it seems to me it is apparant by the Statute of the 26. H. 8. Cap. 10. which gives power to the King by his letters Patents to limit the time for importing of Wines against the Statute of 23. H. 8. Cap. 7. which was no more but a restoring of his power abridged before and so was the Statute of 31. E. 3. for otherwise the Parliament would never have given him Authoritie to contradict an Act of Parliament by his letters Patents or to revive these Acts Impositions are meerly a new custome and so are they stiled in the Margent of the Roll of the 3. E. 1. in this Court where it is Recorded that the King had assigned Merchants to receive using the same words which are used here half a Mark for every Sack of Wool and a Mark of every Last of Leather and that if the Merchant who is so appointed Transport any after that it shall be forfeited and out of this record I observe that three hundred Pelts make a Sack of Wooll from the 21. Ed. 1. unto the 28. E. 1. the customs for Wools was 40. s. a Sack and in 25. E. 1. the Imposition of Maletolt was repealed by Act of Parliament which Maletolt was an increase of Impost upon staple commodities and therfore was given to the King a great subsidie with this cause that it should never be drawn into president which shews that this Maletolt was rightly imposed otherwise the Parliament would never have given him so great a Recompence for the Abrogation of it but after in the 13. of E. 3. because it was a thing of so great consequence to the Crown it was revived and made 40. s. for Wool and Woolfels and 3. l. for Leather for denizens and double for strangers in the 14. Ed. 3. a Petition in Parliament to abate it and for a great subsidie it was released and in the 18. of Ed. 3. it was again revived and a new petition was made in Parliament and this petition was continued until the 36. of Ed. 3. and then it was abated and also by the 45. E. 3. it was again abated so that it seem that between these times it was revived but after it did not continue long for in 48. E. 3. it was again revived and for Wool the Impost was 50. s. et sic de singulis and in 1. R. 2. after it was answered to the King as it appears in the accompts here and in 5. R. 2. it was again suppressed by Parliament for a subsidie granted to the King with a saving of antient rights all these Statutes prove expresly that the King had power to increase the Impost and that upon commodities of the land and that he continually used this power notwithstanding all Acts of Parliament against it and so much for commodities of this land but for forrain commodities it appears by no Act of Parliament or other president that never any petition or suit was made to abate the Impost of forrain commodities but of them the Impost was paid without denial as for example for Wines in the 16. E. 1. as appears in this Court upon Record it was commanded to the Bailiff of Dover to levie and Gollece of every Tun of Wine of a stranger 4. s. and in the 22. E. 1.2 s. thereof was released at the suit of the French Ambassador in the 26. of E. 3. the King granted priviledges to Merchants strangers but there was given for it an increase of custome and this was answered as it appears upon accompt in the times of E. 1. and E. 2. the case of Allom was as it hath been recited by my brother Clark it is objected that the Merchant ought to have free passage upon the Sea but that both not conclude the King but that he shall have his Impost if he cometh into his Ports and here the question is for Merchandise after that they are brought into the Port but it is said that they cannot come into the Port but by the Sea that is true but if this reason should hold then the King could not grant Murage Pontage and the like because the common Channel to them is free and Average is for securitie aswel as Ports another objection that the Defendant here is not restrained but that is answered for if a pain be inflicted upon them who import this is an inhibition upon a pain to all another objection was that there was no consideration of the Imposition and if it be demanded what differences between the cases I answer as much as is between the King and a subject and it is not reasonable that the King should express the cause and consideration of his Actions for they are arcana Regis and no satisfaction needeth for if the profits to the Merchant faileth he will not trade and it is for the benefit of every subject that the Kings Treasure should be increased an objection was made against the form of proceeding because it was by the great Seal to the Treasurer and that he by the customers Peteret et reciperet and this could not be better as it was answered before it was objected that it should be by Proclamation and that needs not for it toucheth not all the subjects but only those who are Traders in Merchandising the best and aptest means to give them notice by the customers and it is alledged by the information expresly that he had notice It was lastly objected that there ought to be a quod damnum in the case before the grant that is not so for that shall be only when the King granteth any thing which appertaineth to his prerogative and not when he maketh Charters to his servants to levy his duties due to his Crown wherefore I think that the King ought to have judgement which was after given accordingly 6. Jac. in the Exchequer An Information against Sir Edward Dimock THe Bishop of Carlisle called John May in A. 26. Eliz. made a lease in reversion to Queen Eliz. of the Mannor of Horncastle whereof the Bishop was seised in right of his Bishoprick and this was for 4. years and it was acknowledged before Commissioners appointed for this purpose and the Bishop prayed it to be inrolled and this prayer is indorsed but not inrolled and in 37. Eliz. this lease was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter in the life of the lessor and in 44. Eliz. the successor Bishop leased this land to Sir Edward Dimock the Statute of the 43. of Eliz. hath a proviso that it shall not extend to any lease before made by the Bishop of Carlisle to Queen Eliz. then not inrolled and after the death of the Queen viz. 5. Jac. this lease in 26. Eliz. is returned and certified to be acknowledged and is then also inrolled and Sir Edward Dimock had entred and was in possession by vertue of his lease in the 3. Jac. and the information was for entrie and intrusion in 3. Jac. and upon the Bar all this matter was discovered and a
avoidance and after confirms the lease here the lease is not good in respect the next avoidance interrupts it for his life but after the death c. the term will be good as it was here lately adjudged and so he thought that in this case the confirmation is not good and also that the Commission not being returned is not good and after one of the Commissioners die before the return it cannot be recurned and by the inrolment here made the lease cannot take his effect with any relation and so be concluded that judgement ought to be given against the King Tanfield chief Baron the Commission for the acceptance of the acknowledgement of the Bishop touching that it is to be known whether this makes it the Deed of the Bishop and that the Commissioners should return c. the confirmation in this case was made in the life of the Bishop Lessor and of the Queen Lessee although that some of my brethren conceive the Record to be otherwise also in this case Dimock entred by vertue of his lease before the inrolment of the lease made to the Queen as the Record purporteth to the points First I conceive that nothing resteth in the Queen without inrolment but if Lessee for years be outlawed the King shall have this lease by the outlawry for the outlawry is intended to be upon Record but of a wardship for land that is not in the Queen by the death of the Queens Tenant without an office because there is no matter of Record if an Alien hath a lease of land this is forfeited yet he shall have personal Chattels and as to the Book of 18. E. 3. cited on the other side where the King brought a quare impedit c. this may be well agreed for the Prior of Durham confessed by Record that he had made a grant and this is a sufficient Record and as to the book of 20. E. 4. where the Patron was outlawed and before the outlawry the Church became void that the King shall present it may be well agreed although that no office be found for this presentation is but a thing personal and transitory and therefore those Books prove nothing in this case Secondly he said that when this lease was acknowledged before Commissioners yet that was not sufficient to make a record to intitle the King and it is here expresly denied in the Bar that this lease was certified into the Chancery in the life of the Queen and therefore he thought that here was no Record to intitle the Queen and to this purpose he cited a case in 19. Eliz. Robins and Greshams case if a Recognizance were acknowledged before a Master of the Chancery and not inrolled this is no Recoâ—d and an Action of debt lieth not thereupon and the 34. Eliz. in Brock and Bainhams case in this Court a Recognizance was taken before a Baron of this Court yet this was no Record without inrolment and therefore the bare acknowledgement in our case is no Record also he denied the opinion of Davers in 37. H. 6. to be Law but only for personal Chattels and the 12. Eliz. Brook and Latimers case was adjudged against the opinion of Davers for land or leases Thirdly he said that the successor of the Bishop comes in paramount the lease made to the Queen and the new Lessee entring before any inrolment hath made the successor of the Bishop as in his remitter and when an antient right comes this prevents the relation which otherwise might be by the inrolment and he said that the first lease here made to the Queen is meerly dead until inrolment and he vouched the 11. E. 4. fo 1. Vactons case the discontinuor enters upon the discontinuee after the discontinuee dieth his heir within age the discontinuor dieth this causeth a remitter and so by him if the disseissee enter upon the heir of the disseissor being an infant and dieth this avoids the descent by reason of the antient right which the disseissee had and by 7. H. 7. and 11. H. 7. Eriches case it appears that an Act of Parliament will not revive a thing that is meerly dead by reason of any inrolment and much more here an inrolment cannot revive this lease which is meerly void by the death of the Lessor and the entrance of the Lessee of the Bishops successor and there is a great difference betwixt the inrolment in this case and the inrolment of a bargain and sale in regard that the sale is dead before the inrolment and yet in the case of bargain and sale it was adjudged in the Common Pleas Pasch 2. Jac. in Sir Thomas Lees case called Bellinghams case that if a man bargain land to A. and before inrolment of the Deed A. bargaines the land to B. which second bargain is inrolled this inrolment makes not the bargain good to B. for the relation of the first is only to perfect and make good the conveyance to A. from all incumbrances after his bargain but not to make the second Deed good which was void before also in 36. Eliz. in Sir Thomas Smiths case if the Bargainee suffer a recovery before the Deed inrolled yet that doth not make the recovers good and he said that in this case until an inrolment of the lease made to the Queen there is no Lessee and a lease cannot be without a Lessor and Lessee and before an inrolment of the lease the Lessor is dead so that there never was a Lessor and Lessee in life together and therefore the inception of this lease was altogether imperfect before the consummation came and so it leemeth by him that the death of the Bishop Lessor intervening before the inrolment is the principal cause that the first lease is not good as to the 4 th point of confirmation it seems to me in regard that the Bishop was seised in right of his Bishoprick and the Dean and Chapter have no interest in the land so that an assent is only sufficient in this case it seems to me that the confirmation as you call it is good enough for it is clear that an assent may be aswell before the lease as after for it passeth no interest no more then an Attornment Cook lib. 5. Foords case proveth this diversity plainly and by the same reason also it seems to me that this assent of parties who have no interest is good enough without inrolment but otherwise it should be if a confirmation were required in the case and as to the pleading I think the Bar is good and as to the exceptions which have been made viz. if the lease supposed to be made to the Queen be answered and he said it was good enough for the purpose of the Defendant is to bring the matter in Law before the Iudges and the matter in Law is if it were any lease or not as the information supposeth and therefore the Defendant ought not to agree with the information for the matter in Law and
above mentioned of a lease for years and also it was there said that if Tenant for life be the remainder to the King for years the remainder to another in Fee and the Tenant for life makes a Feofment in Fee this drawes the Kings remainder out of him and so he held that here is no gift Secondly that here is no imployment and so the Feofment is made good Altham second Baron contra I will consider only two points First if it be a gift for years or for ever and I say that it is a gift for ever for here is no intent in the Donor to determine the superstitious use because he doth not limit any other use to which it should revert but only that the Priest should be maintained for ever and as that which hath been said that it was not imployed he answereth that out of the Book of 22. Assises 52. where 12. d. is reserved for three years and after 100. s. seisin of 12. d. is seisin of the 100. s. because it is issuing out of the freehold as the case is in Littleton in the Chapter of Atturnement Tenant for life the remainder in Fee the Lord shall not avow upon the remainder but shall have it by way of Escheat for all the estates together are holden of the Lord but if land be given to finde a Priest in D. and one is maintained in S. this is a mis-imployment but in our case I conceive that the Feoffees have power to dispose the land as to them seems best and therefore it is uncertain and then given to the King as it was in Dales case land was given to the intent that a Priest should be maintained as I. S. and I. D. thought fit so that he had not less then 8. marks yearly the King shall have all for the Feoffees may give all to the Priest if they please and in Turners case land was devised to a Priest and divers poor men all is given to the King by the superstitious imployment and as to the words if by the Law it may be they are idle for id possumus quod de Jure possumus and therefore 9. Ed. 6. an office was given to one if he were able to exercise it these words are idle for the Law saith that he shall not have it if he be not able to execute it 30. Ed. 3.8 a gift to two and to the longer liver of them that the Survivor shall have it are idle words 10. H. 7. a Condition that c. and here it the condition had been until an Act of Parliament prohibit it they are Idle words for if land be given to I. S. and his heirs upon condition that if he die without heirs c. this is a void condition and Repugnant to Law Lastly I hold the feofment good by way of Admittance and that the livery takes effect notwithstanding the Queens interest 4. H. 6.19 the Kings Tenant for life is disseised he shall have an Assise and yet there is no intrusion upon the King 17. H. 7.6 the Kings Lessee makes a feofment the King enters and so he held that the judgement should he given for the Defendant Snig Baron argued much to the same intent that Bromley had done and that the Schedule is so circumspect that nothing is given after the 99. years and that a spirit of Divination forwarned him of the alteration and he agreed the Feofment to be good with this difference where the King is in possession actually and where the Reversion is in the King and the book of 2 H. 4.9 that none shall enter upon the Kings Farmor is to be understood of the Kings under Tenants and not of his Lessees Tanfield chief Baron said that neither by the intent of the Statute nor of the parties the fee is given to the Queen but it is apparant that during the 99. years the parties intent is in suspence for fear of alteration and that they would see the difference of the times and leave the disposing thereof to his Feoffees and if they had sold the land and with the money maintained a Priest as many stocks of money have used to do without doubt it had been forfeited to the King and not the land and it would be in vain to speak of an Amortization if it be for a stipendary Priest only for this would not be necessary to have a foundation incorporated and to make an Amortization for such a Priest and therefore it seems to him that there is no determination of his will after the 99. years but that all is left to the determination and disposition of the feoffees who then should be and after the intent of the Statute which was penned by Hales Iustice of the Common Pleas. I observe four words given appointed limited and assigned and I do not conceive that our case is within the compass of any of them for as I said before it is in suspence until the end of 99. years and the parties who should have the interest are not known untill the time come nor the estate setled until that time but if it had been conveyed to superstitious uses after it had been given to the Queen notwithstanding the conveyance had not been sufficient if he who did convey had power in respect of the abilitie of his person and the estate in him and therefore Pasch 22. Eliz. the case was this Sir William Say before the Statute of 32. H. 8. of Wills was seised of lands in fee not devisable and before the said Statute he devised it to finde a Priest and notwithstanding that the devise was not good yet it was adjudged that the land was given to the Queen by 1. Ed. 6. but if it were a feme covert or an infant who are disabled in Law or a Tenant in tail who is disabled in respect of his estate there it had not been given to the Queeen but in all cases there ought to be an assignment or otherwise nothing is given and there is a difference where one grants land to the intent with the profits thereof to finde a Priest there all the land is given to the Queen and where he grants a rent for the maintenance of a Priest for there the King shall have but the Rent and he said that the Case cited 5. Ed. 6. Benlos is good Law and as to that which hath been said That because the power of the Feoffees is uncertain it should be given to the Queen true it is where the power is uncertain to bestow the profits but if their power be certain it is otherwise and as to the imployment there is none because there is no gift but the imployment of the particular estate is an imployment of the Remainder and a small thing will make an imployment James case was of the Greyhound in Fleetstreet which was given to finde a Priest and the White Horse for the maintenance of another and the Feoffees of the White-horse maintained the Priest of the
to be paid before induction 20 Forfeiture by Tenant for life by what Acts 38 Forfeiture by a contempt for not returning upon a command by Privy Seale and what and how long the forfeiture continueth an excellent Case 42 43 False imprisonment see Action Fine if void for uncertainty 55 Where it shall be directed by the Covenant ibid G. GRant of the King what shall be a good surrender thereof 1 And what shall be a good consideration therein 4 Where such a Grant is aided by 43. Eliz. cap. 1. ibid Grant by the King of a reversion nec non manerium de Skipton 39 I. INformation upon 3. 4. E. 6. for buying of Butter against two and one found guilty 19 An information against one for refusing to pay Impost for Currants a famous Case 23 An information for ingrossing 1000. quarters of Corne one Defendant found of 700. only 59 Informer where he shall have a moity upon 23. Eliz. but not upon 28. 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THE King where he may extend for outlawry after alienation 20 The King where he may take without inrolment and what Acts amounts to an inrolment 31 35 60 The King where he shall have his rent of the Assignee in trust in the Interim before a reassignment made 39 The King where he may extend a Term conveyed in trust 50 51 The King shall not charge the successors of a Bishop for a subsidie but the Executor or the heire 51 The King where he shall be ordered in equity to perform a trust by an English Bill 54 King see Judgement 65 King what interest he hath by an outlawry 83 King where he shall have his debt of his Debtor or Trustee 91 King cannot distrain the Cattell of one Tenant in Common for the debt of the other 96 97 King may charge the debtor of his debtors Debtor 112 113 L. LIvery and seifin of Lands in 2. Towns by Letter of Atturney countermanded by livery in one by the Lessor himself 97 Livery if it can be made upon the Queens Lessee 114 M. 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Dyer the Lord Dacres surrendred a patent of an office granted to him before Sir Nicholas Hare Master of the Rolls but the surrender was not recorded nor the patent Cancelled nor a Vacat entred upon the inrolment this is void and shall not be aided now after the death of Sir Nicholas Hare per optimam opinionem in Kemps case Dyer 195. but it will be said that it appears not there that the surrender was made in Chancery and therefore differs from our case but see 19. Eliz. Dyer 355. which is direct in the point where an exchange of land was with E. 6. by deed acknowledged to be inrolled c. but not inrolled it cannot after nor be inrolled nor vest any interest in the Queen either as heir or Purchasor so hereby it appears that before inrolment an estate vests not in the King and he said that he had heard Popham late chief Iustice say that the opinion of the Iudges was that in this case nothing vests in the King until inrolment and for that there was a private Act made in 39. Eliz. to relieve this particular case so the Memorandum makes the record and not the delivery of the patent to be cancelled but the opinion of Davers in 37. H. 6.10 may be objected against me where he saith that if a man make a feofment to the King and deliver the deed in the Exchequer or at the Kings Coffers it is good without inrolment which by the Court is intended for goods and not to a feofment made to the King for this is only the opinion of Davers which I denie to be law and also all this may be admitted for law and yet prove nothing for when the partie surrenders to the King and delivers the deed to be inrolled so that he had done all which in him is to pass the land to the King then it may aptly be said in common speech that the right of the land is in the King because he of right ought to have it after inrolment although he had not the propertie of the land before the Deed be inrolled then if nothing vest in the Queen in the principal case before the patent made in 37. Eliz. the words subsequent in the patent will not help the matter viz. quam quidem sursum redditionem acceptamus per praesentes because the King had taken nothing before and the recital in the patent concludes not the Queen it hath been said that the not making of a Memorandum is the fault of the Clark and this shall not prejudice the partie in so great a mischief but I answer that the same mischief will insue where a man sells land by indenture and delivers it to the Clark to be inrolled and he inrols it not within 6. moneths nothing shall pass by the sale yet this is only the fáult of the Clark but in this case he may have his action upon the case against the Clark if so it be that he had paid all his fees the fame law in the principal case but admitting that yet great mischief will insue if it be so that the estate shall pass to the King before inrolment for then the estate and interest shall be tried by the Countrie and not by the record and then also in what place should a man search to finde the Kings estate and perhaps for want of knowledge thereof every grant of the King will be avoided and this would be a great mischief to the subjects but admitting that this should be a good surrender without a Memorandum or Vacat yet this is not shewed in this case for it appears not here that his intent was to surrender it for although he deliver up his Letters patents yet his estate remaines and then the consideration of the patent in 37. Eliz. being of a surrender of the first patent and also of a surrender of the estate if the estate be not surrendred as well as the patent the consideration is for that false and then the patent is void and to pâ—ove that the estate remains although that the patent be surrendred it appears by Fisher 12. H. 7.12 where Tenant in tail of the gift of the King loses his letters patents his heir is not at a mischief for he may have a Constat and this shall be good in evidence but he cannot plead it and this appears by the Preamble of the Statute of 13. Eliz. cap. 6. Dean and Chapter Lease land this shall be by Deed and in this case although that the lessee redeliver his deed it is no surrender of the estate but he shall not plead it without shewing a Deed of the assent of the Chapter but he shall give it in evidence and good because he had once a Dâ—ed thereof as it appears by 32. E. 3. Monstrance of Deeds and it appears by 32. H. 8. Patents Br. 97. that if the Kings Patentee lose his letters Patents he shall have a Constat and by 32. H. 8. surender Br. 51. and 35. H. 8. tail that if the King give in tail and the Donee surrender his Patent the tail thereby is not extinct so although letters Patents are necessary for pleading of the Kings Grant yet they are not requisite for the essence and continuance of the estate also it is found that the said Patents were restored to be cancelled per mandatum Domini Seymor it is not found what manner of authoritie the Lord S. gave nor found to whom the letters Patents were delivered nor at what time and peradventure they were delivered after the second Patent made and then is the second Patent false because then there was no surrender and this is one of the reasons put it Kemps case 3. Eliz. 195. The second point admitting that there is no actual surrender if notwithstanding that the Patent of 37. Eliz. be good and as to that I say if this Patent be good it is because the Queen had recited the particular estate and therefore is not to her damage or because the second Patent is a surrender in law of the first and the rather because it appears to be the intention of the Queen that the acceptance should be a surrender by these words quam quidem sursum redditionem acceptamus per praesentes and as to the first reason it seems to me that the Queen recites this as a particular estate determined and not as an estate continuing for by these words modo habens et gaudens it appears that the meaning of the Queen was that the Lord Seymor had not an estate continuing in the intent of the Queen at the time of the making of the second Patent but the Lord Chandos case in Coo. 6. fol. 55. seems to impugne me in this opinion where the King made a gift in tail and afterward by Patent reciting the former Grant and also that the Patentee had delivered up the Patent into the Chancerie to be cancelled by vertue whereof he thought himself to be seised in demeasne as of fee
but the great custom aforesaid which was after increased by Parliament which was called the petit custome it is a great grace in the King to the Merchants that he will command and permit this matter to be disputed between him and his subject and the most fit place is in this Court and the best rules herein are the presidents thereof and pollitick reasons which I shall give and apply them to the particulars before recited and first for the person of the King omnis potestas à deo et non est potestas nisi pro Bono to the King is committed the Government of the Realm and his people and Bracton saith that for his discharge of his office God had given to him power the Act of Government and the power to Govern the Kings power is double ordinary and absolute and they are several Lawes and ends that of the ordinary is for the profit of particular subjects for the Execution of Civil Iustice the determining of Meum and this exercised by equitie end Iustice in ordinary Courts and by the Civillians is nominated Jus privatum and with us Common Law and these Laws cannot be changed without Parliament and although that their form and course may be changed and interrupted yet they can never be changed in substance the absolute power of the King is not that which is converted or executed to private use to the benefit of any particular person but is only that which is applied to the general benefit of the people and is Salus populi as the people is the body and the King the head and this power is guided by the Rules which direct only at the Common Law and is most properly named pollicy and Government and as the constitution of this body varieth with the time so varieth this absolute Law according to the wisdome of the King for the Common good and these being general rules and true as they are all things done within these rules are Lawful the matter in question is material matter of state and ought to be ruled by the rules of pollicy and if it be so the King hath done well to execute his extraordinary power all customes be they old or new are no other but the effects and issues of Trades and commerce with forraign Nations but all commerce and affairs with forrainers all wars and peace all acceptance and admitting for Currant forrain Coyn all parties and Treaties whatsoever are made by the absolute power of the King and he who hath power of causes hath power also of effects no exportation or importation can be but at the Kings Ports they are the Gates of the King and he hath absolute power by them to include or exclude whom he shall please and Ports to Merchants are their Harvours and repose and for their better securitie he is compelled to provide Bulworks and Fortresses and to maintain for the collection of his customs and duties collectors and customers and for that charge it is reason that he should have this benefit he is also to defend the Merchants from Pirats at Sea in their passage also by the power of the King they are to be relieved if they are oppressed by forrain Princes and his Treaty and Embassage and he be not remedied thereby then lex Talionis shall be executed goods for goods and Tax for Tax and if this will not redress the matter then war is to be attempted for the cause of Merchants in all the Kings Courts and of other Princes the Iudges in them are paid by the King and maintained by him to do Iustice to the subjects and therefore he hath the profits of the said Courts it is reasonable that the King should have asmuch power over forrainers and their goods as upon his own subjects and if the King cannot impose upon forrain Commodities a custome aswel as forrainers may upon their own Commodities and upon the Commodities of this land when they come to them then forrain states shall be inriched and the King impoverished and he shall not have equal profit with them and yet it will not be denied but his power herein is equal with other states and so much for the person of Bates the subject it is said that an imposition may not be upon a subject without Parliament that the King may impose upon a subject I omit for it is not here the question if the King may impose upon the subject or his goods but the impost here is not upon a subject but here it is upon Bates as upon a Merchant who imports goods within this land charged before by the King and at the time when the impost was imposed upon them they were the goods of the Venetians and not the goods of a subject nor within the land but only upon those which shall be after imported and so all the arguments which were made for the subject fail and where it is said that he is a Merchant and that he ought to have the Sea open and free for him and that Trades of Merchants and Merchandise is necessary to export before the Surplus of our commodities and then to import other necessaries and so is favourably to be respected as to that it is well known that the end of every private Merchant is not the common good but his particular profit which is only the means which induceth him to Trade and Traffick and the impost to him is nothing for he rateth his Merchandise according to that the impost is imposed upon Currants and he who will buy them shall have them subject to that charge and it is a great contempt to denie the payment and so much for the person I will give a brief answer to all the Statutes alledged on the contrary part with this exposition that the subjects and Merchants are to be freed of Maletolt and this was Toll unjustly exacted by London Southampton and other Ports within this Realm but they are with this saving that they pay the duties and customes due or which hereafter shall be due to the King which is a full answer to all the Statutes the commoditie of Currants is no commoditie of this land but forrain and whereas it is said that it is Victual and necessary food it is no more necessary then Wine and impost for that hath been alwayes paid without contradiction and without doubt there are many drinkers of Wine who are also eaters of Currants that which should be said Victual for the common-wealth is that which ariseth from Agriculture and of the earth within this land and not nice and delicate things imported by Merchants such as these Currants are and are rather delicacy or Medicine then a Victual and it is no reason that so many of our good and staple Commodities should be exported to Venice for such a slight delicacy and that all the impost shall be paid to the Venetians for them and the King should have none for their Commoditie and although that the price be thereby raised this
demurrer joyned George Crook for the King conceived that the lease made in the 26. Eliz. is good first he said that although the Queen cannot take an inheritance of freehold without matter of Record yet she may take Chattels upon a surmise made that they were granted unto her and therefore he vouched 21. H. 7. fo 19 that an Obligation may be granted to the King without inrolment of the grant and 40. Assise pl. 35. Brook tit suggestion pl. 5. it appears that the King shall have a Chattel by a demise by parol upon a suggestion made thereof in the Exchequer without a Record and in the 15. H. 7. fo 15. the Kings Baylie who is not of Record may be compelled to accompt upon a suggestion made Brooks suggestion pla 31. and in the 37. H. 6. fo 7. 18. if the King gives goods with his hands this is good although no record be made thereof because it is but a Chattel and by the same reason he inferred that he may also accept of Chattel without a Record but admitting that he cannot take without a Record it seemeth that here is a thing well enough Recorded to intitle the King after the return made by the Commissioners for the Commissioners are officers of Record to this purpose and they endorse the prayer of the partie to have it Recorded and this being after the return is a sufficient Record to intitle the King and he vouched the 2. H. 7. fo 10. where the servant of Iustice Catesby after the death of the Iudge made a return and this was good and the 8. H. 4. a Record certified by a Iudge after he was displaced and 43. Assises if a Coroner makes his Rols and dies before he certifie them they may be certified after his death and so here this acknowledgement and prayer being certified may at any time after be inrolled and although it seemeth by the Book in the 19. Eliz. Dyer fo 355. that a grant being made to the King and acknowledged before one of the Masters of the Chancery and inrolled in the time of another King maketh not the Grant good yet he said that it was adjudged for another grant made to the King by the Duke of Somerset and acknowledged before one of the Masters of Chancery and inrolled in the time of another King was good enough to perfect the grant and this was by a grant made by the Duke of Bozoms Inne in London and he said that it is not reasonable that the Law should adjudge otherwise for it may be that the Clark will not inroll it untill such a time viz. a moneth within which time the King may die should it now be reasonable that it should not be inrolled at all he said it was unreasonable and he said that it appeareth by the 37. H. 6. fo 10. that a deed delivered at the Kings Coffers is good enough to avoid his lease made in the 44. Eliz. for although that it be true that a grant of a reversion shall never operate to the destruction of a right of a third person yet it seemeth that an Act commenced may be confirmed well enough to the destruction of a mean interposed Act and it seemeth that the inrolment here is but a confirmation of a precedent lease and not a relation to make a thing which was not before and therefore to examine what thing an inrolment is and it seemed to him that it is no matter of Record as it appears 24. E. 3. and 29. H. 8. fo 15. and therefore it appears by Wymacks Case Cook L. 5. that a deed inrolled ought to be pleaded hic in Curia Prolat which proveth that the deed and not the inrolment thereof is the thing which passeth the estate and therefore he vouched the case in the 6. E. 6. Brook title faits if one joynt Tenant sells all his land in D. and after his companion dieth and then the deed is inrolled yet a moitie only shall pass and 41. Eliz. Cook Perimans Case lib. 5. if a man make a feofment of lands and inroll the Deed within the Mannor as by the custome it ought to be yet the inrolment shall pass nothing and therefore it is there said the inrolment may be good enough after the death of the parties so by the same reason aforesaid it is put in the same Case of Perimon and also in Butlers and Bakers Case Cook lib. 3. that if a man deliver a writing as an escrow to be his Deed upon certain conditions performed and after the Obligor and the Obligee die and then the Conditions are performed the Deed is good for there was traditio inchoata in the life of the parties and this being after consummated takes his effect by force of the first delivery and acknowledgement and therefore also he said that it was lately adjudged that if two men are mentioned to be bound by one Obligation and the one seals at one day and the other at another day this is as good as if it had been at one day and therefore he said that there is no doubt but if a lease be made to the King by a Bishop and after another lease is made also of the same land or if the Bishop die yet if after the first lease be inrolled this is good and therefore also he cited a case to be adjudged in Banco Regis 41. Eliz. between Collins and Harding that if a man be seised of freehold and Coppihold land and makes a lease of both for years with licence rendring rent and after he grants the reversion of the freehold and makes a surrender of the Coppihold to the use of the same person and an attornment is had for the freehold and the presentment of the surrender for the Coppihold is not made untill a year after yet he in reversion shall have an action of debt for all the rent for the presentment of the surrender is but a perfection of the surrender before made also he cited the case as I observed him to this effect in the 9th of Eliz. in the Abbot of Colchesters Case where he said that the Abbot of Colchester committed treason and after made a lease for years and then he surrendred to the King all his lands and after an office found the treason and it was holden the lease is good against the King who took by the surrender and not by the treason committed before but as Walter said the case was adjudged that the King should avoid the lease for now he is in by the treason paramount the surrender Phillips against Evans IN an Ejectione firmae brought up three acres in the forrest of Kevington in the Countie c. the Defendant pleaded not guiltie and the Venire facias was awarded de vicineto of the forrest and the Defendant moved in arrest of judgement because the Venire facias de vicineto of the forrest was not good for as Stephens for the Defendant said that a forrest and the name thereof is but
Earl of C. now dead and found that by fine and recovery he conveyed an estate in this land to the use of his brother that now is Earl of C. in tail the remainder over to c. and died having a daughter now Countess of Dorset who moved by Dodderidge the Kings Serjeant in the Court of wards that this office was insufficient for by the pretence of the said Countess the first estate given to the Cliffords by E. 2. was a general tail and then the fine levied and the recovery suffered by the last Earl her father is no Bar but that it may discend to this Countess as his heir in tail and therefore Serjeant Dodderidge said to the Lord Treasurer then present in Court that if this should be allowed that Iurors may finde generally a grant made and shew no quallitie of the conveyance nor any place or time but if this were a grant of reversion or of a possession he said that many men by such offices should have their lands given away whereunto they had no means for uncertainties to take a Traverse and as to insufficiency of this office he said that the insufficiency therein consisted first in matter Secondly in form for the insufficiency of the matter is two fold First because that the office findes only that King H. 6. by sufficient conveyance not limited any manner of conveyances nor any qualitie thereof which ought to be shewed and it is material because we may give a different answer thereunto for against letters Patents we may plead one thing and against an other conveyance we may plead another thing and so our answer differeth according to the qualitie of the conveyance Secondly it is insuffient in matter because it is found that H. 6. granted the possession and that he granted the reversion nec non manerium which is repugnant for if the King grant a reversion then no possession passeth and if he pass a possession then no reversion passeth and therefore it is repuguant to say that he granted Reversionem nec non manerium which implieth a possession also he said that his exceptions to the office as to the Mannor of it are two-fold First the office doth finde any time of the grant made by H. 6. and this is material for the grants upon Record take their force from the time of their date as appears by Ludfords Case in Plowdens Commentaries and he said that at this time the case is material to be exprest in respect that H. 6. was for part of his reign deposed and after restored and it might be in the time that he was deposed by Edward the fourth but unto that it was answered by the attorney of the wards that the office found that H. 6. granted c. that it was not in the time when he was deposed the second insufficiency in the Mannor is because it is not found at what place H. 6. made the said grant and that this is material to be found by office he vouched 36. H. 6.32 and he said that it is very requisite that in such offices all circumstances ought to be expressed in as ample certaintie as in a declaration so that the partie prejudiced by the office may know where to search for the conveyance but the Attorney general said that there needs no such express finding of all circumstances by a Iury as it ought to be in pleading for it shall be taken by intendment in divers cases but yet he said that it appears by 1. Eliz. Dyer 174. it is a good plea to say that A. granted a reversion c. to the King without shewing how much more in office which is the Act of the Iurors and therefore Serjeant Harris cited the Book of 14 15. H. 7.22 where an office found an estate tail without mention of the Donor and yet good and the Attorney general said also that it appears by the finding of the Iury in Fulwoods Case Cook lib. 4. that the Iury need not precisely to finde all circumstances for if there be convenient certaintie the residue shall be supplied by intendment as it is there said and the Attorney said that whereas it hath been objected that the issue is evil because it is found that H. 6. granted the reversion and also the Mannor and Castle aforesaid and doth not limit incertaintie that the King granted a reversion or that he granted a Mannor in possession to that he said that it is clear that the King may after recital of a particular estate grant the reversion nec non terras sive manerium and then be the land in lease or be the lease void in Law yet the land shall pass and this is his course alwayes in granting the Kings lands to others and therefore the Iury did well to finde the truth without determining what should pass for admit that there were no estate precedent in being yet by this finding it appears plainly that the Mannor and Castle should pass by the grant in the time of H. 6. to which the Lord Cook agreed for Law and so he said it was his use when he was Attorney general to which also the Lord Treasurer Flemming chief Justice and Tanfield chief Baron agreed and the Attorney general said that his use was if A. had a lease from the King of B. acre which by effluction is to determine in Anno. 1612. and the said A. doubting that this lease was not good in Law prayed to have a new lease that in this case he recited the first lease in the new letters Patents and thereby granted the land for twentie years from c. which shall be in Anno 1612. or from the sooner determination of the former lease and the Iudges allowed it to be good and Dodderidge Serjeant said that after the difference taken between the pleading and the finding of the Iury it seemed to him that there is a great difference between them but after the finding of the Iury upon an office as our case is and a pleading there is no difference for the office is a thing to which an answer may be made but a verdict given upon issue joyned between the parties hath no other proceeding but to judgement immediately and therefore such a verdict shall be divers times supplied by the construction of the Iudges but a verdict upon an office ought to be as certain as an indictment because the partie may Traverse and to prove that upon such uncertain offices there is no remedy by Traverse he vouched the case of 3. H. 4 5. upon an insufficient office after the outlawry of A. and no time is found of the outlawry and he observed out of the said book that the partie outed by the said insufficient office had no remedy by Traverse but was compelled to make a motion to the Court and after this case for difficultie was referred to the two chief Iustices and the chief Baron to consider upon who the said Term at Serjeants Inne appointed it to be
to commit a contempt by his refusing to return and so to save his lands by this conveyance in respect this countermand is a thing whereof he could not have divined to that I answer that the contempt subsequent is a sufficient proof of such precedent conjecture and that the conveyance was made fraudulently to prevent the prejudice which might accrew unto him by such contempt and this opinion will appear by the makers of the Statute of 13. Eliz. cap. 3. and 14. Eliz. cap. 6. made against fugitives and may well be collected upon the perusal of those Statutes and that the Iudges here ought to make such construction upon the subsequent Act he vouched the case of Doctor Ellis in Plowden and Saunders case in the matters of the Crown happening at Salop by which cases it appeareth that the Iudges proved the first intent by secondary Actions subsequent by way of discourse and therefore in Saunders case the partie having an express intent to poyson his wife delivered unto her a poysoned apple and the wife not knowing it to be poysoned gave it to her child who died thereof there the indictment against Saunders was that of malice forethought c. he intended to murder the child although this was not his first intention so in the other case there cited if a man intend only the death of A. and being fighting with him be a stranger interposeth himself to part the affray and he is slain this is wilful murder although here was no primer intent to kill B. but this is made an intention by legal collection and so in our case here is intentio Jegalis and not actualis and yet aswel unavoidable as any other also although it hath been objected that by the common Law none shall avoid a conveyance by reason of fraud except he who hath a former interest and the Statutes give no authoritie to any but to purchasors upon valuable consideration yet I say that the Statute of 13. Eliz. is to avoid all fraudulent conveyances against such as by any means may be hindred thereby yet the intention was not to defraud the partie who is thereby defrauded but some other and therefore although it was not to defraud the King in our case yet being fraudulent it is void against him by this Statute for he should be hindred thereby also the proviso in this Statute saveth such conveyances only which are upon good consideration and bona fide and that is such wherein simple and plain dealing are used but in this conveyance there was not any simple and plain dealing used for the Bargainees paid no money nor ought to take no profits of the land nor dispose of any estate therein and therefore fraud for Dolus est Machinatio cum aliud dissimulat aliud agit also the preamble of the Statute of the 27. Eliz. willeth that conveyances shall be void which are made to the use of him who maketh the conveyance or otherwise to defraud purchasors although that the body of the Act mentioneth such only which are to defraud purchasors and he vouched the Statute of the 28. Eliz. made against couveyances by resumption and he said that Twines case in Cook lib. 3. proveth our case effectually to be a void conveyance which cannot be answered but the Lord Treasurer said that there was fraud in both parties and he argued further and vouched Goodales case Cook lib. 5. to prove that a Deed shall not be deemed to be good except it be free from all fraud or clandestine agreement as it was there resolved that the payment for performance of a condition was not good as to strangers by reason of a precedent agreement and Burrels case Cook lib. 6. where it appeareth that no fraud shall be accounted bona fide as to strangers which is accompanied with trust c. also although here is not any fraud expresly found by the office yet he thought that the equity of the case appears plainly and that it shall be for the King and he vouched divers decrees in this Court to prove it as 43. Eliz. Howse was outlawed and took divers bonds of Carne in the names of others his friends viz. of Marlow and others in trust also took Statutes in their names in trust and it was decreed here that the King should have all vy reason of the fraud although it be not found by any office and in Hoards case it was decreed here that whereas the said Hoard betwixt the years of 25. and 32. had sent divers summes of money to Sheldon of Bealie and had taken divers obligations and other securities of him in others names before his conviction yet it was decreed to the King in this Court without any fraud found by office and in Sir Walter Raughlies case the same year decreed in this Court that whereas Sir Walter Raughlie being possessed of a tearm of 100. years of _____ he having a determination to purchase the reversion in fee of the same land conveyed his Tearm to his eldest son to the intent it should not be drowned and therefore about 40. Eliz. he purchased the fee and after in the year c. of our King that now is he committed Treason and was attainted and it was decreed here that the King should have the land discharged of this lease viz. in possession and although no fraud be found in the case but only it appeareth by circumstances of witnesses here examined that Sir Walter Raughley took the profits of the laud and held Courts in his own name until the attainder yet the said assignment was conceived to be in trust and therefore decreed to be void against the King as for fraud although he was convicted of Treason a long time after and so the Kings title subsequent to the said assignment and he vouched Walter de Chirtons case in 24. E. 3. Rot. 4. also as to Mr. Wardenfords case in 2. and 3. Eliz. Dyer 193. and the 9 and 10. of Eliz Dyer 267. but our case is different from them in two material circumstances which alter the law in the cases First we are in a Court of equitie by English Bill where the Iudges are only to adjudge upon the fraud and there they were in a Court of Law and the fraud was the matter of fact which ought to be expressy found by the Iury as appears by the books Secondly in that case the Iury found expressy that the conveyance was not by fraud to deceive the King of his wardship but only to deceive the Creditors c. but in-our case there is no such negative and therefore it differeth much see Dyer 267. and 268. as to the finding in the negative at another day in the same Term of Easter 7. Jac. the Barons decreed for the King and the Lord Treasurer agreed and he then demanded of Tanfield chief Baron if upon the return of Sir Robert Dudley he ought to have his lands again of right or if but upon special grace and the Lord chief
Woods case in Cook lib. 4. Tanfield chief Baron it is true that the issue should be better if it were general not guiltie of the Trespass aforesaid but yet it is good enough in this case for the special words comprehend as much as the words not guiltie of the practice and agreement aforesaid c. and the word Practizatione comprehends aswel the subsequent Acts of execution as the precedent combination and therefore Tantamounts a general issue and it was good by the Court and as to the action Altham Baron conceived that it lieth although it be for a lawful cause for the Law abhoreth fraud and conspiracy as if two conspire to vex me for my land by suit an action lieth F. N. B. yet it is lawful for every man to sue me without title and he vouched 16. Assise and here it is laid that the Defendants indeavoured to make the Plantiff forfeit his goods which are worth 5000. l. and this is reasonable that it should lie and 9. E. 2. Fitz. discents 52. is our case directly upon the matter and therefore it seemeth to me that it lies Tanfield chief Baron said that 9. E. 2. crosseth this case in part and yet he thought that the action lies to which Snig agreed and it seemed the cases of appeal put by Godfrey did lie well enough without aid of the Statute of W. 2. if there be such a conspiracy Tanfield chief Baron accordingly if it be legally thought without cause yet if without conspiracy the action lieth not for it as it appears in Owen Woods case Cook lib. 4. and in all cases where strangers have nothing to do with the suit brought for the conspiracy and yet combine with the Plantiff in the suit an action upon the case lieth for this vexation and judgement was entred for the Plantiff by the Court. An inquisition for the King was returned here and it was found that Fleet-wood the Kings debtor for his office of receiver for the Court of Wards did purchase a certain Term and interest of and in the rectory of Yeading for divers years then to come and that being so possessed he became indebted to the King and that this term is now in the hands of the Lady Edmonds and by colour of this inquisition the land is extended for the Kings debt Harris Serjeant moved that this inquisition is insufficient to extend the land but good to sell a term and he vouched Palmers case Cook lib. 4. to which the Court inclined but it was adjourned If a Bishop becomes indebted to the King for a subsidie and dieth his successors shall not be charged upon the lands of the Bishoprick but the executors of the predecessor or his heir and if they have nothing the King shall lose it as chief Baron Tanfield said which the Court granted upon the motion of Bridgman for the Bishop of Saint Davids Trallops case A Scire facias issued against Trallop the father and Trallop the son to shew cause wherefore they did not pay to the King 1000. l. for the mean profits of certain lands holden by them from his Majesty for which land judgement was given for him in this Court and the mean rates was found by inquisition which returned that the said mean profits came to 1000. l. upon which inquisition this scire facias issued whereupon the Sheriff returned Trallop the father dead and Trallop the son now appeared and pleaded that he took profits but as a servant to his father and by his commandment and rendred an accompt to his father for the said profits and also the judgement for the said land was given against his father and him for default of sufficient pleading and not for the truth of the fact and he shewed the Statute of the 33 H. 8. cap. 39. which as he pretended aided him for his equitie whereupon the King demurred Hitchcock for Trallop seemed that the Statute did aid him by equity and he moved two things the one that if here be such a debt that the Statutes intends to aid it the other if the Defendant hath shewed sufficient matter of equitie within the intent of the Act and he thought that it is such a debt as the Statute will aid for although that here be au uncertainty of the time of the judgement given for the King that being reduced to a certainty by the inquisition after it shall be within the intent of the Statute for id certum est quod certum reddi potest and the words of the Statute are if any judgement be given for any debt or duty c. and here although that there was no certainty unto how much these mean rates extended at the time of the judgement given yet it is clear that it was a duty at the time of the judgement and then it is within the Statute also he said that the words in the proviso of that Statute explain that the intent of the makers of the Act was so for the words are for any thing for which the partie is chargable and the mean rates are a thing for which he is chargable see Cook lib. 7. fo 20. and the Lord Andersons case there fo 22. as to the point of equitie there seem to be two causes First he shewed that he was but a servant to his father and had given an accompt to him Secondly the judgement was given against him upon a point of mispleading Tanfield chief Baron said that the matter in equitie ought to be sufficiently proved and here is nothing but the allegation of the partie and the demurrer of Mr. Attorney for the King and if this be in Law an admittance of the allegation and so a sufficient proof within the Statute it is to be advised upon and for that point the case is but this a scire facias issueth out of this Court to have Execution of a recognizance which within this Act ought by pretence and allegation of the Defendant to be discharged for matter in equitie and the Defendant pleads his matter of equitie and the King supposing this not to be equity within this Statute demurreth in Law whether that demurrer be a sufficient proofe of the allegation within the Statute or not and it was adjourned Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer Doillie and Joiliffs case again Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer CRessey for the Plantiff said that the Plea in Bar is not good because the Defendant justified by force of a Capias ad satisfaciendum and pleads no return thereof and moved that it is not justifiable without returning of the writ but the Court seemed the plea to be good notwithstanding that but if it were a mean process then it ought to be pleaded to be returned see Cook lib. 5. Hoes case fol. 19. according to this diversitie Tanfield chief Baron thought that the Plantiff shall recover for first the writ of error here is not a writ but a commission and therefore false lattin shall not abate it as it hath been
the Mannor of Caversfield rendring rent and that this rent was arrear and thereupon an Inquisition returned and a scire facias issued to Moil who occupied the land to shew cause wherefore the King should not have this land whereupon he pleaded as Ter-tenant and upon this plea the Kings Attorney demurred but it was misentred as see hereafter but for divers great imperfections aswell in the Kings Commission as otherwise the Defendant ought to have judgement as all the Barons agreed as by the arguments of every Baron upon mature deltheration appeareth but for the reasons of the Barons to the exceptions taken by the Councel see after for they are very good Bromley Puisue Baron whereas the Inquisition purporteth that the Iurors in the County of Bucks have found a foundation of a Priory in the County of Oxon. that is not good by course of Law for if a thing be local the Iurors of another County cannot finde it and here the Commission giveth power only to inquire of things in the County of Bucks and he vouched Plowden in the Earl of Leicesters case upon a Commission directed to White Lord and Maior c. also the Inquisition is that Thomas Banbury Nuper Prior was seised and made a conveyance as is affirmed that is not good also the word Nuper may be intended a 100. years before and so no certainty as appears in Wrothesly and Adams case in Plowden Altham 2d Baron there are three faults in the Commission First is to inquire of a Mannor and lands of the late Priory of Bister in Caversfield in the County of Bucks and by these words no power is given to inquire of any thing concerning the Priory which is in the County of Oxon. and the words in the County of Bucks do defer to all the sentence precedent and not to the word Caversfield only 19 E. 4. fo 16 7. H. 6. fo 8. if A. B. and C. be insula de D. it shall be construed that the word insula hath reference to all the three Towas but if it were in A. B. and C. insula and not in insula then it is otherwise a Commission to inquire of lands of the Prior of Bister is evil without question where Bister is and he said that this may be proved by Pages case Cook lib. 5. also the Commission doth not propose any end wherefore the Iury should be but generally to inquire of the lands of the Priory at the time of the dissolution so that it may be certified to the King by the Inquisition the first fault which is found is that the Priory was founded by the name of the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Egbert without saying the Prior and Covent of c. and without finding of the place of the foundation viz. Bister and this cannot be without assignmend of the place of the foundation viz. Bister also the finding is that one Thomas Banbury then Prior as is affirmed made a feofment c. and this is not good because it ought to be absolutely found or otherwise it is not material also the intent of the feofment is found to be made by the Prior but no livery is found thereupon as it ought although that livery shall be intended in the case of a feofment pleaded by a common person yet it ought to be found expresly in the case of a Corporation and the finding here and that by vertue whereof he was seised as the Law requireth doth not aide the case Snig Baron it seems to me that this Commission was only to inform if the matter had been sufficient to us to give judgement to the King but here being to intitle c. it is not good the Commission is to inquire for the King of the lands of the Prior and this meerly incertain without saying certainly of what Prior and therefore they have no power to inquire of the lands of the Priory also the Iury of the County of Bucks cannot inquire of the name of the foundation of a Corporation in the County of Oxon. for the foundation is matter Local but it seems to me here that the finding by vertue whereof he was seised prout c. shall be intended that livery was made being by a verdict Tanfield chief Baron here is not any demurrer being mis-entred and therefore we have power to proceed to any matter in Law for the purpose in this case was that whereas the Statute of the 27. H. 8. of lesser Monasteries under the yearly value of 200. l. giveth them to the King and this Mannor of Caversfield within this Statute is to be seised as is pretended in this case whereupon this Commission issued to inform the King of this Mannor as parcel of these Revenues for I deny that it is an office of intitling it is only an office of instruction for the Statute of 27. H. 8. dissolves the smaller Monasteries and vests them actually in the King and this is the difference from the Statute of the 31. H. 8. for this Statute is only an Act to Abolish the lands of dissolved Monasteries and therefore this Statute is only to inform for the Statute of 27. H. 8. had intitled the King and he said that the land shall be in the King without office so that it being but an office of instruction this may be good notwithstanding divers incertainties therein contained but the plain and apparant fault herein is because it is not to inquire what lands the Prior had at the time of the dissolution as it ought to be for the words are to inquire what lands the late Prior had but it seems to me in this case that the Iurors of the County of Bucks may inquire of the foundation in another County without doubt this being but to inform and not to intitle and this is not alike mischief to the party for otherwise all Commissions to inform would be quashed and I have seen a Record in this Court where a man of a good family was found to be the Kings Villain regardant to a Mannor in Norfolk and this was done by a Iury in Suffolk and therefore in such cases God defend but that a Iury may finde a matter local in another County also a gross defect is in the Inquisition viz. because it doth not mention that the Mannor of Caversfield came to the King by the Statute of the 27. H. 8. but that the Priory came to the King by that Statute and doth not say that this Mannor was part of the possessions of the Priory at the time of dissolution and for these last matters it is apparent that the Inquisition and Commission are vitious although it be not proper for us as the case is to adjudge it for here is no demurrer joyned for the demurrer is joyned as if it were upon an Information of intrusion and here is no intrusion laid to the charge of the Defendant and yet after the plea pleaded by Moil the Attorney prayed that he may be
purpose as to the avoiding of the Benefice but his want of privitie availeth to excuse him of being Simoniacus yet because he is Simoniace Promotus the presentation is void and the King shall have it by the expresse words of the Statute and therefore as it seems if in this Statute there had been an expresse saving of the interest of the Incumbent by reason of his innocency yet such a saving of Interest had been void and repugnant in respect that it was expresly given to the King before as it is in Nichols case in Plowden upon the Stat. of 1. H. 7. See 1. Mar. Dyer and 7. Eliz. Dyer 231. such a saving doubted if it be void and in Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods case a saving Repugnant to the expresse words of the Premisses is void and so in our Case the Presentation is given to the King expressely and therefore if there were a saving in the words subsequent this were void much more in our Case where there is no saving And to prove that by the Symonie in the Patron that the Patron shall be prejudiced he vouched 42. E. 3. fo 2. It goods be given to B. by A. this is by fraud in A. to the intent that he may defraud another although B. is not knowing of this friend yet the gift is void as to him 34. E. 1. Title Garranty accordingly and Burrells case Cook lib. 6. upon the Statute of 27 Eliz cap. 4. to the same purpose To the second matter it seems that by the Queens death her Presentation is determined cleerely and so in case of a common person for if an Admission c. should follow after the death of the Presentor this is without any Authority of the instrument of Presentation for although there were no Admission there is no Presentation and he said that the Presentation passeth no interest but is as a Commendation and therefore he compared it to the Case of Say and Fuller in Plowden Com. If a Lease be made for so many years as a stranger shall name there ought to be certainty of years appointed in the life of the parties or otherwise it will be void and in 38. E. 3.3 If a Bishop present and die before c. Now the King shall present anew and also there it appears that the King may present by Paroll well enough and so it is said in 34. E. 3.8 tit Quare impedit 11. That a Presentment made by the Bishop becometh null and void by his death and therefore it appeareth in Fitzh Office of Court 29. that licence to alien granted to the King is void by the Kings death there needeth no actual Repeal or recital of the new presentation yet I agree that the King may make an actual repeal if he will as it appears by divers cases which have been cited before but that is of necessity to be done and as it seems the words of the Statute 6. H. 8. prove that before this Statute a second Grant made the first void without actual repeal in case where the thing passed by the Grant and by 38. E. 3. fo 3.4 it appears that a second Presentation made by the King was good without a repeal of the first and by Gascoigne 7. H. 4.32 if the King make a Presentation to one and then presents another without recitall or repeal of the first yet the Bishop ought to receive the latter Presentee for it is good without actual repeal wherefore judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff Snig Baron said that as the Action is brought judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff but if the Plaintiff had brought a Quare impedit peradventure I should have been of another opinion And as to the point of Symonie by the Civill Law it was punishable by deprivation and the guilt of the Patron should prejudice the Parson as to matter of Commodity in the Parsonage and at the Common Law if the Parson will pleade such Presentment he should be prejudiced as appears by our Books and hereby the incumbency the words of the Statute will not be satisfied for then the Queen should not Present if an usurper present and the Presentee is in by six moneths this gives Title of Presentation to the King against the rightfull Patron also it seemeth That if I. S. hath an Advowson and A. purchase the next avoidance to the intent to present B. and the Church becomes void and A. presents B. this is Symonie by averment as by good pleading the Presentation of B. shall be adjudged void To the second Point in respect that the Plaintiff had the possession by induction it is no question but he may retaine a possessorie Action for the Titles But if it were in a Quare impedit it would be materiall whether a Repeal should be in the case or not according to the Presidents in the Booke of Entries fo 303 304 305. for if a Licence be Granted to purchase in Mortmaine this may well be executed after the death of the Queene as it appeareth by Fitzherberts natura brevium expresly and so in Dyer a license of Transportation doth not cease by the Kings death 7. H. 4. in the Countess of Kents case it appears when the King makes a grant which is void yet there shall be no new grant without an actual repeal but it seems we are out of the intent of the Statute of 6. H. 8. because the words during his pleasure are not in the grant or Patent and so upon the whole matter judgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Tanfield accordingly the case is that the Defendant had prioritie of the possession of the Corn for which the action is brought and yet it seems judgement ought to be given for the Plantiffe and first as this case is here is Simonie by the Civil Law and the partie had his benefice by Simonie although he be not conusant thereof Secondly admit that here was not Simonie by the intendment of the Civil Law yet the Statute hath made an avoidance of the benifice in this case although it be not Simonie for the Statute speaks not one word of Simonie throughout the Act and yet by express words it doth avoid such presentations as this is and as to the Civil Law such benefice is to be made void by sentence declaratorie but it is not void ipso facto as it seems in the case where a common person was consenting to the Simonie but the text of the Civil Law sayes expresly that the Church ought not to be filled Corruptivè or by corruption and the Civil Law expresseth such a person as is in our case by Simoniace promotus and calls him who is particeps criminis Simoniacus and he who is Simoniacus is by the Civil Law deprived not only of the benefice ipso facto but also is deprived to be a Minister and adjudged guiltie in Culpa et poena Petrus Benefieldus a late writer of good authoritie saith that if a friend
give money to a patron to make a promise to him c. and the incumbent payes it such an incumbent is Simoniacus by the Civil Law and so if the incumbent pay the mony not knowing it untill after the induction yet he is Simoniacus and by him if a friend gives money and the Parson is thereupon presented though the Parson if he knew not of the money given yet he shall be deprived of the benefice and this difference was certified by Anderson and Gawdey to the Councel table upon a reference made to them by the King touching the filling of benefices by corrupt means and the Statute of purpose forbears to use the word Simonie for avoiding of nice construction of that word in the Civil Law and therefore the makers of the Act sets down plainly the words of the Statute that if any shall be promoted for money c. so that by these words it is not material from whom the money comes and then in such cases for the avoiding of all such grand offences a liberal construction ought to be made as hath been used in such cases and therefore he remembred the large construction which was made upon the Statute of fines in the Lord Zouches case lib. Cook 3. and so upon the Statute of usurie it hath been adjudged that if money be lent to be re-paid with use above 10. l. in the hundred at such a day if three men or one man so long live in these cases all such bargains and contracts are void within the intent of the Statute as it hath been adjudged in the Common Pleas and so it is in Gooches case Cook lib. 5. upon the Statute of fraudulent conveyances and secret Ioyntures also upon the Statute of Simonie it was adjudged although some of the Common Pleas doubted of it in regard a father is bound to provide for his son and Rogers and Bakers case in this Court was an antient case and adjudged for the Plantiffe and as to the other point it is found by the verdict that the presentation made by the Queen to Covel is not revoked nor admitted which words implie that Covel is still living in case of a special verdict and therefore to argue to that point as if it were found that Covel was living yet he conceived that the presentation without institution and Induction is determined by the Queens death and therefore in 2. Ed. 3. a license of Alienation clearly is not good in the time of another King for the license saith which are holden of us c. and by the death of the King they are not holden of him Fitzherberts natura brevium contra 16 H. 8. the nature of a presentment is explained where an Infant would avoid his presentation and in the principal case the Bishop cannot make any admission upon this presentation of Covel after the Queens death for he cannot do that in any manner according to the presentation because that is determined by the Queens death and therefore it seems clearly there needs no repeal in such a case although it appears by some presidents that repeals have been used in such cases and as to the case 17. Eliz. Dyer 339. that proveth not that there ought to be any repeal for it appears there that judgement was given upon a reason altogether different from our case and that was because a presentation was obtained of the Queen a quare impedit depending by her of which suit she had no notice and for that cause her second presentation was void and that was the true reason of that judgement as it is also put in Greens case Cook lib. 6. and I was present Mich. 17. Eliz. when this case was adjudged and the sole reason which they gave for the judgement was because the presentation by intendment could not take away the Action attached by the Queen for then the Queens grant should enure to a double intent which the Law will never tollerate without express words purporting so much but in our case there is no such double intendment and therefore c. but if there had been an admission and institution pursuing the presentation of Covel although no induction yet peradventure in such case there ought to have been an appeal because in such case it is not only the Queens Act but of the ordinary also interposing which is a Iudicial Act also without question we are out of the Statute of 6. H. 8. for here is no grant made by the Queen and a presentation clearly is not within that Statute and for that other reason the presentation of Calvert is good without recital of the Queens presentation also clearly if there ought to be a repeal in the case yet it is not examinable in this Action of Trespass which is possessorie and for the profits only but it may be examinable in a quare impedit and as to Greens case Cook lib. 6. which hath been used as an authoritie in this case that differs much from our case for there the thing which made the Queens presentation void was contained within the very Charter of the presentation and therefore differed from our case wherefore he commanded judgement should be entred for the Plantiffe and so it was Halseys case touching Recusancy THe case in the Exchequer Chamber touching the payment of the Kings Majesties debt due for the Recusancy of John Halsey as Recusant convict deceased with the lands and goods bought in the name of John Grove and Richard Cox Defendant in this Court that John Halsey was indicted and convicted for Recusancy the 18. day of July Anno 23. Eliz. and so remained convicted without submission till his death who died the last day of March 3. Iac. and after his conviction viz. after the 40. year of the Raign of the late Queen Elizabeth did purchase with his own money divers leases for years yet to come of lands in the Countie of Worcester and Warwick in the name of Richard Cocks for himself in trust and likewise did with his own money purchase certain leases for years yet to come of lands in the County of Hereford in the name of the said John Grove all which purchases were in trust for the Recusant and to his use Margaret Field is his next heir who is no Recusant Iohn Halsey hath not paid 20. l. a moneth since his conviction nor any part thereof these lands and leases were seised into the Kings hands for the satisfaction of the forfeitures due for the Recusancy of the said Halsey 14. August 5. Iac. Thomas Coventrie argued for the Defendant the question is whether these lands which were never in the Recusant but bought in the name of the Defendants in manner aforesaid be liable to the payment of his Majesties debts by the said Recusant as above said or not there are three points considerable in the case First if lands purchased by the Recusant in the name of others in trust are liable to his debt Secondly if the land of a
false the Patent is void although it hath these words Ex certa scientia et mero motu and so is 18. Eliz. Dyer 352. where the Patent was ex certa scientia et mero motu c. but there Dyer held that this falsitie in the matter of Recital did avoid the Patent notwithstanding the words ex mero motu c. but he held it otherwise if it were in a consideration which is faise for at that time the point of falsitie in matter of consideration for 100 l. to be paid although it be much contraverted in our Books and it seems in what place soever of the patent it appears that the King is mis-informed deceived in any matter material or concerning his own estate in the thing to be granted that that will dictate the Patent and therefore 17. Eliz. the Queen seised of the Mannor of D. grants all her purpartie of the Mannor of D. if in this case a Common person had granted by such words the Mannor had passed but in the Queens case it will be a void grant because a thing which she intended to pass cannot pass in such plight as she conceived it viz. as a purpartie and 36. Eliz. the Queen granted all her portion of Tithes c. although she had a Parsonage there yet it doth not pâ—â—s for this manner of Appellation implies that the Queen was mis-informed and not well instructed of the thing to be granted and therefore void see Cook lib. 4. in Bozuns case Ex certa scientia et mero motu c. doth not help it also if the King recite that whereas he had such land by the attainder of I. S. where in truth he had it not by his attainder now although that he grants this land Ex certa scientia et mero motu yet this will not pass but if the King be not deceived in the point of intitling himself but in the deducing of his title that will not prejudice the Patent as if the King recite that whereas I. S. had land by descent from his father and he grants it to the King and the King doth re-grant the same to I. S. this grant is good notwithstanding that I. S. had it not by descent from his father see the Lord Lovels case in Plowden that if the King be deceived only in the point of mis-conveyance the Law will not avoid the Patent as if be grant to one and his heirs born at D. the last words are void and the grant is good Pasch 42. Eliz. it was agreed that if the King be Tenant for life or years and makes a lease for one and twenty years this lease is void to all intents against the King because it appears not in the grant what estate the King had and by that lease the King conceived that he had power by his estate to make an absolute lease whereas legally his lease ought to determine by his death so by implication it is manifest that the King was not well instructed of his estate 39. Eliz. the Queen leased for twenty one years to begin whensoever the land should fall in possession by the expiration of any former lease then in being if in that case there were no precedent lease then in being this lease will be void for these words implie that the Queen conceived her former lease to be in being and so impliedly she is deceived in her intent in like manner in the principal case the Queen was deceived in her intention for the recital is that all the estate which Potter had is come to the Queen by surrender and in truth all the estate is not come unto her in respect of a mean estate to Wilkinson c. as to the second point it seems the consideration being that he did assume to new build implies asmuch as if he had said he faithfully promised and then it is all one as if it had been for that that he shall build for it is a consideration executory and is of value and then the not performance thereof vitiates the Patent and the estate was as if it had been by a limitation to cease and these words that he did assume upon himself cannot be construed to any other intent but unto an executory consideration because the King hath no remedy by way of Action for the breach of this promise and it cannot be conceived that the Covenant is satisfied in giving securitie for it is observable that the Covenant is but the ordinary Covenant viz. to repair and keep repaired and so a Trivial reparation will satisfie that but it appears that the Queens intent was not to make the lease for such a petty consideration because the Lessee had undertaken at his own charges to new build the Mills but the express Covenant doth not binde him to the new building of them and in 6. Eliz. the like lease was made of the Mannor of Lidlescourt to Customer Smith and the lease was for that that he assumed that he at his costs would c. and he avoided his lease upon a former lease made to A. of the premises and in truth the lease formerly made to A. was meerly void upon the making of this lease though perad venture the condition may be good and the consideration performed but the Queen was not well instructed of her title also in this case the lease to Hitchmore is not determined by a condition as it hath been objected but it ceaseth and is determined by a limitation and this may well enough revest in the Queen without entrie or office because it was but a Term and such words purporting an executory consideration in the Queens case implies as much as if in case of a Common person it had been said expresly to cease upon an act not performed for in the Kings case the Law speaketh and if so then the lease for years is void and the Patentee may enter without office and all considerations executory in leases made by the King amount to a conditional limitation and then he who will have benefit by such a lease ought to aver the performance of the consideration as if a man declare upon a lease made unto him c. if I. S. should so long live he ought to aver his life in the Declaration because it determines by limitation at his death but otherwise it is upon a condition if a Parson make a lease for years the Lessee must aver the life of the Parson because by his death the lease ends by a limitation implied but otherwise it should if it were upon condition for the performance of that needs not be averred but that ought to be shewed on the other part and so it seemeth that as wel for the point of falsitie in the recital as also in the not performing of the consideration that the lease is void and the Plantiffe should have judgement which was entred accordingly Snig Baron was of opmion against all the other Barons and he held that
hurteth not the Merchant nor no other but only a smal number of delicate persons and those also who are of most able and best estate for their pleasure but when the King is in want he is to be relieved by a general imposition or subsidie upon all the subjects the imposition which is here said to be so great and intollerable is an evil president for if he may do so much he may do it in infinitum and upon all other Merchandise for the Imposition I say that it is reasonable for it is no more then foure times so much then was before and that there hath been asmuch done in antient time in other Imposts as in that of Wooll which was at first but an Noble a fack and is now at 50. s. the Impost of Wine was in antient time 3. s. 4. d. a Tun and now is foure Marks the lessening of custome and Impost is much to be guided by intelligence from forrain Nations for the usage and behaviour of a forrain Prince may impose a necessitie of raising custome of these Commodities and so it was in the particular of Currants the Duke of Venice Imposed upon them a ducket by the hundred which by the wisdom of the state was foreseen to be a means that in time will waste and consume the Treasure of the land whereupon the Queen writ to the Duke that he would abate his custome which he refused wherefore to prevent that so great a quantitie of this Commoditie should not be imported into the land the Queen granted to the company of Merchants of the Levant that none should bring in Currants but by their Licence and those Merchants Imposed upon them who did Import which were not of their company if he were denizen 5. s. if he were a stranger 10. s. and this was paid by the Merchants without contradiction but there was a clause in the Patent that when the Duke of Venice abated his Impost that the Patent should be void and after the Duke was Solicited again that he would abate the Impost but he refused and the first Commission was recalled and after a new grant was made which was executed all the Queens life time which was as aforesaid and whereas it is said that if the King may Impose he may Impose any quantitie what he pleases true it is that this is to be referred to the wisdom of the King who guideth all under God by his wisdom and this is not to be disputed by a subject and many things are left to his wisdome for the ordering of his power rather then his power shall be restrained the King may pardon any fellon but it may be objected that if he pardon one fellon he may pardon all to the damage of the Common-wealth and yet none will doubt but that is left to his wisdom and as the King may grant a Protection for one year so it may be said that he may grant it for many years which is a mischief and so ought to grant none which will not be denied but that he may so it may be said that the Queen may grant a safe conducted a stranger for if she may do that then she may grant to all which would be but then same to the inhabitants and yet it will not be denied but that she may grant to any or all as in her wisdome shall seem convenient and the wisdom and providence of the King is not to be disputed by the subject for by intendment they â—â—mot be severed from her person and to argue a posse ad actum to restrain the King and his power because that by his power he may do ill is no argument for a subject to prove the power of the King by presidents of antiquitie in a case of this nature may easily be done and if it were lawful in antient time it is lawful now for the authoritie of the King is not diminished and the Crown hath the same Attributes that then it had and in antient time such Imposts were never deuied and that which is given by Parliament is not an Impost but a subsidie in antient time small Traffick or intercourse was betwixt the inhabitants of this land and forrain Nations so that the principal custom was of the Commodities of this land which were Wolfels and Leather and that the custom for Wools was an Noble for a Sack was an imposition as it appears by the Statute of the 14. of Ed. 3. cap. 21. it is objected that Merchants cannot be restrained but only persons suspected as the writ of ne exeat Regnum is but as it is said in Dyer before cited it is without doubt that the cause is not Trasable and that the King may inhibit any man for if it be not Traversable it is not material and the reason wherefore any man may be restrained is for defence of the Realm and it may be done by privie Seal privie signet great Seal or Proclamation and that appears by the writ of licentia Transportandi in the Register which containeth licence for one to Travail and limits him to what place he shall go and when he shall return and with what goods that the King may prohibit body and goods and when a man is beyond the Seas the King may command him to return and if be doth not obey such command he shall forfeit his good now 〈◊〉 restraint of commodities many presidents are to prove it in the time of H. 3. and E. 1. it was forbidden that no Wooll should be Transported into Flanders and in E. 1. a Comuâ—â—ssion was awarded to inquire who had done against this ordinance and the goods of one Freeston were seised therefore an Attachment awarded against the Ships of Hull for Transporting contrary to the ordinance in the 22. E. 1. there it was forbidden that no Merchant should Trade with France for Trade with forrainers is a forrain thing which is only referred to the King in the 17. H. 6. all Merchants were forbidden to import wares from Flanders into this land and the Cittizens of London complained of certain Merchants which had done contrary to this ordinance to the Lords of the privie Councel which I have here ready for the Record mentions it and the Kings Attorney was commanded to exhibit an information against the Merchants which he did and they pleaded that the Proclamation was made here upon Easter Eve and that they were then at Bruges and upon the Wednesday after Bruges Market they bought the wares before notice of the Proclamation and before it were possible that they could have notice of it and pray judgement c. and so much for restraint of the person and goods by the Statute of 31. E. 3. Cap. 8. times were appointed in which Wools should be Transported and also Cap. 9. Authoritie was given to the Chancellor and Treasurer to defer the passage at their pleasure but that this was the Common Law and that the King by his supream Authoritie might do it