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A20577 The history of the ancient and moderne estate of the principality of Wales, dutchy of Cornewall, and earldome of Chester Collected out of the records of the Tower of London, and diuers ancient authours. By Sir Iohn Dodridge Knight, one of his Maiesties iudges in the Kings Bench. And by himselfe dedicated to King Iames of euer blessed memory. Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628. 1630 (1630) STC 6982; ESTC S109765 59,203 160

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any greater number In euery of the said Shires where the said Commission of the Peace is established There is also a Clarke of the Peace for the entring and ingrossing of all proceedings before the said Iustices and this Officer is appointed by the Custos Rotulorum Euery of the said Shires hath his Sheriffe which word being of the Saxon English is as much to say as a Sbire Reeue or minister or Bayliffe of the Countie his Function or Office is two fold Ministeriall or Iudiciall As touching his Ministeriall office he is the Minister and executioner of all the proces and precepts of the Courts of Law and thereof ought to make return or certificate And as touching his Iudiciall office he hath authority to hold two seuerall Courts of distinct natures the one called the Tourne because he keepeth a Tourne or Circuit about his shire holding the same in seuerall places wherein he doth inquire of all offences perpetrated against the Common Law and not forbidden by any Statute or Act of Parliament And the Iurisdiction of this Court is deriued from Iustice distributiue and is for criminall offences The other is called the County Court where he doth determine all petty and small causes Ciuill vnder the value of forty shillings arising within the said County and thereof it is called the Countie Court And the iutisdiction of this Court is drawne from Iustice Commutatiue and is held euery moneth The office of the Sheriffe is Annuall and by the Statute of 34. h. 8. it is ordained that the Lord President Councell and Iustices of Wales or three of them at the least where of the President to be one shall yeerely nominate three fit persons for that office of whom the Kings Maiestie may elect and chose one who thereupon shall haue his Patent and be Sheriffe of the said shire Euery of the said Shires hath an Officer called an Escheator which is an officer to attend the Kings reuenue and to seaze into his Maiesties hands all lands either escheated goods or lands for seited and therefore he is called Escheator and he is to enquire by good enquest of the death of the Kings Tenants and to whom their lands are descended and to seaze their bodies and lands for ward if they be within age and is accountable for the same And this Officer in Wales is named by the Lord Treasurer of England by the aduice of the Lord President Councell and Iustices or three of them at the least whereof the Lord President to be one There are also in euery of the said shires two Officers called Coroners they are to enquire by inquest in what manner and by whom euery person dying of a violent death came to his death and to enter the same of Record which is matter criminall and a plea of the Crowne and thereof they are called Coroners or Crowners as one hath written because their enquiries ought to be publique in corona populi These Officers are chosen by the Free-holders of the Shire by vertue of a Writ out of the Chauncery de Coronatore eligendo and of them I need not to speake more because these Officers are elsewhere Forasmuch as euery shire is diuided into hundreds there are also by the said Statute of 34. h. 8. cap. 26. ordained that two sufficient Gentlemen or Yeomen shall be appointed Constables of euery hundred Also there is in euery Shire one Goale or Prison appointed for the restraint of liberty of such persons as for their offences are therunto committed vntill they shall be deliuered by course of law Finally in euery hundred of euery of the said shires the Sheriffes thereof shall nominate sufficient persons to be Bayliffes of that hundred and Vnderministers of the Sheriffe and they are to attend vpon the Iustices in euery of their Courts and Sessions The Gouernment of the Marches of VVales after the Statutes of an 27. 34. H. 8. BY the said Statute of 34. H. 8. ca. 26. it is further ordayned that the President and Councell in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Marches of the same with all Officers Clarks and incidents thereunto should continue and remaine in manner and forme as was then formerly vsed and accustomed And therefore the said Rowland Lee spoken of before being Lord President of the Councell of the Marches of Wales at the time of the making of the said Statute so continued after the making thereof vntill his death being in the foure and thirtieth yeere of the said King Henry the eight After whom succeeded in the office of the said President Richard Samson Bishop first of Chester and after remoued to Couentry and Litchfield who continued Lord President vntill the second yeere of King Edward the sixt at what time Iohn D●dley then Earle of Warwick and after Duke of Northumberland was President of the said Councell who so continued vntill the fourth yeere of the said King And after him succeeded Sir William Herbert Knight of the noble Order of the Garter and after Earle of Pembrooke who continued President vntill the first yeere of Queene Mary Next succeeded Nicholas Heath then Bishop of Worcester and after Archbishop of Yorke and Lord Chancellor of England And vpon the remouing of the said Archbishop the said Sir William Herbert againe succeded as President of the said Councell vntill the sixt yeere of the said Queene Mary at what time followed him Gilbert Browne Bishop of Bath and VVels who so continued vntill the death of the same Queene In the beginning of the reigne of the late Queene Elizabeth Sir Iohn VVilliams Lord VVilliams of Tame of whom the Lord Norris is descended was appointed President of the said Councell and died the same yeere And after him succeeded Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the noble Order of the Garter whose loue to learning fauour to learned men need not here to be spoken he continued Lord President of Wales about foure and twenty yeeres and six moneths he serued in Ireland eight yeeres and six months being there three seuerall times Lord Deputy generall in that Country During some part of the time of the aboade in Ireland of the said Sir Henry Sidney there serued in Ireland as President or Vice-President Iohn Bishop of VVorcester and now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury After this succeeded Henry Earle of Pembrooke sonne in law to the said Sir Henry Sidney and father to the right honorable the Earle of Pembrooke that now is And after him Edward Lord Zouch now present Lord President of that Councell The President and Councell of the Marches of Wales haue power and authority to heare and determine by their wisdomes and discretions such causes and matters as bee or shall bee assigned to them by the Kings Maiesty and in such manner as shall be so prescribed vnto them by instruction signed with his hand The Councell assisting the Lord Prince consisteth of these the chiefe Iustice of Chester together
may be requisite first a perfect and speciall suruey of all the said reuenues after which it may stand with your Maiesties gratious pleasure either to supply the same by Act of Parliament as did King Edward the Third or else to direct the same so as to your Princely wisedome shall be thought most conuenient This Treatise I haue accomplished with as much perspicuity and breuity as my slender ability could afford to giue vnto it For as touching perspicuity this argument intreated of is such as it refuseth all ornament and good composition as a knotty Timber that reiecteth the plaine And I may say thereof truely as in the like case the Poet affirmeth Vix est contenta doceri Some presidents found of Record concerning the forme and disposition of the said reuenues with sundry other particularities I haue purposely omitted fearing lest this Treatise be growne already too tedious and yet the same are carefully reserued neuerthelesse vntill time doe minister occasion to make further vse of them Which my trauell with all dutie and loyaltie I lay downe at your Maiesties feete crauing pardon for my presumption and manifold imperfections appearing therein for omnia habere in memoria in nullo errare diuinum est potius quam humanum as writeth Bracton an auntient Iudge of this Realme who liued three hundred yeeres agoe The Lord blesse your Maiestie with all his blessings both spirituall and temporall and who hath giuen you this particular blessing that your Maiestie may truely say with King Dauid Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of my people Thou hast preserued mee to be the head ouer nations the people which I knew not doe serue mee And the Lord further grant that you and your Royall issue may gouerne vs and our posterity in peace and happinesse vnto the worlds end FINIS Suetonius Lampridus Tacuus Wales what part of the Island of Albion Hum. Lloyd apud Ort●lium in Thesaur Geographico Et idem Hum. Lloyd in frag mento Britanniae descriptioue ●ol mi●i ●O Rilsanus Duflius in Dictionario suo Teutonico-Latino in verbo Walliae Saissons or Saxons Wales anciently no parcell of the Realme of England 10. b 4. 6. b. 19. b. 6. 12. a. ●2 b. 6. 25. b. 36. b. 6. 33. b. Com. Plow 129. b. 2 6 b. Vid. Cambd. in com Radnor expolicratico Io●●nis Barisburiensis 10. b. 4. 6 b. Com. Plowd 126. b. 129. b. Les auncient tenures fol 116. Com. Plow 12● b. Edw. 1. tooke vpon him the name of Prince of Wales Record Tu●●is London 29. H. 3. Polydor Virgil lib. 16. fol. mi●i 311. Doctor Powel in the Welsh Chro. fo 311. Matth. Paris a●●o 1257. so mi●i 914. Patent 51. ● 3 Pa●●prima Wales su●●●ed by K. Edw. 1. The Shires made by E. 1. were these Statum Waliae 12 Ed. the first The Chronicle of Wales compiled par●ly by H. Lloyd and partly by Doctor Powel page 376. Cronica Angliae ●mnia huiu● temporis Edward the black Prince Prince of Wales Ex chartacreationis in parliament● a. 15. ● ● The manner of the inucsture of the Prince Garter King at armes hath the manner and order of this creation and inuesture painted Ex charta regia data 4 Mar●●j a. 17. Ed. 3. Termino Michaelis a. 16 E. 3. Rot 6. exparte remen ●ratoris Thesaury in curia Scaccari● This Rice ap Meredick rebelled against K. Edw. 1. after his Conquest of Wales as appeareth in the Chronicles of that time Voydance of Bishoprickes Customes and prices of wines Executions of iustice and a Chancery Forrests Chases Parkes Wariens Vid. 4. et 5. P. et M. 159 nu 34. Vid. Com. 217. a. 1. Eliz. 165. a. nu 1. Dier 14. h. 4. Libre prime digestorum Iuris Civilis tituulo de legibus lege 19. Ex charta regui data 20. Septem irrotulata in memorandis Scij a. 36. e. 3. termino Michaelis Rot. 14. The Cronicks of England of this time Rich. of Burdeaux sonne of the Black Prince created Prince of Wales after the death of his father Charta Regia d●●a 20. Nou. An. 50. Ed. 3. Ex Rotule Chartarum de deanno 1. regni regis b. 4. Alta Charta eodem Anno. Carta Regia 15. Marty 32. he● 6. Edward sonne and heire apparant of King Hen. the Sixt Prince of Wales His Creation 33. h. 6. The King to haue the reucnues till the Prince accomplish the age of fourteene yeeres Ex Charta Regia dot In Scaccario penes Remem●r Thesaurar remanente In Chartes pat 35 b 6 pars 2. ● 11. E. 4 pars 1. membr 1. pat 13. E. 4. pars 2. Ed. 4. vpon his returne into England tooke an oath at York that he would not claime the Kingdome but only the Dutchy of York Inter warra ad magnum sigillum in Cancellaria Ex charta de concess de ●ryg c. 9. h. 7. Inter warr ad magnum sigillum in cancellaria A Councell assigned the said Prince Charta creationis Pri●● Waliae 10. h. 7. Com. ministre ducat cornw 30. 31. b. 8. inter recordeur augment Doctor Pow. in Chronic. Wall Statum Walliae fol. 53. 2 E. 4 12 a. Geraldus Camb. 23. 24. E. I. Ro● 51. Hill 7. E. apud 〈…〉 r. Sca 〈…〉 rij The Chamberlaines accompts 3. E 3. 19. i● le nouel print 63. a. 7. H 35. b. Chamberlains accompts Ministers accompts 18. H. ● Ministers accompe● 16 E. 4 Chamberlains accompts 19. H. 6. 12. b. 21. H. 7. 33. a. The Marches of Wales Another policy The originall of the Baro ni●s Ma●●●●●●s 1● E 2. Fitz. ●ss●● 182. 13. E. ● Fitz●a Iurisdiction 23. 47. E. 3. 5. 67. 6. h. ● Fitz●a ●urisdiction 34. 7. ● 635. 36. ● 30. ●6 6. ● ●ohn Bishop of Worcester first President of the Marches of Wales Doctor Powell in C●●on Walli● p. 389. Stat. 27 h. 8. cap. 26. Statutum de 24. h. 8. cap. 26. Stat. 27. h. 8. cap. 26. Stat. 27. h. 8. cap. 26. Stat. 27. h. 8. cap. 26. Circuits 34. h. 8. cap. 26. Stat. Iustice Stat. 18. Eliz. cap. 8. Stat. 34. h. 8. cap. 2. 4. Stat. 18. Eliz. cap. 8. Criminall Causes Ciuill Causes Common pleas Iustices of af●ise Writs either Iudiciall or Originall The great Sessions Adiournements 34. ● 8. cap. 26. ● 33. Prothonatory Clarke of the Crowne At the Kings appointment The Marshall Cryer The Clarke of the Peace The Sheriffe 34. h. 8. cap. 16. The County Court deriued from Iustice Commutatiue Escheator 34. h. 8. cap. 16. Coroners 34. h. 8. cap. 26. Skeene in verborum significationem Iuris Scotiae These are in Scotland Constables of the hundred The Goale The Iurisdiction of the Councell of the Marches of Wales Statum 34. H. ● ca. 26. Iustice of Northwales Chamberlaine Auditor Comptroler Atturney Surueyor Constable Captaine Souldiers Porter Constable Captaine Souldiers Porter Constable Souldiers Constable Captaine Souldiers Porter Forrester Steward Marshall Exchequer Iustice Auditor Attorney Constable Sheriffe Steward Clarke Crier Steward Penkeys Steward Clarke Bailiffe Baliffe Constable Sheirffe Clarke Cryer Clerke Steward Clerke Clerke Bayliffe Bayliffe Captaine Escheator Clerke Exchequer The Councell Gouernour Chamberlaine 21 E. 3 pat part 2. Hollinshead The Attourney 11 E. 4 ●at pars 1. The Clarke The Vsher The Vsher of the Princes Chamber Carnaruonshire Anglesey-shire Merioneth-shire Cardigan-shire Carmarden shi●e The County of Carnaruon The County of Anglesey The County of 〈…〉 The County of Cardigan The County of Carmarden Statut. de a. 33. b. 6. In originale de a. 35. b. 6. rot 29 ea parte Rememor Thesaur in Scaccar Char●a data 4. Septem 11. E. 3. 1. Mar Diar 94 b. 32. Parliament 9. b. 5. Carta dat 10. Iuly ●6 E. ● Carta dat 17. Martij 11. E. 3. Carta dat 18. Martij 11. E. 3. Carta dat 3. ●●●● 11 ● 3. The Coynage of Tynne Casaneus in Catal●go gloriae mundi par ● consider 24. numero 121. Ex compoto Iohannis Arundel militis receptoris generalis Ducatis Cornubi● 15 H. 8. Officers of the Dutchy These summes ought n 〈…〉 e to be charged vpon the reuenue of the Dutchy for that these Castles belong to the Crown