerino ariat apud W. in comit' praedict' domum cuiusdam Chrisopheri B. apud W. praedict' in come praedict' riotose & manuforti fregerunt & intraver, & in T. B. F. B. etc. adtunc et ibidem inuent' in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae existent insultum fecerunt & astraiam ibidem riotose fecerunt & ipsos T. F. etc. adtunc & ibidem in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae inuent' existent verberaver, vulneraver & maletractaver. Ita quod ipsi de vita ipsorum desperabantur, ac bona & catalla praedict' C. B. ad valenc' thirty. li. in domo sua praedict' adtunc inuent' riotose ceperunt spoliaverunt & asportaverunt, ac cistas ipsius C. in domo sua praedict' tunc existent riotose fregerunt & sex coclear argenti ad valenc' xl. s. de bonis et catallis ipsius Chri. adtunc et ibidem inuent' riotose ceperunt et asportaverunt. Ac avenas ipsius C. tunc et ibidem in horreo suo inuent' riotose ceperunt & spoliaverunt & asportaverunt, Acalia enormia ei intuler̄ in perniciosum ex emplum ligeorum et subdit dict' dominae Reginae, ac contra formam diversorum staut etc. ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for the counterfeiting of the Queen's Letters patents to beg, and taking of the Queen's broad Seal from other Letters patents, and putting it to the counterfeit Letters patents. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si I. D. nuper de M. in comitat' etc. deum Sect' 264. pre oculis non habens sed instigatione diabolica seduct' die &c. apud etc. deceptive falso et proditory quasd ' falsas Ir̄as patentes scriptas de collectione, devocione & charitate populorum ipsius dominae Reg' hunc tenorem continent viz. Elizaeth by the grace of God etc. Ac cum idem I. dictas falsas ●r̄as patentes sic ut premittitur contra fecisset, idem I. praedict' die etc. Anno etc. apud M. praedict' in comit' praedict' quoddam magnum sigillum dictae dominae Reginae adtunc preantea annex' et legittime apposite irrupuit et accepit, et illud sigillum dictis falsis counterfactis literis deceptiue falso et proditorie apposuit et annexit, et ●asdem literas sigillo illo subtilit' recludēd' sigillavit. Et sic mangum sigill' ibid' et adtunc voluntary et ꝓditorie, contrafecit falsificavit et fabricavit. Et idem I. postea scilicet, die anno etc. apud M. in comit' praed' ac diversis alijs locis eiusdem come diversas denariorum summas diversorum ligeorum dictae dominae Reginae virtute, et colore litterarum praedict' modo et forma predict' contrafact' et sigillat' deceptive falso et proditorie colligebat habuit et recepit & ad usum suum proprium convertit in malum & perniciosum exemplum ligeorum eiusdem dominae Reginae, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. & contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. An Indictment for the stealing of two geldings. INquiratur etc. Si G. W. nuper de W. in come S. & R. B. nuper de W. Sect' 265. praedict' in comitat' praedict' Labourer, ultimo die etc. Anno etc. vi & armis &c. apud N. in dicto comitat' S. unum spadonem coloris gray pretij etc. Ac alium spadonem coloris etc. pretij etc. de bonis & catallis cuiusdam ignoti adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice furat fuer', ceperunt & abduxer contra pacem etc. An Indictment for robbing of a Gent: by the high way. Ivrat etc. Quod ubi I. B. de L. gen 13. die etc. Anno etc. fuit in pace dei Sect' 266. et dictae dominae Reginae in regia via apud parochiam Sancti Egidij in campis in comitatu Midd': ibi eodem die, et anno venerunt I. M. et R. H. nuper de etc. felonice ut felones dictae dominae reginae, et i praedict' I. B. insultum fecer̄ et ipsum verberaverunt, vulneraverunt, et maletractaverunt. Ita quod de vita eius desperabatur et xx. s. in pecunijs numerat de bonis et catallis ipsius I. B. superipsum I. B. adtunc et ibidem inuent' et existent' felonice ceperunt et asportaverunt, contra pacem etc. ac contra formam statuti in anno dni H. 8. 23. edit' et provis. An Indictment for cutting of a Purse, and xx. s. in it. INquiratur etc. Si T. C. de etc. Labourer, die etc. vi et armis etc. apud Sect' 267. C. in come etc. xx. s. in pecunijs numeratis in quadam crumena existent de bonis et catallis cuiusdam C. D. atunc et ibidem inuent' a persona prefat' T. D. cum quodam cultello ad valenc' etc. quem idem T. D. in manu sua dextra adtunc et ibidem habuit et tenuit felonice scidit furat fuit cepit et asportavit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment for taking away of a womau servant. INquiratur etc. Si W. K. de S. etc. die Anno etc. loco etc. vi et armis, Sect' 268. videlicet, gladijs et dag●er̄ quendam Isab. K. seruientem R. Q. de F. in comitat' praedict' Spinster, in seruic' dict' Richardi existent et retent apud F. praedict' cepit et ab duxit die et anno supradicto, contra pacem dicti dni Regis nunc. An Indictment for breaking and entering into a house & burning of it. INquiratur etc. Si D. S. de K. in comit' praedict' Labourer, tali die et anno Sect' 269. etc. vi et armis etc. domum W. C. fregit et intravit et ex malitia sua precogitat adtunc & ibidem existent dictam domum felonice combussit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment for procuring a Servant to departed from his Master, and for being a common procurer of a servants away from their services. INquiratur etc. si W. M. de N. in comit' E. yeoman, die, anno, et loco Sect' 270. etc. procuravit & exhortavit 1 C. seruient' R. S. in seruitio suo ibidem existent abire ab eodem seruitio, cuius quidem ꝓcurationis pntextu idem I. C. a seruitio R. S. tunc & ibidem recessit: Et quod idem W. M. est communis procurator seruient diversorum ligeorum dni Regis, Ita quod ligei dni Regis de eiusmodi seruient' ad negotia sua ꝑimplend' multipliciter gravat existunt, in dict dni Regis contempt & quamplurium ligeorum dni Regis deteriorationem manifestam. An Indictment for keeping of Hounds and Hunting, having not lands of the value of xl. ●. INquiratur etc. Si I. W. T. P. de etc. non habens terr' neque tenementa sect' 271. ad valenc' xl. s'. ultra repris. tenent Canes venaticos & leporarios, et eisdem usi sunt venari in diversis partibus juxta C. viz. apud D. H. et alibi infra Hundred ' de C. venati sunt, ac lepores ac alia animalia ven' ceperunt, contra pacem etc. ac contra formam statuti etc. An Indictment for robbing of a Church. INquiratur etc. Si I. W. de etc. vi & armis &c. ecclesiam parochialem Sect' 272. Sanctae Andreae Apostoli, apud S. in come praedict' freger' & intraverunt, ac xx. d'. in pecunijs numerat de bonis & catallis parochianorum parochiae praedict' in custod' W. F. & W. S. custod' sive gardianorum bonorum & catallorum ●ochianorum parochiae praedict' existent ad●●●c & ibidem felonice f●rat̄ fuit cepit & asportavit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment of two Sheriffs of a City, for suffering of a Prisoner committed to them upon suspicion of felony to escape. INquiratur etc. Quod cum Robertus I. nuper de Civitate Coventrie Sect' 273. in come Civitat praedict' yeoman, viii. die Nouembris, anno regni Eliz. pro suspicione feloniae per ipsum R. I. preantea fieri & ꝑpetrari supposit̄ apud Civitat praedict' capt' & arrestat fuit: Idemque R. I. eisdem die & anno apud Civitat praedict' quibusdam johin S. de Civitate praedict' Cocher, et Will' P. de Civitate praedict' Winer, vic' Civitat praedict', ac custod' gaolae dictae dnae Reginae infra Civitat illam, ob causam predict' tradit fuit saluo & secur custod' quousque idem R. I. a custod' illa secundum legem & consuetud' regni Angliae a prisona illa deliberat̄ foret, si ijdem I. S. & W. P. die & anno supradictis apud Civitatem praed' in comitat' Civitat predict', R. I. ad largum et extra gaolam & custod' praed' felonice & voluntary exire permiser, contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae etc. An Indictment for stealing of Coneys with Nets, Dogs, and Ferrets. INquiratur etc. Si I. W. die & anno &c. vi & armis &c. clausum cuiusdam Sect▪ 271. K. L. vocat' etc. apud M. circa horam octavam in nocte freger & intraver, & unam Cuniculam cum retis, canibus, et venarijs vocat' Ferrets adtunc & ibm' inuent' ceperunt & asportaverunt, ad grave dampnum etc. & contra pacem etc. An Indictment of a keeper of a jail, for letting one committed to him upon suspicion of felony; escape out of prison. INquiratur etc. Quod cum quidam I. B. de etc. die & anno &c. ꝓ suspicion Sect' 275. cuiusdam felon' per ipsum infra villam p̄dictam ante tunc fieri & perpetrari supposit', capt' et arrestat' fuit apud villam predict', et eisden die & anno praedict' I. B. cuidam Tho. R. de villa. & come predict' yeoman custod' gaolae dicti dni Regis in dicta villa de L. praedict' pro suspicione feloniae praedict' saluo & secur custod' tradit' fuit quosque idem I. B. a custod' illa seđm legem et consuetud' regni Angl' deliberat foret: Si idem T. R. die etc. anno supradict' apud villam predict' in come praedict', predict' I. B. ad largum & extra gaolam praedict' negligenter voluntary & felonice exire et evadere permisit, contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae etc. An Indictment for the stopping and turning of a water course in a Town, by reason whereof divers men's lands be surrounded. IVratores presentant etc. Quod T. R. nuper de S. yeoman, I. P. nuper Sect' 276. de S. yeoman etc. primo die lanuarij, Anno regni dictae d●ae Regin̄ secundo, necnon diversis alijs diebus et vicibus, tam antea quam postea apud S. praedict', quandam aquae cursum obstupavit & divertit, per quod praedict' aquae cursus fluebat super solum et liberum tenntum quorundam etc. ad grave dampnum ipsorum, necnon omnium tenent villae de S. praedict', et in perniciosum exemplum aliorum, ac contra formam statut etc. et contra pacem dictae dnae Reginae etc. An Indictment upon the Statute of 8. Hen. 6. for a Forcible entry into one Rood of land, and assaulting and beating of one I. F. and keeping the same with force. INquiratur pro domina Regina, Quod cum in Statuto in parliamento Sect' 277. domini Henr̄ nuper Regis Angliae sexti post conquestum apud Westm, anno regni sui viii▪ tent', aedit', inter cetera continetur: Quod si aliqua persona de aliquibus terris sive tenements manuforti expulsa sit vel disseisit vel pacifice expellatur et postea manufor● extra teneat vel aliquod feoffamēt̄ vel discontinuationem inde post talem ingressum suum ad ius possessoris defraudend' vel tollend' aliquo modo fiat, habeat pars in hac part gravat versus talem disseisitorem Assisa● noue disseisine vel breve de transgr. Et si pars gravat per Assisam vel per actionem transgressionis recuperet per veredict' vel alio quocunque modo per debit' legis formam inveniat quod pars defendens vi ingressus fuerit, vel dicta tenementa per vim post ingressum suam tenuerit, recuperaret querens dampna sua ad triplum versus defendentes. Et ulterius finem et redeptionem dominae Reginae fac' prout in eodem statut' plenius continetur: Quidam tamen I. W. de W, in comitat' praedict' yeoman, E. H. I. L. et alij statut' praedict' minime ponderans, seven. die Martij Anno etc. vi et armis, videlicet baculis, gladijs, et fustibus seipsos assemblaverunt, congregaverunt, et coadunaverunt. Et sic assemblat, congregat, et coadunat' existent modo guerrino arraiat riotose et illicit in unam rodam ter●e liberi tenementi cuiusdam G. B. gen apud W. in quodam loco vocat' Catmore dale in comitatu praed' ingressi fuerunt. Et in quosdam I. F. et I. W. adtunc et ibidem insultum et affraiam fecerunt, verberaverunt, et maletractaverunt, et ipsum G. B. de eadem roda terre manuforti expulerunt. Et ipsum G. B. sic expulsum inde manuforti extratenuer̄ et adhuc extratenent in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum et ipsius G. grave dampnum, ac contra formam statuti praedict'. Et contra pacem dictae dnae Regin̄ etc. An Indictment for murdering of a man child newly borne, which is murdered by the mother. INquiratur pro domina Regina, Si E. B. nuper de T. in come etc. Spinster, Sect' 278. 29. die etc. Anno etc. apud T. praedict' adtunc et ibidem quendam infantem masculinum viwm peperit. Et postea praedict' E. apud T. predict' infantem viwm adtunc et ibidem cum digitis suis super caput suum dure tractand' per quod infans praedict' immediate moriebatur. Et sic praedicta E. B. infantem praedict' die et Anno supradictis felonice interfecit et murdravit contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc etc. An Indictment for hunting in a Park paled, and for the kill and carrying away of a Buck▪ and a Do in the night time. I Vrat presentant etc. quod cum in statut' in parliament̄ dominae Reginae Sect' 279. nunc tent' apud W. Anno regni sui quinto inter alia inactitat, stabilitat et ordinat existit, Quod si aliqua persona sive person post festum Penticostes Anno 5. supradicto in die vel in nocte injust vel illicit fregerit fregerunt vel intraverunt in aliquod parcum impalatum vel sepibus inclusum ad seruand' vel sustentand' ferat usitat, et ibidem injust venatur vel venantur, ceperit aut ceperint, occiderit aut occiderint, aliquas feras infra aliquod hmi parcum impallat̄ vel solum inclusum & ꝓ feris usitat modo & forma praed' et inde debito modo convictus fuerit aut fuerint ad sectam dictae dominae Reginae vel partis in hac part gravat: Quod tunc eadem persona sive personae sic inde conuict' penam corporis sive corporum suorum per imprisonament̄ subeat & subeant per spatium trium mensium & reddat et reddant, soluat et soluant parti gravat dampna sua ad triplum. Et post praedict' tres menses complet̄ inveniat et inveniant sufficientem securitatem pro sua vel suis bene gestura et gesturis per spatium septem Annorum tunc proxim' sequend' erga dictam dominam Reginam hered' et successor' et cunctum populum suum, aut remanebit sive remanebunt et continuabunt semper in prisona sive balliva vel manucapcione donec ille vel illi delinquen poterit vel poterint et invenerint, tres tales sufficientes securitates durant termino septem annorum ut supradictum est prout in statut' praedict' plenius continetur: Quidam tamen W. W. T. M. etc. de etc. statut' praed' minime ponderans post praed' festum P. scilicet iiij. die Junii anno etc. circa horam primam in nocte eiusdem diei vi & armis &c. parcum impallat̄ et pro feris vis●tat̄ cuiusdam I. S. ar̄ vocat' Hopwell park apud Hopwell in come praedict' fregerunt et intraverunt, et unam Damam masculinum et unam Damam fenialem adtunc et ibidem in eod' parco inuent' et existent ceperunt interfecerunt et asportaver contra formam statuti praedict' ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Burglary for breaking of a dwelling house in the night time, to the intent to have rob the said house, and for beating and putting in fear diverse in the same house. INquiratur pro domina Regina, Si I. P. nuper de etc. vicesimo die Sect. 280. etc. vi et armis etc. circa horam decimam in nocte eiusdem diei domum mansionalem cuiusdam D. B. de L. praedict' in come praedict' H. apud L. praedict' ea intencione ad spoliand' eundem D. de bonis & catallis suis in eadem existent felonice et burglariter fregit et intravit, et eund' D. et quendam I. B. filium praed' D. & E. vxor' eius in domo praedict' in pace dei et dictae dominae Reginae adtunc et ibidem existent verberavit, vulneravit et male tractavit et in corporali timore et maxim̄ metu & periculo vitarum svarum adtunc et ibid' posuit contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Burglary for breaking of a dwelling house in the night time and the putting of them in the house in fear, and for the felonious taking out of the said house 1200. li in money, and a chalice of silver parcel guilt. INquiratur pro dna Regina, Si T. W. de B. in come etc. sexto die etc. Sect. 281. Anno etc. circa horam primam in nocte eiusdem diei domum mancionalem cuiusdam I. B. apud W. in come praed' felonice & burglariter fregit & intravit ac ipsum I. B. adtunc & ibid' in ead' domo mancionali in corporali timore posuit ac mill & centum libras legalis monetae Angliae in pecunijs numerat & unam callicem argent ꝑcell' aurat vocat' a chalice of silver parcel guilt, ad valenc' 4. li. de denarijs et de bonis & catallis 1 B. in ead' domo mancionali adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice cepit et asportavit contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae coron & dignitat suas. An Indictment for breaking of a barn, and taking out of it 4. bushels of Barley, INquiratur etc. si I. S. etc. horreum cuiusdam I. C. de Sutton magna in Sect. 282. come praed' adtunc et ibid' burglariter fregit et intravit, & quatuor modios hordei anglice vocat' a quarter of Barley, ad valenc' vj. s. iiij. đ. de bonis et catallis praedict' I. C. adtunc et ibid' inuent' burgulariter et fellonice cepit, abduxit, et asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking of a Milne, and taking out of the same a sack and 6. bushels of wheat. Inquir etc. si I. S. etc. vi et armis domum mollendin W. H. apud C. in Sect. 283. parochia de D. in come pnd' vocat' Clerk mill, burglar fregit et intraui● & unum saccum praetij etc. et 6. modios tritici vocat' 6. bushels of wheat, in sacco ibidem existent' praetij xx. s. de bonis et catallis praed' W. H. adtunc & ibid' inuent' die anno & loco supradict' felonice cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for the felonious taking of 6. pair of sheets, 12. diaper napkins and one ring of gold. INquiratur etc. si I. B. vi & armis 6. paria linthearum vocat' Sheets, Sect. 284. ad valenc' xl. s. 12. mappas de diaper vocat' table Napkins ad valenc' xl. s. unum annulum de auro cuiusdam I. S. apud H. praedict' dict' die & anno adtunc et ibidem inuent' fellonice cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for the felonious taking of acuppe of Silver parcel guilt in the Isle of V. INquiratur si I. S. vi & armis unam Cypham argent parcell' aurat anglice Sect. 285. vocat' a coppe of Silver parcel guilt, ad valenc' 4. li. de bonis et catallis E. W. apud M. infra insulam V in come praedict' adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for receiving, aiding and comforting of a felon, knowing him to have done a felony. INquiratur etc. Si R. S. sciens praefat' I. R. felloniam praedict' in forma Sect. 286. praedict' fecisse & perpetrasse eundem I. xx. die etc. Anno etc. in comitatu praedict' felonice recepit auxiliatus fuit & confortavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for stealing two horses of a man's unknown. INquiratur etc. Si W. H. nuper de F. in come praed' &c. unum equum Sect. 287. coloris gray praetij etc. & unum equm coloris etc. praetij etc. de bonis et catallis cuiusdam hominis ignoti die & anno supradict' fellonice cepit & abduxit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for assaulting and robbing of a man upon the high way of a gelding and his purse, and x. shillings of monry in it, and for the taking ●f two mares found in the high way. INquiratur etc. si I. I. etc. vi & armis in Regia via ducent a W. usque ad Sect. 288. B. in come pnd' in R. S. gen adtunc et ibid. existent in pace etc. insultum fecit et unam spadonem coloris nigri praetij etc. et x. s. in pecunijs munerat existent in una bursa valoris unius denarij existent de bonis & catall' dicti R. S. apud B. praed' adtunc et ibid' in Regra via inuent', felonice cepit et abduxit contra pacem etc. & duas equas coloris etc. praetij etc. de bonis et catallis D. C. apud A. in come W. in regia via ibid' adtunc et ibidem inuent' cepit & abduxit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for the robbing, beating and wounding of one on the high way and taking from him x. s. INquiratur etc. Si I. S. etc. vi & armis in quodam loco ibid' vocat' the Sect. 289. Ashdownes croft in via regia ibid' in A. B. insultum fecit & ipsum adtunc & ibid' verberavit vulneravit et maletractavit ita quod de vita sua desperabatur & x. s. in pecunijs numerat super ꝑsonam ipsius A. B. adtunc & ibid' existent de pecunijs bonis & catallis praed' A. B. adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An indictment for assaulting of a woman, and felloniouslie taking from her 5. s. 4. d'. in money. Inquir etc. si I. B. etc. vi & armis &c. in quendam E. C. apud B. in come Sect. 290. praed' insultum fecit & quinque solid' et 4. đ. a persona ipsius E. adtunc & ibid' inuent' felovice cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment for stealing out of a close four Sheep. INquiratur etc. Si I. S. etc. vi et armis clausum I. S. senioris gen, apud B. Sect. 291. in parochia de D. in come predict' fregit & intravit, et quatuor oves precijv. s'. de bonis et catallis ipius I. ibidem inuent' felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking of a House in the day time, and taking of vi. li. out of a Chest, and against one for aiding & comforting the said fellow. INquiratur etc. Si R. C. die etc. domum P. S. apud C. in come predict', Sect. 292. circiter horam primam post meridiem eiusdem diei fregit et intravit, ac vj. li. in pecunijs numeratis in quadam Cista adtunc et ibm' existent de bonis et catallis pred' P. S. apud C. pred' in com' pred' adtunc et ibidem inuent' felonice cepit et asportavit, contra pacem etc. Ac si G. L. etc. sciens quod prefat' R. B. feloniam praed' modo et forma praed' sic fecisset apud E. pred' Accessory. apud N. in come pnd' fuerunt consentientes & abbettan pnd' A. B. ad fellonian praed' informa praed' faciend' contra pacem etc. Et pur les accessaries apres in cest manner. Et si H. W. et P. R. nuper de etc. scien pnd' A. B. felon pnd' in forma pnd' fecisse apud T. pnd' & alibi in come pnd', praed' 10. die etc. Ac eunden A. B. felonice receptaverunt contra pacem etc. An Indictment of wilful Murder. INquiratur etc. Si T. S. de D. in comit' praedicto yeoman, xx. die Junii Sect. 301. Anno etc. vi & armis etc. viz. gladijs baculis et cultellis in quendam W. P. de S. in come praed' Husband, in pace dei et dict' dnae reginae existent, ex malitia sua pcogitata apud L. in come pnd' insultum fecit et cum quodam ense ad valenc' x. s. quem idem T. in manu sua dextra adtunc et ibid' habuit & tenuit praef. W. super dextram ꝑtem capitis sui percussit dans ei plagam mortalem, de qua quidem plaga pnd' W. P. a pnd' xx. die Junii usque ad 12. diem Decemb. languebat et tunc de plega praed' moribat. Et qđ praed' T. apud L. praed' ex mallitia sua prae cogitat felonice et voluntary interfecit et murdravit contra pace● etc. An Indictment of manslaughter against two, and against one other as accessory to the same. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si A. B. de C. in come D. yeoman, & W. F. Sect. 302. de T. in comit' pred' Husband, secundo die etc. in I. W. de C. in come pnd' Labourer, apud L. praed' insultum fecerunt et ipsum I. W. adtunc et ibid' idem A. B. cum quodam armicudio qđ dict' A. B. in manu sua dextra tenuit in gutture ipsius I. felonice per cussit, de quo ictu praed' I. interijt et moriebatur. Et praed' W. F. cum quadam tendite vocat' a hedge Bill; quam ipse in manibus suis tunc tenuit ipsum I. adtunc et ibid' percussit et ipsum A. B. ad interficiend' et murderand' praed' I. adtunc et ibidem felonice Accessory. auxiliavit. Et sic A. B. praed' die anno & loco pnd', pnd' I. W. felonice murder et interfecit: et quod H. W. de P. in comtatu praed' gen sciens praed' A. B. praed' felloniam & murdrum praedict' in forma praed' fecisse apud L. & alibi in dicto com' decimo die etc. eundem A. B. felonice recepit contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Trespass for breaking and entering into a close. INquiratur pro dna Regina, si I. S. de N. in com' N. decimo die Iu. anno Sect. 303. etc. vi & armis &c. clausam A. B. de H. apud F. in come praed' fregit & intravit et herban A. B. ad valenc' x. s. ibid' nuper crescent cum quibusdam averijs depastat fuit conculcavit et consumpsit. Et alia enormia ei intulit ad grave dampnum ipsius R. G. et contra pacem dominae Reginae coron̄ ct dignitatem suas. An Indictment for lying in wait to kill one, and for assaulting, beating and wounding of him, and for entering into and breaking of his close. INquiratur pro dna Regina, si R. C. de B. in come N. Labourer, octavo Sect. 304. die etc. anno etc. apud B. pnd' iacuit insidijs ad interficiend' W. S. de T. in com' pnd' husband, et ipsum adtunc insultum fecit, verberavit vulneravit et maletractavit ita qđ de vita eius desperabatur. Ac etiam si pnd' G. et R. uxor eius 30. die Octob. Anno supradicto clausum ipsius W. apud B. praed fregerunt et intraverunt et herbam suam ad valenc' etc. ibidem crescent cum quibusdam averijs depastat fuer' conculcaverunt et consumpserunt contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Trespass for breaking and entering into a close, and cutting down Ashes in the said close. INquiratur pro domina Regina, si A. B. de C. in com' L. clericus et W. Sect. 305. D. de ead' villa et comit' Clericus quarto die Augusti Anno etc. clausum A. B. de M. in come praed' freger et intraverunt et fraximos ipsius A. B. ibid' crescent add valenc' 40. s. surcinderunt et asportaverunt ad grave dampnum etc. Ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for a Riot committed by many upon two, and for beating and wounding of them, upon the Statute of Anno 2. R. 2. cap. 7. Inquir pro dna Regina, si A. B. de nuper de M. in come M. yeoman, Sect. 306. aggregatis sibi quampluribus male factoribus et Dominae Reginae perturbatoribus ignot̄ ad numerum etc. modo guerrino armat sexto die Junii Anno etc. apud S. in comitat' praed' riotose et routose se illicit congregaverunt et coadunaverunt et tunc et ibid' in R. W. et W. P. ipsos interficiend' insultum fecer, et ipsos R. & W. tunc et ibidem verberaverunt vulneraverunt et maletractaverunt, per quod ipse de vita sua desperabatur contra pacem dominae Reginae etc. An Indictment against two for assaulting of one, and for taking of 4. kine from him that he had taken damage feasaunte in his land, and was carrying of them to the pound. INquiratur pro dna Regina, si I. L. de B. in com' S. yeoman, & I. I. nuper Sect. 307. de eadem villa in com' praed' decimo quinto die etc. apud B. praed' vi & armis in et super I. D. insultum fecerunt et adtunc et ibidem quatuor vaccas, quas in et super terr' suam dampnum facien̄ cepisset & secundum consuetud' villae pnd' ibid' impercari voluisiet, ab eodem I. G. riotose ceperunt & ab inde contra eius voluntatem abduxerunt contra pacem dnae Reginae etc. An Indictment for a Rescous made against the Sheriffs, Bailiffs, of one by them arrested by force of the Queens writ: and for the taking away and detaining of the said writ. Inquirat ꝓ dna regina, si R. W. de D. in come L. die etc. Ann etc. apud Sect. 308. D. pnd' in come praed' vi & armis &c. in & super B. C. & I. H. ballivos itinerant T. vic' I. rescussum fecerunt et quendam T. T. quem pnd' B. C. I. H. virtute brevis dict' dnae Reginae pred' vic' direct cepissent et attachiat fuissent ab eisdem B. C. & I. H. et extra eorum custod' ceperint: & etiam breve praedictum ab eisem ballivis itineran̄ custodivit & detenuit & adhuc detinet in malum exemplum totius populi dominae reginae ibid' prope commorantes ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment of manslaughter committed by two, and one as accessory after the manslaughter done. INquiratur pro dna regina, si S. W. de L. in come I fabricarius & W. S. Sect. 309. de C. in come pred' yeoman, secundo die Aprilis Anno regni Eliz. etc. sexto in A. B. de C. in come pred' operarium apud C. pred' insultum fecerunt, et ipsum A. B. adtunc et ibid' idem S. W. cum quodam gladio qđ dict' A. in manu sua dextra tenuit in collo ipsius I. percussit, de quo ictu praed' I. interijt ac moriebatur. Ac idem S. W. eundem A. B. inven cum dicto gladio adtunc & ibidem graviter vulneravit: de quibus quidem vulneribus & ictibus idem I. interijsset si non interijsset de predicto vulnere in collo percus. Et praed' W. S. cum quadam tendite vocat' a forest Bill, quod ipse in manibus suis tenuit ipsum I. adtunc & ibid' percussit & ipsum W. S. ad interficiend' & murdrand' praed' I. adtunc & ibidem felonice auxiliavit: Ac sic S. W. praed' I. die Anno & loco praed' felonice murdravit & interfecit: Et praed' L. B. nuper de etc. in come etc. gen sciens Accessory. praed' S. W. felloniam & murdrum praed' in modo & forma praed' sic fecisse apud E. & alibi in dicto come decimo die etc. eundem A. B. felonice recepit contra pacem dnae Reginae coron & dignitat suas. An Indictment against two, for hearing of these words spoken by one viz. A vengeance on the Queen and of such false Council. And then declaring of the same to the Sheriff of the Shire. INquiratur pro dna regina, si W. I. de S. in come N. clericus die etc. apud Sect. 310. W. praed' deum prae oculis non habens & ligeanciam debit' minime ponderans falso & proditory ut falsus proditor & inimicus ipsius dnae Reginae dict' die et Anno apud N. praed' coram A. B. & C. D. de E. in come praed' yeoman, obstinate & mallitiose dixit & propagavit haec verba sequentia in Anglicanis verbis (a vegeaunce of the Queen and of such false Council) tam contra legeanc' & pacem dnae Reginae quam contra formam Statut in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. Et sic praed' A. Concealing. B. & C. D. scicus praed' I. dicta verba proditorie locut fuisse, falso & ꝓditorie contra legeanc' debit' suam concelaverunt & secret custodierunt contra pacem dnae Reginae et contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' et provis, usque ad primum diem Martij Anno etc. qđ dicti A. B. & C. D. dicta verba sic proditorie per dict' I. locut coram N. S. milite vice comite come praed' ac R. S. gen, retulerunt & ostenderunt. An Inquisition taken before a Coroner upon the view of the body dead, how he came to his death: In which it is found that he died of a fever or Ague by the visitation of God and not otherwise. INquisitio capt' apud S. in come S. vicesimo die etc. Anno etc. coram I. Sect' 311. B. uno coronatorum dictae dominae Reginae in come praedict' super visum corporis A. B. nuper de E. in comitat' praedict' husbandman, ibidem jacent mortui per sacrament etc. Qui dicunt super sacrament̄ suum quod ita accidebat apud G. praedict' die etc. Anno etc. quod praedictus A. B. egrotabat apud G. praedict' de Febri a decimo die Aprilis usque ad vicesimum diem mensis eiusdem, Quo quidem die ex Febri praedict' et visitatione dei adtunc & ibidem praedict' A. B. circa horam decimam eeiusdem diei ante meridiem objit. Et luratores predict' dicunt quod predict' A. B. ex nullo alio morbo egritudine ant infirmitate ad mortem suam deveniebat sed hec est causa mortis sui & non aliter. In cuius rei testimonium huic inquisitioni tam praed' Coronator quam juratores predict' sigilla sua apposuerunt. An Inquisition found before a Coroner upon the view of the body dead, in which it is found that S. A. being keeper of the Earl of Pembroke his park, finding one hunting in the same park required him to stand and yield himself, he nevertheless defended himself and would not yield: whereupon the park keeper, with a forest Bill with a thrust in the breast killed him. INquisitio indentat capt' apud Saxfield in comitatu S. nono die Februarij Sect' 312. Anno etc. per sacramentum etc. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod cum quidam S. A. percarius prenobilis W. comit' Penbrochie parce sui de Ponsburie in comit' praedict' vicesimo die januarij Anno regni dictae dominae Reginae quarto, circa undecimam horam eiusdem diei inveniebat praedict' Th. H. in parco praedict' venant' & vagrant ad damnum ibidem faciend'. Et praedict' T. H. post clamorem ꝑ praedict' St. adtunc & ibidem levat ad pacem dictae dominae Reginae ad stand' rect' reddere se nolebat sed ad malitiam snam exequend' & continuand' & pace dictae dominae Regin̄ diffugiend', vi & armis tunc & ibidem se defendebat predictus St. A. adtunc & ibidem veniens ad eundem malefactorem sic inuent' arrestand' & capiend' cum quadam tendite Anglice vocat' a Forest bill, quam praedictus S. A. in manu sua dextra tenuit praedict' T. H. vi & armis resistantem adtunc & ibidem in pectus ipsius T. percussit, de quo quidem ictu idem T. H. primo die Februarij tunc prox' sequent apud Soxfield, predict' in comitatu predicto obijt. Et luratores praedicti ulterius dicunt super sacramentum suum. Quod praedictus S. A. non occasione alicuius discordie contumeij aut alicuius maleuolenc' sive odij precogitat sed solummodo ob causam praedictam & non aliam praed' T. H. percussit ut prefertur: In cuius rei testimonium etc. An Indictment of Confederacy or Combination by oath against the Queen and others. INquiratur pro Domina Regina, si Io. H. de B. in comitatu Lincoln Sect' 313. yeoman, & W. P. de G. in comitatu praedict' yeoman, E. F. de G. m comitat' praedict' yeoman, die Lune proxime post festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli obligaverunt, & fides suas mutuas insimul dederunt iuraverunt & sacramenta sua super librum prestiterunt, quod in alto & basso justicia & iniusticia iure & iniuria, se ad invicem tenerent et in omnibusoccasionib' querelis & demand ' quibuscunque contra ipsos vel quenlibet eor mouend' ad sectam domini regis seu alicuius alterius partis & combinaverunt & confederaverunt contra dictam dominam Reginam & cunctum populum suum, in magnum preiudicium & lectium totius populi dictae dominae Reginae, & contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' & provis. An Indictment upon the statute of Maintenance, for the maintaining of one in an action of Formedon in discender. INquiratur pro domina Regina, quod cum in statuto in Parliamento Sect' 314. apud Westmon̄ nuper edit' inter cetera continetur, quod nulla persona de regno dominae Reginae Angliae cuiuscunque status gradus sive conditionis fuerit, aliquam querelam in qliqua curia nec alibi manuteneat, nec sustineat super penam imprisonamenti & faciend' dominae Reginae finem & redemptionem ad voluntatem ipsius dominae Reginae prout etc. Quidam tamen P. M. de P. in comitatu N. yeoman, statur praedict' minime ponderans quandam querelam cuiusdam loquelae que E. in curia dominae Reginae nunc Elizab. coram iusticiarijs dictae dominae Reginae de communi banco ap●●d Westmonasterium per breve ipsius dominae Reginae de Forma donationis in discender inter R. G. petent & N. A. tenent de quinque acris terre etc. cum pertin' in C. pro part ipsius N. tenend' secundo die Aprilis anno etc. apud N. in comitatu praedict' manutenuit & sustentavit, et adhuc sustentat in dictae dominae Reginae nunc contemptum, ac contra formam statuti, et contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae. An Indictment of Forcible entre upon the statute of Anno 8. Hen. 6. INquiratur pro domina Regina, Quod cum in statuto in Parliamen● Sect' 315. domini Henrici 6. nuper Regis Angliae apud W. Anno regni sui octavo tent' edit' inter cetera continetur: Quod si aliqua persona de aliquibus terris vel tenementis manuforti expulsa sit vel disseisit vel pacifice expellat & postea manuforti extra teneatur vel per aliquod feoffamentum vel discontinuationem inde post talem ingressum ad ius possessoris defraudend' & tollend' aliquo modo siat, habeat pars in hac part gravat versus talem disseisitorem Assisam noue disseisine vel breve de transgressione, Et si pars gravat per Assisam vel actionem transgressionis recuperet per veredictum vel alio modo per debitam legis formam inveniatur, Quod pars defendens in terris vel tenement' viingressa fuit vel ea per vim post ingressum suum tenuit, recuperabit, querens dampna sua ad triplum versus defendentem. Et ulterius finem & redemptionem ad dominam Reginam faciat prout in Statuto plenius apparet: Quidam tamen I. D. de D. in comitatu praedict' Yeoman, & R. s. de eodem comitatu yeoman, Statutum praedict' minime vere● primo die Maij anno etc. apud D. praedict' in comitatu praedict' quendam W. S. de uno messuagio sive tenement' cum pertinentijs in D. praedict' per mandat W. Bush manuforti expellaverunt & disseisiverunt ac ipsum sic expulsum et disseis●t̄ a praedict' primo die Maij usque diem capcionis huius Inquisicionis extratenuerunt & adhuc extra tenent, contra pacem Dominae Reginae Coronae & dignitat suas, & contra formam Statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' et provisi. An Indictment for shooting in a Handgunne, against one that may not dispend C. li. per annum. INquiratur pro domina Regina, quod cum I. R. de W. in comitatu Sect' 316. praedict' generos. non habens terras tenementa feod' vel Annuitates ad usum suum proprium annui valoris centum librarum nono die julij anno Regni Regis Richardi primi apud S. in comitatu M. sagittavit in quodam torment̄ vocat' a Handgunne, contra statut' in hivismodi casu edit' & provis. The Title of the general Sessions of the peace, in the County of Chester. ¶ Sessio pacis generals dominae Reginae tent' apud Cestr̄ in comitat' Cestr̄ videlicet, quarto die Maij, anno Regni dominae Elizabethae dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae fidei defensor etc. decimo coram S. H. D. L. S. E. & alijs justiciarijs pacis in Comitat● praedict'. Inquisitio capt' ibidem per sa cramentum R. M. de &. Qui 〈◊〉 super sacrament̄ suum, quod cum in statuto etc. The Traverse of an Indictment of Forcible entry. PRo A. B. C. D. E. F. versus dominam Regin̄ in travers super Indictament. ¶ Et praedict' A. B. C. D. & E. F. per I. B. atturnatum suum ven' et dicunt, quod dicta domina Regina nunc ipsos seu aliquem ipsorum actione Indictament praedict' gravare seu impetere non velit aut debet: Quia protestand' quoth indictament predictmminus sufficiens in lege existit ad ponend' ipsos respondere, pro placito tamen seperatim dicunt quod quoad, vi & armis, & quicquid quod est contra pacem dicte domine Regine, n●c non ad intracionem disseisinam, expulsionem, extrat●nationem, & quicquid quod est contra formam statuti praedict' ijdem A. B. C. D. & E. F. dicunt quod ipsi in nullo sunt culpabiles modo & forma prout per indictament predict' superius supponitur. Et de hoc ponunt se seperatim super patriam: et R. C. armiger qui pro domina Regina hic in hac part sequitur, pro ipsa domina Regina similiter etc. An Indictment for making of false gold at Roan in France, and for uttering of it in England. INquiratur pro domino Rege & domina Regina, Quare cum in statuto Sect' 317. in Parliamento dictorum domini regis & dominae Reginae nuper tent' apud Westmon̄ duodecimo die Novembris Annis regnorum dicti domini regis & domine regine, primo & secundo authoritate eiusdem parliamenti inactitat & ordinatfuit. Quod si aliqua persona sive alique person post vicesimum diem lanuarij extunc proxim' sequent introduceret sive introducerent, a partibus transmarinis in hoc regnum Anglie vel in aliquod dominum huius dicti regni Anglie, aliquas falsas & cōtraf●ctas cuneas monetas sive pecunias de auro aut argent̄ alicuius alterius regni, non existent' de proprijs cuneis, monet, sive pecunijs de hoc regn̄ Anglie, scientes predict' cuneas monetas, sive pecunias fore falsas & cōtrafact̄, Ea intencione ad vtterand' siue soluend' predict' falsas controfact̄ cuneas, monetas sive pecunias infra hoc regnum Anglie & dominij eiusdem regni per merchandisas vel aliter. Quod tunc talis persona, sive person sic ut spradict' est oftendentes & eorum conciliatores procuratores, auxiliatores, & abbettaores in tali casu, existimati erunt & adiudicabuntur fore offenditores in alta prodicione. Et quod praedict' persona sive person sic offendentes, & post eorum legittimam convictionem sive attincturam subibunt tales penas mortis et forisfacturas, terrarum, bonorum, et catallorum suorum, sicut alij offendentes in casibus alte ꝓditionis, prout in eodem statuto satis apart declaratur: Quidam tamen H. S. nuper de Hallifax in come Ebor' Merchant, alias dict' H. S. de Halifax in come E. Merchant, post predict' vicesimum diem januar, et post ordinationem statuti predict', viz. undecimo die mensis Nouembris, annis regnorum Phillippi et Mariae dei gratia Regis et Reginae, Hispaniarum, Franc', utriusque Ceciliae, jerusalem, et Hibern̄ fidei defensorum, Archiduc' Austriae, Duc' Burgundy, Medowlan, et Brabanc', Comit' Haspurgij, Flandr', et Tirolis, tertio et quarto, numerum xxxj. li. et x. s. in sexaginta et sex pec' vocat' half Soveraines, and English Crowns, de aere, cupro, alcameno, et diversis alijs metallis insimul mixt ', falso et proditori● apud Roan, et Diepe, in partibus transmarinis in regno Galliae, and similitudinem bonarum dimidium Sufferanciarum et coronarum Auri de cuna dictorum dni Regis et dnae Reginae huius regni Angliae, per quosdam falsos proditores apud Roane et Diepe predict' in praedict' partibus transmarinis falso & ꝓditorie ibidem fabricat & contrafact' a praedicto regno Galliae, usque ad hoc regnum Angliae, & ad Civitat Norwichiae introduxit & introduci procuravit. Et praed' H. S. praedictas sexaginta dimid' sufferenc' vocat' threescore half sufferains, ac praedict' sex coronas Anglice vocat' vi. English crowns, modo & forma praedict' fore falsas & fabricat secundum formam & similitudinem bonarum dimidiarum sufferanc' & Coronarum huius regni Angliae affirmans, dictas sufferenc' & Coronas illas fore de bono auro & de habili monet huius regni Angliae quinque falsas dimid' sufferanc' & unam Coronam vocat' half English Sufferaines, and one English Crown, de praedict' sexaginta & sex dimid' sufferenc' & Coronis in forma praedict' ex ere cupro alcameno, fabricat, & contrafact' cuidam H. B. hic apud Norwican̄ in comitatu praedict' pro uno equo, uno gladio, & uno scuto de bonis et cattallis praedict' H. B. per ipsum H. S. de eodem H. B. adtunc & ibidem empt̄, pro bona solucione falso fraudulenter & proditorie adtunc & ibidem utteravit soluit & liberavit, contr̄ pacem etc. ac contra formam statuti etc. An Indictment of Trespass for breaking of a close, and destroying of wheat then growing in the same. Ivrat presentant pro domina Regina, quod W. C. nuper de D. in come Sect' 318. praedict' Arm T. B. etc. tertio die etc. vi et armis etc. clausum I. N. apud S. in comitat' praedict' in quodam campo vocat' &c. fregerunt & intraverunt & tres quarterias frumenti ipsius I. N. ad valenc' trium librarum adtunc & ibidem crescent cum quibusdam bigis sive carucis equis & pedibus suis ambuland' conculcaverunt & consumpserunt. Et alia enormia ei intulerunt, contra pacem dictorum dominae regis, & dominae Reginae nunc etc. An Indictment or Inquisition before the Coroner super visum corporis, of one who killed one in his own defence. IN quisitio indentat capt' apud T. in comitatu Cestrie, secundo die etc. Sect' 319. Anno etc. coram I. M. gen uno Coronat dictae dominae Reginae in comit' praedict' super visum corporis A. B. nuper etc. adtunc & ibidem super terram mortui jacent per sacrament etc. I. H. etc. ac de tribus alijs villat̄ propinquioribus, videlicet, A. B. C. in comitatu praedict' add inquirend' qualiter & quomodo praedict' A. B. ad mortem suam devenit: qui super sacramentum suum dicunt. Quod cum ipse A. B. decimo quinto die Octobris, Anno Regni etc. quinto circa horam septimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei apud T. praedict' in comitat' praedict', vi & armis contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae in quendam R. nuper de T. praedict' in comitat' Cestriae praedict' Butcher, adtunc & ibidem in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae existent insultum fecit & ipsum R. B. cum quodam baculo vocat' a Pikeforke, quemidem A. in manibus suis tenuit, verberavit, ac super brachium suum graviter percussit, ita ut idem R. B. pro ipsius vite, saluatione a praedicto A. B. quantum potuit, fugit usque ad magnam concavam pipam vocat' a hollow slake ultra quam ipse R. B. a prefat' A. fugere non potuisset, Et sic ipse R. B. seipsum, ac vitam suam defentem praedict' A. B. praedict' insultum, assidue continuand' super posteriorem partem capitis ipsius A. dicto xv. die Octobris anno quinto hora & loco supradictis, cum quodam baculo vocat' a brown Bill, pretij etc. quem idem R. B. adtunc & ibidem in manibus suis tenuit percussit, dans ei plagam mortalem, tres pollices longam unam pollicem latam & dimid' unius pollicis profund': Super quam quidem plagam ipse A. B. languidus iacebat usque ad vicesimum diem Octobris praedict', in quo q●idem xx. die Octobris anno etc. idem A. apud T. predict' in come praed' ex ipsa plaga ei dat' modo & forma praed' moriebatur. In cu●us rei testimon etc. An Indictment or Inquisition taken before the Coroners super visum corporis, of one slain by misfortune, by one as he was shooting at the Butts. INquisitio indentat capt' apud B. in comitatu etc. die & Anno &c. Sect' 320. coram R. H. Armiger: uno Coronatorum dict' dominae Regine in comitat' predict' super visum corporis I. C. nuper de R. in comitatu praed' Labourer, adtunc & ibidem super super terram mortui jacent per sacrament I. B. senioris I. H. etc. ac de tribus alijs villat̄ propinquioribus, videlicet, de M. R. et E. in comitat' praedict' ad inquirend' qualiter & quomodo predict' I. E. ad mortem suam devenit: Qui super sacramentum suum predict' dicunt, quod cum quidem Christop W. nuper de civitate Cestriae in comitat' civitat Cestriae shereman, cum multis alijs, secundo die etc. anno etc. sexto supradicto circa horam primam post meridiem eiusdem secundi diei apud B. praedict' in comitat' Cestrie praedict' in pace dei ac dominae Reginae existent, ac ibidem ad metas Anglice vocat' Buttes sagittan adtunc & ibidem venit praedict' I. E. ad metas praedict', ac dum praedict' C. W. ad ipsas metas inter sagittand' fuit, ipse I. E. obiter & improviso posuit se inter metas praedict' ut praedict' C. W. sagittabat ad metas praedict' cum quadam sagitta pretij etc. dicto secundo die julij, ac hora & loco supradictis per infortunium percussit praedict' I. E. in gutture dans ei mortalem plagam inprofund tate duos policies. Super quam quidem plagam ipse I. E. a praedict' secundo die julij usque ad quintum diem eiusdem mensis apud R. praedict' in comitatu Cestrie praedict' languidus iacebat, ac in eodem quinto die mensis julij praedict' ipse I. E. apud T. predict' in comit' Cestr praedict' de praedict' plagamodo & forma predict' moriebatur, Ac etiam juratores praedict' super sacramentum suum praed' dicavit quod praed' C. W. dicto 2. die julij, aut aliquo tempore post eundem 2. diem mensis julij non habuit aliqua bona seu catalla infra praedict' come Cestr. In cuius re●testimonium utrisque partibus huius inquisitionis tam praedict' Coronat quam praedict' juratores sigilla sua posuerunt die & anno primo supradictis. An Indictment against the Husband and his wife for lying in wait, and for the assaulting, beating and wounding of one. INquiratur pro domino Rege & Regina, Si N. B. nuper de T. in comitatu Sect' 321. Cestrie yeoman, K. W. uxor eius etc. decimo septimo die etc. Anno etc. apud T. juxta T. in comitatu praedict' in quodam loco vocat' le Hall yard, iacuerunt in insidijs & adtunc & ibidem insidiati fuerunt quendam R. H. & ipsum R. ibidem vi & armis &c. insultum fecerunt, verberaverunt, vulneraverunt & maletractaverunt. Ita quod idem R. languidus existit ac de vita sua desperabatur, vi & armis, & contra pacem etc. An Inquisition of wilful Murder taken before divers of the judges and others, as justices of the Peace, for a Murder done in Westminster. INquisitio capt' apud Westmonaster̄ in comitatu Middlesex' twenty-three. die Sect' 322. Aprilis anno Regni Elizab. etc. xuj. coram joh. Southcot uno Iusticiar' dictae dominae Reginae ad placita coram ipsa Regina tenend' assign' Rob. Mounson uno Iusticiar' eiusdem domine Regine de banco, Gilb. Gerrard armiger, Atturnat dicte domine Regine generali, Will' P. & B. R. armig' Iustic' dicte domine Regine apud pacem in comit' praed' conseruand', nec non ad diversas felonias, transgr, & alia malefact' in eodem come perpetrat audiend' & terminand' assignat' per sacramentum 12. ●urat' exitit presentat, quod R. S. nuper de civitate Westmon in come Midd' & I. T. nuper de civitat W. pndict̄ in come praed' yeoman, xx. die M. ann Reg. Eliz. etc. xuj. vi et armis viz. gladijs, baculis etc. circa hor̄ vj. post meridien eiusd' diei ex malitia sua peogitat apud civet W. pnd' in come pnd' in quend' W. R. I. in pace dei & dict' dne Reg' adtunc et ibid' exist' insult fecer & praed' R. S. cum uno glagio quem ipse praedict' adtunc & ibidem in manu sua dextra habuit et tenuit praedict' W. R. I. super dextrum brachium Ipsius W. adtunc & ibidem felonice percussit & dedit e● adtunc et ibidem unam plagam mortalem profunditatis quatuor pollicium et latitudinis ●nius pollicis de qua quidem plaga mortali praedict' W. R. I. apud civitatem W. praed' in come praed' die et Anno supradict' instanter obijt. Et quod praedictus I. T. praed' nineteen. die Martij Anno xvi. supradicto apud Westm praed' in come praed' felonice fuit presence, procurans abbettans, confortans et auxilians prefatum R. S. ad feloniam et murdrum praed' in forma praed' faciend' & perpetrand', contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc. Et sic praedict' R. S. & I. T. die anno loco & comit' praedict' prefat' W. R. I. ex malitijs suis prceogitat felonice et voluntary interfecerunt & murdraverunt, contra pacem dictae dnae regin̄ nunc Coronam & dignitatem suas. An Indictment of manslaughter against many, some for striking of the party slain, and some others for comforting, and aiding of them being present, and some as accessories after the fact committed, and that divers of them fled. INquisicio capt' apud Cestr̄ infra Wardam Castri domini regis, ibidem Sect' 323. die veneris prox' post festum Apostolorum Simonis et Jude anno regni regis Rich. tertij post conquestum Angliae secundo, coram T. H. et I. L. Coron dicti domini regis hundred ' de B. in come Cestriae super visum corporis I. C. felonice interfecti per sacramentum etc. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum, quod T. W. nuper de M. in comit' Cestr yeoman, R. B. nuper de M. in come Cestr armig', N. B. nuper de M. & alij &c. die sabbati prox' post festum exaltationis sancti Cruci, Ann regniregis R. 3. post conquestum Angliae secundo apud H. in comitat' Cestr̄ in insidijs iacuerunt pro dicto I. C. ipsum ad verberand', vulnerand', & felonice interficieud ' vi et armis, et contra pacem domini regis: Et dicto die Sabbati & ann apud H. pnd' in ipsum I. C. insult' fecerunt. Et pnd' T. W. die Sabb. & a● pnd' apud pnd' felonice percussit pnd' I. C. super caput su● usque ad cerebrum cum quodam gladio pretij etc. & dedit ei plagam mortalem unde obijt die veneris prox' post festum sancti Mich. Arch. tunc prox' sequent apud Cestriam praedict', infra wardam Castri domini regis ibidem. Et sic praed' T. W. ipsum I. C. dict' die Sabbati, & anno apud H. praedict' felonice interfecit: Et quod praed' R. B. eisdem die et anno apud H. felonice percussit praedictum I. C. super tibiam suam dextram cum quodam gladio pretij etc. & dedit ei plagam mortalem unde obire debuisset si non obijsset de ictu quam praedict' T. W. ei prius dedit. Et sic praedict' R. B. ipsum I. C. dicto die Sabbati, et anno apud H. praedict' felonice interfecit. Et quod praedict' N. B. I. H. I. M. & R. C. dict' die Sabbaei & Anno apud H. pnd', felonice fuer' pnsentes auxiliantes comfortantes et abbettantes pnd' T. W. ad felon pnd' in forma praed' faciend' vi & armis & contra pacem dict' dni Regis, Et quod praed' R. B. N. B. I. H. I. M. et R. C. eisdem die Sabbati & Anno apud H. praedict' felonice fuerunt praesentes auxiliantes, abbettantes et confortantes, praed' T. W. ad feloniam praed' in forma praed' faciend' vi & armis & contra pacem dicti domini Regis etc. Et quod I. B. nuper de M. in come Cestr gen frater R. B. milit iam defuncti, T. B. nuper de M. in comitatu Cestriae gen frater praed' I. H. B. nuper de M. in come Cestriae sen gen frater praed' T. W. B. nuper de M. in come Cestriae gen filius praed' R. B. milit iam defunct' &c. eisdem die Sabbati et ann apud M. pnd' in come Cestriae felonice fuer' vi auxilio, consilio et abettamento pnd' T. W. & R. B. ad fellonian pnd' in forma pnd' faciend' vi & armis & contra pacem dicti dni Regis: Et qđ W. E. nuper de E. in come Cestriae gen R. H. nuperde M. in come Cestriae yeoman, I. H. nuper de ead' in come pnd' yeoman &c. die lunae prox' post festum S. Michael' Archangeli Ann̄ regni regis R. 3. post conquestum Angl' secundo apud M. in come pnd' felonice assistaver pnd' receptaverunt et confortaver praed' I. W. & R. B. armig', scientes ipsum T. et R. fellonian pnd' in forma pnd' felonice fecisse vi & armis et contra pacem dni regis. Item dicunt juratores pnd' qđ praed' T. W. R. B. N. B. I. H. etc. post felloniam pnd' factam. Die Mercurij prox' post festum sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno supradict' Regis praedict' fugerunt, et se eadem f●lonia praedict' retraxerunt a come Cestriae usque villain de Whitchurch, in come Salloppe felonice ac vi et armis, & contra pacem domini Regis. In cuius re● testimonium etc. An Indictment for keeping a bawdy house, and using of unlawful games. I Vrat praesentant quod N. W. de A. & I. Tailor, et E. uxor eius etc. Sect. 324. sunt communes lupinat & diversis diebus et vicibus ante diem huius inquisicionis in domibus suis scituat etc. manutenere hospic' lupinar nec non diversas personas suspect' ibidem ludentes ad luda illicita, viz. Tables, Cards, tam in die quam in nocte post horas debitas et legittimas ad gravamen iuhabitantium ibidem ac malum exemplum omnium aliorum legeorum domini Begis etc. An Indictment for keeping of evil Rule. I Vratores praesentant, qđ W. H. de parochia sancti Clementis in come Sect. 325. Midd' et Maria uxor eius die etc. Anno etc. ac diversis diebus antea et postea hucusque custodierunt et adhuc custodiunt lupanariam, luxuriam, et fornicacionem ꝓ omnibus hominibus et mulieribus ad talia nephanda opera disposita, ac custodiuut communem Dicing and carding, etc. et ali● illicita ad gravamen omnium vicinorum ibid' inhabitan, et in malum exemplum aliorum legorum etc. contra pacem etc. An Indictment for keeping a bawdy house. I Vrat praesentant, quod R. M. de etc. in come etc. W. H. de etc. die Sect. 326. & anno &c. ac diversis temporibus antea & postea apud etc. tenent custodiunt occupant & frequentant in mancionibus suis ibid' communia hospitia lupinar̄ luxur̄ et fornicationem, & permittunt tam seculares quam regulares & laicos homines et alias personas suspectas non bone gestus nec fame cum meretricibus carnaliter concumbere ad magnum nocumentum totius populi domini Regis ibid' prope commorancium & malum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali casu delinquentium nisi citius in hac part debitum provideatur remedium ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for slandering of a jury. I Vratores daunt curiam intelligi. Quod cum ipsi tali die & anno apud Sect. 327. etc. cuncti fuerant ad inquirend' & interloquend' de diversis articulis & offensis super eorum sacrament̄ pro dicto dno Rege ibi die et anno supradict' venit quidam T. P. de S. in come praed' ut barrectator et pacis domini Regis perturbator, et praedict' juratores vili pendit et scandalizavit dicendo sic in anglicanis verbis Fie on you false harlots papered The words. knaves, and perjured knaves, ac alia minatoria & contumeliofa verba eisdem jurat dixit in magnam redarguacionem et vilipend' jurat praed' ac retardacionem execucionis eorum iuramet, Et contra pacem etc. An Indictment against a manswife as a common Barrator and sour of dissension amongst her neighbours, and a common scold. I Vratores praesentant, quod A. E. uxor etc. de etc. in come etc. non est Sect. 328. bonae famae nec conversacionis honestae sed male dispositionis barrectator et pacis domini Regis perturbator: Ita quod verisimile est facere murdrum homicid' lights et discord' ac alia damna & gravamina inter legeos domini Regis ibid' praetextu praemiss●rum, & est communis ob●●rgatrix et blasphematrix vicinorum suorum, & magna scandala eis ibidem imponit, ad magnum nocumentum omnium inhabitantium villae praed' et perniciosum exemplum omnium aliorum in tali statu delinquentium, & contra pacem etc. An Indictment for a Rape committed by a Minister, upon a maid of 14. years old. I Vratores praesentant, Quod T. Thorneton de etc. in come etc. Clericus Sect. 329. die & Anno &c. vi & armis, viz. gladijs baculis etc. in I. F. adtunc aetatis xiv. annorum apud etc. insultum fecit & corpus et ventrem praed' Io. adtunc & ibidem manibus suis felonice vulneravit fregit et jaceravit, nec non eandem Io. contra voluntatem ipsius Io. adtunc & ibidem carnaliter cognovit et felonice rapuit contra pacem etc. An Indictment against forestallers of the markets within the verge. I Vratores praesentant, Quod I. R. de etc. et R. S. etc. a die & anno &c. Sect. 330. usque diem capcionis huius Inquisitionis apud C. in come praedict' infra virgam, singular commodum suum & non utilitatem reipublice indebite affectantes, blada, grana, & alia victualia quae usque civitat London & villae Westmon praedict' in come praedict' pro sustentacione populi dicti domini Regis ibidem venerunt & venire debuislent per tempus praed' forstallaverunt & regrataverunt, et indies forstallare & regratare non desistunt per quod blada grana & alia victualia multo maioris carioris & altioris praetij efficiuntur quam deberent si forstallatores & regratores huiusmodi non fuissent in dicti dni Regis, nunc contemptum & legeorum suorum maxim dispend' & gravamen, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum in hac part edit', ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment against a Gaoler (for enlarging of one committed to prison) within the verge upon suspicion of felony without warrant. I Vratores praesentant, quod W. H. de etc. die & Anno apud S. predict ' Sect. 331. in come praed' infra virgam cepit & arrestavit quendam R. F. nuper de etc. pro suspexcione felloniae & ipsum R. adtunc & ibidem in prisona dni Regis sub custod' sua pro felonia praed' per spacium unius horae detinuit: Et postea die & anno supradict̄ praed' W. H. praed' R. F. apud S. praed' in come praed' infra virgam fellonice voluntary & volenter ad largum suum ire promisit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment against a man's wife, for stealing xx. s. in money. I Vratores praesentant, quod I. W. uxor etc. de etc. alias dict' I. W. Sect. 332. de E. praedict' in come praedict' Spinster, die & anno &c. vi & armis &c. xx. s. in pecunijs numeratis de bonis & denarijs 1 B. apud E. praed' in come praedict' adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice furat fuit cepit & asportavit, contra pacem etc. An indictment against a wife, for stealing 60. li. in money and against an other as accessory. I Vratores praesentant, quod Io. W. uxor etc. alias dict' Io. W. de E. Sect. 333. praed' in come praed' Spinster, die Anno etc. lx. li. in pecunijs numerat de bonis & denarijs 1 B. apud E. praed' in praed' camer adtunc & ibidem invenit felonice furata fuit cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. Et quod W. W. nuper de E. in come praed' Butcher, sciens praefat' Io. W. felloniam praed' in forma praed' fecisse eandem Io. dictis di● Anno & loco Accessory. felonice confortavit auxiliavit & receptavit, contra pacem dicti domini Regis etc. An Indictment for stealing of three men's Coats. I Vrat pnsentant quod T. S. et W. H. de etc. in come etc. die Anno etc. vi et Sect. 334. armis etc. tres tunicas viriles de panno laneo coloris Tawny, ad valenc' etc. de bonis et catallis cuiusdam honis ignoti apud H. in come Midd' adtunc et ibid' felonice furat fuit cepit & asportavit contra pacem etc. An Indictment against an Heretic, for using of words. I Vratores praesentant, quod T. M. de etc. est homo diabolicus et communis Sect. 335. hereticus fidem Catholicam et obseruencian eiusd' magnopere machinans et contemnens. Et quod ipse tali die et Anno etc. apud pnd' parochiani in praesentia diversorum sudbitorum ac legeorum dict' dni regis haec verba scandalosa et hereticalia, dixit, retulit, et propaliavit: Christ never died nor shed his blood for us, but only for them that were in Limbo patrum, and as for Images in the Church they be but Idols, cum multis alijs verbis scandalosis et hereticalibus in contemptu fidei catholicae ac in perniciosum exemplum omnium aliorum legeorum dict' domini regis ac cont●a pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking of a house, and taking out of a chest in the house seven pounds in money. I Vratores praesentant, quod R. T. de etc. et I. C. de etc. tali die et anno Sect. 336. vi & armis &c. domum T. P. apud praed' villam in come praed' fregit et septem libras in pecunijs numeratis de bonis et denarijs praed' T. in cista praed' existent adtunc et ibid' extra cistam praed' felonice furat fuerunt ceperunt et asportaverunt contra pacem dict' dni regis etc. An Indictment for a Maim in both the hands. I Vratores praesentant, quod cum H. P. de etc. tali die et Anno apud C. Sect. 337. praed' in quodam loco vocat' F. fuit in pace deiet dict' dni Regis, dict' die et anno apud C. praed' in praed' loco vocat' F. venerunt A. B. C. D. et E. F. de etc. et in dictum H. P. ibid' insultum, ut felones dicti dni Regis insidiand' & ex insultu praemeditat̄ per mandat et procurationem P. P. de etc. fecerunt. Et pnd' A. B. cum quodam baculo ad valenc' etc. quem ipse in manibus suis adtū● et ibid' tenuit pnd' H. P. super dextran manum svam adtunc et ibid' felon' percussit et ipsum H. P. adtunc et ibid' vulneravit et felonice mahemavit sic quod venae et nerui eiusdem dextrae manus retract' et mortificat devenerunt per qđ praed' H. P. auxilium et potenciam dextrae manus pnd' totaliter amisit. Et pnd' C. D. cum uno alio baculo ad valenc' etc.▪ quem ipse in manibus suis adtunc et ibidem tenuit, praed' H. P. super sinistram manum adtunc et ibidem felonice percussit et ipsum H. adtunc et ibidem verberavit vulneravit et felonice mahemavit sic quod venae et nerui eiusdem manus sinistrae refrict̄ et mortificat devenerunt, per quod idem H. P, vim auxilium et potentiam eiusdem finistrae manus totaliter amisit contra pacem etc. An Indictment upon the statute of Anno 5. R. 2. I Vrat praesentant quod cum in statuto in Parliamento domini regis Sect. 338. Richardi nuper Reg' Angliae secundi apud Waestm̄ Anno regni sui quinto tent' edit' inter alia ordinat sit. Quod nullus faciat ingressum in aliquibus terris sive tenementis nisi in casu ubi ingressus ei datur per legem et in illo casu non manuforti nec multitudine gentium sed licito et quieto modo tantum. Et si quis in contrarium fecerit et inde debito modo conuict' fuerit per imprisonament̄ corporis sui puniatur, & ad voluntatem domini Regis redimatur prout in eodem statuto plenius contineatur. Quidam tamen I. S. de etc. statutum praed' minime ponderans nec penam in eodem content̄, die etc. Anno etc. in quoddam tenement' cum pertinent & quatuor acras terrae cuiusdam I. B. apud H. praed' in come praedict' in quo eidem johanni ingressus non datur per legem ibidem ingressus fuit in dicti domini Regis contemptum. Ac contra formam statuti praed'. An f●formation wherein the party desireth the good Abearing against one. That est curiae intelligi per relationem & testimonium 1 P. T. I. & alios quod R. M. de S. in comitatu etc. est communis Barrectator & pacis domini Regis perturbator vocand' vicinos suos thieves knaves & alia huiusmodi ignominia necnon communis furator bosci. Ita quod verisimile est murdrum, homicid' lights & discord' inter vicinos, ibidem indies oriri nisi citius provideatur inde remedium ad mocionem omnium inhabitantium in villa praed' ac in malum exemplum omnium aliorum legeorum domini Regis. An Indictment against one for keeping of vagabonds, whores, and idle lewd suspected persons, and evil rule in his house. I Vrat praesentant quod T. E. de etc. in domo suo continue recepit Sect. 339. hospitat et supportat vagabond' meretrices, et alios diversos homines ociosoes suspect' & male conversacionis. Et continue custod' malam regulam et gubernacionem in domo sua ad grave nocument & perturbacionem omnium vicinorum suorum ac contra formam diversorum statut' etc. ac contra pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking of a close, and driving away of cattle out of the close. I Vrat pnsentant qđ T. S. de etc. die et ann etc. vi & armis &c. clausum I. Sect. 340. D. apud H. pnd' fregerunt & intraverunt & averia ipsius I. D. adtunc & ibid' depascat ceperunt & abind fugaverunt contra pacem etc. An Indictment of Trespass for breaking of a close, and eating of the grass with cattle. INquiratur etc. Si A. B. & C. D. de etc. die & Anno &c. vi & armis Sect. 341. &c. clausum E. F. apud W. praedict' in come praedict' fregerunt & intraverunt et herbam suam adtunc et ibidem cum quibusdam averijs suis, viz. equis vaccis & bobus depascat fuerunt conculcaverunt et consumpserunt contra pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking into a close, and treading down the grass. INquiratur etc. Si A. B. de etc. die et Anno etc. vi & armis &c. clausum Sect. 342. D. E. apud C. praedict' in come praedict' fregit et intravit et herbam suam ibidem ad valenc' etc. pedibus ambuland' conculcavit et consumpsit. Et alia enormia etc. ad grave dampnum etc. et contra pacem etc. An Indictment for breaking of a Close, and cutting down of trees and underwoods'. IVratores praesentant, quod A. B. nuper de C. in come etc. die et Anno Sect. 343. etc. vi et armis etc. clausum D. E. apud C. praedict' in cen praedict' fregit, et intravit, et arbores, et suboscos suos ad valenc' &c. ibid' nuper crescent succidit et asportavit ad grave damnum etc. ac contra pacem dicti domini Regis etc. An Indictment for taking of a Cade of sprats by extortion, without any warrant or cause so to do. INquiratur etc. Si W. B. de etc. tali die et anno apud S. praedict' in Sect. 344. contemptu domini Regis et per extorcionem arrestavit et abduxit bona & catalla cuiusdam T. H. viz. quandam cadam, vocat' a Cade of Sprats, ad valenc' etc. de bonis et catallis ipsius T. apud S. praedict' adtunc et ibidem inuent' absque warr' seu causa rationabili cepit et asportavit in contemptum dicti Domini Regis, ac contra formam statut' etc. An Indictment for not repairing the pavement of a high way, which ought to be repaired by a Bishop. IVratores praesentant, quod pars regiae viae apud S. in come praedict' in Sect. 345. quantitate viginti pedum jacent et existent ex opposito certis terris sive tenementis domini Episcopi Cestriae ibidem est ruinosa pro defectu reparacionis paviament ibid' add grave et commune nocumentum populi dni Regis. Et qđ pred' Episcopus debet facere et reparare pred' paviament ex suis proprijs expens. et juxta formam statuti etc. An Indictment against the Prior of S. john's jerusalem, and the Master of the Savoy, for stopping of a common Sewer. IVratores praesentant, pro dno Rege quod Prior hospitalis sancti johannis Sect. 346. jerusalem, et magistre hospitalis de Savoy, obstupant et quilibet eorum obstupat cursam aquae de le common Sewer, apud S. praed' in come praed' quod debet et a tempore quo non extat memoria consuevit habere cursum et recursum suum a terra praed' Prioris usque ad terram praed' magistri hospitalis de Savoy praed' & ab inde usque ad Thamesin: Ita qđ pro defectu huiusmodi cursus aquae ibidem non potest fluere neque refluere sed in tempore plwiali praed' regiam viam sepe superfluit pro defectu mundacionis eiusdem, ad grave & common nocumentum populi domini Regis etc. An Indictment against a Bishop and Churchwardens, for not repairing of a ruinous and broken Bridge. IVratores praesentant etc. quod communis pons apud strand ' etc. Sect. 347. adeo ruinosus & confractus existit pro defectu reparacionis eiusdem pontis quod homines per praed' pontem itinerantes absque magno periculo non possunt itinerare ad grave et commune nocumentum populi domini rcgis: Et quod dnus Episcopus Cestriae et gardiani ecclesiae parochialis beatae Mariae virginis de S. praed' pro tempore existentes debent reparare, sustentare et manutenere, et quilibet eorum pro part sua debet reparare sustentare et manutenere praedict' pontem ex suis proprijs custagijs, et expens. viz. praed' episcopus ex part occidentali eiusdem pontis et praefat' gardiani ex part orientali. An Indictment, for stopping and enclosing the King's high way with hedge and ditch. IVratores praesentant, quod A. B. de etc. vj. die Aprilis etc. vi et armis Sect. 348. etc. regiam viam apud etc. tam fossat quam saepi injust obstupavit et inclusit: Quae quidem via jacet in vico vocat' etc. et extendit se usque regiam viam apud hospitalem sancti Cornelij, ita quod homines neque pedestres, neque equestres per praedict' viam pertransire possint. Et quod praedicta via debet et a tempore quo non extat memoria solebat esse communis via quousque A. B. illam in forma praed' fecisset contra pacem etc. ad grave dampnum et commune nocumentum legeorum dicti dni Regis. An Indictment for killing of one in his own defence taken super visum corporis. INquisicio capt' apud D. in come praed' die et anno etc. coram R. T. uno Sect. 349. coronat dicti dni Regis in come praed' de et super visum corporis A. B. de C. in come praed' yeoman, ibidem jacent interfecti ac mortui, eiusdem A. B. per sacramentum xii. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum, quod ubi quidam I. G. nuper de etc. in come praedict' Husband, fuit in pace dei et dicti domini Regis nunc apud C. praedict' quarto die Maij Anno etc. c●rca horam quartam post meridiem eiusdem diei venit praedict' A. B. ex malitia sua praecogitata et in ipsum I. G. adtunc et ibidem insultum fecit et ipsum ibidem verberasse et interfecisse voluit continuand insultum illum a domo cuiusdam T. B. in C. praedict' usque quendam locum vocat' etc. in praedict'. Et idem I. G. videns ipsum A. B. tam malitiose disposit̄ fugit usque quendam murum in dicto loco vocat' B. quem murum ob metum mortis suae evadere non potuit, sicque idem I. G. in saluationem vitae eius erga praefat' A. B. remanebat ad se defend' erga ipsum A. B. & cum quodam cultello vocat' A wood knife, praetij etc. quae tunc tenuit in manibus suis in defensu sua eundem A. B. super sinistrum partem capitis sui percussit, dando eidem A. B. tunc et ibidem quendam ictum unde idem A. B. languebat usque horam decimam in nocte praedict' diei, qua nocte idem A. B. obijt. Et sic idem I. G. ipsum A. B. adtunc et ibidem se defendend' interfecit. In cuius rei testimonium etc. An Inquisition taken before a Coroner of the death of a man which was slain by one Se defendendo. DIcunt super sacramentum suum quod accidit die anno et hora infrascript̄ Sect. 350. apud Westm infracontent̄▪ quod contencio exorta fuit inter infranominat etc. verbis contumeliosis & opproprijs ex part ipsius W. motis: Ita quod idem W. vi et armis in praedictum W. R. tunc ibidem insultum fecit, et ipsum ibidem verberavit vulneravit & ipsum interfecisse voluisset super quo idem W. R. ab ipso W. in quantum potuit se extraxit et usque quandam saepem ex part boreali cuiusdam campi ibidem fugit, ultra quam nullo modo evadere potuit, et ex ea causa idem W. R. ulterius non potuit fugere absque periculo mortis. Et praedict' R. W. eundem W. R. velociter et furiose insecutus fuit ad ipsum interficiend' insultum praedict' malitiose continuand'. Super quo idem W. R. percipiens se nullo modo viwm inde evadere posse nisi si melius defenderet ad praedict' R. W. se revertebat, et eundem R. W. cum baculo infrascript̄ super caput suum percussit et dedit ei plagam infra script' seipsum W. R. legittime defendend' unde idem R. W. instanter obijt. Et sic idem juratores dicunt quod praedict' W. R. non interfecit praedict' R. W. felonice nec ex malitia prae cogitat sed seipsum defendendo ut ipse qui mortem suam propriam alias evadere non potuit. Et quod idem W. R. nulla habet bona nec catalla. An indictment for a riotous recuse of cattle, taken damage fesaunce. IVratores praesentant quod cum R. B. tali die et anno etc. legittime Sect. 351. fuit possessionat̄ de & in manerio de H. cum pertinent' in W. in come etc. idem R. eisdem die & Anno apud W. praedict' in come praedict' inven quedam averia viz. etc. in quodam campo continen per estimacionem xx. acras pasturae, parcell' manerij in come praedict' ibidem dampnum facientes quae quidem averia sic tunc & ibidem dampnum facientes I. R. & quidam T. die & Anno supradictis nomine districtionis adtunc & ibidem ceperunt et usque S. in comitatu praed' fugaverunt ubi secundum legem & consuetudinem regni Angliae in quodam parco ibidem impercavere voluissent. Quidam tamen T. B. nuper de W. etc. T. C. etc. aggregatis eis sibi quampluribus alijs malefacto●bus ignotis pacis dei & dict' domini regis perturbatoribus ad numerum etc. modo guerrino arraiat vi & armis &c. die & ann supradict' apud S. praedict' in pnd' I. R. & T. rout & riotose ceperunt & rescusserunt, count form diversorum statutorum in huiusmodi casu nuper edit' & provis., ac contra pacem etc., An Indictment for Maintenance in the Commonpleas. IVratores presentant, quod cum in statuto in parliamento domini Ed. Sect' 352. nuper regis Angliae tertij apud Westmon, anno regni sui vicesimo tent' edit' inter cetera continetur, quod nulla persona regni Angliae cuiuscunque status gradus seu conditionis fuerit aliquam querelam in patria nec in curia domini regis, manuteneat seu sustineant sub pena imprisonamenti & faciend' dicto domino Regi finem & redemptionem ad voluntatem dict' domini Regis quilibet juxta statum gradum & demerita sua prout in eodem statuto plenius apparet. Quidam tamen T. D. nuper de etc. statut' praed' aut penam in eodem content̄ minime ponderans, die & anno &c. quandam querelam loquele que est in curia dict' domini regis ad placita per billam inter quendam M. E. vid' & I. F. subuic' & T. P. vic' Midd': ad quandam transgressionem eid' M. P. prefat' I. illat̄ ut dic itur pro part praed' M. in curia dict' domini Regis manutenuit & sustentavit, & adhuc manutenet & sustentat in dict' dominae Reg' nunc contemptum & populi sui grave dampnum, ac contra formam statuti & ordinationis praed'. An Indictment against divers, for using a Prisoner in Prison for suspicion of felony very hardly, thereby to compel him to accuse one of felony falsely. INquiratur pro domino Rege, Si I. O. de I. in comit' etc. W. W. de eisdem Sect' 353. villa & comitatu Merchant, ballivi domini Regis villae praedict' R. P. de etc. custos jail domini regis villae praedict' & I. H. de etc. seruiens ad clavem infra burgum sive libertatem villae praedict' die et Ann apud I. praedict' in comitatu praed', vi & armis &c. quendam W. T. prisonarium in prisona gaolae praed' pro suspicion felon' detent receperunt ea intention quod ip si bona & catalla diversorum ligeorum domini regis falsiter & extorsive & injust acquisite eundem W. quibusdam funis & cordulis per pedes de terra levauerunt & seorsum per pedes scilicet, pedibus seorsum & capite deorsum pependerunt, & ipsum per talem duritiam & penam ad accusand' quendam T. B. ligeum domini regis de eo quod ipse felonice furat fuisset viginti libras sterlingorum & tres annulos aureos ad valenc' xx. s. de bonis & cattallis A. C. adtunc & ibidem felonice arctaverunt & compulerunt, contra pacem domini Regis praedict' &c. An Indictment against one, for procuring one to commit a Burglary and robbery in a house. IVratores presentant. Quod I. W. nuper de L. clericus, alias dict' etc. Sect' 354. tali die & anno &c. apud parochiam M. magni infra sanctuarium ibidem in warda de A. London, malitiose & felonice abbettavit & procuravit P. W. de etc. ad felonic frangend' & intrand' in domum W. Prioris hospitalis sancti johannis jerusalem in Anglia apud Saint john's Clerkenwell in praedict' comitat' Midd' infra praedict' hospitalem praedict' prioris ibidem, & ibidem felonice furand', capiend' & asportand' unum Ciphum argenteum & deaurat vocat' a goblet, praedict' Prioris ad valenc' etc. & unam ollam argenteam parcell' deaurat eiusdem Prior● ad valenc' etc. & alia bona praedict' Prioris ibidem existent: Quarum quidem abbettacionis & procurationis pretextu praedict' R. die etc. vi & armis &c. domum & mancionem dicti Prioris apud etc. infra hospitalem praedict' in comitatu etc. circa horam secundam in aurora & antea meridiem eiusdem diei burglariter & felonice fregit, et praedict' Ciphum de argent deaurat vocat' a goblet ad valenc' C. solid', & praedict' ollam argenteam parcell' deaurat ad valenc' x. li. ac alia bona eiusdem Prioris, videlicet duo Saltseria de argent & deaurat ad valenc' etc. de bonis & catallis dict' Prioris adtunc & ibidem inuent' felonice furat fuit cepit & asportavit, contra pacem etc. An Indictment for a Murder and felony committed within the Verge, by one and his servant, upon a Sergeant at Arms. INquiratur etc. Si A. B. & C. D. seruiens praed' A. B. tali die & anno Sect' 355. ex eorum malitia pncogitat̄ ac insultu & affraia ꝑ eos premeditat, vi & armis &c. apud L. praedict' in parochia etc., inra virgam in quendam W. P. seruientem domini Regis ad arma insult & affraiam fecerunt & ipsum W. P. adtunc et ibidem vulneraverunt, verberaverunt et maletractaverint, & cum quibusdam gladijs quibus in manibus eius dextris adtunc & ibidem tenuerunt prefat' W, P. adtunc et ibidem felonice interfecerunt et murderaverunt, contra pacem etc. An Indictment against one for keeping of a common typling house, that he is a common barrator, and keepeth divers suspicious persons in his house, both menm and women, and vagabonds, drinking and swearing, and using unlawful games: sleeping in the day and watching in the night, And for holding of an heretical opinion of our Saviour Christ's humanity. IVratores etc. Quod A. P. de E. etc. est communis Tiplator ceruisie Sect' 356. & communis barrectator et pacis domini regis perturbat & custodit & manntenet quotidie & noctauter in domo sua apud etc. diversas personas suspect' tam homines quam mulieres et vagabund ' ibidem bibentes, iurantes et luden̄ ad luda illicit, viz. apud cards and dice, in noctibus post horas debit & legitimas, & qui vigilant in nocte et dormiunt in die: nec non habet fidem et opinionem, contra fidem dei. Et hoc verba dixit in Anglicana tali die ct anno etc. in presencia A. B. C. D. & aliorum ligeorum dict' domini Regis: God never took flesh nor blood of our Lady in malum exemplum et magnum nocumentum omnium aliorum ligeorum dicti domini regis coron̄ et dignitat suas. An Inquisition taken before a Coroner finding that R. H. was rowing in a Boat upon the river of Severne, and suddenly fell out of the Boat and so was drowned. INquisitio indentat capt' apud Worcester in comitat' praedict' primo Sect' 357. die Augusti, anno regni excelentissime principisse Mariae primo etc. coram G. H. gen uno coronat dict' dominae Reginae comitatu praedict' ad inquirend' qualiter & quomodo quidam Richardus Hocheckes in comitatu praedict' husbandman, adtunc et ibidem jacent mortui, ad suam mortem devenit per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum ville de W. praedict' et trium aliarum villat̄ propinquarum, videlicet, N. B. et D. scilicet per sacramentum R. L. etc. Qui dicunt quod ita accidit apud W. praedict' in comitatu praedict' thirty. die julij anno supradicto, quod prae dict' R. H. fuit remigrans in Lintro vocat' a boat, super aquam Sabrinae et in remigracione praedict', praedict' R. H. ex infortunio repent cecidit de eodem in aquam praedict', et mersus fuit. Et sic dicunt quod idem R. H. ad mortem suam devenit et non aliter, nec alio modo. Et quod predict' Lintrum attachiatum est eo quod fuit causa seu occasio mortis sue et appreciatur ad iiij. s. iiij. đ. et remanet in custod' W. H. In cuius rei testimonium tam sigilla praedict' jurat quam sigillum praedict' Coronat huic present̄ Inquisitioni indentat fuit appens. dat' die et anno prius supradict̄. An Indictment of murder of one man taken before the Coroner against one that committed the Murder, and two that were present, maintaining procuring and aiding him in the doing thereof. INquisitio indentat capt' apud W. in comitatu praedict' secundo die Sect' 358. etc. Anno etc. coram G. H. generos. uno Coronatorum dictae dominae Reginae comit' praedict' super visum corporis cuiusdam R. D. apud W. felonice interfecit adtunc et ibidem mortui jacent per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de W. praedict' et trium aliarum villat̄ propinquarum, videlicet etc. ad inquirend' qualiter et quomo●o praedict' R. D. ad mortem suam devenit, viz. per sacramentum etc. Qui dicunt supe sacramentum suum per praed' A. B. C. prolocutores eorum, quod ubi pnd' R. D. fuit in pace dei & dictae dominae Reginae in regia via ambulans inter Castum Pulderbach & Wrentnall in come praed' xx. die Augusti, anno supradictis circa horam septimam post meridiem eiusdem diei, ibi venit R. A. de W. praed' in come praed' Labourer, ut felo dictae dominae Reginae, contra pacem eiusdem dominae Regin̄ coronam & dignitat suas die, anno hora & loco praedict' ex malnia & male proposit suo precogitat in insidijs iacuit, ea intencione ad murdrand' & interficiend' praefat' R. D. ac in prefatum R. tunc & ibidem insultum fecit, & eundem R. cum quodam baculo vocat' a piked staff, pretij etc. quem in manibus suis tenuit super occiput capitis sui felonice percussit dans ei plagam mortalem: de qua quidem plagam mortali idem R. a praedict' xx. die Augusti, anno supradict' usque secundum diem Septembris tunc proxime sequent languebat & moriebatur. Et sic dicunt quod praedict' Roulandus prefatum R. D. adtunc & ibidem voluntary & felonice murdaruit & interfecit, et quod habuit in bonis nihil, dicuntque insuper. Quod quidam R. A. de W. in comitatu praedict' husbandman, & T. W. de W. pnd' in come praedict' Butcher, die anno hora & loco praed' personaliter interessent manutenentes procurantes & auxiliantes prefat' Row. A. ad feloniam et murdrum felonice in forma praedict' perpetrand' & perficiend'. Et quod praed' R. A. habuit in bonis & catallis ad valenc' etc. et remanet in manibus A. A. uxoris eius, et quod praedict' T. W. nihil habuit in bonis & catallis ad presence. An Inquisition taken before the Coroner, finding that W. V hanged himself in a Wood in his girdle. INquisitio indentat capt' apud A. in come praed' die et anno etc. coram Sect' 359. G. H. gen uno Coronat dict' dominae Reginae come praed' super visum corporis cuiusdam W. V adtunc et ibidem mortui jacent per sacramentum broborum et legalium hominum villat̄ de A. praed' et trium aliarum vil●at' propinquarum, viz. W. H. et M. ad inquirend' qualiter et quomodo idem W. ad mortem suam devenit, viz. per sacramentum etc. Qui triat' elect' onerat' et iurat' ad veritat' de premissis dicend' per praed' A. B. C. eorum prolocutores dicunt super eorum Saeramentnm quod praedict' W. V xx. die etc. anno supradicto in quodam bosco juxta Acton praed' vocat' Manors wood, circa horam quartam post meridiem eiusdem diei felonice, ut felo dict' dominae Reginae die anno hora & loco praedict' deum pre oculis non habens sed instigatione diabolica seducta cum quadam zona de Correo vocat' a leathern girdle, pretij etc. se suspendit, interfecit, & murderavit. Et sic dicunt quod praedict' W. ad mortem suam devenit & non aliter, & primi inventores eius fuerunt T. V & I. W. pleg' eorum I. H. & T. H. coram justiciarijs itinerantibus cum ad ꝑtes illas venerint, & habuit in bonis ad valenc' seven. li. vj. s. viii. đ. viz. in manib' T. V de A. pnd' etc. 6. s. 8. đ. in manib' R. M. etc. x. s. etc. In cui ● etc. An Inquisition taken before a Coroner, finding that one was murdered upon a heath by one unknown. INquisitio indentat capt' apud W. in comitatu praed' die & anno &c. Sect' 360. coram G. H. uno Coron̄ dictae dnae Reg' come praed' super visum corporis cuiusdam N. H. de L. alit in comit' Cestriae, apud Prees heath, infra dominium de W. in come praed' felonice interfect' adtunc & ibidem mortui jacent per sacrament̄ proborum & legalium hominum villat̄ de W. praed' ac trium aliarum villat̄ propinquarum viz. etc. ad inquirend' qualiter & quomodo praed' N. ad mortem suam devenit per sacramentum etc. Qui electi iurat & onerat per praedict' A. et B. eorum prolocutores dicunt: Quod ubi praed' N. fuit in pace dei & dict' dominae Reginae apud Prees heath, praed' in come praedict' die, & anno supradict' circa horam tertiam post meridiem eiusdem diei ibi tunc venit quidam homo adhuc ignotus, felonice ut felo eiusdem dominae Reginae per regiam viam ibidem ex malitia & malo proposito suo precogitat in insidijs iacuit & in prefat' N. adtunc et ibidem insultum fecit, ac cum quodam baculo vocat' a piked staff, pretij etc. quem ipse adtunc & ibidem in manibus suis tenuit, prefat' N. super verticem capitis sui felonice percussit dans ei plagam mortalem unde cecidit ad terram: ratione cuius idem N. a praedict' die anno & hora languebat usque xxiv. diem etc. tunc proxim' sequent, & sic tunc & ibidem de praedict' plaga mortali moriebatur. An Indictment before the Coroner, for killing and robbing of one by the highway, and flying thereupon, and a Town Amerced for not apprehending the Felon. INquisitio indentat capt' apud B. in come praedict' in quodam loco ibidem Sect' 361. vocat' lawless cross, 4. die Decembris anno etc. coram W. W. gen, uno Coronat' dictae dominae Reginae comitat' praed' super visum corporis eiusdem I. W. nuper de L. etc. adtunc et ibidem jacent mortui per sacramentum bonorum et legalium hominum villat de Buyldas predict', et trium aliarum villat̄ propinquarum viz. etc. ad inquirend' qualiter et quomodo praedict' I. W. ad mortem suam devenit viz. per sacramentum etc. qui dicunt super sacramentum suum per A. B. C. prolocutores, quod ubi praedict' I. W. 2. die etc. anno supradicto fuit in pace dei et dictae dominae Reginae equitans inter villa de Wenlocke magna, et Buildas magna praed' in come praed', sic accidit circa horam undecimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei. Quod quidam T. L. nuper de H. in comit' praedict' Servingman, deum pre oculis non habens ex malitia & male proposit suis precogitat apud lawless Cross praed' in come praed' in insidijs iacuit. Ea intencione ad murdrand' et interficiend' praefat' I. W. Ac praed' T. L. expredict' mallitia sua precogitata, vi et armis etc. in praefatum I. W. adtunc et ibidem insultum fecit, et ipsum I. W. ab equo suo super quemidem Io. tunc equitavit in terram deiecit et collum ipsius johannis adtunc et ibidem, vi et manuforti torsit et fregit unde idem I. W. adtunc et ibidem instanter obijt. Et sic prefat' T. L. prefat' I. W. die anno hora et loco supradict' (ut predicitur) voluntary et felonice murdravit et interfecit: Et ulterius dicunt juratores praed' quod praefat' T. L. immediate post felon' et murdrum praedict' informa praed' perpetrat adtunc et ibidem unam crumenam Coriam pretij iuj. đ. et xl. s. in nummis numeratis in dicta crumena tunc existentibus de bonis et catallis ipsius Io. dum vixit adtunc et ibidem a corpore ipsius I. felonice cepit. Et super inde idem T. L. per defectum et negligentiam inhabitanc' villat de Buyldas praedict' fugam fecit tunc minime reprehensus existent pro murdro et felonia praedict'. Ideo amerciatur praedict' villat de B. praedict' add C. s. pro huiusmodi escap̄ secundum formam statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' et provisi. Et dicunt etiam jurat praedict' super sacramentum quod praedict' T. L. praed' secund' die Sept. anno supradict' seu unquam postea nulla habuit bona neque catalla terras nec tennta in come praed'. In cuius etc. An Inquisition before a Coroner, where it is found that a woman killed herself with a knife. INquisitio indentat capt' apud A. in comitatu praedict' die anno etc. Sect' 362. coram I. A. uno Coronat eiusdem domini Regis super visum corporis K. vxor' G. S. adtunc et ibidem mortu● iacentis per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de A. praedict' et trium villat̄ propinquarum viz. etc. ad inquirend' qualiter et quomodo eadem K. ad mortem suam devenit, videlicet per sacrament etc. Qui elect' iurat & triat ad veritatem inde dicend', per praedict' A. B. eorum prolocutor̄ dicunt super sacrament̄ suum, Quod praedict' K. deum non habens pre oculis suis sed instigatione diabolica seduct die etc. anno etc. apud W. in comitatu praedict' cum quodam cultello pretij iij. denar seipsam felonice percussit dextra part guttoris sue ad profunditatem decem pollicium inde eadem K. languebat ab eodem die usque ad diem etc. extunc proxim' sequent et moriebatur. Et sic dicunt quod eadem K. ad mortem suam devenit et non aliter et hihil habuit in bonis. In cuius rei testimonium etc. An Indictment of one in London for cozening of Clothiers. IVratores pro domina Regina presentant, Quod S. S. nuper de London, Sect' 363. mercator scissor est persona valde mali nominis fame et conversationis inhonestae, communis deceptor et defraudator subditorum dictae dominae Reginae. Et quod ipse 30. die etc. anno etc. tricesimo apud London, videlicet, in parochia sancti laurentij in veteri judaismo in warda de cheap London, praedict' in diversis alijs locis et diebus infra civitatem praedict' tam antea quam postea, quendam Radulphum Wyat de Ciuitat' Wigorn Clothier, et multos alios fideles subditos dictae dominae Reginae decipit et defraudavit et per fraudem, astuciam, et deceptionem Anglice by cozenage, diversos pannos laneos vocat' Broad clothes, tam de praedict' Radulpho Wyatt quam de diversis pauperationem subditorum dictae dominae Reginae nunc, & in contemptum dictae dominae Regin̄, et in pessimum ac alijs dictae dominae Reginae subditis perquisivit habuit et percepit in de perniciosissimum exemplum omnium aliorum ligeorum subditorum dict̄ dominae Reginae in huiusmodi casu delinquen̄, et contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae Coronam et dignitatem suas: Nec non contra formam statuti in hmndi casu editi & provisi. Concordat cum Recordo. An Indictment against William Hacket, for treason and conspiracy, viz. for practising the deprivation of the Queen, and for traitorous words against her, and for defacing of her arms &c. translated into English out of the very Indictment itself. THe jury do present for the Queen, that W. Hacket late of Dundel Sect' 364. in the County of Northhampton yeoman, as a false traitor against the most excellent and christian Princess, our sovereign Lady Eliz. etc. his natural & sovereign liege Lady, having not the fear of God in his heart, nor weighing his due allegiance, but seduced by the instigation of the devil, maliciously, and traitorously, compassing, imagining, devising and intending the deprivation and deposing of our said Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, from her honour and royal name of the imperial Crown of this Realm of England, on the xxi. day of july in the three and thirteth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, now Queen of England, at London, that is to say, in the parish of Saint Brides, in the ward of Faringdon extra London, and diverse other days and times betwixt the twelfth of February last passed, and the the five and twentieth day of julie in the said three and thirteth year of her majesties Reign, as well in the Parish and ward aforesaid, as else where in London aforesaid, of his own perverse and traitorous mind, and imagination, maliciously, expressly, advisedly, directly, and traitorously in the presence and hearing of sundry faithful Subjects of our said Sovereign Lady, these false malicious and traitorous English words following, concerning our said sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, falsely, maliciously, advisedly, expreslly, directly, and traitorously said, rehearsed, published, and spoke viz. That the Queen's Majesty (meaning thereby our said sovereign Queen Elizabeth,) did represent all Hypocrisy, and had forfeited her Crown, and was worthy to be deprived, and that he had been of that opinion these 4. years, and that he defaced her Arms in Keys house thereby, meaning the house of one Ralphe Keys, situate and being in Knightriderstreete, in the Parish of saint Gregory near Paul's, in the Ward of Baynard's Castle L. to take away her whole power of her authority, and was moved thereunto by the Spirit, & that he neither was, nor is sorry therefore to the great scandal and derogation of the Person and Royalty of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, and to the subversion of the state of this Realm of England, and contrary to the form of a Statute in this case made and provided, & also against the peace of our said sovereign Lady, her Crown and dignities etc. another Indictment against the said W. Hacket, for practising the deposition and death of the Queen for stirring sedition in the Realm, for rasing of the Queen's Arms, and her picture, and for thrusting an Iron instrument into that part of the picture that represented the breast & hart of the Queen: And that he treated with two others for the bringing to pass of their purposes, And for traitorous words uttered against the Queen, translated into English out of the very Indictment itself. THe jury present for the Queen, That W. Hacket late of Dundel Sect' 365. in the County of Northhampton yeoman, as a false traitor against the most excellent and christian Princess, our sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England etc. having not the fear of God in his heart, nor weighing his due allegiance, but seduced by the instigation of the devil, and intending wholly to withdraw, put out, and extinguish the hearty love, & the true, and due obedience, which a true and faithful subject of the Queens should bear, and by the Law is bound to bear towards our said sovereign Lady the Queen, The first day of julie in the 33. year of the reign of the said Queen, at London in the parish of saint Gregory near Paul's, in the Ward of Castle Baynard London, falsely, maliciously, and traitorously, intended, imagined, went about, and compassed the said Queen his sovereign and natural liege Lady, not only from her Royal state, title, power, and government of this Realm of England, utterly to deprive, depose, cast down and disherit, but also to bring and put the said Queen's Majesty to death and final destruction, and sedition in the said Realm of England to raise up, levy and make, and also wholly to subvert and destroy the state of this whole common wealth being in and throughout every part thereof well constituted and ordered: And to th'intent he might fulfil and bring to pass those his aforesaid traitorous purposes, imaginations, compassings and intents: The said William Hacket afterward, that is to say, the first day of july, in the 33. year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is, did come to the mansion house of one Ralph Keys situate and being in Knightrider street in the said parish of S. Gregory's in the ward aforesaid, and then and there maliciously, divelishly, and traitorously, razed, and defaced, the Arms of the Queen's Majesty, then and there in the said house being, with this intent traiteronsly to take away, put down and overthrow the power of authority of the said Queen: And that the said William Hacket for further accomplishing and effecting of his said traitorous purposes, imaginations, compassings, and intents the said first day of july, in the said 33. year of her majesties reign, in the house of the said Ralph Keys, situate in the parish and ward aforesaid, did traitorously raze, a certain picture of the Queen's Majesties, then and there in the said house likewise being: And then and there did maliciously and traitorously put in, and thrust an iron instrument into that part of the said picture that did represent the breast and heart of the Queen's Majesty. And afterward, that is to say, on the xvi. day of july in the 33. year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is, the said William Hacket traitorously came to the house of one john Walker, situate and being in the parish of S. Marie Somersets', in the ward of Queenehith in London aforesaid with intent traitorously to confer and treat with one Edmond Coppinger gentleman, and Henry Arthington gentleman, concerning his traitorous purposes imaginations compassings and intents aforesaid: And that the said William Hacket afterward, that is to say on the xvi, day of july, in the 33. year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is, at London aforesaid in the house of the said john Walker in the aforesaid parish of S. Mary Somerset in the said ward of Queenehith in London, of his own perverse and traitorous mind and imagination, mallitiously, advisedly, ezpresly and traitorously, did treat and had conference with the said Edmond Coppinger, & Henry Arthington, by what ways, means, and manner, the said traitorous purposes, imaginations, compassings, and intents might be accomplished and brought to pass. And thereupon the said xvi. day of july, in the said 33 year in the said house of john Walker aforesaid, situate and being in the said parish of S. Marie Somersets' in the said ward of Queenehith London, in the presence and hearing of the said Edmond Coppinger, and Henry Arthington being then and there in the said house, the said Hacket, these false traitorous English words following of our said Sovereign Queen Elizabeth, falsely, maliciously, advisedly, expressly, directly, and traitorously said, rehearsed, published and spoke, viz. That the Queen's Majesty (meaning our said sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth) had forfeited her crown and was worthy to be deprived. And that furthermore the said William Hacket thereupon the said xvi. day of julie in the said 33. year, in the said house of john Walker, situate in the parish of S. Marie Somersets', in the said ward of Queenehith London, maliciously and traitorously moved and stirred up the said Edmond Coppinger, and Henry Arthington, traitorously and openly to declare and publish in London aforesaid, that the Queen's Majesty that now is, had forfeited her Crown, to the great offence and derrogation of the person of the Queeves Majesty, and to the subversion of the state of this Realm of England, and contrary to the peace of our said sovereign Lady, her Crown and dignities etc. An Indictment of recusancy upon the Statute of 1. and 23. Elizab. I Vratores praesentant, pro domina Regina quod I. S. nuper de parochia Sect. 366. sanctae Margaretae in Westmon in come Midd' armiger, Qui xx. die Septemb. Anno regni Reginae Eliz. etc. quadragesimo primo fuit aetatis sexdecem annorum & ultra non accessit Anglice did not repair ecclesiae suae parochiali de parochia sanctae Margaretae in Westm pnd' ●n come Midd' praed', nec alicuialiae ecclesiae capelli aut usualiloco communis praecacionis nec ibid' fuit tempore communis praecacionis ad aliquod tempus infra sex menses proxim' sequent praed' xx. diem Septembris Anno xlj. supradicto, sed abstinuit ab eisdem Anglice hath for borne the same, a praed' xx. die Septembris Anno xlj supradicto per praedict' spatium praed' sex mensium extunc proxim' sequent contra tenorem cuiusdam Statut apud Westmon in come Midd': Anno regni dictae dominae Reginae nunc primo, pro uniformitate communis praecacionis ac contra formam statuti Ann̄ regni dict' dnae reginae nunc 23. in hmi casu edit' & provis. in dictae dominae Reginae nunc & legum suarum contemptnm manifestum, nec non contra pacem dictae dominae Reginae nunc coron & dignitat fuas etc. Memorand, that the course is that the party indicted must appear in proper person & plead to the Indictment. Aplea to the Indictment next before. Et praedict' I. S. in propria persona sua venit & defendit totum & Midd' ss. quicquid contra pacem & in contemptu Dominae Reginae nunc aut legum suarum superius fieri supposit̄. Et protestand' quod Indictament̄ praed' vers. eum exhibit̄ minus sufficient in lege existitad qđ ipse necesse non habet nec per legem terrae tenetur respondere: Pro placito tamen idem I. S. ulterius dicit quod de praed' non accessu alicui Ecclesiae capellae aut usuali loco communis precacionis aut de abstencione inde contra formam Statut praed' in indictament̄ pred' specificat vel de aliqua alia transgressione offens. aut contempt̄ in Indictament̄ praedict▪ superius supponit, quod ipse in nullo est inde culpabilis. Et de hoc ponit se super patriam etc. Et Henricus Fermor gen qui pro domina Regina in hac part sequitur similiter. Ideo ven' inde jurat etc. The Venire facias for the returning of a jury, to try the cause betwixt the Queen and the party Indicted. Midd' ss. Elizabeth dei gratia Angliae Franciae & Hyberniae Regina fidei defensor etc. vic' Midd' salutem: Praecipimus tibi quod non omittas propter aliquam libertatem in Balliva tua quin Venire facias coram N. M. maiore civitat nostrae London, & socijs suis Iusticiar' nostris ad gaolam nostram de Newgate de prisonarijs in eadem existent deliuerand' assign' apud justice hall in le old bailie, die veneris scilicet xiii. die Junii proxim' futur' ad horam primam post meridiem eiusdem diei viginti, & quatuor liberos & legales homines de visnet̄ sanctae Margaretae in Westmonaster in comitatu nostro Middelsexiae: ad recogn' super Sacramentum suum. Si I. S. de parochia sanctae Margaretae in Westmonaster in comitatu Middlesexiae gen culpabilis sit de quadam transgressione & contemptu unde idem I. S. indictatus existit, necne etc. Et habeas ibi tunc nomina jurat praedict' & hoc breve. Teste praefat' N. M. Maiore praed' apud justice hall, praedict' septimo die Maij, Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo secundo. Fermor. Execucio istius praecept̄ patet in quodam pannello huic precept annex'. Respons. Roger Clerke vic'. Respons. Humphrey weld vic'. An Indictment of Burglary, and for hanging up the good man of the house by the thumbs upon a beam with pothooks, & for binding with cords the good man of the house and his wife, and for taking out of a chest 5. li. in money. I Vrat praesentant, qđ G. C. nuper de M. in come Cestriae & alij ignoti Sect. 367. xuj. die Martij Anno Regni Edwardi sexti dei gratia Angliae etc. quinto circa horam undecimam in nocte eiusdem diei apud A. in come C. domum cu●usdam R. W. vi & armis, viz. baculis gladijs & dagarijs burglariter ac felonice fregerunt et intraverunt. Ea intencione ad spoliand' & depredendum praed' R. W. et in praed' R. W. ac R. W. filium suum et lo. vxor' eius adtunc & ibidem insultum fecerunt, et ipsum R. W. cum quodam instrumento vocat' Pothooks, polices ipsius R. W. super trabem vocat' a beam, domus praedict' ipsum adtunc & ibidem suspenditur & praed' R. W. et joh. vxor' eius cum cordis ligaverunt et C. s▪ in pecunijs numerat in quodam cisto content de bonis et catallis praed' R. W. adtunc et ibidem inuent' felonice ceperunt asportaverunt et spoliaverunt vi & armis, ac contra pacem dicti dni Regis, ac contra formam statuti in huiusmodi casu edit' et provis. An order to be observed in the right framing of Indictments. Quis, quando, ubi, quid, cuius, quomodo, quare. QVis, The person with his name, surname, addition of the Town, Quis. County, Art, and degree. Quando, The day and year. Quando▪ Vbi. Quid. Cuius. Quomodo. Quare. Vbi, The place, Town, and County. Quid, The thing taken, the colour, the mark, the price and value. Cuius, The owner of the thing and whose it was. Quomodo, The manner of the doing and how. Quare, The intent which is comprised in this word (Felonice.) SYMBOLEOGRAPHY. Of Compromise and Arbitrements. A Compromise defined. A Compromise or Submission, Arbitrium, Compromissum, Sect. 1. Submissio, is the faculty or power of pronouncing Sentence between persons at controversy, given to Arbitrators by the parties mutual private consent, without public authority, 8. E. 4. 2. Compromise divided. EVery Compromise is general or special, Dyer 217. plac. 6. Sect. 2. 4. Eliz. Compromise general. A General Compromise is of all quarrels, actions, executions, and Sect. 3. demands etc. Compromise special. A Special Compromise is every submission to order which is not Sect. 4. so general, as when it is of certain matters, facts, or things only, as of a Trespass, or of all actions of Trespass, or of a plaint or Debt, or Detinue, etc. Parts of judgements. AS of every other judgement, so of judgements which grow by compromise, Sect. 5. there are two parts, the persons, and the question. Persons in judgements. Person's chief regarded in Compromise, are the striving parties, Sect. 6. and the Arbitrators. Persons striving. THe parties striving be they, between whom the controversy dependeth, Sect. 7. and which compromit the same, Dyer 217. 4. Eliz. Persons striving 2. ANd they must be two at the least, namely the plaintiff, and the defendant Sect. 8. of which sometime there be two, or more of a side. The Plaintiff. The Plaintiff is he which moveth the question. The Defendant. The Defendant is he against whom the question is moved. What persons may compromit, and what not. ALL persons both male and female may make compromise, but such Sect. 9 as are prohibited by nature or by law. Impediments to compromit. BY nature some are prohibited to compromit through defect of the Sect. 10. mind, and some through defect of the body. Impediments in mind natural. THrough the defect of the mind, is when either age is such that by Sect. 11. nature they want discretion, or being at age they want it, either naturally, or casually: as Infants under one and twenty years old, 10. H. 6. 14. 18. E. 4. 2. 7. E. 4. 5. Impediments in mind casual. ANd furious mad Lunatikes, during their lunacy, 12. E. 4. 8. and Sect. 12. Idiots. Impediments in body. DEfect of the body is such infirmity as hindereth the principal senses Sect. 13. necessary for the attaining of knowledge: as dumbnes, deafness, and blindness. Dumbnes and deafness natural and casual. ANd therefore persons by nature, dumb & deaf, cannot compromit, Sect. 14. as it seemeth, for they cannot have understanding, neither can they grant, Perkins Sectio 25. But persons blind, dumb, & deaf by chance, which can write and read, may well by writing compromit. Impediments legal, subjection, joint power. Such persons seem prohibited by law to compromit, as be subject to Sect. 15. others power, or have only joint powers with others: as bondslaves or villeins, lest the award should become void on their part, 35. E. 3. Coverture. IN like manner, women covert without their husbands, 2. H. 5. Sect. 16. 9 E. 3. 28. Death civil. ANd persons civilly dead: as Monks, Friars, Canons, professed Sect. 17. Nuns, and such other votaries, which be in subjection to their Sovereigns, 14. H. 8. 16. 2. R. 2. 5. Compromise. HEreunto may be added, men compelled to submit by threats, or Sect. 18. imprisonment, 8. Ass. 25. 7. E. 4. 21. for in submission the consent ought to be free. Attainder and outlawry. OF this sort also are persons attainted of felony or treason, and Sect. 19 persons outlawed or wayved in personal actions, for they have no goods, 36. H. 6. 26. 16. H. 6. 47. 21. H. 7. 7. 8. E. 4. 4. 5. H. 7. 16. joint power. Person's prohibited to compromit, for that they have only joint Sect. 20. power with others, are the single members of every corporation without their fellow members, as a Dean without a Chapter, an Abbot without his Covent, a Mayor without his Commonalty, The master of a College or Hospital without his fellows, and so of other societies or guilds, 21. E. 4. 13. And in award it seemeth that such persons only may of themselves compromit, as may of themselves make good grants. Arbitrators defined. AN Arbitrator is an extraordinary judge which is chosen & hath Sect. 21. power to judge, given to him by th'only mutual consent, will, compromise, & election of private persons striving, to th'end they may decide their controversies, 19 H. 6. 36. who because the controversy is committed to his pleasure, & arbitrement, is termed an arbitrator, & for that it is done by the mutual promise or compromise of the parties, he is called compromissarius judex. Dyer 536. 19 Eliz. 39 Or a judge having cognizance by the compromise of the parties, his power is larger than the power of any ordinary or other extraordinary judge appointed by a magistrate, for an arbitrator hath power to judge according to the compromise after his own mind aswell of the fact as of the Law, not observing the form of law, but tother judges are tied to a prescript form limited to them by the Law or Magistrate, of which they be only executors, For which cause Tully saith well. Aliud est judicium, aliud arbitrium: nam judicium est pecuniae certae, arbitrium incertae: ad judicium hoc modo venimus, ut totam litem aut obtineamus aut a mittamus, At arbitrium hoc modo adimus, ut neque nihil neque tantum quantum postulamus consequamur, whence springeth this old saying, he that putteth his coat to daying, is like to lose a quarter. The choice of Arbitrators. seeing then the power of arbitrators is such and so great and uncontrollable, Sect. 22. wariness must be used in the choice of them. In which two things seem necessary to be regarded, namely that the arbitrators be sufficient, and indifferent. Sufficiency of Arbitrators considered. TOuching their sufficiency, such persons are to be elected, as have Sect. 23. sufficient skill of the matter compromitted, & have neither legal nor natural impediments to give an upright sentence. Natural impediments, be through defect of mind or body, natural impediments through defect of mind be infancy (for infants by reason of their tenderness of years, want discretion to manage themselves, & their own affairs) madness, and Ideocy, for they who are maimed with these blemishes are utterly void of understanding. And although I have read some examples of sage sentences given by fools, yet dare I not advise my friends to expect always the like at their hands. As this▪ A fools Arbitrement. THat an hungry beggar espying dainty cheer in a cook's shop hasted Sect. 24. thither, & being set down, did eat a small piece of his own bread, and incontinently, received such wonderful comfort, by the sweet smell, of the cook's cates and sauces, whereof he tasted no bit, that he confessed, that his eager stomach, was aswell satisfied therewith, and had as good a repast, as if he had indeed stuffed his paunch, with the best cheer there: which the cook hearing, strait ways with a stern countenance, bids the poor caitiff pay for his breakfast, whereat the simple guest was mightily amazed, and the crafty cook somuch the more earnest, insomuch that this poor man, & the cook were content therein, to abide the award of him that should next pass by, no sooner was the submission made, but thither cometh a most notorious natural fool, to whom as their judge, they rehearsed the matter, which being heard, the Idiot caused the poor man to put so much money between two ●asons as the covetous cook exacted, and to shake them in the cook's hearing, which done this arbitrator awarded, that as the cook had fed the poor man with the only smell of his cates, so the poor man should pay him therefore, with the only sound of his coin, which sentence was highly approved of all the hearers. A simple magistrates Arbitrement. NOt much unlike to this, is that, which is reported of a covetous Sect. 25. churl, who sorrowed extremely, for that he had lost a purse, with one & twenty angels in it. But an honest man having found the same, of mere conscience delivered it to the same ●hurle, who not once thanking him that was the bringer, falls to account his coin, & finding only xx. angels in the purse, with great rigour exacted the odd angel, and because the honest man denied the finding thereof, he convented him before a Magistrate of a corporation, whose wealth and authority, far exceeded his wit (as in such places commonly happeneth, for that affection and simplicity, be their ordinary Electors.) The plaintiff sweareth they were one and twenty angels in the purse which he lost, the defendant, that there were only twenty in that which he found: Whereupon the Magistrate pronounced that the purse found was not the plaintiffs, and therefore adjudged him to restore unto the defendant the purse with twenty angels, leaving the plaintiff to good fortune for the finding again of his purse with one and twenty angels. I think a man may try a thousand fools in the like cases, before he receive the like sentence. Defects of the body in Arbitrators. THe defects of the body hindering judgement are infirmities, by Sect. 26. which the principal senses necessary for the apprehension of knowledge, are impaired, as by deafness, dombnes, and blindness. Arbitrators indifferent, who? ANd for indifferency, it is good that the Arbitrators be void of malice Sect' 27. & favour, to either of the parties, that they be not notorious by outlarie, excommunication, or suspected of any other notorious crime, that they be neither irreligious nor covetous: For albeit as it is said, an Arbitrator hath herein absolute power, yet ought his judgement or sentence to be sincere and incorrupt, according to right and equity, without malice, flattery, and every other vicious affection or perturbation, which may in any sort lead him awry from the right path of justice and equity. Hitherto of persons regarded in submissions. The Question. THe Question which containeth the matter of tharbitrement, followeth. Sect' 82. The question is a thing in controversy declared to the judge or Arbitraitor, to the end it may by him be decided, Dyer fol. 216. 4. Elizab. pla. 6. The question double. ANd every question is either about the fact, or about right. Sect' 29. The question of the fact. A Question of the fact, is when such a fact is inquired of, as is Sect' 30. doubtful. The question of right. THe Question of right, is when the fact being known, it is yet Sect' 31. doubtful how much is thereby grown, right and due to each party by Law. What is to be considered in each question. ANd in every question hereupon arising, it is to be considered whether Sect' 32. the thing in question be arbitrable or no: for in vain it is to compromit things not arbitrable. Let us therefore see what things be arbitrable, and what not. What things are arbitrable, and what not. THings and actions personal incertain are arbitrable: as trespass, Sect' 33. a ward taken away etc. 22. H. 6. 39 14. H. 4. 2. 4. H. 6. 17. But things certain are not arbitrable but when the submission is by specialty, if they be not joined with others incertain: as debt with trespass, 4. H. 6. 17. 2. H. 5. 2. 12. R. 2. Dyer 33. H. 8. fol. 51. pla. 14. But Chattels real or mixed, are not arbitrable by themselves: as Charters of lands, 9 H. 6. 60. 14. H. 4. 24. if the submission be not by specialty, 19 H. 6. 3. H. 6. Also an Annuity is not arbitrable, if the submission be not by specialty, 9 H. 6. 60. 14. H. 4. 18. 3. H. 4. 6. Nor a Freeholde, 11. H. 4. 12. 14. H. 4. 18. and 19 Et 24. 54. Ed. 3. 16. 12. Ass. pla. 25. 21. E. 3. 15. Nor debt upon arrearages of Account before auditors, 4. H. 6. 17. because such debt is due by record, 3. H. 4. 5. 6. H. 4. 9 Also it seemeth that neither such things as were not in rerum natura at the time of the submission, though they hap to be before the award made be arbitrable: as if the submission be of Ewes with lamb, which after the submission and before the award made have lambs, it seemeth they have no power to make any award touching the lambs. Matters concerning the common wealth seem not arbitrable, as all criminal offences, as treasons, fellows, etc. touching the crime, for it is for the benefit of the common wealth, that such offenders be made known and punished. Also causes matrimonial seem not arbitrable, least men should separate those whom God hath joined together. Circumstances regarded in submission: First that it be in writing. NOw that we have set forth the persons and things necessary in Sect▪ 34. every compromise, it is good to consider such other circumstances as be requisite in the same. Three things therefore beside the persons and things are meet to be observed in every compromise. First that every compromise be made by writing with the parties covenants or bonds sufficient to bind their heirs & executors to perform the award which shall thereupon be made, that both the arbitrators may know their power, and the parties how far they are subject to their sentence. And also lest their labour and judgement therein should be frustrate for want of means to compel the same to be executed. Of the power given to Arbitrators. SEcondly, it is behoveful that the very Compromise arm the arbitrators Sect▪ 35. with sufficient authority to do all things necessary for the ending of the controversies: as to appoint times & places for their meeting, to examine & decide the matter compromitted, & to bring the parties with their proves, evidences, & witnesses thither together before them. And to punish the persons defective, & to expound & correct such doubtful sentences & questions, as may arise upon their award, inconvenient to either parties, contrary to equity, and the arbitrators good meaning, which inconveniences could not by them be foreseen, at the making of the award, as it oftentimes happeneth: for temporis filia veritas, truth is the daughter of time. Of time and place. THirdly, that by the compromise, convenient time and place be limited Sect' 36. for the yielding up of their award to the parties or their atturneys, deputies, or assigns, lest the parties should otherwise be long lingered with vain hope of an endless end, and that the arbitrators may before the set time, finish their award: for whatsoever they do arbitrate after the time appointed, is void. 8. H. 6. f. 18. And it is all void that is not contained in the submission, or necessarily depending thereupon 7. H. 6. fo. 40. 8. H. 6. fo. 18. 36. H. 6. fo. 11. as shall more largely appear, when we come to the doctrine of arbitrements. The instrument of compromise or submission, may be made in form following. A Compromise or submission with covenants to perform the same. THis Indenture made &c. between A. B. on the one party and C. Sect' 37. D. on the other party. Witnesseth, that the said A. B. and C. D. do by these presents, willingly compromit and submit themselves, and either of them, to the award, arbitrement, order, rule, doom, and judgement of E. F. and G. H. arbitrators indifferently named, elected, & chosen by the said parties to co arbitrate, award order, decree, and judge, of and upon all and all manner of actions, suits, quarrels, debts, accounts, trespasses, controversies, debates, and demands whatsoever, had, made, moved, depending, or accrued, or which might have been had, or moved, between the said parties, at any time or times before the date hereof, except one action of debt etc. depending between the said parties in the Queen's majesties Court of common Pleas, or before etc. and except one debt of x. li. due to the said A. B. by the said C. D. for the price of certain Corn etc. and except all lands and tenements of the said A. B. and such like exceptions etc. So always that the same arbitrators do make their award, order, and judgement of, and concerning the premises to be made, by writing indented, under all their hands and Seals, on this side, and before the x. day of june now next ensuing, and one part of the same deliver or cause to be delivered by the said Arbitrators to the said A. B. or his certain attorney or atturnetes in that behalf, requiring the same, the said x. day of june now next coming, at or in the Parish Church of R. in the said County of York. And the other part of the said award to the said C. D. his attorney or atturneys, deputy, or assign, requiring the same at the said day and place: and so always, that the said arbitrators do not by the said award, order, or appoint any act, or acts, thing or things, to be done or performed, by, or to any person, or persons, other than to or by the said parties to these presents, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, or some of them, & not to or by any estranger or estrangers to this present submission. And the said A. B. and C. D. and either of them for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, and the heirs, executors, & administrators of either of them, do by these presents mutually covenant, conclude, promise, and agree to and with the other his executors, and administrators, and every of them, that neither they nor either of them, will at any time hereafter revoke the authority hereby given to the said Arbitrators, nor discharge them nor either of them of the said faculty or power of Arbitration. And that they & either of them, & the heirs executors, administrators, & assigns, of either of them on their several parts shall, & will well & truly observe, perform, fulfil, and keep all and every clause, sentence, article, submission, and agreement i● these presents mentioned on his or their part to be performed and kept according to the tenor, true intent, and meaning of the same. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have interchangeably set to their hands and Seals, the day and year above written. Of binding the parties to perform the award. OR the parties may submit themselves to award by obligation, Sect▪ 38. with condition according to the effect of the said Instrument of submission, but that seemeth perilous, for that that so they may for a trifle, hazard the whole penalty of the bond, which were too too mischievous. Nevertheless if any be willing to adventure, the parties may be bound either to other, and the condition may be made in form following. The condition of an Obligation to perform an award. Sect▪ 39 THe condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden A. B. his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them do on his and on their part and behalf, well and truly stand to, obey, perform, fulfil and keep the award, arbitrement, order rule, doom, and judgement of S. T. and W. R. arbitrators, indifferently elected and chosen, aswell on the part of the said A. B. on the one party, as on the part of the above named C. D. on the other party, to arbitrate, award, order, and judge, of, and upon all and all manner of actions, suits, quarrels, debts, accounts, trespasses, controversies, debates, and demands whatsoever had, moved, depending, or accrued, or which might have been had or moved, between the said parties at any time or times before the date hereof, except one action of Ejection firmae, depending between the said parties in the Queen's majesties Court commonly called the King's bench as by the Records thereof in the same Court remaining it doth and may appear, and except out of this submission, all lands and tenements of the said A. B. (or any like exception.) So always that the same award, arbitrement, order, and judgement, of, and concerning the premises be made by writing Indented under all their hands and seals before the first day of December now next ensuing, and one part of the same delivered or caused to be delivered by the said Arbitrators, to the said A. B. or his certain Attorney or Attorneys, deputy or deputies, in that behalf requiring the same the said first day of December, now next ensuing, at or in the parish Church of R. in the said County of York: And the other part of the said award be likewise delivered by the said Arbitrators, to the said C. D. or his certain attorney or atturneiss, deputy, or deputies, in that behalf requiring the same, at the said day and place. And so that by virtue or occasion of the said award neither of the said parties, nor the several heirs, executors, or administrators, of them or any of them be to do any act or thing, to or by any stranger to the same award, and to these presents. And so as the said A. B. do not discharge the said arbitrators before the said time. That then this present obligation to be utterly void and of none effect, or else to stand, remain, continue, and be, in full strength and virtue. Of the condition to perform an award of lands. ANd if the award be concerning a title to land, the words in the condition may be thus. Aswell, of, for, and concerning the right, title, interest, use, possession Sect▪ 40. and demand, of, and in the manor of S. with the appurtenances in S. in the said county of Y. and all lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with the appurtenances in S. aforesaid, in the occupation of the said A. B. and his assigns, as, of, and upon all actions, trespasses, suits, quarrels, debts, duties, debates, griefs, inconveniences, and demands, had, moved, stirred, or depending, between the said parties, concerning the said Manor, tenements and premises, or any part thereof. And also, if the said A. B. before the feast of P. now next coming, do show unto the said Arbitrators, all such writings as he hath concerning the said Manor and premises, at such time and place, as the said Arbitrators shall appoint for the sight thereof. So always that, etc. ut supra. That then etc. ut supra. Whether power to arbitrate may be assigned. AN Arbitraitor chosen cannot grant, or assign over his authority Sect▪ 4●. of arbitation to any other, 8. Ed. 4. fol. 1. and 9 because it is but a nude power, which is not to be granted over: notwithstanding the opinion in 47. E. 3. 20. to the contrary. Neither doth the submission extend to give the Arbitraitors' power to elect others. Whether the Compromittors may discharge the Arbitrators or no. ANd it seemeth, that albeit the parties have agreed upon daiesmen, Sect▪ 42. or Arbitraitors, yet before the arbitrement made, either of the parties may revoke the authority given to the arbitrators, and discharge them thereof, for power may be countermanded, but if the submission be made by bond, than the bond seemeth to be forfeited, 5. E. 4. 1. 21. H. 6. 30. 28. H. 6. 6. 49. E. 3. 9 But by Ashton justice, if 2. plaintiffs, & one defendant, or 2. defendants and one plaintiff put themselves to the award of others, neither the one plaintiff without the other, nor the one defendant without the other, may discharge the arbitrators, 28. H. 6. 6. And by Finch. 49. E. 3. 9 If the submission be by deed, the discharge must likewise be by deed. So much of submissions, arming the arbitrators with power: Now of Arbitrements issuing from the same. What an Arbitrement is. AN Arbitrement, or award therefore, arbitramentum, laudum, arbitratus. Sect▪ 43. Libro intration, debt in arbitr̄ 2. & 3. is nothing else but the very doom, order, and decree pronounced by arbitrators upon the controversy, for the ending whereof they were chosen by the striving parties. Dier 356. 10. Eliz. pla. 39 Of things regarded in Arbitrement. IN the form of every Arbitrement, five things are specially to be Sect▪ 44. regarded. First, that it be made according to the very submission or compromise touching the things compromitted, and every other circumstance as is said, 9 E. 4. 44. Plow. 396. a Secondly that it be a final end of the controversies compromitted, 19 H. 6. 36. 21. Ed. 4. 38. Thirdly that it appoint either party to give or do unto the other some thing benes●ciall in appearance at the least, 43. E. 3. 28. Dier 356. 19 Eliz. pla. 39 12. H. 7. 39 H. 6. 9 22. E. 4. 25. 7. H. 6. 40. 19 H. 6. 36. 10. Hen. 6. 19 Fourthly, that the performance thereof be possible, 22. H. 6. 46. 8. Ed. 4. 1. & 9 17. Ed. 4. 5. H. 7. Fifthly, that there be a means how either party may by law attain unto that which is thereby awarded unto him, 5. Ed. 4. & 24. 17. Ed. 4. 5. 18. Ed. 4. 22. & 23. 5. H. 7. 23. For if it fail in any of these points, then is the whole Arbitrement void and of none effect, as it doth manifestly appear by these special cases following. As. An award that the parties shall obey the arbitrement of A. B. is void, for power cannot be assigned, 8. E. 4. 19 An award that any of the parties shallbe bound, or do any other act by the advise of the arbitraitors is not good, because they cannot make several awardes, 18. Ed. 4. 22. 23. but that the parties shall be bound, or make assurance by the advise of Counsel is good, 18. Edw. 4. 22. & 23. Arbitrement that the parties shall be nonsuit in actions is not good, for every award ought to be a satisfaction to the parties, and a determination of things compromitted, so as one party have amends, but when one hath been nonsuit, he may begin again, 19 H. 6. 36. 21. E. 4. 38. But an award that the parties shall make discontinuance and retraxits of their suits is good, 21. E. 4. 38. 5. H. 7. 22. If the submission be of divers things, & the award only of some part of them, yet it is the award good, for that part notwithstanding, as if the submission be of all actions real and personal, and the award of actions personal only: and if it be de iure & possessione, and the award is only de possessione, 19 H. 6. 6. per cur', notwithstanding the contrary opinion of Prisot, 39 H. 6. 9 An award that an action shallbe sued between the parties, by the advise of A. and B. is good, for that A. and B. in this case are not Arbitrators, but executors of the award, yet quere for it is uncertain whether they will give advise or no. 8. E. 4. 1. & 4. Arbitrement that the plaintiff shall pay to the defendant x. li. and release to him all actions. And that the defendant shall release to the plaintiff all actions, is good, 20. H. 6. 18. & 19 Arbitrement that either party shall release to other all actions, & that because the one hath trespassed more than the other, he shall pay to the other, ●. s. is good, 20. H. 6. 18. & 19 Arbitrement that either party shall go quite against other, is good, 20. H. 6. 18. & 19 10. H. 6. 14. 19 H. 6. 36. 22. H. 6. 39 Dyer 356. 16, Eliz. pla. 39 21. H. 6. that it is not good, if the submission were by parol, 9 Ed. 4. 8. An arbitrement in trespass is not good, if it award not something to the plaintiff for amends, 43. E. 3. 28. In trespass of goods taken, it is no good award, that the defendant shall retain part of the goods, and the plaintiff have the rest, 17. Edw. 3. 16. In debt of x. li. it is no good Arbitrement, that the plaintiff shall retain the one moiety, & the defendant have the other, 45. E. 3. 16. In trespass, award that if the defendant will wage his Law, that he is not guilty, that then he shall go quite, and that the plaintiff shall release unto him, seemeth good, 46. E. 3. 17. Award, that for so much as the one hath done more trespass than the other, therefore he shall give him a penny for amends, And that the other shall go quite against him, is good, 19 H. 6. 3. 6. By Prisot, if two submit themselves to Arbitrement of all trespasses etc. and it is awarded that the one shall make amends to the other, and nothing is awarded for the others benefit, this award is void, 7. H. 6. 40 39 H. 6. 9 22. E. 4. 25. So if it were that the one only shall go quite against the other, for an award must be final, obligatory and satisfactory, to both parties, 7. H. 6. 40. 19 H. 6. 36. 20. H. 6. 18. Award in trespass of goods taken that the defendant shall carry and redeliver the goods taken to the plaintiff, is good, 12. H. 7. 14. & 15. Award that the one party shall pay xx. s. or enfeoff etc. is good, and the performance of either sufficeth, 21. H. 6. 22. H. 6. 52. An award that one of the parties shall do an act to an stranger, is void, if the parties be not bound, 22. H. 6. 46. Or if an award be to pay x. li. to an stranger, it is void, for how can he pay the same, if he will not accept it, 22. H. 6. 46. 8. E. 4. 1. & 9 Or if the award be that he shall cause an stranger to enfeoff the other party, for he hath no mean to compel the stranger, 17. E. 4. 5. So if it be awarded that he shallbe bound with sureties, 18. E. 4. 22. 23. 5. H. 7. 23. Arbitrement that money shallbe paid at a day to come is good, for the party may thereof have an action of debt after the day, if it be not paid accordingly, 20. H. 6. 12. 5. E. 4. 7. But award to do any other thing at a day to come, is void, if the submission be not by specialty, because the party hath no means to compel his adversary to perform it, 5. E. 4. 7. and 24. An award is void (as is said) if it neither be executed, nor any means by law for the execuiton thereof: As if it be awarded, that th'one shall pay to tother x. pound, this is good, for he may recover the same by action of Debt. But if it were awarded that th'one should deliver to tother an acre of land, or do such like act executory, it were void, if it be not delivered strait way, or provision made by bond, or otherwise to compel the performance thereof according to the award, 19 H. 6. 36. 20. H. 6. 12. 5. E. 4. 7, 19 E. 4. 8. Thus much of the doctrine of Arbitrementes, now of their several forms. An Arbitrement, or award of lands, by which the party covenanteth to perform it. THis Indenture made &c. between T. R. of etc. of the one party, Sect▪ 45. and L. M. of etc. of the other party, Witnesseth, that whereas there hath been, and yet is contention, variance and suit betwixt the said parties, not only for, and concerning the right, title and interest, of, and in a certain quantity of ground, by estimation two acres or thereabout lying in K. and adjoining to the Mill of the said T. R. in T. aforesaid, claimed by either of the said parties to be his own land and inheritance, But also, for, and concerning certain ways to the Mill of the said T. through the ground of the said L. from all the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and other places in the North side of the river of D. bordering, lying, and being within the space of ten miles of the said Mill, and all other matters and controversies, betwixt the said parties. For the friendly ending and appeasing of which said variances, and controversies, the said parties have compromitted and submitted, and by these presents do compromit and submit themselves, and all matters in variance aforesaid to the order, arbitrement, award, doom and judgement of F. W. and T. W. Whereupon the said arbitrators having viewed the said ground in variance, and perused divers writings and evidences concerning the same, and heard the testimony and witness of divers ancient men & neighbours dwelling nigh the said ground, aswell touching the occupation and usage of the said ground by the said T. R. and his ancestors, as also the said ways used unto the said Mill by th'inhabitants aforesaid time out of mind, do make and declare their award, order, doom, and judgement touching the premises, and every part of them. ✿ And the said T. R. and L. M. do covenant and grannt severally either of them, to and with the other, for themselves, their heirs, executors and administrators, in manner and form following. And first the said Arbitrators do order, award, and judge, And the said L. M. is so contented and agreed, and accordingly doth covenant and grant, for him, and his heirs, to and with the said T. R. his heirs etc. that he the said T. R. shall and may from hence forth, have hold, occupy, and quietly enjoy to him and his heirs for ever, the said parcel or quantity of ground containing by estimation two acres, lying and being on the North side of the river of D. directly over against the said Mill, and demesne lands of the said T. R. in T. aforesaid, as it is now bounded and meared forth with stones by the said Arbitrators, And shall also have and may take to his and their own proper use, all the trees now standing or being, or that hereafter shall grow in and upon the said ground, and all other profits and commodities coming off, and upon the said ground (only the thorns, briers and herbage, excepted and foreprised) with free liberty, entry and passage, for the felling, hewing, leading, carrying away, and taking of the same trees, and all other the said profits and commodities (except before excepted) at all and every time and times hereafter at his and their pleasure. And that the said T. R. his heirs and assigns, and all and every other person and persons, that shall come and bring any corn to the Mill of the said T. R. called T. Mill, from the said towns, villages, hamlets, or any other place inhabited, shall have free liberty, ways and passage for the carrying, fetching and bringing of their corn to the said Mill, aswell over and through the said parcel of ground set forth and meared as is aforesaid, as also through and over other the grounds of the said L. M. in K. aforesaid, in as ample and large manner and form, as the inhabitants of the said towns, villages and hamlets or other places have been accustomed and used to do at any time heretofore, and as it is now most commonly used. ✿ And shall and may tie and fasten any their horses, mares or other beasts wherewith they carry any corn to the said Mill, to any tree growing, or other thing, being in, and upon the said ground, so that the string, cord or rope, exceed not the length of four whole yards at the most. ✿ And that the said T. R. his heirs and assigns shall and may lawfully at all and every time and times so oft as need shall require, amend and repair all and singular the ways, and every part thereof, for the ease, safeguard, and passage, of the inhabitants of the said towns, villages, hamlets, and places inhabited, coming, and going, to, and from the said Mill, without any let, trouble, vexation or contradiction of the said L. M. his heirs or assigns, or any of them. And that the said L. M. his heirs and assigns, shall at all times within ●he space of two years next ensuing the date hereof, do, make, knowledge and suffer, or cause to be made, knowledged and suffered, all and every act and acts, thing and things, as shallbe reasonably devised, or advised, by the said T. R. his heirs or assigns, or his or their learned counsel, at the only proper costs and charges in all things, of the said T. R. his heirs or assigns, for the further and better assurance and sure making, aswell of the said parcel or quantity of ground, containing about two acres, as also of the said ways, in manner & form before expressed, unto the said T. R. his heirs and assigns for ever, according to the true effect, meaning and purport of these presents: In consideration whereof it is further ordained, awarded, deemed and judged, by the said Arbitrators. ✿ And the said T. R. doth so covenant etc. that he the said L. M. his heirs and assigns, shall and may have, take and enjoy, only the grass & herbage, with the thorns and briars yearly growing, or being in, or upon the said parcel or quantity of ground so bounded or set forth, as is aforesaid. And in further consideration of the premises, the said T. R. hath paid to the said L. M. at the insealing hereof, at the request of the said Arbitrators, the sum of xx. pounds etc. ✿ In witness whereof not only the said parties to these present Indentures of award interchangeable have put their seals, and subscribed their names: But also the said Arbitrators to both the parts of these Indentures have put their seals and subscribed their names the day and the year etc. another Arbitrement of debt, where the parties are bound to perform it. TO all true Christian people to whom this present writing of award Sect. 46. indented shall come, G. W. G. N. S. S. and T. N. of etc. send greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas divers suits etc. between T. W. and I. S. of etc. For pacifying, ordering and ending whereof, the said T. W. and I. S. have bound themselves either to other in the sum of a M. l. of lawful English money, by their several obligations bearing date etc. with conditions there under written, to stand to etc. ut supra of the said G. J. S. and T. Arbitrators indifferently elected and chosen, aswell upon the part and behalf of the said I. S. as of the said T. W. to award, arbitrate, order, rule, judge, end & determine, all, and all manner of suits, debts, actions, controversies, debates and demands whatsoever, depending between the said I. S. and the said T. W. and W. W. his son and heir: So that the said award were made and given up in writing under the hands and seals of all the said Arbitrators, at or before the etc. at etc. as by the said obligations and conditions amongst other things doth and may appear. ✿ Know you now that the said G. I. S. & T. taking upon them the charge and burden of the said award, & having deliberately heard the griefs, allegations, & proofs of both the said parties, do by these presents arbitrate, award, order, deem, & judge, of, and concer●ing the premises in manner & form following: that is to say. ✿ First, they do award, order, deem, & judge by these presents, that the said I. S. his executors or administrators, or some of them, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the said T. W. or his certain Attorney, exec. or administr. or some of them, at, or before the etc. at, or in the etc. 200. li. of etc. and at, or before the etc. other 200. li. of etc. in full satisfaction of 400. li. For payment whereof the said I. S. stood bound to the said T. W. in, and by four several Obligations, whereof two are already forfeited, as thereby may appear. ✿ Also the said Arbitrators do award, order, etc. that the said I. S. his exec. & administr. or some of them, at their, or some of their costs and charges, shall before the &c. cause & procure, that all suits, bills, plaints, and informations heretofore commenced against the said T. W. in any court, or courts whatsoever, either by, or in the name of the said I. S. or by, or in the name of H. S. his son, or by, or in the name of our Sovereign Lady the Q. Majesty that now is, and of every, or any of them, or by, or in the name of any other person or persons, by the consents, means, & procurements of them, or any of them, shall thenceforth surcease, and be no further proceeded in by them, nor any of them, or by the means, consent, or procurement of them, or any of them. And before the etc. be utterly discontinued, and made void. ✿ And the said Arbitrators do further award, order, deem, and judge by these presents, that for the sure payment of the said sum of 400. pounds, the said I. S. and G. S. within two days next after tender or delivery of the one part of this present award to the said I. S. shall well, and sufficiently make, seal, and deliver as their deeds to the said T. W. in etc. one Obligation or writing obligatory sufficient in the law, wherein, and whereby the said I. S. and G. S. shall acknowledge themselves, and either of them to be jointly, and severally bounden to the said T. W. in the sum of 800. pounds of etc. with condition thereupon in due form of law endorsed for the sure payment of the said sum of 200. li. parcel of 400. li. at, or in the etc. before etc. And the other 200. li. residue of the said sum of 400. li. at, or before the etc. and at etc. ✿ Also the said Arbitrators do further award, etc. that the said I. S. his executors, or administrators, or some of them, shall, and will before the etc. at his, and their own proper costs and charges, cause, and procure to be canceled, and made void one recognizance of 200. li. bearing date the &c. knowledged, and enrolled in the Q. majesties high court of Chancery, wherein, and whereby the said T. W. standeth bounden to the said I. S. in the said sum, with condition thereunto annexed: That if the said T. W. his heirs, executors, and administrators, & every of them, should well, & truly observe, perform, fulfil, & keep, all, & every the covenants, grants, articles, & agreements, which on his and their parts were to be observed, performed, fulfilled, & kept, contained and specified in one Indenture bearing date the etc. had, and made between the said T. W. on the one party and the said I. S. on the other party, concerning the marriage of W. W son & heir apparent of the said T. W. and A. S. daughter of the said I. S. according to the true intent, purport, & effect of the said Indenture: That then the said recognisance to be void, and of no effect, or else to stand &c. as by the said recognisance & Indenture more plainly, and at large appeareth. ✿ And also that the said I. S. his executors, or administrators, or some of them, shall, and will before the feast of etc. deliver, or cause to be delivered unto the said T. W. his executors, or administrators, or some of them, in the said now dwelling house of the said T. W. aforesaid, the said Indenture of covenants concerning the foresaid marriage, canceled, or to be canceled. In witness whereof the said Arbitrators to both parts of this present award indented, have set their hands and seals. Dated, etc. An Arbitrement or award of debt made by an Earl upon submission by bond. TO all true Christian people, to whom this present writing of award Sect. 47. indented shall come: The right Ho. G. Earl Marshal of England, etc. sendeth greeting, etc. Whereas diverse suits, variances, controversies, & debates, heretofore have been had, moved, & depending, between T. G. of T. in the county of Y. yeoman on the one party, & F. M. of D. in the said county gentleman, on the other party: For pacifying, ordering, & ending whereof, the said T. G. & F. M. have bound themselves either to other in the sum of 400. l. of, etc. by their several oblige. bearing date, etc. now last passed, with condition there under written, to stand to, abide, perform, fulfil, & keep the award, order, rule, doom, judgement, & determination of the said Earl indifferently elected, & chosen, by the mutual consent, & at the earnest, & humble request, & petition, of both the said parties, to arbitrate, award, order, judge, & determine, of, for, & concerning all, & all manner of actions, suits, quarrels, debts, duties, & demands whatsoever, had, moved, or depending or which hereafter might be had, moved, or depend between the said parties, by reason of any matter, thing, or things whatsoever, accrued, or grown from the beginning of the world, until the day of the date of the same oblige. So that the same award were made in writing indented, under the hand & seal of the said Earl before the nineteen. day of, etc. & th'one part of the same writing indented, delivered, or caused to be delivered by the said Earl, to the said T. G. his executors, etc. or any of them, or to their, or any of their use, upon, or before the said nineteen. day of etc. at, or in the now mansion, or Manor house of the said Earl, called S. in etc. & the other part thereof, to the said F. M. etc. ut sup, as by the said oblige. & conditions thereof doth & may more at large appear. ✿ Know you now, that the said Earl of his mere good will & favour, which he beareth to both the said parties, & of the great & honourable respect, which he hath of their future quietness, taking upon him the charge & burden of the said award, & having deliberately at sundry times at large, heard & considered the griefs, allegations, & proofs of both the said parties, doth by these presents, arbitrate, award, order, deem, & judge, of & concerning the premises in manner & form following, viz. ✿ That the said F. M his etc. or some of them, shall well, & truly pay, or cause to be paid unto the said T. G. his etc. or some of them, the sum of 160. l. of etc. in the etc. in manner & form following. viz. upon etc. 80. l. thereof, and upon etc. other 80. l. thereof residue, & in full payment & satisfaction of the said sum of 160. l. ✿ And that in consideration thereof the said T. G. shall permit, & suffer all suits, actions, quarrels, debts, duties, and demands, grown before the date of the said oblige. to cease, & be discontinued, and no further prosecuted by him, or any other by his procurement. ✿ And furthermore, for as much as the said F. M. is charged as is aforesaid, for the payment of the said sum of 160. l. partly by reason of a judgement heretofore given for the said T. G. against one L. S. in the Q. majesties court, commonly called the K. bench▪ in an action of debt, in which the said T. G. hath recovered against the said L. S. 285. l. and 4. d. as by the record thereof remaining in the said court appeareth. His honour doth further award by these presents, in relief & ease of the said F. M. that if the said F. M. his etc. or any of them do well and truly pay, or cause to be paid the said sum of 160. l. according to the true meaning of this present award, And if the said L. S. his heirs, etc. or some of them, shall not well, & truly satisfy, content, & pay unto the said T. G. his etc. the said several sums above in this award appointed to be paid by the said F. M. before the several days herein above mentioned: That then, & at all times after any such default of payment so to be made by the said L. S. his etc. the said T. G. his etc. shall permit and suffer the said F. M. his executors, and administrators, & every of them, at the costs & charges of the said F. M. his exec. and administ. effectually to prosecute, or cause to be prosecuted, all, and every such execution, and executions upon the said judgement so had for the said T. G. against the said L. S. as to them, or any of them, or the learned counsel of them, or any of them, shall seem good. And all, and every sum, and sums of money thereby to be obtained, to take, and convert to the only proper use, and behalf of the said F. M. his exec. & administr. without any account, recompense, or payment thereof, or therefore to be yielded, or made to the said T. G. his etc. or any of them: any thing in this present award contained &c. notwithstanding. ✿ In witness whereof, the said Earl to both the parts of this present award hath set his hand and seal. Dated etc. All such covenants, & conditions as be usually made for the assurance or enjoying of lands, or tenements, goods▪ and chattels, may be inserted into awards, as shall seem good unto the arbitrators or parties. Of notice of the arbitrement. AND when the arbitrators have made their award, according to Sect. 48. the submission, albeit, perchance they be not bound to give notice thereof to the parties, yet it seemeth very requisite, that they should in due time, before that either party be to perform any part thereof, notify the same unto them, lest otherwise they might break their bonds, or covenants, in that behalf (if any such be) before they know the same. Notwithstanding, that the book in 8. Edw. 4. 1. & 9 be doubtful in that point. The final cause, and effects of Arbitrements. ANd thus, by that which hath been discoursed, it sufficiently appeareth Sect. 49. (as we think) that the scope, and end of arbitrements, and other judgements is all one. And chief the final determination of strif●, suit, and controversy 19 H. 6. 36. And so consequently, their effects be almost equal. But the laws seem more favourable to arbitrements then other judgements, in so much, as by arbitrators the strict course, and tedious ceremonies of law suits (which are most commonly wont to weary suitors, and pick their purses) are cut off, and shorter decisions by them made, with little or no cost at all. We differ to show how arbitrements may be pleaded in bar of other actions, until we come to their fit place amongst our precedents of plead, and so end this treatise. An Award made by an Arbitrator touching copyhold land, between an Alderman of London, and an other. TO all Christian people to whom this present writing of award indented Sect. 50. shall come H. T. of Lincoln's Inn in the county of Middlesex Esquire sendeth greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas suit, variance and debate heretofore hath been and yet is had, moved and depending, as well in the Queen's majesties Court of Requests, as in divers other Courts, between R. H. Citizen and Alderman of London of the one party, and R. E. of K. in the county of M. Yeoman of the other party, of for and concerning the right, title, use, interest, and possession of divers lands, tenements & hereditaments, with the appurtenances lying and being in K. within the manor or Lordship of T. within the said County of M. and containing by estimation about 200. acres of land, meadow, pasture, and wood, commonly called or known by the name of Hebines' land for the appeasing, final end and determination of all which said suits, variances and debates the parties aforesaid have submitted, & compromitted themselves to stand, to obey and perform the arbitrement, ordinance, doom, and judgement of me the said H. T. Arbitrator indifferently elected, named and chosen by both the said parties, indifferently to arbitrate, order, deem, award, and judge as well of, for and concerning the estate, right, title, interest, use and possession of all and singular the said premises, and every part and parcel thereof, as also of for and upon all manner of action's, suits, quarrels, debts, debates, trespasses, and demands, whatsoever heretofore had moved, stirred or depending between the said parties from the beginning of the world until the twenty day of November last passed, as by their several writings obligatory wherein either of the said parties stand bounden to the other of the same parties, in the sum of two hundred pounds, bearing date the said 20. day of November, and made for the true performance of the said award more at large it doth and may appear. Whereupon the said H. T. having taken upon him the charge, and burden of the said Arbitrament And having present before him both the said parties, & having also very advisedly and deliberately weighed and considered the titles, claims, allega●ions, and proofs, of either of the said parties to the said premises. And upon sight and due consideration of all the evidences, writings and proofs showed and made before me the said H. T. by both the said parties do award, arbitrate, order, deem & judge of the premises in manner and form following. That is to say: First I the said Arbitrator do award, deem, order & judge, that the said R. E. or his heirs at all times within 3. years next ensuing the date of these presents, upon lawful & reasonable warning by the Steward, bailiff, or Reeve of the said manor of T. for the time being shall at the next Court so to be holden, than next after such warning had surrender and give up into the hands of the said R. H. his heirs or assigns in open Court, according to the custom of the said Manor, to the use of the said R. H. and his heirs for ever all & singular the aforesaid lands, tenements and hereditaments, hereafter in these presents mentioned expressed and declared: That is to wit, one mansion or dwelling house, wherein the said R. E. now dwelleth, with all edifices & buildings etc. And furthermore I the said H. T. do award, ordain, deem and judge by these presents, that the said R. H. his heirs or assigns at the said Court, where, and when the said surrender shallbe so made, shall assure and convey unto the said R. E. or to his heirs that shall so surrender the premises as aforesaid by copy of Court roll, according to the custom of the said Manor, or otherwise as by the said ●. E. his heirs and assigns or any of them, or by his or their learned counsel shallbe reasonably devised, or advised, & at the proper costs and charges of the said R. E. his heirs & assigns not altering by the said assurance, or assurances so to be devised, or advised as is aforesaid any custom, liberty or jurisdiction of the said Lordship, manor or other the premises with all and singular the said lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all other the premises, with their appurtenances whatsoever before by these presents ordered, and judged to be surrendered as is aforesaid (four acres of land now in the occupation of etc. parcel of the premises to be chosen by the said R. H. etc. only excepted & foreprised.) To have & to hold the same lands, tenements & all other the premises with the app●rtenances (except before excepted) unto the said R. E. & to his heirs males incorrupt within the 4. degree of consanguinity, according to the ancient custom of the said manors. And if it happen▪ that the said R. E. do dece●●● before the said surrender made as is aforesaid, Then to have & to hold the said premises with the appurtenances to the heirs of the said R. E. which so shall surrender the same & to his heirs males incorrupt▪ within the 4. degree of consanguinity etc. An Award reciting that either of▪ the parties stand bound to other to perform the award. And that the award is made before the prefixed time in the Obligations, and with the full consent of both the parties. TO all christian people, to whom this present writing indented of award Sect▪ 51. shall come R. W. and R. C. send greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Know ye that whereas variance, strife, debate, and controversy hath heretofore been had, moved and stirred between A. B. of C. and D. E. of E. of, for and concerning the right, title, interest, use, possession and occupation of etc. for the appeasing & ending whereof, either of the said parties by their mutual assents, consents, & agreements, have submitted, compromitted, and bound themselves either to other by their several writings obligatory, bearing date etc. in the suume of etc. to stand too, abide▪ obey, observe, perform, fulfil and keep the award, arbitrement, ordinance, doom and judgement of us etc. Arbitrators indifferently elect and chosen, between the said parties of, and for the premises as by the said several obligations with condition for the performance thereof more at large appeareth. Whereupon we the said Arbitrators taking upon us the labour, business, and charge of the same award, and willing to set the said parties at a final peace, unity, and concord, for and concerning the premises, have by good advise, & deliberation seen, heard, and thoroughly examined both their titles, allegations, evidences and proves in, and to the said premises, and thereupon before the day and time appointed unto us by the said obligations for the making, giving up and finishing. And finishing of the said award, we the said Arbitrators by and with the full assent, consent, and agreement of both the said parties do make, publish, declare, and give up this our present award between the said parties of, for, and concerning the premises, in manor & form following. First we award, ordain, deem, and judge, that etc. Also we award etc. And finally we award, ordain, deem and judge etc. In witness whereof we the said Atbitrators, and also both the said parties to to the award have interchangeably put our hands and seals the x. day of M. in the xx. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God of England, France and Ireland, Queen defender of the faith etc. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY. Of the Chancery, Proceed in the same, and Supplications, Bills, and Answers. The Chancery. seeing by God's favour, we intent somewhat to Sect▪ 1. discourse of the manner of proceeding in Chancery suits, and to set down some Precedents thereof, to the performing whereof, it seemeth requisite first to unfold the nature of Equity, Conscience, & the rigour of the common Laws of this Realm, as the proper object or matter whereabout such suits are for the most part occupied, to the end it may with the more facility be understood, how, and when such suits are fitly to be taken in hand. Therefore we will first speak of Summum ius, (which oftentimes precisely regardeth the very letter and words of the common Laws: for remedy whereof, parties grieved, pray aid of this honourable Court of Chancery, to bridle extremity, and reduce such rigour to Equity and Conscience. Of strict or precise Law, which is called Ius summum. ARistotle calleth it Eract or precise Law, because that, if it have Sect▪ 2. no allay in it to qualify the harshness & severity of it, it is unpleasant and sour in taste, and repugnant to Equity. And Budaeus saith, that this word (strict and precise Law) is a word, which amongst the Civilians, signifieth very hard law, exact, and full of rigour, and almost unjust: For they that writ of the Law, make these words, strict Law, and Equity, opposite, the one to the other, thus far Budaeus. The Lawyers do also term it, Ius subtle, subtle Law. Other Lawyers do term it, Summum Ius, Law in the highest degree▪ or most exact, and it is so taken of them, when men stand more upon the letter of the Law, then upon the meaning of the writer, or maker of the Law. In which behalf, it so falleth out oft times, that under a colour of knowledge of the Laws, many gross and dangerous errors be committed, Corasius Missel. li. 2. ca 8. Nu. 12. Oldendorpius divideth this Ius summum, or Law in the highest degree, into two branches: the one proper, the other improper. Law in the highest degree, so properly termed or taken, is an undoubted & infallible rule of honesty, which may generally without exception be put in execution in any common weal, whether it be originally grounded upon the Law of Nature, or upon the Law of Nations: For examples whereof you may take all the rules and principles of the Law, for these rules and principles of the Law, do in their kind, most strictly and exactly define and bound out the matter which th●y handle, barely and nakedly, without any regard of circumstances of the fact that may fall out, of which sort of rules are these. Keep thy word, hurt no man: these are general rules of Law in the highest degree, so righteous and full of justice in their kind, that by the Law of Nature itself, better and more rightful cannot be given, Li. 1. F. de pactis. But here you see no respect had to any circumstance, of your word or hurting, for this point belongeth to Equity, or the Court of Conscience, which with us is called the Chancery, as the case may fall out. And the law in the highest degree, being thus properly taken, is wrongfully termed by the common sort of men, wrong in the highest degree, for to speak generally and at a word, it is the justest reason that may be, whether Natural, or Rational, so far is it, from being, to be rightfully taken wrong, until it be stretched, and as it were set upon tenture books, to be drawn to some inconvenient circumstance of the fact: as when a man doth covenant or give his word to do some dishonest fact, or hurtful and dangerous to the common wealth, In which case, if a man should wrest this rule of Law, Keep thy word, in steed of doing right in the highest degree, he should commit injustice in the highest degree: Not because the Law hath any fault in itself, but because through his error, and cavilling with the Law, he worketh wickedness, not judging a right the circumstances of the fact, wherein Law and right standeth, Li. Si. F. de pactis. Law in the highest degree improperly taken, is so termed when by an over rigorous and hard interpretation, it is drawn to inconvenient kinds of facts, or by colourable arguments, is drawn to frustrate the good meaning of the Law, L. Incivile cum L. seq. F. de Legibus. Many examples hereof we have in the Law: As, it is a Law, that no man shall be forced against his will to commence or maintain any suit or action: Now put the case, that I. S. is wrongfully impleaded by I. N. who hath framed a cunning action, full of glorious show against him the said I. S. But I. N. finding in conclusion that he is not able to prove, and make good his action, becometh nonsuit, I. S. prayeth remedy of the judges against this wrongful vexation of I. N. and he the said I. N. in defence of his wrongful vexation, urgeth this rule of Law, that no man is compellable to maintain an action: Shall he be heard in this case: No saith justinian, this false gloze of I. N. is not to be suffered or borne withal. This term or word of Law in the highest degree, being thus taken, we may well say, that Law in the highest degree is wrong in the highest degree. For the more subtly that a man doth argue, & the more authorities he heapeth together, to enforce such a law, so much the more and greater wrong, and injustice shall he do. Of Equity. Equity is that which is commonly called equal and good, & sometimes Sect▪ 3. equal and just, and sometime equal, just, Lib. 1. & Pen. F. de justicia & iure, I. si & ius F. si certum petatur, Arist. termeth it Epieices, and other term it Epieician, which is as much to say, a mitigation, or moderation of the Law written, in some circumstance, either of the things themselves, of the persons, or of the times. Law (saith Donatus) is that, that maketh all things strait, and not pliable to th'one, nor other. Equity is that, that dispenseth with many points of the Law. Oldendorpius saith, that Equity is nothing else, but a sound or upright will or judgement of an honest man, nothing crafty or subtle, so measuring out to every man that, that is his, that in the mean while no man is wronged, as appeareth most elegantly in I. bona fides I. Incurrit F. depos. Equity as some other say, is a reasonable measure, containing in itself a fit proportion & rigour, so that it differeth from Law in this, that Law is a determinate sentence set down according to the rules of the law: But Equity is a certain proportion and allay, upon good occasions, setting on side the common rules of the Law, and so they call it a ruled kind of justice, allayed with the sweetness of mercy. Equity is diversly termed in the Law, s●metime it is very significantly called a Conveniency, because it ministereth amongst men, a fit proportion, answerable to the persons, the matters, the places, and the times. Sometimes, plain dealing, is called Equity, which is opposite to the dealing of man by nice points of the Law. Sometime it is taken for natural justice, or the Law of Nature. Sometime it is taken for Law that is opposite to forged and devised Law. Sometime it is taken for Religion etc. And to be short, Equity, is the correction or amendment of a good Law, which is defective in some part, by reason of the generality of it. Of the division of Equity. Equity is twofold, written, and not written, for Equity may be used Sect▪ 4. both in Schools, and places of judgement, two ways: The one, by taking good heed, how, and in what sort, Princes and Lawyers have observed Equity, in making and setting down of laws, appointed to be rules and squares of men's actions: So that if at any time any case falleth out, which is in all points answerable to the Law, void of any different circumstances, which might require some change, or alteration of the Law, they may accordingly frame their judgements, being sure and out of doubt, that the Law of Equity is already chalked out to them. another way Equity is to be prattised in these particular facts, which daily fall out, and have no certain line and square set out for them in the Laws already made, so that we must be forced to deliver our judgements in them, according to certain circumstances, applied as nearly as we can, to the principles of our Law. And herein standeth the greatest use of Equity, most fit for common weals: And therefore we may well call it an unwritten Equity, not because we are at our liberties to define and determine of it, without due regard had to the Law written, but because it taketh some liberty not to bind itself, to the general Rules of the Law. Of the efficient cause of Equity. GOD is the efficient cause of Equity, who hath so disposed of the Sect▪ 5. nature of mankind, that we are not in any wise able, to set down a certain rule for fu●ure things, and yet hath bestowed upon us so much knowledge, as whereby we may frame certain general rules of honest life▪ which may serve for directions in all particular actions and facts, daily and hourly falling out amongst men, if they be duly and carefully examined by the rule of Equity, which hath hereye cast upon all ordinary circumstances. Of the material cause of Equity. THe Law of Nature, the Law of Nations, and good manners, are Sect▪ 6. the material cause of Equity, for a well minded man, and of sound judgement, will make of these three an wholesome and very medicinable mixture, for any state and common wealth. But the matter where about this Equity must occupy and busy herself, are the affairs of men, infinite, as they fall out. For right or Law will be rightly ministered, if as matters fall out, the circumstances thereof duly considered, the ministers of the Law do frame their judgements accordingly. Of the formal cause of Equity. THe formal cause of Equity is the matching and levelling of facts Sect' 7. falling out, and the circumstances thereof, with the rules of the Law, as buildings are framed to Carpenter's lines and squares. Of the final cause of Equity. THe final cause of Equity, or effect, is, to keep an equality amongst Sect' 8. the state of men, who are at much odds & squares amongst themselves, to the end, the common wealth may be preserved in safety, which standeth for the most part in righteous judgements. Why Equity is sometimes compared to a ruler. NOt unfitly is Equity termed, the rule of manners: for as by a Sect' 9 rule the faults of a building are discovered, so doth Equity judge a right, both of the written Law, and also of all men's actions and behaviours: And therefore such as are ministers of justice, apply and frame their judgements, after the square and rule of good and equal, that is to say: of God's Law, and the Laws of Nature. Against which Laws, what judgements soever be given, cannot be but unjust and unrighteous. How Equity and Clemency differ. THere is a difference between Equity, and Clemency: for Equity Sect' 10. is always most firmly knit to the will of the Law, which way soever it bends, whether to clemency, or to severity. But clemency is only proper to the Prince, or those Magistrates, that have like power of administration of justice, as Princes have. Of the difference▪ between Equity, and strict Law. STrict Law & Equity differ herein, that strict Law doth set down Sect' 11. in a general sort what it enacteth, & is severe, and not to be moved, one way or other: it taketh order for things, once for all: the grounds & principles which it bringeth forth are universal, & full of severity and sharpness, from which rules it will not start as●●e, no not the breadth of an heir. But Equity is fitly compared to a shoemakers shop that is well furnished with all sorts and manner of lasts for men's feet, where each man may be sure to find one last or other that shall fit him, be he great or ●●all. It is not also unfitly compared to an Apothecary's shop, stored with all kind of drugs, fit for all the maledies & diseases of men. Which drugs notwithstanding, in case they should be unskilful compounded together, would in stead of healing, work present death to the patiented that should receive them: For it requireth the industry and exquisite art of a good Physician, to make a right composition, discerning, and tempering by just proportions good venims from evil. In like sort in affairs both public and private, equity doth particularly, & carefully examine the causes, the times, the circumstances, the sorts and differences of persons, and matters, and by former judgement given in like cases, gathereth and frameth an absolute and perfect deciding and determining the matter presently in question and suit. And S. German to the like effect saith, Equity is a righteousness tempered with mercy, which considereth all the particular circumstances of the deed, Doct. & Stu. Lib. 1. cap. 16. This Equity, saith he, must always be observed in every Law of man, and in every Maxim or general rule thereof, for that men's acts are so divers and infinite, that it is impossible to make any general Law which may aptly meet with every particular act, and not fail in some special case. Therefore Lawmakers do foresee things which may oft happen: in so much as strictly to observe the word and tenor of the law, were in some cases both against justice and the common wealth. Wherefore in such cases we must stick fast to that which reason and justice require, which is, that Equity may mitigate Rigorem juris, which equity is no other thing, than an exception of the Law of God, or of the Law of Reason, from the general principles of man's positive law, not agreeing with them in some particularity, which exception is inwardly implied in every general ground or Maxim of the Law. And yet taketh not away the very right, but substituteth right in steed of that which by the only letter of the Law seemeth to be right and is not. Neither may we therefore accuse the Law of cruelty (which as is said) generally taken is good of itself, and not cruel, though it reach not fully to every particular circumstance of men's actions. And therefore if a Law were made, that no man under the pain of death, should open the gates of a City before the Sun rising, yet he who for saving the Citizens flying from their Enemies to the same gates, openeth them before that time, offendeth not th'intent and equity of that Law, D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 6. Or if a Statute were made, that whosoever doth such an Act should be put to death: yet if one of Non sanae memoriae, or an infant of tender years, which wanteth discretion do such an act, they shall not therefore suffer death. Or if a Statute were made, that whosoever receiveth or aideth with meat drink, or otherwise I. S. an offendor knowing his offence shallbe accessary thereunto as a fellow, yet if his wife knowing his offence receive and aid him, she shall not thereby be a Felon: for in the generality of such Statutes, Madmen, Infants, and his own wife are not intended to be included, but excepted by implication. By l● which we may gather, that the outward words of the Law only, are not the law, but the inward sense and meaning thereof: For our Laws (as all other Laws) have two parts, that is to say: the flesh and soul, The letter resembleth the flesh, the intent, and reason, the soul: Nam ratio legis, est anima legis. The Law may be compared to a Nut, whereof the letter resembleth the shell, the sense the kernel: And as the profit of the nut is not in the shell, but in the kernel, so the fruit of the Law is not in the letter, but in the sense: And as he which resteth upon the shell loseth the fruit of the nut: so he which stayeth upon the letter wanteth the profit of the law, for the letter is sometimes larger, and sometimes narrower than the intent which Equity regardeth, Plow. 9 b 465. a And Bracton of Equity writeth thus: aequitas est rerum convenientia quae in paribus causis paria considerat iura, & omnia bene coequiparat. Et dicitur aequitas quasi aequalitas, & vertitur in rebus, id est, in dictis & factis hominum, lib. 1. cap. 4. Sect 35. How the Chancery is termed the Court of Conscience. ANd for so much as this Court bridleth the rigour of the Common Sect' 12. Law, by giving actions and exceptions for remedies whereby law none were, according to equity and conscience, to maintain aequum & bonum, the common people term the Chancery the Court of Conscience: Yet herein conscience is so regarded, that Laws be not neglected, for they must join hands in the moderation of extremity, divers. Cur' 105. Nam ipse etiam leges cupiunt ut iure regantur, id est, ut levi, facili, ac benigna interpretatione temperentur, vereque dicitur, Nullus recedat a Cancellaria sine remedio, 4. H. 7. 4. Of Conscience. THis Conscience is defined, Reliqua in hominerationis scintilla, bonorum, Sect' 13. malorumque facinorum, index & judex: igitur & bipertita ea approbatio scilicet & opprobatio, illa in bene, hec in secus factis. justus Lipsus lib. civilis doctrina cap. 5. or thus. Conscientia est ta●itum animi infallibileque facti nostri judicium, a communi justitiae formula, quam Deus insculpsit omnibus hominibus productum, per quod aut accusatur res mala aut defendi● bona, Oldendorpius, Corasius in Miscel. lib. 4. cap. 20. Conscience is an actual applying of knowledge to some particular act of man, as Saint saith, Doct. and Stu. cap. 15. And Synderesis which is termed a natural power of the Soul, persuading good, and dissuading evil, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 13. & is nothing else but attenta obseruationis occasio cum o●bus circumstantijs eius, Theucid. lib. 7. and ministereth the general principles of that knowledge. Vere igitur di●itur, conscientiam veram nisi adhibeat, judex non potest causam secundum equitatem, definire, simille testes, totidemque videat ob oculos instrumenta, Conscientia enim (cum mill testium vim obtineat) certa est, non fallitur. At in probationibus saepe vel error, vel dolus versatur, sicut experientia heu nimis frequens nos docet, Oldend. Of judgements in Chancery. SO great is the power, jurisdiction, and majesty of this court, that Sect. 14. judgements therein given are not to be controlled or reversed in any other Court, than the high Court of Parliament, which is the chiefest of all other Courts in this Realm, divers. Cur. 105. 37. H. 6. 14. Of the power ordinary of the Chancery. ANd this Court is armed with twofold power, that is to say: with Sect. 15. power ordinary and absolute, 9 E. 4. 15. By ordinary power the Lord Chancellor proceedeth as at the common Law, as in proceeding upon recognisances there knowledged, and traverses of offices, in which parties are to plead and join issue as at common Law. And so in suit against, or for Clerks of the Chancery, and other persons privileged by Attachment there for matter of action remediable by the common Law etc. But when they be at issue, the Record must be transmitted into the K. Bench to be tried by jury. And when it is so tried, it must be remaunded into the Chancery, that judgement may be there given, and execution had upon the same, 24. E. 3. 45. 14. E. 4. 7. 8. E. 4. 6. Of the power absolute of the Chancery. THe absolute power is not tied to the rules of the common Law, Sect. 16. but by that, matters may be examined omnibus vijs & modis quibus rei veritas melius sciri poterit, & judged secundum allegata & probata, and not by jury of twelve men, as at the common Law: But by examination of witnesses, as in the courts of the Civil Law, Smithus de Rep. Angl. lib. 2. cap. 12. divers. Cur. 106. 9 E. 4. 15. Neither is such precise form of pleading used in the Chancery, as at the common Law, nor any advantage to be taken for mispleading, or want of form, so as the substance of the matter be sufficiently disclosed in conscience, divers. Cur. 106. 9 E. 4. 15. 24. E. 3. 45. 14. E. 4. 7. divers other special authorities and privileges hath the Lord Chancellor by sundry Statutes, as thereby appeareth. And partition made in the Chancery rendering rend is good, and may well be sent into the King's Bench, and execution thereupon made by Scire facias, ●7. H. 6. 43. li. Ass. 32. And if lands be recovered from a woman whereof she was endowed in the Chancery, she may have a Scire facias there to be newly endowed, 29. Ass. 23. Of a Subpena. ANd seeing the ordinary means to call and bring in the parties to Sect. 17. answer in this Court is either by the Sergeant of the Mace, as before, or by Subpena which only is th'original process of this court, and must be directed to the parties, D. St. lib. 1. cap. 17. Smith de Rep. Ang. lib. 2. cap. 12. Cases remediable in Chancery. Having thus perused Equity and summum Ius with their differences, Sect. 18. and also what conscience is, whereupon suits in this court do chief lie: It seemeth good now specially to consider such special cases as be remediable in Chancery, and for which a writ of Subpena lieth there, as in cases following. A Subpena lieth in no case but where the common Law faileth, so as the party who in Equity hath wrong, can have none ordinary remedy by the course and rules of the common Law, 39 H. 6. 26. 7. H. 7. 11. as in these cases following, and such like. As if the Queen by her letters Patents give unto A. goods forfeited to her highness by Treason, A. may sue for the same in Chancery, 39 H. 6. 26. And it seemeth if one Coexecutor alone release debt due to the testator, his companion may thereof have remedy in Chancery against his Coexecutor only, if no covin be in the debtor: but if there be, then against them both, 4. H. 7. 4. divers. Cur. 106. And by moil, if in a Quare impedit by two Coparceners, th'one make a false plea of covin between him & the defendant, than his companion by suit in the Court may enforce him to join with him in a true count, 6. E. 4. 10. If lands in Ancient demesne extended by statute Marchant be recovered by common recovery, the cognizee hath no remedy but in conscience, 7. H. 7. 11. If feoffees in trust commanded by cestuy q use to enfeoff his vendee, refuse to do it, a Subpena lieth for the vendee against them, 37. H. 6. 36. If cestuy q use devise by his will that his feoffees make an estate to I. S. for life, the remainder to H. in fee, and I. refuse to take his estate, H. after the death of I. may by Subpena compel the feoffees to make estate to him accordingly, per jenny & Finch. 37. H. 6. 36. Tenant in Borough english enfeoff A. to the use of the feoffor and his heirs and die, his youngest son shall have a Subpena, and not the eldest, for the use is of the nature of the land, 5. E. 4. 7. If a man make a feoffment in trust of lands descended to him ex part matris, and die without issue, his heir ex part matris may have a Subpena, 5. E. 4. 7. If a man make a feoffment to perform his will, and after to enfeoff his heirs, and declare his will for years, and die, having issue a son and a daughter by one venture, and a daughter by another ventre, the son dieth without issue before the will be performed, his sister of the whole blood is to have execution of the state by the feoffees, for possessio fratris de feodo (of an use) facit sororem esse haeredem, & the will for years is no impediment of the possession: But otherwise if it had been of franktenement by the Reporter, 5. E. 4. 7. If A. seized in fee to the use of a woman, who taketh an husband, & he selleth the land to S. for money which the wife receiveth, & A. at their request infeffe the vendee, the husband dieth, the wife may have a Subpena against the vendee, having notice hereof, or else against the feoffee for recompense: for this is the sale of the husband only, 7. E. 4. 14. If M. know that W. is enfeoffed to mine use, or of my will, or hath goods given to him to mine use, and buy the lands or goods for money, a Subpena lieth against the vendor and vendee to perform the will or use, 5. E. 4. 7. 11. E. 4. 8. divers. Cu● 106. But against the vendor only if the vendee have no such notice, divers. Cu● 106. A man by Subpena may enforce his feoffee of trust to bring actions in their names, 7. E. 4. 29. as trespass against trespassors, 11. E. 4. 8. yet if the feoffee had released to the trespasser, Cestuy que use had been remediless, 11. E. 4. 8. or Assize, 2. E. 4. 2. or trespass for goods given to his use taken away, 7. E. 4. 29. But not an appeal of Robbery, because they be not compelable to join battle, 7. E. 4. 29. If a feoffment be made to the chief Lord, or others, to uses, he may refuse to execute the estate for extinguishing of his Signiory, and no Subpena lieth against him, 16. E. 4. 4. The heir of the feoffee in trust being in by descent is compellable by Subpena to execute an estate according to the trust, 22. E. 4. 6. If a wife will that her feoffees shall enfeoff her husband, he may not compel them thereunto, for the will of a wife in this case is void, 18. E. 4. 11. If A. be bound to F. to the use of C. C. in Chancery may compel F. to sue A. for the same, 2. E. 4. 2. If R. deliver money to A. to deliver to his executors or administrators to dispose etc. and deliver A. the same upon bond to B. to keep and redeliver to him, R. dieth, his executors, or administrators may in Chancery compel A. to sue the obligors for the money, 4. E. 4. 37. If P. be bound in a statute staple to I. and H, to the use of I, & H. release P, no Subpena lieth against P. notwithstanding that he had notice of those, for every man may lawfully aid himself, 11. E. 4. 8. divers. Cur. 106. The like of an Obligation to two, to those of one, the remedy is against him that did so release, divers. Cur. 106. 11. E. 4. 8. If A. be bound to B. to those of C. and B. release, C. may have remedy therefore in Chancery, 7. H. 7. 11. If a man pay debt due by specialty without an acquittance, or have an acquittance, and lose it, he shall have remedy in Chancery, 22. E. 4. 6. 7. H. 7. 11. But it seemeth to be otherwise, if the debt be by matter of record, for else might all Records be avoided by witnesses which would destroy the common Law, 22. E. 4. 6. divers. Cur. 106. D. and S. lib. 1. cap. 12. A Subpena lieth on a promise or agreement by word: as to build a house, or do any other lawful act, 8. E, 4. 4. divers. Cur. 105. An action lieth against Executors in Chancery upon a simple contract without specialty, 7. H. 7. 11. If there be 2. obligors, and the obligee give longer day of payment to th'one of them, & sue tother, he may have a Subpena, 6. E. 4. 41. If goods be given to defraud creditors, they may have remedy in Chancery against the donees, or such as have the possession of the goods, 16. E. 4. 9 If a man be suerti●●or an others debt, and the debtor, and others be bound to save the surety harmless, & the surety have▪ also goods delivered by the debtor to save him harmless: Notwithstanding the surety pay the debt, yet if he sue his Obligation, the debtor may have a Subpena for restitution of his goods so pawned for the same, lest he should be twice charged therefore, 16. E. 4. 9 If a man buy a debt due by obligation, and be bound to pay a sum of money to the vendor for it: yet for so much as the thing sold is chose in action in the vendee he can have no property, and therefore hath not quid pro quo, the vendee may be relieved in Equity for his own obligation, 37. H. 6. 13. And for evidence whereof the plaintiff knoweth, neither the certain contents nor contentment, he may have remedy in Chancery, divers. Cur. 105. Learn whether if a transitory personal action be sued in a foreign County, the defendant may stay the plaintiff in Chancery by Injunction, divers. Cur. 106. So necessary be the remedies in Chaunceri e upon equity's allowed by law, that it seemeth to some not inconvenient to have assigned such remedies for the 7. ground of the Laws of this Realm, which are said to consist of 6. grounds only: First the Law of Reason, 2. The Law of God, 3. General Customs of the Realm, 4. Principles or Maxims of Law, 5. Particular Customs used only in certain places of this Realm, 6. Acts of Parliament, Doct. & Stu. Lib. 1. cap. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 10. 11. and 17. If a man bound in a single Obligation or bill of debt, pay the money according to the bond, neither taking an acquittance thereof, nor canceling the specialty of the same, he is by the common Law chargeable to pay the same debt again, by virtue of the said specialty: But may have remedy thereof in the Chancery, Doct. Stu. Lib. 2. cap. 6. 1. H. 7. fol. 14. ¶ A view of certain cases wherein the party grieved seemeth wronged Sect. 19 in Conscience, and yet is remediless in Chancery. OF an unjust wager of Law in an action of debt upon a simple contract, Doct. Stu. Lib. 1. cap. 18. Of a false verdict by a grand jury in Attaint, Doct. Stu. Lib. 1. cap. 18. For damages where a man hath right or title to land in the possession of another, and may by action recover, only the land but no damages, for the mean occupation there is no remedy for the same damages in Chancery: As if the tenant in tail be disseised, and the disseisor die seized, and his heir is in by descent, a●●●st whom the issue in tail bringeth a Formedon, he may recover the land, but no damages, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 A man may not deny that which he hath once affirmed of record, in a Court of Record, nor affirm that which he hath once denied of record in a Court of Record, nor that whereof he wilfully estopped or excluded himself by deed indented, or otherwise: As if a daughter which is sole heir to her father sue livery with her bastard sister, she is remediless by law, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 If a thing be found by verdict against truth before judgement, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 Where the cause of the law ceaseth, the law also ceaseth in conscience: As lessee for years recovereth by judgement triple damages for a trespass of waist done by an estranger, And he in the reversion dieth before his action of waist be ended, yet in conscience he ought to sue execution for his single damages, for he had no more hurt thereby, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 A Law grounded upon a false presumption is not to be holden in conscience, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 Conscience may not prevail against a lawful Custom, either general or particular: As in descents of lands to the eldest son by the common Law, to the youngest by Borough English, and to all by Gavelkind, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19 So if a man without consideration make a deed of feoffment of two acres of land, lying each in a several Shire, and make livery of seisin in th'one acre only in the name of both, that wherein livery of seisin was made, only passeth in law and conscience. Doct. St. lib. 1. cap. 20. If one jointenant of a would sell the wood, and keep all the money received for it wholly to himself, his fellow may have remedy in Chancery, lib. 1. cap. 19 And so it seemeth, if they were jointenants in common, or Coparceners of other things. If a common person of his mere motion without other consideration make a feoffment of a manor, without these words, (with the appurtenances) he hath right only to the demeans and commons, and rents, of the attournement: but neither to Aduowson appendent, nor villain regardant. But in the King's case, notwithstanding the words (with thappurtenances) were in the grant: yet neither Aduowsons', nor Villains do pass, either by Law or conscience, unless they be especially named, D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 19 6. E. 3. 286. Regist. fol. 228. Fundamenta Legum fol. 70. 43. E. 3. 22. If a lease for years be reserving rend, with a clause of reentry, the rent is behind, the lessor dieth before demand, the heir can neither enter by law nor conscience: Otherwise if he made a lawful demand thereof, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 20. If tenant in Dower sow the land and die before the Corn be reaped, her executors shall have the Corn: but not the grass, nor other fruits, D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. If tenant for life, or tenant in tail after possibility of issue, alien in fee, he in the reversion or remainder may enter, and have the land by the forfeiture, in law and conscience, D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. 45. E. 3. 3. Every Law ordained for the disposition of lands or goods, contrary neither to the Law of God, nor to the Law of Reason, bindeth in the Court of Conscience, D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. Whether one of the age of xx. years, who having reason and wisdom to govern himself, selleth his land for money, and therewith buy other lands of better value, and taketh the profits thereof, may have his first land again in conscience, as he may in law, repaying the money which he received: Yet seemeth he may, because the contract is insufficient by reason of the infancy. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 21. If a man sell his land by a sufficient and lawful contract, though he want livery or attournement, or such other solempnities of the Law, yet the cellar is compelable▪ in the Chancery to perform the contract, D. S. lib. 1. cap. 21. If the tenant for life impanelled on an Inquest lose issues & die, they are leviable by law on him in the reversion. And so be the husband's issues after his death upon the wives land, and as it seemeth in Conscience, for the necessity of the execution of justice. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 21. No man is bound in Conscience to pay the penalty of a penal statute, nor other penalty until it be lawfully recovered against him. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 23. If A. enfeoff B. in fee of land upon condition, that if he enfeoff any other, that A. and his heirs may enter: this condition seemeth void in Law and Conscience, because it is contrary to the Maxims of the law, notwithstanding th'intent of the parties, for th'intent must be ordered by law, & if it be not, it is void, as by a feoffment of lands without recompense to A. for ever, he hath estate for life only, for want of the word (heirs) And a Lease to A. & his heirs for xx. years, shall go to his executors, because it is a chattel, & so by feoffment without recompense to a man & his wife & a third person, the husband & wife take only the moiety, because they are but one person in law. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 24. A fine with proclamation & no claim within v. years extinguisheth the right of all estrangers, aswell of the parties by law. And by Conscience also as it seemeth, because thereby the right and title is made certain, and thereby the common wealth more quiet, and it is not contrary to God's law. Doct. & St. 25. Common recovery with vouchers upon writs of Entre orderly pursued, and no recovery in value to be had in deed bar thissue in tail in law, 23. H. 8. Br. Tail 23. 14. E. 4. 14. & 19 13. E. 4. 1. And in conscience as it seemeth, for as the intailes are made by law, West. 2. ca 1. even so by law may they be anulled. And such Laws as concern right or property to things, and be not contrary to the laws of God, or of reason, are good in conscience. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 6. If a disseisor give the lands to I. S. in tail, & he granteth unto the disseisee rend out of the same lands, in consideration whereof the disseisee releaseth his right, this grant bindeth the issue in tail for ever in law and conscience, because this release doth confirm his estate which the disseisee might else have defeated. D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 27. 44. E. 3. 22. If the body of a debtor that hath nothing, be by judgement imprisoned until he pay his debt, he seemeth remediless in Conscience. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 29. A recovery with vouchers of an annuity entailed, bindeth thissue in tail neither in law nor conscience, because a writ of Entre doth not lie for an Annuity, nor any other writ then only a writ of Annuity against the person of the grantor or his heir, having assets by descent: Or against a Corporation, if it be granted to be perceived out of their coffers, for that an Annuity is no freehold in law. D. S. lib. 1. cap. 30. 44. E. 3. 5. 2. H. 4. 13. Fitz. Na. br. fol. 152. If tenant in tail be disseised and die, and a collateral aunce●●er to the heir in tail release to the disseisor with warranty and die, and the same warranty descend upon the said heir, he is barred in law and conscience. D. S. cap. 31. 35. H. 6. 63. 41. E. 3. 7. 45. E. 3. 23. 19 H. 6. 59 15. H. 7. 9 & 10. 21. H. 7. 39 3. H. 7. 9 Tenant in tail after possibility of issue is dispunishable for waste by law and conscience, because he had once inheritance, 45. E. 3. 3. 39 E. 3. 16. and thereby power to waste without punishment, which power endureth so long as his estate, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 1. If a man be outlawed before he have knowledge of the suit, albeit the surmised cause of action be untrue, yet the Queen may have his goods by Law and conscience, by reason of his disobedience in not appearing, to the hindrance of the effect of law, for he is bound to take notice of the suit being of record at his peril. And the forfeiture groweth by a general Maxim made for the necessary execution of justice: But it seemeth the defendant may have remedy in conscience against him which caused him to be outlawed without just cause. D. St. lib. 2. cap. 3. 21. H. 7. 7. 9 H. 6. 20. If an estranger do waste lands which another holdeth for years, life, in dower, or by the courtesy, without the tenants assent, the owner of the reversion may recover the place wasted, and triple damages against the tenant in law. And in conscience notwithstanding that the stranger be insufficient to recompense him for the same, for it is his own act and folly to take such estate subject to the chance. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 4. If a real action be brought by a very lawful heir, and yet bastardy being pleaded in him, he is untruly certified by the Ordinary to be a bastard, and so barred, the tenant knowing this certificate to be untrue, ought not in conscience to retain the land, yet is there no remedy for him in law, nor in Chancery, as it seemeth for that the Bishop's certificate is the highest trial that the law affordeth in this behalf. And every stranger may take advantage of this certificate, and no more writs may be awarded for further trialll of the truth thereof, for the avoiding of the inconvenience which might happen, if another Bishop should certify such bastard to be legitimate. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 5. If a feoffment in fee be made without deed, or a gift in tail, or a lease for life, the remainder over in fee: Or if tenant for ●fe grant his whole estate by deed Poll, reserving rend, in these cases the reservation is void in law, and there is no remedy therefore but in conscience. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 9 Learn whether Executors or Administrators having assets, be compellable in Chancery to make amends for trespass done by their testator, or to pay debt due by him upon a simple contract, Do. St. lib. 2. cap. 10. If tenant in fee have two sons and die, and I. S. abate and th'elder son make his executors and dieth, and the younger recovereth against the abator in Assize of Mortdauncester the lands and damages from the death of his Father, the executors of the elder brother have no remedy for the damages accrued in his life time, as it seemeth. Do. & Stu. lib. 2. cap. 13. Tenant in dower hath no remedy in Equity against the alienee of her husband for damages growing between his death and her demand, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 13. Tenant for life disseised dieth, his disseisor dieth, his heir entereth, against whom the owner of the reversion recovereth the lands, but no damages by law nor Equity, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 13. If a man seized of lands knowing that an other hath good right thereunto, levieth a fine with proclamation to extinguish such right, And maketh no claim within v. years, he is remediless in law and Equity, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 14. A man seized of lands in fee hath a daughter, she marrieth and hath issue, & her father dieth, the husband so soon as he knoweth of his father's death, hasteth to take possession of the land, but before he come to it, his wife dieth, he shall not be tenant by the Courtesy of England, by law nor conscience, because he had not actual possession thereof in the life time of his wife. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 15. If without consideration a new rent be granted without deed, or a reversion without attornement, the grantee is remediless, Do. St. lib. 2. cap. 15. A man seized in fee of lands holden by Knight's service, deviseth the whole to A. B. the devisee thereof is remediless for a third part thereof, for that there is no Maxim in law for him, D. S. li. 2. ca 15. If the tenant make a feoffment of the land which he holdeth by priority, & taketh estate thereof back again and dieth, the Lord of whom he held by priority is remediless, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 15. If the grantee of a rend charge take a feoffment from the grauntor of parcel of the lands charged to his own use, the whole rent is extinct by the unity of possession, because such rent is against common right: And the law deemeth it his own folly to accept the feoffment, and neither his ignorance of the deed, nor of the law can help him. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 16. & 17. Yet Quaere in Equity, because the grauntor himself is privy to the said feoffment. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 17. A. granteth a rend charge out of two acres of land unto B. and then infeoffeth H. of the one acre in fee to his use, and after H. intending to extinguish the whole right, causeth the same acre to be recovered against him, by common recovery in a writ of Entre sur disseisin in le Post, in the name of the said grantee (not knowing thereof) and of an other man, who by force thereof entereth and dieth, so that the grantee is sole seized of all the same acre by suruivor, to those of the said H. The whole rent is hereby extinct by law through the unity of possession, though the use be to H. & it is also extinct in conscience as to the grauntor, because he is neither party nor privy to that by which thextinguishment groweth. But Quere whether in conscience the grantee ought to have the whole rent of H. who caused the said recovery to be so had. Do. S. Lib. 2. cap. 17. If a Villain granted for life, purchaseth lands in fee, and the grantee entereth before the villain alieneth the same, the grantee shall have the land for ever as a perquisite, by reason of the villain. And this both by Law 5. E. 4. 61. and by conscience, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 18. Perkins Sect' 94. 95. 96. & 97. If one have a villain for years, as executor, who purchaseth lands in fee, thexecutor by law and conscience shall have the same lands in fee to the behoof of his testator, and they shall be deemed assets in his hands, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 18. because he hath them by reason of his villain. If a Lawyer ignorantly or affectionately give wrong counsel to his client, who followeth it to his trouble and loss, yet is he remediless as it seemeth, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 19 Therefore it is good to ask advise of none but such as be learned in the Laws, and of good conscience. If a man without consideration give lands by Indenture to H. and his heirs, upon condition, that if he pay not unto I. S. ●. li. rend yearly, that then the said I. S. may enter etc. which rent is not paid, yet the said I. S. may neither enter by law nor conscience, because he is neither party nor privy to the said condition, notwithstanding the intent of the giver, for such intent being not grounded upon the law is void. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 20. Plo. 25. B. But the feoffor as it seemeth may lawfully re-enter, because the words of the Indenture imply a condition in law to that effect, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 23. If a man without consideration confirm thestate of his lessee for life, the remainder to another in fee, this remainder is void in law and equity, because a Remainder cannot commence, but at the same instant that the particular estate, whereupon it dependeth began D. S. lib. 2. cap. 20. Plow. 25. b. yet the feoffor and his heirs in this case may enter for the breach of the said condition. If by a feoffment indented it be agreed that the feoffee shall yearly pay to A. B. and his heirs a certain rent, and that if he pay it not, that A. B. and his heir may enter etc. albeit the feoffee pay not the money, yet may neither the said A. B. nor the feffor enter, for that there is no clause of re-enter in the said deed. Howbeit it seemeth he may have remedy in Chancery for the said yearly payment. D. S. h. 2. ca 21. If A. promise to give unto B. a sum of money, or other thing of mere motion without any consideration, the party is not bound to perform this promise either by law or in Chancery, because it is Nudum pactum, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 24. If A. promise to give B. x. s. in consideration of a trespass by him done unto B. yet A. is not thereby bound in law nor conscience, because this is an accord, for which none action lieth. And notwithstanding this accord, B. may have his action for the said trespass, because the concord is executory, D. S. lib. 2. 24. If a man have one son before marriage, and an other after, and bequeathed all his goods to his son and heir, it seemeth both in law and conscience, that the son borne after marriage shall have the goods, for he is heir by the common Laws of the Realm, of which the Spiritual judges are bound to take notice, and to give sentence accordingly of temporal things: Notwithstanding that by the common Laws the othersonne is legitimate and the testators heir, for the avoiding of the inconvenience which might happen by the contrary judgements in several Courts. In like manner temporal judges seem bound in conscience to take notice of the common Law, when they are to judge spiritual things, and to order their judgements according to the same, D. S. lib. 2. ca 25. jointenants and tenants in common of an Aduowson, must within vi. Months after avoidance agree and join in presentment of their Cierke. And the eldest sister of Coparceners must present first, and then the second, by turn, or by such composition as they make thereof, except the youngest coparcener be the king's ward, in which case the presentment belongeth to the king. And if they keep not this course of presentment within the six Months, they lose their presentment for that time. And the Ordinary may present by Laps both in law and conscience, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 33. And if the avoidance be by death, session, or creation, the 6. Months commence at the death, creation, or session, & the patron is bound to take notice thereof. And if by resignation or deprivation, then from notice thereof given by the Ordinary to the Patron. If by union, from the agreement how they shall present, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 31. The wife surviving her husband which took a lease for years, or life, in both their names, may lawfully and with good conscience waive and relinquish it: So may an Executor refuse a term made to his testator, if he have not assets, Do. St. lib. 2. 33. If A. enfeoff an Abbot by deed indented upon condition, and the Abbot only performeth not the condition, the feoffor both in law and conscience may re-enter and have his land again as in his former right. D. S. lib. 2. 34. Warranty collateral. A Man seized of lands in fee hath issue two sons, the elder brother goeth beyond the Sea & remaineth there until it be commonly reported that he is dead, the father dieth, the younger brother entereth into his lands as his heir, and alieneth with warranty, and dieth without issue of his body, leaving no land to descend to his next heir, and afterwards the elder brother returneth and claimeth the lands in his own right, yet is he barred by Law and conscience, for that it is the act of his ancestor whose heir he is, by whom as he might have had advantage to have had his lands by descent, from his as his heir, if he had had any, so it seemeth reasonable, that for the privity of blood he sustain disadvantage by him, because both the seller and the buyer were ignorant of the elder brother's life and right, by reason of his own absence. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 49. Litt sect 704. 705. 707. But if such heir were vouched by force of such warranty, he might enter into the warranty, as one that hath nothing by descent from that ancestor, and so avoid the warranty. Debtagainst one as heir. If the father bind him and his heirs for the payment of a debt, & die, leaving assets by descent to his son & heir, he is bound to pay the debt by law and conscience, because he hath such benefit by him, Do. St. lib. 2. cap. 49. 26. H. 8. fo. I. 40. E. 3. f. 38. 12. E. 3. f. 9 13. E. 3. fo. It is agreeable both with law and conscience, that a man outlawed either in felovie or in actions personals, shall forfeit & lose all his goods, because it is so ordained for the necessity of the admmistration of justice, D. S. lib. 2. ca 49. 43. E. 3. fo. 18. 21. Ass. 21. 39 H. 6. fo. 26. 21. H. 7. f. 7. 49. E. 3. f. 5. 16. E. 4. fo. 6. The like is of forfeiture of goods attached by default of appearance, aswell in Court Baron as in Courts of Record, 28. H. 6. fo. 34. H. 6. fo. 29. and 40. 21. E. 4. fo. 78. A man is disseised of lands, the disseisor selleth the land, the alienee knowing of the disseisin, obtaineth a release with warranty from a collateral ancestor of the disseisee, who also knoweth that the disseisee hath good right and title to have the same lands, that collateral ancestor dieth, the warranty descendeth upon the disseisee as his heir without assets, yet the disseisee is barred by law and conscience, for it were inconvenient that such releases & other writings should be avoided by such allegations of conscience. D. S. lib. 2. ca 50. L●t̄ sect' 707. If a feme covert being of full age levy a fine by her husbands compulsion, yet after his death she shall never for that cause by law nor conscience, be admitted to avoid such fine, for the inconvenience which might thereof ensue, if by such nude averments, matters of record should be avoided. D. S. lib. 2. cap. 50. 7. H. 4. fo. 23. If goods be wrecked upon the Sea, that is, where goods be cast or come into the Sea by ship wrack, so that no man, dog, or cat, come alive to the land out of the ship or barge wherein they were carried (which is deemed a Wreck, West. 1. cap. 4.) and the owner thereof proveth them not to be his within a year & a day after such wreck, than the Q. aught to have them both in law & conscience, because she is sovereign head of the people, and owner of the narrow Seas, and is to scour them (as it seemeth) from pirates, & because the property of goods must needs be in some person, otherwise they would perish, which were against the weal public, & in this case the first owner of the goods is unknown. And the like is it, of an Estray, or Deodand: But not of goods voluntarily weyved, or casually lost and found by others, for in these two last cases, the property remaineth still in the first owners, D. S. lib. 2. cap. 51. 35. H. 6. fol. 27. The like seemeth to be where a subject hath wrecks by prescription, 11. H. 4. fo. 16. Now that we have partly seen where a Subpena lieth, and where not, let us set down somewhat of the ordinary proceeding thereupon. Of the ordinary proceed in the high Court of Chancery. FIrst the party grieved takes out his writ of Subpena against the Sect▪ 20. party or parties offending, which Subpena is in haec verba. Elizabeth Dei gratia Angl', Franc' & Hiberniae Regina, fidei defensor A subpena to answer. etc. A. C. salutem. Quibusdam certis de causis coram nobis in Cancell' nostra propositis. tibi praecipimus, firmiter iniungentes quod omnibus alijs pretermissis, & excusatione quacunque cessant, in propria persona tua sis coram nobis in dicta Cancellar' nostra a die Paschae proxim' futur' in unum mensem ubicunque tunc fuerit, ad respondend' super hijs qu● tibi obijcientur tunc ibidem. Et ad faciend' ulterius & recipiend' quoth Curia n●a consideraverit in hac part. Et hoc sub pena centum librar nullatenus omittas. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste me ipsa apud Westm xii. die Feb. Anno Regni nostri tricesimo sexto. Gorge etc. But if the defendant be a Noble man, than no Subpena is awarded, but a letter by the L. Chancellor, or L. Keeper, thus. After my very hearty commendations to your Lordship, whereas there A letter to a noble man in steed of a subpena to answer. hath been of late a Bill of complaint exhibited into the Court of Chancery against you by H. D. gentleman, I have thought good to give you notice thereof, rather by these my private letters, then by awarding her majesties ordinary process: Wherefore these are to pray your Lordship to give order for the taking out of a copy of a Bill, and for the putting in of your answer thereunto, according to the usual course in such cases accustomed, at or before octabis Hillarij next ensuing. Of the which nothing doubting but that your L. will have the care and regard which appertaineth, I leave your L. to the most merciful keeping of the Almighty. From Saint A. the ix. of May, 1594. Your very loving friend Io. Puckering. The Superscription. To my very good Lord, I. L. D. give these. And it is to be noted, that by the Statute 15. H. 6. cap. 4. a Subpena Sureties to yield damages to the def. is not grauntable without sureties to yield damages unto the defendant, if he be not unjustly vexed. And it were good to observe this course, for avoiding of causeless and trifling suits, to which most men be over prone. Yet if the defendant do appear at the return of the Subpena, and Costs for default of a bill. no Bill be put into the Court by the plaintiff against him, than costs are to be granted for such wrongful vexation. And thereupon he may have a Subpena ad soluend' for the same costs in form following. ELizabeth Dei gratia Angl' &c. I. S. salutem etc. usque firmiter iniungentes, Sect' 21. A Subpena for costs. quod to soluas, vel soluifacias R. N. xl. s. qui per considerationem domini Cancell', vel domini custod' magni sigilli, & cur' Cancell' nostr' praedict' eidem R. adiudicatfuerunt pro misis & expensis suis quae ipse sustinuit ratione & occasione cuiusdam queremon, quam tu erga eundem R. in Cancell' nostra praed' minime prosequereris cum effectu, juxta formam statuti inde edit' & provisi, veltu ipse sis coram nobis. Or thus, pro expensis soluend'. Quod tu soluas, vel solui facias praefat' R. xl. s. qui eidem R. adiudicati fuerunt in Cancellaria praedict' pro expensis suisoccasione injust vexationis quam ipse nuper indebite sustinuit in quadam billa versus ipsum R. in eadem Cancellaria ad prosecutionem tuam nuper fact̄, juxta formam etc. ut supra. Or thus. Quae sustinuerunt occasion cuiusdam brevis nostri de Subpena eye direct ' add sect' tuam prosecuti ad comparand' coram nobis in dicta Cancel ' nostra ad certum diem iam preteritum, pro eo quod tu ad diem in dicto brevi content̄ aliquam billam sive materiam versus eos minime exhibueris, vel tu ipse sis etc. Per Cancell'. Although the writ import, that the Bill is put in before the taking out of the same, yet if the plaintiff put in his Bill by the return of the The time to put in the Bill. writ, it is sufficient and no further process pass. And although the writ mention the pain of C. li. or such like, yet if the defendant do not appear Pain in the writ not forfeited. at the return of the writ, either by himself or his Attorney, the said pain is not forfeited or leviable, for it is in terrorem tantum, 8. E. 4. 6. 10. H. 7. 4. Then upon O the made before some Master of the Chancery Oath for serving the Subp. for the serving of the subpena, which Oath must be, that it was served on the defendant himself, or at his dwelling house, so that he might have notice thereof, or that the deponant did see another serve the same, as aforesaid, or that the defendant confessed to the deponent, that he was served, an Attachment shallbe awarded against the defendant as is said, in haec verba. Of an Attachment. ELizabeth etc. ut antea, vic' South. salutem, Praecipimus tibi quod attachias Sect' 22. A. C. Ita quod eum habeas, coram nobis in Cancellaria nostr' in crastino sanct' Trinitatis proxim' futur' ubicunque tunc fuerit, ad respondend' nobis tam de quodam contemptu per pref. A. C. nobis illaf ut dicitur, quam super hijs que sibi obijcientur tunc ibid'. Et adfaciend' ulterius & recipiend' quoth Cur' nostra consideraverit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittas. Et habeas ibihoc breve. Teste etc. And if the defendant cannot be found upon the Attachment, and that Non est inventus returned the Sheriff return, quod def. non est inuent' in balliva sua, sometimes the Court upon motion will (if the plaintiffs suit be for the stay of some suit or action of extremity at the common law) stay the defendants suit, until he hath answered the plaintiffs vil, and satisfied the Court for his contempt, but in ordinary causes the party proceeds to his Attachment with proclamation which followeth in haec verba. Of an Attachment with Proclamation. ELizabeth etc. Vicee ' S. salutem, Precipimus tibi, quod in omnibus & Sect' 23. singulis locis infra ballivam tuam, tam infra libertates quam extra, ubi magis expedire videris, ex part nostr' publice proclamarifac', quod A. B. sub pena ligeantiae suae curam nobis in Cancellar' nostra in octab. Sancti Michaelis proxim' futur' ubicunque tunc fuerit personaliter compareat, & nihilominus si ipsum A. B. interi● invenire poteris, ipsum attach. Ita quod eum habeas coram nobis in dicta Cancellaria nostra ad diem praedictum, ad respondend' nobis tam de quodam contemptu per praefat' A. B. nobis illat̄ ut dicitur, quam super hijs que sibi obijcientur tuncibidem. Et ad faciend' ulterius & recipien d' quod Curia nostra consideraverit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittas. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. An Attachment in the Cinque ports. REgina etc. predilecto & fideli suo W. Brooke Milit dno Cobham Sect' 24. Constabular castri sui Dovor, ac deputato suo in officio custodis quinque portuum suorum salutem, vobis mandamus quod sub sigill' officij vestri ballivo libertatis ville de Hastings vel Maiori vel juratoribus antic ville detis in mandatis quod attach. H. S. Ita quod eum habeat etc. An Attachment in the County palantine of Lancaster. REgina etc. Cancellario suo ducatus sui Lanc' veleius deputato ibidem Sect' 25. salutem, vobis mandamus quod per breve nostrum sub sigillo nostro come nostri ducatus praedicti vic' nostro eiusdem come detis in mandatis quod attach. R. S. Ita quod eum habeat coram nobis in Cancellar' nostra in quindena Paschae proxim' futur' ubicunque tunc fuer' ad respondend' nobis tam de quodam contemptu per praefat' R. S. illat ut dicitur quam de alijs sibi tunc ibidem obijciend' & and faciend' ulterius & recipiend' quam cur' nostra consideravit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittat & habeat ibi breve quod sibi inde devenit. Teste etc. The attachment for costs is of the same form of the Attachment next before (verbatim) and is thus endorsed, viz. Per Cur' ad sectam A. B. quia non soluit expensis. And if the Attachment be awarded against any dwelling within the County Palantine of Chester, than it is directed to the Chamberlain of the county Palantine of Chester, and is of this form ensuing. ELizabeth dei gratia angl', Franc', & Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor Sect' 26. etc. Camerario suo Cestr, Salutem, Mandamus vobis quod per breve nostrum sub Sigillo nostro comitat' nostri Palatini Cestr detis in mandat vicecom̄, come praedict' quod attachiat R. M. gen. Ita quod eum habeat coram nobisin Cancellar' nostra in quindena Paschae proximo futuro ubicunque tunc fuer' ad respondendum nobis tam de quodam contemptu nobis per praefatum R. illat̄ ut dicitur quam de alijs tunc ibidem obijciendum. Et ad faciendum ulterius & recipien dum quod curia nostra consideraverit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittatis. Et habeat ibi hoc breve. Teste me ipsa apud Westm 14. die Martij, Ann Regni nostri decimo octavo. W. Cordell. And the attachment is endorsed as followeth. Endorsement. Per curiam ad sectam I. B. & alijs quia non soluit expensis. The return of the Attachment by the Chamberlain. Responsio Ro. comit̄●●icester̄ camerar come Pallantin Cestr. Virtute istius brevis mihi direct' ꝑ breve dne Regine sub sigillo come Pallentin praed' dedi in mandat prout ulterius mihi praecipitur vic' comitat' praed' qui mihi sic respondit ut sequitur. The Sherffies' return to the Chamberlain. Infranominat R. M. non est inventus in balliva mea. Ro. St. miles vic' come Cestr. And if the Sheriff return, quod def. non est muent in balliva sua, upon that proclamation, than a Commission of Rebellion ensueth as followeth, to such Commissioners as the plaintiff nameth. Of a Commission of Rebellion. ELizabeth etc. delictis sibi A. B. C. D. E. & F. salutem. Quia A. B. cum Sect. 27. per publicas proclamationes per Vic' South, in diversis locis eiusdem Comit̄, virtute brevis nostri eidem vicecom̄ direct̄, ex part nostra praeceptum fuerit, qđ idem A. B. sub pena ligeantiae suae coram nobis in Cancell' nostra personaliter compareret. Mandato tamen nostro in ea part parere manifest contempsit. Ideo vobis coniunctim & divisim mandamus, quod praefat' A. B. ubicumque fuerit inuent' infra Regnum Angl' tanquam Rebellem & legis nostrae contemptorem attach. vel attachiari facias. Ita quod eum habeatis, vel habere faciat coram nobis in dict̄ Cancell' nostr' in Crastin animarum proxim' futur' ubicunque tunc fuerit, ad respondendum super hijs quae sibi obijcientur tunc ibidem. Et ad faciend' ulterius & recipiend' quod Cur' nostr' consideravit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittat. Damus enim universis & singulis Vicec', Maioribus, Ballivis, Constabularijs, & alijs officiarijs, Ministris legeis & subditis nostris quibuscunque, tam infra libertates quam extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis, quod vobis & quilibet vr̄m in executionem praemissorum intendents sint, & assistentes in omnibus diligenter prout decet. In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste etc. A Supersedeas of the Commission of Rebellion. REgina etc. dilectis sibi A. B. armigero T. G. & H. S. generosis salutem Sect. 28. licet nos nuper per literas nostras patentes vobis coniunctim & divisim mandamus qđ T. K. ubicunque inuent' foret infra regnum nostrum angliae tanquam rebellem & legis nostrae contemptorem attachiat vel attachiar fac' ita qd' eum habetatis vel heri fac' coram nobis in cancellar̄ nostra ad certum diem in eisdem literis patentibus content̄ ad respondend' nobis tam de quodam contemptu per praefat' T. K. illat̄ ut dicibatur, quam de alijs sibi tunc ibidem obijciend', prout in eisdem literis plenius continetur. Quibusdam tamen certis de causis nos iam speciailter moventibus vobis & cuilibet vr̄●●andamus qđ cuicunque executioni literarum nrarum patent praedict' per vos seu aliquem vestrum fact' vel faciend' versus praedict' T. K. supersedeatis omnino praedictis literis patent in contrarium in aliqua non obstante. Et si ipsum T. K. pretextu literarum patent praedictarum ceperitis seu aliquis vestrum ceperit, tunc ipsum a prisona qua si● detinctur siea occasione & non alia detineatur in eadem sine dilatione deliberari faciat. Teste etc. A supersedeas to the Chancellor of the County Palantine of Lancaster. REgina etc. Cancellar' ducatus sui Lanc' vel eius deputat' ibidem Sect. 29. salutem: Quia A. B. etc. vob' mandamus quod per bred nostrum sub sigillo nostro come ducat Lanc' custodib' pacis nostrae in dicto come Lanc' ac vic' eiusdem come & eorum cuilibet detis in mandat etc. A Supersede as to the Chamber lame of the county Pallantine of Chester. REgina etc. Camarario suo Cestr̄ vel eius locum tenenti ibid' salutem. Sect. 30. Quia P. H. etc. vob' mandamus qđ ꝑ bred nostrum come pnd' tam Iustic' nostris apud Cestr̄ quam justice nostris, ad pacem in come Cestr conseruand' assignat' ac vic' eiusdem come & eorum cuilibet detis in mandatis etc. A Supersede as of an Attachment. REgina etc. vic' W. salutem licet nos nuper per br̄e nostrum tibi preceperimus Sect. 31. qđ Attachiares A. R. Ita qđ eum haberes coram nobis in Cancellar' nostra ad certum diem in dicto bri content̄ ubicunque tunc foret ad respondend nobis tam de quodam contemptu per prefat' A. illat̄ ut dicebatur quam de alijs sibitunc ibidem obijciendum. Quibusdan tamen certis de causis nos iam movent tibi praecipimus quod execucioni bris nostri praed' versus prefat' A. fact̄ vel faciend' supersedeas omnino. Et si ipsum A. ea occasione ceperis, tuncipsum a prisona qua sic detinetur si ea occione & non alia detineatur in eadem sine dilatione deliberari facias. Teste etc. Of an Injunction. AND if the party defendant cannot be ●aken by the virtue of the Sect. 32. said Commission: then if the plaintiffs suit be for title of land, the Court some times grants an Injunction to the plaintiff for possession, till the defendant and hath appeared, answered, and satisfied his contempt. If for stay of suit at the common law, than an Injunction upon motion of the Court may be obtained: for the proceeding in this Punishment for the contenipt. Court is, by the said writs, and by orders, injunctions, & decrees, which if the defendant resist, his punishment for this resistance, and for his contempt in not appearing, is imprisonment in the prison of the Fleet, as is said, during the Lord Chancellor, or L. Keeper their pleasure, or until he will obey and perform the order and decree of the same Court, 37. H. 6. 13. and 14. 39 H. 6. 26. Of Appearance. BUt if the defendant appear by Attorney, upon Affidavit or oath Sect. 33. Affidavit of unableness to travail. made, that the defendant is not able to travail for the answering of the same cause personally in the Chancery without danger of life, or by reason of extreme age, or other infirmity, or reasonable cause, then or otherwise the Chancellor or Lord Keeper, or the Master of the Rolls by their discretions, may, and often do grant Commissions to certain Gentlemen of credit in the Country where the defendant dwelleth, to receive and certify his answer in writing, including the complainants' bill within the same Commission. The form of such Commission ensueth. Of a Dedimus potestatem or Commission to receive an answer. REgina etc. Dilectis sibi W. S. & A. B. armigeris salutem. Cum I. Sect. 34. B. quandam petitionem coram nobis in Cancellar' versus W. C. & I. uxorem eius nuper exhibuit quodque eisdem W. & I. per breve nostrum praeceperimus, quod essent coram nobis in dicta Cancellar' nostra ad certum diem iam praeteritum, peticioni praedict' responsur. Ac ijdem W. & I. adeo impotentes sui existant, quod usque cur' Cancell' nostram praedict' ad diem illum ad responsiones suas eidem peticioni faciendas absque maximo corporum suorum periculo laborare non sufficiunt ut accepimus. Nos statui eorundem W. & I. pie compacientes atque de fidelitatibus vestris plenius confidentes, dedimus vobis vel duobus vestrum potestatem & aucthoritatem ipsos W. & I. de & super materia peticionis praedict' diligenter examinand'. Et ideo vobis vel duobus vestrum mandamus, quod ad certos diem & locum quos ad hoc provideritis ad praefat' W. & I. accedatis, si commode ad vos laborare non possint, ac ipsos W. & I. de & super materia petic' praedict' supper sacrament sua coram vobis vel duobus vestrum corporaliter praestand' diligenter examinetis dictasque suas responsiones recipiatis & in scriptis redigat, & cum illas sic receperitis, eas nobis in Cancellar' nostra praedicta cum tenore praedicto ac nomina Attorn̄ suorum ad lucrand' vel perdend' in praemissis in octabis etc. ubicunque tunc fuerit sub sigillis vestris vel duorum vestrum plane distinct & apart mittatis & hoc breve. T. etc. Which Commission is commonly returned with this endorsement. Executio istius brevis (or) istius Commissionis patet in Return of the Commission. quibusdam scedulis eidem annexis. Adding the Commissioners names thus. W. S. A. B. And then to file the said Bill which is sent enclosed in the said Commission, and the defendant answer to the backside of the same Commissiod. And under the said answer the Commissioners most commonly cause the defendant to subscribe his name, or to set his mark, & set down thereunder also, these or the like words. Capta apud C. in come Eborum, 32. die A. anno Regni Elizab. Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae fidei defensor etc. 36. cor nobis. W. S. & A. B. The Commissioners subscribing their names also to the said answer. Delivery of the Commission in Court. And when this or any other Commission retournable in this Court is executed & returned, it must be brought into the same Court, either by one or more of the Commissioners thereof, or by some other credible person: but if any other than some of the Commissioners do put it into the Court, he must make oath that he received the same Commission, at the hands of some of the Commissioners thereof, and that by his consent, procurement, or knowledge, it hath not been opened or altered since he so received the same. Of a Supersede as to stay the execution, of a Commission to examine witnesses. AND yet some time upon good cause a writ of Supersede as is awarded Sect. 35. to stay the execution of such and other Commissions in this form following. Regina praedicto & fideli suo Io. domino Darcy, Ac dilectis G. F. A. E. & T. R. armigeris salutem. Licet nos nuper per breve nostrum assignavimus vos tres vel duos vestrum, ad quoscunque testes super quibusdam Interro got in dicto brevi nostro interclus. pro part W. W. quer', versus R. M. & I. S. defendentes. Ac quod vos examinationes testium praedictorum nobis in Cancellar' nostram ad certum diem in dicto brevi nostro limitat sub sigillis vestris trium vel duorum vestrum mitteretis, prout in eodem brevi nostro plenius continet. Quibusdam tamen certis de causis nos ad praesens specialiter moventibus, vobis praecipimus quod in executione dicti brevis nostri per vos: tres vel duos vestrum, ulterius fact' vel faciend' minime procedatis, sed inde supersedeatis unico dicto brevi nostro vobis prius in contrarium direct' non obstant, T. meipsa apud etc. A commission to prove that one who had made Affidavit, that the defendant was so sick and impotent that he could not appear in the Chancery to answer the plaintiffs bill, had therein deposed untruly. REgina predilecto & fideli suo O. domino sancti Iohn de Ble●soe ac Sect. 36. dilectis sibi Lodovico Dyue R. N. & R. A. armigeris salutem. Cum nuper cur' nostr' Cancellar' ex part I. G. millitis relatum fuerit & suggestum erat per sacramentum cuiusdam R. L. qđ praefatus I. G. crastino sancti Martini ultimo preterito ita laboravit adversa valetudine & adeo impotens sui extitit qđ usque dictam curiam nostram Cancellar' praedict' ad diem illum ad respon suam petitioni R. G. armig' fiend' absque maximo corporis sui periculo laborare non sufficiebat. Et nos veritatem expiscari & investigare volentes ut tuitius & consultius pro justitia in hac part procedere valeamus per vos certiorari volumus, dedimus vobis igitur tribus vel duobus vestrum ac per presentes damus potestatem, & aucthoritatem scrutandi inquirendi, & investigandi tam super articulos & interrogatoria per antedictum R. G. coram vobis tribus vel duobus vestrum deliberandum & ad testes quoscunque ministrandum quos maxime pro testatione premissorum fore videritis necessariam coram vobis evocandum. Ac ipsos testes & eorum quilibet tam de & super articulis praedict' cum cunctis circumstantijs diligenter examinand' examinationesque suas in scriptis redigend', quam omnibus alijs vijs, medijs & modis quibus melius sciveritis, seu poteritis utrum prefatus I. G. ita languidus fuit ad dictum diem crastinum sancti Martini quod absque periculo sui corporis laborare minime potuit. Et ideo vobis tribus vel duobus vestrum mandamus qđ visis presentibus ac tenore articulorum & interrogatoriorum praed' per prefatum Reginaldum ministram dorum, & ꝑ vos plene intellectorum testes praed' quos in hac part ut praed' est fore videritis necessarios evocetis coram vobis tribus vel duobus vestrum ad certos dies & loca, quos ad hoc provideritis venireque faciatis, ac ipsos & eorum quemlibet de & super veritate premissorum super eorum sacramentis coram vobis corporaliter prestandum diligenter examinetis, examinationes suas recipiatis, & in scriptis redigatis & tunc cum sic feceritis nos inde in Cancell' nostra de omni facto vestro in hac part in octabis sancti Hillarij proximo futur' ubicunque tunc fuerit sub sigillis vestris trium vel duorum claus. reddatis certiores una cum brevi nobis remittend', Teste regina apud Westm 28. die No. ann regni reginae Eliz. 10. Of imperfect Answer. BUt if the defendant appear personally, or by Attorney, and make Sect. 37. an imperfect answer, then upon demurrer tendered, and motion made in Court by the plaintiffs counsel, showing the imperfection of Subpena to make a better answer. such answer, an order will be made, that the defendant shall make a better answer by some certain time, and thereupon issueth a Subpena ad faciend' meliorem responsum. Rejoining and joining in Commission, ad examinand' testes. AND when the defendant hath made a perfect answer, the Sect. 38. plaintiff either of his own accord, or by order in Court must reply, or be dismissed for want of a replication, and ordered to pay Reply. to the defendant costs for his wrongful vexation, but upon replication put in by the plaintiff, the plaintiff is to take out a Subpena against Subpena ad reiungendum. the defendant ad reiungend', & iniungend' commission add examinand' testes, which differeth nothing from the said subpena ad comparand', but that it is endorsed with these or the like words: Adreiung endum & iniungendum in commissione in materia W. S. Naming the plaintiff. And thereupon the defendant must put in his rejoinder to the plaintiffs Rejoinder. replication. And if any other matter be in the defendants rejoinder than was in his answer, then may the plaintiff put in a surrejoinder, and thereby answer the same, and so proceed to perfect Surrejoinder. Issue. issue, the form of all which hereafter appeareth: And the parties being so at issue, they either examine their witnesses before the examiners of the Chancery in Court, or do procure a Commission, ad Commission. examinandum testes, to certain persons of good credit inform following. Of a Commission ad examinand' testes. ELizabeth Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Regina, fidei Sect. 39 defensor etc. dilect' sibi I. F. R. H. armig', R. W. & N. S. generosis salutem. Sciatis quod dedimus vobis, tribus, vel duobus vestrum, potestatem, & authoritatem testes quoscunque de & super quibusdam interrogatorijs tam ex part W. W. armigeri quaeren, quam ex part A. M. vid' defen, vobis tribus vel duobus vestrum deliberandum diligenter examine. Et ideo vobis tribus vel duobus vestrum mandamus, quod ad certos dies & loca quos ad hos pro●●deritis testes praedictos coram vobis tribus, vel duobus vestrum venire fac' & evocetis. Ac ipsos testes, & eorum quemlibet de & super Interrogatorijs prae dictis super sacramenta sua coram vobis tribus, vel duobus vestrum, per sancta Dei evangelia corporaliter praestandum diligenter examinetis. Examinationesque su●s recipiatis, & inscriptis in pergameno redigatis. Et cum illas sic ceperitis eas nobis in Cancellariam nostram in quindena Paschae proximum futurum, ubicunque tunc fuerit sub sigillis vestris trium vel duorum vestrum claus. distinct, & apart mittatis una cum Interrogatorijs praedictis, & hoc brevi: Proviso semper quod dict' defend' habeant praemonitionem per spatium quatuordecim dierum, de die & loco executionis huius commissionis ante executionem eiusdem, T. meipsa apud Westmon 7. die Febr. anno regni nostri tricesimo sext. The return of which Commission is commonly endorsed upon the same thus: Executio istius commissionis patet in quibusdam scedulis eidem commissioni annexis. The Commissioners names. W. S. A. B. C. D. And then to file the interrogatories and depositions to the back Notice of the execution of the Commission. side of the Commission, and upon receipt of such Commission, the Commissioners or the party which hath the carriage of the same, if the day and place for execution thereof be not limited in the Commission, do use to give notice thereof to the party in writing under their hands thus: A notice whereby Commissioners may give the parties warning of the time and place of their sitting for the execution of such Commission. AFter our hearty commendations, whereas we have received her Sect. 40. majesties Commission forth of her highness Court of Chancery to us and others, directed for the examination of witnesses between C. S. plaintiff, and W. R. defendant. These are to signify unto you, that for the Execution of the same Commission, we whose names are subscribed have appointed to sit at S. in the County of D. the last day of the next month, by viii. of the clock in the forenoon of the same day, which we have thought good to signify unto you, that you may have your Commissioners and witnesses then there ready accordingly, if you think it expedient for you. And so bid you farewell, 27. Feb. 1600. Your loving friends, A. B. C. D. Of citing Witnesses. AND if such Commission give authority to them, to city and call Sect. 41. witnesses before them, they use to do it by such a Precept as followeth. The Precept of Commissioners, to b●ing witnesses before them to be examined. By virtue of her majesties Commission forth of her highness Court of Chancery to Sir A. N. Knight, L. R. Esquire & us, directed for the examination of witnesses between G. S. plaintiff, & W. K. defendant: These are in her majesties name to charge & command you, and every of you, whose names are hereunder written, personally to appear before us at S. the last day of this month of August, by 8. of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to depose your several knowledges, upon the part and behalf of the said G. S. And hereof fail you not as you will answer your defaults at your perils. Dated this xi. of August. 1600. Your very loving friends, A. B. G. T. To our loving friends, master B. L. G C. R. P. I. P. esquires. L. C. R. T. Gentlemen. Subpena ad testificand'. But if that no such power be given by such commission, then if the Sect. 42. witnesses will not appear gratis, they are compellable thereunto by Subpena ad testificand ' in manner following. Subpena and testificand' coram Commiss. Elizabeth etc. Quibusdam certis de causis etc. sitis coram dilectis nobis R. & C. armig' E. H. & E. C. generosis, vel duobus eorum commissionarijs nostris virtut̄ brevis nostri de Dedimus potestat eis direct̄ ad certos diem & locum quos praefat' commissionar̄ vobis Scire fac' (Aliter apud N. in come B. xx. & xxj. die Aprilis proxim' futur') ut ipsi vos tunc & ibidem, de, & super quibusdam Interr pro part A. B. diligent̄ possint examinare, & ad faciend' ulterius & recipiend' quod per dictos Commissionarios nostros vel duoseorum in ea part consideratum fuerit, Et hoc sub pena centum librar nullatenus omittatis. Et habeas ibi hoc breve, Teste meipsa apud Westmonaster etc. ut supra. Of the Style of Interrogatories. INterrogatories to be ministered to the witnesses to be produced Sect. 43. upon the part and behalf of A. B. complainant, against C. D. defendant (if they, be for the plaintiff:) But if for the defendant, upon the part and behalf of C. D. defendant against A. B. complainant. Inprimis, Do you know the said parties, plaintiff and defendant, or either of them etc. Item, do you know etc. As the cause requireth. Of the style of the Depositions thereupon taken. ¶ Depositions taken at H. in the County of E. the last day of Sect. 44. April, in the xxxuj. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of GOD, of England, France and Ireland Queen, defendresse of the Faith, etc. upon the part and befalfe of A. B. plaintiff, against C. D. defendant, (Or upon the part of C. D. defendant, at the suit of A. B. plaintiff) by virtue of her majesties Commission forth of her highness Court of Chancery, to R. S. C. L. P. Q. and W. M. or to three, or two of them directed, for the examination of witnesses between the said parties. I. L. of A. in the County of E. labourer, of the age of xlvi. years, or there about, sworn and examined, deposeth and saith upon his Oath as followeth. Item to the first Interrogatory he deposeth and saith, that etc. As the matter is etc. And so upon the rest of the Interrogatories. The direction of the Commission being executed Illustrissime dominae nostrae Elizabethae Reginae in Cancellar' sua, Of Publication, Hearing▪ and Breviates, and after that then this, Certific' dexposition testium ex part A. B. & C. D. AFter that the Witnesses be so examined in the Court, or by commission, Sect▪ 20. as is aforesaid, Publication is to be had, and thereupon a day of hearing is to be procured. Against which time, Breviates must the made of the effect of the plead, depositions, & other proves & evidence, & the counsel perfectly instructed of the whole state of the matter, & a Subpena to hear judgement. Subpena ad audiend' judicium, made and delivered to the party in convenient time before the said day of hearing: At which time albeit that upon the hearing the matter be dismissed, yet may the parties have the depositions of their witnesses exemplified under the great seal of England Exemplification of the depositions. for the furtherance and maintenance of their rights and titles, at, and by the common Law. But if the matter be directed for the Compl after the decree past and enroled, he may have a writ de Executione judicij, A writ de executione judicij Contempt. which must be served upon the defendant. And if he refuse to satisfy the same, then upon oath made thereof, process or contempt is to issue against him in form aforesaid. And if such decree be in a suit for lands, and the defendant abide all the said process of contempt, and still detain the possession of the lands from the plaintiff contrary to the said decree, then upon motion thereof made in the Court: a commission is usually Commission to put the plaintie in possession. granted to the Sheriff, and some others near adjoining to the lands in question, to put the plaintiff in possession, and to keep him in possession according to the said decree. A Commission to the sheriff to put and keep the plaintiff in possession according to an order there in taken untilla cause then depending in suit be heard and determined. REgina etc. vic' Kanc', salutem. Cum per ordinationem capt' in Cancel ' Sect' 46. nostra 3. die julij ultimo preterito inter W. A. queren & W. Y. & alijs defendent̄ ordinat fuit quod praed' W. A. & assignat' sui pacifice & quiet iaberent, gauderent & occuparent unum messuagium sive tenement' cum pertin' jacen & existent in E. & R. in come praedict' inter parts praed' in Cancell' praed' in controversia pendent indecisa absque vexatione, molestatione siue interruptione praedict' W. Y. sive aliquarum personarum sub titulo interest Iur', vel procuratione suis donec materi● inter parts praed' in curia nostra praed' finaliter determinetur. Et quia iam ex testimonio fidedignorum accepimus, quod diverse aliegine ignote inhabitan extra comit' Kanc' per procurationem praedicto● defendant ut asseritur possessionem messuag' & tennt praedict' come pertin' vi & armis, ac manufortitenen tin defraudation & contemptum ordinis praedict', ac ipsum W. A. & assignat' suos extra possessionem messuag' & ten' praedict' custodiunt contra formam & effectum ordinis praedict' tibi igitur precipimus quod immediate post receptionem huius brevis assumptis tecum sufficient̄ potestatem comitat' nostrae Kanc' praedict' in propria persona tua ad messuagium, sivetenntum praedictum accedas & attachiari & arrestarifacias quascunque personas ibidem inveneris possess. messuag', tennt siue terr' praedict' sive alicuius parcell' tenentes, & eos & eorum quemlibet de die in diem ducifacias usque prisonam nostram de fleet gardino nostro ibid' liberandun & ibidem moratur quousque de eorum deliberation̄ aliter duximus ordinandum. Ac ulterius tibi precipimus firmiter iniungendo quod inde praed' W. A. & assignat' suos in pacifica & quieta possession eiusdem de tempore in tempus manuteneas donecaliter inde a nobis habueris specialiter in mandatis. Et quid inde feceris sciri facias Cancellar' nostro. Teste etc. A Cerciorare to Commissioners to certify the depositions taken by Commission. REgina etc. dilectis sibi A. B. & C. D. gen, salutem, Volentes certis Sect' 47. de causis Cerciorari super quasdam depositiones testium int' H. G. querent & C. D. defend' per vos tres vel duos urum virtute brevis nostri de Commissione vobis in ea part direct capt' & adhuc penes vos resident, ut est dictum, vobis mandamus quod depositiones praed' cum omnibus eas tāgen̄ adeo plene & integre prout coram vobis capt' fuer' nobis in Cancell' nostram in quindena Paschae prox' futur' ubicunque tunc sub sigillis vestris trium vel duorum vestrum distinct & apart mittatis & hoc breve. Teste etc. Of a Commission to examine witnesses in perpetual memory. FIrst the plaintiff must exhibit his bill, and thereby show his title to Sect' 48. the land, lease, or such like matter that he hath right unto. And that the witnesses which can prove his title are aged, and not like long to live, whereby he may be in danger of the loss of the thing in question. And therefore to pray to have a Commission directed to certain Gentlemen of credit and worship for the examination of the said witnesses. And also to pray process of Subpena against him, her, or them, to show cause, if he or they can, why the plaintiff should not examine his witnesses, as aforesaid, The form of which Process ensueth, in haec verba. Elizabeth dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hibern Regina fidei defensor etc. I. S. salutem. Cum A. B. exhibuit coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra quandam petitionem ut quidam testes in perpetuam rei memoriam versus te examinarent, & ne id tibi in preiudicium cederet: Tibi praecipimus firmiter iniun gentes, quod omnibus alijs praetermissis, & excusatione qua cunque cessant, in propria persona tua, vel per tuum Atturnatum, aut deputatum, sis coram nobis in dicta Cancellaria nostra inf● quatuordecim dies immediate post receptionem huius brevissi tibi ita visum fuerit) ut dicti testes, aut alij quicunque ex part tua ibidem similit examinar̄ possint, (si ita velis) vel ut ostendas & proponas, vel ostendi & proponifacias, tunc & ibidem bonam sufficientem & probabilem materiam pro part tua quare ijdem testes pro part dicti A. B. in forma praed' examinari, & postea eorum examinationes secundum ordinem & cursum dictae Cur' nostrae publicari & diu●lgari non debeant. Concerning the matters of these Chancery, Note what ensueth. And if the party defendant do appear, either by himself, or his Counsel, and show such sufficient cause, as the Court will allow off, why the plaintiff should not examine his witnesses, as is aforesaid, than the plaintiff may not proceed therein, unless he can better satisfy the Court to the contrary. But if the defendant be contented, and will join with the plaintiff in examination, then after examination so had, there can be no publication thereof ●uring the lives of the witnesses: unless the defendant do assent, or unless the plaintiff, or some other in his behalf do make oath, that the matter whereupon the witnesses were examined, is to take trial at the common Law, either at the Assizes, or at the Bar. And that A. B. or more of the witnesses before examined, are necessary witnesses, and not able to travail to the said trial: And upon such oath taken, his, or their depositions t● be published of course. And to be exemplified if the party so require. But if the party defendant do not appear upon the said writ, neither by himself, nor his Attorney, by the end of the said fourteen days, nor show no cause of stay thereof, whether it be in Term or out of Term time, then upon oath made of the serving of the same writ, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Master of the Rolls for the time being, at the request of the plaintiff, will appoint Commissioners for the examination of the plaintiffs witnesses, according to certain orders prescribed in that behalf. There be also many other different forms of Subpenaes' and Commissions, of which some do hereafter ensue. Subpena ad testificandum super petitionem. AD testificandum pro part tua in quadam materia content̄ in quadam Sect' 49. petitione ad sectam tuam versus quendam W. M. coram nobis in dicta Cancell' nostra nuper exhibit̄, vel tu ipse sis coram nobis, etc. Aliter ad testificandum ad Assisas super articulos. SItis coram justiciarijs nostris ad Assisas in come H. capiend' add prox ' Sect' 50. Assisas in come praedicto, tenendum apud L. die Lune, in tertia septimana quadragesimae, ut ijdem justiciarij vos tunc & ibidem pro part R. W. de, & super veritate quorundam articulorum per pref. R. versus A. B. exhibit possint examinare, Et sub pena etc. Subpena ad ostendendum causam quare euidenc' non deliberentur. REgina, etc. Quibusdam etc. usque ubicunque tunc fuerit ad ostendendum Sect' 51. quare euidenc' & scripta per te in Cancell' nostr' praedict', nuper deliberate, & ibidem adhucremanen W. C. deliberari non debeant. Et ad faciend', etc. ut supra. Subpena ad testificandum ad Assisas in London. SItis coram dilecto & fideli nostro Edmundo Anderson Milit capital ' Sect' 52. Iusticiar' nostro de Banco, ac Iusticiar' ad Assisas in Civitate London, capiend' assign' apud Guildhall dam Civitat is London, praedict' die Veneris, videlicet & nono die instantis mensis Februar proxim' futur', ut ijdem Iusticiar' vos tunc & ibidem pro part H. T. possint examinare. Et hoc etc. Subpena ad testificand' coram Vicecomit' London. ELizabeth Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, etc. W. I. salutem. Quibusdan Sect' 53. certis de causis coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra propositis: Tibi precipimus, firmiter iniungentes, quod omnibus alijs pretermissis & excusatione quacunque cessant, in propria persona tua sis coram Vicecomit̄ Civitatis nostae London, apud Guildhaldam eiusdem Civitatis die iovis proxim' futur', ad testificandum veritatem in materia coram eye pendent̄, & ad faciendum ulterius, & recipiendum quod de te contigerit ordinari tunc ibidem. Et hoc sub pena centum librar nullatenus omittas. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste me ipsa apud Westmon ultimo die Martij, Anno regni nostri 36. Subpena pro Euidentijs adferendis. REx R. D. salutem, Quibusdam certis de causis coram nobis in Cancellaria Sect' 54. nostra propositis: Tibi precipimus, firmiter iniungentes, quod omnibus alijs praetermissis & execusatione quacunque cessant, n propria persona tua sis coram no bis in dicta Cancellar' nostr' in quindena sancti Hillarij prox' futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, adferens tecum omnia & omnimoda cartas, scripta, evidentias, & munimenta in custodia tua, aut alicuius alterius personae, aut per tuam deliberation̄ ad tuum usum existent, unum messuagium vocat' Le G. & unum horreum cum omnibus terris eidem messuagio pertinent concernent, in quadam petitione per W. T. coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra praedicta versus te exhibit̄, content̄ specificat, & ad faciendum ulterius, & recipiendum quod Curia nostra consideraverit in hac part. Et hoc nullatenus omittas. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. Aliter pro Obligatione deliberand'. ADferens tecum quandam Obligationem per quam W. C. Miles Sect' 55. tenetur & obligatur T. B. Milit nuper marit tuo iam defuncto in ducentis marcis in custodia tua existent, ut dicitur, & ad faciendum ulterius etc. ut supra. And when a suit hath depended unprosecuted two years, the award a Subpena de Arturnat faciend ', in this form. REx B. R. salut etc. (usque tunc fuerit, & tunc sic) ad faciendum Attornat Sect' 56. in materia quae est coram nobis in dicta Cancellaria nostra interte defend', & M. S. quer' per billam, & ad faciend' etc. ut supra. Commissio adrecipiendum responsum, & ad examinandum testes quoscunque, & ad audiendum & terminandum. REx dilect' sibi A. T. armigero, & R. S. armig' salutem. Cum A. W. Sect' 57 quandam petitionem coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra versus R. C. nuper exhibuit, quodque eidem R. per breve nostr' praeceperimus, quod esset coram nobis in dicta Cancellar' nostr' ad certum diemiam praeteritum sub certa pena in dict' brevi nostro contenta petition praed' responsur̄: Sciatis quod assignavimus vos, ac tenore presentium damus vobis vel uni vestrum potestatem & aucthoritatem responsion̄ prefati R. ad petitionem praedict' recipiend', & in scriptis redigend', & quoscunque testes, de, & super materia in petitione & responsion̄ praedict' content̄, examinand', ac eandem materiam juxta sanas discretiones vestras vel unius vestrum audiend', & finaliter determinand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod viso tenore petitionis praed', quam vobis mittimus presentibus interclusam, prefat' R. coram vobis, vel uno vestrum venire faciatis, ac respon suam petition̄ praedict' informa praedict', fiendam super sacramentum suum recipiatis, & in scriptis redigatis, nec●ontestes praedict', coram vobis vel uno vestruni ad certos dies & loca, quos ad hoc provideritis coram vobis venire faciatis, & evocetis, ac ipsos, & eorum quemlibet, de & super veritate petitionis, & responsion̄ praed', ac de & super articulis omnibus & singulis premissa qualitercunque concernent super eorum sacram corporaliter prestand', diligenter examinet, examinationesque suas recip̄, & in script' redig'. Et cum eas sic ceperitis candem materiam partibus ad id vocat', visisque eorum scriptis & auditis hinc inde earum rationibus, & allegationibus, omnibus vijs, modis & med●js quibus melius sciveritis, aut poteritis, vel unus vestrum sciuer̄, aut poter̄, juxta sanas discretiones vestras vel unius vestr̄ finaliter determinetis, vel unus vestrum determinet: Sin autem nos de omni eo quod inde feceritis vel unus vestrum fecerit, in Cancellar' nostra sub sigillis vestris, vel unius vestrum in Quindena Sancti Mich. prox' futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, distincte & apart reddat certiores, hoc breve, una cum petitione responsione & testium examinationibus pred' nobis remittentes. Teste etc. Commissio ad audiendum & terminandum materiam in petitione, & responsione, & ad examinand' testes q●oscunque. REx dilect' sibi A. & B. salutem. Quia de & super veritate quaerimoniae Sect▪ 58. in quadam petitione coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra per T. C. versus I. R. & alios nuper exhibita content̄, ac de & super veritate in quadam responsione per partes predictas in hac part facta, & in eadem Cancellaria similiter exhibit̄, necnon de & super omnibus articulis & circumstantijs queremoniam & responsionem illas concernent, ut tutius & confultius pro justicia in eisdem exhibend' procedere valeamus vobis de quorum fidelitatibus, & providis circumspectionibus plene confidimus: Dedimus vobis, vel duobus vestrum potestatem & aucthoritatem audiendi & examinandi materiam in petitione, ac responsione, ac in omnibus articulis & circumstantijs praedictis querimoniam, & responsionem illas concernent hijs presentibus annex' contentam, & specificat, et eandem materiam juxta sanas discretiones vestras finaliter si poteritis determinand'. Et ideo vobis, vel duobus vestrum mandamus, quod ad certos dies & loca, quos ad hoc provideritis, testes quoscumque inter partes praed', quos maxime protestificatione veritatis premissorum fore videritis euocandos, coram vobis vel duobus vestrum evocetis, Ac ipsos testes et eorum quemlibet de & super querimonia, responsione articulis et circumstantijs praed' super sacramenta sua diligenter iuretis, & examinetis. Et super hoc auditis hincinde earum rationibus, et allegationibus, ac alijs vijs ac modis, quibus melius sciveritis aut poteritis eandem materiam ut praed' est finaliter si poteritis determinetis. Sin autem nos in Cancellaria nostra de omni eo quod inde feceritis in quindena sancti Hillarij prox' futur', ubicunque tuncfuerit, sub sigillis vestris, vel duorum vestrum distincte & apart eddatis certiores, remittentes nobistunc tenores praedictos, una cum hoc breve. Teste etc. Commssio ad examinadum Testes adlocum & diem certum, de valore bonorum & catallorum. REgina dilect' & fideli suo R. B. Militi, ac dilectis sibi I. D. & P. W. armigeris Sect▪ 59 salutem. Sciatis quod nos de fidelitatibis & providis circumspectionibus vestris plurimum confidentes, assignavimus vos, ac tenore praesentium, damus vobis, vel duobus vestrum plenam potestatem & aucthoritatem inquirendi, tam per depositiones quorumcunque testium, coram vobis producend', & examinand', quam alio quocunque modo ad libitum vestrum, quae bona et catalla fuerunt. I. M. generosi, sive alterius cuiuscun que remanent infra domum mansionalem, sive fitmam de C. in E. in comitatu Oxon̄ quo tempore Ro. Bi. possessionem eiusdem domus sive firmae natus sit, et cuius valoris sive precij eadem bona et catalla sic infra eandem domum, et firmam praed' existentia ad tunc fuerunt, et extiterunt. Damus etiam vobis, vel duobus vestrum potestatem & auchoritatem testes quosdam quorum seperalia nomina in quibusdam Interrogatorijs praesentibus interclus. ac eisdem testibus seperaliter proponend', inserta apparebunt de et super eisdem Interrogat diligenter examinand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad certos dies et loca, quos adhoc provideritis, testes praedictos ac alios quoscumque quos maxime pro testificatione veritatis fore videritis necessarios et opportunos coram vobisvel duobus vestrum venire faciatis, et evocetis, ac ipsos testes, et eorum quemlibet tunc et ibidem, tam de et super pleno et justo valore omnium et singulorum bonorum, et catallorum praedictorum quam et super Interrogatorijs praedictis, super sacramenta sua per sancta Dei Euangel●a coram vobis, vel duobus vestrum corporaliter praestandum diligenter examinetis: Examinationesque suas recipiatis, et in scriptis in pergameno redigatis. Et cum ●as sic ceperitis nos inde, ac de omni eo quicquid pro meliore cognitione praemissorum feceritis, vel duo vestrum fecerint in Cancellaria nostra in Octabis Sancti Mich, proxm futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, sub sigillis vestris, vel duorum vestrum cla●s. distincte, & apart, reddatis certiores, remittentes nobis Interrogatoria praedict', una cum hoc breve. Teste etc. Commissio ad superuidendum & distinguendum Vastum. REx dilect'ac fideli suo Willihelmo P. Militi, ac dilect' sibi W. T. armigero Sect' 60. salutem. Sciatis quod nos de fidelitatibus, & providis circumspectionibus vestr̄ plenius confidentes assignavimus vos, ac tenore presentium damus vobis plenam potestatem & aucthoritatem audiendi & examinand' quandam materiam in quibusdam articulis his praefatibus annex' contentam, & specificat, & eandem materiam juxta sanas discretion̄ vestr̄ finaliter si poteritis determinand'. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ad certos dies & loca, quos ad hoc provideritis ad quoddam vastum vocat' Blackdowne super M. in come S. in articulis praedict' specificat, personaliter accedatis, vastum que illud superuideatis, ac tam per depositiones testium quam alijs vijs, modis, & medijs quibus melius sciveritis aut poteritis diligenter inquirat quantum inde ad manerium de H. & quantum inde ad manerium de W. in Comit̄ praedict', pertinere debeat, & superinde, limites, bundas, metas & divisas, inter unum & alterum, & quantum ad unum, & quantum ad alium maneriorum praedictorum pertinere vobis constare poterit, poni faciat & limites examinationesque testium predictorum recipiatis, & in scriptis redigatis, omnesque alias depositiones testium ante hac examinat minumenta, scripta, recorda, transcripta, territoria, chartas, ac alias evidentias quascunque per partes in articulis praedict' specificat, coram vobis exhibend' acceptetis & inspiciatis. Et super hoc, materiam in articulis praedictis specificat juxta sanas discretiones vestras finaliter si poteritis determinet: Sin autem nos in Cancellar' nostra de omni eo quod inde feceritis in quindena Sancti Michaelis prox' futur' ubicunque tuncfuerit sub sigillis vestris distincte & apart reddatis certiores, remittentes nobis articulos praedictos una cum praesentibus. Teste etc. A Commission directed to the Lord deputy of Ireland and the Lord chancellor, with others, for the hearing and determining of a Title of Land. ELizabeth by the grace of God etc. To our trusty and right well beloved Sect' 61. Sir H. S. Knight, of the order etc. Lord Deputy of our Realm of Ireland, H. C. Archbishop of D. our L. chancellor there, Sir I. P. knight, chief justice of the Pleas there, I. B. Esq: chief Barou of our Exchequer there, F. A. Esquire, one of our privy Counsel there, I. D. Esquire, second justice of our chief Bench there, R. F. Esquire our Sergeant at the Law there, and L. D. Esquire our Solicitor there. Know ye, that for certain considerations us thereunto moving, and of our mere motion, and for the great confidence and trust we have in your fidelities, circumspections, providences and wisdoms, we have deputed, ordained, authorized, appointed, constituted, given & granted, and by these presents do depute, ordain, aucthorize, constitute, appoint, give, and grant unto you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will that etc. be always one) full power, jurisdiction, and authority, to hold plea, hear, determine, discuss, decree, and finally to judge of all and singular actions, debates, strifes, quarrels, rights, titles, and demands whatsoever they be, aswell real as personal, which by plaint, supplication, or bill to be exhibited, or otherwise by any manner of means else, shall, or may appear, or come before you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will that etc. be always one) of, for, and concerning the interest, right, title, demand, and possession of two parts or moieties, of all those lands etc. with the appurtenances in the County of D. within the said Realm of Ireland to be by O. D. late of etc. I. D. widow, F. D. M. D. D. D. gentl ', and sons to R. D. late deceased, and R. D. Nephew to the said F. M. and D. or by any of them severally, or jointly, or any two, three iiii. v. or vi. of them against C. S. alias H. Lord of H. within our said Realm of Ireland, and all and every other person or persons, which shall claim from, by, or in the right of the said Lord, or in his, or their own right or rights, or by any means else whatsoever it be, which he or they claim to have to the said moieties of the two parts of the said lands etc. with the appurtenances aforesaid: giving and granting, and by these our Letters patents, we do give and grant unto you, or to any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which number we will that etc. be always one) full power, jurisdiction, and authority, to call before you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will that etc. be always one) at such times and places according to your good discretions, which unto you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will &c. be always one) and to cause the said Lord H. or any which claimeth in his or their own right or rights, or by any ways or means else whatsoever, any interest, right, title, or possession in the two parts or moieties of the said lands etc. with their appurtenances aforesaid, or any parcel thereof, to answer, rejoine, and join issue, or otherwise plead, as the cause & matter shall require, and upon any plaint, supplication, action, or suit whatsoever, which shall be exhibited or come before you, by the aforesaid D. D. P. P. I. D. F. D. M. D. and R. or by any of them jointly or severally, or any two. iii. iiii. v. or vi. of them, of, and concerning the said two parts or moieties of the said lands etc. with their appurtenances aforesaid: Giving and granting, and by these presents, we do give and grant unto you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will that etc. be always one) full power, jurisdiction, and authority, according to your wisdoms, discretions, and providences, to call before you, all manner of witnesses, and to examine all charters, evidences, muniments, writings, & every other thing else, which may be a mean to prove, fortify, disclose, or make evident the interest, right, titles, demand, or possession of any of the aforenamed parties, to the said two parts or moieties of the said lands etc. with their appurtenances aforesaid, and upon the same thoroughly, and with mature deliberation and judgement considered and weighed, we do give and grant unto you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which number we will that etc. be always one) full power, jurisdiction, and authority to proceed to the full order, decree, definition, sentence and final judgement, according to your discretions, of the interest, right, title, demand, and possession of the said two parts or moieties of the said lands etc. with their appurtenances aforesaid, and to decree the possession of the premises to him or them, to whom of right it ought to appertain, and his or their said possessions to maintain: And if any of the parties afore named, or any other person or persons which shall have to do in the same matter or cause, do wilfully, or obstinately withstand or disobey any process, order, decree, sentence, or judgement which shall he directed or given in the premises by you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which number we will that etc. ut supra, be always one:) Then we will and command you, and by virtue of these our Letters patents give full power, warrant, and authority unto you, or to any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which number we will that you etc. be always one) to commit him or them to prison, there to remain till his, her, or their conformities shall be therein had, willing & commanding you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you (of which we will &c. be always one) that at such times & places, as to your discretions, or to the discretion of any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you (of which number etc. be always one) shall seem fit and convenient, diligently to attend, apply, and with speed put in execution the effect of this our Commission, so as the complainants before named, or any of them which shall have to do therein, may not have just cause to make further complaint for delay or want of justice, willing and commanding you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will &c. be one) to admit no dilatory exception to any supplication or supplications, bill or bills of complaint exhibited, or to be exhibited before you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which number we will that etc. he always one) or otherwise to the overthrowing of this our Commission: But according to our meaning herein to proceed, and to go to the full hearing, ordering, decreeing, judging, and determining of the right, title, and demand of the parties aforesaid, of, for, and concerning the premises, and every part and parcel thereof, and accordingly to decree, and judge, as to equity and right shall appertain: any act, statute, law, provision, or ordinance to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. And therefore fail you not, as you tender our favour: for if our said Subjects O. D. P. P. I. F. M. D. and R. D. should be put from such trial of their right to the premises, as by this our Commission we have provided for them. Their disability and want of riches, wealth, friendship, and alliance considered, and of the other part, the said Lord of H. their adversary being thoroughly furnished of all those things, and withal being a Lord by birth, and of great calling and authority, and inhabiting within the said County, where the said lands etc. do lie, our said subject should be in peril and danger to be without remedy at our common Laws there, which were no small mischief to them. The premises considered, we have granted this our Commission according to the tenor aforesaid. And further we will and command you, and by virtue hereof give full power and authority unto you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you (of which we will that &c. be one) that after the right, interest, title, and demand decreed, adjudged, and determined, as is aforesaid: that you have consideration unto the hindrance, losses, and damages which the complainants, or any of them, as is aforesaid, have had, and sustained, by reason of the wrongful detaining of the possession of the premises, and the said damages by you, as is aforesaid, taxed, and extracted, thereof to cause a full execution and satisfaction to be had and made unto the said complainants, and every of them, as is aforesaid. And for the better putting in execution of this our Commission, we will and command the Sheriff of that our said County of D. and all other our Officers for the time being, to whom in this case it shall appertain, that they and every of them be attendant upon you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which we will that &c. be one) for thexecuting, fulfilling, and doing of all, and every act & acts, thing or things, as shall be by you, or any viii. seven. vi. v. iiii. or three of you, (of which be always one) commanded, limited, or appointed. In witness whereof &c. Having hitherto in some sort showed the writs of Commissions and course of proceeding in Chancery suits: It seemeth needful now to express what Bills of complaint, Answers, Replications, Rejoinders, and Surrejoinders be, with divers forms thereof, according to the causes of suit. ¶ What a Bill of Complaint is. A Bill of Complaint is a declaration in writing, showing the Sect. 62. plaintiffs grief, and the wrong which he supposeth to be done unto him by the defendant, and what damages he 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 sion thereof, praying process against him for redress of the same, as may appear by many examples hereafter following, whereupon Hostiensis hath these verses. Quis quid coram quo▪ quo iure petatur & a quo, Recte compositus quisque libellus habet. And first the matter of every bill ought to be true. Secondarily, the same matter ought to be laid down therein plainly and certainly in every circumstance of the thing, person, time, place, manner of doing, & other accidents. And thirdly, the same aught to be sufficient in Law, both for the form thereof, and for the matter, that it be such as is examinable in this Court, which being otherwise may be dismissed thence. THe direction of all Bills in the Chancery must be at the top Sect' 63. thereof. And when there is neither Lord Chancellor, nor Lord Keeper, it is thus: To the Queen's most excellent Majesty, in her highness Court of Chancery. In most humble manner complaining, showeth unto your most excellent Majesty your most humble and obedient subject H. C. etc. And when there is a Lord Keeper, as at this time, thus: To the Right honourable Sir john Puckering Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England. And when there is a Lord Chancellor, than thus: To the Right honourable Sir C. H. knight, Lord Chancellor of England. Their other titles of honour may be also added in the said direction, but they are not much necessary. What an Answer is. AN answer is that which the defendant pleadeth or saith in Sect' 64. bar to avoid the plaintiffs bill, or action, either by confession and avoiding, or by denying and traversing the material parts thereof. And the title of such answer is thus: The Answer of A. B. defendant to the Bill of complaint of C. D. complainant. But if there be many defendants, than thus: The joint and several answers of A. B. and C. D. defendants, to the bill of complaint of E. F. complainant. An answer is called in Latin Exceptio, quae dicta est quasi quaedam exclusio quae interponi actioni cuiuscunque rei solet, ad excludendum id quod in intentionem condemnationem iure deductum est. Vlpianus. What a Replication is. A Replication is the plaintiffs speech or answer to the defendants Sect. 65. answer, which must affirm and pursue his bill, and confess and avoid, deny or traverse the defendants answer. And note, that the plaintiff ought to reply the next Term after that the defendant hath answered, else may he give him day to reply: By which day if he do not reply, the defendant may procure a dismission and get costs. Et dicta videtur Replicatio quod vel implicatam & quasi tectam exceptionis iniquitatem replicet & patefaciat: vel potius quod equitatem actionisab excipiente rei tectam & quasi complicatam explicet atque aperiat. Hottamanus. And a title of a Replication is thus: The Replication of W. P. Complainant, to the answer of R. C. defendant. What a Rejoinder is. A Rejoinder is th'answer which the defendant maketh to the plaintiffs Sect. 66. replication, which must pursue and confirm his answer, and not serve from the same, and sufficiently confess and avoid, deny or traverse, each material part of the plaintiffs replication, Est autem reiunctio seu duplicatio vel allegatio quae datur reo ad infirmandum replicationem actoris & confirmandum exceptionem rei. Spieg. If the parties be not at issue, by reason of some new matter disclosed in the defendants rejoinder, that requireth answer: Then may the plaintiff Surrejoine to the said rejoinder, and the defendant in like manner to the Surrejoinder, if there be cause, which happeneth very seldom. And the title of a Rejoinder is thus: The rejoinder of C. A. defendant, to the Replication of E. W complainant. What a Surrejoinder is. A Surrejoinder is a second defence of the plaintiffs action, opposite Sect' 67. to the defendants rejoinder. And therefore Hottamanus calleth it, Triplicatio, quae est secunda actionis defensio contra rei duplicationem opposita. And thus is the title of a Surrejoinder: The Surrejoinder of E. W. complainant to the Rejoinder of C. A. defendant. A Bill of complaint for entering into and making secret estates of Copyhold lands, wasting part thereof, & mingling part thereof with the lands of others to disinherit the Plaintiff by having the Copies thereof. Humbly complaining showeth unto your Honourable L. H. E. of Sect', 68 B. in the County of York Esqu. That whereas H. E. late of S. Esquire deceased, father to your Orator, was in his life time by good and lawful conveyance and assurance in the law, lawfully seized to him and to his heirs in fee simple, according to the Custom of the manor of W. in the said County of Y. of one Copyhold or Customary mesuage or tenement, and of certain Customary lands, meadows, and pasture, to the quantity of one hundred acres or thereabouts. And the said H. E. your Orator's father so being thereof seized as aforesaid, and being visited with sickness during the minority of your said Orator, by good and lawful conveyance and assurance in the law, and according to the custom of the said manor of W. did convey, assure, and surrender the said Copyhold or customary mesuage or tenements, and other the premises with the appurtenances into the hands of A. B. the Lord of the said manor, for the better maintenance, and to the use of your said Orator: To have and to hold to your said Orator, and to his heirs and assigns, at the will of the Lord, according to the custom of the said manor: By force whereof your honours said Orator in the Court of the said manor paid his fine, and was of the said Copyhold & Customary tenements with the appurtenances, by the then Steward of the said manor of W. admitted tenant. But so it is, if it may please your honour, that all the Evidences and Copies, of, and concerning the said mesuage, lands, tenements, and premises, being left in the hands, custody, and possession of your Orators said father whilst he lived, in right belonging unto your Lordship's said Orator, are now by casual and sinister means comen to the hands and possession of one H. H. of O. in the said County of Y. who by colour of the having thereof, hath wrongfully entered into the said mesuage, lands, and premises aforesaid, and hath made and conveyed unto himself, and to others to his use, divers and sundry secret estates thereof, and doth pretend wholly to disinherit your Lordships said Orator of the same, notwithstanding your said Orator hath by divers and sundry means in friendly manner, oftentimes sought to have the said Evidences and Copies, and requested the same at the hands of the said H. H. and also that he would yield unto your said Orator the quiet possession of the said mesuage, lands, and premises, to whom he doth well know the same in right to belong and appertain, yet that to do, he hath not only denied and refused, and still doth deny and refuse to do the same: But of his further malice against your said Orator, he doth threaten your Orator in such sort, that your Orator for want of the said Evidences and Copies, dareth not make his just and lawful entry, in, and to the same: And also the said H. hath committed, and doth continue daily great and outrageous wastes and spoils, in decaying of the houses, felling down of the wood and timber trees of the premises, to your Orators great loss and disinherison, and contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and forasmuch as by the strict course of the common Laws of this Realm, your Lordships said Orator hath not any ordinary remedy for the obtaining and recovering of the said Evidences and Copies, for want of the certain knowledge of the contents and dates thereof, and what in them be contained, neither can your Orator learn against whom to commence any suit for the said mesuage, lands, and premises, for that the said H. H. and others to your Orator altogether unknown, have confederated themselves together against your said Orator, and have contrived and made amongst themselves, divers secret estates & conveyances, and have so intermingled the same, to, and with other lands, tenements, and hereditaments, to, and with certain of their own freehold and inheritance, that your Orator knoweth not which the same be, nor how much thereof the said H. H. & other his confederates do severally hold, whereby to commence any action or suit, or make any lawful entry, into, or for the same, without your Orators great danger: And yet your Orator hopeth, that upon the corporal Oath of the said H. H. he will manifest such matter, whereby your Orator may the more better, easily, and readily proceed and attain to the recovering of his just & lawful right and inheritance of the premises: For the furtherance whereof, it may please your good Lordship, to grant unto your said Orator, her majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said H. H. commanding him there by, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, personally to be and appear in her majesties high Court of Chancery, then and there, to answer to the premises etc. The Answer of H. H. defendant, to the Bill of complaint of H. E. complainant. THe said defendant saith, that the said bill of complaint against him Sect' 69. exhibited into this honourable Court, is very incertain, untrue, and insufficient in the Law to be answered unto, by the said defendant, for divers and sundry apparent faults & imperfections therein contained: And devised and exhibited into this honourable Court, partly of malice and evil will, without any just cause conceived against the said defendant, to the intent thereby unjustly to vex & molest him with tedious travel, being an aged man, and to put him unto great expenses, being very poor: But chiefly to th'intent and purpose to weary, impoverish, and terrify him this defendant: Nevertheless, if by the order of this honourable Court, this defendant shallbe compelled to make any further or other answer unto the said untrue, incertain, & insufficient bill of complaint, then and not otherwise the advantage of exception thereof to this defendant, at all and every time and times hereafter saved, for further answer thereunto, and for a full and plain declaration of the truth, touching so much of the material contents of the said bill, as in any sort concerneth this defendant, He for himself saith, that whereas the said complainant in his said bill allegeth, that one H. E. his father deceased, was in his life time by good and lawful conveyance and assurance in the Law, lawfully seized to him and his heirs in fee simple, according to the custom of the said manor of W. in the said bill mentioned, of one copyhold or customary mesuage or tenement, and of certain customary lands, meadows, and pasture, to the quantity of an hundred acres, or thereabouts: and that he being thereof so seized, and visited with sickness, during the minority of the said Complainant, by good and lawful conveyance and assurancein the Law, and according to the Custom of the said manor of W. did convey, assure, and surrender the same Copyhold or Customary mesuage or tenement, and other the premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging for his better maintenance, to the use of the said complainant, To have and to hold to the said complainant, and to his heirs and assigns, at the will of the said Lord, according to the custom of the said manor: And that by force thereof the said complainant in the Court of the said manor, paid his fine and was of the said copyhold or customary tenements with thappurtenances, by the then steward of the said manor of W. admitted tenant. He this defendant saith, that to his knowledge, the said H. E. late father of the said complainant was never either lawfully seized to him and to his heirs, according to the custom of the said manor of W. of the said tenements and premises in the said bill mentioned, by any good and lawful conveyance and assurance in the law, according to the custom of the said manor: Nor did ever convey, assure, and surrender the said customary tenements, and other the premises, to the use of the said complainant his heirs and assigns: Neither did the said complainant ever pay his fine for the same in the said court, neither was he ever lawfully admitted tenant thereof, as he the said complainant in his said bill untruly pretendeth. And whereas the said complainant in his said bill also pretendeth, that the evidences and copies, of, and concerning the said mesuage, lands, tenements, and premises, being left in the hands, custody, & possession of the said complainants father whilst he lived, in right belonging unto this complainant are now by casual means comen to the hands and possession of this defendant, and that he by colour of the having thereof, hath wrongfully entered into the said mesuage, lands, and premises aforesaid, and hath made & conveyed to himself and to others to his use, divers and sundry secret estates therein, and doth pretend thereof wholly to disinherit the said complainant, This defendant saith, that none evidences or copies, of, or concerning the said mesuage, tenements, and premises, are by casual means, or otherwise come to the hands or possession of this defendant, and that by colour of having thereof, he this defendant, neither wrongfully entered into the said mesuage, tenements, and premises, nor any part thereof, neither hath he this defendant conveyed▪ to himself, or to any other person to his use, divers and sundry, or any secret estates thereof, neither doth he pretend thereof wholly to distinherite the said complaint, as in the said bill it is untruly alleged: without that, that the said complainant by divers and sundry means in friendly manner hath oftentimes sought to have the saidevidences and copies, and requested the same at the hands of this defendant, And also that he would yield unto your said Orator the quiet possession of the said mesuage, tenements, and premises, or that he this defendant doth well know the same, in right to belong unto him the said complainant, as in the said bill it is untruly alleged: And without that that he this defendant of malice against the said complainant doth threaten him the said coomplainant, in such sort, that he for want of the said evidences, dareth not make his just & lawful entry or claim, to, & in the same premises, or that he the said defendant hath or could commit, or doth, or can continue daily committing great & outrageous wastes and spoils, in decaying of the houses, and felling down of the woods and timber trees of the premises, to the great loss and disherison of the said complainant, and contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, as in, and by his said bill of complaint he hath most vainly and untruly alleged. For touching the said supposed threats, this defendant saith, that he is a very feeble poor old quiet man, very desirous of the favour and good will of all men, and therefore neither willing, nor able by his threats to terrify or fear the said complainant, being a gentleman of worship, power, and living, having many kinsfolks, allies, friends, and servants, so that he this defendant hath rather just cause to be afraid of the said complainant than the said complainant to fear him. And further touching the said wastes and spoils, this defendant saith, that the said customary or Copyhold in W. aforesaid, are holden of the manor of W. aforesaid. And without that, that the said complainant hath, or ever had any lawful title to commence any action or suit, or to make any entry, against or upon this defendant, for any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, in the said bill of complaint mentioned, as it is therein untruly alleged: And without that, that this defendant can upon his corporal Oath manifest such matter, whereby the said complainant may the more better, easily and readily proceed and attain to the recovering of any just or lawful right or inheritance, or in any other manner then in this answer is set down, as the said complainant unwisely guesseth, and most bainely hopeth, as he in his said bill allegeth: And without that, that any other matter, thing or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation in the said bill of complaint contained, material or effectual in the law to be answered unto by this defendant, and not herein confessed and avoided, denied or traversed, is true. All which matters this defendant is ready to aver and prove, as this honourable Court shall award: And therefore prayeth to be dismissed out of the same, with his reasonable costs and charges in this behalf wrongfully and without cause sustained. The Replication of H. E. Esquire complainant, to the Answer of H. H. defendant. THe said complainant for Replication saith, that he will aver, Sect. 70. maintain, and justify his said bill of complaint, into this honourable Court exhibited, and every matter and thing therein contained, to be certain, true, and sufficient in the Law to be answered unto by the said defendant, And not devised and exhibited into this honourable Court of any malice or evil will, but upon just cause conceived against the said defendant, as the said defendant in his answer untruly hath alleged. And for further replication saith, that the said H. E. late father of this Repliant, was lawfully seized to him & to his heirs, according to the custom of the said manor of W. of the said tenements and other things in the said bill mentioned, by good & lawful conveyance and assurance in the law, according to the custom of the said manor: And did convey, assure, and surrender the said customary tenements & premises to the use of the said Repliant and of his heirs, and the said complainant did pay his fine therefore, and was lawfully admitted tenant thereof, as he the said complainant in his said bill very truly pretendeth. And also he saith, that the evidences and copies, of, and concerning the said tenements and premises, are comen to the hands of the said defendant, and that by colour thereof the said defendant hath wrongfully entered into the said mesuage, tenements & premises, & hath conveyed to himself and to others to his use, divers & sundry secret estates therein, as in his said bill of complaint is also most truly declared: And that the said complainaut hath oftentimes sought & requested to have the said writings, copies, & evidences at the hands of the said defendant: And also that he would yield unto him the quiet possession of the said mesuage & premises, And also that the said defendant hath and still doth commit, and continue daily committing great and outrageous wastes & spoils, in decaying of the houses, and felling down of the woods and timber trees of the premises, to the loss and disherison of him this complainant, as in the said bill of complaint is truly alleged: And without that, that any other matter or thing contained in the said answer material or effectual to be replied unto, and not herein sufficiently confessed or avoided, traversed or denied, is true. All which this complainant is ready to aver and prove, as this honourable Court shall award. And prayeth as he before in his said bill of complaint hath prayed. A Bill to stay suit at the common law upon an obligation, because the money is satisfied in divers payments and reckonings. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth to your good Lordship Sect. 71. Fr. M. That whereas one H. B. of D. in the County of D. Esquire, now deceased, having many daughters to advance, which were then but of tender years, did about one and twenty years now last passed, make his last will and testament in writing, and by the same did give and devise amongst divers and sundry other legacies amounting to a very great value, the sum of one hundred pounds to A. one of his daughters, and of his said last will & testament did nominate, constitute, and appoint your said Orator, and one G. R. Esquire, being his near kinsman, & assured good friend his executors: but also did commit the government & education of his said children unto them, and after died. By and after whose decease, and before the probate of the said last will, & testament, the said R. died: by reason whereof your said Orator alone proved the said will, and took upon him the execution of the same, and afterward, one I. W. being a man very basely borne, & of very little credit, did without the privity, consent, or good liking of your said Orator, or of any other to whom the said H. B. had committed the government and education of his said children, contract himself with the said Anne, and with her did marry: After which marriage, albeit your said Orator greatly misliked therewith, and that the said H. B. had bequeathed unto the said Anne, but the sum of one hundred pounds, yet your said Orator in respect of the near alliance between him & the said children, and to the end they should live in the better credit & account, was amongst the rest contented to bestow on the said Anne one hundred pounds more than her said father bequeathed unto her: & thereupon at the special request & earnest suit of the said I. W. & the said Anne then being his wife, and for their better credit, advancement & preferment, did not only presently pay and deliver to the said I. W. in ready money, the sum of 50. pounds, parcel of the said sum of one hundred pounds so bequeathed to the said A. his wife, as is aforesaid, but also became bound unto the said I. W. in the sum of an hundred pounds for the payment of fifty pounds more at certain times in the condition of the said Obligation mentioned, which amounted to the full sum of one hundred pounds, so bequeathed as is aforesaid to the said Anne, And then also became bound unto the said I. W. in one other bond, in the sum of 200. pounds, for the payment of one hundred pounds, at certain times in the condition of the said obligation limited, which your said Orator of his own liberality, and for the advancement of the aforesaid Anne, gave unto her sithence: which bonds so made, the said I. W. having had many occasions to use money, hath often made means to your said Orator to relieve his necessity therein, before such time as the same sums or any of them grew due unto him, to be paid by the said several Obligations, by reason whereof your said Orator about the sixth day of july, in the two and thirtieth year of the Queen's majesties reign that now is, paid and delivered unto the said I. W. the sum of fifty pounds more in part of payment and satisfaction of the said sum of one hundred and fifty pounds growing by the said two several obligations, wherein your said Orator standeth so bound, as is aforesaid: and your said Orotor likewise paid and delivered unto the said I. W. at such times as the said I. W. hath demanded the same divers several sums of money, amounting in the whole to the sum of 21. l' 8. s. which the said I. W. hath accepted in part of payment of the said sum of 150. pounds, and which the said I. W. knoweth to be true, and also your said Orator hath paid by the hands of F. B. to the said I. W. and in discharge of some debts due by the said I. W. and by his appointment at several times the sum of lxx. l' vi. s. viii. d. which the said I. W. hath also accepted in part of payment of the said sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, which said several sums the said I. W. hath from time to time accepted, as in part of payment, & discharge of the said sum of 150. l'. And your said Orator also standeth bound for the only debt and duty of the said I. W. for the payment of 20. l' more unto I. P. Esquire, which your said Orator always hath been, and yet is ready to pay for the said I. W. when he shall be thereunto required, so that your said Orator, hath in the whole paid and satisfied unto the said I. W. and in discharge of the debts of the said I. W. the full sum of one hundredth, fourscore and eight pounds and more, which is more than your said Orator needed to have paid unto him as any money due unto the said Anne, wife of the said I W. for the said I. W. doth very well know, that the said H. B. did not devise or bequeath any more unto the said Anne, than the sum of one hundred pounds. And doth also very well know, that he hath divers and sundry times, upon the receipt and payment of the said several sums, not only confessed the receipt of the same, but also faithfully promised unto your said Orator, that he would cancel and deface the said obligations, yet notwithstanding, so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that albeit the said I. W. doth very well know, that your said Orator hath fully satisfied and paid unto him the said sum of one hundredth pounds, bequeached by the said H. B. unto the said Anne, and hath also fully satisfied and paid unto him, fourscore and eight pounds, and more, parcel of the said hundredth pounds, which your said Orator gave unto the said Anne, of his own free liberality, and for the advancement of the said A. and that the said Obligations, viz. one of one hundredth pounds, for the payment of fifty pounds, and one other Obligation of two hundred pounds, for the payment of one hundred pounds, which your said Orator became bound in, unto the said I. W. were for the selfsame debts, which your said Orator hath at several payments, as is aforesaid, paid unto him in discharge, and in part of satisfaction of the said several Obligations, aught in all right, equity, and good conscience, to be canceled and defaced, upon the payment of the residue of the said sums which is behind, and which your said Orator is ready to pay, yet he the said I. W. having a very greedy, and covetous disposition to enrich himself, albeit he doth very well know the said several Obligations, to be in effect fully satisfied and discharged, as is aforesaid, and that he hath not at any time been, any thing damnified by the for bearing of the said several sums, yet hath he now lately commenced suit upon one of the said Obligations, in her majesties Court of King's Bench, and upon the other Obligation in her majesties Court of common Pleas, meaning to take the whole forfeiture of the said several Obligations against your said Orator, in that your said Orator did not in truth always pay unto him the said several sums, according to the condition of the said Obligations, but did always pay the same at such times as the said I. W. had occasion to use it, and as he did at any time demand it, and doth with all the expedition he can, and with the most hardness that he may use, seek to recover the penalties of the said several Obligations against your said Orator, contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the great hurt and hindrance of your said Orator. And albeit your said Orator hath divers and sundry times earnestly required of the said I. W. not only to cancel and deface the said Obligations, upon the payment of the residue, and surcease his several suits commenced upon the same, yet that, or any of them to do he hath denied and refused, and still doth deny and refuse, contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience: In consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Orator hath no good matter to plead in bar of the said several Actions by course of the common Laws, in that, albeit he hath in truth paid and satisfied the said several sums, in such sort as the said I. W. held himself contented therewith, yet can he not make any proof of the payment of the same, according to the conditions of the said several Obligations: And for that also the said I. W. hath not in any sort been damnified by the forbearing of the said sums of money, or any part thereof, and yet if he had, forsomuch as your said orator hath fully paid unto him fourscore & eight pounds more than he need to have paid, and that of his own liberality, there is now no reason why he should seek by rigour of law to take the forfeiture of the said several Obligations, albeit it were true that the same were not fully satisfied and discharged, in such sort as they ought to be: May it therefore please your good Lordship, to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious several writs of Subpena and Injunction to be directed to the said I. W. not only straightly charging and commanding him by the same at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be contained & limited, personally to appear before your good Lordship, in the Queen's Majesties most high Court of Chancery, then & there to answer to the premises, but also enjoining him by the same, his Counsellors, Attorneys, and Solicitors, to stay and surcease the said several suits, and no further to proceed in the same, until other order shall be therein taken by your good Lordship. And your said Orator shall pray for your good Lordship in honour long to endure. A Bill for the detaining of a lease for years, and taking the profits of the lands leased, and secret taking of a Cow distrained and impounded by the plaintiff out of the pound, and charging him with thee esloyning of the same Cow. HVmblie complaining, showeth to your good Lordship your daily Sect' 72. orator N. C. of H. in the county of D. Gentleman. That whereas one T. E. of H. aforesaid gentleman, was lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee, of, and in divers and sundry lands, tenements, hereditaments, with the appurtenances, set, lying, and being in H. aforesaid, And he so being thereof seized about the 20. day of May, in the 27. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, at H. aforesaid, for and in consideration of a certain sum of money to him by the said N. C. well and truly contented and paid, and by Indenture of lease, the certain date whereof your said orator knoweth not, for that he hath not the said Indenture, did demise, grant, set, and to farm let the same unto the said N. and his assigns, for and during the full end and term of two years then next following. By force whereof, your said orator was thereof lawfully possessed, until about the xvii. year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is, R. B. W. G. N. T. R. W. W. F. W. E. & K. his wife by casual means having obtained and gotten into their hands, or into the hands of some of them, the said Indentures, confederating themselves together of purpose, to wrong your said orator, & to expel & put him from his lawful & quiet possession of the premises, or the greatest part thereof, entered into one parcel of the premises called B. fields, being then sowed with Dates by your said Orator. and at the same time put in one Cow and Heifer, very maliciously to depasture and eat the grain & corn of your said Orator therein then growing, which said Cow & Heifer, was, and remained there depasturing, eating, and treading down the said grain and cor●e, until your said Orator came and distraived the said Cow and Heifer for damage there doing, and impounded the said Cow and Heifer in a pound ●uert, at H. aforesaid, as lawful was for him to do, shortly after which impounding of the said Cow and heifer, that is to say: upon the twelve day of Sept. the said R. W. W. F. W. E. and K. his wife repaired unto the dwelling house of your said Orator at H. aforesaid, and then and there required your said Orator to deliver the said Cow and Heifer forth of the said pound, affirming that they were sent thither to that intent and purpose by the said R. B. W. G. and N. T. which to do, your said Orator refused, as lawful was for him to do, because the said W. F. E. and K. his wife, nor any of them, did then and there tender unto your said Orator, any amends or satisfaction, for, or towards the said trespass: But so it is if it may please your good Lordship, that about a leaven or twelve of the clock in the night of the said twelve day of Sept. the said Cow and Heifer was conveyed forth of the said Pound, (the door or gate of the said pound being fast locked) by the said R. B. W. G. N. T. R. W. W. F. W. E. and K. his wife, or some of them, as your said Orator verily thinketh, and is persuaded in conscience, since which time, the said B. G. and T. have most falsely and unconscionably charged, and still charge your said Orator for the es●oyning and conveying away of the said Cow and Heifer, and have thereupon not only commenced suit against your said Orator at the common Law, but also by colour of having the said judenture, have made and contrived unto themselves, or some of them, or to some other persons to their, or some of their uses, sundry secret estates of the premises, and do yet most wrongfully detain, and withhold the possession of a great part of the premises from your said Orator, to his great hurt and impoverishment: And for as much as your said Orator hath not any ordinary remedy by the due course of the common laws of this realm, for the recovery of the said Indenture, for that he knoweth not the certain date or contents thereof, nor wherein the same is contained: And so there by not only very like to l●se his lawful and rightful possession, of, in, and to the premises, but also standeth in great danger to lose great damages for the supposed essoyning of the said Come and Heifer, unless it please God, as your said Orator hopeth it will, to move the hearts of the said ●. G. E. W. F. ●. and K. his wife, upon their answers and oaths in this honourable court, to discover and disclose the truth of their evil dealing, and disorder in breaking of the said pound, and taking forth if the said Cow and Heifer, conveying them ●o unknown places, of purpose to charge your said Orator therewith. And forasmuch, as they have denied, and refused, and yet do refuse and deny, either to permit or suffer your said Orator quietly to have and take the issues and probates of the said premises, or to deliver unto him the said Indenture of lease, although he hath oftentimes most gently and friendly required and desired them so to do: It may therefore please your good Lordship etc. As before is said in Sectio 61. The Answer of the same Bill. THE said defendants say, and either of them for himself severally Sect. 73. sayeth, that the said bill of complaint is very uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the Law to be answered unto by these defendants, or any of them for divers apparent faults and imperfections therein contained, and the same very frivolous, as these defendants think for sundry causes, and namely, for that, that it is thereby supposed, that they and others by reason of having the custody of the said supposed indenture, or lease pretended to be made by the said T. E. in the said bill named to the said complainant of the said Demesne lands of the Highlow aforesaid, for two years now ended, if any such were, have made, or contrived unto themselves, or to some other persons, and to their uses, sundry secret estates of the premises, where if any such estates had been made, they be already determined. And the said def. further say, that as they verily think by the scope of the said bill containing in itself much like matter set out with many words, and in effect no matter worthy to be examined in this honourable Court, the same bill is devised and exhibited into this honourable Court, of mere malice, and evil will, to the intent to molest and trouble these defendants, and others in the same bill named, being quiet poor men, dwelling almost seavenscore miles from the city of W. with long and tedious journeys to make their personal appearance in this honourable Court, to answer the said frivolous and untrue bill without any good or just cause so to do. Thadvantage of exception to the manifest incertainty, and insufficiency of which untrue bill of complaint to these defendants, and either of them saved, for answer thereunto, they and either of them for himself severally sayeth, that they think it to be true, that the said T. E. of H. in the said bill named, was lawfully seized in his demesne, as of ●ee, or fee tail, of, and in divers lands, ●enements, and heredit●ments, with thappurtenances, set, lying, and being in H. aforesaid, and that he being thereof so seized about two years now last passed, did demise, grant, set and to farm let, the same unto the complainant for two years, as it is in the said bill alleged, without that, that these defendants of purpose to expel the said complainant from his lawful possession of the premises, or the greatest part thereof, entered into the said parcel of the premises, being sown with oats by the said complainant, or at the same time put in one Cow, and one heifer, very maliciously to depasture and eat the grain and corn of the said complainant growing therein. Or that the said cow and heifer to these defendants knowledge, remained there depasturing, eating, or treading down the said grain and corn, until the said complainant came and distrained the said Cow and Heifer, for damage their doing, and impounded the said cow and heifer in a pound overt, at H. aforesaid to their knowledge, as in the said bill is very untruly alleged. And without that, that shortly after the said impounding of the said cow and heifer, that is to say, the eleventh day of S. the said R. W. W. F. W. E. and K. his wife, by the knowledge of the said defendants or either of them repaired unto the said dwelling house of the said complainant, at H. aforesaid, and then and there required the said complainant to deliver the said cow and heifer forth of the said pound, affirming that they were sent thither to that intent and purpose by these defendants, and the said N. T. in the said bill named, as in the said bill is untruly alleged. And without that, that to these defendants knowledge, there was any such cause, that any amends so should have been tendered unto the said complainant, for or towards the said supposed trespass. Or that about eleven or twelve of the Clock in the night of the said eleventh day of S. the said cow and heifer were conveyed forth of the said pound by these defendants, or either of them, or that these defendants or either of them, have unconscionably charged the said complainant for the estoining and conveying away of the said cow and heifer, or thereupon commenced any suit against the said complainant at the common law, as in the said Bill is very untruly alleged, for they these defendants verily think that there was never any such Cow and Heifer, so as is aforesaid, distreyned, and without that, that these defendants by colour of having of the said Indenture in the said bill mentioned, have made and conveyed unto themselves, or to any other person or persons to their uses, any secret estate of the premises, or any part thereof, or do wrongfully detain and withhold the possession of a great or any part of the premises, from the said complainant as in the said Bill of complaint it is likewise untruly alleged. And without that, that these defendants or either of them, have denied & refused, or yet do deny or refuse, either to permit or suffer the said complainant, quietly to have and take the issues and profits of the premises, or deliver unto him the said supposed Indenture or lease, as in the said Bill is untruly surmised, for these defendants say, that to their knowledge, they never saw, nor heard read any such Indenture or lease. And without that, that any other matter, thing or things etc. A Bill to be relieved for Obligations made for Simony. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your Honourable Sect' 74. Lordship, your daily Orator W. C. parson of T. in the county of Y. That whereas about five years now last passed, W. by the permission of God, now Bishop of L. and C. was lawfully seized of thadvowson of the vicarage of D. in the County of D. as of one in gross, by itself, as of see in right of his B. aforesaid, and unto the same vicarage being vacant, did present your said Orator his Clerk, who was afterwards admitted, instituted and inducted into the same accordingly, which vicarage afterwards by resignation into the hands of the said B. to present again to the same, as the very true patron thereof became void. And afterwards your said Orator became an humble suitor unto the said B. in the behalf of one R. W. Clerk, that it should please him to present the same R. W. to the said vicarage, which after long suit, it being first agreed between your said Orator, and one C. Q. with the knowledge and consent of the said B. that your said Orator in respect of the said presentation and admission of the said R. W. that there should a certain sum of money, amounting as your said Orator thinketh to the sum of thirty pounds, to be paid at certain days then between them agreed upon, for the payment thereof, and that for true payment of the said sum at the said days, your Orator should become bounden unto the said C. D. by several Obligations, whereupon afterwards, that is to say, the twentieth day of I. which was in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the Queen's most excellent Majesty, that now is, your said Orator for the only consideration aforesaid, and for the only benefit of the said R. W. aforesaid became bounden unto the said C. D. in four or five several obligations, videlicet, by some obligations in the sum of 20. pounds, or there about, for the payment of ten pounds, and in some other, in other sums for payment of five pounds, or there about, at the said days, and times, between them so as is aforesaid agreed upon, and thereupon the said R. W. for the said considerations was instituted, and inducted into the said Vicarage accordingly, which bonds were so made by your said Orator in hope, and upon the faithful promise of the said R. W. would have paid and discharged the said several sums of money at the said days, according to the several conditions of the said obligations, but now, so it is, that if it may please your Honourable Lordship, that the said R. W. though oftentimes by your said Orator required, hath not paid the said several sums of money, nor any of them unto the said C. D. according to the said several obligations, & according to the said agreement, and his said promise in that behalf made, as is aforesaid, by means whereof, the said obligations, or the most part of them been forfeited, and your Orator already thereupon impleaded in her majesties Court, called the King's Bench, and by reason of the said Obligations or some of them, very like speedily to be condemned thereupon, if by your L. gracious means, he be not speedily relieved, the which said practices are much against all right, equity, & good conscience, and to the great damage, loss, and hindrance of your said Orator. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as the said promise of R. W. and the said agreement for the payment of the said several sums of money, being matters of corruption, and unlawful simony, were so closely and secretly wrought & contrived amongst them, that your said Orator is not able to make any such due proof thereof, as the strict course of the common laws of the Realm, in this behalf requireth, and so your L. said Orator is utterly without remedy by the common laws to avoid the said bond, or to make proof of the said assumption, and promise of the said R. W. though the same be so well known unto the said Bishop, & the said C. O. his factor, procurator, for such contracts of simony, and also to the said R. W. that your Orator verily thinketh they will upon their answers hereunto in this honourable court, upon their corporal oaths, if they be not altogether blinded with extreme covetousness, confess the truth to be, as is abovesaid, It may therefore please your honourable Lordship to grant unto your said Orator, her majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed unto the said W. B. and unto the said C. O. and R. W. thereby commanding them and every of them, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited by your Lordship, to be, and personally to appear before your honourable Lordship, in her majesties most high court of Chancery, then & there to answer unto the premises, & to abide such further order and direction therein, as to your honourable Lordship shall seem to stand with right, equity, and good conscience, and also to grant unto your said Orator, her majesties most gracious writ of Injunction, to be directed unto the said C. O. thereby commanding and enjoining him, and all his Counsellors, Solicitors, and Atturneys, to stay his said suits and proceed, against your said Orator, at, and by the common laws, until the premises shall be heard and determined, or otherwise ordered in this honourable Court, and your said Orator shall daily pray unto Almighty God for the preservation of your honourable Lordship in good health long to continue. A Bill for Boarding. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your Lordship, your daily Se▪ 75. Orator F. W. of K. in the County of L. Gentleman, That whereas about four or five years since, one E. C. then the widow of B. C. and now wife to R. H. of N. in the County of L. Yeoman, very earnestly and instantly required of your said Orator not only for herself and her son to be tabled or boarded at the house of the said complainant, but also have house room for continual abode and lodging with him likewise, promising liberally and fully to recompense both the cost and trouble which your said Orator, or his household should sustain therein, upon hope of which promise and agreement, your said Orator did to the full request and satisfaction of the said E. table and lodge the said E. and her son being of the age of seven years, or thereabouts, during her widowhood, by the space of two years at the least, ended about the Annunciation of the Virgin Marie, in the twentieth year of the Queen's majesties Reign, about which time the said E. took to husband the said R. H. after which marriage, upon like promise and agreement which the said R. your said Orator did likewise board or table, and lodge in his house the said R. and E. her son, and a servant by the space of one whole year and a half ended about May day last past, during which time also the said R. put your said Orator to great charge and trouble, with divers horse as well kept in the houses of your said Orator, and at his cost, as also abroad in his closes and pastures, notwithstanding all which costs, troubles, and charges of your said Orator, Now so it is, if it may please your Lordship, that the said R. and E. being departed from the house of your said Orator, craftily, deceitfully, & unconcionably, refuse utterly and deny to give any recompense or consideration to your said Orator for their meat, drink, lodging, or other charges, contrary to all humanity, equity, and right. In tender consideration thereof, and for that your said Orator, is without all help, by the strict order and course at the common law, for that for the said tabling, lodging & charges, there was no certain time, nor no certain sum of money agreed upon, amongst the said parties, nor promised by the said R. and E. and that also the said agreement was between themselves only, without any witness, May it please your Lordship to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. and E. and your said Orator shall daily may for your good Lordship etc. A demurrer for double vexation. The demurrer of R. and W. defendants to the Bill of G. W. complainant. THE said defendant by protestation, not confessing or acknowledging Sect' 76. any thing in the said bill alleged, material against this defendant to charge him to be true, but rather devised and set forth, only of purpose to put this defendant to wrongful vexation, costs, charges, and expenses in the law, for that before this time, that is to say, about the term of Easter, in the five and twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Q. majesty, that now is, the said complainant unto this honourable Court of Chancery, exhibited against this defend. a Bill containing in effect, the same matter which is alleged in the bill now exhibited, differing only in form, but nothing in substance, saving by adding some five acres, as the number of four or five, as estimating one close in this bill at four acres in the former estimated but at two, or there about, and an other close in this bill now exhibited, at three acres, in the former estimated at two or thereabouts, and putting some acres to some other closes, the which before were set down without limitation or naming of any acres at all, being the selfsame closes and messsage in the former bill expressed, used and occupied by the same title and name, and the same number of acres, now put in more of purpose, to give the same complainant some colour to exhibit this bill, as though it were a new matter although in deed it be nothing so. To which former bill this defendant answered, and thereto the said complainant replied, and this defendant rejoined and so descended to Commission, wherein this defendant joined with the said complainant, and named Commissioners for himself, as the said complainant named others for himself, and this defendant then bare half the charges of the same Commission, as in such cases is used. And when the time came, that the same commission was to be sitten on, the said complainant foreslowed the same, neither gave any warning to this defendant, nor laboured his own commissioners, that this defendant ever heard of, to meet for the execution of the same, but suffered the same to stay by the space of five or six terms, or thereabouts, as this defendant remembreth: whereupon this defendant for his own expedition at his own costs and charges, procured a commission for examination of witnesses in that matter directed to the self same commissioners, that the former commission was, and gave notice thereof to the said complainants, and to one of his commissioners, who agreed to meet at the day and place appointed, where this defendant was present with his commissioners and witnesses, and one of the said complainants commissioners was in the town where the place was appointed the same day and time ready to have executed the said commission, if the said complainant would have spoken to him therefore, as this defendant was credibly informed, and the said complainant was there present at the same time and place, and did, or might have spoken with him that was named commissioner, for him who had a dwelling house in the same town, being the town of M. in the same County: and then and there the deponents, upon this defendants behalf were sworn and examined by and before these defendants than commissioners, and some of them sworn in the presence of the said complainant, And thereupon the depositions and examinations of the witnesses so sworn, were by these defendants, than commissioners, caused to be engrossed in parchment, and certified into this honourable court, and afterwards published, and after publication this defendant stayed without doing any thing therein by the space of two terms or thereabouts, during which time the said complainant, did or said nothing at all in the said court touching the said suit, that this defendant ever heard of. And then this def. caused the said depositions to be exemplefied under the great seal of Eng. to his great charges which he hath ready to show to this H. Court. And the said complainant being not contented with these causels vexations of this defendant: Anon after that this complainant had obtained the said commission, the said complainant for this defendants further vexation, commenced suit against this defendant in the ecclesiastical court of the Archb. of York, within whose diocese the same lands and tenements in N. in the bill mentioned be, & where the said father of this complainant and defendant died, upon surmised matters, touching the supposed will mentioned in the said bill, whereupon this defendant to his great charges appeared & answered as behoved for the time, by himself & his proctor as is there usual, suit the said complainant relinquished also as this defendant thinketh, for he hath heard nothing thereof these xii. months and more. And now the said complainant meaning nothing else but this defendants trouble & molestation, hath renewed the said suit in this H. Court again, which before he had in the same court by the said first bill, containing the same matters in effect & almost word for word as in the same bill is mentioned, whereunto this defendant hath already answered, as appeareth by the same answer remaining of record here in this court, and the same proceeded upon both as afore is said: wherefore this defendant for the causes aforesaid, and for the said double vexation in this honourable court by two bills containing in effect but one matter in substance, demurreth in law and prayeth that he this defendant may be dismissed out of this honourable court, with his reasonable costs and charges in this suit wrongfully sustained. A Bill for not surrendering a lease made by the Plaintiff to the defendant in trust, to try a title, and for occupying, and wasting the tenth demised and for detaining of writings of copyhold lands, contrary to their agreement. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your H. Lordship your daily Sect' 77. Orator I. K. of W. in the County of Y. yeoman, that whereas about 40. years now last passed, one W. M. yeoman, was lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee, of & in one mesuage, with thappurtenances in E. in the County of M. and of, & in divers lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, & hereditaments thereunto belonging, being freehold land in E aforesaid, & H. in the said conaty of N. and he being there of such estate so seized about the first year of the reign of the Q. Majesty that now is, by his last will and testament in writing made, & written in the life time of the said W. M. did give & bequeath the same to one E. then his wife, & now wife unto your said Orator, for the time of her natural life, the remainder thereof after her decease to one R. M. as by the said will appeareth, and afterward the said W. M. died of such his estate thereof, so as is foresaid seized, by force of which will and device, the said E. by and after his death, entered into the said mesuage or tenements, & was thereof lawfully seized in her demesne as of freehold, for the term of her life, the remainder thereof after her decease to the said R. M. in form aforesaid belonging: & also whereas the said W. M. was in his li●● also seized of or in certain copyhold, or customary lands, lying & being within the manor of S. in the said county of N. and holden of the said manor by copy of the court rolls of the same manor in his demesne, as of fee, according to the custom of the saidmanor, and he being thereof so seized died thereof so seized, by & after whose death, the said E. his wife was endoments, of the third part of the said copyhold or customary lands and tenements, and according to the custom of the said manor, admitted thereof tenant by the Steward of the Court of the said manor accordingly, by force whereof she likewise entered into the third part of the said customary tenements and premises, and was thereof likewise seized in her demesne as of freehold as tenant in dower thereof for the term of her life natural, according to the said oustome, and quietly and peaceably occupied and enjoyed the same until about ten years now last passed. Now that your said Orator through importunancy and earnest persuasions of some friends of the said I. T. and A. L. was contented in some manner to yield unto their suit, and thereupon, for the furtherance and trial of the title and interest of the said I. T. about the fourteenth day of I. in the 26. year of the Queen's majesties reign that now is, without any fine, income, or other consideration to him paid, but giving credit unto the speeches of the said I. T. and A. L. that they would seek nothing at the hands of him your said Orator, but only use the benefit of his present estate, for the resisting of certain unlawful suits, & attempts which were then offered (as they then affirmed) by the said R. and others, did by this your said Orators Indenture of lease, bearing date about the said time demise, grant, and to farm let, to the said I. T. and A. L. all the said freehold lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with the appurtenances in E. and H. aforesaid, to have and to hold the said tenements and premises, with the appurtenances to the said I. T. and A. L. their executors and assigns, from the feast of S. M. the Bishop in winter last passed, before the date of the said Indenture unto the full end and term of 21. years thence next following, and fully to be complete and ended, if the said E. did so long live, yielding and paying therefore yearly during the said term of 21. years unto your said Orator, his executors, administrators, and assigns, twenty shillings of lawful English money, at the feasts of Pentecost, and Saint Martin the Bishop in Winter by even portions, as by the same Indenture more at large appeareth: by virtue and pretence of which demise, the said I. T. and A. L. into all the said tenements and premises with the appurtenances about the same time entered, and were thereof possessed, and ever since their entry have quietly and peaceably occupied and enjoyed the said demised tenements, and premises, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof arising and coming have quietly, and peaceably taken and converted to their own only use, which rends, issues, and profits of the premises, ever since the making of the said leases, which is by the space of ten years now last passed, have been yearly worth four pounds at the least, over and above all charges and reprises. And in truth at the time of the making of the same lease, it was fully concluded, and agreed, by and between your said Orator the said I T. and the said A. L. and the said I. T. and A. L. in consideration of the making of the said lease to them by your said Orator in manner and form aforesaid, and for the causes aforesaid, promised, that the said lease, and their said estate thereby made, should be surrendered and yielded up unto your said Orator, when either the said suits were ended between the said R. and them, or either of them, or when they by virtue of the said lease had enjoyed the same demised tenements and premises by the space of one whole year, for then the same lease was so as is aforesaid, made only for the defence and trial of the said estate, right and title of the said I. T. and A. L. of, and in the same tenements and premises, and not to th'intent that they, or either of them should by reason of the same Indenture according to the purport and tenor thereof, for the term of one and twenty years have and enjoy the same, for so small a rent, which nevertheless they have done, and yet do so occupy and enjoy the same, contrary to their said faithful promise & agreement, as is aforesaid thereof made: and yet not contenting themselves with the said occupation of the said tenements, etc. do not only deny and refuse to yield unto your said Orator either the said yearly rent reserved upon the said lease, or any other consideration for the occupying of the same, and utterly deny to yield unto your said Orator any rent or consideration for the same, being so as aforesaid, behind by the space of ten years: but also do utterly deny to yield up unto your said Orator their said estate and term of years, yet to come, of, and in the said demised tenements and premises according to their faithful promises and agreement, so as is aforesaid made, and further since their said entry into the said tenements and premises, they the said I. T. and A. L. or the one of them have razed or defaced all or part of the houses, edifices, and buildings, which at the time of the making of the same lease were standing and being upon the said demised tenements and premises, and the thank, s●ate, timber, and stone thereof, have either given away or converted the same to their own uses, without the consent of your said Orator, to the intent that the same tenements might so be made unmeet for the habitation of your said Orator, and his said wife, whereby they might the rather enforce your said Orator for want of the said buildings to yield the same unto them, for little or nothing, by reason of the want of the said Indenture there being only one part thereof made together, which with such copies as concern the said copyhold lands, are in the hands and possession of the said I. T. and A. L. or of one of them, or of some other persons by the delivery of them, or of the one of them, the certain number, dates, contents, and other certainties whereof your said Orator knoweth not: and albeit that your said Orator hath divers times in gentle manner required them the said I. T. and A. L. to deliver unto your said Orator the said Indenture and copies, and to yield up and surrender unto your said Orator the said interest, of, and in the said demised tenements and premises, according to the said agreement and trust, yet they so to do, have ever hitherto refused and denied, and yet do deny and refuse to do the same, and to yield up and surrender the said estate of, and in the said premises, according to the trust in them reposed, and to repair and re-edify the said tenements and premises so by them razed, and pulled down, as is aforesaid, against all right, equity and good conscience, and against all good and honest dealing, and to the impoverishing, and utter undoing of your said Orator, and his said wife, if speedy remedy be not in due time by your Honourable Lordship provided for the repressing of their said unconscionable purposes and attempts in the premises. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as the said Indenture, conclusion, promises, and agreements, so is aforesaid, had and made, by, and between your said Orator & the said I. T. and A. L. concerning the premises, were secretly made and agreed upon, by and between themselves, and few mitnesses being privy thereunto or present with them at the time of the making thereof, which might testify the same, and those witnesses, (such as they were) be now either dead, or unto your said Orator utterly unknown, being at the same time mere strangers unto your said Orator, & then brought thither by them the said I. T. and A. L. as it seemed, of set purpose to cirumvent & deceive your said Orator, and his wife in the premises, your said Orator then referring especial trust and confidence to the said I. T. and A. L. as persons whom he took, and accounted to have been his very especial goods friends, and also very substantial honest men, is utterly without all remedy by the strict course of the common laws of this realm of England, to recover either the possession of the same tenements and premises of the said rents, they having his said Indenture of lease as is aforesaid, or to recover the said copies, It may therefore please your honourable Lordship the premises graciously considered to grant unto your said Orator, the Q. Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena out of her highness court of Chancery, to be directed to the said I. T. and A. L. and either of them thereby commanding them, and either of them at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, to be and personally to appear before your honourable Lordship, in the said court of C. Then and there to answer unto the premises, and to stand to, and abide to such further order & direction therein, as to your honourable Lordship shall be thought to stand with right, equity, and good conscience. And your said Orator shall daily pray unto God for the preservation of your honours prosperity and good health long to continue. A Bill by an Administator upon a promise made unto the intestate by the defendant, to pay unto him certain money in marriage of the defendants daughter with one of the intestates Sons. COmplaining, showeth unto your Honourable Lordship, G. Earl of Sect'. 78. S. administrator of the goods and chattels of the right honourable G. Earl of S. deceased his late father, that whereas about seven years now last passed, there was certain communication between the said G. Earl of S. in his life time, and one W. R. of K. in the County hf N. Esquire, of, for, and concerning a marriage than intended to be made between H. T. Esquire, one of the sons of the said late Earl, and E. the only daughter, and heir apparent of the said W. R. And thereupon it was fully concluded and agreed between the said late Earl, and the said W. R. and either party did mutually promise, and agree to and with the other, that the said H. T. and the said E. daughter of the said W. R. should marry together, according to the Ecclesiastical laws of this realm of England, at a certain day by the said parties for that purpose agreed upon & appointed. And for, and in consideration of the said marriage to be made, as is aforesaid, the said W. R, about the same time did assume, & to the said late Earl faithfully promise to pay and give unto the said late Earl 4000 l. of lawful English money, or there about, at certain days likewise in that behalf between them agreed upon, & now long sithence past, by reason of which agreement, promise, & assumption so made, as is aforesaid, the said H. T. did shortly after the said agreement, marry and take to his wife the said daughter of the said W. R. And thereupon the said W. R. did well & truly content and pay to the said late Earl the sum of 3000. l. parcel of the said sum of 4000 l. or there about. And shortly after & before he the said late Earl had received the residue of the said sum of 4000 l. he the said Earl died. Now so it is, if it may please your honourable Lordship, that the said W. R. not ignorant of the premises, and nothing regarding his said agreement & faithful promise and assumption, so as is aforesaid by him made, to, and with the said late Earl, but imagining and fraudulently intending, aswell the said late Earl in his life time, as your said orator, being administrator of the goods & chattels of the said late Earl, since his death in this behalf falsely & deceitfully to defraud and deceive him of the sum of a 1000 l. at the jest, parcel of the said sum of 4000 l. or there about by him agreed & promised to be paid to the said late E. as is aforesaid in consideration of the said marriage, although he the said W. R. hath oftentimes, aswell by the said late E. in his life time, as by the now E. since his death been curteusly required to have paid the said sum of 1000 l. according to his said agreement, promise, and assumption, yet that to do, hath he ever hitherto denied and refused, and yet doth deny & refuse to do the same, contrary to his said faithful promise & assumption, to the great loss & damage of the now E. and altogether against all right, equity, & good conscience: Notwithstanding that the said late Earl, in respect of the said marriage, hath conveyed and assured unto the said H. T. a good estate of inheritance, of divers manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments worth 3000. l. by the year, or there about, whereof the said R. his daughter is entitled to have dower by law: In consideration whereof, and forsomuch as by reason of the great trust & confidence which the said late Earl did repose & put in him the said W. R. the said agreement, promise, & assumption, so as aforesaid between them made, was so made secretly & privately between themselves only, without calling any other person or persons unto than to be witnesses thereof, which might testify the same agreement, promise, & other answer to the said untrue and insufficient bill of complaint: then they and either of them for the satisfaction of this honourable Court, in the truth of all the matters in the said bill most untruly objected by the said complainant against the said def. for further and full answer thereunto, and for plain declaration of the truth therein: They the said defendants and either of them say, that true it is indeed, that there was a certain speech or communication had between the said complainant and these said def. for such a bargain to be had and made between them in such sort, for the lease and payments, as they ●re by the said bill alleged, the which said communication was then set down in certain articles bearing date, in the said complainants bill alleged. And it was then also most material, for these said defendants further covenanted and agreed on the part of the said complainant, that that said communication should be by him the said complainant put in writing by deed indented, and according to law be executed by sealing & delivering thereof, as these said defendants than did, and yet do take it, & moreover that the said complainant and G. B. of E. in the County of D. Esq. should become bound jointly and severally unto the said def. for the true performance of all and every the said agreements, in the sum of 110. li. before the payment of the said sum of 40. li. in the said bill mentioned, being the first payment which they should have made, the which said communication as the said defendants did account it, was then set down in writing under the term of Articles of agreement, but yet never meant to conclude or bind the said bargain, until the same should have been engrossed, sealed, & delivered, & the said obligation entered at the said complainants costs and travel, as the said def. have ever taken it, & think the same will prove so in law because it was referred to further writings more effectual in the law to be accomplished by the said complainant, the which to do, he neither yet hath, neither as it seemeth meant to perform, but rather to gain the said defendants money, without any assurance thereof to be made unto them, for that he hath not caused the said articles to be engrossed, neither hath he & the said G. B. entered into bond to the said defendants, or either of them according to the said agreement, but wholly sought, if by any means he could, cunningly to possess himself of the said sum of 55. li. or of so much thereof, as he could without any assurance making, or entering into bond to the said defendants, as aforesaid, to the great impoverishment of the said defendants, if the said complainants intent had taken effect, for which causes they the said defendants think that the said complainant hath no just cause of complaint, neither are they the said defendants or either of them bound, as they take it, to perform the said payments in the said bill expressed, without that, that the said agreement was privately and secrettly made between the said complainant, and the said defendants as in the said bill is most untruly alleged, or that the said defendants ever meant any fraud, or guile, as likewise in the said bill is very slanderously pretended. And without that, that any other matter or thing in the said bill of complaint contained, material or effectual in the law to be answered unto, and in this their answer not sufficiently answered unto confessed and avoided, traversed or denied, is true, all which matters these defendants, and either of them are ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award, and pray, that they may be dismissed out of the said Court, with their reasonable costs and charges in that behalf wrongfully, and without cause sustained. The Replication of Io. S. complainant unto the joint and several answers and demurrers of I. M. and P. M. defendants. THE said complainant for replication saith, in all and every thing Sect'. 82. and things, as he in his said bill of complaint hath said, and doth, and will aver, justify and maintain his said bill of complaint, and all and every thing and things, clause, sentence, article, and allegation therein contained, to be good, just, and true, certain and sufficient in the law to be answered unto by the said defendant, and devised & exhibited into this honourable court, upon good and just cause of suit, as in, and by the said bill is most truly set down and disclosed. And not devised, imagined & set forth by this complainant against the said defendants upon malice or set purpose, to put these defendants to wrongful and very unjust vexation, costs, charges and suit in law, without any good ground or cause so to do, as in the said answer it is untruly alleged. But the said complainant saith, that the answers of the said defendants are very uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law to be replied unto for divers and manifest imperfections therein contained. Nevertheless, if by the order of this honourable Court, this complainant shall be compelled to make any further replication unto the said untrue, incertain, and insufficient answers of the said defendants, then, and not otherwise, the advantage of exception, to the manifest incertainty and insufficiency thereof to this complainant, at all and every time and times hereafter saved, for further replication thereunto saith, as in the said bill of complaint he hath said, without that, that at the said time of the making of the said agreement in the said bill and answer mentioned, it was further covenanted and agreed on the part of the said complainant, that the said communication should by the said complainant be put in writing by deed indented, and according to the law be executed by sealing and delivery thereof. Or that this complainant, and the said G. B. Esquire in the said answer named, should become bound jointly, and severally unto the said defendant for the true performance of all and every the said agreements in the sum of one hundred and forty pounds in the said bill mentioned, being the first payment which they should have made, as in the said answer it is very untruly alleged, with this, that this complainant doth & will aver, and prove that the said communication in the said bill and answer mentioned, set down under the term of articles of agreement was ever meant to conclude and bind the said bargain, the same not referred to any further ceremony of engrossing, sealing and delivery, or entering into the said obligation by the said complainant, or G. B. at the costs and travel of the foresaid complainant, & the said G. & this complainant also saith, that the same agreement was then fully and absolutely made, & not referred to any such further writing more effectual in the law, to be fully accomplished by the said comploinant, as in the said answer, it is coniecturally and untruly suggested, and without that, that this complainant, and the said G. B. or either of them have meant to gain the said defendants money, without any assurance made of the tenements in the said bill mentioned to the said defendants, or wholly sought by any means he could, cunningly to possess himself of the said sum of 50. l. or of so much thereof as he could, without any assurance making, or entering into bond to the said defendants, as aforesaid, to the great impoverishment of these defendants, if the complainants' intent had taken effect, as in the said answer is untruly surmised. For this complaint saith, that ever since the making of the said bargain and agreement, he and the said G. B. have, and yet are ready to perform and do, whatsoever they did then bargain and agree to do, by the same articles, as unto this honourable Court▪ shallbe truly and sufficiently proved, and this complainant also saith, that he hath just cause of complaint, and that the said defendants are bound to perform the said payments in the said bill of complaint mentioned, which he hopeth, they shall be compelled to do, by the order of this honourable Court. And without that, that any other matter, thing or things, clause sentence, article or allegation, in the s●●● answer contained, material, or effectual in the law, to be replied unto, by this complainant, and not herein in this his replication by this complainant sufficienlty replied unto, confessed and avoided, denied or traversed is true. All which matters, this complainant is ready to aver add prove as this honourable Court shall award, and prayeth as he in his said Bill of complaint hath prayed. A Bill for money lent without specialty and witnesses. To the Right Honourable Sir T. B. etc. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth unto your Honourable Sect. 83. Lordship, your daily Orator T. G. of Ashebourne, in the county of Derby Gentleman, that whereas your said Orator by way of priest, at the feast of P. in the xviii. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Glizabeth by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen defendresse of the faith, etc. did deliver unto E. C. of A. in the County of Y. yeoman, the sum of xx. pound of currant English money, to be paid unto him your said Orator, at or before feast of S. Bart. the Apostle than next ensuing: Now so it is, that although your said Orator hath many and sundry times required payment of the said xx. pound, yet notwithstanding, he the said E. the same xx. pound to your said orator hath not yet paid, to the great loss & hindrance of him your said Orator, And for because your said Orator hath not any specialty or witness to prove the delivery of the said xx. pound, he is therefore thereof without remedy by order and course of the common laws of this Realm, and is utterly like to lose the said sum, contrary to all equity, good conscience and true dealing, unless your honourable Lo. favour and lawful aid be herein showed. In tender consideration whereof, may it please your honourable Lo. the premises considered, etc. The Answer of the said Bill. THe said defendant saith, that the said Bill of complaint is very untrue, Sect' 84. and insufficient in the law to be answered unto, for divers apparent matters therein contained, and that the same is devised by the said complainant, and exhibited into this honourable court of mere malice and evil will, to th'intent to put this defendant to great charges and expenses, without any good matter, or just cause, or colour of cause so to do: And that if the said supposed matter were true, as indeed it is not, yet were the same determinable, at, and by the common laws of this Realm, and not in this honourable crurt, whereunto this defendant prayeth to be dismissed, with his reasonable costs and charges in this behalf wrongfully sustained, without that, that the said complainant by way of priest at the feast of Penticost, in the said three and twentieth year of the Queen's majesties Reign, or at any other time did deliver unto this defendant the said sum of twenty pounds to be paid unto him, at, or before the said feast of S. Bart. the Apostle as in the said Bill is supposed. And without that, that the said complainant many and sundry times required payment of the said twenty pound, as in the said Bill is likewise untruly supposed. And without that, that any other matter, thing, or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation in the said bill contained material or effectual in the law to be answered unto and not herein in this his answer sufficiently confessed, and avoided, denied, or traversed is true. All which matters, etc. A Bill of detaining bonds and bills paid, praying an Injunction to stay suit thereupon. To the Right Honourable Sir C. H. Knight of the noble order of the garter, and Lord Chaunctllor of England. Humbly showeth unto your good Lo. F. L. of S. in je dale, in the Sect' 85. County of D. Esquire. That whereas your said suppliant did long sithence in his father's life time, at divers several times (the certainty whereof your Lordships said Orator doth not now remember) upon some occasion, that he then had to use more money than he had then in store, did borrow and take to joane of one R. S. of S. in the said County of D. yeoman, divers sums of money, upon receipt whereof, your Lordships said suppliant did always deliver unto the said R. S. either sufficient Obligations of double the sum borrowed, or else his the said F. L. your Lo. said suppliants single bill obligatory, for repayment of all such sums of money as he then borrowed at such times as were then agreed upon between them. And amongst the rest, your Lo. said Orator did about twenty years since, as he now remembreth, borrow of the said R. S. the sum of xx. l. for the repayment whereof at a certain day therefore, then agreed upon between them, your Lo. said suppliant did then deliver unto the said R. S. his bill obligatory for his sufficient assurance thereof, the which said xx. l. like as also all the other sums of money so borrowed by your L. said suppliant, as is aforesaid, he the said. F. L. your L. said suppliant, hath most certainly now long sithence repaid unto the said R. S. at such time as hethe said R. was well therewith contented, as well in full discharge of the said bill obligatory of xx. l. as of all the other bonds and writings so entered by your Lo. said suppliant, as is aforesaid: And in respect, that he the said R. S. had not the said bill obligatory for the said xx. l. ready to be canceled and redelivered at the said repayment of the said xx. pound, he the said R. S. did then very faithfully promise unto him that made the said repayment, that he the said R. S. would assuredly cancel the said bill obligatory, whensoever the same should next come into his hands: But so it is, if it may please your good L. that the said R. S. hath lately put the said Bill for the said xx. pound in suit, as your Lordships said suppliant is credibly informed, meaning to be double paid for the said xx. pound, in the said bill mentioned, against all equity and good conscience: In consideration whereof, and for as much as your Lordships said Orator hath no remedy at the common law, either to recover the said bill obligatory for the said sum of xx. pound from the said R. S. or otherwise to plead in discharge thereof. And forasmuch as the said R. S. hath divers other the said obligations and writings yet remaining in his hands, which are likewise satisfied, and which he hath promised to deliver into your L. said suppliant at divers times now long sithence passed, the which to do he hath hitherto not fulfilled, and in very good sort by your Lordships said Orator, and his servants oftentimes required, for like recovery or discharge whereof your Lordships said suppliant standeth likewise destitute by the strict course of the common laws. It may therefore please your good L. to award aswell the Queen majesties most gracious writ of Injunction to be directed unto the said R. S. and all and every of his Counsellors, Attorneiss, Solicitors and Factors comcommaunding them, and every of them thereby at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be set down by your good Lordship no further to proceed in the suit upon the said xx. pound bill, until your Lordship shall have taken further direction therein, as also the Queen's Majesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. S. commanding him thereby, etc. A Bill to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam, touching a lease made in trust by the plaintiff to the defendants. To the right honourable Sir C. H. Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your honourable Sect' 86. Lordship, your suppliant and daily Orotor T. B. of B. in the county of Y. Esquire. That whereas your said Orator about six years now last passed, was, and yet is lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and upon one mesuage or tenement called B. and of divers lands and grounds thereunto belonging, or with the same commonly used or occupied, lying and being within the Lordship of M. in the county of Y. and he being thereof so seized, upon special trust and confidence which he then reposed in one W. G. of B. in the county of Y. and M. his wife, by his deed sufficient in the law, did demise, grant, and to farm let unto the said W. G. and M. his wife, when she the said M. was sole and unmarried, the said mesuage, tenements, and premises, To have and to hold the same unto the said W. and M. from the end and expiration of one lease then enduring, and now ended, which the said W. G. then had in the premises for the term of 21. years, thence next following, fully to be complete and ended: which said lease was not only meant and intended to be to the use of your said Orator, but also at the time of the making hereof it was so declared and expressed, aswell by your said Orator, as by the said W. and M. in the presence of divers witnesses, and not to the use of the said W. and M. as your Orator shall be able plainly to prove in this H. court, which notwithstanding by the sinister persuasion confederacy and procurement of one W. L. of E in the county of D. yeoman, they the said W. and M. do challenge, and claim the said lease to be to their own use & behoof, contrary to the foresaid trust so reposed by your said Orator in them the said W. G. and M. and contrary to the foresaid use thereupon expressed, at the time of the sealing and delivery of the foresaid lease by your said Orator unto them as is aforesaid. And for as much as the foresaid lease in writing is absolute without any use expressed, or declared, in the deed of the same, And also seeing such witnesses as your said Orator hath for the proof of the foresaid use declared (at the time of the sealing and delivery of the foresaid lease) are now very aged, and impotent, and not likely to live long, and do inhabit and dwell within the county of Y. and are not able to travel to the City of London, and if they should chance to die before they be examined concerning the prem●isses, than were your said Orator without all remedy, for proof of the foresaid use and trust so by him reposed in the said W. G. and M. his wife, (except by your good Lordship, it be granted unto him, that he may have a commission directed unto such persons, as to your Lordship shall be thought meet, inhabiting in the said county of Y. for the examining of the foresaid witnesses, in perpetuam rei memoriam, for the proof of the foresaid use and trust so reposed by your said Orator in the said W. G. and M.) May it therefore please your most honourable Lordship, the premises graciously considered, to grant to your said Orator etc. A Bill upon promise safely to deliver sheep to the Plaintiff by one whose executor the Defendant is, which testator and executor converted the said sheep to their own use, with an answer to the said Bill and replication thereunto▪ To the Queen's most excellent Majesty, in her highness court of Chancery. Memor. This direction is when there is neither Lord Chancellor, nor Lord Keeper. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your Majesty, your faithful Sect. 87. subject W. P. of H. in the county of L. gentlemam, that whereas about the month of April which was in the year of our L. God 1590. one H. S. was lawfully possessed of 62. score Ewes, and 6. score lambs, as of his own proper goods, & he being of them so possessed about the same time did fallen the same unto your majesties said subject, for the sum of fifty pounds of lawful English money, or thereabouts to him paid by your said subject: By force of which bargain your said subject was of the said sheep lawfully possessed, as of his own proper goods, and he being thereof so possessed, it was then agreed between your said subject, and the said H. S. and one G. C. of A. in the county of Y. husbandman, that the said H. S. should deliver the same sheep to the said G. C. to be safely kept by him to the use of your said subject, to be brought and delivered to your said subject, at your said subject his dwelling house in H. aforesaid in the said county of Lincoln. And thereupon the said G. C. in consideration thereof, and in consideration of forty shillings to him by the said subject to be paid at the delivery of the said sheep, in form aforesaid, did then assume upon himself, and to your said subject did faithfully promise, that if the said sheep were delivered unto him, according to the said agreement, that then be the said G. C. would well and safely keep the same, and bring & deliver them or cause the same to be brought and delivered unto your said subject, at his said house in H. aforesaid, within certain time after that he should so receive the same: which time is long sithence past. And your highness said subject further saith, that about the first day of May next ensuing the said agreement, and promise, all the said sheep were delivered unto the said G. C. at A. aforesaid, according to the said agreement. But so it is, if it may please your excellent Majesty, that the said G. C. in his life time, imagining, & fraudulently intending, your said subject in this behalf craftily & subtly to defraud and deceive, did not only, not deliver unto your said subject the said sheep, nor any of them, according to his said faithful promise, and assumption: but contrariwise did take and convert a great part of them to his own proper use, selling some of them to divers persons to your said subject unknown for divers sums of money converting the same to his own use, and killing sundry other of them in his house. And shortly after made his last Will and Testament in writing, and thereof constituted one R. C. his brother his Executor, and died possessed of the said residue of the sheep. After whose death the said R. C. proved the foresaid Testament, and also took upon him the burden and charge of the execution thereof, and by pretence of the said residue of the said six score & one Ewes, and sixscore & one lambs being about fourscore Ewes, and threescore Lambs, worth thirty pound and above, came to the hands and possession of the said R. C. who imagining, and fraudulently intending your said subject in this behalf, and subtlety of the said sheep to defraud and deceive, hath in like manner sold the most part of the said Ewes, and Lambs, so comen to his hands and possession, to divers persons to your said subject unknown, for divers sums of money between them agreed upon, and the money thereof arising hath converted to his only use and behoof: and albeit your said subject hath divers times comen unto him the said R. C since the death of the said G. C. gently requiring him either to deliver unto him your said subject such & so many of the said sheep, so as is aforesaid, comen into his hands and possession, or the very value thereof, which very value of such other sheep as the said G. C. had in his life time, so as is aforesaid converted to his own use, yet the said R. C. notwithstanding that after the death of the said G. C. the goods, and chattels, which were the said G. C. at the time of his death, sufficient both to discharge, pay, and perform, all the debts, and legacies of the said G. C. and to satisfy your majesties said subject, of and for such, and so many of the said sheep as came to the hands of the said G. C. and never came to the hands, custody or possession of him the said R. C. hath ever hitherto denied and refused, and yet doth deny and refuse to yield unto your said subject any satisfaction, or any recompense at all, either for the said sheep, so as is aforesaid, converted to the only use of the said G. C. in his life time, so as is said, either converted to the use of the aforesaid R. C. after the death of the said G. or by him the said R. still unjustly detained and holden from your said subject, which unjust dealing of him the said R. C. is to the grievous loss and damages of your said subject, and altogether against all right, equity, and good conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as the said promise of the said G. C. so as is aforesaid made for the delivery of the said sheep as is aforesaid, was so made in the presence and hearing of the said R. C. and of certain other witnesses, which be now all dead, but the said R. C. in so much as for want of such proof as is requisite in that behalf, he your said subject is without all remedy either to recover the said sheep, or any recompense for the same, either by the strict course of the common laws of this Realm, or in this honourable court, otherwise then by the parties own confession upon his oath in this honourable court, which your said subject verily doth imagine and think, that he will confess to be in such sort, as is here aforesaid. It may therefore please, etc. The answer of R. C. to the Bill next before. THe said defendant by protestation not acknowledging or confessing Sect. 88 the matters in the said bill of complaint, containe● to betrue, in such manner and form, as in the same they be set forth and alleged, saith, that the said bill of complaint is very untrue, incertain, and insufficient in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein surmised are enviously devised, and unconcionably contrived, imagined and set forth, only of purpose to vex and molest this defendant unjustly, and to put him to great, travel, expenses and charges of suit and that without any just cause, or good matter, as this defendant hopeth he shall prove unto this honourable court, nevertheless, the advantage of exception to the insufficiency, and uncertainty of the sat● bill of complaint, and all other advantages to this defendant, at all times hereafter saved, the said defendant for answer unto the said bill of complaint saith, that he doth not certainly know, neither is he as he thinketh, compelable to take notice, whether one H. S. in the bill named, being about the month of April, in the year of our Lord God 1590. lawfully possessed of six score and one Ewes, and six score and one Lambs, as of his own proper goods, did sell the same unto the said complainant for the sum of fifty pounds, as in the said bill is supposed, or whether the said complainant being lawfully possessed of the said sheep, as of his own proper goods by force of such bargain, there were any such agreement between the said complainant, and the said S. and one G. C. of A. in the County of Y. for the delivery of the said sheep to the said G. to be safely kept to the complainants use, and to be delivered to the complainant at his dwelling house in H. in the County of L. as in the said bill is suggested, this defendant as he thinketh is not bound now to take notice, being then a stranger thereunto, or whether the said G. C. upon the former part of the insufficient consideration grounded upon the premises, or for, in, or upon the latter, being a lame blank and imperfect, or rather no consideration, there naming nihil omnino to be by the said complainant paid unto the said G. C. did assume and faithfully promise unto the complainant safely to keep and deliver the said sheep, as in in the said bill is alleged, but this defendant saith, that if the assumption be grounded upon any good consideration, than the complainant might have his remedy at the common law, if he had any just cause. And therefore this defendant, as he thinketh, might very well demur in law upon the said bill, and demand judgement, if he shall be by this honourable court compellable to answer the complainant any further. Nevertheless, for as much as this defendant hopeth that the said complainant shall never be able to prove his subtle supposed suggestions in the said bill set forth, and alleged, For further answer unto the said bill, saith, that true it is, that the said G. C. in the said bill mentioned, made his last Will and Testament in writing, and thereof constituted this defendant his executor, and died, without that, that the said G. C. in his life time, imagining, and fraudulently intending the said complainant in that behalf craftily and subtly to defraud and deceive, did not only, not deliver unto the said complainant the said sheep, nor any of them according to his said faithful promise and assumption, but contrariwise did take & convert a great part of them to his own proper use, selling some of them to divers persons to the said complainant unknown, for divers sums of money, converting the same to his use, and killing sundry others of them in his house, and died possessed of the residue of the said sheep, as in the said Bill is untruly and uncharitably alleged against the said G. C. being now dead. For this defendant verily doth think, and imagine in his conscience, if such s●eepe were delivered to the said G. C. to be kept and delivered as is aforesaid, that then the said G. did in his life time well and truly deliver the aforesaid sheep accordingly: without that that after the death and departure of the foresaid G. C. the possession of the said residue of the said six score and one Ewes, and six score and one Lambs, being about the full number of four score Ewes, and three score Lambs worth thirty pound and above, came to the hands and possession of the said R. C. now defendant, who imagining, and fraudulently intending the said complainant in that behalf craftily and subtly of the said sheep to defraud, and deceive, hath in like manner sold most part of the said Ewes and Lambs so come to his hands and possession, to sundry persons to the said complainant unknown, for divers sums of money between them therefore agreed upon, and the money thereof arising, hath converted to his only use and behoof, as in the said bill of complaint is very falsely surmised, set forth, and alleged. And without that, that any other matter or thing in the said bill material, to be answered unto, and in this answer not sufficiently answered, confessed, and avoided, traversed, or denied, is true. All which matters, etc. and prayeth, etc. The Replication of W. P. Complainant to the answer of R. C. Defendant. THe said complainant for replication saith in all and every thing Sec' 89. and things, as he in the said bill of complaint hath said, and doth and will aver, justify, maintain, and prove his said bill of complaint, in all and every matter, thing and things therein contained to be good, just and true, certain, and sufficient in the law to be answered unto by the said defendant in such manner and form as they be in the same most truly set forth and declared, and not enviously devised, nor unconscionably contrived, imagined, and set forth, only of purpose to vex and molest this defendant unjustly. And to put him to great travel, expenses and charges of suit, and that without any just cause, or good matter as in the said answer, it is by the said defendant untruly surmised. And this complainant further saith, that the said answer of the said defendant is very incertain, untrue and insufficient in the law to be replied unto by this complainant, for divers apparent faults and imperfections therein contained. And namely in this, that the said complainant, being in, and by the said bill of complaint, charged to have had in his hands and possession, divers of the said sheep, in the said bill mentioned, doth in in his said answer neither confess nor deny the having thereof, as by the said answer it appeareth, so that in reason he ought to be compelled by the order of this honourable Court, to make a better and more certain and perfect answer unto the said bill of complaint, Nevertheless this defendant saving unto himself, at all times hereafter, all advantage of exceptions to the manifest incertainty and insufficiency of the said answer for further replication thereunto, Also further saith, that the said consideration in the said bill of complaint contained, is very sufficient to maintain the said suit in this honourable Court, Albeit that no other thing had been departed with, on the part of this complainant, but only the credit and delivery of the said sheep, unto the hands of the said G. C. and yet this complainant hopeth to prove, that there was given unto the said G. C. for and on the behalf of the said complainant, very good matter of consideration for keeping and conveying of the said sheep, as in the said bill is alleged. And further this repliant doth, & will also aver and prove, that divers of the said sheep since the death of the said G. C. have come to the hands and possession of the said complainant, which have been unlawfully converted to his own use, against all right, equity, and good conscience, without that, that any other matter, thing or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation in the said answer contained material or effectual in the law, to be replied unto by this complainant, and not herein before in this his replication sufficiently replied unto, confessed and avoided, denied or traversed is true. All which matters this complainant is ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award. And prayeth as he in his said bill hath prayed. A Bill for a debt upon a contract without witnesses. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your honour, your Sect. 90. poor and daily Orator T. B. of C. in the county of Derby Mercer, That were about two years now past, one T. G. of B. in the County of Y. gentleman, bought of your said Orator, xii. yards of linen cloth, price, xxii. s. and divers other wares and marchandices, amounting in the whole to the value of xx. marks or thereabout, for payment whereof the said T. G. earnestly required your said Orator to forbear him the said T. G. for the space of a month or there about, than next following, And for that the said T. G. did then faithfully assume and promise to pay the said debt, unto your said Orator at the said months end, your said Orator trusting to his bare promise, delivered unto the said T. G. the said cloth, wares and merchandises, without taking any specialty or other security for payment of the aforesaid money, Now so it is, if it may please your honourable L. that the said G. T. perceiving that your said Orator can by no order of the common laws of this Realm recover the said money for want of specialty or witnesses to prove the said assumption and contract, being very lately by your said Orator, requested to pay the said money according to his said promise, yet nevertheless the said T. G. hath plainly affirmed and answered, that your said Orator shall not have any penny thereof, which if it should so pass without relief to your Orator herein, would turn to the great impoverishment and damage of your said Orator, who hath over many such debtors. In consideration whereof the premises tenderly considered, and forasmuch as your said Orator is without all remedy for the recovery of the same by the strict order of the common laws of this Realm, for want of specialty or witness, as aforesaid. May it therefore please etc. The Answer, and demurrer of the same. THe said defendant saith, that the said bill of complaint is very uncertain, Sect. 91. untrue and insufficient in the law to be answered unto by this defendant, for divers apparent matters and causes therein contained, devised and exhibited into this honourable Court, as this def. verily thinketh by the sinister advise and persuasion of N. C. Attorney at the common law, of malice and evil will, to th'intent to put this defendant to unjust trouble and vexation, That he the said N. C. may thereby gain, by soliciting of this said matter in this honourable court, and not upon any just cause so to do. And further saith the said def. That if the said matters mentioned in the said bill of complaint were true, as they be not indeed, yet were the same determinable and to be determined, at, and by the common laws of this Realm, and not by this honourable Court, whereunto this defendant prayeth to be dismissed with his reasonable costs and charges wrongfully sustained hereabouts. Nevertheless if he this defendant be compelled by this honourable court to make any further answer unto the said incertainty, untrue and insufficient bill of complaint, Then (and not otherways) th'advantage of exception, to the manifest incertainty and insufficiency of the said bill of complaint to this defendant always saved. For further answer thereunto, and for a full and plain declaration of the truth touching the material contents of the said bill of complaint (if any such be) he this defendant saith. That true it is indeed, that about three years now last passed, This said defendant or some of his servants to his use, did receive of this complainant xii. yards of linen cloth, half an ell of cloth, one quarter and a half of cloth, and two scaines of thread which he thinketh to be parcel of the said wares in the said bill mentioned, and supposed to be bought by this defendant of the said complainant, which said wares were so received by this defendant or to his use, as is aforesaid, to th'intent that this defendant should pay to the said complainant, so much money for the same as should be reasonably agreed upon by this defendant, and the said complainant, which said bargain and agreement, this defendant is, and ever hitherto hath been ready to have performed, without that, that the said defendant about two years now last passed, did buy of the said complainant, the said twelve yards of linen cloth, at, and for the said price of xxii. s. or the said half elle of other cloth for the said price of two. s. viii. d. or the said quarter and a half of other cloth, and two scaines of thread for the said price of xviii. d. for he this defendant saith, that he and this complainant did never to his remembrance agree to any certain price for the said wares, as in the said bill of complaint is untruly alleged. And without that, that he this defendant did ever buy of this complainant, the said ten yards of beluet, or any part thereof, or any other wares or marchandices amounting in the whole to twenty marks, or for the payment thereof, ever required the said complainant to for be are him the said defendant, for the space of one month than next following, as in the said bill is wrongfully alleged. And without that, that he this defendant did faithfully assent and promise to pay the said debt unto the said complainant at the said months end, Or that the said complainant, trusting the bare promise of this defendant, delivered unto him this defendant, the said cloth, wares, velvet, and merchandise, as in the said bill is untruly alleged. And without that, that he this defendant perceiving that this complainant can by no order of the common laws of this Realm, recover any part of the said money, for want of specialty or witness to prone the said supposed assumption and contract, hath plainly affirmed, that he the said complainant shall not have one penny thereof in such manner and form, as in the say bill of complaint is most untruly and slanderously alleged, without that, that any other matter etc. thing, things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation, in the said bill of complaint contained, material or effectual in the law to be answered unto by this defendant and not &c. A Bill to be discharged of sundry bonds made by the Plaintiff to divers by the Defendants means upon promise that they should not prejudice them, laying open divers cunning and lewd practices to cirumvent the Plaintiff. Humbly complaining showeth unto your honourable L. your daily Sect. 92. Orator I. M. of M. in the County of Y. yeoman, that whereas about sixteen years now last passed, certain debts, controversies, suits, and variances did arise between one T. L. of E. in the County of Y. yeoman, and your said Orator, and certain other freeholders of the Lordship of Ecclesall aforesaid, concerning the enclosing, use, possession, and occupation of certain parcels of waist or common ground called R. in E. aforesaid, wherein your said Orator and other freeholders, and all those whose estate they then had, and yet have in certain lands in the said Lo. by all the time, whereof there is no memory of man to the contrary, have used to have common of pasture for their beasts and cattle, upon the said lands levant and couchantat all times of the year, at their wills and pleasures, as unto their tenements belonging, which parcels of waste ground one N. S. Esquire before that time, had demised unto the said T. L. for certain years then enduring, for pacifying and ending of which said suits and controversies, and of such suits and controversies, as were then between the said L. and S. touching the same and other things, your said Orator and T. D. and other of the freeholders aforesaid, and the said L. by the means and entreaty of the said N. S. about the said time did submit themselves to the order, arbitrement, and award of I. F. R. M. C. W. and E. H. touching the said controversies, & to the end that the said L. would be contented that the said suits between him & the said S. might rather by that means receive a quiet end, then by ertremitie of law, there being then great suits between the said N. S. and L. which the said L. would not otherwise compromit, your said orator & the said D. was bound unto the said L. in one obligation of C. l. & unto the said N. S. in one other obligation of C. l. for performance of the said award, the said N. S. then promising to your said Orator, that within short time after the making of the said bond unto him, he would have canceled or made void the said bond of C. pound, made by them unto the said N. S. the meaning of which bond your said Orator (being a simple unlearned man) thought to have reached no further, but to acts to have been done by himself against the said award, which he the rather so thought, because the said N. S. told him so, or to the effect, and they were only so agreed to have the condition thereof made before the making thereof. And the said L. was also bound in an C. l. unto your said Orator, and the said D for the performance of this part of the said award, And afterwards, viz. about the xi. year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty, that now is, the said arbitrators made an award of the premises, that the said L. should have enclosed the said grounds, during such term as he then had therein by the demise of the said N. S. by Indenture without veration of your said Orator the said T. D. and other freeholders of the said Lo. of E. by means of which award the said L. enjoyed the premises ever since the making thereof accordingly, without any vexation of the said D. or your said Orator, or any other the freeholders of E. aforesaid, until such time as the said L. caused the said premises to be purchased or taken by lease, as lands concealed, and unjustly withholden from her Majesty, and thereupon caused suits to be commenced against divers of the said freeholders by information in the Ex. of intrusion supposed to be done by them into the said premises, which suit so long continued, that a verdict and judgement therein were had for the said freeholders, whereby their title to the said common being then in issue, was specially found as by the records thereof remaining in the said court it plainly appeareth, whereupon some of the said freeholders (as this complainant thinketh) entered into the said premises being unfenced. And thereupon the said L. commenced suit upon the said bond of an C. l. against your said Orator and the said D. albeit they never interrupted his possession in the said premises, and the said D. and your said orator for their indemnity likewise prosecuted suit upon their bond of an C. l. because the said L. in his part had not performed the said award, by means whereof your said Orator, and the said D. obtained a verdict and judgement against the said L. for the said C. l. L. his said suit against them depending untried, whereupon the said L. seeing how unjustly he had dealt with the said D. and your said Orator about the premises perceiving in what jeopardy he stood, and how in equity he ought not to have recovered any thing against your said Orator and the said D. by his said bond, nor have had any relief for the said C. l. so by them recovered against him, he the said L. moved your said Orator and the said D. by sundry means to come to agreement with him for the said C. l. so recovered against him, whereupon the said D. and your said Orator, intending a general quietness for all bonds and matters concerning the said premises, at the great and importunate suit of the said L. and by the meditation of certain honest men their friends, upon the faithful promise of the said L. that he the said L. would warrant him your said Orator against the said N. S. for his said bond of an C. l. alleging that N. S. had no cause to sue the same, and that if he had, yet because the matter of the said bond principally concerned him the said L. (as it did indeed) that if your said Orator agreed with him for the premises, that then the said N. S. neither could nor would hurt him by reason of his said bond, the said judgement for the said C. l. was released unto the said L. by your said Orator having none other consideration therefore, than his said promise of quietness and discharge of the said N. S. his said bond. Nevertheless not long after the said agreement, the said L. perceiving himself to be discharged of the said judgement, and intending the utter undoing of your said Orator, contrary to his said promise, practised with the said N. S. touhing the said bond by him and the said D. made unto the said S. and procured the same to be put in suit against them in the Queen's majesties Bench. Albeit the said N. S. had never any loss by reason of any act done against the said bond to the value of one penny, since which suit the said N. S. and D. have secretly grown to agreement between themselves, to th'intent to lay the whole penalty of the said bond upon your said Orator, Notwithstanding the said faithful promise of the said N. S. to deliver in the said bond to be canceled, and the said L. his promise was to save your said Orator harmless against the said N. S. for the same. Albeit the said N. S. never had any loss or hindrance by reason of the premises, by means of your said Orator, neither was any thing attempted or done by the said freeholders against the said L. contrary to the said award, Otherwise then by the consent of the said N. S. who moved or procured the said freeholders to enter into bond one to another, to hear the charges of suits for the defence of their said title of common in the said several parcels of ground, called R. and T. promising them his aid and furtherance therein, unto some of which bonds the said N. S. hath subscribed his own name as a witness of the delivery thereof, which their hard dealings against your said Orator in the premises, are much against all right, equity, and conscience, and to the utter impoverishment and undoing of your said Orator, his poor wife and children, wherefore the premises graciously considered, and for as much aswell the said premises and agreements of the said N. S. with your said Orator, and the said D. and the said practice had between the said N. S. and the said L. to put the said bond in suit, as also the said agreement made by the said N. S. and the said D. for staying of his said suit against the said D. and also the said promise or agreement of the said L. to save your said Orator harmless against the said N. S. for the said bond was secretly made amongst themselves, & for that your said Orator trusted that they would faithfully have performed the same to your said Orator, called no witness to be present to hear the same promise made, and therefore is not able to produce any witness to testify the premises, nor hath any means to prove the same, other then by the answers of the said N. S. and T. L. who he verily thinketh will in their answers to the premises confess the same: May it therefore please your Lordship, of your accustomed goodness, to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said N. S. and T. L. and to either of them, thereby commanding them, etc. A Bill for practising with the plaintiffs wife, to receive of her the plaintiffs goods, and for receipt and detaining thereof. Humbly complaining showeth unto your good Lordship, your daily Sect. 93. Orator L. I. of S, in the County of N. Gentleman, That whereas about four or five years past, your Orator being possessed of divers goods, and divers sums of money, to a great value, to the end that C. C. of W. in the said County of N. M. his wife, and A their daughter, now the wife of I. P. of H. in the said County yeoman. might the better bring to pass, indirectly to gain and get into their, or some of their custodies and possession, all, or the most pact of the said money and goods, and by that means defraud or defeat your Orator thereof, by continual and sinister practice, instigation, and persuasion, then alured, provoked, and enticed A. I. deceased, being then your Orator's wife, to grow to some discord and variance with him, and to esloine and convey into their, or some of their keeping, all or the most part of the said money or goods, promising that the same should be ready, and used for her use and behoof: Now so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that by the said lewd and ●ad practices of the said C. M. and A. P. and of divers other persons by their means, whose names your Orator knoweth not, your Orators said wife about four or five years since, and at sundry times before, did with violence break open some part of your Orator's house at S. aforesaid, his chists therebeing locked and did essoin, steal, imbeasill, or convey away from your Orator, several sums of money, and divers parcels of his goods and household stuff, aswell in the night season as in the day time, to a very great value, the certainty whereof your Orator knoweth not, but is induced by good reason to believe, that it doth amount unto the sum of one hundred pound at the least, and delivered, or caused the same to be delivered unto the custody and possession of the said C. C. and M. his wife, or A. their daughter, or of some other person or persons, by their or some of their means or consents, whereof your Orator by some good means having had intelligence, hath sundry times used speech and communication with the said C. M. and A. P. touching the same, and in most gentle and friendly manner required to have the said money and goods so essoined and imbeasiled, as aforesaid, to be to him restored, or else to have some recompense for the same, but they have utterly refused to do either the one or the other, and do still refuse to do the same, and do convert and dispose the said money and goods to their own uses, whereby your Orator shall be utterly thereof defeated, to his great hindrance and impoverishment, contrary to all equity, & good conscience, unless by your Lordship's favour he may be relieved in this most honourable Court. Forasmuch therefore as your Orator knoweth not the names or number of the said confederates, nor the several & certain times wherein the said money and goods were conveyed away from him as aforesaid, nor the quantity, nature, or value of them, whereby to make any lawful demand, or to use any action by the strict course of the common laws of this Realm, against them the said C. M. and A. P. or any other their confederates, for these great injuries & wrongs, as aforesaid, but that the truth and certainty of all these matters do rest in the private and proper notice of the said C. C. and M. his wife, and A. their daughter, or of some one of them, who no doubt, upon their corporal Oaths will disclose and set down the truth and certainty of all these matters: May it therefore please your honourable Lordship, to grant unto your Orator, the Queen's majesties gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed, etc. The Answer to the same. HHe said defendants say, that the said bill of complaint against Sec' 94. them exhibited into this honourable Court is very incertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law, to be answered unto by the said defendants, or any of them, for divers and sundry apparent faults and imperfections therein contained and devised, and exhibited into this honourable Court, partly of malice and evil will, without just cause conceived against the said C. C. one of these defendants, to the intent thereby to vex and molest him, and his said wife and daughter, with unjust travel and expenses, but chief to the intent and purpose to weary, impoverish, and terrify him this defendant with such suits, so that he shall neither be able nor willing to prosecute the law against him the said complainant, for divers great sums of money which he oweth unto him the said C. C. this defendant, and unjustly detaineth from him, and not for any good or just cause of suit: Nevertheless, if by the order of this honourable Court, these defendants shall be enforced to make any further or other answer, to the said incertain, untrue, and insufficient Bill of complaint, then, and not otherwise, all advantage of exception, to the manifest incertainty and insufficiency of the said Bill of complaint, to these defendants, and every of them, at all and every time and times hereafter saved. For further answer thereunto and for a full and plain declaration of the truth of the premises, These defendants say, and every one of them saith, thst neither they, nor any of thence by continual & sinister practice, instigation, and persuasion, did not at any time allure, provoke, & entice A. I. deceased, than wife of the said complainant, to grow to some discord with the said complainant, & to essoin and convey into their, or any of their keeping, all or any of the said money and goods, in the said bill of complaint mentioned, promising that the same should be ready and used for her use & behoof, to the end that they these def. or any of them, might the better bring to pass indirectly to gain or get into their custody & possession, all, or the most part of the said money & goods, and by that means, to defeat and defraud the said complainants thereof, as in the said bill of complaint is very slanderously, & most untruly alleged: And these defendants further say, & every of them saith, that the said late wife of the said complainant did never with violence break open some part of the said complainants said house at S. in the said bill mentioned, nor his said chists there being locked, nor did essoin, imbeasill, or convey away from the said complainant, several, or any sum or sums of money, & divers, or any parcel of his goods, or household stuff, either in the night season, or in the day time, by the practice of these def. or of any of them, or of any other person or persons, by their or any of their means, as in the said bill of complaint is likewise very maliciously and untruly surmised, without that, that the said wife of the said complainant ever delivered, or cause to be delivered the said money and goods in the said bill of complaint mentioned, or any part thereof, unto the custody, and possession of these defendants, or of some of them, or of any other person or persons, by their, or some of their means or consents, as in the said bill of complaint is also untruly alleged: And without that, that ever there was any cause why the said complainant did, or should use any such speech and communication with these defendants, or any of them touching the premises, or require to have the said money and goods supposed to be essoined or embezzled, to be to him restored, or to have some recompense for the same, or that these defendants, or any of them do convert and dispose the said money and goods or any part thereof, to their or any of their own uses, whereby the said complainant shall be utterly thereof defeated, to his great hindrance and impoverishment, contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, as in the sasd bill of complaint is likewise untruly suggested: And without that, that any other matter, thing, or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation, in the said bill of complaint contained, material or effectual in the law to be answered unto, by these defendants, or any of them, and not here in this their answers sufficiently answered unto, confessed and avoided, denied or traversed, is true. All which matters, etc. The Replication to the Answer next before. THe said complainant, for, and by way of replication saith, that his Sect' 95. said bill of complaint, exhibited against these defendants into this most honourable Court, is very certain, true, and sufficient in the law to be answered unto, and not devised and exhibited into his most honourable Court of malice and evil will, without cause conceived against the said C. C. one of the said defendants, to th'intent thereby to vex and molest him his said wife and daughter with unjust travel and expenses, as in the said answers is untruly alleged, Nor chief to th'intent and purpose so to weary and impoverish and terrify the said C. C. with such suits, that he should neither be able nor willing to prosecute the law against the said complainant, for di●ers great sums of money, which he doth owe unto him the said C. C. and unjustly detained from him, but is exhibited upon just cause of suit, as the said complainant doubteth not to make manifest and prove unto this honourable court, with that, that the said def. or some one of them, by sinister, practice, instigation, and persuasion, did allure, provoke, & entice the said complainants wife to grow to some discord with the said complainant, & to essoin and convey into their, or some, or one of their keep the said money & goods, in the said bill of complaint mentioned, promising that the same should be ready, & used for her use and behoof, to the end that they might the better bring to pass, indirectly to gain or get into their, or some, or one of their custody & possession the said money & goods, & by that means to defeat & defraud the said complainants thereof, as in the said bill of complaint is very truly alleged. And also with that, that the said complainants wife, did with violence break open some part of the said complainants house at S. in the said bill mentioned, & his said chest there being locked did essoin, steal, imbeasil, & convey away from the said complainant, several sums of money, & divers parcels of his goods & household stuff in the night season, & in the day time, by the practice of the said def. or some, or one of them, or of some other person or persons, by their, or some, or one of their means, as in the said bill of complaint is likewise very truly declared: And with that, that the said complainants wife did deliver, or cause to be delivered the said money & goods, in the said bill of complaint mentioned, unto the custody and possession of the said def. or of some, or one of them, or of some other person or persons, by their, or some, or one of their means or consent, as likewise in the said bill of complaint is most truly alleged: And without that, that there was cause why the said complainant should use speech & communication with the said defendants, or some, or one of them touching the premises, & require to have the said money & goods essoined & imbeasiled to be to him restored, or to have some recompense for the same: And that the said defendants, or some, or one of them do convert and dispose the said money and goods, to their, or some, or one of their uses, whereby the said complainant shall be utterly defeated thereof, to his great hindrance, as in the said Bill of complaint is likewise most truly alleged: without that, that any other matter, cause, or thing, material or effectual in the said answers contained, to be by the said complainant replied unto, and herein not sufficiently replied unto, confessed and avoided, etc. A Bill far that the Defendant hath got the Plaintiffs bill for payment of money by them into their hands, and thereby mean to defraud him of the same. Humbly complaining showeth unto your good Lordship, your daily Sect' 96. Orator N. T. of T. in the County of D. yeoman. That whereas about two years now last passed, your said Orator did sell unto one I. M. G. W. P. T. alias S. and R. H. four oxen, and three kine, for 14. pound of lawful English money, And at the same time made unto your said Orator a Bill of their hands for the payment thereof, at the feast of S. Michael th'archangel last passed: But now so it is, if it may please your L. that the said bill of 14. pound is by casual means come unto the hands and possession of the said I. M. G. W. P. T. alias S. and R. H. or of some of them, who have canceled and defaced the same bill, And therefore, albeit they have been divers times gently required by your said Orator, to pay unto him the said 14. pound so to him due, yet that to do, they and every of them have hitherto denied and refused, and yet do deny and refuse to do the same, against all right, equity, and good conscience. In due consideration whereof, and for that your said Orator hath no remedy to recover the said 14. pound without the said bill, by the common laws of this Realm: May it therefore please your good Lordship, etc. A Bill for wrongful entering into Copyhold lands entailed, detaining of them, and of the writings of the same, for wasting the same, and concontriving secret estates thereof. IN most humble wise showeth unto your good L. your daily Orator Sect. 97. A. G. of D. in the County of D. That whereas one T. G. father unto your said Orator, was in his life time lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee tail, to him and to his heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, of, and in one mesuage or tenement with thappurtenances, situate, lying, and being in W. in the said County of D. And was likewise seized to him, and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, of, and in four cottages, three closes or pastures, and eight acres of arable land with their appurtenacces, lying and being in W. aforesaid, being customary lands, and holden of the Q. majesty, as of her highness manor of W. aforesaid, at the will of the Lord, according to the custom of the said manor: And the said T. G. being of all and singular the premises, with their and every of their appurtenances so seized, as aforesaid, of such estate, died thereof seized, By and after whose death, all and singular the premises with their appurtenances, did descend unto H. G. as son and next heir male of the body of the said T. by force and virtue whereof, the said H. entered into all and singular the said premises with their appurtenances, and was thereof lawfully seized to him, & the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten. And he so being thereof seized, of such an estate died seized: By & after whose death, all and singular the said premises with their appurtenances, did descend and come to T. G. as son & next heir male of the body of the said H. by force whereof, he the said T. entered into all & singular the said premises, & was thereof lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee tail, to him and the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten. And he the said C. so being thereof seized, of such an estate died seized, without any issue male of his body, By & after whose death, all and singular the said premises with their appurtenances, did descend and come unto your said Orator, as brother & next heir male of the said T. G. But now, so it is, if it may please your good L. that aswell the said deed of entail, & all other the deeds evidences, escripts, writings, & muniments, manifesting, for feiting, defending, & proving the estate, right, interest, & title of your said orator, of in, & to the said premises, are by some casual or sinister means comen into the hands, custody or possession of one R. W. & E. his wife T. C. & A. his wife I. D. & I. W. or some of them, who by colour thereof have entered into the said premises, & received, perceived, & taken the issues, profits, & commodities thereof, & converted the same to their own proper uses & behoofes, without yielding any consideration or recompense to your said orator for the same. And yet not so contented, but they the said R. E. T. A. I. & I. by colour of having the said deeds, evidences, escripts, writings, & myniments have not only made great streppe, & waste of the premises, but also contrived & made to themselves, & to other persons unknown to your said orator, divers & sundry secret estates & conveyances of the premises to the plain disinherison of your said orator, contrary to all right, equity, & good conscience. And although your said Orator hath divers & sundry times by himself & his friends, requested the said R. W. & E. his wife. T. C. & A. his wife, I. D. & I. W. and every of them to yield up the quiet possession of the premises, & to deliver unto your said Orator the said deeds, evidences, escripts, writings, & muniments, yet they & every of them, so to do, have utterly refused & denied, and still do deny and refuse, contrary to all right, equity, & good conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Oratr knoweth not the contents nor certain dates of the said deeds, evidences, escripts, writings, and myniments, nor weather they be contained in bag or box sealed, in chest, or cupboard locked. And therefore is at, and by the strict course of the common law of this Realm remediless for the recovery of the same. May it therefore, etc. A Bill for detaining of an Indenture of lease for years. Humbly complaining showeth unto your honourable L. your daily Sect. 98. Orator I. B. of N. in the parish of A. in the County of Y. Esquire. And T. B. son and heir apparent of the said I. That whereas your said Orator the second day of july, in the eight year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, did demise and to farm let unto one R. M. of B. in the said County ye●man, all his moiety, or one half of his messsage or tenement called D. with all the lands, meadows, closes, pastures, & commons unto the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, from the feast of Saint M. the Bishop last passed, before the date abovesaid, unto the full end and term of 18. years then next ensuing, fully to be complete & ended. By virtue of which demise aforesaid, R. M. into the mesuage or tenement aforesaid, did enter as was lawful for him to do. And now since the making of the lease aforesaid, the said R. M. did often repair & come to the house of the said I. B. & by that means in short time became very familiar with the said I. insomuch that he the said I. being aged, & by reason thereof also lieth bedriden, & hath done for the space of many years, And finding the said M. to be very diligent and careful about him the said I. for the recovery of his health, did so affect the said M. as that he did wholly commit the custody & keeping of all his evidences, leases, bonds, & bills, amongst which the counterpane of the said M. his lease was. And unless the said M. together with some of your said Orators servants have secretly conveyed & taken it away, as your said Orator doth vehemently suspect, in that he wanteth the same lease: by reason whereof he neither knoweth what conditions are contained in the same, neither what penalty, if the rent be behind, or whether there be any distress for not payment of the rent, or else whether the lease be utterly void, if the rent be not paid at a day certain & what other covenants it containeth for prohibiting of waste to be done, as also for the repairing of the messsage or tenement aforesaid with needful reparations, with divers other covenants to many good purposes specified in the same lease. Add for that also that the said counterpain is by some such indirect means as before is alleged come unto the hands of the said M. as also for that your orator through want thereof by the strict course of the common laws of this land cannot duly punish the breach of all, or any the covenants therein expressed, which on the said M. his part ought to have been performed and kept, for want of the said counterpane. May it therefore please your good Lordship, etc. A Bill for money for boarding with one, whose Executor the Plaintiff is. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your honourable Lordship your Sect'. 99 daily Orator D. C. of B. in the County of D. yeoman, executor of the last Will and Testament of D. C. his father. That whereas about the first day of june, which was in the 18. year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lady the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is, one W. S. of M. in the said County yeoman, at B. aforesaid, did put himself and A. then his wife to board with the said D. C. the Testator, and there to remain so long with the said Tesator as it should please both the said parties, and the said W. S. in consideration there of, there faithfully agreed to pay, and satisfy for the same, unto the said D. C. the Testator or his executors, during such time as he and his said wife should remain at board with the said Testator, so much lawful English money, as the said boarding should be reasonably worth, and at such time as he should be thereunto required. By virtue of which putting to board, agreement, and faithful promise, the said W. and A. his wife, were at board with the said Testator by the space of three whole years, or thereabouts, during all which time the said Testator at his own costs and charges did find unto the said W. and A. convenient, and necessacie meat, drink, and lodging, and at sundry times Hay, and Grass for the Horses of the said W. which boarding, Hay, and Grass, by the said space of three years aforesaid, was reasonably worth forty pounds at least. Yet the said W. not ignorant of the premises, nor regarding his said faithful agreement and promise, but imagining, and fraudulently intending the said D. C. the Testator, and your said Orator his executor in this behalf, craftily and deceitfully to deceive and defraud: albeit he hath been oftentimes thereunto gently required by the said Testator in his life time, and by your said Orator, his executor, after his death, hath not paid or satisfied any thing unto the said Testator in his life time, nor unto your foresaid Orator after his decease for the same boarding, meat, drink, & lodging during the foresaid time, that he and his said wife so remained at board with the said Testator, according to his said faithful promise, and agreement, but hath ever hitherto, denied and refused therefore to satisfy and pay the said Testator in his life time, and your said Orator after his death, and yet doth deny and refuse to pay and satisfy your said Orator for the same, against all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the hindrance of the execution of the said last Will and Testament of the said Testator. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as your said Orator hath none ordinary remedy to recover any thing for the said boarding, and premises by the strict course of the common laws of this our Realm of England, as well for that it was not certainly agreed upon between the said W. and the said Testator, how much the said W. should yield for the same: as also for that the said Testator did so much credit the said W. that the said promise and agreement was privately made between themselves, no person being thereunto called that might witness the same, so that if happily the said W. will not upon his oath in his answer hereunto in this honourable Court, confess the said promise and agreement, as your said Orator is verily thinketh he will, your said Orator is utterly destitute of witnesses to make proof thereof. Albeit that it be most true, that the said agreement and promise, was made and agreed upon, as is aforesaid, which your said Orator hath sundry times heard the said Testator say and declare: May it please your good Lordship, to grant unto your said Orator, etc. A Bill for not entering into bond to save a surety harmless according to promise. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your Honour, your daily Orator R. P. of W. in the County of S. yeoman, That whereas Sect. 100 as one F. L. of S. in the said County of S. yeoman, did borrow of one A. B. of S. in the said County of S. Gentleman, the sum of seventeeve pounds and twelve shillings, of good and lawful money of England, to, and for the only use of him the said F. L. and of one R. L. of B. in the said County of S. yeoman, kinsman to the foresaid F. L. and for the true discharging and payment of the foresaid sum of seventeen pounds, and twelve shillings, because the said R. L. was a man esteemed to be of very small credit, and altogether unknown unto the said A. B. therefore the foresaid R. L. earnestly requested, and desired of your said Orator, being his near neighbour, and of very long acquaintance & familiarity with him to enter into bond with him the said F. L. to the said A. B. for the true payment, and satisfaction of the foresaid sum of seventeen pounds, and 12. S. and if in case your said Orator would enter into bond for him, than he the said R. L. did faithfully promise, and affirm unto your said Orator to enter into a counter bond of double value to his bo●●● unto your said Orator, to discharge, and save him harmless against the said A. B. his executors and administrators, of, and from all manner of actions, suits, arrestes, quarrels, troubles, molestations, and encumbrances whatsoever, which should or might arise by reason or means of the said obligation: whereupon your foresaid Orator (considering the great want and need that the foresaid R. L. did at that time stand in) trusting to his fair speeches and promises, after long entreaty and request to him made your said Orator did consent and agree to become bounden with the said F. L. to the foresaid A. B. for the payment of the said sum of seventy pounds twelve shillings, so that your said Orator might have such a counterbond from the said R. L. to discharge & save him harmless against the said A. B. for and concerning the said bond, after which time, that is to say, the 25. day of March, in the xxix. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, The said F. L. and your said Orator by their writing obligatory, did bind the said A. B. in the summr of xl. pound, of good and lawful money of England, upon this condition endorsed upon the said writing obligatory, viz. that if the said F. L. and the said R. P. your said Orator, or either of them, their heirs, executors, administrators, of them, or any of them did well and truly content and pay unto the said A. B. his executors and administrators, the said sum of xvii. l. xii. s. of good and lawful money of England, at, or upon the xxv. day of March, in the year of our Lord God, one thousand five hundred eighty and eight, in the Church porch of S. between the hours of one and three of the clock in the after noon of the same day, that then the said writing obligatory to be void and of no effect, or else to stand in full force and virtue: But so it is right honourable, that the said sum of xvii. l. xii. s. was not paid unto the said. A. B. at the time and place mentioned in the said condition, whereby the said bond of xl. pound, wherein the said F. L. and your said Orator were bounden to the said A. B. was, and yet continueth forfeited, the said A. B. being not paid nor agreed withal, by reason whereof, your H. said orator is like to grow to great trouble and suit of law for the said bond: And albeit your honours said Orator hath divers and sundry times since the making of the said bond, promise, and assumption, most earnestly requested the said R. L. to make unto your honours said Orator a counterbond, for the discharging and saving harmless of your said Orator, against the said A. B. for, and concerning the said bond, according to his said assumption and promise, yet that so to do, the said R. L. hath denied and refused ever hitherto, and yet doth deny and refuse to do the same, contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience: In tender consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Orator hath no sufficient witness and words of assumption to maintain an action upon this case at the common law, meaning nothing but plainly, whereby he is void of all remedy at the common law: May it therefore please your honour, the premises considered, to grant unto your said Orator, the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said R. L. etc. A Bill for making false Affidavit for appearance. IN most humble wise showeth unto your good Lordship, your Lo. Orator Sect' 101. M. F. of L. Gentleman. That whereas upon suit heretofore and yet depending in this honourable Court, between your Lo. said Orator then plaintiff, and one R. A. defendant in the said suit, her majesties writ of Subpena was out of this said Court unto the said R. A. directed, commanding him thereby at a certain day therein limited, to appear before your Lo. in the said Court, and to answer to your L. said Orator, in, and touching the said suit: Now so it is, and it may please your good Lordship, that the said R. A. not having any regard of her majesties said process of Subpena, so to him directed, but seeking deceitfully and fraudulently to neglect and disobey the same, procured one E. B. his servant, a very lewd person and fit minister for such a purpose, to come unto this honourable Court of Chancery, and there most corruptly, falsely, and perjuriously, to swear and depose upon the holy Evangelist, that the said R. A. at that time was lame and not able to travel to this Court, without great danger a● his health, for that the pains of his lameness was such, that he was persuaded by his friends to go to the Bath, being thirty miles distant from his dwelling house, or thereabouts, and that he was gone to the said place with much a do, and there remained at the taking of his said Oath, wherein the said E. B. by the means, subornation, and procurement of the said R. A. hath most wickedly committed most wilful and corrupt perjury, Forasmuch as the said R. A. was at that time in very good and perfect health, ability, and soundness of body, without any manner of lameness or debility, so as he might have very well traveled without hurt or danger of his health, and was at that time at C. in the County of L. and not at Bath, as the said E. B. in his said deposition most untruly deposed. May it therefore please your good Lordship, etc. A Bill to be relieved of an Obligation with condition for that the money was paid accordingly. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your good Lordship, Sect. 102. your daily Orator N. K. of F. in the Councie of D. husbandman, and I. B of A. in the same County husbandman. That where one N. B. of F. in the County of S. Gentleman, having need to use and borrow money for his necessary use, entreated your said Orator to borrow of one M. E. of A. in the said County of D. widow, the sum of xx. l. which your said Orator did according to the request of the said N. And for the repayment thereof to the said M. your said Orator became bound to her the said M. by obligation, in the sum of forty pounds with condition, for the payment of the said twenty pound at a day now past, which twenty pounds he the said N. hath well and truly contented, satisfied, and paid to the said M. according to the condition aforesaid: Which notwithstanding, so it is if it may please your good Lordship, yet doth the said M. against all good dealing detain the said obligation in her hands, notwithstanding sundry requests made unto her by your said Orator, for the delivery thereof, against all right, equity, and good conscience, minding as it should seem to put the same in suit, either against your Orator or his executors when opportunity serveth. In tender consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your said Orator hath not any ordinary remedy by the course of the common law, to compel the said M. to deliver the said bond, or to cancel the same according as in right she ought to do. May it please your good Lordship to grant, etc. A Bill for that the Plainiife hath not according to promise, procured an acquittance for rents by him paid to the Defendant by the appointment of his lessor. Humbly complaining showeth unto your honourable Lordship, your Sec' 103. daily Orator I. M. of M. in the County of York yeoman. That whereas about the first year of the Reign of the late King Edward the sixth, one I. M. late father of your said Orator was lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee, of, and in certain lands and tenements with the appurtenances in S. and within the parish of S. in the said County, and being thereof so seized, died thereof so seized. By and after whose death the said tenements and premises with the appurtenances descended and came as of right they ought to descend and come to your said Orator as son and next heir of him the said I. M. after whose death your san● Orator entered into the said tenements and premises with the appurtenances, and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee, and being thereof so seized, one mesuage or tenement, one garden, one orchard, one close or croft, thereunto adjoining, divers, lands, meadows and pastures, parcel of the premises, were assigned to A. M. late wife of the said I. M. deceased for her dower of the said lands of her said husband, by force whereof she was thereof seized in her demesne, as of freehold, and she being thereof so seized, afterwards, that is to say, about the sixth day of june, in the fourth and fifth year of the Reign of King Philip and Queen Marie, by Indenture dated the day and year abovesaid, granted and to farm did let unto your said Orator the said lands, tenements, and premises, to hold from the date of the said Indenture, unto the end and term of three score years, if she should so long live, reserving thereupon to her yearly during the said term of three score years, if she so long live, three pounds of lawful English money, which yearly rent of three pounds your said Orator did well and faithfully pay unto the said A. and her assigns until about the tenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, at which time the said A. did grant and assign thirty shillings, yearly, parcel of the said yearly rent of three pounds during her life, to one R. M. of E. in the county of D. Cutler. And afterwards, that is to say, about the twentieth year of her Majesties said Reign, the said A. for sundry considrations did appoint the said R. to receive the other thirty shillings yearly, residue of the said yearly rend of three pounds to his own use. And your said Orator ever since the said grant and appointment hath yearly paid unto the said R. as well the said thirty shillings rend, so to him granted by the said A. as the said other thirty shillings rend, residue of the said three pound rend. In tender consideration whereof the said R. M. about the first day of june last passed faithfully promised your said Orator to procure and deliver unto him sufficient acquitances of the said A. for all the said rents which the said R. had so, as is aforesaid, received of your said Orator by the appointment of the said A. And whereas further (if it may please your good Lordship) about the eighteenth day of April, in the xxvii year of the reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is, the said R. M. being indebted to one W. S. of S. in the said County Smith, in the sum of fifty and three shillings and four pence, of English money, did entreat your said Orator to be surety for him to the said W. S. for the payment of the said sum of fifty three shillings four pence to the said W. S. at the feast of Saint Bart. the Apostle than next ensuing, which your said Orator did accordingly, in consideration thereof, the said R. M. did then assume upon himself, and unto your said Orator faithfully promise that if he the said R. M. did not well and truly pay unto the said W. S. the said fifty three shillings four pence at the said feast of Saint Bart. That then he the said R. M. would sufficiently convey and assure to your said Orator, the said yearly rent of thirty shillings, to him as aforesaid, granted by the said A. together with the said deed thereof, & afterwards the said R. M. did neither pay to the said W. S. the said sum of fifty three shillings four pence, nor any part thereof, at the said feast of Saint Barth. nor at any time since, nor did convey the said yearly rent of thirty shillings, or deed thereof to your said Orator according to his said promise. But altogether contrary to his own promise hath procured the said A. to sue your Orator before the Queen's Majesty, and her honourable Counsel, established in the North parts, for xxv. l. x. s. as arrearages of the said yearly rent of three pounds, supposing the same to be behind and unpaid by the space of eight years and a half, now last past, notwithstanding that you said Orator hath well and truly paid the same to the said R. M. aforesaid. And the said R. M. although he hath been often times gently required by your said Orator aswell to procure him the said acquittance of the said A. for the said rend of three pounds, as to make assurance of the said yearly rent of thirty. shillings, to him by the said A. granted, yet that to do, he hath ever hither to denied, and refused, and yet doth deny to do the same, against all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the great hindrance and loss of your said Orator. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as the said agreements, promises, and payments of the said rents were privately made between your said Orator, and the said R. M. without any witnesses thereof, for that your said Orator reposed so great trust in the said R. M. being his natural brother, that he called no man to bear witness thereof, so that he can have none ordinary means by the due course of the common laws of this Realm, but is altogether remediless to obtain or recover any recompense or damages thereof, unless the same R. M. will confess the same to be true in his answer hereunto, as your said Orator verily thinketh that he will. It may therefore, etc. A Bill for that the defendant, for whom the plaintiff was surety to pay certain money, did neither pay the said money, nor save the plaintiff harmless. Humbly complaining showeth unto your honourable L. your daily Sect'. 104. Orator H. H. of E. in the County of D. yeoman. That whereas about the viii. day of October, in the xxii. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is, your said Orator, at the earnest request of one H. C. of C. in the said County yeoman, and R. C. his son, for and with the said H. did enter and become bounden unto H. S. of E. aforesaid yeoman, in one Obligation or bond of xl. l, of lawful English money thereupon endorsed with Condition, that if the said H. H. and H. C. or either of them, their executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, did well and truly pay or cause to be paid, unto the said H. S. his executors or assigns, the sum of twenty pounds of lawful English money upon the ninth day of October, which then should be in the year of our Lord God 1581. at the now dwelling house of the said H. S. in E. aforesaid, that then the said Obligation should be void and of none effect. And the said H. C. and R. C. in consideration thereof, did then and there assume upon themselves, and unto your said Orator faithfully promise, that the said H. C. the sum of twenty pound unto the said H. S. upon the said ninth day of October in the year of our Lord God 1581. would well and truly pay, or cause to e paid, according to the said condition of the said obligation. And that the said H. C. and R. C. would from time to time, and at all times hereafter, save & keep harmless, and indemnified your said Orator against the said H. S. of, for and concerning the said bond of forty pounds, and of, for and concerning all actions, suits, and troubles to be had or commenced against your said Orator, for, or by reason of the said bond of forty pounds. And also that they the said H. C. and R. C. would forthwith have been bound unto your said orator by their sufficient obligation in the sum of four score pounds, for the so saving harmless of your said Orator against the said H. S. as is aforesaid. But now so it is, if it may please your honourable Lordship, that the said H. C. intending your said Orator in this behalf, craftily and subtly, to defraud and deceive, hath neither paid unto the said H. S. the said twenty pound the said ninth day of October in the said year of our Lord God 1581. according to the effect and meaning of the said condition, nor at any time sithence, nor the said H. C. and R. C. have become bounden unto your said Orator in the said Obligation of fourscore pounds, to save your said Orator harmless against the said H. S. as is aforesaid, albeit that your said Orator hath sundry times gently required them, and either of them so to do, the same to do, have ever hitherto refused, and yet do refuse and deny to do the same against all right, equity, and good conscience, contrary to their faithful promise and assuumption aforesaid, so that your said Orator is likely very shortly to be enforced to pay unto the said H. S. the said twenty pounds, which would be to the great damages and hindrance of your said Orator, if speedy remedy be not in this behalf by your good Lordship in due time provided to prevent the same, wherefore and forasmuch as your said Orator giving faith and credit to the said promise & assumption of the said H. C. did take their said promise and assumption of them, without calling any witness to them to hear the same, so that your said Orator for want of such witnesses hath no remedy by the common laws of thsi Realm, nor otherwise to make them perform the same promise and assumption, unless the said H. C. and R. C. do confess the same in their answer in this Honourable Court, as your said Orator verily thinketh they will. May it, etc. A Bill for entitling himself to the soil of a common, and for, selling of woods therein growing. IN most humble wise complaining showeth and complaineth to your Sect. 105. Honour, your daily Orator R. G. Clerk, prebendary of the Prebend, commonly called the Prebend of the Ouerhall in Norwell, in the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the County of Nott̄. That whereas your said Orator was, and is seized in his demesne as of fee, in the right of the said Prebend, of, and in one Manor in Norwell, in the said County, whereof certain woody grounds and springs, being most commonly open, and the herbage thereof, taken and used as common by the tenants and other inhabitants of the same Manor and Town of N. aforesaid is parcel. And the tenants and inhabitants of the same Manor and Town of N. aforesaid, as tenants of the same Manor, And other tenants and inhabitants within the towns and villages of C. and K. that is to say, by them as Commoners, because of Vicinage, by reason of which said woody and spring of grounds, used as common, as is aforesaid, part whereof is parcel of the same Manor of N. containing by estimation twenty acres, extending in length from a certain Oak tree, being a boundary Oak betwixt the same and such other like grounds, being parcel of an other Prebend in the Collegiate Church of S. aforesaid, commonly called the Prebend of the Neatherhall or Palacehall in N. aforesaid, and from thence extendeth along, by a place where three trees lately there did grow, commonly called the three brethren, and so from thence along by a Mere, which is as it hath been an ancient dry ditch cast up as it were, or had been a Mere Southward betwixt the several Lords and owners of the lands in that place, that is to say, first eastwards, between the Lord and owners of the same lands, and the Manors and lands of Caunton & Bestthrop, and Westward unto the manor of Kirksall, and from thence downward West unto the park pale of K. and by the same park pale Northward by a certain little river of water, unto certain of the like lands and tenements of the said other manor of P. aforesaid, and so Eastward upward unto the foresaid ancient Oak, which said parcel of ground, one R. W. and F. B. Gentlemen, and one R. T. yeoman, pretending to have several manors in C. aforesaid, And having divers deeds, Charters, evidences, bonndaries, terrars and muniments, concerning the premises of right belonging to your said Orator, casually or by some sinister means come to their hands, do not only claim the same to be parcel of their said several manors, But also under pretence of their said pretended and uncertain claim, not only some of them, but also divers other under the colour or permission of some of them hath not, and caused to be cut down the most part of the best trees growing upon the said parcel of wood ground, as in truth, all that was felled, did grow there in a corner thereof towards the East part containing like 12. acres, and that in absence of your said Orator, then being, and yet remaining a student in the University of Cambridge, that is to say, a fellow of Gunuill and Caius College, and not so contented, but considering your said Orators absence, daily and continually, both continue their former claim to the said ground within the meres and bounds aforesaid, and so do cut down, and cause to be cut down the residue of the wood there growing, and so will very shortly leave none there. And also by colour and reason of the said permission, they will shortly by such indirect means and practice, win, and get the freehold, and inheritance thereof to them, as they have in other the wastes, common, & like grounds, within the Manor, of, or in C. or at the least, have none able to testify the contrary, whereas now in truth there are divers and sundry sufficient and ancient witnesses, being very aged, and some of them very impotent, that can and will travel so far as they are able to travel, to testify upon their oaths the truth of the premises in manner and form as before in effect is alleged, and more for the better proof of your said Orators right, in, and to the said last recited premises, if cause and need shall so require, and that the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. upon their answer unto the matters in this bill of complaint, will not confess the truth therein, as it is most credibly to be presumed they will, and the rather, for that, if they will deny the same, they know in proceeding upon their answers to this bill, all the whole truth concerning the premises must be examined by depositions of witnesses, and their depositions, if order presently be not taken of the same, shall and may remain of record in perpetuam rei memoriam, to do further therein, as by this honourable Court shall be awarded, wherefore the premises tenderly considered, and also the incertainty, whether the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. or any of them will confess the whole truth, concerning the right and title of your foresaid Orator to the same, And the wrong and damage by them, and other by their means and consent to him done. And if they should not, the uncertainty whether that the foresaid ancient, aged and impotent persons, or any of them that now be living, and can testify the truth concerning the same shall be living when the same shall come in trial, at, or by the course of the common laws, to whom the right of the freehold, and inheritance thereof doth of right belong, over and beside the impotency, that they or most of them may have at such time and times, to travel to witness & testify i truth concerning the premises, with this, that your said Orator doth not know the certain date or dates of the said deeds, charters, evidences, boundaries, terrers, miniments, or wherein the same be contained, whether in bag, or box, sealed, or locked, or otherwise, and so without remedy for the recovery of the same, and redress for the wrong above said, at, or by order of the common laws of this Realm. It may therefore etc. A Bill against the executors▪ or that the Testator did not deliver specialties paid, whereupon they threaten to sue the Plaintiff. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth to your good Lordship Sect. 106. your poor and daily Orator G. N. of T. in the County of D. yeoman, that whereas your said Orator about the month of january, in the thirty. year of the Reign of our Soneraigne Lady Elizabeth, the Queen's Majesty that now is, by his several bodds, or writings obligatory became bound to one N. D. now deceased, for the payment of several sums of money unto the said N. All which said sums of money, and every parcel thereof your said Orator hath truly satisfied and paid to the said N. D. in his life time, according to the purport and effect of the said several bonds and writings obligatory, not taking any of the specialties, or any acquittance or discharge from the said N. D. for the same, but only trusted the words of the said N. D. who faithfully promised your said Orator to send the same specialties to your said Orators house, at Totley aforesaid, or sufficient acquittance for the same. But now so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that since the death of the said N. D. the said obligations and writings obligatory are come to the hands and possession of N. C. of S. in the County of York. yeoman, and T. C. of S. aforesaid yeoman, who by colour of having thereof, have now of late in their own names as executors to A. D. late wife of the said N. D. and cxecutrix of the last Will and Testament of the same N. commenced suit in her majesties Court of common Pleas at Westminster, against your Lordships said poor Orator, upon one of the said obligatious or writings obligatory of the sum of xii. pounds or thereabouts, endorsed with condition for the payment of six pounds, at a day mentioned in the same condition, and do threaten to put the residue of the said specialties in suit against your said Orator, meaning, and intending thereby to recover against your said Orator the penalties of the said several obligations, and writings, who hath already paid the principal and due debts of the said N. D. in his life time as aforesaid, which is contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience: in codsideration whereof, and for as much your Lordships said Orator hath not any witnesses now living, that can testify the payment of any of the said sums of money, or any part or parcel thereof, and therefore can not plead any matter in bar at the common law to the said actions already commenced by the said C. and C. whereby your said Orator, by the strict course of the common laws of this Realm is altogether remediless, unless your Lordship's accustomed goodness be to your said poor Orator extended. May it therefore please your good Lordship, etc. A Bill against executors upon a private promise made by their testator, retaining an Attorney to prosecute and defend suits, for himself, and others, alleging that the executors have wasted the Testators goods &c. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your honourable Lordship your Sect. 103. daily Orator W. W. of F. in the County of Y. gentleman, one of the Atturneys of the Queen's majesties Court of common Pleas, before her highness justices, to be holden of the same Court, that whereas one I M. of T. near N. in the County of Nottingham Esquire deceased, in his life time, that is to say, about the term of the holy Trinity, which was in the year of o●r Lord God 1586. did retain the said W. W. to be of council with him the said F. M. to prosecute and defend duers and sundry suits, pleas, and businesses to be done, and had in the said Court of common pleas, as well for the said F. M. as for divers others, his then servants, and bailiffs, and tenants, and namely for the said I. M. against R. E. in a writ of Replevin for three Kine of the said R. supposed to be unjustly taken and detained by the said I. M. And for the said I. M. against H. T. in a Replevin of the said H. for six Oxen supposed to be taken, & unjustly detained by the said I. M. And for the said I. M. against I. H. in a Replevin for two Kine of the said I. H. supposed to be taken & unjustly detained by the said I. M. And for the said I. M. against E. S. in a Replevin of certain cattle of the said E. supposed to be taken, & unjustly detained by the said I. M. And for R. R. and W. S. against R. L. for three Oxen of the said R. H. supposed to be taken and unjustly detained by the said R. R. and W. S. And for I. S. and R. S. against H. T. alias W. in a Repevin, for certain beasts of the said H. S. supposed to be taken & unjustly detained by the said I. S. and R. S. And for R. R. and W. S. against R. H. in a Replevin of divers beasts of the said R. H. supposed to be taken & unjustly detained by the said R. R. & W. S. And for I. S. & T. W. against T. E. in a Replevin of certain beasts of the said T. E. supposed to be taken & unjustly detained by the said I. & T. W. And for the said I. S. and T. W. against the said R. E. in an other replevin of certain beasts of the said R. E. supposed to be taken & unjustly detained by the said I. S. & T. W. taking for his fee & labour for every one of the said pleas & business so as is said in the same court by him to be prosecuted and defended for every term in which your said Orator should so be Attorney for him or them or any of them, 3. s. 4. d. And besides that fee, all reasonable costs, and expenses about the prosecution of the same suits, pleas, and businesses, as for the writing of writs, sealing of them, and drawing and entering of pleas and warrants of attorney, and also for all other things in that behalf, by him your said Orator be laid forth and expended, and in consideration thereof, he the said F. M. did about the same time, assume upon himself, and unto your said Orator faithfully promise, well and truly to content, satisfy, and pay unto the said orator whensoever he should be thereunto required by your said orator aswell the said fee of 3. s. 4. d. for every of the said suits, pleas, & businesses so to be prosecuted, as also all the said costs, and expenses, so as is aforesaid, to be laid forth in that behalse: by reason of which reteiner & promise, so as is aforesaid made, your said Orator was of counsel with the said I. M. and the said other persons in the said suits, & pleas in the said court, by the space of 8 several terms next ensuing the said retainer, & during the said time, did prosecute and sue for & defend divers suits & writs, aswell judicial as original as by the records thereof remaining in the said court appeareth, by reason whereof your Orator fees for the prosecution, and defending of the said suits, or pleas by the said time did amount unto 10. l. or there about, besides the costs & expenses laid out by him in the same, which costs & expenses laid out by your Lordships said orator, did amount unto 8. l. 19 s. 9 d. which were behind, & unpaid unto your said orator by means whereof action accrued unto your said Orator to demand and have of the said I. M. in his life time the said sum of 18. l. 19 s. & 9 d. and of the said A. M. unto whom the administration of all the goods & chattels which the foresaid I. M. had at the the time of his death were after his death lawfully committed, yet therefore the said I. M. in his life time the said sum of 18. l. 19 s. & 9 d. nor any penny thereof though often times in his life time thereunto by your said Orator required, or the said A. M. his administrator after his death, notwithstanding that the goods & chattels which were the said I. M. be sufficient for the payment of the said 18. l. 19 s. 9 d. unto your said Orator, and of all other debts which the said I. M. ought to have paid, did come to the possession of the said A. M. and still remain in the possession of her the said A. M. or of such person and persons, unto whom she hath yielded, left, or delivered the same, notwithstanding that she hath sundry times since the death of the said I. M. been gently required by your said Orator to pay to him the same 18. l. 19 s. 9 d. or any part thereof, hath not yet paid and contented, but the same to content and pay hath ever hitherto denied and refused, and the said A. doth yet deny and refuse to pay the same, thereof intending utterly to defraud and deceive your said Orator against all right, equity, and good conscience, notwithstanding also that she the said A. M. hath herself at sundry times heard the said I. M. in his life time promise that he would pay unto your said Orator all such sums of money, as were behind unto your said Orator, and notwithstanding also, that she well knoweth, that the foresaid sum of 18. l. 19 s. 9 d. due unto your said Orator by the aforesaid I. M. in his life, by reason that she hath seen, and hath a particular bill thereof, which was sent and delivered to him in his life time by your said Orator, and notwithstanding also, that she herself since the death of the said I. M. did assume, & faithfully promise to pay unto your foresaid orator, all such money as was due unto him at the said time of his death, if she the said A. M. did take upon her the administration of his goods, and chattels, which she hath done as is said. All which things she the said A. hath done partly by her own injurious mind, but chief by the wicked and sinful persuasion of R. M. gentleman her son, by whose counsel and persuasion she hath closely and secretly conveyed away a great part of the said goods being of very great value, to divers places and persons, to your said Orator utterly unknown, and left the same out of the Inventory of the said I. M. his said goods which she hath exhibited: and also hath caused such goods and chattels, as be mentioned in the said Inventory, to be praised much under the value thereof, and a great part thereof to be set down therein so confusedly, and inconueniently, that it cannot well be known, either what they be, or of what value. And furthermore she the said A. by the like sinister counsel, and persuasion hath consented and caused one H. B. and T. C. and divers other persons being her especial friends covenously to commence divers and sundry fraudulent actions of debts, and executions, against her as administratrix of, and to the same I. M. suffering herself therein to be convicted and condemned, though in very truth either nothing or very little was due unto them, and in a manner nothing at all taken of her by them, by virtue of the said actions, and executions, to the intent thereby to das●e the eyes of your Orator, and of other the creditors of the said I. M. not knowing the truth of the same ungodly devices, intending by such means to defraud and defeat, your said Orator, and the rest of his said creditors, of the most part of their several debts, which their unlawful practices, are like to be to the great loss and hindrance of your said Orator, if speedy remedy be not by your good Lordship's means provided, to meet with and prevent the said unconcionable and unjust dealing in the premises, for that the promises and assumptions of the said I. M. and A. M. were made secretly and privately unto your said orator, nor persons being present with them at the making of the said several promises, nor any man living which can testify the same, so that your said Orator for want of such proof thereof, as is requisite by the strict course of the common laws of this Realm, is altogether remediless, if it be not by thorder of this honourable court, wherein your L. said Orator hopeth, & verily thinketh, that she the said A. M. in her answer to the premises, upon her corporal oath will confess the same, to be in effect, as it is herein set forth & disclosed: May it therefore please etc. A Bill for divers Evidences. Humbly complaining showeth unto your Lordship, G. Earl of. S Sect. 108. That whereas the said Earl is lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and in the manor of S. in the County of Y. and in the hundred of S. with thappurtenances in the County of D. and of and in the castle and manor of S. with thappurtenances in the Connty of Y. and of the castle & manor of B. in the County of D. and of, and in the castle & manor, and hundred of B. in the County of D. with thappurtenances, and of, and in divers messages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, franchises and liberties, to the said several manors & hundreds belonging: Now so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that divers and sundry court-roles, charters, evidences, exemplifications of records, extracts, terrers, plead, writings, and muniments, concerning the said several manors, hundreds, and premises with thappurtenances, & of right belonging unto the said Earl, and whereby the said Earl should make his title unto the said manors, hundreds, liberties, and premises with thappurtenances, or to the most part thereof, are by casual means come unto the hands, custody, and possession of one N. C. of S. in the County of D. And albeit that the said Earl hath sundry times sent unto the said N. C. gently requiring him to deliver unto the said Earl the said court rolls, charters, evidences, exemplifications of records, extractes, plead, writings, and muniments, yet that to do, the said N. hath ever hitherto utterly denied, & yet doth deny to do the same, against all right, equity, and good conscience: In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as the said Earl knoweth not the certain dates, and other the certainties of the said deeds, charters, evidences, exemplifications etc. neither wherein they, or any of them be contained, & therefore have not any ordinary remedy by the common laws of this Realm, to recover the same deeds, evidences etc. or any of them, and wanting the same deeds, etc. is in danger to lose many franchises, liberties, and commodities belonging to the said several manors, hundreds, and premises: May it therefore please your honourable Lordship, to grant unto the said Earl, the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be unto him directed, commanding him to appear before your honourable Lordship in her majesties high Court of Chancery, etc. A Bill for not making of an assurance of lands according to a covenant alleging the Indenture thereof, to be come to the defendants hands, and that some of the defendants were within age at the making of the same Indenture. COmplaining showeth unto your honourable Lordship, Gilb. Earl Sect' 109. of S. son and heir of the right honourable George late Earl of S. deceased, and administrator of the goods and chattels which were the late Earls at the time of his death, That whereas about the month of September, which was in the two & thirtieth year of the reign of the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is, one R. E. of H. in the County of D. gentleman, was seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and in one Annuity or yearly rend charge of twenty pounds by the year, issuing and going forth of certain lands in B. in the said County of D. and of, and in one other Annuity or yearly rend charge of forty markers by the year, issuing and going forth of certain lands and tenements in B. aforesaid. And where also he then had to him and his heirs, to those of him and his heirs for ever, by conneiance from one P. B. Esquire, one melting house and certain ground then lately used to the same. And where further the said R. E. by conveyance from the said P. B. then had to him and his heirs for ever, the tieth of the Corn and Hey renewing, coming, or growing within B. aforesaid, or else where within the several parishes of D. or S. or either of them, in the said County of D. And where also one T. E. son & heir apparent of the said R. E. then also had by conveyance from the said P. B. to choose of the said T. E. and his heirs for ever, divers and sundry lands, tenements, & hereditaments with thappurten●●●ces in B. aforesaid. And where also one G. E. second son of the said R. E. then had by conveyance from the said P. B. unto the use of the said G. E. his heirs and assigns for ever, the manor of B. with thappurtenances, & divers lands, tenements, & hereditaments with thappurtenances, as by several conveyances of the said several tenements, things, & premises, to the said R. T. and G. before that time severally made appeareth: by force whereof they were thereof lawfully seized severally in their several demesnes, as of fee, And being thereof so seized, they the said R. E. T. E. & G. E. for a certain sum of money to them well & truly paid by the said late E. and for other considerations them then especially moving, by Indenture hearing date, in or about the said month of Sept. in the xxxii. year above said, made between them on the one party, and the said G. late Earl of S. on the other party, did fully, freely, and absolutely alien, grant, borgaine, & sell unto the said G. late Earl of S. his heirs & assigns for ever, the said manor of B. with all his rights, members & appurtenances in the said County of D. And all & singular messages, tofts, cottages, houses, etc. to the said Manor of B. belonging, or in any wise appertaining, And all other the messages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services, and hereditaments of the said R. T. and G. E. and of every of them, whatsoever, situate, lying etc. Together withal the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, of all and singular the premises, and every part thereof with thappurtenances, and all estate, right, title, interest, claim, use, possession, and demand, of them the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. and of every of them whatsoever, of, in, and to the said Manor, messages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and other the premises before mentioned, and of, in, and to every part thereof: Excepting and for prising one grant made by the said P. B. to the said R. his heirs and assigns for ever, of common of pasture for all etc. To have and to hold the said Manor, lands, tenements, and premises with thappurtenances, (except before excepted) unto the said G. late Earl of S. his heirs and assigns for ever, to the only use of him the said late Earl, his heirs and assigns for ever: And in consideration of the premises the said late Earl by the said Indenture of bargain and sale, did grant unto the said R. E. his heirs and assigns for ever, to the only use of the said R. his heirs and assigns for ever, one Annuity or yeareiy rend charge of one hundred pounds, of lawful English money, to be issuing and going out of all and singular the said manor, lands, tenenmets, and premises, (except before excepted) and except such lands, tenements, & hereditaments as were then assured or conveyed for the jointure of the right Honourable Elizabeth then, and yet Countess of S. to be paid at the feast of S. Michael the archangel, and the Annunciation of the virgin Marie, by even portions, or to this or the like effect and meaning, as in, and by the said Indenture of bargain and sale amongst other things plainly appeareth, the precise contents whereof, this complainant cannot more certainly set down, for want of the said Indenture. And whereas also (as this complainant hath heard) it was in, and by the said Indenture of bargain and sale covenanted and granted on the part of the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. to and with the said G. late Earl of S. this complainants said late Father, his heirs and assigns, and every of them, that they the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. their heirs and assigns, and every of them, other than such person and persons for the time being, whose estates and interests are in the same indenture excepted, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, in respect only of the same estates and interests so excepted, and every of them, should and would at all times hereafter, for, and during the space of certain years, next ensuing the date of the said Indenture of bargain and sale, now almost ended and expired, at, and upon the lawful and reasonable request, and at the costs and charges in the law of the said late Earl, his heirs or assigns, or some of them do make and knowledge, and suffer, cause, and procure to be done, made, and knowledged, all and every such further, lawful, and reasonable act and acts, thing and things, devise and devices in the law whatsoever, for the further and more better assurance, surety, and sure making and conveying of the said Manor of B. and the messages, lands, tenements, and premises with thappurtenances, in the said Indenture mentioned to be bargained and sold, (except before therein excepted unto the said late Earl, his heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of the said Earl, his heirs and assigns for ever, according to the true intent and meaning of the said Indenture, were it by fine, feoffment, recovery, deed, or deeds enrolled, the enrolment of the said Indentures, release, confirmation with joint or senerall warranty of the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. their, and every of their heirs against them the said R. E. T. E. & G. E. their, and every of their heirs and assigns, & every of them▪ & against all and every other person and persons whatsoever claiming, in, by from, or under them, or any of them or otherwise with like warranty, or without warranty as by the said Earl, his heirs or assigns, or his or their counsel learned in the laws, should be devised, advised, and required, so as none of the said acts or things concerning the said further assurance should stretch or extend to any other or further warranty or warranties' o● the premises, or any part thereof, then as is before expressed, or to that effect and meaning, as in the same Indenture of bargain and sale appeareth: But now so it is if it may please your honourable Lordship, that at the time of the making of the said Indenture of bargain and sale unto the said late Earl, the said T. E. and G. E. were within and under the age of one and twenty years: And shortly after the making of the said Indenture, and before the same was either knowledged or enrolled, or any estate executed thereupon, by Atturnment, Livery of seisin, or otherwise, that is to say: upon, or about the seventeenth day of November, next ensuing the making of the said Indenture, the said G. late Earl of S. died, by, and after whose death, the right to have and inherit the said Manors, lands, tenements, and premises with the appurtenances, descended and came, as of right the same aught to descend and come unto this complainant, as his eldest son & next heir, shortly after whose death, the administration of all the goods and chattels of the said G. late Earl of S. was by the right Reverend father in God, I. by the providence of God, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate & Metropolitaine of all England, committed to this complainant now Earl of S. who administered the said goods & chattels accordingly. And further so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that the part or counterpane of the said Indenture of bargain and sale belonging to the said late Earl, is since the death of the said late Earl by casual means comen to the hands, custody, and possession of the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. or of some of them, or of some other person by their privity and consent, the full contents whereof are utterly unknown to this complainant, by colour whereof and for that the said T. E. and G. E. were so, as is aforesaid, within age at the making of the said Indenture, they the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. having a great desire to have the said manors, lands, tenements, and bargained premises, and thereof to disinherit and defeat this complainant, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Indenture: Notwithstanding that this complainant hath yearly sithence the making of the said Indenture, well & truly satisfied and paid unto the said R. E. the said Annuity or yearly rend charge of 100 pounds, by the year, in the said Indenture mentioned, according to the tenor, form, and effect of the same Indenture, (as this complainant verily thinketh.) And notwithstanding that this complainant hath sundry times, aswell by himself, as by divers others of his servants and friends in his behalf, sent and come unto the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. gently requiring them, and every of them, to redeliver unto your said Orator, the said part or Counterpane of the said Indenture of bargain and sale of the premises, And also to make unto him this complainant and his heirs, further conveyance and assurance of the said manor, tenements, and premises, by fine to be levied before the justices of the common Pleas at Westminster, and for that purpose in the term of Saint Hilary, which was in the four and thirtieth year of the Queen's majesties Reign that now is, at Westminster in the County of Middlesex, this complainant required the said R. and T. according to the tenor, true intent, and meaning of the said Indenture of bargain and sale thereof, to come before Sir E. A. knight, then, and yet chief justice of her majesties Court of common Pleas at Westminster, to make cognisance before the same E. A. Knight, of the said manor, tenements, and premises with thappurtenances, in form of Law, that a fine thereupon might have been levied, to the use of this complainant, and his heirs for ever, yet that to do, they and every of them have ever hitherto refused and denied, and yet do deny and refuse to do the same, contrary to the form and true meaning of the covenants and agreements in the said Indenture of bargain and sail thereof contained, and against all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the manifest defeating and disinheriting of him this complainant, of, and in the said manor, lands, tenenements, and premises, and contrary to the true intent and meaning of the same Indenture of bargain and sale thereof, except speedy remedy be in due time provided to prevent the same. Wherefore the premises considered, and for so much as the said complainant not knowing the certain deate and contents, and other certainties of the said part or Counterpane of the said Indenture of bargain and sale, nor wherein the same is contained, whether in bag, box, or chest locked, sealed, or otherwise, and so hath none ordinary remedy by the due course of the common laws of this Realm, for the recovery thereof. And without the same Indenture hath no direct action by the common laws of this Realm to compel the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. or any of them to assure unto him this complainant, the said manor, lands, tenements, and premises, according to the said bargain thereof, for lack of the said Indenture, both parts thereof being come to the hands of the said defendants. Neither if this complainant had the said part or Counterpane of the said Indenture (as he hath not) yet had he not thereby any means by the common laws of this Realm, to compel the said T. E. and G. E. or either of them to perform the bargain and covenants therein contained, they the said T. and G. being as is aforesaid, under the age of one and twenty years, at the time of the making thereof, It may please your honourable Lordship, the premises, considered, to grant unto him this complainant, the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. and every of them, thereby commanding them and every of them at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein by your good Lordship to be limited, to be and personally to appear before your honourable Lordship in the Queen's majesties high Court of Chancery, then and there to answer unto the premises, and further to stand to, and abide such order and direction therein, as to your good L. upon the hearing of the said cause shall seem to be agreeable with right, equity, and good conscience etc. A Bill against the heir for entering into lands devised to the plaintiff, praying a Commission to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam. Humbly complaining showeth unto your good Lordship your Sect. 110. poor and distressed orator G. W. of N. in the County of N. yeoman. That whereas W. W. deceased father unto your said Orator was in his life time lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and in the manor and Capital messsage of N. in the County of N. and of, and in one farm set lying and being within the parish of W. in the said County of N. & of divers other lands, tenements, & hereditaments in N. aforesaid. And also whereas the said W. W. deceased was likewise in his life time lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee of, & in certain ground, and one tenement with the appurtenances, set lying and being within the parish of C. in the County of D. and also of, and in the rectory and parsonage of C. alias C. within the said County of D. and of divers other lands, and tenements, set lying and being in the county of N. and D. and he so being of the said lands and tenements seized, did by his last Will and Testament in writing, devise and bequeath unto your said humble Orator, and to the heirs males of his body lawfully begotten, certain parcels of land, of, and in the said Manor of N. that is to say, one mansion house wherein your said poor Orator now inhabiteth and dwelleth, one close commonly called B. containing by estimation, two acres or thereabouts, one other close commonly called C. containing by estimation two acres or thereabouts, one other close commonly called the upper S. all which several parcels of land are situate, lying, and being in N. as is aforesaid, in the foresaid County of N. one messsage or tenement commonly called by the name of an oxgang, situate and being in W. in the said County of N. and also one tenement called the N. situate, lying, and being in the County of D. and also one lease of the rectory, and parsonage of C. in the County of D. by virtue & force of which said devise, and bequeath, your said humble Orator entered into the said premises, and the said issues and profits of the same hath perceived, received, and taken to his own profit, use and behoof, as lawful was for himself to do, as he verily believeth. But now so it is, if it may please your honourable good Lordship, hhat one R. W. brother to your said humble Orator, as son and heir apparent to the said W. W. his father deceased, hath taken away, concealed and canceled, as it is thought, the said last Will and Testament of your said Orators father, and hath taken upon him the administration of all the goods and chattels, of your said Orators father rejecting and disannulling the said last Will and Testament made by your said Orators father as aforesaid, to th'intent only & thereby of set purpose, malice, and unbrotherlike dealing, to defraud, expel, deprive, and disinherit your said Orator of his right, title, and interest of, and in the said lands devised to him as aforesaid, and also doth threaten your foresaid Orator, that he may at his pleasure relinquish and disannul the beforesaid last Will and Testament made by your foresaid Orator's father as is aforesaid, and did take the administration of all your said Orators father's goods, and chattels, and entered into all his said lands, as is aforesaid, contrary unto all right, equity, and good conscience, and not christianlike but unbrotherlike dealing, and contrary to the true intent and good meaning of your foresaid Orators Fathers Will, made as is aforesaid, unless your good Lordship do according unto your accustomed goodness, extend your clemency, and pity in that behalf to your poor Orator. In consideration whereof the premises considered, and for as much as the title of your said Orator, by reason of the undirect practice used as aforesaid, in concealing, canceling, and relinquishing the said last Will, as aforesaid, doth greatly depend upon the witness and testimony of certain persons dwelling within the County of N▪ to prove the true meaning of your said orators fathers Will, which are of great years, and also very impotent, not like long to live, nor yet able to travel to this honourable Court to be examined for the testifying of the truth, touching the premises, as by common order appertaineth. And also for that in time the said witnesses may die, and by means thereof your said Orator may be in danger to sustain disinherison of the premises. May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant the Queens, etc. A Bill for refusing to receive the Plaintiffs rend according to an order, and taking of forfeiture of a bond made for payment of the rent. Humbly complaining, showeth to your good Lo. your daily Orator Sect' 111. I. T. of G. in the County of N. yeoman, that whereas one I K. of W. in the County of York Miller, pretended as in the right of his wife to be owner of a certain messsage in E. in the County of N. aforesaid, and of certain land, meadow, and pasture therewto belonging, and lying within the fields of E. aforesaid, and the said I. R. so pretending himself in the right of his said wife to be seized as is aforesaid about the 19 or 20. year of the Queen's Majesties most gracious Kaigne, that now is, did demise the said messsage and land in E. aforesaid unto your said Orator, and one A. L. Gentleman to have and to hold to them for the term of 21. years from the time of the making thereof, rendering therefore yearly the rent of xx. s. payable at Whitsuntide and Martimnas by even portions, for the payment of which said rend of xx. s. he the said K. knowing himself the title thereof to be questionable, and likely to grow to some charges in law to your said Orator to defend, did therefore cunningly get your said Orator to become bound in an obligation of xx. l. for the yearly payment of the said rend accordingly unto him the said K. after which lease and bond so made, as aforesaid, and also immediately after your said Orators entry into the same, the title thereof was so defended against your said Orator, by such as claimed the same against him the said K. as that the charges thereof spent about the recovering thereof, did stand your said Orator in above twenty nobles, besides the great travail and loss of time that your said Orator sustained thereby, being yet altogether unrecompensed at the said K. hands, although he often promised to have some consideration thereof towards your said Orator. And whereas also since and immediately after that time, he the said I. K. likewise in the right of his said wife pretended to have right unto certain copyhold lands lying in the parish of E. aforesaid, then being in the occupation of your said Orator and other persons, for the trial whereof, there being certain actions depending in the copyhold Court at Southwell, it was notwithstanding before the trial thereof, aswell by the consent of the said K. of the one party, as also by the assent of your said Orator, & the defendant on the other party, referred to the order and arbitrement of one P. K. and I. B. Esquires, that they should order and determine, aswell the right, as the possession of the said copiholde lands so then in question, which said P. K. and I. B. Esquires, being willing the controversies, might have a good and final end, and yet themselves having then no good opportunity to attend the same, did therefore entreat aswell the said I. K. as also your said Orator and the other, that it might stand with their like, that one M. C. and H. W. of M. for that they were acquainted with the interest of both the parties, might therefore order and make an end thereof in all points, as should seem good unto them, whereunto aswell the said K. as also your said Orator, with the rest agreed, promising to perform any such order as they the said C. and W. should in that behalf make and agree upon: Whereupon the said M. C. and the said H. W. taking upon them the said arbitrement, did thus, or to the like effect, order, agree, and publish their order and award, that your said Orator should still enjoy and continue his possession of the said copyhold lands, for, and during so long time as the wife of the said K. should live, paying yearly for the said copyhold land unto the said K. four shillings rend, and for that he the said K. received also an other rend of xx. shillings by the year, at two several times of your said Orator, for the freehold land aforesaid, they the said arbitrators, for the more ease and certainty of him the said K. did further order and appoint, that your said Orator should also pay the said four shillings rend for the copyhold land, at the same time that the other rend for the freehold was used to be paid, which was at Whitsuntide and Martinmas, so that from thenceforth, he your said Orator should yearly pay at the days aforesaid, the whole and entire sum of xii. shillings at every of the said feasts. And also for that the said arbitrators did well foresee, that the said entire payment of xii. shillings at one day and instant, could not conveniently be paid on the several lands, out of the which they in truth and law were severally issuing, for that the said freehold and copyhold land be distant in several places, therefore the said Arbitrators, for the more ease and certainty of him the said K. did order and appoint, that your said Orator should yearly at the days aforesaid, or within xiiii. days after every of them, pay the said rend of xii. shillings at the house of one W. W. of M. being a friends house of him the said K. and also far nearer unto the said K. his dwellings, than the land itself is, unto which said order and Arbitrement, he the said K. together with your said Orator did willingly agree and condescend: And so for the space of seven or eight years last passed, the said K. hath always received his rent, accordingly, at the house of the said W. W. of M. aforesaid: Notwithstanding so it is if it may please your good Lordship, that the said I. K. meaning as it seemeth, not only contrary to the said order and award, but also contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, subtly and extremely to take advantage of your said Orators bond of xx. pound, hath refused to receive your said Orators last Whitsontides rend, ready for him at the said W. house in M. aforesaid, according to the said order and award therein made, as aforesaid: May it therefore please your good etc. A Bill for payment for cattle sold, without present money, or especialities, by reason of trust reposed in the vendee. Humbly complaining showeth unto your good L. your daily Orator Sect' 112. W. B. of B. in the county of N. Butcher, That where as your said Orator about six or seven years now last, sold and delivered unto one R. W. of the same Town and County Butcher, six Steers, and five Oren, being all fat cattle, for the price of xl. l. and x. s. which said sum of xl. l. and x. s. the said R. W. then faithfully promised to pay unto your said Orator within a short space then after, and now long sithence past, or else when your said Orator would require & demand the same of him the said R. W. of which said bargain and security for the said money, your said Orator was then the less careful, for that your said Orator not long before, had been servant unto the said R. W. and for that the said W. had been master unto your said Orator, therefore your said Orator did trust him the said W. so well, as that he neither took any specialty or security of him the said W. for the said sum of xl. l. & x. s. nor provided any witnesses to be present & to testify the same bargain & contract betwixt them, but only privately betwixt themselves contracted the same. And like wise your said Orator privately delivered the said six Steers & five Oren, unto him the said R. W. upon trust, and performance of his private speech, & promise of payment thereof as aforesaid, whereupon the said R. W. then presently received the said six Steers and five Oren, at your said Orators hands, & did presently afterwards convert the same to his own proper use and benefit: before the money paid by him the said W. unto your said Orator for the same, etc. May it therefore please your honourable Lordship, etc. A Rejoinder. THe said defendant rejoineth and saith in all and every thing and Sec' 113. things, as he in his said answer hath made, and doth and will aver, justify, maintain, and prove the same answer, and all and every thing and things, clause, sentence, article, and allegation therein contained, to be good, just, and true, certain, and sufficient in the law to be replied unto, in such sort, manner, and form, as the same been therein most truly set forth and declared. And this defendant further saith, that the said Replication of the said complainant is very incertain, untrue, & insufficient in the law to be rejoined unto by this defendant, for divers apparent faults & imperfections, therein contained. And that the same is so contrived & made, by the said complainant for the causes in the said answer expressed, and to the end to give some further colour, or rather shadow for the maintenance of the said bill without cause in this hnorable court, to the unjust vexation of this defendant, as may appear, for that, she the said complainant, by the sinister means of one T. Y. who as it is said, procureth and soliciteth the same suit for the said complainant against this defendant, hath without all order, as he is informed, caused him being a plain simple unlearned man, to become bounden by obligation, for the proceeding in the said suit of this defendant and with such condition whereof this defendant is utterly ignorant, of all which this defendant hopeth this honourable Court will have due consideration for the punishing of such lewd and indirect courses and actions therein used. And without that, that any other matter, thing or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation in the said replication contained material or effectual in the law to be rejoined unto by this defendant, & not here in this his rejoinder sufficiently rejoined unto, confessed, and avoided, denied, or traversed, is true. All which matters this defendant is ready to aver, and prove as this honourable Court shall award, and therefore prayeth as he before in his said answer hath prayed. A Bill upon putting one to service with promise that the servant shall serve truly, and that the defendant will satisfy all damages, which shall happen to the Master by the same servant, etc. Humbly complaining showeth unto your honourable Lordship C. T Sect. 114. of the town of M. in the County of N. gentleman, That whereas S. N. daughter of A. S. of the Town of A. in the County of York, about two years now last passed, being desirous to serve your said Orator, and his wife then dwelling at Rotheram, at an Inn there, called the sign of the Angel in the said County of York, was entertained into their service at, and upon the further entreaty of the said S. A. and upon her faithful promise unto the said Orator then ginen, and made, that the said M. her daughter should during the time of their service and abode with your said Orator, hovestly, faithfully, and truly behaeu herself and serve your said Orator and his wife, in all lawful business, and that if any loss or prejudice should befall unto your said Orator through either negligence, default, or abuse of the foresaid M. in any respect, that then the said A. would upon notice to her given in that behalf by your said Orator of such loss and detriment in that behalf sustained, satisfy and recompense your said Orator for the same to the uttermost value thereof. By reason whereof your foresaid Orator entertained and received the foresaid M. into his service, as is aforesaid. And thereupon the wife of your said Orator delivered unto the said M. to her only charge and custody, many and sundry parcels of plate, linen, and also other necessary things, for your foresaid Orator's behalf. In which said service the said M. remained with your said Orator by the space of one whole year than next following. Now so it is, if it may please your said honourable Lordship, during the time of the abode of the foresaid M. in service with your said Orator as is aforesaid, The foresaid M. did not only secretly and privily deliver unto the foresaid A. S. her mother, divers of the said parcels of plate, linen, and other utensils of your said Orators, to the full value of twenty marks, or thereabouts, to, and for the use and behalf of the said A. But also during the said time, converted sundry other parcels of goods, and sums of money received of guests that resorted to the said house, appertaining to your said Orator, unto the only use and benefit of the said M. herself. By means whereof your said Orator was greatly prejudiced, and hindered to his loss of 30. or 40. pounds, or thereabouts, upon which occasions your said Orator was enforced to put the said M. forth of his service. And although your said Orator hath diverse and sundry times heretofore notified, & made known unto the said ●. the loss and hindrance, by her sustained, as is aforesaid, by & through the negligence default, and abuse of the said M. as is aforesaid, and hath required recompense and satisfaction for the said goods so delivered and converted to the use of the said A. and M. as is aforesaid, according to the promise of the said A. made to your said Orator upon the entertaining of the said M. into his service as is aforesaid, yet the said A. the same to do hath heretofore refused and denied, and still doth refuse & deny to do, contrary to her promise & assumption aforesaid, & against all right, equity and conscience. In consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your said Orator is not able to make any due proof, neither of the certainty or quantity of the plate, linen, and other goods so secretly delivered to the said A. by M. during the time of her service, as is aforesaid, or of the said other goods, converted by the said M. to her own use, as if aforesaid, nor of the promise made by the said A. unto your said Orator upon the retaining of the said M. into his service as is aforesaid, by reason the same was in secret between thèselues without calling any other to witness the same, whereby your saidorator, by the strict rule and course of the common laws of this Realm, hath no ordinary means for recovery of the same, but only by suit before your honourable Lordship in the Queen's majesties high Court of Chancery, by the oaths of the said A. and M. in whose privities all the premises principally lie and whom your Orator thinketh upon their said oaths, will reveal and manifest the truth, and circumstance of the same, the premises considered, May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said A. and M. and either of them, commanding them thereby, not only to appear before your honour in the Queen's majesties high Court of Chancery, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited and assessed, then and there to answer to the said premises, But also to stand to, and abide such further order and direction therein, as to your H. wisdom shall be thought fit and convenient, and your said Orator shall daily pray unto God for the long continuance of your H. in health and prosperity. The joint and several answers, of A. S. and M. S. defendants to the bill of complaint of C. T. complainant. THe said defendants say, and either of them, for himself severally Sect. 116. saith, that the said bill of complaint against them exhibited into this honourable court, is very uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law to be answered unto by the said defendants, or either of them, for divers manifest and apparent faults and imperfections therein contained, and devised, and exhibited into this honourable court of mere malice and envy, only to the intent, not only to vere and trouble the defendants, being very unable and unmeet upon the sudden with long and tedious iorneiss to make their personal appearances in this H. court, being above one hundred and twenty miles distant from the to 〈◊〉 of a. in the country of Y. where these defendants now dwell, but also to weary the defendants in such sort, that they might extort & wring from these defendants some consideration for the stay of the foresaid suit, be it never so untrue, & without any just cause or colour of cause so to do, nevertheless if these defendants shall by the order of this honourable court he compelled to make any further, or other answer to the said uncertain, & insufficient bill of complaint, than the advantage of exception to the manifest incertainty and in●sufficiencie of the same bill of complaint to these defendants, and either of them at all times hereafter saved, for answer thereunto, and for a manifest declaration of the truth, touching the contents of the same bill, these defendants say, and either of them, for himself severally saith, that about the time mentioned in the said bill of complaint, the said M. St. the other of these defendants was entertained to serve the said complainant & his wife for the term of one year next ensuing the time of such her reteiner, for xvi. s. wages for the same year, without the knowledge of the said A. St. the other of these defendants, until that she the said M. was so with them retained. And these defendants further say, that by virtue of the same retainer, the said M. did honestly, faithfully, and truly behave herself, & did serve the said complainant and his said wife in all lawful business accordingly, during all the said year, and that to her knowledge no loss nor prejudice did be fall unto the said complainant through the negligence, default or abuse of the said M. in any respect during the same year. And that in the end thereof she departed from them with their favour & goodwill, at her own request, without that, that she the said M. was entertained in their said service, at & upon the entreaty of the said A. S. and upon her faithful promise unto the said complainant then given & made, that the said M. her said daughter should during the time of her service & abode with the said complainant honestly, faithfully, & truly behave herself, serving him and his said wife in all lawful businesses, and that if any loss or prejudice should befall unto the said complainant through the negligence or abuse of her the said M. in any respect, that then she the said A. St. upon notice to her given by the said complainant of such loss and detriment in that behalf sustained, would satisfy and recompense the said complainant, for the same to the uttermost value thereof, or that by reason thereof the same complainant entertained and received M. in his said service, as in the said bill it is untruly alleged. And the said defendants further say, that albeit she the said A. S. had made unto t●e said complainant any such promise as he in his bill of complaint supposeth (as in very truth she did not) yet were the same promise void in law, and of n● validity or force to bind her thereby, for that the said a. at the time of the said surmised promise was covert with I. S. her husband. And without that, that upon such promise the said wife of the said complainant delivered unto the said M. to her charge and custody many parcels of linen, and other necessary things, and furniture for the said complainant his behalf in any other manner then, as to every other ordinary servant in the same house in the like case, without taking upon her any special charge for the keeping thereof, as in the said bill of complaint it is very untruly alleged, and without that, that during the same time of the said abode of her the said M. in service with the said complainant, as aforesaid, the said M. did either secretly deliver unto the said A. S. her said mother divers or any of the said parcels of plate, linen, and other goods, for the use and behoof of the said A. S. or during the said term converted sundry or any other parcels of goods and sums of money received of guests that resorted to the said house, appertaining to the said complainant, unto the use and benefit of the said M. herself, by means whereof the said complainant was greatly prejudiced and hindered, to the loss of 30. or 40. l. or thereabouts, or that upon such occasions the said complainant was enforced to put the said M. from his service, for that the said complamant hath diverse and sundry times heretofore notified and made known unto the said A. the loss & hurt he sustained, as is aforesaid by, & through the negligence, default, & abuse of the said M. as is aforesaid, and required recompense and satisfaction for the said goods so supposed to the delivered, and converted to the use of the said A. and M. as is aforesaid, as in the said bill of complaint is most untruly alleged. And without that, that any other matter, thing, or things, clause, sentence, article, or allegation in the said bill of complaint contained material, or effectual, in the law to be answered unto by these defendants, or either of them, and not herein in their answer sufficiently answered unto, confessed, and avoided, denied, or travecsed, is true, all which matters these defendants and either of them, are ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award, and therefore they pray to be dismissed out of the same court, with their reasonable costs and charges in this behalf wrongfully and without cause sustained. The Replication to the same Answer. THe said complainant saving to himself all advantages of exception Sect. 116. to the incertainties and insufficiency of the said defendants answers, for replication saith as he before by his said bill hath said, and doth, and▪ will aver, justify, and maintain his said bill, & all and every thing and things therein contained to be good, just, and true in such sort manner and form, as in and by the same is most truly set forth and declared. And that the answers of the said defendants are uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law to be replied unto for divers untruths and imperfections therein contained, without that, that the said M. one of the said defendants did honestly, faithfully, and truly behave herself in the service of the said complainant as by the same defendants in their said answers is untruly alleged, for this said complainant saith, as he before by his said Bill hath said, that the said M. one of the said defendants did secretly deliver to the said A. the other defendant divers parcels of the goods of the said complainant, that the said defendants most wrongfully detain and withhold from him the said complainant against right and equity, and further the said complainant saith, and will aver and prove, that the said A. one of the said defendants, did give her faithful promise to satisfy and pay unto the said complainant the uttermost value of every loss, or hindrance the said complainant should sustain by the said M. as by his bill is most truly set forth & declared, without that, that any other matter, or thing in the said defendants answer contained material or effectual, to be replied unto, in, and hereby not sufficiently replied unto is true. All which matters the said complainant is ready to aver and prove, as this honourable court shall award. And prayeth as he before by his said bill hath prayed. A Bill for entering into and detaining copyhold lands sold by the defendant to the plaintiffs grandfather, which descended to the plaintiff being an infant, the said entry being made by reason that the copy and court roll of the said bargain came to the defendants hands. Humbly complaining▪ showeth unto your Lordship, your daily Orator Sect. 117. F. H. of W. in the county of York gentleman, that whereas about the xxiiii. day of September in the third year of the reign of the late King of famous memory Edward the sixth, one Christopher Baxter late of F. in the said County husbandman, was lawfully and rightfully seized in his demesne as of fee, as a copiholder, according to the custom of the Manor of the prebend of Laghton, it the said County, of and in one customary messsage or tenement, and one oxgange of land, with thappurtenances in F. aforesaid: and in another messsage or tenement, and thirty acres and a half of land with thappurtenances in F. aforesaid, and he being thereof so seized about the time aforesaid, for a certain great sum of money to him paid by F. H. of W. aforesaid, grandfather of your said Orator did surrender according to the custom of the said Manor, the said customary tenements and premises with thappurtenances into the hands of the then Lords of the said Manor, to the use of the said F. H. the grandfather & his heirs for ever, by force whereof the said F. H. the grandfather was thereof admitted tenant accordingly, and was of the same, as a copiholder lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, by, and according to the custom of the said Manor, and the rents, issues and profits thereof arising and growing, did likewise lawfully take & convert to his own use, vy the space of divers years, and afterwards the said F. H. the grandfather being thereof so seized of the said tenements and premises, died thereof so seized, about the second year of the reign of the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is. By and after whose death the said tenements and premises descended and came, and of right aught to descend and come unto your said Orator being then of very young and tender years, viz. about the age of six years, as next cousin & next heir unto the said F. H. the grandfather, that is to say, son of T. H. son & heir of the said F. H. the grandfather, but now so it is, if it may please your good L. that after the death of the said F. H. the grandfather, all the copies of Court rolls of the said manor, and the very Court rolls themselves concerning the premises, did by casual means come unto the hands, custody, & possession of the said C. B. & one T. G. of T. in the said county husbandman, or to the hands of one of them, which they or the one of them have canceled & defaced, intending thereby utterly to disinherit your said Orator of the same tenements & premises, & by colour thereof shortly after the death of the said F. H. the grandfather, the said C. B. old wrongfully abate and enter into the said tenements and premises. And ever since his said wrongful entre, that is to say, by the space of xxiiii. years or thereabouts, hath wrongfully occupied the premises or the most part thereof, and received and taken, and converted to his own use, the rents, issues, and profits of the said tenements & premises, and will not by any means permit or suffer your said Orator to enter, meddle, or have to do therewith. And notwhithstanding that your said Orator not only by himself, but also by his friends, hath in gentle and quiet manner, diverse times come unto the said C. & T. gently requiring them to deliver unto him your said orator, the said copies of court rolls, & to make reasonable recompense & satisfaction unto him your said Orator for the rents, issues, & profits of the said tenements & premises, so as is aforesaid by the said C. wrongfully received according to your said Orator his good right & title thereunto, yet that to do, they & either of them have ever hitherto refused & denied, & yet do refuse and deny to do the same against all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the disinherison of your said orator, of, & in the premises, & to his great loss & hindrance, if speedy remedy be not by your good Lordship in this honourable court speedily provided to prevent the same. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as your said Orator, not knowing the certain number, dates, or contents of the said copies and Court rolls, nor wherein they or any of them be contained, in bag, bore, or chest, locked, sealed or open, is therefore without all remedy by the due course of the common laws of this Realm to recover the same, and for lack thereof your said Orator is very like to lose the said tenements and premises, and for that also, that the contents of the said bargain and surrender of the said tenements and premises, so as is aforesaid, made between the said F. H. grandfather, and the said C. B. cannot now otherwise be proved then by answer of the said C. B. and T. B. made upon their Dathes in this honourable Court, all such persons as were witnesses of the same bargain, being now either dead, or else utterly unknown unto your said Orator being so young, as it is aforesaid, at the time of the making of the same. May it please your honourable Lordship to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed unto the said C. and T. straightly commanding them and either of them, at a certain day and under a certain pain therein to be limited, to appear before your Lordship in her majesties high court of Chancery, then and there to answer to the premises, and to abide such order and direction therein, as to your Lordship shall seem to stand with right, equity, and good conscience, and your said Orator shall daily pray to Almighty God for your honour in good health long to continue, etc. A Bill by the husband and wife, as Gardens to her child for evidences. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your good Lordship. Sect. 118. your poor and daily Orator I. W. of B. in the County of D. yeoman, and I. his wife late the wife of I. S. the elder of B. aforesaid yeoman now deceased. That where the said I. S. in his life time was lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee, of, and in one messsage or tenement, commonly called H. & of and, in certain lands, meadow and pasture, and other hereditaments with thappurtenances to the said tenement belonging, and with the same usually occupied, situate, lying and being in B. aforesaid. And he the said I. S. being of the premises so seized did in his life time convey and assure the same unto certain persons, and their heirs, to the use of the said I. and of the said I. then his wife, and of the longer liver of them, without impeachment of waste. And after their diseases, to the use of the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten, with divers remainders over, by force whereof the said I. S. and the said I. then his wife, were thereof seized accordingly, And so seized, the said I. S. about three years now last passed, died seized of such estate, as aforesaid, having issue between him and the said I one I. S. an infant of the age of two years or thereabouts. After whose death the said I held herself in the said messages and lands, and was thereof seized accordingly. And so seized took to husband the said I. W. the other of your said Orators, by force of which entermariage the said I W. and the said I. were lawfully seized of the premises, as in the right of the said I. And your said Orators have also the custody of the said I. S. the infant, rightly belonging to the said I. his mother as garden in Socage. Now so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that certain deeds, evidences, and writings, touching and concerning the premises, and of right belonging to your said Orators, and the said infant, or to the one of them, are casually come to to the hands and possessions of T. C. of B. aforesaid, and I. S. of H. being kinsman unto the said I. S. of B. the elder deceased, who by colour of having the said deeds, evidences, and writings, have wrongfully entered into the premises with thappurtenances, and thereupon have contrived certain secret estates unto divers persons unknown to your said Orators, and by colour thereof, they the said T. C. and I. S. of H. or the one of them of late time hath wrongfully entered into the premises, and hath received and taken the issues and profits of the premises, or some part thereof, from your said Orators, and although your said Orators have divers and sundry times gently requested the said T. C. and I. S. of H. to permit and suffer your said Orators quietly to have and enjoy the same premises, and to deliver unto your said Orators the said deeds, evidences, and writings, touching and concerning the premises, and which of right do belong and appertain unto your said Orators, and to the said I. S. the infant, yet they the same to do have hitherto refused, and yet do refuse contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, which is likely to turn, not only to the loss and hindrance of your said Orators, But also to the prejudice and disinheritance of the said infant, if speedy redress herein be not had by your good Lordship, in consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your said Orators do not know the certainty, nor certain number of the said deeds, evidences, writings, nor whether the same be contained in bag or box, sealed, or in chest locked, and so your said Orators, and the said infant are without any ordinary remedy for the recovery of the same by the common laws of this Realm, And for that your said Orators do hope that the same C. and S. will upon their Oaths in this honourable Court, confess the certainty and truety therein, where the said evidences are to be had, or to whom they have delivered the same. May it therefore please your good Lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto your said Orators the Queen's Majesties, etc. The Answer of the same. THe said defendants say, and every of them severally saith, that the Sect. 119. said bill of complaint is very uncertain, untrue and insufficient in the law, to be answered unto for divers manifest defaults and imperfections therein contained, and framed, and exhibited into this honourable Court, as these defendants verily think of malice and evil will, to the intent to put these defendants to great travail, charges and expenses to make their personal appearance in this honourable Court, the said defendants dwelling in B. aforesaid, in the said county of D. which is sixscore miles distant from the City of Westminster, and without any just cause so to do, and these defendants further say, that if the surmised matters contained in the said bill of complaint were true as in very truth they are not, yet were the same determinable, and to be determined by the common laws of this Realm, and not in this honourable Court, whereunto these defendants pray to be dismissed with their reasonable costs, charges, and damages in this behalf wrongfully and without just cause sustained, yet nevertheless, if these defendants shall be compelled by the order of this Court, to make any further or other answer unto the said uncertain and insufficient bill of complaint, than the advantage of exception to the incertainty and insufficiency thereof to these defendants, and either of them at all times here after saved, for further answer thereunto, and for a full and plain declaration of the truth, say that they think it is true, that the said I. S. was in his life time lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and in the said messsage or tevements commonly called the H. and of, and in certain lands, meadow, and pasture, and other hereditaments with the appurtenances to the said tenements belonging, and with the same usually occupied, situate, lying, and being in B. aforesaid, as in the said bill of complaint is alleged, but the said defendants further say, that the said tenements in the said bill of complaint contained, as they verily believe, are holden of the right honourable G. Earl of S. of his manor of C. in the said County of D. by knights service, and by the yearly rents of two shillings. And that he being thereof so seized, and the said Earl being also seized in fee, of the said manor, as these defendants think, died thereof so seized, by, and after whose death the said tenements and premises in the said bill mentioned, descended and came to the said I. S. the son, as son and heir of the said I. S. deceased, who is yet within the age of one and twenty years, by means whereof the said Earl after the death of the said I. S. the father, as garden of the said I. S. infant, during his minority, by reason of the tenute aforesaid, seized the body of the said I. S. the infant, without that, that to the said defendants knowledge, the said I. S. the father being of the premises seized in fee, did in his life time convey and assure the same premises unto certain persons, and their heirs to the use of the said I. S. & of the said I. then his wife, & of the longer liver of either of them, without impeachment of waist, and after their decease to the use of the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten, with divers remainders over, as in the said bill of complaint is untruly alleged, or that to these defendants knowledge, by force thereof the said I. S. and the said I. S. then his wife being thereof so seized died thereof so seized, or that to these defendants knowledge, after his death the said I. held herself in the said messages, lands and premises, and was thereof so seized accordingly, by force of any such conveyance, or that she being thereof so seized, took to husband the said I W. or that by force of the said entermariage the said I. W. and the said I. to the knowledge of these defendants, were so lawfully seized of the said premises, in the right of the said I. as in the said bill is alleged. And without that, that to these defendants knowledge the said I W. and I. have the custody of the said I. S. the infant rightfully belonging to the said I. as Garden in Socage, as in the said bill is likewise alleged. And without that, that any deeds, evidences, and writings, touching and concerning the premises, and of right belonging to the said infant, or to one of them, are casually come to the hands, custody, and possession of the said defendants other than such deeds, evidences, and writings, as the said I. did deliver unto the said T. S. the one of these defendants, which he the said T. about one year now last passed, or more, upon the receipt of the Queen's Majesties writ of Subpena delivered to I. L. late of H. haul in the County of D. Gentleman, to the use of the said infant which as he remembreth was done by appointment or agreement of the said I. And then an other old deed or writing without date containing these words following, or the very like in effect and meaning, viz. Sciant praesentes & futur' quod ego Io. filius Tho. de B. dedi concess. & hac praesenti charta mea confirmavi Duranto de Toxdwood pro homag', & seruitio suo, & pro quadam pecuniae summa mihi prae manibus soluta, totam terram meam quae vocatur le Haule cliff in territorijs de B. cum boscis, pratis, pascuis, pasturis & omnibus suis pertin'. sine aliquo retento, quae jacet integre in latitud' inter viam quae ducit versus B. terram quam L. de L. quondam tenuit, & extendit se in longitudin de meta de B. usque ad terram Abbat̄ de R. & terram quae fuit A. F. & terram R. de le Scagh, una cum tota illa terra cum domibus & edificijs in ea sitis, cum omnibus suis pertin', quam R. de T. quondam tenuit, quae jacet integre inter terra, etc. And without that any other matters, etc. A Bill to be discharged of a Recognisance for the saving of lands sold harmless, for that a lease made thereof by which he seemeth to be damnified, was either made in trust or by surrender, before the said bargain, with an answer, replication, and rejoinder to the same bill. COmplaining showeth unto your honourable Lordship Geor Earl Sect. 120. of Shrowsbury, that whereas Sir W. S. knight Lord M. deceaced, in his life time, about nine years now past, was lawfully seized of an estate of inheritance amongst other lands and tenements, of the third part of the scite & mansion house of the late dissolved Abbey, Monastery, or Priory of B. in the county of L. and of all and singular messages, houses, edifices, buildings, orchards, gardens, fishings, ponds, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, commons, & hereditaments with the appurtenances to the said scite belonging, then late in the occupation of F. S. & afterwards in thoccupation of one M. and the said Lord M. being thereof so seized about the xvi. day of December in the seven year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, of special and secret trust & confidence by him the said Lord M. reposed in one W. S. of M. in the county of S. gentleman, & M. his wife or of one of them, did make an Indenture bearing date the xvi. day of September, in the said seven. year of a demise of the said third part of the said scite, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with the appurtenances to the said W. S. and M. his wife, to have & to hold the same unto the said W. S. and M. from the decease of K. T. of S. for and during the term of xxi. years than next ensuing, as by the said Indenture appeareth. And delivered the said Indenture to be delivered as his deed, when the said W. S. had performed certain conditions & agreements between them made, upon which Indentures made by them, it was never intended nor agreed that the said W. S. and M. his wife, or their executors or assigns, or any of them, should take any benefit to them: but that the same lease should be surrendered, and at all times disposed at the pleasure of the said Lord M. by force whereof the said W. S. and M. were possessed of the interest of the said term accordingly, and being thereof so possessed, And the said L. M. being seized of the said R. of the third part of these tenements & premises of an estate of inheritance, afterwards, that is to say, the xviii. day of May, in the xii. year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady, the said Lord. M. by Indenture bearing date the said day and year, did bargain and sell the said third part of the said premises among other things to one I. C. of C. in the county of S. Esquire, and F. S. of S. in the said County Gentleman, and their heirs for ever, by which last recited Indenture, the said Lord M. for him and his heirs did covenant and grant, to and with the said I. C. and F. S. and either of them, that aswell the said I. C. and F. S. their heirs and assigns, as all the said manors, and tenements, by the said Indenture to them bargained and sold, at the ensealing and delivery of the same Indentures, were discharged, exonerated or saved harmless, and from thenceforth at all times, and from time to time hereafter for ever, should be discharged, exonerated, acquitted, or saved harmless by the said W. Lord M. his heirs, executors or administrators, of, and from all and singular gifts, grants, leases, charges, and encumbrances, had, made, granted or suffered in, or to the premises, or any part or parcel thereof, by the said Lord M. or by any other person or persons whatsoever, other than the said estate of the said K. S. late Duchess of S. and certain other things, in, and by the said Indenture excepted, as by the said Indenture appeareth. For performance of which covenant of the said Indenture, the said Lord M. Eagle, the second day of june in the said xii. year, became vounden unto the said I. C. and unto one M. S. of I. L. in the County of B. Esquire, by recognizance knowledged in this high court of Chancery in the sum of two thousand pounds, as thereby appeareth. And shortly afterwards, that is to say, about six years now last passed, the said K. late D. of S. died and the said I C. and F. S. entered into the manors, tenements, and premises with the appurtenances, and were, and yet be thereof seized in their demesnes, as of fee, by force of the said conveyance, and the profits thereof arising and coming to their own use took, and yet do quietly so take the same without any interruption, let, or trouble of the said W. S. and M. his wife, and their assigns, and every other person or persons according to the covenant, true intent, and meaning of the said Indenture of bargain & sale, And afterwards, that is to say, about five years now last passed, the said Lord M. for the sum of six thousand pounds, or thereabouts, did bargain and sell to the said Earl and his heirs, the manor of B. in the County of York, and divers other lands and tenements in B. and other places in the said County, by force whereof the said Earl was thereof lawfully seized in his demesne, as of fee, and the issues and profits thereof arising and growing, did quietly take and convert to his own use, from the time of the bargain, during all the life time of the said Lord M. & W. S. which was by the space of three years, after the death of the said Duchess or thereabouts. And afterwards, that is to say, about five years last passed, the said M. died, since whose death the said I C. M. S. F. S. T. H. D. W. M. and I. T. And the said M. late wife of the said W. S. and executrix or administratrix of the said Will, as the said Earl is informed, by the agreement and privity of Ed. Lord Morley, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of the said Lord Mount Eagle, having gotten into their hands the said Indenture of demise, albeit that the said T. performed not the conditions and covenants between him the said Lord M. amongst themselves, did conceal and frustrate the said trust reposed by the said Lord. M. in the said W. S. and M. or the one of them to the intent to extend the said Recognisance of two thousand pounds, upon the said manor of B, And such other lands and tenements as the said Earl hath purchased of the said Lord M. contrary to the good meaning of the said Lord M. contrary to the great trust and confidence by him reposed in the said W. S. and M. his wife, and the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease. And for that purpose have procured the said estate and interest of the said W. S. and M. of the said third part to be conveyed to the said M. to the intent that the said W. M. should enter into the said third part so leased, as is aforesaid, to disturb the possession of the said C. and F. S. which he hath done accordingly, to the intent that thereby, the said I. C. & M. S. might have some colour to extend the said Recognisance of two thousand pounds against the said Earl, notwithstanding that the said I. C. & F. S. ever since the entry of the said M. have quietly occupied the said demised third part, & yet do quietly occupy the same, not having had any damage thereby to the value of xii. d. by reason of the said lease, All which notwithstanding, if it may please your good Lordship, the said M. S. F. S. and I. C. have procured execution of the Recognisance of two thousand pounds, to be sued against the said Earl by process out of this honourable Court, according to the form and effect of the said recognizance, for that as they suppose the said third part is charged with the said lease thereof made to the said S. and his wife, and assigned by the said S. to the said W. M. who by force thereof hath entered into the said third part, and disturbed the possession of the said I. C. and F. S. and their assigns, And for that by means thereof the said manors, lands, and tenements to them bargained and sold by the said Lord M. in form aforesaid, were not saved harmless by the said Lord M. or his heirs of, and from all and singular leases had, made, or granted of the said manor and other the premises mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargain and sale, according to the form and effect thereof, which said practise and compact is much against the said trust and meaning of the said Lord M. reposed in the said W. S. and M. ●is wife, and against the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease & Recognisance, tending to the great loss and damage of the said Earl, and against all right, equity, and good conscience, if the said purpose should not be equity and consideration of this honourable Court be prevented and met withal: In consideration whereof, and for so much as, aswell the said trust touching the said lease as the said compact and agreement amongst the said parties to extend the said Earl his said lands by reason of the said Recognisance by matters secretly agreed upon amongst themselves, the said Earl not knowing any witnesses which were present at the making thereof, so that the said Earl can very hardly make such proof in this honourable Court thereof, or of the said conditional delivery of the said Indenture, as is necessary in the behalf, unless the said parties or some of them will confess the same in their answers upon their Oaths in this honourable Court, as the said Earl verily thinketh they will. And for as much also as it is very likely, that the said Lord M. would never have entered into the said recognizance of two thousand pounds for the performance of the said covenants of the said Indenture of bargain and sale, without making exception therein of the said lease, if the said lease of the said third part before the making of the said Indenture of bargain and conveyance, had not been so delivered of credit and of trust frustrated or granted over to the said W. M. or some other by the consent and agreement of the said I. C. and F. S. for their benefit, for the avoiding of new charges growing between the making of the said lease & the said bargain. And albeit aswell the other two parts of the said lands, as all other lands & tenements, with thappurtenances, bargained & sold by the said Indenture, were & be clearly discharged of all encumbrances, according to the true meaning of the said Indenture, it may therefore please your good Lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto the said Earl the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed unto the said I. C. M. S. E. L. M. and E. his wife C. D. W. M. I. T. & M. commanding them and every of them, at a certain day and place, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, to be, and personally to appear before your good Lordship in the Queen's majesties high Court of Chancery, then and there to answer unto the premises, and to abide such further order and direction therein, as to your honour shall seem to stand with right, equity, and good conscience. And the said Earl, etc. A Bill for the defendant by means of en●ermariage, with the wife and executrix of one, who by casual means got the possession of one deed of demise indented made unto the plaintiff, detaineth the said demise, and by colour thereof doth occupy the tenements demised, and taketh the profits to his own use. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your good Lo. your Sect' 121. daily Orator I. M. of B. in the County of N. That whereas one T. C. of D. within the County of Y. did by his deed Indented of demise, about the fiveteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that nowiss, demise and grant to your said Orator, ten acres of land, five acres of meadow, and five acres of pasture with thapppurtenances, lying and being in B. aforesaid: To have and to hold to your said Orator and his assigns, for the term of xxi. years, from and after a certain day therein expressed, if the said T. C. should so long live, for the yearly rent of xx. shillings, payable at the feast of P. and Saint M. the Bishop in winter, by even portions. But now so it is, if it may please your good Lordship, that the said Indenture, the certain dates or contents whereof, your said lordships Orator knoweth not, before the day when the said lease should begin and take effect, did by casual means come to the hands, custody, and possession of one I. W. who made his last Will and Testament, and therein appointed one E. then his wife, his sole executrix and died, by and after whose death the said Indenture came into his hands and custody of the said E. since which time the said E. did marry, and took to husband one R. I. of B. by reason of which intermariage the said Indenture is now come to, and remaineth in the hands, custody, and possession of the said R. I. and E. his wife, or of the one of them, who by reason of having of the said Indenture, without any just title or interest therein, have entered into the said premises with thappurtenances, and will not in any wise quietly permit and suffer your Lordships said Orator to have, and enjoy his said term, of, and in the premises, according to his lawful right and interest therein, but contrary to all equity, and good conscience, have ever sithence taken and converted, and as yet do daily take and convert the issues to their own proper use and behoof, and will neither deliver unto your Lordship's said Orator the said Indenture, nor permit and suffer him to have and peaceably enjoy the said premises, as aforesaid, or any part thereof, although your said Orator hath at divers & sundry times required them so to do. In consideration whereof, and for as much as your Lordships said Orator is without all help and remedy at the common law, for that he knoweth not, nor remembreth the dates or contents, or any other certainty of the said Indenture, May it please your good Lordship to grant her majesties gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. I. and E. his wife, and to either of them, commanding them and either of them thereby, personally to appear before your honour in her majesties high Court of Chancery at W. at a certain day, and under a certain pain by your honour therein to be limited there, etc. A Bill against an Infant for boarding, and apparel delivered to him by the plaintiff, and for not performing of a lease. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your Honourable Sect. 122. Lordship, your daily Orator T. T. of B. in the County of D. husbandman: That whereas about four years now last passed, one G. B. of B. aforesaid yeoman, being seized in his demesne as of ●ee, of, and in diverse lands, tenements, and hereditaments with their appurtenances in B. aforesaid, holden in Socage of I. S. as of the Manor of D. which said tenements and premises the said G. B. had by descent, by and after the death of B. his late father, and the said G. B. being thereof so seized, and being of the age of xx. years or thereabuuts, and under the age of xxi. years, about the xxv. day of july which was in the thirty year of the Reign of the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is, by means, counsel, procurement, and persuasion of divers evil disposed persons (that is to say) one A. E. I. M. W. M. T. C. H. M. N. H. W. H. and D. D. intending by their ungodly compact & practise to make a pray of the simplicity of your said Orator, being an ignorant unlearned man, the said G. B. came unto your said Orator, pretending that he did then bear great good will and favour to your said Orator, and therefore entreated your said Orator that he might board & remain with your said Orator in his house at B. aforesaid, and not only have meat, drink, & lodging, but also such apparel & raiment as your said Orator should think meet & convenient for his degree & calling, at the costs & charges of your said Orator, promising faithfully and fully to satisfy your said Orator for all such charges & expenses as he by reason of the premises should in any wise sustain. Wherefore your said Orator giving credit unto the said G. B. in the premises, & thinking that, that he had faithfully promised, he would fully and effectually have performed, did then fully consent and agree, to, and with the said G. B. to find him meat, drink, lodging, & apparel, as is aforesaid, for the consideration promised as is aforesaid: By pretence whereof the said G. B. about the same time came to the said house of your said Orator, and remained there with your said Orator, until about the second day of February than next following, during all which time your said Orator at his own proper costs and charges, did provide and find for, and unto the said G. B. all manner of necessary meat, drink, lodging, apparel, and all other things necessary for him. About which second of February the said G. B. pretending to continue his said favour and good will towards your said Orator, by the like counsel, means, and persuasion of the said evil disposed persons, and by their compact and agreement, did demise and lease unto your said Orator, all, or the most part of all the said messsage, tenements, and premises, that he the said G. B. so had, as is aforesaid, by descent from his said father, to have and to holdeth said tenements and premises, with the appurtenances to him, his executors and assigns, from the feast of the Annunciation of the blessed virgin Mary then next ensuing, unto the end and term of three years thence next ensuing, your said Orator & his assigns, yielding & paying therefore at the end and expiration of the said term of three years xx. pounds of lawful English money. And also finding unto the said G. B. during the said time of three years convenient lodging, meat, drink and apparel, and also keeping for the said G. B. twenty sheep, by reason of which demise, your said Orator about the said feast of the Annunciation of the blessed virgin Marie, did enter into the said demised messages, tenements, and premises, and occupied the same messages, tenements, and premises, by the space of two years, or thereabouts, and during the same time, did at his own costs and charges provide & find unto the said G. B. convenient meat, drink, lodging, and apparel, and also his xx. sheep, according to the said agreement, and besides those xx. forty sheep more at the least, to the charges of your said Orator of one hundred Marks at the least. But now so it is, if it may please your honourable Lordship to understand, that about the first day of March, which was into the two and thirty year of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's majesties reign that now is, your said Orator having then inned into the Barns of the said tenements and premises forty loads of Hay, or thereabouts, part thereof did grow upon the said tenements and premises, but the most part thereof was brought from other places and having also man●red the said grounds to his exceeding great costs and charges, the said G. B. being then of full age, by the like persuasion and procurement of the persons abovesaid, did enter into the said demised tenements and premises, whereof your said Orator was then quietly possessed, as he then found the same, And he together with the said A. E. I. M. W. N. C. H. M. N. H, W. H. & H. G. did take away and convert to their own uses, the most part of the said forty loads of Hay or thereabouts to the value of twenty marks at the least. By means whereof your said Orator having against the Winter before, provided great store of beasts and cattle for to have eaten the said Hay for the sustenance of them, he was enforced to buy, and did buy a great quantity of Hay at an excessive price, or else to have famished the most of his said beasts for want of fodder, which was to the great loss and damage of your said Orator: Nevertheless the said G. B. by the like counsel and persuasion of the said evil disposed persons, albeit he hath been sundry times gently required by your said Orator to make unto him some reasonable recompense and satisfaction for the loss of his said term and his other damages, and for such costs and charges, as he had bestowed for the manuring and bettering of the said grounds so to him demised, and for such costs and charges as he your said Orator did sustain and bear, for, and by reason of the keeping, and maintaining of him the said G. B. as is aforesaid, with apparel, meat, drink, and lodging, he utterly denieth, and refuseth to yield unto him any manner of satisfaction or recompense for the same, or part thereof, alleging, that at the time of the making of the said several contracts, he was within the age of xxi. years, and therefore and for the incertainty some of the same contracts be merely void in law. And not so contented, doth yet by the like counsel & persuasion of the said evil disposed persons, sue your poor Orator, for the occupation and use of the said grounds, and for the profits and commodities thereof during the foresaid term. Notwithstanding that he himself, and his said confederates did so as is aforesaid, unjustly take away your Orators said Hay, being of far more value than the profits which he ever received, for, or by the grounds so to him demised, did amount unto, against all right, equity, or good conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as your said Orator is a very poor man, and hath no ordinary remedy by the strict course of the common laws of this realm and dominion of England, either to defend himself in the said suit or to recover any thing at all against the foresaid G. B. as well by reason that the said several contracts and agreements were so uncertainly made, as is aforesaid with him, being at the making hereof an infant, as for that the same contracts & agreements were made privately between your foresaid Orator and him the said G. B. few or none being present thereat, which can testify the same, neither can your said Orator set down in certain, how much of his said Hay they did so take and carry away, and yet is there great cause in equity why your said Orator should be relieved for the same in this honourable court. It may therefore please your honourable Lordship, the premises graciously considered, to grant unto your said Orator the Q. majesties most gracious several writs of Subpena to be directed unto the said G. B. A. E. I. M. W. M. T. C. H. M. N. H. W. H. & H. G. & every of them, thereby commanding them, and every of them under a certain pain, and at a certain day therein to be limited and appointed, to be, and personally to appear before your Honourable Lordship in her majesties most high Court of Chancery, then & there to answer unto the premises, and to abide such further order & direction therein, as to your honourable Lordship shall seem to stand with right, equity, and good conscience. And your said Orator shall daily pray unto almighty God for the preservation of your Honourable Lordship in good health long to continue with much increase of honour etc. A Bill of debt upon a contract against the surviving partner, or joint chapman, and thadministrator of tother. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your Honourable Sect. 123. Lordship your daily Orator R. P. of L. in the county of York chapman, that whereas the third day of May now last passed, which was in the five and thirty year of the most prosperous reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is, and before and after the said third day of May, one W. T. of W. in the county of M. grazier, now lately deceased, were chapmen, partners, copercioners, or parting fellows, did then as partners and parting fellows jointly occupy together in all manner aswell of buying, and selling, bartering, or bargaining of beasts and cattle, with their several stocks, and of, and with divers other goods, beasts, and catttell taken upon their credit, and of, and with all increase and gains from time to time arising and growing by reason of their said occupying, as by factorship, alienation, exchange, or otherwise, for a certain time between them the said W. T. & R. W. privately agreed upon, and it was also then agreed between them, that during the time of their said joint occupying together or partnership, either of the said parties should be faithful and true to other in buying, selling, and otherwise, as is aforesaid. And all such lucre, profit and gain, advantage, benefit, and winning, as should come, grow, or arise in buying and selling any beasts or cattle, during their joint occupying or partnership, should be equally parted and divided between the said parties, so as either of them should have his just and true moiety and portion of the same. And that at such times as it was between them agreed upon, either of them should make a just and true reckoning and account with other of buying and selling, of all such beasts and cattle, and otherwise as aforesaid. And it was then also agreed between them the said W. T. and R. W. that if any loss or charge shall happen to either of the said parties at any time or times during their said joint occupying together, & partnership by death of a cattle, evil debts, casualties, or otherwise concerning their joint occupying to any part of the said stock in buying and selling of beasts or cattle, or otherwise, as is aforesaid, to be impaired, that the same loss and charge should be equally borne by both the said parties. And if it should hap either of the said parties of die during the said joint occupying or partnerships, than the executors or administrators of the goods and chattels of the party so dead should make a just & true account, payment, & delivery of such part of all increase, gains, beasts, cattle, & debts, as should be due to the party surviving. And in like manner that the party surviving should make & declare to the executors of the goods & chattels of the party so dead, a just, true & perfect account & reckoning of all the state and quality of their said joint occupying or partnership, and also pay, deliver & assign unto the said executors or administrators of the party so dead, such moiety, half part & portion of the said increase, gains, beasts, cattle, & debts, as upon the same accounts should then have been due unto the party so dead, in so large and ample manner, as if he had been then living, and the said joint occupying then ended, at such times, & in such manner, as it was between the said parties agreed upon, by force of which agreement, they the said W. T. & R. W. jointly, as coparteners, joint Chapmen, partners, or parting fellows, occupied together their said stocks, and other things aforesaid, & according to their mutual agreement, by buying, selling, & exchanging of beasts & cattle, and otherwise, in sundray fairs and markets of this Realm of E. and with divers and sundry of her majesties faithful, and loving subjects until the day of etc. now last passed, at which time the said R. W. died & the said W. T. him survived, during which said joint occupying together, partnership, or society, that is to say, the third day of May now last passed, the said R. for, and to the use of himself, and of the said W. T. his partner, and joint chapman, as is aforesaid, at M. in the county of N. did buy of your honours suppliant in the open ma●ket then there holden, three Oxen for six pound five shillings, of which sum, part was then in hand paid, and the residue was then agreed to be paid unto your Orator upon the Tuesday in Whitsun week then next following in N. aforesaid, and also upon the Wednesday ensuing the day, commonly called or known by the name of Holie-thursday, the said R. W. did also buy to the use of him, & the said T. of your said Orator other two Oxen for 8. pounds, to have been paid to your Orator upon the said Tuesday in Whitsun week, at N. aforesaid, which said Oxen were then accordingly delivered to the said R. W. at N. aforesaid, and shortly after the said R. W. delivered the same Oxen to the hands of the said W. T. and died, not having paid or satisfied this your Orator, of and for the said fourteen pounds, nor of any part thereof, according to the said bargain, the said Oxen remaining in the hands and possession of the said W. T. and after the time of the death of the said R. W. and were sithence by him the said W. T. converted to his own only use, by means whereof, action accrued unto your said Orator, to demand, and have of the said W. T. and of one E. W. of S. in the county of E. widow, late wife of the said R. W. or of one of them, the said 14 l. so to him due for the said Oxen, which the said E. W. by the compact and consent of the said W. T. and R. W. became executor to the said R. W. and wrongfully administered & converted to his own use divers goose and chattels which were belonging to the said R. W. at the time of his death. And albeit your said Orator hath divers and sundry times come and sent to the said W. T. and E. since the death of the said R. W. gently requiring payment of the said sum of 14. l. so as aforesaid, being behind and unpaid of the price of the said Oxen, notwithstanding that divers goods & chattels, which were the said R. W. at the time of his death sufficient for the contentation of your said Orator, of, and for his said debt of 14. l. And also to perform the funerals of his said R. W. and to satisfy all debts which the said R. W. aught to any person or persons at the time of his death, came to the hands & possess. of the said W. T. or E. W. or to the hands & possess. of such person or persons, to whom they the said W. T. & E. W. or the one of them, have left, yielded, or delivered the same, & in their or some of their hands doth still remain. Notwithstanding they & either of them have divers and sundry times since the death of the said R. W. been by your said Orator & others in his behalf gently required to pay the same, yet that to do they and either of them have ever hitherto denied and refused, and yet do deny and refuse to pay the same unto your said Orator, fraudulently intending thereof and every part thereof craftily and subtly to defraud, and deceive your said Orator. And for that purpose have secretly conveyed, concealed, and hid a great part of the goods and chattels, which the said K. W. had at the said time of his death being of good value to diverse persons, and in divers places to your Orator utterly unknown, so that the same being by that means left out of the Inventory of the goods of the said R. W. to the intent to das●e & blind the eyes of your Orator, and of sundry of the said R. W. creditors to whom he was in like manner indebted, not knowing the truth of their dealing, and ungodly practices and devices, intending by such colourable means, either utterly to defraud his said creditors or so to enforce them to rest contented with some small part of their true and lawful debt. And whereas afterwards that is to say, upon Tuesday next after Midsummer day now last passed, your Orator and one T. T. of L. in the County of L. husbandman by a private agreement between them made, did jointly buy of divers persons to the use of them both, eight Oxen, and seven Bullocks, or Steers for divers several sums of money, and afterwards the said beasts that is seven of the said Oxen, and the said seven Bullocks or Steers for the price of which 14. beasts, and of the said odd Ox, your Orator and the said T. T. afterwards privately accounted, and he thereupon satisfied your orator all that to him was due for the same but 3. l. 13. s. 4. d. or thereabouts, and being persuaded by the said W. T. and E. W. and by their pernicious example, not satisfied with their former wrong as is said, offered to your said Orator, have also persuaded the said T. T. not to pay to your said Orator, the said sum of 3. l. 13. s. 4. d. or thereabouts so to him due, for the price of the said Oxen, so that albeit the said T. T. hath oftentimes since the making of the said bargain and account, been gently required by your said Orator and others on his behalf, yet ●e hath ever hitherto denied and refused to make payment thereof, and still doth deny, and refuse to do the same, against all right, equity, and good conscience, which unlawful practices of the said W. T. and E. W. and T. T. are likely to be to the great loss, and hindrance of your said Orator, if speedy remedy be not by your good Lordship provided to meet with, and prevent their covetous and most unconscionable dealings and purposes in the premises: wherefore, and for as much as the said agreement of partnership, and otherwise, made between the said W. T. and R. W. & also all the compacts and practices made, by, and between the said W. T. and the said E. W. since the death of the said R. W. And also the said agreement of the joint buying of the said fifteen beasts by your Orator, and the said T. and also the said bargain between your Orator and the said R. W. for the said five Oxen, as also the said joint buying of the said fifteen beasts by your orator, & the said T. T. were secretly and privately made between themselves, so that there is no person living known to your said Orator, but the said W. T. E. W. and T. T. privy thereunto, that can testify the said several contracts, made between your said Orator, and the said R. W. of, and for the said five Oxen, as is aforesaid, and the said joint buying of the said fifteen beasts by your said Orator & the said T. T. & their said accounts touching the same, or the said joint occupying or partnership between the said W. and T. or the said concealment, cunning, close, and unlawful dealings of the said E. W. and T. in the premises, so that your said Orator, through the want of such precise proof thereof (as the strict course of the common laws of this Realm doth in that behalf require) is altogether remediless, by the order of this honourable Court, wherein your Orator verily hopeth, that the said W. T. E. W. and T. T. in their several answers to the premises, will severally upon their corporal Oaths confess the said premises, to be in effect, as they have been herein disclosed and set forth: It may therefore please your Honourable good Lordship, the premises graciously considered, to grant unto your said Orator, her majesties most gracious several writs of Subpena, to be directed to the said W. T. EWE. T. T. and to every of them, thereby commanding them, and every of them, at a certain day, and under a certaives pain therein limited, to be, and personally to appear before your honourable Lordship in her majesties most high Court of Chancery, then, and there to answer unto the premises, and abide such further order and direction therein, as to your honourable Lordship shall seem to be agreeable with right, equity, and good conscience. And your said Orator shall daily pray etc. A Bill upon a promise to forbear debt due by Obligation until an other day, and yet suing the band. IN most humble wise showeth and complaineth unto your honourable Sect' 124. Lordship etc. That whereas one R. F. of etc. in the County aforesaid Gentleman, was indebted to one W. P. of D. aforesaid, in the sum of etc. And whereas your said Orator, at the special and earnest entreaty and request of the said R. F. about two years last passed, became bounden for the said F. unto the said W. P. by his deed or writing obligatory, in the sum of etc. with Condition therein cantained or endorsed, for the payment of the sum of etc. unto the said W. P. at the feast of etc. which was in the year etc. at, or in the Church porch of etc. aforesaid, as by the said deed or writing obligatory doth and may appear: Which said sum of etc. your said Orator had appointed in a readiness, and purposed to pay the same at the time and place aforesaid, according to the Condition of the said writing obligatory: Whereupon the said W. P. the very day appointed for the payment of the said etc. or the day before, the certainty whereof your said Orator, now remembreth not, came unto your said Orator, and upon speech had between your said Orator, and the said P. touching the payment of the said money: The said P. was contented, and did agree to forbear the payment thereof, until the feast of P. then next following, and did faithfully assume and promise, to, and with your said Orator, both then, and at divers times after, to forbear the payment thereof until the said feast, and that he would not take any advantage of the forfeiture of the said bond against your said Orator, but would cancel the said bond, and take a new bond for the payment thereof at the said feast of P. aforesaid, but never required any new bond from your said Orator: And your said Orator giving credit to his promise and assumption aforesaid, did not pay the said sum of etc. according to the Condition of the said writing obligatory. After which time, the said W. P. did oftentimes promise your said Orator, to deliver the said bond of etc. to your said Orator to be canceled, and to take new bond for the payment of the foresaid sum of etc. at the said feast of Penticost according to his promise and agreement aforesaid: And your said Orator doubting that the said P. meant to delay him, and drive him off from time to time, and not fearing lest the said P. should take any advantage of the forfeiture of the said bond against him, in Michaelmas Term last passed, your said Orator demanded the said bond again of the said P. in L. who told your said Orator, that he had delivered over the said bond unto one W. W. being his brother in Law, to whom he had assigned over the said bond, and could not release or discharge the said bond without the assent of the said W. W. but would make means to the said W. W. for the delivery of the same, and seemed to make divers journeys to the said W. W. to fetch the same: And so from time to time delayed your said Orator, and drove him out with fair words, until such time as your said Orator was upon occasion of business, enforced to ride out of L. into the Country: And shortly after, your said Orator purposing to get the same bond out of the said P. and W. hands, did in the said Michaelmas Term, send one G. V his servant to L. with the said money, to make payment thereof unto the said W. and P. and to receive the said bond, who coming to L. accordingly to the said W. and P. and declaring unto them, that he was come to make payment of the foresaid sum of etc. and to receive the said bond, the said W. than told the said N. that the said bond was not then in his custody or keeping: But the said W. did then and there promise, that if the said V would deliver over a bond which he had in his keeping of trust, to the use of the sa●d P. that then the said W. and P. would the next day following, come to the said V his lodging, and receive the said etc. and deliver over the foresaid bond of, etc. unto him, upon whose promise the said V did then presently (trusting to his fair speeches) deliver the said bond which he had, to the use of the said P. to the said P. or W. accordingly. But so it is (may it please your good Lorenzo) that the said P. & W. nothing at all regarding their foresaid several promises, agreements, and assumptions made, to, and with your said Orator, and the said V as aforesaid, have not only hitherto refused and denied to deliver over the said bond of etc. unto your said Orator, according to the promises and agreements made, as aforesaid, but yet do utterly refuse and deny to do the same: albeit your said Orator did oftentimes, both before the said feast of &c. as aforesaid, and divers times since, offer to make payment of the said sum of etc. unto the said P. and W. according to the foresaid agreement, and yet is ready and willing to pay the same: But also the said P. and W. purposing to bring upon your said Orator the whole penalty and forfeiture of the said bond of etc. have, or one of them hath of late, contrary to the foresaid assumptions & agreements made, as aforesaid, & contrary to all honesty, equity, and good conscience, commenced suit at the common law against your said Orator upon the said bond, to his great loss and hindrance. And the said W. P. hath of late utterly denied, that ever he promised to forbear the payment of &c. until the foresaid feast of etc. contrary to the truth, and contrary to all equity and good conscience: In tender consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Oratar cannot plead the promise and agreement of the said P. made to your said Orator, for forbearing of the money (as aforesaid) in bar of the said bond at the common law, and thereby is void of all remedy, at, and by i strict order and course of the common law of this Realm, nor can use nor bring any action of the case against the said P. or W. upon their said promises and assumptions, for that your said Orator cannot make any such sufficient proof thereof, as by the common law is in such case required, for that the same were made privately between themselves, and no witnesses called thereunto. And for as much as your said Orator verily thinketh that the said W. P. and W. W. being called into this most honourable court to answer to the premises, will in their answer upon their corporal oaths confess the foresaid conclusions, promises, and agreements made, as a foresaid, and disclose the truth of the premises: May it therefore please your good Lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto your said Orator, the Queen's most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed unto them the said W. P. and W. W. commanding them, and either of them, at a certain day, and upon a certain pain by your good Lordship to be appointed, personally to appear before your good Lordship, in the Queen's Majesties most high Court of Chancery, then, and there to answer to the premises: And further to stand to, and abide such further order and direction therein, as to your good Lordship shall be thought most meet and convenient in that behalf. And your said Orator, according to his bounden duty, shall daily pray unto God for the good and prosperous estate of your Lordship, in honour long to continue. The Answer of W. P. and W. W. defendants, to the bill of complaint of E. L. complainant. THe said defendants, and either of them saith, that for the most part Sect. 125. the said bill is untrue, slanderous and insufficient in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein contained, devised of malice, to put these defendants to needless charges and expenses in law, without any sufficient cause so to do: The advantage of exception to which insufficient bill to these defendants at all times saved, For answer they say, and first the said W. P. for himself saith, that true it is, that the said complainant did become bound to these defendants, by his obligation in the sum of etc. with condition endorsed for the true payment of the said sum etc. at a day long since past, The which sum this defendant did verily think to have received accordingly, and thereof did make reckoning, as of a debt then to be paid to him, and for that cause did at the very day appointed for the payment of the same, repair unto the place specified in the condition of the said obligation, where the said money should be paid, and there did attend for the same, in hope to have received it accordingly: But the said complainant, meaning nothing less than the satisfying of the said debt, left the same unpaide, to the great hindrance, loss, and discredit of these defendants. And this defendant further saith, that he hath often and sundry times since the said money was due, made means to the complainant for payment of the same, who from time to time with fair promises (now almost these three years) hath delayed this defendant to his greater hindrance, than the value of the said sum: By reason whereof, and for as much as the complainant hath sought divers indirect ways and means to get the said Obligation of etc. out of the hands of this defendant with intent never to pay penny of the debt aforesaid: This defendant hath caused the said Obligation to be put in suit, as he thinketh it is lawful for him to do, without that, that the complainant to the knowledge of the defendant did prepare in a readiness to have paid the said &c. at the time and place, according to the condition of the Obligation aforesaid: Or that this defendant upon the very day appointed for the payment of the same etc. or the day before, (or in truth at any time else) did come to the complainant, and had speech with him, that he was contented and did agree to forbear the punishment thereof, until the feast of etc. then next following, or did assume and promise, to, and with the complainant, both then, & at divers times after to for bear the payment thereof, until the said feast, and would not take any advantage of the forfeiture of the said bond, but would cancel the said bond, and would take new bond for the payment thereof, at the said feast of P. as in the said bill is most falsely declared. And without that, that the said complainant to the knowledge of the defendant did send one G. V his servant to L. with the said money to make payment thereof to one of these defendants, as also in the said bill of complaint is untruly alleged. For this defendant saith, that he sought often to the complainant, and made means unto him, to have the said defendant either to be paid in nonny, or that he might be satisfied thereof some other way, who made him many promises to do the same with speed, but never meant or intended it, for any thing that this defendant could get to the contrary. And the said W. W. the other of these defendants for himself saith: That whereas he is charged to have made promise to the said V that if he would deliver a bond which he had in his keeping of trust, to the use of the said P. that then he this defendant and the said P. would the next day following, come to the said V his lodging, and receive the said sum of etc. and deliver over the said bond of etc. He this defendant saith, that he never made any such promise to the said V to his remembrance, neither was there any cause at all that he should so do aswell because in truth, and in honesty the said V ought to make delivery of the said bond, so committed unto him, but of trust, as appeareth by the plaintiffs own showing, as also for that this defendant was informed, that the said V had delivered the said bond before that they two met together to talk of the said debt. And this defendant further saith, that although it were true, that he had made such promise (as aforesaid) yet were it nothing at all material for the relief of the complainant, aswell for the cause aforesaid, as also for that this defendant had no power of himself to do, either good or hurt in the matter. And without that, that any other matter or thing whatsoever material in the said untrue bill to b answered unto, and not in this answer sufficiently answered, confessed, and avoided, traversed, or denied, is true. All which matters these defendants are ready to aver and prove, as this most honourable Court shall award, and prayen to be dismissed with their reasonable costs in this behalf wrongfully sustained. The Replication of E. L. Esq. Complainant, to the Answer of W. P, and W. W. Defendant. THe said Complainant replieth and saith, that the said bill of complaint Sect. 126. by him exhibited into this most honourable court, is very true, certain, and sufficient, the law to be answered unto, And that the matters therein contained, are neither devised, imagined, practised, or set forth by him the said complainant, for any such cause or purpose, as the defendants in their answers have untruly imagined, but the same is grounded upon good and just cause, as by the contents thereof doth and may appear. And further saith, that the answer of the said defendant is very untrue, uncertain, and insufficient in the law to be replied unto, The advantage of exception to the incertainety and insufficiency thereof to the said complainant, now, and at all times hereafter saved. The said complainant for further replication saith, that he doth, and will aver, justify, maintain, and prove, all, and eveuerie matter, article, sentence, and thing, in the said bill of complaint contained, to be good, just, and true, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said bill of complaint they be truly set forth, showed, and declared. And further the said complainant saith, that he doth, and will aver and prove, as this most honourable Court shall and will award, that the said compainant did prepare in a readiness, and purposed to pay the foresaid sum etc. in the said bill & answer mentioned, at the time and place in the condition of the said obligation mentioned, according to the true intent and meaning of the condition of the said obligation in such sort, manner, & form, as in the said bill of complaint is most truly set forth & alleged. And that the very day appointed for the payment thereof, or the day before, the said W. P. one of the said defendants did come to the said complainant, and upon speech had between them touching the payment of the said money, the said defendaut was contented, & did agree to forbear the payment thereof, until the feast of etc. the● next following, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said bill of complaint is most truly alleged. With that also, that the said W. P. did faithfully assure and promise, to and with the said complainant, both then, and at sundry times after, to forbear the payment thereof, until the said feast of etc. aforesaid, and would not take any advantage of the forfeiture of the said bond against the said complainant, but would cancel the said bond and take new bond for the payment thereof, at the feast aforesaid. And that the said complainant, relying upon the foresaid agreement, promise, and assumption of the said P. for the forbearing of the said &c. until the said feast of etc. aforesaid, and for the taking of a new bond for the payment thereof, at the feast aforesaid, did not pay the same, according to the condition of the foresaid Obligation, which otherwise he would have done, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said bill of complaint is also most truly set forth and declared. And with that also, that the said complainant in Mich. Term last passed, sent the said G. V his servant to L. with the said money to make payment thereof. And that the said W. W. the other defendant upon offer of tender of the foresaid sum of money by the said V The said W. W. did promise to deliver the said bond unto the said V within short time after, so as the said V would deliver over a bond which he had in his keeping, to the use of the said P. and would also at a time between them agreed on, make payment of the said sum of etc. which bond was delivered over accordingly, to the said P. or W. by the said V And the said V was ready to tender and pay the said money, according to the said appointment, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said bill of complaint is also truly alleged. Without that, that the said W. P. one of the said defendants, sought often to the said complainant, and made means to him to have the said debt, either to be paid in money, or that he might be satisfied thereof, some other way, who made him many fair promises to do the same, but never meant, or intended it, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said answer is most untruly alleged: For the said complainant saith, that he did often and sundry times, both before the said feasts etc. and divers times sithence, offer to make payment of the said sum etc. unto the said W. P. and W. and always was, and yet is ready and willing, upon the redelivery of the foresaid bond, to pay the same, in such sort, as in the said bill of complaint is most truly showed and alleged. And without that also, that any other thing, matter, or circumstance in the said answer mentioned, material or effectual to be replied unto, and in this Replication not sufficiently confessed, avoided, denied, traversed or otherwise replied unto, is true. All which matters the said complainant is ready to aver and prove, as this most Honourable Court shall and will award. And prateth, as before in his said bill of complaint he prayed. The joint and several Rejoinder of W. P. and W. W. defendants to the Replication of E. L. complainant. THe said defendants say, and either of them for himself severally Sect. 127. saith, that the Replication of the said complainant is unjust and untrue, and very insufficient in the law by these defendants, or either of them to be rejoined unto. Notwithstanding all advantage of exception to the incertainty and insufficiency thereof to these defendants, and to either of them at all times hereafter being saved, for rejoinder unto the said in sufficient replication: These defendants say, and either of them for himself severally saith in all and every matter and thing, as they and either of them in their several answers have said, without that that any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, material or effectual contained in the said replication, & by these defendants or either of them to be rejoined unto, and not herein sufficiently confessed and avoided, traversed or denied, is true. All and every which matters and things these defendants and either of them are ready to aver and prove, etc. A Bill for detaining lands with evidences. MOst humbly complaining &c. your daily Orator I. S. of A. in Sect. 128. the County of H. Husbandman. That whereas R. S. of H. in the County of H. aforesaid Husbandman, and grandfather to your Orator was in his life time seized in his demesne as of fee, or in fee tail, of, and in certain messages, lands and tenements, to the yearly value of etc. or there about, lying in H. aforesaid, and of the same died seized: By force whereof the said tenements descended and came (as of right they ought) unto one I. S. father to your said Orator, son and heir to the said R. who afterwards entered into the same, and was for divers years seized of the tenements accordingly, until about the first year of the Reign of the late King Edward the sixth. At which time one W. G. of H. aforesaid, happening by casual means to get into his possession all the evidences, charters, and writings concerning the said lands and tenements: And knowing that your said Orators father could not for want of those evidences, charters, & writings defend his right, title, and interest to the lands aforesaid, entered also into the said tenements, and the same wrongfully did withhold and detain, during the term of his natural life: sithence which time, one T. G. of H. aforesaid, and E. G. widow, mother to the said T. hath also entered into the said tenements, and the same to this day most unjustly withholdeth, together with all the charters, evidences, and writings aforesaid, which in right and equity belong and appertain to your Orator, as son and heir to the said I. S. now deceased: In tender consideration whereof, and for so much as your Orator doth now know the certain dates of the charters, evideneds, and writings aforesaid, nor of any of them, neither doth know whether they are in bags, or box sealed, or in chest locked, he is without all remedy at the common laws of this Realm, and also without all other means how to find relief in this behalf, except your honourable Lordship's favour extended. And that the said T. G. and E. G. may by your Lordship's order be compelled upon their oaths, plainly, and truly to show forth their estate, in, and to the tenements aforesaid, and also to show what right, title, or interest they have or claim, in, and to the same, & likewise to show the effect and certain dates of such charters, evidences, and writings, aforesaid, as they, or either of them have in their possession concerning the said tenements aforesaid, or any part thereof. May it therefore, etc. as before. The Answer. THese defendants by protestation say, and every of them saith that Sect. 129. the bill of complaint exhibited into this honourable Court, is for the most part uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law to be answered unto. And that the matters therein contained are devised by the complainant only, to molest and trouble these defendants, being very poor, rather than upon any just cause. Nevertheless the advantage of exception to the uncertainty and insufficiency of the said bill to these defendants at all times saved: For answer and declaration of the truth, they say, and every of them saith, that true it is that one R. S. of F. in her majesties County of H. was in his life time seized in his demesne, as of fee, of, and in one messsage, and certain lands and tenements in H. in the said County of H. and being so seized by his deed of foffement under his hand and seal, about the xxxvi. year of King H. the viii. conveyed and assured the same messsage and lands unto one I. S. his son, and to his heirs and assigns for ever, as by the deed of the said R. under his hand and seal ready to be showed unto this honourable Court doth and may appear: By force whereof the said I. S. was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee, And being so thereof seized, for a certain sum of money to him paid by W. G. father of one of the defendants, did convey and assure the said messsage and lands unto the said W. G. and his heirs with warranty, as by the deed and release of the foresaid I. S. doth and may appear: After which the foresaid W. G. the father unto the said defendant died of the said messsage and lands seized, After whose death these defendants entered into the said tenements, and the same enjoyed the their own profits and commodities, as lawful was for them to die: without that, that R. S. of H. in the said bill mentioned, was seized of the messsage and lands in the bill mentioned in fee tail, or that the said I. S. father of the complainant was seized of the premises in the first year of King Edward the sixth, or that the said W. G. father of one of the defendants got the possession of the messsage, & the evidences concerning the same, other wise than was lawful for him to do: Or that the defendants, or any of them do unjustly withhold the said messsage or lands in the bill mentioned, or the evidences concerning the same, otherwise then is lawful for them to do in respect of their right. And without that, that the said messsage and lands with the evidences concerning the same do in right or equity appertain to the Complainant, as son and heir to I. S. the father. And without that, that any other matter or thing in the said bill contained concerning these defendants, and not in this answer sufficiently confessed, and avoided, traversed, or denied, is true. All which matters these foresaid defendants are etc. ut supra. The Replication. THe Complainant averreth and maintaineth his said bill of complaint, Sect. 130. and all and every the matters and things therein contained to be very good, just, and true, in such sort, manner, and form, as in the said bill of complaint is declared. And saith, that the answer of the defendants for the most part is uncertain, untrue, and insufficient in the law to be answered unto: Nevertheless all advantages of erception to the insufficiency thereof to this complainant, at all times hereafter saved: For replication saith in all and every thing, as in the said bill of complaint he hath said. And further saith, that he doubteth not but that he can very sufficiently prove that the said I. S. this complainants' father, was about the first year of the reign of King Eow. the sixth, or not long before, seized in his demesne as of fee tail of the foresaid mesuage, lands, and tenements in the said bill mentioned. And he also hopeth to prove all the rest of the said bill to be true, in such sort as the same is truly declared and set down: without that, that the foresaid R. S. this complaynants' grandfather being seized of the premises in his demesne as of fee, did lawfully by his deed of feoffment under his hand and seal, about the xxxvi. year of king H. the eight, convey and assure the said mesuage and lands unto one I. S. his son, and to his heirs and assigns for ever: Or that the said I. S. being of the premises seized in his demesne as of fee, for a certain sum of money to him paid by the said W. G. father of one of the defendants, did lawfully convey and assure the said mesuage and lands unto W. G. one of the said defendants, and his heirs with warranty, as in the said answer is very untruly alleged: And without that, that the said W. G. father to one of the defendants, died of the said mesuage and lands seized in such fort, as in the said answer is likewise declared, or that it was lawful for the said defendants after the death of the said W. G. to enter and occupy the foresaid mesuage and lands, as also in the said answer is inserted. And without that, that any other matter etc. All which &c. ut supra. A Bill for debt levied by extent. COmplaining showeth &c. A. B. of etc. That whereas the said A. B. Sect. 131. in the beginning of her majesties Reign, living in her highness Court, for his furniture of jewels, plate, money, and such like, had credit with one C. D. Citizen and Goldsmith of London, for the which as he had occasion to borrow any money, or take by any wares, so he delivered his Bills or Obligations for the true payment of any such money so borrowed, or for the price of any such wares so bought, at days betwixt them agreed: which days, he always kept, or took order for the for bearing thereof by himself, or his servants, such as he did employ in those affairs: Amongst which there was in D. in the first year of etc. a certain debt or reckoning (of how much certainly he now remembreth not) betwixt him the said C. D. and the said A. B. for the which he the said A. B. was bound to the said C. D. in the sum of etc. by his deed obligatory, bearing date etc. which Obligation (as he now remembreth) was single with a defeasance for the debt, which was then agreed upon to be answered at a certain day following which said debt he the said A. B. paid accordingly by his then servants and officers, who unknowing unto the said A. B. did negligently (as is to be conjectured) leave the bonds in the hands of the said C. D. after the reckoning and debt paid or discharged. And so afterwards the said A. B. did deal and continue in further credit with the said C. D. for diverse other great sums of money, jewels, and plate, some upon the said goldsmiths book, and some upon Bills, and Bonds, whereof the most part were afterwards discharged, saving one debt by Recognizance about the four and twenty day of, etc. in the etc. being to the value of 200. marks. In which said latter debt, the said A. B. presuming of friendship, and friendly dealing at the said C. D. his hands, because he had been a very good customer unto him, did not so precisely keep his day, thinking he would have reasonably dealt with him, being allowed for consideration for forbearing thereof, as at other times he had done. Notwithstanding, he the said C. D. contrary to the said A. B. his expectation, did put the same Recognisance in suit presently after the forfeiture thereof. And the said A. B. being them busied in her majesties service, the said C. D. had judgement upon the said recognizance against him before he could send up to take any order for the said latter debt by the said recognizance, and after took execution of the moiety of amanor of the said A. B. called etc. in etc. which for the payment and performance of the said debt was extended unto twenty marks by the year, And so did levy the said whole forfeiture upon the said A. B. his manors and lands with great extremity, upon which extreme dealing he the said A. B. finding himself most cruelly and hardly dealt with, did refuse to buy or sell with him, and willed his bailiff of his said manor to take acquittances of him at every payment: who not only did so, but upon the last payment the foresaid C. D. did acknowledge to him that paid the money, that your said Orator was then clear with him, and did owe nothing, or to such effect, notwithstanding the foresaid A. B. accounted of him as of a very extreme man: which the said A. B. his displeasure towards him being notified & very well known unto him, both by letters from himself and otherwise, yet the said C. D. living nine or ten years after that, it can not be intended, that he who whilst they were in amity, did sue the said A. B. upon the said recognizance and debt therein contained, being of so small a value, would at the first have left the elder bond, and debt, being of a greater sum unsued for, if it had been unanswered for, or not paid, much less afterwards during all the space of nine or ten years, when he the said A. B. for his hard dealing had left to be his customer, or to deal with him, and thought but hardly of him, as he had no less cause: So though it be most sure and true, that the said debt, for which the said two hundred pounds' bond was made in the said first year of the reign of etc. was long since fully answered, yet it being so long since, the said A. B. can not precisely call to mind upon the sudden who paid it (divers of his officers which dealt for his revenues, and especially one I P. whom principally he used in those affairs, being now dead) whereby he can not upon a speedy trial at the common Law prove the payment thereof, by strict and precise course in that behalf requisite, and the rather, for that the Indentures for the defeasance of the said recognisance, came by some casual or negligent means to the hands of the said C. D. and of I. his wife, although it be manifest by the presumptions aforesaid, that the said C. D. would not have let it lie so long undemanded, if he had not been satisfied, which the said A. B. doubteth not to prove in this honourable court, for that also he thinketh there be yet some living that were present at the last reckoning, that the said A. B. or his officers made with the said C. D. either when he agreed for the said extents, or about that time: at which time he the said C. D. did acknowledge, that all matters, debts, and reckonings whatsoever, were then fully cleared and quit betwixt the said A. B. and the said C. D. And that the said A. B. did not then own him any thing. But so it is the said C. D. now being dead, and I. his wife being his executrix, who finding the said bond of CC. pounds remaining uncancelled, rather as it should seem by those which have conferred with her, upon some words spoken, or conceit of offence, that she hath conceived of the said A. B. his displeasure towards her late husband, than otherwise upon any just cause, she the said 1 hath published, that she hath such an ancient bond of the said A. B. bearing date etc. of two hundred pounds, and intends to put the same in suit against the said A. B. In tender consideration whereof, the apparent likelihood of the said debt before recited being most true, and the same discharged, and yet the proof of the discharge thereof in strict course of law being hard for the said A. B. to make the said I. P. and some others who dealt for him being now dead, and the said defeasance being come to her hands (as aforesaid) but only upon oath of the said I. D. who was privy to that, and most of her husbands reckonings and doings in his life time, and yet would not unjustly charge the said A. B. with the said debt, by means that she hath both parts of the defeasans in her hands, whereby the said A. B. can not plead them, and not knowing the date of them, or wherein they are contained, can not demand them by the ordinary course of the Law. May it therefore please your good Lordship etc. The Answer. THe said defendant saith, that the said bill of complaint exhibited Sect. 132. against her in this Ho. court is uncertain, and unsufficient in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein contained untrue, and contrived more of purpose to put the said def. to trouble and expenses in law, then for any good or just cause: Nevertheless if the same defendant shallbe compelled by this Ho. court to make any further answer to the same: then the advantage of the insufficiency thereof to this defendant at all times hereafter saved. For further answer the said defendant saith, that true it is, that the said A. B. about the time mentioned in the said bill of complaint, began to be a bargayner, and buyer of Plate and jewels of the said C. D. late husbandman to this defendant, and obtained credit at the hands of the said C. D. for the sum of etc. For payment whereof the said C. D. presuming upon the promises of the said A. B. was contented only to accept of a bare single obligation, which was sealed and delivered unto him about the time mentioned in the said bill, which sum of etc. the said C. D. (after the day past which was limited for the payment thereof) often demanded of the said A. B. who notwithstanding made no payment at all thereof, but with fair promises delayed time, and kept the said C. D. in hope from year to year, that he should be answered thereof to the uttermost penny. And at the last the said A. B. having need of certain other Plate or jewels, to the value of etc. entreated with the same C. D. to give him credit for the same, and promised faithfully, that if the said C. D. would trust him therewith, that then within short space after he would truly make payment aswell of the hundred pounds, as also of the said two hundred pounds, upon which earnest entreaty the said C. D. (being a man of a very good nature, and easily led, by such as he any way conceived or thought well of) was contented to satisfy his request: But yet forasmuch as the said A. B. had before that time taken but small regard concerning the keeping of his days upon the single obligation aforesaid, the said C. D. then thinking to deal more substantially with him then before, demanded a recognisance for the said sum of an hundred pounds, so then to be lent, without which he was utterly unwilling to trust him any further: Whereunto the said A. B. assented, and became bound accordingly in a recognisance of two hundred marks, with condition for the true payment of an hundred pounds (which is the recognisance in the said bill of complaint mentioned.) For discharge of which recognisance the said A. B. took no greater regard then before he had done for payment of the said single Obligation, And therefore the said C. D. at the last, three years at the least being then passed after the forfeiture of the said recognisance, perceiving the carelessness of the said A. B. asked advise of some of his friends, what course he were best to take for the obtaining of the said several sums of money. By whom he was advised to put the said recognisance (rather than the Obligation aforesaid) in suit, aswell for speedy end of suit in the same, as also that thereby it was thought, the said A. B. would the rather seek means to make satisfaction aswell of the one debt as of the other: But he meaning nothing less, nor regarding the said suit, suffered the same to proceed till some parcel of his land was extended, and so the said C. D. was feign after three years forbearance of the said sum of one hundred pounds, as aforesaid, and after he had spend more than twenty pounds in suits, and rewards in obtaining the says extent, to accept only twenty marks by the year, till the said two hundred marks (being the principal) and penalty were paid unto him: so that, the forbearance of the said sum accounted together with the charges in suit, great loss of time in following the same, and rewards given to Sheriffs and Bailiffs, or ever any the said lands might be extended: The said C. D. sustained so great loss, as by the circumstances of that which before hath been showed, doth evidently approve, that he was utterly discouraged to attempt any more suits against the said A. B. but rested still in hope, that at one time or other he should obtain means in quiet sort without suit in law to get satisfaction also of the said sum of etc. which hath been the reason only why the said E. D. did not put the said Obligation in suit so long time, without that, that to the knowledge of this Defendant there was ever any defeasans made upon the said Obligation, or that any such defeasans by casual means is come into the hands of this Defendant, as in the said Bill is untruly alleged. And without that, that the said A. B. by himself or his officers as by the premises manifestly appeareth, did make payment of the said debt, or any part thereof: which the said defendant is the rather thoroughly persuaded of, as well because she was well acquainted with the dealings of her said husband, as also because at the time of the debts of her said husband, he lying in extremity, called this defendant unto him, and said, that he had carefully gathered together sundry bonds and Obligations, which at sundry times had been made unto him for divers sums of money, and yet in truth they were paid and discharged, and those bonds and Obligations he had put in a box by themselves, and named them Bills, which Obligations he willed this defendant to cancel or deliver to such persons as were the Obligors, and in any wise not to demand any debt upon any of them. And further he also openly said, that all the residue of the bonds and Obligations remaining in other boxes, which he then also named, were due and owing unto him. In the which of the said boxes the said Obligation of 200. li. was found, neither is it to be thought that any officer of the said A. B. would deal so lightly as to pay the money due upon the said Obligation being but single and without penalty, without either acquittance, or the bond itself, redelivered or canceled. Or that the said A. B. himself would have allowed of any such payment upon any his officers accounts. And without that, that the said A. B. did at any time allow any manner of consideration for the forbearance of any sum of money due by him to the said C. D. (as also is untruly alleged.) And without that, that the said C. D. did put the same recognisance in suit, presently after the forfeiture thereof: for the same was forborn three years after, as is before declared. And without that, that it is likely that the said C. D. did acknowledge himself satisfied of all those several sums of twenty marks, which should make up the two hundred marks upon the extend aforesaid, when as he had recovered the whole debts due to him by the said A. B. but only without that, that the said A. B. to the knowledge of this defendant, did signify by his letters his displeasure towards the said C. D. as also is untruly set down. And without that, that any other thing material in the law etc. As in the other. To cause one to show his Lease, whereby he holdeth etc. MOst humbly complaining &c. A. B. of etc. gentleman: That Sect. 133. whereas about four years last passed, one C. D. of L. upon a certain judgement in a plea of debt amounting to the sum of etc. or there about, by him obtained in her majesties court of common pleas against one L. F. of etc. in the County of etc. sued forth her majesties writ of Fieri facias, directed to the Sheriff of the said County, for the levying of the said debt of the goods and chattels of the said E. F. By virtue of which writ the Sheriff did amongst other things take into his hands one lease for divers years yet enduring made to the said E. F. by one T. S. in the County of S. esquire of three parcels of land, called and known by the name or names of etc. with all and singular their appurtenances, lying and being in the parishes of etc. in the said County of etc. together with all and singular woods, underwoods', and trees, set, lying, being, and growing, in, or upon the premises, or any part thereof: together also with the reversion and reversions of the premises aforesaid, and every parcel thereof. And also all manner of common, aswell of estovers and pastures, as all other commons, pastures, profits, and hereditaments whatsoever, to the said premises belonging or in any wise appertaining. And afterwards the said Sheriff (that is to say upon the third day of May etc.) by his deed, bearing date under his hand and seal, did in consideration of etc. to him paid towards the satisfaction of the debt and judgement aforesaid, bargain, sell, assign, and set over the said lease and term of years yet to come, of all and singular the premises unto one G. H. of L. gen●, which G. H. not long after did in consideration of etc. by your Orator to him paid, bargain, sell, assign, and set over unto your said Orator all and singular the premises, and every part thereof: Upon which bargain and assignment of the premises so made, as aforesaid, your said Orator was in very good hope to have peaceably and quietly entered into the premises, and so to have occupied and enjoyed the same accordingly. Nevertheless so it is right Honourable, that one R. T. of etc. in the sai● County of L. pretending to have a lease for divers years yet to come of some part of the said lands, called &c. made unto him by the aforesaid E. F. long time before any assignments aforesaid, hath and yet doth keep your said Orator from the possession of the said lands, upon which lease or demise a certain yearly rent is (as he saith) reserved to the said E. F. his executors or assigns, which as your Orator verily thinketh is &c. by the year: and which rent, whatsoever it be, your Orator by reason of the lawful conveyance to him made as aforesaid, ought both in law and conscience to have and enjoy during such term as the said R. T. shall hold and occupy the land aforesaid, by reason of the said lease, which he so pretendeth to have: But because your Orator doth not certainly know whether the said R. T. have any such lease, neither if he have, what date it beareth, what term the said R. hath therein unexpired, what rend thereby is reserved, nor what covenants are therein contained, as also your Orator can not, nor knoweth not how in due form of law to enter or commence any action against the said R. T. either for the recovery of the said land or rend aforesaid, which the said R. T. right w●ll knowing being a man of little or no conscience, but destitute of the fear of God, thinking all things well-gotten which he may get and hold without the punishment of the law, doth not only use the said land to his great profit and commodity, without yielding or paying therefore any rent ot your Orator, or any other person lawfully claiming the same, but also doth utterly refuse to show his said Lease, whereby he claimeth to hold the lands aforesaid, unto your said Orator, to the great loss and hindrance of your Lordships said Orator: In tender consideration whereof, and for as much as your Orator hath no ordinary way by the course of the common Laws of this Realm to enforce the said R. T. to show forth such writings as he hath for the holding and enjoying of the lands aforesaid, but is and shall be utterly destitute of all manner of help or means to obtain the same to his great hindrance and impoverishment, except your honourable Lordship of your accustomed clemency towards all such as are oppressed, do extend your favour in the behalf, so that by the order of this honourable Court, the said R. T. be enforced upon his oath to show what right he hath to the premises, or any part thereof, and likewise to set down in his answer the true copy of the said lease (verbatim) or other writings whatsoever they he, whereby he claimeth the premises, or any part of the same. May it therefore please your good Lordship etc. The Answer. THe said defendant not knowledging or confessing the matters Sect. 134. suggested in the said bill of complaint to be true, for his answer touching the same saith, That the said E. F. named in the said bill of complaint was possessed for divers years yet to come and enduring of the said three parcels of land, called or known by the name of etc. mentioned in the said bill of complaint by virtue of a lease thereof made by the said T. S. also named in the said bill of complaint, unto the said E. F. long before the supposed extent specified in the said bill of complaint. And the said E. F. so being thereof possessed long before the said supposed extent, (if any such were) had in such manner, as in the said bill of complaint is supposed, made a lawful demise and lease of part of the said three parcels of land, containing fowerteene acres or thereabouts, unto the said defendant for divers years yet to come, and remaining unexpired, upon which lease the said E. F. reserved a yearly rent to be paid during the continuance of the said lease: By force of which lease the said defendant entered into the said fowerteene acres of land, part of the said three parcels called etc. and was and yet is lawfully possessed accordingly, And ever since, and yet doth enjoy the said fowerteene acres by virtue of the said d● 〈◊〉 and lease made by the said E. F. to the said defendant, and is to have and enjoy the same during the continuance of the years, of which there are divers years yet to come, and remaining unexpired. And the said defendant sayeth, that the said complainant is a man to this defendant utterly unknown, And therefore the said defendant marveleth much of the said suit exhibited by the said complainant into this honourable court against the said defendant touching the said premises. And further saith, that the said E. F. after the said demise and lease by him made unto the said defendant, of the said fowerteene acres of land, and before the said supposed extent if any such be, made a grant and assignment of the interest and term of the said E. F. aswell of the said fowerteene acres, which the said defendant hath and occupieth by virtue of his said lease for divers years yet thereof to come, and coutinuing undetermined, as also of the residue of the said three parcels of land mentioned in the said bill of complaint unto R. F. the son of the said E. F. unto which grant and assignment the said defendant was privy. And therefore the said defendant thinketh that he is for the payment of his rent chargeable, and aught by the Law to pay the same rend reserved unto the said R. F. and not to the said complainant, which said R. doth verily think that he is lawful Landlord during the continuance of his years yet to come and enduring, and not the said complainant, who is altogether a mere stranger unto this defendant. And which complainant never at any time heretofore demanded any rent for the said part of the lands that this defendant hath and occupieth by the lease for years yet continuing of the said defendant. And the said defendant also saith, that he is sued for the rend reserved upon his lease by the said G. H. named in the said bill of complaint in the king's Bench in an action of debt brought by him against the said defendant, And therefore the said defendant much marveleth of this suit of the said complainant brought in this honourable court against the said defendant touching the said premises: By which suit of the said complainant, the said defendant is wrongfully sued and vexed without any just cause of suit, without that, that there is any such extent made of the said three parcels of land called etc. or that after the same extent, there was any such bargain & sale made by the said Sheriff named in the said bill of complaint, of the said term & lease of years of the said premises unto the said G. H. Or that the said G. H. bargained or sold the said premises unto the said complainant, or that the said complainant aught to have and enjoy the said premises to the knowledge of this defendant. And without that there is any other matter or thing etc. All which matters etc. ●ill for a title of land entailed. IN most humble 〈◊〉 showeth and complaineth unto your good Sect'. 135. Lordship, your daily Orator R. R. husbandman: That where one W. late of S. in the county of W. husbandman, grandfather of your said Orator, was lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, by due course of inheritance unto him lawfully descended from his ancestors, and other lawful conveyances in the law, of, and in one messsage etc. CC. acres of land, meadow, wood, and pasture, with their appurtenances in S. aforesaid. And the said W. R. so being of the premises seized, about ten years now past, It was condescended, granted, & agreed between the said W. R. and one I. E. late of H. in the said county deceased, that A. B. then son and heir apparent of the said W. R. before a certain day should marry and take to his wife one A. E. daughter of the said I. E. and that the said W. R. in consideration thereof, and for that the said A. should be greatly advanced and preferred in goods and substance by the marriage of the said A. would immediately after the said marriage had and solemnised, convey and make unto the said A. and A. a good, sufficient, and lawful estate in the Law, of, and in the said mesuage, lands, tenements, and other the premises. To have and to hold unto the said A. and A. and to their heirs males of their bodies lawfully begotten. And afterward the said A. according to the said agreement, did marry and take to his wife the said A. E. immediately after which marriage had and solemnized, the said W. K. according to his said promise and agreement, did lawfully enfeoff of, and in the said mesuage, lands, tenements, and other the premises, the said A. R. and A. then his wife, To have and to hold unto the same A. and A. and to their heirs males of their bodies lawfully begotten, by force whereof the said A. and A. were seized of, and in the premises, in their demeans, as of fee tail special, and they so being thereof seized, the said A. and A. had issue male between them lawfully begotten, one I. R. and your said Orator, and one W. R. and the said W. R. the elder died, by and after whose death the reversion in fee simple of the premises descended unto the said A. as son and heir unto him. And afterward the said A. and Agnes died, after whose death the said messsage, lands, tenements, and other the premises descended and came, and of right aught to descend and come unto the said I. R. as son and heir male of the body of the said A. and A. lawfully begotten, by force whereof the said I R. entered into the said messsage, lands, tenements, and other the premises, and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee tail. And he so being thereof seized, the said I. R. about four years now past, of the said messsage and other the premises died seized, without issue male of his body lawfully begotten, by force whereof the said messsage and other the premises descended and came, and of right aught to descend and come unto your said poor Orator, as brother and heir male to the said I. R. by the virtue of the gift aforesaid. So it is my singular good Lord, that aswell the deed of entail made, of, and for the premises by the said W. R. the grandfather unto the said A. R. and A. and to the heirs males of their bodies lawfully begotten, as is aforesaid, as divers other charters, evidences, and deeds, writings and muniments concerning the premises, proving the said interest and title of your said Orator, in, and to the premises: been disceiptfully comen to the hands and possession of I. W. and C. his wife, late wife of the said I. R. G. W. gentleman, and T. S. the elder, and remain there as they have conveyed and put them: and by colour of having the said evidences, deeds, writings, and mumments in their hands and possession, the same I. W. and E. have now of late wrongfully entered into the said messsage and other the premises, And the possession thereof do so yet wrongfully detain & keep from your said Orator, and also the rents, issues, and profits thereof have wrongfully received, perceiue●, and taken to their own use by the space of four years past, and so yet do, contrary to all right and good conscience. And albeit that your said Orator hath often and sundry times required and instantly desired the said I. W. and E. G. W. and T. S. aswell to deliver unto your said Orator the said evidences, deeds, writings, and muniments concerning the premises, as also to avoid the possession of the premises, and peaceably and quietly to permit and suffer your said Orator and his assigns, to have and enjoy the same, and to receive and take the rents and profits thereof to his own use, according to his said interest and title therein, which to do, they at all times have refused and denied, and yet do, contrary to all right and good conscience. And for as much as your said Orator knoweth not the certain number, contents, ne other certainties of the said evidences, deeds, writings, and muniments, nor wherein they be contained. And also for that the said I. W. E. G. W. and T. S. be of so great substance & riches, and also greatly frinded, and borne in the said County of W. And your said Orator being but a poor man and having but few friends in the said County, the same your said Orator is, and shall be therefore without remedy concerning the premises by due course and order of the common Law, and otherwise, unless your good Lordship's aid and favour be unto him showed in this behalf. In consideration whereof it may please your good Lordship, (the premises tenderly considered) to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's most gracious several writs of Subpena to be directed unto the said I. Werewick, E. G. S. and T. S. commanding them and every of them by the same, personally to appear in the most honourable Court of Chancery, at a certain day, & upon a certain pain by your good Lordship to be limited therein, then, and there to make answer to the premises: And further to be ordered therein, as shall accord with right and good conscience. And your said Orator shall daily pray etc. The Answer of I. W. to the bill of complaint of R. K. husbandman. THe said defendant saith, that the said bill of complaint is uncertain Sect'. 136. and insufficient in the law to be answered unto, & the matter therein contained untrue, & principally imagined, & pursued by the unlawful procurement, bearing, & supportation of one W. C. Esq. to the intent to put the said def. to trouble, costs, & expenses, intending thereby the unquiet & impoverish the said def. as they should be feign to leave the right, title, and interest, of, and in the premises, so that the said W. might purchase & buy the same of the said Complainant: And of late the said W. C. hath made means unto the said I. W. now def. to buy his title & interest, of, & in the premises, and threatened him to have the same, and if he would not let him have it with his good will, that then he would have it against his will, whosoever took his part: and if the contents of the said bill were true (as they are not) yet were the matter determinable at the common Law, and not in this honourable Court, whereunto the said def. prayeth to be dismissed: and yet nevertheless, the advantage of the premises unto this defendant at all times saved. For further answer unto the said bill for declaration of the truth of the contents of the said bill, the said def. saith, & every one of them saith, that longtime before the said A. R. mentioned in the said bill of complaint, any thing had in the said messsage & other the premises, or that the said W. R. was thereof enfeoffed, T. R. of P. T. S. of S. and W. of E. were thereof seized in their demesnes as of fee, & so being thereof seized, by their writing indented, ready to be showed, (the said messsage & other the premises contained in the said bill of complaint, amongst other things) gave, demised, delivered, & by their said writing indented, confirmed, unto the said W. R. mentioned in the said bill of complaint, and unto A. his wife, To have & to hold the said messages & other the premises unto the said W. and A. for term of their lives, and to the wife of the longer liver of them. And the said T. and T. willed & declared in the said writing indented, that the said messsage & all other the premises should remain unto the said A. mentioned in the said bill of complaint, & unto A. his wife, & unto the heirs & assigns of the said A. for ever: without that the said W. R. did enfeoff of, & in the said messsage lands, tenements, & other the premises, the said A. & A. to have to them & to their heirs males of their two bodies lawfully begotten, or that the said A. & Agnes were seized of, & in the premises in their demesnes as of fee tail, as in the said bill of complaint is surmised, & without that, that after the death of the said W. that the remainder of the premises in fee simple descended unto the said A. as son & heir unto him, or that after the death of the said A. & A. the said messsage & other the premises descended, and of right aught to descend or come unto the said I. R. in the tail especial, as son and heir male of the body of the said A. and Agnes lawfully begotten, either any other descent of inheritance therein of a mere fee simple, or that the said I. by his entry into the said mesuage & other the premises after the death of his father & mother, was then seized of, and in his demesne as of fee tail especial, or of any such estate died seized, or that after the death of the said I. that the said mesuage and other the premises, or any part or parcel thereof descended and came, or of right aught to descend and come to the said complainant as brother and heir male to the said I. K. by virtue of any gift or otherwise, as in the bill of complaint is untruly surmised: But the said defendants do aver, and are, & shall be at all times ready to prove, as this honourable Court shall award, that the said messages and all other the premises, by, and immediately after the death of the said I. R. descended, and of right aught to descend and come to one A. daughter and heir of the said I. lawfully begotten on the body of the said E. one of these defendants, the which A. is yet in plain life, and in the ward and custody of her said mother: And without that, that any deed of tail was made, of, and by the said W. R. the grandfather, or any other evidence, deeds, writings, or muniments, concerning the premises, proving the said interest and title of the said complainant of the premises, and every part and parcel thereof, to be comen to the hands and possessions of the said I. W. and E. his wife, or either of them, or to the custody or possession of any other by their delivery, conveyance, or appointment: but truth it is, that the said defendants have in their custody, one writing indented ready to be showed, whereby the remainder of the premises is conveyed unto the said A. and Agnes his wife, and to the heirs and assigns of the said A. for ever, as is aforesaid, and divers other evidences and writings, proving and concerning the conveyance of the fee simple of the said mesuage, and other the premises unto the said A. and other his ancestors, the which charters, evidences, & writings, the said def. do still with them detain & keep, as good & lawful is for them to do, as well for the proof and preservation of their right, title, and interest, unto the third part of the premises for the dowry of the said E. as for the preservation of the right, title, and interest of the said A. daughter and heir to the said I. of, and in the said mesuage, and other the premises: without that the said def. have at any time wrongfully entered into the said mesuage, and other he premises, or into any part thereof, or the profits thereof do wrongfully detain, and keep from the said complainants, or the rents, issues, and profits thereof, have wrongfully destreyned, perceived, and taken to their own use, as in the same bill is also untruly surmised. A Supplication in the Chancery upon deceit by a Partner. IN most humble wise complaining showeth &c. That whereas upon Sect. 137. the imagination of honesty and good opinion that R. C. father unto your said Orator deceased, had in one T. T. etc. the said R. about Easter last passed, did join in bargain with the said T. T. for the delivery of so much wares, whereof the moiety was the said R. as amounted to the sum of etc. unto one I. S. of the Queen's majesties household Esquire, for the which sum of etc. the said S. stood bound by statute of the Staple, unto the said R. C. and T. T. payable at the feast of etc. then next etc. which was in the year of our sovereign etc. And to the intent that the same R. being a man of such honesty and simplicity, as did neither suspect, nor yet doubt the good conscience of the said T. who always toward him, had counterfeited such purity of conscience, and so honest behaviour, might the better by the help of the same T. come by his debt, at the time to be due, if he so long lived, or else if he died, that the said T. might be as a stay and sure means to his executors, for the getting in of the same, he the same R. trusted the said T. with the custody of the said Statute: Soon after the making of the which bargain, and somewhat before the said feast of etc. the said R. deceased, and made your Orator his executor, thereby charging him aswell with the gathering in of all such sums of money as were due to the said Testator, as also with the payment of all such debts, as the said R. did owe. And so it is, most gracious Lord, that although your said Orator hath divers and sundry times since the decease of his said father, required the said T. to have the moiety of the said &c. due to him by equity and good conscience, as executor unto his said testator etc. The said T. (now declaring himself what he is) having regard neither to conscience, common honesty, nor yet to the trust he was put in, minding if he can (with what injury he careth not) utterly to bar your said Orator from the having thereof, and he himself against all reason and conscience to have the said &c. for nothing: hath not only with many sleight and subtle delays, lingered and delayed your sai● Orator long time from having the same: but also now lately hath plainly answered and affirmed, that your said Orator shall have no part nor penny thereof, which if it should thus pass, should be both great encouraging to such corrupt conscioned persons, still to persever in such their lewd demeanour, and in the mean time, turn to the great impoverishing of your said poor Orator: Wherefore may it please your ho. Lordship, of your accustomed equity, to enjoin the said T. that he repay unto your said Orator the said &c. moiety of the said etc. if he have received it of the said S. or if he have not, that he be nolet to your said Orator, to do therein what he can, for the obtaining and getting in the same. And thus shall your said Orator have cause continually to pray for the prosperous estate of your good Lordship long to endure. A bill of Complaint for recovering of Evidences made by compulsion by a man in prison, without consideration. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth unto your good Lordship, Sect. 138. your daily Oratrix I. B. That whereas in the year etc. it chanced the husband of your said Oratrix, together with one etc. jointly and severally to be bounden in a recognisance of the sum of etc. knowledged before your good Lordship in the Queen's majesties Court of Chancery, for the payment of etc. payable at a certain day now past, unto one etc. for which sum not being paid at the day due, the said etc. hath sued execution against your said poor Oratrices' husband, whereupon he was by the Sheriff of etc. arrested about etc. past, and by all the said space hath remained in the Qu. majesties prison of Marshalsea, to his great pain of body, importable charges, and in manner undoing, both of him, your poor Oratrix, and their small children, which piteous estate of his, (with himself lamenting) after he had well considered, he then consulted with himself, for his best remedy in that behalf, and therewithal calling to his mind, that he had etc. a kinsman and cousin called etc. being of etc. unto whom your said oratrices' husband, for the vicinity of blood, and ability of substance, was bolder to make his moan for help of this his adversity, then unto any other. But (far contrary to his expectation, and against all humanity) whence your said Oratrices poor husband looked for most succour, thence he received, not only lest help, but also most hurt. For the said etc. well perceiving thadverse estate that your Oratrices poor husband was, and is in, which was the greediness of the Merchant for his money, thernest thought and care of your poor Oratrix, and her poor children, and the great desire that her said poor husband had (as any man would) of liberty, and discharge of trouble, would by no means promise his help unto her said poor husband herein, unless he would be content to bargain and sell all his lands, amounting to the yearly rent of etc. unto him the said &c. for an Annuity of xx. li. sterling to him, during his life, and for the sum etc. whereo● etc. to be paid in hand, whereunto your said poor Oratrices' husband, through the constraint of his said case, was compelled to agree, and to seal such writings as the said &c. not long after he brought to him Indentures concerning the bargain, nothing doubting of etc. being his cousin, but that they would have sealed to none other, but only such as conscience would stand with, at which time the same etc. neither paid nor proffered any penny of the said etc. according to his covenant, with delay of payment, both against his promises and covenant: After her said poor husband had studied upon, and therewithal read over the covenants comprised in the said Indentures of this bargain, which indeed (most honourable Lord) were so partially devised for the behoof of the said etc. and again, so sore against your said poor Oratrices' husband, as (if the bargain had taken effect) had been to the utter undoing of him and her, with all their heirs for ever, your said poor Oratrices' husband, taking hold on the point that the said &c. paid not the foresaid &c. did at their next meeting, renounce and say, that he would not stand to the said covenants and bargain, whereunto the said etc. partly acknowledging in that he had not paid nor proffered this etc. said before sufficient witnesses here ready to be sworn, he was contented, howbeit he said, that your said Oratrices poor husband should pay for the making of the writings: For the payment whereof her said husband, as then having no great store of money, was feign to give him a gold Ring in pledge, to pay the scribe for writing of the same: All this notwithstanding (most honourable Lord) and that you said poor Oratrices' husband, hath often and sundry times since by many ways & means required the same writings, concerning the said bargain of the said etc. he against all natural love and humanity, nothing more coveting, than the extreme destruction of her, and her said poor husband, and well perceiving how far he is now unable to help himself, hath utterly denied to render the same, and yet doth, contrary to all conscience, equity, law or right: In consideration whereof, may it like your honourable Lordship, of your accustomed pity, to call the said &c. before you, together with the husband of your said poor Oratrix, and there to will him to deliver the said writings again to her husband, if it shall so seem good unto your honour, or else to show sufficient matter why he should keep the same. And your said Oratrix, with her poor husband, and their poor children shall pray etc. A bill of a title of Copyhold lands, praying an Injunction. Humbly complaining &c. your daily Orator W. S. otherwise Sect. 139. named W. T. of L. cousin and heir of I. S. otherwise called I. T. while he lived etc. That whereas your said Orator at your Lordship's last being at etc. did exhibit unto you a certain bill of complaint, mentioning therein that the foresaid I. S. otherwise called I. T. in his life time was seized, of and in certain Customary lands & tenements, that is to say, of, and in etc. holden by Copy of court Roll of the manor of etc. at the will of the Lord of the said manor, according to the custom of the same manor, of which one T. L. then was, and yet is Lord, And that the same I. S. so being seized of the premises, afterwards of like estate died thereof by protestation seized, after whose death the said &c. with the appurtenances, and the right, title, use, possession, and inheritance thereof descended and came, and of very right aught to descend and come unto your said Orator as cousin & next heir of the said I. S. that is to say, as youngest son of I. youngest son and heir of the same I. S. according to the ancient custom of the said manor. And that your said Orator had often and sundry times desired and prayed the said etc. that with lawful warning unto the tenants of the said Lordship, a Court might be holden at the said manor, by whose inquiry, the title of your said Orator might be presented and found in the premises, according as both justice, right, and good conscience do require: Hawbeit most honourable Lord, that notwithstanding, for as much as the same etc. hath kept the premises in his own hands these many years past, and the profits and issues thereof coming, hath by the same space to his own proper use received & taken, and yet doth, your said poor Orator could never get the same &c. to hold a Court there, minding thereby utter disheriting unto your said poor Orator, of, and in the premises: Until such time as your said must honourable Lordship, moved with your accustomed love to justice, and pity towards poverty, vouchsafed to grant your benign letters directed to the said etc. willing him thereby with lawful warning given unto the tenants of the said Lordship, to summon and keep a Court at the said manor, for the trial of the right of your said Orator in the premises, upon the receipt of which letters, the said &c. summoned and kept a Court at his said Manor of etc. whereat upon the open and plain declaration of your said Orators title, together with the examination of divers witnesses, brought in by your said Orator, for the due proof of the said title in the premises: And further, upon the showing of such substantial and ancient evidences maintaining the same, the Homage therewith charged and sworn did present & sinned at the said &c. (before I. S. Steward of the same Court) that the foresaid I. S. was possessor, and held the premises by Copy of court Roll, according to the custom of the said manor: And that also your said Orator was cousin and heir to the said I. S. according to the custom of the manor: that is to say, son of I younger son of etc. as by the Copy of the same court Rolls ready to be showed more plainly may appear unto your good Lordship. After which presentment at the same Court, it was agreed betwixt the said Steward, in the name of the said etc. and your said Orator, that if the said etc. would not declare and show unto your said Orator, or to his learned Counsel at London, within one Term than next ensuing, a better title and interest to the foresaid premises, than your said Orator had then and there already proved, that then your said Orator should have and enjoy the premises to him, and to his heirs, according to right, equity, and good conscience, and according to the custom of the said manor. But so it is (most ho. Lord) that although the said &c. as he cannot, so hath he not by the said space proved any manner of title, or colour of title to the premises, but only with such and like fraudulent delays, he intendeth to weary your said Orator from the obtaining of the premises, and if he can, disherit him from the same: Wherefore, may it &c. of your accustomable goodness always to poverty extended, to grant unto your said Orator, the Q. most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said etc. commanding him by the same, not only to appear personally before your good Lordship in the high Court of Chancery, at a certain day, and under a certain pain by your good Lordship therein to be limited: but also to permit and suffer your said Orator peaceably to have, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy the premises aforesaid, and the profits and issues of the same, until such time as the same etc. hath duly approved better Title to the premises, than he hath heretofore done. And your said poor Orator shall &c. A bill of complaint for Debt without especialty. IN most humble wise showeth and complaineth unto your good Sect' 140. Lordship, your daily Orator and poor bedeman I. G. of H. in the county of D. That where the said I. G. by way of priest, at the feast of Pentecost, in the xxxiiii. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, did deliver unto one W. L. late of H. in the said county of D. the sum of xviii. pound, of lawful money of England, to be paid unto him at the feast of Saint A. then next ensuing, before which day the said W. L. by his last will and Testament, constituted and made one E. then his wife, his executrix, and died, and left unto the said E. then his executrix, of his own proper goods (all his debts paid) the sum of one hundred pounds, of whom your said Orator sundry and many times hath required payment of the said xviii. pound, which to content and pay, the said E. did never utterly deny, but did require respite for the payment of the same, and before the said E. did content and pay any penny of the said xviii. pound the said E. in her death ded, by her last will and testament, did constitute and make one I. S. her son her executor, and died, and left to him sufficient of the goods of the said W. for the contentation and payment of the same xviii. pound, and after died, since whose death the said complainant, daily, sundry, and many times required the said I. S. to content and pay unto him the said sum of xviii. pound, which to do, he hath at all times refused, and yet doth, contrary to right and good conscience, to the utter undoing of your poor Orator forever. And for because your Orator hath no specialty, whereby he should charge the Executor or the Executrix of the said W. L. he is therefore without remedy by the order of the common Law of this Realm, and is like utterly to lose the said xviii. pound unless your gracious favour be to him showed in this behalf: In tender consideration whereof, it may therefore please your good Lordship (the premises considered) to grant the Queens writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said I. S. commanding him by the same personally to appear before your good Lordship, in the Queen's most gracious Court of Chancery etc. The answer of the same Bill for xvii●. poundlent without specialty. THe said I. S. by protestation not knowing that the said Complainant Sect. 141. did deliver the said W. L. in the said bill named, the sum of xviii. pound, or any part thereof by way of priest, as in the said bill is surmised: He further saith, that the said bill of complaint is uncertain and insufficient in the Law to be answered unto, and much of the matter therein contained, is feigned and imagined, for vexation and trouble of the said I. S. notwithstanding, the advantage thereof to him at all times saved: The said I. S. for further answer unto the said bill, saith, that long time before the said E. L. was constituted and made Executrix unto the said W. L. the said E. was married unto one R. S. father of this defendant, by the space of twenty years and more, which said R. S. by his last will and testament, constituted, ordained, and made the said E. and the said I. S. his Executors, and died, and left to the order and disposition of the said Executors, goods and cattles of his own, to the value of two hundred pounds sterling and above. All which goods and cattles for the most part of the same, being and remaining in the hands and custody of the said E. she the same E. married and took to husband the said W. L. which said W. after the marriage had between him and the said E. did misspend, waist, and consume of the said goods and cattles late of the same R. S. to the value and sum of 140. ●●sterling and above. And after the said W. L. by his last will and Testament ordained and made the said E. executrix thereof, & died a very poor man, having no manner of goods nor cattles at the time of his death of his own, to the value of twenty shillings sterling. And afterward the said E. by her last will, ordained this defendant executor thereof, and died, sithen whose death there hath not come to the hands of this defendant of the goods late of the said W. L. to the value of 20. shillings sterling, without that, that the said W. L. at his death left unto the said E. of his own proper goods, to the sum of an hundred pounds, over his debts paid, or yet the sum of twenty shillings sterling, or that the said E. after the death of the said W. L. did ever consent or agree to pay the said eighteen pound unto the said complainant, or did require him to respite the payment thereof, or that the said E. at the time of her death, left unto the said defendant sufficient of the goods of the said W. L. for the contentation and payment of the said 18. ●. as in the said bill of complaint untruly is surmised. And without that, that any other thing comprised in the said feigned bill of the aforesaid I. S. which is material to be answered unto, and in this answer not confessed, avoided, or traversed, is true. All which matters etc. A bill of Complaint upon certain griefs, requiring a writ of Certiorari. IN most lamentable wise showeth unto your good Lordship, your Sect'. 142. daily poor Orator I. W. of London, That where one A. H. of London aforesaid Merchant Taylor, borrowed of your said Orator twelve pounds sterling, to be paid to the said &c. at a certain day between them agreed, which day was expired, and the said sum of money not paid, wherefore the said A. for that he had not ready money, desired your suppliant, to take a certain white broad cloth in pawn, containing forty yards, cut in pieces, for the said twelve pounds, which cloth was sold and delivered to your said Orator by a Bill of sale, wherein the said A. H. standeth bound, with Condition in the same hill declared, That if the said Cloth were not redeemed by a day certain in the said bill limited, that then the same cloth to be to the only use of your said Orator, for contentation and whole payment of the said twelve pounds. Since the which time the said A. counseled your said Orator to put forth the said cloth to one L. M. of London Shereman, to be died of several colours for his most profit, by the means whereof, the said W. was contented to take the said broad Cloth for the payment of the said money, and afterward the said cloth was delivered to the said L. M. and within six days after the delivery of the said Cloth to the said L. one R. M. Spaniard affirmed a plaint of debt against the said A. and according to the custom of the City of London, hath caused Attachment to be made of the said broad Cloth, as debt due by the said A. unto the said R. whereas the said Cloth is your said Orators: Notwithstanding by reason of the said Attachment, your said Orator retained Counsel in the Guildhall of London, where the matter was at an issue, whereupon the jury was impanelled, since the which time for the space of three Court days, your said Orator did give attendance there to have the said matter heard, and the said Plaintiff and Counsel would not suffer the said jury to appear, so long as your said Suppliant did apply and pursue his cause with effect herein. And for that the said R. and his counsel would not proceed in his said action, your said Orator supposed, that it should no more be called upon, by occasion whereof your Orator being about his business in the country, in the mean time, the said L. M. with his Counsel (having knowledge that your said Orator was out of the City, and in the Country) instantly laboured the jury to appear in the absence of your said Orator, and by their subtlety and craft, the said jury did appear, and passed against your said Orator, contrary to all right, Law, and good conscience, which shall be to the great impoverishment and undoing of your said Orator for ever, unless your good Lordship's lawful favour and succour be to him showed in this behalf. In consideration whereof, might it therefore please your good Lordship to grant the Queens writ of Cerciorari to be directed to the Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London, commanding them and every of them by virtue of the same, to certify before your good Lordship in the Queen's most honourable Court of Chancery, at a certain day by your good Lordship to be limited, the said attachment, and all the matter concerning the same, and to examine the said matter, and all the whole circumstance thereof, and to stand to such order and direction therein, as shall stand with right, equity, and good conscience. And your said Orator shall pray to God for the preservation of your good Lordship long to continue. A Bill where a jury hath passed in a matter wrongfully praying a Cerciorari. IN most humble wise showeth and complaineth unto your most Honourable Sect'. 143. good Lordship, your poor suppliant and continual Orator P. of W. of the City of L. Broker, that whereas one A. M. of the said City Merchant stranger, within the said City was possessed of, and in certain linen clothes, to the value of xx. pound sterling, and to your poor suppliants knowledge then, and as yet as of his own mere proper goods and chattels, and so thereof being possessed, the same within the said City delivered to your poor Orator being a Broker, safely to keep and to sell and merchandise by the discretion of your poor suppliant, to the use of the said A. by force whereof your Orator made sale thereof to certain persons within the same City, and the money, goods, and merchandises thereof received and taken, delivered unto the said A. And so it is right honourable Lord that after and since the sale thereof made, one I. S. Merchant stranger, pretending a property in the foresaid linen clothes, hath commenced an action upon his case against your poor suppliant in the Guildhall, set and being within the foresaid City before the Sheriffs thereof, and thereupon hath declared that the said I. should have lost those goods, and that they came to the hands and possession of your poor suppliant within the said city by way of trover. And furthermore that your poor Orator was sundry times required to make deliverance thereof to the said I. and that refused, and the same afterward sold, and the money thereof received converted to your orators use, to which matter one I. D. your poor suppliants attorney, rashly without advisement or counsel therein taken, said that your poor orator did not sell the said clothes, nor any part thereof, and upon the same matter, whether any sale thereof was made by your suppliant or not, an issue was taken, and the jury tried, sworn, and charged, found a sale made by your poor orator of the said clothes (as the truth was) nothing regarding to whom the property of the said goods was at the time of the sale thereof made, because of the plea so unadvisedly pleaded, it was confessed in point of judgement, the property thereof to be in the said I. T. and so it is, right honourable Lord, that the said attorney might have taken an issue that your said orator sold no clothes of the said I. because of truth the clothes were the proper clothes of the said A. and not the clothes of the said I. and so the jury should have tried in whom the property was, and because the property was not put in issue, the jury had no warranty to inquire thereof, and in case they had been the clothes of the said I. as they were not indeed, your poor orator ought not by the order of the law to have been charged, because they were delivered to your Orator by the hands of the foresaid A. to sell, and your Orator did accordingly. And the money, goods, and March andizes thereof received, delivered to the said A. and so if any trespass or wrong was done to the said I. it was done by the said A. and not by your said Orator, against whom the said I. may take his action. For your poor Orator at the time of the said action commenced, neither had the said goods in his possession, ne any other things in am or consideration of the same goods. And also there is a custom within the said City, that if any Upholster or Broker sell any goods within the same city to any person or persons of the same city upon the delivery of any person, for, or at the request of him having witness of the delivery thereof to him made, or bring out the party who delivered them unto him, not being himself particeps criminis, should be discharged and not dampnefied, for that his offence doing in making sale thereof. And also by the order of the common laws of this Realm, a man coming immediately to the possession of the goods, not being party to the first wrong, shall not be charged in an Action of trespass, which matters, or any of them, if they had been pleaded, had been a sufficient matter of bar, and because they were not pleaded, your poor suppliant could not be received to give them in evidence to the jury, and so your poor Orator is like to pay unto the said I. the value of the said clothes, the said I. having no property, right, nor title to the same, unless your most ho. Lordship's favour be showed herein: In consideration whereof, it may please your most ho. Lordship the premises tenderly considered, to grant the Kings most gracious writ of Cerciorare, to be directed to the Sheriff of the said City, commanding them, and every of them to certify before your good Lordship the whole record of the premises depending before them, or either of them in the Kings most gracious court of Chancery, at a certain day by your good Lordship to be limited, and therein further to proceed, and further to grant the Queen's most gracious and speedy writs of Subpena to be directed to the said I. commanding him personally to appear before your good Lordship in the said court of Chancery at a certain day, and under a certain pain by your good Lordship to be limited therein, to stand to etc. A bill containing that the plaintiff taking up of a Mercer upon his credit Silks and Velvets, put his hand to the debt book of the parcels of the said Silks and Velvets, witnessing his debt for the same: and afterwards the plaintiff for the better security of his saiddebt made him a bill of his hand for the same debt: and that the plaintiff afterwards at the desire of the Mercer procured his eldest brother to become bound to the said Mercer for the payment of the plaintiffs said debt upon the Mercer's promise to take no advantage thereof until after the death of the plaintiffs father. Afterwards the Mercer dieth intestate, and the administration of his gods is committed to R. A. by a practice of the Mercer's creditors. The administrator bringeth an action of debt against the saidplaintife upon his said bill of debt: and also threateneth to sue the plaintiff and his brother upon the said book of parcels, and the bond: and then showeth that he tendered the debt to the Administrator, who refused the same, and so prayeth process. To the Right Ho. Sir Io P. Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your Ho. Lordship Sect'. 144. your daily Orator T. D. Gentleman: That whereas your Orator being of late servant in household to the right Ho. Sir C. H. Knight of the most noble order of the Garter deceased, late Chancellor of England, having then small maintenance from I. D. of D. in the County of C. Esquire his father, did make his estate known to one N. B. of London Mercer now deceased, being your said Orators very near kinsman, who was content to give your said Orator credit for divers parcels of Silks and Velvets, at sundry times amounting in the whole to the some of 22. l. or there about, for the which your Orator did subscribe his hand to the debt book of the said N. B. wherein the said parcels of Silks were set down under the same parcels witnessing the said debt. And at an other time after that, your said Orator did seal and deliver unto him a bill of your Orator's hand for his better security of the payment of the said debt. And afterwards because your Orator was but a younger brother, the said N. B. desired your Orator to procure his eldest brother P. D. son and heir apparent of the said I. D. for the better security of the said debt to become bound to the said N. B. by Obligation for the payment of the said debt, promising nevertheless to take no advantage of the said Obligation, nor to put the same in suit during the life of the said I. D. whereupon the said P. D. at your Orator's request did become bound to the said N. B. by Obligation accordingly, and your Orator did then seal and deliver to the said P. D. his brother a Counterbond to save him harmless from the said Obligation. So as the said N. B. by the several means aforesaid had three several kinds of assurances or specialties for one and the selfsame debt, that is to say his debt book subscribed with your Orator's hand, a bill of debt sealed and delivered unto him by your Orator, and an Obligation sealed and delivered unto him by the said P. D. And now so it is if it may please your good Lordship that the said N. B. is lately deceased, after whose decease the administration of his goods and cattles is committed to one R. A. an unknown person that cannot be found whose name is but used by others in all unconscionable suits. For if it may please your good Lordship, R. S. Alderman of London, R. W. and F. S. pretending themselves to be creditors of the said N. B. having procured the said bill of debt and obligation to be set over unto them, have thereupon not only commenced suit in the Queen's majesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, in the name of the said R. A. as administrator of the goods and cattles of the said N. B. against your said Orator upon his said bill of debt of 22. l. but also do threaten to commence one other suit against your said Orator upon the said debt book, and alike suit against the said P. D. upon the said Obligation. And albeit your said Orator have divers and sundry times offered and tendered to pay the said debt of 22. pound to the said administrator, with such reasonable costs and expenses as hath been by him expended, and bestowed in the said suit at the Common law, and is ready to pay the same. Yet nevertheless the said R. A. R. S. R. W. and F. S. do refuse to accept thereof. And the said R. S. etc. do very hotly prosecute the said suit at the commonlawe in the name of the said R. A. contrary to equity and conscience, and do procure and cause the said R. A. to absent himself so as your said Orator cannot tell where to find him to deliver unto him any process to compel him to answer to his said unconscionable dealing, and yet the said suit at the Common law is still prosecuted in his name by the means and procurement and at the costs and charges in law of the said R. S. etc. or by some of them who have procured the said debts to be assigned and set our unto them as is aforesaid. In consideration whereof, and for that it is against all conscience to take advantage of the said triple assurances made for lemma selfsame debt: And for that your said Orator is remediless therein by the due course of the common laws of this realm, and for that your said Orator is ready to pay the principal debt being 22. pound, together with reasonable costs of suit. May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writs of Subpena to be directed to the said R. A. R. S. etc. commanding them and every of them to appear personally before your good Lordship in her majesties high court of Chancery, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be by your good Lordship limited, then and there to answer to the premises, and to stand unto and abide such further order and direction therein as to your good Lordship shall seem to stand with justice and equity, and your said Orator shall daily pray etc. A bill containing that a Widow seized in fee of three messes etc. thereof enfeoffed divers persons in fee for the performance of her last will and testament, and by the same she devised the said measses etc. to her son in tail general with divers remainders over and died, That the devisee died, having issue the plaintiff. That the feoffment and will is come to the defendants hands. That by colour thereof he hath entered and expulsed the plaintiff, and hath made divers secret estates to divers unknown persons to defraud the plaintiff of his apt remedy by the common law, and so prayeth process against the defendant. To the Right Honourable Sir T. E. Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your good Lordship Sect. 145. your daily Orator I. B. labourer. That whereas R. G. Widow was lawfully seized in her demesne as of fee of and in three messes twenty acres of land, meadow, leasowe and pasture, with the appurtenances, set, lying, and being in M. in the County of B. And the said R. G. being so seized of all the premises, did of the same about forty years last passed enfeoff certain persons, To have and hold to them and their heirs to the use and performance of the last will and testament of the said R. G. and by the same her will devised all the premises or the use thereof to her son W. B. and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, with divers remainders over and died, by and after whose death, the said W. B. into the premises entered, and was thereof lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee tail general by force of the gift aforesaid. And the said W. B. so being seized of the premises died of such an estate thereof seized, by an after whose death the same premises did descend and come to your said Orator, as son and heir of the body of the said W. B. by force of the devise aforesaid, by reason whereof your said Orator in the premises entered, and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee by force of the said gift in taking the issues and profits accordingly, until of late, that is to say, about four years last passed, that as well the said deed of feoffment and last will and testament aforesaid, as also divers other evidences, charters, escripts and miniments concerning the premises, are by casual means come to the hands, custody, and possession of one R. W. of S. aforesaid in the said County yeoman, who by colour of having of them, hath not only entered into the premises, and thereof expulsed your said Orator, but also hath contrived divers secret estates to divers and sundry persons to your Orator unknown in purpose to defraud and delay your said Orator to his apt action and remedy by the course of the common laws of this realm, for recovery of the pr●misses, to your Orators utter undoing, and disinheritance for ever. And for as much as your said Orator knoweth not the certain number, nor the dates and contents of the said Evidences, Charters, Escripts, or Miniments, nor yet wherein the same be contained, whether in bag, or box, sealed, or unsealed, or in chest locked or unlocked, by reason whereof your said Orator is clearly without all remedy for the recovery thereof by the ordinary course of the common laws of this Realm. In tender consideration whereof, may it please your good Lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed unto the said R. W. commanding 〈◊〉 thereby personally to appear before your good Lordship in the Queen's majesties high court of Chauncerpe at a short day, and ●●der a certain pain therein to be limited, then and there to answer to the 〈◊〉, and to abide such order and direction therein, as to 〈◊〉 and justice shall appertain. And your said poor Orator shall daily pray as ●e is bounden for the health and long life of your good Lordship, with all increase of honour to Gods will and good pleasure. A bill against two for the delivery of he●reloomes or principals to the plaintiff being son and heir, according to the custom of the County Pallantine of Chester. To the Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lord Keeper of the great seal of England. Complaining, showeth unto your good Lordship your daily Orator Sect. 14●. I. S. of Lincoln's I●●● Ge●●, son and heir of I. S. of D. within the County of ● That where as the said I. S. was in his life time lawfully possessed of and in divers goods and Chattels as of his own proper goods, that is to say, Plate, jewels, household stuff, beasts, cat-tail, horses, and other manner of goods, amounting to the value of five hundred pound or near thereabouts, and so being thereof possessed, made his testament and last will, ordaining thereof Elizabeth then his Wife, and now Wife to B. P. his sole executrix, and shortly after died, possessed of the premises as aforesaid within the said County of C. Immediately after whose death, the said E. did take upon her the administration of the said goods and other the premises accordingly, by virtue whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly. But so it is and please your Honour, that the custom of all the country within the said County of C. is and time out of mind of man to the contrary hath been, that if any person or persons being possessed of goods and cattles as of his own proper goods and cattles and die thereof possessed, that the next heir to him that so dieth possessed shall have the best and principal thing of every sort and kind of the said goods and cattles for and in the name of the principals and heir Lomes', by force & virtue whereof your Orator being the son and heir of the said I. S. was after the death of the said I. S. justly entitled to a great part of the said goods and cattles amounting at the least in value to 200. pound or near thereabouts, by reason whereof, and for that your said Orator was at the time of the death of his said father under age of xxi. years, and yet is and in ward to the Queen's Majesty, and having the possession of so much of all the said goods and cattles as to your said Orator did appertain, and of right belong by virtue of the custom aforesaid, being very near to the value of two hundred pound by delivery of the said E. in her Widowhood immediately after the death of the said I. S. your said Orator did incontinently thereupon deliver the same to the said E. to be safely by her kept to your said Orators use, and to be in like manner safely redelivered to your said Orator at such time or times as by your said Orator or his assigns she should be thereunto required since which said redelivery made by your said Orator to the said E. as aforesaid the said E. hath taken to husband one B. P. Gen●, by reason whereof all the said goods, cattles, and other the premises were and did come after the said entermariage into the hands and possession of the same B. P. which said E. sithence the said delivery made by your said Orator unto her as aforesaid before the day of entermariage, hath utterly refused to make any redelivery of the said goods and cattles so by your said Orator to her delivered as aforesaid, or yet to make any satisfaction thereof to your said Orator, and the said B. and E. always sithence the said entermariage have refused and yet do refuse to redeliver the same, or yet to make any satisfaction therefore to your said Orator, notwithstanding many lawful and gentle requests to you and either of them made in that behalf by your said Orator contrary to all right, equity and conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your said Orator doth not know or remember the certain or precise particulars or value of the said goods and cattles which of right do belong to your said Orator, and delivered by your said Orator as aforesaid, by reason of your said Orators then tender age being not then of discretion to have the custody and rule thereof, and so remediless by the order of the common law for the recovery thereof, or of any part thereof, or to have any satisfaction made to your said Orator by the said▪ B. and E. or by either of them. It may therefore please your good Lordship the premises considered, to grant the Queen's majesties writs of Subpena to be directed to the said B. P. and E. his wife, commanding them and either of them to appear before your good Lordship in the Queen's Majesties most honourable court of Chancery at Westminster, then and there to answer to the premises, and therein to stand to abide and perform such order and direction as to your good Lordship shall be thought to stand and be consonant to equity and good conscience, and your said Orator shall daily pray to God for your good Lordship in health and honour long to continue. A bill (by a noble man) containing that the plaintiff took up upon his credit Velvets and Silks of the defendant at a dear rate, and gave his own bond with sureties for the payment of the same: and that afterwards he took upon his credit of him more Velvets and Silks as the like dear rate, and being within age knowledged a statute staple to the defendant for all his whole debt, upon his promise to deliver to the plaintiff his obligation which he had made for his first debt to be canceled, the plaintiff allowing interest to the defendant for the forbearance, notwithstanding the dear prices and rate he bought the stuff at for which the said debt grew, and then showeth that he paid not his debt at the day contained in the statute staple, and that the defendant threateneth not only to sue the said bond, but also to sue execution of the said statute against him, and prayeth delivery or release of his obligation and process against the defendant to answer the bill. To the Right honourable Sir Christopher Hatton, of the most noble order of the Garter, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. Complaining showeth unto your good Lordship E. S. Lord D. Sect. 147. That whereas he the said Lord D. during such time as he was under the age of 21. years at sundry times had and bought of one I. L. Citizen and Mercer of London divers parcels or pieces of Velvet, Silk, and such like at excessive prices, and not having then ready money to pay for the same, the said Lord D. together with one R. S. Gen● and others did enter into sundry bonds to the said I. L. for the payment thereof at several days after, always allowing unto the said I. L. over and beside the excessive prices which he was to pay for the same Velvets and Silks further consideration, or rather as it may be said usury for the forbearing thereof till the time of payment. And afterwards the said Lord D. during the time of his minority aforesaid, had and did buy other parcels of Velvets, Silks, and such like of the said I. L. at like excessive prices, which likewise the said Lord D. did not then pay for the prices or sums of money whereunto the said parcels of Velvets, Silks, and such like lastly had and bought after the like excessive prices and rates, together with the said prices or sums of money before due for the other parcels formerly had and bought by the said Lord D. together with consideration or rather usury for the forbearing of and for the payment thereof till a certain time then agreed upon between the said Lord D. and him the said I. L. did amount & come to the sum of 500 pound, for the payment of which said sum of 500 pound at the time agreed upon he the said Lord D. at and upon the motion, means and entreaty of the said I. L. did during the time of the minority of him the said Lord D. become bounden by one statute staple unto the said I. L. in the sum of one thousand pounds of good and lawful money of England, taking the word and promise only of the said I. L. to deliver unto him the said Lord D. or his said sureties the said bonds which before he the said Lord D. and his said sureties had entered into to the said I. L. or otherwise that he the said john should and would cancel and make void the same, so as thereby or by reason of any of the said bonds the said Lord D. nor any of his said sureties should be in any wise sued, vexed, troubled, or charged. But now so it is, and it may please your good Lordship, that the said I. L. although he hath been thereunto in most gentle and friendly manner earnestly requested and desired by the said Lord D. the said R. S. and other the said sureties of the said Lord D. to deliver unto them the said bonds to by them made, and entered into the said I. L. as is aforesaid, or otherwise to cancel and make void the same, yet that to do the said I. L. hath utterly refused and denied, and still doth deny and refuse to do the same. But contrary to his said word and promise as aforesaid made and given unto the said Lord D. for the redelivery thereof, or otherwise to cancel and make void the same bonds, doth now daily threaten to put the same in suit at the Common law, against the sureties of him the said Lord D. or else already hath so done contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience. And besides this, because the said Lord D. did not pay unto him the said I. L. the said sum of five hundred pound at the time limited for the payment thereof, which in very truth he the said Lord D. could not well do unless he should have made sale of his lands to his great dishonour and loss. And notwithstanding that he the said Lord D. hath sought and made means to the said I. L. to compound with him in some reasonable sort, and to accept his money at reasonable days, such as he the said Lord D. could and might be well able to satisfy and pay the same, the rather considering his great interest allowed in recompense for the forbearing of time, and giving day of payment and the excessive prices for which he sold the same Silks, Velvets, and such like to the said Lord D. yet he the said I. L. hath done and daily doth seek and go about to sue execution, and to take the benefit of the said Statute of one thousand pounds against the said Lord D. contrary to all equity and good conscience. The premises therefore tenderly considered, and for as much as the said Lord D. the said R. S. and others the said sureties of him the said Lord D. or any of them, cannot plead any good or sufficient plea in avoidance or discharge of the said Bonds and Statutes, nor of any of them, whereof the said I L. most unconscionably seeketh and goeth about to sue, procure and take the penalty, execution and forfeiture against him the said Lord D. and his sureties by the ordinary course of the common laws of this Realm, and the rather, for that also the said Lord D. is and will be ready for the further discharge of the said K. S. and others his said sureties, to satisfy and pay unto him the said I. L. the said sum of 500 pound at such days and times, and in such manner and form as to your good Lordship shall in equity and right seem meet and convenient. It may therefore please your good L. to grant her majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said I. L. commanding him thereby at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, personally to appear before your good Lordship in her majesties high court of Chancery, then and there to answer to the premises, and to show cause why he the said I. L. should not redeliver the said bonds to the said Lord D. and his said sureties, or else to cancel and make void the same, or otherwise thereof to release, discharge, and save harmless the said Lord D. his said sureties, as in right and equity it behoveth: and further to stand to and abide such order and direction therein, as to your good Lordship and the said honourable Court shall seem best to stand with equity and good conscience. The Answer of I. L. defendant to the Bill of complaint of Ed. Lo. D. complainant. THe said defendant by protestation not acknowledging or confessing Sect. 148. any matter or thing in the said bill of complaint contained material for the said debt to be answered unto to be true in such manner and form as in and by the said bill of complaint is set forth & alleged. For answer saith that the said complainant about four years passed at several times had and bought of the said defendant divers parcels of Silks, Velvets, and Wares, amounting unto the sum of 159. pound four shillings five pence, or there about, all which parcels the said defendant did sell unto the said complainant for and at reasonable prices, considering the days of payment, and for the true payment of some part of the said sum, he the said Lord D. together with the said R. S. in the said bill of complaint named, and one D. C. being then the said complainants servants, did become bound to the said defendant by two Obligations which they forfeited. And long afterwards that is to say in the month of May 1588. the said Lord D. having occasion to use other necessaries for himself and his Wife, and having detained the aforesaid sum of 159. pound four shillings five pence from the defendant a long time did in the said month of May 1588. in respect of the said time past allow the said defendant for consideration but 26. pound 13. shillings. And in the said month of May the said complainant at his earnest request had a new supply of wares amounting to 73. pound fifteen shillings four pence, and did then accept of and acknowledge certain parcels had to his use by the said Christoferson, to the value of 3. l. 17. s. 9 d. which four sums do amount to 255. pound, for all which said debt the complainant gave his own Obligation to the said defendant endorsed with condition for the payment thereof the 24. day of june 1588. After which bond for 255. l. taken & before the same was due, viz. about the last day of the said month of May 1588. the said complainant standing in need both of money & other necessary furniture for himself, his wife, & house, earnestly did entreat the said defendant to lend unto him the said complainant the sum of 50. l. in ready money, which he protested to be for prosecuting an earnest suit he had against one Sir I. L. Knight, as this defendant remembreth, which although the said defendant could then perform hardly, yet he the said defendant made means for so much money, & did lend the same 50. l to the said complainant for 12. months, upon allowance of 5. l. for the same for the said time & no more. And also further did most earnestly desire & entreat him the said def. to sell unto him so much Silks, Velvets, & Wares to furnish his then present want, as should make the foresaid sum of 255. l. by his bond, & the 50. l. lent in ready money, with the 5. l. for interest thereof as aforesaid, amounting to the sum of 503. l. and thereupon the said def. delivered, & caused to be delivered to the said p l or his assigns about the said last day of May & in june following the said Silks, Velvets, & Wares at reasonable prizes, considering the time he gave for payment of his money due for the same to the value of Clxxxx. l. 17. s. 4. d. which made up all the former sums 500 l. 17. s. 4. d. And for payment of the said sum of 500 l. parcel of the said debt of 500 l. 17. s. 4. d. the said compl did knowledge to the said defend a recognisance or bond obligatory of the nature of a statute staple of 1000 l. in the said bill of compl mentioned, upon which statute knowledged the said defend. delivered to the said compl to be canceled the foresaid bond made by the said compl to the said defend for payment of 255. l. And shortly after the knowledging of the said statute, that is to say about the space of 4. or 5. weeks after, & long before the time limited for the payment of the said defend principal debt of 500 l. the said compl purposing to defeat the said defend of his said just & due debt, did pursue a writ of Audita querela, supposing himself thereby to be within the age of 21. years, both then & at the time of the knowledging of the said statute, upon which writ after the same was returned into the court of common pleas, & before the said defend had notice or understanding of the same, the said compl and others the solicitors of the cause after that he was inspected & viewed by the justices of the same court, did produce or cause to be produced 2. persons or witnesses before the said justices to be deposed that the allegation & surmise of the said Audita querela was true, viz. that the said compl was then and at the knowledging of the said statute under the age of 21. years, which witnesses were examined and deposed accordingly in the behalf of the said compl before the said defend had any knowledge or understanding of the said compl proceeding therein, and before any writ or Scirifacias was awarded and taken forth to warn the said defendant of the said suit, as by the said depositions and proceed therein remaining of Record in the said court of Common pleas, whereunto the said defendant for certainty of the time doth refer himself more certainly doth appear, which said suit of Audita querela for the avoiding of the said statute the said complainant by his solicitors & servants did most earnestly follow upon a bare pretence that the said compl wanted some few months of the age of 21. years, for maintenance of which said statute the said defend was called in by process & did plead thereunto, after which plea pleaded, and after the said defend had been drawn into great charges & expenses for the defence of the said statute & cause, the said compl and his Council solicitors, Attorney, or some of them, seeing no likelihood to prevail in that course, did become nonsuit, & without any regard had of the penalty thereof, did fail and neglect to pay to the said defendant his said principal debt of five hundred pound at the days & times wherein the same was limited & appointed to be paid by a writing of defeasance made between the said compl & defend touching the penalty of the said statute, the same days of payment or some of them being now expired 18. months past and more, and yet the whole debt still unpaid unto the said defendant, for payment whereof, the said defendant hath and doth keep the said statute and the first two bonds wherein the said complainant with his men are bound as his sureties as aforesaid for payment of part of the said principal debt, being this defendants own proper goods as both by law and conscience the said defendant thinketh he may lawfully do. And yet nevertheless the said defendant further saith, that if the said complaynant will forthwith pay unto him the said defendant the said sum of 500 pound being his principal and just debt, together with the charges he hath been put unto, and consideration after the usual rate of ten pound for the hundredth, like as the defendant himself doth pay to others for the long time the said defendant hath forborn his said debt, he the said defendant will forego the penalty of the said statute, and will deliver the same statute and the said bonds to the said complainant, without that that the said defendant did sell unto the said complainant any piece or pieces of Velvet or Silk at the several times in the bill mentioned, or any other time or any other thing at any excessive or unreasonable price the days of payment considered. Or that the said complainant did over and beside the 〈◊〉 price of any such thing allow and pay to the said defendant any further consideration or usury for the forbearing thereof till the time of payment otherwise then is before truly laid down in this answer. Or that the said complainant and the said R. S. or any other did enter into any more bounds for any the sums in the said bill mentioned to the said defendant then such as before are confessed to the knowledge of this defendant. And without that the said complainant did at the entreaty of the said defendant during his the said complainants minority enter into the said statute in the bill mentioned to the knowledge of this defendant, but upon the importunate request and entreaty of the said plaintiff to supply his wants as aforesaid, the said defendant was content to accept of his said statute, not being able to give better assurance as the said defendant required. Or that the said defendant did then or at any other time promise to the said complainant or his said sureties in the bill mentioned any the bonds by them or any of them entered into to the said defendant for or touching the said debt as he now remembreth or any part thereof, other than the said obligations which the said defendant did redeliver to the plaintiff to be canceled as aforesaid, or did promise to cancel or make void the same in manner and form as in the said bill of complaint is surmised to the remembrance of this defendant. And without that that the said complainant or any other for him did require the redelivery of the said bonds as this defendant remembreth, or that there is any cause or reason why the said complainant should make any such request or the said defendant to make any such promise until his said debt be paid. And without that that the said compl hath or doth seek to make any reasonable composition with the said defend for or touching the said debt, or any part thereof, but rather hath endeavoured to defeat the said defend of his said debt. And therefore he the said defend hopeth that the said compl shall not have or receive any favour in this honourable Court against the said defend, seeing that the said defend desireth nothing else but his principal, with reasonable recompense for the great wrong & injury the said compl hath done, both in putting him to great charges & expenses, & by the long withholding & detaining of the said debt as aforesaid, without that that the said defend hath hetherunto taken or recovered the penalties of the said statute or bonds, or any of them, or that the said compl' is or hath showed himself at any time ready to satisfy the said debt unto the said defend, or any part thereof in manner & form as in the said bill of complaint is alleged. And without that that any other matter or thing etc. A Bill exhibited against a noble man, & against divers tenants & farmers, and officers of divers manors, containing, that the noble man for his debt due to the plaintiff became bound in a statute staple of 1200 li. and for that the debt was not paid at the day it was due, the plaintiff extended divers manors & lands which the noble man had, and was seized of at the time he knowledged the said statute, and had sold the same before the time of the extent to divers persons, and upon a Liberate to the Sheriff, had the same manors & lands delivered unto him to hold in extent till his debt were satisfied: Afterwards upon the noble man's suit to the Lord Chance llor, and upon the Lord chancellors request to the plaintiff he was contented to forbear the taking of the profits of the lands extended, & to refer the hearing & ending of the matter touching his debt to two thereunto appointed by the Lord Chancellor, who heard and ended the matter, the which end afterwards the noble man refused to perform, whereupon the plaint if went about to take the benefit of his extent, & to keep Courts, and understand what lands, and how the tenants held, and what rents & services they paid for the same, but could not perform his purpose therein, for the tenants & the noble man had the Courtrowles in their keeping, and the leasses, rentals, etc. and would not let him see the same, and that the noble man refused to suffer the plaintiff to enter into the manors & lands extended, or to keep any Courts, and would not suffer the tenants to pay the plaintiff any of the rents or services due for the same manors, or to declare unto him what the same rents and services were. And then the plaintiff prayeth that the tenants, occupiers, and farmers of the said manors may upon their oaths bring forth their leasses, & declare what lands they hold, and what rents & services every of them pay. And that all the defendants may show to the plaintiff the Courtro●les, rentals, books o● survey, field books & terrars in their custody, and so prayeth process against all the defendants. To the Right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton of the most noble order of the Garter Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth to your good Lordship Sect. 149. your daily Orator I. L. Citizen and Clothworker of London. That whereas the Ho. Ed. Lord M. Baron of R. the last day of December in the 26. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, before Sir Christopher Wray Knight, Lord chief justice of the pleas before her highness to be holden, did acknowledge himself to owe to your Orator the sum of MCC. of lawful english money by his recognisance in the nature of an statute staple, with a defeasance thereupon made for the true payment of divers several sums of money at sundry several days now long sithence past. And whereas likewise the said Ed. Lord M. was and stood justly indebted to your said Orator in divers other sums of money by ohter bonds, as also by your Orator's book, for divers wares taken up of your Orator for the use of the said Lord Mo. And whereas also Tho. P. Esquire, brother of the said Lord Mo. stood indebted & did owe to your said Orator other certain sums of money, for the payment whereof the said Lord Mo. did undertake, and did make to your said Orator many several & sundry promises, the which (as yet) he hath in no sort performed. And whereas the said Lord Mo. at the time of the knowledging of the foresaid statute staple was lawfully seized in his demesne as of Fee, of & in the manors of H. W. A. & B. with two fairs twice in the year, with one market holden every week at H. aforesaid, with the hundred of F. with every of their appurtenances, situate, lying & being in the County of Norfolk, and of and in the manor of H. with their appurtenances in the said County of Norfolk: which said manors & other the premises aforesaid the said Lord Mo. by lawful assurance & conveyance in the Law, did bargain, sell, convey, & assure the same, with all and every their appurtenances whatsoever to one Tho. Lord of H. in the said County of Norfolk Esquire, and to his heirs for ever, by virtue of which conveyance and assurance the said Tho. L. was and is yet seized of the said several manors, and other the aforesaid premises in his demesne, as of Fee. And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was likewise seized in his demesne as of Fee at the time of the knowledging of the said statute staple of and in the manors of S. M. and W. with the advowsons of Sw. Mo. and Wo. with their appurtenances in the County of Norfolk aforesaid, which said several manors, & thadvowsons aforesaid, the said Lord Mo. by like conveyance and assurance did convey and assure the same to one Ed. B. late of D. in the said County of Norfolk Esquire deceased, and to his heirs for ever. to the only use and behoof of the said Ed. B. his heirs and assigns for ever, by whose death, T. B. son and heir of the said Ed. B. Esquire deceased, was and yet is seized of the said manors of S. Mo. and Wo. and of the advowsons of S. Mo. and Wo. in his demesne as of Fee. And whereas the said Lord Mo. was at the time of the knowledging of the said statute staple likewise seized in his demesne as of Fee, of and in the manor of B. with the appurtenances, situate and extending into the Towns of N. M. etc. in the aforesaid County of Norfolk, which said manor the said Ed. Lord M. did likewise convey unto T. G. Gentleman, and to his heirs for ever, to the only use and behoof of the said T. G. his heirs and assigns for ever. And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was at the time of the said statute knowledged, and yet is seized of and in the manor of A. with the appurtenances in the said County of Norfolk in his demesne as of fee, and being indebted to your said Orator as aforesaid, your Orator made sundry and divers earnest requests for the getting of the said debt and sums of money aforesaid, and your Orator being by the said Lord Mo. promised to have the said debts at divers several days, yet none of them were performed or kept, whereby your Orator seeing no performance, but was delayed from time to time, your said Orator about two years sithence sued forth his several writs of Extendi facias directed to the Sheriffs of Norfolk, Essex, Hertford, Sommersetshire, and York, and to the Chancellor of the County Pallantine of Lancaster, for the extending of all the manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, within the Counties aforesaid, whereof the said Lord Mo. was seized the time of the said statute knowledged, which writ directed to the Sheriff of the said County of Norfolk, was delivered to one Clement Pastone Esquire then Sheriff of the same County, to be by him executed and returned accordingly. By virtue whereof the said Clement Pastone Esquire did by the Oaths of a jury sworn & charged within the said County of Norfolk, according to the due course of her majesties laws, extend and appraise the said several maunors, fairs, markets, lands, tenements, & all other the premises with the appurtenances lying within the said County of Norfolk, as in and by the said extents remaining of record in this ho. Court of Chancery, and by the return of the said Sheriff, with the seizure of the said several manors into the Queen's majesties hands, to the intent they might be delivered to your Orator in extent more at large it doth and may appear. After which inquisition, extent, and seizure so taken, had, & made, your Orator sued forth her highness writ of Liberate, bearing Teste the 4. day of February, in the 30. year of her highness reign, directed tooth said Sheriff of Norfolk, commanding him thereby to deliver the said several manours extended as aforesaid unto your Orator to hold them in extend, until your Orator were of the said sum of 1200. l. with his costs and expenses herein sustained, fully satisfied & paid. By virtue of which said writ, the said Clement Paston then Sheriff did deliver in extent to your said Orator the xii. day of March than next following the foresaid several manors of H. W. A. and B. with the two fairs holden twice by the year, and the market of H. there holden every week, with the hundred of F. with their appurtenances. And the said manor of H. with the appurtenances. And also the said manor of S. Mo. and WO. with thadvowsons & patronage of Sw. M. and W. with their appurtenances together with the manor of B. with thappurtenances, & the foresaid manor of A. with thappurtenances, to hold to your said Orator & his assigns according to the said extent, until the said debt of 1200. l. together with your Orator's costs and damages were taken and levied of the premises. By virtue whereof your said Orator was of the premises possessed, and so being possessed, the said Lord Mo. before that your said Orator had or could receive any profit of the premises, or of any part or parcel thereof, by means or reason of the said execution thereupon made & delivered to your said Orator, did make humble suit to your ho. Lordship, that it would please the same to move your said Orator to forbear the taking of the issues rents & profits of the said several manors, & other the premises, & from the molesting of the farmers, tenants, & occupiers thereof for the same, until your ho. Lordship, or some others to be by your Lordship appointed, had heard & determined the cause and reckoning between the said Lord M. & your said Orator, whereupon your said Orator was content at the motion & request of your ho. Lordship to permit the tenants of the premises to continue in their possession quiet, and to forbear the taking of the rents and profits thereof, and to refer the hearing and ending of all reckonings & demands between your said Orator, and the said Lord Mo. to the order and determination of master Doctor S. one of the masters of this most honourable Court of Chancery, & to S. B. Gentleman one of your honours Secretaries, being thereunto assigned and appointed by your Lordship in favour of the said Lord Mo. who entered into examination of the premises in controversy between the said Lord Mo. and your said Orator, and by their mediations and at their requests your said Orator was content in forego near the sum of 100 pound of his just demand, so that the said Lord Mo. would content and pay the residue to your said Orator in such sort and at such times as the said master S. and master Br. did conclude and set down, but the said Lord Mo. meaning and intending still to delay your said Orator, and to keep him both without his money, and the profits of the said manors and other the premises with the appurtenances, which were delivered unto your said Orator in execution towards the satisfying of the debt, costs, and damages, did not only neglect to perform the said agreement and order taken by the said master S. and master Br. but hath and doth utterly refuse and deny to perform the same, by reason whereof your said Orator for the levying of his debt, costs, and damages, did purpose and intend to take the benefit of his said execution, and for that end your said Orator about the feast day of S. Michael the Archangel last passed, travailed into the said County of Norfolk where the said manors and premises do lie, and there did offer to keep Courts, and did likewise require the tenants, occupiers, and farmers of the said manors and premises to render and pay to your said Orator the rents, issues, and profits then due for the said premises to your said Orator, and therewithal your said Orator did require the said tenants and occupiers of the said manor and premises to discover and make known to him how and in what sort and by what title they and every of them did hold, claim, and enjoy the several parcels of the said premises which they the said farmers and occupiers did severally occupy, possess, and enjoy, to the end that your said Orator might hereafter be ascertained and fully instructed how to demand, recover, and come by the rends reserved upon their several estates and interests which be rightfully belonging and appertaining to your said Orator by reason of the said extent, but so it is if it may please your honourable Lordship that the said L. Mo. T. L. Tho. B. Theodora Goodwin, Hen. Blage Steward, Thomas Lovel, Thom. More, Henry Hind, Rich. Handford, Edmond Coles, Tho. bailie, Wil Drake, Geo. Thurstone, Rap. Story, being all Owners, Farmers, Tenants, Occupiers, and Officers of the said Manors and premises, in whose hands and keeping all the Court Rolls, rentals, Leases, and counterparts thereof which touch or concern the said manors and premises, or any part or parcel thereof be and remain, Have confederated together both to defeat your Orator of his lawful execution and estate in the premises, and also to defraud and utterly to take away from your said Orator the rents, issues, and profits thereof, and therefore and for that end the said Lord Mo. etc. did not only deny and refuse to permit and suffer your said Orator or any other person to his use to enter into the said manors and premises, or to keep any Courts in and upon the same, but also did and do deny and refuse to pay to your said Orator any free or farm rents for the said manors or premises, or to show to your said Orator how or by what leases or other titles they or any of them do possess or enjoy the premises, or any part or parcel thereof, or what rents or services ought to be paid for the same, by reason whereof your said Orator is like to be kept from the benefit of his said execution against all right, equity, and conscience, unless your ho. & accustomed help be unto him in this behalf extended. In tender consideration whereof, & for that the said Lo. Mo. etc. being owners & occupiers of the manors & premises aforesaid, and do conceal & keep from the knowledge of your said Orator aswell your yearly rents, services & fermes, as also the sight of their several Indentures of Lease, as also the Courtrowles, whereby your Orator is without remedy either to recover any yearly farm, or other the rents and services of the Freehold or Copyhold lands pertaining to the said manors, and for that your Orator hath not the counterpanes of your said Indentures of Lease, neither knoweth the dates of them, nor the certainty of your farmers reserved, or of the rents & services due & payable for your said lands, having not the Courtrowles to show forth, so as your Orator cannot by the course of the common laws of this realm, make any avowry for either the yearly farms, nor yet for the rents & services due upon & for the foresaid freehold or copiehold lands holden of the said several manors as aforesaid, nor yet for any other duty or service due for the same, nor can show forth the certainty of the lands that the said tenants do severally hold. May it therefore please your ho. Lordship that some good order may be by your Lordship set down, whereby the foresaid several Farmers, tenants & occupiers of the said several manors, & all the other parties before mentioned, may be enforced to set down upon their oaths, as also bring forth their several Indentures of Leases, whereby your Orator may know the several dates of them, as also what lands they hold by the same, & by what yearly rents & fermes. And the the tenants of the said several manors may likewise be enforced upon their oaths to set down what lands they hold of the said several manors either freely, or by copy of courtrowle, & by what rents, fines, duties, & services. As also the foresaid Eo. Lord Mo. etc. having the custody of any the rentals, Courtrowles, books of survey, field books or terrors concerning thaforesaid several manors or any of them, may likewise be enforced to show them forth to your Orator, to the intent your Orator may understand what lands, tenements, or hereditaments, are holden of the said several manors or of any of them, & by what rents, duties or services the said lands, tenements, or hereditaments are holden by, whereby your Orator may according to equity & good conscience reap, receive, recover, have & take the yearly revenues, issues and profits of the foresaid several manors & every of them, as in law and right belongeth unto him, & as he ought to do, until your said Orator be satisfied of the sum contained in his foresaid statute staple knowledged unto him as aforesaid, with his reasonable costs & damages herein sustained, & to th'end that all these points may be performed accordingly. May it further please your good Lordship to get to your said Orator the Qu. Ma. most gracious writs of Subpena to be directed to the foresaid Ed. Lord Mo. Baron of R. etc. Commanding them & every of them thereby at a certain day, & under a certain pain personally to appear before your good Lordship in the said ho. Court of Chancery, then and there to answer to the premises, & to abide such further order & direction herein, as to your Ho. shall seem good to stand with right, equity, and good conscience. And your said Orator shall according to his most bounden duty ever pray for the increase and continuance of your good Lordship in health and all honour long to endure. The joint and several answers of T. M. H. B. etc. Defendants, to the bill of complaint of I. L. Complaynant. THe said defendants and every of them saving to them and every of Sect'. 150. them th'advantage of exception to the incertainty & insufficiency of the said bill of complaint, say. And first the said T. More for himself saith, That he the said T. Moor doth & hath by the space of 2. years last passed or thereabouts exercised the Office of Bailiff of the manors of H. A. and B. in the said Bill mentioned, whereof this defendant supposeth T. Lo. Esquire to be seized of some estate of inheritance, and hath in his hands some rentals of the said manors, which this defendant thinketh he ought not to impart to the said complainant, neither ought the said complainant to have the issues, rents, and profits of the said manors as this defendant thinketh, for that as this defendant hath credibly heard & verily believeth it to be true, the said Ed. Lo. M. in the said bill mentioned the day of the date of the said recognisance in the said bill mentioned, or at any time since, was never seized in his demesne as of fee simple, fee tail, or freehold, of and in the said manors of H. A. and B. or any part or parcel thereof, as in the said Bill is untruely alleged. But one T. H. was then seized thereof, who since hath conveyed the same to the said Th. Lo. as this defendant hath heard. By reason whereof the said Tho. Lo. aught in this defend opinion to have the rents, issues, & profits thereof notwithstanding the said execution, without that this defend is farmor, customary, or free tenant of any part or parcel of the said manors or other the premises in the said bill mentioned, other than of parcel of the demesnes of the said manor of H. which this defend holdeth by lease for certain years yet to come, rendering yearly 5. l. and of the Fairs of H. & the profits thereof, which he holdeth for divers years yet to come, rendering yearly 26. s. 8. d. and of the sixth part of the Warren of H. which he holdeth for divers years yet enduring, rendering 12. shillings by year or thereabouts. And of divers Freeholds holden of the manor of H. by the rents of 20. s. or thereabouts. And without that that this defendant hath in his hands any Court Rolls, rentals, or Leases, concerning the premises in the said Bill mentioned other then in this answer before is mentioned, as in the said Bill is untruely alleged. And without that that this defendant hath unlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said Bill mentioned, to defeat the said complainant of his lawful execution and estate in the premises in the said bill mentioned, as in the said Bill of complaint is also untruely alleged. And the said Henry Blake for himself saith, that he hath exercised the office of steward of the said manors of H. and B. in the said Bill mentioned, and of the manors of H. in the said Bill likewise mentioned lawfully constituted thereunto as this defendant thinketh by the said T. Lo. being seized of some estate of inheritance of the said manors as this defendant supposeth: and that the Court Rowles and evidences concerning the said manors are kept in the house of the said T. Lo. at E. in the County of Norfolk, and are not at this defendants disposition, to yield up or impart to the said complainant otherwise then as the said T. Lo. shall appoint, whereof this defendant humbly prayeth this honourable Court to have consideration, without that that this defendant in Farmor or Customary or free tenant of any part or parcel of the said manors or other the premises in the said Bill mentioned, or hath in his hands any Court rowles, Rentals, or Leases, concerning the premises in the said Bill mentioned other then as in his answer before is mentioned, as in the said Bill of complaint is untruely surmised. And without that that this defendant hath unlawfully confederated with any person or persons in the said Bill mentioned to defeat the said complainant of his lawful execution and estate in the premises in the said Bill mentioned, as in the said Bill of complaint is also untruely alleged. And the said Thomas Aynsworth for himself saith, that he hath and doth exercise the Office of Bailiff of the manor of S. in the said BIll mentioned under and by the appointment of T. B. Esquire in the said Bill mentioned, whom this defendant supposeth to be seized thereof of some estate of inheritance, and hath in his hands certain rentals of the same manor, which rentals this defendant thinketh he aught to duty to keep and use to the benefit and service of the said Tho. B. and to employ the same according to his direction and not otherwise. And further this defendant saith, that this defendant is Farmor of parcel of the demesnes of the manor of S. aforesaid, which he holdeth for divers years yet to come, yielding and paying therefore yearly 14. l. 8. s. 4. d. of lawful money of England. And also holdeth by copy of Court roll at the will of the Lord of the said manor of Swanton Morley according to the custom of the said manor, divers lands and tenements within the precincts of the said manor, and yielding yearly for the same 40. s. or thereabouts, which rends this defendant thinketh are not payable to the plaintiff, for that the rends reserved upon Leases made of any parcel of the extended premises before the knowledging of the said statute, are not expressly extended nor delivered to the said complainant in execution. But the said complainant having extended and received the premises into execution as demean in possession is to stay and expect till he may have and enjoy the same according to his extent, and to the livery thereof made unto him. And further this defendant saith, that the said manor of Swanton Morley is and at the time of the awarding of execution, was as this defendant thinketh the inheritance of the said Th. B. which he then had by purchase from the said Lord Mo. since the knowledging of the said recognisance. And in as much as the said Lord Mo. at the time of the knowledging of the said recognisance had and was seized in Fee simple, Fee tail, or for term of life, as this defendant is credibly informed, and partly appeareth by the Schedule of the livery of the said Lord Mo. of and in the manors of H. in the County of Essex of the yearly value of 100 l. or there about, and of and in the manors of F. and Todenhoberie in the County of Hertford of the yearly value of forty pound or thereabouts, and of a certain yearly rent of thirty pound or thereabouts going out of the manor of Shobington in the County of Buckingham, and of divers other manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in divers other Counties of England, which ought to be contributory to the payment of the said twelve hundred pound, and therefore the same is undulie and contrary to law charged upon the said manor of Swanton cum Worthinge, which the said Th. B. holdeth as a Feoffee, for which cause the said T. B. as this defendant supposeth hath pursued his Sciri facias against the said complainant in this honourable Court for the discharge of the said manor of Swanton cum Worthinge from the said due execution, and from the recovery of the issues and profits coming and growing of the same manor from the time of the said execution. For which cause this defendant humbly prayeth this honourable Court that the said complainant may be referred to the Common Law to bring his Action against this defendant for the recovery of the said rents due upon such Leases and Copy holds as this defendant holdeth of the said manor of Swanton cum Worthinge wherein the validity of the said E●tent may be tried, so as this defendant may know to whom he may pay his said rents without danger or further trouble. And his defendant is ready to stand to such order as this honourable Court shall award concerning the showing unto the said complainant of his estate and term which he hath of and in any part of the said manor of Swanton cum Worthinge or holdeth of the same and other circumstances thereof, without that this defend is Farmer or Customary or free tenant of any other part or parcel of the said manors, or other the premises in the said Bill mentioned, or hath in his hands any Courtrowles, rentals, or Leases concerning the premises in the said bill mentioned, other than as in this answer before is mentioned as in the said bill of complaint is untruly alleged. And without that that this defend hath unlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said Bill mentioned, to defeat the said compl of his lawful execution and estate in the premises in the said BIll mentioned, as in the said Bill is falsely surmised. And the said Henry S. john for himself saith, that he hath and doth exercise the office of Bailiff of the manors of Hockering etc. in the said bill mentioned, whereof this defendant supposeth Th. Lo. Esquire to be seized of some estate of inheritance, and hath in his hands certain rentals of the said manors, which rentals this defendant thinketh he aught in duty to keep and use to the benefit and service of the said master Lovel, and to employ the same according to his direction, & not otherwise. And further this defendant saith, the he this defendant is Farmer of certain demesnes of the said manor of Hockering whereof he holdeth some part for years, & some for life by Lease made by the said Lord Mo. whose estate the said master Lo. now hath of and in the same, yielding & paying therefore yearly 30. l. or thereabouts, which rend this defendant thinketh is not payable to the said complainant, for that the rends reserved upon Leases made of any parcel of the extended premises before the knowledging of the said statute are not expressly extended nor delivered to the said complainant in execution. But the said complainant having extended & received the premises into execution as demesne in possession, is to stay and expect till he may have and enjoy the same according to his extent, and the livery thereof made unto him. And further this defend saith, that the said manors of Hockering & Northtuddenham are and at the time of the awarding of the said execution were as this defendant thinketh thinheritance of T. Lo. which he then had by purchase from the said L. Mo. since the knowledging of the said recognisance. And in as much as the said Lo. Mo. at the time of the said recognisance had & was seized in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life, as this defend is credibly informed, and partly appeareth by the Schedule of the livery of the said Lord Mo. of and in the manors of Halingburie Morley, and Salcot Verley in the County of Essex of the yearly value of 100 l. or thereabouts, and of and in the manors of Furnex and Tuddenhoberie in the County of Hertford of the yearly value of 40. l. or thereabouts, and a certain yearly rend of 30. l. or thereabouts going out of the manor of Shobington in the County of Buckingham, and divers other manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in divers other Counties of England which ought to be contributory to the payment of the said 12. C. pound, and therefore the same is undulie and contrary to law charged upon the said manors of Hockering, and Northtuddenham, which the said master Lo. holdeth as a Feoffee, for which reason the said master Lo. as this defendant supposeth, hath pursued his Scire facias against the said complainant in this honourable Court for the discharge of the said manors of Ho. and N. from the said undue execution, and for the recovery of the said issues and profits coming and growing of the same manors from the time of the said execution, for which cause this defendant humbly prayeth this honourable Court, that the said complainant may be referred to the Common law to bring his action against this defendant for the recovery of the said rents due upon the said leasses and estates which this defendant holdeth of the said manors, wherein the validity of the said extent and execution may be tried, so as the said defendant may know to whom to pay his said rent without danger or further trouble, and this defendant is ready to stand to such order as this honourable Court shall award concerning the showing to the said complainants of his estates & terms which he hath of and in the said parcel of the demesnes of the said manor of Ho. or holdeth of the same and other circumstances thereof without that, that this defendant is Farmer, Customary, or free tenant of any other part or parcel of the said manors or other the premises in the said bill mentioned, or hath in his hands any Courtrowles, rentals, or Counterpanes of leases concerning the premises in the said bill mentioned, other than in his Answer before is declared, as in the said bill of complaint is untruly alleged. And without that, that the said defendant hath unlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said bill mentioned, to defeat the said complainant of his lawful execution and estate in the premises in the said bill mentioned, as in the said bill of complaint is also untruely alleged. And without that, that any other matter or thing in the said bill of complaint mentioned material or effectual to be answered unto, and not herein sufficiently answered, confessed, and avoided, traversed, or denied, is to these defendants or any of their knowledges true, All which matters these defendants are ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award, and prayen to be dismissed out of the same, with their reasonable costs and charges in this behalf most wrongfully sustained. A Bill into the Chancery for detaining of evidences entering into a meadow and a pasture and making to themselves divers estates. To the Reverend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Ely, Lord Chancellor of England. IN most humble wise showeth and complaineth unto your good Sect'. 151. Lordship your daily Orator G. I. That where W. I. father unto your said Orator was seized in his demesne as of fee of and in fifteen Acres of pasture and meadow with thappurtenances in Clare in the County of Suffolk, and so being thereof seized died by protestation seized. After whose death the said fifteen Acres of pasture and meadow and all other the premises with the appurtenances descended and came and of right aught to descend and come unto your said Orator as son and heir unto the said W. I. So it is if it may please your good Lordship that certain evidences, deeds, charters, and other muniments concerning the premises, are come to the hands and possession of M. G. Widow, and A. G. who by colour of having the said evidences have entered into the premises, and have conveyed unto them and to their heirs divers and sundry estates in the law for the disherison of your said Orator, and of his heirs for ever: And because your said Orator knoweth not the certainty of the said evidence, nor whether it be contained in bag or bore sealed, or in chest locked, he is without remedy for the recovery of the same by the order of the Common law, except your Lordship's favour be unto him showed in this behalf: In consideration whereof it may please your good Lordship, the premises considered to grant a writ of Subpena to be directed to the said M. G. Widow, and A. G. commanding them by the same personally to appear before your good Lordship in the King's high Court of Chancery at a certain day, and under a certain pain by your good Lordship to be limited there to answer unto the premises, and after to abide such decree and order therein as to your good Lordship shall be thought to stand with right and conscience. And your said Orator shall daily pray for the preservation of your Lordship's Honour long to endure. The Answer of one of the defendants to the Bill next before, who pleadeth that the plaintiffs father sold the lands in the Bill mentioned to T. H. who sold the same to the defendants husband, who conveyed the same to the defendant for her life: And showeth, that at the time of the said purchase, and after the premises were in divers feoffs in use, and showeth afterwards the making of the Statute of 27. Hen. 8. for transferring of uses into possession. The Answer of M. G. Widow, to the Bill of complaint of G. I. THe said defendant saith, that the said Bill of complaint is untrue, Sect'. 152. uncertain, and insufficient in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein contained determinable at the Common law and not in this honourable Court, whereunto the said defendant prayeth to be dismissed, and th'advantage thereof to the said defendant always saved, if she shall be compelled to make any further answer unto the said insufficient Bill. Then for the declaration of the truth the said defendant saith, That as to any pasture or meadow in Clare the said defendant knoweth not that she is Tenant of, or hath any that was belonging to the said W. I. within the said town or parish of Clare, or detaineth any evidence concerning the same to her knowledge: But the said defendant saith, the said W. I. mentioned in the said Bill of complaint, together with I. W. alias Miller, I. F. etc. were seized of and in seven Acres of pasture and moor, and three Acres and one Rood of meadow in S. in their demesne, as of fee to the use of the said W. I. and of his heirs, and so being thereof seized, the said W. I. bargained and sold the pasture, moor, and meadow last before remembered unto one T. H. and to his heirs for ever: By virtue of which bargain the said W. I. and his said other Coefeoffees were thereof seized in their demesne as of Fee, to the use of the said T. H. and of his heirs, and after the said W. I. died: After whose death the said I. W. etc. them held in by right of suruivorship, and were thereof seized in their demesne as of Fee, to the said use last remembered: and being so seized to the said use, the said T. H. bargained and sold the said Pasture, Moor, and Meadow to one W. G. Gentleman, husband of the said defendant and to his heirs: By virtue whereof the said I. W. and other his said Coefeoffes were seized of and in the same to the use of the said W. G. and of his heirs: And after for the further assurance thereof to the said W. G. and his heirs, the said I. W. and the other his Coefeoffees so being seized of and in all the premises, did enfeoff W. B. Esquire, G. F. Gentleman, etc. of and in the said Pasture, Moor, and Meadow: To have and to hold the same to the said W. B. etc. and their heirs and assigns, to the only use and behoof of the said W. G. and of his heirs and assigns for ever: By virtue whereof the said W. B. & C. were thereof seized in their demesne as of fee to the only use of the said W. G. and of his heirs and assigns for ever, and so were thereof seized until the fourth day of February in the 27. year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King Hen. 8. At which day the said W. G. was seized of and in the premises in his demesne as of fee, and by virtue thereof the said W. G. and his assigns have ever since enjoyed the premises peaceably and quietly without interruption, until now of late within these twelve months that the said complainant pretended title unto the same, The estate of which W. G. of and in the premises with their appurtenances the said defendant for term of her life the reversion over unto A. G. Gentleman by lawful conveyance in the Law now hath without that, that any thing material or traverseable, other than that in this present answer is confessed and avoided, is true. All which matters the said defendant doth aver, and is ready to prove as this honourable Court shall award, and prayeth to be dismissed out of the same with her reasonable costs for her wrongful vexation sustained in this behalf. The Replication of the complainant to the Answer of one of the defendants (whose Answer is not here) wherein he confesseth the sale of the said lands by his father, as before in the Answer of one other of the defendants is alleged, but saith it was made upon condition of redemption, the which condition the under performed etc. The Replication of G. I. to the Answer of A. G. THe said complainant saith, that his said Bill is certain and sufficient Sect'. 153. in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein contained are true & not imagined of malice by the said complainant to the only intent and purpose to put the said defendant to trouble, cost, and vexation, in manner and form as in the said Answer is untruely alleged. And for Replication unto the said Answer the said complainant saith as he in his said Bill hath said, that the said W. I. father to the said complainant was seized of the premises in his demesne as of Fee, in use, or in possession. And the said W. I. so being thereof seized by his deed indented bearing date the fourth day of November, in the 22. year of the late King Hen. 8. bargained and sold the premises unto the said T. H. his heirs and assigns for ever for the sum of forty marks, whereof the said T. H. paid unto the said W. H. twenty marks, and the other twenty marks to be paid unto the said W. I. at the feast of S. Nicholas, which was in the year of our Lord God 1534. Nevertheless, the said T. H. covenaunteth and granteth by the said Indenture, that if the said W. I. his heirs, executors or assigns at the said feast of S. Nicholas, or in the mean time before, did repay unto the said T. H. his heirs executors and assigns the said twenty marks, that then the said bargain and sale to be void, and of none effect, as by the said Indenture ready to be showed more plainly doth and may appear, by force whereof the said W. I. and the other his coefeoffees were seized of the premises to the use of the said T. H. and of his heirs. And after the said W. I. according to the said Indenture, and before the said feast of S. Nicholas, did well and truly content and pay unto the said T. H. the said sum of twenty marks, by force whereof the said W. I. and the other his Coefeoffees were seized of the premises in their demesne as of Fee to the use of the said W. I. and of his heirs: And the said W. I. and the other his Coefeoffees so being thereof seized, the said W. I. died, after whose death the residue of the said feoffees were seized of the premises to the use of the said complainant and of his heirs until the fourth day of February, in the 27. year of the late King Hen. 8. at which day the said complainant was solely seized: And further averreth all and every thing contained in his said bill to be true in manner and form as he in his said Bill hath alleged, without that that the said W. I. bargained and sold the premises unto the said T. H. and to his heirs in such manner and form (without condition) as in the said Answer is untruly alleged: And without that that the said T. H. did lawfully bargain and sell the premises unto the said W. G. and to his heirs: Or that the said I. W. and his Coefeoffees were lawfully seized of the premises to the use of the said W. G. and of his heirs: Or that the said Feoffees did or might lawfully enfeoff the said W. B. and others named in the said Answer to the use of the said W. G. and of his heirs: Or that the said W. B. and the other his Coefeooffees were lawfully seized of the premises to the use of the said W. G. and of his heirs. Or that the said W. G. at the said fourth day of February, was lawfully and solely seized of the premises in fee: Or did lawfully and peaceably enjoy the premises: Or that the said M. G. mother of the said defendant hath any lawful estate from the said W. in manner and form as in the said Answer is untruly alleged: And without that that any other thing material in the said Answer, which by this Replication is not sufficiently confessed and avoided or traversed is true: All which matters he is ready to answer etc. A Bill into the Chancery for a Commission upon the Statute of 13. Eliz. Cap. 7. entitled, An Act touching orders for Bankrupts, and all the whole proceed therein. To the Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England. HVmblie complaining, showeth unto your good Lordship your Sect'. 154. daily Orators T. B. of C. in the County of D. Clothier, W. M. of L. Grocer, M. G. Merchant, Subjects borne of this Realm of England as well for themselves as for others, subjects borne of the said Realm, and Denizens, Creditors of C. A. of L. Merchantaylor, also a subject borne of the said Realm. That whereas the said C. A. using and exercising the trade of Merchandise, and seeking his trade of living by buying and selling, upon good and just cause for wares and merchandise to him sold and delivered, and also for ready money to him lent, being indebted to your said Orators in several sums of money amounting to the value of 300. pound. And now of late, that is to say, in this present month of November, in this xv. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, about the second day of the said month of November, did begin to keep his house situate in the said City of London, and sithence hath departed from his said dwelling house, and absented himself, to th'intent to defraud and hinder your said Orators and other his Creditors of their just debts and duties to them due & owing, and so is become a Bankrupt: By reason whereof, and for that the said Bankrupt and others his confederates have devised and contrived divers secret estates and sinister practices for the conveying and e●●oyning of the body of the said Bankrupt, and of all lands, goods, debts, and other things belonging to the said Bankrupt, in such wise, as your Orators are without help for recovering or obtaining of their said just debts and duties, but only by complaint to your Lordship, and thereupon to have remedy according to the Statute, touching orders for Bankrupts in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the second day of April, in the xiii. year of the Reign of our said sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty made and provided. In consideration thereof, may it please your good Lordship to grant the Queen's Majesties most gracious Commission to be directed to such and so many wise and honest discreet persons as to your Lordship shall seem good: Aucthorizing them not only concerning the said Bankrupts body, lands, freehold, and customary goods, debts, and other things whatsoever, but also concerning all other persons which by concealment claim, or otherwise do or shall offend touching the premises, or any part thereof, contrary to the intent and true meaning of the said Statute, to do and execute all and every thing and things whatsoever as well towards and for satisfaction and payment of your said Orators, as towards and for all other intents and purposes, according to the ordinance and provision of the said Statute: And your said Orators shall daily pray etc. The Commission upon the Statute of 13. Eliz. Cap. 7. made against bankrupts, and granted to the Creditors upon the Bill next before. ELizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Sect'. 155. Ireland, defender of the faith etc. To our trusty and well-beloved Sir Rowland Heyward Knight, john Langley Alderman of our City of London, Tho. Hatton, Tho. Aldersey, Thomas Egerton Mercers, and William Wignall Merchant Tailor of our said City of London, greeting. Whereas we be informed that C. A. of London Merchantaylor using and exercising the trade of Merchandise by way of bargaining, and seeking his trade of living by buying & selling, and being a Subject borne of this our Realm of England, in this present month of November, in the xv. year of our Reign, viz. about the second day of the same month, did begin to keep his house situate in London aforesaid, and sithence hath departed from his said dwelling house and absented himself, to the intent to defraud and hinder T. B. of C. in the County of Devonshire Clothier, W. M. of London Grocer, Mi. G. Merchant, and others his Creditors, being also Subjects borne of this our said Realm, of their just debts and duties to them due and owing, and so is become a Bankrupt, We minding the due execution of the Statute touching orders for bankrupts in our Parliament holden at Westminster in the xiii. year of our Reign made and provided, upon trust of your wisdoms diligence and prudent circumspections which we have conceived in you, do by these presents name, assign, appoint, constitute, and ordain you, our special Commissioners, giving full power and aucthoritiye unto you, five or four of you, whereof they the said Sir Row. H. I. L. or T. H. to be one, according to the said Statute, not only concerning the said Bankrupt his body, lands, freehold, and Customary goods, debts, and other things whatsoever, but also concerning all other persons, which by concealment, claim, or otherwise do or shall offend touching the premises, or any part thereof, contrary to the intent and true meaning of the said Statute, to do and execute according to the said Statute all and every thing and things whatsoever aswell for and towards satisfaction and payment of the said Creditors, as towards and for all other intents and purposes, according to the ordinance and provision of the said Statute: Willing and commanding you, five or four of you, whereof Sir Row. H. I. L. or T. H. to be one, to proceed to the execution and accomplishment of this our Commissjoin according to the true intent and meaning of the said Statute with all diligence and effect, as our special trust is in you: Witness ourselves at Westminster the fifth day of November, in the xv. year of our Reign. A precept from the said Commissioners to the Officers, to make proclamation according to the said Statute against Bankrupts: that the said Bankrupt before a day certain come in and yield his body to the Commissioners, or to one of them. To the Bailiffs and head Officers of the Burrow of Southwark. We the Commissioners hereafter named by virtue of the Sect. 156. Queen's highness Commission to us directed, require & charge you five sundry market days next ensuing the receipt hereof, to make five sundry Proclamations in manner and form hereunder specified. The Proclamation. THe Queen's highness doth strictly charge and command C. ●. Sect. 157. Merchantaylor of the City of London, that he at or before the day of next coming in the Guildhall of London, or where you shall appoint, yield his body before Sir Row. Heyward Knight, or before some one of the said Commissioners appointed by her highness under her great seal of England, till the due execution of the Statute touching orders for Bankrupts lately made and provided, upon pain and peril of the penalty of the law in that case limited and appointed. An Indenture upon the said Commission and Statute of Bankcrupts betwixt the Commissioners of the one party, and the Creditors of the other party, whereby the Commissioners after view, search, and praisement made, sell certain of the goods of the debtors unto the creditors in part of satisfaction of their debts, with a Schedule annexed unto the said Indenture which is likewise indented, wherein are contained the particulars of the goods with their several prices, as they be prized by the Commissioners to the one part of which Indentures is put to the hands and seals of the said Commissioners, and to the other of the said Indentures the hands and seals of the creditors. THis Indenture made &c. between sir R. H. Knight, A. B. C. D. Sect'. 158. E. F. of the one party, and G. H. and I. K. creditors of C. A. Citizen and Merchantaylor of London on the other party, witnesseth, That where our said sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, by her highness letters of Commission bearing date at Westminster the fifth day of November last passed before the date hereof, minding the due execution of the Statute touching orders for bankrupts in her Parliament holden at Westminster in the xiii. year of her highness said Reign made and provided, reciting, that whereas her Majesty was informed that C. A. of London Merchantaylor using and exercising the trade of Merchandise by way of bargaining, and seekinig his trade of living by buying and selling (and being a subject borne of this her Realm of England) in the said month of November, in the xv. year of her majesties Reign, that is to say, about the second day of the said month, did begin to keep his house, situate in London aforesaid, and sithence hath departed from his said dwelling house & absented himself, to th'intent to defraud & hinder his creditors, being also subjects borne of this her said Realm of England of their just debts & duties to them due & owing, & so is become a Bankrupt, hath assigned, appointed, constituted & ordained the said R. H. etc. her especial Commissioners, giving full power & authority unto them 5. or 4. of them, whereof the said Sir R. H. to be one, according to the said Statute, not only concerning the said Bankrupt his body, lands, freehold, & customary goods, debts, & all other things whatsoever, but also concerning all other persons which by concealment claim, or otherwise do or shall offend touching the premises or any part thereof, contrary to th'intent & true meaning of the said Statute, to do & execute according to the said Statute all & every thing & things whatsoever as well towards & for satisfaction and payment of the said creditors, as towards and for all other intents & purposes, according to the order & provision of the said Statute in that case provided, as by the same Commission more plainly it doth and may appear: By force and virtue of which said Statute, and of the said commission, the said Commissioners have caused certain goods, Cattles, wares, and Merchandizes of the said C. A. contained and mentioned in a Schedule indented to these presents annexed, to be searched, viewed & apprized: And also have sold & delivered, and by these presents do sell & deliver to the creditors aforenamed, all the said goods, Cattalls, Wares, Merchandizes, contained and mentioned in the said Schedule indented to these presents annexed, To have and to hold the same & every part thereof to the said Creditors before named, their executors, administrators, and assigns, to their own proper uses for ever towards the satisfaction and payment of the said Creditors, that is to say, to every of the aforenamed creditors a portion, rate, and ratelike, according to the quantity of the debts: In witness whereof the said parties to these Indentures interchangeably have set to their Seals. Yeven the day and year first above written. The intituling of the Schedule mentioned in the Indenture next before written, and annexed to the same Indenture. IN this Schedule indented is contained and mentioned certain Sect. 159. goods, wares, Cattles, & Merchandise late of C. A. Merchantaylor, which be sold by the Indentures, whereunto this Schedule indented is annexed, that is to say, in his house in L. in the parish of G. in London. Imprimis etc. A Bill into the Chancery against one by a prisoner in the Fleet, to compel the defendant to proceed in an agreement made betwixt the plaintiff and the defendant for his enlargement, by the order of the Lord Chancellor then dead. To the right reverend Father in God, Nicholas Archbishop of York, and Lord Chancellor of England. MOst humbly complaining, showeth unto your grace, your daily Sect. 160. and poor Orator W. M. of M. in the County of Chester Gentleman now being prisoner in the Fleet at the suit of R. D. of the same County Esquire, committed thereunto by the late reverend Father in God the Bishop of Ely being then Lord Chancellor of England, of and upon a Statute of 200. l. which suit of the said R. D. hath thus remained the space of eight or nine years, to the great misery and utter undoing of your graces said Orator. And where divers agreaments, with other divers means have been taken and made between the said R. D. and your said Orator, and especially the last day of May, in the last year of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward, before Doctor lyel, & Master Dyer, appointed then by the said late Lo. Chancellor, where it was agreed between the said R. D. & your graces said Orator, that your said Orator should be bound in 1000 l. that he should not alienate nor sell any parcel of his lands now being in his possession, or to him in reversion: And all such lands that were sold by your said Orator, that your said Orator should endeavour with all diligence to recover the same again: And furthermore it was agreed & ordered between the said R. D. and your said Orator, that your said Orator should put insuerties to pay unto the said R. D. 50. pound of lawful money of England, that is to say, five pound yearly during ten years next ensuing: All which orders and agreements your Graces said Orator is contented to accomplish and fulfil: Yet notwithstanding the said ●. D. minding rather the continuance of your said Grace's Orator in prison to his undoing, will neither obey the late ho. Lord Chauncelors' order then made therein, nor yet the agreaments heretofore made, but only doth find delays to prolong the time, to the utter undoing of your Grace's Orator. In consideration whereof the premises tenderly considered, it may please your Grace to command the said R. D. to appear before your Grace, and to take such order with him as shall seem best to your Grace. And your said Orator shall pray for your Grace long to continue. A Bill into the Chancery by the Husband and Wife, for and on the behalf of divers to compel executors to pay legacies, wherein is showed, that they to whom the legacies be given have no remedy by the ecclesiastical law to compel the then executors to pay the said legacies. To the right Honourable Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your honours good Sect. 161. Lordship your daily Orators A. T. Esquire, and Katherine his wife, late wife unto one R. K. deceased, and one of the daughters of William W. of B. in the County of Warwick Esquire deceased, for, and in the behalf of William C. son of the said Katherine, and for and in the behalf of Mary T. and K. T. daughters of the said A. and Katherine, and of W. G. son of Ed. G. Knight, of the body of Margaret G. one other of the daughters of the aforenamed W. W. lawfully begotten, Ed. M. and Anne his wife, one of the daughters of the aforenamed Ed. G. and Margaret, and Tho. M. and Elizabeth his wife, one other of the daughters of the said Sir Ed. and Margaret. That whereas the aforesaid William W. in his life time had issue seven daughters, that is to say, Margery late wife of Thomas H. Esquire, and after that wife to the ho. Sir A. C. Knight, one of the Queen's most honourable privy Council, and now Chancellor of her highness Duchy of Lancaster, Godith, wife to B. F. Esquire, Elizabeth, late wife of Ed. B. Esquire deceased, Mary, wife of William S. Esquire, Margaret, wife of the said Sir Ed. G. Anne, wife of Francis Mo. Esquire, and Katherine, one of your said Orators. And whereas also the said W. W. in his life time was possessed of and in divers goods and chattels, household stuff, plate, jewels, and also entitled to certain debts amounting to the value of ten thousand pounds or thereabouts, and so being thereof possessed and entitled, did constitute and make his Testament and last Will, and by the same did bequeath, give, and demise to divers and sundry persons divers great legacies particularly and certainly set forth in the said last Will, amounting in the whole to the sum and value of 3500. pound or thereabouts: And the residue of all his goods, Chattels and debts due unto him after his funeral expenses performed, his debts paid, and all his legacies and bequests particularly contained and mentioned in his said Will, fulfilled, performed, and paid, he the said W. W. by his said Testament and last Will did give and bequeath to the preferment of all the children coming of his said six eldest daughters, and to W. C. Mary T. and Katherine T. three of the Children of the said Katherine, now Wife of the said antony T. youngest Daughter of the said W. W. to be equally divided amongst them by the discretion of his executors: And by the same his Testament and last Will, he did ordain, nominate, and make the said honourable Sir A. C. Knight, Sir Ed. G. Knight, now deceased, Basill F. and W. S. esquires, and one W. B. esquires deceased, his Executors, as by the same his Testament and last Will more at large it doth and may appear: And afterwards in the month of May, in the second and third years of King Philip and the late Queen Mary, he the said W. W. died possessed of the said goods, Chattels, and debts, amounting to about the sum or value of ten thousand pounds. After whose decease, the said Executors did take, administer, and agree to the said Testament, which special Legacies aforesaid either be or might have been by the said Executors long sithence fulfilled, satisfied, and paid, so as the residue should and ought to come to the said Children according to the said Will. And although your said Orators have divers and sundry times required the said Executors to make payment of so much of the residue of the said goods, Cattalls, and debts, as to them appertained, yet that to do, they and every of them have hitherto refused and denied, contrary to right, equity, and good conscience. In consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Orators cannot certainly tell and declare the several parcels of the said goods, Cattalls, and debts, nor what the said Executors have paid or received for any manner of debts owing by or to the said W. W. by reason whereof, they are unable to prosecute for their remedy in the premises at and by the order of the Ecclesiastical laws of this Realm. May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant the Queen's Majesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the said Executors, etc. commanding etc. A bill containing that a lease of a rectory, and the buildings, gleebe lands, and tithes was made by the Dean and Chapter of a College in Oxford to the plaintiffs father for term of years reserving a rent: And that the same by force of the said lease was long possessed. That the said lease came to the plaintiff by mean conveyance, and that continuing the term, the defendant suggesting to the said Deane and Chapter that the said Rectory and tithes were occupied by the plaintiff without lease, or title, having a purpose to conceal and defraud the said College of the said rectory and tithes, became a suitor to the now Deane and Chapter to have a Lease of the said rectory and tithes for 21. years, and thereupon obtained a lease thereof for 21. years, yielding for it the accustomed rent, with an augmentation of rend corn. That the defendant having obtained a lease of the said rectory and tithes for 21. years, sued the plaintiff for the same in the Excheker at Westminster in a quo minus, and that he did interrupt the plaintiffs possession: And then the plaintiff prayeth an injunction for stay of the said suit, and for the establishing of his possession and process against the defendant and the Dean and Chapter to answer the bill. To the Right Ho. Sir. Io. Puckering Knight, Lo. Keeper of the great Seal of England. IN most humble wise complaining showeth unto your good Lo. your Sect. 162. daily Orator T. B. of N. in the County of C. Esquire, that whereas the Dean & Chapter of Christ's Church in the University of Oxford, were seized in their demesne as of fee in the right of their said Church of & in the rectory & Parsonage of R. with the appurtenances in the said County of C. being a Parsonage impropriate, and being so thereof seized by their deed indented sealed with their common seal (the certain date whereof to your said orator is unknown for want of having the same) did for the considerations in the said Indenture specified, demise, grant, & to farm let all the said rectory & parsonage of R. with the appurtenances, & all manner of houses, barns, glebe lands, tithes, fruits, profits, & advantages whatsoever to the same rectory & parsonage belonging or in any wise appertaining unto one R. B. late of N. in the said County of C. Esquire deceased, father unto your said Orator for a number of years yet enduring, reserving thereby a great annual rent (the tithes of the vicarage of R. aforesaid, & the patronage & disposition thereof, and all the woods & timber trees of the said parsonage always excepted & foreprised out of the said lease) which said estate, interest, & term of years of him the said R. B. of & in the said rectory, your Lo. said Orator by good and sufficient conveyance and assurance in the law now hath, by virtue of which said Lease as well the said R. B. in his life time, as also your said Orator since the death of the said R. have by the space of many years together been lawfully possessed of the said rectory, and have yearly from time to time since the making of the said lease, quietly and peaceably received, levied, taken, and enjoyed in their several times all the issues, commodities, & profits thereof to their own proper use and behoofs, without the disturbance, let, or interruption of any person or persons whatsoever until now of late, So it is if it may please your good Lordship, that one I. D. of D. in the said County of C. Esquire, having by some casual means gotten into his hands and custody the said Indenture of lease made to the said R. B. of the said rectory by the said Deane and Chapter as aforesaid, and divers other writings and mean conveyances concerning the same of right belonging to your said Orator, became an earnest suitor unto William I. Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ's Church in Oxford aforesaid, R. P. T. T. etc. being the Chapter of the same Church, to procure a lease unto him the said I. D. from the said Deane and Chapter of the tithes of the several Towneships, Hamlets, & places of H. P. etc. which said Towneships, Hamlets, and places are situate, lying and being within the limits and precincts of the said rectory formerly demised to the said R. B. as aforesaid, the said I. D. untruely suggesting unto the said Deane and Chapter, that the Tithes of those several towneships were concealed from the said Deane and Chapter, And that they had no rent or revenue at all to them therefore answered or paid by your said Orator, nor by any other person or persons, unto which said suit and accomplishment thereof the said Deane and Chapter, as your Orator hath been credibly informed, would not of long time consent upon suspicion by them conceived that the said I. D. had some purpose or intent to procure from them a lease of some such hamlets and towneships as were formerly demised to the said R. B. by the general name of the rectory of R. wherein the said several towneships were included, whereby the said I. D. might impeach and call in question the validity of the said lease made to the said R. B. And thereupon the said Deane and Chapter did affirm and declare to the said I. D. that they would not demise or grant unto him the said I. D. any thing that was comprised in the said lease made to the said R. B. mentioned or intended to be demised unto him the said R. B. in or by the same, unto whom the said I. D. made answer, that the said Tithes of the said several Towneships and hamlets before mentioned, were not at all demised by the said Deane and Chapter to the said R. B. and that his purpose was not to challenge any thing by demise from them which was formerly let to the said R. B. but only such things as were concealed from the said Deane and Chapter, for which he would yearly answer and pay unto the said Deane and Chapter the old accustomed rent, with an augmentation of a yearly revenue of Corn, according to the form of the Statute in such cases provided. Whereupon the said Deane and Chapter giving credit to the said I. D. and willing to recontinue such things as the said I. D. affirmed to be wrongfully concealed and detained from them, and thereby to increase their yearly revenue, and having withal a great respect not to prejudice your said Orator by any lease they should make to the said I. D. nor to lease any thing demised to the said R. B. did at the importunate suit of the said D. in July, in the xxxiii. year of the Reign of our gracious sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is by their Indenture sealed with their common seal, demise, and to farm● let to the said I. D. all their tithes, of what nature, kind, or quality soever of the said several towneships and hamlets before mentioned, the same being within the said precinct of the said rectory of R. as aforesaid from the feast of S. john the Baptist last passed before the date of the said Indenture unto th'end and term of one and twenty years. The said Deane and Chapter then verily supposing that none of the tithes of the said towneships were included or comprised in the said lease of the said rectory of R. made to the said R. B. but that the same were other things exempted out of the said lease, and concealed and wrongfully detained from the said Deane and Chapter, and not within the limits and bounds of the said rectory. By colour of which said lease procured by the said I. D. by such practice and means as aforesaid, and by having in his hands the said Indenture of lease made to the said R. B. of right belonging to your said Orator the said I. D. hath of late not only many ways interrupted your said Orators possession of and in the tithes of the said towneships and hamlets, but hath also thereupon attempted suit in her majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster by writ of Quo minns against your said Orator for the taking and carrying away of divers parcels of the said tithes growing and renewing within the said several Towneships and hamlets. And albeit your said Orator hath divers and sundry times in gentle manner required the said I. D. not only to deliver unto your said Orator the said Indenture of lease so made to the said R. B. together with the said other writings and mean conveyances of right belonging to your said Orator, but also quietly to permit and suffer your said Orator to have and enjoy the premises according to right, equity, and conscience: Yet that do the said I. D. hath always denied and refused, and yet doth deny and refuse, challenging the same by virtue of the said supposed lease made to him by the said Deane and Chapter, contrary to all equity and good conscience. In tender consideration whereof, and forasmuch as your said Orator knoweth not the certain date and contents of the said Lease made to the said R. B. and of the mean conveyances aforesaid, nor wherein the same be contained, whereby your said Orator is remediless for the recovery of the same by the order of the Common law. Neither is he able to plead the said lease in certainty at the Common law, whereby he shall justify his right and title to the said tithes by him lawfully taken as aforesaid. And for that the said Deane and Chapter were so abused by the insinuations and untrue pretences of the said I. D. and had no purpose at all to impeach the said Lease made to the said R. B. nor your said Orator his title to the said Tithes and other the premises claimed by virtue of the same, nor yet to demise or grant any thing to the said I. D. that was comprised, or intended to be demised in and by the same Indenture of lease made to the said R. B. May it therefore please your good Lordship, the premises tenderly considered, to grant unto your said Orator her majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said William I. Dean of Christ Church aforesaid, and to the said R. P. T. T. etc. and to the said I. D. who is usually resident within the City of London, commanding them and every of them thereby under a pain therein to be limited, to appear before your Lordship in her majesties high Court of Chancery, immediately then and there to answer the premises: And also to grant unto your said Orator her majesties most gracious writ of Injunction for the establishing of your said Orators possession, of and in the said rectory, and other the premises, and for the stay of all Actions commenced, or to be commenced against your said Orator at the Common law upon or by colour or pretence of the said Lease so undulie procured by the said I. D. from the said Deane and Chapter, and further to stand to and abide such other order herein as to your Lordship shall seem to stand with justice and equity. And your said Orator shall daily pray for your Lordship in all honour and happiness long to continue. T. E. E. C. R. C. The Answer of I. D. Esquire one of the defendants, to the untrue bill of complaint of T. B. Esquire complainant. THe said defendant saith, that the said Bill of complaint is very Sect. 163. untrue, uncertain, and insufficient in the Law to be answered unto, not containing any sufficient matter or just cause of suit against this defendant, but only devised & contrived by the complainant, to put him as it seemeth to wrongful vexation, costs, charges, & expenses in the law without any just cause of suit, whereof this defendant doth demand judgement of this ho. Court, & prayeth to be dismissed out of the same. Nevertheless, if this defend shall be compelled to make any further answer to the said bill of complaint, saith, that he understanding that the said lease for years mentioned in the said bill of complaint made to the said R. B. father of the said complainant, to be a mere void lease, and of no force & validity in law, for that the same lease was not demised by the Dean & Chapter, but by the Dean, with the assent & consent of the Chapter procured divers letter s of sundry honourable persons to the said Deane & Chapter of Christ Church of Oxenford named in the said bill of complaint in this defend behalf and favour for the obtaining of a lease for years of the said Deane and Chapter, the which said Deane & Chapter at the request & contemplation of those letters by their Indenture under their Chapter seal, did amongst other things demise, & to farm let unto this defendant all that their tithe Corn & grain, coming, renewing, & yearly growing in the Towneships or towns and fields mentioned in the said bill of complaint for the term of xxi. years, by virtue of which demise to him made, this defendant taketh himself lawfully intercessed and entitled in and to the said tithes demised unto him, and because this defend meant to proceed in a plain, upright, and lawful course in law against the said complainant for the trial of the validity of his said pretended lease, brought his Action in the Court of Exchequer by way of Quo minus against the said complainant & others, and as it seemeth now to this defend the said complainant perceiving the weakness & invalidity of his own title upon feigned & untrue surmises, hath exhibited the said bill of complaint into this ho. Court, to vex & trouble this defend & the other defendants named in the said bill of complaint, to maintain & continue his wrongful possession by a void lease, & of no validity in law, as to your Lo. for the cause aforesaid may appear, which said lease the said compl to the great prejudice & hindrance of the said College & Students thereof, laboureth and seeketh to enjoy, being void in law, and which lease if it were a good lease should endure and continue for many more years than the lease made to this defendant, and would be less in yearly rent and benefit to the said College then this defendants lease will be, respect being had to the things demised: And therefore as this defendant thinketh the said complainant is not to be relieved by any equity, or maintained in possession upon a mere void lease in law, since that by colour of the said void lease the said complainant and his father have received so great a profit for many years past: without that that the defendant hath by any casual means gotten into his hands and custody the said Indenture of lease made to the said R. B. of the said rectory by the said Deane and Chapter, and divers other writings and mean conveyances concerning the same of right belonging to the said complainant, as most untruly by the said Bill of complaint is alleged, for that he saith, that he never had the said supposed lease, nor any mean conveyance thereof, or that the said Deane and Chapter ever at any time made any such lease to the said R. B. father of the said complainant as the said complainant surmiseth, but such a lease as in this defendants answer is before alleged, or that the defendant untruely suggesting unto the said Deane and Chapter the other defendants in the said bill of complaint that the tithes in the said several towneships mentioned in the same bill of complaint were concealed from the said Deane and Chapter, and that they had no rent or revenue at all to them therefore answered or paid by the said complainant, nor by any other person or persons, as most untruely is alleged and surmised by the said bill of complaint: or that the said Deane and Chapter did affirm and declare to this defendant, that they would not demise or grant unto him this defend any thing that was comprised in the said lease made to the said R. B. or that was mentioned or intended to be demised to him the said R. in or by the same lease. Or that upon any such affirmation this defendant made answer, that the tithes of the said several towneships mentioned in the said bill of complaint, were not demised by the said Deane and Chapter to the said R. B. And without that this defendant alleged that his purpose was not to challenge any thing by demise from them, which was formerly let to the said R. B. but only such things as were concealed from the said Deane and Chapter as most untruely is alleged by the said bill of complaint, but he saith that he affirmed if he might have a lease made to him he would yield an increase of rent of corn according to the form of the statutes in such cases provided. And further this defendant saith, as before he hath said, that he being informed that the lease made to the said R. B. to be a void lease, became an earnest suitor by the means aforesaid for a lease of the same things that were pretended to be demised to the said R. B. and informed the said Deane and Chapter, that they might and that they had power in them to demise the same. And this defendant further saith, that there was included in the said supposed lease made to the said R. B. all the things that be demised to this defendant, and if this defendant should not have meant to have had in lease from the Dean and Chapter the things supposed to be demised to the said R. B. and to enjoy the same, then should he have had by his lease no benefit, and should vainly have procured such honourable friendship: And therefore he saith, that the same allegation suggested in the said Bill of complaint, that this defendant meant not, or that his purpose was not to challenge any thing by demise from the said Deane & Chapter, that was in show formerly demised to the said R. B. is most untruly alleged against all probability of reason, when as he well did know, and the Dean and Chapter also might understand that the whole rectory except the vicarage was in show demised, and the tithes of the said towneships included in the said supposed demise, and therefore saith, that the said Deane and Chapter at the contemplation and request of the said letters made a lease of the said tithes to this defendant, and to manifest their good intention and meaning towards this defendant for the enjoying thereof, the said Deane and Chapter gave this defendant a Transcript of the Counterpane of the said supposed lease under their Chapter seal, and besides this defendant had a rental delivered in writing to him, expressing or containing the rents of the towneships mentioned in the said bill of complaint. And this defendant saith, that his meaning was ever to have and enjoy the benefit of the said demise, and of the things therein contained, and so he taketh it, the said Deane and Chapter so meant and understood the same, being persons of so great learning, judgement, and discretion, that they would not grant the same things and mean contrary to their own demise: And without that the said Deane and Chapter then verily supposing that none of the tithes of the said towneships were included or comprised in the said lease of the said rectory of R. made to the said R. B. but the same were other things excepted out of the said lease, and concealed, and wrongfully detained from the said Deane & Chapter, and not within the bounds and limits of the said rectory, as most untruely and vainly it is alleged by the said bill of complaint, without either reason, or probability of reason, or that the same demise made to this defendant was mde upon any such feigned and untrue allegation: For he saith that such an oversight may not be without any reason imputed to the said Deane and Chapter, being men of learning and judgement, that they should suppose none of the tithes of the said towneships were included in the said lease of the rectory of R. made to the said R. B. but other things excepted and concealed, and not within the limits and bounds of the said rectory, when as to the said Deane & Chapter by the said rental may appear, that the towns mentioned in the said bill are parcel of the rectory of R. and the tithes in the same town demised to this defend. And the said defend further saith, that he hath not had or ever had in his hands the said Indenture of lease made to the said R. B. nor by colour of having thereof hath attempted any suit, but began his suit by reason of his own lease made to him, which he taketh is lawful for him to do. And without that, that there is any other matter or thing touching this defendant materially, or effectually to be answered unto, and not herein confessed and avoided, traversed or denied, is true: All which matters this defendant is ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award: and prayeth to be dismissed out of this honourable Court, with allowance of his costs and charges etc. W. D. The joint and several Answers of W. I. Doctor of Divinity, Deane of the cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, of King Henry the 8. foundation, R. P. A. W. T. T. etc. Prebendaries of the cathedral Church defendants to the Bill of complaint of T. B. Esquire complainant. THe said defendants all advantages of exception to the incertainty Sect'. 164. & insufficiency of the said bill of complaint being to them these defendants now & at all times hereafter saved for direct answer thereunto so farforth as concerneth the knowledge of them these defend material for them to answer unto saith as followeth, that is to say, that heretofore I. D. in the said bill of complaint named was an earnest suitor to the said defend W. I. & to the Chapter of the said cathedral Church for the obtaining and getting of a lease of all their the said Deane and Chapters tithe barn in P. in the County of C. and of all their tithe, corn, and grain, coming, renewing, and yearly growing in the towns and fields of P. aforesaid H. etc. in the said County of Chester, and of the tithe corn, grass, Pig, and Goose of T. in the said County of Chester, and of the tithe Hay and grass of M. S. and K. aforesaid. And for the better obtaining of his said suit, he the said I. D. obtained & procured several letters from divers great and honourable persons of this realm directed to the said Deane and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church, whereby the said Deane & Chapter were earnestly moved to grant & yield to the said request of the said I. D. At the which time the said I. D. did affirm & say to these defendants, or to the greater part of them that in the premises so by him the said I. D. required to be to him demised, there was then no lawful estate continuing, but usurped by such occupiers as had no right unto them, and who vouchsafed not to seek unto the Church for them, nor to offer any good offers to them, and that contrariwise himself would reduce those things to a more profitable revenue to their Church, or used other words & speeches to the like effect, by reason whereof, these defendants or the greater part of them the to satisfy their duties towards the said ho. persons in a suit so reasonable, & tending to the benefit of their Church, did by Indenture under their Chapter seal bearing date the xxii. day of December, in the 35. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady the Qu. Majesty that now is, demise, grant, & to farm let the said tithe barn & other the premises to the said I. D. to have and to hold to him his executor's administrators & assigns from the feast of S. Tho. the Apostle last passed before the date of the said Indenture unto the end and term of xxi. years thence next following fully to be complete & ended as they think they might lawfully do, they than not knowing any lawful lease to be in being of the premises, and yet to the end & intent that no person having any lawful interest in the premises, or in any part thereof for term of three years or more (if any such were) might be by the said demise or grant of these defend prejudiced or hindered, the defendants caused the said I. D. by his sufficient deed in writing as the defendants take it for the better security, safety, & quietness of their lawful tenants, whom they meant not should be impeached to covenant with these defend that the said demise, nor any covenant, grant or article in the said Indenture of demise contained, should in any wise extend to bind or charge any of them the said Deane & Chapters tenants, holding or claiming by good & lawful grant any lawful estate for the term of 3. years at the least or more than to continued, any matter or thing in the said Indenture of demise mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding, whereby it doth and may appear to this honourable Court, that these defendants have not done any thing concerning the said demise of the premises to the said I. D. then as they think they and every of them might lawfully do, making such provision as aforesaid that no tenants which held by any lawful interest should be impeached by this their lease, without that that to the knowledge of these defendants or of any of them, the Dean and Chapter of Christ's Church in the University of Oxford, predecessors of these defendants, did lawfully demise, grant, and to farm let the rectory or parsonage of R. in the said bill of complaint mentioned, with the appurtenances, to R. B. in the said bill of complaint named in manner and form, as in and by the said bill of complaint is surmised. And without that that to the knowledge of these defendants or of any of them, the tithes demised by these defendants to the said I. D. as is aforesaid, were lawfully demised by the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church, predecessors of these defendants to the said R. B. in manner and form as is in and by the said bill of complaint surmised: And without that that any other matter, clause, or sentence in the said bill of complaint comprised, being material in the opinion of them to be by these defendants answered unto, and not herein sufficiently confessed and avoided or traversed and denied is true. All which matters they these defendants and every of them are ready to aver and prove as this ho. Court shall award, and prayen to be dismissed out of the same, with their costs by them sustained. The Replication of T. B. Esquire complainant, to the Answer of I. D. Esquire one of the defendants. THe said complainant by protestation not confessing or acknowledging Sect'. 165. any matter or thing material or effectual in the said Answer alleged to be true in such sort, manner and form, as the same are thereby expressed and set forth, and by protestation also that the said answer is uncertain, and insufficient in the law to be replied unto, for divers great & apparent faults therein manifestly appearing, the benefit and advantage whereof at all times hereafter to the complainant saved and reserved, the said complainant for replication replieth and saith in all things as before in his said bill of complaint he hath said. And further saith, that all and every the matters in the said bill of complaint contained are and be good, just, true, certain and sufficient in the law to be answered unto in such sort, manner and form as they and every of them in and by the said bill of complaint by him been most justly, plainly, and truly alleged and set forth, and the same he is ready to aver and prove, as it shall please this ho. Court to award. And the said complainant further replieth and saith, that the said Deane and Chapter the other defendants, named in the said bill of complaint, had no meaning or intention to demise unto the said I. D. any thing that was by them or their predecessors formerly demised to this complainants' father, and in this complainants' possession by virtue of the said lease, and to give full satisfaction thereof to this ho. Court. This complainant further saith, that the said I. requiring of the said Deane and Chapter to have a lease of the towneship of R. together with the said other towneships in the said bill of complaint mentioned by him, procured a lease from the said Deane and Chapter by such practise and suggestion as in the said bill of complaint is alleged, the said Deane and Chapter than made answer to the said I. D. that this complainant was the Farmer of R. and held the same by lease from the said Deane and Chapter: And that they would not in any wise demise any thing to the said Daniel that was comprised in the said lease made to the complainants' father. To which answer the said I. D. replied and said that he could do well enough with that Lease if the said Deane and Chapter would be pleased to demise the said Towneship of R. with the rest of the said Towneships to him the said I. D. whereunto the said Deane and Chapter than answered to this or the like effect, viz. that they would not go about to impeach the said Lease made to the said complainants father: and that it was not fitting for men of their cote and quality to stand upon quirks and quillets in Law. By which words it evidently appears that the said Deane and Chapter were circumvented and miss by the untrue informations of the said I. D. to them made in manner and form as in the said bill of complaint is alleged and set forth: and that they knew not at the time of the making of the said I. D. Lease, that the said Towneships thereby let were formerly demised to the said complainants father in and by the general words of the rectory of R. which did include the said Towneships, so as if there be any such defect in the said Lease made to the said complainants father as the said I. D. pretendeth by his said answer, as this complainant hopeth there is not, yet for as much as this complaynants' father and this complainant have ever since the making of the said Lease, which was many years since, quietly enjoyed the same, and by all the said time paid the rent to the said Deane and Chapter reserved thereupon: And that the said I. D. procured his said Lease by such sleights and subtleties as is aforesaid. And that the said Deane meant not to demise any thing to the said I. D. that was formerly demised to the said complainants father, nor to impeach the said Lease made to the said complainants father upon any defect whatsoever. Wherefore this complainant hopeth this honourable Court will compel the said I. D. to bring in the said Lease so procured as aforesaid into this honourable Court to be canceled, or otherwise disposed of, as to the same shall be thought meet: and will order that this complainant shall have and enjoy the benefit of the said Lease made to this complaynants' father as aforesaid, notwithstanding any such defect therein as is pretended by the said I. D. And whereas the said defendant allegeth in his said Answer that the said Deane and Chapter to manifest their good intention and meaning towards the said defendant, and to the intent he might enjoy such things as they had to him demised, did deliver unto him a copy or transcript of the said Lease made to this complaynants' father, and a rental of the said several towneships in the said bill of complaint mentioned. To that Allegation this repliant saith, that the purpose of the said Deane and Chapter in the delivery of the said copy or transcript was, that the said I. D. might thereby know what was demised or intended to be demised to the said complainants father. And to the end that he the said I. D. might not meddle with any thing comprised in the said Lease, and to no other intent or purpose, without that that the said Deane and Chapter did know by the said rental that the towns mentioned in the said bill demised to the said I. D. were parcel of the said rectory of R. and were formerly demised to the said complainants father, and without that that any other matter or thing in the said answer alleged material or effectual for this complainant to reply unto, and herein not sufficiently confessed and avoided, denied or traversed is true: All which matters this complainant is ready to aver and prove as it shall please this honourable Court to award: And prayeth as before in his said bill of complaint he hath prayed. R. C. The Replication of T. B. Esquire complainant to the joint and several answers of W. I. Doctor of Divinity, Deane of the cathedral church of Christ in Oxford of King Henry the eights foundation, R. P. A. W. T. T. etc. Prebendaries of the said cathedral Church defendants. THe said complainant all advantage of exception to the incertainty Sect'. 166. and insufficiency of the said answer being to him this complainant now and at all times hereafter saved, for Replication thereunto so far forth as doth concern the said defendants, and the matter in the said answer contained and set down replieth and saith as followeth, that is to say, that this complainant doth and will aver and prove that the Dean and Chapter of Christ's Church aforesaid in the University of Oxford, did demise the said rectory and Parsonage of R. whereof the premises now in question are, and so time out of mind of man have been parcel unto the said R. B. by their deed Indented under their common or Chapter seal for divers years yet enduring in manner and form as this Repliant in and by his said bill of complaint hath the same alleged and set forth, and did thereupon reserve a great annual rent which doth continue due and payable unto the said Deane and Chapter of Christ's Church the said defendants, and is and so hath been by this Repliant continually paid from feast to feast, as the same feasts on which the said rent is reserved and appointed by the said Lease to be paid have yearly happened even until this time, ever since this Repliant was interessed in the said Lease: And that the estate, interest, and title of the said R. B. for the years yet enduring of and in the said Lease and premises, is lawfully come to this Repliant. And further replieth and saith, that the premises in the said answer mentioned required by the said I. D. to be to him by the said Deane and Chapter demised, were not usurped or concealed from the said Deane and Chapter, but continually sithence their foundations in charge and revenue and so at this time are to the said Deane and Chapter, and a rent unto them by this Repliant answered for the same, without any intention of this Repliant to conceal the same from the said Deane and Chapter, or any their right unto the same, or unto any other their possessions: But contrariwise this complainant is, and always will be ready to further them in their right and possessions to the best of his endeavour. And this Repliant moreover replieth and saith, without that that the said I. D. his information to the said Deane and Chapter, or to the greater part of them was grounded upon any matter of truth, but upon a malicious covetous affection and greedy desire which he hath and carrieth to pry and search into his neighbours estates and interests in their possessions, not converting such possessions as he hath of his own to any so good use, or good of his country, as that he should deserve to have them augmented with his neighbours, without that that it is true which the said I. D. did affirm that the premises by him required to be granted in Lease by the said Deane and Chapter unto him were usurped by such as had no right, and would not vouchsafe to seek unto the said Church for them, or offer any good offers unto them as the said I. D. for to serve his own turn untruely suggesteth, for this repliant saith, that his meaning was and is to seek unto the Church for them at such time as in law, reason and conscience it shall be thought meet, reasonable, or requisite for him so to do: And hath and will offer unto them all good offers meet and appertaining for him. In regard of all which, and in respect the said I. D. obtained the said Lease at the said Deane and Chapter their hands upon untrue suggestions and informations which this repliant well hopeth they will at all times aswell in their rejoinders as otherwise at large declare and acknowledge, and in deceit and abuse of the said Deane and Chapter, who would not in their grave wisdoms and good considerations have sought by and quirks and quillets in law in nicety of penning the formality of words, to have ripped and rifled into a long settled continuing possession of their ancient Farmor, but would gravely, discreetly and advisedly have given faith, credit and allowance of the doings of their predecessors, as they most reasonably and deservedly may expect the like allowance of their own doings by them that shall succeed them, that therefore the said fraudulent, subtle, and guileful lease by such deceit, abuse, and untruth obtained, may by this honourable Court be decreed to be void against the said Deane and Chapter and this repliant: and that the same may be ordered to be redelivered unto the said Deane and Chapter, or into this Court to be canceled, to the end they may thereupon take such good course therein, as this complainant doubteth not that if this complainant had known of this untrue information made by the said I. D. unto them, and had made known the truth thereof unto the said Deane and Chapter, before the granting of the said Lease unto the said I. D. the said Deane and Chapter no doubt would have done, without that that any other matter or thing in the said answer material or effectual to be replied unto, and not hereby sufficiently replied unto, confessed, and avoided, traversed, or denied, is true: All which matters this repliant is ready to aver and prove, as this honourable Court shall award. And upon all the said matters in the said Answer contained, this repliant prayeth as he before in his said bill hath prayed. The Rejoinder of I. D. Esquire to the Bill of complaint of T. B. Esquire complainant. THe said defendant saving unto him the advantage of exception Sect. 167. to the incertainty and insufficiency of the said Replication, and by protestation not confessing any thing in the same to be true, in such sort, manner and form, as in the same is set forth and declared, for rejoinder thereunto saith in all and every thing and things, as he before in his said Answer hath said. And further doth and will aver, verify, maintain, and prove all and every thing, matter, and cause therein contained to be good, just, and true, in such sort, manner, and form, as by the said defendant in his said Answer the same be very truly expressed, declared, and set forth. And whereas the said complainant by his replication allegeth, that the Dean and Chapter should say, that they meant not to impeach the lease made to the complaynants' father: And that it was not fitting for men of their cote and quality to stand upon quirks and quillets in Law. This defendant thereunto saith, that there was no speech of quirks or quillets between them, but a true and plain meaning, that if the Lease whereby the complainant claimed were not good in Law, that then this defendant should have a Lease of those things he desired, which with his great costs and travail he obtained, accordingly. And for further rejoinder thereunto this defendant saith, that since the making of the said Lease to him in the said bill of complaint mentioned, he this defendant brought letters to the Dean and Chapter from one of her majesties most honourable privy Counsel, to entreat the said Deane and Chapter not only to renew the said Lease mentioned in the said bill of complaint, and made to the said defendant, but also most heartily desiring them by the same letters to grant unto this defendant other tithes parcel of the same possessions formerly demised to the said defendant, at which time the said Deane and Chapter, renewed the said Lease, and also granted the said defendant certain other tithes parcel of the same possessions according to the said letters, and also at the same time the said Deane and Chapter promised unto the said defendant a Lease of the rest of the said parsonage, so that as the said defendant taketh it the said complainant greatly abuseth this honourable court with most vain and untrue surmises both in his said bill and Replication. And if this honourable court upon these surmises or such like should grow to the upholding of leases made from corporations which are void in law, a thing which heretofore hath not been granted unto others in such like cases it would revive or at least might be a precedent to revive many questions about such leases which by the common laws of this Realm long time have been determined, whereunto this defendant most humbly prays to be remitted. And whereas also the said complainant alleged that the purpose of the Dean and Chapter in delivering of the said Transcript to the said defendant was, that he might thereby know what was demised or intended to be demised to the said complainants father, and to that end that the said complainant might not meddle with any thing comprised in the said lease made to the complaynants' father, to which allegation this defendant for rejoinder saith, that he took it to the end that he might consider of the validity or invalidity of the said lease, upon the view whereof being ascertained by his learned Counsel that the said lease was void in law, he was the rather encouraged to bestow his charge upon it. And this defendant saith, that he had a copy of the said lease under the handwriting of a Gentleman of good calling before the delivery of the said transcript to this defend, by which copy the imperfections of the said lease did appear to this defendant, and also the particular names of the tithes of some towns were mentioned in the said copy to be demised to the said complainants father, the tithes of which towns were afterwards demised to the said defendant by the said Deane and Chapter, whereby it may plainly appear, that the Dean and Chapter meant that the same lease made to the said complainants father, if the same were not good in law, might be impeached, forasmuch as they granted to the said defendants the tithes of such towns as were mentioned to be demised by the said lease to the complainants' father, so that the Dean and Chapter were not miss nor circumvented by the said defend, nor that the said defend obtained his lease by flights & subtleties, nor the said Deane & Chapter misadvised in that they did as in the said Replication is most untruly alleged: but this defend verily thinketh that this compl goeth about not only to defraud the said defend of his Action, & to hinder the said Deane & Chapter in taking the benefit of the said Tithes, but also it appeareth most manifestly, that the plaintiff practiseth to trice the said defendant in a trial by a jury by untrue witnesses in concealing the true Lease made to the plaintiffs father: for the plaintiff entitleth himself untruely to the parsonage aforesaid by a Lease made by the said Deane & Chapter to the plaintiffs father, as by an order taken in this Court the 6. of November last passed appeareth, and also by his plea in the Exchequer it appeareth that the plaintiff pleaded a lease made by the said Deane & Chapter to the plaintiffs father of the said parsonage, & proffered by his plea in that court to show forth the said lease in Easter term last passed. And after all these dilatory delays the said compl pleaded not guilty in the Exchequer aforesaid, & never showed any such lease, but exhibited his bill of complaint in this honourable Court, surmising the said lease to be come to the hands of the defendant, where in troth there is not nor ever was any such Lease made to the said plaintiff, nor to R. B. the plaintiffs father, but such a Lease as in the defendants answer is declared, which Lease being void, & of no validity in law, is the cause of the plaintiffs suit in this honourable Court, and also the cause of his long delay in the Exchequer aforesaid: for if the plaintiffs father had ever any such Lease as the plaintiff pretendeth, he needeth not to use such vain & untrue surmises in this Court against the said defend in his bill & replication, nor crave an Injunction in this Court to stay the defend proceed at the Common law, nor make secret conveyances to several persons of the tithes in question, nor cause the said tithes to be gathered & carried away by strong and by unknown persons, nor protest and avow that the defendant, nor any other for him, shall ever quietly enjoy the tithes in question, though he recovered them by all the Laws in England, nor threaten this defendant and his servants to wound or kill them before the defend should enjoy any part of the said tithes, so that the said defend shall hardly maintain any Action against the true owner or taker of the said tithes for the causes aforesaid, nor quietly enjoy the same being recovered by order of law, considering that the plaintiff is a Gentleman of great worship, friends and calling in that Country where the said Tithes do arise and grow, wherefore and for that the plaintiffs Lease is a mere void Lease for the causes in the Answer alleged, and the defendants Lease a good Lease, and more beneficial for the poor Scholars of Christ's Church then the plaintiffs Lease, and no reason in law or equity if there be no lawful Lease in being thereof why the same should not be granted unto the defendant. For all which causes this defend humbly craveth that the plaintiff may show forth unto this court under the chapter seal such a Lease as by his said bill and order in this Court he pretendeth: And if the plaintiff fail therein then upon the now defendants showing to this Court a transcript of the Counterpane of a Lease for years under the seal of the Dean & Chapter. Whereby it may appear to this honourable Court, that the Dean and Chapter did not demise the said parsonage to the plaintiffs father as he affirmeth, but that the Dean with the full assent & consent of the whole Chapter did demise the same to the plaintiffs father in the time of King Edward the 6. which is no Lease of any force in law, neither is there any equity to make it better, but being obtained at the first for small or no consideration, and long enjoyed since, and now demised to the defendant for chargeable great and just considerations, that then upon sight thereof it would please this honourable Court to order that the said tithes may be sequestered into the hands of indifferent persons to receive and keep them until further order shallbe taken in this Court: And that in the mean time a Commission may be granted out of this Court to examine the true value of the said tithes these three years past, to the end further order may be taken in this Court for the having thereof, and quiet enjoying of the said tithes to him that shall recover the same or damages for any part thereof by Action of Trespass or otherwise: And that your Lordship would also be pleased to take order for reformation in the premises, for that now in this time of contention many tithes are subtracted and not set forth at all. And without that that any other matter or thing etc. All which matters etc. The rejoinder of W. I. Doctor of Divinity Deane of the cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of King Henry the 8. foundation, R. P. A. W. T. T. to the replication of T. B. Esquire complainant. THe advantage of exception in and to the incertainty and insufficiency Sect. 168. of the said replication to these defendants and every of them at all times hereafter saved, the said defendants & every of them for rejoinder in all things say as they before in their said answer have said and do, and will aver, maintain and prove their said answer and every thing therein contained to be just and true in manner and form as they be there declared and set forth, and that the said Deane and Chapter do not know of any such lawful demise made to the said T. B. as in the said Bill and Replication is set forth, and that if any such lawful demise or grant hath been made, they have made such provision as in their Answer is declared, that no tenants which hold by any lawful interest should be impeached by their lease made to the said I. D. whereof these defendants had special care, and therefore the complainant if it stand so with him that he have a lawful lease can receive no prejudice by any thing done by these defendants. And for further rejoinder these defendants say, that upon the suit of the said I. D. greatly pressed by sundry honourable personages in his behalf and advertisement, that no lawful state was in being of the premises, nor such profits answered to the Church therefore as appertained with offer on the behalf of the said I. D. to perform many things profitable to their Church, & the defendants not hearing any suit or motion made therefore by the said T. B. and esteeming the premises to be out of any lawful lease and so informed (which if it prove not true, their grant is not available) condescended to the suit, and entreaty made on the behalf of the said I. D. as in law, conscience, equity, and good husbandry towards their Church, which by all good, due, and conscionable means they are bound to advance, they were persuaded it was fit for them to do: And the rather, for that the complainant did not make any means, nor seek unto them for it, who if he have any lawful lease of the things demised to the said I. D. from their Church, then cannot the grant made to the sAid I. D. be of any force or avail, and if he have not a lawful lease, then cannot the plaintiff defend himself of over great slackness to hold it so long without a lawful lease, and in all that time not to discover the same to their church, intending by likelihood either so to have retained it still, or distrusting of their well meaning towards him, as to other their tenants whom their manner is not to dispossess or otherwise to entreat then their demeanours do occasion. And if the things demised be in charge, or answered in revenue to the College as the plaintiff doth allege, whether it be particularly for those things demised to the said I. D. or confusedly included with other things, or held as an estate at will, these defendants are not ascertained, and if the plaintiff did hold them without any lawful estate made unto him, or lawful estate continuing, it had been meet that the defendants or their predecessors had been made acquainted of this manner of holding of them, and that the possessions and revenues should not be carried away underhand, or enjoyed by colour of a lease, when there was no lawful lease to warrant it: And had the complainants than bre●e so ready to further the defendants in their right and possession to the best of his endeavour as now he pretendeth to be, this question had not happened, but now standing as it doth, if the information of the said I. D. made to the said Deane and Chapter be not grounded upon any matter of truth, the said complainant shall receive no impeachment by it, these defendants intending to hold the said I. D. to his Covent, that by colour of his grant he shall not call in question any tenant of theirs which hold by any lawful interest. And if it be grounded upon matter of truth, these defendants hope that this honourable court will not give further allowance to the complainants pretended lease then the validity thereof requireth: Humbly praying further that if upon this interpleading between the said T. B. and the said I. D. it shall appear that the said T. B. holdeth that which he should not hold, or the sad I. D. upon any undue surmise or suggestion to have obtained any thing not fit or not meant to be passed to him, which these defendants carrying themselves in a plain and even course, have not so far looked into, neither do or can charge him so to have dealt: That these defendants might not be prejudiced against either of them, but left at liberty to do that for the just and reasonable benefit and avail of their Church, which in law, justice, and equity, shall be seeming for them to do. And further, or more than this the defendants desire nothing, without that that the complainant hath to their knowledge any lawful estate or interest in the premises, or hath sought or offered himself unto their church in such sort as he allegeth. And without that that the defendants by any quicks, quillets, or niceties in law have sought to rifle into the estates of their Farmers: And yet humbly desire, that if the complainants enjoy any thing without good lease which is unknown to these defendants, that he may not be set in better state against their church then his estate requireth, but may be referred to their church, of whose dealings he showeth, neither can show any cause to complain, without that that any other matter or thing etc. All which matters etc. A bill by one tenant in common of a manor in the North parts, to have a commission to examine witnesses which be aged and impotent, that their testimonies may remain of record in perpetuam rei memoriam, for proof of the plaintiffs title to the said manor, for that the Lord President and Counsel of the North parts have not power to grant any such commission. To the Right Honourable Sir Tho. Bromley Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. Humbly complaining, showeth unto your good Lordship your Sect. 169. daily Orator C. P. of T. in the County of C. Esquire: That whereas your said Orator and one L. P. of C. in the County of C. be and stand, or aught to be and stand seized in common in their demesne as of fee amongst other things of and in the Manor of L. with the appurtenances in the said County of C. concerning the partition of which said manor, variance, and contention in law is like to arise between your Orator and the said L. at the common law. And for as much as there be yet living divers aged persons inhabiting about the said Manor which do very well know the interest and title of your said Orator in and to the said manor in form aforesaid. And for that if the said witnesses being very aged and impotent and not likely long to live should fortune to die before trial of your said Orators estate and title of, in, & unto the premises, it might thereby be greatly blemished, and your said Orator in time to come disinherited of his said njoytie of the said manor. And for that the said witnesses dwelling in the North parts of this Realm be so aged that they be not able to travail neither before your Honour to be examined in her majesties high Court of Chancery, nor to any other ordinary place of justice, where the title of your said Orator might, or may conveniently come in question and trial by the due course of the common laws of this Realm. And for that the Lord President and Counsel established in the North parts (within the precinct of whose Commission not only the said Manor but also your said Orator, and the said L. P. do inhabit and dwell) do not usually, nor cannot grant any Commission for the examination of witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam, although there be great cause in equity to grant the same. It may therefore please your good Lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious Commission under the seal of this most honourable Court, to be directed unto some Gentlemen of credit dwelling in those parts, as to your good Lordship shall be thought convenient for the examination of such witnesses, as by your said Orator shall be produced before them, and to certify and return the examinations of the said witnesses, together with the same Commission before your good Lordship into her majesties high Court of Chancery, there to remain of record ad perpetuam rei memoriam, and to be published at such time as to your good Lordship shall be thought meet and convenient. And further to grant unto your said Orator the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, to be directed to the said L. P. commanding him thereby at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein by your Lordship to be limited, either to join in Commission with your said Orator for the examination of the said witnesses, or else to show cause before your good Lordship why your said Orator should not have a Commission alone for that purpose, and your said Orator shall accordingly to his bounden duty daily pray to Almighty God for the long preservation of your Lordship's good health, with increase of honour. A bill of Complaint for detaining of the plaintiffs Evidences, for entering into Manors and Lands, and contriving of secret estates. To the Right Reverend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester, Lord Chancellor of England. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth unto your honourable Sect'. 170. good Lordship your daily Orator T. M. Gentleman. That whereas one P. M. elder brother to your said Orator was lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of, and in the Manors of M. & W. with divers messages, lands, tenements, & hereditaments to the said Manors belonging in the County of C. to the yearly value of 50. l. and above, and he being of the said Manors and other the premises seized died of such an estate thereof seized, without issue of his body lawfully begotten. After whose decease the premises descended and of right aught to descend unto your said Orator as brother and next heir of the said Peter your said Orator, then being but of tender age, that is to say, of the age of twelve years or there about. But so it is right honourable Lord, that all the Evidences, Deeds, Charters, writings, and miniments concerning the said manors and premises during the minority of your said Orator, came casually to the hands & possession of R. D. Esquire, who by colour of having of the said Evidences, Deeds, Charters, writings and miniments hath wrongfully entered into the said manors, lands, tenements, and other the premises, and of the same hath made and contrived divers and sundry secret and false estates and conveyances to divers persons to your said Orator unknown, to his own use, to the utter disherison of your said Orator. And albeit your said Orator hath divers and sundry times required the said R. D. as well to deliver unto him the said Evidences, Deeds, Charters, writings, and miniments, as also peaceably and quietly to suffer and permit him to enjoy the said manors, lands, & tenements, with their appurtenances, yet the said R. D. hath always hitherto denied & refused, & yet denieth & refuseth so to do, contrary to all right, equity, & good conscience: And forasmuch as your Orator knoweth not the certainty of the said evidences, deeds, charters, writings, & miniments, nor whether they be contained in bag or box ensealed, or chest locked yea or no, he is like to be without all remedy for the recovery of the same by the order & due course of the common law, except your Lo. goodness be unto him showed in this behalf. In consideration whereof it may please your good L. to grant unto your Orator the King and Queen's Majesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. D. Commanding him by the same at a certain day, and under a certain pain by your Lordship to be limited, personally to appear before your good Lordship in the King and Qu. high Court of Chancery at Westminster, then and there to make answer to the premises etc. R. Cat. The Answer of the defendant to the said Bill, wherein is confessed the having of divers evidences concerning the lands mentioned in the said Bill, and that he is ready to deliver them to whom the Court shall order them to belong: And for that the plaintiffs father is yet living, the defendant prayeth that he may be called into the Court to show what title he hath to the said evidences, and disclaimeth to have any interest in any of the manors etc. mentioned in the Bill, but an Interest he may be entitled to have by reason of a Statute merchant he hath which was acknowledged by the complaynants' father. The Answer of R. D. Esquire to the Bill of complaint of T. M. Gentleman. THe said defendant by protestation not confessing or acknowledging Sect'. 171. any such seisin, dying seized, or descent as in the said Bill is alleged for answer, saith, that he is not, nor at the time of the exhibiting of the said Bill was not Tenant of the said manors, and other the premises, saving only such benefit, interest, and title as the said R. is or may be entitled to have in or to the premises, by reason of a certain Statute merchant, or recognisance knowledged by W. M. Esquire, father of the said complainant to Sir P. D. Knight, deceased. Thadvantage of exception thereof, and all other benefits and interests that the said defendant hath or may have by reason of the said Statute merchant or recognisance knowledged by the said W. M. Esquire, father of the said complainant as aforesaid, and the execution to be sued of the same to the said defendant always saved and reserved, the said defendant for all other Interests or Titles disclaimeth in the said manors, lands, or tenements. And as to any evidences concerning the said manors, lands, and tenements mentioned in the said Bill, except one Indenture, and one other writing made by the said W. M. and one writing made by the said complainant: The said defendant by protestation not knowing the certainty what evidences he hath in his custody concerning the said manors and other the premises, for that they be in the County of Chester, now far from the said defendant, for answer saith, that the said W. M. father to the said complainant long time past was seized of the said Manors, lands, and Tenements of an estate of inheritance in possession or in use by descent from his Ancestors, and the said Evidences came to the hands of the said Sir P. D. Knight long time past, and by and after the death of the said Sir P. D. the same evidences came to the possession of the said defendant, which said defendant desireth that the said W. M. which is yet in full life may be called into this honourable Court to show what title he hath or claimeth to the said evidences, and the said defendant is and shall be ready to deliver such evidences as he hath concerning the premises, except the said Statute merchant, and other writings and defeasances of the said Statute as appertaineth to the said defendant to such person or persons to whom this honourable Court shall award the same to appertain: And as to three writings before excepted, the said defendant hath them here ready in this honourable Court, to be delivered to whom this honourable Court shall adjudge the same to appertain, Without that that the said defendant hath wrongfully entered into the said Manors, lands, and Tenements, and of the same hath made or contrived any estates and conveyances to divers persons in such sort as in the said Bill is untruly alleged: And without that that any other thing material to be answered unto, other than that in this present Answer is confessed and avoided is true: All which matters the said defendant is ready to aver and prove as this honourable Court shall award, and prayeth as before he hath desired: And also that he may be dismissed out of this honourable Court with his reasonable costs and charges for his wrongful vexations sustained in this behalf. Am. Gilbert. A bill of complaint by I. W. and the Lady lane his Wife, daughter and heir of the Lady jane deceased against the husband and his wife, for entering into a house, and lands, and keeping of the possession thereof, for detaining of Evidences, and contriving of secret estates in the premises. To the right reverend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester, Lo. Chancellor of England. IN right humble wise complaining, showeth unto your good Lordship Sect. 172. your Suppliants I. W. and the Lady jane his Wife, daughter and heir to the Lady jane P. deceased. That whereas the said Lady jane P. in her life time was lawfully seized in her demesne as of fee, of and in one mesuage or house, with a garden thereunto belonging, set, lying, and being in B. in the County of D. and of and in 12. acres of errable land, meadow, and pasture, with their appurtenances thereunto belonging in B. aforesaid, and so being of such an estate thereof seized about four years passed died thereof seized. After and by whose death the premises descended and came as of right they ought to descend and come unto your said Oratrix, as daughter and heir of the said Lady ja. P. her mother. So it is if it may please your good Lordship, that divers Deeds, Evidences, Charters, Miniments, and writings concerning only the premises and of right belonging to your said Oratrix as in the right of the said Lady I●. P. by casual means are come to the hands, possession and custody of I. C. Gentleman, and E. his Wife, who by colour of having the said Evidences and writings, have entered into the premises, and by colour thereof have contrived, conveyed, and made to themselves divers secret estates of the premises, and thereby do likewise detain and keep the possession of the same premises from your said Orators, albeit they have been divers and sundry times thereunto by your suppliants required for the delivery of the same, yet that to do they have always hitherunto denied, and yet to deny to the manifest disinheriting of the said A. and the great wrong and loss of both your said Orators, for that your said Orators do not know the certain number, or certain dates of the deeds and conveyances, nor whether they be contained in bag or box sealed, or chest locked, whereby they be for the recovery of the same premises clean without remedy by the strict course of the common laws of this Realm. In consideration whereof the premises by your good Lordship tenderly considered, it may please your good Lordship to grant unto your said Orators the Qu. Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said I. C. and E. his wife, commanding them and either of them thereby personally to appear before your good Lordship in the Queen's majesties high Court of Chancery at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein by your good Lordship to be limited and appointed, then and there to answer to the premises, and further, to stand to and abide such final order and direction therein as to you Ho. good Lo. with right and equity shall seem most meet and convenient. And your said Orators shall pray for etc. A bill by the leassee for years of the Scite of a Manor etc. containing the detaining of the plaintiffs lease of the premises, the breaking of the seals thereof, and that the defendandts by a practice amongst them, to the intent to impoverish the plaintiff, and unjustly to get from him the premises, have brought an Assize in the town of Salop against him for the same, in which suit there is a partial jury returned by the Bailiffs of the said town. And one other suit comenced against him for part of the premises by one of the defendants before the Counsel in the marches of Wales, and therefore prayeth an Injunction for stay of the said suits: and also a Subpena against the defendants to appear and answer the bill. To the Right Ho. Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lord Keeper of the great seal of England. IN most humble wise complaining, showeth unto your Ho. good Lo. Sect. 174. your poor & daily Orator H. D. of A. in the County of Salop Gentleman. That whereas one Io. late Duke of Northumberland in his life time amongst divers other lands, tenements, & hereditaments was lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of & in the manor of A. lying & being within the said County of S. and so being thereof seized by his deed indented about the 27. year of the Reign of the late King of famous memory King Henry the 8. by the name of Sir Io. D. Knight, did demise, grant, set, and to farnie let unto P. C. the Scite of the Manor of A. aforesaid, together with the mansion or hall place of the same: And all and singular lands, meadows, leasowes, pastures, feedings, woods, waters, and commons, with all other commodities, duties, services, and customs to the said Scyte of the said Manor belonging or in any wise appertaining: To have and to hold the aforesaid Scyte of the said Manor, and all other the premises, and all and singular the appurtenances to the said P. C. his executors and assigns from the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel than next coming after the date of the aforesaid Indentures unto the end and term of threescore years then next ensuing, and fully to be completed and ended, yielding and paying therefore yearly unto the said Sir john Dudley his heirs and assigns four pound sterling at the feast of the Annunciation of our Lady, and Saint Michael the Archangel by even portions, with divers other covenants, grants, and agreaments contained and specified in the said Indentures, as by the same more at large it doth and may appear: By force whereof the said P. C. into the premises entered, and was possessed accordingly: The state and interest of which said P. C. to and in the premises, and every part and parcel thereof, your poor Orator by just and lawful conveyance and assurance in law of long time hath had and now hath, and the same hath quietly and continually possessed and enjoyed for and by the space of fourteen years now last passed by force of the said Lease made to the said P. C. by the aforesaid Duke, without let or interruption of any person or persons, until now of late that the aforesaid Lease is casually come to the hands & possession of Ed. Le. of P. in the County of S. Esquire, which persons maliciously intending your poor Orator's impoverishment and utter undoing, have not only wilfully broken in pieces and dissevered from the said Lease the seals of Arms of the said late Duke annexed by him to the aforesaid lease, and otherwise defaced the same, to the intent your said Orator although he should recover against them by due order and course of the laws of this Realm the aforesaid lease, yet he might be the less able to prove the said Lease to be made by the aforesaid Duke, for that they well perceive the time now so far spent, that very few or none of the witnesses that were present at thensealing and delivery of the said Lease be now living as they suppose: But also they have further conspired and agreed amongst themselves, together with one R. W. of A. in the County of Salop, and R. S. of the town of Salop and County aforesaid. That he the said R. W. in the name of the said Ed. Le. at the only costs and charges of the said R. W. should arraign an Assize of Novel Dissesine against your said Orator in the Town court of Salop, for that the aforesaid Scyte of the manor of Acton Renard and other the premises are situate and lying within the jurisdiction of the said Town court of Salop, supposing thereby your said Orator to have disseised the said Ed. Le. of his Freehold in Acton Renard aforesaid, intending thereby through his sinister dealing and practising by indirect means with the Bailiffs of the said Town, which have returned a panel of such jurors as he the said Ed. Le. and other of his friends, kindred, and alliance, might rather through friendship and favour then by reason of any good matter, win and allure to find and give verdict for the said Ed. Le. rather than for your said Orator, although his interest and right to and in the premises be very good & rightful as in very deed it is: But also the aforesaid Ed. L. together with others the persons above named, have, for your poor Orators further trouble, vexation, and expenses, conspired and agreed amongst themselves together with the aforenamed R. D. that he the said R. D. should exhibit his Bill of complaint against your said Orator before the Queen's majesties Council in the marches of Wales, pretending thereby title and interest to part of the said land, by virtue of a supposed lease for years made to one R. D. Clerk, by one A. N. Esquire, where in very deed there was never any such lease thereof to him made by the said A. N. so that the said R. S. hath not by reason of any such lease, or otherwise any just cause of suit against your said Orator: which ungodly invention and devilish devices of theirs they of late put in ure, and practised against your said Orator, intending thereby through the suit had and prosecuted by the said R. W. in the name of the said Ed. Le. aforesaid against your said Orator in the Town court of Salop aforesaid, where the said Ed. Le. is greatly friended of kin and alliance, And also through the aforesaid suit commenced before the Queen's majesties Council by the said R. D. against your said Orator, where the said Ed. Le. is also greatly friended and acquainted, and ready at all assays as much as in him lieth, to secure and further the said R. D. in his said suit against your said Orator in the Courts aforesaid, where the said Ed. Le. and R. D. are very well friended and allied as aforesaid, and your said Orator a mere stranger and of the County of Chester borne a poor servingman there altogether unfriended, and not acquainted, intending by their said suits so to trouble and vex your said Orator, and to put him to such intolerable charges and expenses in defending his right against them, that your poor Orator either for lack of substance and wealth should not be able to hear the charge of the said suits in law against them, but either be compelled of mere necessity to yield and give up his interest in the premises unto them, or else to trouble and molest your said Orator in the said Courts, that either for want of wealth, or leisure, your said Orator should not be able to complain against them before your Honour, or elsewhere to seek for redress to be had therein by due means, and order of the laws of this Realm. In tender consideration whereof, and for as much as your said Orator knoweth not the certain date of the aforesaid Lease, nor yet the number of years therein contained, by reason whereof your said Orator by means thereof is without all remedy by the due course and order of the Common laws of this Realm. May it therefore please your good Lordship the premises considered, not only to grant the Queen's Majesties writ of Injunction to be directed to the said Ed. L. R. W. and R. D. and to every of them, and to all their Counsellors, Attorneys, and Solicitors, and to the Counsellor, Attorneys, and Solicitors of every of them, commanding them and every of them thereby no further to prosecute, or proceed in the said suits or either of them, against your said Orator before the Queen's majesties Counsel in the Marches of Wales, nor before the Bailiffs of the said town of S. until such further order therein be taken by your good Lordship as shall seem to stand with conscience and equity, but also to grant the Queen's Majesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed unto the said Ed. L. R. D. etc. and to every of them, commanding them and every of them thereby under a certain pain therein to be limited personally to appear before your good Lordship in the Qu. majesties high Court of Chancery at a certain day therein to be contained, then and there to answer to the premises etc. And your poor Orator shall daily pray unto God for the preservation of your honourable estate long to continue. A bill containing that one being seazedin fee of an Inn in London, leased the same to one for years reserving a rent, the which lease came by divers mean conveyances to the plaintiff, with covenant to make further assurances: and then they show that the original Lease and the mean conveyances, with a deed of gift, are come to the hands of the defendants, by colour whereof they have entered into the possession of the Inn, and thereof have dispossessed the plaintiffs, and that they refuse to deliver the lease, mean conveyances, and deed of gift, or to make any further conveyances to the plaintiffs of the said Inn according to the said covenant, whereupon the plaintiffs pray a Subpena, with a duces tecum against the defendants. To the Right Ho. Sir Christopher Hatton of the most noble order of the garter, Knight, L. Chancellor of England. IN most humble wise complaining, shown unto your good Lo. your Sect. 174. daily Orators I. L. & N. Mo. Citizens & Clothworkers of the City of London, that whereas one A. B. Citizen and Fishmonger of London was lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in one house or tenement, called the sign of the Lamb, with the shops, sellers, solers, together with all & singular the appurtenances, set, lying, & being in the parish of S. Michael in Cornhill London, sometimes in the occupation of one I. S. Grocer, and the said A. B. so being of the said house or tenement & other the premises of such an estate seized, about the month of September in the 36. year of the reign of the late king of famous memory King Henry the 8. did by his deed in writing sufficient in the law, demise, grant, & to farm let to one W. Lo. citizen & black smith of London the said house or tenement, & other the premises, To have & to hold to the said W. Lo. his executors & Assigns for the term of divers years yet enduring at & for a certain yearly rent thereupon reserved. By force whereof the said W. Lo. into the said house or tenement & other the premises entered, & was thereof possessed accordingly. And the said W. Lo. so being thereof possessed by his deed indented sufficient in the law in or about the month of December in the said 36. year of the reign of the said late King H. the 8. bargained, sold, & conveyed the said Indenture of lease so made unto the said W. Lo. & all his title & term of years then to come in the premises to one T. H. Citizen & Draper of London his executors & assigns. By force whereof the said T. H. into the said house or tenement & other the premises entered, & was thereof possessed, & the issues & profits thereof received & took accordingly, and so being thereof possessed died intestate, after whose decease, the administration of the said lease, & of all other the goods, cattles, & debts of the said T. H. were lawfully committed to the hands, possession, & distribution of joane the wife of the said Thom. by force whereof the said joane into the premises entered, & was thereof possessed, & so being thereof possessed married & took to husband one W. P. Citizen & Upholster of London. By force of which intermariage, the said W. P. into the premises entered, & was thereof possessed, and received and took the issues & profits thereof accordingly, and so being thereof possessed, in or about the month of june, in the year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth that now is, by one writing or Pole deed sufficient in the law, conveyed & assured the premises and all his estate, right, title, interest, term of years, claim & demand, of, in, and to the same, to one W. M. Citizen & Draper of London, by force whereof the said W. M. into the premises entered, and was thereof possessed, and so being thereof possessed by his deed of gift sufficient in the law, or by some other good & sufficient conveyance & assurance in the law, the certainty whereof for want of the same your Orators are not able to show, did give, grant, convey, or assure the said house & tenement, & other the premises, & all other his goods & chattels whatsoever to one W. B. late of Stoke Albany in the County of Northampton Gentleman deceased, & Barsaba alias Barbara his wife, by force whereof the said W. B. and Barsaba alias Barbara into the premises entered, & were thereof possessed, and so being thereof possessed, the said W. B. in or about the month of januarie, in the 17. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Qu. Majesty that now is, made & declared his last will & testament in writing, and thereof constituted & appointed the said Barsaba alias Barbara his wife his executrir, and died of the premises possessed. By and after whose decease the said Barsaba alias Barbara, by right of suruivor, & by virtue of the said executorship, held herself in the premises, & was thereof solely possessed, & received & took the issues & profits thereof accordingly, & so being thereof possessed, married & took to husband one Rob. Williams of Stoke Albany in the said County of Northampton Gentleman. By force whereof the said Rob. Williams & the said Bersaba alias Barbara his wife or one of them were of the premises lawfully possessed, and so being thereof possessed, they the said R. Williams & Bersaba alias Barbara or one of them by their or one of their writing of assignment sufficient in the law in or about the month of February, in the 28. year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Queen's Majesty that now is for and in consideration of a certain competent sum of lawful money of England to them or one of them in hand paid by one George Smith Citizen and Merchantaylor of London, did bargain, sell, assign, and set over unto the said George Smith aswell the aforesaid house or tenement, the said original Indenture of lease, the said deed of gift, and all other the mean conveyances aforesaid, as all the estate, right, title, Interest, term of years, use, possession, reversion, claim and demand of the said Robert Williams and Bersaba alias Barbara, and either of them, or of any other person or persons to the use and behoof of them or either of them. And did covenant, promise, conclude, & agree to & with the said George Smith his executors & assigns, that they the said Robert Williams, & Bersaba alias Barbara, & Elizabeth Mosier, wife of the said W. M. & every of them, and the executors and administrators of them & every of them should and would at all times after the making of the said writing of Assignment to the said George Smith as aforesaid, and from time to time during the space of divers years make such further conveyance of the said house, and all other the premises to the said George Smith his executors or assigns as by them or any of them or their or any of their Counsel learned should be devised. By virtue whereof the said George Smith into the said house and tenement and other the premises entered, and was thereof possessed, and so being thereof possessed in or about the month of March in the 28. year of the reign of our said sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Queen's Majesty that now is by his writing of Assignment under his hand and seal did well and sufficiently give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, and set over the said house or tenement and all other the premises, and all his estate, right, title, interest, & demand, of, in, and to the same, together with the said original Indenture of Lease, & all other the mean assignments thereof, & all other writings & evidences concerning the same unto your Lo. said orators. By virtue whereof your orators into the premises entered, & were thereof possessed & the issues & profits thereof received & took without interruption of any person or persons. But so it is if it may please your good Lo. that the said deed of gift made by the said W. M. together with the said original Indenture of Lease & the mean assignments thereof are casually come to the hands, custody & possession of the said Robert Williams, & Bersaba alias Barbara his wife, or one of them, who by colour of having thereof have wrongfully entered into the premises, & thereof dispossessed your said orators, & the possession thereof together with the said evidences & writings detain & keep from your said orators, & by means of having the writing of Assignment made by the said R. W. and Bersaba alias Barbara his wife unto the said George Smith in their own hands & custody, whereby they have covenanted to make further assurance unto the said George Smith his executors & assigns utterly refuse to deliver unto your said orators the said evidences & writings, or to make them any further assurance of the premises, notwithstanding they have been sundry times thereunto gently required, but by practise and confederacy with other their complices, adversaries of your said Orators, go about to impeach, hinder, and overthrow your Orators good and lawful estate in and to the premises contrary to all right, equity, and good conscience, and to the manifest and express wrong and injury of your said Orators. In consideration whereof, and for that your Orators know not the certain dates, number, nor contents of the said Evidences and writings, nor wherein the same are contained, whether in bag or box sealed or unsealed, chest or coffer locked or unlocked, and so consequently without apt remedy at the common law for the recovery thereof, or to compel the said Robert Williams, Barbara his wife, and the Executors or Administrators of the said Eliz. Mosier or any of them to make unto your Orators further assurance of the premises, or to keep or defend their lawful title thereunto. May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant unto your Orators her majesties most gracious writ of Subpena, with a Deuces tecum to be directed to the said Robert Williams and Bersaba alias Barbara his wife, commanding them and either of them thereby at a certain day and under a certain pain by your Lordship to be limited to be, and personally to appear before your Lordship in her majesties most high Court of Chancery, and to bring with them the said original Indenture of lease, & the said deed of gift, and all other the mean assignments thereof, Then and there aswell to answer to the premises, as also to stand to and abide such further order and direction therein as to your Lordship shallbe thought to stand with equity and good conscience, And your said Orators according to their bounden duty shall pray to God for your Lordship's long life, with increase of much honour. The joint and several answers of R. W. and Bersaba his wife defendants to the bill of complaint of I. L. and N. M. complainants. THe said defendants by protestation not confessing the said B. to be Sect. 175. lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in the said house or tenement called the sign of the Lamb, with the shops, sellers, sollars, and other their appurtenances: Neither that the said Brincton did grant it to the said W. L. for certain years upon a ceerteine rent in manner as the said plaintiffs have alleged: neither that the said L. was thereof possessed accordingly, and so being possessed, did bargain, sell, and convey the said Indenture and all his title and term unto the said T. H. and his Assignees, or that the said H. was thereof possessed accordingly, or that after his decease the administration of all the goods and chattels were committed to joane his wife, or that she was possessed thereof by virtue of the said administration, or after took to husband the said Pinchbecke. But the said defendants for answer say, that they have heard that the said Pinchbecke was possessed of the said house called the Lamb, but whether the said Pinchbecke conveyed his estate to the said Mosier, or that the said Mosier was possessed thereof, or by his deed of gift did assure the premises unto the said B. she knoweth not, but saith, that about 26. years since the said Mosier did give all his goods and Chattels to the said B. and the said Bersaba one of the said defendants, but she knoweth not whether the said B. was possessed of the said house, or died thereof possessed. And the said Bersaba saith, that the said B. appointed her his Executrix of his last will, but knoweth not whether the premises came to her by suruivorship or executorship or any other ways, or whether she was possessed thereof by those or any other means. And the said defendants further say, that it is more than they do certainly know whether they or either of them were thereof in right possessed. and the said Robert Williams saith that whether he assigned or set our his Interest or the Lease thereof in the said house and premises unto the said Smith he knoweth not, but to his remembrance he sealed and delivered an obligation as he taketh it to the said Smith, but upon what condition he knoweth not, being three years past, and he altogether unlearned, without that that the said Smith gave the said Robert Williams for his interest of the said house any money to his remembrance, neither do the said defendants know whether the said Smith did bargain & sell assign or set over all his estate in & to the premises, and the Indenture with other writings unto the said complainants. Or that the said complainants did enter accordingly, or were possessed thereof, or took the profits thereof as it is alleged, without that that the original Indenture of lease, or the mean conveyances or assignments thereof are come to the possession of the said defendants. But the said Bersaba saith, that the said deed of gift made by the said William Moysier was in her possession about 3. years now past, but what is become of it since she knoweth not: And without that that the said defendants have by colour thereof unlawfully entered into the possession of the premises, or disposessed the said complainants in such manner and form as in and by their said bill of complaint is alleged. And without that etc. A bill containing that the plaintiff is seized in fee of the manor of O. and that one of the defendants is also seized of the manor of C. in fee holden of the plaintiffs manor by homage, fealty, escuage, and rend, and that the same defendant hath assured parcel of his said manor to the other of the said defendants in fee, and that the same is holden of his said manor by the same services and part of the rent: and that divers Evidences etc. are come to the hands of the defendants, and that the defendants intent to disherit the plaintiff of the rent and services, and that they refuse to pay the plaintiff the rent, or to do him the services, and so prayeth a Subpena against the two defendants. To the right honourable and reverend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester, and L. Chancellor of England. Showeth & complaineth unto your good Lo. your daily Orator Sir Sect. 176. T. H. Knight, that where your said Orator is lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee of & in the manor of D. in the County of C. of which manor divers persons being tenants and freeholders do hold by suit of Court and other services. And where also one Io. W. of C. in the said County of C. Esquire is also seized in his demesne as of fee of & in the Manor & Lordship of C. in the said County of C. and of & in divers lands & tenements in C. in the said County of C. and so being thereof seized the same doth hold of your said Orator as of his said manor of D. by homage, fealty, escuage, vi. s. of rent & suit of Court from three weeks to three weeks holden within the said manor of D. And the said I. W. so being seized of the premises hath now lately conveyed & assured part of the said manor, lands & tenements in C. aforesaid unto one H. S. Esquire his heirs & assigns, by reason whereof the said H. S. doth now hold the said parcel of land of your said Orator as of his said manor of D. by the service aforesaid, & by part of the said rend of vi. s. according to the quantity of the said lands so by him purchased of the said I. W. And so it is right ho. Lo. that divers deeds, evidences, writings, & courtrolls, aswell toncerning the said manor of D. as also concerning the said ren● & service before rehearsed, be now of late casually come to the hands, custody, & possession of the said I. W. and H. S. who by colour thereof do intend now utterly to disinherit your said Orator of his said rent and services, and do deny & refuse either to pay unto your said Orator his said rent, or else to do unto him his said services: And although your said Orator hath divers & sundry times required the said I. W. & H. S. aswell to deliver unto him the said Evidences, deeds, writings, & courtrolls, as also to pay & do unto him the said rend & services according as of right they ought to do, yet nevertheless the said I. W. & H. S. have utterly denied & refused always the same to do contrary to all equity & conscience. And forasmuch as your said Orator knoweth not the certainty of the said deeds, evidences, & writings, nor wherein the same be contained, nor also knoweth not the certainty of the said lands & tenements that the said H. S. hath purchased of the said I. W. therefore he is not only clearly without remedy for the recovery of the said deeds and evidences, but also by the order of the common law is not able to make any avowrie upon the said H. S. for his said rent. In consideration whereof may it please your good Lo. to grant the King and Queen's most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed unto the said I. W. and H. S. commanding them and either of them by virtue thereof personally to appear before your good Lordship in the King and Queen's most honourable Court of Chancery at Westminster, there to make answer to all the premises, and therein to abide such order and direction as to your good Lordship shall be thought consonant to equity and good conscience, and your said Orator shall daily pray to God for your good Lordship in health and honour long to continue. An Answer to the bill next before. The Answer of H. S. Esquire to the bill of complaint of Sir T. H. Knight. THe said defendant saith, that the said bill of complaint is untrue, Sect. 177. uncertain & insufficient in the law to be answered unto, and the matters therein contained are determinable and aught to be determined at the Common law within the County Palantine of C. within which County aswell the said complainant as the said defendant do dwell. And also the said manor and other the premises mentioned in the said bill of complaint, and supposed to be holden of the said complainant do lie and be: and further saith, that it appeareth by the said bill of complaint, that although it were true as it is not indeed that the said manor of Capisthorne were holden of the said complainant in such manner and form as in his said bill is surmised, yet the said defendant doth not nor can or ought by the law of the realm hold such parcel of the same manor of C. as he hath purchased by the services mentioned in the said bill. And also that the said complainant is compellable by the laws and statutes of this realm to avow at his peril upon such parcel of the said manor of C. as is severed from the same in fee simple for such portion of the said rend as the value of the same parcel so severed doth amount unto, and hath his ordinary remedy for the same by the order of the common laws and of the statutes of this realm in that case provided, if the allegations of his bill be true, and the said rent can not by the order of the common law of this realm be aportioned in this honourable Court. For which matters and other causes apparent in the said bill the said defendant saith, that the same bill and the matters contained in the same be insufficient in the law to be answered unto: And that he is not compellable, nor ought by the law to be compelled to make any further answer to the same, and demurreth in law upon the same, and prayeth to be dismissed out of this honourable Court without any further answer to be made thereunto. And if this Court will not nor do admit this demurrer, but the same notwithstanding will compel the said defendant to make further answer to the said bill as otherwise then by compulsatorie order of this Court the said defendant claiming the advantage of the laws of this realm whereby he ought to be tried, doth not nor will make any further or other answer to the same, than the said defendant after such order made by this Court to make further answer saith, that the said I. W. named in the said bill of complaint was seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in one Mese and certain lands and tenements containing by estimation 60. acres or thereabouts, which mese and lands is called W. and are within the County of C. aforesaid, and are of the yearly rent and value of 51. s. 4. d. and the said I W. so being thereof seized for certain sums of money to him paid, did bargain and sell the said Mese, lands, and tenements called W. unto the said defendant and his heirs, and thereupon did by sufficient and lawful conveyance in the law convey and assure the said Mese, lands, and tenements called W. unto t●e said defendant and his heirs, to the proper use of the said defendant and of his heirs, by force whereof the said defendant entered into the premises, and was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee, and the same estate continued until about the fifth year of the reign of the late King Eow, the sixth, that one R. B. by the commandment of the said complainant did enter into the said Mese, and into one pasture or croft, containing by estimation 2. Acres of land, lying on the Southeast part of the said Mese and adjoining to the same, and into one Orchard and one garden lying to the said mese, being parcel of the said lands and tenements called W. and in W. aforesaid, and thereof did disease the said defendant to the use of the said complainant, to which entry and disseisin the said complainant did agree, by force whereof the said complainant was and yet is seized in his demesne as of fee by disseisin as is aforesaid of the said mese, orchard, garden and croft, without that that the said defendant I. W. did hold the said manor of Capishorne of the said complainant in manner and form and by such services as by the said bill of complaint is alleged. Or that there is any such manor of C. to the knowledge of this defendant, or that the said I. W. did or doth hold the said manor of C. of the said complainant to the knowledge of the said defendant, or that the said defendant had any other meses, lands, or tenements which at any time were the meses, lands, or tenements of the said I. W. other than the said mese, lands, and tenements called W. or that the said mese, lands, and tenements called W. are or at any time were parcel of the said manor of T. and if the said mese, lands, and tenements called W. had been parcel of the said manor of C. as they were not, or if the said defendant did hold the said mese, lands, and tenements called W. of the said complainant according to the quantity of the said rend and service, as the said complainant by his said bill of complaint hath supposed as he doth not indeed, yet forsomuch as the said complainant is seized of parcel of the said lands and tenements called W. by disseisin as is aforesaid, and the same mese, lands & tenements called Woodford are holden all by one entire tenure, the whole rent and services are suspended during the time of the said deseisin, and the said defendant is and aught by the law to be discharged during the time of the said disseisin, without that that any Evidences, deeds, writings or Courtrowles concerning the said manor of Over, or the said rend and service at any time came to the hands, custody, and possession of the said defendant, or that the said defendant doth intend utterly to disinherit the said complainant of the said rend and services, or doth wrongfully deny to do the the said complainant any services which he ought to do or pay, or that any other thing etc. All which matters etc. A Replication to the Answer next before. The Replication of Sir T. H. Knight, to the Answer of H. S. Esquire. THe said complainant saith in all and every thing as he before in his Sect'. 178. bill hath said, and averreth all and every thing therein contained to be good and true in such manner and form as in his said bill is alleged, without that that the said R. B. named in the said answer did wrongfully enter by the commandment of this complainant into the said mese & other the lands named in the said answer, being parcel of the said lands & tenements called Woodford, or thereof disseised the said defend to the use of the said compl as by the said answer it is untruely alleged, or that the said compl did agree to any such entry & disseisin, as by the said answer is supposed, or that this compl was or is by force thereof seized by dissesin of the said mesuage, orchard, and garden named in the said answer, as by the said answer is untruly alleged, or that any other matter or thing alleged in the said answer material to be replied unto, which here in this replication is not confessed and avoided, denied or traversed, is true. All which matters etc. G. Goe A bill containing that the plaintiff by bargain and sale, by feoffment and fine bought one mese etc. in fee, and that divers evidences concerning the premises are casually come to the plaintiffs hands, and that by colour thereof the plaintiff hath entered into parcel of the premises and expulsed the plaintiff from the possession thereof, and wrongfully keepeth the same. To the Right Ho. and the reverend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester. Complaining showeth unto your ho. Lo. your Orator H. S. Esquire, Sect. 179. that where one I. W. of C. in the County of C. was seized in his demesne as of fee, of & in one mese, one garden, one orchard, 60. acres of land, meadow, wood, and pasture, with the appurtenances in W. called W. in the County of C. and the said I. W. and his ancestors, whose heir he is, did continued peaceable possession of the premises by the space of 100 years and above, and the said I. W. so being thereof seized for certain great sums of money to the said I. W. by your said Orator contented & paid, did bargain & sell the premises unto your said Orator & his heirs to the proper use of your said Orator & of his said heirs for ever, and thereupon did by his deed sufficient in the law, give, grant, & confirm the premises unto your said Orator & his heirs for ever. And for a further assurance thereof to be had unto your said Orator and his heirs, the said I. W. before the justice of the said County of C. did levy a fine sur conusance de droit of the said mese, lands, and tenements unto your said Orator, and by by the same fine the said I. W. did knowledge all the right which he had in the same mese, lands, & tenements to be the right of your said Orator, as those which your said Orator had of his gift, as by the said deed & fine more at large it doth & may appear, by force whereof your said Orator entered into the premises, & was thereof seized in his demesne as of fee. But so it is if it may please your hon. Lo. that divers evidences, deeds, escripts & miniments concerning the premises are casually come to the hands, custody & possession of one Sir T. H. Knight, who by colour of having thereof hath wrongfully entered into the said mese, orchard, garden, and into one croft containing by estimation 2. acres of land lying & adjoining unto the said mese on the Southeast part of the said mese parcel of the premises, and expulsed your said orator from the possession thereof: And the said Sir T. H. doth still wrongfully keep your said Orator from the possession of the said mese, orchard, garden, & croft. And although your said Orator have divers times required the said Sir T. H. not only to permit and suffer your said orator to have & enjoy the said mese, lands, and tenements, but also to make delivery thereof unto your said orator, which to do the said Sir Tho. at all times hath refused & yet doth refuse, contrary to right, equity, and conscience. In consideration whereof, and for so much as your said Orator knoweth not the certainty of the said Evidences, deeds and writings, nor wherein they be contained, therefore he is without remedy by the order of the common law. It may therefore please your honourable Lordship to grant etc. The Answer of Sir T. H. Knight to the Bill of complaint of H. S. THe said defend saith that the said bill of compl is uncertain & insufficient Sect'. 180. in the law to be answered unto, & the matters therein contained been very untruly devised, imagined, and set forth, without any good matter or just cause, only to the intent to put this defendant to wrongful vexation, trouble, and expenses. And for answer unto the said insufficient bill, the said defendant saith, that our late sovereign Lord King Henry the eight late King of England, father to our most sovereign Lady that now is, was seized among other lands in his demesne as of fee, as in the right of his said Crown of and in the Manor and Lordship of D. with the appurtenances and hamlets to the same appertaining, set, lying, and being in the County of C. whereof the said messsage, garden, orchard, and croft, containing by estimation the said two Acres of land lying in D. parcel of the premises in the said bill of complaint mentioned be parcel: And our said late sovereign Lord King Henry the eight being so thereof lawfully seized aswell for and in consideration of the faithful service that the said defendant had done to the said late King Henry the 8. as also for divers sums of money paid by the said defendant to the said late King Hen. the 8. the said late King Henry the 8. by his letters patents in this honourable Court ready to be showed, the date whereof the said defendant doth not perfectly remember, did give and grant of his prescience and mere motion unto the said defendant the said manor and other the premises in the said Answer mentioned, to have and to hold unto the said defendant and his heirs for ever, by force whereof this defendant unto the premises entered, and thereof was seized accordingly, and took the profits thereof accordingly, and yet doth as well and lawful it was and is for him to do. And further the said defendant saith, that such evidences, deeds, escripts, and writings concerning the premises mentioned in this answer as the said defendant hath concerning the same, he the said defendant doth detain and keep them for the preservation of the right, title and interest that he hath to the same as well and lawful is for him to do. And furthermore the said defendant saith, that as to any other deeds, evidences, writings and miniments concerning the residue of the said lands and tenements specified in the said bill of complaint, or any parcel thereof in W. aforesaid, which do concern the Interest, inheritance, and title of the said complainant, the said defendant answereth and saith, that he doth not withhold any, nor yet at any time hath withholden from the said complainant any such as by the said bill is untruly deposed, without that that the said Io. W. of C. named in the said bill was seized in his demesne as of fee of or in the said mese, orchard, garden, or croft mentioned in the said bill or any parcel thereof, set, lying, and being in D. aforesaid. Or that the said I. W. or his ancestors whose heir he is did continue peaceable possession of the premises by the space of 100 years and above as by the said bill of complaint is untruely surmised, or that the said Io. so being thereof seized for certain sums of money, did bargain or sell, or might lawfully bargain and sell the premises contained in the said Answer or any part thereof set, lying, and being in D. or the Lordship of the same, to the said complainant and his heirs as by the said bill it is in like manner untruely alleged and supposed. Or that the said Io. before the justice of Assize of the said County of C. did levy a fine sur conusance de droit of the said mese and other the premises mentioned in the said answer, or of any parcel thereof unto the said complainant, as by the said bill is also untruely surmised: or that by the said supposed fine the said Io. did knowledge, or might lawfully knowledge the said mese and other the premises contained in the said bill to be the right of the said complainant, as those which the said complainant had of his gift as it is in like manner untruely supposed, or that by force thereof the said complainant entered or might lawfully enter into the said mese and other the premises in this answer mentioned, or that he was thereof lawfully seized in his demesne as of fee, as by the said bill it is also untruely surmised, and without that that any other matter or thing alleged in the said bill material to be answered unto, which here in this answer is not confessed and avoided, denied or traversed, is true. All which matters this defendant is ready to aver 7 prove as this Court shall award, and prayeth to be dismissed out of this Court with his costs and expenses in this wrongful vexation sustained. R. Goe The Replication of H. S. to the Answer of Sir T. H. Knight. THe said complainant saith, that the said bill of complaint is true, Sect. 181. certain, and sufficient in the law to be answered unto, and not imagined and set forth by the said complainant of malice, or wrongfully to put the said defendant to costs, labour, or expenses, for the said complainant averreth his said bill of complaint and every thing therein contained to be good and true in manner and form as in the said bill of complaint is alleged, without that that the late King Henry the 8. named in the said answer was seized in his demesne as of fee as in the right of his Crown of and in the said mese, garden, orchard, and croft, containing by estimation two acres of land lying in D. parcel of the lands and tenements mentioned in the said bill of complaint, as parcel of the manor and Lordship of D. in the said County of C. or that the said mese, garden, orchard, and croft, or any part or parcel thereof is or at any time was parcel of the same manor, or that the said late King by his letters patents gave and granted unto the said defendant and his heirs for ever the said mese, garden, orchard, and croft, or that the said late King Henry the 8. did or might lawfully give the said mese, garden, orchard, and croft unto the said defendant, or that the said mese, garden, orchard and croft, did or might lawfully pass or come unto the said defend by the said grant, if any such grant had been as there was not indeed, or that the said defend by force of any such grant or letters patents entered into the premises last before mentioned, and was thereof seized acordinglie, or did or might lawfully take the issues and profits thereof by force of the same letters patents, or that any other thing etc. All which matters the said defendant etc. And prayeth that it may be ordered by this ho. Court, that the said complainant may quietly enjoy the lands and tenements mentioned in the said bill of complaint, without let, suit, vexation, or impediment of the said defendant, or of his heirs, or any other person or persons by his or their consent, aid, title, or procurement. A Supplication exhibited by a Scot to the privy Counsel (his suit being commended to the Queen by letters from the King of Scots) rob by Pirates upon the Sea, who desireth a Commission to examine witnesses to prove the Piraci●. To the Right Ho. the Lords and others of her majesties honourable privy Counsel. MOst humbly beseecheth your good Lo. your distressed Suppliant Sect. 182. G. P. of the town of Leth in Scotland, being lately rob and spoiled by certain english pirates upon the seas of all his goods to the value of 400. l. or there about, as by certain proceed in the court of the Admiralty plainly appeareth, and for that this cause hath been commended to her Majesty by the king of Scots his letters, your Lo. poor suppliant therefore hopeth the rather to be relieved in any of his reasonable & conscionable suits & requests at your ho. hands. It may therefore please your good Lo. to tender & pity the case of your said Suppliant, & to grant unto him your ho. letters of Commission to be directed to the Mayor of the town of H. in the County of P. & others justices of peace & Aldermen of the said town, giving them Authority thereby to call before them the persons whose names be subscribed, & upon their corporal oaths to examine them upon such questions or interrogatories as upon your said suppliants behalf shallbe ministered unto them, and to certify their sayings & depositions touching the premises unto your good Lo. under their hands & seals, with all convenient speed they may. And your good Lo. poor suppliant shall daily pray to God for the preservation of your good Lo. in all health & honour long to continue. the witnesses. A. B. C. D. E. F. The endorsement of the Supplication. 13. Decembr. 1600. The humble petition of G. P. of Leth in Scotland. And then endorse the contents of the petition. A Supplication by two maimed soldiers, to have the Counsels licence to beg, or to have some maintenance allowed them for the● present stay and relief, until two Alms rooms which the Queen gave in reversion do become void. To the Right Ho. the Lords etc. Humbly show and beseech your good Lo. your very poor and Sect. 183. humble Suppliants A. G. and B. C. That whereas in consideration of the sundry maims and hurts of your ho. Suppliants in her majesties service, it pleased her highness of her most gracious disposition and pitiful consideration of us, to give and bestow upon us the reversion of two several Alms rooms in the Hospital of D. in the City of London during our lives when the same shall become void, the which be yet full, and after their deaths which now be in the possession of the same divers revertions are granted to several persons of the same, by reason whereof your Lo. poor Suppliants are never likely to enjoy the same rooms for their relief and sustenance. In consideration whereof, and for that your ho. said suppliants be in very poor and weak estate by reason of their said maims and hurts, and greatly indebted to divers persons, being charged with wives and many children, not having any thing now left them to maintain, help, or relieve themselves withal in this their great poverty and extremities, but are ready to perish for lack of sustenance and other means, It may therefore please your good Lo. the premises being by your ho. tenderly considered, to grant unto your Lo. poor Suppliants for their present stay, relief and comfort, your Honour's licence for the taking and receiving of the Alms, and charitable benevolence of the well disposed persons throughout the whole Realm, until the said Alms rooms shall become void, or some other provision or maintenance for the relief of their present necessity, such as to your Honours shall seem meet and convevient may be had & made, and your said poor Suppliants according to their bounden duties will pray to God for your good Lordships in all health & honour long to continue. A Supplication by a Merchant stranger, who having been before called into question for cozening of one in a barter of Pearl for Cloth, who desireth the same may be examined and ended by Aldermen of London, and other assistants of skill and judgement: And that if they cannot agree, than the Lord Mayor of London to be umpire betwixt them, or else that the same may receive a trial in any Court of justice within the realm, and that in the mean time his liberty may not be impeached. To the Right Honourable the Lords etc. IN all humbleness beseecheth your honourable good Lordship I. C. of Sect'. 184. the City of London Merchant stranger. That whereas R. S. of the same City Merchant tailor hath sundry times complained unto your Honour that the said Suppliant had cozened him in delivering pearls for 185. pound, which were not worth 20. pound, in consideration of a barter of cloth delivered to your Lordship's Suppliant, whereupon it pleased your Lordship to grant your warrant for the bringing of the said Suppliant and his aged father before your good Lordship to answer to the said supposed cozenage objected against them, which they have already in some sort answered, according to the shortness of the time. But for as much as for the full and plain discovery of the said pretended cozenage, wherewith your Lordships said Suppliant is charged by the said R. S. it seemeth requisite that the whole proceed in the said barter or contract were thoroughly examined by some Aldermen of the City of London, calling unto them for their assistance therein two of the Dutch Church, of sufficient judgement and skill in such cases to be indifferently nominated by your said Suppliant and the said R. S. It may therefore please your good Lordship to give full power and authority by your honours letters to Alderman S. and E. D. one of the Dutch Church chosen by your said Suppliant (if so it may stand with the liking of your good Lordship) being of judgement and skill, and very wise and discreet men, and to an other Alderman of the said City, and any other of the said Dutch Church to be likewise nominated and appointed by the said R. S. who may examine and try out the truth of the said supposed cozenage: And that it may also please your good Lordship that the Lord Mayor of the said City of London may be by your Honour nominated and appointed to be umpire in the said cause for the final ending thereof, if it should so happen and fall out that the said four persons should not fully end the same cause betwixt the said parties touching the said supposed cozenage, to the which arbitrement & umpiradge your said Suppliant will willingly submit himself to stand unto and perform. And if the said cause can not by the said arbitrators or umpiers receive a full and final end through the wilfulness or frowardness of the said R. S. according to the charitable and honest intent and purpose of your Lordships said Suppliant. Then your said Suppliant humbly beseecheth your Honour that it may be ordered by your good Lordship that the said cause may receive a short, speedy, upright, and indifferent trial at the Common law in what Court in shall please your good Lordship to appoint. And for that your said Suppliant doubteth least by the practice of the said R. S. his liberty may be impeached before the said supposed cozenage may be fully tried & ended, the petitioner therefore humbly beseecheth your good Lo. that by your Lo. order his poor aged father may be protected and defended from arrests or other trouble or molestation, until the said cause shall receive a full and final end, and your said Suppliant shall daily pray to God for etc. A Supplication by an Innkeeper imprisoned for treason upon counterfeit letters from the privy Counsel, who being thereof afterwards discharged by letters from the Counsel, had several actions of det laid upon him before his enlargement. And afterwards was from thence removed to the Fleet, and there remaining for his det, prayeth that he may complain of abuses offered to him, and to detect others of offences and misdemeanours by them committed. And also to write letters to the Commissioners for prisoners for det in the Fleet, to compound all causes betwixt him and his creditors. To the Right Ho. the Lords etc. HUmbly showeth and complaineth unto your good Lo. your poor Sect. 185. suppliant & daily Orator I. W. of N. now prisoner in the Fleet. That where about the month of September last passed in the 32. year of her majesties reign, one W. P. brought to the said town of N. certain counterfeit letters under the names of the Lo. Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and others of her Ma. most honourable privy Counsel, with commandment to I. B. then Mayor of the said town of N. by virtue of the said letters, to apprehend & take your said suppliant upon suspicion of treason, & to commit him to close prison, with bevy irons to be laid upon him, the which the said Mayor executed accordingly, where your said suppliant so continued by the space of 5. weeks. And your suppliant being so imprisoned, required the said Mayor that the said W. P. might be stayed, for that he in the same year had counterfeited certain other letters under divers of your Lo. hands, but the said Mayor refused to stay him because he came with your Lo. letters to him (as he supposed) so the said W. P. departed, leaving your said suppliant in close prison. Whereupon your said poor suppliant sent one to acquaint your ho. with his poor distressed case, for redress & relief from your good Lo. therein, who thereupon received your honourable letters in your suppliants behalf, directed unto the said now Mayor of the said town of N. for his enlargement of his said imprisonment. But your Lo. said letters notwithstanding, your poor suppliant was not set at liberty, but detained in prison by the space of 8. days after your Lo. letters were delivered unto the said Mayor, by means whereof there was one execution for det, and divers other Actions of debt laid upon him to the utter undoing of him, his wife, & 8. poor children, your suppliant being a poor Inholder in the sa●● town of N. & having no other trade of living or means to maintain himself & his poor family, by reason of which said untrue slander of suspicion of Treason, & of his long imprisonment of seven months or more, he hath lost all his accustomes guests being many, which used to come to his said house. May it therefore please your good Lo. the premises being by your Honours tenderly considered, & for that your said poor suppliant upon his remove to the prison of the Fleet, entered into bond to appear before your good Lo. at what time soever it should please your Ho. to appoint in so to do, to admit your said suppliant to complain before your Ho. of divers wrongs & abuses offered & done unto your poor suppliant, as also to discover & detect the said W. & some others his confederates of very lewd parts & offences committed by them: And also that it will please your Ho. to grant your letters to the Commissioners for poor prisoners for debt in the Fleet, for the speedy compounding & ending of all causes betwixt your said suppliant & his creditors, and your said suppliant as he is most bounden shall daily pray for your Ho. good Lordship in health and in honour long to continue. A Supplication containing that upon a former supplication the Counsels letters were directed to a knight and others of the country where both the parties dwelled to hear and end a cause being a matter of account, whereupon the knight and the others first wrote their letters to the parties and they not coming before them, upon their letters they did thereupon by virtue of the Counsels said letters send their precept unto them commanding them to appear before them for ending of the said cause, who refused to come before them, the which his contempt was by the said knight etc. certified to the Counsel against them. And now the petitioner prayeth the Counsels warrant to bring the parties before the said knight etc. for the ending of the said cause, and if the said parties wilfully refuse to stand to and obey their order, then to commit them to the jail, there to remain until they will be contented to obey and perform the same. To the Right Honourable the Lords etc. HUmbly showeth unto your good Lo. your humble suppliant N. Sect. 186. C. Clothier, that whereas upon a former petition exhibited unto your good Lo. declaring the injurious, unconscionable, & sinister dealings of one T. N. & I. his son, touching a matter of debt & account, which was by your said suppliant fully satisfied: Yet continued they suit against your said suppliant for the space of seven years together only of purpose & malice to the end to molest, trouble, & impoverish your said suppliant, as by divers certificates then to your Ho. by your said suppliant showed did fully & at large appear, as also the lewd & evil conversation & demeanour of the said I. N. duly certified unto your good Lo. by the town of C. in the County of S. under the common Seal of the same town: whereupon it pleased your good L. to direct your honourable letters unto Sir G. T. of A. in the said County of S. knight, & others, to call before them the said T. N. and all other persons whom that matter did in any wise concern, and that upon due hearing & examination of witnesses upon both parts to be produced to proceed to the final ending & determining thereof according to equity & conscience, and thereupon the said Commissioners according to your Lo. said letters of Commission sent first their letters, requiring them to come before them for the ending of the said cause: and for that they did not appear before them upon their said letters, they then addressed unto them their precept, requiring and commanding them and every of them by virtue of your Honours said letters of Commission to them directed, to come & appear before them for the ending of the said cause, both which letters & precept were delivered by one A. B. unto the said T. N. who was the principal molestor & troubler of your suppliant in these causes, who albeit he had received the said letters & precept, yet that notwithstanding he would not appear before the said Commissioners, but contemptuously by his letters to the Commissioners refused to appear before them either upon the said letters or the precept from the said Commissioners, as by a Certificate from the said Commissioners ready to be showed unto your good Lo. may appear, to the great derogation & contempt of your good Lordships. May in therefore please your Ho. for the bridling & checking of such dissolute, froward, & wilful obstinacy, to the terrifying of such like disobedient persons, to grant unto your said suppliant your Lo. warrant to be directed unto the Sheriff of the said County of S. to bring the said T. N. before the said Commissioners at such day, hour, & place, as by letters from the said Commissioners to the said Sheriff shallbe assigned or appointed: And that if the said T. N. being so brought before the said Commissioners shall wilfully refuse to o bay & perform such order, end, & determination, as the said Commissioners shall think good to set down therein: That the said Commissioners may have full power & Authority to commit the said T. N. to the jail within the said County, there to remain until he will yield to perform and obey the order and determination of the said Commssioners, or that your good Lo. shall give order and direction for his delivery out of prison. And your said Suppliant shall daily pray for the preservation of your good Lordships in all felicity and happiness long to continue. A Supplication by one for himself and for eight other prisoners indicted of murder in Wales (wrongfully as they pretend) containing a former Supplication, whereupon the Counsel ordered that they should receive their trials upon the said Indictmens' of life and death in the County of Salop, and not in the County of M. where they were indicted, praying that they might be bailed, for that he was a freeholder of good worth, and able to put in good surety, that the Counsel would be pleased to give order by their letters to the Lo. President and Counsel in the marches of Wales for the bailing of them. To the Right Ho. the Lords etc. MOst humbly informeth your good Lo. your humble suppliant and Sect. 187. daily Orator E. D. of the County of C. for himself & 8. others, now prisoners in the jail of M. for a supposed murdering of one M. G. who died about Pentecost last passed: That whereas upon some sudden heat of words bariance happening to grow between the same M. G. & your said suppliant L. in the said County of C. upon the 28. day of May last past, about the having up of a writ of Capias, with a fee formerly given for the executing of the same writ, at which time by hard hap a slander by giving a light blow to the said M. G. with a stone upon the head, whereof he never languished so much as one hour in outward appearance, neither did his Chirurgeon conceive any danger to be therein, but the said M. G. traveled afterwards without show of grief from place to place about his affairs into foreign countries, using all exercises & disports of pleasure, and afterwards upon the 10. day of june through sickness died in the said County of M. In which County of M. by favour of the kindred & allies of the said M. G. your suppliant and 11. others were unjustly indicted for the death of the said M. G. as for murder although there were no manner of malice betwixt your Lo. said suppliant & the said M. G. before the said hurt of him the said M. G. but great good will & liking betwixt them. For the same night that the said M. G. was hurt as is aforesaid, he had appointed to lie at your Lo. said suppliants house, whereupon your good Lo. said suppliant being an humble suitor to your Ho. for redress of the said hard measure, it pleased your good Lo. in your very honourable consideration by order from your Lo. to appoint the trial of your said suppliant, & the other 8. indicted persons at the Assizes to be holden for the said County of Salop, as a place more indifferent & fit for the same, and yet nevertheless your said poor suppliand & the rest remain in prison & cannot be bailed, and albeit very good & sufficient bail have been by your Lo. supplliant divers times offered not only for himself, but also for the rest of the people, being indicted & imprisoned. And for that your ho. said suppliant is a freeholder, of credit & worth well able to find very good & sufficient surety for his own bail & his said people to appear and answer to the said indictment against them before the Qu. majesties justices of Assize for the said County of Salop, at the next assizes to be holden within the said County of S●lop for the said County. It may therefore please your good Lo. of your accustomed care and commiseration of poor afflicted persons for their reliefs, to give such order and direction by your honour's letters to be directed to the Lo. President and Counsel of the Marches of Wales, that your Lo. said Suppliant and his poor people may not only receive their said trial upon the said indictment in the said County of Salop according to your good Lo. former order & directions therein, but also that they may be presently bailed upon good and sufficient sureties to be of them taken by the said Lo. Precedent and Counsel for their personal appearance before the said justices of Assize for the said County of Salop at the said next Assizes to be holden before them for the same County, then and there to answer to the said indictment, and to receive therein according to law and justice: And your said poor Suppliant shall pray unto God for the long preservation of your good Lordship in health and much honour long to continue. A Supplication to have the Counsels letters to two Bailiffs of a Town, to take upon them the hearing of a controversy of an Account, or else to appoint other two to do the same, and that they two to appoint an umpire to end the matter. And if the said umpire cannot end it, then to certify the Counsel of the state of the matter, and their opinions thereof, and in whom they conceive the fault to be. To the Right Honourable the Lords etc. IN most humble and lamentable manner showeth unto your honourable Sect'. 188. Lordships your poor Suppliant A. B. of C. in the County of N. Merchant. That whereas there are divers matters of Account in question and controversy between your said poor suppliant, & one H. B. of N. which will ask & require some long time & great charges to be prosecuted & determined by the due course of the common laws of the realm, the which would turn to the utter undoing of your said suppliand, because he is now ready with his Ship to departed towards the straits, and therefore very uncertain of his return. It may therefore please your good Lo. to grant your Ho. letters to be directed unto the two Bailiffs of great Yarmouth, either to hear the said Account betwixt them, or else to appoint two other indifferent persons to hear the same and that those two may of themselves appoint an umpire to end and determine the said controversies, unto the which if the said H. B. or your Ho. said Suppliant will not yield unto, that then they may certify unto your good Lo. the state of the said controversies betwixt them, with their opinions therein, and in whom they conceive the fault to be. And your said poor Suppliant shall be bound during his life to pray for your good Lo. increase of honour, and perpetual felicity. A Supplication of H. K. and E. M. being prisoners in the Fleet for misdemeanours sentenced in the Star chamber to be enlarged of their imprisonment. To the Right Ho. the L. Keeper of the great seal of England. THe Suppliants in Michaelmas Term last were sentenced for a Sect'. 189. Riot, & other misdemeanours, and A. B. the principal defend was then also committed to the Fleet, and adjudged to pay to the Queen 100 l. for a fine, and also to discharge the fines imposed upon such other of the said defendants then likewise sentenced & fined as are not able to satisfy the same. Your Lo. said poor Suppliants dwelling in the County of C. were brought up by the Warden of the Fleets servants, & are now likewise prisoners in the said prison of the Fleet for the said offences, where they have already remained by the space of a fortnight & more in great misery & want, being very poor men & very aged, and having nothing at all wherewith to relieve their great wants & necessities more than the bare allowance of the prison, being so small, as your poor suppliants are ready to starve for want of meat, drink, & other necessaries, to the utter overthrowing of them and their poor wives & children, without it may please your good Lo. speedily to extend your commiseration and pity upon them in setting them at liberty. A Supplication of a prisoner in the Fleet for misdemeanours censured in the Star chamber to be enlarged of his imprisonment, and to have the benefit of a general pardon, and to be discharged of one of his fines imposed upon him. To the Right Ho. Sir T. E. Knight, Lord keeper of the great seal of England. IN all humbleness H. A. a very poor aged man of 70. years old and Sect. 190. more now prisoner in the Fleet, humbly beseecheth your good Lo. That where your suppliant in the cause between A. B. and C. D. had in the Starrechamber two several fines imposed upon him for two several misdemeanours, the one a fine of 10. l. & the other a fine of 20. l. and brought out of the County of C. by the servant of the deputy warden of the Fleet to the prison of the Fleet, the 10. day of this instant june, being as he is informed discharged and freed from the said first fine of 10. l. and from imprisonment of his body by her majesties most gracious general pardon at the last Parliament, that it would please your good Lo. for God's sake to yield and allow unto your Lo. said suppliant the benefit of the said general pardon for his said first time, and also in your ho. and merciful regard of his great poverty & misery he now lieth in to enlarge him of his said imprisonment, and to discharge him of the said fine of 20. l. and to set it over upon the head of the said C. D. according to an order therein taken: And also to order & appoint the said C. D. to pay your said suppliants prison charges, having been drawn into that action by the said C. D. otherwise your Lo. poor suppliant is utterly undone for ever, and shall never be able to procure his liberty, but of force must perish in prison: And your said poor suppliant & his poor wife and children shall daily pray for your Lo. good and honourable estate in all health and happiness long to continue. A Supplication of a prisoner in the Fleet for a misdemeanour censured in the Star chamber to have the benefit of a general pardon, and to be discharged of his imprisonment and fine, and that in respect of his very poor estate his prison charges may be paid and discharged by one A. B. by whose means the Suppliant was drawn into the action. To the Right Ho. Sir T. E. Knight, Lord keeper of the great seal of England. YOur Ho. very poor Suppliant H. M. being a very poor old man Sect'. 191. of above 80. years old, and weak and sickly, now prisoner in the Fleet, humbly beseecheth your Lo. That where your poor suppliant in a cause between A. M. and C. K. was fined in the Star chamber at the sum of 5. l. and brought out of C. by the warden of the Fleets servants to the prison of the Fleet, the 20. day of this july, that he may not only be freed & discharged of the said fine imposed upon him, but also of his said imprisonment by force and virtue of a general pardon at the last Parliament. And that your good Lo. will be pleased for God's cause to yield & allow unto your poor suppliant the benefit of the said pardon for his enlargement. And further, that it will please your good Lo. in regard of his great poverty being not able to relieve himself with sufficient meat and drink, but is ready to starve for hunger for want thereof, to take such order that the said C. K. by whom your said poor suppliant hath been drawn to commit the said misdemeanour, may pay for your said suppliant all his fees and charges of imprisonment, the which if he be not compelled by your good Lo. to do, your said poor suppliant is very likely to remain languishing in prison all the days of his life, without any hope ever to be delivered thence. And your poor suppliant will daily pray for your good Lo. etc. The end of Bills and Answers etc. HItherto of Bills, Answers, Replications, Rejoinders, etc. and such other things as concern the manner of proceeding in Chancery suits, with some new additions unto them added. Now of certain writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also re●ournable. The manner of proceeding upon a special Certiorari. THe party grieved exhibiteth his bill, and by the same prayeth not Sect. 192. only a special Certiorari, but also a Subp. against the def. to answer to his bill, as appeareth by the last two bills. And if the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Master of the Rolls shall see good and probable matter in the bill, they usually grant the same, taking bond of the plaintiff for the proof of the surmises of his bill, within fourteen days after the return of his special Certiorari, which writ of Certiorari followeth in haec verba. Elizabeth Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae, Regina, fidei defensor etc. Maiori & Vicecomitibus London salutem, volentes certis de causis certiorari super causa captionis & detentionis R. S. in prisona sub custodia vestra, vos praefati vicecomites detenti ut dicitur, vobis mandamus, quod causam praedictam cum omnibus eam tangentibus quocunque nomine idem R. in causa illa censeatur nobis in Cancellariam nostram in quindena pasche prox. futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, sub sigillis vestris distinct & apart mittatis, & hoc breve teste etc. And if the pl. do not make proof of the surmise of his bill as aforesaid, then upon certificate made under the hands of the examiners of this Court, and notice from the plaintiffs Attorney that he hath not examined any witnesses either in this Court, or by Commission, than a Procedendo is granted of course. But if there be witnesses examined, then to have their examinations referred to a Master of the Chancery. And if he find and so certify, that the plaintiff hath proved the substance of his bill, than the cause to be retained & ordered in this Court, if not, than a Procedendo to proceed for the remuanding of the said cause. A Corpus cum causa to remove a Prisoner. REgina etc. Maiori & Vicecomitibus Lond' salutem. Mandamus Sect. 193. vobis, quod R. S. quocunque nomine censeat captum & in prisona sub custodia vestra vos praefat' Vicecomit detent, ut dicitur, habeatis coram nobis in Cancellar' nostra tali die proxim' futur', ubicunque tunc fuerit, una cum causa captionis & detentionis ipsius R. in prisona praedict'. Et hoc nullatenus omittat. Et habeatis ibi hoc breve. Teste etc. This writ is granted by the L. Chancellor, L. Keeper, or Master of the Rolls, for the most part upon a Bill exhibited, and good bail put into the Court for the party's appearance and forth coming, de die in diem, or further time, as the Court shall think fit, whereby many of her majesties subjects are very much relieved in hard and extreme causes, lying often times in prison upon great actions surmised against them, without just cause, and thereby not able to put in such bail, as the common Law doth require in such cases. Of a writ of Diem clausit extremum. THis writ is to be sued forth by the heir of the king's Tenant in Sect'. 194. chief, within a year after the death of his ancestor, or a Commission of the same effect. And an Office or Inquisition being thereupon taken and returned, such heir may have livery of his lands out of the king's hands, for if the lands of such tenant exceed the yearly value of v. li. no Livery thereof can be sued, before such Inquisition or office found and returned by virtue of such writ or Commission. And such writ or Commission may not pass, but by warrant or bill, first signed and subscribed with the hands and names of the Master of the Wards and Liveries, the Surueior of the Liveries, and the Attorney of the Court of Wards & Liveries, or some of them, 33. H. 8. cap. 22. The form of which writ ensueth. Rex Eschaetori in comit' Eb. salutem. Quia I. qui de nobis tenuit in capite Diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus. Tibi praecipimus, qd' oina terras & tennta de quibus idem I. fuit s●isitus in dnico suo ut de feod', in balliva tua die quo obijt, sine dilatione cap in manum nostram, & ea saluo custodiri facias, donec aliud inde praeciperimus: Et per sacramentum proborum & legalium hominum de eadem balliva tua, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiras, quantum terr' & tenntorum praedictus I. tenuit de nobis in capite, tam in dominico quam in seruitio, in dict' balliva tua dict' die quo obijt, & quantum de alijs, & per quod seruitium, & quantum terr' & tennta illa valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, & quo die idem I. obijt, & quis propinquior haeres eius sit, & cuius aetatis. Et inquisitionem inde distinct & apart factam nobis in Cancellar' nostram sub sigillo tuo, & sigillis eorum, per quos facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittas etc. Et hoc breve. T. etc. But if one that holdeth of the Queen's ward by knight's service die, the Diem clausit etc. must be thus: Regina dilecto etc. Quia I. de S. qui de haered' W. de O. defunct', qui de nobis tenuit in capite, infra aetatem, & in custodia nostra existent' tenuit per seruic' Military Diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus. Tibi praecipimus, quod omnia terr' & tennt etc. per sacramentum etc. quantum terrarum & tenementorum idem I. tenuit de haered' praedict'. Et quis propinquior haeres eius sit etc. ut supra. And if the Queen's ward, Thus: Regina etc. Quia R. de H. filius & haeres I de H. defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, nuper dum infra aetatem & in custod' nostra fuit, Diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus. Tibi praecipimus, quod per sacramentum etc. inquiras, quae terrae & quae tennta per mortem predict I. & ratione minoris aetatis haered' praedict' I. ad manus nostras devener, & sic in manu nostr' existunt, & quantum inde de nobistenetur in capite, & quantum de alijs, & per quod seruitium, & quantum &c. But if the wife of the Queen's tenant which holdeth in Dower die, his Heir being the Queen's ward, than the Diem clausit extremum must be made thus: Rex dilecto sibi N. de B. Maiori civitatis suae London, & Eschaetori suo in eadem Civitate salutem. Quia E. quae fuit uxor I. de B. nuper defunct', quae quasdam terras & quaedam tenementa de nobis tenuit in dotem de haereditate predict' I. quondam virisui, Diem clausit extremum, ut accepimus. Tibi praecipimus, quod omnia terras & tennta, quae ●adem E. sic tenuit in dotem de haereditate pndicta in balliva tua etc. per sacramentum etc. diligenter inquiras, quas terras & quae tenementa eadem E. sic tenuit in dotem de haereditate pndict̄ in balliva tua, die quo obijt, & quantum inde de nobis tenetur in capite, & quantum de alijs, & per quod seruitium etc. If the Queen have the wardship of a reversion, and the tenant for life die, than thus. Quia A. quasdam terras & quaedam tenementa de haered' E. consanguinei & haered' H. de P. defuncti, qui de rege tenuit in capite, infra aetatem & in custod' regis existent' tenuit ad terminum vitae suae, Diem clausit extreme etc. tibi praecipimus etc. After the death of the tenant by the Courtesy, thus. Quia A. qui quasdam terras & quedam tennta de nobis tenuit per legem Angliae de haered' M. uxoris suae dudum defunctae, Diem clausit extremum, tibi praecipimus etc. But if the Queen have a remainder, and her tenant for life dieth, then must the Writ be thus. Quia A. quae fuit uxor etc. qui quasdam terras & quaedam tenementa tenuit ad vitam suam & quae post mortem ipsius A. nobis & haered' nostris remaner debent, Diem clausit extremum etc. tibi praecipimus etc. qui eadem sic tenuit & quae post mortem etc. remaner debent etc. vel sic post mort praedict' B. ad manus nostras ratione minoris etatis praefat' haered' devener etc. But if the temporalties of a Bish. be in the Queen's hands, and one that holdeth of the Bishopric by knight's service dieth, the Diem clausit extremum must be thus. Regina etc. Quia A. de Archiepiscopatu Cantuar vacant & in manu nostra existent' tenuit per seruic' militare, Diem clausit extremum etc. tibi praecipimus etc. de quibus idem A. fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo etc. & tenuit de Archiepiscopatu praed' sine dilatione etc. But if the Queen's Idiot die, the writ must be such. Quia B. de C. nuper fatuus & Idiota, cuius terrae & tennta ratione fatuitatis eiusdem B. in manu nostra existunt, diem etc. ut accepimus, tibi pncipimus quam ꝑ sacrament etc. diligenter inqui●as, quae terrae & quae tennta ratione fatuitatis pnd' B. in manum nostram capta fuerunt, & adhuc in manu nostra existunt, & de quo vel de quibus teneantur, & ꝑ quod seruitium, & quantum terrae illae valeant etc. & quis propinquior etc. & inquisit etc. Datur nobis intelligi. ANd if the Escheator receive a Diem ciausit extremum, and die, Sect. 195. or be otherwise removed from his office before execution thereof, then issueth a writ of Datur nobis intelligi in this form. Regina etc. Cum nuper datur nobis intelligi quod I. de B. qui de nobis tenuit in capite, Diem clausit extremum, praeceperimus dilect' nobis W. de O. nuper Eschaetori nostro in comitatu praedict' quod omnia terras & tenements etc. ut supra, Mutatis mutandis. Ac idem W. ab offic' praedict' iam sit amotus, per quod executio brevis nostri praedict' fieri non potest: Nos super praemissis volent cerciorari: Tibi praecipimus, quod persacramentum etc. diligenter super praemiss▪ facias inquisitionem, & etiam distinct etc. T. etc. Or thus. Regina dilecto etc. Cum nuper datur nobis intelligi, quod I. de B. qui de nobis tenuit in capite, Diem clausit extremum, praeceperimus dilecto & fideli nostro H. de B. nuper Eschaetori nostro in eodem Com̄, quod omnes terras etc. sine dilatione caperet in manum nostram etc. donec aliud inde praecepissemus, & per sacramentum etc. inquiret, quantum terrae etc. ut in primo brevi. Ac idem H. antequam praedict' breve fuerat executum, ab officio praedict' fuerat amotus: Nos volentes super praemissis plenius cerciorari, ●ibi praecipimus, quod super articulis praedict' & eorum singulis diligenter facias inquisic', & eam distinct & apart fact' etc. ut supra etc. But if the first Escheator execute the writ, and die before the inquisition ●e returned into the Chancery, than a Certiorare shall be awarded to his Executors, or Administrators, to certis●e the same inquisition, for it is a matter of Record so soon as the jurors have found and sealed it. Of a Mandamus. IF the King's tenant by Knight's service die, his heir within age, and Sect. 196. no writ of Diem clausit extremum be awarded within a year after his death, then shall issue a Mandamus in this form. Rex dilecto sibi W. de B. Eschaetori suo in come B. Salutem. Praecipimus tibi quod per sacramentum proborum & legalium hominum de balliva tua, per quos etc. diligenter inquiras, quas terras & quae tennta I de B. tenuit de nobis in capite, tam in dominico quam in seruitio in balliva tua die quo obijt, & quantum de alijs, & per quam seruitium, & quantum terrae & tennta illa valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus, & quo tempore idem I. obijt, & quis propinquior etc. & cuius aetatis, & quis vel qui terras & tennta illa a tempore mortis praed' occupavit vel occup, & exitus & proficua inde praecepit vel praeceperunt, quo titulo & qualit, & quo modo etc. Et inquisitionem etc. THe heir shall have but one writ of Diem clausit extremum only Sect. 197. within a year after his ancestors death: But where thancestor died ward to the Queen and within age, for then a new Diem clausit extremum shall be a warded a year after the Infant's death, and not a Mandamus, per Regist. fol. Of Commissions after the death of the Queen's tenant. ALso the heir of the King's tenant by Knight's service in chief, Sect'. 198. may sue forth a special Commission, directed to certain persons, to inquire what lands &c. (as above in a Diem clausit extremum,) which Commission will he as beneficial for the heir, as a Diem clausit extremum: For upon Inquisition taken by such a Commission, returnable into the Chancery, ●e may have Livery at his full age. But he shall never have Livery upon a general Commission to inquire of all Wards etc. Quae plura. THis writ lieth when any of the Heirs lands be omitted in a former Sect. 199. office or inquisition, to find the lands so omitted, and is such. Rex Eschaetori suo etc. salutem. Quia datum est nobis intelligi quod A. defunctus qui de nobis tenuit in capite, tenuit die quo obijt plura terras & tennta in comitat' praedict', quam tu in inquisitione inde post mortem pndict̄ A. de mandato nostr' capta, & in Cancell' nostr' retornata specificantur. Tibi praecipimus, quod persacramentum proborum etc. inquiras quae plura terras & tennta idem A. tenuit in come predict', die quo obijt, & de quo, vel de quibus illa plura terrae & tennta teneantur, & per quam seruitium, & quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus. Et inquisitionem etc. Melius inquirendum. THis writ lieth where an office found by virtue of a Diem clausit Sect. 200. extremum or Commission is uncertain in the tenure, value, or tenants estate of the lands, or otherwise. But if such incertain office be found before the Escheator ratione officij only, than it is void, and no Melius inquirendum shall thereupon be awarded. And the Melius inquirendum is such. Rex Escheatori suo etc. Salutem. Cum per quandam inquisitionem coram A. Eschaetore nostro in come praedicto de mandato nostro captam, & in Cancellaria nostra retornat sit compertum, quod N. defunctus tenuit diversa terras & tennta cum pertinentijs in comitatu predicto, & quis propinquior haeres eiusdem N. sit ex part patris sui, iuratores inquisitionis predicti ignorant: Tamen ex part R. matris praedicti N. filiae W. B. est eius haeres propinquior, & aetatis viginti & unius annorum & amplius. Et quia in inquisitione praedict' quis propinquior haeres ipsius N. existat minime specificatur: tibi praecipimus quod per sacramentum etc. inquiras, quis propinquior haeres praedicti N. existat, qualiter & quo modo. Et inquisitionem etc. T. etc. And this writ is grauntable upon surmise made in the court, that such former Office is so incertain, as is abovesaid. Another Melius inquirend' post inquisitionem imperfectam. Rex eschaetori suo etc. Cum per inquisitionem coram te de mandato nostro etc. compertum sit, quod A. tenuit die quo obijt unum messuag' in N. in come praedicto de B. per seruitium militare, quodque idem A. tenuit die quo obijt unum toftum cum pertinentijs in N. in comitatu praedicto, de haerede F. L. per seruitium militare, & quia in inquisitione praedicta qualem statum & quale ius idem A. habuit in messuagio & tofto praedictis, seu de quo vel de quibus eadem messuagium & toftum teneantur minime specificatur: nos volentes inde per te plenius Cerciorari, tibi praecipimus etc. inquiras, qualem statum, & quale ius idem A. habuit in messuagio & tofto praed die quo obijt, & de quo vel de quibus messuagium & toftum praedict' teneantur, & per quod seruitium, qualiter & quomodo. Et inquisitionem etc. T. etc. A Writ de aetate probanda. IT behoveth the heir of the Queen's tenant in chief being in ward, Sect. 201. at his full age, and before livery, to have a writ to the Escheator of the County where he was borne, to prove his age. And it seemeth, that such writ may as well be made to the Escheator of the County where his land lieth, for it may be he was borne where the King's writ runneth not: as in Ireland, Calais. Berwick, etc. Rex dilecto sibi I. de B. Eschaetori suo in come B. salutem. Quia A. de B. qui M. sororem▪ & unam haer' R. defuncti, qui de dno Edw. nuper Rege Angliae avo nostro tenuit in capite duxit in uxorem, dicit praefat' M. plenae aetat esse, & petit a nobis terras & tenementa, que sunt de haereditate ipsius M. & quorum una pars in manu nostra, & alia pars i● custodia I. de H. ex commissione dicti avi nostri usque ad legitimam aetatem haered' eiusdem existunt sibi reddend', per quod volumus, quod eadem M. quae apud G. in comit' M. nata est, & in Ecclesia eiusdem villae, baptizat fuit ut dicitur, aetatem suam probet coram te. Tibi praecipimus, quod ad certum diem & locum, quos ad hoc provideris, probationem illam per sacrament, tam milit quam probor & legalium hominum de balliva tua, per quos probatio illa capi, & veritas aetatis pnd▪ melius sciri poterit & inquiri, capias, & sc. fa. praef. I. quod tunc sit ibi ad ostendend' si quid pro se habeat vel dicere sciat quare praed' H. & pnd' M. ut illi qui plenae aetatis est, si plene aetatis sit, terras & tenementa praed' reddere non debeamus, & probationem illam sic captam nobis sub sigillo tuo, & sigillis eorum per quos capta fuerit, sine dilatione mittas, & hoc breve. Teste etc. Another form of the writ De Aetate probanda. REx etc. Quia M. de F. filius & haeres 1 defuncti, qui de nobis tenuit in capite, dicit se plenae aetatis esse, & petit a nobis terras & tennta quae sunt de haereditat sua & in custodia nostra, usque ad legitimam aetatem hered' praed' sibi reddi, per quod volumus quod etc. usque ibi melius sciri poterit & inquiri capias, & tunc sic. Et probationem illam etc. ut supra. But if the King commit the Wardship, the Aetate probanda must mention the same. And if the Wardship by reason of the temporalities of a Bishopric be in the Queen's hands, the writ de Aetate probanda must mention the same: And yet that is no Court in capite. Commission pro aetate probanda. Regina dilectis etc. Sciatis quod assignavimus vos ad inquirend' per sacramentum tam Militum quam aliorum proborum & legalium hominum de visinet de N. in come L. si I. filius & h●res B. apud N. natus, & in ecclesia eiusdem villae baptizatus fuit, & quod ratione minoris aetatis suae in custodia nostra existit, plenae aetatis sit, ut dicit, necne. Et ideo vobis mandavimus, quod ad certos diem & locum, quos ad hoc provideritis, inquisitionem illam faciatis, & illam distinct & apart factam nobis in Cancellar' etc. sine dilatione mittatis, & hoc breve. Mandavimus enim Vicec' nostro Lincoln, quod ad diem & locum, quos ei scire faciet venire faciat etc. In cuius rei testimonium etc. And upon this Commission a writ shall be sent to the Sheriff to return a panel before the Commissioners at a certain day before them limited unto him by their Precept. Thus: A Venire facias to the Sheriff upon the same Commission. REgina Vicecomit etc. Praecipimus tibi, quod summon̄ per bonos Sect. 202 summonit xii. tam Milites, quam alios probos & legales homines de visinet de N. quod sint coram dilectis & fidelibus nostris A. B. & C. & hijs quos sibi associaverimus, ad certos diem & locum, quos ijdem A. B. & C. tibi scire facient, parati sacramnto recognoscere, si F. filius & haeres C. apud N. natus, & in ecclesia eiusdem villae baptiz. fuit, qui ratione minoris aetatis suae in custodia nostra existit, plenae aetatis sit, ut dicit necne, & interim ad pnd' ecclesiam & villam accedant, ut veritatem aetatis pnd', diligenter inquirant, & nomina eorum imbreviari faciant. Et sci. fac. E. & S. custodibus terr' praed' her, quam tunc sint ibi ad audiend' illam recogn', & add ostend' si quid obstare debeat, quare praed' I. terras & tenementa sua habere non debeat, & habeas ibi nomina illorum duodecim & hoc breve, Teste etc. Whereby appeareth that the committee of the King shall be warned to be there. But if the King have the Ward in his own hands, than this clause Et scire facias E. & S. custodibus etc. shall be omitted in the writ. Of Homage done or respited. WHen a writ de Aetate probanda is executed and returned, and Sect. 203. that the heir hath proved his age, than he must do homage, or agree with the Queen to respect the same, and pay relief before livery sued: and a writ testifying homage to be done, when the heir is at full age at the death of his ancestors. Regina Eschaetor etc. Sciatis quod cepimus homagium I. de H. filii & hered' B. de H. defuncti, de omnibus terris & tenemntis que idem B. pater suus tenuit de nobis in capite die quo obijt, & ei terras & tennta illa reddidimus: Et ideo tibi praecipimus, quod accepta securitat a praef. I. de rationabili relevio suo nobis soluend', ad Scaccarium nostrum, eid' I. de omnibus terris & tenemntis praed', & de quibus praef. B. pater suus fuit seisitus in dnico suo ut de feodo in balliva tua, die quo obijt, queque occasione mortis eiusd' B. capt' sunt in manum nostram, plenam seisinam habere facias: Saluo iure cuiuslibet, & salva Matildae que fuit uxor B. rationabili dote sua, ipsam de terris & tenementis praed', secundum legem & consuetudinem regni nostri Angliae contingent, ei per nos assignand'. Teste meipsa. etc. But if the heir were in ward, and hath proved his age, the writ of the homage received must be thus. Regina etc. Quia N. de E. fil' & haeres R. de C. defuncti, qui de domino Ed. nuper Rege Angl. avo nostro tenuit in capite, aetatem svam coram te sufficienter probavit, sicut per probationem de mandato nostro captam, & in Cancellar' nostram retornat, est compertum, ceperimus homagium ipsius N. de omnibus terris & tenemntis quae idem R. pater suus tenuit de dicto avo nostro in capite, die quo obijt, & ei terras & tenementa illa reddidimus. Ideo tibi pncipimus, quod eidem N. de omnibus terris & tenementis praedict' de quibus praedict' R. pater suus fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo in balliva tua die quo obijt, & per mortem eiusdem R. in manum dicti avi nostri capta fuer', & in manu nostr' sic capta existunt, plenam seisinam habere facias, saluo iure cuiuslibet. Teste etc. Diem claufit extremum post mortem felonis. WHen the King hath the lands of the Wife, by reason that her Sect. 204. Husband was outlawed for felony, then after the Husband's death the Diem clausit extremum is such. Quia A. cuius terrae & tenemnta, que ipse tenuit de iure & haereditate N. nuper uxoris suae, ad huc superstitit, ad manus domini E. nuper Regis Angl' 4. post conquestum▪ occasione cuiusdam utlagariae in ipsum A. pro quadam felonia, unde indictatus fuit, ut dicit, promulg', deuener̄ in manu domini H. etc. patris nostri extiterunt, & sic in manu nostra existunt, diem clausit extremum etc. Tibi praecipimus quod per sacramemtum etc. inquiras que tennta, ratione feloniae praed', ad manus ipsorum nuper regis deuener̄, & ad huc in manu nostra sic existunt, & de quo vel de quibus teneantur, & per quod seruitium, & qualiter, & quo modo, & quantum terrae & tenemnta illa valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus juxta verum valorem ●orundem, & quis vel quiterras & tenementa illa a tempore perpetrationis feloniae praed' occupavit, vel occupaverunt, & exitus & proficua inde percepit vel perceperunt, quo titulo, qualiter, & quomodo, & inquisit̄ etc. Nihil simul & natum & perfectum. W. WEST. FINIS. The Table to the Second part of SYMBOLEOGRAPHY the new additions having this mark ✿ set before them. Of Fines and Concords. THe Definition. Sect. 1 The parties. 2 What persons may be cognisors & what not. 3 Of Infancy. 4 Defects of the body. 5 Impediments, legal or civil. 6 Of legal Subjection. 7 Of Coverture. 8 Villeins'. 9 Persons dead in Law. 10 Imprisonment. 11 Of persons having joint power. 12 Of the estates of Cognisors. 13 How Co●isors ought to be named 14 What persons may be cognisees, and by what names etc. 15 Before what persons they may be knowledged. 16 Of a Dedimus potestatem de fine levando. 17 I●dges to whom cognisances are to be certified, and before whom they are to be recorded. 18 The division of Fines. 19 Of Fines executed & executory. 20 Of single and double Fines. 21 Of the parts, & of the writ of covenant. 22 Of writs whereupon they are, levied. 23 Whereof they be grounded. 24 Of what things they may be levied. 25 By what names things may pass. 26 Of the names of the place wherein the lands do lie. 27 How several things must be placed in waits of Covenant. 28 Of Adjuncts proper to the writs whereof fines be levied. 29 The several forms of Concords. 30 Writs of Covenant of Common. 31 A Fine of land & a Shepewalke. 32 Of wood and Foldage. 33 Of Wood 34 Of 2 parts in 3. parts divided of 8. acres of land etc. 35 Of a parsonage impropriate. 36 Of a manor of rent, and free foldage for sheep. 37 A writ of Covenant of divers several things. 37 A writ of covenant of Tithes. 38 A writ o● covenant of the Scite of a Monastery. 39 A writ of covenant of divers things. 40 A writ of covenant of Dimes and Tithes. 41 A writ of covenant of a parsonage etc. 42 A Release by fine of one to two. 43 A fine upon cognizance de droit by the husband and wife to two. 44 by Baron, and feme, and an other. 45 Of a parcel in reversion by a copercener. 46. Of a manor to an Archbushop and an other. 47 A concord from 2. to 1. with special warranty. 48 Upon cognizance of right as that etc. with release and warranty by etc. 49 A concord of many things together sur cognizance de droit come ceo etc. 50 A fine of a rent. 51 Of the third part of a rent. 52 A praecipe with an exception of some parcels. 53 A writ of covenant brought by 3. against 3▪ of a manor, etc. 54 A concord with a ●ender for life, the rem to the 1. 2. etc. sons of the cognisor. 55 A fine of homage, rend and services. 56 Of a manor knights fees, & services. 57 An old fine in frā●kalmo●gne before justices in E●re. 58 A fine of lands in the county Palantine of Lancaster. 59 A lease for years reserving a rent by grant. 60 A lease for years rendering rend with a render and a distress. 61 A lease for years saving▪ the reversion. 62 A lease by tenant for life for 21. years if she live so long. 63 A lease for 21. years etc. reserving a rent the cognisees grant back the sam● reversion and rent. 64 A fine of a rem for years reserving rend, etc. 65 A lease in reversion paying a rent. 66 A lease to divers for years, if the parties live so long, reserving a rent, and etc. 67 A lease reserving rend with a nomine penae and a distress. 68 A fine with grant and render for life, without impeachment of waist, and for etc. 69 A render for life with divers remainders over. 70 A lease for life with rem over. 71 A fine of lands bought by the husband which are regraunted by him to the Cognizors for his wife's life. 72 A concord of divers tenements, rents, Rectory, and advowson, with the moiety of a mill. 73 A Fine of a fourth part to two. 74 Of lands, part in possession and part in Reversion, of a third part for etc. 75 Grant and render of a reversion of a moiety. 76 A render to the Cognisor for one week remainder to a stranger for life, remainder to his wife, for life upon condition with divers remainders over. 77 A fine of two reversions. 78 To the cognisee and his wife, in special tail, with warranty in tail. 79 A grant with a tender back again for life, with remainder in tail dividing the lands. 80 A Fine to entail lands to the heirs of one deceased. 81 A grant to the Cognizee ' for life of the tenant for life, with wa●● antie, a render to the Cognisor for his wives life, to convey her title to her husband. 82 A Fine of a moiety of divers things in possession and of a reversion in fee. 83 A grant of lands to two who render to the Conusor in tail, the remainder to the Queen and her Successors. 84 A grant of lands in tail to be holden of the grauntor in Socage. 85 A grant of lands in tail to be holden of the grauntor by suit of Court and v●. s. rent. 86 A Fine sur release of knight's service, ●astle guard, and murage upon a writ of customs and services. 87 Of a manor in possession, and other lands in revereion. 88 Of lands part in possession, and part in reversion, with a render again to the conusor and there heirs. 89 For a reversion of a rent. 90 A concord of a reversion for a rent. 91 Of rend service. 92 The husband and wife sell the wives jointure absolutely to him in reversion. 93 Tenant for life maketh a lease reserving a rent during her life. 24 A Fine of a Reversion. 95 A Fine of a rent granted for life, with a clause of distress for the same. 96 Of several rents granted out of a manor. 97 Of a rent, with a nomine penae. 98 A Fine in fee farm yielding a rent with a distress. 99 A Fine in fee farm rendering rend, suit of court & herriot, after decease, recease, and alienation. 100 A Fine in fee farm rendering a rent, with a nomine penae. 101 By the husband and wife, to the husband and wife with render. 102 A writ of Covenant for the Queen. 103 ✿ A Fine of divers things with warranty against all men. 104 ✿ A Fine with general warranty, with a regraunt and render of the premises by the conusees, to the conusors. 105 ✿ A Fine with general warranty from the conusors of two parts in 3. parts divided of deuers several parcels. 106 ✿ A Fine with general warranty, with grant and render by the conusees to one of the conusors of parcel of the premiss. with divers rem over of other parcels, reserving a rent with a clause of distres●e for non payment. 107 ✿ A fine with warranty, with grant and render of all mines of coals with liberty to dig. 108 ✿ Of the 3. part of several things with general warranty for life, rendering rend with a clause of distress with a grant, & render of the reversion in fee. 109 ✿ Of a mamnor with a regrant of xii. li. out of the same manor, and afterwards of the whole manor in fee. 110 ✿ Of divers things with warranty against the conusor and his wife and the heirs of the husband. 111 ✿ A Fine with two several warranties. 112 ✿ A Fine of divers things with general warranty. 113 ✿ With general warranty in general tail and for default of heir male, to divers others of the name and kindred of the conusor. 114 ✿ A Fine knowledged before the justices of Chester of divers things with warranty. 115 ✿ By an Earl & his wife of divers things. 116 ✿ With grant and render to the wife of one of the conusors for years rendering rend with a clause of distress with a gr●t afterwards of the reversion in fee. 117 ✿ By 2. to 1. with general▪ warranty. 118 ✿ Of divers things with several warr'. 119 ✿ A Fine to 2. of divers things with warr' 120 ✿ By 2. husbands and their wives with several warr'. 121 ✿ By the husband and the wife of divers things with warranty. 122 ✿ Of a rent issuing out of divers manors. 123 ✿ A fine with grant and render for ye●res to begin at a time to come reserving a rent with a grant of the reversion, to etc. 124 ✿ A Fine of divers things with warranty in consideration of a rent, with a clause of distress etc. 125 ✿ Of the 3. part of a rent with warranty. 126 ✿ Of the 3. part of certain land by these words Concesserunt & reddiderunt. 127 ✿ A Fine with general warranty of an estate pur aut vie, after whose death the land is to revert to the conusor. 128 ✿ Of divers things to a Precedent & scholars of a College with warranty 129 ✿ With warranty against the conusors & the heirs of the husband. 130 ✿ Of divers things with general warranty. 131 ✿ Of the 3. part of divers things with general warranty. 132 ✿ By the husband and the wi●e of divers things with general warranty. 133 ✿ The order of taking the knowledge of a Fine by Dedimus potestatem. fol. 37. b ✿ A Fine with general warranty with a grant and render to one of the conusors for 7. days, with a remainder for life to a stranger, the reversion after to the said conusor in fee. 134 ✿ By the husband and the wife of divers things with general warranty. 135 ✿ A Fine before the justices of the Common pleas at Westminster with general warranty. 136 ✿ A Fine with warranty against the conusor and his heirs. 137 ✿ The engrossement of the Fine before, as it is upon Record. 138 ✿ A Fine with general warranty with a grant and render for certain terms and after to remain ro the conusor in fee. 139 ✿ A Fine with general warranty, with a grant of the conusee for life, the reversion to the conusor in fee. 140 ✿ Of a Rent with general warranty. 141 ✿ A Fine with general warranty, in consideration of an Annuity, imposing a pain for the non payment thereof. 142 ✿ A Fine of land to hold by Knight's service, and rend, with general warranty. 143 ✿ A Fine of a manor, reciting &c. with warranty against the Conusors' during &c. 144 ✿ A Fine with warranty, in consideration whereof the conusee regraunts the premises for a certain term after the end whereof the premises are to remain to the Conusee in fee. 145 ✿ The taking of the knowledge of the fine. fol. 41. a ✿ Notes to be observed in fines. fol. 41. a ✿ A fine of divers things with render to the conusors for life and with divers remainders over after the● death in general tail, & for default of issue, ●o the etc. 146 Adiunctes of Concords. 147 A licence of alienation of lands holden in capite. 148 A licence to alien in Mortmain. 149 A Quod permittat finem levari. 150 The writ of Ad quod damnum. 151 Of a Pardon for alienation. 152 Of the Dedimus potestatem to take recognisance of a fine. 153 The Dedimus● potestatem thereof. fol. 44. a The Praecipe and Concord which m●st be filled to the Dedimus potestatem. fol. 44. b Of the Queen's silver. 154 Observations necessary at the knowledging of fines. 155 How, and when, cognisaunces of fines must be certified, and what may hinder the same. 156 Of thenrolment of writs of covenant, Dedimus potestatem, and knowledges thereupon, which is termed the foot of the fine. 157 Of the Note of the fine. 158 Quid juris clamat. 159 What persons may obtain attournement by Quid juris clamat, and what not. 160 What persons be compelable to atturne in a Quid juris clamat and what not. 161 What pleas will bar the plaintiff of atturnment. 162 What process will lie in a Quid juris clamat. 163 The manner of the writ in a Quid juris clamat. 164 The distress in a Quid juris clamat. fol. 49. b. divers forms of Entries if the parties appear after the day of the return. fol. 49. b Attorney in Quid juris clamat. 165 The writ of Quem redditum reddit. 166 The writ of Per quaeserui●ia. 167 Upon whose alienation the tenant is not compel●ble to atturne. 168 Against whom a Per quaeseruitia lieth & whom not. 169 Of the engrossing of fines. 170 Of the tabling of fines engrossed. 171 How many Proclamations are to be made upon fines, and when. 172 Of Proclamations of fines at the assizes, and general Sessions, how they must be certified. 173 Of the Enrolment of all the parts of fines after the engrossing thereof & proclamations passed. 174 Of the Exemplification of the parts of fines enrolled. 175 How Fines executory be executed. 176 The manner of execution of fines by writ. 177 Of exccution of Fines by Scire facias. 178 Certain cases of the nature and form of a Scire facias upon a fine. 179 What fines with proclamations bar the issue in tail. 180 What time after a fine levied and Proclamation made, any man hath to enter or claim by action, or otherwise, and who are thereby barred, and who not. 181 How privies in blood, are bound in fines. 182 Of strangers having present right and no impediment. 183 Of strangers having present right and impediments. 184 Of strangers having divers defects. 185 Of strangers without impediments, have future right for cause precedent. 186 Of strangers with impediment having future right. 187 Of strangers having no right before the Fine. 188 Of Estrangers having divers future rights, by diverse titles. 189 Estrangers to fines, having neither present nor future right to the tenements in the fine, at the levying thereof, but only unto rents, common etc. issuing out of the same. 190 Pleas to avoid Fines. 191 Of a writ of Error. 192 Of a Certiorari. 193 A Mittimus of the transcript of a fine out of the Chancery, into the Common place. 194 A Mittimus. 195 A Mittimus for the foot of a fine, fol. 72. b Whether any but he which reverseth a fine, may take benefit thereby. 196 A writ of Warrantia chartae. 197 Recoveries. OF Recoveries for assurances, commonly called Common or feigned Recoveries. Sect. 1 Of what things write of Entre may be brought, and by what names. 2 Of what things a writ of Entre lieth not. 3 A Certiorari to the Executor of the justice, before whom the warrants were acknowledged. 4 A recovery with single voucher. 5 A recovery with double voucher. 6 A recovery with triple voucher. 7 A recovery of an Aduowson. 8 All the parts of a recovery in a writ of Right de Praecipe in capite exemplified. 9 Remissio Curiae in brevi de Recto. 10 The Exemplification of a recovery enrolled according to the Statute of 23. Eliz. cap. 3. 11 pardon alien super te●● per breve de ingressu recuperat 12 Exemplification of a recovery with double voucher, out of the Prothonataries office. 13 An other of the like effect. 14 A Dedimus potestatem to take knowledge of a warrant of Attorney of the vouchee. 15 The manner of the return. fol. 83. a A Dedimus potestatem de attornat rec. in brevi de ingressu super disseisinam in ●e post pro tenant. 16 The manner of the Return. fol. 83. a Aliud breve de Dedimus potestatem recup. attornat ten' super breve de ingressu. 17 ✿ The form of a Recovery with single voucher. fol. 83. b ✿ A common recovery had by diverse against one of divers manors etc. within the county Palantine of Chester, before the judges of the Shires or Counties. 18 ✿ A common recovery by divers, before the justice of Chester & judges of the same County of a manor etc. Tempore H. 8. 19 ✿ The like common recovery in the said county of Chester to the next before, and of the same manor and lands, in the time of the said king. 20 Indictments and offences. THe Definition. Sect. 1 What an Offence is. 2 What endeavour is. 3 Of offences private and public. 4 The Sympathy between the common wealth and her members. 5 Of offences public & private. 6 Offences blind. 7 Offences named and unnamed. 8 Offences unnamed. 9 Offences named. 10 Offences simple. 11 Offences mixed. 12 Offences by word. 13 Council. 14 Offence by contumelious words. 15 Slander. 16 Slander against God. 17 Blasphemy. 18 Magic. 19 soothsaying Wizards. 20 Divination▪ 21 juggling. 22 Enchanting and charming. 23 Witchery. 24 Heresy. 25 Anabaptisme. 26 Apostasy. 27 Perjury. 28 Slander against man by word. 29 by writing. 30 by Libel. 31 by picture. 32 Offences by deeds. 33 Destruction. 34 Facts permanent. 35 Slaughter. 36 Homicide what it is. 37 voluntary. 38 malicious. 39 commanded. 40 for justice. 41 necessary. 42 Se defendendo. 43 forbidden. 44 malicious. 45 of a man's self. 46 casual. 48 by chance. 49 mixed. 50 Murder. 47 Slaughter of beasts. 51 Of burning. 52 Offences transitory. 53 Adultery and fornication. 54 Sodomy or Buggery. 55 Burglary. 56 Houserobbing. 57 Theft. 58 Theft from the person. 59 Robbery what it is? 60 Theft without fear. 61 Hurting and violence. 62 hurts to the body of the common wealth as treason's. 63 Offences hindering the commodity of the common wealth. 64 Offences against subjects. 65 Offences springing from words and deeds. 66 Other men's offences, and how far they bind us. 67 Offences unnamed. 68 Of Indictments as remedies for the former diseases. 69 Of the form of Indictments. 70 An Indictment for keeping an Alehouse or tippling house. 71 For silk in a cap. 72 For using an art against the Statute. 73 For rebellious assemblies supper 1. Mar. cap. 12. 74 Against a Barrettor. 75 The like, aliter. 76 For battery at an assize. 77 The like, aliter. 78 The like, aliter. 79 For buggery cum masculo. 80 For burglary and theft. 81 The like, aliter. 82 The like, aliter. 83 For burglary in a dwellinghouse. 84 For burglary by night in a house. 85 For burning a house by day. 86 For burglary & burning a house. 87 For burning a barn with corn. 88 For Champerty in an assize of novel disseisin. 89 For champerty in an assize of freshforce. 90 For fight in Churchyards. 91 For absence from Church. 92 For fight in the Churchyard. 93 For fight in Churches, or Churchyards. 94 For absenting from the Church. 95 For taking Coneys in a Warren. 96 For conspiracy in suits. 97 For conspiracy by deuers bakers. 98 For taking unreasonable distresses. 99 For taking a distress in the highway. 100 Against Egyptians. 101 Against Egyptians. 102 For pulling out of eyes. 103 For cutting out of tongues. 104 For a voluntary escape for theft. 105 For voluntary escape for murder. 106 For escape negligent. 107 Against a Coroner for extortion. 108 The like, aliter. 109 Against an Eschetors' servant for extortion. 110 For extortion in a Register. 112 Against an Escheator, inquiren sine etc. 113 For a forcible Entry sur Anno 5. Rich. 2. 114 The like, aliter. 115 For forcible Entry & discontinuance, sur 8. H. 6. 116 For forcible Entry and holding out. super 8. H. 6. 117 For forging letters patents and the great Seal. 118 For forging of an Indenture. 119 For forestall the market. 120 For unlawful games, super 33. Henr. 8. 121 For gilting. 122 For horses sold into Scotland. 123 For beating of horses. 124 For not taking of felons after hue and cry made. 125 For hunting by night. 126 For hunting in a Park. 127 For hunting in a forest. 128 For hunting of Coneys and keeping of Greyhounds. 129 For imbracerie of jurors. 130 The like aliter. 131 For common enclosed. 132 For engrossing of corn growing. 133 For engrossing of grain. 134 For not keeping a light horse. 135 For battery and mayhem. 136 For maintenance. 137 For manslaughter by chauncemedley. 138 The like aliter. 139 For saying and hearing of Mass. 140 The like aliter. 141 For counterfeiting of money. 142 For counterfeiting and uttering of money. 143 For coining of money. 144 The like aliter. 145 For a murder with a weapon. 146 For murder by two with weapon. 147 For a murder with a cudgel, and flying. 148 For murder and procurement. 149 For murder and diverse wounds. 150 For manslaughter by chauncemedley. 151 For murder of a bastard child. 152 For murder by a servant. 153 For petty treason by a servant. 154 An Inquisition in murder by weapon. 155 For a Nuisance of a bridge. 156 The like aliter. 157 The like aliter. 158 For Nuisance of a way. 159 For perjury in a deposition before Commissioners. 160 For perjury in deposit in Cancellar'. 161 For taking of Pheasants and Partridges. 162 For wilful poisoning. 163 For poisoning. 164 For murder by poisoning. 165 For petty treason by the wife. 166 For breaking of prison. 167 For pulling of sheep. 168 For purse stealing. 169 For purse picking. 170 For unlawful purveyance of cattle. 171 For rape of a woman. 172 For rape of a child. 173 For rape of a maid. 174 For rape of a maid within age. 175 For a Recuse. 176 Of high Treason for rebellious insurrection. 177 The like aliter. 178 For regrating of corn. 179 For regrating of fish and butter. 18● For a recusse of one in the stocks. 181 For giving of a livery. 182 For receiving and using of a Livery. 183 Against retainers. 185 For a Riot at the Sessions. 186 The like aliter. 187 For a riot upon a keeper. 187 For a Riot in pulling down of Hedges. 188 For a Riot about th'execution of a Repleg. 189 For a Ri●t in cutting and carrying away of corn. 190 For Robbery in the high way. 191 The like aliter. 192 The like aliter. 193 The like aliter. 194 Against a vagabond and his releiver. 195 For breaking of a safe conduct. 196 For Sacrilege or Burglary in a Church. 197 The like aliter. 198 For slander against the Queen. 199 For a Schoolmaster not licenced. 200 For slander against the Queen. 201 For slandering of Noblemen. 202 For shooting in a Gun. 203 For keeping of a blind Tavern. 204 For stealing of horses. 205 Against a servant stealing his Master's goods. 206 For stealing of a Cow. 207 For theft by a servant from his Master. 208 For converting tillage into pasture. 209 For converting arable land from tillage. 210 For treason for extolling the authority of the Pope against her majesties supremacy. 211 For treason for absolving from obedience. 212 For treason of jesuitisme. 213 For a trespass in corn, grass, or ploughing. 214 For eating corn with sheep. 215 For trespass in fish ponds. 216 For usury in loan of money. 217 For usury to the like effect. 218 For not amending highways. 219 For not keeping watch. 220 For watch at the Sea coast. 221 For killing a man by witchcraft. 222 The like aliter. 223 For bewitching a horse. 224 For taking away of a widow. 225 ✿ For Burglary by night. 226 ✿ For stealing a Hog. 227 ✿ For a wilful escape. 228 ✿ For stealing sheep. 229 ✿ For breaking of a house, and committing of murder. 230 ✿ For Manslaughter. 231 ✿ For using more arts than one. 232 ✿ For regrating of corn. 233 ✿ For robbery by the high way. 234 ✿ For Burglary in a dwelling house. 235 ✿ For murder ex propensa malitia. 236 ✿ For Sacrilege. 237 ✿ For keeping a blind Tavern without a sign and lodging etc. 238 ✿ For selling Ale in vessels called Kilderkins. 239 ✿ Against a priest for keeping a Concubine. 240 ✿ For not coming to Church. 241 ✿ For Perjury. 242 ✿ For fishing in a Mill pond. 243 ✿ For murder. 244 ✿ The like aliter. 245 ✿ For Burglary by a woman. 246 ✿ For a trespass in a corn field. 247 ✿ For Mansloughter. 248 ✿ For a wilful escape. 249 ✿ The like aliter. 250 ✿ For forcible entry, not reciting the statute. 251 ✿ For using a trade having not served his prenticehood. 252 ✿ For a riot. 253 ✿ For saying of Mass. 254 ✿ An Indictment for moving to rebellion. 255 ✿ Against an escheator for extortion. 256 ✿ For slandering the Queen. 257 ✿ Against a common Barrettor. 258 ✿ For clipping, filing, and uttering of silver. 259 ✿ For enclosure. 260 ✿ For wilful murder. 261 ✿ The like aliter. 262 ✿ For a Riot. 263 ✿ For counterfeiting the Q. letters patents to beg. 264 ✿ For stealing of horses. 265 ✿ For robbery by the high way. 266 ✿ For cutting a purse. 267 ✿ For taking away of a woman servant. 268 ✿ For breaking into a house and burning it. 269 ✿ For procuring servants to departed from their masters. 270 ✿ For keeping hounds and hunting. 271 ✿ For robbing a Church. 272 ✿ For an escape upon suspicion of felony. 273 ✿ For stealing of coneys. 274 ✿ Against a Gaoler for suffering an escape. 275 ✿ For stopping and turning of a watercourse. 276 ✿ For forcible entry. 277 ✿ For murdering of a young child. 278 ✿ For hunting in a Park. 279 ✿ For Burglary by night. 280 ✿ The like aliter. 281 ✿ For stealing grain out of a barn. 282 ✿ For stealing grain out of a Milne. 283 ✿ For stealing of linen. 284 ✿ For stealing of a guilt cup. 285 ✿ For receiving of a fellow knowing etc. 286 ✿ For stealing of horses. 287 ✿ For robbery by the high way. 288 ✿ The like aliter. 289 ✿ The like aliter. 290 ✿ For stealing of sheep. 291 ✿ For Burglary in the day. 292 ✿ For murder. 293 ✿ For counterfeiting of testers. 294 ✿ For coining of money. 295 ✿ For burning a dwelling house & divers other things. 296 ✿ For breaking of prison. 297 ✿ The like aliter. 298 ✿ Against keeping of greyhounds, hounds etc. 299 ✿ For stealing of Oxen. 300 ✿ For wilful murder. 301 ✿ For Manslaughter. 302 ✿ For trespass in a close. 303 ✿ For way laying. 304 ✿ For a trespass in a close. 305 ✿ For a Riot. 306 ✿ For assaulting one, and taking away 4. kine, which &c. 307 ✿ For a Rescous. 308 ✿ For Manslaughter. 309 ✿ For concealing of slanderous words against the Queen. 310 ✿ An Inquisition upon the view of a dead body, who died of an ague. 311 ✿ An inquisition of one killed by a keeper. 312 ✿ For confederacy against the Qu. 313 ✿ For maintenance. 314 ✿ For forcible entry. 315 ✿ For shooting in a gun. 316 ✿ The title of the general Sessions. fol. 150. a ✿ The traverse of an Indictment of forcible Entry. fol. 150. b ✿ For making gold in an other Country and uttering of it here. 317 ✿ For a trespass in a close. 318 ✿ An Inquisition upon one that killed himself. 319 ✿ An Inquisition of one slain by misfortune. 320 ✿ An Indictment for way laying. 321 ✿ An Inquisition of wilful murder. 322 ✿ An Indictment for manslaughter. 323 ✿ For keeping a bawdy house. 324 ✿ For keeping of ill rule. 325 ✿ For keeping a bawdy house. 326 ✿ For slandering a jury. 327 ✿ Against a woman as a common Barrettor. 328 ✿ For Rape by a minister. 329 ✿ Against forestallers of the market. 330 ✿ Against a Gaoler for enlarging a prisoner without warrant. 331 ✿ For theft by a woman. 332 ✿ The like aliter. 333 ✿ For theft. 334 ✿ Against an heretic for using of words. 335 ✿ For Burglary. 336 ✿ For a mayhem. 337 ✿ An Indictment upon the Statute of 5. R. 2. 338 ✿ An information wherein the party desireth the good abearing of one. 339 ✿ For a trespass in a close. 340 ✿ The like aliter. 341 ✿ The like aliter. 342 ✿ The like aliter. 343 ✿ For taking a Cade of Sprats by extortion. 344 ✿ For repairing of high ways. 345 ✿ For stopping of a common Sewer. 346 ✿ For not repairing of a Bridge. 347 ✿ For enclosing the highway. 348 ✿ For killing one in his own defence. 349 ✿ An Inquisition upon one slain by one se defendendo. 350 ✿ For a Riotous recuse of cattle. 351 ✿ For Maintenance. 352 ✿ For hard usage of a prisoner to compel him to accuse an other. 353 ✿ For procuring one to commit a Burglary. 354 ✿ For Murder. 355 ✿ For keeping a common tippling house and being a common Barrettor. 356 ✿ An Inquisition upon one that was drowned. 357 ✿ An Indictment of murder taken before the Coroner. 358 ✿ An Inquisition upon one that hanged himself. 359 ✿ An Inquisition upon one that was murdered by an unknown person. 360 ✿ For robbing by the bigh way. 361 ✿ An Inquisition upon a woman that killed herself. 362 ✿ An Indictment for cozening of clothiers. 363 ✿ The Indictment of William Hacketh for treason and conspiracy. 364 ✿ another to the like effect of the same party. 365 ✿ For recusancy. 366 ✿ A plea to the Indictment before. fol. 161. b ✿ The Venire facias for the returning of a jury. fol. 162. a ✿ An indictment of burglary. 167 ✿ An order inframing of Indictments. fol. 162. b Of Compromises and Arbitrements. DEfined. Sect. 1. Divided. 2 General. 3 Special. 4 Parts of judgements. 5 Persons in judgements. 6 Persons striving. 7 Persons striving. 8 What persons may compromit and what not. 9 Impediments to compromit. 10 Impediments in mind natural. 11 Impediments in mind casual. 12 Impediments in body. 13 Dumbnes and deafness natural and casual. 14 Impediments legal, subjection and joint power. 15 Coverture. 16 Death civil. 17 Compromise. 18 Attainder and Outlawric. 19 joint power. 20 Arbitrators defined. 21 The choice of arbitrators. 22 Sufficiency of arbitrators considered. 23 A fools Arbitrement. 24 A simple magistrates arbitrement. 25 Defects of the body in Arbitrators. 26 Arbitrators indifferent who? 27 The question. 28 The question double. 29 The question of the fact. 30 The question of right. 31 What is to be considered in each question. 32 What things are arbitrable and what not. 33 Circumstances regarded in submission. 34 Of the power given to arbitrators. 35 Of time and place. 36 A compromise with covenants to perform the same. 37 Of binding the parties to perform an award. 38 The condition of an obligation to perform an award. 39 Of the condition to perform an award of lands. 40 Whether power to arbitrate may be assigned. 41 Whether the Compromittors, may discharged the Arbitrators or no. 42 What an arbitrement is. 43 Things to be regarded in Arbitrements. 44 An Arbitrement of Lands by which the party covenaunteth to perform it. 45 An arbitrement of debt, whereby the parties are bound to perform it. 46 An award of debt by an Earl upon submission by bond. 47 Of notice of the arbitrement. 48 The final cause of arbitrements. 49 ✿ An Award of copyhold land. 50 ✿ An Award reciting certain bonds for the performance of an Award, and that the Award was made. 51 Of the Chancery, Proceed and Supplications, Bills and Answers. OF the Chancery. Sect. 1. Of strict or precise law. 2 Of Equity. 3 The division of Equity. 4 The efficient cause of Equity. 5 The material cause of Equity. 6 The formal cause of Equity. 7 The final cause of Equity. 8 Why Equity is sometime compared to a ruler. 9 How Equity and Clemency doth differ. 10 Of the difference betwixt equity, and strict law. 11 How the Chancery is termed the court of conscience. 12 Conscience defined. 13 Of judgements in Chancery. 14 Of the power ordinary of the Chancery. 15 Of the power absolute of the Chancery. 16 Of a Subpena. 17 Casesremediable in Chancery. 18 Certain cases where the party is remedilesle in Chancery. 19 Of the ordinary proceed in the high Court of Chancery. 20 A Subpena for costs. 21 An Attachment. 22 An attachment with Proclamation. 23 ✿ An attachment in the Cinque ports. 24 ✿ An attachment in the County Palantine of Lancaster. 25 ✿ An attachment against one dwelling within the County Palantine of Chester. 26 A Commission of rebellion. 27 ✿ A Supersedeas of the commission of rebellion. 28 ✿ A Supersedeas to the Chancellor of the county Palantine of Lancaster. 29 ✿ The like to the Chamberlain of Chester. 30 ✿ A Supersedeas of an attachment. 31 Of an Injunction. 32 Of appearance. 33 Of a Dedimus potestatem to receive an answer. 34 Of a Supersedias. 35 ✿ A Commission upon a false Affidavit. 36 Of an imperfect Answer. 37 Rejoining and joining in commission ad examinand' testes. 38 A Commission ad examinand' testes. 39 A Note by the Commissioners to give etc. 40 Of citing witnesses. 41 A Subpena ad testificand '. 42 The Style of Interrogatories. 43 The Style of the Depositions thereupon taken. 44 Of Publication, Hearing, and Breviates. 45 ✿ A Commission to the Sheriff to keep the plaintiff in possession. 46 ✿ A Commission to certify depositions taken by Commission. 47 A Commission to examine witnesses in perpetual memory. 48 Subpena ad testificandum super petition. 49 Aliter, ad testificand' add Assisas super articulos. 50 Subpena ad ostend' causam quare euidenc' non deliberent. 51 Subpena ad testificand' add Assisas in London. 52 Subpena ad testificand' coram Vicecom London. 53 Subpena pro Euidentijs adferendis. 54 Aliter pro Obligatione deliberand'. 55 Subpena de Atturnat faciend'. 56 Commission ad ●ecipiendum, & ad examinand' testes etc. 57 Commissio ad audiendum & terminand' etc. 58 Commissio ad examinandum testes ad locum etc. 59 Commissio ad superuidendum & distinguendum vastum. 60 A Commission to the L. Deputy of Ireland, and the Lord Chancellor for the hearing and determining of a Title of land. 61 What a Bill of complaint is. 62 The direction of bills. 63 What an answer is. 64 What a Replication is. 65 What a rejoinder is. 66 What a Surrejoinder is. 67 A Bill of complaint for entering and making secret estates of the land, wasting part thereof, & mingling part with other lands, to disherit the plaintiff by having the writings thereof. 68 The answer to the bill. 69 The replication to the answer. 70 A bill to stay suit at the Common law upon an obligation. 71 A bill for the withholding of a writing, and taking the profits of the land and false charging of the plaintiff with the esloyning of a Cow. 72 The answer thereunto. 73 A bill to be relieved for obligations made for Simony. 74 A bill for Boarding. 75 A demurrer for double vexation. 76 A bill for not surrendering a lease in trust, for wasting tenths demised and withholding of writings. 77 A bill by an administrator upon a promise made to the intestate of certain marriage money, to be paid by the defendant. 78 A bill for entering into, and detaining lands, by colóur of having the evidences thereof and for contriving secret estates. 79 A bill for certain money that should have been paid in consideration of a lease agreed to be made of land. 80 An answer and demurrer to the same bill. 81 The Replication to the said answer and demurrer. 82 A bill for money lent without specialty and witnesses. 83 The answer thereunto. 84 A Bill for detaining of bonds paid, and praying an Injunction to st●y suit thereupon. 85 A Bill to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam. 86 A Bill for delivery of sheep by an executor converted to his own use. 87 The answer thereunto. 88 The replication to the answer. 89 A Bill for a debt upon a contract without witnesses. 90 The answer, and demurrer thereunto. 91 A Bill to be discharged of bonds made upon promise, not to be prejudiced thereby laying open divers jewde practices by the defendant. 92 A Bill for receiving of the plaintiffs goods of his wife, and the detaining of them. 93 The answer thereunto. 94 The Replication to the answer. 95 A Bill for that the defendants have gotten the plaintiffs bill, whereby they stood bound unto him, meaning thereby to defraud him of his debt. 96 A Bill for wrongful entry into lands, detaining of the writings, wasting the same, and contriving secret estates. 97 A Bill for detaining of a lease for years. 98 A Bill by an Executor for money for boarding. 99 A Bill for not entering into bond to save a surety harmless according to promise. 100 A Bill for making false Affidavit for appearance. 101 A Bill to be relieved of an obligation where the money was paid. 102 A Bill for not procuring an acquittance of rents paid according to promise. 103 A Bill for not paying of money nor saving the surety harmless. 104 A Bill for entitling one's self to certain ground, and selling the woods thereupon. 105 A Bill against executors for not delivering of specialties paid. 106 A Bill against executors upon a private promise made by their testator, alleging that they have wasted their testators goods. 107 A Bill for divers evidences. 108 A Bill for not making assurance of lands, according to a covenant, alleging that the defendants have gotten the Indenture thereof, and that some of them were within age at the making thereof. 109 A Bill against an heir for entering into lands dcuised to the plaintiff, praying a Commission to examine witnesses, in perpetuam rei memoriam. 110 A Bill for refusing to receive the plaintiffs rend according to an order, and taking the forfeiture of a bond for the payment thereof. 111 A bill for money for cattle sold upon trust. 112 A Rejoinder. 113 A Bill for giving one's word with a servant and promising to answer all damages done to his master by him. 114 The answer thereunto. 115 The replication to the same answer. 116 A Bill for entering and detaining copyhold lands by reason of the detaining of the writings thereof. 117 A Bill by gardens for Evidences. 118 The answer thereunto. 119 A Bill to be discharged of a recognizance, with an answer, Replication and Rejoinder thereunto. 120 A Bill for the wrongful detaining of a deed of demise, which came unto him by entermarriage. 121 A Bill against an infant for boarding and apparel, & not ꝑforming of a lease. 122 A Bill of debt upon a contract against the surviving partner and thadministrator of tother. 123 A Bill upon a promise to forbear debt due, and yet suing the bond. 124 The answer thereunto. 125 The replication to the answer. 126 The rejoinder to the replication. 127 A Bill for detaining lands with Evidences. 128 The answer to the Bill. 129 The replication to the answer. 130 A Bill for debt levied by extent. 131 The answer to the Bill. 132 A Bill to cause one to show his Lease whereby he holdeth &c. 133 The answer to the Bill. 134 A Bill for a title of land entailed. 135 The answer to the Bill. 136 A Supplication in the Chancery upon deceit by a partner. 137 A Bill for the recovery of evidences made by duresse. 138 A Bill of a title of copyhold land praying an Injunction. 139 A Bill for debt without specialty. 140 The answer to the Bill. 141 A Bill upon certain griefs praying a Certiorari. 142 A Bill where a jury hath passed in a matter wrongful praying a Certiorari. 143 ✿ A Bill against an administrator, for suing of a bond, promised by the Testator not to be put in suit till the death of the plaintiffs father. 144 ✿ A Bill for wrongful entry into lands entailed, by reason of having the writing thereof, and making divers secret estates. 145 ✿ A Bill for delivery of heir looms or principals to the heir according to the custom. 146 ✿ A Bill for the delivery of an obligation promised by the obligee, to be delivered upon the acknowledgement of a Statute, which the plaintiff did being within age. 147 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 148 ✿ A Bill for not being suffered to enter into lands delivered in extent, desiring the view of the Evidences thereof, the plaintiff forbearing before to take the profits, upon referement of the matter to two whose order the defendant withstood. 149 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 150 ✿ A Bill for detaining of Evidences, entering into the land and making secret estates. 151 ✿ The answer of one of the defendants to the Bill. 152 ✿ The replication to the answer. 153 ✿ A Bill for a Commission upon the Statute of 13 E. c 7. As touching bankrupts. 154 ✿ The Commission upon the said Statute of 13. E. 155 ✿ The precept to the officers to make Proclamation. 156 ✿ The Proclamation. 157 ✿ An Indenture upon the said Commission between the Commissioners and the creditors. 158 ✿ The manner of entituling the Schedule. 159 ✿ A Bill by a prisoner to compel the defendant to proceed to agreement, according to an order made by the Lord Chancellor that is dead. 160 ✿ A Bill to compel the executors to pay legacies the devisees being remediless at the spiritual Law. 161 ✿ A Bill praying an Injunction for stay of a suit in the Exchequer upon an untrue surmise. 162 ✿ The answer of one of the defendants to the Bill. 163 ✿ The answer of the rest of the defendants to the Bill. 164 ✿ The Replication to the former answer. 165 ✿ Thereplication to the latter answer. 166 ✿ The rejoinder to the former replic'. 167 ✿ The rejoinder to the latter replic'. 168 ✿ A Bill to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam. 169 ✿ A Bill for detaining of evidences, entering into lands, and making secret estates. 170 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 171 ✿ A Bill for wrongful entry into a house and lands, detaining of evidences and making of secret estates. 172 ✿ A Bill, for the detaining of a lease for years, praying an invention for stay of unjust suits begun. 173 ✿ A Bill praying a Subpena with a duces tecum, for the wrongful entry into an I●ne and detaining the Evidences thereof. 174 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 175 ✿ A bill for the detaining of Evidences, which otherwise might cause the disinherison of the plaintiff of the rents and services of the premises. 176 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 177 ✿ The replication to the answer. 178 ✿ A Bill for delivery of Evidences, by virtue whereof the defendant hath entered & wrongfully keepeth the premises. 179 ✿ The answer to the Bill. 180 ✿ The Replication to the answer. 181 ✿ A supplication to the privy Council by a Scot rob at Sea, desiring a commission to examine witnesses to prove the piracy. 182 ✿ A supplication by maimed Soldiers for the Counsels licence to beg, till Alms rooms which the Queen gave in reversion become void. 183 ✿ A supplication by a Merchant stranger called before in question upon supposal of cozenage, desiring his liberty may not be impeached till the matter be fully examined. 184 ✿ A supplication by an Innkeeper imprisoned upon supposell of counterfeiting letters from the council praying to detect others, & praying also to writ letters to the Commissioners for debt in the fleet in his behalf. 185 ✿ A supplication praying a warrant from the Council for the defendants, refusing an order set down by the Council. 186 ✿ A supplication praying the Counsels letters to the L. Precedent & Counsel of Wales for the baylement of the plaintiffs being imprisonned upon a pretended murder by them. 187 ✿ A Supplication to have the Counsels letters to two, to have the hearing of a controversy of an account. 188 ✿ A supplication by prisoners in the for misdemeanours sentemced in the star chamber, to be enlarged. 189 ✿ The like aliter, only craving the benefit of the general pardon, & dischargement of one of his fines. 190 ✿ The like aliter, only praying further that his prison charges might be satisfied by one A. B. by whose means he was drawn into the action. 191 The manner of proceeding upon a special Certiorari. 192 A Corpus cum causa to remove the prisoner. 193 Of a writ of diem clausit extremum. 194 Datur nobis intelligi. 195 The same writ aliter. fol. 302. a Of a Mandamus. 196 A Note where a diem clausit extremum, shallbe had, and where not. 197 Of Commissions after the death of the Queen's tenant. 198 Quae plura. 199 Melius inquirendum. 200 A writ de aetate probanda. 201 The same writ aliter. fol. 303. b A Commission pro aetate probanda. fol. 303. b A Venire facias to the Sheriff upon the same Commission. 202 Of Homage done respited. 203 A diem clausit extremum post mortem feloni●. 204 FINIS.