remainder to the right heirs in Tayle notwithstanding the King after of his meer grace granteth life to the said Sir Iohn Cobham so that he should remain in prison in the Isle of Iersey during his life and so as no further means of pardon were made for him The accusation of Henry Duke of Hereford made against the Duke of Norfolk and the Order therein taken as may appear in the 21. before tit 53. 54. The nineteenth day of March after the accusation aforesaid both the Dukes appeared before the King at Bristow where by assent of Parliament it was agreed that the determination of the same should be ended according to the Law of Chivalrie if sufficient proofs were not found On the 28th day of Aprill both the said Dukes appeared before the King at Windsor to whom day was given over to appear there on Munday the 29. of Aprill On which Munday both the said Dukes appeared and the Battail was joyned betwixt them by the advice of a great number of Dukes Earls Bishops Barons and Knights there assembled as those who had authority by Parliament for that no sufficient proofs could in the mean time be found Notwithstanding the King weighing the weightiness of the cause and how nigh the said Dukes were to him in blood for tender love took the Battail into his own hands and gave Judgement by authority of Parliament that the said Duke of Hereford should by a certain day then appointed depart and avoyd out of the Realm for ten years and that he should in no wise during the same terme come in the Company of the said Duke of Norfolk or of Thomas Swandell neither send nor receive any Letters or Message from them on pain of treason and that not for want of proof of his said accusation for that he was ready therein to do his devoir To the said Duke of Norfolk it was said that for as much as he had spoken certain words tending to great trouble and therein reecitd he was therefore banished the Realm during his life to avoyde by a day there limited and to remain in Almayne Boheme or Hungarie and in no other parts of Christendome and to pass over the Sea in Pilgrimage and further as above on pain of Treason and that for no default that the said Duke had made in his defence considering that therein he was ready to make his devoir And where the King had given to the said Duke of Norfolk sundry Mannours Lands and Tenements for joyning in the Appeal with the Lords Appelants aforesaid wherein for that the said Duke failed to proceed without any good ground the King adjudged by Act of Parliament that the said Duke should forfeit all the said Lands and all his Offices during his life together with all Warranties whereby any the Kings Ancestors were bound to any the Ancestors of the said Duke And also for certain payments behind and due to the King by the said Duke during such times as he was Deputy of Callice The King by authority of Parliament adjudged to seize into his hands all the Hereditaments of the said Duke over and above M l. yearly to be allowed to the said Duke untill the King were satisfied To the judgement of the said Duke of Norfolk is annexed a Certificate from the town of Lenestooke in Suffolk of the day of the passage of the said Duke towards Draight in Holland having in his Company to the number of thirty persons It was further ordained that neither of the said Dukes by any means should sue or procure any suit for them to be made of any release of their Judgements on pain of treason And note that in all the Judgements aforesaid the name and assent of the Procurator of the Clergie is alledged The eighteenth day of March in the two and twentieth year of the King the King by assent of the Lords as having full authority therein doth adjudge Sir Robert Pleasington Knight then dead a Traytor as procuring with the Duke of Gloucester the levying of War at Harringey for which he should lose all such his Lands in Fee or Fee tayl and goods which he had the thirteenth of November in Anno 11. Henry Bowet Claâ—ke for being of Counsell of the device made to the Duke of Hereford expressed before in tit 87. Was adjudged to dye and forfeit as a Traytor notwithstanding he was after pardoned of life and banished the Realm And note that there is one Roll of this year Intituled Copia Iudiciorum Anno Vicessimo tertio Richardi Secundi Rex c. dilecto Consanguineo suo Henrico Duci Lancastriae salutem apud Westm. in Cro. Sancti Michaelis prox futur Teste Rege apud Cestrium xxix die Augusti EDro. Duci Eborum Edro Duci Albemarliae Tho. Duci Surr. Iohi. Duci Oxoniae Iohi. Marchioni Dorset Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edro Courtney Com. Devon Ioh. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Edo Com. Stafford Michael de la Poole Com. Suffs Tho. de Percie de Wigor Tho. de le Dispencer Com. Gloucest Rado Nevill Com. Westmerland Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Willo de Clinton Mro Tho. de la Ware Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willelm Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-Hugh Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. de Morley Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Tho. Berkley de Weekley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Rob. de Harrington Iohi. Darcey Waltero Fitz-Walter Will. de Willoughby Iohi. de Cobham Chlr. Will. de Dacre Tho. Nevill de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Will. Beauchamp de Burgaveny Ioh. Lovell de Fishmerch Rico. Gray de Codonore Reg. Gray de Ruthin Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Roberto Scales Petro de malo lacu Tho. Erpingham Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Primo Henrici Quarti Rex c. Henr. Duci Lancastriae c. apud Westm. in Festo Sct. Fidis Virginis c. Sexto die Octobris 13. 99. Teste Rege apud Westm. 30. Septembris EDro. Duci Eborum Edro Duci Albemarliae Tho. Duci Surr. Iohi. Duci Oxoniae Iohi. Marchioni Dorset Tho. de Bellocampo Com. War Alberto de Vere Com Oxoniae Edro Courtney Com. Devon Ioh. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Edro Com. Stafford Michael de la Poole Com. Suffs Tho. de Percie Com. Wigor Tho. de le Dispencer Com. Gloucest Rado Nevill Com. Westmerland Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Iohi. de Cherleton de Powis Willo de Clinton Mro de la Ware Stephano le Scroope de Masham Willelm de Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitzâ— Hugh Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Tho. de Morley
next Parliament that all Merchants which shall bring in any cloth of Gold Riverchief Pearls Jewels or Furrs and all Merchants which shall transport Staple wares shall finde Surety to the Tower to the value of twelve pence in Bullion for every twenty shillings of such their Merchandise so brought in or transported That no Knight or Lady under forty pound land by the year do wear any precious Furrs cloth of Gold ribond of Gold or silk on pain to loose all that they have The King will be advised until the next Parliament It is enacted unto the next Parliament that every Goldsmith shall set his mark unto his Vessel which if it be not according to the sterling he shall forfeit it double be imprisoned and sined Certain Petitions of the Major and Aldermen of Callis touching their Liberties with the answers thereunto It is enacted that the Chancellor and Schollers of the University of Cambridge shall for five years in default of the Major and Bailiffs of the same Town of Cambridge have the punishment of all manner of Victuals Measures and Weights within the said Town and also power to punish the Major and Bayliffs and their Officers if there shall be any Victuallers for any such default And it is to be noted that of the printed Statute cap. 3. touching fained gifts and Feoffments to defeat mens Creditors there is no mention made in this Record Anno Secundo Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Gloucester the Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist in the Second year of King Richard the Second THe same Wednesday being the 20. day October and the first day of the Parliament certain of the Nobles met in a Chamber appointed in the Abby of S. Peters of Gloucester where for that divers of the Lords were not come nor the Sheriffs then returned their Writs the Parliament was adjourned until the next day by the Kings commandment The same Thursday after the King with his three Uncles of Spain Cambridge and Buckingham the two Archbishops and divers other Nobles assembled in the Great Hall of the Abby of Gloucester and there appointed where the L. B. of Davids by the commandment of the King declared the cause of the Parliament as followeth viz. First for the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations of the Peace Secondly for that it was enacted that a Parliament should yearly be holden Thirdly for that the King desired to see and to consult with them so honorable an Assembly there gathered in Gods name which he commendeth willing unity and concord among them to be according to the resemblance of the Church Another great cause was for that the King being left in the midst of great Wars could not endure and maintain the same without their Aid He sheweth further that since the great villany and damage done by the Scots at Roxburgh at Truce thereupon taken for a time they the same Scots have allied themselves with the French to the end to depart from the same Truce and by all means to annoy the King and his friends All which to recite and the charges thereof to bear he willeth them deeply to consider One great mischief in the Commonweal he remembreth them viz. That the Law of the Land and the Law of Arms do not concur together by certain similitudes he wisheth them of those two Laws to make a Relative so as they may stand with the other Another mischief he noteth to wit Slanderers and sowers of discord between Nobles Gentlemen and Neighbours the which kind of men he resembleth to Dogs that eat raw flesh so applying them to eat and consume living men For all which enormities he wisheth them to seek redress and to be there the next day by eight of the clock to hear further Declarations and the Commons to keep the Chapter house within the great Cloister of the Abby aforesaid Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Friday after the two and twentieth of October the Lords and Commons assembled in the said great Hall where Sir Richard le Scroop Steward of the Kings Houshold declaring his own unworthiness there to speak shewed them how they were invironed with enemies and the King importably charged for keeping possession beyond the Seas namely that Callis cost him yearly twenty thousand pounds Brest twelve thousand marks besides Ireland Cherburgh Burdeaux and Bayn he sheweth that the old grant of the last Parliament was onely dispended in the Wars as the Officers could declare he wisleth them to consult for the rescue and the mean how to levie the charges After that the Commons came before the King where Sir Iames Pickering knight Speaker of the Parliament for the Commons maketh his Protestation as well for himself as for the whole House And first for the Commons That if he should speak any thing which happily might be ill taken it might be as as nothing so as the Commons at any time might amend the same And so much for himself He therefore rehearseth the whole charge of the Parliament pronoun the Chancellor and to the first points touching the liberties of the Church maintenance of the Laws and observations for the Peace the Commons making low curtesies rendred therefore most humble thanks and pray God for the execution of the same To the aid required for the King he sheweth how in the last Parliament upon the like motion to the Commons repeating the great charges of the King by the Treasurer they then made answer that they saw no such cause of aid whereunto for the King it was then replyed that the Kings Coronation was chargeable and that if the Commons would grant such reasonable aid whereby the King might thereby provide an army that they nothing doubted but that the King of himself might continue the same without charging them of long time upon which promise and hope the Commons did then grant the same large aid and being now unable to do the same require pardon thereof thinking that a great part of the same grant remained yet in the Kings Treasury The said Sir Richard le Scroop not knowing any such promise of discharge made in the last Parliament charging them with unâ—ruth for surmising any rest of the last grant to be And thereto calleth for witness William Walworth and Iohn Philpot Citizens of London and Treasurers appointed and sworn Thereupon the Commons make request to know how and in what manner the same sums were defraied whether some were not therefore indebted and who should be Councellors and great Officers
upon a Writ of Error brought by the said Prior should be revoked as erronious and that the former Judgment given in the Common Place for the said Dean and Chapter should be good A Commandment was given to the Chancellour to execute the former judgement in the Common place Of this year is no mention made in the print Anno Vicessimo Richardi Secundi Rex c. Charissimo vunculo suo Johi Duci Aquitaniae Lancastriae c. apud West in Festo S. Vincentii Teste Rege apud Westm. Tricessimo die Decembris EDo Duci Eborum Tho. Duci Gloucestriae Henr. Com. Derbiae Edro Com. Rutland Tho. Com. Cantii Rico. Com Arundell Tho. de Bello campo Com. War Aldredo de Vere Com Oxoniae Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Will. de Monteacuto Com. Sarum Hen. Percie Com. Northumb. Iohanni de Holland Com. Huntingt Tho. de Mowbray Com. Maress Nottingh Tho. le Dispencer Tho. Camois Ioh. Bourchier Ioh. Cherlton de Powis Ioh. de Clinton Ioh. de Ware Stephano Scroope de Musham Willelm Roos de Hamelake Hen. Fitz-hugh Ric. le Scroope Hugoni Burnell Will. la Zouch de Harringworth Tho de Berkley Iohi. de Welles Phillippo le Dispencer Almarico de St. Amando Rado de Cromwell Rado de Lumley Rado Baroni de Graystock Rob. de Harrington Will. de Willoughby Ioh. Cobham de Kent Will. de Dacre Ioh. le Strange de Knokin Tho. de Lovell de Halmshyre Rico. Seymore Will. Beauchamp de Burgaveny Iohi. de Monteacuto Iohi. de Fishmerch Rico. Gray de Codonore Reg. Gray de Ruthin Rado Gray de Raby Tho. Bardolf de Wermegey Tho. de Morley Will. de Ferrariis de Groby Will. Heron. Phillippo Dacre Roberto Scales Edro Com. Rutland Custodi Quinque Portuum The Parliament holden at WESTMINSTER the Monday in the Feast of St. VINCENT in the twentieth year of King RICHARD the 2. ON Munday the feast of St. Vincent the King being in the Parliament the Bishop of Exeter being Chancellour by his commandement declared the cause wherefore the Parliament was called and alledged by many authorities of the Scriptures that foure points belonged to every Prince to consult in his Parliament First that the Church should enjoy her liberties in peace Secondly that all the Subjects should be governed without oppression Thirdly that the good laws should be maintained the evill amended and iustice executed Fourthly that the Realm should be defended against the forrein enemies all which the King was ready to do by good advice He then declared the danger by the Scotts and Irish men the hazard of Guienne and the Marches of Callice and willeth them to consult of the same to the least charge of the Realm Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Guienne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Guienne c. as above On Tuseday following the Commons chose Sir Iohn Bussey to be their Speaker whereto the King agreed The said Sir Iohn had his common Protestation there allowed At the same time the Duke of Lancaster required the King to do Justice upon Sir Thomas Talbot the Chancellor then declared that the next day the cause of the Parliament should be more especially declared The Wednesday ensuing the Chancellor and others of the King Officers declared to the Commons the speciall intent of the King other mention there is not made The same time the Commons require the King to send for such Bishops and Lords as were absent the Chancellor answered that the same were too long and tedious On Thursday ensuing the Commons before the King and Lords made their excuse that where it was said that the Commons upon excitation meant to move the King for staying to send the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Earl's of Rutland and Marshall in message to his Father the King of France into the parts of Lumbardie according to his promise that they never were moved nor meant the same of the event of the same Voyage whatsoever it should be or of any the like They onely require the King to hold them excused and refer the same to his own pleasure Whereunto the King by his own mouth declared certain causes of the same journy First for appeasing of the Warrs and the intollerable losses thereby ensuing The second for that the said King was his Affinee and Cosin and his Ally and further he thought to aid him The third for that in conscience he was bound to help to vanquish the common Tryant The King declareth further that he would be at liberty at all the like times to ayd any his Allies To the request of the Duke of Lancaster for justice to be done on Sir Thomas Talbot the King meant to do justice upon whatsoever he were yea though of his own blood The Chancellor declareth to the Commons that he and others of the Kings Officers would come the next Parliament and debate with them of weighty affairs On Friday in Candlemas week the Chancellor being willed by the King to declare the Conference with the Commons answered that they required four points First for the continuance of Sheriffs The Second for the defence of the North marches The Third touching Liveries and Badges and the Fourth for the avoyding the outragious expences of the Kings House and namely of Bishops and Ladies The King by his own mouth answereth to every Article and touching the fourth seemed much offended saying that he would be free therein and that the Commons thereby committed offence against him his Dignity and Liberty the which he willed the Lords to declare the next day to the Commons And further willed the Duke of Lancaster to charge Sir Iohn Bussey Speaker to the Parliament to declare the name of him who exhibited the same Bill After this declaration made by the Lords to the Commons the Saturday ensuing they delivered the name of the Exhibiter which was Sir Thomas Haxey the which Bill was delivered by the Cleark of the Parliament to the Cleark of the Crown After which the Commons forthwith came before the King shewing themselves heavy of cheare and declaring that they meant no harm they submitted themselves to the King and most humbly craved pardon The Chancellor by the Kings Commandment declared that the King held them excused and the King by mouth declared that they were sunderly bound to him and namely in forbearing to charge them with Desmes or Fifteens the which he meant no more to charge them in his own person The Lords and Commons grant to the King for
truely ministred and that nothing should be done in derogation of the Common Law 3 He then rehearsed at what great charges the King had been at namely about his Coronation for the suppression of the late rebellion attempted by certain Nobles his voyage towards the Scots and touching the resisting of the rebellion in the North Wales all which adventures he attempted in his own proper person He further sheweth how the King was bound to return the Queen into France with all such Jewels and habilities as King Richard had with here in marriage He remembreth the charges for keeping of Callice and other the Kings Fortresses and especially the Dutchie of Guienne being annexed to the Crown for the which war was likely to ensue in that the French King had created his eldest Son Duke of Guienne and for the wars in Scotland and Ireland for which great charges the Lords and Commons were to consult considering the great importance and so willed the Commons to choose and the next day to presentt heir Speaker Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland 5 Receivers of Petitions for Gascoin and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles 6 Triars of Petitions for England c. as above 7 Tryars of Petitions for Gascoin c. as above 8 The Saturday the 22. of Ianuary the Commons presented unto the King Sir Arnold Savage for their Speaker who made the Common Protestation for himself and the Commons the which was granted and enrolled 9 After which the same Sir Arnold in few words of his authority declared before the King and Lords the cause pronounced by Sir William Thurming the Lords and Commons granted to the King one Desme and a Fifteen two shillings of every Tun of Wine and 8 d. of every pound of Merchandize 10 On Tuesday the 25 th of Ianuary the Commons in full Parliament gave to the King most heartie thanks touching his promise for the maintenance of the Catholique Faith 11 They the same day require the King that he would not give an eare to any flearing and untrue reports of the Commons house untill the end might try the same whereunto the King granted 12 The same day the Commons declare to the King how that to every good government three things belonged viz. Wisdome Prowis Manhood and Riches all which they affirme to be in the King and his Nobles as the World knew and that they approved for that the hearts and good wills of the Subjects which the King had was the riches of the King wherefore with certain reasons they perswaded the King not to agree to the Challenges which the French had made to the King and his Nobles which the King promiseth not to attempt without their advices and giveth them thanks for their tender good wills towards them 13 On Monday the last of Ianuary the Commons by mouth require certain Petitions of the King the which the King willeth to put in writing and promiseth answer 14 On Wednesday being the 9 th of February the Bishop of Norwich came to the Parliament whom the King caused to be placed in his accustomed place after which the King spake to Sir Thomas de Erpingham his Vice-Chamberlain then being between the Duke of York and the Earl of Warr. who sat then there in their places and said that he took the accusations of the said Thomas against the said Bishop to be good and to proceed of great zeal born unto him the King notwithstandig considering the order of the said Bishop and that he was of the Kings lineage and further of his better behaviour the King had pardoned the said Bishop all his misprisions done against his person the Bishops all therefore gave thanks to the King in open Parliament to make the said Bishop and the said Sir Thomas to shake hands and to kiss each other in token of amitie 15 The Commons the 21. of February pray the King to execute the ordinance of King Richard the Second upon the Conquest of Wales viz. That no Welchman born should bear any Office there c. The King promiseth to send for them and to cause execution 16 The same day the Commons require the King that he would according to the use and laws of the Realm seize into his hands the Houses and Lands of all Priors Aliens and Donatives during the Wars 17. The King requireth advice and promised therein to do as the Bishops and Lords should will him to do 18. The same day upon the like motion the King revoketh all Annuities granted out of the Custome of Wools. 19. On Saturday the 26. of February the Commons before the King made sundry requests and among them brought in their assent touching the Bill for the order of Cisteaux which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury brought to them before saying that the King and the Lords had agreed thereto according as it doth hereafter appear 20. At the same time they require the King to commit the charge of the Wool weighing King Richards Inventory of his Goods which the Treasurers had to them delivered to some such persons as might make due enquirie thereof to the discharge of the Commons 21. They also require that all the matters of the same Parliament might be ingrossed before the departure of the Justices It was answered that the Clarke of the Parliament was appointed to do his best indeavour therein 22. They also require two certain Commissions late sent to Cities and Towns for the making of certain Boats and Ballengers being done without assent of Parliament may be repealed It is considered that after Conference with the Lords thereon reasonable answer should be made 23. At the same time the Commons declare that it was not the use that they should grant any Subsidie before they had answer to there Petitions and pray the observation thereof from thenceforth The King therein requireth Conference with the Lords And at the last day of the Parliament it was answered that there was never any such use seen but that the Commons should first make an end of all other things the which order the King meant not to alter 24. The same day the Commons require of the King that Sir William Bagot who was impeached of grievous facts and thereof acquitted might be restored to all his Lands The King answered that as he allowed the pardon of the same Sir William so would he otherwise shew him Justice 25. The print touching express mention in Letters Patents Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record 26. The Commons on Wednesday the second of March do agree to the power
as in the last Parliament In consideration of the Subsidies aforesaid the King promiseth that for two years then ensuing he will require no other Subsidies or other charge of his Subjects and for more assurance thereof willeth the same to be enacted so as every man that would might have a copie thereof The King willeth that all men be payed their Annuities according to their deserts notwithstanding the Statute made in the last Parliament Tit. 140. Petitions of the Commons with their Answers The Print touching the Church cap. 1. agreeth with the Record At the Petitions of the Citizens of London the King granteth that they shall enjoy all their Liberties notwithstanding the Act made in the last Parliament Tit. 127. by which it is to be noted that the Act made as aâ—oresaid is revoked That the Kings Letters Patents made to the University of Oxford that they should not for any Felony answer before any other Judge then before their Steward c. may be revoked considering that the same is in derogation of the Kings regality and breach of the Liberties granted to the Citizens of Oxford Vide 11 H. 4. tit 50. The Kings Councel by advice of the Judges have power to examine and to take order herein untill the next Parliament during which time the said new Liberties granted shall be suspended That all Sheriffs upon their Oaths may be allowed in the Exchequer The Kings Councel upon every particular declaration power to take order therein That in actions personal the Defendant may be received to wage his Law and that the Plaintiff be not non-suited therein The King thereof will be advised That all Kendall Cloaths and others whereof the dozen passeth not thirteen shillings four pence may be sold without the Alneagers Seal The King will be advised The print touching Kendal Cloathes cap. 2. agreeth with the Record That whereupon the suggestion of Merchant strangers sundry Commissions were directed whereby many Marriners were unduly punished the like be not from henceforth granted nor the Marriners put to answer other then at the Common Law The King will thereof be advised That none do sue to the Court of Rome for any Benefice but only â—n the Kings Court. The King thereof will be advised only the Councel shall have power between this and the next Parliament to take order therein The print touching Felonies in South-Wales cap. 3. agreeth with the Record It is enacted that every Felon in VVales flying to any other Lordship be from thenceforth delivered to the place where he committed the Felonie there to be tryed The Commons of Herefordshire pray remedy against the evill Customes of the Officers of the Forrests of Ewayston namely for taking their Cattel coming thereto as a forfeit The old good Laws and Customes shall be observed and the contrary forbidden by a Writ under the privie Seal They require that upon pursuit of Welsh theeves they may by the Welchmen be aided therein the which the King charged the Lords Marchers to cause their Tenants to do The print touching the disclaiming of Welsh Theeves cap. 4. agreeeth with the Record in effect but not in form Touching the Statutes of provisions from Rome expressed in the print cap. 8. there is no such mention made in the Record onely it is enacted that the Popes Collectors should not from thenceforth levie any money within the Realm for first-fruits of any Ecclesiastical dignities as due by any provision from Rome on pain to incur the penalty of the Statute of Provisors which the print hath not and is therefore well to be noted Vide postea tit 56. The Burgesses of the Town of Melcomb in Dorset considering their great spoils required for certain years to be discharged of their Fee-farms of eight Marks and of all Desmes and Fifteens the which request the King committeth to be enquired of and returned into the Chancery and there to have Order taken therein Vide 2 H. 4. tit 53. Upon the petition of the Commons of Chester it is enacted that the Prince of Wales Earl of the same shall enjoy all the Liberties and namely touching adjournments in Pleas that in certain Pleas there expressed such adjournments might be made without giving any day or entring the same in the Record That upon the seizure of the lands of all such Welchmen as be or shall be attainted and grant of those lands by the King the services therefore due to other Lords may be thereupon reserved The King thereof will be advised That the King will license all manner of persons to passe over the Seas and to purchase the Prior Aliens any of their possessions paying to the King reasonable Fines for the confirmation of the same The King will thereof be advised The print touching the taking of Assizes cap. 5. agreeth with the Record The Burgesses of the Town of Lyme in Dorset pray that in consideration of their great destructions they might enjoy the same Town forty years for the yearly Feefarm of Five pounds and for Thirteen shillings four pence for every grant of Desms and Fifteens according to an Extent thereof returned in the Chancery Vide 2 H. 4. tit 55. There is granted to the Kings Council full auâ—hority to examine this Petition and the return aforesaid and to take order therein The print touching Clothes cap. 6. agreeth with the Record The Burgesses of Shrewsbury shew many causes of their impoverishment and require therefore to be discharged of Desms The King will be thereof advised The Burgesses of Denelchester in the County of Somerset pray to be discharged of their Fee-farms of Thirty pounds and only to pay Eight pounds therefore or else to have restored to them parcel of the same Town and the Hundred of Staine which was granted away by king Iohn The Council upon examination of this and of the Commission granted in the time of R. 2. shall take order therein The print touching the levying of Desms and Fifteens cap. 17. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in form The inhabitants of the Town of Stock and other Towns in the Isle of Harling in the County of Southampton pray that the Kings Letters-Patents to them granted may be confirmed viz. That all the Inhabitants of the Isle aforesaid should every Fifteen pay only 6 l. 15 s. 7 d. q. and so ever or under according to the rate The which the King confirmeth The Burgesses of Great Yarmouth pray that to every grant of a Desme they may pay Forty pounds for Twenty years albeit they did always pay before One hundred pounds The King will thereof be advised The print touching provisions from Rome cap. 8. agreeth with the Record Anno Vndecimo Henrici Quarti Rex c.
the French nigh unto Callice The event and end he referreth unto God and to good hope by the well beginning In which that the King might have the better successe he called the same assembly thereby to know their consultation wherefore he willed the Commons to resort to their Accustomed place there to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isles Tryers of Petitions for England c. as above Tryers of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above On Wednesday the third day of the Parliament the Commons coming before the King and Lords presented Sir Walter Beauchamp Knight to be their Speaker who making the Common protestation had the same allowed The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords doe appoint that the Desmes and Fifteens granted in the last Parliament be sooner paid than the same was then appointed It is enacted considering the damnable scisme at Rome that all Bishops elect and other persons shall be confirmed by the Metropolitan upon the Kings writs without further excuse or delay Henry the son of Henry Percie Earl of Northumberland did his homage to the King sitting in his Chair of Estate before the Bishops Lords and Commons in such wise as other Peers doe On VVednesday the 8th of April the King prorogued the Parliament for sundry urgent causes from the said Wednesday unto the Monday in the third week after Easter at Westminster On the same Monday the Chancellor before the King Lords and Commons declared the cause of the said Adjournment First as touching the devout time Secondly for that an honourable peace was offered by the French Thirdly for that the King of the Romans had moved the same peace wherefore the Commons were willed to consult with the other It is enacted by whole assent of Parliament that the liberties granted to the Dutchie of Lancaster as in Anno 2. H. 5. tit 30. should be confirmed that the Stewards of the said Dutchie within their Circuits should be Justices of peace and that no grant of any thing from the said Dutchie doe passe under any other Seal than under the usual Seal for the said Dutchie appointed or to be appointed and if it doe the same then to be void The King by full assent of Parliament pardoneth to Iohn Baskervile of Erdisley in the County of Hereford Knight all Trespasses and Felonies and Utlagaries upon the same and restoreth him to all his lands and goods Alexander Meringe sheweth how he recovered by his Assize certain lands in little Martham Tuxfort Milton and Bevercot against Iohn Tuxford and Katherine his wife before Robert Thurwitt and how by the mistaking of the Clerk contrary to verdict found the disseisin was entred to be done after the Assize brought whereby no Judgement could be given He therefore requireth that the misprision of the Clerk might be amended and that the Justices might proceed to Judgement whereupon it was enacted that the Justices in the presence of the Chancellor should amend the record in the same only point A Judgement very necessary and yet hardly seen worthy therefore to be well marked It is enacted that the VVardens of the Mysterie of in London shall have the search from time to time of all that belong to the said Mysterie within the said City and libertie and the Mayor and Aldermen shall have the punishment of the same by the presentment of the said VVardens Richard Cathermayne prayeth a Scire facias against William Hore and Iohn Hore Executors of Thomas Hore for an erronious Judgement given in the Kings Bench on the behalf of the said Thomas in an action of Trespasse against the said Richard others the which granted returnable in the next Parliament and thereupon the said Richard entreth his Attorneys of Record to proceed therein It is enacted that upon error brought into any of the Benches for any erronious Judgement given in the City and Countie of Lincoln and in such causes the Writ shall be directed to the Sheriff of the said County of Lincoln who shall return any such Forainers any grant to the said Citizens in any wise notwithstanding The print cap. 5. agreeth herewith The Commonalty of Coventry prayen that four of them yearly to be chosen may survey the Dyers of the same Town by whom and the Mayor and Bayliffs the said Dyers might be punished The King thereof will be advised Iohn Shadworth Mercer of London prayeth to be payed 53 l. owing to him by Talleys the which is granted as to Chawcer in Anno 2 H. 5. tit 18. The like grant is made to Henry Barton for 383 l. as next before Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the liberty of the Church c. cap. 1. agreeeth with the record That all Sheriffs for the Fees of Knights coming to the Parliament may enter into all Liberties except the Demeasns of all Lords and such Towns as finde Burgesses The Statute therefore made in the 12 R. 2. shall be kept The print touching Attorneys in the Wapentake of Staincliff cap. 2. swarveth from the record and namely in the Amerciaments which note A Complaint by the English Merchants against the new and great Impositions then exacted by the Mayor Escheators Jurats Cint Apres Cominaltie and Universitie of the Kings City of Bayon and request to be freed therefrom The Officers of Bayon shall be driven to shew the causes whereupon redresse shall be made A large complaint containing sundry grievances and namely against the usurpations of the Earl of Arundell claiming free warren and using free chace in other mens grounds through Sussex but especially in the Rape if Lewes be a party of the said Shire by colour of a grant made by H. 3. in the 37. year of his reign to the Earl Warren that he should have free warren in all his Demeasne lands in Sussex of all which they prayen redresse After livery sued out of the Kings hand the Chancellor of England for the time being calling to him the Justices of both Benches shall thereby have power to take order therein That all Sheriffs may be discharged in the Exchequer upon their oaths The King will be advised That no ship be taken to serve the King by any Letters Parents but that the said Letters Patents be seen before the Mayor and other officers of the Town that the hire of the fraight may be by them made and ready payment had The Statutes therefore made shall be observed That all owners of ships
said Manor It is enacted that the Mayor of Northampton for the time being shall compell all Tenants as have any houses upon certain streets and places there named to * pay the same from time to time The office of the Baily of Winchelsey is granted to William Pope Esquire during his life It is enacted that all the Kings Council and other head Offices there named shall have yearly out of the Exchequer fees by way of reward there expressed Authority is given to the Kings Council to make assurances to the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. The print touching the Dutchesse of Clarence and other the Coheirs of the Earl of Kent cap. 11. agreeth with the record in effect but not in full form Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the prorogation of Assize cap. 11. agreeth with the record The like motion and answer as in the last Parliament tit 42. That all outlawries in Actions personal pronounced before the Statute of additions made 1 H. 5. may be pardoned The King will be advised The print touching days of payment to be given by English Merchants cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the affirmation of all Judgements against Owen Glendor cap. 3. agreeth with the record That in the writ of forging of false Deeds the Venire facias may be of both Counties as well where the land doth lye as where the writ is brought The King will be advised That the Statute made Anno 7 H. 6. tit 11. touching Denmark may be utterly void and revoked The King looketh to hear from his Ambassador there and in the mean time he will be advised The same title concerneth woollen yarn of no great force The print that Executors may have Idemptitate Nominis cap. 4. agreeth with the record The Commons of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland and of the Bishoprick prayen that the Merchants of Newcastle may at all times buy and transport their wools The King will be aduised The print touching the free passage on Severn cap. 3. agreeth with the record That all Judgements given before Anno 1 H. 4. may be good albeit the Letter of Attorney of any person in the said Judgments be lost saving to Iohn Harper and Ellinor his wife in Fee their title in the Manor of Rowley in Staffs The King will be advised The print touching the liberty of the Borough of Dorchester cap. 6. agreeth with the record The print touching the extortion of the Sheriffs of Hereford cap. 7. agreeth with the record The print touching the weighing of Cheese cap. 8. agreeth with the record The print touching the river of Ley cap. 9. agreeth with the record The print touching Attorneys to be made by religious persons in the North cap. 10. agreeth with the record That attachments and prohibitions against Tithe of great wood may be granted to every person out of either of the Benches The King will be advised In consideration of 200 l. payed by the Merchants of the Isle of Ely to certain of the County of Cambridge to buy twenty marks land by the year It is enacted that the said Inhabitants for ever shall be discharged from paying any thing towards the fees of Knights of the Shire for Cambridgeshire That two persons in every Hundred within the realm may by Commission be appointed to search the due making of woollen Cloathes and to seal the same taking therefore one penny The King will be advised Anno Decimo Henrici Sexti Rex c. Humfrido Duci Gloucestriae c. apud Westm. decimo septimo die Maii Teste apud Westm. vicesimo quinto die Februarii IOhanni Duci Norff. Hen. Com. Northumb. Ricardo Com. Sarum Ricardo Com. Warr. Johanni Com. Oxoniae Radulpho Com. Westmerland Willielmo Com. Suff. Jacobo Berckley Chlr. Willielmo de Ferrariis de Grobie Chlr. Reginaldo Gray de Ruthine Chlr. Ricardo Strange Chlr. Georgio Latimer Chlr. Johanni Baroni de Graystock Chlr. Roberto Poynings Chlr. VVillo Botreaux Chlr. Tho. Dacre de Gilsland Chlr. VVillielmo de Harrington Chlr. Jacobo de Audley Chlr. Radulpho Cromwell Chlr. Johanni Scroope de Masham Chlr. VVillielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Chlr. VValtero Hungerford Chlr. Johanni Tibetoft Chlr. Hen. Gray de Codonore Chlr. Willielmo Fitz-hugh Chlr. Willielmo de Nevill Chlr. VVillielmo de Lovell Chlr. Johanni de Morley Chlr. Leoni de Welles Chlr. Reginaldo West Chlr. Johanni Beamond No Lord Warden The Parliament holden at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the Tenth year of King Henry the Sixth THe same twelfth day of May in the presence of the King himself sitting in the Chair of Estate in the Chamber de pinct within the palace of Westminster the Lords and Commons being there also present Iohn Bishop of Bath and Wells being Chancellor of England by the Kings commandment declared the cause of the Parliament taking â—or his Theam the first of Peter Deum timete Regem honorificate By which he noted two points the first a general Counsel to Princes for knowledge to learn to obey and serve God according to the words of the Prophet Nunc Reges intelligite erudimini qui judicatis terram servite Domino in timore The second a commandement to the Subjects to learn to obey and honour the Prince according to the Apostles saying Rom. 13. Omnis anima sublimioribuâ— potestatibus subdita sit non enim est potestas c. And again Reddite omnibus debita tributum cui tributum est c. The which points he learnedly enlarged with sundry authorities examples and similitudes whereby he approved that the King and Realm of England might easily attain to the top of peace and prosperity if true fear of God and honour to the Prince were in the hearts of the Subjects wherefore for the attaining thereto and suppressing such rebels as despised the right of the Church and to destroy the Ministers of the same was the one cause of the same assembly The other cause was for due execution of Laws which was salus cujuslibet Civitatis Regni And the third cause was how to inrich the Subjects who of long time have lived in great penury He further sheweth how the Kings will was that every estate should enjoy his due liberties wherefore he willeth the Commons to choose their Speaker and the next day to present him to the King accordingly Receivers of petitions for England Ireland Walts and Scotland Receivers of petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the seas and of the Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The second day of the Parliament the Duke
Esquire is also restored and the Attainder had against Thomas Ormond Knight Anno 1 E. 4. is made void The like restitution is made to Ralph Makerel Clerk and revocation as before Iohn Verney Esquire son and heir of Ralph Verney Knight and Margaret the wife of the said Iohn daughter and heir of Robert Whittingham Knight are restored to the bloud and lands of the said Robert and the attainder had against the said Robert Anno 1 E. 4. is made void William Stok is restored and the attainder had against him in Anno 1 E. 4. made void Iohn Skidamore Knight keeper of Pembrook Castle is restored to all his hereditaments and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. is made void William Cliff of Lockington in the County of York Yeoman son and heir of Henry Cllff late of the same Yeoman is restored to the bloud and lands of the said Henry and the attainder made against the said Henry Anno 1 E. 4. made void Robert Mersine son and heir of Robert Mersine of Andsworth in the County of Kent Esquire is restored to the bloud and lands of his said Father and the attainder had against the said Father in Anno 1 E. 4. made void The attainder of William Iasper of London Esquire Anno 1 E. 4. is made void and he restored The attainder had against Iohn Ioskin Esquire Anno 1 E. 4. is made void and Edward his son restored to blood and lands The Kings release under Letters Patents in Anno 3. of his reign made to the Chancellor and Scholars of Oxford of 5 l. yearly which they used to pay for the issues arising for Bread and Ale is confirmed by common consent Ralph Ashton Knight sheweth how in a writ of Right of Ward sued by him against one Roger Lener of the keeping of the Manor of Great Lener with th' appurtenances in Middleton in the County of Lancaster held of the said Ralph by Knights service as of his Manor of Middleton in the County of Lancaster the said Ralph recovered the same and for that the record was imbezelled the said Ralph having nothing but the copie thereof which is enrolled by word prayeth that the same copie may be taken for the record and that upon exemplification of the same under the Great Seal he may have execution the which was granted by full assent Iohan Glyn widdow late the wife of Iohn Glyn of Marvaile in the County of Cornwal Gent. sheweth how Thomas Clemens of Leskerd Borough in the said County Gent. with sundry others there named most shamefully murdered the said Iohn against all which evil doers straight order is taken for their punishments and enacted that if the said Ioane should die then the children should have the Appeal The like Order is taken against Robert Fernell of Newson in the County of York and others for murdering of Richard Williamson at the sute of Katherine wife of the said Richard There-assembly of the Parliament the 8th day of February in the year aforesaid at Westminster Anno Decimo Tertio Edwardi Quarti THe eighth day of April in the thirteenth year of this King the Commons grant unto the King one Fifeeen and one Desm except 6000 l. to be distributed to certain decayed Towns The same day after thanks given to the Commons the Chancellor by the Kings commandement prorogueth the Parliament from the said day to the sixth day of October then ensuing After which prorogation it is enacted that upon urgent cause the King moving the King may at any time before call and re-assemble the same Parliament sending forth Writs 20 dayes before to proclame It is enacted that all the money coming of the Tenths granted by the Lords tit 9. be payed to the Treasurer of England Humfrey Dacres Knight son of Thomas Dacres and brother to Randolph son and heir to the said Thomas of the body of the said Thomas begotten is restored to bloud and land notwithstanding the severall attainders had against the said Randolph and Humfrey the which are made void A provision for Richard Fennis Knight and Ioane his wife and the heirs of the said Ioane Sundry intayls of many Manors as well to the Lord Dacre the heir male as to Fennis the heir general are confirmed wherein also is to be noted a pedegree for the line of the Lord Dacre A restitution to Iohn Naylor of London Esquire as well of bloud as of Lands and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. made void All Letters Patents made to Thomas Lord Stanley are affirmed to be good notwithstanding the creation or any Letters Patents made to the Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester an exception also of the Milnes of Lordlamas and Kennocogh in the Lordship of Beaumaris and of all the lands late Richard Knightlyes in the said Lordship The like confirmation is made to Roger Kenaston Knight for the keeping of the Castle of Hardlagh Roger Heron Esquire son and heir of Iohn Heron Knight is restored in blood and lands to the said Iohn and the attainder had against the said Iohn Anno 1 E. 4. made void Richard Tunstall Knight is restored and the attainder had against him Anno 1 E. 4. made void The King by authority of Parliament confirmeth to the Dean of New College at Leicester in succession the Manor of Southorpe called Fillibertscourt in Glouc. and the Manor of Southorpe called Grayes Court with other lands in Southorpe the which premises King Edw. the 3. gave to William Harvey and Mary his wife in especial tayl An order taken for the principal streets in Gloucester The King by assent pardoneth to Iohn Duke of Norfolk and all other his officers of the Kings Bench in Southwark the breach of the said prison made at Michaelmas in the tenth year of King E. 4. by certain misdoers unknown and the taking out of the prisoners to the number of an hundred by name laid in for sundry offences Robert Fennell of Neusome mentioned before tit 39. being laid in Newgate without bail or mainprize prayeth that the Chancellor upon a Corpus cum causa may let him to bayl the which is granted A long complaint of Iohn Ashton of Holley in the County of York Knight for imprisoning of the said Iohn by Iohn Mayfield of Pontefract Esquire and others against all whom straight order is taken for causing them to answer thereunto Where Thomas Tretway of Reskenny in the County of Cornwall Esquire and many others within named upon a complaint of riot by one Iohn Vivian exhibited for riots surmised to be done by the said Thomas and others for want of answering thereunto stood attainted of felony by Order of Parliament
Causes the King may re-assemble the Parliament within the time of its proroguation p. 691. 697. See p. 167. St. Neots the Prior and Covent Aliens made Denizens p 541. Nets destroying fry of Fish c. prohibited p. 572. Lord Nevill His Impeachment and Censure in Parliament p. 123. His extortions complained of in not paying his Soldiers Southampton their wages p. 136. New-castle upon Tyne their complaint against the Prior of Tinmouth upon a false recovery and View p. 134. Licence granted the Merchants of it to transport Wool other where then to Calice p. 408. An Act concerning it p. 596. A Petition of the Northern Counties that New-castle may always buy and transport their Wools p. 600. An Act for shipping Wools there p. 679. Newgate Prison and Prisoners matters concerning them p. 49 107 166 499 682. Newport-panel Prior p. 418. News the Statute of it 2. R. c. 4 not in the Record pâ— 180. Nisi Prius prayed upon Appeals in remote Northern Counties p. 91 92. Where the King is party p. 97. Upon any Trespass or Felony upon issue joined against the King p. 109. To be sued within one year after issue joyned p. 134. After the Habeas Corpus returned or else discontinuedâ— and to be granted in the Kings suits without suing a Privy Seal p. 1â—8 Of issues between the King and other persons of the Exâ—chequer p. 162. Granted by Justices of the Kings Beâ—ch without Writs from the Chancery or Privy Sealâ— p. 178. An Act touching discharge of Juries in it p. 295. That the Justices may have power to give Judgement forthwith after Verdict found without sâ—aying till the day of the Nisi Priuâ— return p. 410. To be granted in a traverse of any office returnable in any of the Benches or County See Office Inquest Nonability of persons professed to inherit notwithstanding the Popes dispensation p. 149. Of Councellours and Officers once censured and removed for Delinquency not to be restored p. 122 159 295. Nobles See Lords Noncavits of Fines levied surrendred to be no bar p. 40 a motion rejâ—cted that none be barred by Non-claim p. 70. Non-obstante Grants Restitutions c with a Non-obstante to other Acts c. p. 165 284 330 342 344 347 354 407 49 456 466 610 623 66â— 68â— 691. Non-residence occasioned by Provisionâ— to Aliens and the mischiefs of it complained against p. 65 128 409 Non-resident Aliens worse then Turks or Jews p. 128. A provision against them made in Ireland desired in England p. 296. A Praemuniâ—e prayed against such as procure any dispensations for Non-residents from Rome except Arch-bishops and Bishops Chaplains p. 409. That the King may enjoy half the profits of Non-residents livings p. 460 476 581. Remedy provided against it by Ordinances and the Convocation p. 466 476. Non-residents to forfeit half of their Benefices to the King the other to the Patron p. 581. That Patrons may present anew for Non-residency p. 585. Non-suit of the Plaintiff an Act touching it p. 410. Upon wager of Law p. 466 605. To be a Bar Ibid. Non-tenure of part p. 80. Normandy the Crowns inheritance lost p. 682. Northampton Major to compel the Tenants to pave the streets before their doorsâ— p 599. Iohn of Northampton Major of London excepted from pardon condemned of Treasons and Felonies yet after pardoned and restored p. 325 339 340â— 344. Norwich its Major to have survey of Worsteds in it and Norfolk p 474. Bishop of it General of the Army â—ent to Flanders impeached censured â—or his miscarriages in the service but not imprisoned though fined p. 282 284 285 288 289 291 to 295. Northumberland's and other Northern Counties petitions c. p. 91 92 334 482. Earl of Northumberlandâ—â—quited â—â—quited of Treason for his Insurrection by the Lords his homage thereupon to the King p. 426 427. See Table 2. Nottingham the Goal there annexed to the Sheriff wick upon their Petition p. 45. It s Castle wont to be kept by an Earl then by an Alien whose removal is prayed p. 135 176. Complaints against the Constable of it for exacting for every load of Coal for private use p. 358. Novelties to be suppressed 65. Not to be taken for an example p. 342. Prohibited and opposed by the King and Lords in Parliament p. 190 392 478 Nusances and Obstructions in Rivers navigable by Mills Wearsâ— Stanks Kiddles and the like complained of Acts made Commissions appointed to inquire of and redress them p. 57 75 76 80 97 112 124 126 146 150 179 139 339 348 349 375 396 412 420 475 535 539 555 571 700. In London removed p 348 349. O OAth and Swearing Of the King at his Coronation remedied to be kept violated by his Acts of Oppression and Injustice against Law p. 102 326 367 386 387 388. No Pardon to be granted any Felon c. but where the King may save his Oath p. 75. Oaths Of the Justices Judges Baâ—ons all Great Officers Privy Councellors and others to observe maintaine the Great Charter and the Laws faithfully to counâ—el the King to do Justice c. p. 32 33 34 35 37 46 48 51 52 74 294 315 316 318 323 329 334 456 457 471 473 202. Of the Lords and Commons in Parllament of Faith Homage and due Allegiance to the Kinâ— and his Heirs p. 105 426 427 455 576 657 662 663 666. Also to see the Peace kept not to alter repeal any Act Oâ—dinance or Judgement of Parliament To live and die with the Lords Appellants in the Cause c. saving their Alleâ—iance to the King and due Obedience to his Prerogative and Laws p. 322 326 369 371 372 375. Taken upon the Arcbishop's Crosser and St. Edward's Shrine holding up their right hand p. 34 322 371 372 369 373 375 376. The Great Charter to be newly proclaimed and confirmed by Oath p. 32. The Chancellor Treasurer and some of the Justices refuse an Oath as repugnant to their former Oath and Laws of the Realm p. 34. Oath of Praisers of Goods attached before sold in Execution by Bayliffs of Hundreds p. 55. Sir Matraver's offer to acquit himself of what he was condemned without hearing in Parliament by Oath with four hundred Knights his Compurgators p. 66. Judge Thorpe condemned to death for breaking his Oath by taking Bribes p. 74 316. Merchants to be credited touching prizes of their Wares upon their Oaths p. 88. King of Navarres Oath most willingly to enter into League with K E 3. yet he breaks it p. 90. King Iohns subjecting his Crown Realm to the Pope contrary to his Coronation-Oath p. 102. Lords and Commons sworn to the King's Crown cannot assent to 〈◊〉 dis-inheritance p. 105. Sheriffs and under Sheriffs sworn to view the Pannel in every weighty Cause ere returned p 124. Cyrographer and his Clerks to be sworn to take but 4 s for ingrossing a fyne p. 128. Treasurers of War sworn before the King in open Parliament p. 156. Divers Lords and others examined in Parliament
the Archbishop were restored and that for every such interruption they should pay to the King a thousand pound p. 479 489. Oxfords Major and Commonalty their Dism and Petition for contribution to it and Order thereon That all Lands belonging to the Church within the said Town purchased since the twentieth yeer of E. 1. should contribute to all Disms and Fifteens p. 476. P PAnnels the Sheriff and Undersheriffs sworn to view themâ—â—re returnedâ— p 124. Parceners where they may be summoned and severed p 40 41. Their Lands in Ireland not to descend to such as are the Kings enemies Order to prevent it p 66. A Writ of Partition between them and Tenants in common p 162 557 565. Pardon 's general petitioned for by the Commons in Parliament granted by the King at his pleasure p 97 106 109 113 131 146 152 163 172 192 196 197 198 199 203 204 282 289 284 285 296 306 338 339 345 367 371 394 411 434 540 50 552 620 639. Denied 131 134 172 306. Persons excepted out of general pardons p 163 203 284 325 367 292. Not granted till the last day of Parliament and after aids p 19â— 199 371. Pardon 's special and particular petitioned for by the Commons and granted thereupon only out of grace and at the Kings pleasure p 81 134 151 152 282 283 325 345 472. denied p 136 150 550. Pardon of Sheriffs accounts p 134 179 202 644. See Accounts Of Sheep stealing p 585. Of Outlawries p 600. Of Trespasses p 285 306. Of Prison Breach 615 692. Of Treason and Insurrection p 7.196 203 204.282 283 284 325 340 345 348 424 426 551 620 663 677 699 Of Fines and Amerciaments p 152 347â— Of Murder p 283 334 632. Of Arrears of Rent p 459. Of the Eyre or Forrest p 172. Of Provisors p 603. Of Felony p 146 192 204 282 283 284 306â— 325 334 341 545 551. Of Old Debts p 18 32 33 172 202 296 588 338 339. Of Riots and Misdemeanours p 373. Of Merchants for goods not customed p 213. Of Intrusions p 131. Of Piracy upon satisfaction p 472. Of Issues p 136 347. Of Treasure house p 349 Of Reliefs p 339. Of Liveries p 540â— Commissioners to receive Rebels and others to pardon p 25. Pardon 's granted repealed by Parliament and the persons pardoned arraigned condemned notwithstanding themâ— p 368 373 377 378 386 387. This charged as an high misdemeanour on R 2. p 386 387. Justices to consider of Malefactors Pardons ere they allow them p 54. The ill effects of pardons to Malefactors p 62 64 75. A pardon to a receiver of a debt wherein the King was deceived revoked p 396. Pardons Not to be granted to Falsifiers Clippers of Money p 54 62 64 75. Noâ— to persons censured by Parliamentâ— 1â—8 353 364. Nor of a debt assigned p 619. A pardon pleaded and allowed in Parliament p 10. All pardoned persons to resort to defend the Sea coasts under pain of forfeiting them p 20. All suggestions to be put into Pardons p 82 334. An Act touching Charters of Pardon p 334. An Act for such as procure pardon to any notable Thiâ—f p 432. King Henry the fourth shewed pardon to any offender that craved the same p 464. A motion that a murderer pardoned might yet be executed p 632. Arreaâ— of Desms paid notwithstanding a general Pardon p 648. Pardon of Treason yet the lands forfeited p 663 699. Parishes and Parish Churches how many in England a Tax granted on them and the Commons mistaken in their number p 111. PARLIAMENTS summoned by the Kings Writ by his Authority and in his name alone p 2 4 5 25 26 35 42 68 72 77 83 84 89 95 99 104 115 143 153.187 289 297 302 306 313 319 320 327 328 336 340 350 357 359 365 366 382 383 402 403 414 435 436 449 450 463 469 477 533 537 542 543 549 552 555 556 558 561 566 572 581 582 586 597 601 606 613 616 617 620 626 627 628 632 6â—3 636 639 645 648 655 660 668 673 679 686 687 705 708. The Summons of it abated nulled by the Kings resignation of his Crown p 384. suddenly called p 166 167. Parliament consists of the King three Estates Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons always summoned to and present in it p 10.11.12.13.14.17.329.384.425.281.425.392 567.607.701.709.710.712.713.714 See Causes of Parliament A Parliament is to be held once or twice every year p 1.93.138.163.173 The King himself personally present in it both at the beginning end and at other times as there is occasion as being held by before and under him see King Held in his absence out of the Realm Infancie or sickness by the Guardian of Custos Regni Protector or Commissioners by Commissions from the King whose Commissions were read and recorded in Parliament in the Kings name as his Deputies p 17.19.73.144.146.358.553.562.567.583.597.651.658.659.675 President of it p 651 658 659. All Members are to repair to be present in and not depart from it without licence called by name and fined if absent p 13.14.43.142.194.281.361.653 See Commons Lords A Proclamation made at the beginning of it That none should bear arms weapons or use any Games where the Parliament was kept to prevent all force fear and disturbance thereby p 11.12.14.17.19.22.27 31.36.45.46.51.76.78 Adjourned by reason some Lords came to it with force and armed men p 195. The beginning sitting of the Parliament adjourned of course till a further day because many of the Lords and Commons were not come nor their Writs returned and the declaration of the causes of calling it deferred till they all appeared and were come p 11.13.14.19.31.36.46.51.69.73.78.90.92.96.105.120.144.154.167.173.182.188.193.195 201.281.286.287.290.298.308.454.464 The Causes of calling the Parliament declared in the beginning of it by the Chancellor for the most part sometimes by the Chief Justice or some Bishop Lord or Officer in the presence of the King Lords and Commons assembled together usually in the Painted-Chamber when held at VVestminster which are usually declared to be To counsel advise consult together resolve aid assist the King how to defend the Realm and his Dominions at home or abroad by Land and Sea against foreign Enemies or domestick Rebels and to grant Aids Subsidies for that end How to maintain or carry on defensive or invasive wars How to treat settle Peace Leagues Truces with Enemies by Ambassadors Treaties Marriages How to preserve the publick peace at home and suppress the disturbers thereof How the Kingdoms people may be well governed Justice duly executed the Great Charter Churches Corporations all other mens Liberties confirmed enjoyed the Laws maintained duly executed Good Laws established Obscure explained Ill redressed Oppressions Extortions all publick Grievances redressed the Commodities of the Realm vended enhansed the people eased enriched the Church and true Catholick faith defended against Hereticks Sectaries and the Kings publick necessities supplied p 9.11.12.13.17.19.22.27.31.36.37 43.47.51.69.73.78.82.85.90.92.96.100.102.105.108.111.116.120.144.145.154.167.173.174.182.188 193 195.196.281.287.291.298.303.309.314.321.329.33â—.341.346.351.358.360.361
Appeal Nisi prius Jurors Kings Bench. Answ. Old Law Fraudulent Conveyances Answ. Indictment Attorneys Inquest returned Exchequer Attaint Old Law Answ. Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords not come Chief Justice Causes of the Parliament Churches Reformation Peace Scotland Wools Petitions Peace and War by the Parliaments advâ—ce Lords Scotland War advised Lords advice Merchants Câ—llis Commons advice respiâ—ed Conference with Merchants Magna Charta and Statutes Purveyors Penalty for negligences Omission out of the printed Statute Kings Carriages Wines ingrossed Inquests forreign Answ. Imprisonment without due Process Answ. Mainpriâ—e Fines Answ. Wools Weights Priests wages Offendors Parliament annually Subsidy of Wools pardoned Gold and silver Answ. Peace Justices of Peace Fees Answ. Debt Exchequer Answ. Petitions answered Answ. Pardon Waste Escheators Labourers Fines Petitions answered Subsidy granted Lionel created Duke of Clarence in Parliament Duke of Lancaster Earl of Cambridge Iohn created Duke of Lancasterâ— Charter Edmond Earl of Cambridge created in Parliament Charter Pleadingâ— in English Staple Conusance Chief Justice Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Subjects grieveances Churches liberties infringed Petitions Petitions Mâ—rchants-aliens Transportation of Woollen cloaths Cheese Sheep Malt Beer inhibited Commons thanks to the King Clergy to pray for the peace and good gâ—vernment oâ— the Land c. Kings good will to the Commons Answ. Statutes confirmed Ordinances Customs of Woolls Answ. Silver coin Gold Answ. Exchange Answ. Money Poor Coiners Half pence and Farthings Answ. Merchants hostlers Regrators Forestallers Ordinance Fish Merchants Corn Meal and Victuals not to be transported Proclamâ—tion Answ. Weers Nusances Answ. Nisi prius King party Kingâ— Attorneyâ— Venire facias Answ. Commons House Justices of Peace nominated by the Commons Answ. Identitate nominis Variance Poultry prices Exchequer Grocers Artificers Apparel Pestilence Alienation without licence Answ. Wines Price of Wâ—nes Testimonial Justices of Assize Answ. Villenage Suggesâ—â—ons Parliament prorogued Chancellor Apparâ—el Ordinanâ—e Statute Amâ—ndment Kings thanks Parliament dissolved Silver vessels Hawks Statutes printed not in the Record Parliament adjourned Proclamation Painted Chamber Chancellour Causes of Parliament Justice Kings good will to his Subjects Kings thanks Common Peace Good Laws Amendment of faulty Laws Petitions Kings Declaration Popes citations and Usurpations Kings Courts Provisors Ancient Laws Prerogative Treasure exported Ecclesiastical livings Divine Service Alms Hospitality Parliament Liberties Provisors Variance in the Record Transportation of Victuals and Corn prohibited Scotland Protection Scots Answ. Fines of the Chancery Answ. Peoples case Staple Impositions to cease Answ. Ships forfeited Customs cancelled Wines Suggestions Jurors Embracers Maintainers Staple Melcomb Lewes Customes Customers Lynne Royall assent Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Chancellor Painted Chamber Causes of Parliament Prince Gascoign Ireland Government of England Petitions Chancellor Causes of Parliament Popes claim of Tribute King Iohns Homage to Rome for England and Ireland Popes citation of the King to Rome Advice required Bishops Lords Commons Kings cannot subject the Kingdom to the Pope or any other but by common assent of Parliament Kings Oathâ— Popes usurpation unanimously resisted Universities Oxford Cambridge Fryers Complaint in Parliament Parliament Universities Degrees Bulls Rome King and his Council Chancellor Kings son in Law to be created an Earl Lords assent Chief Baron Parliament Aestate probanda Livery ouster le maine Age. Inspection in Parliament Reseisure Infaâ—ra Charters Recognisances Statutes Writings vacated Kings thanks Parliament dismâ—ssed Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned because sundry Lords and Commons not yet come Arch-Bishop Painted Chamber Arch-Bishop Victory over enemies Subjects loyalty Causes of Parliament Petitions Treaty King of Scots Peace Scotland Lords and Commons several advise and Answers Disinherison of the King and Crown Oath of Allegiance Thanks for Aids and Subsidies granted Subsidy granted Old Customs and new Great Charter Statutes Pardons Process of Law Commissions Escheators Labourers Victuals London Forainers Retail Merchants Wines Green wax Exchequer Aliens Callice Kings thanks for aids Lords and Commons dine with the King Sir Iohn de Lee. Robert Latimers Case Wardship Imprisonment Duress Due process of Law Kings Steward Kings Councel Unjust oppression Attachment Verge Marshalsey Jurisdiction Imprisonment Authority abused Purveyors Defrauding the King Mannor of Raynham Dover Castle Imprisonment in the Tower Constable of the Tower Kings Councel Wardship resigned to the King Recognisances vacated Lord Chancellor Causes of Parliament Parliaments counsel and assent used in all weighty affairs Peace with the French upon conditions Gascoyne Stile of French King relinquished The French breach of conditions Parliaments advise required Petitions Lords and Commons answer Stile of France Stile of France assumed by the King New Great Seal Patents Charters Writs Seals altered Subsidy granted Old Customs Forts surveyed and repaired Aliens Armour Horse-coursers Answ. No man punished contrary to Law Commissions repealed Prescription Answ. Silva cedua Tythes Answ. Pardon Forrest Sheriffs Answ. Indictment Nisi prius against the King Treason Chaâ—cellor Answ. Sea-mark Times of Wâ—r Answ. Executors refusal Aquitaâ—ned Repeal of Statutes Variance from the Record Staple King's thanks to the Lords and Commons Booty in War Conquest Charters Priors Aliens seised Clergies Array Parliament dissolved Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of Parliament Kings necessity Kings Army The French Kings power by Land and Sea Englands invasion Advice of Parliament required Petitions Subsidy granted Contribution Staple Melcomb Chancellor Easter Petitions Kings thanks Parliament dismissed Great Câ—uncel summoned Chancellor Subsidy mistaken Parishâ—s Subsidy supplied Parish Church Chester Moâ—tmain Commission for the Subsidy Collectors Commissioners Knights of Counties Petitions read and answered before the Lords and Commons Parliament dismissed Great Charter Church-men removed Crowns disinherison Officers Laymen prefeâ—r'd Kings election and prerogative over his Officers Kings Councel Answ. Petitions considered Lords Lands in Capite leased Answ. Mills Fines for Writs Answ. Purveyance Measure Answ. Eyre Treilbaston Corn Victuals Wooll Green wax Extracts Certainty Parliament Answ. Sheriffâ— Trial Birth Answ. Old Law Mayors Bayliffs Sergeant Victuallâ—rs Taverners Answ. Easterlings Merchants Answ. Merchants Wool Free Trade Answ. Merchants restrained Wines Repeal of Statutes Corporations Liberties Answ. Navies decay Ships arrestedâ— Mariners Merchants restrained Masters of Ships Imposition Answ. Answ. Goods uncustomed Pardon Answ. Fortresses Answ. Assiises Justices Parents Answ. Commissioners charges Sessions Answ. Villenage Visne Answ. Possession Inquest of Office Escheator Trial. Scire facias Answ. Sheriff Escheators Answ. French Varlets Answ. Justice not to be delaid No man to answer without due process of Law Answ. Impositions Woolls Commons House Subsidy Answ. Sea-coast guarded Protections Commons loss Answ. Seals counterfeited Forgery Imprisonment perpetual Scottish money Answ. Priests Clergies assent Writs of Summons Parliament adjourned Painted Chamber Chancellor Causes of the Parliament Peace broken by the French Kings right to France Armies King of Castile Aragon Royal Navy Publick charges Aid required Nobles Realms defence Season of War Speedy answer Committee of Lords and Câ—mmons Conference Aids granted Wars
Lancaster Humfrey Bohun Constable of England Parceners Dutchy of Lancaster Petitions Liberties enjoyed Knights of Kent wages how to be levied Weavers of London Reprises Letters of Mart confirmed Merchants of Iean Resp. English Merchants Italians Letters of Mart. Resp. Justices of Peace Variance Dutchy of Lancaster Priests wages Variance Enquests Vaâ—iance Devonshire Cloathes Cocket Customs Resp. Gilding Goldsmiths Treason Welchmen Southampton Fee-farm released in part Priors Aliens License to purchase Lands Mortmain Staple Writs of Summons Parliament proroged Writs of Re-Summons Writs of Summons King Painted Chamber Chancellors speech All to enjoy their liberties Causes of Parliament France the Kings due patrimony His good beginning and proceedings there Consultation Commons to choose their Speaker Petitions Sir Walter Beauchamp Speaker presented Protestation Disms Quindisms sooner paid than limited Scismes at Rome Bishops confirmed by the Metropolitan Kings Writ Henry Percy Homage made in Parl. to the King Prorogation of the Parliament Chancellor Causes of the Adjournment The Devout time Peace offered by French King of Romans Mediator for Peace Commons to consult thereof Dutchy of Lancasters Liberties confirmed Steward of the Dutchy Justices of Peace Dutchy Seal Nullity Kings Pardon Io. Baskervile Restitution Recovery in Assize Alexander Meringe Clerks mistake Disseisin after the Assize Misprision Amendment Justices London Wardens Search Mayor and Aldermen of London Scire facias returnable next Parl. Executors Error in Parliament to reverse a Judgement in B. R. Attorney in Parliament Writs of Errour Lincoln Sheriffs Coventry Surveyors Dyers Kings debts to be satisfied Tallyes Churches Liberties c. Knights wages Resp. Attornies Variance Amerciament Merchants complaint against Imposition Extortion of the Kings Officers in Bayon Unâ—versity Resp. Grievances Usurpation E. of Arundel Free Chase Warren Rape of Lewes Earl Warren Resp. Livery sued Chancellor and Justices Sheriffs discharge Exchequer Resp. Ships impressed Patents for impressing Fraight Hyre Ready mony Resp. Ships serving the King Fraight Wages Resp. Aliens Iseland Fishing Resp. Iustices Chief Barons Kings Serjeants Attorneys Resp. Old Use. Incumbent Benefice Provisions Ordinaries inquiryâ— Hospitalls Resp. Indictment Kings Bench. Capias Exigent Resp. Purveyors Measure Marker Payment Resp. Clergy Universities New Learning Provisors Old â—aith neglected Resp Bishops to remedy it Washing of money Prisoners escape Arbitrary penalty Resp Treason Coynage Earl of Arundels encroachments Prior of Tortington Resp. Complaint against a â—raudulent recovery of 2. Manors in an Assize Resp. King and his Assistants Surety of the Peace prayed in Parliament out of the Chancery Subpoenaâ— Chancery Exchâ—quer Common Law Penalty Resp. Fees Probate of Testaments Archbishop of York His Liberties confirmed Sheriffs Turn Beverley Rippon Oyer and Terminer Felonies Iustices of Peace Non-obstante Repeal Admiral ship Burdeaux Masters Oaths not to desert the Admiral Ship taken by the enemy ContributioÌ„ Recompence from the other ships Resp. Chancellor and Justices to order it Writs of summons King Painted Chamber Chancellors speech Liberties to be enjoyed Causes of the Parliament Kings Oath and travell Good Lawes Upright Government Peace with Enemies French refuse Peace Prisoners and their ransomes refused King necessitated to Warr. Peace the end of Warr. Commons to choose and present their Speaker Petitions Roger Flower Speaker presented His Protestation 2 Desmes and 2 fifteens granted Moneys advanced by loane to be paid out of the subsidy Sureties for re-payment Subscription to the Articles Kings generall pardon King makes an Earl in Parliament * It should be Duke of Exeter A league between the King his heirs and successors and the K. of the Romans c. confirmed by Parliament Release by Duresse Wales Resp. Kings Councell Restitution in bloud and lands intailed Io. Holland Com. Huntington Dutchy of Cornwall Resp. Restitution Petition Tayle Scire facias Master of the Mine Restitution Old coyn Tower Treasurer Resp. Councell Bourdeaux Succours prayed Resp. Suit at Rome and in the Council of Constance Abby of Fountains delay Resp. Kings Letters Pardon prayed Resp. Irish Bishops Great Charter Sheriffs allowance Extracts Variance Patent makers Customs of Wines released Servants wages Debts Protections Priors Aliens Resp. Kings Prerogative Common Law Merchants aliens Pardon Peace-breakers Letters of Mart. Writs of Summons Duke of Bedford Warden of England Parliament held by him Painted Chamber Chancellor his Speech Liberties to be enjoyed by all Estates Kings atchievments Welch Rebels suppressed Conspiracies against the Christian faith Victory over the French Normandy Causes of Parliament Keeping the Peace Laws observation Kings Voyage Guarding the Marches of Scotland Honour Commons to choose and present their Speaker Petitions Roger Flower Speaker presented His Protestation One Dism and Quindism granted Sergeants called Apprentices at Law made Sergeants after their refusal Warden of England Sir Iohn Oldcastle Outlawed of Treason Excommunicated for Heresy Brought before the Lords He answers not to his Conviction Adjudged a Traytor to the King and Realm His Judgement of Treason to be hanged and burned Tower The Record against him Lollards Conspiracy to subvert the Clergy kill the King and other Nobles Earl of Huntindon Livery stayed Scire facias Prisoner in Execution Bayled Gardian of England Lord Powis Proclamation Sir Iohn Oldcastle Heretick Iudas his reward Monies lent to the King for his wars repaid out of the Customs Patents confirmed Duke of Exeters Creation money Priority Liberties confirmed Insurrections Lollards Traytors Commissions Resp. Nusances in Rivers Resp. Merchants Taxes Port Towns Resp. Merchants Staple Custome Cockets Vexation Slander Resp. Kings pleasure Attornyes Collectors of the Clergy Resp. Writâ— of Summons Writs of Summons Chancellors speech Warden of England Parliament held by him Painted Chamber Prayers for the King Peace sought Warr began Victory Honour Good Governance Defence Aid Commons to choose and present a their Speaker Petitions Roger Fowler Speakerâ— Presented His protestation One Dism and Quindism granted Advance moneys to be secured by it Lords subscription Lords of the Council Coin Monies kept within the Realm Necessaries for soldiers bought here Wools transported Staple Non-obstante Confessor Queen Dowager accused of Treason Sureties Lands seised Indictment removed Murderâ— No such Indictment Indictment vacated Indictment recalled Liberties Conspâ—racy Partition Copartners Resp. Common Law Chaplains wages Penaltyâ— Resp. Exigent Forgery of Deeds Recognizance Peace Sicknesse Imprisonment Plea Resp. Common Law Hunters Forfeiture Resp. Annuity Writs of Summons Duke of Bedford Parliament held by him Chancellors speech Law Causes of Parliament Good Lawes Frontiers Defence Petitions Lieutenant of England Richard Baynard Speaker presented His Protestation 1 Desm and 1 fifteen granted William Lord Clinton Feoffement in trust Performance of his Will Refusall to perform the trust Re-enfeoffement inacted Incumbrances discharged Feoffement in Parliament Deed inrolled Somersham Tythes of Meadow Arches Abbot of Ramsey Prohibition Judgement in Parliament against the Prohibition Coyn. Coynage Mony Mint Master Exchanger Resp. Wardens of Exchange Coynage Callice Allay Mony Gold False weights Temporary Statutes Justices Sheriffs Clarks misprisions Amendment Resp. Kings Councell Exchangers Rome
the Numbers Titles in this Abridgement many times to exceed the Numbers Titles and Membranaes in the Rolls themselves and some times to differ from them in the number 2ly I shall desire him to take Notice for his better information touching Parliamentary records That the Writs of Summons to our Parliaments for the Nobility Clergy Knights Citizens Burgesses with the Writs for Knights and Burgesses wages are not extant in the Parliament or Statute-Rolls but for the most part they are entred in the Dorse of the Clause Rolls sometimes though rarely on the Dorse of the Patent Rolls kept in the Tower of London where all who please may peruse them at their leisure they sometimes differing one from another in form as well as in the names of the persons summoned and sometimes in material Clauses though Sir Edward Cook asserts the contrary as is most evident by the writs of Rot. Claus. 6 Iohan. dors 3. claus 38. H. 3. dors 13. claus 45 H. 3. m. 19. dors claus 48 H. 3. dors 5 6. claus 49 H. 3. dors 11. claus 34 E. 1. dors 10 5. claus 4 E. 3. m. 17 18. dors claus 6 E. 3. pars 2. m. 13. dors m. 4. dorso m. 36. claus 45 E. 3. m. 29. claus 11 R. 2. dors 13. claus 5 H. 4. pars 2. m. 4. dorso and sundry others 3ly That there are farre more Writs of Summons to Parliaments extant in those Rolls than there are Statute or Parl. Rolls There being no Records at all in the Tower except some few antient Charters or Exemplifications of them antienter than the first year of King Iohn all the rest from William the First his reign till then except some few in the Exchequer not relating to Parliaments being utterly lost The first Parliament Rolls yet remaining are those of 5 8 9 and 19. of King Edward the 2. The Statute Roll of H. 3. Edw. 1. and Edw. 2. conteining some Statutes made in their reigns a Parchment Book of some Pleas in Parliament during the reigns of King Edward the 1. and 2. and a few Bundles of Petitions in the Parliaments of 6 E. 1. 1 2 3 4. E. 3. none of which are here Abridged Only I find in the Clause Patent Charter and Fine Rolls of King John Henry 3 Edward 1 and 2. some writs of Summons and some mâ—morials of Acts Ordinances made and Aydes Subsidies Disms Quindisms Customs granted in Parliaments held during their reigns the Rolls whereof are perished and quite lost either through the Negligence of the Record-keepers or the Injury Iniquity of the times during the Civil wars between the King and Barons in the reigns of King Iohn and Henry the 3. and betwixt the two houses of Lancaster and York for the Title to the Crown wherein it is very probable the prevaâ—â—ing Kings parties by their instruments embezelled suppressed such Parliamentary Records and Proceedings as made most against their Interests Power Prerogatives Titles or through the Default of our Kings Great Officers and Atturneys who sending for the Parliament Rolls out of the Tower upon special occasions never returned them again for reasons best known to themselves By means whereof these Parliament Rolls being no where to bee found their defects must be supplyed only out of such Fragments and Memorials of them as are extant in our other Records and antient Historians especially in Matthew Paris Matthew Westminster William of Malmsbury Henry Archdeacon of Huntingdon Roger de Hoveden Simeon Dunelmensis the Chronicle of Bromton Radulphus de Diceto Ranulphus Cistrensis and Thomas of Walsingham who give us some account of their Proceedings and Transactions which else had been utterly buried in oblivion as well as their Rolls wherâ—n they were at large recorded as is evident by the Parliament Rolls yet extant exactly relating all the Parl. Acts Judgments Proceedings as you may discern by this Abridgement But more clearly by the Rolls at large made up and engrossed by the Clerk of the Parliament with the assistance or supervising of the Lords Iudges and Commons too when there was occasion 4ly I shall recommend unto you these generall Observations touching our Parliaments and their proceedings in former ages which I shall desire the Readers more carefully to observe in their perusal of this Abridgement for their better satisfaction 1. That it was the Common Custom in former ages the first day of every Parliament by special Proclamation to inhibit the wearing of any Arms or weapons under severe penalties within such Cities and places where the Parliament sate to prevent all disturbances quarrels intimidations over-awings of the Members by Fear or Force A practice now fit to be revived after so many late armed Guards Forces not only over-awing disturbing enforcing but dissolving Parliaments and secluding securing their Members at their pleasure 2. That our Parliaments were alwayes usually adjourned and put off till some further day when any considerable Number of the Lords or Commons were absent or not come appearing at the first day of Summons and the Declaration of the Causes of summoning the Parliament adjourned till all the Members were come and the Parliaments full 3. That the Lords some times and the Commons were all frequently called by Name the first day of the Parliaments sitting and all of them admitted yea commanded to sit in and attend the Parliament and such as were absent without just cause both blamed and fined 4. That in all former ages no Acts were made Judgements pronounc'd Ayds or Subsidies granted nor ought else debated or conlcuded but only in full Parliament when all or most of the Members were personally present and none forcibly secluded or suspended but only by senâ—ence of the Houses themselves See the Table Full Parliament 5. That No Members of Parliament could be arrested imprisoned or taken in execution for Debt or any other occasion sitting the Parliament but only for Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace and if any were arrested or taken in execution against their privileges they were upon complaint released to attend the publike service of their Country in Parliament 6. That our Kings themselves did usually by their Chancellors or Chief Justices when they declared the Causes of summoning every Parliament to the 3. Estates most commonly grant and declare of their own accords That all Estates should enjoy their Privileges belonging to them as Members and likewise That the Church with all Corporations and other persons whatsoever should enjoy their antient Liberties Rights Customs and Franchises which was one chief end of summoning Parliaments and the Great Charter of their Liberties of the Forest and all other good Laws and Statutes due observation and to have the violations of them redressed punished 7. That Matters of Warr Peace Leagues Defence against Enemies both by Land and Sea were constantly propounded to debated consulted concluded of in and by our Parliaments yea one chief cause of their Convention and not ordered
in his own Country unless some forreign Justice be associate with him Who will complain shall have right That the Charter made to the men of Yarmouth that none should within the time of their fishing buy any Herring within seven miles of the same Town may be repealed so as men may openly buy and sell. The King granteth in respect of a new grant above mentioned saving to the Town all other their Liberties with this Clause licet That no man be barred by any warranty collateral but for so much of lands as descended to him by such Ancestry The King will be advised untill the next Parliament That the Justices of Assize shall keep their Sessions in Towns where Gaols be and make their deliverances before their departure at the least once by the year and that to the same Justices may be made in one Patent as well to take the Assize as to deliver the Gaole The Justices of Assize shall have their Patent in such wise as hath been and shall as well take the Assize as make delivery That all Sheriffs may be yearly chosen at the Feast of S. Michael and so as their gifts and dinners to the Officers of the Exchequer may be done That the Justices deliver into the same Court their Extracts at the Utaves of S. Michael and that they be delivered to the Sheriff at the fifteen of S. Martine or the day after Hilary at utmost That Sheriffs and Escheators may be yearly removed Sheriffs and Escheators shall be yearly chosen at Michaelmas and have out their Commissions the day after All Souls that no dinners or gifts be given them in the Receipt or Exchequer on pain That Writs be sent into all the Counties of England to publish the perambulations of the Forrest heretofore made and to make new perambulations and to establish the continuance of the same so as every Officer upon the breach thereof do forfeit his Office and render double damages to the party grieved The King meaneth newly to make perambulations through England and willeth that the Charter of the Forrest be observed That remedy may be had against certain Lombards who have coloured certain ships fraughted and wrecked goods of the Kings enemies and persued by certain of the Kings Subjects to be their own and by sinister means have obtained the same The grieved upon suit to the Councel shall have right That no lands or tenements be seized by any of the Kings Officers of any person not attainted of Treason or Felonie in his life time Let it be more fully opened That no Sheriff Under sheriff or Gaoler be Justice during their Offices neither that they be put in any Commission then only concerning their Offices It liketh the King That the Bishops do certainly appoint what shall be taken for a Probate of a Testament and for an Acquittance upon the accompt The Statutes therefore made shall be kept That for goods of Felons found by office every man may traverse such Offices and upon the reversing of the same to be discharged The Law shall stand as it doth That no man be charged upon an account in the Exchequer of Scottish money sweet Wine sold without licence Corn Lead Tin Worsted Butter and such like whereby no profit is to the Prince That for Scottish money remedie was provided 47 E. 3. tit 19. for sweet Wines remedy was appointed at the last Parliament and for the rest shall be with opportunity That the Clerks of the Market of the Kings houshold do not by extortion take Fines in gross or certain of any Towns and that there may be appointed a certainty of Measures and Weights according to to the Standard He shall see punishment done according to the quality of the fault without any such Fines taking there where he doth not his Office And the measure to be according to the Standard and Statute made That no Patent of any Lands found by the Escheators Enquest be granted so as the party will stand bound to answer the King the profits thereof if upon trial it be found for the King The King will be advised thereof That the Chancellor upon the Writ of Champerty may grant forth Writs at the suit of the party and that he may recover damages in his suit The King will be advised until the next Parliament They require remedy against reservation of Benefices from Rome This Bill is elswhere answered That the Lord Steward and Marshal of the Kings houshold do hold no other pleas then are contained in the Statute called Articuli super Chartas That they of twelve miles may be certainly limited whether from the Kings presence or the place of the housholdâ— and not from both unless they be together and that the Steward do keep his Session within three miles about the presence of the King as it hath been accustomed They shall have jurisdiction from the place where the King himself is or from the place where the houshold is kept twelve miles of every part only and not from the one and the other at one time And further the Statute therefore made shall stand That every man in the Exchequer being impleaded may wage his Law as in other Courts where wager doth lie They shall not wage their Law in the Exchequer as in other Courts where the King is not party That the Corographer may be sworne that neither he nor none of his Clerks do take for the ingrossing of a Fine but only Four shillings The Statute made therefore shall stand A long Bill against the usuâ—pations of the Pope as being the cause of all the plagues injuries famine and poverty of the Realm so as thereby was not left the third person or other Commodity within the Realm as lately was That the Tax paid to the Pope for Ecclesiastical dignities doth amount to five times as much as the Tax of all the profits as appertain to the King by the year of this whole Realm and for some one Bishoprick or other dignity the Pope by way of translation and death hath three four or five several Taxes That the Brokers of that sinful City for money promote many Caitiffs being altogether unlearned and unworthy of a Thousand marks Living yearly where the learned and worthy can hardly obtain Twenty marks whereby Learning decayeth That Aliens enemies to this Land who never saw nor care for to see their Parishioners have those Livings whereby they despise Gods service and convey away the treasure and are worse thâ—n Jews or Saracens To be considered that the Law of the Church would have such Livings to be bestowed for charity only without praying or paying That reason would that Livings given of devotion should be bestowed in hospitality That God had
therefore yearly 3.6.8 â— that the Sheriff may upon his accompt be discharged thereof Let it be shewed to the King and if it please him that the Earl enjoy the same the Sheriff shall be discharged according to the quantity if not the Sheriff shall be at his answer The Burgesses of Southwark pray a Confirmation of their Charter lately burned by casualty Let them make their persuit in the Chancery and they shall have right The Major and Commons of Newcastle upon Tine complain that where the Prior of Tinmouth parcel of S. Iohn of Ierusalem in Englandâ— by cautelous and suborned means brought his Writ of Freehold in Fernham and put in view and plaint the greater parcel in value of the same Town holden in farm of the Crown time out of mâ—nde and recovered Whereupon order was taken that the same Justice of Assize should not in that Assize have a procedendo but that the Chancellor should grant a Commission for the examining of the truth untill which time the matter should stay they therefore require that the Assize be no further proceeded in until the Commission return Remedy is provided in this Parliament as appeareth by another Bill thereunto endorsed The Commons of the Marches in Estritheng require that Commission may be made to the Lord Percy the Prior of Bridelington Sir Robert Boynton Sir Robert de Constable Sir Iohn of Snareby and Iohn de Almary that they may appointable persons for the defence of the same and namely for an arrival between a place called Erledicks and the Town called Whitby It pleaseth the King The Commons of the Counties of Essex and Hartford pray that the Sheriff upon his account be allowed an hundred pounds yearly of that which he cannot receive Let them search the Exchequer Treasury and elsewhere for the causes of the distress oâ— thâ—se Farms for two years now ensuing and in the mean time the Sheriff shall have pardon of an hundred marks The Commons of the City of Rochester pray that the Clerk of the Market may have nothing to do within the said City He shall make assay and due punishment of such as make default without taking any Fines in gross of the same Town where he doth not his Office The Commons of the County of Northampton shew that the Sheriff is yearly charged with an hundred pounds for the profit of the shire where he knows not how to levie above fifty three pounds three shillings four pence and pray consideration thereof Let them declare their request in special manner They pray a pardon of all forfeitures supposed to be done by any of them whereof they were not attainted in their life and that no such hereafter be made The King will thereof be advised That the Process of such as be at Issue and do not within one year after sue out his Nisi prius be discontinued and had for nothing The Law heretofore used shall stand That no man upon pain of loss of all that he hath do carry forth Corn out of the Realm but only for the provision of Calice The Liege people shall be free to carry where they best like for their most profit The Commonalty of Nottingham Derby and Lincoln and of the Town of Nottingham require that by the Kings Letters-Patents the County and Town of Nottingham aforesaid may appoint two Guardians who may purchase lands unto them and their successors for the maintenance of a Bridge called Heybeth-bridge nigh unto the Town of Nottingham The King will be advised That the like Order that is made in London against the horrible vice of Usury may be observed throughout the whole Realm The old Law shall continue That recovery may be had and an Attorney by a Writ of Assise of Nevel disseisin of Nusance made to a Miln or to the Frank-tenant of Nusance made in times past as heretofore Let the Common-Law run They require that remedy may be had against certain Lombards who named themselves to be of the Company of Askertines or of Stroze or other the like and thereby have upon credit bought Wooll of English men some to the value of Thirty pounds and some Twenty pounds and some have departed to the great undoing of divers Englishmen as Thomas Blanchered Nicholas Iohn and other their Factors lately did It is before the Great Council For the trial of any mans birth whereupon inheritance doth stand that the Enquest for the trial may be of the County where the birth is laid and not where the Writ is brought The old Law therein shall be observed That the Kings carriage for himself and his houshold may be of carts and horses of his own and not to charge the Commons therewith And to remember the Court of Marshalsey for there is great complaint thereof throughout the whole Realm The King knoweth not how these things may be brought to pass but if they be he will charge the Steward and other Officers to make redress And to the Article of the Marshalsey let it be declared The Merchants of the Staple require to be eased of divers new Impositions as Chalking Tronage Wharfage c. The King would no new Impositions but that the same be enquired of if it be need That commandment may be made to the Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of every Shire to raise the power of the Shire for the repressing of Routs and Riots The King will appoint order and willeth that the Statute be executed They require that good regard may be had for the keeping of the Castle of Nottingham wherein the sons of Sir Charls de Blois are under the keeping of a stranger not able to answer therefore where by Record it doth appear that the Keeper of that Castle was wont to be an Earl of the Realm Let it be declared to the King and Great Council The Commonalty of Cities and Towns prayen that such parcel and Hamlets of Towns lying neer to the walls of their Cities and Towns and yet not belonging to the same may be contributory to all charges within such their walled Cities and Towns and that the Mayors and Bailiffs of the same may arrest all breakers of the peace there The King meaneth thereof to be advised That it will please the King to pardon to the Commons of Northhumberland all issues and amerciaments lost in any of the Kings Courts from 48. unto these presents The King will be advised The Commons of Southampton pray remedy against the extortions of the Lord Nevil for not paying men their wages whereby the soldiers spoiled the Couutry to the value of Four hundred pounds and that remedy may be provided for the like The offender shall answer
appointed Justice of Assize or deliverie or of the Peace in his Countrie The King thereof will be advised That such Justices as keep the Sessions in the Shire of York may hold Sessions also twice in the year at least in the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland That the Justices shall hold their Sessions in order to the order made without reasonable excuse It is enacted for holding the Assizes in effect according to the Print Cap. 5. but not in forme That the Justices and their Clarks do enroll all Deeds to them brought within one Quarter of a year after such Deeds to them brought or else to answer the partie thereby endamaged The Statutes therefore provided shall be examined observed That the King will appoint good orders about his person and rule of his houshold so as he may live within his Revenues and that all profits and gifts may be employed upon the Wars to the ease of the Commons The King much desireth it and so by advise meaneth to do The King at the request of the Commons granteth pardon of all treasons and Fellonies done in the late Insurrection except certain before excepted and except Iohn Horne Adam Carlill and Walter Sibell of London now accused of horrible Acts. That remedie may be had against the misdemeanours of Cheshire men touching their rapes and other oppressions done in sundrie Countries wherein they seem to be lawless The King by advise will take the best order saving the liberties of Chester The print touching Ravishers Cap. 6. agrees with the Record in part but not altogether for that the print in sundry points containeth more than is in the Record quod nota For sundry causes in the Record alledged the Commons require that the King would allow to the Bishop of Norwich a certain Army and Provision therefore for the Invasion of France considering that the said Bishop hath the Popes Grosarie to prosecute the Anti-Pope and all his adherents of whom the French were chief The King hath appointed his Councell to treate with the Bishop herein That no Patent upon an enquest of office of the Escheator be granted of any mans lands untill the Kings title be fully disclosed The Statute therefore made shall be kept The King at the request of the Commons pardoneth all Trespasses touching Lands or Tenements Trespasses done by the Kings officers or other great Lords and of Jurors and maintainers of quarrels After three years expired during which terme the Sheriffs of Essex and Hertford hath by Parliament pardon of one hundred marks yearly parcell of his charge The King granteth the like pardon for three years more Upon complaint made by the Commons the King willeth that prohibition be made against the Popes Collectors for receiving of first-fruits The King upon request of the Commons confirmeth the Statute made in the last Parliament that the Barons of the Exchequer may discharge all matters there sued without further attending of the great or prive Seale The King revoketh the Statute made in the last Parliament tit 17. and the 5. Chapter in the Print touching Preachers upon the words of the Commons being this Forasmuch as the same Statute was never assented nor granted by the Commons but that which was therein done for it was never their meaning to be justified and bind themselves and their Successors to the Prelates no more than their Ancestors have done before them The King at the request of the Commons enacteth that no man from henceforth doeth transport any Corne out of the Land other than to Callice Gascoyn Brest Shirburgh and Barwick on forfeiting of the same And that no loading be granted to the contrary and that such as have Licence be bound to the same The Print touching Victuallers to bear no Judiciall office Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record The Print touching retailing of Fish Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme altogether The Print touching fore-stalling of Fish Cap. 11. agreeth with the Record in effect but not altogether in forme Among these Bills mention was made to have some remedy against Usurie Usurers and Brokers Touching Usurie the King would the Laws of the Church should discuss the same but if any man be grieved by Usury upon accompt trespass extortion oppression falsehood deceipt or such like means the Laws and Customes of the Realm shall punish the same The Print touching the Oath of Officers for the observation of the four Articles aforesaid Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme Note that these five Articles aforesaid were devised and requested by the Mayor and Aldermen and Ciâ—izens of London Upon the exhibition of the last Bills by the Mayor and Aldermen of London as is aforesaid aswell the said Mayor and Aldermen as most of the Fishmongers were at the reading of the same Bill in the Parliament at what time one Nicholas Exton who spake for the Fishmongers prayed the King to receive him and his Company into his protection so as no Corporall hurt come to them Thereupon it was commanded to either parties that they should keep the Peace the one towards the other on pain of loosing all that they had This done one Walter Sibell a Fishmonger started up and required audience which granted he began to crow that those devises were not exhibited for any good zeale to the Common-wealth but for meer malice born to the Fishmongers for that the chief exhibiters being in the time of King E. 3. condemned to prison for sundry their misdemeanors were so imprisoned by certain of the Fishmongers then being chief officers in London for which cause malice was to that time To that one Iohn Moore a Mercer answered that the Citizens of London meant to keep the Peace towards them unless they went about to let into the said City the Rebels of Kent and Essex as the said Walter and others did lately Walter took advantage of these words and desired the Lords to bear witness Moore hereupon expounded his words saying as the report went and prayed that the same might be enquired of which was granted Anno Sexto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Westminster the Munday in the third week in Lent An. 6. RICHARDI 2. THe same Munday being the 24. of February certain Bishops and Lords assembled in the place accustomed in the Palace of Westminster and for that it was reported to them that sundry Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the Parliament by the Kings Commandement was adjourned to the next day The same Tuesday following the King with the Bishops Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament before
persuading the English to decline there to departed from their own offers a good cause of assurance for the English in so good a quarrell to look for Victorie He then concludeth by shewing that four means or ways would greatly furtherâ— yea and speed this Consultation First to be early in the House the second to repell all Melancholly Passions the third to begin at most needfull matters And then to direct without mixture of any Orders And fourthly to abandon all Maintaining and partaking Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyn and other places beyond the Seas and of the Isls. Tryars of Petitions for England c. as above Tryars of Petitions for Gascoyne c. as above The Lords and Commons granted to the King two Fifteens conditionally that the one Moitie of the Fifteen granted in the last Parliament may cease and so as if the King go not in Person or that Peace be taken then the last Fifteen may cease Upon discourse between the Chancellor and Schollers of Cambridge and the Mayor and Bayliffs of the same for the Kings Grant made to the Chancellor in the fifth year of this King tit 59. the King explaineth his said Grant in two points viz. that the said Chancellor c. shall have the delivery of the Bushell half Bushell and the Peck and the Groat for the Bushell and every other measure after the rate And the said Chancellor shall by his or their proper Officer Summon attach Regrators and such offenders of Victuals to appear and answer such offences Walter Sibell of London was arrested and brought into the Parliament before the Lords at the suit of Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford for slandring him to the Duke of Lancaster and other Nobles for Maintenance The same Walter denyed not but that he said that certain there named recovered against him the said Walter and that by Maintenance of the said Earle as he thought The said Earle being present affirmed himself to be innocent thereof and to be tryed Walter thereupon was committed to prison and the next day humbly submitting himself he desired the Lords to be a meane for him saying that he could not accuse him whereupon the Lords Convicted him to the Damage of 500. marks to the said Earl for the which and for his Fine and Ransome he was committed to Prison Alice the wife of Sir William Windsor Knight desired to have the Judgement and Order made against her in the time of King E. 3. and the Judgement and Statute made against her in the first year of this King to be repealed and that she may be restored to all her Lands and Tenements whatsoever The King repealeth those Orders Judgements and Statutes so as all Gifts Grants and Feoffments of any the Lands Tenements or houses repealed may remain in force The Prior of Montague rehearsed his matter contained in the last Parliament tit 21. Sir Richard Seymore in proper person appeareth upon the Sheriffs returne the old Record and process at large repeated wherein is a goodly forme of pleading worthy of all good Lawyers to be had by heart The Prior is willed to assign his Errors who assigneth according to the last Parliament tit 20. And for the Error in being put out of the Ayd of the King the cause in long pleading was this The Kâ—ng granteth to William de Montague Earl of Salisbury c. by Letters Patents the Patronage of the said Priorie and the Custody and Farme of the same in time of Peace and War yet after this Grant made to the Earl the same King E. 3. for a certain Rent granted the same Priorie to the said Prior during the Wars saving to him Knights Fees and advousons of Churches and after granteth the same Rent or Farme to the Earl And for that ayd of the King upon this disclosing was denyed to the Earl it was with the other conteined in the title before in error For which Errors It was adjudged that the former Judgement given in the Kings Bench should be undone and void and that the Prior should be restored to the said Mannour with the mean profits with commandement given to the Chancellor to execute the said judgement so alwaies as the said Sir Richard de la Poole by a Writ of Right or a new scire fac may prosecute his suit again Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe print touching the Liberties of the Church Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme The print toâ—ching Justices of Assize Cap. 2. agreeth with the Record The print touching Justices and Barons of the Exchecquer not to take any Mans Fee Cap. 3. agreeth in manner with the Record but not altogether in forme for that the Record hath much more quod nota That the Goods and Lands of any being dead be not seised into the Kings hands for any Debt unless the same be found of Record a Debt It shall be used as in time past That a pain may be provided for such as having any Castle or Fort Resident in the Marches of Scotland and do not furnish the same for Defence according to a Statute made in the sixth year of this King The King will charge the Lords to do the same as heretofore they have done Prohibitions touching Tyth-Wood shall be granted according to the Statute made in the 45th of E. 3. which is enacted Sundry Counties complain against the men of Cheshire for their sundry Robberies Felonies and other misdoings done in those Countries by reason of such misdoers forfeit no goods in the same Shire and to pray that they may Forfeit their Lands and Goods for Fellonies done in other places The King meaneth to provide remedy therefore if God so will That no Man take any the Fry of Fish in the River of Thames unless the Meshâ— of the Net be according to the Statute therefore provided The Statute therefore heretofore made shall be observed That some remedy of Defence may be provided for the Towns of Rye and Winchalsey for that upon suddain Invasions of the Enemy they are often spoyled and burned The King will provide therefore That none being Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs or Escheators shall for three years after execute the same Office again according to the Statute made The Chancellor shall answer by mouth The Answer of the Chancellor It were prejudiciall to the King and his Crown after one year to choose eft soon the same person being an able man wherefore it shall be at the Kings pleasure It is
Gospell Petitions of the Commons with their Answers 49. THe print touching the Liberties of the Church Cap. 1. agreeth with the Record 50. That all such as procure from Rome any Pluralitie or Non-Residence do incur the pain of Provisors except the Chaplains of the King of the Arch-Bishops or Bishops and except Schollers and that such as then had any of the said Bulls do cancell them on the like pain To which the King answered that he would provide remedy therefore 51. That no appropriation of Benefices be on the like pain The King will be thereof advised 52. The print Cap. 3. touching provision from Rome doth more properly belong to this title than to the title before 53. The print touching carrying of money Cap. 5. for the Act agreeth with the Record and for the rehearsall of the same Act is no mention made quod nota 54. The print touching the Marshall Cap. 23. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 55 That the Fees of all Marshals in every of the Kings Courts and of the Warden of the Fleet may be certainly appointed upon forfeiture The King hath appointed his Councell the Chancellor and Justices to take order therein 56 It is enacted that all Priors Aliens who have Houses and sing daily service be discharged of their Farmes to the King saving to Bishops their Jurisdictions 57. The Commons pray that all Sheriffs being overcharged be eased thereof The Sheriffs of Essex Hereford Surrey and Sussex and others who have cause to complain shall have remedy before the Councell 58. That no Protection be granted to any person of Religion The Protections with the clause volumus to them granted shall be revoked and they onely shall have such Protections granted as in the time of E. 3. 59. That no Consultation be granted to any person clayming the Tithe of Wood which passeth the age of twenty one years It shall be as heretofore 60. That no person be arrested or imprisoned contrary to the forme of the great Charter The Statutes and Common Laws shall be kept 61. The print touching strange Coyns Cap. 6. agreeth with the Record 63. Upon the request of the Commons the King promiseth that he will not from henceforth dispence with the Statute of Provision to Benefices 64. That no man be kept from Justice by any Writ or other means obtained from the King by sundry suggestions on pain of twenty pound to the obtainer of the same The Statutes therefore provided shall be kept and who pursueth to the contrary shall incur the pain aforesaid 65. That where two Offices be found proving severall titles for the King and Livery or ouster le mayne is sued on the first that he who sueth such Liverie or ouster le mayne be not put forth but a Scire facias awarded against him to know what he can say The Statutes and Laws therefore provided shall be kept 66. That the Justices to take Nisi prius may have power to give Judgement forth with after Verdict found before them not tarrying the day of the returne of the Nisi prius It shall be as heretofore it hath been 67. The print touching Non-Suit of the Plaintiff Cap. 7. agreeth with the Record 68. That the Justices of Assize and Nisi prius may have power to have Deeds acknowledged before them and to enroll them It shall be as heretofore it hath been 69. That no VVrits be sued out of the Chancery or Exchecquer to any man to appear at a day upon paine Such VVrits shall not be granted without necessity 70. That the Capias and Exigent may be in Writs of Annuitie Detinue and Covenant The Statutes therefore provided shall be observed 71. That in all personall Actions or Writs wherein any man cometh to distress being brought against sundry persons such of them as first cometh in may have idem dies untill they all appear and not to be suffered to fourch by Essoyns The old Law shall be observed 72. The print touching the Office of the Chirographer Cap. 8. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 73. The print touching Commissions of King Richard Cap. 9. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 74. The print touching the Clarke of the Crown Cap. 10. agreeth ut supra 75. The print touching the Admirall Cap. 11. agreeth ut supra 76. The Commons of the County of Hereford complain against the incroachment and sundry extortions of the Officers of the Forrest of Ewias and pray redress and perambulation Upon the search and sight of the perambulation taken in the time of E. 3. order shall be therein taken 77. The print touching Welchmen Cap. 12. agreeth with the Record in effect but not in forme 78. The print touching the pardon of King Richard Cap. 13. agreeth ut supra 79. They require that the Statutes made in Annis 8 12 R. 2. touching the power of the Constable and Marshall may be executed and further require a more streightning of their wilfull power so as men might be duly tryed according to the Laws of the Realm That Statutes therefore provided shall be observed 80. The print touching Purveyors Cap. 10. agreeth with the Record 81. It is enacted that such persons as be taken or imprisoned for Lollerie may be taken forthwith to their answer 82. The like motion and answer is made touching the extortion of the Sheriffs of Londons Officers in Smithfield as in the last Parliament 83. That remedy may be had against Parsons clayming Tithes of Meadows or Wasts newly sowen Let him Sue that is especially grieved 84. It is enacted that if any Welchman shall arrest any Englishmans Goods or Chattels in Wales without cause or take them out of the Marches into Wales And that the Steward or other Officer of such place or Libertie in Wales do not deliver the same Goods or Chattels to the party grieved within seven days after the means to him or them made that then it shall be lawfull to those Englishmen to arrest such VVelchmens Goods of such place or Libertie as shall come into England The print Cap. 16. agreeth with this 85. That all Traverses of Office and Scire facias going out of the Chancery may be tryed in the Kings Bench or Common place The Chancellor by vertue of his place may grant the same 86. That the VVrits of Supersedeas omnino being onely delay to the party may no more be granted It shall be as it hath been
is to be noted that the said Lord Talbot served King H. 5. in France by the space of two yeares valiantly without any wages It is enacted that the Duke of Orleance the Kings Cosen then in the Keeping of Sr. Thomas Chamberworth Knight should be delivered to Sr. Iohn Cornwall Knight by him safely to be kept It is also enacted that the keeping of the Duke of Burbon should be committed to Sr. Thomas Chamberworth Knight The King by the assent of the Bishops and Lords hath granted his assent to the election of Marmaduke Lumley Bishop elect of Carlite The matters in variance between Iohn Clement Esquire and the Tenants and Commons of the County of Cardigan and Morgan Clifford against the Abbot of Stanford is committed to certain Lords there named Authority is given to the Councell to make assurances to certain of the Kings Creditors for 50000 l. It is enacted that the Treasurer and Victualler of Callice shall receive a certain quantity of Staple ware and other revenues within the same Town to the payment of souldiers there and of other reparations The twenty third of February being the last day of the Parliament the Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords granted to the King for two yeares the like subsedy of wools as before The Commons by the assent of the Bishops and Lords do shorten the payment of the latter Dism and Fifteen to the King granted Certain Articles to the number of 18 touching the Orders of the Kings Council are established by the King Bishops and Lords Amongst which I note that the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester were in Council but as any two other of the Council And this amongst other good orders I see that the 11th Article of the same willeth to all Offices and Benefices of the Kings gift such as had served him and his Father should first be preferred thereunto A goodly president to encourage Officers to serve faithfully and painfully when that their hoping be not turned to haltering All which said Articles every of the Lords of the Council whose names are there contained promised faithfully to perform Petitions of the Commons with their Answers THe King revoketh a grant made to Sir Iohn St. Iohn Mayor of Burdeaux and to the Jurats of the same touching a certain imposition to be raised of Merchants coming thither The print touching riots done in the Forest of Deane cap. 27. agreeth with the record The King by his Letters Patents confirmed by Parliament granteth that the keeper of his free Chapel of St. George within the Castle of Windsor shall be from thenceforth incorporared by the name of Keeper or Dean of the said free Chapel The print touching the privilege of the Convocation-house cap. 1. agreeth with the record The print touching Denmark cap. 2. agreeth with the record The print touching the power of the Commissioners of Sewers Cap. 3. agreeth with the record in effect but not in form The print touching liveries of Cloath and Hats cap. 4. agreeth with the record The print touching weights c. cap. 5. agreeth not fully with the record being 26 E. 3. where the print is 25. The print touching burning of houses to be Treason cap. 6. agreeth with the record That the Statutes made that all Appeals of things done out of the realm should be tried before the Constable and Marshal of England and all done within the realm to be tryed according to the Lawes of the realm may be kept The Statutes therefore made shall be kept The print touching the election of Knights for the Shire cap. 7. agreeth with the record A motion that Sheriffs and such other Officers be not impeached by process out of the Exchequer for things not levyable The Kings Council shall have power to determine the same That all Burgesses of the Parliament may have their writ to the Sheriffs of the same Shire to levy their fees and wages The King will be advised That the Justices of the Peace may enquire of all Pyracies The King will be advised The Statutes made against breakers of truces in the 2 H. 5. extend not to the parts of Scotland The declarations made upon those petitions Anno 4 H. 5. shall be observed The like motion and answer as Anno 6 H. 6. tit 42. That all such Souldiers as passe through the realm doe pay for their victuals and lodging The King will be advised That all lands doe contribute to the payments of Knights fees coming to the Parliament except Bishops Lords and Towns who send Burgesses The King will be advised The print touching the observation of the Statute of Labourers cap. 8. agreeth with the record That no subsidy be payed for Lambs-wooll sherling and scalding but only Poundage The King will be advised The print touching forcible entries into any hereditaments c. cap. 9. agreeth with the record Besides that the Statute by the record doth not fully agree with the print The print touching processe in Indictments and Appeals cap. 10. doth not fully agree with the record The print touching taking of Apprentices in London cap. 11. agreeth with the record The print touching assigning of errors cap. 12. agreeth with the record The print touching protections for such as should passe over with the King cap. 13. agreeth with the record The print touching Felons flying into secret places cap. 14. agreeth with the record The print touching the amendment of records cap. 15. agreeth with the record The print touching Inquisitions of Escheators cap. 16. agreeth with the record One William Lake servant to William Mildred a Burgesse for London being committed to the Fleet upon an execution of debt was delivered by the privilege of the Commons house and authority given to the Chancellor to appoint certain by Commission to apprehend him after the end of the Parliament Wherein is to be noted that there is no cause to arrest any such man but for Treason Felony or the Peace A motion answered before in tit 37. The print touching shipping to the Staple cap. 17th agreeth with the record The print touching the price of Staple ware and the Mint at Callice cap. 18. agreeth with the record The print touching privy conveying of Merchandize out of the realm cap. 19. agreeth with the record The print touching the Inhabitants of Callice that use to buy Staple ware cap. 20. agreeth with the record The print touching men of Newcastle and Barwick shipping to Callice cap. 21. agreeth with the record The print touching clacking and inforcing of wools cap. 22. agreeth with
Powis Ricardo Hastings de Welles Oweno Ogle de Ogle Mil. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford Anno Primo Ricardi Tertii In Rotulo Parliamenti tenti apud Westm. die Veneris vicesimo tertio die Januarii Anno regni Regis Richardi Tertii primo inter alia continentur ut sequitur Mcmorand quod quaedam Billa exhibita fuit coram Domino Rege in Parliamento praedicto in haec verba WHereas late heretofore that is to say before the Consecration Coronation and Inthronization of our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third a roll of Parchment containing in writing certain Articles of the tenor under-written on the behalf and in the name of the Three Estates of this Realm of England that is to say of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and divers Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons by name and other Nobles and notable persons of the Commons in great multitude was presented and actually delivered unto our said Soveraign Lord the intent and effect expressed at large in the same roll to the which roll and to the Considerations and instant Petition comprised in the same our said Soveraign Lord for the publique weal and tranquility of this Land benignly assented Now for as much as neither the said three Estates neither the said persons which in their name presented and delivered as it is aforesaid the said roll unto our said Soveraign Lord the King were assembled in form of Parliament by reason whereof divers doubts questions and ambiguities been moved and ingendred in the minds of divers persons as it is said Therefore to the perpetual memory of the truth and declaration of the same be it ordained provided and established in this present Parliament that the tenor of the said roll with all the Contents of the same presented as is abovesaid delivered to our abovesaid Soveraign Lord the King in the name and in the behalf of the said three Estates out of Parliament Now by the said three Estates assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be ratified enrolled recorded approved and authorized to the removing of the recasions of doubts and ambiguities and to all other lawfull effects that shall now thereof ensue so that all things said affirmed specified desired and remembred in the said roll and in the tenour of the same under-written in the name of the said three Estates to the effect expressed in the said roll be of the like effect vertue and force as if all the same things had been so said affirmed specified and remembred in full Parliament and by authority of the same accepted and approved the Tenor of the said roll of Parchment whereof above is made mention followeth and is such To the High and Mighty Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester PLeaseth it your Noble Grace to understand the Considerations Election and Petition under-written of us the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Realm of England and thereunto agreeable to give your assent to the Common and publique weal of this land and to the comfort and gladness of all the People of the same First we consider how that heretofore in time passed this land for many years stood in great prosperity honour and tranquility which was caused for so much as the Kings reigning used and followed the advice and counsel of certain Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other persons of approved sagenesse prudence policy and experience dreading God and having tender zeal and affection to indifferent administration of Justice and to the Common and publique weal of the land Then our Lord God was dread loved and honoured Then within the land was peace and tranquility and among the Neighbours Concord and Charity Then the malice of outward Enemies was mightily resisted and repressed and the Land honourably defended with many great and glorious victories Then the intercourse of Merchants was largely used and exercised by which things above remembred the land was greatly inriched so that as well the Merchants as the Artificers and other poor people labouring for their living in divers Occupations had competent gain to the satisfaction of them and their housholds living without miserable and intollerable poverty But afterwards when as such had the rule and governance of this land delighting in adulation and flattery and led by sensuality and concupiscence followed the counsel of persons insolent vicious and of inordinate avarice despising the Counsel of persons good vertuous and prudent such as above be remembred the prosperity of this land decreased daily so that our felicity was turned into misery and our prosperity into adversity and the order of policy and the Laws of God and man confounded whereby it is likely this Realm to fall into great misery and desolation which God defend without due provision of convenable remedy be had in this behalf in all godly haste Over this among other things more special we consider how that the time of the reign of Edw. the 4. late deceased after the ungracious pretended mariage as all England hath cause to say made betwixt the said King Edw. and Elizabeth sometimes Wife to Sir Iohn Gray Knight late naming her self and many years heretofore Queen of England the order of politique rule was perverted the Laws of God and of Gods Church c. also the Laws of Nature and of England and also the laudable customs and liberties of the same wherein every Englishman is inheritor is broken subverted and contemned against all Reason and Justice so that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good Maiden and Woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discords inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destruction of the Nobles bloud of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English-men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without
without collusion within three months after landing and to exchange no moneys p. 612. A motion that the Easterlings may no longer enjoy their Liberties here since the English cannot enjoy theirs in Islandâ— p. 616. Allom taken up of the Merchants of Jean for the Kings present necessiâ—ies who are to ship any Staple Wares to the value the Merchants of the Scuth to have the Allom paying 8000 l. p. 647. A Petition that no Merchants beyond the Streight of Morocco bring into the Realm any other Merchandize then such as are growing in their own Country for sundry reasons rejâ—cted p. 6â—6 Mâ—lls built on Rivers to the obstructing the â—ree pâ—ssage of Ships Boats and Vessels to be demolished as nusancesâ— p 57 75 76 112 150â— 334 375 396 412. An Assize of Novel disseisin for a Mill and Attorney in it p. 175. Mint Plate to be received in it by weight p. 81. Merchants to bring in Gold and Bullion to it p. 362. Gold seised in it to the Kings use restored p. 551. An Act touching the Mint at Calice p. 571. Mint-Masters Fees for coynage p. 481. His Commission p. 565. No Mâ—nt-master in the Tower to be a Master of exchange without it prayed but denied and the practice contrary p. 560 565 568. Money motions and Acts against its exportation p. 16 37 49 73 74 96 129 130 171 197 204 â—09 409 424 482 557 643 657. Necessaries for Forraign Soldiers bought within the Realm for that endâ— p. 557. The want of it how to be remedied p. 18 37 309. It s goodness to be enhanced p. 37. Câ—ipping and washing of it Complaints and Acts against it p. 177 548. Money raised p. 309. Acts and Complaints against falâ—e and Forraign money p. 39 47 48 54 61 62 70 75 197 571. Shifts how to raise moneys in publick necessities p. 27 28 29 647. An Act concerning money p. 204. Silver to be coyned according to the old Allay and currentâ— p. 37. To remain within the Realm p. 96. Good money to be as hereâ—ofore farthings to be current and the price of Florins abated p. 41. An Act against embasing money p. 80. Acts concerning Scotish Silver p. 117 127. and Strange Coyns p. 410. The King and his Council have power to make Ordinances touching money p. 539. Acts touching the â—llay and weight of money and coynage at Caliceâ— and elsewhere p. 560. Expending and conveyingâ— out the King's Treasure to and French and Article against the Duke of Suffolkâ— p. 642 643. See Exchange Bullion Gold Silver Monopolies the restraint of free buying and selling Commodities complained agaiâ—st p. 52 58. Of Tâ—nne p. 56. Of Wools p. 58 61. Of sweet Wines in London a censure upon a complaint for it in Parliament p. 122 123. Of Herring That none may buy it within seven miles of Yarmouth in fishing timeâ— repealed p. 126 191 203. Of Allom for two yeers to supply the King 's present wants p. 647. Morgage redeemed and not restored complained of in Parliament and referred to Law p. 330. The wardship of an heir granted to him who redeemed the Lands being morgaged till the Money raised p. 698. Mordaâ—cester conusance of Pleas to be granted in it p. 163. Roger Mortimer Earl of March condemned and executed in Parliament without Arraignment or Trial p. 6 8. His Attainder is therefore reversed p. 85 86. Mortmain Acts concerning it p. 44 161. Frauds to elude it by religious persons taking the profits p. 148. By Feofments in trust to others without receiving the profits p. 161. By first infeofing the King to reâ—infeof them in Mortmain to extinguish their rights of whom they are held p. 203. By causing their villains to marry Inheritrices that are Free p. 355. Against all which there are Remedies prayed To the use of Rochester-Bridge p. 344. To Winchester p. 475. To Southampton p. 542. To St. Annes Chantry p. 604. To others p. 624. Lands purchased in Mortmainâ— exempted from the Commons Tax p. 479. Mortuarie armour taken for it complained against p. 185. Mountgrace Prior and Covent Lands setled on it p. 624. Murage aides of some Customs prayed by Winchester towards it p 132. Religious persons to contribute towards it p. 161. Impositions granted towards it to cease p. 348. Murderâ— proclamation and order in Parliament for apprehending Murderers wiâ—h a reward for their taking p. 6 7. Indemnified and pardoned in apprehending Malefactorsâ— by the Kings command p. 9. And in times of Insurrection p. 197. Indictment for it before the Coroner and forfeiture for flying p 126. Oyer and Terminer granted upon Murders p. 347. Of one Knight of the Shire killing the other no Bayl before Trial p. 354. Of the Duke of Gloucester at Calice adjudged Treason and execution accordingly p. 400 401. Of an Husband ripping up the Wives wombe to see whether she were with child prayed to have judgement of hanging drawing and quartering p. 6â—1 A motion that a shameful Murderer becoming an Approver and pardoned might be hanged notwithstanding pâ— 632. Staying process upon Appeals of Murderâ— an impeachment against the Duke of Suffolk p. 643. Complaints of barbarous murders of Husbands by Wives in Parliament and Appeals granted to them and their Sons if they die with process thereon p. 646 690 691. Articles proclaimed against Murders p. 673. Beheading men against Law Murder p. 670. By Poysoning An Indictment and Judgement thereupon repealed in Parliament p. 703. Pardon of it for a Fine p. 283 428. N NAturalization by Parliament p. 363. King of Navar his promise and perfidiouâ—ness to â— E. 3 p. 90. Navigation obstructions of it in great Rivers to be removed p. 57. See Nusances Navyâ— the causes of its decay p. 113 164 179. Raised maintained and kept together for the defence of the Sea and Merchants saâ—e conducts aids contribution for that end p. 20 21 25 29 69 70 116 167 204 311 312 348 452 534. Necessity Assizes not to be delayed but in case of Necessity p 40. Impositions excused as made upon great Necessity p. 53 60 152. Eyres and other Inquiries to cease for the Subjects case if great and urgent Necessity do not otherwise cause p. 70 342. Merchants to carry overmonies only for their great Necessities p. 74. Taking of Ships not to be but for Necessity p. 118. Friends to be assayed in times of Necessity p. 154. Due and speedy aides desired in the Parliament as knowing the Necessity p. 175. and to serve the Kings Necessity p. 291. Yielding a fort to the enemy pleaded to be upon Necessity without money taken yet censured in Parliament p. 292. No Subpoena's to be granted out of the Chancery or Exchequer without Necessity p. 410. In Necessity every member seeks to comfort and defend the head so the Subjects the Kingâ— p. 464. Present Necessity requires speedy dispatch and ready assistance from the Parliament p. 470. Archers granted in Parliament to aid the King respited by him unless drawn by great Necessity to take them p. 650. Upon â—rgent
nor Ordinance but only the Kings Answer by the Archbishops mouth to the Commons prayer That the Commons were only Petitioners and THAT ALL JUDGEMENTS APPERTAIN UNTO THE KING AND LORDS unlesse it were in Statutes c. After which he subjoyns Rot. Parl. 2. H. 5. n. 13. Error assigned that the Lords gave judgement without petition or assent of the Commons when as there is no such Error therein assigned and the judgement there alleged to be erroneous was confirmed by the Lords as you may read in this Abridgement and more fully in my Plea for the Lords To pretermit many more of his Mistakes in his very Chapter of Parliaments which this Abridgement will both discover and rectifie I shall touch but upon one more In his 4. Instit. p. 10. he hath this passage Walsingham saith that in Anno Domini 1404. which was Anno 6 H. 4 in the writs of the Summons of Parliament there was added by the King a Commandement in the Writ THAT NO LAWYER SHOULD BE RETURNED KNIGHT OR BURGESSE But the Historian was deceived FOR THERE IS NO SUCH CLAUSE IN THOSE WRITS but it was wrought by the Kings Letters by pretext of an Ordinance in the Lords House in 46 E. 3. In which passage there are three mistakes together 1. A misrecital of Thomas of Walsinghams words That no Lawyer or Apprentice should be elected Knight of the Shire without any mention of Burgesses Direxit ergo Rex writes he BREVIA Vicecomitibus NE QUOSQUAM PRO COMITATIBUS ELIGERENT QUOVISMODO MILITES QUI IN JURE REGNI VEL DOCTI FUISSENT VEL APPRENTICII Sed tales omnino mitterentur ad hoc negotium quos conslat ignorare cujusque Iuris methodum FACTUMqUE EST ITA Whence he stiles it in his Margin PARLIAMENTUM INDOCTORUM To which he subjoyns in his Ypodigma Neustriae this observation In hoc Parliamento concessa fuit Regi taxa insolita et incolis tricabilis et valde gravis Cujus modum praesentibus inseruissem nisi Concessores ipsi Authores dicti Tallagii in perpetuum latere posteros maluissent Nempe sub ea tantum conditione concedebatur ne traheretur posterius in exemplum nec servarentur ejus evidentâ—ae in the sauraria Regia nec in Scaccario sed Scripturae vel recordationes ejusdem protiÌ„nus post datum compotum cremarentur nec emitterentur Brevia seu Commissiones contra Collectores vel Inquisitores hujus negotii de melius inquirendo A good president for the burning abolishing of all late records of illegal excessive Taxes Excises imposed and levied on the English Nation for so many years together without intermission 2ly A charging of Walsingham who lived in those times and knew them better than Sir Edward Cooke with a direct mistake and untruth That there is no such clause in the writs then issued as he recites when as it is most apparent by the writs themselves remaining on Record in the Tower in the Clause Roll of 5 H. 4. pars 2. m. 4 Dorso which I have perused with mine own eyes for my own and others satisfaction and by diverse Notes and Transcripts thereof which I have seen in Manuscripts that there was this clause inserted into all the writs of Summons then issued to exclude the Sheriffs themselves with all Apprentices and Men of the Law from being elected Knights Citizens or Burgesses Nolumus autem quod tu seu aliquis alius Vicecomes regni nostri aut APPRENTICIUS SIVE ALIQUIS ALIUS HOMO AD LEGEM ALIQUALITER SIT ELECTUS Et habeas ibi nomina praedictorum Militum Civium Burgensium hoc Breve Teste Rege apud Lichefield 25 die Augusti on which day the writs of Summon both to the Archbishops Bishops and Temporal Lords bear date all entred together in the same Roll. I wonder therefore upon what ground or misinformation Sir Edward Cook could so confidently averr the contrary and tax this Historian for a mistake in this wherein he was most right and himself alone so palpably mistaken whose confidence made me of his opinion till I sifted out the truth by a more diligent search of the Record it self not mentioned in this Abridgement 3ly In averring that this was wrought by the Kings Letters by pretext of an Ordinance of the Lords House in 46 E. 3. when that he stiles an Ordinance of that the Lords House was an Ordinance or Act of Parliament Ordinances and Acts of Parliament being both one and the same as â— have elsewhere unanswerably proved againsâ— Sir Edward Cooks new mistaken Doctrine made by the whole Parliament not Lords House alone excluding all Practising Lawyers all Sheriffs from being elected Knights of Shires or receiving wages for their Service in that Parliament for the reasons therein mentioned which Ordinance I shall here insert at large out of the Parliament Roll of 46 E. 3. num 13. Auxi un Ordenance fait en mesme la Parlement fuit luez en manere come ensuet Pur ceo que Gentz de Ley que pursuont diverses busoignes en les Courts le Roy pur singuleres persones oue queux ils sont procurent et font mettre pleuseurs Petitions en Parlementz en nom des Comons que riens lour touche mes sâ—lement les singulers persones ou queuz ils font de moiez Auxi Viscontz que sont Communes Ministres au people et devient demurrer sur lour Office pur droit faire a chuny sont nomez et ont este devant ces heures et retornez eâ— Parlementz Chivalers des Countees per mesmes les Viscontz Est accorde et assenta en cest Parlement que desormes NUL HOME DE LEY PURSUONT BUSOIGNES EN LA COURTE LE ROY ne Viscount pur le temps que il est Viscount SOIENT RETOURNEZ NE ACCEPTEZ CHIVALERS DES COUNTEES ne que ces qui sont GENTZ DE LEY et Viscountz ore retournez au Parlement EIENT GAGEZ Num. 14. Mes voâ—t le Roy que Chivalers et SERJAUNTZ des meulz Vaues du paiis soiâ—z retornez desore Chivalers en Parliamentz et quils sount estuz en plein Counte An Ordinance most fit to be put in actual execution against such practising Lawyers who make suâ—e to be elected Parliament Members only or principally to get Clyents Practice and Prae-audience of others at the Barr and to promote their Clients or Friends causes in the House rather than diligently to discharge their publike Duties faithfully in the Parliament according to their trusts as too many have done of later ages as well as when this Ordinance was first enacted In the reading of this Abridgement I shall advise the Reader First to distinguish between the Parliament Rolls abbreviated and the Abridgers Observations on them here and there which are no part of the Record it self Such are all his Observations concerning the Agreement of or Disagreement and Variance of our printed Statutes from the Records and the like which cause
Earl of Worcestâ—r created Eaâ—l of Wiltshire created Parliament adjourned to Shrewsbury Oath to the King Oath of the Bishops and Lords to the King Temporall Lords Knights of the Countie Proctor for the Cleâ—gâ—e Excommunication denounced Parliament adjourned Reassembled at Shrewsbury Chancellor Causes of Parliament Churches and â—emples Liberties No Governours but one in the Realm Commons advice Chaâ—ges of Ireland Maâ—ches of Scotland Callice Guienne Truce expired The Speakers protestation enrolled Earl of March Oath Repeal of the Statutes of 11. R. 2. Restitution The Speakers Declaration Commons Subsidâ—e A generall pardon prâ—yed Chancellor Commons grant fiâ—st to be known Commons request Clergies Proctor Speaker Lords Commons Oath Not to repeal any thing Clergies Proctors Oath Pope Oath Kings of England and their Successors Libertie of the Crown Duke of Hereford Impeachment of the Duke of Norf. Words spoken Kings dissimulation Oath Committee of Lords and Commons Tho. Earl of Gloucester Râ—vocation of a Judgment â—n Parliament Exile Hugh le Dispencer Hugh le Dispencer Hugh le Dispencer Exile revoked Exile Errors in the Judgment Hugh le Dispencer Caâ—â—le Mannours Revocation Hugh le Dispencer Mannours His personall Estate Sider Jewels Librarie Justices Barons of Exchecquer Revocation published Revocations repeal Râ—vocation confirmed King Repeal revoked Lords â—â—ntence of the repeal Repeal revoked Restitutâ—on Actions Ancestors Proviso Kings Warrantie Duke of Hereford Pardon Ryots Misdemeanours Robberies Chancellor Pardon repealed Richard Earl of Arundell Foâ—feiture Proclamation Earl of Gloucester Oath Release of rights to Lands Revocation of a Judgment in Parliament Alice Peeres Reference to the King Lords Appellants Marshal Admirall Officers Kings Prerogative Parliament Committee of Lords and Commons to determine matters of Parliament Clergie Subsidy of Staple Commodities granted for life Desmes and Fifteens Ryots Lords Appellants charges Kings pardon Kings Declaration Pardon to cease if the Subsidy were impunged Chancellor Kings thanks Writs for wages Parliament end den Merchants Aliens Repeal Duke of Burgundy Bullion Resp. Kings Letters Shoemakers Staple Callice Ships Stone Callice Nusances Water-millâ— Revocation of Acts Treason Bishops and Lords Oath To observe the acts and Orders of Parliament Hen. Duke of Hereford Judgement Attorney Livery sued Homage respited Patents against Law revoked Committee Patents nulled Statutes to be observed Oath to observe Statutes Chancellour Oath Holding up Hands Lords Appellants Accusations Treason Commission procured Bishop of Galloway Raising War Coming armed to the Kings presence Accroaching Royall pâ—wer Adjudging Sir Simon Buâ—leâ—gh to death in Parliament against the Kâ—ngâ— command Purpose to surrender their Homage and Allegiance Kings deposing Recoâ—d embâ—aseâ—â—d Kingdom surrendâ—ed Kings deposition delayd Impeachment Treason Articles proved Appellants Arrest Answer of the parties appealed Ralph Lord Nevil Constable of the Tower Earl of Arundel brought to the Parliament His Impeachment Earl of Arundel pleads his pardon in Parliament and another after that Pardons not allowed as unlawful Revoked His further Answer Sir Wal. Clopton Chief Justice Judgement by Nihil dicit He insists on his pardon Judgement demanded against him Judgement given to Treason Kings Lords Judges Traytor to the King and Realm Forfeituâ—e of Fee and Tayl Lands and Goods His hanging drawâ—ng and quaâ—tering pardoned Beheaded Loâ—d de Moâ—ley Lâ—eutenant Marshall Th. Earl Marshall Captain of Callice Duke of Gloucester The retuâ—n the Duke was dead Parliament Duke adjudged a Traytor after his death Loâ—ds in Fee and Fee Tayl and Goods forfeited Confession Examinatâ—on Commission read Richill Examination taken and returned writ with the Dukes one hand His heâ—p procured the Comâ—ission Aâ—câ—oached royall powâ—r Restâ—aint of the King and his Preâ—ogative Craveth pardon Fear of death Paâ—don craved Taking the Kings Lâ—tters Slanderous words Homage surrendred Meant to depose the King Judge Richill attests his Confession to be fâ—eeâ— Earl of Warwick brought to Parliament Constable of the Tower Lords Appellants The Lord Steward declared the accusations The Earls confession Submission Lords Judges Judgement against him Forfeiture Lords and Commons request His life pardonâ—d Banishment Isle of Man Condition He is sent to the Isle of Man to be kept Mainprise body for body Sir Tho. Mortimer His flight into Ireland Day assigned him to come in Traytor Proclamation Judgement demanded against him Lords Judges Note that the judgâ—ment was given by the Lord Steward of England pro tempore Forfeiture Sir Iohn Cobham Impeachment Kings command â—udgement against him as a Traytor Treasons Forfeiture Tayle forfeited His life pardoned Imprisonment iâ— Iersy for life Accusation Duke of Norfolk Dukes appearance Bristow Triall by Martiall Law by assent of Parliament Dukes appearance Battle joyned Couâ—t Marshall Want of proofs The King takes up the Battle Gives judgement of banishment for 10 years No Letters nor intelligence Treason Duke of Norfolke Sâ—ditious words Banishment for life into Almayn Hungary or Bohemia Pilgrimage Treason Defence rejected Lands given him forfeited He refused to proceed in the appâ—als Officers Warranty forfeited Arrears to the King Depuâ—y of Callice His Lands seized into the Kings Hands Allowance Certificate His exile Vncharitableness None to sue for release of judgements Cleargies Proxy Quero whether it were not the Procuâ—ator of the Bishop absent Sir Ro. Pleasington adjudged a Traytor aâ—ter his death for Levying War Forfeiture King Judge Henry Bowet Treason Pardon Banishment Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Arch-Bishop King Causes of Parliament Parliament dissolved by King Richards renunciation and deposing Childrens government Young Councell Wise Kings and Governours Old and wise Councell Kings Issue will govern by advise and consent of his Sages not after his own will Englands self-sufficiencie Preheminencie Good government Justice Laws executed King Henr. Coronation Commonâ—wealth Commons Parliament adjourned by the Lords and Commons assent Earl of Northumberland and Constable of England Petitions Richard 2. Renunciation and Deposition Notary publick Lawyers King Rich. promise to renounce and give up the Crown for his Defaults and unabilities King Richard 2. his Renunciation Instrument of it read The Instrument of Renunciationâ— Subjects Oaths and Obedience discharged His Oath to confirm it His subscription of it He would have appointed Hâ—nry 4. to succeed him were it in his power His Procurat to publâ—sh it His privâ—e Signet put â—n Henry 4. his â—inger Westminstâ—r Hall Parliament Kings Thâ—one void The Râ—nunciation read and admitted Articles against R. 2. for which he ought to be deposed Coronation Oath Articles 33. Crown Lands wasted Commons overcharged Justices procured to speak against Law Noblâ—s unjustly destroyed Rebels and Murders in Cheshire Murdering the Duke of Gloucester and others against his own promise and pardon His Souldiers Murders Rapes Fellonies Plunder Free-quarter unredressed Nobles condemned agaâ—nst his Proclamation Double Fines for Pardons Power of Parliament committed to a Committee For breach of his Oath in prohibiting mediations Crown of England Freedome Popes excommunication procured in derogation thereof the Laws Banishment without the cause Illegal revocation of Letters Patents Sheriffs continued above one year
Sheriffs unfit Loanes not repayed Subsidies exacted in times of Peace Mispent Laws unexecuted Laws in his brest Prerogative abused to subvert Laws Knights of Shires procured for his own end Oaths unusuall for Sheriffs to execute his commands Exactions of moneys from his Subjects Churches Liberties violated against his Oath Arâ—ay Purveyance Justices discountenanced threatned for their good Counsell Jewels and Treasures transported into Ireland Cancelling and razing Records His ill fame and dissimulation Tyranical speech Subjects Lives and Goods in his hands without forfeiture Subjects condemned by Marshall Law against his Oath Oaths new imposed on the Subjects Stay of Ecclesiastical proceedings against his Oath Banishment without groundsâ— The Arch-Bishop His last Will and Legacies to his Successors upon ungodly conditions Duke of Gloucester murdered against his solemne Oath Arch-Bishop banished against his Oath His prophecie of retaliation to himself Sufficient causes to depose K. Ric. 2. Commissioners to give Judgment of Deposition The sentence of Deposition Henry Duke of Lancaster his claim to the Crown by descent from Henry 3. The Lords and Estates upon consultation assent to elect him King Installed in the royall Thron Arch-Bishop Childs properties A Mans properties King Rich. dispraised King Henry applauded King Henry his thanks Protestation Conquest disclaimed Common-Wealths Enemies Officers and Justices appointed Sworn Proclamation Parliament called Coronatâ—on services Commissioners Sentence of deposition pronounced Homage and Loyaltie resigned Kings answer New Lords new Laws Bloud-shed Revenge Henry 4. his Coronation Coronation services Sir Iohn Cheney Speaker presented Protestation Sir Iohn Cheney discharged for sickness Sir Iohn Doreward elected and confirmed in his place Sir Iohn Doreward Protestation Subsidy of Woolls c. Gâ—anted for 3. years Wars Scotland Callice Ireland Petitions granted Parliament of 21. R. 2. repealed Parliament of 11. R. 2. confirmed Lords restitution Blank writings London Diocess Commissions Treason The Kings eldest Son câ—eated Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earl of Chester Succession to thâ— Crown Prince of Waleâ— c. Created The Command of it Coroneâ— Golden Ring Vâ—â—ga aurea Kiâ—s Charter Hâ—s place in Parliament Livery King Richards life to be saved Lords advise touching R. 2. Confinement Imprisonment King R. Imprisonment Princes Title assented to Heir apparent of the Realm Rich. 2. adjudged to perpetuall Imprisonment Commons request Duke of Brittain Earl of Richmond Patents repeal Arch-Bishop Wastes in the Arch-Bishops Lands Kings assent Commons prayer Not privâ—â— to Judgments in Parliament Commons only Petitioners King and Lords only Judges Statutes Subsidies Nota. Earl of Northumb. Constable of England Purgation Slander Wars in Scotland The King purgeth them Waâ—s assented to by the Lords The Kings eldest Son Henry created Duke of Lancaster His Title Dutchey of Lancasterâ—eviâ—ed â—eviâ—ed from the Crown and setled on the Prince Charter in Parliament King and Lords enact New Râ—ligions suppressed Banishment Pardon Privie Seal Liveries Commons grant the King liberty to moderate or repeal a Statute Provâ—soâ—s Gold Callice Staple Callice Merchants Hampton Barwick Woolls Liberties confirmed Corporations Fine Râ—s Chancellor Fine Unâ—veâ—siâ—â—es Oxâ—oâ—d â—â—mbridg London â—ssizes Sâ—eriffs Coâ—oners Res. Corâ—ner Petition Sir Thomas Haxey restored Judgment in Parliament reversed Restitution William Chedder Wotton-underegg Suggestion Presentation Qâ—â—re Impedit Writ to the Bishop Error Variance Judgment reversedâ— Writ of Restitution Sir William Richâ—ll examined Warrant Sir Walter Clopton Chief Justice Lords Judges Acquitall by them Ragamans burnt Pardon 's confirmed Commons Dutchess of Ireland Churches Liberties Great Charter Forrest Fear of death not to be pleaded Res. Ill Counsell Patents Officers Oath Bribery Forfeiture Res. Crown Lands Resumption Res. Actions for Plunâ—â—r spoyls Res. Kings Army Facile entry Restitution Res. Common Law Prince of Wales to succeed Res. Restitution Plague Res. Captains able Res. Sheriffs allowance Commons grant Kings Freedome and Preâ—ogatâ—ve Not to be used contrary to Law Commonâ— prayers Earl of Arundel Restitution Judgâ—ment in Parliament â—eversed Res. Archbishop Wasts Earl Arundel Records embezeled Res. Tho. Earl Waâ—â—ick Restitution Res. Parliament repealed Restitution Res. Subsidies Kersies Liberties Loans to Richard 2. repayd Res. Victuals Purveyance Lincoln Fee-Farme Res. Gr. Yarmouth Desms Quindesms Res. Foâ—cible Entrie Presentation Bâ—nefices Recoveâ—y Res. Prohibition Mills Stancks Nusances Puâ—vâ—yance Sheriffs of London Res. Debts to R 2 payd to H. 4. Debt pardoned Râ—â—â—iver of Cornwall Pardon revoked King dâ—ceâ—ved Inquâ—â—y R 2 goods imbezâ—llâ—â— Cheshiâ—e Waâ—ch Service in Waâ—s Wages Inquâ—â—y Concâ—â—â—ments Customers Sherâ—â—fs Eâ—châ—â—tors Sâ—aâ—chers Râ—sidâ—â—â—e Fâ—â—ejud per. Dowâ—r Res. Common Law Heirs Attainder Heirs Res. Common Law Fines repayd Res. Process Cheshiremen Iâ—quiry Daâ—mages Kings Army Res. Prisons Malefactors Res. Justices of Assize Offices repugne Heirs Livery Res. Kings right Common Law Ind 〈◊〉 Ayding the King Restitution Eaâ—l of Oâ—ford Chambâ—rlaine Res. Charters revoked Vnwoâ—thy pâ—â—â—onâ— Pâ—incâ—pality of â—ales Res. Debts R. 2 Releases repealâ—d Pâ—incipality of Wales Cornwall Chester Res. Great Seal Râ—vocation Repeal Appeals Justices â—anishmenâ— Restitution Res. London Mâ—lcombe Fâ—e Farme Desmâ—â— Fifteens Res. Confirmation London Clâ—aâ—hs fâ—ee packiâ—g Vâ—ctuals Retâ—yle Justices of Peace Attaint Res. Common Law English Ships Lading Res. Thames Barge Deodand Res. Sales of Land Variance Pardon Conspiracy Imprisonment Tower of London Res. Kings Councel Resp. Peace breakers King and Councel Wapentakes Hundreds Farms Res. Presage Res. Personall Actions Common Law â—es Commonâ— prayer Loâ—d Appâ—llants called to aâ—â—wer Dukâ— of Albemâ—â—le 〈◊〉 Kâ—nâ—s commaâ—d 〈…〉 Kâ—nâ—s â—anâ—shment agaiâ—â—â— his wâ—ll Wâ—tnesâ—â—â— Duke of Gloucesters dâ—aâ—h Duke of Suâ—rey Tender age Duke of Exeter Duke of Gloucest Marquess Dorset Eaâ—l of Salisbury Fâ—aâ— oâ— lâ—fe Paâ—don craved Eaâ—l of Gloucester Consultâ—tion Kâ—ng and Lords Jâ—dges and Judgment Dâ—gâ—adations â—â—om honouâ—s Lands and Goods oâ—â—â—iâ—â—d Trâ—aâ—on to adher to deposed King Richard Châ—ef Justice Iohn Hall Examination upon Oath Coâ—â—ession Commanded to murder the Duke of Gâ—oucâ—stâ—â— Hâ—s Confederates Oâ—th of secrecy not to disclose the plot and muâ—der Duke of Norff. Kings will to slâ—y him Duke confessed The Duke smothered Lords Judges Thâ—y â—djudge him to 〈◊〉 executed as a Traytor Execution accordingly Commons request Judgment affirmed Judgment lawfull Lands forfeited Conquest Chief actors in the Parliament of 21. Rich. 2. Writs of Summons Writs of Summons Knights and Burgesses called by name Chancellor Steward Parliament adjourned Sir William Thurning Chief Justice C. B. Causes of Parliament Church Coâ—poâ—ations Liberties to be enjoyed Good Laws Justice Common-Law King gâ—â—at chaâ—â—â—s Coronation Nobles â—â—bellion suâ—pâ—essâ—d Sâ—ots voyaâ—e Noâ—â—h â—â—les Kâ—â—g in Person Queens retuâ—n in â—o Fâ—ance Jewels Callice Fortresses Guiennâ— anâ—exâ—d to the Câ—own Waâ—s Scotland Ireland Lords and Commons to consult thereofâ— Spâ—aker chosen and presented Petitions Sir Arnold Savage Speaker presented Protestation enrolled Speakers speech Desme Quindesme Tunnâ—ge and Poundage granted Commons thanks to the King Catholique Faith maintained Commons request untrue repoâ—ts of the Commons House Commons Declaration Good government King Nobles Subjects hearts Their advice not to agree to the French