essoyned of the Kings Service the name of the Essoyner shall be put in for if his Master do not bring in his Warrant Deceit lies against him and his Master Fitzh 17. H. If one be essoyned of the Kings Service and at the Day he doth not bring in his Warrant he shall loose twenty shillings c. by Glocester chap. 8. and further shall be in the Mercy and it shall be allowed See 45 Ed. 3. f. 24. 44 Ed. 3. f. 5. Essoyn of the Kings Service doth not lie in a Writ of Dower 22 Ed. 3. f. 10. At the Venire facias returned the Defendant puts the word without Day by Protection and at the re-summons he was essoyned of the Kings Service and had it 27 Ed. 3. f. 81. In Replevin the Avowant was essoyned of the Kings Service and for that that he doth not bring in his Warrant of that he shall lose twenty shillings for the Journey and not Damages nor any other thing 29 Ed. 3. f. 17. At the Distringas one was essoyned of the Kings Service and at the Day did not bring in his VVarrant and came not by which by Award he lost his Issues returned upon him that is five and twenty shilâ—ings and the Plaintiff hath for the delay forty shillings 29 Ed. 3. f. 46. After Issue in Trespass the defendant is essoyned of the Kings Service and at the day fails of his VVarrant and by Award he shall recover damages by the Statute to twenty shillings and further 20. shillings by discretion of the Court and the Inquest taken by default 2 Ed. 4. f. 16. 19 H. 6. f. 51. In Replevin at the Habeas corpora Juratorum the Plaintiff was essoyned of the Kings Service the Essoyner was sworn and had it Fitzh 29. C. If a man be essoyned of the Kings Service the Plaintiff may have a special VVrit if he be not in the Kings Service to disallow the Essoyn 4. Book of Ass 3. Attaint is laid at the next day after the first day and quaâ—ht and in Juris utrum it doth not lie after Appearance 4. Book of Assise 2. Attaint after Appearance the Desendant is essoyned of the Kings Service 29. Book of Ass 25. Attaint after Appearance the Plaintiff casts the Essoyn and was quasht that is a common Essoyn 19. Ass 15. Essoyn is out after Issue in Attaint by the Statute 18 Ed. 4. f. 8. Attaint the Tenant at the Summons was essoyned and at the Day of Adjournement made Default and the Attaint was awarded by his Default and if at the Summons one be essoyned and at the Day make Default there shall go a grand Cape and not a small Cape for he doth not appear 30 H. 6. fol. 1. Assise in common Bench returnable the Monday after Octabis and the Plaintiff was essoyned in Octav. and the Court allowed that and it shall be before parties are demanded and it seems that Essoyn in Assise shall be entered in the Roll of Assise and the Roll of Essoyn this is for Essoyn of Common Pleas. 1 H. 7. fol. 21. Essoyn is good though it be not in the Roll of the Plea but in the Roll of the Essoyn 10 H. 6. fol. 23. Assise by two and one makes Default and so Summons to prosecute together at the next Assises at which day he that made default is Essoined and it doth not lye but is severed by award 14 H. 6. fol. 23. Entry in nature of Assise the Tenant was Essoined and it was Adjourned and it is not like to an Assise for after appearance there lies no Essoin Common Essoin Quem redditum reddit and Scire facias they are Judicialls and no Essoin lies in them 33 H. 6. f. 6. 34 H. 6. f. 31. Trespass Return Attach and Precpe Return summoned the Defendant shall be Essoined but when he comes by the great Distress he shall not be Essoined 34 H. 6. fol. 50. Debt The Plaintiff at the first day may be essoined unlesse the Defendant appear upon a Capias Cepi or upon an Exigent 9. H. 6. fol. 58. Where one is let to Bail no Essoin of the King or other Essoin lies for that he is in manner as in Prison 11. H. 6. fol. 39. Replegeare at the day of Imparlance Essoin doth not ly for the Defendant 2 H. 4. fol. 17. Deceit the Defendant casts an Essoin after the day given and it was adjudged and adjourned Natura Brevium f. 13. If any man be essoined of being sick in his bed in a Writ of Right if the Demandant will averre that he is not so ill but that he may well come and this be found by Inquest his essoin shal turn him in default 21. H. 7. fol. 40. Essoin doth not lie in Quare uon admisit for that it is as a judiciall Writ Britton fol. 281. He is Essoined of sicknesse and force of sicknesse he appeals as it is of those which move themselves against the Court and are in riding taken with sicknesse and Essoin of force is as it is of those which are hindered by Imprisonment or by Theives or of other Enemies by the way or by broken Bridges or of other passages or hindered by Tempest or for want of Boats or Ships 12 H. 4. f. 24. Formedon by Thirn if no Essoin be cast and Record the first day it lies not afterwards 2 R. 3 f. 15. In a Writ of Right and Formedon which is in his nature Essoin shall be cast the first day of Essoynes and proffers and not afterwards 2 H. 7. f. 4. The Demandant or tenant in a Precipe may be essoined the fourth day and every day before the fourth day and likewise the fourth day notwithstanding any challenge taken by his Adversary but in a VVrit Judiciall out of the Common Bench the Partie ought to be essoined the first day and otherwise not if that be challenged 18. Ed. 4. fol. 4. Precipe Essoin of the Kings Service was laid and it seems there that every Essoin shall be laid the first day or any day before the fourth day if there be not an exception entered and the fourth day shall be adjourned 1 Ed. 5. fol. 2. 2 Ed. 4. fol. 12. Before the Originall be Returned the Tenant shall be essoined and this is a common course 30. H. 6. fol. 1. Essoin is Michiel where it should be Michael and shall not be amended for it is laid before the VVrit be Returned and hath not the VVrit to see it Every Return hath four dayes and the first day of them is called the day of Essoins and proffers and the next day after that is the day of the Return of the VVrits the third day is the day the fourth day is the day of appearance And it is an use if one cause the Clark of Essoins to enter ne recipiatur as he may the fourth day Essoin cannot be laid after that is entered but he may cast an Essoin the fourth day if that be not entered if one
for life to bind the Fee in Reversion Tenant ought to pray aid of him in remainder and they ought to vouch 25 H. 8. Tit. Recoverie in value 33. where Tenant for life vouches a stranger and the Demandant recovers and he over in value this shall not go to him in Reversion and shall not bind him 27 H. 8. Tit. Recovery in value 28. Tenant in Tailremainder over Entrie in the Post gainst Tenant in Tail and he vouches over this is a recompence and shall barr the remainder Pleas in Court Baron Count upon Lending J. S. complains against T.D. in a Plea of Debt of thirty Shillings four pence for that that is to say c. and thereof the same J.S. by W. T. his Attorney saith that when the aforesaid T.D. tenth day of February the year of the Reigne of Elizabeth now Queen of England twentieth at Islington within the Jurisdiction of this Court borrowed of the aforesaid J.S. the aforesaid thirty shillings four pence to be paid to the sald J.S. when he was required notwithstanding the aforesaid T.D. though he hath been often required the aforesaid thirty shillings and four pence hath not restored it to the said J.S. but to him to pay them as yet hath denied and yet doth denie upon which he saith that he is damnified and hath losse to the value of ten shillings and thereof bringeth his Suit Form of a Plaint in a Court Aaron upon buying of Oyland Madder c. G.B. complaineth agrinst R.C. in a Plea of Debt thirty Shillings four pence for that that is to say that when the aforesaid R.C. eleventh day of April the year of of the Lord 1540. at J. within the Jurisdiction of this Court bought of the said G. B. fourteen gallons of oyl called Meat oyl for fifteen Shillings and three pence one Hundred of Madder for fifteen shillings a penny to be paid to the said G.B. when he should be required which truly in all doth amount to the sum of the aforesaid thirty Shillings four pence notwithstanding the aforesaid R.C. although he hath been often requested the said thirty Shillings four pence to the said G.B. hath not restored but that to him as yet to restore hath denied and yet doth denie by reason whereof he is the worse and hath losse to the value of ten Shillings and therefore bringeth his suit c. and the foresaid R.G. by J.A. his Attorney comes and defends the force and injury when c. and saith that he doth not owe to the aforesaid G.B. the aforesaid thirty Shillings and four pence nor any penny thereof in Form in which the said G.B. complains against him therefore it is considered that the said R.C. should wage his Law and put in two Sureties for the Law J.M. and R.J. and should come with his Law here at the next Court in proper person and it is said to the aforesaid Attorney of the aforesaid R. T. that then he should have here the said R.C. his Master in his proper person to finish his Law aforesaid c. Plaint for accusing a man of Pelony and imprisoning him T.H. complaines against S. D. for that that is to say that when the said Complaint a true and faithfull Liege-man and Subject of our Lady the Queen now and of her Progenitors of the Kingdom of England from the time of his Birth did appear alwayes and as a true Liegeman of our said Lady the Queen and all her Progenitors aforesaid from all the time aforesaid without any Crime of Theft stealing Felony or any other notorious Crime whatsoever from the time of his Birth hitherto hath carried had and kept himself and so with all honest men was reputed and accounted by reason of which name of Honor Fame and Coversation the same Complainant much and great gain and profit to the maintenance of his Living did get and had the foresaid Defendant notwithstanding not ignorant of the Premises the eighteenth Day of July the year of the Reign of our Lady Elizabeth the sixth at J. within the Jurisdiction of this Court out of his meer malice and ill minde threatning and envying the good Report Living Degree state and condition of the said Plaintiff and to blot it and to bring the Complainant into an ill name and Danger of his Life as much as in him lay spoke certain false malicious and scandalous words of the aforesaid Complainant and did publish and openly say that T. H. meaning the said Complainant hath robbed me of forty pounds of money by reason of which scandalous and false words proclaiming and publishing the said Plaintiff not onely in his good name and same for which aforetime he was know and reputed with many honest men and cheifly with J.A. Inholder greatly hurt and wronged he did appear and did incurr and fall into great Infamy and Discredit with the said J. H. and many other of the said Queens now faithfull Subjects Likewise W. G. and W. C. the Constables of L. aforesaid by reason of an ill opinion by them conceived by reason of the said Scandall against the foresaid Complainant published then by reason of the open speaking of those words that the foresaid Complainant was guilty of the Felony aforesaid afterwards that is to say the eighteenth Day of July they took the Complainant and imprisoned him in a Prison of the said Queens called c. Scituate c. In which Prison the said Plaintiff from the said eighteenth Day of Iuly till the twentieth Day of the same Moneth of Iuly for the cause aforesaid was detained which twentieth Day of Iuly the Plaintiff from the said Prison to the Prison c. of the said Queens in c. Scituate c. was removed and then and there imprisoned and in prison from the said twentieth Day of Iuly till the eight and twenty Day of the said Moneth of Iuly for the said cause was detained so that the same Plaintiff not onely suffered and sustained great Cost and Charges by the occasion of his Restraint and Imprisonment but also lost wholly many great profits and gaines which of the said Subjects he might have gained for his maintenance and living if the said scandalous and malicious words so openly proclaimed had not occasioned it to the losse of the said Plaintiff c. three and thirty shillings and four pence and thereof brings his Suit c. Trespass Plaint for walking with his Feet J.R. complaineth against T. B. that is to say in a Plea why by force and armes the Close of the said J. R. at D. he broke and his Grasse to the value of five and thirty shillings and eight pence there late growing walking with his Feet trod down and spoiled and other Injuries offered to him to the great losse of the said J. R. and against the peace of our Lady the Queen now c. and whereof the said J. R. saith that when the aforesaid T.B. the seven and twentieth Day of Ianuary in the year of the Reign of
Body of the aforesaid A.B. before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained I cannot have as within I am commanded By vertue Latitat c. I have taken the Body of J.C. within named whose Body before our Lady Queen wheresoever shee shall be in England at the day and place therein contained I have ready as within I am commanded And if the Defendant which is so taken be sick in Prison or if the Sheriff will be at no cost to remove him to Westminster before the Justice saccording to the contents of the Writ then so By vertue of this Writ A.B. Sick within written is taken by his body and in such a prison or Goale so sick and weak that his body at the day and place within named I cannot have wiihout danger of death By vertue of this Writ to me directed Otherwise I have taken the body of within named J.S. which truly J. is in Prison of our Lady the Queens at F. so sick that without danger of death I cannot have him before the Justices within written at the day and place therein contained as I am commanded Which truly J. is so vexed with divers infirmities Otherwise that him without great perill of Death and for the weaknesse of his Body before the Justices within written at the Day and Place therein contained I cannot have as within c. R.D. within named was taken by J. C. Constable of the Town of D. at T. in the County of D. Otherwise for Felony for suspition of Felony and for that cause in the Gaol aforesaid under my Custody was detained and in the same Gaol is so sick that by no means he can labor or can be carried or so Whose Body I have ready before you at the Day and Place within contained Otherwise Supersedeas upon Capias to do what that Writ in it commandeth and requireth By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that after this Writ was delivered to me to take R.T. and other Defendants in this VVrit specified the same K. and others within named brought to me a Writ of our Lady the Queens of Supersedeas which is fastened to this Writ by vertue of which Supersedeas not at all c. By verrue of this Writ to me directed Supersedeas after Cepi Corpus I have taken the Body of the within named B.D. which afterward brought to me a Writ of our Lady the Queens of Supersedeas to me directed and fastened to this Writ therefore his Body before the Justices within written at the Day and Place aforesaid I could not have as within I am commanded And if upon this Writ there be sent another Writ which is called a Habeas Corpus then thus To have his Body and the Body with the Cause By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that before the coming of this Writ Sick by vertue of a certain other Writ to me first directed A. B. within written in the Prison of the Castle of our Lady the Queen of E. is imprisoned and there so sick and weak doth lie and in the same Prison yet sick and weak lieth so that him for fear of Death I cannot remove therefore the Body of the said A. B. at the Day within named I cannot have c. And in these Writs there are divers manners of Returns and divers of them are so By vertue of this Writ I certifie you that before the comming of this Writ W. B. within named was taken in another place and committed to the Queens Prison of W. By vertue of which other Writ to me first directed the Transcipt whereof is sent to you fastened to this VVrit notwithstanding the Body of the said W. I have ready to come before you at the day and place within named as within it is commanded me c. VVe Sheriffs aforesaid signifie unto you Trespasse that before the coming of this VVrit of our Lady the Queens to us directed and fastened to this VVrit J. F. of T. in the said VVrit nominated was taken in such a place and committed to our Lady the Queens Prison of W. for twenty pounds of Damages T. C. of N. in a Plea of Trespasse in the Queens Court in the said City of E. before us the said Sheriffs held and adiudged and likewise the said J. is detained in Prison aforesaid at the the Suit of W.S. in a Plea of Trespasse before us the said Sheriffs in the Court aforesaid had and prosecuted yet his Body c. as in the next Return before c. By vertue of this VVrit I signifie to you that before the coming of this VVrit of our Lady the Queens Felony R.A. in the said VVrit named was taken in L. and committed to the Prison of our Lady the Queens of W. for suspition of a common Theif and further the said R. was detained in the said Prison for that that he for divers Felonies by him done and committed at D. in the Hundred of A. is indicted as I am informed and another time taken armed at I. in such a County was carried to the Prison of our Lady the Queen and the said A. the same Prison of our Lady the Queen felloniously broke and from thence escaped as it is said notwithstanding the Body of the said R. as above c. By vertue Excom c. I certifie you that before the coming of this VVrit A. W. within named by the Ecclesiastical Censure in the Church of N. such a day and year c. for his Contempt and such like is excommunicated and the said A. by the Ordinaries of the Church of Saint Martins Justices in the Premises as yet stands in the same Church excommunicated and this is the cause of the taking and imprisoning the aforesaid A. notwithstanding the Body of the said A. W. before our Lady the Queen at the day and place within contained wheresoever she is I have him ready as c. Before the coming of this VVrit C.D. Counterfeit Money within written was in such a place and Prison of our Lady the Queen of R. committed for suspition of counterfeiting Money of the Queens and for that cause and no other is detained in the said Prison notwithstanding the said C. D. before you at the day and place within contained I have ready as within is commanded B. W. was taken at D. in the County of E. by H.S. Murder Steward of T. F. and before the said Steward at a Hundred held c. was indicted for the death of J. T. by the aforesaid B. slain and by the aforesaid Steward was sent the Queens Prisoner to R. which truly Indictment remains with the aforesaid Steward notwithanding the Body of the said B. before our Lady the Queen in her Chancery at the day in that contained wheresoever he be c. I have ready as that VVrit in that commands and requires c. Here follow divers Causes upon Returnes
of this VVrit of Corpus cum causa to be brought in c. If it were necessary the cause of keeping and detaining A. of B. within written here follows A. of B. is taken for suspition of Theivery Felony and because he cannot finde sufficient Sureties to expect the Law of our Lady the Queen he was committed to our Lady the Queens Prison of R. and for the cause aforesaid detained notwithstanding the Body of the said A. before c. W. D. within written was taken before the coming of this Writ in such a place Account and in a Prison of our Lady the Queens there under my Custody was detained by reason of which Complaint in the Queens Court there before me the said Sheriff upon him by the name of W. c. at the Suit of such a one in a plea of Account affirmed whereof in the same Court before me the said Sheriff the parties aforesaid pleaded and put themselves upon the Jury of the Country in the same Court and afterwards the said W. of D. by sufficient Sureties to answer the aforesaid such a one of his Plea aforesaid he was set at Liberty from the Prison aforesaid and because the said W. after the said Bailment came not to Judgement in Custody his Body at the day and place aforesaid I cannot have The within named J. C. Treason was called at W. before such a Justice by W. his Probator such a day and year for divers Treasons by him committed and for that cause was taken at C. and committed to the Prison of our Lady the Queen of N. notwithstanding his Body c. at the day and place within contained I have ready as is within commanded me c. A. Outlary the Daughter of A. of B. by the name of A. of B. before the coming of this VVrit was outlawed of Felony before P.S. R.T. and their Fellows Justices of the Queens of the Peace in such a Liberty or in the County to be kept and after by the command of the said Justices to me late directed the same A. was taken at D. and for the cause aforesaid was committed to the Queens Prison of W. notwithstanding c. By vertue of this VVrit Supplicavit I certifie you that A.W. within written was taken by vertue of a certain other VVrit of our Lady the Queens called a Supplicavit at the Suit of D. P. long before the coming of this VVrit and committed to the Prison of our Lady the queen of B. because he could not finde sufficient Sureties to keep the Peace toward the said D. and for this cause and no other is kept in the said Prison notwithstanding c. Otherwise it may be said A Rule that he was condemned in such a Court of his own Confession or by his taxing thereof by the counsel of the Court Before the coming of this Writ by vertue of a certain other Writ called a Capias utlagatum A Capias utlagatum to me directed whose Transcript I send you annexed I took C. D. within named and committed him to our Lady the Queens Prison of C. and there in the same Prison he is kept for the cause aforesaid notwithstanding his Body c. Before the coming of this Writ Account A. H. S. Auditors of the Accounts of W. of B. to me by Indenture delivered to keep the Body of R. S. within written safely and securely till he should satisfie W. B. of two hundred pounds behinde upon the end of the Account of R.S. found before the said Auditors c. and this is the cause of the taking and detaining the said R. S. notwithstanding the Body c. Many wayes one may be said to be taken and detained for ten pounds against him recovered in such a Court Debt or is taken by the command of our Lady the Queen or upon a Recognizance acknowledged in the Chancery and Appeal for the Death of a man or of Robbery c. The within named R. V. was taken at D. Rescous tenth Day of May the year within written by T.B. the Bailiff of our Lady the Queen and mine by vertue of a certain Warrant by the pretext of this VVrit by me made and to him directed and upon this the aforesaid R.V. with others unknown by force and armes that is staves c. made an Assault upon the said Bailiff and took him out of the Custody of the said Bailiff and never after the said R. V. in my Bailiwick I could finde The execution of this VVrit doth appear in a certain Schedule to this VVrit annexed Otherwise Schedule By vertue of our Lady the Queen 's VVrit to me directed and to this Schedule annexed I have made a certain VVarrant of mine to one J.M. my travelling Bailiff to take and arrest E.G. in the said VVrit nominated according to the exigent of the said VVrit which said Bailiff of mine by vertue of my VVarrant aforesaid the 9. day of J. the year of the Reign of our Lady Elizabeth Queen within written the twentieth at D. in the County aforesaid took and arrested the Body of the said E.G. and then and there the said E. G. was in his Custody upon which F. G. of D. aforesaid in the County aforesaid Gentleman and T. M. of the said Town and County Gentleman then and there by force and armes c. made an Assault upon my aforesaid Bailiff and my said Bailiff then and there against the Law and Custome of the Realm of the said Lady Queen of England and against the will of the said Bailiff of mine imprisoned him and the same Bailiff of mine in Prison there by the space of an hour then detained and twenty pence in told Money of the Goods Chattels and Moneys of my said Bailiffs then and there the aforesaid T. M. took and the aforesaid E. by force and armes aforesaid then and there out of the Custody of my said Bailiff took and rescued and also the same E. her self then and there out of the Custody of my said Bailiff rescued against the will of my said Bailiff and against the Peace of our Lady the Queen now c. and after the said E. is not found in my Bailiwick By vertue of this Writ to me directed Otherwise I have made a certain Warrant to one R. P. my Bailiff this torn riding to take and arrest the within named T. L. according to the exigent of this Writ which truly R. P. by vertue of the Warrant aforesaid after that is to say second Day of May the year of the Reign of our Lady the Queen within written twentieth at B. in the County aforesaid took the Body of the within named T. L. of B. aforesaid in the aforesaid County of F. which truly T. the Day Year and Place aforesaid by force and armes made an Assault upon R. P. my aforesaid Bailiff and bear him wounded him and abused him so that they dispared of his life
which were of A. B. otherwise called c. naming the addition in your Bayliwick in the hands and custody of C. D. Executrix of the last will and Testament of the said A. B. one hundred pound of debt and also 5 l. which were adjudged to E. F. in the Court before us in the Upper Bench at Westm for his damages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that Debt as for his costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf disbursed if so much she should have them in her hands And if so much she should not have them in her hands then you should cause to be leavied the said five pounds for the damage aforesaid of the proper goods and chattels of her the said C D And you should have those moneys before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster at a certain day now past to render to the said E F for his Debt and Damages aforesaid whereof the said C D is convicted as it doth appear to us upon Record And you at that day returned to us that the said C D had no goods or chattels which were of the said A B whereby you might cause to be made the Debt and Damages aforesaid or any parcell thereof And moreover that by vertue of the said Writ you caused to be made of the proper goods and chattels of the said C D the said five pounds for damages aforesaid And that you had the moneys prepared before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster as it was commanded to you by our Writ And that the said C D hath wasted the goods and chattels which were of the said A B to the value of thirty pounds parcell of the said Debt of one hundred pounds Therefore we command you that you cause to be made in your Bayliwick the said 30 li. parcel of the Debt of 100 li. of the proper goods and chattels of the said C D And then you have here this Writ Witnes c. Elegit THe Keepers c. to the Sheriffe of L Greeting Wheras A B in the Court before us in the Vpper Bench at Westm lately recovered against C D an hundred pounds of Debt and also one and twenty shillings for his damages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that Debt as also for his costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf diâ—bursed whereof the said C D is convicted as it doth appear to us upon Record And because the said A. B. doth come in the Court before us in the Vpper Bench at Westm and electeth to be delivered to him all the goods and chattels of the said C D in your Bayliwick besides his Oxen and beasts of his Plow and also the half of all the Lands and Tenements which were of the said C D the 14th day of June in the yeer of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty which day the Judgment aforesaid was given against the said C D in the form aforesaid to have the goods and chattels aforesaid as the proper goods and chattels of him the said A B and to have and hold the half of the Lands and Tenement aforesaid to him and his Assignes as his Free-hold untill he hath thereby fully leavied the Debt and damages aforesaid Therefore we command you that without delay you cause to be delivered all the goods and chattels of the said C D in your Bayliwick except the Oxen and beasts of his Plow and also the half of all the Lands and Tenements which were of the said C D the said 14th day of June in the yeer of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty aforesaid to the said A B by a reasonable price and extent to haâ—e the goods and chattels aforesaid as his proper goods and chattels and to have and hold the half of the Lands and Tenements aforesaid to him and his Assignes as his Free-hold untill he hath thereby fully levied the Debt and Damages aforesaid And in like manner this Precept shall be executed you make it appear before us in the Vpper Bench at Westminster on Thursday next after the fifteen dayes of Easter under your Seal and the Seals of them by the Oath of whom you took that Extent and Apprisement together with this Writ Witnes c. Habere fac ' poss THe Keeper c. Greeting Wheras A. B lately that is to say in the Tearm of Saint Hillary in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster hath recovered against C. D. 〈◊〉 sâ—arm then yet to come of and in one messuage with the appurtenances in E. in your County which F G. dâ—â—admse to him to a â—â—arm which is not yet past that 〈…〉 from the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty untill the end and tearm of three years from thence next following to be fully compleat and ended by vertue of which demise the said A. B. entered into the tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances And was thereof possessed untill the said C. D. did afterwards eject him the said A. B. from his Farm Therefore we command you that without delay you cause the said A. B. to have his possession of his Tearm aforesaid yet to come of and in the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances And in like manner this precept shall be executed you make it appear before us in the Upper Bench at Westminster on Saturday next after the morrow of the Assention of our Lord together with this Writ Witnes c. A Scire Facias in debt THe Keeper c. to the Sheriffe of N. Greeting Wheras A. B. in the Court before us in the Vpper Bench at Westminster recovered against C D two hundred pounds of debt and also thirty shillings for his damages which he sustained as well by occasion of detaining of that debt as for his costs and charges by him about his Suit in that behalf disbursed whereof he is convicted as it doth appear to us upon Record And now on the behalf of the said A. B. in the Court before us in the Vpper Bench at Westminster we conceive that although the Judgment be thereby given yet the Execution of the said Debt and damages doth yet remain to be made whereupon the said A. B. hath made supplication to us accordingly in that behalf to provide remedy for him And we being willing in that behalf to do that which is just we command you that by honest and lawfull men of your Bayliwick you make known to the said C. D. that he may be before us in the Vpper Bench at Westminster on Wednesday next after the fifteen dayes of the holy Trinity to shew if he hath or knoweth any thing to say for himself wherefore the said A. B. ought not to have his Execution against him of the debt and damages aforesaid according to the force form
nothing there but the passage and 8 H. 7. fol. 5. by Keble the Soile and Free-hold in the way is to those which have Land adjoyning 2. Ed. 4. fol. 9. Where there is a common way throughout a Feild the Free-hold of the Soile is to the Tenant of the Land adioyning and not to the King for he hath but passage for his People Incidents A Man cannot dispence with a Suite to a Leet unlesse by speciall words 8. Ed. 2. tit 28 2. H. 7. fol. 4. Partition is made of foure Mannors which descend to foure coparceners that every one shall have a Mannor except the Advowson and by that the Advowson is ingrosse and severed and if all dy but one it shall be appendant again 8 H. 7. fol. 1. By grant of a hundred Leet passeth as Incident for a Hundred cannot be without a Leet for a Leet is parcell of it and to a Mannor a Court Baron is Incident and to homage fealty and to a Faire a Court of Pipouders and it seemeth these cannot be severed Perk. fol. 22. Common appendant cannot be severed nor Estovers to be burned in a House but a Villian regardent may be severed and an Advowson appendant and made in grosse for an Incident inseperable cannot be severed by grant as in the case next before but Incidents seperable may be 40 Ed. 3. fol. 22. Beasonable aid to make his Son Knight or to marry his Daughter and releife for soccage after the death of his Tenant cannot be released by generall words therefore release of all actions and demands besides fealty and Rent by the Lord to the Tenant shall not extinct these Incidents the contrary is said if it be by speciall words 19. H. 8. tit Incidents 34. Court-Baron is so incident to a Mannor and Court of Pipowders to a Faire that they cannot be severed by grant for if they grant the Mannor or Fair they cannot reserve such Courts 7. Ed. 4. fol. 11. Lord and Tenant the Lord releaseth to the Tenant the distresse this is void for the distresse is Incident the same of release of Fealty to him which holds by Homage for Fealty is Incident to Homage and is inseperable 26. booke of Assises 66 Lord and Tenant by Fealty Escuage and Rent and the Lord grants the Rent this is Rent seek and severed for Fealty remaines with the Homage as Incident to it the same Law where a Rent is Incident to a Reversion and yet these may be severed by speciall grant 29. booke of Assises 20. the same Littl. fol. 40. Where the Tenant holds by Homage Fealty and Rent if the Lord grant the Rent saving to him the Homage this Rent is Rent Seck and severed the same Law if he grant the Homage saving the Rent and where he holds by Rent and Fealty and grants the Rent saving the Fealty or left for life rendring Rent and grants the Rent saving the Reverson the Rent is Seck Rescous and pound breach is another branch of the Charge HE which destraines Beasts may put them in a close House if he will give them meate for the putting into the open pound is that the owner may give them meate 33. H. 8. tit distresse 66. If a man destraine without cause the owner may make Rescous but if he put them into the pound he cannot breake it for they are in custody of the Law see 40. Ed. 3. fol. 33. and Fitzh fol. 102. E. It seemes if a Lord destrain where Rent is not behinde the Tenant shall not make Rescous 4 Ed. 6. tit distress 74. If a man destraine wrongfully the owner may make Rescous 5. Ed. 4. fol. 7. by Danby 39. Ed. 3. tit 20. If Beasts put into the pound dye it is at the losse of the owner though he have tendred sufficient mends for he might have a Replevin Doctor and Student fol. 8.113 I may impound a dead thing where I please but if that corrupt by my default I shall answer for it 9. Ed. 4. fol. 2. Fitzh 102. L If the Lord do destraine where is no Rent nor service behinde the Tenant cannot make Rescous 9. Ed. 3. fol. 35. If a man destraine wrongfully the owner of the Beasts may make Rescous but by 4. Ed. 6. it was agreed if he destraine and impound them the owner cannot take them out for they are in custody of the Law 5. Ed. 4. fol. by Danby the same 2. H. 4. fol. 18. If a man destraine my Beasts which escape into his Land out of the great waste I may rescue them but if I keep them or put them there or by Hankford if I have notice that they use to go there this is no escape and there I ought not to make Rescous see 7. H. 7. tit 1. 2. H. 4. fol. 24. In Rescous nothing behinde and also that he was never seised and are good Pleas Quere 5. Ed. 4. fol. 7. Seising is not Traversable in Rescous by opinion there 6. Ed. 4. fol. 12. The same 8 H. 4. fol. 1. 21. H. 4. fol 40. By the Court where the Lord comes to destraine and sees the Beasts and the Tenant perceiving that chaseth the distresse out of his Fee the Lord shall not have a Writ of Rescous for he hath no possession of the Beasts but he may follow them and destraine them but if they were chased out of his Fee before the Lord see them there he cannot destraine them 44. Ed. 3. f. 20. the same Fitzh N. B. 102. G. 33. H. 6. fol. 58 A man attacheth a Horse in a corporate Town and there he is rescued and chased into another County upon fresh Suite the Officer may take him againe 6. Ed. 4. fol. 12. By Yelverton in Rescous nothing behinde is no Plea for if the Lord destraine where no service is behinde the Tenant is at no mischeife for the Tenant may have a Replevin and in this Writ recover his damages Fitzh 101. Rescous lieth where a man destraines for Rent or for services or damage doing and those would impound and another Rescues them and if a Collector or under Collector distreine for a fifteenth or a Bailiff or a Sheriff or other Officer distraine for the King and Rescous is made they shall have a Rescous and not the King but if a Bailiff of a Liberty distraine for the King and Rescous is made the Lord of the Liberty shall have Rescous and if the Bailiff or Officer of a common person distraine Rescous is made he which causeth the distresse to be made shall have Rescous 39. H. 6. fol. 42. Redisseisin to Coroners and one alone maketh a precept Rescous upon that is Justificable Assaults and Fraies For that that Assaults and Fraies are inquirable let us see which are punishable in a Leet and what not AS Saults are not inquirable and punishable by presentment in Leet but blood-shed is 8. Ed. 4. fol. 5. By Fairefax Leet hath no power to inquire but of those which make common annoyance at the common Law as of
present that Tho. J. and Wil. J. Scavengers default are Scavengers of the streets and ought to be here at the view of the frank pledge and made default therefore either of them in the mercy six pence Also present upon their Oath that the twentieth day of May Estrayes in the yeare of the Reigne of our Lady Queen Elizabeth now the twenty first came into this Lordship one Horse colour gray as a stray and remained in custody ten daies after Proclamation Also present that there is a Colt colour bay of the age of foure yeares or more which came into this Lordship as a stray the ninth day of September the year of the Reign of our soveraigne Lady the Queen the twentieth price twenty foure shillings and stayed in the custody of the Bailiff by the space of a yeare and a day after three Proclamations at three severall daies made according to the form of the Statute therefore the property of that Colt is in the Lord. Also present that W. M. twelve pence and R. B. twelve pence are common Bakers of mans Bread Bakers and at diverse times have baked unwholsome Bread c. Have broke the Assise therefore each of them is in the mercy as it appeares upon their heads Also present that Richard W. and J. D. are common Brewers of Drink Brewers and brewed diverse times unwholsome Drink and broke the Assise therefore each of them in the mercy as it appreares upon their Heads Also present that E. W. and W. X. by their Wives are common sellers of Drink Alehouse keepers and by unlawfull Measures sell their Drink and break the Assise therefore each of them in the mercy as it appeareth upon their Heads First It is ordained that R. B. shall make and scowre his Ditch at the foot of the great hill Paine set containing by estimation twenty perches before the feast of Saint John Baptist next comming upon the paine of every perch thereof eight pence Also it is ordained that T. M. shall reforme and lay Punishment out a certain parcel of Land lately by him incroached between Wash lane and Perham Rye common before the Feast of All Saints next coming under the paine of every Perch not reformed and laid out twenty pence Also it is ordained that none shall suffer his Beasts that is to say Pain Oxen or Kine to go and passe upon the common of this Lordship nor in the Lanes to the said Mannor belonging upon pain of forfeiting to the Lord for every one of them for every time two pence Also it is ordained that W. J. shall remove his Dunghill lying by the Queens high way against his House Pain before the feast of Easter next upon the paine of forfeiture ten shillings Also it is ordained that J. F. Pain shall make and maintaine a Bridge in his Close called great Colemans in the way leading from Islington to Hogsden upon the pain of forfeiting to the Lord ten shillings Also it is ordained that every one yoke o◠ring his Hogs before the Feast of S. Michael the Archangell next and the same keep so yoked and ringed till the Feast of S. John the Baptist then next following upon the paine of forfeiting to the Lord for every Hogge for every week three shillings six pence The end of the Court Leet The manner of keeping a Court Baron The Court of R.F.C. there held the Tuesday that is to say Prebend the 14. day of May the yeare of the Reigne of Queen of Isling Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France ton and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. 26. held by I.K. the Steward IS I.D. R.R.R. Essoyned of Common Essoyne or Essoyned for the Suit of Court by R.R. John Doo  Robert Dodge Richard Roo  Thomas Lodge The Homage John Den Sworn Adam Clarke Richard Fenn  David Parke Walter Helen  Henry Roo Robert Allen.  William Croo. First after the stile of the Court is entered you shall make once O Yes and then call the Suitors and after that another O Yes shall be made and then the Steward shall say If any will be Essoyned or enter any Plaint come you in and you shall be heard And after your Essoyne entred and your Plaint determined then impannell your Jury and swear them And after the Enquest is impannelled and sworn make another O Yes and then you shall say You good men which be impannelled come neare and you and all other keep silence during your Charge An exhortation to the Jury YOu good men which are sworne before that I enter to give to you the Charge I intend to shew to you by what Authority you are assembled and for what purpose First you ought to consider that there are three causes of your meeting 1. One cause is for that you be resident and dwelling within the Precinct of the Leet here to be held and for that you ought to appeare 2. The second cause is for that some of you hold Land of the Lord of this Mannour some as Free-holders some as Copy-holders and by reason of some of your Tenures you ought to make Suit to the Court Baron of your Lord from three weeks to three weeks if this Court be so warned 3. The third is you may here learn the Lawes to know what thing to follow and what to avoid by which that which is good may be the better followed and ill things the better be avoided being presented by you and punished and for that that every one may live and injoy that which he hath with quietnesse and the Common-wealth may flourish and vertue abound and then for that you may better inquire and present I have ministred to you a corporall Oath which I counsell you to consider and the parts of that which are three that is to say Truth Judgement and Justice Truth that you shall present nothing but truly and that you shall not omit any thing of the truth not presented With Judgement that you shall present all things with good advisement and that you shall not be negligent to inquire out the truth in all matters to be presented With Justice that you shall not for favour nor for corruption of reward nor for feare nor for displeasure nor for private hurt or profit which may come to your selves nor for malice that you present any thing And these three principall things you ought well to regard in your Oath And at the last note that you run not into wilfull perjury which if you do you condemne your souls and provoke the anger of God and get punishment to your selves and your posterities in this world and you get to you the torments of the Devill and hell after this life for ever But if you keep well your Oath you obtaine by that great profit and commodity for by that wrong shall be redressed peace and tranquility shall be maintained and right and publike good
action shall be sued in a Court Baron by plaint and what not WHere one sues several plaints for five marks the other shall have a prohibition And Detinue of writings shall not be sued there and if he doth the other shall have a prohibition 5. Ed. 4. fol. 128. Where 20 l. is parted in severall plaints under 40 s. Prohibition lies Note there it is said Supersedeas lies and the Defendant there with safe conscience may wage his Law But see 48 Ed. 3. Fitzherbart fol. 46. A. The Lord himself shall have debt in his Court Baron for that that the suitors are Judges time of Ed. 1. Tit. debt in Fitzh 177. 6 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Suitors are Judges there Debt or trespalle may be sued in Court Baron by plaint but that is where the debt or dammage is under forty shillings that the Defendant in Trespasse plead his Freehold or that the Plaintif is his Villaine the Court shall cease otherwise a VVrit of false Judgement lieth and also it is good exception to the Jurisdiction of a Court Baron to say that the contract was made out of the Mannor in another Town 34 H. 6. fol. 53. A man shall not have account in Court-Baron nor in County 43 Ed. 3. fol. 19. Plea ought not to be removed in debt or trespasse from this Court but where a Debt or Dammages amount above forty shillings or in replegiare but I intend there shal not be a plaint in Replegiare in every Mannor but in this Mannor where the Lord hath ancient authority by Charter to make Replegiare yet diverse seem the contrary see Fitzh Na. Bre. 14 H. 8. fol. 17. Trespasse Damages found eight pence in the common Bench and the Plaintif recovers but he cannot there count under forty shillings and in Court-Baron he can-count above forty shillings but under that 19 H. 6. fol. 8. That Debt and Trespasse shall be sued in Court-Baron Britton fol. 61. Detinue of Goods may be sued in a Court-Baron 6 â— 2. Every stranger which comes within the Mannour may be sued there in Debt or Trespasse under forty shillings so that Debt Detinue of Goods and such actions personalls except account where the Debt or Dammages is under forty shillings it is determinable in a Court-Baron by plaint there 34 H. 6. fol. 53. Trespasse by force of Armes doth not lye in a Court Baron note that the contrary is used 7 Ed. 4. fol. 23. Sherif in the County may hold Plea by Justicies of the great Summons but Justicies shall not be in a Court-Baron for Justicies shall not be directed to the Steward but to the Sherif and the Sherif is Judge in a Justicies and Officer to the Court but so is not the Steward 21 Ed. 4. fol. 79. Fitzh fol. 139. F. Note that Court-Baron hath no authority to hold Plea of Free-hold and of that to give Judgment for execution thereof that is a Dissesin to the Tenant 22 Ass 64. Glanvile 94. saith No man is tied to answer in the Court of his Lord of a Free-hold without the command of the Lord the King Right patent may be directed to the Lord to be tried in a Court-Baron but it cannot be tried there by great Assise but it seems it may be tried by Battell and if the Tenant ioyne Battell the Lord may give day to try it but Fitzh fol. 4. E. saith if the Lord will proceed or Issue is ioyned upon the great Assise prohibition lies and if Bastardy or any forrain Plea be pleaded then they have no Jurisdiction in Court Baron and if they proceed Prohibition lies Time of Ed. 1. Tit. Droit 45. 1 H. 6. fol. 7. If plaint of Debt or Trespasse be sued there and forrain matter is pleaded it shall not be tried in Court-Baron 1 H. 5. fol. 12. If in a VVrit of Right patent in Court-Baron for Charter Land the Lord will not proceed to do right the Demandant may go to the Sherif and have a Tolt which is a command to his Bailif that he take out the complaint and remove the Plea into the County and after that also by a Pone in the common Bench but the Tenant shall not have a Tolt but he shall have a Recordare with the cause and the Demandant may have a Pone without cause Fitzh fol. 3. F. Note that a VVrit of Right patent ought to be sued in the Lords Court and not otherwhere without the license of the Lord Testimony of the King by Letter or otherwise that he hath given license and then he shall have his Writ because the Lord hath remitted his Court in the Common Bench Nat. Brevium fol. 15. None may distraine Free Tenants to answer of a Freehold nor of any thing belonging to the Free-hold without the Kings Writ Marleb chap. 22. Coppy-holders shall not be impleaded by the Kings Writ but shall be impleaded in the Court of their Lord by plaint in nature of what Writ they will Lit. fol. 16. Debt upon a Bill obligatory under forty shillings lieth in a Court-Baron Fitzh 2. E. If a Right parent be sued there in Court-Baron and forrain matter be pleaded there or Issue joyned to be triod by great Assise there shall go a Prohibition Fitzh 39.6 The Tenant may have prohibition directed to the Sherif to prohibit Bailiffs of the Court where the Mise is joyned in a Writ of Right upon the Grand Assise unlesse Battaile were there offered Marleb chap. 20. None except the Lord the King shal hold Pleas in his Court of false Judgement given in the Court of his Tenants because these Pleas especially belong to the Crown Fitzh 4. E. If a Plea be held there which ought not a Prohibition lieth Fitzh 47. b. Detaining of writings shall not be sued in a Court-Baron Fitzh 139. D. If a man hold plea in County of Trespasse by force of Armes the Defendant may sue a Supersedeas out of the Chancery The same Law seems in a Court-Baron 8 Ed. 4. Tit. Jurisdiction B. 215. See Fitzh 85. G. That trespasse shall be brought in Court-Baron and there see the forme of the Writ but it is not by force of armes there Britton fol. 61. That Debt and Trespasse shall be sued in a Court-Baron Fitzh 85. G. Trespasse Viscountile there shall not be by force of armes in the Writ 8 Ed. 4. Tit. 115. Trespasse doth not lie in a Court-Baron by force of armes for a Fine shal not be set but in a Court of Record and for that it shall not be there by force of armes see Glocester chap. 8. 22 Ass 64. If one implead more in a Court-Baron without a Writ and recover dammages where I plead to the Jurisdiction and the Court ought to be outed yet if the Bailif make execution of these dammages by command of the Steward he shall not be punished in trespasse for he doth that which he ought to do till it be defeated by false Judgment but if it were before not a Judge it is void and otherwise
forfeit Littleton f. 15. If a man lets a Mannor for years in which there are copy holders and after a copy-holder dies surrender and admittance by the Lord the termor in Court of that Mannour is as well as if he had the fee simple 4 Mar. tit Copy Br. 1.7 Copy-holders shall not have false Iudgement for then they shal be restored to the freehold or shal not lofe the free-hold but ought to sue by Bill that is to say by Plaint in Court 7 Ed. 4. f. 19. the same Littleton f. 16. They shall not be impleaded by the Kings Writ but by Plaint in the Lords Court in nature of what tâ—â— VVrit will Nat. Brevium fol. 16. Coppy-holders have an Estate of Inheritance according to the custome of the Mannors yet they have no Free-hold by the course of the Common Law Littleton fol. 16. Tenant by Copy shall make scalty to his Lord and Tenant at will by the Common Law Lit. fol. 17. It is said though Coppy-holders have Inheritance according to the custome yet they have but an Estate at the will of the Lord according to the course of the Common Law and cannot have Frespasse against their Lord yet they may bar their Lord in trespass brought by the Lord against his Coppy-holder as it appears lit f. 15. and 16. Tenant by the Verge in ancient Demesne LAnds hold by the Verge are not pleadable by the Kings Writ but by Bill for that that the Free-hold is in the Lord but there is a diversity between plow-holders of frank tenure and Plow-holders of base tenure which are dwelling in ancient Demesne for Plow-holders of Free-hold are pleadeable by a Writ of Right close but Plow-holders of base tenure are those which hold by Verge at the Will of the Lord and the Free-hold is in the Lord and are not pleadable by a Writ of Right close 14 H. 4. fol. 1. and 34 Fitzh fol. 14. C. Tenant by coppy which holds by the Verge in ancient Demesne commits Felony and was attaint the King hath yeare day and waste for that that the Free-hold was in the Tenant in ancient Demesne and yet they have no other evidence then copies of Court Roll otherwise it is of meere Coppy-holders which are out of ancient Demesne for the Free-hold is in the Lord I have seen in the County of North Coppy-holders of frank tenure out of ancient Demesne and have used a Writ of right close and have no other Evidences but by coppies according to the custome of the Mannor but their Coppies are not at the will of the Lord 3 Ed. 3. Tit. Br. 22. Stamford fol. 50. Fitzh 11. Coppy-holder of a base tenure shall not have a Writ of Right close but ought to sue by Bill in the Lords Court Nat. Bre 11. Right close lieth alwaies between ploughholder and no plow-holders may implead another plow-holder of Lands within ancient Demesne unless by this VVrit and shall make his protestation to sue in nature of what Writ he will Britton fol 16â— Calls Tenants in ancient Demosne Plow-holders and saith that Plow-holders are such which gain our Land Fitzh 14. D. Those Tenants in ancient Demesne which hold by the Verge by Coppy at the will of the Lord shall not have Monstraverunt against their Lord. Where a Coppy-holder enters and dies before be was admitted Tenant IT was held in the case of one Horewood that where a Coppy-holder hath a Daughter by one Belly and a Son and a Daughter by another and dies and after the Son enters and dies before admittance that the Daughter of the second Belly shal have the Land for it is a possession of the Brother and so it was adjudged in the case of one Stegnes These Cases following I heard agreed for Law IF Tenant by Coppy surrender generally into the hands of the Lord and it do not appeare who shall have the Land nor to what use the surrender is then the Lord shall be seised to his own use If Tenants by Coppy let for yeares by license of the Lord and after release to the Lessee by these words in the Court remise and release it is void for that it ought to be surrendred into the hands of the Lord and then the Lord ought to grant the Reversion to the Lessee for by Littleton fol. 15. It cannot passe without surrender and yet a Release is used of Coppy-hold in the Court in presence of the Steward If the Lord grant parcell of his Demesne Lands to hold by Coppy to one and his Heires this Coppy is not good but at the will of the Lessor for one cannot make Coppy-hold at this day but that shall be by prescription which hath been demised and demisable by Coppy time out of minde c. But if a Coppy-hold escheate to the Lord or he enter in that by forfeiture and at this day grant that over to J.S. by Coppy this is good Coppy and yet in 13 H. 4. fol. 7. If Lands in ancient Demesne are escheated and the King seiseth them and grants them over to J. S. they are frank fee and not ancient Demesne 6 H. 4. fol. 2. But if a Coppy-hold shall be escheated to the Lord and twenty yeares after that he grants them over by Copy againe they are Copy-hold as they were before for that that this Land hath been demised and demisable time out of minde c. If two be Joyntenants by Copy and one of them makes waste in all the Land that shall not be forfeiture but for his part and also if a stranger cuts Trees and makes waste without assent of the Coppy-holder it is no forfeiture If the Lord of a Mannor to which there are Coppy-holders grant by Copy the tenements of one tenant Coppy-holder without just cause to another Tenant in Fee or for life and the Grantee enter by vertue of that grant this Tenant which hath right and which was admitted before may have a plaint in nature of an Assise of novel disseisin against the Grantee If the Husband surrender into the hands of the Lord to the use of his Wife and doth not say A. his Wife it is a good surrender for she is certainly known by that name the same Law is if one surrender into the hands of the Lord to the use of J. his Son and hath two Sons named J. it is to the use of that J. which it is ment to If Tenant by Copy surrender his Lands by custome of the Mannour to two good men out of the Court to the use of a stranger and that made for Money paid he which surrendred cannot countermand his surrender before the two good men have presented it at the next Court for it is much like acknowledging of a Fine before a Justice of Record but where the surrender is to two to the use of his Wife or Son and not to a stranger for Money paid by one lying in extreamity in perill of death and after he revives he may well countermand his
to Fortescue fol. 85. which is That none is to be sued but by the Law And the case was this That the Husband before that he tooke a Wife made an Estate for life reserving Rent and after he took a Wife and dyed so that by the Law the Wife is not Dowable of the Land much more shee shall not be assigned there by the Homagers but saith the Steward in such a case shee is by the custome of this Mannor dowable in this case and such blinde and unreasonable customes are alleadged many times amongst copy-holders where there is no President nor usage in this case to be shewed But you ought not to allow any custome but that which hath been used from time to time and from time out of minde and there ought to be Presidents in the Court-Rolls or good proofe of that to be shewed to the Court accordingly otherwise it is not to be allowed for a custome And for that that you ought to note what custome ought to have lawfull beginning as might take lawfull effect by Grants at the beginning for if it be against common right and reason it is not good and for that you ought to regard these Grounds and Customes FIrst That it be reasonable 2 H. 4. tit 10. And for that custome that no Tenant of the Mannor put in his Beasts to use his common in Feilds sowed after the corne is taken off till the Lord hath first put in his Beasts is not good for it may be the Lord will not put in his Beasts and then the Tenants shall loose their profits Also that it be according to common right 42 Ed. 3. fol. 4. Prescription of the Sheriffe that the Tenants of the place ought to give to the Sheriffe for easement for reward at the Turne of the Sheriffe halfe a Marke and this is against common right for every gift cometh upon his liberality and at the will of the giver and for that it is not good and also saith that the Sheriffe cannot prescribe Also that it be upon good consideration 42 Ed. 3. fol. 4. In the case next before where the Sheriffe prescribes for that that there is nothing which toucheth the King of which he is charged in account it is not good for there is no consideration And as 5 H. 7. fol. 9. prescription that if any pasture Sheep upon his Land by day that hee may have Foldage of them in the night upon his Land it is good for it is with consideration And you ought to note that prescription custome and usage are as Brothers and yet some thing they differ in their natures for Prescription is when by continuance of time out of memory one particular person hath particular right against another particular person And custome is where by continuance of time out of memory one right is had concerning diverse persons and usage is by continuance of time the efficient cause of them both and usage is the life of Prescription and custome for Prescription and custome have their being by usage of time out of mind c. Custome or prescription that every one which breaks the Lords pound shall pay three pound nine pence is not good against a Stranger to the Lord but that every tenant which breakes the pound shall pay three pound nine pence to the Lord is good for the Lord may give the Tenements of his Tenant to hold by such c. 11 H. 7. fol. 14. So that at the beginning the Lord may create these customes aforesaid amongst copy-holders Custome to prescribe to have used fold-gate in the night for pasture in the day is good for it is one for another and it is with common right 5 H. 7. f. 9. Custome that the Tenant of time out of minde hath used to pay so much for the Marriage of his Daughter is good 43 Ed. 3. and 6. but Littleton fol. 46. contrary Custome or prescription against common Right is not good and for that that it hath been used in Leet that if the petty twelve present false and the other twelve inquire of that and finde that false shall be amerced is not good the same Law for the Lord of the Leet which hath no Land to prescribe to be Lord of Waste 9 H. 6. fol. 44. Custome or prescription of folding Sheep in the night gathered to the Fold is not good unlesse it be as above for their pasture 46 Ed. 3. fol. 13. Custome or prescription that one may keep the distresse till he be satisfied at his Will is not good for it is against common right Lit. fol. 46.5 H. 7.9 Custome or prescription that one shall have the Land to plow and sow and when the Corn is carryed another may have that as his severall is good time of Ed. 2. Tit. prescription 55. Custome or prescription to have Toll through which is in the high-way is not good for it is against common Right but to have Toll travers is good 22 Book of Assise 58. Custome or prescription to have Warren in his Signiory Lands is good but not of Lands which are not held of him 3. H. 6.13.43 Ed. 3.13 and see 44 Ed. 3.13 Custome is good which is not against the Law of Reason nor the Law of God as customes of Gavelkinde and Borough English and Doctor and Student fol. 20. B. Custome that every Tenant of the Mannor ought to pay two Markes for Releife hold they more or lesse is good 40 Ed. 3. f. 6. Custome that the Tenants of the Mannor time out of minde have used to choose a Beadle for them to gather the Lords Rents is good 44 Ed. 3. fol. 13. Custome that none of the Town of D. shall put in their Beasts into the Feild after the corn taken off untill the Feast of S. Michaell is a good custome of the Town after 46 Ed. 3. fol. 24. But custome that none shall put his Beasts into the Feilds after the corn severed and carryed before the Lord put in his Beasts is not good for paradventure the Lord will never put in his Beasts 2 H. 4.24 Custome of the Town of Barton or of a Mannor that a Wife shall have all the Land of her Husband for her dower or a halfe or fourth part is a good custome 2 Ed. 4.17 and 21 Ed. 4. fol. 64. by Choke It is held that custome throughout the whole Kingdome is common Law and one cannot prescribe that it is a custome throughout the whole Kingdome but it is a custome in such a City or such a County 34 H. 8. Tit. custome 59.30 Ed. 3.25 2 H. 4. fol. 18. custome of County 21 Ed. 4.54 Custome of the Town which is no Burrough nor corporation allowed there but see 4 Ed. 3.38 in a reasonable part and see 21. Ed. 4. f. 53. and 54.40 Book of As 27. and 45 As 48. against the custome of the Villiage That he hath been by prescription the keeper of a Wood and custome to have of every comer a measure of
to pay his Rent it is no forfeiture The same Law is if he be much in Debt and in feare to be arrested or if one be bankrupt and keep his House and doth not come to the Lords Court but makes divers defaults these are no forfeitures of their copy-holds But if he deny to come to the Court of the Lord this is a forfeiture of his copy-hold But if the Lord claime a Fine custome or services which is in doubt whether due or not and the Tenants pray the Lord that the Homagers may inquire if it be due or not and saith if it be found by the Homagers upon their Oath that they are due or if there can be Presidents shewed that it is due he will pay it this is no forfeiture of his copy-hold If twelve are assembled against the form of this Statute then if any copy-holder being a Yeoman Handy-crafts-man Artificer Husbandman or Laborer and being of the age of eighteen yeares or more and under forty years not Impotent Lame Maimed nor having reasonable excuse and being required to serve the Queen for any the causes in the Statute and refuses he shall forfeit his copy-hold during his life 1 Marie chap. 12. If a copy-holder in Court-Baron will say to his Lord that he extorts and exacts Fines and Services not due or such unreverent words of his Lord and they be false that is finable but no forfeiture But if he deny to be Tenant to the Lord and to be a Juror of the Homage it is a forfeiture but if a copy-holder indict his Lord or gives in evidence in an action against his Lord or arrest him or commence a Suite against his Lord in any Court of the Queens these are not finable nor no forfeiture If Tenant in taile be of a copy-hold the remainder over in Fee if the Tenant in taile be attaint of Felony it seems that the Issue in taile shall have the Land and not the Lord. If a copy-holder make a Feoffment of his copy-hold and the Feoffee dies seised and his Heires levy a Fine of that and five yeares passe the Lord is barred to seise the Land by forfeiture as it seems Some Copy-holder by the custome may make waste and is no Forfeiture and waste by some Copy-holder is Forfeiture LOpping of Trees by a copy-holder is no forfeiture but a copy-holder cannot lop Trees and burn that in the house upon other Land or Mannor nor sell the lops unlesse by the custome he may make wast If a Guardian in Socage of a copy-hold make waste the Infant shall not forfeit his copy-hold but only the Interest of the Wardship but inquire If Lessee for yeares of a Copy-hold make wast and inquire when he is Lessee for yeares by surrender and when he is Lessee by the license of the Lord it is said it is a forfeiture but during the Tearm J. S. Seised in fee of an Acre in D. by Charter and of another by copy and make a Feoffment and Livery in the Acre by Charter in name of them both it is no forfeiture of the Acre by copy but if he make Livery in the Acre by copy in name of both the Acre by Charter passes and it is forfeiture of the Acre by copy If a copy-holder suffer a common recovery against him at the common Law and after surrenders to the use of another which is admitted and after one or two admittances passe upon surrender yet after when the Lords takes notice of the forfeiture he may well seise it for that forfeiture for that that the copy-hold was destroyed by the forfeiture But otherwise it seems if the forfeiture do not destroy the Copy-hold as if he make wast or break any custome the Lord is barred by this admittance as it seems If a copy-holder levy a Fine and five yeares passe after Proclamation this seems barres the copy-holder and his Heires but it seems doth not barr the Lord but if a copy-holder make a Feoffment and Livery of his copy-hold and after levy a Fine and six yeares passe now the Lord is barred If two Joynt Tenants by copy are and one makes wast in all the Land yet he shall forfeit but one part If the Heire of a copy-holder having notice of the death of his Ancestor do not claime within the yeare and day after the death of the Ancestor and Proclamation made he shall loose it for ever but otherwise it is if he be beyond Sea or within age or a Woman having a Husband it seems she shall not loose by not claiming Tenant for life of a Mannor is and copy-holder of that commits wast and the Tenant for life dyes he in remainder may seise the Land for this wast for that it is a forfeiture which runs with the Land See before forfeiture touched in the Title of copy-holder Formedon In so much that plaints are sued in nature of Formedon for Copy-holds something shall be said touching Formedon and first let us see where a Formedon lies and where not and for that that there are three manner of Formedons that is Formed on in Discender Remainder and Reverter in Fitzh Nat. Brevium and there declared how everyone lieth much shall not be said but what is in Fitzher Natura brevium touching the lying of a Formedon FOrmedon in Discender lieth where the Donee in taile or free Marriage aliens that Land so given in taile or is disseised and dies his Heire shall have a Formedon in Discender to recover these Lands so given in taile Fitzh f. 211. A. Where Tenant in taile aliens or is disseised or if recovery be against him by default after default and hee dies his heire shall have a Formedon for the heire shall not have other recovery of the possession of his Ancestor then by Formedon but if he be outed of his own possession as if he be seised and be put out he shall have Assise Natura brevium fol. 145. Formedon lies by the heire of a gift made before the Statute of Westm 2. Where the Donee after the Statute aliens and dies and yet the Statute is to gifts before made it shall not be extended 12 H. 4. f. 9. Where there is a Tenant in Dower or by the curtesie the reversion to another in taile if one intrude after the death of the Tenant in Dower or by the curtesie he in reversion shall not have Intrusion but Formedon Fitzh 204. D. Woman Tenant in taile takes a Husband which aliens and after they are divorced and after the Wife dies the heire of the Wife shall not have A cui in vita but a Formedon Fitzh f. 204. K. If Tenant in taile lets for life and the Tenant for life aliens in fee the Tenant in taile shall have a consimili casu or a Formedon at his pleasure Fitz. f. 207. D. Where land is given to one for life the remainder to the Father in tayl if it were executed in the Father and he Alien the Issue may have a Formedon
all the House 15 H. 7. fol. 11. By Fineux where a Farmer of a Wood makes waste in one corner this onely is forfeited but if it be in divers places of the Wood all is forfeited and the plots in this also 15 Ed. 3. Tit. 108. See the time of Ed. 1. Tit. 122 VVaste against Guardian 4 Ed. 6. Tit. 136. By Bromley if a man make waste in hedge-rowes which inclose a Pasture nothing shall be recovered but the place wasted that is the circuit of the Root and not the whole Pasture 41 Ed. 3. Tit. 24. B. Fitzh 60. T. If a Guardian make waste and the Heir being within age bring a writ of waste by this the Guardian shall loose the VVardship and over that his Damages to as much as the waste amounts unto But if the Heir were of full age that he looseth not the VVardship then he ought to recover treble Damages for that that he cannot loose the VVardship according to the Statute of Glocester 43 Ed. 3. f. 6. VVaste it is a good Plea in Barr that the House fell by Tempest and if he covenant to repair that it is no plea in Covenant 49 Ed. 3. fol. 1. VVaste it is a good Plea that at the time of the Lease that the house was weak and that the great Timbers were rotted that it fell for if any the principal Timbers were rotten it is no waste though he covenant to repair it 8 H. 6. f. 57. Waste it is a good Plea that the Plaintiff hath entered into the Land before which Entry no waste made 8 H. 5. f. 8. Waste it is a good Plea that he surrendred to which the Plaintiff agreed before that no waste made 9 H. 6. f. 11. Waste by the Heir is a good Plea that the Plaintiff hath an elder Brother which survived the Plaintiff and after died after whose Death no waste made and a good Plea 44 Ed. 3. f. 27. Waste against a Guardian in Knight-service who saith that after the Death of the Ancestor J. F. abated against whom the Defendant recovered in a VVrit of VVard after which Recovery no waste made and it is a good Plea 12 H. 4. f. 6. VVaste it is a good Plea that that fell before the Lease 19 H. 6. fol. 66. VVaste that he suffered the House to be uncovered by which the great Timber rotted it is no Plea to say Day of the VVrit purchased the House was sufficiently repaired but to say after the waste and before the VVrit purchased it was sufficiently repaired 8 H. 6. fol. 61. VVaste held where Land is given to the Husband and the VVife and the Heirs of the VVife and the Husband discontinues in Fee and takes an Estate for life and the VVife dies the Heir of the VVife shall not have waste before that he hath purged the Discontinuance 8 H. 6. f. 63. Fitzh 59. E The heir within age shall have a writ of waste against a Guardian in Socage 2 Ed. 2. Fitzh the same Nat. bre 58. If a Guardian in Socage make waste the Heir when he cometh to full age shall have an action of account for that 14 Ed. 3. tit 107. It seems that waste lies against a Guardian in Socage tit 100. Fitzh Fitzh 58. H. There is a writ of waste in the Register for him in reversion against tenant by Elegit which hath the Lands in execution but it seems he shall not have waste for that that he may have a venire facias to account and there the waste shall be recompenced in the debt but by the action of waste he shall recover treble damages which he shall not have in the account Nat. Bre. fol. 37. waste doth not lie against tenant by Elegit nor against tenant by Stat. Merchant but if they make waste account lies 42 Ed. 2. tit 11. fol. If a Lease be made to one to use it in the best way that he can now he cannot make waste 17 E. 3. tit 101. If a Lease be made to one so that he may make his profit of that c. yet it shall not be intended such as common right gives him for he cannot pull down abouse and make waste Action upon the Case Action upon the case in Court baron and other Court and first for slander IT lies for calling one traytor felon and robber of the Kings people and that is to be noted in Iustice Seatons case 30. Ass 19. 22. Book of ass 43. presentment that one a is common Malefactor or a common thief or a common Baretor is not certain and is not good and so it is thought by divers to say that one is a common malefactor or a common baretor this action doth not lie for it is too general 2 Ed. 4. fol. 5. For calling one villain it seems that action upon the case doth not lie 17 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Saith there that an action upon the case doth not lie for calling the Plaintiff villain without more Nat. Bre. fol. 55. There are two desamations or slanders the one spiritual the other temporal temporal where he cannot be punished by the spiritual Law as to say that the Plaintiff is out-lawed of murder conspiracy forging of deeds c. 30 H. 8. tit 104. Lyeth for calling the Plaintiff perjured man for now perjury is punishable in our Law by the Statute of 5. Eliz. yet inquire for that it is not in what Court or cause he was perjured Register fol. 54. For calling the Plaintiff Adulterer or Usurer Defendant shall be punished in the spiritual Court and there doth not lie an action upon the case 4. Ed. 6. tit 112. Lies for calling the Plaintiff a false Justice of Peace 27 H. 8. fol. 13. It lies for calling the Plaintiff theif and inditing him of felony and note the words of the writ are that he is hurt in his goods his name fame and condition 26. H. 8. fol. 11. For calling the Plaintiff Thief and saying that he hath stolen sheep of one I. S. It lies 17 Ed. 4. fol. 3. Lies for writing slander in a paper by which he durst not go about his business 27. H. 8. fol. 17. For calling the Plaintiff Heretick and one of a new learning it doth not lie Book of entries fol. â—2 A president there in an action of the case for calling the Plaintiff false man but inquire if it lies for there was not there exception taken and there is there another president for calling the Plaintiff theif and saying he hath received 20 l. value of his goods In the Book of Entries fol. 13. there is another president of an action upon the case that a certain Letter or Bill with divers slandering words and defaming in the said Bill or Letter he caused to be writ It was the opinion in the Kings Bench that for calling the Plaintiff Rogue Cozener or villain action upon the case doth not he for you shall not have action upon the case for every word of anger reproachful for it is
good 8 H. 6 fol. 34 Trespasse of Grasse cut the Defendant saith that the place where c. was the Free-hold of his Master by which by his commandement he entered and made the Trespasse the Plaintiff saith of his own wrong without such cause and is good but if the Master himself had been party and had pleaded his Free-hold of his own wrong c. had been no Plea 28 Ed. 3. fol. 58. Trespasse of goods taken the defendant justifies by the commandement of his Master for that that the Plaintiffe is his Villain the Plaintif saith of his own wrong and is no Plea without answering to the Villainage 10 H. 6. f. 3. Trespasse of two Horses taken the defendant saith that he let to the Plaintif Land rendring the Rent of twenty Shillings and for this Rent behind he entered and took the horses and the Plaintif saith of his own wrong without such cause and by Cotesmore it is no Plea but he ought to answer to the speciall matter as to say of his own wrong without that that any Rent was behind 21 Ed. 4. f. 64. 42 Ed. 3. f. 2. Trespasse for chasing in his free Chase the defendant pleads license of the Plaintif to hunt there the Plaintif saith of his own wrong without such cause Inquire of this Issue 16 H. 7. fol. 3. Trespasse of goods taken where the defendant conveys his title from the Plaintif there the Plaintif by replication may say of his own wrong without such cause 9 Ed. 4. fol. 41. the same 9 Ed. 4. fol. 43. Trespasse of a bag with money the defendant saith that the Plaintif was indebted to him in a certain summe and delivered that unto him to content him the Plaintif saith of his own wrong without such cause and it is no Plea for that that he conveys from the Plaintif himself 10 H. 6. fol. 9. Trespasse for entring into his Pigeon-house and taking of Pigeons the defendant pleads that the Plaintif gave him leave to take them the plaintif may say of his own wrong without that he gave him leave 20 Ed. 4. fol. 4. 21 Ed. 4. fol. 76. Where the defendant conveys from the Plaintiffe or his Ancestor or that it is his Freehold these shall be answered and there of his own wrong without such cause generall is no good replication 44 Ed. 3. f. 13. Trespasse the defendant justifies for Harriot the Plaintiffe saith of his own wrong without such cause the Issue was taken upon that 38 Ed. 3. fol. 7. the same 44 Ed. 3. fol. 18. Trespasse the defendant justifies for that that the Plaintiffe was in VVard to the Prince and he seised him and granted the VVard to him by which he entered and occupied the Plaintiffe saith of his own wrong without such cause and it is no Plea by the Court but he ought to answer to the speciall matter by which the Issue was taken that he held in Socage and not in Knights Service See 22 Book of Assises 56. 41. Book of Assises 21. and 12 Ed. 4. fol. 10. 14 H. 4. fol. 32. Trespasse of his Servant taken the defendant justifies for that the father of him which is said to be Servant held of J.S. in Knights Service and that he died and the Land discended to the Infant called Servant being within age and that the defendant by the commandement of the said J.S. seised him the plaintif saith of his own wrong without such cause and by Cheney and Hull for that that the defendant hath alledged speciall matter that is Tenure in Knights Service the plaintif ought to answer to the speciall matter and this is no plea See 22 Book of Assises 85. 33 H. 6. fol. 29 Trespasse where the defendant justifies by the Kings patent of of his own wrong c. is no plea. 9 Ed. 4. fol. 22. Trespasse where the defendant justifies by wreck by prescription the plaintif saith of his own wrong without that that it was a wreck and good 5 H. 7. fol. 9. Trespasse the defendant justifies by custome of foldage by prescription of all Sheep which pasture in such a Common the plaintif there saith of his own wrong without such cause Where a double Plea shall not be suffered and where it shall PRior brought a Quare impedit and counts that his predecessor was seised and presented and the King seised his temporalties because of VVarre and presented and now it is void and it belongeth to him to present and it is not double 40 Ed. 3. f. 10. But in Quare impedit and counts of divers presentments in his Ancestors this is double 1 H. 5. fol. 1. Quare Impedit by Tenant in Tail and alledgeth a Presentment in the Donor and another in the Donee this is not double for the Gift is traversable but if he alleadge Presentment in the Feoffor and another in the Feoffee this is double 4 Ed. 4. f. 3 Debt against Executors to plead fully administred and so nothing in their hands is not double for one Answer makes an end of all that is that they have Assets 3 H. 6. f. 3 Debt upon Obligation and pleads Payment and Delivery of the Obligation in place of an Acquittance it is not double for one Answer shall be for all 1 H. 7. fol. 15 and also it is no Plea Trespasse the Defendant pleads Gift in Tail and divers Discents and it is not double for the Gift is onely traversable 19 Ed. 4. f. 4 Bastardy is pleaded to ten Acres and Release of all Actions and that is double 10 H. 6. f. 20 Non-tenure is pleaded to part and Bastardy to the rest and this is double 43 E. 3. fol. 29 B. Inquire 33 H. 6. f. 20 40 E. 3. f. 21 Dower the Tenant may plead Joint-tenancy of part and that she detains Writings for the rest which goes to all and it is not double 33 H. 6. f. 57 40 E. 3. f. 31 Assise of a Mannour the Defendant pleads a Fine of one halfe to J. S. whose Estate he hath and to the other halfe pleads a Release of the Father of the Demandant with Warranty and demands Judgement if against Warranty Assise ought to have been of that Moity and it is not double for this goes but to the Moity and is not c. 37 H. 6. f. 24 Debt upon an Obligation that he was a Lay man unlearned and the Day of Payment was read to be at another Day and that it was delivered as an Escrow upon condition that if others sealed c. and the others did not seal and so not his Deed this Conclusion hath made that single 38 H. 6. f. 26 Intendments Pleas good by Intendment and how INformation for Liveries it is shewed that Cloth was given at D. but not how it was used and it shall be intended there and good and Trespasse he broke his Close at D. and made an Entry and shall be intended to be there 5 H. 7. f. 18 Appeal of Rape is Rapuit and though it