not out of the Fee Which is Court-Baron and which is Court of Record COurt of ancient Demesne is no Court of Record but it is a Court-Baron 9 Ed. 4. fol. 43. and 3 H. 4. fol. 16. the same Where the entry is to the great Court this is a Court Baron as it is aforesaid 10 Ed. 4. fol. 17. Where Suitors are Judges Suitors Judges and where false judgment lies and not errour as in Court of a Mannor Hundred and County these are Court-Barons 6 Ed. 4. fol. 3. B. Court by Commission before the Justices of Peace that is to say their Court of Sessions c. are Courts of Record 9 H. 6. fol. 3. If a man be arrested in the Cinque ports he shall have a Homine replegiando if according to the Law and custom of the Ports he be repleevable Eitzh fol. 67. A Great complaint was against the Officers of the Castle of Dover for holding Plea above forty shillings where they have but a Court-Baron and for arresting men by the body of their Warrant and Gapias but it seems they have a Charter now for it is used there to arrest 5 E. 4. f. 127. Trespasse of imprisonment the Defendant saith that there is a Court by prescription within the Tower and doth prescribe to have Capias and not that it is there Capias without prescription and justifie that by Capias c. And so this appeares to be Courts of Record 4 Ed. 4. fol. 6. Error lies wherefalse judgment is given in any Court of Record as in the common Bench or London or other City where they have power to hold Pleas by Charter or by prescription of every sum in Debt or Trespasse of the sum of forty shillings and over Fitzh fol. 20. If false judgment be given in Court of ancient Demesne the Tenant or Demandant shall have false judgement which proves that it is Court-Baron Fitzh fol. 11. Court of Pipowders is a Court of Record Fitzh fol. 18. H. Where the Courts hold Plea by prescription above forty shillings they are Courts of Record 6 Edw. 4. fol. 3. Marshalsey is a Court of Record for if they err there lies a Writ of errour 10 H. 6. fol. 13. Where they have conusance of every sum as in London and in other Cities and Borroughs are Courts of Record 2 H. 4. fol. 4.34 H. 6. f. 52. the same and 45 E. 3. fol. 1. Error lies where false judgment is given in any Court of Record as in the common Bench or in London or other City or in other place where they have power to hold Plea by Charter or prescription of every sum of forty shillings and over these are Courts of Record Fitzh fol. 20. D. Leets and Turns of the Sherif are Courts of Record for that they are for the common-Wealth Eitzh fol. 82.10 H. 6. fol. 7. It is said that the Leet is a Coutt of Record and for that he cannot wage his Law in Debt brought upon Amerciament in Leet The Kings Bench Chancery common Bench and the Exchequer are Courts of Record for that that no Judg may sit as Judge there without Letters Patents Doctor and Student f. 11. Ancient Demesne Insomuch that a Court of ancient Demesne is a Court-Baron let us see in what action brought at the Common Law ancient Demesne is a good Plea and in what not and what action may be sued in ancient Demesne and what not ANcient Demesne is no Plea in an action upon the Statute R. 2. 2. H. 7. fol. 17. It is no Plea in Trespasse but in Replegiare and Writ of Ward 46 Ed. 3. f. 1. It is no Plea in Trespasse 47 Ed. 3. fol. 22. Ancient Demesne is a good Plea in Replegiare and not in Trespasse 40 Ed. 3. fol. 4.46 Ed. 3. fol. Plaint of fresh force may be sued in ancient Demesne without a Writ of Right close as it seems but another plaint of Land cannot be sued there without a Writ of Right close 26 H. 6. fol. 5. Ke-disseisin and Post-disseisin cannot be sued in ancient Demesne for the Sherif and Coroners cannot inquire there but said that waste may be sued there by a Right close 32 H. 6. f. 29. If a man bring waste at the common Law it is said that ancient Demesne is a good Plea 7 H. 6. fol. 37. and 8 H. 6. f. 83. The Opinion of all the Justices that it is a good Plea in wast for that that by this recovery judgment is to recover the place wasted and by this the Land shall be frank Fee 1 H. 4. fol. 5. The Lord in ancient Demesne cannot hold Plea in Redisseisin and waste by Hull for that that the Sherif is Judge and not the Lord. Warranty of Charters may be sued at the common Law and ancient Demesne is no Plea for VVarranty is by Deed out of the Lâ—nd Fitzh 135. Juris utrum at the common Law ancient Demesne is no Plea for he cannot have a Right close for that that Frank-almaigne cannot be held there but the Tenure there is Socage Abridg. Ass fol. 16.6 Ed. 3. f. 20. the same Statham Detinue of Charters at the common Law to plead ancient Demesne is no Plea 13 Ed. 3. fol. 67. Statham Fitzh 136. In a VVrit of Mesne ancient Demesne is a good Plea In Quid juris clamat brought at the common Law to plead ancient Demesne is a good Plea 20 Ed. 3. Statham fol. 20. In an action upon the Statute of R. 2. brought at the common Law to plead ancient Demesne is no Plea but in account or Replegiare it is a good Plea 21 Edw. 4. fol. 3. VVhere dammages are recovered in ancient Demesne and Debt is brought in the common Bench upon the same dammages it is no Plea for the Defendant to plead ancient Demesne 39 H. 6. fol. 3. Ancient Demesne is a Court-Baron and the Suitors are Judges DEbt was brought in common Bench for dammages recovered in ancient Demesne the Defendant pleads no such record and is no Plea for it is a Court-Baron but no such recovery is good 9 Ed. 4. fol. 44. B. 50. Booke Suitors are Judges in ancient Demesne 34 H. 6. fol. 38. Na. Bre. fol. 12. the same Suitors are Judges in ancient Demesne and not the Bailifs 12 H. 4. fol. 17. Plea shall not be removed out of ancient Demesne unlesse for false Judgment 13 H. 4. fol. 16. Fitzh fol. 12. a the same and that proves that this is a Court-Baron Suitors are Judges in ancient Demesne for that it shall not be removed for that the Bailifs maintaine 3 H. 4. fol. 16. See 6 H. 4. fol. 2. Upon Pone to remove Plea out of ancient Demesne the Sherif returns that the Suitors will not send the Record by which issued a Distresse against the Suitors 18 Ed. 3. Statham False Judgment was brought in the common Bench upon a judgment given in ancient Demesne in a VVrit of Right close and though judgment was given in that in the common Bench
Guardians of Churches Shall have Account against the old VVardens and Trespass of Goods taken 382. Shall have Indictment Appeal of Robbery and are a Corporation for Chattels 383. Church-yard and Church Free-hold of them seems are in the Parson 383. Church-yard and Church not inclosed shall be for that Complaint to the Ordinary 383 Grant of the King See mis-recitall false consideration and false svrmise 60. VVhat is good and what not where the King is deceived 61 General Issue In what Actions he shall have it and what it is 446 Hares TRacing of hares 309 Hawkers and Hunters VVhat is lawfull and what not 115 Hariot Custome is of every Estate aliened and Death 262. Service is properly by reason of Tenure and of every Discent 262. Custome esloigned the Lord shall have Detinue and distrain for hariot service 263. Lord where he may seise and where not and always for hariot custome seise 263. Of Copy-holder Surrender in extremes or aver 265. Hats and Caps 35. High-wayes 34. Hemp. 35. Homage 259. It shall be made to him that hath Inheritance and who shall make it 259. Horses 37 Hue and cry 33 Inmates WHo are and who not and who shall not have Common 90 Incidents VVhat they are and what Incidents may be severed and what not 70 Justice Justice should be made to every one 5. Justice should be ministred 5. And Letters to Justices 5. Judge Steward in Leet and Iustices of Peace are Iudges of Record 81. Iudge in Leet and Court Baron and how there 82 Imparlance Imparlance and day given 394. Imparlance generall and speciall 394. Pleas after Imparlance and last continuance 395. Hee shall have Plea which proves a writ abated or Barr 398. Pleas after the last continuance and day in Bench 399 After Issue matter for last continuance 399 Leet THE precept to warne that and the order to hold that 11. 12. It is ordained to be held twice in the yeare Scilicet within c. 14 The anthority of that inlarged by 18 Ed. 2. c. 13. The charge here begins in that 15. The Breviate of the Change begins 40. Cases argued and agreed to be inquirable there 42. Presentment there which toucheth free-hold traversable and otherwise not 24. Things there not presented shall be presented in Torne and if not in Eyre and if not in the Kings bench 84. It shall be held within a moneth unlesse by prescription and place 88. Form of entring the presentment there 88. The Steward there is Judge of Record 83. Record and his authority there Liberties VVhat the Lord shall have by Charter and what he shall have by prescription 59. Not using and misusing of that is a cause of seisure 58 Livery and Seisin 267 Delivering the Deed within the view in name of Seisin 268. Where give and grant is confirmed and good without Livery 269. Two infeoffed and Livery to one 270. Lex Law Law is ordained to the King for Government 4 The necessity of that and of charity 4 Mannor How that began 7 Materiall What in pleading and what not 456 Maintenance Not by Letters nor otherwise 460 To imbrace Iurors and suborn VVitnesses is 400. To say he will maeintain and doth not is no maintenance but to say that he will spend 20. l. c. is 400. To give money before Suit and covenant to have part of an Obligation for travelling with a stranger born is not 401. VVhere he hath an Obligation delivered for his Debt or Interest as Reversion or Remainder may 401. Servant arrested Master may give of his wages and lend him money 402. It is said that one learned may be of Counsel without Fee and give Evidence for his Fee but not labour the Iury. 404 406. VVho may pray a learned man to be of Counsel with one and who not 404. The Father may his Son Cozen and Kindred in action real and poor but not promise to a Iuror 402. For Burials in Church-yard all Inhabitants may 405 Manucaptor cannot retain Counsel and do nothing but see him appear 402 VVhat an Attorney may do and maintain 404 Modo forma VVhere it is material and where not 460 Mortmain VVhat is Mortmain and what not 36 75 273 Mortdancester Issue upon one point shall not inquire of more 271 Resummons and Process upon that 272. VVhere that lieth and where not and where it is devisable 273. Musters Non-tenure IN what action it shall be pleaded and non-tenure of parcell is not abatement for all 276 Nuper obiit VVhere it lieth between Sisters of halfe blood 277 Negativa preignans VVhere Issue shall be of that and where ntt 462 Obligations How the Conditions of them shall be pleaded 464 Office Grant to one which doth not know to execute void and where to two 282. Assignee and Deputy and where mis-using is Forfeiture 282 Officer How he ought to demean himself in executing Process 278. Executing erroneous Process he excuses and where it is out of their Jurisdiction and where not 279. Arrest in a Church and Bailiff errant without warrant 279 Plaints IN Assise 137 Of Mortdancester and Barr Of entry in the per and cui and Precipe of Summons In Formedon Precipe of Summons and the Count. 8 Pleadings Issue shall not be if he abated or not 422 Issue shall not be upon Affirmative and Negative 423 Diversity between pleading in Trespass and Assise 424 Barr good to common intent and First Face good 426 Barr shall be as high as the matter which is counted 427 Where the Defendants confess and avoids he need not traverse and where he ought 431 Detinue or Trespass the Defendant saith that they were delivered in pawn or by Replegiare and good without Traverse 431 VVhere the Defendant justifies in special manner he ought to traverse 432 Count and Barr good by intendment 445 VVhere the place shall be shewed certain and where not 447 Plea incertain for the year and day and what not 449 A thing issuable ought to be shewed certain 449 What is material pleading and what not 456 Pleading by name and grant and Evidence by name 457 In pleadings where he shall say that is the same 418 Where the Defendant shall say that it is the same Trespass or the same Imprisonment or the same maintenance 471 Conclude in pleading Where the Defendant shall say Judgement if the Plaintiff shall be answered and where Iudgement of the Writ and where to the Iurisdiction and were which so c 433 Order and form how one ought to conclude 433. Where to the Bar there shall be Replication the Defendant ought to conclude and this he is ready c. 433 Where the Defendant pleads to the Issue he ought to conclude and of this he puts himself c. 444 Where the Defendant pleads to the Issue and of this he desireth that c. 434 Where the Defendant pleads general Issue he ought not to conclude and this he is ready c. 434 Pleadings of his own wrong without such cause Where
an action alone and so cannot another marryed Wife The Law And for that that it is necessary and expedient to shew for what causes the Lawes were ordained Fortescue leafe 31. saith That as by Senews the compact of the body is knit together so by Law which of binding is so called this mysticall body is bound together and kept in one And Plowden leafe 9. b. saith The Law is appointed to the King to governe his people and that by three Lawes that is to say Generall Law Customes and Statutes In Matth. chap. 22. it is written That Christ sent forth his Servants that they should call to the Wedding that is to say He sent his Prophets and Preachers and they would not come and there it is sayd That he againe sent out other Servants saying Goe and invite and that is intended our Law which commands constraines and bridles us to come to God and to feare and obey God and the King and to keep us in Peace and to make that every one may hold in peace and tranquility his Goods Lands and lives and all that we have Heraclites saith That without Lawes by no meanes a City can be in safety but without Walls it may And Fortescue leafe 10. saith That thou mayst feare God the Lawes call thee and in leafe 11. That humane Lawes are no other then Rules by which Justice is taught The Prophet David saith Where there is no Order there everlasting horror doth dwell and without Law there can be no Order See Saint Germaine leafe 7. saying Law is ordained for the salvation of the Soule and for to fulfill the Lawes of God and to draw the people to flie evill and to doe good And see in the Doctor and Student leafe 8. the six grounds of the Law First Our Law is grounded upon common reason Secondly Upon the Law of God Thirdly Upon diverse generall Customes Fourthly Upon diverse Maxims Fifthly Upon diverse particular Customes And sixthly Upon diverse Statutes And for that the Law is more necessary for Government Bracton saith The Law maketh the King let the King therefore attribute unto the Law that which the Law hath given unto him that is to say Dominion and Power he is not truely King where will doth rule and not Law And Fortescue fol. 8. saith The Law is a sanctified holinesse commanding holy things and forbidding the contrary and likewise fol. 9. saith That Lawes made by man which to this doth receive power of God and they are likewise constituted by God Plowden fol. 55. b. As Subjects of the King are borne and inherite Lands so to inherite Lawes so that Lawes being the Inheritance of the People the Stewards cannot by Letters or otherwise gainsay nor take from the Tenants the Law By the Commentaries fol. 229. Saxon Law was that the eldest Son should inherite and Brittons Law was Gavelkinde as in Kent and North-wales By the Commentaries fol. 18. Words of Law may be broken for necessity as in the case of Revenger 14. H. 7.29 7. H. 7. fol. 7. If a Prisoner be in Famine and hath not sustenance if he breake Prison it seemeth not to be Felony for the Law of God was ordained to call us and if we will not come then our Law to bridle us sharply to come to God and our Law hath regard to necessity and charity and for that 20. H. 7. fol. 2. where a marryed Wife is throwne or struck with a Horse or is in sicknesse one may assist her and give her meat and drink 20. H. 7. One administers about a buriall that is no Administration for it is a work of charity Doctor and Student fol. 4. Beasts have certaine rule given to them by nature necessary for their being but the Law of Nature and Reason moveth a man to good and is written in the heart of every man to move him what is good to be done and what is to be avoided The Law of God is given by Revelation and light of understanding and there the Law of God ordaines man to eternall life and is Law to the happinesse of this life and this Law is to doe as you would be done unto and this Law will that Justice be done to every man and that no wrong be done Doctor and Student fol. 2. There are foure manner of Lawes that is to say The eternall Law of nature and Reason the Law of God and the Law of Man By Marlebridge Chap. 1. it is enacted That as well the greatest as the smallest should have and receive Justice in the Kings Court and that none of another revenges or destructions should make by his will without consideration of the Kings Court. Westminster the 1. Chap. 1. Common Right should be made to all as well to Poore as to Rich without regard of any See Stamford fol. 56. of Justice 2 Edw. 3. cap. 9. No command either by the great Seal or Privy Seale to disturbe or delay common right And for so much the Justices should not forbeare to doe right in any point 18 Edw. 3. The Statute of the Oath of the Judges is If any Letters to the Justices come contrary to the Law that you shall doe nothing for such Letters but certifie the King of it and resolve before to execute the Law notwithstanding those Letters And to conclude of these matters You ought to consider that God created Man onely to serve him and created all other creatures in the World for the service and use of Man as the Prophet saith Thou hast subjected all things under his feet all Sheep and Oxen and likewise the Beasts of the Feild Birds of the Aire and Fishes of the Sea which walke through the paths of the Sea so that all was made for the use of Man and yet without Law a man cannot injoy that and God being mindfull of Man to serve him as the Prophet saith What is Man that thou art mindfull of him or the Son of Man that thou hast regard unto him And for that God hath ordained Kings to governe and to keep men in obedience to serve and obey God the King and his Lawes for to disobey is detestable And Paul to the Romans Chap. 13. saith Every soule is subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God which powers verily are ordained by God so that whosoever resisteth that power doth resist the Ordinance of God And Peter Chap. 2. saith Be subject to every humane Creature for the Lord and to the King as Saperiour And then for that that the King is ordained of God to make his people to serve God and to keep his people in obedience If you disobey the King you breake that which is commanded contrary in the Scriptures and so you disobey God And you see that if God had not been mindfull of us and had not created and ordained the King to governe us being of fraile nature and that by Lawes to bridle our fraile nature none could enjoy his Lands Goods nor
his life in safety And for that that the Law is so necessary Now let us see when and how these Courts Leets and Court Barons began Fineux The beginning of these Courts Leets ordained 12. H. 7. fol. 18. saith That at the beginning all the administration of Justice was in the Crowne and where the King was there was the Law administred Then afterward for the multiplicity of the people was the Court Leet for punishment of offences and annoyances to the Common-wealth within the Precinct of that and the Articles and paines are ordained to that end and it is called The view of franke pledge for that the King there may be certified by the view of the Steward how many people are within every Leet and also to have account and view by the Steward of their good government and manners in every Leet And also the Leet was ordained to have every person of the age of twelve years which had remained there by a yeare and a day to be sworne to be faithfull and loyall to the King and also for that that the people there might be kept in peace and obedience these Courts Leets were ordained And Court-Barons were ordained to determine Injuries Court-barons ordained Trespasses Debts and other actions as afterwards it appeareth where the debt or the dammages are under forty shillings And also for that that the Lords of the Mannors and Court-Barons have given their Tenants their Lands and Tenements before the Statute of Westm the third to hold of them for that also Homagers of Court ought to inquire in this Court that their Lords shall not loose their Services Customes nor duties And also it was ordained to make their Suites there and so to shew them obedient to their Lords and that nothing be made within the Mannor to be an annoyance or hurtfull to the Inheritances of the Lords of the Mannors which should not there be inquired of and presented for the Lords of the Mannors as afterward by the Articles more plainely appeares And so now you see here breifly that the Realm cannot be governed without a King and that the King for that cause is appointed of God and that the King governe by the Law Roy Ley. and cannot governe his people without Law and also you have heard how ancient and how necessary these two Courts are for governance of the People And now for that these Courts are held within Mannors and that a Court-Baron is incident to a Mannor It is fit to know how Mannors did begin and within what Mannors Court-Barons are held and in what not Parkins fol. 127. saith That the beginning of Mannors was when the King gave a thousand Acres of Land or a greater or lesser parcel to one and his heires to hold of him and his heirs and before the St. of Quia emptores terrarum because buyers of Land one seised of Lands did infeoffe one of ten Acres another of twelve Acres and the third of twenty Acres every one of them to make service unto him and so by continuance of time out of minde c. he had a Mannor Also in the 33. yeare of H. 8. Comprize c. 31. Plow fol. 169. a. A man cannot make a Mannor at this day for notwithstanding that a gift in taile be made to diverse to hold of the giver by Services and Suit of Court though by that there be a tenure yet it cannot make a Court for that cannot be but by Prescription And if a Mannor be and all the Freeholders but one Escheate Mannors cannot be without Court Baron or if the Lord purchase them it is no Mannor and there cannot be a Court-Baron without Sutors and not with one Suitor onely 35. H. 8. Tenures 102. 23. H. 8. Court-Baron 22. Suit 17. Fitzherbert 3. C. If one hold of another as of a Signiory Ingrosse which is not a Mannor he hath no Court Baron Fitzherbert 8. b. Where a man giveth all his Land in Taile there is a Signiorie Ingrosse and he shall have no Court but if he were seised of a Mannor and give parcell of the Demesnes in taile it is otherwise 22. H. 6. Title 2. Services is parcell of a Mannor but not the Land of the Mannor unlesse it be Copihold for if a man hath a Mannor in the County of Westmerland and one holdeth Land of that Mannor which Land is in the County of DARBY hee shall demand that Mannor in the Counties of WESTMERLAND and DARBY 18. of the Booke of Assises 3. If a man seised of a Mannor doe alien foure Acres in fee this is separated and no part of the Mannor but if the Husband seised of a Mannor in right of his Wife alien foure Acres for life and afterwards grant the Reversion of that in fee to P. and afterwards P. purchase the whole Mannor to which the Husband and Wife levie a Fine Sur connusance de Droit upon acknowledgment of Right as that which he had of their gift The Fine extendeth to the foure Acres which were severed for they were parcell in reversion as of the Mannor And in the 36. H. 8.4 Two Coparceners make partition of a Mannor so that each of these have a parcell in Demesnes and a parcell in Services Now each of these hath a Mannor and each of these have two Suitors but otherwise it is if one have but one Suitor he cannot hold a Court-Baron But 12. H. 4.25 Partition is made of a Mannor that one Coparcener shall have the Demesnes and the other the Services the Suit to the Court is suspended and during that there shall be no Court-Baron held And 8. H. 3.4 and 34. H. 6.53 It is held that a Court-Baron is belonging to a Mannor of common right so that within every Mannor shall be a Court-Baron unlesse there be no Suitors there or that by partition the Suit is suspended as it is before said But note that diverse are called Mannors within which are not any that hold of these Mannors but only Copiholders at the will of the Lord according to the Custome of the Mannor and there are no Freeholders which hold by Charter and yet these Lordships are called Mannors and in these are Court-Barons 19. H. 8.17 Court-Baron is belonging to a Mannor And now though the honourable Judges of both Benches and the Honourable Lord cheife Baron and the other Judges there of Record at this day are altogether given to administer Justice to all without respect of any Persons R. 2. Maint 2. according to the Statute of the 1. of Edw. 3. Chap. 14. which is that right be made as well to poore as rich and that none send Letters in disturbance of the Common Law so that praise be to God their whole inclination to the administration of Justice may be a sufficient example to all Stewards to administer Justice and not to have regard to Letters Yet in some Court-Barons I have seen such subverting of Justice by Stewards some by
persons which were common breakers of hedges and other bribers which live in others houses idly or live suspect The Oath of the Reeve or Bayliffe YOu shall sweare That you shall well and truly serve our Lady the Queen and the Lord of this Mannour in the Office of Reeve or Bayliffe of the Mannour for this year to come and you shall well and duly collect all such Rents Revenues and other annuall Profits as shall be chargeable and issuing out of the same Mannour to you And of that you shall make and give a lawfull account at the end of the same year and in every other thing belonging to your Office well and truly to discharge in your Office during this year to come So help you God c. The Oath of the Greve or Hayward or Beadell YOu shall swear That you shall well and truly serve the Queen our Soveraign Lady and the Lord of the Mannour in the Office of Greve Beadell or Hayward of this Mannour for this year to come and you shall duly and truly execute all such Attachments and other Processes as shall be directed to you from the Lord or Steward of this Court and you shall present all Pound-breaches which shall be made within your Office and also all Cattells Strayes and Waifs and in every other thing well and truly hold you in the same Office So help you God c. Oath of a Desiner YOu shall swear That you I.S. from this day forward shall be faithfull and loyall to our Soveraign Lady the Queen c. and to her Heirs and shall keep unto her faith and loyalty of life and of member and of earthly honour and that you shall not conceal any ill or damage intended towards them nor hear any ill of them which you shall not defend them in to your uttermost power So help you God Britton fol. 74. gives that Oath of Affirors YOu shall swear That you will well and truly tax assess and affier all the Amerciaments presented in this Court and in doing of that you shall not spare any for love feare nor affection nor raise nor inhaunce any more greivous then shall be reasonable according to their deserts made and not more nor less nor for envy nor for love assess or affier but upon every one severally according to the quantity of their offences made and not otherwise So help you God c. Oath of the Fealty YOu shall swear That you shall be faithfull and loyall and loyally and faithfully shall carry your selfe to the Lord of this Mannour for the Lands and Tenements which you claim to hold of him and you shall well and duly pay to the Lord of this Mannour and his Heirs from time to time all such Rents Duties Customes and Services that you ought to pay and make for the same Lands at the times appointed So help you God c. Oaths of the Aletaster YOu shall swear That you shall well and truly serve our Soveraign the Queen and the Lord of this Court in the Office of Aletaster or assise within this Lordship for this year to come and you shall well and duly see from time to time that the sale of bread brought to be sold be duly weighed and that it contain such weight according to the prizes of grain as by the Statute is provided that is to say according to the prizes of Corn in the next Markets Also you shall have diligent regard during the time of your Office to all the Brewers and Tiplers within your Office that they and every of them make good and wholesome Ale and Beer for mans body and that they do not sell any before it hath been tasted by you and then to be sold according to the prizes limited and rated by the Justices of Peace and all defaults committed and done by the Bakers Brewers and Tiplers or by any of them you shall present at the Court here by which punishment may be ministred unto them for their offences and in every other thing you shall well and truly behave your selves in your Office for this year So help you God c. The Oath of the Constable YOu shall swear That you will well and truly serve the Queen and the Lord of this Lawday and you shall indeavour that the Peace of our Soveraign the Queen well and truly according to your power be kepr and you shall arrest all which you see making Riots Debates or Frayes or breaking the Peace and you shall well and truly indeavour your selves according to your knowledge that the Statute of Winton for Watch Hue and Cry and the Statutes made for the punishment of sturdy Beggers Vagabonds Rogues and other idle persons coming within your Office that the Offenders be punished and you shall indeavour your selves upon complaint to you to apprehend Barretors and riotous persons making Frayes and also apprehend Felons and if any of them make resistance with force and multitude of Offenders you shall make out-cry and pursue them till they are taken and you shall look to such persons as use unlawfull Games and you shall have regard to the maintenance of Artillery and you shall well and duly execute all Processe and Warrants sent unto you from the Justices of the Peace of the County and you shall make good and faithfull presentment of all bloodsheds out-cries affrayes and rescues made within your Office and you shall well and duly according to your power and knowledge do that which belongs to your Office of a Constable to do for this year to come So help you God Constables And for that that the Constable is here chosen and sworn that is inquirable here if he do his Office and for that let us see what authority a Constable hath and what he ought to do AT the Common Law before the making of the Statutes by which Justices of the Peace were ordained to keep the Peace The cheif Justice of England was appointed by the King and he hath authority and he was ordained to determine matters touching the Crown and for conservation of the Peace throughout the Realme and he for that is the cheife Justice of the Peace Also by the Common Law before there was any Justice of Peace Constables of every Town were keepers of the Peace within their Townes If any be threatned upon complaint to the Constable he may inforce the party to put in a Suerty and if he do not commit him to prison till he hath found a Suerty 4 Ed. 3. Barr. 102. If any be strucken and in perill of death the Constable ought to arrest the Offendor and to keep him in Prison till it be known if he will live or dy or till he have found Suerties to appeare before the Justices at the Goale-delivery If Felons or Murderers be in a Town and the Constable hath notice of that it is his Office and duty to raise People to take them 1 R. 3. chap. 3. And if any Felon be taken it is the Office of the
and took Hares Coneys and Pheasants and not his and good for he hath no property 22. H. 6. fol. 65. Doctor Student fol. 9. None hath property of Birds Fowle wilde Beasts of Forrest and Warren yet the eggs of Hawks Herons and such like are to them which owe the Land Fitzh 67. No man shall be taken and imprisoned for Vert or Veneson if he be not found with the manner or indicted Nat. bre fol. 41. the same See Britton fol. 84. 18. Ed. 4. fol. 14. Where a man licenses me to hunt and kill a Buck in his Park my servant cannot come in by my commandment for the license shall be strict to him to whom it is given 2. Ed. 4. fol. 5. Trespasse one cannot justifie by license of a Keeper to kill a Deer 16. Ed. 4. fol. 7. Trespasse by force of armes he broke his Dove-house and took his Pigeons in the same and good but not abroad when they are out and have no mark and are in the fields 38. Ed. 3. fol. 12. Trespasse for entering into his Warren and took his Pheasants it was held that if the Defendant fly a Pheasant in his own land out of the Warren and his Hawke fly and kill in anothers Warren his entry into the Warren is a wrong Treheron in his reading shewed that Forrest ought to be by Commission and Proclamation and that a common person cannot have a Forrest that is to say cannot make a Forrest nor use Forrest-Lawes as it is said And to a Forrest there are divers Officers and to this is incident a Court of Swannimote but a common person may have a Chase or Park by Grant or Prescription and Forrest-Lawes shall not be to a Chase nor Court of Swannimote the Statute of 13. R. 2 is not inquirable in a Leet but before Justices of Peace that is to say that it is that no Artificer nor Lay man which hath not Lands to the value of forty shillings per annum and no Clark which is not advanced to ten pound per annum shall not keep a Harrier or other Dog to Chase nor shall use Ferrets Hayes Nets Harepipes nor Cords nor other Engines to take or to distroy wilde beasts upon pain of imprisonment for a year yet it is inquirable in a Court Baron if any hunt or hawke within a Park Chase Warren or Demesne Lands of the Lord of the Mannour without his license and for that something of that shall be said 12. H. 8. fol. 3. Trespasse lieth for taking a Hound or Deere out of the possession of the Plaintiffe and hath possession and not property 12. H. 8. fol. 10. One hath but possession of a Deer and if they go out catch that catch may and if any Hawke kill a Pheasant in your Land it seems that I shall have the Pheasant and yet it seems that one cannot hunt nor hawke in anothers Land 10. H. 7. fol. 30. Account lieth against a Keeper for the Deer for he hath possession as a Bailiffe one may grant liberty to one to take every year a Deer or to the Keeper the shoulders of them killed 13. H. 7. fol. 10. Where a Deer is given to one he may bring in his servants to take it for otherwise peradventure he cannot serve his Warrant 13. H. 7. fol. 13. It is said If one hath license to chase he cannot kill 18. Ed. 4. fol. 14 15. H. 7. fol. 16. Fine for hunting shall be greater then the trespasse 21. H. 7. fol. 30. It is lawfull for one to kill a Hart out of the Forrest though he be proclaimed 12. H. 8. fol. 4. saith That one may distrain a Brache doing damage which enters into my Close to chase 2 Ed. 3. tit distresse 20. 48. Ed. 3. fol. 8. He that hath land adjoyning to a Chase may hunt Deer out of his ground with a little Dog but not with Begles and by some if the Dog follow them into the Chase and the owner drives them back yet if they kill the beast trespasse doth not lye Seek 18 H. 6. f. 22. Held that if a man goe in the way adjoyning to a Park and his Dogs break his Leash and kill a Deere in the Parke against his will and he call them back he shall not be punished but it seems that if he doe not what he can to hinder them it shall be a trespasse Fitzh 19. If one incite or procure his Dog to bite a man he shall have his trespasse upon that Assise IN so much that an Assise is brough of a Copy-holder some thing is to be noted to you touching Assises And first I intend That if a Copi-holder of Inheritance dyeth seised of a Copi-hold and his heire enter as he may though there be no Court kept and he not admitted and be outed by a stranger of that dissâ—isic he shall have a Plaint in nature of an Assise Seek for it is 13 Eliz. by the Justices If Tenant by Copy of Court Roll dye seised and his heire enter and take the profits he is no trespasser though the Lord hath not admitted him Tenant and though no Court were held there in seven yeares and further there said that it was adjudged in the Chancery That if Tenant by Copy of Court Roll hath issue two Daughters by diverse Women and they enter and take the profits and one dyes before any Court held now her Cozen collaterall ought to Inherite as heire to her and not the other Sister as heire to the Father which proves that this was a seisin according to their Custome The same Law is if a Copl-holder be admitted and after is thrust out by another or if another be admitted to it and by this he that was first admitted is thrust out by him which was secondly admitted the first Admittee shall have a Plaint in nature of an Assise of that disseisin Plowden Com. fol. 528. Parson before Induction cannot grant an anuity for he hath no possession so it seems if a Copi-holder dye seised his issue shall not have an Assise before admittance Fitz. 177. a. Where Tenant for life in Fee simple or Fee taile is disseised of his Lands and Tenements or outed of that against his will this is disseisin and he shal have an Assise of novel disseisin Nat. brevium fol. 107. Fitz. 195. c. Where my Father or my Mother my Brother or my Sister or my Unkle or my Aunt or Nephew or Neece dye seised of any Lands or Tenements or of Rents of an Estate of Fee simple now if a stranger take possession of this Land or Rent after their death I which am their heire shall have an Assise of Mortdancester Nat. brevium fol. 118. So for a Copi-hold in Fee If my Father Mother Brother or Sister Unkle Aunt Nephew or Neece dye seised of that and a stranger enters I shall have a plaint and make protestation to Sue in nature of a Mortdancester and upon disseisin as above in nature of an Assise of novel Disseisin
Assises 1. accordingly The Bailiff shall have any Challenge to an array and to the heads 9 H. 7. fol. 24. and Abridgment book of Assises fol. 48. the same The Bailiff may plead non-tenure or mis-naming of the Plaintiff but not of his Master and conclude if c. 22 H. 6. f. 44.9 H. 7. f. 24.26 As 61 Bailiff may plead that the Tenements are in another Town for that is an abatement 9. H. 7. fol. 24 Abridgment Assise f. 47. and 6 H. 7. f. 15. accordingly but 22 H. 6. fol. 50. seems contrary but a Bailiff cannot disclaim but an Atturney may 13 Ed. 3. Tit. 8. Bailiff pleads out of his Fee Judgment if without specialty c. and he cannot have that at this day but in 2 Ed. 3. Tit. 10. he hath this Plea for the Bailiff cannot have any Pleas but where he may conclude over and if it be not found no wrong no disseisin c. see the Abridgment book of Assises fol. 47. and 2. Assise 4. Bailiff may plead ancient Demesne and conclude if it be not found c. and conclude to Assise otherwise Bailiff cannot plead ancient Demesne for that that it is triable by the book of Doomes-day and for that he cannot conclude Judgment if the Court will acknowledge Abridgment booke of As f. 48. and 9. book As 2 see 6 H. 7. fol. 15. Bailiffe may plead that the Plaintiffe is seised the day of the Writ purchased and every other exception tryable by Assise 9 As 4. Bailiffe cannot plead that the Writ is purchased hanging another Assise nor not attached by fifteene dayes for it is tryable by the Record Abridgment of Assise fol. 48. 8 As 2. and 8 Ed. 3. As 40. Bailiffe may plead that his Master is Parson of D. not naming Parson and if it be not found no wrong c. 12. As 4. Bailiffe may plead misnaming and joynt-tenancy without Deed 6 H. 4. fol. 15. and 8 H. 6. fol. 56. Bailiffe cannot plead Excommunication or outlawry in the Plaintiffe for he cannot plead a Dilatory Plea unlesse it be tryable by the Assise and that he may conclude and if it be not found no wrong no disseisin 5 Ed. 4. fol 113. Bailiffe may plead not attached by fifteen dayes Abridgment of Assise fol. 47. Pleas of the Disseisor THe Disseisor may plead release of actions personalls in barr but not release of actions realls for none shall plead that but the Tenant Litt. fol. 115. The Disseisor may plead that the Demandant hath entred hanging the Writ notwithstanding that he goes to the Tenancy and the reason which is there made is for that that such Plea goes to excuse him of damages And note that there it appeares also that the Disseisor shall plead every barr unlesse sach a Barr which goes to the Tenancy or to extinguish the right of the Plaintiffe in the Land as if he pleads release of all actions personals or that the Plaintiffe hath entred hanging the Writt that he may plead but he cannot plead release of right made to the Tenant of the Land nor other plea which goeth to the Land but he shall plead every plea to the Writ which doth not extend to the tenancy as if he had no Tenant named in the Writ or no such in Rerum natura and misnaming of the Plaintiffe or of himselfe 35 H. 6. fol. 13. Contrary 37 H. 6.3 by Choke Therefore inquire The Disseisor shall not plead any plea to the Tenancy which the Tenant by his admittance hath made good 26 Book of Assises 49. Disseisor cannot plead in abatement that the Plaintiffe hath a Writ of an older date hanging against him 45 Ed. 3. fol. 25. and 23. Ass 14. Disseisor cannot plead ancient Demesne without taking the tenancy upon him 21 Ass 2. Disseisor cannot plead Record or Estoppell for by the sayling of the Record he cannot loose the Land 20 Ed. 3. Brook Assise 403. Disseisor shall plead misnaming of the Plaintiffe and also that the Plaintiffe is covert of Baron and if he alleadge outlawry in the Plaintiffe he ought to have the Record in hand and note that the Disseisor in proper person or by Attourney and not by Bailiffe pleads that the Plaintiffe hath another Assise hanging against him as it appeares 8 Ed. 3. Ass 140. See 28 Ass 38.24 Ass 91. and this seemes by the Statute of Westm 2. chap. 15.19 Ass 10. and 20 Ed. 3. Ass 20. Disseisor may plead entry of the Plaintiffe after the last continuance and joynt-tenancy for he may plead all Pleas which excuse him of damages or which are in barr which doe not extinct the right of the Land 35 H. 6. fol. 16. Disseisor may plead outlawry in the Plaintiffe that is where the Tenant hath not pleaded and admitted the Writ 29 Ass 61. and 20 Ed. 3. Ass 20. It is sayd by Babington That a Disseisor can not plead any plea in barr but no wrong or that it ariseth to so much 2 H. 6. fol. 1. Pleas by Tenant Where after a Bailiffe hath pleaded or the Tenant himselfe and the Assise upon that adjourned or award or hath imparled the Tenant cannot plead new matter unlesse it be matter of a later time or a matter following or a matter upon which may have Certificate or the generall Issue THe Tenant pleads to Assise by Bailiffe and the Assise awarded the Tenant can plead no plea in barr afterwards but such upon which he may have Certificate of Assise 10 H. 7. fol. 12. 8 Ass 17. The Tenant pleads by a Bailiffe and the Assise remaines for default of Jurors and now the Tenant comes in proper person and saith The Plaintiffe hath received the Tenements of him hanging the Writ and hath let to him for yeares and hath for that he cometh in of later time 10 Ass 24.18 Ed. 3. fol. 33. If a plea be pleaded and the Justices dye all shall be pleaded anew but if they be at Issue that shall stand 5 H. 7. fol. 7. b. by Hussey After adjournment upon the Plea of the Bailiffe the Tenant may plead matter which comes of later time 18 Ed 3. tit 33. The Tenant himselfe after the Assise awarded may leave his barr and plead the generall Issue but he cannot plead a new barr after Issue 34 H. 6. fol. 10. and 29. 40 Ed. 3. fol. 48. b. The Tenant pleads in Barre and after the Jury hath the view and he leaves his Barr and pleads to the Assise 34. H. 6. fol. 29. abridg Assis fol. 138. Where they are adjourned upon a point certaine he cannot plead new plea afterwards unlesse pursuing as if the Tenant himselfe before adjournment had pleaded speciall Bastardy he may plead afterwards generall Bastardy 42 Ed. 3. fol. 12. After adjournment upon a Plea in barr certaine he cannot plead new plea in barr but onely the generall issue 8 As 10. and 10 Ed. 3. tit 157. and 44 Book of Ass 1. Where they are adjourned upon a Plea in abatement and after the
Writ is awarded good he may afterwards plead in barr 6 Book of Ass 1. Infant in Assise pleads Ontlawry of Felony in Barr and at another day was suffered to plead Release of the Plaintiffe in Barr 14 Ass 15. Assise the Tenant pleads in Barr and the Plaintiffe joynes Issue and the Court doe not take the Assise the same day and the next day the Tenant cannot change his Plea 11 H. 4. fol. 2. b. Where the Tenant pleads to the Assise by a Bailiffe if his Master have a Release or a Writing of which the Jury cannot have notice then if the Assise passe against the Bailiffe yet the Master shall have Certificate upon this Writing the same Law is if the Verdict be not well examined by the Justices and see more there Fitzherbart fol. 181. b. The Tenant pleads in Barr a Deed of the Ancester of the Plaintiffe with warranty and the Plaintiffe makes Title and afterwards he cannot plead in abatement that the Lands were in another Towne for that that the Assise was awarded 10 Edw. 3. tit 157. and 1 Ass 17. The Tenant pleads in Barr and the next day pleads by a Bailiff to the Assise and may for that the Assise was not awarded Abridg. As f. 47. Where the Assise was awarded upon the Plea of the Bailiff at another day after the Tenant comes and pleads Release and hath it for that he may have Certificate Abridgment As fol. 138. The Tenant may relinquish his Barr and plead the generall Issue otherwise it is in Cosenage Grand-Father and great Grand-Father but he cannot plead a new Barr 40 Ed. 3. fol. 49. Ass Assise the Tenant pleads in Barr the Deed of the Ancester of the Plaintiff with warranty and the Plaintiff makes Title and after the Tenant waives the Barr and pleads in abatement that the Lands are in another Town and cannot 1 Book of Assises 17. Assise If a Plea be pleaded and the Justices dye all shall be pleaded a new but if they are at Issue they shall stand 4 H. 7. fol. 7. Where in 〈◊〉 Assise a man shall have diverse Pleas to the writ and conclude over no wrong no Disseisin and where not NOte that the party himself or his Bailiff may have diverse Pleas where one is not contrary to the other concluding over no wrong as if he plead mis-naming of the Plaintiff if it be not found no Tenant of the Free-hold named in the Writ and if it be found no such Town and such like and notwithstanding and if it be not found no wrong for one is not contrary to the other but if he will say that the Tenements are in another Town and if it be not found no Tenant of the Free-hold named in the Writ and if it be not found no wrong these Pleas he shall not have for he shall not plead no Tenant of the Freehold named in the Writ c. And after say the Tenements are in another Town Note though the book at large be if it be found leaving out this word Ne yet the book of Entryes is if it be not found and so it seems in reason that it shall be as above if it be not found c. 36 H. 6. fol. 1. Where one pleads to a Writ and also in Barr what Barr is that which doth not go to the point of Assise scilicet no wrong but it is a Barr out of the point of Assise in such a case he shall not have both the Pleas for by such Barr the Plea to the Writ is waived as in an Assise of Rent the Tenant pleads wrong naming of himself and if it be not found out of his Foe he shall not have these two Pleas 3 Ed. 3.15 Tit. 172. Tit. 223. It seems if the Tenant plead in abatement of the Writ he shall not plead over to the Assise if his Plea to the Writ be not triable by the Assise 22 Book of Assises 14. In an Assise of Rent the Bailiff pleads mis-naming of the Town and if found not so c. That another is Tenant of the Rent not named for this is not contrary and it seems that in an Assise of Rent the Tenant of the Land may say that the Land whereout c. is in another Town and if found it be not that he hath a taker of the Rent not named contrary it is in an Assise of Land 15 Ed. 3. Tit. 55. In Assise by a Master and his Brethren of the fraternity of nine orders of Angells in he County Middlesex Defendant plead no such corporation by this name in this County and if it be not found not wrong he shall not have them both for the first Plea is in Barr and shall not have Barr and generall Issue 22 Ed. 4 fol. 34. Assise of Lands in Woxbridge the Tenant pleads that they are in Collam and not in Woxbridge and if it be not found no wrong and he hath 11 H. 4. fol. 2. b. It is said that in an Assise the Tenant or his Bailiff may plead tewnty severall matters in abatement or to an Assise and conclude if it be not found c. and is good 1 Ed. 4. fol. 4. and 8 H. 6. fol. 9. Where the Assise shall be awarded at large that is to say in point of Assise that is to say to inquire of Seisin and Disseisin and where in Right of Dammages and where not ASsise the Tenant pleads in abatement that the Plaintiff hath received the Land of him hanging the Assise and that he hath let to him for yeares again and the Plaintiff saith that he hath continued his Estate which he had by Disseisin without that that any Estate present of him he take and the Assise was charged upon the point and over upon the Seisin and Disseisin 10 book of Assises 24. If the Tenant plead in Barr and the Plaintiff makes title and the Tenant doth not traverse that the Assise shall be awarded at large 45 Ed. 3. fol. 24. Where there is a good Barr pleaded and an outing is confessed and the Barr is traversed or if the Plaintiff make Title and that is found for the Plaintiff or if there be an ill Barr pleaded that the Plaintiff need not answer but say come the Assise upon the Title and it is found for the Plaintif in all these cases the Plaintif shall have judgment without inquiring of Seisin and Disseisin 6 H. 7. fol. 2. Where the Plaintiff makes Title at large without answering to the Barr and the Tenant do not traverse this Title he shall not answer to that as that confessed and avoided or without saying let the Assise come upon the Title but let the Assise run without any thing saying to the Title there the Assise shall be taken at large and not upon the Title as in the Assise the Plaintif makes Title at large and in the end saith and this he is ready to aver by Assise and the foresaid tenant likewise the Assise shall be taken at large the reason
common Law and good by all the Justices for though a Formedon in discender were not given but by Starute yet this Writ now lieth at the common Law and it shall be intended that that hath been the custome time out of minde c. See Littleton fol. 14. Plaint in nature of Formedon in discender and also Littleton saith that copy-holder is where within the Mannour the Tenants within the same Mannour have used time out of minde to have Lands or Tenements to them and to their Heires in Fee simple or see Taile and though that the Statute of Westminster 2 chap. 1. is That the will of the giver in writing should be observed so that copy-hold is not within the Statute yet in these Mannors within which time out of minde they have been used to have Estates in taile in this Mannor and not in others are Estates taile of copy-holds 15. H. 8. tit 24. And now it is common usage to cut of the Taile of copy-holdes within such Mannors where there is an Estate taile of copy-hold by common recovery in the nature of a Writ of entry in the Post which after followes and also by recovery in nature of a Writ of Right and joyne the Mise as followes afterwards and another way is to cut of the intaile and that is by presentment that the copy-holder hath made a Lease by Indenture for divers years or other forfeiture and then the Lord to seise for that and to surrender to the Purchasor and these two waies are allowed for good It is said that five grounds of Law in England is and hath been in diverse particuler customes the which customes though they are against the generall customes of Law yet they are in effect and are taken for Law and so I intend that this custome of copy-hold Estate for that that it hath continuance by prescription is good by the Law that the copy-holder hath an Estate by custome and Law also and that of that may be an Estate taile where that hath been used by prescription Doctor and Student fol. 20. Copy-holders COpy-hold Lands were before the Conquest and it was called Folk-Land in the time of the Saxons and the Charter-lands are called Bock-land And also Bracton Book 4. allows of Copy-hold land and sayes That doing their Services and customes Their Lords cannot put them out And so Copy-hold Estates have in time of every King since the Conquest by all the Justices been allowed so that for the antiquity and their continuall alowance from time to time the Estates of Copy-holds are affirmed in Law yet Fitzh fol. 12. b. saith That Copy-holders in ancient times were called Tenants in Villainage or base tenure But this doth not make them Villaines for Littleton fol. 39. saith That some Free men hold their Tenements according to the custome of certaine Mannors by Villaine Services and yet they are not Villaines and though at the beginning of Copy-holds they had but a base Estate and at the will of their Lords yet when they have continued their Estates by Copy of time out of minde then doing their customes and services as Copy-holders ought to doe they ought to enjoy their copy-holds whether the Lord will or no and it appears by divers Statutes that copy-holds have been in reputation for by the Statute of 1 R. 3. chap. 4. 19 H. 7. chap. 13. Copy-holder which might expend by the year 26 s. 8. d. shall be accounted of the same sufficiency to be impannelled of a Jury as he which might expend 20. s. per annum of Free-hold land and by 2 Ed. 6. chap. 8. the interest of Copy-holders are preserved notwithstanding they are not found by Office after the death of the Kings Tenant and by 13 Eliz. chap. 7. Lands of a Bankrupt as well copy-hold as free-hold shall be sold so it appears copy-hold Estates shall be regarded and those Demesnes which are in the hands of the Copy-holders are such Demesnes as the services which they do make a Mannor though the Lord have no other Demesnes in his own hands nor in his Farmors Bailiff or Servants for it is Demesnes having regard to the Lord for that that upon every Surrender the Lord hath medling and grants it over in his Court. And if you will admit that an Estate Tail by usage of time out of minde may be of Copy-hold within a Mannour where it hath been used by prescription and Plaints of Formedon have there been brought why will ye doubt but that it may be well cut off by common recovery in Plaint in nature of a Writ of Entry in the Post or at least in nature of a Writ of Right and Mise ioyned upon meer Right and after Default made by the Tenant and Judgement final given though that these Recoveries have not been used there by prescription for they are at the common Law and Plaints in nature of these Writs are to be sued there of copy-hold It is said that a Fine levied in ancient Demesne is of no worth for it is no Court of Record but it is said that common Recoveries may be sued there to cut off the Intail and good for that that the land shall be pleaded there by a Writ of Right close and not otherwise and copy-holder shall be impleaded in Court Baron of the Mannour by Plaint and not elsewhere And for that the Recoveries aforesaid to cut off the Intail of a copy-holder may be there though they were not there used before if there be Estates Tail there and if usage makes the Estate Tail and also usage makes the copy-holder to have an Estate of Inheritance by custome and is good 50. Book of Assises 9.47 Ed. 3.38 And though Littleton fol. 16. If Lord out his copy-holder he hath no other remedy but to sue to his Lord by Petition for he saith the Lord cannot break the custome which is reasonable but if such Lord will break the Custome it is no Reason to suffer such a Lord to be his own Judge and to compell a copy-holder to sue to him by Petition But for that that divers Lords are of an ill conscience that before were as I have heard for that divers grave Judges now hold that a tenant copy-holder may have Trespass against his Lord according to the opinion of Brian and Danby And this at this day seems reason for though at the beginning copy-holders had but Estate at the will of the Lord yet by the continuance of this Estate of time out of minde they have such Inheritance by the custome of the Mannour that the Lord doing his Services cannot out them and the prescription goes to the Land and not to the Lord nor to the occupation for that is copy-hold land which hath been let and demisable time out of minde c. If the Tenant by copy deny to do his Services the Lord may enter for forfeiture if it be presented by the Homage but if the Tenant by chance makes a Default at the Lords Court and
work or three pence and of every one which hath a Gate into the Wood a Hen is a custome allowed 11 H. 6.2 Custome or prescription to have House-boote in the Lords Wood is good but not to have Wood to sell 11 H. 6. f. 11. Custome that within the Mannor of D. the Wife shall have the whole Land of her Husband in Dower whilest he is unmarried and if she marry that she shall forfeit that is good and allowable 21 Ass 11. Custome that a Woman covert may demise and surrender her Copy-hold to the use of her Husband this custome is not allowable but custome that an Infant at his age of discretion may surrender his copy-hold that is good but contrary of an Infant within age of discretion to make a surrender 21 H. 7. fol. 26. Lord to prescribe that every Tenant of his Mannor ought to Impound distresse taken within his Mannor in his Pound is not good for he may Impound in his owne Land 8 Ed. 4. fol. 19. Those which are Fishets in the Sea may prescribe to goe upon the Land adjoyning to the Sea to Fish for that is for the Common wealth but to digg to fix the Stakes to dry their Nets is against common right and is not good 21 Ed. 4. tit 50. Custome to turne his Plough upon the head-land of another is a good custome 40 Edw. 3. fol. 9. Custome to pay to the Lord five Marks for Releife and not more hold he more or lesse is good 44 Ed. 3. fol. 13. Custome that the Tenants ought to choose a Beadle amongst them to geather the Lords Rents is good 2 Mar. tit Prescription B. 100. Custome may be alleadged where there is no person that may prescribe as Inhabitants cannot prescribe but alleadge custome there to have Common in D. for one goes with the person and another with the place and prescription with the person by 21 H. 7. fol. 13. that is That all the Tenants have used to pay after their death a Harriot is not good but that the Lord hath used to have after the death c. he may prescribe 18 H. 8. fol. 2. Inhabitants by Fitzherbart cannot prescribe to have Common but the Lord may prescribe for him and his Tenants c. of time out of minde c. 7 Ed. 4. fol. 24. It seemes that Inhabitants cannot prescribe to Intercommon because of Neighbourhood but Inhabitants may prescribe to have easement that is to say That they have a way or other thing of easement but not to take profit 12 Ed. 4. fol. 2. It seemes by Catesby that the Inhabitants of D. may prescribe that they have used to pay but three pence for Toll 18 Ed. 4. fol. 3. It is sayd that the Inhabitants of D. cannot prescribe that they have used to have Common in anothers Freehold but that they have used to have a way 15 Ed. fol. 28. the same 40 Ed. 4. fol. 18. Schollers of Oxford and Justices of Assise may prescribe to have principall of Houses notwithstanding they are not corporate for that they are for the Common wealth 26 H. 8. fol. 6. Parishoners may prescribe to choose two Church-wardens of a Church every yeare and good 11 Ed. 4. fol. 2. Serjeants at the Law may prescribe that they have used to be Impleaded by Originall and not by Bill and so prescribe in usage 20 Ed. 4. fol. ult Officer which hath his Office at will may prescribe as Cheife Justice of the Bench and other which have used to give Offices 22 Ed. 4. fol. 18. The Lord Chancellor of England which is at will may prescribe in usage that is to present to all Benefices under forty Marks which are in the Kings right but he ought to prescribe in his Office that is that all Chancellors c. and so many Justices prescribe 20 H. 6. fol. 9. the same 12 H. 7. fol. 14. Officers may prescribe that they and all the Officers whose Estate c. Have used and so forth c. Note how one shall have a Rent or a thing which cannot be granted without Deed by prescription 13 Book of Ass 4. Rent was recovered by Verdict in Assise where the Assise found that he and those whose Estate he hath were seised of time out of minde and so note Rent recovered by title of prescription and the party shews a deed by which he purchased the Rent but not a Deed of the beginning of it Littleton fol. 34. saith Such things which cannot be granted nor aliened without Deed or Fine a man which will have things by prescription he cannot otherwise prescribe but in him and his Ancestors whose Heire he is and not in him and those whose Estate he hath for that that he cannot have his Estate without Deed or other writing which he ought to shew 12 H. 7. fol. 14. One avows for that that he and all those whose Estate he hath in the Hundred have view of Frank pledge and that by reason of ten Acres within that he ought to make Suite at the view c. 22 Book of Ass 53. Ass One makes Title to Rent that he and his Ancestors Lords of the Mannor of D. and those whose Estate he hath of time out of minde have used the Rent and this is good without shewing a Deed of purchase of that being appurtenant to the Mannor 11 H. 6. f. 14. To say that he is seised of a Messuage and twenty Acres and to prescribe that he and all those c. have used House-boote and Wood to sell it is not good to prescribe to sell it Custome shall be taken strictly Custome of London is that a Citizen and a Free-man may devise in Mortmaine but a Citizen which is a forrainer cannot devise in Mortmain for it shall be taken strictly 5 H. 7. f. 10. 5 H. 7. fol. 41. Custome that an Infant of the age of fifteen years may make a Feoffment yet a Lease and Release which mounts to so much is not good 22 Ed. 4. Tit. 17. Infant by custome of Gavelkinde at the age of fifteen may make a Feoffment yet he cannot make a Will upon the same Feoffment for custome shall be taken strictly Perkins f. 83. Where the custome is that the Wife shall have halfe the Lands of her Husband for her Dower yet shee shall not have the halfe of a Faire or a Bailiwick for they are not Lands and shall be taken strictly 38 Ass 18. By the custome of London a Citizen may devise Lands which are within the same City in Mortmain but not Lands out and Forrainer cannot devise Land in London in Mortmaine Costs against the Plaintiffe THat in every Court in trespasse upon the Statute of 5 R. 3. chap. 7. Debt covenant by specialty or upon contract Detinue of Goods account action upon the case or upon the Statute for personall wrong ought to be remedied if after appearance of the Defendant the Plaintiff be nonsuited or a Verdict passe against him the Defendant shall recover his costs
all the House 15 H. 7. fol. 11. By Fineux where a Farmer of a Wood makes waste in one corner this onely is forfeited but if it be in divers places of the Wood all is forfeited and the plots in this also 15 Ed. 3. Tit. 108. See the time of Ed. 1. Tit. 122 VVaste against Guardian 4 Ed. 6. Tit. 136. By Bromley if a man make waste in hedge-rowes which inclose a Pasture nothing shall be recovered but the place wasted that is the circuit of the Root and not the whole Pasture 41 Ed. 3. Tit. 24. B. Fitzh 60. T. If a Guardian make waste and the Heir being within age bring a writ of waste by this the Guardian shall loose the VVardship and over that his Damages to as much as the waste amounts unto But if the Heir were of full age that he looseth not the VVardship then he ought to recover treble Damages for that that he cannot loose the VVardship according to the Statute of Glocester 43 Ed. 3. f. 6. VVaste it is a good Plea in Barr that the House fell by Tempest and if he covenant to repair that it is no plea in Covenant 49 Ed. 3. fol. 1. VVaste it is a good Plea that at the time of the Lease that the house was weak and that the great Timbers were rotted that it fell for if any the principal Timbers were rotten it is no waste though he covenant to repair it 8 H. 6. f. 57. Waste it is a good Plea that the Plaintiff hath entered into the Land before which Entry no waste made 8 H. 5. f. 8. Waste it is a good Plea that he surrendred to which the Plaintiff agreed before that no waste made 9 H. 6. f. 11. Waste by the Heir is a good Plea that the Plaintiff hath an elder Brother which survived the Plaintiff and after died after whose Death no waste made and a good Plea 44 Ed. 3. f. 27. Waste against a Guardian in Knight-service who saith that after the Death of the Ancestor J. F. abated against whom the Defendant recovered in a VVrit of VVard after which Recovery no waste made and it is a good Plea 12 H. 4. f. 6. VVaste it is a good Plea that that fell before the Lease 19 H. 6. fol. 66. VVaste that he suffered the House to be uncovered by which the great Timber rotted it is no Plea to say Day of the VVrit purchased the House was sufficiently repaired but to say after the waste and before the VVrit purchased it was sufficiently repaired 8 H. 6. fol. 61. VVaste held where Land is given to the Husband and the VVife and the Heirs of the VVife and the Husband discontinues in Fee and takes an Estate for life and the VVife dies the Heir of the VVife shall not have waste before that he hath purged the Discontinuance 8 H. 6. f. 63. Fitzh 59. E The heir within age shall have a writ of waste against a Guardian in Socage 2 Ed. 2. Fitzh the same Nat. bre 58. If a Guardian in Socage make waste the Heir when he cometh to full age shall have an action of account for that 14 Ed. 3. tit 107. It seems that waste lies against a Guardian in Socage tit 100. Fitzh Fitzh 58. H. There is a writ of waste in the Register for him in reversion against tenant by Elegit which hath the Lands in execution but it seems he shall not have waste for that that he may have a venire facias to account and there the waste shall be recompenced in the debt but by the action of waste he shall recover treble damages which he shall not have in the account Nat. Bre. fol. 37. waste doth not lie against tenant by Elegit nor against tenant by Stat. Merchant but if they make waste account lies 42 Ed. 2. tit 11. fol. If a Lease be made to one to use it in the best way that he can now he cannot make waste 17 E. 3. tit 101. If a Lease be made to one so that he may make his profit of that c. yet it shall not be intended such as common right gives him for he cannot pull down abouse and make waste Action upon the Case Action upon the case in Court baron and other Court and first for slander IT lies for calling one traytor felon and robber of the Kings people and that is to be noted in Iustice Seatons case 30. Ass 19. 22. Book of ass 43. presentment that one a is common Malefactor or a common thief or a common Baretor is not certain and is not good and so it is thought by divers to say that one is a common malefactor or a common baretor this action doth not lie for it is too general 2 Ed. 4. fol. 5. For calling one villain it seems that action upon the case doth not lie 17 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Saith there that an action upon the case doth not lie for calling the Plaintiff villain without more Nat. Bre. fol. 55. There are two desamations or slanders the one spiritual the other temporal temporal where he cannot be punished by the spiritual Law as to say that the Plaintiff is out-lawed of murder conspiracy forging of deeds c. 30 H. 8. tit 104. Lyeth for calling the Plaintiff perjured man for now perjury is punishable in our Law by the Statute of 5. Eliz. yet inquire for that it is not in what Court or cause he was perjured Register fol. 54. For calling the Plaintiff Adulterer or Usurer Defendant shall be punished in the spiritual Court and there doth not lie an action upon the case 4. Ed. 6. tit 112. Lies for calling the Plaintiff a false Justice of Peace 27 H. 8. fol. 13. It lies for calling the Plaintiff theif and inditing him of felony and note the words of the writ are that he is hurt in his goods his name fame and condition 26. H. 8. fol. 11. For calling the Plaintiff Thief and saying that he hath stolen sheep of one I. S. It lies 17 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Lies for writing slander in a paper by which he durst not go about his business 27. H. 8. fol. 17. For calling the Plaintiff Heretick and one of a new learning it doth not lie Book of entries fol. â—2 A president there in an action of the case for calling the Plaintiff false man but inquire if it lies for there was not there exception taken and there is there another president for calling the Plaintiff theif and saying he hath received 20 l. value of his goods In the Book of Entries fol. 13. there is another president of an action upon the case that a certain Letter or Bill with divers slandering words and defaming in the said Bill or Letter he caused to be writ It was the opinion in the Kings Bench that for calling the Plaintiff Rogue Cozener or villain action upon the case doth not he for you shall not have action upon the case for every word of anger reproachful for it is
Queens Bench at Westminster the Complaint which is in my County by a VVrit of the said Queens between T. W. and H. B. of the Beasts of the said T. W. taken and uniustly detained as it is said as it appears in a certain Schedule to this VVrit annexed c. Som. T. P.I.D At my County Court held at N. the twelfth day of N. in the yeare of the Reigne of the Queen now c. Scedule twenty-third T.W. complains against H. B. of a Plea of taking and unjustly detaining of beasts and there are Sureties to prosecute and Return to be had if Return there be adjudged that is to say J.M.W.F. In Witnesse whereof I.K.K.B.C.D.G. and R.S. four lawfull men of them which were present at the Record were present in the full Court there and have underneath set their Seals to the said Record severally the day and year abovesaid By vertue of this Writ directed to me in my full County Court held at W. in the County of W. within such a day and year I have made the Plaint to be recorded You shall make the Plaint to be Reccorded in the County which is in the same County between the parties underwritten whereof within is made mention which truly complaint doth appear in a certain Scedule annexed to this Writ and I have that Record before the Justices within written at the day and place within contained under my Seal and the Seals of W.H.T.R. c. four of the honest and lawfull Knights of the said County of those which were present at the Record and to the parties within written I prefixed that day that they which are in that complaint should prosecute as is just as within is to me commanded Scedule At my County W. held at W. in the County aforesaid such a day and year before W. W.H.SS.T.V and A.B. four suitors of the Court aforesaid amongst other things it is so contained R.S. complains against J.M. of a Plea of taking and unjust detaining his beasts against Sureties Complaint and Pledges c. and they are Pledges to prosecute as also to have Return if Return thereof be adjudged Pledges to prosecute J. D R.F. in witnes of which thing c. By vertue of this Writ to me directed Otherwise I have made the Plaint to be recorded which was in my County between the parties within written and I have prefixed a day to the said parties to be before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained as the said Writ in that requireth and challengeth which truly complaint appears in a certain Scedule sowed to this Writ A. B. complains against C.D. of a Plea of taking and unjustly detaining his beasts Pledges c. as before By vertue of this Writ I made the complaint to be recorded which is in my County without the Queens Writ between W.H. and A.D. of the beasts of the said W.H. taken and unjustly detained as it is said and I have that Record before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained under my Seal and the Seals of T.W. and four lawfull Knights of my County of those which were present at the Record as it appears in a certain Scedule annexed to this Writ according to the exigent of this VVrit c. At my County held Plaint shall come to the Court. c. as above By vertue of this VVrit In Form within written I came to the Court within written and in that full Court I made the Plaint within written to be recorded and the Record as it appears in the Scedule annexed to this VVrit I have it before the Justices within written at the day and place within contained and to the parties within written I have prefixed that day that then they are there to suffer as what is just in that Complaint as in the mean time I am commanded A. B. complains of G.D. of a plea of taking Scedule and unjust detaining the beasts of the said A.B. In witnesse whereof J.K.T.S.W.H. and R.I. four lawfull men of those which were present at that Record in full Court there held at D. tenth day of J. the year of the Reigne of the Queen now twenty three and to the same Record they have severally put their Seals the day and year above written c. No Court of within written J.D. whereof below mention is made Oherwise was held after the Receit of this VVrit and before the day of the Return of the same by which Execution of this VVrit for present by me could be made By vertue of the Queens VVrit Other wise In Court Baron or Hundred to this Scedule annexed taking with me B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I. four lawfull Knights of my said County In my own person I came to such a Hundred or to such a Court and in the full Court there or in the full Hundred the complaint before the Justices within writtten at the day and place therein contained under my Seal and the Seals of four lawfull men of this Court which were present at the Record I have ready annexed to this Record according to the Tenure of this VVrit and have prefixed the same day to the parties in the same VVrit named that then they be there in that complaint to proceed as it shall be just according as the said VVrit it selfe challengeth and requires c. By vertue of the VVrit of our Lady the Queen to this Scedule annexed taken with me four discreet and lawfull Knights of the County of W. I came to the Hundred whereof in the said VVrit mention is made held at B. such a day and year and in the full Hundred there the Complaint whereof in the said Writmention is made I would Record and J.S. Bailiste there and then in full Court sitting the said VVrit being seen and heard they immediately shut their books touching the said complaint rose and hastning from that Hundred with all those books and all Suits of that Hundred then and there appearing took them away with him and abruptly departed and the said Precept of our said Lady Queen specified in the said VVrit then and there flatly denyed to execute and the books aforesaid a bruptly then and there from my sight by force and Arms with violence took and threw by by which means I could not for present make execution of the said VVrit Pledges to prosecute I.D.R.R. The residue truly of the executing of this VVrit appears in a certain Scedule to this writ annexed Come to the Court. Summons I.D.R.F. By vertue of this writ to this Scedule annexed Scedule such a day and year c. taking with me R.T.I.B.R.C. and W.B. four discreet and lawfull Knights of my Bayliwick I came to the Court of E. Duke of Buckingham of K. in the aforesaid writ nominated and in the full Court there I requested the Bailiff and Suitors of the said Court to record the complaint which was in the said Court
in the Bailiwick to A.B.C.D.E.F. and H.P. which undertook and each of them undertook by himself for the aforesaid A. B. upon the pain of ten pounds that he should do no dammage or ill to H. P. in the said Writ of Supplicavit specified within the space of such a day next coming nor by any Means should procure it which 10. l. the Manucaptors aforesaid granted and each of them for himself granted of their Lands and Tenements and of each of them to the use of our said Lady the Queen should be levyed if any dammage or ill came to the said A.B. or by his procurement in the mean time any should come by any means c. and this is the Surety of the Peace which the aforesaid A.B. before me hath found Under which truly Bail Or so the aforesaid C. was suffered to go at large out of the Prison aforesaid and afterwards returned not to my custody therefore the body of the said C. before our Lady the Queen at the day and place within contained I cannot have I. c. certifie our Lady the Queen in her Chancery Or so that R.P. within named hath found to me no security of the Peace of which within there is mention but remains in prison of our Lady the Queens under my custody at present For certain Or so truly complains of the threats the aforesaid J. B. before the coming of this Writ was delivered in Bail to A.B.C.D.E.F. and G.H. which undertook and each of them did undertake upon the pain of twenty pounds for the aforesaid J. B that he should do no dammage or any ill to the aforesaid H.P. and T. D. or either of them untill the Day after the Feast of Saints next coming nor should procure to be done which truly twenty pounds the aforesaid Manucaptors granted and each of them to be levied to the use of our Lady the Queen if any Dammage or ill to the said R. P. and T. D. or either of them by the aforesaid J.B. or by his procurement to any of them should come in the mean time under which baile truly c. at large c. Before the coming of this VVrit Ne exeat Regnum and before any execution thereof A.B. C. D.E.F. c Came before J.D. Sherif of W. and undertook before me the aforesaid Sheriff for L. M. that is to say Every one of the Manucaptors aforesaid under the pain of ten pounds that the said L. before the day after All Soules next coming should not convey himself to any parts beyond Seas to prosecute or attempt any thing there to the prejudice of the said Lady the Queen or any of the People of the said Queen or the losse of our State of England should prevaile nor from hence to send any body for that cause which truly summ of ten pounds the said Manucaptors granted and each of them for himself granted of their Lands and Chattells to the use of the said Lady Queen to be levied if the said L. any thing against the form of this Mauncaption aforesaid shall do or cause to be done or by any means attempt And here is the Tenor of the security whereof within there is mention made which to the said Lady Queen into her Chancery c. at the day and place c. I send By vertue of this VVrit to me directed Proclamation out of the Chancery I have made a publick Proclamation within my bailiwick that the within named H.B. upon the pain of his allegiance before our Lady the Queen in her Chancery aforesaid at the day within written shall appear as within I am commanded and likewise I certifie the said Lady Queen that the within named H.B. is not to be found in my Bailiwick By vertue of this VVrit Premunire such a day and year by J.S.T. W.R.T. and E.F. good and lawfull men of my bailiwick Premunire feci W.R. Clarke within nominated that he should be before our Lady the Queen at the day within contained whersoever c. to do and to receive as that Writ in it commandeth and requireth and J. B. and the rest of the Defendants within named have nothing within my bailiwick by which I can Premunire facere for present neither are they to be found in the same I certifie our Lady the Queen that the within named I. H. before the coming of this Writ to me directed was dead Of choosing a Verdecer in the Forrest And that I after the receit of this Writ to me directed in my full County Court held at Wilton in my County the 29th day of May the year within written by assent of the said County in the place aforesaid I made to be elected one N.S. Esq a Verdecer of the Forrest of B. within written to do as the said Writ in that commandeth and requireth At my County Court held such a day and year Election of a Coroner in the full County aforesaid by vertue of this Writ and by the consent of the said County in the place of P.H. within named which died I chose a Coroner that is to say I.W. who as the manner is took his corporall Oath that he should do those things and observe what to the Office of a Coroner in the County aforesaid appertained to be done as within c. By vertue of this VVrit I summon Arch-Bishops Justices of Forrest Summon Bishops Abbots Earls Barons and all other free Tenants which have Lands and Tenements within the bounds of the Forrest of the said our Lady the Queen within written in my County and four men and the cheif of every town within the bounds of this Forrest and also twelve good and lawfull men of every town within the bounds of the said Forrest dwelling which ought to come and were wont that they be before our Instices within written at the day and place within contained as within I am commanded Publickly also I have made to be proclaimed through all my Bailiwick as well in Burroughs as in other Townes and in Faires Markets and other publick places that all those which by Charters of our Lady the Queen now or of her Predecessors or her Progenitors or any way any liberties or Franchises claim to hold and by what warrant that they be before our said Justices at the day and place aforesaid I also made to be proclaimed that all attached for Vert or Venison or hunting in the Forrest aforesaid after the last Plea of the Forrest aforesaid held and their Pledges and Manucaptors aforesaid to be and before the aforesaid Justices to stand to their right and to do those things which according to the Law of the Forrest they ought to do The residue of the Execution of this Writ doth appear in certain Pannells to this Writ annexed By vertue Capias ut legatum c. I have taken the body of H.S. within named whose body before the Iustices within written I have ready at the day
Goods and Chattels aforesaid then with me remaining unsold for want of Buyers but I will set them to sale from day to day and when they happen to be sold the money thereof coming before the Barons within written I will bring according to the form and effect of this Writ Those Goods to the value of twenty Marks within written Otherwise which by vertue of the Writ of our Lady the Queen lately now to me directed I have taken of the Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements which were lately T. F. within named and have set them to sale and sold them and the Money thereof I have ready to bring to the Barons within named at the day and place therein contained as therein I am commanded A. B. and C. D. within nominated Are dead were dead long before the sending out this Writ neither have they any Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within my Bailiwick which I can extend and value as by this Writ I am commanded The within named A. B. and C. D. are dead For the shortnesse of time Scire feci and to the rest of the Execution nothing is done by me for the shortnesse of the time By vertue c. Scire feci J.C. within named that he be before the Barons within written at the day and place within contained by J. C. and R. S. good and lawfull men of my Bailiwick as within I am commanded There are no Executors of E. within written Against Executors nor Administrators of the Goods and Chattels which were his nor Heirs nor Tenants of Lands and Tenements which were his in my Bailiwick to whom by any means I can give the Scire facias I.D. and the rest of the Defendants within named Otherwise have nothing in my Bailiwick by which I can them Scire facere By vertue Non omittas c. I have taken of the Lands and Tenements of W.R. to the value of forty shillings which I have ready for the Barons within written at the day and place therein contained as within I am commanded and further I certifie the Barons vvithin vvritten that the aforesaid VV. hath no other or more Lands nor Tenements Goods nor Chattels in my Bailiwick whereof the residue of the Debt within written I can levy by Execution as the said VVrit in it commandeth and requireth Here follow certain Cases of the Common Law upon the Returnes aforesaid and others BEcause Justices to whose Duty it belongeth West 2. cap. 35. to administer Justice to every one before them complaining are oftentimes hindered so that they cannot in due manner execute their Office by this that Sheriffs do not return their Original and judicial Writs and likewise return false Answers The Lord the King provideth False Return that those which fear the malice of the Sheriff should deliver their Writs in the full County Court or in the other County Court where there is a gathering of the Kings Money and let there be a Billet taken of the Sheriff present or of the under-Sheriff in which Billet there shall be contained the names of the Plaintiff and Defendant and adjoyned to the Billet sealed by the Sheriff or under-Sheriff in witnesse thereof and let there be mention of the Delivery of this Writ And it gives remedy Tarde if the Sheriff will not seal the Billet by this Statute remedy is given if the Sheriff return Tarde Mandavi Balivo where he hath sufficient time to serve the Writ and where he returnes I have commanded the Bailiff of the Liberty where it is no Liberty and this Statute gives you shall not omit for any Liberty and gives Averment against the Returne of the Sheriff Averment if he return to little Issues and gives that he should deliver Corn in the Grange and all Moveables besides Equituram Indumenta utensilia domus contained under the name of Issues and the Statute gives Posse Comitatus See the Statute of 1 Ed. 3. chap. 6. The Sheriff by the common Law is the Preserver of the Peace Authority of the Sheriff and hath the Custody of the County for the time that he is Sheriff and may cause the party to finde Surety if any require that and every Obligation which he takes to keep the Peace shall be taken a Recognizance in Law and specially when this is certified by Certioâ—are in the Chancery But Pleas before him in the County or Hundred are not of Record for these are by reason of course and this taking for Peace is by reason of his Office Fitzh 81. D. If the Sheriff return upon a Distringas Juratores Appearance no manner of Issues and a full Jury appears and pleads this is no Error for the King hath no losse and the Issues are for the King which he shall not have if the full Jury appear 5 H. 7. f. 8. Also if the Sheriff return Scire feci upon Fine or Judgement and no mention is made of the Summoners and Viewers and the party appear and pleads it is no Error and if upon the Grand Cape there be not returned the Summoners and Viewers yet if the party appear and pleads it is no Error 3 H. 7. f. 14. this Return was amended and the Plaintiff recovers See 8 H. 5. f. 2. B. Scire facias is returned Scire feci by J.S. and J.D. and though the Return be not by good and lawfull men as it ought if the party appear it is a good Return and may be amended 33 H. 6. f. 35. 44 Ed. 3. f. 16. 8 H. 6. f. 27. If the Sheriff attach a Cow Attachment the property is not out of the party till the Day of Return that he make Default and if at the Day of the Return he make Default the Sheriff may take that as forfeited to the King though he have left that before with the party 9 H. 7. B. Table Dormant and such things which are fixed to the Free-hold cannot be attached 21 H. 7. f. 26. Annuity the Sheriff returns I have nothing in my Bailiwick by which he can be attached where it should be by which he can be summoned and though it were in the time of another Sheriff Amendment it was amended for the Cout may amend a mistake of the Clerks and also of the Return of the Sheriff 33 H. 6. f. 47. Upon a Distringas Juratores the Sheriff in his Return leaves out four Names which were in the Venire facias and the Sheriff was examined and saith that they were distrained and for that the Returne was amended 37 H. 6. f. 12. 22 H. 6. f. 45. Appeal upon Distringas Juratores where there were Knights and Esquires which were in the Writ there was returned but eight pence upon every Juror and the Sheriff had been amerced unlesse he be there present and amend that and sets upon every Juror two shillings 2 R. 3. fol. 13. Attaint at the Distringas Juratores the
found in your Bayliwick and him safely keep so that you may have his body before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster the Wednesday next after the three weeks of Easter to answer the said C.D. in the Plea aforesaid And then you have here this writ Witnes H. Roll at Westminster the 17th day of April in the yeer of our Lord 1651. Wightwicke Alias Capias THe Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament to the Sheriffe of E. Greeting We command you as formerly We have you commanded that you take A. B. if he shall be found in your Bayliwick and him safely keep so that you have his body before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Saturday next after the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord to answer C.D. in a Plea of Trespas And then you have there this Writ Witnes H. Roll at Westminster the 17th day of April in the yeer of our Lord 1651. Wightwicke Plures Capias THe Keepers of the Liberty of England by the Authority of Parliament to the Sheriffe of E. Greeting We command you as many times we have commanded that you take A. B. c. as above in the Writ next before Bill Middl. Middl ss It is commanded to the Sheriffe that he take A. B. if c. and him safely c. so that he have his body before the Keepers of the Liberty of England by the Authority of Parliament in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Wednesday next after the month of Easter to answer C. D. in a Plea of Trespas And then he have here this precept c. By Bill Wightwicke Alias Bill MIddl ss It is commanded the Sheriffe as it was formerly commanded that he take A. B. c. as above in the Bill of Middlesex Attachment of priviledge THe Keepers of the Liberty of England by the Authority of Parliament to the Sheriffe of H. Greeting We command you that you attach A. B. if he shall be found in your Bayliwick and him safely to keep so that you have his body before Us in the Upper Bench at Westm on Wednesday c. reciting the return to answer C. D. Gent. one of the Clerks of Samuel Wightwicke Esq cheif Clerk assigned to inroll Pleas in the Upper Bench at Westm c. in a Plea of Trespas And then you have there this Writ Witnes H. Roll at Westm c. Habeas Corpus ad â—ac rec ' THe Keepers of the Liberty c. Greeting We command you that you have the body of A. B. in our Prison under your custodie as it is said detained under safe and secure conduct together with the day and cause of his caption and detaining by that name soever the said A B. be censured in the same before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Saturday next after the morrow of All Souls to do and receive al. and every those things which the Court before Us in the Upper Bench at Westm shall consider of in that behalf And then you have here this Writ Witnes c. Habeas Corpus retornable before a Judge immediately THe Keepers c. as above in the Habeas Corpus untill by what name soever the said A. B. be censured in the same before Henry Roll cheif justice assigned to hold Pleas in the Upper Bench at Westm at his Chamber in Sergeants Inne in Fleetstreet London immediately after the receiving of this Writ to do and receive all and every those things which the said Cheif Justice then and there shall consider of in that behalf And then you have here this Writ c. Witnes c. Habeas Corpus upon a cepi Corpus THe Keepers c. to the Sheriffe of O. Greeting We command you that you have the body of A B. by you taken and in our prison under your custody detained as you your self to us in the Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westm formerly by you sent have thereby charged your self before us in the Upper Bench at Westm c. reciting the Return to answer C.D. in a Plea of Trespas And then you have there this writ Witnes c. Habeas Corpus ad satisfaciendum THe Keepers c. as above untill the Return next after c. to satisfie C. D. as well of one hundred li. of debt as 40 s. for his damages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that Debt as for his Costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf disbursed And further to do and receive all and every those things c. as above in the Habeas Corpus ad fac ' rec ' Procedendo THe Keepers of the Liberty c. Greeting Although we have lately commanded you by our Writ that you should have the body of A. B. in Our prison under your custodie as it was said detained under safe and secure conduct together with the day and cause of his caption and detention by what name soever the said A. B. should be censured in the same before Us in the Upper Bench at Westm on c. as the Return was in the Habeas Corpus last past to do and receive all and every those things which the Court before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster shall then and there consider or in that behalf Yet we being now moved with certain causes in the same Court before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster We command you and every of you that in whatsoever Plaints or Suits against him the said A. B. at the Suit of C. D. in the Court before you or any of you leavied or affirmed and before you or any of you now depending undetermined in such manner you proceed with what celeritie you can as according to the Law and custome of this Nation you think to be expedient Our Writ aforesaid to you formerly directed to the contrary notwithstanding Witnes c. Supersedeas when the Defendant appears and files common Bail THe Keepers c. Greeting Whereas by our Writ we have lately commanded you that you should take A. B. if c. recite as is in the Alias Capias till these words to answer C. D. in a Plea of trespas And because the said A. B. in the Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westm hath appeared at the day and place in the said Writ contained to answer the said C. D. according to the form and effect of the said Writ Therefore we command you that you for ever supersede from further attaching Imprisoning or him the said A. B. for that cause any way molesting And if you have taken him for that cause and no other then upon your perill without delay you cause him to be freed delivered from the Prison where he is so detained Witnesse c. Supersedeas upon a Capias ad satisfaciendum when the Plaintiffe hath acknowledged satisfaction THe Keepers of c. Greeting Although by our Writ we have lately commanded you that you should
take A. B. if c. Reciting the execution untill these words as it doth appear to us upon record yet because the said C. D. in the same Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster did acknowledg that he is satisfied for the debt and damages aforesaid therefore we command you that you for ever supersede from taking attaching Imprisoning or him the said A. B. for that cause any waies molesting And if you have taken him the said A. B. for that cause and no other then without delay upon your perill you cause him to be delivered from the Prison where he is so detained if for that cause and no other he is detained Witnes c. Subpena THe Keeper c. to J. B. and C. D. Greeting we command you and both of you notwithstanding all and every busines and excuses whatsoever that you be in your proper persons before Henry Roll Cheif Justice assigned to hold Pleas in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Friday the 29th day of November at Guild-Hald London there to testify all and every those things according to your and both of your knowledg and notice which you or either of you have known in a certain action now depending in the Upper Bench at Westminster undetermined between E. F. Plaintiffe and H. J. Defendant in a Plea of trespas and ejectment to be tried between the said Parties by a Jurat of the Country And this in no wise you omit neither either of you omit upon the penalty of either of you of a hundred pound Witnes c. Subpena to testifie before the Sheriffs of London THe Keeper c. as above untill these words proper persons before the Sheriffes of London the 15th day of May about one a clock in the afternoon of the same day at Guild-Hall London to testifie c. as above untill the day and place aforesaid to be inquired of before the said Sheriffes by the Oath of twelve honest and lawfull men of the City of London aforesaid Witnes c. Venire facias THe Keeper c. to the Sheriffe of London Greeting We command you that you cause to come before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Wednesday c. twelve free and lawfull men of the visne of the Parish of Blessed Mary of Bowe in the Ward of Cheap London every one of which hath foure pounds of Lands Tenements or Rents by the yeer at the least by whom the truth of the matter may better be known And which neither the said A. B. Plaintiffe nor C. D. to happen into any affinity to make a certain Jurat between the parties aforesaid of a Plea of Debt because as well the said C. D. as the said A. B. between whom therof there is contention have put themselves into that Jurat And then you have there the names of the Jurors And this Writ Witnes c. Venire facias with a Proviso THe Keeper c. as above untill these words have put themselves in that Jurat Alwayes provided that if two Writs shall therby come to you you onely execute and return one of them And then you have there the names of the Jurors And this Writ Witnes c. Also the Distringas Jur. may be made with a proviso Distringas Jur. THe Keepers of c. to the Sheriffes of London Greeting We command you that you distrain A. B. c. naming the 24. Jurors Jurors summoned before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster between A. B. Plaintiffe and C. D. by all their Lands and Chattels in your Bayliwick so that neither they nor any by them put hands to those thing untill you have thereof another Precept from us And that of the issues thereof you answer to us so that you have their Bodies before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Wednesday next after five weeks of Easter or before our faithfull and well beloved Henry Roll Cheif Justice assigned to hold Pleas in the Court before Us in the Vpper Bench at Westminster if first he come on Tueâ—day the â—1 day of May at Guild-Hall London by the form of the Statute in such case lately made and provided to make a certain Jurat between the said parties in a Plea of Debt And to hear their Judgement of many defaults And then you have here the names of the Jurors And this Writ Witnes c. Distring 〈…〉 the Issue at the Bar. THe Keeper c. as above untill these words so that you have their Bodies before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on c. next after c. to make a certain Jurat between the said parties in a Plea of Trespas and Eâ—ectment And thereby to hear their Judgement c. And you have c. as above Distring 〈…〉 THe Keeper c. Greeting We command you that you distrain A. B. Esquire lately Sheriffe of your County by all his Lands and Chattels so that neither he nor any by him put hands to those things untill you have thereof another Precept from us And that of the Issues thereof you answer to us so that you have the Body of C. D. by him taken and in our prison under his custody detained as he himself by his Return to us in the Court before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster formerly thereunto by him sent hath charged himself before us in the Upper Bench at Westm on c. next after c. to answer E. F. in a Plea of Trespas And then you have here this Writ Witnes c. Writ of Inquiry THe Keepers c. Greeting Whereas A B. lately in the Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster by a Bili without our Writ and by judgment of the said Court had impleaded C. D. of E. in the County of F. Yeoman for that that is to say that whereaâ— one J. H. the 19th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty at L. in the County aforesaid had demised granted and to farm let c. And so recite the Declarat ' And thereupon then produced the Suit c. Such like processe thereupon is taken before us in the same Court that the said A. B. ought to recover his damages against the said C. D. by reason of the premises but because now it is unknown what damage the said A. B. in that behalf sustained Therefore we command you that by the Oath of honest and lawfull men of your Bayliwick you diligently enquire what damages the said A. B. aswell by reason of the premises as for his costs and charges by him about that Suit in that behalf disbursed And the inquisition which you shall thereby take you make manifest before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on c. under your Seal and the Seals of them by the Oath of whom you take thaâ— inquisition together with this Writ Witnes c. Exigent THe Keeper c. To the Sheriffes of London Greeting we command
you that you make A. B. lately of C. in the County of C. Gent. to be required from husting to husting untill according to the Law and custome of England he be out-lawed if he shall not appear And if he shall appear then you take and cause him safely to be kept so that you may have his Body before us in the Upper Bench in the fifth week after Easter wheresoever we shall then be in England to answer C. D. in a Plea that whereas the said C. D. and A. B. at London had accounted together of divers sums of money being before that time due to the said C. D. from the said A. B. and being then behind and unpaid And upon that account the said A. B. was then and there found in arrerages to the said C. D. in a hundred pounds of lawfull English money the said A. B. in consideration thereof did assume and to the said C D. there faithfully promised that he the said A. B. would pay that men 〈…〉 the said C. D. yet tâ—â— said A. B. hath not yet paid the said money to the said C. D. although he hath been therunto required to pay the same to the damage of the said C. D. one hundred and twenty pounds as he saith and whereupon you your selves have sent to us that the said A. B. is not found in your Bayliwick and you have here this Writ Witnes c. Proclamation sur ' Exigent THe Keepers of the Liberty c. To the Sheriffe of Cornwell Greeting Whereas by our Writ we have lately commanded the Sheriffe of London that he should cause A.B. of C. in your County Gent. to be required from husting to husting untill he be out-lawed according to the Law and custome of England if he should not appear and if he should appear then they should cause him safely to be kept so that they should have his body before us in the fifth week after Easter wheresoever we should then be in England to answer C. D. in a Plea that whereas the said C. D. c. And so recite as is in the exegent till you are past these words as he saith then write on we command you according to the statute made provided in the one and thirtieth year of the Lady Eâ—izabeth lately Queen you cause to be proclaimed the said A. B. at three several dayes according to the form of that statute whereof one Proclamation thereof shall be made at or neer the most usuall door of the Church of C. in your County so that he may render himself to the Sheriffes of London to answer the said C. D. of the said Plea And you have here this Writ Witnes c. Câ—â—ias utlegat ' THe Keeper c. To the Sheriffes of C. Greeting We command you that you do not omit from any liberty within your County but take A. B. of c. And him safely keep so that you have his body before uâ— in the Upper Bench in c. Reciting the return wheresoever we shall then be in England to stand right in Court before us in the Upper Bench upon a certain Outlawry against him the said A. B. at the suit of C. D. in a Plea of debt at the hustings of the Common Pleas holden in London on Munday c. In the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty in the Court of London pronounced And you have there this Writ Witnes c. Capias ad satisfaciendum in a Plea of Debt THe Keepers of the Liberty c. Greeting We command you that you take A. B. if he be found in your Bayliwick And him safely to keep so that you have his body before us in the Upper Bench at Westm on Wednesday next after the five weeks of Easter to satisfie C. D. of 100 li. of Debt and also 21 s. for his dammages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that Debt as for his Costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf disbursed whereof he is convicted as it doth appear to Us upon Record And then you have here this Writ Witnes H. Roll at Westm the 17th day of April in the yeer of our Lord 1651. Wightwicke Testat Inde THe Keepers of the Liberty c. to the Sheriffe of H. Greeting Whereas we have lately commanded the Sheriffs of London that they should take A. B. if he might be found in their Bayliwick And him safely keep so that they should have his body before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster at a certain day now past to satisfie C. D. of a hundred pounds of Debt and also one twenty shillings for his damages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that Debt as for his Costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf disbursed whereof he is convicted as it doth appear to us upon Record And the said Sheriffs of London at that day returned to Us that the said A B. is not found in their Bayliwick Wherupon on the behalf of the said C. D. in the Court before Us is sufficiently testified that the said A. B. doth lurk and sculk in your County therefore we command you that you take him if he be found in your Bayliwick and him safely keep so that you may have his body before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Wednesday next after the three weeks of Easter to satisfie the said C. D. of the Debt and damages aforesaid And then you have here this Writ Witnes c. Capias ad satisfaciendum after judgement affirmed in a Writ of Error and for damages for the Plaintiffe being the Defendant did thereby delay Execution THe Keeper c. as above in the Capias ad satisfaciend till these words to satisfie C. D. of a hundred pounds of Debt also 40 s. which were adjudged to the said C.D. in the Court of the Common Pleas at Westminster before Oliver St. John and the other Justices his Associates for his damages which he had by reason of detaining of that Debt whereof he is convicted as by the inspection of the Record and Processe thereupon which we lately for certain causes have caused to come in the Court before Us in the Upper Bench at Westminster And which in the same Court now remaining doth appear to us upon Record And also five pounds which in the same Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster according to the form of the Statute in such case thereupon lately made and provided were adjudged to the said C. D for his damages costs and expences which he had by reason of the delay of execution of the Judgment aforesaid by reason of prosecutâ—â—â— of a certain Writ of Error by him the said A. B. in the same Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster prosecuted in and upon the Premises as it doth also appear to us upon Record And you have there this Writ Witnes c. Capias ad satisfaciendum