the Term of the Holy Trinity in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is of England France and Ireland the 7th and of Scotland the 42 d. Rott 3642. It is contained thus Somers ss It was commanded to the Sherriff Whereas of the grievous Complaint of Owen Bray of Cobham in the County aforesaid Gent. to the Lord the King grievously complaining It was shewed That whereas John Drury Doctor of Law in the Court of the Lord the King of the Bench here That is to say In the Term of St. Michael in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King of England the 5th before the Justices of the said Lord the King of the Bench aforesaid here that is to say at Westminster by Judgement of the said Court had recovered against the said Owen as well a certain debt of 200. pounds as 33. shillings 4. pence which to the said John in the Court aforesaid of the said Lord the King here were adjudged for his damages which he had by occasion of the detaining of the said debt whereof he is convicted And whereas also the said Owen for that that he did not come unto the said Court of the Lord the King here to satisfy the aforesaid John of the debt and damages aforesaid was put in exâ—gent in the County of the Lord the King of Sussex to Outlawry and for that occasion afterwards that is to say the 19th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is was Outlawed And notwithstanding the said Owen in execution for the Debt and Damages aforesaid by virtue of a certain Writ of the said Lord the King of Capias utlagatum thereof to the late Sheriff of the aforesaid County of Surry by Herbert Morley Esq then Sheriff of the aforesaid County of Surry at the Sute of the said Iohn was taken and imprisoned And after he was so taken and imprisoned was by the said Sheriff out of the same Prison at large where he would freely and voluntarily suffered to go and from the execution aforesaid was delivered as the said Owen by ways and means convenient was ready to shew Yet the aforesaid Iohn sueth forth Execution of the Debt and Damages aforesaid against him the said Owen by reason of the Recovery aforesaid and endeavoureth and threatneth unjustly him the said Owen to be taken and imprisoned to his no smal Damage Whereupon he had supplicated the Lord the Kings congâ—uous remedy for him to be provided The said Lord the King Willing what is just to be done to the said Owen in this behalf sent to the Justices here That the Complaint of the said Owen in this part being heard and calling before theâ— the Parties aforesaid and other which in this behalf they shall see to be called and their reasons thereof here being heard To the said Owen full and speedy Justice they should cause to be done in this behalf which of right and according to the Law and custom of the Kingdom of the Lord the King of England should be done And that they cause to come here at this day that is to say from the Holy Trinity in 15. dayes the aforesaid Iohn to answer of and upon the premises and further to do and receive what the Court the said Lord the King here shall consider in that behalf And now here at this day come as well the aforesaid Owen by Otho Gayer his Attorny as the aforesaid Iohn by Iohn Nye his Attorny And upon this the said Owen saith That whereas the aforesaid Iohn in the Court of the said Lord the King that now is here that is to say in the Term of St. Michael in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is of England c. the 5th before Edward Coke Kut and his Companions then Justices of the said Lord the King of the same Bench here that is to say at VVestminster by the consideration of the said Court recovered against the said Owen as well the aforesaid Debt of 200. pounds as the aforesaid 33. shillings and 4. pence which to the said Iohn in the same Court of the said Lord the King here was adjudged for his Damages which he had by occasion of detaining the same Debt whereof he is convicted And whereas also the said Owen for that he did not come into the same Court of the said Lord the King here to satisfie the said Iohn of his Debt and Damages he was put in Exigent in the aforesaid County of Sussex to be Outlawed and for that occasion afterwards that is to say the 9th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6th was Outlawed upon the said Outlawry the aforesaid Iohn Drury afterwards that is to say in the Term of the Holy Trinity in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6th abovesaid sued forth out of the Court of the Lord the King of the Bench here a certain Writ of the said Lord the King of Capias utlagatum against him the said Owen then to the Sherriff of the aforesaid County of S. directed By which Writ the said Lord the King then commanded the said Sherriff of S. that he do not omit for any Liberty within his County but that he take the said Owen Outlawed in the said County of Sussex the said 19th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 6th abovesaid At the Sute of the said Iohn Drury of the plea of Debt whereof he is convicted of c. And him safely keep c. So as he have his body before the Justices of the said Lord the King here in the morrow of All Souls then next comming to do receive what the Court of the said Lord the King thereof should consider in that behalf By virtue of which Writ the said Owen afterwards that is to say the 7th day of October in the 6th yeer aforesaid at Guildford in the aforesaid County of Surry by the aforesaid Rob. Morley then being Sheriff of the aforesaid County of Surry was taken and imprisoned And after he was so taken and imprisoned the said Owen by the said Sherriff the same day and yeer c. At Guildford aforesaid out of that Prison at large where he would freely and voluntarily to go was suffered and from the execution aforesaid was delivered And this he is ready to aver Whereupon he prayeth Judgement And that the aforesaid John from having his execution aforesaid by colour of the Judgement aforesaid be barred and that the said Owen thereof be discharged c. And the aforesaid John prayeth licence thereof to imparl here until 8. dayes of St. Michael c. And hath it c. And the same day is given to the aforesaid Owen here c. At which day the plea aforesaid was adjorned by Writ of the Lord the King of Common adjornment
not yet concealed nor detained but the Rents and the Reversions thereof to the said Lord the King and Lady the Queen then were answered And that Mannor was in charge and account of Record and the Rents and the Reversions thereof to the said late King and Queen Philip and Mary were answered But whether the Lands and Tenements in the Declaration above mentioned by the said Letters Patents to the aforesaid George Howard Kt. passed or not the Jurors aforesaid are ignorant and thereof pray the Advice and Consideration of the Court in the premises And if upon the whole matter aforesaid by the Jurors aforesaid in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Justices of the Court That the aforesaid Lands and Tenements in the Declaration aforesaid mentioned by the aforesaid Letters Patents of the Lord Philip and Mary late King and Queen of England to the aforesaid George Howard did passe Then the Jurors aforesaid say that the aforesaid Edward Cockle is not guilty of the Trespasse and Ejectment as he before in pleading hath alleged And if upon the whole matter by the Jurors aforesaid in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Justices and Court That the Lands and Tenements in the Declaration within written by the aforesaid Letters Patents of the Lord Philip and Mary King and Queen of England to the said George Howard passed not c. False Imprisonment Michaelmass Term in the 6th yeer of King JAMES in the COMMMON-PLEAS Doctor Bonhams Case Co. 8. part London HEnry Atkins of London Doctor of Physick George Turner of London Doctor of Physick Thomas Moundford of London Doctor of Physick John Argent of London Doctor of Physick John Taylor of London Yeoman And William Bowden of London Yeoman were Attached to answer to Thomas Bonham of London Doctor in Philosophy and of Physick of a Plea wherefore they together with William Dun of London Doctor of Physick and Richard Ware of London Skinner with force and Arms him the said Thomas Bonham took imprisoned and evil handled and him in Prison against the Law and Custom of the Kingdom of England did long detain and other harms to him did to the great damage of the said Thomas Bonham and against the Peace of the Lord the King that now is c And whereupon the same Thomas Bonham by Richard Coke his Attorny complaineth That the aforesaid Henry George Thomas Moundford John Argent John Taylor and William Bowden together c. the 10th day of November in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 4th with force and Arms him the said John in the Parish of the blessed Mary of Bow in the Ward of Cheap took and imprisoned and evilly handled and him there so in Prison a long time that is to say by the space of 7. dayes against the Law and Custom of this Kingdom of England detained and other harms c. to the great damage c. and against the Peace c. whereupon he saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 300. pounds and thereof bringeth sute c. And the aforesaid Henry George Thomas Moundford John Argent John Taylor and William Bowden by Francis Barker their Attorny come and defend the force and injury when c. And as to the coming with force and Arms say That they are not thereof guilty And of that put themselves upon the Country and the aforesaid Thomas Bonham likewise And as to the rest of the Trespass and Imprisonment aforesaid above supposed to be done The said Henry George Thomas Moundford John Argent John Taylor and VVilliam Bowden say That the aforesaid Thomas Bonham his Action aforesaid against them ought not to have because they say That before the aforesaid time in which it is supposed the aforesaid Trespasse and Imprisonment to be done The Lord Henry late King of England the 8th the 23d day of September in the yeer of his Reign 〈◊〉 by his Letters Patents which the said Henry George Thomas Moundford John Argent John Taylor and William Bowden with his great Seal of England sealed bearing date at VVestminster the same day and yeer here in Court brought Reciting Wherereas he thought it the duty of his Kingly Office in all reason to provide for the good and welfare of his People That would first of all be done if he might in due season meet with the enterprizes of wicked men first therefore ye held it necessary to restrain the boldness of wicked men who professed Physick more for avarice than out of confidence of a good Conscience Whereupon very many incommodities did arise to the rude and credulous Cōmon-people Therefore partly imitating the example of the well-governed Cities and other Nations inclined thereunto at the request of the grave Men and Doctors John Chambre Thomas Linacre Ferdinand de Victoria his Physicians of Nicholas Hatswel John Francisco and Robert Yoxley Physicians and chiefly of the right Reverend Father in Christ and Lord Thomas titled of the Holy Church beyond Tyber Priest of the most Holy Church of Rome Cardinal of York Arch-Bishop and our Well beloved Chancellor of our Kingdom of England A College perpetual of Doctors and Grave Men who Physick in his City of London and the Suburbs and within 7. Miles from the said City every way might publickly exercise he Willed and commanded to be instituted to whom for his honour and in the name of the publick good and care as he hoped the ignorance and rashness of the malitious which he remembred as well by their example and gravity to deterr as by his Lawes late made and and by Constitution to be made by the same College to punish Which that they might more easily well accomplish to the remembred Doctors John Chambers Thomas Linacre Ferdinand de Victoria his Physicians Nicholas Hatswel John Francisco and Robert Yoxley Physicians he granted that they and all Men of the same faculty of and in the City aforesaid should be in deed and Name one Body and Comminalty perpetual or College perpetual and that the said Comminalty or College every yeer for ever might chose and make of that Cōminaltie any diligent man and skilful in the faculty of Physick to be President of the said College or Comminalty to oversee rule and govern for that yeer the College or Comminalty aforesaid and all men of the said faculty and their businesses And that the said President and College or Comminalty should have perpetual succession and a Common Seal to serve for the businesses of the said Comminalty and President for ever And that they and their Successors for ever should be persons able and capable to purchase and possesse in Fee and for ever Lands Tenements Rents and other possessions whatsoever He also granted to them and their Successors for him and his Heirs That they and their Successors might purchase to them and their Successors aswell in the said City as out of it Lands and Tenements whatsover not
the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop did not infeoff the foresaid Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor of the Mannors aforesaid with the Appurtenances By Protestation also That the aforesaid Sibil for the better security of the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford Iohn Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor in the Mannors aforesaid with the Appurtenances according to Agreement between them the said Edward Sibil first before the aforesaid Recovery above supposed to be had by her Writing of Release aforesaid did not remise and release to the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martin Iohn Cottesford Iohn Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor as the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars above in their Rejoynder have alleged By Protestation also That the aforesaid Edward Chamberlain at the day of the bringing of the Original Writ of the said Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop out of the Court of the Chancery of the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th that is to say the second day of Iune in the yeer of the Reign of the same late King the 4th or ever after was Tenant of the Freehold of the Mannors aforesaid with the Appurtenances For Plea The said Robert Chamberlain saith That the aforesaid Pâ—eâ— of the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars above by Rejoynder pretended is not sufficient in Law to bar him the said Robert from having his Action aforesaid against the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars aswel for that that the Rejoynder is a Departure from the aforesaid Barr of them the Warden or Rector and Scholars as for want of sufficient matter in the said Rejoynder contained And this he is ready to aver wherefore for want of a sufficient Rejoynder of the said Warden or Rector Scholars in this part The said Robert Chamberlain as at first demandeth Judgement seisin of the Mannors aforesaid with the Appurtenances to him to be adjudged c. And the Warden or Rector Scholars in as much as they sufficient matter in Law to bar the aforesaid Robert from having his Action aforesaid against them the Warden or Rector and Scholars above by rejoyning have alleged which they are ready to aver which matter the aforesaid Robert doth not deny nor to the same any wayes Answereth so to admit of the same averment altogether refused as at first demand Judgement And that the aforesaid Robert Chamberlain to have his Action aforesaid be barred And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before that they give their Judgement thereof Day is given to the parties aforesaid here untill in 8. dayes of St. Hillary to hear their Judgement because that the said Justices here therof not yet c. At which Day come aswell the aforesaid Robert as the aforesaid Warden or Rector Scholars by their Attornies aforesaid And because the Justices here will further avise themselves of upoÌ„ the premises before they give their Judgement thereof Day further is given to the parties aforesaid here until from the day of Easter in 15. Dayes to hear their Judgment therof because the said Justices here thereof are not yet c. At which day here come aswell the aforesaid Robert as the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars by their Attornies aforesaid And because the Justices here will further avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof further Day is given to the parties aforesaid here until in the Morrow of the Holy Trinity to hear their Judgement thereof because the said Justices here are thereof not yet At which Day here come aswell the aforesaid Robert as the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars by their Attornies aforesaid and because the Justices here will further avise themselves of upon the Premiseâ— before they give their Judgement thereof further day is given to parties aforesaid here until in 8. dayes of St. Michael to hear their Judgement thereof because the same Justices here thereof are not yet c. At which day here come aswell the aforesaid Robert as the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars by their Attornies aforesaid And upon this the premises being seen and by the Justices here fully understood It seemeth to the same Justices here That the Plea of the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars above by Rejoynder pretended is sufficient in Law to barr the said Robert to have his Action aforesaid against the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars Therefore it is granted That the aforesaid Robert take nothing by his Writ aforesaid that he be in Mercy for his false Clamour And that the aforesaid Warden or Rector and Scholars go thereof without Day c. Indictment At the Sessions of Gaol Delivery at Newgate 5 to Decembris in the 8 th Year of King JAMES Machalleys Case Co. 9. part fol. 61. b. AT the Sessions of Gaol Delivery of Newgate holden for the City of London at the Justice Hall in the Old Baily in the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in the Suburbs of the said City upon Wednesday the 5th day of December in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord James by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith the 8th and of Scotland the 44th Before William Craven Knight Mayor of the City aforesaid Thomas Flemming Knight Chief Justice of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned George Snigg Knight one of the Barons of the Exchequer of the said Lord the King John Croke Knight one of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned Thomas Foster Knight one of the Justices of the said Lord the King of the Bench Edward Bromley Knight one of the Barons of the said Lord the King of his Exchequer aforesaid John Sotherton another Baron of his Exchequer aforesaid Henry Mountague Knight Recorder of his said City of London and other of his Companions Justices of the said Loâ—d the King by Letters Patents of the said Lord the King to them and others and to any 4. or more of them thereof made To enquire by the Oaths of good and lawful men of the City London aswel within liberties as without by whom the truth of the matter might best be known of what Treasons soever Misprisions of Treasons Insurrections Rebellions And of whatsoever Murthers Felonies Man slaughters Killings Burglaâ—ies Misdeeds Offences and Injuries whatsoever within the City aforesaid committed in the said Letters Patents specified and to the said Treasons and other the premises according to the Law and Custom of the Kingdom of the Lord the King of England to hear and determine As also Justices of the said Lord the King to Gaol delivery of Prisoners there being assigned by the Oaths of Ralph Edmunds Leonard Harwood John Frost Edward Dames John Lyssant Francis Barton Edward Parnell Thomas Hyet Henry Kent Edward Motley
Humphry Lee Richard Westcot William Fairbrother Edward Faweet and Thomas Smith good and lawful men of the City aforesaid It is presented That whereas upon Saturday the 17th day of November in the yeer of the Reign of our Lord James by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King defender of the Faith c. the 8th and of Scotland the 44th in the Court of the Lord the King before Richard Pyot Alderman then and as yet one of the Sherifs of the City of London aforesaid in his Compter situate in the Parish of St. Michael in VVoodstreet London aforesaid according to the Custom of the City aforesaid then holden one Robert Radford had leeved a certain Plaint upon a Plea of Debt of demand of 500. hundred pounds against one John Murray of London Esq The Tenor of which Plaint followeth in these words that is to say Iohn Murray summon against Robert Radford Salter in a Plea of Debt upon demand 500. hundred pounds And thereupon the aforesaid Robert Radford demanded processe against the said Iohn Murray according to the Custom of the City aforesaid to be seved Upon which at the Request of the said Robert Radford in this sort in the same Court it was proceeded That the aforesaid Richard â—yot then and yet one of the Sherifs of the City aforesaid To one Richard Fells then one of the Sergeants at Mace of the Sherif and Minister of the Court aforesaid by word of mouth according to the Custom of the City aforesaid Commanded that he the said Sergeant at Mace should take and arrest the aforesaid Iohn Murray by his Body if he should be found within the Liberties of the City aforesaid so as he have the Body of the said Iohn Murray at the next Court of the said Lord the King at the Guild-hall of the City aforesaid situate in the Parish of St. Lawrence in the Old Iury in the Ward of Cheap London aforesaid upon Wednesday the 21. day of November in the 8. and 44th aforesaid to be holden to answer the aforesaid Robert Radford in the Plea of his Plaint aforesaid By virtue of which Command The said Richard Fells The said Iohn Murray afterwards that is to say the 18th day of the said moneth of November in the said yeers of the Lord the King that now is the 8th and 44th abovesaid between the hour of 5. and 6. in the Afternoon of the same day At London aforesaid That is to say in the Parish of St. Martin Bowyer Row in the Ward of Farrington within London aforesaid in the Common Kings high Way there by his Body took and arrested and then and there had in his custody And the aforesaid Iohn Murrey so under the custody of the said Richard Fells by virtue of the Command aforesaid then and there as before is said being It so then and there happened That the said Iohn Murray late of London Esquire otherwise called John Murray of London Esquire one Iohn Mackall late of London Yeoman otherwise called Iohn Maokallay late of London Yeoman one Iohn Engles late of London Yeoman otherwise called Iohn English late of London Yeoman and one Archibald Miller late of London Yeoman not having the Fear of God before their eyes but moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil with Force and Armes that is to say with Swords c. to the intent him the said Iohn Murray from his arrest aforesaid then and there to rescous in and upon the aforesaid Richard Fells then there made an assault affray in which said affray The aforesaid Iohn Mackall otherwise called Iohn Mackalley with a sword is called a Rapier made of Iron and Steel of the value of 12. pence wherehe the said Iohn Mackall otherwise called Iohn Mackalley in his right hand then and there had and held the said Richard Fells in and upon the left part of his Body under the left shoulder-blade of the said Richard feloniously voluntarily and of malice forethought then and there struck and thrust in giving to the said Richard Fells then and there with the sword aforesaid called a Rapier in and upon the left part of his Body under the left shoulder one blow and wound mortal of the length of half an Inch and of bredth of half an Inch and of depth 6. Inches of which said stroak and mortal wound aforesaid the aforesaid Richard Fells then and there that is to say in the Parish and Ward last aforesaid presently dyed And further The Jurors aforesaid present That the aforesaid John Murray late of London Esquire otherwise called John Murry late of London Esquire The aforesaid John Engles late of London Yeoman otherwise called John English late of London Yeoman and the aforesaid Archibald Miller late of London Yeoman the said 18th day of November in the yeers 8th and 44th abovesaid between the Hours aforesaid in the Parish Ward and place last aforesaid felonionly voluntarily and of their forethought malice were present fighting procuring helping abetting and comforting the aforesaid John Mackall late of London Yeoman otherwise called John Mackalley late of London Yeoman to the aforesaid Richard Fells in manner and form aforesaid to be killed and murthered And so the Jurors aforesaid say That the aforesaid John Mackall late of London Yeoman otherwise called John Mackalley late of London Yeoman John Murray late of London Esquire otherwise called John Murry late of London Esquire John Engles late of London Yeoman otherwise called John English late of London Yeoman and Archibald Miller late of London Yeoman the aforesaid Richard Fells at London aforesaid that is to say in the Parish and Ward last aforesaid feloniously voluntarily and of their forethought malice in manner aforesaid killed and murthered against the peace of the Lord the King that now is his Crown and dignity c. And upon this at the self same Sessions before the aforesaid Justices the aforesaid John Murray otherwise Murry John Mackal otherwise Mackalley Io. Engles otherwise English Archibald Miller in the Custody of the said Richard Pyot and Francis Jones Sherifs of the City aforesaid being in the Gaol of Newgate aforesaid to the barr there brought in their proper persons came and severally being asked how of the Felony and Murther aforesaid they would acquit themselves Every one of them for himself severally said that he is not thereof guilty And thereof for good and ill severally put himself upon the Country And Richard Langley Esq who in this behalf followeth for the Lord the King likewise Therefore immediatly came a Jury thereof and the Jurors of that Jury by the Sherifs aforesaid of the City aforesaid Impannelled being called that is to say VVil. Morgan Tho. Dalbit Tho. Evans Tho. Austin Solomon Green VVil. Chewn VVilliam Ellil Metcalse Allington Iohn Drake VVil. Taylor Owen Dames and Tho. Damport appeared who to speak the truth of and upon the premises chosen tryed and sworn say upon their Oath That the City of London is and all
and Dignity c. And afterwards That is to say at the Gaol Delivery of the Lord the King at Newgate holden by the City of London aforesaid at the Justice Hall situate in the Old Baly in the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Ward of Farrington without London aforesaid the 23d day of Iune in the yeer of the Reign of the said our Lord Iames by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland the 10th and of Scotland the 45th before Iames Pemberton Knight Mayor of the City of London aforesaid The right Reverend Father in God Iohn Bishop of London Thomas Flemming Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned Edward Coke Kt. Chief Justice of the said Lord the King of the Bench Lawrence Tanfeild Knight Chief Baron of the Exchequer of the Lord the King Christopher Yelverton Knight one of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned David Williams Knight another of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned John Croke Knight another of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas to be holden before the King himself to be holden assigned Stephen Soan Knight John Garrard Knight Thomas Bennet Knight Baptist Hicks Knight Francis Bacon Solicitor General of the Lord the King Henry Mountague Knight one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and Recorder of the City of London aforesaid and other their Fellows Justices of the Lord the King To his Gaol aforesaid of Prisoners in the same being to be delivered assigned The aforesaid Robert Carliel and James Irweng under the custody of Edward Barkham and George Smythes Sherifs of the City aforesaid to the Barr aforesaid brought in their proper persons came and severally being asked how of the Felony and Murder aforesaid they would acquit themselves The said Robert Carliel saith That he cannot deny but that he is guilty of the Felony and Murder aforesaid to him in form aforesaid imposed and the Felony and Murder aforesaid expresly confesseth and thereof putteth himself upon the Mercy of the King and the aforesaid James Irweng saith That he of the Felony and Murder aforesaid to him in form aforesaid imposed is not guilty and thereof for good and ill puts himself upon the Country Therefore immediately he cause a Jury to come c. And the Jurors of the Jury aforesaid by the aforesaid Sherifs of the City aforesaid to this impannelled being called that is to say Humphry Slâ—cy William Morgan Rouland Healing Hugh Hawesh Henry Colthurst William Hicks William Hayes Richard Bridges William Wilde John Palmer Solomon Green and Richard Rudd came who to say the truth of and upon the premises to the said Iames Irweng imposed chosen tryed and sworn say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid John Irweng is guilty of the Felony and Murder to him in form aforesaid imposed in manner and form as by the indictment aforesaid against them it is supposed And that he the time of the Felony and Murder aforesaid in form aforesaid committed or ever after had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements to the knowledge of the Jurors aforesaid Upon which the said Robert Carliel and Iames Irweng being severally spoken unto If they had any thing for themselves or could say Wherefore the Court aforesaid to Judgement and Execution of them and either of them of the premises ought not to proceed who said nothing but what at first they had said Upon which then and there It is considered by the said Justices That the aforesaid Robert Carliel and James Irweng to the Gaol of Newgate aforesaid from whence they came should be sent back and thence be lead and either of them be lead unto the place of Execution and there be hanged and either of them be hanged until c. The Indictment of Robert Creighton Esq THE Jurors present for the Lord the King upon their Oath That Middle whereas Robert Carliel late of London Yeoman and James Irweng late of London Yeoman Not having God before their Eyes but seduced by the instigation of the Devil the 11th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of our Lord James by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and of Scotland the 45th at London that is to say in the Parish of St. Dunston in the West in the Ward of Farrington without London aforesaid c. with Force and Armes c. Feloniously and of their fore-thought Malice in and upon one John Turner then and there in the Peace of God and of the said Lord the King being made an Aassult and Affray And the aforesaid Robert Carliel a certain Gun called a Pistoll of the value of 5. shillings then and there charged with Gunpowder and one leaden Bullet which Gun the said Robert Carliel in his Right Hand then and there had and held in and upon the aforesaid John Turner then and there Feloniously Voluntarily and of his Malice fore-thought did shoot off and discharge And the aforesaid Robert Carliel with the leaden Bullet aforesaid from the Gun aforesaid then and there sent out the aforesaid Iohn Turner in and upon the left part of the Body of him the said Iohn Turner then and there feloniously struck giving to the said Iohn Turner then and there with the leaden Bullet aforesaid neer the left papp of him the said Iohn Turner one mortal Wound of the Breadth of half an inch and Depth of 5. inches of which mortal Wound the aforesaid Iohn Turner at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid instantly dyed And that James Irweng Feloniously and of his fore-thought Malice then and there was present ayding assisting abetting comforting and maintaining the aforesaid Robert Carliel to the Felony and Murder aforesaid in form aforesaid to be done and committed And so the aforesaid Robert Carliel and James Irwenge the aforesaid John Turner at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid Feloniously Voluntarily and of their fore-thought Malice killed and Murdered against the Peace of the Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity one Robert Creighton late of the Parish of St. Margaret in the County of VVestminster Esquire not having God before his Eyes but being seduced by the Instigâ—tion of the Devil before the Felony and Murder aforesaid by the aforesaid Robert Carliel and James Irweng in manner and form aforesaid done and committed that is to say the 10th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of our Lord James by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith the 10th and of Scotland the 45th the aforesaid Robert Carliel at the aforesaid Parish of St. Margaret in Westminster aforesaid in the County of Middlesex aforesaid to the Felony and Murder aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid done
Memorandum That Edward Coke Esquire The Attorny General of the Lady the Queen that now is who prosecutes for the said Lady the Queen present here in Court the 20th Day of June this Term in his own person for the said Lady the Queen gave the Court here to understand and be informed That whereas a Wood with the appurtenances called Alcon otherwise Aluington Wood containing by estimation 3000. Acres of Wood in Alton otherwise Aluington and Rock in the aforesaid County of Worcester in the Hands and possession of the said Lady the Queen that now is the first Day of October in the first yeer of her Reign and long before and continually after were and stood and of Right ought to be and yet ought as in the Right of her â—rown of England as in very many Records Roules and Remembrances of this Exchequer it is evident and appeareth upon Record Yet one Ann Countess of Warwick Humphry Hill Richard Bushopp and Edward Bushopp little regarding the Lawes and Statutes of the said Lady the Queen that now is but intending the Disenherism of the Lady the Queen in the premises with Force and Armes c. the first Day of October in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 27th and diverse Dayes and turns between the same first Day of October in the 27th yeer and the Day of Exhibiting of this Information in and upon the possession of the said Lady the Queen of the premises Entred Intruded and made Entry and the Issues and Profits thereof coming perceived to their own uses and had and as yet do perceive and have the same Trespass continuing and as yet continuing in contempt of the said Lady the Queen that now is and against her Lawes Whereupon the aforesaid Attorny of the said Lady the Queen for the said Lady the Queen prayes the Advise of the Courâ— in the premises And the aforesaid Ann Countess of Warwick Humphry Hâ—ll Richard Bishopp and Edward Bishopp come here to answer the said Lady the Queen of and in the premises as it is contained there And now that is to say From the day of Holy Trinity in three Weekes this Term came here the aforesaid Richard Bishopp by Arthur Salwaie his Attorny to this by special favour of the Court admitted and prayeth the hearing of the Information aforesaid and it is read unto him c. Which being read and heard and by him the said Richard fully understood The said Richard complaineth by colour of the premises in the Information aforesaid above specified to be troubled and unquietted and that not justly Because By Protestation that the Information aforesaid and matter in the same contained is not sufficient in Law and to which the said Richard is not necessitated nor by the Law of the Land bound to answer in any manner By Protestation also That the Wood aforesaid in the Information aforesaid above mentioned doth not contain nor the aforesaid time of the Trespass and Intrusion aforesaid above supposed to be done did contain in it 3000. Acres in manner and form as by the Information aforesaid above is supposeed Yet for Plea The said Richard as to the Force and Armes or whatsoever is against the Peace of the said Lady the Queen that now is As also the whole Trespass Contempt and Intrusion in the Information aforesaid above specâ—fied supposed to be done besides the Entry and Ingresse into the Wood aforesaid called Alton Wood otherwise Alvington Wood the 21th Day of February in the Yeer of the Reign of the Lady the Queen that now is the 32th and from the same Day until the Day of Exhibiting of the Information aforesaid and besides the perceiving the Issues and Profits thereof by that time comming above supposed The said Richard saith that he in nothing thereof is guilty in manner and form as by the Information aforesaid above is supposed and upon this puts himself upon the Country And the aforesaid Attorny General of the said Lady the Queen that now is who for the said Lady the Queen in this behalf prosecutes likewise c. Therefore an Inquisition be made thereof c. And as to the Entry and Ingress into the Wood aforesaid the aforesaid 21th Day of February in the 32th Yeer aforesaid and from that Day until the Day of Exhibiting of the Information aforesaid as also to the taking of the Issues and Profits thereof by the time thereof comming above supposed to be done the said Richard saith That the said Lady the Queen that now is him the said Richard ought not any wayes to impeach or trouble because he saith That long before the aforesaid time in which it is supposed the Entry Intrusion and Ingress aforesaid to be done One Ann Countess of Warwick Widow sometimes Wife of Richard sometimes Earl of Warwick was seized of the Mannor of Abbotesley otherwise Abberley otherwise Abbedeley with the appurtenances in the aforesaid County of Worcester whereof the aforesaid Wood in which c. then and until the time of the grant here after specified made to Robert Earl of Leicester the third Day of July in the 30th Yeer of Queen Elizabeth here after mentioned whereof the Memory of Man then was not to the contrary was parcel in her Demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seized a Fine was levied in the Court of the Lord Henry late King of England the 7th at Westminst in the County â—f Middlesex from the Day of St. Hillary in 15. Dayes in the 3d Year of his Reign before Thomas Brian Roger Townsend and Iohn Haugh Justices and other the said late Kings Faithful Subjects then there present Betwâ—en him the Lord the King plantiff and the aforesaid Ann sometimes Countess sometimes Wife of the aforesaid Richard Earl of Warwick by the Name of Ann Countess of Warwick deforceant of the Mannor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. amongst other c. whereof a Plea of Covenant was sued between them in the same Court that is to say That the said Countess granted to the said Lord the King the Mannor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. And the same rendred back to him in the same Court To have and to hold to the said Lord the King and the Heirs Males of his Body begotten and if it shall happen That the said Lord the King should die without Heir Male of his Body begotten then after the decease of the said Lord the King the aforesaid Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. should wholly Revert to the same Countess and her Heirs quieted from the other Heirs of the aforesaid Lord the King as by the Record of the aforesaid Fine in the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is of the Bench at Westminster aforesaid remaining more fully appeareth By virtue of which Fine the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th was seized of the Mannor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. in his demesn as Fee tail that
within the Borough aforesaid there is and time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary there was a Usage and Custom That the Mayor and 12. chief Burgesses of the same Borough stood and were of the private Council of the Borough aforesaid and 24. of the other most discreet Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid for the time being to this chosen and sworn stood and were together with the aforesaid Mayor and 12. Chief Burgesses of Common Council of the Borough aforesaid for the regulating and government of the same Borough And that every such Burgesse who was chosen into the fellowship of the 24. Burgesses of the Common Council aforesaid before he was to be admitted to the said fellowship should take corporal Oath before the Mayor of the same Borough for the time being that he should carry himself well and honestly as well towards the Mayor of the Borough aforesaid for the time being and to them from time to time should shew Reverence and that he should maintein and uphold the Liberties and common Profit of the Borough aforesaid with his best Counsel and Advice And further we Certifie That every one of the aforesaid 12. Chief Burgesses from time to time chosen should be preferred by the Mayor of the Borough aforesaid or the rest of the aforesaid 12. Chief of the Burgesses or by the greater part of them for the time being only without the consent or assent of the aforesaid 24. the other Burgesses who are as before is said of the Common Counsel of the Borough aforesaid to this required And further we Certifie That the aforesaid James Bagg the first day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lady Elizabeth late Queen of England the 32th was duly chosen and appointed one of the aforesaid 24. of the Burgesses of the Common Council of the Borough aforesaid then being and the said first day of May in the 32th yeer aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid took Corporal Oath before the Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid according to the antient Custom aforesaid That he the said James would carry him well honestly as wel towards the Mayor of the Borough aforesaid for the time being as towards the other 12. chief Burg. of the said Borough for the time being and to them from time to time would shew Reverence and the Liberties and Common profit of the Borough aforesaid would maintain and uphold with his best Counsel and advise And further to the Lord the King we Certifie That the aforesaid Borough of Plymouth is situate so neer to the shore and Sea Coasts That by reason thereof and by reason of the daily meeting there of Ships and Vessels there coming as well from the parts beyond the Seas as from elsewhere many ill minded men as well Allens within born of evil and perverse conversation contemners of good Government and disturbers of the Peace in the Ships and Vessels aforesaid thither coming in the Borough aforesaid and within the Liberties and Precincts of the same staying and remaining are daily found who can hardly be there brought to the obedience of good Rule and Government unlesse the Authority of the Mayor of the Borough aforesaid for the time being and of the other Chief Burgesses aforesaid with due reverence of the other Burgesses and Inhabitants of the said Borough be fortified and the Persons of the said Chief Burgesses and of the Mayor from the contempt of the vulger be preserved And further to the said Lord the King we certifie That the aforesaid James Bagge not ignorant of the premises little regarding his Oath aforesaid and the Authority as well of the Mayor of the Borough aforesaid for the time being as his late Predecessors aforesaid as the other the Chief Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid setting naught by and labouring and intending to bring the same Authority into contempt The first day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6th the said James being then one of the Common Counsel of the Borough aforesaid and one of the Chief Burgesses of the same Burough in the presence of one Robert Trelawny then being Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid and of many other of the Inhabitants of the Burrough aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid within the Burrough aforesaid contemptuously and malapartly carried himself as well in gesture as in words toward the Mayor aforesaid and then and there to the aforesaid Robert Trelawny contemptuously and scoffingly without any reasonable cause these words following openly and publickly said and spake that is to say You the aforesaid Robert Trelawney intending are some Prince are you not And further to the said Lord the King we certifie That afterwards that is to say the first day of February in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 7. the aforesaid James Bagge continuing his evil disposition and intention aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid in the presence and hearing of the aforesaid Robert Trelawny then being a Justice of the Peace of the aforesaid Lord the King within the Burrough aforesaid to be kept by reason of Mayrolty of the Burrough aforesaid the yeer then last past by virtue of the Letters Patents aforesaid and in the presence and hearing of very many other of the Inhabitants of the Burrough aforesaid openly publickly and with a loud voice without any reasonable cause these words following contemptuously falsly and scandalously said and spake that is to say you the aforesaid Trelawny intending are a Cosening Knave whereas in truth the said Robert Trelawny all his life time honestly and from all suspition of any falsity fraud or deceit lived altogether unspected and in the Offices as well of the Mayriolty as of Chief Burgesse of the Burrough aforesaid with praise carried and governed himself And further to the said Lord the King we do Certifie That the 20th day of November in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 7th The aforesaid James Bagge continuing his evil disposition and intent aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid seditiously and malitiously stirred up and perswaded one Thomas Shervil then being of the Chief Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid That he the said Thomas would joyn himself with the aforesaid James Bagge in a conspiracy to amove and depose One John Battersby then being Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid from his Office of Mayriolty without any reasonable or lawful cause and then and there malitiously and contemptuously spake to the aforesaid Thomas Shervill of the aforesaid Thomas Battersby these words following that is to say Master Mayor the aforesaid John Battersby intending carrieth himself foolishly in this place And if you will joyn with me we will turn him out of his Mayriolty and choose a wiser Man in his place Whereas in truth the aforesaid John Battersby during the whole time of his Mayriolty aforesaid in the executing of his Office aforesaid carried himself well and discreetly and with great
William Banes then and there faithfully That she the said Mary the aforesaid 77. pounds to the said William Banes then at that next Quarter that is to say at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel then next following the promise aforesaid in the 7th year aforesaid well and truly would pay and content Or otherwise the said Mary then and there would assign to the said William Banes for his security in that behalf for the payment of the aforesaid 77. pounds All the Interest of the Term of years which she the said Mary then had to come of and in the Gardens and Bowling-Ally aforesaid if the said Mary the said 77. pounds to the said William Banes according to her assumption and promise aforesaid had not paid And the said William Banes further saith That he the said William Banes giving Faith to the promise and undertaking of the said Mary did not trouble or sue the said Mary for the said 77. pounds but did forbear the payment thereof from the time of the promise aforesaid until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next following the promise aforesaid in the year aforesaid And the said William Banes further saith That after the premises aforesaid in form aforesaid that is to say the 10th day of November in the 4th year aforesaid at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid the said Mary took to Husband the aforesaid Edward Paine Yet the aforesaid Mary whilest she was single or the said Edward and Mary after the Mariage between them solemnized the undertaking promise of the said Mary whilest she was single little regarding but threating and fraudulently intending the said William Banes of the aforesaid 77. pounds craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud of the said 77. pounds nor the said Mary whilest she her self was single to the said William Banes at the aforesaid Quarter that is to say at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next following the promise aforesaid in the 7th year aforesaid according to the promise and undertaking aforesaid in this behalf paid or any was for the same contented or otherwise then and there at that Feast did not assign to the said William Banes All the Interest of the Term of years which she the said Mary then had to come of and in the Gardens and Bowling-Alley aforesaid Nor the said Edward and Mary the Mariage betwixt them being celebrated at any time after he his the aforesaid 77. pounds to the said William Banes according to the promise and undertaking of the said Mary aforesaid have paid or any wayes for the same have contented him Or all the Interest aforesaid of the Term of years of the said Edward and Mary of and in the Gardens and Bowling-Ally aforesaid according to the promise and undertaking of the said Mary to the said William Banes for his security in that behalf hitherto have assigned although this to do by the said William Banes the said Mary whilest she was single and the said Edward and Mary after the Mariage betwixt them celebrated that is to say the last day of September in the year of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is of England the 8th at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid often were required By which the said William Banes all the gain commodity and profit which he with the aforesaid 77. pounds in buying selling and lawfully bargaining could have had or gained if the said Mary her promise and undertaking aforesaid in form aforesaid had performed utterly lost whereupon the said William Banes saith That he is the worse and hath damage to the value of one 100. pound And hereof bringeth sute c. And now at this day that is to say Wednesday next after 8. dayes of St. Hillary this same Term untill which day the said Edward and Mary had License to the Bill aforesaid to imparl and then to Answer c. before the Lord the King at VVestminster cometh as well the aforesaid VVilliam Banes by his Attorney aforesaid as the said Edward and Mary by Isham Novell their Attorney and the said Edward and Mary defend the force and injury when c. And say That the said Mary did not take upon her in manner and form as the aforesaid VVilliam Banes above against them hath declared And of this put themselves upon the Countrey and the aforesaid VVilliam Banes likewise c. Therefore a Jury thereof was to come before the Lord the King at Westminster upon Monday next after 15. dayes of St. Hillary and who neither c. Because as well c. The same day is given to the parties aforesaid here c. Afterwards the Prosess was continued between the parties aforesaid of the Plea aforesaid by Jurors thereof put between them in respite before the Lord the King at Westminster untill Tuesday next after 8. dayes of the Purification of the blessed Lady then next following unlesse the beloved and faithful of the Lord the King Thomas Flending Knight Chief Justice of the Lord the King of Pleas in the Court of the said Lord the King before the King himself to be holden assigned first upon Monday next after the aforesaid 8. dayes of Purification of the blessed Lady at the Guild-hall London by form of the Statute c. cometh for default of Jurours c. At which day before the Lord the King at Westminster cometh the aforesaid William Banes by his Attorney aforesaid and the aforesaid Chief Justice before whom c. Sent here his Record before him had in these words Afterwards the day and place within conteined before the beloved and faithful of the said Lord the King Thomas Flending Knight Chief Justice within written associating to himself William Price according to the form of the Statute came as well the within named William Banes as the within written Edward Paine and Mary his wife by their Attorneys within written and the Jurours of the Jury whereof within is made mention likewise came and to speak the truth of the matter within conteined elected tryed and sworn say upon his Oath That the within named Mary took upon her in manner and form as the within written William Banes within against them hath declared and they assesse the damages of the said William by occasion of not performing the promise and undertakings within written besides the Charges and Costs by him about his sute in his behalf expended to 80. pounds and for his charges and costs to 53. shillings and 4. pence Therefore it is granted That the aforesaid William Banes shall recover against the said Edward Paine and Mary his wife the damages aforesaid in form aforesaid assessed as also 5. pounds 6. shillings 8. pence for his charges and costs aforesaid to the said William by the Court of the said Lord the King here with his assert of encrease adjudged Which damages in the whole do amount to 88. pound and the said Edward Paine and Mary his wife in mercy c. Assise
a sufficient replication on his part the said William prayeth Iudgement and that the said Robert from his action aforesaid against him to have be barred and the said Robert in as much as he sufficient matter in Law to him the said Robert his action aforesaid against the said William to have and maintain above by replying hath alleged which he is ready to aver which matter the aforesaid William doth not deny nor to the same in any wayes answereth but the averment aforesaid to admit doth altogether refuse as at first prayeth Iudgement and his debt aforesaid together with his damages by occasion of detayning his debt to be adjudged unto him c. And because the Iustices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Iudgement thereof Day is given to the parties aforesaid here on 8 dayes of Saint Michael to â—ear their Iudgment thereof because the Iustices here thereof not yet c. Debt Trinity Term. Anno 10. of King James Rott 2413. In Brownlow the Common Pleas. The Case of the Mayor and Burgesses of Kings Lynne Concerning Misnaming of Corporations C. 10. part fol. 120. a. IOhn Payn late of Catton in the County aforesaid Gent. Executor of Norff. the Testament of John Payne late called John Payne of Kings Linne in the County of Norffolk Esq was summoned to Answer to the Mayor and Burgesses of Kings Lynne in the County of Norfolk of a Plea that he render to them 3000. pound which he unjustly deteineth from them c. And whereupon the said Mayor and Burgesses by Henry Bastard their Attorney say That whereas the aforesaid John Payne the Testator in his life the 27 th day of January in the year of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is c. The 6 th at Gaywood by his writing Obligatory had granted himself to be bounden to the said Mayor and Burgesses in the aforesaid 3000. pound to be paid to the said Mayor and Burgesses when thereof he was required yet the said John Payne the Testator in his life time the aforesaid John Payne the Executor after the death of him the Testator John Payne although often required the aforesaid 3000. pound to the said Mayor and Burgesses rendred not but the same denyed to them to render and the aforesaid John Payne the Executor doth deny the same yet to render to them and unjustly deteineth the same whereupon they say that they are the worse and have damage to the value of 100. pound and thereof bring Sute and bring here into Court the writing aforesaid which the debt aforesaid in form aforesaid testifieth c. whose date is the same day and year aforesaid c. And the aforesaid Iohn Payne Executor by Thomas Blofield his Attorney comes and defends the force and injury when c. And saith that hee of the debt aforesaid by virtue of the writing aforesaid ought not to be charged Because he saith That it is not the Deed of the said Iohn Payne the Testator and upon this puts himself upon the Countrey and the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses likewise Therefore it is commanded to the Sheriff that he cause to come here from the day of Holy Trinity in 3. weeks â—2 c. By whom c. And who neither c. To Recognize c. Because as well c. At which day the Jurors between the parties aforesaid of the Plea aforesaid were put between them in respite here untill this day that is to say in 8. dayes of Saint Michael then next following unlesse the Justices of the Lord the King to Assises in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the Statute c. upon Monday the 27 th of day Iuly next following at the Castle at Norwich in the County aforesaid first shall come And now at this day comes as well the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses as the aforesaid Iohn Payne the Executor by their Attorneys aforesaid and the aforesaid Justices to Assises before whom c. Send here their Record in these words Afterwards the day and place within conteined before Edward Coke Knight Chief Justice of the Lord the King of the Bench and Iohn Croke Knight one of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned Justices of the said Lord the King to Assises in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the Statute c. come as well the within named Mayor and Burgesses as the within written Iohn Payne the Executor by their Attorneys within written and the Jurors of the Jury wherefore within is made mention being called likewise come who to say the truth of the within conteined chosen tryed and sworn say upon their Oath That long before the making of the writing Obligatory within written The Lord Henry late King of England the 8 th the 7 th day of Iuly in the year of his Reign the 29 th By his Letters Patents under his Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the same day and year and to the Jurors aforesaid in evidence shewed Reciting by the said Letters Patents That whereas the said late King by his Letters Patents whose date was the 27 th day of Iune in the 16 th year of his Reign of his special grace and of his meer motion late had granted and by the said his Letters Patents confirmed for him his Heirs Successors to the Mayor and Burgesses and Inhabitants of his Borough of Lynn Bishop in his County of Norfolk that they for ever should be one body Corporate and one Cominalty perpetually in thing and name and that they should have perpetual succession and the name of the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of aforesaid Bishops Lynne in the County of Norfolk should have and bear and by the same name should be persons able and capable in Law to have purchase Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels other possessions whatsoever and to plead and to be impleaded answer and answered defend and might and could defend before any Justices whatsoever whether spiritual Judges or temporal in whatsoever Courts and in all and singular Actions Causes Matters Plaints and Demands of whatsoever kind they should be or nature in the same manner as the other the Leige people of the said late King persons able and capable in Law to plead and be impleaded to answer and to be answered defend or might defend and that the said Mayor and Burgesses and their Successors should have or might have one Common Seal for their businesses and others to be done within the Borough aforesaid happening or arising with divers other Liberties Franchisles Grants Articles and immunities in the said Letters Patents conteined and specified as in the said Letters Patents more fully and manifestly is appeared And whereas afterwards by a certain Statute late in Parliament of the said late King at London holden the third day of November in the 21
the statute aforesaid is to be done Witness my self at Westminster the 6th day of May in the year of our Raign the 31th and that afterwards the said Lady the Queen that now is sent here another writ under her great seal out of the Chancery to the Treasurer and her Barons of this Exchequor directed which is enrolled in the Remembrancers of the said Exchequer of the 31 year of the now Queen Elizabeth that is to say amongst the Records of Trinity Term Rot. Remaining with the Remembrancer of the said Lady the Queen here the Tenor of which writ followeth in these words ss Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland defender of the faith c. To the Treasurer and Barons of her Exchequer greeting Because in the Record and process and also in giving of Judgment of a plea which was in our Court before you the aforesaid Barons of our Exchequor aforesaid in Easter Term last past by Bill between Henry Page our Debtor and Edward Griffin of a certain trespass and Ejectment out of his Farm to the said Henry by the said Edward done as is said manifest Error intervened To the grevious damage of the said Edward as by his complaint we have received and whereas in a statute in Parliament of the Lord Edward late King of England the third our Progenitor at Westminster in the year of his Reign the 13th made amongst other things it was agreed unto and established that in all cases the King and other persons touching where any complaineth of Error done in the Exchequor the Chancellor and Treasurer shall cause to come before them in some Chamber of Councel nigh unto the Exchequor the Record and process out of the said Exchequor and taking to them the Justices and other sages whom they shall think fit to be taken and also to be called before them the Barons of the Exchequor aforesaid to hear their informations the causes of their Judgement thereupon shall cause the business duly to be examined and if any Error shall be found that they correct the same and the rolls to be amended We therefore willing Error if any were according to the form of the statute aforesaid to be amended and full and speedy Justice to be done to the parties in his behalf we command you that if Judgment thereof be given that then the Record and process aforesaid with all concerning the same before our Chancellor of Englaâ— and you the aforesaid Treasurer in the Council Chamber neer unto the Exchequer aforesaid 10th day of this Instant moneth of June your cause to come That the same Chancellor and you the said Treasurer the Record and Process aforesaid being seen and hearing your informations you the said Barons further in this behalf of the Council of the Justices and the other sages do that which of right and aâ—â—ording of the form of the statute aforesaid is to be done Witness my seâ—â— at Westminster the third day of June in the year of our Reign the 31. At which day the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer into the Chamber aforesaid did not come and that aâ—terwards the said Lady the Queen that now is sent another writ under her great Seal out of her Chancery To the Treasurer and Barons of this Exchequer directed which is enrolled in the Remembrancers of the said Exchequer of 31th year of Queen â—lizabeth that now is that is to say amongst the Records of Trinity Term Rot. Remaining with the Remembrancer of the said Lady the Queen the Tenor of which writ followeth in these words ss Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defendor of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer greeting Because that in the Record and process and also in giving of Judgement which was in our Court before you the aforesaid Barons of our Exchequer aforesaid in Easiher Term last past by Bill between Henry Page our debtor and Edward Griffin of a certain Trespass and Ejectment of him out of his Farm to the said Henry by the aforesaid Edward Griffin done as is said Error manifest intervened to the grievous damage of the said Edward as by his Complaint we have received And whereas in a statute in Parliament of the Lord Edward late King of England the third our Progenitor at Westminster in the year of his Reign the 31th holden it was amongst other things agreed unto and established that in all cases the King and other persons touching where any complains of Error done in process in the Exchequer the Chancellor Treasurer shall cause to come before them in some Chamber of Council nigh unto the Exchequor the said Record and process out of the said Exchequer and taking to them the Justices and other sages as to them they shall seem good to be taken and also to be called before them the Barons of the Exchequer aforesaid to heare their informations and the causes of their Judgment and thereupon the business aforesaid duly to be examined and if any Error shall be sound the same to be corrected and the Rolls to be amended and afterwards to send them into the said Exchequer to do execution thereof as belongeth as in the said statute is conteyned We therefore willing Error if any such shall be according to the form of the statute aforesaid to be corrected and to the parties aforesaid full and speedy Justice to be done in that behalf Command you that if Judgment be thereof given Then the Record and process with all touching the same before our Chancellor of England and you the said Treasurer in the Chamber of Councel neer unto the Exchequer aforesaid called the Councel Chamber the 14th day of October then ollowing you cause to come that the said Chancellor and you the said Treasurer seeing and examining the Record and process aforesaid and your informations being heard you the said Barons further in this behalf with the Councel of the Justices and other sages cause to be done what of right and according to the form of the statute aforesaid is to be done Witness my self at Westminster the 13th day of June in the year of our Reign the 31th At which 14th day of October before Christopher Hatton Knight Chancellor of England and William Cecil Knight Lord Burghley Treasurer of the Exchequer aforesaid in the said Chamber neer the Exchequer aforesaid at Westminster came the said Edward Griffin by Richard Hatton his Attorny and the aforesaid Traesurer and Barons the Recâ—â—d and process aforesaid with all things touching the same then and there caused to come and upon that the said Edward said That in the Record and process aforesaid and also in the giving of the Judgement aforesaid It is manifestly Erred First in this that is to say because it doth not appear in the Record aforesaid that the aforesaid Thomas Bowes Master of Arts in the Record aforesaid above named was seised of the remaynder of the Messuage aforesaid
6 Acres of Wood with the appurtenances in Wimondham which John Smith Gentleman to the aforesaid Arthur demised for a Term which is not yet past he entred and him from his Farm aforesaid did Eject and other harms did to him to the great damage of the said Arthur and against the peace of the Lord the King that now is c. and whereupon the said Arthur by Robert Love his Attorny complaineth that whereas the aforesaid John the 19 th day of October in the year of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 8 th at Wimondham had demised to the said Arthur the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances to have and to hold to the said Arthur his Executors and Administrators from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel then last past for and during the Term of 3 years from thence next following to be compleat and ended by virtu of which demise the said Arthur into the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances entred and was thereof possessed until the aforesaid Edward afterwards that is to say the 10 th day of April in the year of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is of England the 9 th with force and armes c. the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances which the aforesaid John to the said Arthur in form aforesaid demised for the aforesaid Term which is not yet past entred and him from his Farm aforesaid did Eject and other harms c. and against the peace c. whereupon he saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 20 pound And therof he bringeth sute c. And the said Edward by Thomas Blofield his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. And saith he is not guilty of the Trespasse and Ejectment aforesaid as the said Arthur against him complaineth and of this puts himself upon the Country And the aforesaid Arthur likewise Therefore it is commanded to the Sherif that he cause to come here from the day of Holy Trinity in three Weeks 12. by whom c. And who neither c. Because aswell c. At which day the Jurors between the parties aforesaid of the Plea aforesaid put was between them in respite here until this day that is to say in 8 dayes of St. Michael then next following unless The Justices of the Lord the King to Assizes in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the Statute c. Monday the 15 th day of July next At the Castle of Norwich in the County aforesaid first should come And now at this day cometh as well the aforesaid Arthur as the aforesaid Edward by their Attornies aforesaid And the aforesaid Justices to Assizes before whom c. send here their Record in these words Afterwards the day and place within contained before Edward Coke Kt. Chief Justice of the Lord the King of the Bench and John Crooke Kt. one of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Pleas before the King himself to be holden assigned Justices of the said Lord the King to Assizes in the County aforesaid to be holden assigned by form of the Statute c. came aswell the within named Arthur as the within written Edward Cockle by their Attornies within written And the Jurors of the Jury whereof within is made mention being called likewise came whereof 12. that is to say Robert Seaman Adam Bale Bartholmew Harison Thomas Reynolds William Bidwel Henry Howlet Thomas Crooke Richard Russel Thomas Filney Iohn Freeman John Jewel and Edmond Johnson in the Jury aforesaid are sworn After which one of the Jurors aforesaid that is to say Robert Seaman with the assent of both parties aforesaid and by the Command of the Justices aforesaid from the Pannel aforesaid was utterly drawn c. Therefore with the assent of the parties aforesaid the Jury aforesaid was further put in respite here until in 8. dayes of St. Hillary Therefore that the Sherif have the Bodies c. And appoint Decem Tales At which day here cometh aswell the aforesaid Arthur as the aforesaid Edward by their Attornies aforesaid And the Sherif now sendeth That as to the distreyning of Bartholmew Stone that the Writ was so late delivered to him that for the shortnesse of the time he could not execute it but as to the putting of the Decem Tales whereof in the said Writ was made mention the said Sherif now sendeth That execution thereof doth appear in a Schedule to the said Writ annexed in which Schedule is contained the Pannel of the names of Ten Jurors whereof none c. Therefore the Jury aforesaid again is put in respite here until from Easter-day in 15. dayes unless the Justices of the King To the Assizes in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the Statute c. Wednesday in the first Week of Lent at Thetford in the County aforesaid first shall come for default of Jurors c. Therefore that the Sherif distrein the Jurors aforesaid by all their Lands c. And that the issues c. So that they be here unless c. to make the Jury aforesaid c. Norff. ss Afterwards the day and place within contained before Edward Coke Kt. Chief Justice of the Lord the King of the Bench and John Crooke Kt. one of the Justices of the said Lord the King to Assizes in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the statute c. cometh aswell the within named Arthur Legat as the within written Edward Cockle by their Attornies within contained And the Jurors of the Jury aforesaid whereof within is made mention being called likewise come who to say the truth of the within contained chosen tryed and sworn say upon their Oath That the late King and Queen Philip and Mary the 9 th day of July in the yeer of the Reigns of the same King and Queen Philip and Mary the 4th and 6th were seised of and in the Mannor of VVimondamâ— in the County aforesaid in their Demesn as of Fee in the Right of hâ—s Crown of England whereof the Lands and Tenements in the Declaration within written then were parcel and the aforesaid late King and Queen Philip and Mary so as before is said of and in the Mannor aforesaid whereof c. being seised The said King and Queen the said 9th day of July in the yeer of the Reigns of the said late King and Queen Philip and Mary the 4th and 6th made their Letters Patents under the great Seal of Eng. to one George Howard Kt. of the aforesaid Lands and Tenements in the Declaration within written named amongst other By the names of 2 pieces of Lands called Nettlehamsted VVikemans containing by estimation 15. Acres lying and VVyndmondham aforesaid in the County aforesaid then or late in the tenure or occupation of Joh. Coleman late to the Monastery of VVyndmondham sometimes belonging and appertaining parcel of the
the 8th the 11th at Pettesâ—o aforesaid By her certain Writing of Release which the said Warden or Rector and Scholars with the Seal of the aforesaid Sibil sealed here in Court bring whose date is the same day and yeer remised released and altogether for her and her Heirs for ever quit claimed to the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martin Linsey John Coteford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor then of the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances in form aforesaid being seized in their full and peaceable possession then being their Heirs and Assignes for ever All her Right Claim Title Use Interest and Demand which ever she had now hath or at any time after might have of and in the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances And further the said Sibil by her aforesaid Writing granted for her and her Heirs That she the said Sibil and her Heirs the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances to the said Richard Lyster Martin Linsey John Coteford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor their Heirs and Assignes against the then Abbot of Westminster and his Successors would warrant and for ever defend as by the said Writing of Release more fully appeareth And this the said Warden or Rector and Scholars are ready to averr whereupon they demand Judgement if the aforesaid Robert Chamberlain against the aforesaid Writing of Release the said Warranty of the said Sibil his Ancestor whose Heir the said Robert is in it contained his Action aforesaid against them ought to have c. And the aforesaid Robert Chamberlain saith that he for any thing before alleged to have his Action aforesaid ought not to be barred because he saith That long before the aforesaid Deed and before the aforesaid Alured Richard Danvers Nicholas Stathum and William Collow had any thing in the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances The aforesaid Richard Chamberlain was seized of the aforesaid Mannors with the appurtenances in his Demesn as of Fee And the said Richard so thereof being seized before the gift aforesaid that is to say the 12th day of June in the yeer of the Lord Edward late King of England the 4th after the Conquest the 11th The aforesaid Richard Danvers Alured Cornburgh Nicholas Stathum and William Collow out of the Court of the Chancery of the said late King Edward the 4th at Westminster in the County of Middlesex then being brought and prosecuted a certain Writ of the said late King Edward the 4th of Right against the said Richard Chamberlain then being Tenant of the Free hold of the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenaces amongst other things to the then Sheriff of the County of Buckingham directed By which Writ the said late King then and there commanded the said Sherif That he should command the said Richard Chamberlain by the name of Richard Chamberlain Esq that justly and without delay he render to the said Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas and William by the names of Richard Danvers Alured Gorneburgh Esq Nicholas Stathum and William Collow the Mannor aforesaid with the appurtenances amongst other by the names of the Mannors of Pettesho and Eckney with the appurtenances 6. Messuages 200. Acres oâ— Land 20. Acres of Medow 200. Acres of Pasture 100. shillings Rent with the appurtenances in Pettesho Eckney Emberton which he claimeth to be his Right Inheritance And whereupon they complained Chamberlain them unjustly deforced and unlesse he do and the aforesaid Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas and William Collow should him the said Sheriâ— secure to prosecute their claim That then he summon by good summoners the aforesaid Richard Chamberlain that he be before the then Justices of the said late King Edward the 4th here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid from the 15. day of St. John the Baptist then nexâ— following to shew wherefore ye shoâ—ld not do And that he have then this summons and that Writ Because Thomas Rokes Esq Chief Lord of the same Fee remised thereof his Court to the said late King Edward the 4th At which 15. dayes of John the Baptist before Thomas Brian Kt. and his Companions then Justices of the said late King Edward the 4th of the Bench here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid came aswell the aforesaid Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas Stathum and William Collow by Thomas Gurney their Attorny as the aforesaid Richard Chamberlain by John Wildstall then his Attorny And then the Sherif of the aforesaid County of Buckingham that is to say Reginald Gray Esq then there returned the Writ aforesaid to him in form aforesaid directed in all things served and executed and sent that the aforesaid Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas and VVilliam Collow found to the said then Sherif sureties to prosecute his Writ aforesaid that is to say Richard Doo and Iohn Roo And that the said Richard Chamberlain was summoned by Iames Tye and Iohn Baker good summoners c. And hereupon The said Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas Stathum and William Callow by the said Thomas Gurney their Attorney in the said Court of the aforesaid late King Edward the 4th of the Bench here that is to say at Wostminster aforesaid at the 15. dayes aforesaid of St. Iohn Baptist Declared against the said Richard Chamberlain of and upon their Writ aforesaid and upon their Writ aforesaid by the same Thomas Gurney demanded against the aforesaid Richard Chambrlain the Mannors Tenements Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances in the said Writ of Right specified as their Right and inheritance by the aforesaid Writ of the said late King Edward the 4th because the aforesaid Thomas Rokes Chief Lord of the same Fee Released thereof his Court to the said late King And whereupon then they said That they themselves were seized of the Mannors aforesaid and of the Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances in the said Writ of Right specified in their Demesn as of Fee and Right in the time of Peace in the time of the said late King Edward the 4th taking the profits therof to the value c. And that such is their Right then they did offer c. And the aforesaid Richard Chamberlain by the aforesaid John Wildstaâ—e by his Attorny came and defended the Right of the said Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas and William when c. And their seisin of which seisin c. as of Fee and Right c. And all c. And chiefly of the Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances in the said Writ of Right specified and then vouched hereof to warranty Robert King who was present in the same Court in his proper person and willingly the Mannors and Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances in the said Writ of Right specified to them then did warrant c. Whereupon the aforesaid Richard Danvers Alured Nicholas and William then demanded against the aforesaid Robert Tenant by his warranty the Mannors Tenements and Hereditaments aforesaid in the said Writ of Right specified in form aforesaid c.
mentioned of which wound the said Richard Fells then and there that is to say in the Parish and Ward last aforesaid instantly dyed And futher the Jurors aforesaid say That at the time of the Killing of the aforesaid Rich. Fells in maner and form aforesaid The said Jo. Murray and John Engles otherwise English were present aiding to the said John Mackall otherwise Mackalley to him the said Richard Fells in manner aforesaid to be killed But whether upon the whole matter aforesaid by the Jurors aforesaid in form aforesaid found The killing aforesaid of the said Richard Fells in form aforesaid don be Murther or not the Jurors aforesaid do not know And thereof demand the Advise of the Justices and Court here and if upon the whole matter aforesaid It shall seem to the Justices and Court here That the aforesaid killing of the aforesaid Richard Fells be Murder Then the Jurors aforesaid say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid John Murray John Mackally and Iohn English are guilty and every one of them is guilty of the Murder of the said Richard Fells in manner and form as by the Indictment aforesaid against them it is supposed And that they at the time of Murder aforesaid in form aforesaid committed had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements to the knowledge of the Jurors aforesaid And if upon the whole matter aforesaid in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Justices and Court here That the aforesaid killing of the aforesaid Richard Fells in form aforesaid committed be not Murder Then the Jurors aforesaid say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid Iohn Murray Iohn Mackall and Iohn Engles are not guilty nor any of them is guilty of the Murther of the aforesaid Richard Fells as they have alleged nor for that occasion ever with-drew themselves or any of them with-drew himself And if upon the whole matter aforesaid in form foresaid found It shall seem to the Justices and Court here That the killing of the aforesaid Richard Fells in form aforesaid done be Fellony or Man-slaughter Then the Jurors aforesaid say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid Iohn Murray Iohn Mackall and Iohn Engles are guilty and every of them is guilty of the Felony and Man-slaughter aforesaid And that they have no goodâ— nor Chattels Lands or Tenements And further the Jurors aforesaid say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid Archibald Miller in the said Indictment named of the Felony and Murder aforesaid is not guilty nor for that occasion ever with-drew himself Therefore it is considered by the Court That the aforesaid Archibald Miller go thereof acquitted without day c. And because the Court here of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises concerning the aforesaid Iohn Murray Iohn Mackall and Iohn Engles are not yet avised Day is given to the aforesaid Iohn Murray Iohn Mackall and Iohn Engles until the next Sessions of Gaol Delivery aforesaid for the aforesaid City to be holden under the Custody of the aforesaid Sherifs in the mean while committed safely to be kept for to hear their Judgement thereof c. And because the Justices aforesaid are not yet c. Indictments The Record of the Conviction of Carliel and others The Lord Sanchars Case C. 9. part fol. 114. THE Inquisition taken at the Sessions of the Peace of the Lord the King for the City of London at the Guild-hall of the City of London aforesaid upon VVednesday the 27th day of May In the yeer of the Reign of our Lord Iames by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. the 10th and of Scotland the 45th before James Pemberton Knight Mayor of the City of London aforesaid Stephen Soan Knight John Garrad Knight Thomas Bennet Knight Thomas Low Knight Henry Row Knight and Henry Mountague Knight one of the Sergeants at Law of the Lord the King and Recorder of the said City Justices of the said Lord the King to the Peace in the City aforesaid to be kept As also to divers Felonies Trespasses and misdeeds in the said City committed to hear determine assigned by the oaths of William Palmer John Pemberton Edward Bishop John Harrison William Erbury Thomas Nicholson Humphry VVaterson John Woodhall Zachary Healing Richard Downes Thomas Eagles Thomas Dennis Richard Taylor Meredith â—roughton and Ralph Hanson good and lawful men of the Body of the City aforesaid Who say upon their Oath aforesaid That Robert Carliel late of London Yeoman and John Jrweng late of London aforesaid Yeoman Not having God before their Eyes but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil The 11th day of May in the yeer of the Reign of our Lord James by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and of Scotland the 45th at London aforesaid that is to say in the Parish of St. Dunston in the East in the Ward of Farrington without London aforesaid with force and Armes c. Feloniously on their fore though Malice in and upon one John Turner then and there being in the Peace of God and of the said Lord the King made an assault and an affray And the aforesaid Robert Carliel a certain Gun called a Pistol of the value of 5. shillings then and there charged with Gunpowder and one leaden Bullet which Gun the aforesaid Robert Carliel in his Right Hand then and there had and held in and upon the aforesaid John Turner then and there Feloniously voluntarily and of his fore-thought Malice did shoot off and discharge And the aforesaid Robert Carliel with the leaden Bullet aforesaid from the Gun aforesaid then and there sent out the aforesaid John Turner in and upon the Left part of the Body of him the said John Turner neer the Left Papp of the said John Turner then and there feloniously struck giving to the said John Turner then and there with the leaden Bullet aforesaid out of the Gun aforesaid then and there sent out in and upon the aforesaid Left part of the Body of the said Iohn Turner neer the aforesaid Left Papp of the said Iohn Turner one mortal Wound of the Bâ—edth of half of one Inch and in the Depth of 5. Inches of which mortal Wound the aforesaid Iohn Turner at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid instantly dyed And that Iames Irweng Feloniously and of his fore-thought Malice then and there was present adjoyning assisting abbetting comforting and maintaining the aforesaid Robert Carliel to the Felony and Murder aforesaid in form aforesaid Feloniously to be done and committed And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid say That the aforesaid â—obert Carliel and Iames Irweng the aforesaid Iohn Turner at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid Feloniously Voluntarily and of their fore-thought Malice did kill and murder contrary to the Peace of the Lord the King that now is his Crown
be to him adjudged c. And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof Day is given to the parties c. REPLEVIN Trinity Term Anno 6 to of King James Rot. 1611. in the COMMON-PLEAS C. 9. part Henry Conneys Case BArtholmew Colpit was summoned to answer to Iohn Crane of a Plea wherefore he took the Cattel of the said John and them deteined against Gages and Pledges and whereupon The said Iohn by Thomas Ganton his Attorney complaineth that the aforesaid Bartholmew the 19th day of October in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 5th at Fidde St Giles in a certain place there conteining in it two Acres of Pasture the Cattel that is to say 3. Steers of the said Iohn c. them unjustly deteined against Gages Pledges untill c. whereupon he saith he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 20. pound and thereof bringeth sute c. And the aforesaid Bartholmew by William Dany his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury c. and as Bayliff to Iohn Welby Esquire doth well acknowledge the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the place in which c. and justly c. Because he saith that the said place in which it is supposed the taking of the Cattel aforesaid to be done doth contein aforesaid time in which it is supposed the aforesaid taking to be done did contein in it self 2. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in Fidde Saint Giles aforesaid lying there in a certain Field called South graftfield neer the Lands foot of Richard Welby Gent. sometimes Richard Delaland on the part of the North and the Kirkland on the part of the West and that one Henry Conny Esquire before the time in which was seised of the aforesaid 2. Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in which c. in his demesn as of Fee and held the same of one William Stermin Esquire as of his Manor of Richards with the Appurtenances in Tidde St. Giles aforesaid by Fealty and the Rent of 13d yeerly at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel to be paid as also by the Service of doing Sute at the Court of the said William Stermin of his Manor aforesaid from 3. weeks to 3. weeks upon seasonable warning at the Manor aforesaid to be holden Of which Services the said William Stermin was seised by the hands of the aforesaid Henry Conny as by the hands of his very Tenant that is to say Of the Fealty and Sute of Court aforesaid as of Fee and Right and of the Rent aforesaid in his demesn as of Fee Of which Manor with the Appurtenances the aforesaid William Stermin was seised in his demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seised the aforesaid William Stermin before the time in which c. Of the aforesaid Manor with the Appurtenances the aforesaid John Welby enfeoffed To have and to hold to the said Joh. Welby his Heirs Assigns for ever To which Feoffment by the aforesaid VVilliam Stermin to the aforesaid John VVelby in form aforesaid made the aforesaid Henry Conny afterwards and before the time in which c. that is to say the first day of November in the yeer of the Reign of Lord the King that now is the first then of the aforesaid two Acres of Lands with the Appurtenances in form aforesaid being seised at Fidde St. Giles aforesaid attorned By colour of which Feoffment and attorment aforesaid The said John VVelby was and yet is seised of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances in his demesn as of Fee and because 40. shillings and 4 pence of the Rent aforesaid for 4. whole yeers was at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 5th and after the Attornment aforesaid in form aforesaid had to the aforesaid John Welby the aforesaid time in which c. behind not paid The said Bartholmew as Bayliff of the aforesa Jo. Welby doth well acknowledge the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which for the aforesaid 4. shillings and 4. pence of the Rent aforesaid so being behind and justly c. as within his Fee and Lordship And the aforesaid John Crane saith That the aforesaid Bartholmew as Bayliff of the said John Welby for the cause above alleged the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which ought not avow to be just Because by Protestation that the aforesaid Henry Conny held not the aforesaid 2. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances of the aforesaid William Stermin as of his Manor of Richards aforesaid by Fealty and the Rent of 13. pence for every yeer at the Feast of Saint Michael to be paid as also by the Service of doing Sute at the Court of the said William Stermin of his Manor aforesaid from 3. Weeks to 3. Weeks upon reasonable warning at that Manor to be holden as the said Bartholmew above hath alleged And for Plea he saith That the aforesaid Henry before the time of the taking aforesaid done at the time of the taking c. was yet is seized of the aforesaid 2. Acres of Pasture with their Appurte in his demesnas of Fee held the same of Martin by Divine Providence then Bishop of â—ly as of his Manor of Fidde St. Giles with the Appurtenances in Fiddy Saint Giles aforesaid by Fealty only for all Services Without that that the aforesaid Henry at Fidde Saint Giles aforesaid to the aforesaid John Welby attorned Tenant in manner and form as the said Bartholmew above hath alleged And this he is ready to aver Wherefore for as much as the aforesaid Bartholmew the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. above acknowledgeth The said John demandeth Judgement and his damages by the occasion of taking of the said Cattel to be to him adjudged c. And the aforesaid Bartholmew as at first saith That the said Henry did attorn Tenant to the aforesaid John Welby in manner and 〈◊〉 as the said Bartholmew above hath alleged And oâ— this puts 〈…〉 lf upâ—â— the Country and the said John likewise Therefore it is commanded to the Sheriff that he cause to come here from the day of the Holy Trinity in 3. Weeks 12. c. By whom c. And who neither c. Because as well c. And afterwards the day and place within conteined before Edward Coke Knight Chief Justice of the Lord the King of the Bench and William Daniel Knight one of the Justices of the Lord the King of the Bench aforesaid Justices of the said Lord the King to Assizes in the County of Cambridge to be taken assigned by the â—orm of the Statute c. this turn associated the presence of the aforesaid William Daniel not expected by virtue of the Writ of the said Lord the
said late Queen after the beginning of her Reign was or then after should be intituled by any Attainder Escheat Conveiance or Assurance whatsoever and in which Letters Patents Grants or Writings no Estate Tail then before made or supposed to be made was recited or from henceforth should be and the Reversion or Remainder thereof expectant in the said Letters Patents Grants or Writings granted or mentioned to be granted or any defect of certainty or ill computing mistaking rating or setting forth of the yeerly value or rate of the premises or yeerly Rents reserved of and for the premises or any parcel thereof mentioned or conteined in the same Letters Patents aforesaid or other Writings or for that that the premises then were or any part thereof valued at a greater or lesser value in the said Letters Patents or Writings than the said Manors Lands Tenements and other premises then were or were in yeerly value or any misnaming or not true naming of Town Hamblet Parish or County where the said Honors Manors Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments and other the premises and every part thereof or any parcel thereof lay or were or any defect of true naming of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any parcel thereof or of the Nature Kind Quality or Quantity of the aforesaid Possessions or Hereditaments or of any parcel thereof or any default of true naming of any Corporation or any default of Attornment Livery or Seisin or any ill naming of any the late Tenants of the aforesaid Honors Manors lands Tenements and Hereditaments or of any part thereof so sold granted or given or any ill naming of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate who any time before the making of such Letters Patents were or then after should be proprietors of the premises or any any part thereof to the contrary notwithstanding as by the said Act amongst other things it more fully appearh And the said John Hele and Warwick further say That the said late Queen Elizabeth never had any Son And that the aforesaid Gellio Merick and Henry Liâ—dley were at and before the time of the making of the said Leters Patents so as before is said made Subjects of the said late Queen Elizabeth and born at Westminster aforesaid All and singular which The said John Hele and Warwick are ready to aver Whereupon they demand Judgement if the said Letters Patens of the aforesaid late Queen Elizabeth of the Manors aforesaid with the Appurtenances so as before is said made ought to be revoked and annulled or the Manors aforesaid with the Appurtenances or any of them ought to be seized into the Hands of the Lord the King that now is c. And the aforesaid Henry Hobert Knight Attorny General of the Lord the King that now is who c. present in Court in his proper person As to the aforesaid Plea of the said Henry Lindley above in form aforesaid pleaded for the said Lord the King saith That the said Henry Lindley ought not be admitted to plead That there is not any such Record of any such Act of Parliament of the aforesaid Lord King Edward the 3d. made Nor that there is any such Record of the aforesaid Charter of the said late King Edward the 3d. by Authority of Parliament made as in the aforesaid Writ of Scire Facias thereof is recited and specified Because he saith That the said Lord King JAMES now King of England saw the Inrollment of the aforesaid Act of Parliament of the said late King Edward the 3d. and of the aforesaid Charter of the said late King Edward the 3d. in the Rolls of the Chancery of the King that now is within his Tower of London in the yeer of the Reign of the aforesaid late King Edward the 3d. the 11th inrolled upon Record there remaining The Tenor of Inrollment of which Act of Parliament and Charter aforesaid the said JAMES now King of England by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England sealed here in Court by the aforesaid Attorny General of the Lord the King that now is for the said Lord the King that now is now brings in Court bearing date at Westminster aforesaid the 5th day of March in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is of England France and Ireland the 3d. and of Scotland the 39th Exemplified amongst other things Which Exemplification as to the Inrollment of the aforesaid Act of Parliament and Charter aforesaid followeth in these words JAMES by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. To All to whom these present Letters shall come greeting We have seen the Inrollment of a certain Charter bearing date the 17th day of March in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord Edward late King of England the 11th To his well-Beloved and Faithful Edward Earl of Chester his Eldest Son granted in the Rolls of our Chancery within the Tower of London remaining of Record in these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons Justices Sheriffs Provosts Ministers and all Bayliffs and his faithful People Greeting Amongst other the tokens of Honour of our Kingdom we esteemed it the chiefest that the Order of Dignities and Offices of our Kingdom be fortified with the best and strongest Counsels Therefore there being many degrees of Inheritance in our Kingdom where by descent the Inheritance according to the Law of this Kingdom to Co-heirs and Parciners and for want of such issue and such like events the same came to our Hands We therefore desiring to beautifie our Kingdom and in best manner to defend our Kingdom and the holy Church thereof and our Subjects and Kingdoms against the endeavors and Adversaries thereof and considering and looking that Peace between us and Subjects be maintained and to dignifie the Places of honour of our Kingdom And taking into our consideration the person of our well-Beloved and Faithful Edward Earl of Chester our Eldest Son and taken to Honour the same our Son the name and Honour of Duke of Cornwall with the common consent and counsel of the Prelates Earls Barons and others of our Counsel in this present Parliament at Westminster upon Monday next after the Feast of Saint Mathew the Apostle last past being assembled we have given and made him Duke of Cornwall and girt him with a Sword as behoveth And that there may be no doubt hereafter what or how much the same Duke or other Dukes of the same place who for the time shall be in the name of the said Dutchy ought to have Our Will is that all in specialty which to the said Dutchy doth beloug be inserted in this our Charter Therefore for us and our Heirs we have given and granted and by this our Charter confirmed to the same our Son under the name and Honour of Duke of the said Place The
Maunsfield exercised and from thence hitherto do exercise and enjoy and all and singular Wages Fees Commodities Profits to the said Office due and by reason of the exercising of the said office within the Manor of Maunsfield aforesaid of right belonging to their own use had and took and the said Earl to exercise the said Office within the aforesaid Manor of Maunsfield and the Wages Fees and Profits to the said Office of right belonging and from the whole time whereof the memory of Man is not to the contrary to have and take with force and Arms then and there hindred and as yet doth hinder and other harms to him c. to the great damage c. and against the peace c. and whereupon he saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 100. pound and thereof bringeth sute c. And the aforesaid Robert and Thomas by William Cragg their Attourny come and defend the force and injury when c. and say that they are not guilty of the Trespass aforesaid as the aforesaid Earl above against them complaineth and of this put themselves upon the Country and the aforesaid Earl likewise therefore it is commanded to the Sheriff that he cause of come here from the day of the Holy Trinity in 3 weeks 12 c. by whom c. and who neither c. to recognize c. because aswell c. Afterwards the day and place within contained before Peter Warberton one of the Justices of the Lord the King of the bench and Thomas Foster another of the Justices of the said Lord the King of the Bench Justices of the said Lord the King to Assises in the County of Nottingham to be taken by form of the Statute c. come aswell the within named Roger Earl of Rutland as the within named Robert Spencer and Thomas Woldwood by their Attorneys within contained And the Jurors of the Jury whereof within is made mention being called some of them that is to say Edward Bould of Holloughton Esquire Edward Coppinger of Francfield Esquire George Hutchinson of Balford Gent. Francis Hollingworth of Stapleford Gent. VVilliam Gresley of the same Nicholas Hamond of Lound Gent. Anthony VVhitwell of VVeyston Gent. Joh. Sturtevant of Calverton Gent. Richard Griggs of Gringly up the Hill and John Seywell of Normanton against Plumtree come and are sworn Jurors of the Jury aforesaid and because the rest of the Jurors of that Jury did not appear therefore others of the standers by chosen by the Sheriff of the County aforesaid at the request of Roger Earl of Rutland and by the command of the Justices aforesaid of new are added whose names are fyled to the Pannel within written according to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and the Jurors of new added that is to say John Hutten and John Templemem likewise come who to say the truth of the premises with the other Jurors aforesaid first impannelled chosen tryed and sworn say upon their Oath That the Lady Elizabeth late Queen of England was seised in her demesn as of Fee in right of her Crown of England of and in the Manor of Maunsfield in the County of Nottingham and of and in the Manor of Bolsover and Horsley in the County of Derby and so thereof being seised the 14th day of June tn the year of her Reign the 42th By her Letters Patents under the great Seal of England sealed and to the Jurors aforesaid shewed in evidence graunted to the aforesaid Earl of Rutland from the time of the full age of the said Earl of 21 years to the term and for and during the whole term of the natural life of him the said Earl the office of Steward of the Lordships or Manors aforesaid with the Wages and Fees to the said Office of old due and accustomed as in the said Letters Patents is contained the Tenor of which followeth in these words Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these present Letters shall come Greeting Know ye that we of our special Grace and of our certain Knowledge and meer Motion have given and granted and by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors do give and grant to our Well Beloved Cosin Roger Earl of Rutland the Office of Constable of our Castle of Nottingham and Keeper oâ— the Gates of the said Castle as also the Office of Steward Keeper Guardian and Chief Justice of our Forrest of Sherwood and our Parks of Billow Birkland Romwald Owseland Folwood Beskwood and Clipson with their Aupurtenances in the said County of Nottingham and him the said Roger Earl of Rutland Constable of our Castle aforesaid and Keeper of the Gates of the said Castle as also Steward Keeper and Justice Itinerate of the Forests and Parks aforesaid we â—o make ordain and constitute by these presents giving and granting to the said Roger Earl of Rutland by the Tenor of these presents full power and authority All and all manner oâ— Pleas Quarrels and Causes within the Forest and Parks aforesaid or any of them arising according to the Law and Custom of the Forest to hear and determine To have enjoy use and exercise the Offices aforesaid and every of them To the aforesaid Roger Earl of Rutland by him or by his sufficient Deputy or Deputies from the time of the full age of 21. yeers of the same Earl to the Term and for and during the whole Term of the natural life of the said Roger Earl of Rutland together with power in the said Offices to make and appoint all Officers of old due and accustomed and for the exercising and occupation of the Office aforesaid we give and grant by these presents to the aforesaid Roger Earl of Rutland the Wages and â—ee of 40. Marks by the year from the time of the full age of 21. years of the said Earl to the Term and for the whole natural life of the said Earl of Rutland As also an Annuity or yeerly Rent of 9. pound from the time of the full age of the said Earl to the Term for and during the whole Term of the natural life of the same Earl of Rutland for the Wages or Stipends of 9. Foresters assigned by him the said Earl to keep the Forest aforesaid To be taken yearly to be received the said Wages and Fee of 40. Marks from the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the Receipt of our Exchequer at Westminster by the Hands of our Treasurer or Chamberlains or anâ— oâ— their Hands for the time being at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and Easter by even portions And also the said Annuity or yearly Rent of 9. pound for the Wage and Stipend of the aforesaid Roger Earl of Rutland from the time of the full age of 21. years of the said Earl to the Term and for and during the whole Term of the natural life
of the said Eldest Son Lawfully begotten c. and so to the ninth Son of the said Thomas and for default of such issue male of the Body of such ninth Son To the use of Rich. Vavasor Brother of the said Peter Vavasor Esq for term of his natural life without impeachment of any wast after his decease to the use of the Eldest son Lawfully begotten of the body of the the said Richard Vavasor and of the Heirs males of the Body of the said Eldest Son Lawfully begotten c. and so to the ninth Son of the said Richard and for default of such issue male of such ninth Son to the use of the Heirs males of the Body of Sir Peter Vavasor of Spaldington Knight Lawfully begotten And for default of such issue male To the use of the right Heirs of the said Richard Vavasor for ever c. Provided c. And farther the Recognitors aforesaid say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid TenemeÌ„ts with the appurtenances in their view put and in the plaint aforesaid specified and in the recovery aforesaid comprized are parcel of the Mannors Lands and Tenements in the Indenture aforesaid specified and not other nor diverse But whether the Indenture aforesaid after the recovery aforesaid by the aforesaid Peter Vavasor Esquire in form aforesaid made and had bearing date the aforesaid first day of February and first delivered the aforesaid 15th day of February in the 15th year abovesaid after the recovery aforesaid being to the uses in the same specified be good and sufficient in Law to have and declare the uses of the aforesaid recovery of the aforesaid Tenements in the view of the Recogniters put and in the plaint aforesaid specified with the appurtenances or not The said Recognitors are altogether ignorant and thereof pray the advice of the Justices aforesaid and of the Court here c. And if to the same Justices and to the Court here It shall seem That the Indenture aforesaid by the aforesaid Peter Vavasor Esquire after the aforesaid Recovery in form aforesaid had and made bearing date the aforesaid first day of February and first delivered the 15th day abovesaid after the recovery aforesaid To the uses in the said Indenture specified be good and sufficient in Law to read and declare the uses of the recovery aforesaid of the tenements aforesaid in the view of the Recognitors aforesaid put with the appurtenances and in the plaint aforesaid specified Then the said Recognitors say upon their Oath aforesaid that the said Recovery of the Tenements aforesaid in view of the Recognitors aforesaid put with the appurtenances and in the plaint aforesaid specified was to the uses in the said Barr of the said Edward specified in manner and form as the said Edward in his Bar aforesaid above alleged And that the aforesaid George Richard Coats John William Robert Thissilwood and Robert Ward did not disseise the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth of the Tenements aforesaid in their view put and in the plaint aforesaid specified with the appurtenances as the said George Richard Coates John William Robert and Robart above have alleged And if it shall seem to the same Justices and to the Court here that the Indenture aforesaid by the aforesaid Peter Vavasor Esquire after the Recovery aforesaid in form aforesaid made and had bearing date the aforesaid first day of February in the 15th yeare aforesaid after the aforesaid Recovery is insufficient in Law to lead and declare the uses of the Recovery aforesaid of the Tenements aforesaid in view of the Recognitors put and in the plaint aforesaid specified Then the said Recognitors say upon their Oath aforesaid that the said recovery of the Tenements aforesaid was not to the uses in the said Bar of the said Edward specified in manner and form as the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth above have alleged and that the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth were seised of the Tenements aforesaid in the view of the same Recognitors put and in the plaint aforesaid specified with the appurtenances in their demesn as of Fee in the right of the said Elizabeth until the aforesaid Edward Vavasor George Vavasor Richard Coates John Lawson William Musgrave Kobert Thissilwood and Robert ward them the said Thomas and Elizabeth thereof unjustly and without Judgment but not with force and Armes disseised them and then they assesse the Damages of the said Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth by occasion of the disseisin aforesaid besides their costs and charges by them about their sute in this behalf expended to 20 shillings and for their costs and charges to 10 shillings And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premisses before that they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid before the Justices here aforesaid at the Inn of the Justices in Chancery Lane London until Satturday next after a moneth of St. Michael next following c. to hear their Judgment thereof because the said Juste â—s here are not yet c. and diverse other meetings until Saturday nex after the morrow of All Souls c. Until Saturday next after the morrow of Martin c. And until Wednesday next after 8. dayes of the Holy Trinity c. At which day before the aforesaid Robert Shute and John Glench then Justices c. At the aforesaid Inn of the Justices As well the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth as the aforesaid Edward George Richard Coats John William Robert and Robert by their Attornies come And because the Justices aforesaid here c Further day is given to the parties aforesaid before the Justices of the said Lady the Queen to take Assizes in the aforesaid County of York assigned at the aforesaid Castle of York until Monday the 6th day of August next comming c. Before which day the said Lady the Queen that now is By other her Letters Patents whose date is at Westminster in the year of her Reign the 24th the Tenor of which followeth in these words c. Elizabeth c. To our Beloved and Faithful John Clench Baron and Francis Gawdy one of her Serjants at Law Greeting Know ye c. And then follow the Letters Patents c. And because the same Justices here will farther avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof day c. Before them the said John Clench and Francis Gawdy then Justices c. At the aforesaid Inn until Saturday next after the morrow of All Souls c. At which day the aforesaid John Clench and Francis Gawdy then Justices of the Lady the Queen to Assizes in the aforesaid County of York at the Inn aforesaid came not but withdrew themselves from the said Inn because before the said day for the infection of the Air and of the Plague of Men in the City of London and the Suburbs thereof as also in the City of Westminster being the Term of St. Michael which then
at Westminster in the County of Midd. was holden at Westminster aforesaid unto the Castle of the Lady the Queen c. is adjorned c. and their holden c. Afterwards the said Lady the Queen By other Letters Patents Constituted John Clench and Francis Rodes one of her Serjants at Law Justices to Assizes in the a-aforesaid County of York c. And the said Justices by virtue of the said Lett. Patents Afterward that is to say Monday in the 4th week of Lent in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 25th At the Castle of York came before whom then and there come the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth by their Attorney aforesaid and pray a Writ of Reattachment to the aforesaid Edward George Richard Coats c. that they be before the Justices of the Lady the Queen at the next Assizes in her County of York to be taken assigned to be holdē at the afores Castle of York to hear the Record and their Judgement of the Assize aforesaid w hc was in the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is at the Castle aforesaid so that that Assize then be here in the State as it was in the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is before the aforesaid John Clench and Francis Gawdy Justices to Assizes c. At the aforesaid Castle of York the aforesaid Monday the 6th day of August in the year of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 24th in which day the Assize aforesaid was adjorned before the said John Clench and Francis Gawdy then Justices c. from the aforesaid Castle of York unto the aforesaid Inn of the Justices in Chancery Lane London untill the aforesaid Saturday next after the aforesaid morrow of All Souls then next following c. At which next Assizes holden at the Castle of York aforesaid Monday the 29th day of July in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 25th before the aforesaid John Clench and Francis Gawdy then Justices to Assizes c. came as well the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth by their Attorny aforesaid as the aforesaid Edward George Richard Coats Iohn William Robert and Robert by the aforesaid Thomas Hill their Attorny And the Sheriff that is to say Thomas Wentworth Esq now sent That the aforesaid Edward Vavasor George Richard Coats Iohn William Robert and Robert c. And upon this day is given to them before the Justices of the said Lady the Queen that now is of the Bench in the Bench at Westminster in the morrow of All Souls next comming to hear and receive what to the said Justices should seem in this behalf because the said Iohn Clench and Francis Rodes Justices to Assizes c. thereof not yet c. And the Assize aforesaid with all touching the same to the said Justices of the Bench is sent c. The Warrant of Attorny followes and the Writ of Resummons in the Roll and the Tenor of the Writ of Reattachment and Retorn of the said Writ Elizabeth c. To the Sherriffs of York greeting Reattach Edward Vavasor Esq George Richard Coats Iohn William Robert and Robert or their Bailiffs if they shall not be found before our Justices to Assizes in your County to be taken assigned at the Castle of York in your County upon Monday the 22d. day of Iuly then next to come to hear the Record and Judgement of the Assize of Novel disseisin which was in our Court at the Castle aforesaid which Assize Thomas Dowman Esq and Elizabeth his Wife there arraigned against them of 6. Messuages 300. Acres of Land 100. Acres of Meadow and 200. Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Spaldington VVillytoft and Southcone So as they that Assize then be there in the same state as it was in our Court before Iohn Clench third Baron of our Exchequer and Francis Gawdy one of our Serjants at Law our Justices to Assizes in your County to be taken assigned At the aforesaid Castle of York Monday the 6th day of August last past which day the assize aforesaid for certain causes was from thence adjorned before the same our Justices unto the Inn of the Justices in Chancery Lane London Untill Saturday next after the morrow of All Souls then next following And have here the names of the Pledges and this Writ Iohn Clench at the Castle of York the 11th day of March in the yeer of our Reign the 25th Frankland Cresly The within named Edward Vavasor George Richard Coats Iohn VVilliam Robert and Robert hath not any thing nor any of them have any thing in my Baliwick by which they can be attached or any of them can be attached nor have they nor any of them hath a Bailiff or Bailiffs nor are they or any of them to be found in the same Thomas VVentworth Esq Sheriff And now here that is to say at VVestminster aforesaid at this day that is to say at the aforesaid morrow of All Souls came as well the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth by the aforesaid Henry Cressy their Attorny as the aforesaid Edward Vavasor George Richard Coats Iohn VVilliam Robert and Robert by Tho. Algar their Attony And because the Justices of the Bench here will avise themselves of and upon the premses before they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties here until 8. dayes of St. Hillary and so it is continued in 8. dayes of St. Hillary the yeer following At which day here come as well the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth as the aforesaid Edward Vavasor George Richard Coats Iohn VVilliam Robert and Robert by their Attornies aforesaid and upon this The premises being seen and by the Justices here fully understood It seemeth to the said Justices here That the aforesaid Indenture by the aforesaid Peter Vavasor Esq after the aforesaid Recovery in form aforesaid made and had was good and sufficient in the Law to lead the uses of the Recovery aforesaid of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenunces so that the same Recovery of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in the view of the Recognitors of the Assize aforesaid put and in the Plaint aforesaid specified by the aforesaid Andrew VVindsor VVilliam Vavasor Peter Vavasor the younger and John Laundere against the aforesaid Peter Vavasor Esq in form aforesaid had was to those uses in the aforesaid barr of the aforesaid Edward above specified in manner and form as the said Edward in his bar aforesaid above alleged Therefore it is considered That the aforesaid Thomas Dowman and Elizabeth take nothing by their Writ aforesaid but in mercy for their false clamour c. And the aforesaid Edward Vavasor George Richard Coats Iohn VVilliam Robert and Robert go thereof without day c. Audita Querela Easter Term Anno 80. of King JAMES Doctor Druries Case C. 8. part Fol. 139. a. AT another time as appeareth in
here untill from the day of St. Michael in one Moneth then next following At which day here cometh as well the said Owen as the said John by their Attornies aforesaid and upon this further prayeth liecnce thereof to imparl here c. Until from Easter day in 15. dayes and hath it c. And the same day is given to the said Owen here c. At which day of 14. dayes of Easter came as well the aforesaid Owen as the aforesaid John by their Attornies aforesaid and upon this The said Owen prayeth that the aforesaid John to his Writ and Declaration aforesaid answer And the said John Drury saith That he for any thing before alleged from having execution of his Debt and Damages against him the said Owen ought not to be barred or delayed Because he saith That after the aforesaid time in which it is supposed the aforesaid Owen out of the custody of the aforesaid Sheriff of Surry to have escaped and before any further execution against the aforesaid Owen by him the said John by Colour of the Judgement aforesaid was sued forth and had that is to say in the Term of St. Michael in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 6th abovesaid out of the aforesaid Court of the said Lord the King that now is of the Bench here upon the Outlawry as is before said pronounced Issued forth a certain Writ of the said Lord the King of Capias utlagatum against him the said Owen At the Sute of the said John then to the Sheriff of the County of Midd. directed By which Writ The Lord the King commanded the aforesaid Sheriff of Midd. That he should not omit for any Liberty of his County but that he take the aforesaid Owen by the name of Owen Bray late of Cobham in the County of Surry Gent. Outlawed in the aforesaid County of Sussex the aforesaid 19th day of May in the year of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6th abovesaid at the Sute of him the said John by the name of John Drury Doctor of Law Of a Plea of Debt whereof he was convicted if he should be found in his Baliwick and him should safe keep c. So as he have his Body here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid in the aforesaid morrow of All Souls the self same Term of St. Michael in the yeer aforesaid to do and to receive what to the Court of the said Lord the King thereof should consider in that behalf At which morrow of All Souls here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Owen by William Brown then his Attorny And the Sheriffs that is to say George Bolles and Richard Farrington then Sheriffs of the aforesaid County of Midd. then here sent That the aforesaid Owen was not found c. And upon this the said Owen then prayed the hearing of the Writ of Exigent upon which the said Owen at the Sute of the said John Drury aforesaid in form aforesaid stood Outlawed And it was then read to him in these words JAMES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King defender of the Faith c. To the Sherifs of Sussex greeting We command you that you put in Exigent Owen Bray late of Cobham in the County of Surry Gent. from County in County until according to the Law Custom of our Kingdom of England he be Outlawed if he shall not appear And if he shall appear then that you him take cause safely to be kept so as you have his body before our Justices at West in the morrow of the Holy Trinity to satisfie to Iohn Drury Doctor of Law as well of a certain debt of 200. pounds which the said Iohn in the said our Court before our Justices at Westminster Recovered against him as of 33. shillings and 4. pence which to the said Iohn in the same our Court were adjudged for his Damages which he had by occasion of the detaining the same Debt whereof he is Convicted And sent to our Justices at Westminster in 8. dayes of St. Hillary That the aforesaid Owen is not found in your Baliwick And have here this Writ witnesse Edward Coke at Westminster the 25th day of Ianuary in the yeer of our Reign of England France and Ireland the 5th and of Scotland the 41. Which being read and heard The said Owen said That he of the Outlawry aforesaid ought not to have him charged because the said Writ of Exigent had not any certain day of Retorn these words Saint between the word morrow and Trinity not having any signification as by the Writ aforesaid then it appeared And for the same Cause the said Owen then prayed Judgement and that the Outlawrie aforesaid in form aforesaid pronounced and had be annulled made void and altogether holden for nought Upon which the Writ aforesaid then being seen And by the Justices here then fully understood To the same Justices it then appeared That the Allegation of the aforesaid William Brown in discharge of the aforesaid Owen of the Outlawry aforesaid was true Therefore then it was considered in the said Court here that the said Owen by occasion of the Outlawry aforesaid should not be be molested or troubled but should go thereof acquitted c. as by the Record thereof in the said Court here remaining fully appeareth And so the said John Drury saith That there is not any such Record of the Outlawry aforesaid as the said Owen by his Writ and Declaration aforesaid above supposeth And this he is ready to aver whereupon he prayeth Judgement if he from execution of his Debt aforesaid and damages aforesaid against the aforesaid Owen ought to be barred c. and the aforesaid Owin saith that the aforesaid plea of the aforesaid John in form aforesaid above pleaded is not sufficient in Law to the said John his execution by Colour of the Iudgment aforesaid to have and maintain and that he to that plea in manner and form aforesaid above pleaded needs not nor by the Law of the Land is bound to answer and this he is ready to aver wherefore for default of sufficient plea of the aforesaid John in this behalf the said Owen as at first prayeth Iudgement and that the said John from his execution by colour of the Iudgment aforesaid be barred and that the said Owen be thereof charged c. and the aforesaid John in as much as he sufficient matter in Law to him the said John his execution by colour of the Iudgment aforesaid against the said Owen to have and maintain above hath alleged which he is ready to aver which matter the said Owen doth not deny nor to the same any waies answereth but the said averrant altogether refuseth as before prayeth ludgement and execution of his Debt and damages aforesaid against the said Owyn to him to be adjuged c. and because the Iustices here will avise
exceeding the yeerly value of 12. pound notwithstanding the Statute of Alienation in Mortmain And that they by the name of President of the College or CoÌ„minalty of the faculty of Physicians Lond. might plead or might be impleaded before whatsoever Judges in all Courts and Actions whatsoever And that the aforesaid President and College or Comminalty and their Successors lawful assemblies and honest of themselves and Statutes and Ordinances for the wholesom Government Oversight and Correction of the College or Comminalty aforesaid and of all Men the same faculty in the same City or within 7. Miles circuit of the said City exercising according to the exigence or necessity as often and when need was might lawfully and without peril make without the hindrance of the said late King his Heirs or Successors whatsoever his Justices Escheators Sherifs and other his Bayliffs and Ministers his Heirs and Successor whatsoever He also granted to the said President College or Comminalty and their Successors That none in the said City or 7. Miles in Circuit thereof do exercise the said faculty unlesse to this by the said President or Comminalty or their Successors who for the time should be he be admitted by the Letters of the said President and College with their Common Seal sealed upon the penalty of 100. shillings for every Moneth that not being admitted he should exercise the same faculty half thereof to the Lord the King and his Successors and half thereof to the said President and College to be applyed He besides willed and granted for him and his Successors as much as in him was That by the President and College of the aforesaid Comminalty for the time being and their Successors for ever Four every yeer by them should be chosen should have the Overseeing searching Correction and Government of all and singular the Physicians of the said City exercising the faculty of Physick within the said City and so of other Physicians forein whomsoever the said faculty of Physick any wise frequenting and using within the said City and the Suburbs thereof or within 7 miles in Circuit of the said City and the punishment of them for their offences in not well exercising doing and using the same as also the oversight and searching of all Medicines and the reception of them by the said Physicions or any of them to the Leige people of the said late King for curing and healing their infirmities to be given put and used as often and when need shall be for the Commodity and profit of the said Liege people of the said late King So as the punishments of the said Physicians using the said faculty of Physick in the Premises offending by Fines Amercement and Imprisonment of their Bodies and by other wayes reasonable and fitting be executed He also willed and granted for him and his Heirs and Successors as much as in him was That neither the President nor any of the College aforesaid of Physicinas nor their successors nor any of them exercising the same faculty any way in future within the City aforesaid and the suburbs thereof or elce-where should be summoned or put nor any of them should be summoned or put in any Assises Juries Inquisitions Attachments and other Recognitions within the said City the Suburbs thereof for ever before the Mayor or Sherifs or Coroners of the said City or by any Officer or Minister or Officers or Ministers although the said Juries Inquisitions or Recognitions were summoned upon the Writ or Writs of the said late King or his Heirs of Record But that the said Masters or Governours and Comminalty of the faculty aforesaid and their Successors and every of them the said faculty exercising against the said late King his Heirs and Successors and against the Mayor and Sherifs of the said City aforesaid for the time being and whatsoever their Officers or Ministers should be thereof acquitted and discharged for ever as by the said Letters Patents amongst other things more fully appeareth And the said Henry George Thomas Moundford John Argent John Taylor and William further say That by virtue of the Letters Patents aforesaid the aforesaid John Chambre Thomas Linacre Ferdinand de Victoria Nicholas Hatswell John Franciscâ—s and Robert Yaxley Physicians and all men of the said faculty in the City aforesaid were one body and Comminalty perpetual or College perpetual And that afterwards by a certain Act of Parliament of the said late King Henry the 8th holden at London the 15th day of April in the yeer of his Reign the 14th and from thence adjourned unto Westminster in the County of Middlesex the last day of July in the yeer of the said late King the 15th and then there holden amongst other things It was Enacted by Authority of the same Parliament That for that that the making of the said Corporation of Physicians was meritorious and very good for the Common-wealth of this Kingdom of England and besides it was expedient and necessary to provide That no person of the said body politick and Comminalty aforesaid should be suffered to exercise and to practise Physick but onely such persons as should be profound sad and discreet groundedly learned and deeply studied in Physick In Consideration whereof and for the further authorizing of the said Letters Patents and also for the enlarging and amplifying of further Articles for the aforesaid Common-wealth to be had and made by the said late King with the consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Comminalty in the said Parliament assembled It is Enacted amongst other things That the aforesaid Corporation of the Comminalty and fellowship of the faculty of the Art of Physick aforesaid and all and every Grant Article and other things contained and specified in the said Letters Patents should be approved granted ratified and confirmed in the aforesaid Act and should cleerly be authorized and admitted by the same good lawful and available to the aforesaid bodie corporate and their Successors for ever in as ample and large manner as it might be taken thought and construed by the said Letters Patents And further It is enacted ordained and established by the said Act That the aforesaid 8. persons in the aforesaid Letters Patents named as principal and first named of the aforesaid Cominalty and Fellowship should choose to them two other of the said Comminalty who from thenceforth should be called and named Elects and the aforesaid Elects yeerly should choose one of them to be President of the said Comminalty and as often as any of the Rooms and place of the said Elects should happen to be void by death or otherwise then the Supervisors of the said Elects within 30. or 40. dayes next after their deaths or of any of them should choose name and admit one or more as need should requite of the most learned and expert men of and in the aforesaid faculty in London to supply the place and number of 8. persons so that he or they who should be choseâ— be first
the said Edward then being Tenant of the Freehold of the said Mannors with the appurtenances By which Writ the said late King commanded the said Sherif That the said Sherif should command the said Edward Chamberlain by the name of Edward Chamberlain Esquire that justly and without delay he render to the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop Clerk The Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances amongst other by the names of the Mannors of Pettesho and Eckney with the appurtenances and of 6. Messuages 200. Acres of Land 20. Acres of Meadow 200. Acres of Pasture and 100. shillings of Rent with the appurtenances in Pettesho Eckney and Emberton which the said Nicholas and Thomas then claimed to be their Right and Inheritance and into which the said Edward Chamberlain had not entry but after the disseisin which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and without Judgement did to the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop after the first passage of the Lord King Henry Son of King John into Gascoign as they said and whereupon they complained the said Edward Chamberlain did them disseise And if the aforesaid Nicholas and Thomas Hartop secure him the said Sherif to prosecute their Claim Then he summon by good summoners the aforesaid Edward Chamberlain that he should be before the Justices of the said late King Henry the 8th here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid in the Morrow of St. John the Baptist then next following to shew why he did not do it And that he have then here the summons and that Writ At which Morrow of St. John the Baptist before Robert Read Kt. and his Companions then Justices of the said late King Henry the 8th of the Bench here that is to say at VVestminster aforesaid came aswell the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop by John Cowper then their Attorny as the aforesaid Edward Chamberlain by Thomas Palmer then his Attorny And the Sherif that is to say Ralph Verney Esq then returned here the Writ aforesaid in all things served and executed that is to say that the aforesaid Nicholas and Thomas found to the then Sherif sureties to prosecute his Sute aforesaid that is to say John Doo and Richard Roo And that the aforesaid Edward Chamberlain was summoned by John Den and Richard Fen And upon this the said Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop by declaring against the said Edward Chamberlain upon the Writ aforesaid Demanded against the said Edward Chamberlain The Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances as their Right and Inheritance and in which the said Edward Chamberlain had not Entry but after the first passage of the Lord King Henry Son of King John into Gascoign c. And whereupon then they said that they themselves were seised of the Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid in their Demesn as of Fee and Right in the time of Peace in the time of the said late King Henry the 8th taking thereof the Profits to the value c. And unto which c. And thereof then they brought sute c. And the aforesaid Edward Chamberlain by the aforesaid Thomas Palmer his Attorny then defended his right when c. And then vouched thereof to warranty Thomas Fish who was then present in Court in his proper person and willingly the Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid to him did warrant and thereupon the said Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop demanded against him the said Thomas Fish then Tenant by his Warranty The Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances in form aforesaid c. And whereupon they then said That they were sâ—ised of the Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances amongst other things in their Demesn as of Fee and Right in the time of Peace in the time of the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th taking the profits thereof to the value c. And the aforesaid Thomas Fish Tenant by his Warranty aforesaid then defended his Right when c. And then prayed licence thereof to imparl and had it c. And afterwards the very same Term the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop returned back here into the Court aforesaid of the said late King Henry the 8th by their Attorny aforesaid and the aforesaid Thomas Fish Tenant by his warranty aforesaid did not come back but in despite of Court departed and made default Therefore then it was granted by the aforesaid Court here That the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop should recover their seisin against the said Edward Chamberlain of the Mannors Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the appurtenances and that the said Edward should have of the Lands of the aforesaid Thomas Fish to the value and that the said Thomas Fish should be in mercy c. as by the Record and Processe thereof here in Court remaining more fully appeareth Which Recovery in form aforesaid had was had to the use and to the intent That the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop of the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances should enfeoff the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martiâ— John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor To have and to hold to them and their Heirs for ever By Colour of which Recovery The aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop into the Mannors aforesaid with their appurtenances entred and were thereof seised in their Demesn as Fee and so being thereof seised The said Nicholas and Thomas Hartop of the said Mannors with the appurtenances did 〈…〉 off the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martin Liâ—sâ—y John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor To have and to hold to them and their Heirs for ever By virtue of which Fâ—â—ffment the said Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford John Clayton VVilliam Hogeson and Robert Taylor were seised of the same Mannors with the appurtenances in their Demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seised The aforesaid Sibil in the life of the said Edw. for the better security of the said Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor in the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances according to Agreement between the same Edward and Sibil first before the aforesaid Recovery had by her Writing aforesaid of Release Remised and Released to the aforesaid Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor all her Right Claim Title State Use Interest and demand of and in the Mannors aforesaid with the appurtenances in 〈…〉 ner and form as they above have alleged And this they are ready to aver Whereupon they demand Judgement And that the said Robert Chamberlain from having his Action aforesaid against them â—e baâ—â—ed And the aforesaid Robert Chamberlain â—y Protestation taking it That the Recovery aforesaid was not had to the use and intent That the aforesaid Nicholas Evan and Thomas Hartop should infeoff the said Richard Lyster Martin John Cottesford John Clayton William Hogeson and Robert Taylor of the Mannors aforesaid with the Appurtenances By Protestation also that
after was Servant of the said late King Henry the 8th and one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber of the said late King and many good laborious and laudable Services to the said late King Henry the 8th before the making of the said Letters Patents did and performed and that he said VValter the aforesaid other Letters Patents of the aforesaid Mannor of Grafton Fleuard and the said VValter and Elizabeth the aforesaid other Letters Patents of the said Mannor of Charleton with their several members and appurtenances in form aforesaid made to the said late King Henry the 8th before the making of the said other Letters Patents to them in form aforesaid made and here in Court shewed forth in his Chancery aforesaid at VVestminster aforesaid had surrendred and procured to be cancelled as in the said Letters Patents here in Court shewed forth it is alleged and testified By virtue of which Letters Patents here in Court shewed forth The said VValter and Elizabeth were seized of the said Mannor of Abottesly with the appurtenances whereof c. amongst other that is to say The said VValter in his demesn as of Fee tail that is to say to him and the Heirs Males of his Body issuing and the aforesaid Elizabeth in her demesn as of Free hold for the Term of her Life and the said VValter and Elizabeth so being thereof seized the said Elizabeth afterwards and before the time in which c. at Abottesly aforesaid dyed And the aforesaid VValter over-lived her and held himself in the aforesaid Mannor of Abottesly with the appurtenances whereof c. and was thereof seized in his demesn of Fee tail in form aforesaid by right of Survivour And the said VValter so thereof being seized By an Act of Parliament of the same late King Henry the 8th at VVestminster aforesaid the 8th day of July in the yeer of his Reign the 28th holden made reciting by the said Act Whereas the aforesaid Ann Countess of VVarwick in the Fine aforesaid above named in the yeer of the Reign of the late King Henry the 7th the â—â—ihrd by Fine then levied before the Justices of the King of Common-Pleas at VVestminster had given granted unto the said late King Henry the 7th amongst other things The Lordship and Mannor of Abottesly with the appurtenances in the County of VVorcester To have to the said King and the Heirs Males of his Body issuing as by the same Fine remaining on Record amongst other things it more fully appeared By virtue of which the said late King was seized of the said Mannor with the appurtenances in his demesn as of Fee tail and so thereof being seized The said Countess dyed After whose death the Reversion of the said Mannor with the appurtenances in Fee simple did descend and come to Edward late Earl of Warwick which Reversion and Fee simple of the said Mannor amongst other Castles Honours Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments then after escheated and came into the Hand and possession of the aforesad late King Henry the 7th and his Heirs by the Attainder of High Treason of the said Edward Earl of Warwick as by the Record therefore more fully appeareth And the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th so thereof being seized dyed After whose death the same Castles honours manors lands tenements and Hereditaments and other the premises in the Fine aforesaid contained amongst other Lands Manors Tenements and Hereditaments descended came to the said late K. Hen. the 8th as Son Heir of the aforesaid late K. Hen. the 7th by due course of Inheritance By virtue wherof the said late K. Henry the 8th had been and was then thereof seised And because the aforesaid Castles Manors Lordships Lands Tenements and other the premises were of great value and had many great and ample Liberties Preheminences Commodities â—â—d delights to the same belonging Therefore then and there It was Enacted by Authority of the same Parliament That the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th his Heirs and Successors from hence after should have hold and injoy for ever all and singular the aforesaid Castles Mannors Tenements Lands and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances and all and singular the premises and that the said Castles Manors Tenements Lands and Hereditaments with the Appurtenannances and all and singular other the premises by Authority of the said Parliament should be adjudged in the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th his Heirs and Successors in Fee simple for ever without the aforesaid or any other thing or things before then had made or used or to be allowed to the contrary in any thing notwithstanding as by the same Act more fully appeareth Saving alwayes to all and singular person and persons Bodies politique and corporate their Heirs and Successors and to the Heirs and Successors of every of them other than the aforesaid late Countess of Warwick and her Heirs and the Heirs of the said Richard late Earle of Warwick Father of the late Countesse all such Rights Titles Uses Interests terms of years Demise Demises Rents Fees Annuities Possessions Reversion Remainder Distresses Entries Actions Grants Offices Commons Commodities Liberties Profits Sutes in such manner form conditions as they or any of them their heirs successors or the heirs or succes of any of them had could might or ought to have had if the Act aforesaid never had bin made any thing in the said Act of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding as by the said Act amongst other things it more fully appeareth By colour of which Act the Reversion aforesaid to the aforesaid Manor of Abbottesley otherwise Abberley and the Manor aforesaid in Reversion after the Estate and Interest of the aforesaid Walter Walsh and Elizabeth his wife so as before is said granted to the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th his Heirs and Successors in Fee simple did belong according to the form and effect of the Act aforesaid By which the said late King Henry the 8th was seised of that reversion as of Fee and right and the said late King so being thereof seised and the said Walter of the aforesaid Manor of Abbottesley with the Appurtenances whereof c. in form aforesaid being seised The aforesaid Walter at Abbottesley aforesaid before the aforesaid time in which c. died of such his Estate so seised After whose decease The said Manor with the Appurtenances whereof c. descended to one Walter Walsh his Son as Son and Heir Male of the body of the same Walter Walsh his Father Issuing By which the said Walter Walsh the Son after and before the time in which c. entred and was thereof seised in his demesn as of Fee tail that is to say to him and the Heirs Males of his body issuing and the aforesaid late King Henry the 8 th was seised of the Reversion thereof as of Fee and Right and so thereof being seised The said late King afterwards and before the time in which c. at
of her Exchequer Greeting Because in the Record and process and also in giving of Judgement in the plaint wch was in our Court before you the aforesaid Barons of our Exchequer aforesaid in the yeers of our Reign the 37th By Bil between us and Richard Bushopp of certain trespasses and intrusions in certain of our Woods with the appurtenances called Alton otherwise Aluington Woods conteyning by estimation 3000 Acres of Wood manifest Error hath entervened to our great damage And whereas in the statute in the Parliament of the Lord Edward late King of England the 3d. our progenitor at Westminster and in the year of his Reign the 31th holden made amongst other things It is agreed and established that in all cases the King or other persons touching where any one complaineth of Error made in the process in the Exhequer The Chancellor and Tresurer cause to come before them in some Chamber of Counsel nigh to the Exchequer the Record of the process of the same out of the Exchequer and taking to them the Justices and such like sages as to them shall seem fit to be taken They cause to be called before them the Barons of the Exchequer aforesaid to hear their Informations and the causes of their Judgement and the business thereupon to be duly examined And if any Error was found the same to be corrected and the Rolls to be amended and afterwards them in the said Exchequer to do execution thereof to be remitted as belongeth as in the said Statute it is conteyned We therefore willing Errors if any such were according to the form of the statute aforesaid to be corrected and speedy Justice to be done in that behalf Command you that if Judgement thereof be given then the Record and process aforesaid with alll things concerning the same before our beloved faithful Counsellor Tho. Egerton Kt. keeper of our great Seal of England and how the aforesaid Tresurer in the Councel Chamber next to the Enchequer aforesaid called the Councel Chamber upon Tuesday that is to say the 21th day of the moneth of April you cause to come And to the same Keeper of our great Seal and you the aforesaid Tresurer the Record being seen and examined and the process aforesaid and your informations being heard and you the aforesaid Barons further in this part with the Councel of the Justices and other sages aforesaid Cause to be done what of right and according to the form of the Statute was to be done Witnesse my self at Westminster the 11th day of April in the yeer of our Reign the 39th Symons At the said 29th day of the said Moneth of April the aforesaid Worthy Man Thomas Egerton Kt. Keeper of the great Seal of England and VVilliam Lord Burghley Lord Tresurer of England caused to come before them the Record aforesaid in the aforesaid Chamber next to the Exchequer aforesaid called the Councel Chamber and at the said day and place came before the Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Tresurer the aforesaid Atorney General of the Lady the Queen and for the said Lady the Queen said that in the Record and process aforesaid and in the giving of the Judgement aforesaid of and upon the aforesaid demurrer in Law it is diversly Erred that is to say that the aforesaid Richard Bushopp by his plea in barr of the information aforesaid pleaded doth suppose that the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th was seised of the reversion of the manor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. As of Fee and Right in the right of his Crown of England by colour of the Attainder of the aforesaid Edward late Earl of VVarwick and by the force of the aforesaid Act of Parliament in the yeer of the Reign of the said late King the 19th in the Barr aforesaid mentioned by which Act it was enacted that the aforesaid Edward late Earl shâ—uld forfeit to the said late King all his Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereas the aforesaid late King by vertue of the Attainder and Act of Parliament aforesaid as before is said made could not be seised of the Reversion aforesaid before inquisition thereof taken and of record remaining by which it should be sound that the aforesaid Earl at the time of the treason aforesaid by him committed or ever after was seised of the said Reversion as of Fee and right and in this that the aforesaid Richard doth suppose that the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th dyed seised of that Reversion and that the said Reversion descended to the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th as Son and Heir of the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th Whereas in fact the said Reversion did not descend to the said late King Henry the 8th nor by the Lawes of this Kingdom could descend before the Inquisition thereof for the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th thereof to be found and of Record to remain And in this that the said Richard Bushopp supposeth that by a certain Inquisition taken at the Castle of VVorcester the 5th day of July in the yeer of the Reign of the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th the 23th before Roger VVinter Esquire then Escheator of the said late King in the said County by virtâ—e of his office It was found that the aforesaid Edward late Earl of VVarwick was seised of the Reversion of the Manor aforesaid as of Fee and Right and so thereof being seised the aforesaid Act in the aforesaid Parliament of the aforesaid late King Henry the 7th in the 19th yeer of his Reign aforesaid was made in Manner and form aforesaid and that by Colour of the said Act of Parliament aforesaid the late King Henry the 7th was seised of the Reversion aforesaid as by the Inquisition aforesaid in the Court of Chancery of the said Lady the Queen at VVestminster in due manner reserved and here of Record remaining more fully appeareth Whereas every Inquisition taken upon whatsoever Attainder of High-Treason taken before the Escheator by virtue of his Office ought to be retorned into the Court of the Kings Exchequer and there ought to be filed and not in the Court of Chancery And if in the Court of Exchequer retorned and there of Record it be not filed then the said Inquisition is void and of no force in Law And in this That whereas the aforesaid Richard Bushopp supposeth That the aforesaid late King Henry the 8th the 3d. day of November in the yeer of his Reign the 23th by his Letters Patents under his great Seal of England sealed bearing date the same day and yeer reciting That whereas the said late King the 12th day of October in the 12th yeer of his Reign had given and granted to the abovesaid Walter Walshe the Mannor of Grafton Fleuard with the appurtenances for the Term of the life of the said VValter and whereas the same late King the 6th day of December in the yeer of his Reign the 21th by other his Letters
continued and adjorned according to the form of the Statute aforesaid further until the third Tuesday in the Term of St. Michael next following and the same day is given to the aforesaid Richard Bushop in the Chamber afores to hear their Judgment therof c. At which day before the aforesaid Chief Justices in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorny aforesaid And because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Treasurer come not therefore the aforesaid Business and Sute of Errors is continued and adjorned by virtue of the Statute aforesaid thereof made further until the 21th day of November in the same Term of St. Michael and the same day is given to th aforesaid Richard Bushop in the Chamber aforesa to hear their judgment thereof c. â—At which day before the aforesaid Chief Justices in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorny aforesaid And because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Treasurer come not therefore the aforesaid Businesse and Sute of Errors is adjorned and continued according to the form of the Statute aforesaid until the second Tuesday of the Term of St. Hillary next following And the same day is given to the afores Rich. Bushop to hear their Judgement thereof c. At which day before the aforesaid Chief Justices in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorny aforesaid and because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Treasurer come not therefore the aforesaid Business and Sute of Errors is continued and adjorned by virtue of the Statute aforesaid thereof made further until the first Tuesday in the Term of Easter then next following and the same day is given to the aforesaid Richard Bushop in the Chamber aforesaid to hear their Judgement thereof c. At which day before the aforesaid Chief Justices in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorny aforesaid and because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Treasurer come not therefore the Business and Sute of Errors aforesaid until the first Tuesday in the Term of the Holy Trinity next following And the same day is given to the aforesaid Richard Bushop in the Chamber afores to hear their Judgement thereof At which day before the aforesaid Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Thomas Lord Buckherst now Lord Treasurer of England in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorny aforesaid And the aforesaid Attorny of the Lady the Queen for the said Lady the Queen as at first prayeth c. And because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Treasurer will further avise of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises before c. Further day is given to the aforesaid Richard Bushop in the Chamber aforesaid until the second Tuesday in the term of St. Michael then next following to hear their Judgement therof c. At which day before the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the great Seal and the Lord Tresurer in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushopp by his Attorny aforesaid and because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Tresurer are not avised yet of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises day further is given to the aforesaid Richard Bushopp in the Chamber aforesaid untill Tuesday the 23th day of October the same Term of St Michael to hear their Judgement thereof c. At which day before the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Tresurer in the Chamber aforesaid cometh the aforesaid Richard Bushop by his Attorney aforesaid and because the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Tresurer are not yet avised of giving their Judgment of and upon the premises day further is given to the aforesaid Richard bushopp in the Chamber aforesaid untill Tuesday the 30th day of the said Moneth of October the same Term of Saint Michael to hear their Judgement thereof c. At which day the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Tresurer do not come in the Chamber aforesaid but the aforesaid Chief Justices in the Chamber aforesaid come and the aforesaid Richard Bushopp at the same day in the same Chamber and before the same Justices likewise cometh by his Attorny aforesaid And the aforesaid business and sute of Errors is continued and adjorned by virtue of the Statute aforesaid thereof made further untill Tuesday the 6th day of November the same Term of Saint Michael and the same day is given unto aforesaid Richard Bushopp to hear their Judgement therof c. At which day neither the aforesaid Lord Keeper of the great Seal nor Lord Tresurer nor the aforesaid Chief Justices come unto the Chamber aforesaid Afterwards the said Lady the Queen that now is sent here another her writ close under her Great Seal out of her Court of Chancerie to the Tresurer and Barons of this Exchepuer directed the Tenor of which writ followeth in these words ss Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defender of the faith c. To the Tresurer and her Barons of her Exchequor Greeting Because in the Record and Process and because of giving of Judgement in the plaint which was in our Court before you the aforesaid Barons of our Exchequer aforesaid in the Term of the Holy Trinity in the yeer of our Reign the 37th by Bill between us and Richard Bushopp of certain Trespass and Intrusion in certain Woods with the appurtenances called Alton otherwise Aluington Wood conteyning by estimation 3000 Acres of Wood in Alton otherwise Aluington and Rock in our County of Worcestor manifest Error intervened to our great damage and because in the Statute in the Parliament of the Lord Edward late King of England the 3d. our Progenitor at Westminster in the 31th yeer of his Reign holden made amongst other things it is agreed unto and established that in all cases the King or other persons concerning where any one complaineth of Error done in process in the Exchequer the Chancellor and Tresurer cause to come before them in some Chamber of Councel nigh unto the Exchequer the same Record and process out of the said Exchequer and taking to them the Justices and other sages such as to them they shall seem to be taken to call before them the Barons of the Exchequer aforesaid to hear their Informations and the causes of their Judgement and upon this business duly cause to be examined and if any Error should be found the same cause to be mended and the Rolls amended and after them into the Exchequer to do execution therof to be sent back as belongeth as in the said Statute it is conteyned We therefore willing Error if any such were according to the form of the Statute aforesaid to be corrected and full and speedy Justice to be
use thereof in the abovesaid Fine in form abovesaid to be levyed and acknowleged before by this Indenture not limited or appointed the Rent of 10 quarters of Barley only except to be to the only use and behoof of the said Christopher Digges his Heirs and Assignes for ever and to no other use or uses purpose or intent and that the said Fine or use and execution thereof as to the abovesaid 10 Quarters of Bâ—rley to be to the only use and behoof of the abovesaid Richard Gaunt and his Heirs for ever In witness whereof the parties abovesaid to these present Indentures their Seals enterchangeably have set dated the day and yeer first above wriâ—ten And the aforesaid Christopher Digges the Father so as afore is said of the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments aforesaid with the appurtenances in the Monstrans de droiâ— within written specified as the Law requireth being seised Afterwards and before the bringing of the Monstrans de droit within written that is to say from the day of Saint Martin within writen in 15 dayes in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 14th abovesaid A Fine was levyed in the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is at Westminster in the County of Middleâ—ex before James Dyer Richard Weston John Welsh and Richard Harper then Justices and afterwards in 8 dayes of Saint Hillary in the yeer of the same Lady the Queen that now is the 14th abovesaid there then granted and recorded before the said Justices and oâ—hers of the Queens faithfull people then and there present between the aforesaid Richard Gaunt Gentleman and Lawrence Applegate plaintiâ—s and the aforesaid Christopher Digges and Martha his Wife deforceants of the Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Monstrans de droit within written with the appurtenances amongst other by the names of the Manors of Owtelmestone Mayton Nackington and Yokes Court with the appurtenances and 40 Messuages 20 Tofts one Mil 3 Dovehouses 20 Gardens 12 Orchards 1000 Acres of Land 100 Acres of Meadow 700 Acres of Pasture 600 Acres of Wood 100 Acres of Furze and Heath and 100 shillings of Rent and the Rent of 10 Quarters of Barley with the appurtenances in Barham Kingstone Bishopsborn Bridge Patricksborne Littleborne Wellborne Sturrey Saint Stephens Nackington Netherherds Lenham Harisham Frinsted Sutton Ripple and Shalden whereupon a plea of Covenant then was summoned between them in the said Court That the aforesaid Christopher Digges and Martha do acknowlege the aforesaid Manors and Rents with the appurtenances to be the Right of the said Richard and those which the said Richard and Lawrence then had of the gift of the aforesaid Christopher and Martha and these then remised and quit claimed from them the said Christopher and Martha their Heirs to the aforesaid Richard and Lawrence and the Heirs of the the said Richard for ever and moreover the said Christopher and Martha then had granted for them Heirs the of the said Christopher that they warrant to the aforesaid Richard and Lawrence and the Heirs of the said Richard the aforesaid Manors Tenements and Rents with the appurtenances against all men for ever and for this Recognition Release Quit claim warranty Fine and Concord the said Richard and Lawrence gave to the aforesaid Christopher and Martha 8 pound Sterling which Fine was levied with proclamations according to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided And further the Jurors say upon their oath aforesaid that the aforesaid Fine in form aforesaid levyed was had and levyed to the uses and intents in the Indenture aforesaid bearing date the 26th day of October in yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 14th as abovesaid above specified By colour of which Fine Indenture and Statute aforesaid the aforesaid Christopher Digges the Father was seised of the Manors Tenements and Hereditaments aforesaid with the appurtenances as the Law requireth And the Jurors aforesaid further say upon their Oath aforesaid That the aforesaid Christopher Digges the Father so as before is said of the Manors and Tenements above written as the Law requireth being seised the said Christopher Digges the Father and the aforesaid John Brook Richard Brook and Richard Horewood afterwards that is to say the 7th day of November in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 14th came into the Court of the said Lady the Queen of her Chancery and then and there acknowleged the Indenture aforesaid bearing date the 20th day of September in the 13th yeer aforesaid to be their deed and upon that the said Indenture afterwards that is to say the 7th day of November in the 14 yeer aforesaid in the said Court of Chancery in due Maner of Record was Inrolled By virtue of which and force of the Statute aforesaid the said Christopher Digges the Father was of the Manors Lands and Tenements within written seised as the same Law requireth and so thereof being seised the said Christo Digges the Father afterwards and before the day of the bringing of the shewing of right within written that is to say the first day of February in the yeer of our Lord 1576 and in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 19th made his Testament and last Will in writing of which said Testament and last Will the Tenor amongst other followeth in these Words In the Name of God Amen The first day of February in the yeer of our Lord God 1576 and in the 19th yeer of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. I Christopher Digges of Saint Gregories without the Walls of the City of Canterbury Esquire Son and Heir of William Digges late of Barham in the County of Kent deceased being sick in body but of good and perfect remembrance thanked be the Almighty God Revoking and making void all other my former wills ordayn and make this my present Testament and last Will in manner and form following That is to say this is the last Will of me the abovesaid Christopher Digges made the day and yeer abovesaid touching the disposition of all my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the County of Kent and Canterbury or elsewhere in the Realm of England First touching the thirds and third part of my Land to be due unto the Queens Majesty or any other for Wardship Primer seisin Livery or otherwise my Will and meaning is to leave to descend to Thomas Digges my Son to have and to hold to him and his Heirs for ever All these my Lands and Tenements called or known by the name of Eastendown containing by estimation 10 Acres of Land and all these Lands Tenements Hereditaments which I had by descent after the death of Thomas Digges of Newington next Sittingborn Esquire deceased and if the
c. into the Manor aforesaid with the appurtenances wherof c. amongst other entred and was thereof seised in his demesn as of Feetail that is to say to him and his Heirs Males of his body lawfully begotten and that the aforesaid William Capel the Son of the said Manor with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other in form aforesaid being seised The said Richard Capel Son of the aforesaid Edward Capel the 22th day of November in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 18th at Howcaple aforesaid by the aforesaid his Writing granted to the aforesaid Anthony Capel the aforesaid annuity or yeerly Rent of 50. pound to be going out of the Manor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. as the aforesaid Thomas Gately above alleged But the said John Hunt further saith That the aforesaid William Capel of the Manor aforesaid with the appurtenances whereof c. in form aforesaid being seised That the Fine was levyed in the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is here at Westminster aforesaid from the day of Saint Martin in 15. dayes in the yeer of her Reign the 19th before James Dyer Richard Harper Roger Manwood and Robert Mounson then Justices of the said Lady the Queen of the Bench here and afterwards in the 8th day of Saint Hillary in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 19th aforesaid there granted and Recorded before the same Justices and other the said Lady the Queens faithful people then there present Between Richard Wooton and Richard Shawley Plaintiffs and the aforesaid Will. Capel defendaÌ„t of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other By the names of the Manors of Capel otherwise Hugh Capel Showle and Okeridge with the Appurtenances and 20. Messuages 10. Tofts 20. Cottages 2. Mills 3. Dovehouses 800. Acres of Land 260. Acres of Meadow 1700. Acres of Pasture 200. Acres oâ— Wood 1000 Acres of Furz and Heath and 5. pound Rent with the Appurtenances iâ— Capel otherwise Hugh Capel Showle Okeridge â—â—rkell and â—edbary As also of the Advowson of the Church of Capel otherwise Hugh Capel whereof a Plea of Covenant was summened between them in the said Court That is to say That the aforesaid William acknowleged the aforesaid Manors Tenements and Rents with the Appurtenances and the Advowson of the Church aforesaid to be the Right of the said Richard as these which the said Richard and John had of the gift of the aforesaid William and those remised and quit claimed from him and his Heirs to the aforesaid Richard and John and the Heirs of the aforesaid Richard forever And further the said William granted for him and his Heirs That they warrant to the aforesaid Richard and Iohn and to the Heirs of the said Richard the aforesaid Manors Tenements Rents with the Appurtenances and the Advowson aforesaid against all Men forever And for that Recognition remise quit claim Warranty Fine and Concord The said Richard and Iohn gave to the aforesaid William 700. pound Sterling Which Fine in form aforesaid levied was levied and had to the use of the said Iohn Hunt and his Heirs By virtue of which Fine and by force of the Statute aforesaid the said Iohn was seized of the Manors aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. in his demesn as of Fee And the said Iohn so thereof being seized Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin Castleton before the aforesaid time of the taking c. that is to say the 4th day of Iunuary in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 19th abovesaid sued forth out of the Court of the Chancery of the said Lady the Queen that now is at Westminster in the County of Middlesex then being A certain Writ of the said Lady the Queen of Entry upon Disseisin in the Post against him the said Iohn Hunt of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other by the names of the Manor of Capel otherwise Hugh Capel otherwise How Capel with the Appurtenances and 20. Messuages 10. Toâ—ts one Mill 2. Dovehouses 500. Acres of Land 200. Acres of Meadow 600. Acres of Pasture 100. Acres of Wood 700. Acres of Furz and Heath and 4. pound Rent with the Appurtenances in Capel otherwise Hugh Capel otherwise How Capel Brocherton and Sellershop as also of the Advowson of the Church of Capel otherwise Hugh Capel otherwise How Capel To the then Sheriff of the aforesaid County of Hereford directed By which Writ the said Lady the Queen that now is To the said then Sheriff commanded That the said Sherif should command the said Iohn Hunt that justly and without delay he render to the aforesaid Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin the Manor Tenements and Rents aforesaid with the Appurtenances and the Advowson aforesaid which the said Thomas and Baldwin to be their Right and Inheritance and in which the said Iohn then had not Entry but after Disseisin which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and without Judgement did to the aforesaid Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin within 30. yeers then last past as they said And if he should not do and the aforesaid Thomas Spencely and Baldwin should secure him the said Sheriff for the prosecuting of their claim Then he summon by good Summoners him the said John Hunt that he should be before the then Justices of the said Lady the Queen here that is to say at Westminster aforesaid in 8. dayes of St. Hillary then next following to shew wherefore he did not do it And that the said then Sheriff should have there the summons and that Writ At which 8. dayes of St. Hillary before the aforesaid Janes Dyer Knight and his Companions then Justices of the said Lady the Queen of the Bench here came aswel the aforesaid Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin as the said John Hunt in their proper persons And James Warnecome Esquire then Sheriff of the aforesaid County of Hereford then and there retorned the Writ aforesaid to him in form aforesaid directed in all things served and executed that is to say That the said Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin had found to him the said Sheriff sureties for to prosecute that Writ that is to say John Doo and Richard Roo And that the said John Hunt was summoned by John Den and Richard'â—en and upon that The aforesaid Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin declaring against him the said John Hunt upon the Writ aforesaid demanded against him the said John Hunt the Manor Tenements and Rent aforesaid with the Appurtenances and the Advowson aforesaid as their Right and Inheritance and in which the said John had not then Entry but after the Deseisin which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and without Judgment did to the aforesaid Thomas Spenceley and Baldwin within 30. years c. And whereupon they then said That they themselves were seized of the Manor Tenements and Rent aforesaid with the Appurtenances in
Henry Cary Knight Lord of Hunsdon and his Heis for ever And that the aforesaid John Gardiner and Agnes so of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. for the Term of the said John and Agnes and the longer liver of them in form aforesaid being seized the Remainder thereof after the death of them the said John and Agnes to the aforesaid William Cary and the Heirs oâ— his Body lawfully begotten the Remainder thereof for default of such issue to the aforesaid Robert Cary and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten the Remainder thereof for default of such issue to the aforesaid Heny Cary Knight Lord of Hunsdon and his Heirs expectant Before the levying of the aforesaid Fine in the Conusance of the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon above second mentioned The aforesaid other Fine in the aforesaid Plea of her the said Agnes above specified was levied in the aforesaid Court of the Queen here from the aforesaid day of Easter in 15. dayes in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 31th before the aforesaid then Justices and other the faithful people of the Lady the Queen then there present Between the aforesaid David Bulward and Robert Ham Plaintiffs and the aforesaid William Cary Deforceant of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. And of the aforesaid 20. Messuages One Dove house 20. Gardens 300. Acres of Land 100. Acres of Meadow 200. Acres of Pasture 30. Acres of Wood 1. pound 6. shillings 4. pence Rent and the Rent of 4. Capons and 1. pound of Wax with the Appurtenances in Stow-market Newton Gipping and One house Which Fine in form aforesaid levied and had was had and levied to the use of the aforesaid David and Robert Ham and to their Heirs for ever to the intent in the Plea of the aforesaid Agnes above mentioned the aforesaid John Gardiner and Agnes of the Manor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. for the Term of the lives of them the said John Gardiner and Agnes and the longer liver of them so as before is said being seized the Remainder thereof to the aforesaid David and Robert Ham and their Heirs expectant the aforesaid Recovery in the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon above mentioned in form aforesaid was had And the aforesaid Agnes further in Facto saith That the aforesaid John Gardiner and Agnes from the time of the levying of the Fine in the Conusance of the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon second mentioned in form aforesaid was levied Without that that the aforesaid David and Robert Ham the aforesaid day of bringing of the Writ of the Lady the Queen of Entry Sur Disseisin in the Post in the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon above mentioned or ever afterwards were ever Tenants of the Freehold of the Manor Tenements and Rents with the Appurtenances in the Recovery aforesaid above mentioned as the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon above have alleged And this she is ready to aver Wherefore she demandeth Judgement and his Damages by occasion of the taking and unjust detaining of the Cattel aforesaid to her to be adjudged And the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon say That the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid Agnes to the Conusance of them the said William and John as to the aforesaid 20. pound residue of the 40. pound at the aforesaid Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the yeer 35th abovesaid payable above by Rejoynder pleaded is insufficient in Law to bar her the said Agnes from having her Action aforesaid of the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which against them the said William and John or to bar the said William and John from the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. And that they to that Plea in manner and form aforesaid pleaded need not nor by the Law of the Land are bound to Answer for that that is to say That the aforesaid Induction of the Plea of the said Agnes to the Traverse aforesaid in her Plea aforesaid to the Conusance of them the said William and Iohn above rejoyning pleaded is not sufficient in Law to induce that Traverse And that the Traverse of the aforesaid Tenances of the David and Robert Ham the day of the bringing of the aforesaid Writ of Entry upon Disseisin in the Post of the aforesaid Manor Tenements Rents with the Appurtenances in the same Plea pleaded is not material in Law And this they are ready to aver wherefore for want of sufficient Plea of the said Agnes in this behalf the said William and John as at first demand Judgement and the retorn of the Cattel aforesaid together with damages c. to be to them adjudged And the aforesaid Agnes for as much as she hath alleged sufficient matter in Law and the aforesaid William Bredon and John Bredon from their Conusance aforesaid as to the aforesaid 20. pound of the aforesaid 40. p. residue at the aforesaid Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel payable to have to bar and the said Agnes to have her Action aforesaid against the said William and John above hath alleged which she is ready to aver which matter the aforesaid William and John do not deny nor to the same do any wayes Answer but the the same Averment utterly refuse to admit as before demandeth Judgement and her damages by occasion of the taking and unjustly detaining of the Cattel aforesaid to her to be adjudged And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid here until in 8. dayes from Saint Michael to hear their Judgement thereof because the same Justices here thereof not yet c. At which day here cometh aswelthe aforesaid Agnes as the aforesaid Wil. Bredon J. Bredon by their Atornies aforesaid And because the Justices here will further avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof day further is given to the parties aforesaid here until in 8. dayes of Saint Hillary to hear their Judgement thereof because the same Justices here thereof not yet c. At which day here cometh aswel the aforesaid Agnes as the aforesaid Wil. Bredon and John Bredon by their Attornies aforesaid And upon this The premises seen and by the Justices here fully understood It seemeth to the said Justices here That the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid Agnes to the Conusance of the aforesaid William and John as to the aforesaid 20. pound residue of the aforesaid 40. pound at the aforesaid Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the yeer 35th abovesaid payable by Rejoynder pretended is not sufficient in Law for the said Agnes to have her Action aforesaid of the taking of the Cattel aforesaid against the said William and John or to
in which c. the said Walter and the aforesaid Robert who c. demand Judgement and their damages by the occasion of the taking and unjust deteining of the Cattel aforesaid to the said VValter to be adjudged And the aforesaid Nicholas as at first saith That the aforesaid John Bevill was seized of the aforesaid Services by the Hands of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Father as by the Hand of his very Tenant as he above alleged And of this puts himself upon the Country and the aforesaid Walter and the aforesaid Robert Smith the Son who c. likewise Therefore it is commanded to the Sheriff that he cause to be here from the day Saint Martin 15. dayes 12. c. by whom c. and who neither c. to Recognize c. Because as well c. Processe against the Jurors to try the issue aforesaid is conteined until 15. of Easter in the 19th yeer of Queen Elizabeth unless the Justices to Assizes in the County aforesaid to be taken assigned by the form of the Statute c. Upon Monday in the 5th Week of Lent the said 19th yeer first come At which Assizes the Verdict was given as followeth The Jurors say upon their Oath That the within named John Smith the Father held the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances called Newton of the within named John Bevill as of the within written Manor of Keligath by Knights Service within written And that the said John Bevill was seized of the Fealty and Sute of Court only parcel of the Services within written by the Hands of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Father as by the Hands of his very Tenant But whether the aforesaid seisin of Feâ—lty and Sute of Court aforesaid be a good and sufficient sâ—isin of the whole Services within written or not the Jurors are altogether ignorant And pray thereof the advice and diâ—cretion of the Justices aforesaid And if upon the whole matter aforesaid in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the same Justices That the aforesaid seisin of Fealty and Sute of Court be not a good and sufficient seisin of the whole Services aforesaid Then the Jurors say upon their Oath That the aforesaid John Bevill was not seized of the within written Services by the Hands of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Father as by the Hand of his very Tenant as the said Walter within alleged And then they assess the damages of him the said Walter by occasion of the taking and unjust detaining of the Cattel aforesaid besides his costs and charge by him about his Sute in this behalf expended to 12. pence and for his costs and charges to 40. shillings And if upon the whole matter aforesaid it shall seem to the Justices That the said seisin of Fealty and Sute of Court aforesaid be a good and sufficient seisin of the whole Services within written Then the said Jurors say upon their Oath aforesaid That the said John Bevill was seized oâ— the Services within written by the Hands of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Father as by the Hands of his very Tenant as the aforesaid Nicholas within alleged And then they assess the damages of the said Nicholas by occasion of the premises besides his costs and charges by him about his Sute in this behalf expended to 12. pence and for his costs and charges to 40. shillings And because the Justices here will avise themselves of upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties here until in the Morrow of the Holy Trinity to hear their Judgement thereof because the Justices here thereof not yet c. And so the Plea aforesaid was continued until the Morrow of the Holy Trinity in the 25th yeer of Queen Elizabeth which day Judgement was given as followeth At which day here cometh as well the aforesaid Walter Parker by his Attorny aforesaid as the aforesaid Nicholas Francis by William Aylesbury his Attorny And upon this The premises being seen and by the Justices here fully understood It seemeth to the Justices here That the aforesaid seisin of Fealty and Sute of Court aforesaid is a good and sufficient seisin of the whole Services aforesaid Therefore it is granted That the aforesaid William Parker take nothing by his Writ aforesaid but be in mercy for his false clamour And the aforesaid Nicholas Francis thereof go without day and that he have Retorn of his Cattel aforesaid to be kept by him irreplegible for ever c. It is also granted That the aforesaid Nicholas Francis recover against the aforesaid Walter Parker his damages aforesaid to 41. shillings by the Jurors in form aforesaid assessed as also 13. pound to the said Nicholas at his request for his costs and charges aforesaid by the Court here of Encrease adjudged which damages in the whole do amount to 15. pound 1. shilling c. REPLEVIN Trinity Term Anno 7 mo JACOBI Rot. 3661. in Salop. the COMMON-PLEAS Co. 8. part John Talbotts Case IOhn Pendleton was attached by the Writ of the Lady the Queen of second deliverance to answer to John Chapman of a Plea wherefore he took the Cattel of him the said John Chapman and them unjustly deteined against Gages and Pledges c. And whereupon The said John Chapman by Thomas Salter his Attorney complaineth That the aforesaid John Pendleton the second day of September in the yeer of the Lord the King that now is of England c. the 6th at Albrighton in a certain place called Bromly took his Cattel that is to say two Bullocks of the said John Chapman and them unjustly deteined against Gages and Pledges untill c. whereupon he saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 20. pound and thereof he bringeth sute c. And the aforesaid Iohn Pendleton by Nicholas Gibbens his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. and as Bayliff of Jo. Talbot Esquire doth well avow the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. and justly c. Because he saith That the place in which it is supposed the taking aforesaid to be done doth contein and at the time of the taking thereof above supposed to be done did contein in it self 3. Acres of Pasture lying in the aforesaid field called Bromley in Albrighton aforesaid and that long before the taking of the Cattel aforesaid supposed to be done One John Chapman Father of the now Plaintiff was seised of the aforesaid 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. in his demesn as of Fee and the said 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. held of the aforesaid John as of his Manor of Albrighton in the County aforesaid by Fealty and the Service of doing sute at the Court of the said John Talbot of his Manor aforesaid from 3. weeks to 3. weeks at that Manor to be holden As also by the service of rendring after
Integrity and gravity And further to the said Lord the King we Certifie That afterwards that is to say the first day of February in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 8th the aforesaid James Bagg continuing in his evil disposition and intent aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid in the Guild-hall of the Borough aforesaid in the presence of one Thomas Fowens then being Mayor of the Borough aforesaid in the presence and hearing as well of the Chief Burgesses as of the other Inhabitants of the Borough aforesaid scornfully and without reasonable cause spake to the aforesaid Thomas Fowens these false and injurous words following that is to say Thou the aforesaid Thomas Fowens then Mayor intending art an Insolent Fellow whereas in Truth the said THOMAS in the whole course of his Life bore himself towards all Men Honestly Civily and with Praise And further to the said Lord the King we certifie that the afterwards that is to say the first day of August in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is the 9th at Plymouth aforesaid in the presence and hearing of the aforesaid Thomas Fowens and of very many other of the Burgesses of the Burough aforesaid being gathered together in the Guild Hall of the Burough aforesaid the aforesaid James Bagg continuing his evil disposition and intent aforesaid divers contemptible words of the aforesaid Thomas Fowens then being Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid with a loud voice spake and uttered upon which the aforesaid Thomas Fowens with mild words admonishing the aforesaid James Bagg that he would desist from uttering such contemptible words aforesaid the aforesaid James Bagg thereupon then and there that is to say the 10th day of August in the 9th yeer abovesaid at Plymouth aforesaid and in the presence and hearing of the aforesaid Thomas Fowens then Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid and very many other of the Burgesses and Inhabitants of the Burrough aforesaid and in contempt and disdain of the said Thomas Fowens then Mayor turning the hinder part of his Body in an unhumane and uncivil manner towards the aforesaid Thamas Fowens scoffingly contemptuously and uncivily with a loud voice said to the aforesaid Thomas Fowens these words following that is to say come and Kâ—ss And further to the said Lord the King we certifie that afterwards that is to say the 20th day of August in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 19th at Plymouth aforesaid the aforesaid James Bagg with most arrogant words threatned the said John Fowens then being Mayor oâ— the Burrough aforesaid without any reasonable cause and then and there to the said John Fowens threatningly and malitiously spake the words following that is to say I will make thy neck crack And further to the said Lord the King we certify that afterward that is to say the third day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 12th A certain Order and friendly Instrument of admonition was made by Iohn Scobb Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid and the greater part of the Chief Burgesses of the same Burrough in these words that is to say The 9th day of May 1614. the day and year above written It was agreed by John Scobb Mayor and such other of the Maisters here under written that if Mr. Iames Bagg the Elder do not before the next sâ—ssions to be holden within the Burrough of Plymouth Reconcile himself to the said Mayor and his brethren for such wrongs as he hath committed against them and withall faithfully promise to demean himself more orderly temperately for the time to come that then he shall be clean removed from the Bench and a new Master chosen in his Room which Order or Instrument was made and subscribed by the said Mayor and other of the Chief Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid And further to the said Lord the King we Certifie That the aforesaid James Bagg before the aforesaid next sessions in the Order aforesaid mentioned did not make any such reconciliation or promise of Conformity as in the Order aforesaid is specified although full notice of the aforesaid Order immediately after the making thereof before the aforesaid next sessions was given to him at Plymouth aforesaid And further to the said Lord the K. we Certifie that afterwards that is to say the 20th day of Febr. in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the K. that now is the 12th the afores Jam. Bagg continuing his evil dispositioÌ„ in his intent aforesaid at Plymouth afores in the Guild-hall of the Borough aforesaid in the presence hearing of John Scobb one of the Chief Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid And then being a Justice for the keeping of the Peace within the Borough aforesaid by virtue of the Letters Patents aforesaid by reason of his Mayralty of the Borough aforesaid the yeer then next before and in the presence and hearing of the then Mayor of the Borough aforesaid and of diverse other of the Burgesses and Inhabitants of that Borough contemptuously these words following spake uttered of the aforesaid John Scobb openly and publickly falsely and scandalously that is to say You the aforesaid John Scobb intending are a Knave whereas the aforesaid John Scobb honestly and with praise carried and governed himself And further to the said Lord the King we Certifie That afterwards that is to say the 10th day of December last past then the Mayor of the said Borough and diverse of the Chief Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid at Plymouth aforesaid being assembled together in the Almes-house of the said Borough to require and receive an Account of the Overseers of the Borough of the Borough aforesaid as in times past and time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary it was used the aforesaid James Bag then and there in the presence and hearing of the said Mayor and other of the Chief Burgesses aforesaid without any reasonable cause openly and publickly sayd to the said Thomas Shervill there then present and one of the Chief Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid and for the space of 10. yeers then last past being these false and scandalous words following that is to say You the said Thomas Shervill intending are a seditious Fellow whereas in Truth the aforesaid Thomas Shervill alwaies lived not suspected of any such crime of Sedition and from time in the Office of Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid as in the place and Office of Chief Burgesse Honestly Discreetly and with great Integrity carried and governed himself And further to the said Lord the King we Certifie That whereas the said Lord the King the day of January in the 12th yeer of his Reign aforesaid at Westminster in the Counâ—y of Middlesex with the Advise of the Lords of his Privy Council of this his Realm of England Ordained and Commanded by publick Proclamation and by Letters written under
all and singular the said Mannors except before excepted and that the said Writ shall be brought and sued against him the said Edward Shelley of all and singular the said Manors and Premises except before excepted by the name of the Manor of Worminghurst Barhamwick and Fyndon with the Appurtenances and by the name of 30 Messuages 10. Tofts one Water-mill 2. Culver-houses 30. Gardens 400. Acres of Land 60. Acres of Meadow 400. Acres of Pasture 120. Acres of Wood 500. Acres of Firzes and Heath and eight pound 10 s. of Rent with the Appurtenances in Fyndon Worminghurst Barhamwick Patching Estangmering Westangmering Wyginholt Storington Washington Ashington Grensted Ashhurst Stening Wilston Thackham and Shopley and of the Advowson of the Church of Worminghurst and that the said Recovery had of all and singular the premises shall be suffered and had to the uses profits behoofs and intents hereafter specified and declared and to note other use or intent That is to say Of the said Mannor of Fyndon with the Appurtenances except the Park of Fyndon and except also all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Fyndon aforesaid called or known by the name ef the Park of Fyndon the said Recovery thereof shall stand and be to the only use profit and behoof of him the said Edward Shelly and of the Heirs males of his body lawfully to be begotten and for lack of such issue to the use profit and behoof of the heirs Males of the body of John Shelley Esquire sometimes of Michael Grove deceased Father of the said Edward and of the heirs Males of the body of the said heirs Males lawfully begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use and behoof of the right Heirs of the said Edward Shelley for ever And of the said Manors of Worminghurst and Barhamwick with the Appurtenances and of the said Park of Fyndon and of all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called or known by the name of the Park of Fyndon and of all and singular other the premises with the Appurtenances comprised or to be comprised in the said Writ of Entry and in the said recovery it is granted condescended and agreed between the said parties and the said Edward Shelley covenanteth granteth That the said Recovery thereof shall be suffered and had to the only use profit and behoof of them the said Edward Shelley and his Assigns for and during the term of the life natural of the said Edward Shelley without impeachment of or for any manner of waste and after the decease of the said Edward Shelley then to the only use profit and behoof of John Carrel and John Apsley of Thackham Esquires and Edward Darkenold of Slynford in the said County of Sussex Yeoman and of their Executors and Assigns for and during the term of 24. years next ensuing after the decease of the said Edward Shelley and after the 24. years ended then to the only use profit and behoof of the Heirs Males of the body of the said Edward Shelley lawfully begotten and for lack of such issue then to the use profit and behoof of the Heirs Males of the body of the said John Shelley sometimes of Michael Grove Esquire deceased father unto the said Edward Shelley and to the Heirs Males of the body of the said Heirs Males last before rehearsed lawfully begotten and for lack of such issue to the use profit and behoof of the right heirs of the said Edward Shelley for ever And the said Edward Shelley further Covenanteth Promiseth and granteth to and with the said Richard Cooper and William Martin That he the said Edward Shelley shall and will from time to time do suffer procure make and acknowledge and cause to be had done suffered procured and acknowledged at his own proper costs and charges All and every such act and acts thing and things as shall be devised or avised by the said Richard Cooper and William Martin or the survivor of them as well for the said recovery to be perfectly surely and lawfully had and executed of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances by the said Richard Cooper and William Martin to the uses purposes and intents in these Indentures specified declared and contained as also for the further surety establishment execution perfecting and continuance of all and every the said uses estates and other the premises to be and go according to the Covenants promises Articles and Agreements in these present Indentures contained In witness whereof the parties abovesaid to these present Indentures interchangeably have set their Seals the day and year first abovesaid And the Jurors aforesaid further say upon their Oath That the Tenements aforesaid in the Indenture aforesaid excepted are not the Lands Tenements in the Declaration abovesaid specified And that the aforesaid Edward Shelley so being thereof seized The aforesaid Richard Cooper and William Martin the 20th day of September in the year of the Reigns of the said late King and Queen the first and second abovesaid out of the Court of the said late King and Queen of their Chancery at Westminster in the County of Middlesex sued forth a Writ of the said late King and Queen to the then Sheriff of Sussex directed against the said Edward Shelley By which Writ it was commanded the said Sheriff of Sussex That he command the aforesaid Edward Shelley that justly and without delay he render to the aforesaid Richard Cooper and William Martin the Manors of Worminghurst Barhamwick and Fyndon with the Appurtenances as also 30. Messuages 10. Tofts one Water-Mill two Dove houses thirty Gardens 400. Acres of Land 60. acres of Meadow 400. acres of Pasture 120. acres of Wood 500. acres of Firzes and Heath and 8 l. 10 s. Rent with the appurtenances in Fyndon Wominghurst Barhamwick Patching Estangmering Westangmering Wighenhold Storington Ashington Greensted Ashurst Stering Weston Thackham and Shipley And also the Advowson of the Church of VVarminghurst which he claimeth to be his Right and Inheritance And in which the said Edward had not Entry But after Disseisin with Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and without Judgement did to the aforesaid Richard and William within 30. yeers then last past as they said And whereupon they complained That the aforesaid Edward them Deforced c. And unlesse he should do it And the aforesaid Richard and William him the said Sheriff secured for the prosecuting of his claim Then he summon the aforesaid Edward that he be before the Justices of them the said late King and Queen at Westminster in 8. dayes of Saint Michael then next insuing to shew wherefore he had not done it and to have there the Summons the Writ aforesaid At which 8. dayes after Saint Michael before the Justices of the said late King and Queen come the aforesaid Richard Cooper and William Martin by John Bish their Attorny And the Sheriff that is to say Thomas Saunders Knight retorned that Richard and William found to
appurtenances in the declaration aforesaid specified upon the possession of the aforesaid Edward Griffin be and in Law ought to be adjudged a lawfull entry in to the said Messuage or not the Jurors aforesaid are altogether ignorant and pray the advise of the Court here c. and if upon the whole matter aforesaid in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Court here that the aforesaid entry of the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts Son of the said Thomas Bowes Son of the aforesaid Martin Bowes Knight be a lawfull entry then the Jurors aforesaid say upon their oath aforesaid That the said Edward Griffin is guilty of the trespass and ejectment aforesaid as the said Henry within against him complayneth and assess the damages of the said Henry by the occasion of the trespass and ejectment aforesaid besides charges and costs by him about his sute in this behalf to 12 pence and for his charges and costs to 5 shillings and 4 pence and if to the Court of the said Lady the Queen here it shall seem that the aforesaid entry of the aforesaid Thomas Bowes Master of Arts Son of the said Thomas Bowes Son of the said Martin Bowes Knight be not a lawfull entry Then the Jurors aforesaid say upon their oath aforesaid That the said Edward Griffin is not guilty of the Trespass and Ejectment aforesaid as the said Henry Page within hath alleged And because the Barons here will advise of and upon the premises before they give their judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid here untill 8 dayes of Saint Michael next comming to hear their Judgment because the Barons here thereof not yet c. at which day come the paries aforesaid by their Attorneys aforesaid and because the Barons are not yet avised of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises further day is given to the parties aforesaid here until from Ester day in 15. dayes next comming to heare their Judgement because the Barons thereof are not yet c. at which day came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And upon this the premises by the Barons here seen and mature deliberation thereof had betwixt themselves because it seemeth to the said Barons that the aforesaid entry of the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts Son of the said Thomas Bowes Son of the said Martin Bowes Knight is a Lawfull entry Therefore it is granted that the said Henry Page recover against the said Edward Griffin his possession of his term aforesaid then to come of and in the Messuage aforesaid with the appurtenances in the declaration aforesaid above specified and his damages by the occasion of the trespass and ejectment aforesaid to 54 shillings and 4 pence by the Jurors aforesaid in form aforesaid asseised as also further 8 pound and 10 shillings to the said Henry Page at his request for his charges and costs aforesaid by the Court here of encrease adjudged which damages in the whole do amount to 11. pound 4. shillings 4. pence and that the said Edward Griffin be taken c. And hereupon by a writ of the said Lady the Queen here issuing forth at at the request of the aforesaid Henry Page it is commanded to the sheriffs of London that to the aforesaid Henry they his full possession of his term yet to come of and in the Messuage aforesaid with the appurtenances in the declaration above specified without delay to him they give and how the said precept is executed that the said sheriff make it appear to the Barons of the Exchequer of the said Lady the Queen here the morrow of the Holy Trinity next to come and also it is commanded to the said Sheriffs that of the goods and chattels of the said Edward Griffin in their Balywick the said 11. pound 4. shillings and 4 pence for the damages aforesaid in form aforesaid recovered they do execution and that the said money when they have so levyed they have before the Barons here at the aforesaid Term to the said Henry Page or to his Attorny in this behalf then here to be paid c. And that afterwards the said Lady the Queen that now is sâ—nt her writ under her great seal ouâ— of her Chancery to the Treasurors and her Barons of the Exchequer â—ere directed which is enrolled in the remembrance of this Exchequer of the 31th year of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth that now is that is to say amongst the Records of Esther Term remaining with the remembrancer of the said Lady the Queen here The tenor of of which writ followeth in these words ss Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defender of the faiâ—h c. To the Treasuror and her Barons of the Exchequer greeting because that in the Record and process and also of giving of Judgement of a plea which was in our Court before you the aforesaid Barons in our Exchequer aforesaid by bill between Henry Page our debtor and Edward Griffin of a certain trespass and Ejectment of his Farm to the said Henry by the said Edward done as is said Error manifest hath intervened to the grevious damage of the said Edward as of his complaint we have received And whereas in a statute in Parliament of the Lord Edward late King of England the third our Progenitors at Westminster in the year of his Reign the 31th holden made amongst other things it was agreed and established That in all cases touching us and other persons where one complaineth of Error done in the Exchequer the Chancellor and Treasurer shall do to come before them in some Chamber neer unto the Exchequor the Record and Process out of the Exchequor and taking to them Justices and other sage persons such as shall seem fit to them to be taken and also calling before them the Barons of the Exchequor aforesaid to hear their informations and causes of their Judgments and hereupon shall dulie examine the business and if any Error shall be found to correct the same and to amend the Rolls and after to send the same into the said Exchequor to make thereof execution as in the statute aforesaid more fully is conteyned we therefore willing Error if any be according to the form of the aforesaid statute to be corrected to the parties aforesaid full speedy Justice in the premises to be done Command you that if Judgement thereupon be given That then the Record process aforesaid with all things touching the same before our Chancellor of England and you the aforesaid Treasurer in the Chamber next unto the Exchequer aforesaid called the Councel Chamber the third day of June next to come you cause to come that the said Chancellor and you the aforesaid Treasurer seeing and examining the Record and process aforesaid and your informations being heard you the said Barons farther in this behalf with the Council of the Justices and other sages do that which of right and according to the form of