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A10218 De pace Regis et regni viz. A treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and kingdome, as menaces, assaults, batteries, treasons, homicides, and felonies ... and by whome, and what meanes the sayd offences, and the offendors therein are to bee restrained, repressed, or punished. ... Collected out of the reports of the common lawes of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painfull workes of the reuerend iudges Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes, by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier. Pulton, Ferdinando, 1536-1618.; Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538.; England and Wales. Public General Acts. Selections. 1609 (1609) STC 20495; ESTC S116053 719,079 571

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the house fearing that they will enter his house and rob him doth cast out vnto them mony or plate which the felons do take and then depart this is robbery for it is in construction of the law taken from the person of a man and for feare 9. E. 4. 26. 29 If one lye in the high way to rob passengers Robbery in will but not in déed and draweth his sword against a man that trauelleth the same way and commaundeth him to deliuer his purse whereupon the same party encountreth him is too strong for him and apprehendeth him or leuieth Huy and Cry and the offendor is thereby taken yet this is no Robberie nor Felony for there was no act done though there was an intent and will to robbe Quia voluntas non reputabitur pro facto 30 Burglary is What is Burglary when one or more persons do in the time of peace breake a house a Church a Wall a Tower or Gatehouse in the night with a felonious intent to robbe kill a man or commit some other Felonie for the which Burglarie the offendor shal be hanged Fit cor 264 22. Ass p. 95 though he take nothing away But that breaking of the house must bee to commit some Felonie For if the offendor be indicted for the breaking of a house to beat some person that is but Trespas 13. H. 4. 8 but if it be to kill another then it is Felony And if a man bée indicted for the breaking of a Close to kill or robbe another it is not Burglarie 1. M. Dy. 99. 31 If a man doe breake a house and doe not enter into it Breaking a house but not entring then it is no Burglarie for a man was indicted Quod burglaritèr fregit ecclesiam in nocte intrauit ad depraedandum bona parochianorum in eadem existentur sed nihil abstulit and this was adiudged Burglary for that the party indicted did enter 32 Burglary cannot be committed in the day but in the night No Burglary in the day for all the indictments of Burglary be Noctantèr fregit St. 39. El. 15. for though by the statute of 39. Eliz. the benefit of Clergie is taken away from any person conuicted for the felonious taking away in the day time of any money or goods of the value of fiue shillings or vpwards in any dwelling house or out-house although no person shal be in the same at the time of the said felony committed and so that offenceis made as penall as Burglary by the losse of the benefite of Clergie yet is it not Burglary for it may be committed in the day time the penaltie of loosing of his Clergy is not inflicted vnlesse the money or goods taken away be of the value of fiue shillings or vpwards Breaking a dwelling house where no person is 33 If a man hath a mansion house Co. li. 4. 40. and he and his family doth vpon some cause goe forth of the house and in the meane time one doth come and breake the house in the night to commit felony this is Burglary For although the owner nor any of his family were in the house yet it is his mansion house for the words of an appeale or indictment of Burglarie be Domum mansionalem ipsius A. B. fregit And in like sort if a man haue two houses and doth inhabite sometime in one of them and some other time in another and hath a familie or seruants in them both and in the night when the seruants be out of the house felons doe breake the house this is Burglarie for that the house is broken ❧ Felonies by Statute ANd now hauing expressed which bee felonies by the common Law it resteth that I declare which be felonies by Statute with the reasons and causes why the same statutes were made so farre as I may be warranted by the same statutes And as in Treasons I began with those Treasons which did concerne the K. and his chiefe magistrates of iustice So in reporting of such lawes and statutes as haue béene made for the supply of some defects at the common Law I will begin with a statute which indeuoreth to restraine such as practise or confederat to destroy the king or his chiefe officers attending on his person or estate 1 For as much as by quarrels made to such as haue béene in great authority office and of counsell with the kings of this Realme hath ensued the destruction of the kings and thereby the vndoing of this Realme so as it hath appeared euidently when compassing of the death of such as were of the kings true subiects was had the destruction of the prince was imagined therby and for the most part it hath growne and béene occasion by enuie and mallice of the kings owne houshold seruants And for that by the lawes of this land if actuall déeds were not had there was no remedy for such false compassings imaginations and confederacies had against any lord or any of the kings Councell or any of the kings great Officers in his houshold or Steward Treasurer Controller and so great inconueniences did ensue because such vngodly demeanor was not straitly punished before that an actuall déed was done for the remedy whereof by a statute made An. 3. H. 7. 14. Conspiring to destroy the king or any lord c. it was ordained St. 3. H. 7. 14. That the Steward Treasurer and Controller of the kings house for the time being or one of them shall haue full authority and power to enquire by xij sad men and discréet persons of the Checke Roll of the kings honourable houshold if any seruant admitted to be his seruant sworne and his name put into the Checke Roll of houshold whatsoeuer he be seruing in any maner office or roome reputed had and taken vnder the estate of a lord make any confederacies compassings conspiracies or imaginations with any person or persons to destroy or murder the king or any lord of this realme or any other person sworne to the kings Councell Steward Treasurer Controller of the kings house that if it be found afore the said steward for the time being by the said xij men that any such of the kings seruants as is abouesaid hath confedered compassed conspired or imagined as abouesaid that he so found by the inquiry be put thereupon to answere And the Steward Treasurer and Controller or two of them haue power to determine the same matter according to the law And if he be put in triall that then it be tried by other xij sad men of the same houshold Challenge And that such misdoers haue no challenge but for mallice And if such misdoers be found guilty by confession or otherwise that the said offence be iudged felony and they to haue iudgement and execution as felons attainted ought to haue by the common law 2 For that vnlawfull and forcible violence and also detestable aduowtrie were committed in
linguae Therefore the more to encourage Marchants to continue here and also others to come with their marchandizes into this Realme by a Statute made Anno 8. H. 6. St. 8. H. 6. 29 it was declared That the same Statute made Anno 2. H. 5. should be no wayes preiudiciall to the foresaid first statute made 28. Edw. 3. nor was not meant that it should extend to any but onely to Enquests to be taken betwéene Denizon and Denizon and not to the other Enquests or proofes mentioned in the sayd Statute of 28. Ed. 3. viz. to Enquests to be taken betwéene Denizons and Aliens And that the first statute of 28. Ed. 3. should bée effectuall stand in force and be put in execution according to the forme thereof notwithstanding the later Statute of 2. H. 5. and notwithstanding that Aliens haue not lands or tenements of the yearely value of fortie shillings according to the purport of the sayd later statute of 2. H. 5. And so by this statute want of sufficient fréehold is the cause of Challenge to Aliens which bée impanelled with English men But yet it séemeth to be a cause to challenge English men who bée impanelled with Aliens for the perclose of this Statute doth wholly relye vpon Aliens This last rehearsed Statute of 8. H. 6. willeth That the intent of the other Statute of 2. H. 5. should bée preferred before the words thereof and so the Iudges of the law haue expounded it 9. H. 6. 27. for they haue allowed a Iuror which had not fortie shillings of fréehold to bée sworne in an Enquest if others had so much land to his vse And where the words of the statute be If he hath not lands or tenements of the yearely value of fortie shillings and doth not expresse in what Countie yet they doe take it by intendment that the lands must bée in the Countie where the issue is to bée tryed 9. H. 7. 1. M. 12. H. 7. 4 H. 32. H. 8. 20. P. 21. H. 6. 39. And for that the words be in the Present tense viz. if hée hath not they doe expound it that the Iuror must haue so much land in the same Countie at that time when he is sworne for though he had so much land when he was impanelled yet if he hath aliened it or that the same was euicted from him by an auncient title before the time hee was sworne the challenge of insufficiencie shall bée allowed vnto the prisoner And whereas the foresayd statute of 2. H. 5. hath ordayned That no person shall be admitted to passe in any Enquest vpon the tryal of the death of a man if hée hath not lands of the yearely value of fortie shillings this is not meant of the tryall of the death of a man which is slaine but of the tryall of the death of a man which standeth at the barre vpon the question of his life or death And then will this challenge serue for want of sufficient lands vpon the triall of all maner of felonies and treasons By the Statute of 33. H. 8. it is enacted That he which is arraigned of treason St. 33. H. 8. 12. murder or manslaughter committed within the Verge shall haue no maner of challenge to any of the Iury malice only excepted and so shall haue no challenge for want of sufficient fréehold And in like sort it is ordained by the Statute of Anno 3. H. 7. St. 3. H. 7. 14 That hee which being the Kings seruant sworne and whose name is in the checke Roll of the Kings houshold vnder the degrée of a Lord which is arraigned for conspiring with any other to destroy any Lord of this Realme or any other sworne to the Kings Councell Or the Steward Treasurer or Controller of the Kings house shall not haue any challenge but for mallice and so shall haue no challenge for want of sufficient fréehold By a Statute made Anno 33. H. 8. St. 33. H. 8. 13. it was enacted That if a Commission of Oyer and Determiner bée directed into any County for the tryall of any person which doth confesse any Murther to thrée of the Kings Councell or is vehemently susspected thereof no challenge for the Hundred or Shire shall bée allowed vnto him But the challenge of any Iuror for lacke of Fréehold of the yearely value of forty shillings shall bée allowed as hath béene accustomed And because Trials in Murthers and Felonies in Cities Boroughes and Townes corporat within this Realme hauing authoritie in the deliuerance of such offendors were oftentimes deferred and delayed by reason of challenge made by such offendors of Iurors for lacke of sufficiency of fréehold to the great hinderance of iustice for the redresse thereof by a statute made Anno 23. H. 8. St. 23. H. 8. 13. it was enacted That euery person being the kings naturall subiect borne which either by the name of a citizen or a fréeman or any other name doth enioy the liberties of any City Borough or Town● corporat where he dwelleth being worth in mooueable goods to the cleare value of forty pounds shall bée admitted in tryall of Murthers and Felonies in euery Sessions and Gaoles of deliuery kept in and for the liberty of such Cities Boroughes or Townes corporat albeit he hath no fréehold But this act extendeth not to any Knight or Esquire dwelling abiding or resorting to any such City Borough or Towne corporat any thing in the same act to the contrary hereof notwithstanding 5 Vpon the arraignement of a prisoner the king by his prerogatiue might haue challenged euery of the Iurors peremptorily by the common law without shewing of any cause thereof and by that challenge the same Iuror should haue béene presently drawne But this was a great mischiefe and offence to the subiect who by that meanes was infinitely delayed and had often put out of the Iury the most discréet and indifferent men which were returned for his tryall For the remedy whereof by a Statute intituled Ordinatio de inquisitionibus Challenge for the king made Anno 33. Edw. 1. St. 33. E. 1. it was established That touching Inquisitions to bée made before any Iustices wherein the king is any way a party although it bée alleadged by those which doe prosecute for the king that the Iurors of those Inquisitions or any of them bée not good for the king those Inquisitions shall not therefore remaine to bée taken But if they which doe pursue for the king will challenge any of those Iurors they shall shew a certaine cause of their challenge and the truth of that challenge whether it bée true or not shal be inquired of according to the Iustices discretion But he that doth prosecute the sute for the king néede not presently shew the cause vpon his challenge as a common person should do if he were party against the king for he may shew that cause when he hath perused the whole pannell But if he that is arraigned
take reward of any who will fréely licence all persons to prosecute their right giue full eare to the widowes complaint further the cause of the orphan and fatherlesse and suffer none that hée can helpe to receiue wrong who will not feare the countenance of the mightie nor disdaine the basenesse of the poore whom neither hatred fauor or priuat affection will moue but without respect of persons will yéeld to each wight that which his cause requireth who will remember and neuer forget that God hath endowed him with knowledge and vnderstanding Ecclesiast 17 that he hath made a couenant with him to shew him what true iustice and iudgement is that all his actions bée continually in Gods sight and that euerie moment from heauen the King of Kings doth behold them And finally who duely respecting both the commissions which he hath receiued from God and his prince will so indifferently temper iustice with mercie towards the poore prisoner standing trembling before him at the barre as he will hope for mercie when himselfe shall make his last and great account before the God of iustice and mercie 2 Whereas diuers antient Prerogatiues and Authorities of iustice appertaining to the Crown of this Realm were seuered and taken from the same by sundrie gifts of the Kings Progenitors Kings of this Realme to the great diminution of the royall estate of the same and to the hindrance and delay of iustice St. 27. H. 8. 25. for the reformation whereof by a Statute made Anno 27. H. 8. it was enected That no person or persons of what estate condition None shall make Iustices but the King or degree soeuer they bée shall haue any power or authoritie to make any Iustices of Eyre Iustices of Assise Iustices of Peace or Iustices of Gaole deliuerie but that all such Officers and Ministers shall bée made by Letters Patents vnder the Kings great Seale in the name and by authoritie of the King and his heires Kings of this Realme in all Shires Counties Counties Palantine and other places of this Realme Wales and the Marches of the same or in any other his Dominions at their pleasure and wills in such maner and forme as Iustices in Eyre c. bée commonly made in euerie Shire of this Realme Any graunts vsages Acts of Parliament or other thing notwithstanding The Iudge vpon the arraignment of a Péer●e of the Realme 3 When a Péere of the Realme and Lord of the Parliament 1. H. 4. 1● 13. H. 8. 13. 10. Ed. 4. 6. is to be arraigned vpon any Treason or Felonie whereof he is indicted and whereunto he hath pleaded not guiltie the King by his letters patents shall assigne some noble and sage Lord of the Parliament to bee high Steward of England for the day of his arraignement who before the same day shall make a Precept to his Serieant at Armes that is appointed to serue him during the time of his Commission to warne to appeare before him xviij or xx Lords of the Parliament vpon the same day c. S. Triall 2. 4 Where Treasons Misprisions of Treasons Murders Manslaughters and other malicious strikings by reason whereof blood hath béen shed against the K. peace were often committed within the limits of the Kings palace or house or other houses where his Maiestie was abiding in his royall person which offences when they be done be best knowne by his Highnesse Officers of his houshold and by his seruants of his Checke roll And if his Maiesty shall happen to remoue from such his palace or house or other house where such offences were done before the tryall and determination thereof then such offences might not lawfully be tryed heard and determined by and before the sayd Officers but bée remitted to bée tryed and determined by the order of the Common law by reason whereof the punishment of the sayd offendors in such cases hath beene long time delayed and sometime their offences forgotten and not remembred and so they escaped vnpunished For the redresse whereof by a Statute made Anno 33. H. 8. it was enacted St. 33. H. 8. 12. That all Treasons Misprisions of Treasons Murders Manslaughters Bloudsheds and other malitious strikings by reason whereof bloud shall be shed against the Kings peace which shall bée done within any the Palaces or houses of the King or his heires or within any other house or houses at such time as his Maiestie shall bée then abiding in his royall person shall bee inquired of tryed heard and determined within any of the Kings houses or other house where his Maiestie shall bée abiding Iudge of treasons and felonies committed in the K. house before the Lord Steward of the Kings houshold and in his absence before the Treasorer and Comptroller of the K. houshold and Steward of the Marshalsey for the time beeing or two of them whereof the Steward of the Marshalsey to bee one by vertue of their offices without any Commission or other authoritie to them giuen And whether the King shall bée remooued from the house where such offences shall bée done or not before they be inquired of heard and determined yet such offences shall be inquired of tryed heard and determined before the Kings Officers of his houshold before named or two of them by the Inquisition and verdict of his houshold seruants in his Checke roll at such Palace or house where his Maiestie shall bée at any time abiding in manner and forme as is hereafter expressed The two Clerkes Comptrollers Clerkes of the Checke and Clerkes Marshals for the time being of the K. houshold or one of them vpon a Precept to them or any of them made by the Lord Steward or in his absence by the said Treasorer and Comptroller of the Kings houshold and the said Steward of the Marshalsey or by two of them whereof the sayd Steward of the Marshalsey to be one shall haue power to summon warne and returne the names of twentie foure persons being yeomen officers of the Kings sayd houshold in the sayd Checke roll to inquire of such Treasons Misprisions of Treasons Murders Manslaughters and other malitious strikings by reason whereof bloud shall bée shed against the Kings peace before the sayd Lord Steward and in his absence before the sayd Treasorer Comptroller and Steward of the Marshalsey or before two of them at the least whereof the Steward to bée one And it shall bee lawfull to the sayde Lord Steward and in his absence to the sayd Treasorer Comptroller and Steward of the Marshalsey aforesayd or two of them whereof the sayd Steward to bée one before whom such Returnes shall bée so made as is aforesayd to cause such number of the sayd foure and twentie persons so returned aboue the number of twelue persons as to him or them shall séeme expedient to inquire of such Treasons Misprisions of Treasons Murders Manslaughters or other malitious strikings by reason whereof bloud shal bée shed against the Kings peace
raigne that now is which is not or hath not bin the castle or dwelling house of any nobleman or gentleman nor the chiefe mansion house of any manor is and shal be adiudged a house of husbandry for euer and all acres spoken of in this statute shal be adiudged acres according to the Statute or Ordinance de terris mensurandis Which is an acre of land And euery person persons bodies politique and corporat which shall offend in not building erecting repairing continuing or maintaining of houses of husbandry according to the purport true meaning of the said statute The forf for not building a house of husbandry shall for euery house that shal not be erected builded repaired continued or maintained in necessary reparations tenantable according to the intent of the same act by the space of one yéere forf x. l. and so yéerely x. l. vntill the same shal be sufficiētly erected continued repaired c. and for euery acre of land meddow or pasture which shal not be laid vnto or let with such houses of husbandry when the same shal be demised shal forf for euery yéere that he or they shal so offend the summe of x. s̄ as long as often as such acre shall not in those respects be ordered vsed according to the intent of this act of which forf the K. shal haue one part the poore of the parish where the offence was committed the second part and he that will sue in any of the K. courts of record at Westminster the third and if none will sue thē the K. shal haue also that third part But no offendor shall be impeached or sued by vertue of this act Within what time the suit shal be presēted except the suit be brought and commenced by the party for the king himselfe within 2. yeares of the same offence done but where the suit shal be prosecuted for the K. only c. then within 3. yeeres after the offence done Oppression by decay of Tillage 34 By the stat of an 39. El. 2. it was ordained St. 39. El. 2 That all lands and grounds which now are vsed in tillage or for tillage hauing bin tillable lands fields or grounds such as next before the first day of this parliament haue béene by the space of 12. yeres together at the least vsed in tillage or for tillage according to the nature of the soile course of husbandry vsed in that part of the countrey shall not be cōuerted to any shéepe pasture or to the grazing or fatting of cattel by the occupiers or possessors thereof but shall according to the nature of that soile course of husbandry vsed in the part of the country continue to be vsed in tillage and for tillage for corne graine not for wood And if any person body politique or corporat shal offend against the premisses thē the offēdor shal forf for euery acre not restored or not cōtinued as is aforesaid x. s̄ for euery yere that he or they so offēd to be diuided into 3. parts then to be distributed as is aforesaid so that the suit be cōmenced or prosecuted wtin the time or times before mentioned I haue for some special causes herein set down but only the offēces penalties mentioned in the two last specified stat of an 39. El. 1. 2. Wherefore the two last stat bee not set down at large omitting purposely the exceptions reseruations prouisoes and some other matters in the same 35 As Menaces Assaults Batteries Imprisonments Maihems Riots Routs vnlawful assemblies Forgeries Periuries Maintenances Deceits Extortions Oppressions all other the crimes before mentioned haue from one age to another bin noted accused as maladies in the common wealth and adiudged condemned as professed enemies to the peace of the realme and by seuerall lawes statutes diuers penalties haue bin imposed vpō the transgressors thereof in a measure certaine within some limits So the prouidence of our forefathers sounding déeper into the corruptiō of mans nature foreséeing that sometime his cholerike passions turbulent spirit sometime the gall and bitternes of his heart sometime his couetous insatiable affections eftsoons his secret desires deuices of reuenge doe carry him headlong into exorbitant vnusuall designments practises be they neuer so contrary to the Lawes of God of Nature Reason in seueral degrées further thē our said lawmakers did then either fore-thinke feare or by particular words restraine knowing also that the subtiltie of the Serpent and of men of the serpents nature doth excéed the other beasts of the field haue therefore erected established the most honorable Court of Starre-chamber All the former offences punishable in the Star-chāber to the intent that the wisedome of that Court authorized partly by the K. prerogatiue partly by seuerall lawes statutes of the realme might search forth the serpents subtilty and vtterly crush dash the same and séeing the dead letter of each law doth ordaine in most cases but one kind of punishment for one sort of offence the circumspection of the makers of that law were they neuer so wise or experiēced could not foresée all the circumstances which in time might ensue in the maner of transgressing of that law Therfore the lords others of that high Court being now the speaking law representing the persons of the dead lawmakers carefull expositors of their meanings by their graue foresights déep considerations do looke into those offēces which be cōmitted contrary to the same lawes do search into euery quarter corner circumstance therof do pierce through the very bowels intrailes of them and the transgressors thereof as what persons of what estate St. 13. H. 4. 7 St. 2. H. 5. 8 degrée ability function or calling cōmitted the offēce to whom in what manner in what place at what time before whom with what number for what cause the same was done then do inflict punishmēt vpon the transgressors thereof first according to the lawes statutes therfore prouided then do qualifie or aggrauate the same according to the circumstances As it is a Riot punishable by the stat of An. 13. H. 4. Ann. 2. H. 5. if thrée persons or more do assemble together and beat or mayme a man pull downe his house pale or ditch wrongfully c. so if a great number of meane persons of small ability or credit shall assault a péere of the realme or a Knight or Esquire that is Custōs Rotulorum of the shire or a Iustice of peace and Quorum in his country shall strip and whip him shall pull downe his house to the ground shall set him in the stockes or on the pillory shall beat his wife and children kill his cattell and spoyle his corne before his face and shall vse other acts and wordes of infamie and disgrace vnto him and only for