Oswestrie VVhetington Masbrâ—ke Knoking Ellesmer Down and Cherbury Hundred Here also Oswestrie VVhetington Masbroke and Knoking shall be known by the name of the Hundred of Oswestrie and the Inhabitants thereof shall be attendant at Sessions Assizes and Goal-delivery as the Inhabitants of other hundreds within the said County of Salop use to do Also Ellesmer cum membris shall be united to the Hundred of Pimhill in Com. Salop and the Inhabitants thereof shall be attendant as aforesaid Likewise the Lordship of Down cum membris shall be united to the Hundred of Cherbury in Com. Salop and the Inhabitants thereof shall give their attendance as aforesaid Howbeit neither the said Hundreds of Cherbury or Oswestrie nor the Lordship of Ellesmer shall be hereby otherwise priviledged than as Hundreds annexed to the County of Salop as other Hundreds be within the said County XXXII In like manner the Lordships Towns Hundreds c. annexed to the County of Hereford are Ewyas Lacy Ewyas Harold Clifford Winsorton Yerdesley Huntington Whitney Wigmore Logharneis and Stepluton whereof Wigmore and Loghaâ—neis with their members shall be called the Hundred of Wigmore and Ewyas Lacy cum membris the Hundred of Ewyas Lacy but Ewyas Harold shall be united to the Hundred of Webtree in Com. Hereford and Clifford Winforton Yerdlesley Whitney and Huntington shall be called the Hundred of Huntington Here also the Inhabitants shall be attendant at Sessions Assizes and Goal-delivery holden for the County of Hereford but these Lordships c. shall claim no priviledge but as Hundreds or members of Hundreds of the same County XXXIII Likewise the Lordships Towns and Parishes of Wollaston Tidman and Becheby and all Honours Lordships Castles Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying between Chepstow-Bridge and Glocestershire shall be annexed to the County of Glocester as parâ— thereof and shall be parcel of the Hundred of Wesebury in that County Also the Inhabitants thereof shall be attendant as aforesaid and shall claim no priviledge but as Hundreders of the Hundred of Wesebery aforesaid XXXIV Gowerwilney Bishops town Landaffe Signithe supra Signithe subtus Miskin Ogmore Glencothney Tallagarn Ruchien Tallavan Lambelthion Lantwid Tyerial Avan Neth Landway and the Clays shall be Guildable and united to the County of Glâ—morgan and justice shall be administred in Glamorganshire so united according to the Laws of England as in the three Counties of North-Wales and not according to the Welsh Laws XXXV Lanemthevery Abermeles Redwely Elkenning Cornwolthon Newcastle Emlin and Abergoyly shall be Guildable and annexed to the County of Caermarthen where also Justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXXVI Haverfoâ—d west Kilgaraâ— Lansteffan Langherne alias Tellanghern Walwinscastle Dewis-land Lanny haddein Lanfrey Herberth Slebeche Rosmarket Castellan and Lland of Loure shall be Guildable and annexed to the County of Pembroke wherein Justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXXVII Tregarn Generglin Landwy and Urency shall be Guildable and united to the County of Cardigan and there also justice shall be administred as aforesaid XXXVIII Mountway shall be Guildable and annexed to the County of Merioneth in North-Vales as a commote or part thereof XXXIX All Justices Commissioners Sheriffs Coroners Escheators Stewards and their Lievetenants and all other Officers and Ministers of Law shall proclaim and keep Sessions Courts Hundreds Leets County-Courts and all other Courts in the English tongue and all oaths of Officers Juries and Enquests and all Affidavits Verdicts and Wagers of Law shall be given and done in the same tongue XL. None that use the Welsh language shall have or injoy any office or fees in any of the Kings Dominions but shall forfeit them unless he use the English XLI The Sheriffs of Monmouth Breknoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh shall put every unruly person under common Mainprize as the Sheriffs of the three Counties of North-VVales use to do XLII The Sheriff of Monmouth shall certifie such recognizances common mainprize and surety of apparence at every quarter-Sessions of that County and the persons so bailed shall appear at the two Sessions holden at Easter and Michaelmas until they be released XLIII The Sheriffs of Breknoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh shall certifie such recognizances c. before such Justice as the King shall appoint at every Sessions to be holden in the said Counties XLIV All persons under bail for appearance in the Counties of Breknoke Radnor Mountgomery Denbigh Glamorgan Caermarthen Pembroke and Cardigan either by the Sheriffs or Justices of those Counties shall appear before the said Justices at every Sessions as is used in the three Counties of North-VVales XLV The lay and temporal Lords Marchers shall have the moity of every such recognizance forfeited within their respective Precincts to be paid them by the Sheriff if he can levy them who is also to answer the other moity to the King in the Exchequer upon his account XLVI The Lord Chancellor shall forthwith after this Parliament direct a Commission under the great seal for the division of the Counties of Caermarthen Pembroke Cardigan Monmouth Brekenoke Radnor Mountgomery Glamorgan and Denbigh into convenient Hundreds to be returned into the Chancery and there to remain of Record which shall be of like force as an Act of Parliament XLVII Commissions also shall issue forth to inquire after the Welsh Laws and Customs and such of them as shall be thought fit by the King and Council to be continued shall stand and be in full force notwithstanding this Act. XLVIII Two Knights for the County and one Burgess for the Burrough of Monmouth shall be chosen to serve in Parliament XLIX Also one Knight shall be chosen for each County of Breknoke Radnor Mountgomery and Denbigh and for every other County in VVales and for every Burrough being a Shire-town except the Shire-town of Merioneth one Burgess L. The said Knights and Burgesses shall be elected and enjoy like priviledges and fees as Knights and Burgesses of England And the Knights fees shall be levied of the Commons of each County and those of the Burgesses as well of the Shire-towns whereof they be Burgesses as of all other ancient Burroughs within the said respective Counties LI. All Lords Marchers shall enjoy all such liberties mises and profits as they had or used to have at the first Entry into their lands in times past notwithstanding this Act. LII The Laws and Customs of the three Counties of Northwales and of the County Palatine of Lancaster are saved LIII This Act shall not extend to derogate any other Act heretofore made for the trial of treason murther or felony or accessaries thereunto committed in any Lordship Marcher in VVales or in any Court of England next adjacent thereunto LIV. Lands by the Custom partable amongst males shall so continue notwithstanding this Act. LV. The King hath power within three years to suspend or repeal this Act As also within 5 years to erect as many Courts of Record or others and to appoint as many Justices and other Officers in VVales as
forfeit the cloth so made IV. Such an Alien shall here in England sell his wares in gross and not by retail in pain to forfeit the value of the wares otherwise sold and being an Handicraftsman and inhabiting a great house or chamber shall not take any Apprentice or servant to work with him unless it be his son or daughter or else a Subject born in pain to forfeit for every Apprentice or servant otherwise taken 20 li. V. The forfeitures of this Act are to be divided between the King and the prosecutor VI. Stat. 14 H. 8.2 No Stranger Artificer Denizon or not Denizon shall take any Apprentice but such as is born under the King's obeisance in pain to forfeit 10 l. for every Apprentice otherwise taken to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor No Alien shall keep above two Journey-men except they be born under the King's obeisance upon the like pain to be divided as aforesaid VII All Strangers Denizons or not Denizons dwelling within two miles of London shall be under the reformation of the Wardens of Handicrafts within that City and of one substantial Stranger being an housholder of the same Craft to be chosen by the same Wardens VIII The said Wardens and that one Stranger shall assign a proper mark for Strangers wares without taking any thing for the same IX The said Wardens and Stranger shall have power to search view and reform the wares of Aliens made within the said precinct X. Smiths Joyners and Coopers being Aliens shall put such marks to their wares before they sell or use them as the said Wardens shall appoint without taking any thing therefore in pain to forfeit the double value thereof to be divided between the King and the prosecutor XI If upon such search the Wardens and Stranger shall finde any wares to be deceitfully made they shall be forfeit viz. the one half to the King and the other half to the finder and shall be recovered by action of Detinue XII Wardens and Masters of Fellowships of Handicrafts in other Corporations and Bailiffs and other head-Officers in Towns lacking Wardens have like power to reform strangers and strangers are bound to yield obedience unto them upon the like pains as aforesaid XIII Here if a stranger be wronged upon complaint to the Chancellor and Treasurer of England or to the Justices of Assise he shall have redress XIV This Act shall not extend to strangers dwelling in Oxford Cambridge or St. Martins le grand London XV. If the Wardens with a stranger or the Officers of Corporations or other Towns refuse to mark a stranger's wares being required so to doe in such case it shall be lawful for such stranger to sell his wares this Act notwithstanding XVI This Act shall onely extend to Joyners Pouch-makers Coopers and Black-smiths and to no other Crafts XVII Any of the King's Subjects having lands worth 100 l. per annum may retain any stranger that is a Joyner or Glasier to work for him this Act notwithstanding XVIII Stat. 21 H. 16. A Decree made in the Star-Chamber the 20 of February 20 H. 8. concerning Artificers strangers was confirmed The substance of which Decree hereafter followeth XIX A stranger Artificer shall not keep in his house at one time above two strangers servants howbeit a subject Artificer may retain as many strangers as he pleaseth to be his servants or Apprentices XX. Strangers Artificers may take as many English-men to be their servants or Apprentices as they can get XXI Strangers Artificers shall be contributary with English Artificers and in case they refuse they shall not onely lose the benefit of this Decree but likewise be prohibited to exercise their Craft in pain of incurring the forfeiture of the abovesaid Statute XXII Strangers Artificers shall upon lawful warning go with the Wardens and other Governours of the same Company to make search which if they refuse and that proved before the Chancellor of England or Mayor of London or in other places before the chief Officers they shall no longer exercise their profession in England in pain of the forfeitures aforesaid XXIII Strangers Artificers shall upon lawful notice make oath to be true to the King and obedient to his Laws and to make due search with others and not to discover to any beforehand the intention of search and being sworn shall pay for their Commission as the Subjects of England do XXIV No strangers but Denizons shall keep house or shop in pain of incurring the penalties of the aforesaid Statutes XXV Strangers shall not assemble but in the Common Halls of their Mysteries upon the penalties aforesaid XXVI This Decree and Act for so much as concerns Cordwainers shall extend as well to such as work old stuff as those that work new XXVII This Decree and Act shall not extend to strangers Denizons or not Denizons dwelling in Oxford Cambridge or St. Martins le grand London XXVIII Stat. 22 H. 8.8 Aliens born made Denizons shall pay all such customes and other duties as they did before they were made Denizons XXIX A Table of Customes Tolls and Duties shall be set up in every City Borough and Town in pain that every City not doing the same shall forfeit 5 l. and every Town Corporate 40 s. for every moneth the same shall fail to be set up at Penteâ—ost next to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XXX This Act shall not prejudice the Merchants of the Stilyard London XXXI Provided that the Tables of Scavage to be set up in London shall be approved by the Chancellor and Treasurer of England the President of the King's Council the Lord Privie-Seal the Lord Steward of the King's house and the two chief Justices or four of them and shall be by them subscribed XXXII Stat. 22 H. 8.13 No stranger being a common Baker Brewer Surgeon or Scrivener shall be accounted a Handicrafts-man within the penal Statutes made against strangers Artificers XXXIII Stat. 32 H. 8.16 All strangers made Denizons shall be obedient to the Statutes of 1 R. 3.9 14 H. 8.2 and 21 H. 8.16 And in all Letters Patents of Denization hereafter to be made a Proviso for that purpose shall be inserted save onely when the King shall please to grant special Liberties and then those Liberties shall be plainly exprest both in Bills signed by his Majesty and also in the Letters Patents XXXIV No Alien Artificer Denizon or not Denizon in Oxford Cambridge or St. Martins le Grand London shall keep above two strangers servants at one time in pain to incur the penalty of 14 H. 8.2 XXXV Every Alien not Denizon within the King's Dominions shall be bound to observe the Laws of this Kingdom XXXVI No Subject or Stranger using no handicraft shall retain above four servants strangers in pain to forfeit for every servant kept above that number 10 l. XXXVII The abovesaid forfeitures shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XXXVIII This Act shall not be prejudicial to a
Ceremonies or Rites of the Church by mis-using the Orders appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer the Queen by like advice of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan may ordain such further Ceremonies or Rites as may be most for Gods glory the edifying of the Church and reverence of Christs holy Ministeries and Sacraments XXX All other Laws made for other service shall be void XXXI Stat. 5 El. 28. An Act for translating of the Bible and Book of Common-Prayer into the Welsh Tongue Also there shall be an English Bible and Book of Common Prayer in every Church of Wales XXXII Stat. 3 Jac. 1. All Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usual place for Common Prayer within the Kings Dominions shall alwayes upon the fifth day of November say morning Prayer and give thanks to God for the happy deliverance of the King Queen Prince and both Houses of Parliament upon that day XXXIII Every person within the Kings Dominions shall alwayes upon that day diligently resort to his Parish Church or Chappel or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Common Prayer Preaching and other service of God shall be used and there orderly abide during the said solemnity XXXIV Every Minister shall give warning publickly in the Church at morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth of November for the due observation of the said day and after morning Prayer or Preaching upon the said fifth day of November shall read publickly and distinctly this present Act. See more Title Religion Severn I. Stat. 34. 35 H. 8.9 A penalty for casting any Ballast or Robul in King-rode in any part of the Haven in Bristol II. None shall load any Corn in any Vessel by the water of Severn to be transported beyond Sea before he be bound to the Customer of Bristol to bring it first to Bristol to be there viewed by the Mayor there for the time being in pain to forfeit both the grain and Vessel III. The penalty where one bringeth more Corn to Bristol to be measured and thence to be transported then is contained in his Cocket or License which is to be delivered unto him by the said Mayor when he takes bond of him as aforesaid IV. The penalty for denying to measure the Corn at Bristol is five pounds for every time to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor See the Statute at large ☞ Sewers I. Stat. 6 H. 6.5 During ten years several Commissions of Sewers shall be made to divers persons by the Chancellor of England to be sent into all parts of the Realm where need shall be according to the form in the said Statute expressed for which see the Statute at large being here omitted because a latter Commission was afterwards ordained by the Statute of 23 H. 8.5 which see after in the proper place II. Stat. 8 H. 6.3 Commissioners of Sewers shall have power to do ordain and execute all such Statutes Ordinances and other things as shall be made according to the effect and purport of the Commission of Sewers ordained by the Statute of 6 H. 6.5 III. Stat. 18 H. 6.10 Commission of Sewers shall be awarded where need shall require during ten years IV. Stat. 23 H. 6.9 The Chancellor of England may grant Commissions of Sewers during fifteen years V. Stat. 12 E. 4.6 The Chancellor of England may grant Commissions of Sewers for 15 years where need shall require VI. Stat. 4 H. 7.1 Commissions of Sewers shall be granted during 25 years VII Stat. 6 H. 8.10 Commissions of Sewers shall be granted during ten years according to the Statute of 6 H. 6.5 and 4 H. 7.1 VIII Stat. 23 H. 8.5 Commissions of Sewers shall be directed into all parts of the Realm from time to time where and when need shall require according to the manner form and tenor hereafter following to such substantial and indifferent persons as shall be named by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer of England and the two Chief Justices or any three of them whereof the Lord Chancellor is to be one IX Henry the eighth c. Know ye that forasmuch as the walls ditches banks gutters Sewers Gates Calcies Bridges streams and other defences by the Coasts of the Sea and Marsh-ground being and lying within the limits of A. B. and C. in the County or Counties of 〈…〉 or in the borders or confines of the same by rage of the Sea flowing and re-flowing and by means of the trenches of fresh water descending and having course by divers wayes to the Sea be so dirupt lacerate and broken And also the common passages of Ships Ballengers and Boats in the rivers streams and other floods within the limits of A. B. and C. in the County or Counties of 〈…〉 or in the borders or confines of the same by mean of setting up erecting and making streams mills bridges ponds fishgarths mill-dams locks habbing-wears hecks flood-gates or other lets impediments or annoyances be letted or interrupted so that great and inestimable damago for default of reparation of the said Walls Ditches Banks Fences Sewers Gates Gutters Calcies Bridges and streams and also by mean of setting up and erecting making and enlarging of the said fish-garths mill-dams locks hebbing-wears hecks flood-gates and other annoyances in times past hath happened and yet is to be feared that far greater hurt loss and damage is like to ensue unless that speedy remedy be provided in that behalf X. We therefore for that by reason of our Dignity and Prerogative Royal we be bound to provide for the safety and preservation of our Realm of England willing that speedy remedy be had in the premisses have assigned you and six of you of the which we will that A. B. and C. shall be three to be our Justices to survey the said Walls Streams Ditches Banks Gutters Sewers Gates Calcies Bridges Trenches Mills Mill-dams Flood-gates Ponds Locks Hebbing-wears and other impediments lets and annoyances aforesaid and the same cause to be made corrected repaired amended put down or reformed as cause shall require after your wisdomes and discretions And therein as well to ordain and do after the tenor form and effect of all and singular the Statutes and Ordinances made before the first day of March in the three and twentieth year of Our Reign touching the premisses or any of them as also to enquire by the oaths of the honest and lawful men of the said Shire or Shires place or places where such defaults or annoyances be as well within Liberties as without by whom the truth may the rather be known through whose default the said hurts and damages have happened and who hath or holdeth any lands or tenements or common of Pasture or profit of fishing or hath or may have any hurt loss or disadvantage by any manner of means in the said places as well near to the said dangers lets and impediments as inhabiting or dwelling thereabouts by the said walls ditches banks gutters gates sewers trenches and
and mixt attaints conspiracies Assizes Quare Impedits appeals of murder and felony and all actions grounded upon any Statute shall be sued by Original Writs sealed with the Original Seal and returnable before the Justices at their Sessions but all personal actions as debt detinue trespass account and the like amounting to the sum of 40 s. or above shall be sued by such Writs original or by bills at the election of the Plaintiff as is used in North Wales LXXX All personal actions under the sum of 40 shillings may be sued by original Bill as is also used in North Wales sealed by the judicial seal remaining in the custody of the Justice LXXXI The Fee for sealing every original Writ upon the causes aforesaid and for every Bill in Actions personal when the debt and damages amount to 40 s. or above is six pence and for every judicial process sued upon any such original Writ or bill seven pence whereof the King shall have six pence and the Justice one penny And for every bill in personal actions when the debt and damages amount not to forty shillings and for every judicial process to be sued upon the same 3 d. whereof the King is to have 2 d. and the Justice 1 d. LXXXII All Writs of Scire facias and writs of Good Abearing or for the Peace or writs of Supersedeas upon the same and all other process sued before the Justices upon any Record or Suggestion shall be sealed with the Judicial Seal for which the Plaintiff shall pay seven pence whereof the King is to have six pence and the Justice 1 d. LXXXIII Every exemplification upon any Record shall be Sealed by the Judicial Seal for which the Plaintiff shall pay 20 pence whereof the King is to have 16 pence and the Justice four pence LXXXIV Recoveries and Fines Concords and Warrants of Attorney for the same may be taken before the said Justices of lands tenements and hereditaments within their authority by force of his general Commission without any dedimus as is used before the Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas LXXXV All fines levied before any of the Justices with Proclamation made the same Sessions it shall be engrossed and in two other great Sessions then next following shall be of the same force as Fines levyed with Proclamations before the Justices of the Common-Pleas LXXXVI Every person suing Writs of Entry in the Post or Writs of Covenant or any other Writs for any recovery to be had by assent or otherwise or for any fine to be levied shall pay fines to the Kings use for the same as well fines pro licentia concordandi as all other fines as is used in Chancery or elswhere in the Kings Courts of England which fines shall be paid to such persons as shall Seal the Original Writs for that purpose who shall accompt for the same as they do for the profits of the said Original Seal LXXXVII Also the Kings silver upon every such fine shall be paid as is used in the Common-Pleas of England viz. 2 s. and shall be received by the Justice before whom such fine is levied whereof the King shall have 16 d. the Prothonotary for entring it 2 d. and the Justice the rest who shall accompt for the Kings profit as he doth for the profits of the Judicial Seal LXXXVIII The four said Justices shall have each of them a Prothonotary to attend upon them for the entring of all Pleas Process and matters of Record in Sessions to be holden before the said Justices LXXXIX There shall be a Marshal and a Crier in every of the said Circuits to be named by the said Justices as Justices of Assize in England use to do which Officers shall attend upon the said Justices in their Circuits in proper person and not by Deputy XC The Marshall shall have upon every judgment and every fine 4 d. and the Cryer 1 d. and the like fees shall be paid upon the acquittal of felons and of such as be delivered by Proclamation or out of common mainprise XCI Here also are set down the fees that the Prothonotaries shall take for Writs Entries Judgments c. for which see the Statute at large XCII The King shall have all fines issues amerciaments and recognizances forfeited which the Prothonotaries shall yearly estreat into the Exchequer appointed for that limit that process may be awarded to the Sheriff to levy them for the Kings use which Sheriffs shall yearly accompt before the Kings Auditors to be thereunto assigned XCIII Besides the President Council and Justices aforesaid there shall be Justices of Peace and Quorum and also one Custos Râ—tulorum in every of the said 12 Counties who shall be appointed by the Chancellor of England by Commission under the Great Seal with the advice of the President Council and Justices aforesaid or three of them whereof the President to be one XCIV There shall not be more then 8 Justices of Peace in any of the said 12 Shires besides the President Council and Justices aforesaid and the Kings Attorney and Sollicitor all which persons shall be also put in every such Commission XCV These Justices of Peace shall be of good name and fame and may exercise their Office albeit they have not 20 l. per annum or be not learned in the Law but before they shall execute their Commission they shall take such Oath as Justices of Peace in England use to take before the Chancellor of England or else before the President or one of the same Justices of Wales by dedimus or before some other to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor for the purpose XCVI The said Justices of Peace or two of them at least 1. Qu. shall keep their Sessions four times in the year and at other times also upon urgent cases as Justices of Peace in England use to do for which they shall also have such allowances for themselves and their Clerks as the Justices in England have XCVII Here the fee for a Warrant of the peace or good abearing is 6 d. for entring of pledges to pay the King a fine upon an indictment 9 d. and if it be with protestation 12 d. for a supersedeas 8 d. and for a recognizance 12 d. XCVIII These Justices of Peace shall certify Recognizances taken before any of them for the Peace and good abearing into the next Sessions but Recognizances taken before them for suspition of Felony shall be certified before the Justices at the next great Sessions without concealing them upon such penalties as be therefore ordained XCIX All Fines and Amerciaments lost before the Justices of Peace shall be asserted by two of them at least 1. Qu. and shall be duly set without partiality C. All such fines and amerciaments as also all issues lost forfeited recognizances and other forfeitures before the said Justices of Peace shall be yearly estreated by the Clerks of the Peace into the Exchequer appointed for that limit to the end that processes may
be thereupon awarded for the levying of them for the Kings use to the Sheriff of every County who shall account before such Auditors as shall be thereto assigned which Auditors shall make due allowance unto the Sheriffs upon their accompts for the fees of the Justices and Clerks of the Peace as is used in England CI. The President Council and Justices of Wales or three of them at least whereof the President to be one shall yearly nominate three able persons in every of the said twelve Shires to be Sheriffs thereof and shall certify their names to the Lords of the Privy Council Crast Animarum to the end the King may appoint one of them in every of the said Shires to be Sheriff for that year like as is used in England And thereupon the said Sheriff shall have their Pattents under the Great Seal of England and shall make oath and acknowledg recognizances before the President and Justices or one of them by a Dedimus for the due execution of their Offices and for their just accompt before the Kings Auditors assigned for Wales CII The said Sheriffs have power to use their Offices as Sheriffs of England do shall be observant to all lawful commands and Precepts of the President Council Justices of Wales Justices of Peace Escheators and Coroners and every of them in all things appertaining to their Offices shall yearly accompt to the Auditor or Auditors assigned by the King for VVales and shall each of them have yearly for his fee 5 l. CIII All Officers and other persons in VVales shall be obedient attendant and assisting to the President Council and Justices of Wales and shall obey the Kings commands and process from any of them directed and all lawfull and reasonable precepts of them and every of them and also shall be obedient to all Justices of Peace Sheriffs and Escheators within their several limits in all things appertaining to their duties and offices CIV Also Escheators shall be named in every of the said Counties by the Treasurer of England with the advice of the President Council or three of them whereof the President to be one which Escheators shall make oaths and acknowledg Recognizances before the President or one of the Justices by a Dedimus for the due execution of their Offices and for their true account before the Kings Auditor or Auditors to be assigned for that purpose which oath and recognizance shall be agreeable to those used for Escheators in England CV Such Escheators shall yearly have their Pattents under the Great Seal and shall exercise their Offices as Escheators in England and shall be bound to all Laws and Statutes of England But they need not have above 5 l. per annum free-hold and shall accompt yearly before such Auditor or Auditors as the King shall assign for Wales CVI. There shall be also two Coroners elected for each of the said 12 Shires by the Writ De Coronatore Eligendo awarded out of the Chancery of England which Coroners shall exercise their Offices and have like fees as in England Only the Writ de Cor. elig for the County of Flint shall be directed out of the Exchequer of Chester ☞ CVII The Justices of Peace or two of them 1. Qu. shall appoint in every hundred within their limits two substantial Gentlemen or Yeomen to be chief Constables of the Hundred where they dwell who shall preserve the Peace and use their Offices and be bound in all things as High-Constables in England CVIII The Sheriff shall have a Goal in a place of the Castle of the Shire-town or such other convenient place as by the President Council and Justices or three of them whereof the President to be one shall be appointed any Patent or Grant notwithstanding The Sheriff also shall make Bailâ—ffs of the Hundred who shall attend upon the Justices at their Courts and Sessions CIX Sheriffs shall keep their Counties Monthly and their Hundred-Courts for pleas under 40 s. and shall take for entring of plaints process pleas and judgments there as is used in England and not above Also all tryals in such Courts or before Stewards in Court Barons shall be by Wager of Law or verdict of six men at the election of the party Plaintiff or Defendant that pleads the plea. CX Sheriffs shall hold their Turns yearly after Easter and Michaelmas as is used in England CXI The King shall have all Fines Issues Amerciaments and Forfeitures lost in the said Courts and Turnes to his own use and the Sheriff shall account for the same accordingly having been first affered by the Justices of Assize of that Circuit before they be levied And the Sheriff shall not levy them before they be so affered in pain to forfeit to the King 40 s. Also the Sheriff upon every Judgment in his County or Hundred Court may award a Capias ad satisfaciendum or a Fieri facias at the election of the Plaintiff CXII Certain fees which the Sheriff is to have for the return and execution of divers writs For which see the Statute at large CXIII Every Sheriff within this limit may put suspitious persons under common main-prise according to the Statute of 37 H. 8.26 which see before binding them with two sufficient Sureties by recognizance to appear before the Justices at the next great Sessions and shall then also certify the names of the parties so bound without concealment CXIV The Sheriffs fee for taking such common main-prise is 2 d. but he shall take no fee for the return of any writ of execution unless he return the same executed CXV The fees of Sheriffs Escheators and Coroners and their Ministers Prothonotaries and their Clerks and other Ministers of Justice in Wales shall be rated augmented and diminished by the President Council and Justices or three of them whereof the President to be one from time to time at their discretions CXVI None for murder or felony shall be put to his fine but suffer according to the Laws of England except it please the King to pardon him And if the Justices see cause of pity or other consideration they may reprieve the prisoner till they have advertised the King of the matter CXVII The Statute of the 26 H. 8.6 which see before is confirmed notwithstanding this Act and from henceforth shall be put in execution CXVIII Abertannad heretofore reputed parcel of the County of Merioneth shall now be annexed to Salop and be reputed parcel of the Hundred of Oswestry CXIX If any forreign plea or voucher be pleaded or made before any of the Justices of Wales tryable in any other County in Wales in this case the said Justice shall send the Kings Writ with a transcript of the Record unto the Justice of the County where the matter is tryable commanding him to proceed to the tryal thereof according to Law which tryal being had he shall remand it with the whole record unto the Justice that sent it who thereupon shall proceed to Judgment as
34 35 H. 8.17 2 3 E. 6.20 7 E. 6.4 1 Eliz. 4. Page 232 ad 236 Testaments Probats thereof how to be obtained and the fees thereof 31 E. 3.4 21 H. 8.15 Page 441 442 Transportation what goods and of what kinds may be imported or exported and by whom 32 H. 8.14 1 El. 13. 5 Eliz. 5. 13 El. 11. 39 El. 10. 1 Jac. 24. 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. Page 525 ad 533 Tail Estate tail what and how setled West 2.1 13 E. 1. 32 H. 8.36 Page 545 Taxes No new Taxes shall be taken 25 E. 1. de Tallagio non concedendo cap. 1. Temp. E. 1. 1 E. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 6. 9 H. 4.7 1 R. 3.2 17 H 7.8 16 17 Car. 2. c. 1. Page 546 547 Tenure Feoffee shall hold feoffors Land by the same services as before Quia emptores terrarum 18 E. 1. Page 547 Where tenure is from the King in chief what shall be done upon alienation or otherwise 1 Ed. 3. Stat. 2.12 13. Page 547 548 Where Lands fall to the King for Treason what shall be the tenure afterwards 7 Ed. 4.5 The King may reserve what tenure he pleaseth 35 H. 8.14 what shall be Soccage or Burgage tenure 37 H. 8.20 1 E. 6.4 Page 548 549 Tiles Tile-earth when it shall be cast up Tiles their several sorts names and bignesses 17 E. 4.4 Page 549 550 Tindale Ridesdale c. offenders there being outlawed shall be taken and their Lands seized 2 H. 5.5 9 H. 5.7 11 H. 7.9 Page 550 Tythes who shall pay them of what to whom how they shall be recovered and the penalty for non payment 5 H. 4.11 27 H. 8.20 28 H. 8.11 32 H. 7. 37 H. 8.12 2 3 E. 6.13 Page 251 ad 255 Tobacco None to be planted in England and the punishment of such as plant it 12 Car. cap. 34. Page 555 Toll The punishment of taking excessive Toll West 1.30 3 E. 1. 18 E. 2. Page 555 556 Towns several Statutes for repairing divers Towns 27 H. 8.1 32 H. 8.18 33 H. 8.36 35 H. 8.4 Page 556 557 Trade Tillage encouraged 15 Car. 2. c. 5. Stat. 3. Page 557 ad 560 Trespasse what shall be a trespass and where it may be sued Glocester cap. 8. 6 E. 1. what may be pleaded to avoid a Trespass 21 Jac. 16. Pars inde p. 565 566 567 Triall where an Inquest shall be taken though the witnesses appear not 9 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. p. 4. An Inquest de Medietate linguae where 8 H. 6.29 Page 567 Felons Murders and Robberies where to be tryed and nothing to be pleaded in barr 4 H. 8.2 27 H. 8.4 33 H. 8.12 23. 2 3 E. 6.24 Page 567 ad 570 V. UTlary and Exigent where a person outlawed shall not be pardoned unless c. 5 E. 3.12 13. against whom Exigents shall be awarded et contra 18 E. 3. Stat. 1. Stat. 2 5. Page 216 217 Proclamation must be before Utlary had and where 6 H. 8.4 1 E. 6.10 5 6 E. 6.26 31 El. 3. Page 217 218 Use and Uses land or goods given to Pious and Charitable Uses how to be inquired of if mis-imployed 39 Eliz. 6. 43 El. 4. Page 287 288 Usurpations upon the King or Purprestures shall be re-seised Stat. de Bigamis 4 E. 1. Page 449 Vacations who shall have the Patronage of Abbeys or Bishopricks during their vacation Mag. Carta 33. Stat. pro Clero 4. 14 E. 3. pro Clero 5. Page 570 Vagabonds Rogues c. Houses of Correction to be built for their punishment who take the care thereof 39 El. 4. who shall be judged a Vagabond 39 El. 17. and how they shall be punished 1 Jac. 7. 7 Jac. 4. pag. 571 ad 576 Victuallers Inholders c. who may sell Wine or Victuals at what prices by what licence 12 E. 3.26 23 E. 3.6 31 E. 3.10 6 R. 2.10 7 R. 2.11 13 R. 2.8 23 H. 6.13 12 E. 4.8 3 H. 8.8 25 H. 8.2 2 3 E. 6.15 1 2 P. M. 5. 21 Jac. 21 Page 576 ad 580 View where a view of Land shall be granted where not West 2.48 Stat. de visu terrae et Essoyn de Servitio Domini Regis 12 E. 2. Page 580 No Victualler shall exercise any Judicial Office 6 R. 2. Stat. 1.9 Page 577 Villenage where the Lord may seize his Villain when exception of cognizance of villenage shall not make the Writ abate Stat. of Purveyors cap. 18. 25 E. 3. 38 E. 3.17 9 R. 2.2 Page 580 581 Union who may unite or consolidate Churches 37 H. 8.21 Several Churches united 1 E. 6.9 1 M. Parl. 1.14 Page 581 Universities the two Universities of Oxford and Cambridg are free from purveyance of all sorts and the punishment of such as incroach upon them 2 3 P. M. 15. 13 El. 21. Page 582 583 Voucher who shall be allowed to vouch to Warranty and where such vouching is good Marlb 29. 52 H. 3. West 1.39 Glocester 12. 6 E. 1. West 1.6 Stat. of Vouchers 20 E. 1. 14 E. 3.18 Page 583 584 585 Upholsters what is an Upholster what goods he shall sell and of what stuff and the punishment for faultiness therein 11 H. 7.19 5 6 E. 6.23 Page 585 Uses where Deeds made to uses are good and where not and several cases therein 1 R. 3.1 1 H. 7.1 3 H. 7.4 19 H. 7.15 27 H. 8.10 Page 585 ad 588 Usury what shall be accounted usury and the punishments laid upon Usurers 37 H. 8.9 13 Eliz. 8. 21 Jac. 17. Page 588 589 W. VVOrsted the makers thereof how many Apprentices they may keep 12 H. 7.1 p. 22 Witchcraft what and how punishable 1 Jac. 12. Page 84 Wooll the Custome thereof 14 E. 3.21 20 H. 6.4 11 H. 7.6 None may sell woollen cloth but in Fairs not dwelling in a Corporation 1 2 P. M. 7. Page 132 133 134 556 Waste no Waste shall be made pendente lite Glocest 13. 6 E. 1. Page 203 Weare none shall erect a Weare c. or destroy the fry of fish 3 Jac. 12. Page 241 624 625 626 Wight Isle who shall hold Farms there 4 H. 7.16 Page 292 Water-men their company erected their orders who may be one and who not and what boats they shall use 2 3 P. M. 16. 1 Jac. 16. Page 414 415 Watch and Wards what Watches shall be kept in great Towns and otherwhere Stat. Winchester cap. 4.6 5 H. 4.3 Page 489 623 Wayes High-wayes leading to Markets their breadth Stat. Winchester cap. 5. Page 489 Wager of Law what it is who shall be put to it and how Magna Charta 28. 38 E. 3.5 5 H. 4.8 Page 589 Wales united to England Statuta Walliae 12 E. 1. So all Lords of the Marches of Wales 28 E. 3.2 Thieves there how to be punished 9 H. 4.4 the punishment of a Welshman that takes an Englishman prisoner 2 H. 5. Stat. 2 5. 27 H. 8.26 18 El. 8. 27 El 9. Page 590 ad 612 Who shail appear at Courts there and
how the Jurors shall be dealt with 26 H. 8.4 6. all persons shall pass quietly through Wales 27 H. 8.7 the division of Wales into Counties c. 27 H. 8.26 34 35 H. 8.26 Page 590 ad 610 Justices of the Circuits in Wales by whom to be appointed 18 Eliz. 8. the proceedings there 27 El. 9. Page 610 611 612 Walsingham made Copyhold 35 H. 8.13 Page 612 Wapping-Marsh Partition thereof 35 H. 8.9 Page 612 Wards who shall be a Ward where the King shall have a Wardship and where not Magna Charta 3.6.27 Ward may not marry without licence Merton 6.7 20 H. 3. Page 613 Severall customs of Wardship Merton 7. Marlb 7.17 West 1.21 22. West 2.35 Stat. of Wards and reliefs 28 E. 1. Praerog Reg. 1.2.6 14 E. 3. Stat. 1.13 39 H. 6.2 4 H. 7.17 32 H. 8.46 33 H. 8.22 18 El. 13. Page 613 ad 619 Wares several wares that being ready wrought may not be imported 5 Eliz. 7. Page 619 Warranty who bound thereto Stat. of Bigamy 6. 4 E. 1. Glocester 3. 6 E. 1. ibid. Warr those who follow the King in his Warrs are to be paid by him and who are bound to follow him 1 Ed. 3.7 18 Edw. 3.7 25 Edw. 3. Stat. 5.8 4 H. 4.13 11 H. 7.18 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 3 4 5 9 13. Page 620 621 Waste what shall be accounted Waste and how amends shall be made for the same Magna Charta 4 5. Marlb 23. Glocester 5 6. West 2.14 22. Statute of Waste Artic. super Cart. 11 H. 65. p. 621 622 Wax who may be a Wax-Chandler and how he must sell his ware without deceitful mixture and after search 11 H. 6.12 23 Eliz. 8. Page 623 624 Weights and Measures must be one through England Magna Charta 25. Assisa Panis Cervitiae 41 H. 3. a Table thereof 25 Edw. 3.9 10. Stat. Stap. 27. 13 R. 2.9 15 R. 2.4 16 R. 2.3 1 Hen. 5.10 8 Hen. 6.5 7 Hen. 7.4 11 Hen. 7.4 pag. 628 638 White ashes not to be Exported 2 3 E. 6.26 pag. 638 Whitegate in Cheshire made a Parish Church 33 H. 8.32 Page 639 Wilde-fowl may not be destroyed 25 H. 8.11 ibid. Wills who may make a Will and what may be devised therein Merton 2. 32 H. 8.1 34 35 H. 8.5 Page 639 ad 644 Wines All Wines must be sold by the assize and at a reasonable rate Glocest 15. 4 E. 3.12 Page 644 None may forestall Wines c. 27 E. 3. Stat. 1. cap. 3 6 7. 38 E. 3.11 Page 645 Who shall set the prices of Wines 28 H. 8.14 37 H. 8.23 Page 645 646 Who may sell Wines and by what Licence 7 Ed. 6.5 and how many must be licenced in England 12 Car. 2. cap. 15. Page 645 646 647 Witness how a witness shall be forced to appear and the penalty for non-appearance 12 E. 2.2 5 El. 9. Page 648 649 Wood Woods and Under-woods at what age they shall be felled and what left 35 H. 8.17 Page 649 650 What wood may be converted to fuel for the making of Iron 1 El. 15. 13 El. 25. 23 Eliz. 5. 27 El. 19. 15 Car. 2. cap. 2. Stat. 3. Page 651 ad 654 Wood who may buy sell or transport Wooll 28 Ed. 3. Stat. 2 3. Stat. Stap. cap. 12. 31 E. 3.2 8 9. 36 E. 3.11 45 E. 3.4 13 R. 2.9 8 H. 6.22 14 Hen. 6.5 23 H. 8.17 37 H. 8.15 1 Ed. 6.6 2 3 P. M. 13. 12 Car. 2. cap. 32. Page 654 ad 658 Widow what she shall have after her husbands death Magna Charta 7. Praerog Reg. 4. 17 Ed. 2. pag. 658 Woman the punishment of those that cheat or steal a Woman or Maid and their relief 31 H. 6.9 4 5 P. M. 8. Page 677 678 Worsted-Weavers may choose Wardens and when and what power they have to search the lengths c. of every Piece and how it shall be wrougbt 7 E. 4.1 11 H. 7.11 5 H. 8.4 14 15 H. 8.3 25 H. 8.5 May take Apprentices and how many 12 H. 7.1 pag. 22 678 679 680 Wreck what shall be a Wreck and who shall have it West 14. 3 Edw. 1. Praerog Reg. 11. 17 Edw. 2. Page 680 Writs and abatement of Writs where and when they shall abate West 2.24 49. 6 R. 2. Stat. 1 2. p. 680 681 Y. YArn not to be Exported 8 H. 6.23 Page 681 York Letters Patents to Citizens there to exempt them from Office shall be void 29 H. 6.3 ibid. Coverlets may be made in York and must be sold there only 34 35 H. 8.10 ibid. AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT OF ALL STATUTES In Force and Vse untill the Second of March in the 17th Year of King Charles II. An. Do. 1664. Ability and Non-ability I. Stat. ARticuli Cleri Cap. 13. Anno 9 E. 2. The examination of a person presented to a Benefice belongeth to the Ecclesiastical Judge II. Stat. 25 E. 3. Stat. 2. De natis ultra mare The King's children are inheritable in England wheresoever born III. Subjects children born beyond Sea are also inheritable so that their parents at the time of their birth were within the King's Allegiance and that the mother went beyond sea with her husband's consent IV. If Bastardy be alledged against any born beyond Sea the Certificate shall be made by the Bishop of the place where the land demanded lieth V. Stat. 42 E. 3.10 Children born beyond Sea in the King's Dominions shall be inheritable in England VI. Stat. 31 H. 8.6 Religious pesions professed in Corporations feised by the King shall be enabled to inherit purchase sue and to be sued and also to have and enjoy any matter or thing which shall accrue unto them since their deraignment but shall not sue for any former right descended unto them VII Religious persons being Priests or that have vowed Religion at 21 years of age shall not marry VIII Stat. 33 H. 8.29 Religious persons professed in Corporations translated from one kind to another shall be enabled to inherit purchase sue and be sued c. as well as in those seised by the King IX Stat. 5. 6 E. 6.13 Religious persons shall be adjudged inheritable to their Ancestors onely from the time of their deraignment but not by reason of any former right accrued before such deraignment X. Stat. 16 17 Car. 27. An Act for disabling all persons in holy Orders to exercise any temporal jurisdiction or authority Repealed 13 Car. 2. ca. 2. Accounts I. Stat. Marlebridge Cap. 23. 52 H. 3. Bailiffs of Lords who withdraw themselves from accounting and have not whereof to be distrained shall be attached by the Sheriff and made to account II. Stat. West 2. Cap. 11. 13 E. 1. Servants Bailiffs or other Accountants that are found in arrearages by Auditors assigned by their Masters upon the testimony of the same Auditors shall be committed to the next Gaol and there remain in iron under safe custody at their own costs until they shall have satisfied their Masters III. Here
and Duchie Chambers with the Kings Copihold tenants concerning their Copiholds within three years from the first day of this Parliament are confirmed saving the right of all others ☞ Cordwainers Curriers Tanners and Leather * I. Stat. 27 H. 8.14 None shall pack any Leather to be transported but by a Packer sworn in pain to forfeit the leather or the value thereof And every stranger shall pay for the custome of a Dicker of leather 4 s. 9 d. and a Denizon 4 s. 1 d. II. The Customers and Controllers shall name and appoint a Toller in every Port where none are and shall also give him his oath for the due execution of his Office in the presence of the Customer and Controller or their Deputie or Deputies III. The fee for tolling leather is for every Dicker of a stranger 6 d. whereof the Toller is to have 2 d. and the Communalty there the rest of a Denizon 4 d. to be divided betwixt the Toller and the Communalty and of a Free-man of the Port 2 d. IV. The Customers and Controllers shall also appoint and swear a Packer in every Port respectively who may put up in one pack as many Dickers under seven as the owner of the leather pleaseth and his fee is 4 d. a pack V. If the Packer pack any leather before it be tolled and entred by the Customer or his Deputy or pack more then shall be entred he shall forfeit for every such offence 5 l. and suffer imprisonment at the King's pleasure and if the Toller number any leather in the absence of the Customer Controller or his or their Deputy or Deputies he shall forfeit five marks VI. If any stranger or his Factor convey any leather from one Port to another with an intent to transport it also afterwards from the second Port he shall cause the same to be Tolled entred and packed at the second Port and shall have a certificate thereof from the Customer there in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof VII None having a Tanne-house shall transport any leather without the King's licence in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof VIII These forfeitures shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor IX This Act shall not prohibit a Captain of a Ship of the King 's in time of war nor the owner nor Master of a Ship bound for a voyage to take salt hides with them so they exceed not the number of 18 Also untanned hides of beasts killed in Wales or the Marches may be transported notwithstanding this Act except by one keeping a Tanne-house * X. Stat. 5 E. 6.15 None shall buy or ingross leather to the intent to sell the same again in pain to forfeit the same leather or the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or seisor XI This Statute shall not restrain Girdlers or other Artificers to sell their necks wombs or shreds nor the buying of so much leather as the party which buyes it hath license to transport XII None shall transport any Shoes Boots Buskins Start-ups or Slippers in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or seisor XIII No Girdler or other cutter of leather shall curry it in his own house in pain to forfeit the same to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor * XIV Stat. 1 M. Parl. 2.8 No Artificer using the Mysterie of leather-buying shall buy any leather and sell the same again to be transported in pain to forfeit the same to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XV. No Curriers in London shall use their own stuff in pain to forfeit the leather otherwise curried XVI No Currier shall curry any hides betwixt St. James-tide and the Ladie-day but onely such as have been sufficiently dipped twice in the pan in pain to forfeit the same to be divided as aforesaid XVII A Currier shall dress his leather within the space of five days in Summer and of ten days in Winter in pain to forfeit to the party grieved for every hide otherwise dressed 10 s. * XVIII Stat. 5 El. 22. None shall make any Pelts viz. pull or take away any wool from any Sheep or Lamb-skins or buy any kind of Stag Hind Buck Doe Goat Fawn or Kid or the pelts of any of them unless they make thereof tawed or leather lawfully tanned or parchment or otherwise convert the same into semits pannels or other their own necessary uses in pain to forfeit the value of such skins and 2 s. 6 d. for every skin otherwise used * XIX Stat. 18 El. 6. None shall ship any leather tallow or raw hides except Scotch hides according to the proviso of 5 El. 8. now repealed by 1 Ja. 22. in pain to forfeit the same and the treble value and the owner of the ship knowing the same to forfeit his ship and the furniture thereof and the Master thereof also knowing the same to forfeit all his goods and to suffer one year's imprisonment without bail The forfeitures are to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XX. If the Owner Master or Mariner within 3 moneths after his knowledge thereof or at his return into England shall upon oath discover it bona fide to one of the Barons of the Exchequer either of the Lords Presidents or an head-officer of the Port where he lands and afterwards shall be ready to justifie it he shall be thereupon excused XXI He that transports any Leather Tallow or raw hides otherwise then according to the aforesaid proviso shall pay by the name of Subsidie 10 s. for every hide 3 s. 1 d. for every dozen of Calfs-skins and 6 s. 8 d. for every 100 weight of Tallow XXII The Customers c. shall be accountable to the Queen for the said subsidie and shall pay the same unto her upon the pain contained in 3 H. 6.3 * XXIII Stat. 1 Jac. 22. None shall gash any Hide in pain of 20 d. nor water them except in June July and August nor put them to sale being putrefied in pain to forfeit for every Hide so watered or put to sale 3 s. 4 d. XXIV None shall kill any Calves under five weeks old in pain to forfeit for every Galf so killed 6 s. 8 d. * XXV No Butcher shall exercise the mysterie of a Tanner in pain of 6 s. 8 d. for every day he so continues both professions XXVI None shall be Tanners but such as have served seven years as Apprentices or hired servants in that Trade or the Widow or children of a Tanner having a Tanne-fat left them and having been brought up in that Profession by the space of four years in pain to forfeit all the leather they tanne or the full value thereof XXVII None that useth the cutting or working of Leather shall be a Tanner in pain to forfeit all the Leather he tannes or the value thereof XXVIII None shall buy any rough Hides
are not compellable to keep their Sessions above twice in the year notwithstanding the Statute of 12 R. 2.10 yet may they keep them oftener if need be at their discretions XVIII Stat. 18 H. 6.14 None except men learned in the Law or inhabiting Corporations shall be Justices of Peace unless their Lands be worth 20 l. per annum XIX If any be put into the Commission not having Lands to that value and do not within one moneth after notice thereof acquaint the Lord Chancellor therewith or do fit or make any warrant by force of such Commission he shall forfeit to the King 20 l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XX. Stat. 3 H. 7.1 Justices of Peace shall at the next general Sessions certifie recognizances taken for keeping the Peace where if the party being called do not appear those Recognizances shall be certified into the Chancery King's Bench or Exchequer XXI Stat. 4 H. 7.12 The King commandeth all Justices of Peace diligently to exercise their office to the end that his people by that means living in peace and injoying their own husbandry may flourish He also chargeth all both poor and rich that shall suffer any grievance from others wherein a Justice of Peace may intermeddle that they forthwith make complaint thereof to the next Justice of Peace and having no remedy there to the Justices of Assize if it be not long before their coming into that Country but if it be then to the Chancellor for the time being and then the King will send for the Justice so neglecting his duty and in case he shall finde him guilty thereof will cause him to be put out of the Commission and otherwise punished according to his demerits and this Statute shall be proclaimed at every Quarter-Sessions in pain that every Justice there present when it is not so proclaimed shall forfeit to the King 20 s. XXII Stat. 2. 3 P. M. 18. A new Commission of the Peace or Gaol-delivery for the whole County shall not be a supersedeas to a former like Commission granted to a City or Town-Corporate being no County Keeper of the Great Seal of England I. Stat. 5 El. 18. THe Authority Preheminence and advantages of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and of the Lord Chancellor are declared to be the same to all intents constructions and purposes King I. Stat. 13 Car. 2. ca. 1. What shall be High Treason against the King during his Majestie 's life Vid. Title Treason num XXXIX II. If any person or persons during the King's life shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm the King to be an Heretick or a Papist or that he endeavours to introduce Popery or shall maliciously and advisedly by Writing Printing Preaching or other speaking express publish utter or declare any words sentences or other thing or things to incite or stir up the people to hatred or dislike of the person of his Majesty or the established goverment then every such person being legally convicted shall be disabled to have injoy or exercise any place office or promotion ecclesiastical civil or military or any other imployment in Church or State other then his Peerage and shall likewise be lyable to such further punishment as by the Common laws and Statutes of the Realm may be inflicted in such cases III. If any person shall maliciously and advisedly by writing printing preaching or speaking publish declare or affirm that the Parliament begun at VVestminster the 30th of Novemb. 1640. is not dissolved or not determined or that it ought to be in being or that there lies any obligation upon him or any other person from any Oath Covenant or Engagement to endeavour a change of Government or that both or either houses of Parliament have a Legislative Power without the King or any words to the same effect Such persons so offending shall incur the Penalty of a Praemunire mentioned in the Statute of 16 R. 2. IV. The Solemn League and Covenant declared an unlawful Oath and to have been illegally imposed upon the Subjects And all Ordinances of either or both Houses of Parliament for imposing Oathes Covenants or engagements levying Taxes raising forces or armes without the King's assent or by Commission were and are and shall be void Provided the said Ordinances and Orders may be made use of according to the Act of Indemnity 12 Car. 2.11 V. Provided no person be prosecuted for any offence in this Act other then High Treason unless it be by order of the King his heirs or Successors under their sign Manual or of the Privy Council directed to the Attorney general or some of the King's Council for the time being nor unless such prosecution be within six moneths and the Indictment within three moneths after such prosecution VI. Proviso for privilege of debate in Parliament touching repealing or altering of Laws or redressing publique grievances VII Provided no person be indicted arraigned condemned convicted or attainted for any Treasons or Offences aforesaid but by Testimony of two lawful witnesses upon oath brought in person face to face who shall openly avow upon oath what they have to say against the person accused concerning the Treason or offences contained in the said Indictment unless the party shall willingly without violence confess the same VIII Provided no Peer be tryed for any Offence against this Act but by Peers and every Peer convicted of any Offence against this Act be disabled during life to sit in Parliament unless his Majesty shall please to pardon him and upon pardon granted to any Peer or Commoner convicted of any Offence against this Act the party pardoned shall be restored to all intents and purposes as if never convicted IX Stat. 14 Car. 2. cap. 10. For setling an additional Revenue upon the King for better support of his Crown and dignity Every dwelling house and other edifice and all lodgings and Chambers in the Inns of Court Inns of Chancery Colledges and other societies that are or shall be within England VVales and Town of Barwick other then hereafter excepted shall be charged with the annual payment for every Fire-hearth and Stove 2 s. per annum and payable at Michaelmas and our Lady-day by equal parcels half yearly for ever X. Owners and occupiers of such houses and chambers shall give a true account thereof in writing of all the Hearths and Stoves in them to the Constables and Tithing-men within their several Parishes and Constables and other such Officers shall require an account of them of all Hearths and Stoves in their Houses and in default may enter and view the same and for every false return the party offendng shall forfeit 40 s. XI The said Constables and other such Officers shall deliver the accounts of their Returns at the next quarter-Sessions after the last of May 1662. And the Justices of the Peace shall cause the said accompts of Hearths to be enrolled and a duplicate thereof returned into the Exchequer XII The said Hearth
Coroner shall do his office and inrol it And what cannot be determined by the Steward before the Kings departure shall be remitted to the Common Law so that Exigents Outlawries and Presentments shall be made thereupon in Eyre by the Coroner of the County as in case of other Felonies done out of the Verge â— Howbeit they shall not omit by reason hereof to make attachments freshly upon the Felonies done IV. Stat. 5. E. 3.2 Pars inde and 10 E. 3. Stat. 2.2 Inquests before the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house shall be taken by men of the Countrey thereabouts and not by men of the Kings house except it be contracts covenants or trespasses when both parties are of the same house and in the house V. Stat. 9. R. 2.5 Priests and others of the Holy Church taken in the Marshalsey shall pay such fees as Lay-people pay and no more VI. Stat. 13. R. 2. Stat. 1.3 The jurisdiction of the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house shall extend no further then 12 miles from the Kings lodging VII Stat. 4. H. 2.23 The fees of the Marshal of the Kings house shall be as in times past and no more viz. for him that cometh in by Capias 4 d. and if he be bailed 3 d. more of the defendant in trespass that findeth bail to answer the suit 2 d. for every commitment by judgment 4 d. oâ— every one delivered of Felony and of a Felon bailed by the Court 4 d. And if the Marshal or his Officers take more they shall lose their Offices and pay treble damages to the party grieved and that the party grieved have his suit before the Steward of the same Court VIII Here a server of bills shall take no more then 1 d. for every mile distant from the Court to the place where he doth his office but when he serves a vâ—nire facias or a distringas he shall have the double If such an Officer takes more he shall be imprisoned make a Fine to the King at the discretion of the Steward and be from thenceforth fore-judged the Court. IX Stat. 15. H. 6.1 In a suit commenced before the Steward and Marshal of the Kings house the defendant shall not be estopped to plead that the Plaintiff or he are not of the Kings house but his averment thereof shall be received notwithstanding any record of the same Court to be produced to the contrary Marshes Fens c. I. Stat. 4. Jac. 8. An Act for winning from Inundation the drowned grounds and Marshes of Lesnes and Fants in Kent by the 10. of October 1609. See the Statute II. Stat. 4. Jac. 13. Another for draining the Fens and low grounds in the Isle of Ely containing about 6000. Acres compassed about with banks called the Ring of Waldersey and Coldham See also the Statute III. Stat. 7. Jac. 20. A mean to recover a great quantity of ground lately surrounded in Norfolk and Suffolk by the Sea and to prevent the like for the future See the Statute IV. Stat. 15. Car. 2. cap. 17. An Act for setling the draining the great level of the Fens called Bedford Level See the Act at large V. Stat. 16. 17. Car. 2. cap. 11. An Act for draining of the Fen called Deeping Fen and other Fens therein mentioned See the Act at large Masons I. Stat. 3. H. 6.1 It shall be felony to plot confederacies amongst Masons and such as assemble upon such confederacies shall suffer Imprisonment and make fine and ransome at the Kings will ☞ Matrimony and Marriage I. Stat. 32. H. 8.38 Pars inde All Marriages shall be adjudged lawful that are not prohibited by Gods Law II. Stat. 23. E. 6.21 All Laws Canons Constitutions and Ordinances which prohibit marriage to spiritual persons who by Gods Law may marry and all pain and forfeitures therein contained shall be void III. Provided that this Act shall not give liberty to marry without asking in the Church and other Ceremonies appointed by the Book of Common Prayer IV. Degrees and divorces heretofore made are saved V. Stat. 5. E. 6.12 The Marriage of Priests and other spiritual persons shall be lawful and their Children legitimate and inheritable likewise they to be tenants by the Curtesy and their Wives nowable VI. Stat. 1. Jac. 11. A Bigamus shall suffer death as a felon unless he or she have had no notice that the husband or wife was living within seven years before or the marriage be severed by divorce VII This felony shall cause no corruption of blood or loss of dower or inheritance VIII Stat. 12. Car. 2. ca. 33. All Marriages had and solemnized in any of the Kings Dominions since the 1. of May 1642. before any Justice of Peace of England or other his Dominions and so pronounced and declared or had and solemnized according to Act or Ordinance of Parliament or any Convention having that style shall be adjudged good and valid in Law as if the same had been solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Mesne I. Stat. Westm 2.9 13. E. 1. The tenant distrained by the Chief Lord may have a writ of Mesne in the County where he is distreined against the Mesne who having land in that County and not appearing till the Grand distress day shall be given in the Grand distress so as two Counties may be holden before the return wherein the Sheriff shall proclaim that he come to answer the tenant at the day at which day if he come not he loseth his service and then the tenant shall answer to the Chief Lord such services as he ought to have done to the Mesne II. The Chief Lord shall not distrein the tenant so long as he offers him the services due and if the Lord exact more then the Mesne ought to do the tenant may have such remedy as the Mesne might have had III. Upon a return that the Mesne hath nothing to be summoned by an attachment shall go out and then upon a Nihil returned the Gâ—aâ—d distress with Proclamation as before IV. The Mesne having no lâ—nd in that County but in another upon such a return by the Sheriff the party shall have a Writ judicial to summon the Mesne in that County where it is testified that he hath lands and both there and in the other County shall proceed to the Grand distress Proclamation and Judgment as before V. The Mesne comming into the Court and acknowledging or being adjudged to acquit the Tenant and not doing it the Tenant shall thereupon have a judicial writ of acquittal whereupon if the Mesne come in and the Tenant can aver that a Mesne hath not acquitted him he shall be satisfied his damages be quit of the Mesne and hold of the chief Lord And here also if the Mesne come not at the first distress then another distress shall go out Proclamation shall be made and Judgment had as before VI. This Statute extendeth only where there is but one Mesne
here provided for the Lessee for years VI. Stat. 34 35. H. 8.20 No feigned recovery hereafter to be had by assent of parties against any tenant or tenants in tail of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof the reversion or remainder at that time of such recovery had shall be in the King shall bind or conclude the Heirs in tail whether any condition or Voucher be had in any such feigned recovery or not but that after the death of every such tenant in tail against whom such recovery shall be had the heirs in tail may enter hold and enjoy the lands tenements and hereditaments so recovered according to the form of the gift in tail the said recovery notwithstanding VII And here the heirs of every such Tenant in tail against whom any such recovery shall be had shall take no advantage for any recompence in value against the Voucher or his heirs VIII This Act shall not extend to prejudice the Lessee or Lessees of any such Tenant in tail made in writing indented of any Mannors Lands c. for 21 years or three lives or under whereupon the accustomed rent or rents is or shall be yearly reserved during the same Term or Terms but the same Lessee or Lessees shall injoy his or their Term or Terms according to the Statute of 32 H. 8.28 which see in Leases this Act notwithstanding IX Stat. 14 El. 8. All recoveries had or prosecuted by agreement of the parties or by covin against Tenants by the curtesie Tenants in tail after possibility of issue extinct for term of life or lives or of estates determinable upon life or lives or of any lands tenements or hereditaments whereof such particular tenant is so seised or against any other with Voucher over of any such particular tenant or of any having right or title to any such particular estate shall from henceforth as against the reversioners or them in remainder and against their heirs and successors be clearly void X. This Act shall not prejudice any person that shall by good title recover any lands c. without fraud by reason of any former right or title Also every such recovery had by the assent and agreement of the person in reversion or remainder appearing of record in any of the Queens Courts shall be good against the party so assenting Re-disseisin I. Merton 3. 20 H. 3. If any be disseised of their fee-hold and before the Justices in Eyre hath recovered seisin by Assise of Novel disseisin or by confession of the disseisors and hath had seisin delivered by the Sheriff if afterwards the same disseisors disseise the Plaintiff of the same free-hold and be thereof convict they shall be imprisonod until the King hath discharged them by redemption recognition of Assize Judgement or some other way II. This is the form of punishing of such convict persons The Plaintiff shall procure a Writ from the Kings Court directed to the Sheriff and containing the plaint of disseisin done upon disseisin By this Writ the Sheriff shall be commanded that he taking with him the Keepers of the Pleas of the Crown and other lawful Knights shall in proper person go to the Land or Pasture whereof the plaint was made where if they find him disseised again the Sheriff is to do as is above provided but if not the Plaintiff shall be amerced and the other shall go quit Howbeit the Sheriff shall not execute any such plaint without the Kings special Command III. There is the like Law for such as recover their seisin by Assise of Mortdancester or by Enquests if they be re-disseised by the first disseisors IV. Marlb 8. 52 H. 3. Persons imprisoned for re-disseisin shall not be delivered with the Kings special command and shall make fine to the King for their trespass And if the Sheriff deliver any contrary to this Ordinance he shall be grievously amerced and yet the persons so delivered shall be also grievously punished for their trespass V. West 2.26 13 E. 1. In Writs of re-disseisin double damages shall be awarded and the re-disseisors shall not be repleviable by the common Writ VI. Those that recover by default redition or otherwise without recognition of Assises or Juries shall have Writs of re-disseisin as well those which recover by Assise of Novel disseisin Mortdancester or other Juries provided for by the Statute of Merton 20. Relief I. Magna Cart. 2. When Lands holden of the King in chief by Knight-service descend to an heir of full age The reliefs are as followeth For an Earldom 100 l. For a Barony 100 Marks For one whole Knights fee 100 s. And he that hath less shall give less according to the old custom of the fees Religion * I. Stat. 14. Ca. 2. Ca. 4. The Stat. of 1 Eliz. Ca. 2. recited for uniformity of Common Prayer and considered by certain Commissioners appointed by the King for reviewing and altering the same and afterward being also reviewed by the Convocation The said Book of Common Prayer so altered c. is allowed and recommended to the Parliament by the King to be used under such sanctions and penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit the same is enjoyned to be red in all Churches Chappels and places of publick Worship in England Wales and Town of Barwick upon Tweed in such order as is enjoyned by the said Book annexed to the said Act. II. Every Parson Vicar or other Minister in possession of any Ecclesiastical Benefice enjoyned to read the Common Prayer upon some Lords day morning and evening before the Feast of St. Bartholomow 1662. and after such reading the same make the Declaration verbatim as followeth I. A. B. do here declare my unfained assent and consent to and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of making ordaining and consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons Upon penalty there being no lawful impediment and within one month after such impediment removed of being deprived ipso facto as if the person neglecting or refusing so to do were dead III. All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to be after presented or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice enjoyned to read the Common Prayer as aforesaid and to make the aforesaid Declaration within two months after they shall be in actual possession upon the same penalty as aforesaid IV. All Incumbents that reside upon their livings and keep Curates shall once every month themselves read the said Common Prayer upon pain of forfeiture of 5 l. to the use of the poor of the upon conviction by two credible Witnesses before two Justices of the Peace to be levyed by distress and sale of the offendors goods by Warrant from the said
intent to put the Defendants from their law that the same was found before their Apprentices or servants as Auditors assigned therein it shall be in the Judges discretion upon examination of the Attorneys or whom else they please to receive the Defendants to their law or to try the same by Inquest ☞ Wales I. The second Volume of the Book of Old Statutes is a long Act made Anno 12 E. 5. entituled Statuta Walliae whereby it appeareth that Wales was then incorporated and united to England and there you shall also find many good Laws concerning the division of Wales into Counties Trials and Division of Actions together with divers forms of Writs and the proceeding thereupon much like to the Laws of England For all which see there that Act at large II. Stat. 28 ◠3.2 All Lords of the Marches of Wales shall be perpetually attending and annexed to the Crown of England as they and their Ancestors have been in times past and not to the Principality of Wales in whose hands soever the same shall come III. Stat. 9 H. 4.4 No Thief or Felon in Wales openly known shall be suffered to disclaim out of the Seigniory where the Felony was committed But such manner of disclaimer shall be from henceforth utterly put out and such Thieves shall be put to answer to Indictments and other accusations in the Seigniory where they are taken without being delivered by disclaiming or Letters of Marque IV. Stat. 2 H. 5. Stat. 2.5 If a Welsh-man that doth forcibly take and detain an English-man until he be ransomed will not upon process awarded against him by the Justices appear and answer the same untill he be outlawed the Justices shall certifie the same under their seals to the Officers of the Seigniories where such outlaw is who shall apprehend and do execution upon him according to the Law But this is now altered by 27 H. 8.26 which see after V. Stat. 26 H. 4.8 Forthwith upon the charge given to an Enquest in Wales or the Marches thereof upon any traverse against the King or trial of any recognizance broken or any forfeiture due to the King or upon trial of any murderer felon or accessary an officer or other person shall be deputed and sworn in open Court for the true keeping of the Jurors who without special order of the Court shall not suffer them to have any bread drink meat fire or light nor to speak to any person whatsoever nor speak to them himself before they are agreed upon their verdict unless it be only to ask them whether or no they are agreed and all this such◠Keeper shall observe in pain to be imprisoned and fined at the discretion of the Court. VI. Here if the Jurors give any untrue verdict against the King contrary to good and pregnant evidence or otherwise misdemean themselves the Lord President and Council upon complaint thereof have power to convent them before the said Council and to punish them at their discretions VII ☞ Stat. 26 H. 8.6 All persons dwelling in VVales or the Marches thereof upon warning of any Court to be kept within their respective limits shall appear there in proper person to do their service in pain of such Fines forfeitures and amerciaments as shall be assessed upon them by the respective Courts where they owe such service to be levied by distress to the use of the King within his Lordships there and of other Lords marchers within theirs VIII If any Steward or other Officer there do feign any untrue surmise against any person that shall so appear as aforesaid and thereupon commit him to prison contrary to Law or the custom of that Lordship the Commissioners or Council upon complaint have power to send for such Steward or Officer and if upon good proof it be found that the party was so imprisoned without lawful cause they shall assess such Steward or Officer to pay him 6 s. 8 d. for every day of his imprisonment or more at their discretions as the damage shall deserve the Commissioners shall also fine him to the Kings use whether he appear or not and may compell him by imprisonment to pay such fines and penalties both to the King and the party grieved IX None in VVales or the Marches thereof coming to any Sessions or Court there shall bring or cause to be brought thither or to any other place within two miles thereof or to any Town Church Fair Market or other Congregation except upon a Hue and Cry or into the High-way affray of the Peace of the Kings People any Bill Low-Bow Cross-bow hand-gun Sword Staff Dagger Halbert Morespike Spear or any other Weapon Privy Coat or Armour in pain to forfelt the same unless it be by the command or license of the Justices a Steward or other Officer or of the Commissioners or Council there X. None without the Commissioners license in writing shall there or in the Counties thereto adjoyning require or levy any Commorth Bydal Tenants Ale or other collection or exact any money goods or other thing under colour of marriage or suffering of their children saying or finging their first Masses or Gospels of any Priests or Clerks or for the redemption of any murder or other felony or for any other cause whatsoever or shall make or procure to be made any games of running wrastling leaping or any other games the game of shooting only excepted in pain to suffer a years imprisonment and to be fined at the discretion of the Commissioners who shall by this Act have power to hear and determine the said offences Neither shall any cast any Arthell into any Court there by reason whereof it may be letted or discontinued at that time in pain to suffer a years imprisonment XI Courts in Wales and the Marches thereof shall be kept in the most sure and peaceable places of each Lordship Marcher where the Justice Steward or other Officer thereof shall appoint XII Justices of Peace and Goal-delivery in the Counties next adjoyning to VVales where the Kings Writ runneth may hear and determine the offences of counterfeiters washers clippers or diminishers of Coin and all felonies and their accessaries committed in VVales or the Marches thereof And acquittal or fine making for any of the said offences in any Lordship marcher shall be no barr for any person or persons indicted for the same within 2. years next after such offence committed XIII The said Justices of Peace and Goal-delivery have power to award all manner of Process as well of Outlawry as otherwise against every such offender and shall send to the Lord or Officer of the Lordship where the offender is resiant a Certificate under the seals of two of them at least of any such outlawry or attainder commanding him under the pain of 100 l. to be forfeited to the King to apprehend or cause to be apprehended the body of such offender and safely to keep him untill such convenient time before the next Goal-delivery of the
the cause shall require but if such plea or voucher be tryable in England the Justice of Wales before whom they are pleaded or made may proceed to tryal thereof in such County of Wales where they are so pleaded or made such forreign plea or voucher notwithstanding CXX All Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in VVales and in the Lordships and places annexed by the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 to the Counties of Salop Hereford Glocester or any other Shires shall be English tenure and not partable amongst heirs males according to the Custome of Gavelkind CXXI No Mortgages of lands c. made in any of the said Counties or places shall be hereafter allowed or admitted otherwise than after the course of the Common-Law and Statutes of England CXXII It shall be lawful for all persons to alien their Lands c. in VVales the County of Monmouth and other places annexed as aforesaid from them and their heirs to any person or persons in Fee-simple fee-tail for life or years according to the Laws of England notwithstanding any Welsh Law or Custome to the contrary CXXIII If any person having lands in VVales be bound in England by a Statute-Staple or Recognisance and pay not the debt accordingly in such cases upon certificate into the Chancery of England Processes shall be made to the Sheriffs of VVales out of the said Chancery for the due levying of the said debt as is used in England Howbeit for such Recognizances as are taken in the Kings Bench or Common Pleas of England Processes shall be pursued immediately from the Justices of the said Courts as in England also is used CXXIV All such Writs Bills Plaints Pleas Process Challenges and Trials shall be used throughout all the Shires aforesaid as are used in North VVales or as shall be devised by the President Council and Justices or three of them whereof the President to be one CXXV Where there shall be some Suits in Pleas personal which cannot be well tryed before the Justices in the great Sessions for shortness of time such issues may be tryed at the petty Sessions before the Deputy-Justices as is used in the three Counties of North VVales save only for such Suits as by the discretion of the said Justices shall be necessary to be tryed before themselves Howbeit there shall be no suit taken before any of the said Justices by Bill under the sum of 20 s. CXXVI No other Liberties Franchises or Customs shall be used or claimed in any Lordship which was anciently part of Wales whosoever be owner or owners thereof but only such as be given to the Lords thereof by force of the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 and not altered by this Act notwithstanding the Stat. of 32 H. 8.20 which see in Franchises CXXVII If any murther or felony be committed in Wales the party or parties grieved shall make no agreement with the offender or with any other in his behalf unless he first acquaint the President Council or Justices therewith in pain of imprisonment and grievous fine at the discretion of the President Council and Justices or two of them whereof the President to be one the like punishment also they shall incur that labour or procure such agreement although it never take effect CXXVIII If any person or they whose estate he hath have peaceable possession of Lands in Wales by the space of 5 years without interruption or lawful claim such person shall continue the same untill they be recovered from him by law or decree of the President or Council there CXXIX If in personal actions pursued before the Justices nine of the Jury be sworn and the residue make default or be tryed out in that case the Sheriff may return other names de circumstantibus until the Jury be full as is used in North VVales and elsewhere in such cases CXXX No sale of goods or cattel stollen in Wales and sold in any Fair or Market there shall alter the propriety thereof such sale notwithstanding CXXXI No person shall buy any quick cattel in VVales out of the Fair or Market unless he can produce credible witness of the person place and time he so bought the same in pain of such punishment and fine as shall be set by the President and Council or any of the Justices in his Circuit and to answer it at his further peril CXXXII If any goods or cattel be stollen in VVales the tract shall be followed from Town to Town and Lordship to Lordship according to the Laws and Customs heretofore used in Wales upon such penalty as hath been heretofore accustomed CXXXIII Any man being a Frecholder may pass upon a Jury in all causes both criminal and civil attaint only excepted saving to every man his lawful challenge according to the Laws of England Howbeit none shall pass in attaint unless he have Freehold of 40 s. per annum CXXXIV Tenants and resiants in Wales shall pay their Tallage at the change of their Lords in such places aad after such form as hath been accustomed in Wales CXXXV The Kings Subjects in VVales shall find at the Parliaments in England Knights for the Counties and Citizens and Burgesses for the Cities and Towns to be chosen by the Kings Writ according to the Statute of 27 H. 8.26 and shall also be chargeable to all Subsidies and other charges granted by the Commons of the said Parliaments and pay all other rents farms customs and duties to the King as hath been accustomed fines for redemption of Sessions only excepted which the King is pleased to remit CXXXVI Haverford-west shall find one Burgess for that Town whose charges shall be born by the Mayor Burgesses and Inhabitants of the said Town and by none other CXXXVII The King shall have all Felons goods goods of persons outlawed Waifs Estrays and all other forfeitures and escheats and shall be answered thereof by the Sheriffs saving the right of all others having lawful title thereto CXXXVIII Errours and Judgments before any of the Justices in their great Sessions in Pleas reall and mixt shall be redressed by Writ of Errour out of the Chancery of England returnable before the Justices of the Common Pleas as other Writs of Errour be in England but Errors in Pleas personal shall be reformed by Bill before the President and Council and if the Judgment be affirmed good in any of the said Writs or Bills then there to make execution and all other process thereupon as is used in the Kings Bench of England and that the Plaintiff in every such Writ or Bill pay for the same like Fees as is used in England CXXXIX No execution of any Judgment given in any base Court shall be stayed by reason of any Writ of false Judgment but execution may be had at all times before the reversal of such Judgment and if such Judgment shall after be reversed the Plaintiff shall be restored to what he hath lost by such Judgment CXL All process for urgent and weighty causes shall be
thereupon XX. The savings in this Act and in that of 32 H. 8.1 of custody wardship relief and primer seisin to the King and of custody and wardship to other Lords shall be expounded thus That the King shall have for his full third part such mannors lands and tenements as shall descend as well in fee-tail as in fee-simple to the heir of the person that made such Will or disposition as aforesaid and that the will or gift of the two parts shall be good in Law albeit the will or gift be made of all the fee-simple lands or the more part thereof Howbeit if the King have not a full third part left him he shall take out of the two parts so much as shall make it up to be severed by commission as aforesaid and such advantage also is given to other Lords for their third parts and the like shall both the King and they do in case their third parts or any parcel of them be evicted from them or determined XXI A Pardon of alienation must be sued by those to whom lands are devised for which they shall pay a third part of the value of the lands holden in chief and this Act shall be sufficient warrant for the Lord Chancellor to grant such pardons under the Great Seal without further suit to be made to the King for the same XXII Wills or Testaments of mannors lands c. made by femes covert Infants Idiots or persons of non sane memory shall not be good in Law XXIII If any person or persons shall by will or act executed make any estate for years life or lives with one remainder over in see or with divers remainders over for term of life years or in tail with a remainder over in fee-simple or any other estates conditions mesnalties tenures or conveyances by fraud and covin to the intent to defraud the King of his Prerogative primer seisin livery relief wardship marriages or rights or any other Lords of their wardships reliefs heriots or other profits and such estates or other conveyances be found by office to be so made by covin fraud or deceit In this case the King shall enjoy his Prerogatives and profits aforesaid according to this and the said former Act notwithstanding such estates or conveyances until such office be annulled by traverse or otherwise Also other Lords shall have their remedy in such cases for their wardships by writ of right of ward and shall distrain and make avowry or conusance by themselves or their Bailiffs for their reliefs heriots and other profits as if no such estate had been made Howbeit the right and title of the donees feoffees lessees and devisees thereof against the devisors and his heirs after the interest of the King and other Lords determined are saved XXIV Provided that every person from whom the King or other Lord shall take any mannors lands c. for their third part or to make it up may have relief in Chancery against every person who shall be intituled by any such will or gift to the other two parts to have such contribution for the same as the Lord Chancellor or Keeper shall think convenient VVines I. The Statute of Glocester 15.6 E. 1. The Mayor and Bailiffs now Sheriffs of London before the coming of the Barons which should be at their rising after Candlemas term as appears by the 14. Chapter of this Statute shall inquire of Wine sold against the Assize and shall present it before them at their coming and then they shall be amerced whereas they were wont to tarry until the coming of the Justices Obsolete * II. Stat. 4. E. 3.12 None shall sell Wines but at a reasonable price according to the price at the Ports from whence they come and the expence of their carriage to the places where they are sold Tryal shall be made of such Wines twice a year viz. at Easter and Michaelmas and Officers if need require by the Lords of Towns and their Bailiffs and likewise by Mayors and Bailiffs and all corrupt Wines shall be poured out and the vessel broken Also the Chancellor Treasurer Justices of the Benches and Justices of Assize shall have power to inquire of Mayors Bailiffs and Ministers of Towns that do not observe this Ordinance and to punish them as reason requires * III. Stat. 27. E. 3. Stat. 1. cap. 5. No English Merchant shall forestal Gascoign Wines nor buy them of any Gascoign or other to pay in England for any greater price then they are commonly sold at in Gascoign because of Prest peril of the Sea and by any other colour in pain of life and member and to forfeit their Wines Goods and Chattels to the King and their lands to the chief Lords But here the felony and forfeiture of laws are repealed by 37 E. 3.16 Ob. IV. Cap. 6. Gascoign Merchants and other strangers may bring their Wines to what Port of England they please so as the Kings Butler may make purveyance for Wines of Aliens making payment for them within 40 days Ob. V. Cap. 7. No English Merchant shall buy Wines in Gascoign before the Vintage Nor then but at Burdeaux and Bayon upon the pain mentioned in the 5th Chapter Put that as to the sâ— loâ—y and forseiture of Lands is repealed by 37 E. 3.16 as aforesaid Obsolete * VI. Stat. 37. E. 3.16 The felony and forfeiture of lands inflicted by 27 E. 3.5 7. are repealed and inquiry shall be yearly made within the Kings dominions in Gascoigne of Couchers of England who lie there to buy Wines Obsolete VII Stat. 38. E. 3.10 A confirmation of the Statutes made for wines Obsolete VIII Stat. 38. E. 3.11 All Merchants Denizens that be not Artificers may go into Gascoign to fetch wines and Aliens may bring wines into this Realm IX Stat. 43 E. 3.2 English Irish and Welsh-men being not Artificers may fetch wine in Gascoigne so as they find sureties to buy 100 Tun of their own goods and to bring the same into England Ireland or Wales X. Stat. 6. R. 2. Stat. 1.7 Sweet wines shall be sold in England at the price that Gascoign and Rhenish wines are sold for and not above in pain to forfeit the same XI Stat. 23 H. 6.18 No new impositions shall be laid upon them that buy wines in Gascoign and Guienne by any of the Kings Officers in those parts in pain of 20 l. and treble damages Obsolete * XII Stat 28. H. 8.14 The Lord Chancellor Treasurer President of the Council Privy Seal and the two chief Justices or five four or three of them have power at their discretions to set the prices of all kinds of wines viz. of the But Tun Pipe Hogshead Puncheon Tierce Barrel or Runlet when they shall be sold in grosse so as they cause the prices so set to be written and openly proclaimed in Chancery in the Term-time or else in the City Burrough or town where any such wines are sold in grosse XIII None shall sell wine
the Exchequer 15 E. 2. Estreats Prerogativa Regis 17 E. 2. 1 Wards 2 Wards 3 Primer Seisin 4 Women c. 5 Partition 6 Wards 7 Alienation without licence 8 Advowson 9 Fools Lunaticks c. 10 Fools Lunaticks c. 11 Wrcek 13 Intrusion 14 Forfeiture 15 Patents 16 Forfeiture The Statute of Homgae 17 E. 2. Homage A Statute for Templers 17 E. 2 Templers View of Frankpledge 18 E. 2. Leet A Statute for the Oaths of the King Bishops c. Oath Ne rectores prosternant c. Church-yards Articles upon Money Money A Statute for Iustices of Assise Justices of Assise A Statute for Eels and Perches Weights A Statute for Chattels of Felons Forfeiture Statutes of 1 E. 3. Stat. 1. 4 False Judgment 5 Return of Sheriffs 6 Attaint 7 Prison c. 8 Forests 1 E. 3. Stat. 2. 1 Forests 2 Bishops Forests 5 Armour 6 Taxes 7 War 8 Beau-pleader 9 Franchises 10 Monasteries 11 Prohibition 12 Tenure 13 Tenure 14 Maintenance 16 Justices of Peace 17 Indictments 2 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Justices of Gaol-Delivery Oyer Terminer Pardon 3 Armour 4 Sheriff 5 Return of Sheriffs 6 Peace 7 War 8 Justice and right c. 9 Staple 11 Adjornment 12 Sheriff 15 Fairs and Markets 16 Nisi prius 17 Deceit 4 E. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Justices of G.D. 3 Purveyors 7 Executors 9 Sheriff 10 Sheriffs 11 Nisi prius 12 Wines 13 Pardon 15 Parliament 15 Sheriffs 5 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Error Marshalsey Purveyors 4 Sheriffs 5 Fairs and Markets 6 Attaint 7 Attaint 8 Prison c. 9 Accusation 10 Jurors 11 Process 12 Exigent and Utlawry 13 Exigent and Utlawry 14 Robberies 9 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Marcâ—ant 2 Non-plevin 3 Executors 4 Triall 5 Records 9 E. 3. Stat. 2. 1 Money 2 Money 3 Money 4 Money 5 Money 6 Money 7 Exchange 8 Prison 9 Money 10 Money 11 Money 12 Excommunication 10 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation 2 Pardon 3 Pardon 10 E. 3. Stat. 2. Of Purveyors 2 Marshalsey 3 Error 11 E. 3 3 Drapery 5 Drapery 14 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation Franchises 4 Englishire 5 Judgment 6 Amendments 7 Sheriff 8 Escheators Coroners 9 Sheriff 10 Prison c. 11 Recognizance c. 12 Weights 13 Wards 14 Aide of the King 15 Pardon 16 Nisi prius 17 Paâ—sâ—n c. 18 Voucher 19 Purveyors 21 Customs c. 14 E 3. Stat 2. 2 Merchants 14 E. 3. Stat. 3. 1 Purveyors 3 Bishops 4 Vacations of Bishopricks 5 Vacations of Bishopricks 14 E. 3. Stat. 4. 1 That England shall not be subject to France Crown 18 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Exigent and utlawry 18 E. 3. Stat. 2. 2 Justices of Peace 3 Sea 5 Exigent and utlawry 6 Money 7 War 18 E. 3. Stat. 3. 3 Clergy Mortmain 4 Purveyors 5 Prohibition 6 Ordinaries 7 Titles 8 Justice and right c. 18 E. 3. Stat. 4. 1 Justice c. 2 Clerks of the Chancery 20 E. 3. 1 Justice and right c. 2 Justice and right c. 3 Justice and right c. 4 Maintenance 5 Maintenance 6 Justices of Assise 23 E. 3. 6 Victuall c. 25 E. 3. Stat. 2. 1 Ability 25 E. 3. Stat. 3. 1 Franchises 2 Franchises 3 Advowson 4 Clergy 5 Clergy 6 Bishops 7 Advowson 8 Jurisdiction 9 Ordinaries 25 E. 3. Stat. 4. 1 Drapery 2 Merchants 4 Wears 25 E. 3. Stat. 5. 2 Treason 3 Jurors 4 Accusation 5 Executors 6 Purveyors 7 Forests 8 VVar 9 VVeights 10 VVeights 11 Reasonable aide 12 Exchange 13 Money 14 Indictments 15 Purveyors 16 Non-Tenure 17 Process 18 Villenage 19 Protection 20 Money 21 Butler of the King 22 Proviso 25 E. 3. Stat. 6. 1 Proviso 27 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Proviso 2 Pardon 4 Drapery 5 Wines 8 Gauging 27 E. 3. Stat. 2. 1 Staple 2 Merchants 3 Merchants Wooll 4 Staple 5 Staple 6 Staple 7 Staple 8 Staple 9 Staple 10 Weights 11 Merchants 13 Merchants 14 Gold Silver c. 15 Staple 16 Staple 17 Merchants 18 Staple 19 Staple 20 Staple 21 Staple 22 Staple 23 Staple 24 Staple 25 Staple 26 Merchants 27 Staple 28 Monasteries 28 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Wales 3 Accusation 4 Livery c. 5 Iron 6 Coroner 7 Sheriff 8 Attaint 9 Sheriff 10 London 11 Robberies 12 Purveyors 13 Staple 31 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation 2 Wooll 3 Forfeiture 4 Probate of Test 5 Gauging 8 Wooll 9 Wooll 10 Victuall c. 11 Administrators 12 Error 14 Escape 15 County and Turn 31 E. 1. Stat. 2. 1 Fish Fishers c. 2 Fish Fishers c. 3 Fish Fishers c. 31 E. 3. Stat. 3. 1 Fish Fishers c. 2 Fish Fishers c. 34 E. 3. 1 Justices of Peace 2 Purveyors 3 Purveyors 4 Jurors 7 Attaint 8 Jurors 12 Forfeiture 13 Escheators 14 Escheators 15 Tenure 16 Fines 17 Ireland 18 Ireland 19 Wooll 22 Hawks 35 E. 3. 1 Fish Fishers c. 36 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Purveyors 3 Purveyors 4 Purveyors 5 Purveyors 6 Purveyors 9 Chancery 10 Parliament 11 Wooll 12 Justices of Peace 13 Escheators 15 Declaration Pleading 37 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Identitate nominis 4 Exchequer 7 Gold Silver c. 16 Wines 17 Villenage 18 Accusation 19 Hawks 38 E. 3. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation 2 Merchants Money 3 Fines 4 Obligations 5 Wager of Law 6 Wooll 7 Staple 8 Ships 9 Accusation 10 Wines 11 Wines 12 Decies tantum 42 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 3 Accusation 4 Commission c. 5 Escheators 9 Estreats Sheriffs 10 Ability 11 Panell 43 E. 3. 1 Wooll 2 Wines 3 Butler of the King 45 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Wears 3 Prohibition 4 Wooll 50 E. 3. 1 Confirmation 2 Confirmation 3 Arrests 4 Prohibition 5 Arrests 6 Fraudulent Conveyances 7 Drapery 8 Drapery Stat. of 1 R. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Peace 3 Purveyors 4 Maintenance 5 Exchequer 7 Liveries of Companies 8 Protection 9 Feoffments 11 Sheriff 12 Debt 13 Dures se 14 Tithes 15 Arrests 2 R. 2. Stat. 2. 1 Merchants 5 News 2 R. 2. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation 3 Debt 3 R. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Drapery 3 Proviso 4 R. 2. 1 Gauging 5 R. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Money 3 Ships 7 Forcible Entry 9 Exchequer 10 Captains c. 11 Exchequer 12 Exchequer 13 Exchequer 14 Exchequer 15 Exchequer 16 Exchequer 5 R. 2. Stat. 2. 1 Merchants 4 Parliament 6 R. 2. Stat. 1. 1 Confirmation Franchises 2 Writs 3 Nusance 4 Inrolments 5 Justices of Assise 6 Rape 7 Wines 8 Ships 9 Victuall c. 10 Victuall c. 7 R. 2. 1 Franchises 2 Confirmation 3 Forests 4 Forests 6 Robberies 7 Nisi prius 8 Purveyors 9 Drapery 10 Assises 12 Proviso 13 Armour 14 Attorney 15 Maintenance 8 R. 2. 2 Confirmation 3 Justices of Assise 4 Recognizance 9 R. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Villenage 3 Attaint 5 Marshalsey 11 R. 2. 7 Merchants 8 Patents 9 Taxes 10 Seals 11 Justices of Assise 12 R. 2. 1 Confirmation 2 Officers 10 Justices of Peace 11 News 12 Parliament 13