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A33630 The compleate copy-holder wherein is contained a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, vvith all things thereto incident, as surrenders, presentments, admittances, forfeitures, customes, &c. necessary both for the lord and tenant : together, with the forme of keeping a copy-hold court, and court baron / by Sir Edward Coke, Knight.; Complete copy-holder Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. 1641 (1641) Wing C4912; ESTC R1843 72,284 184

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These Guardians termed amongst the Civilians Tutores a Praetore dati are commonly called Guardians pur nurture and thus in words we somewhat differ in matter nothing 3. We have Tutorem ligi●t●mum viz. where the interest doth de jure belong unto any without the nomination of a private person or the appointment of any publique Officer and this Guardian is twofold either ligitimus jure naturae or ligi●imus jure Comuni ligitimus jure naturae as where the Father or the Mother hath the Wardship of their heires apparent be it heire male or female Ligitimus jure comuni and that Guardian is twofold either Guardian in Chivalrie or Guardian in Soccage Guardian in Chivalry is where any Tenant seized of Land holden by Knights service dieth his heire male under the age of fourteene and unmarried then shall the Lord have the Ward both of the Lands and body of this heire male unto the age of 21. because the Law intendeth that before that age the heire is unable to performe Knights service according to the tenure but the heire female shall be in Ward no longer than to the age of sixteene because the heire female though shee her selfe be unable to performe Knights service yet at sixteene she is able to take a husband who in her behalfe may doe Knights service and therefore at those yeares shee shall be out of Ward nay sometimes shee shall be out of Ward before sixteene and that is either where shee is married at the death of her Ancestor or where shee is any whit above fourteene when her Ancestor dieth in neither of these Cases shall she be in Ward at all for though the Stat. of W. 1. cap. 11. giveth unto the Lord two yeares next ensuing the fourteenth yet that is to be understood where shee is under the age of fourteene and unmarried at her Ancestors death and not otherwise This for Guardian in Chivalry Guardian in Socage is where any one seized of Socage Lands dieth his heire under the age of fourteene then the next friend unto the heire to whom the inheritance cannot descend shall have the Ward of the heires body and of his Land untill the age of fourteene as if the Land descendeth unto the heire by the fathers side then the mother or next cosin of the mothers side shall have the Ward and if the Land descendeth to the heire by the mothers side then the father or next cosin on the fathers side shall have the Ward To conclude observe this difference betweene Guardian in Chivalry and Guardian in Socage that thē one receiveth the commodities of the Land to his owne use without giving any account th' other onely to the use of the heire to whom he shall be accountable whensoever it shall please the heire to call him to account after th'age of foureteene Thus much concerning Wardships a word concerning Herriots SEC XXIV HErriot or Harriot commeth of the Latine word herus Dominus because it is a duty appropriated to the Lord or it is derived from the Saxon word here exercitus because in the Saxons time when the name of Herriot was first knowne Herrior signified nothing else but a tribute given to the Lord for his better preparation towards warre as a horse trapped or a speare or armour or a sword or some suchlike Military weapon and therefore in this sense importing a thing appertaining to the warre and being due unto the Lord by reason of this service which Tenants owe unto their Lords many warlike imployments Vide Lamb. in h●s explication of Saxons words tit Herriot it may very fitly be derived from hence This their Herriot among the Saxons little differed from our Reliefe at this day howsoever now they differ ex diame●ro But let us examine the nature of our Her●iots at this day and not search into the nature of their Herriots in those dayes for that were to examine the nature of Reliefes not Herriots Britton thus speaketh A Herriot is a Render Britton cap. 69. made at the death of a Tenant to his Lord of the best beast found in the possession of the Tenant deceased or of some other according to the ordinance and assignment of the party deceased to the use of the Lord which toucheth not the Land at all nor the heire nor his inheritance neither hath any cōparison to a Relief for it proceedeth rather of grace and good will than of right and rather from villaines than freemen to this effect speaketh Fleta Fleta lib. 4. cap. 28. Herriottum est quaedam praestatio ubi tenens liber vel servus in morte sua dominum suum respicit de meliori averio suo vel de seeundo meliori quae quidem praestatio magis fuit de gratia quam de jure nullam habet comparationem ad relevium eo quod heredi non continget quia factum antecessoris This our Herriot is twofold Herriot Service Herriot Custome Herriot Service is that Herriot which is never due without speciall reservation and is seldome reserved upon any lesse estate than an estate of inheritance Herriot Custome is that Herriot which is never due upon speciall reservation but is challenged upon some particular Custome and is usually payd upon an estate for life and for yeares as well as upon an estate of inheritance Touching the originall of these Herriots doubtlesse they are not of that antiquity which the name doth promise for though among the Saxons the name of Herriot was knowne yet the nature of both these Herriot Services and Herriot Custome was utterly unknowne untill the comming of the Normans who immediately upon the Conquest changed the name of the Saxons Herriot and termed it by the name a of Reliefe leaving notwithstanding some d●fference betwixt them for where the Saxons Herriot consisted usually in the payment of some military weapon our Reliefe in those dayes consisted wholly in the payment of a certaine summe of money and presently after the Normans had thus wholly altered the name and somewhat altered the nature of the Saxons Herriot then upon the parcelling of their lands unto inferior Tenants they invented this new kinde of service unknowne amongst the Saxons and termed it by the name of the Herriot Service afterward upon the infranchisement and manumission of certaine villaines these Herriot Customes were given to the Lords as a continuall future gratulation so that originally as Britton and Fleta well note they were granted meerely ex gratia but now time hath effected it that they are challenged ex debito Thus much of Herriots a word of Reliefe SEC XXV REliefe is a certaine summe of money which every Freeholder payeth unto his Lord Gl●●v lib. 7. cap 9. being at full age at the death of his Ancestor which in effect foundeth all one with these words of Glanvil Haeredes majores statim post decessum antecessorum suorum possunt se tenere in haereditate sua licet Domini possint feodum suum cum herede in