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A28468	Nomo-lexikon, a law-dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern lawes : with references to the several statutes, records, registers, law-books, charters, ancient deeds, and manuscripts, wherein the words are used : and etymologies, where they properly occur / by Thomas Blount of the Inner Temple, Esq.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing B3340; ESTC R19028	517,540	312

God Lollardy and Lollery Anno 1 2 Phil. Ma. cap. 6. The Doctrine and Opinion of the Lollards Rogerus Acton miles pro Proditione Lollardia distrahatur suspendatur sic suspensus pendeat ad voluntatem Regis Middlesex Plac. Hill 1 Hen. 5. Rot. 7. Trin. 2 Hen. 5. Rot. 6. Lollards so called from Walter Lollard a German First Author of this Sect living about the year 1315. Were certain Hereticks at least in the Opinion of those times that abounded here in England in the days of Edward the Third and Henry the Fifth whereof Wicliff was the cheif in this Nation according to Stow in his Annals fol. 425. They are mentioned Anno 2 Hen. 5. cap. 7. Against these Lollards much was decreed by Tho. Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury in a Council at Oxford See their Tenets in Spotswoods History of Scotland fol. 61. The High Sheriff of every County is bound by his Oath to suppress them You shall says the Oath do all your pain and diligence to destroy and make to cease all manner of Heresie and Errors commonly called Lollardies within your Bailiwick from time to time with all your power c. The intent of the Hereticks called Lollards was to subvert the Christian Faith the Law of God the Church and the Realm so said the Statute of 2 Hen. 5. cap. 7. which was repealed 1 Edw. 6. cap. 12. See 3 Inst fol. 41. and Caudries Case Lord Dominus Sax hlaford signifying a Bread-giver Bountiful or Hospitable Is a word of Honor with us and used diversly Sometimes being attributed to those who are noble by Birth or Creation and are otherwise called Lords of the Parliament and Peers of the Realm sometimes to those who are so called by the curtesie of England as all the Sons of a Duke or Marquess and the eldest Son of an Earl Sometimes to Persons Honorable by Office as Lord Cheif Justice c. And sometimes to an Inferior Person that hath Fee and consequently the Homage of Tenants within his Mannor for by his Tenants he is called Lord and in some places for distinction sake Landlord In which last signification it is most used in our Law-Books where it is divided into Lord Paramount and Lord Mesn Lord Mesn is he that is owner of a Mannor and by vertue thereof hath-Tenants holding of him in Fee and by Copy of Court-Roll and yet holds himself of a Superior Lord called Lord Paramount or above him Old Nat. Br. fol. 79. We likewise read of Very Lord and Very Tenant Very Lord is he who is immediate Lord to his Tenant and Very Tenant he that holds immediately of that Lord. So that if there be Lord Paramount Lord Mesn and Tenant the Lord Paramount is not very Lord to the Tenant Broke tit Heriot num 1. Lord in Gross Is he who is Lord not by reason of any Mannor as the King in respect of his Crown Fitz. Nat. Br. fol. 3. and 8. where also is a Case wherein a private person is a Lord in Gross As a Man makes a Gift in Tail of all the Land he hath to hold of him and dies his Heir hath but a Seigniory in Gross Lorriners or Lorimers Fr. Lormier from the Lat. Lorum Is one of the Companies of London that make Bits for Bridles Spurs and such like small Iron ware Anno 1 Rich. 2. cap. 12. Lot or Loth Is the thirteenth Dish of Lead in the Darbishire Mines which belongs to the King Pro dominio suo Presentatum est in Ragemannis per 12 de Alto Pecco quod Rad. de Wyne fecit quandam Purpresturam in solo Domini Regis in Tatington Prestcliv● faciendo mineram plumbi unde Rex s●lebat percipere le Lot mineris i. Tertium decimum vas c. Rot. Rageman de quo Warranto de Itin. de Derbi 9 Edw. 1. Et de miner● lucrata in hujusmodi opere in feodo Domini Regis Dominus Rex habebit pro Dominio suo tertium decimum discum qui dicitur le Loth. Eschaet de Anno 16 Edw 1. num 34. See Cope Lotherwit alias Leyerwit Is a Liberty or Priviledge to take amends of him that defiles ones Bond-woman without Licence Rastals Exposition of Words According to others it is an amends for lying with a Bond-woman See Lairwit Some think it should be rather written Legerwit for Leger in Saxon signifies a Bed or Lecherwite a mulct or punishment for Lechery Lourgulary Fr. Lou●deri● i. Inhumanitas incivilitas In Statuto pro stratis London impresso Anno 1573. Art 45. Casting any corrupt thing appoisoning the Water is Lowrgulary and Felony some think it a corruption of Burglary See Glossar in decem Scriptores verbo Burglaria Lowbellers Anno 23 Eliz. cap. 10. Are such as go with Light and a Bell by the sight whereof Birds sitting on the Ground become somewhat stupified and so are covered with a Net and taken This name is derived from the word Low which in the Saxon or old English signifies a Flame of fire See the Antiq of Warwickshire p. 4. Lushborow or Lushburgs Was a base sort of Money coyned beyond Seas to the likeness of English Money in the days of Edward the Third and brought in to deceive the King and his People To avoid which it was made Treason for any Man wittingly to bring in any such Anno 25 Edw. 3. stat 4. cap. 2. 3 Par● Inst fol. 1. M. M. Every Person convicted for Murder Man-slaughter and admitted to the benefit of his Clergy to be marked with an M. upon the Brawn of the Left-thumb Anno 4 Hen. 7. cap. 13. Macegriefs alias Macegrefs Mac●ecar●i Are such as willingly buy and sell stoln Flesh knowing the same to be stoln Britton cap. 29. In turnis Vice-com ' 12 Juratores inter alia presenteront D● Macegrefs achat●uns vendauns a ●scient chars ●mbles Cromptons Justice of Peace fol. 193. a. Vide LL. In● cap. 20. de ●arnem furtivam e●●●t● Madning-money Old Roman Coyns sometimes found about Dunstable are so called by the Countrey people and retains the name from Magintum used by the Emperor Antonine in his Itinerary for Du●stable C●m Maeremium Is derived from the Old Norman word Marism● for Timber Rex dilecto Roger● de Horsley Constabulario Castri sui de Baumburg salutem M●ndamus vobis quod ●omines partium pr●dict nuper in Castro pr●dicto pro salvatione Corporum rerum suarum contra aggressus Scot●rum commorantes Maeremium de logi●● suis 〈◊〉 non bona catalla ac victualia sua in codem Castro in F●ssato Mot● ejusdem existentia sine impedimonto capere cari●re quo voluerint a●portare pormittatis c. T. Rege apud Co 〈…〉 k. 12 Ju●ii Claus 16 Edw. 2. m. 3. Magbote or Maegbote From the Sax. Maeg i. cognatus bote compensatio A recompence for the slaying or murder of ones Kinsman For anciently in this Nation Corporal punishments for Murder and other great

Coronatoris Inquirendum est per 12 Juratos pro Rege super Sacramentum suum quod fideliter presentabunt sine ullo concelamento omnes fortunas ●i fortuito occisos abjurationes Appella Murdra Sacrobarra felonias factas per quos quot c. Quaere If Sacrobarra be not the same with Sacrilegia Safe Conduct Salvus Conductus Is a security given by the Prince under the Broad Seal to a stranger for his quiet coming in and passing our of the Realm Touching which you may see the Statutes Anno 15 Hen. 6. cap. 3. 18 Ejusdem cap. 8. 28 Hen. 8. cap. 1. and the Form of it in Reg. of Writs fol. 25. Safe-guard See Salva-guardia Safe-pledge Salvus Plegius Is a Surety given for a Mans appearance against a day assigned Bracton lib. 4. cap. 2. num 2. Where it is also called Certus Plegius Sagibaro alias Sachbaro The same we now call Justiciarius It signifies as much as Vir causarum vel causis litibus praepositus LL. Inae Regis Anglo-Saxonis cap 6. MS. Sagitta Barbata A Bearded Arrow Reddendo inde annuatim pro omni servitio sex Sagittas Barbatas ad Festum Sancti Michaelis c. Carta Hugonis de Logiis sine Dat. Sailing Ware Anno 1 Rich. 3. cap. 8. Seems to be Canvas or such kinde of Cloath as Sails for Ships are made of Saka Hoc est Quod Prior habet emendas amerciamenta de transgressionibus hominum suorum in Curia sua litigantium tam liberorum quam Villanorum Reg. Priorat de Cokestord See Sax. Salary Salarium Is a recompence or consideration made to a Man for his pains or industry bestowed on another Mans business The word is used Anno 23 Edw. 3. cap. 1. Salet Is a Head-peece Anno 4 5 Phil. Mar. From the Fr. Salut i. Salus Mentioned also 20 Rich. 2. cap. 1. viz. Sallet or Scul of Iron c. Otherwise called a Moriam or Pot. Salarium Lat. Custom paid for Salt Camden Salina A Salt-pit or Vate a House or place where Salt is made In Herbagiis Piscariis in Salinis Fabricis in minariis ferreis c. Carta 17 Edw. 2. num 28. Salique Law Lex Salica De terra Salica nulla portio haereditatis mulieri veniat sed ad virilem sexum tota terrae hereditas perveniat c. Was an ancient Law made by Pharamund King of the Franks Part of which appears to have been borrowed by our Henry the First in compiling his Laws as Cap. 89. Qui hoc fecerit secundum Legem Salicam moriatur c. Salmon Pipe Anno 25 Hen. 8. cap. 7. Is an Engin to catch Salmons or such like Fish Salmon Sewse Seems to be the young Fry of Salmon Quasi Salmon issue Anno 13 Rich. 3. stat 1. cap. 19. Saltatorium A Deer-leap Clamat habere liberum Parcum suum apud Halton cum duobus Saltatoriis in eodem Pl. apud Cestriam 31 Edw. 3. Saltus Highwood See Boscus Salva Guardia Is a Protection given by the King to a stranger fearing the violence of some of His Subjects for seeking His Right by course of Law the form whereof see in Reg. of Writs fol. 26. Salvage Money Is a recompence allowed by the Civil Law in lieu of all damages sustained by that Ship that rescues or saves another which was set upon by Pyrates or Enemies Salute Salus Was a Coin made by our King Henry the Fifth in France after his Conquests there whereon the Arms of France and England were quarterly stamped Bakers Chron. fol. 187. Sanctuary Sanctuarium Is a place priviledged by the Prince for the Safe-guard of Offenders lives being founded on the Law of Mercy and upon the great Reverence Honor and Devotion which the Prince bears to the place whereunto he grants such Priviledge See Stamf. Pl. Cor. lib. 2. cap. 38. P. Bonifacius 5. jussit Aras Ecclesias esse asyla reis says Platina Among all other Nations our ancient Kings of England seem to have attributed most to these Sanctuaries permitting them to shelter such as had committed both Felonies and Treasons So that within forty days they acknowledged their fault and submitted themselves to banishment During which time if any Layman expelled them he was excommunicated if any Clerk he was made irregular But after forty days no Man might relieve them See New Book of Entries verbo Sanctuary and Fleta lib. 1. cap. 29. How by degrees they have been taken away See the Statutes 26 Hen. 8. cap. 13. and 28 Ejusdem cap. 7. 32 Ejusdem cap. 12. and 33 Ejusdem cap. 15. 1 Edw. 6. ca. 12 2 Ejusdem ca. 2. 33. and 5 Ejusdem cap. 10. See Abjuration Saint Johns of Beverley in Yorkshire had an eminent Sanctuary belonging to it which the Saxons called Fridstol q. Sedes Pacis So had St. Martins le Grand in London 21 Hen. 8. cap. 16. And Rippon had the like for which see Frodmortel Sand-gavel Is a payment due to the Lord of the Mannor of Rodely in Com. Gloc. for Liberty granted to the Tenants to dig Sand for their uses Taylors Hist of Gavelkind fol. 113. Sarplar of Wool Sarplera Lanae otherwise called a Pocket Is half a Sack a Sack eighty Tod a Tod two Stone and a Stone fourteen Pound See Fleta lib. 2. cap. 12. This in Scotland is called Serpliathe and contains eighty Stone See Skene verbo Serpliathe and 3 Part Inst fo 96. Sasse Annis 16 17 Car. 2. ca. 12. is a kind of Wear with Floudgates most commonly in Navigable and Cut Rivers for the damming and loosing the stream of Water as occasion requires for the better passing of Botes and Barges to and fro This in the West of Englad is called a Luck and in the River Lee less properly a Turnpike and in some places a Sluce Saterdays-stop Is a space of time in which of old it was not lawful to take Salmons in Scotland and the North of England that is from Evensong on Saturday till Sun-rising on Munday MS. Sauer default i. To excuse a defalt which is properly when a man having made defalt in Court comes afterwards and alleadges good cause why he did it as Imprisonment at the same time or the like New Book of Entries on this word Saunkefin from the Fr. Sang i. Sanguis Fin. Finis Is a word used by Britton ca. 119. for the determination or final end of the lineal Race or descent of a Kindred Saxonlage or Seaxenlage Seaxenlaga lex Saxonum See Merchenlage Scandalum Magnatum Is the special name of a Scandal or wrong done to any high Personage of the Realm as Prelates Dukes Earles Barons or other Nobles as also the Lord Chancellour Treasurer Steward of the House Clerk of the Privy-Seal Justice of either Bench or other great Officers by false newes or Messages whereby Debates and Discords betwixt them and the Commons or any scandal to their persons may arise Anno 2 Rich. 2. ca. 5.

ΝΟΜΟ-ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ A Law-Dictionary Interpreting such difficult and obscure WORDS and TERMS As are found either in Our Common or Statute Ancient or Modern LAWES WITH REFERENCES to the several Statutes Records Registers Law-Books Charters Ancient Deeds and Manuscripts wherein the Words are used And Etymologies where they properly occur Coke on Littl. fol. 68. b. Ad rectè docendum oportet primùm inquirere Nomina quia rerum cognitio à nominibus rerum dependet By THOMAS BLOVNT of the Inner Temple Esq In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb for John Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sign of the Bell in S. Pauls Churchyard and a little without Temple-Bar and in the New Exchange 1670. To the Right Honorable Sir Orlando Bridgeman Knight and Baronet Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Sir John Kelynge Knight Lord Cheif Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench and Sir John Vaughan Knight Lord Cheif Justice of His Majesties Court of Common Plea● MY LORDS AS it is certainly my bounden duty to offer and submit these my timorous and bashful endeavors to your great Judgments so it is my Interest to implore the benignity of your auspicious Patronage of them For the publishing these Papers I had onely two Motives The first and principal to erect a small Monument of that vast respect and deference which I have for your Lordships who are not onely the Oracles of our Law and Grand Exemplars of Justice but the glory and ornament of that Honorable Society whereof however unworthy I boast my self a Member and which at present justly claims the preheminence above the rest by producing more persons dignified with the Judiciary scarlet Robe then the other Three and filling up by due merit the most eminent Seats of Judicature in the Nation The other to gratifie an ambitious inclination of my own of leaving behinde me somewhat how inconsiderable soever that may in some measure excuse me to posterity from having been a truantly and useless Member of that Learned and Active Body If your Honors shall allow me to have fulfil'd my duty in the one and obtained my design in the other I have the desired effect of my Labors Nor hath my greatest ambition any thing higher to aym at then that I may with your Lordships permission subscribe my self My Lords Your most humble and obedient Servant THO. BLOUNT Inner Temple 20 June 1670. Preface SOme will perhaps wonder why I took so much pains to write this Book and object that we have two good Ones of this kind extant Cowels Interpreter and Terms of the Law nay haply thrust in Leighs Phylological Commentary as a third I answer though it is not my design to raise the reputation of this Work by disvaluing Those yet it may be allowable modestly to declare their Defects that my undertaking this may not appear unnecessary Doctor Cowel was certainly a Learned Man and his Enterprise very commendable but his Profession the Civil Law and that he did not singly intend his Interpreter for us appears by his often expressing what each word signifies in the Common Law to distinguish it from the Civil in which learning he bestowes a considerable part of his Book He ingenuously says His design is the advancement of knowledge and to incite others to finish his model and supply his defects which in truth are not a few For he directly mistakes the meaning of some Words and derivation of others as Ordel Mindbruch Brodehalpeny Furlong Avishering Thirdwith-hawanman c. He confounds Realty with Royalty and Commote with Comorth which are distinct words In the word Honor he sayes that in reading he has observ'd thus many Honors in England and sets down 25 wherein either his Reading was short or his observations defective for I have collected above twice that number out of approved Authors and Records in being when he wrote He is sometimes too prolix in the derivation of a Word setting down several Authors Opinions without categorically determining which is the true as in Exchequer Withernam Herald Earle Justices of Trailbaston Pawnage Purlieu c. And lastly gives us divers bare Words without explication as Cone Key Calendring Coggs Duch Lancegay Palingman Bread of treet c. which I have supply'd Not but that I have lest some quaere's too but those in Words of greater difficulty The Author of the Law-Terms was without doubt not less learned but wrote so long since that his very Language and manner of expression was almost antiquated till help'd by the late correction of it He has added to divers Words several Cases in Law relating thereto in general not tending much to their explication which I have declin'd lest the bulk should swell too big and the principal Design be wav'd He omits the Etymons for the most part and is much more copious in the first part of the Alphabet then in the later which argues the Author had not time or perseverance to finish it They are both much wanting in the number of Words especially the later For Cowel glean'd many after the Author of the Law-Terms had inn'd his Harvest yet both have much useless and repealed Law in them as in reference to Tenures by Knights-service and their Appendi●●s Wardship Villenage Purveyance Star-chamber Knighthood c. For thus sayes the learned Author of the Preface to Roll's Abridgment As time and experience and use and some Acts of Parliament have abridg'd some and antiquided other Titles so they have substituted and enlarged others Cowel also especially in the Folio Edition besides the misalphabeting is extreamly misprinted yet the Terms of the Law will still deservedly retain an usefulness pro tanto and particularly for the Law-French to instruct the young Student therein Leigh affords not the least Objection against my Undertaking for he is a Commentator not an Expositor his Title speaks it though sometimes he acts a little in both capacities Having found these among other as I judg'd important defects in those Authors consider'd the usefulness of Books of this Nature and reflected on these Expressions of the Oracle of our Law Here as in many other places it appears how necessary it is to know the signification of Words And again That the explanation of ancient Words and the true sence of them is requisite to be understood per verba notiora I was encourag'd to bestow my endeavour herein And it will abate the wonder that I who inter doctos me non effero should yet not onely assume the liberty in many places to correct those learned Authors but also make an additional collection of above a thousand Words if it be consider'd That they wanted those Helps I have had viz. That incomparable Glossarium Arohaiologicum of Sir Henry Spelman The elaborate Institutes of Sir Edward Coke That excellent Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum of Mr. Somner The Learned Works of Mr. William Dugdale Mr. Fabian Philips and others publish'd since those Authors wrote My Genius has also led me though sometimes

Stable Stand Dog-draw Back-bear and Bloody-hand Which see in their proper places Badger from the Fr. Bagagier i. A Carrier of Luggage Signifies with us one that buys Corn or Victuals in one place and carries it to another to make profit by it See Cromptons Just of Peace fol. 69 70. Bail from the Fr. noun Bail i. A Guardian or Goaler Is properly used for the freeing or setting at liberty of one arrested or imprisoned upon Action either Civil or Criminal under surety taken for his appearance at a day and place certain Bracton lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 8. num 8 9. The reason why it is called Bail is Because by this means the party Restrained is delivered into the hands of those that bind themselves for his forth-coming There is both common and special Bail Common Bail is in Actions of small prejudice or concernment being called Common because any Sureties in that case are taken whereas in Causes of greater weight as Actions upon Bond or Specialty Special Bail or Surety must be taken as Subsidy Men at least and they according to the value Manwood in his first part of Forest Laws pag. 167. says there is a great diversity between Bail and Mainprise For he that is Mainprised is always said to be at large and to go at his own Liberty out of Ward from the time he is Mainprised till the day of his appearance But otherwise it is where a Man is let to Bail by four or two Men by the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre until a certain day for there he is always accounted by the Law to be in their Ward and custody for the time And they may if they will keep him in Ward or Prison So that he who is so bailed shall not be said by the Law to be at large or at his own liberty See Lamb. Eiren lib. 3. cap. 2. pag. 330. Bail is also a certain Limit within the Forest as it is divided into the charges of several Foresters Crompton in the Oath of Bow-bearer fol. 201. See Mainprise and 4 Instit fol. 178. Bailiff Balivus As the name so the Office it self in ancient time was answerable to that of France where there are Eight Parliaments which are high Courts whence lies no Appeal and within the Precincts of those several parts of that Kingdom which belong to each Parliament there are several Provinces to which Justice is ministred by certain Officers called Bailiffs So in England we see many several Counties in which Justice hath been ministred to the Inhabitants by the Officer whom we now call Sheriff or Vicount the one name descending from the Saxons the other from the Normans And though I cannot expresly prove That this Sheriff was ever called a Bailiff yet it is probable that was one of his names also because the County is often called Baliva a Bailywick As namely in the Return of a Writ Non est inventus in Baliva mea c. Kitchin Returna Brevium fol. 285. And in the Sheriffs Oath the County is called his Bailiwick I think the word Bailiff used in Magna Chart. cap. 28. and 14 Edw. 3. Stat. 1. cap. 9. compriseth as well Sheriffs as Bailiffs of Hundreds But as the Realin is divided into Counties so every County is again divided into Hundreds within which it is manifest that in ancient time the Kings Subjects had justice ministred to them by the several Officers of every Hundred which were called Bailiffs as those Officers do in France and Normandy being cheif Officers of Justice within every Province Grand Customary of Norm cap. 1. And it appears by Bracton lib. 3. tract 2 cap. 34. num 5. that Bailiffs of Hundreds might hold Plea of Appeal and Approvers But since that time these Hundred Courts certain Franchises excepted are by the said Statute of 14 Edw. 3. swallowed into the County Courts as you may read in County and Hundred And now the Bailiffs name and office is grown into such contempt at least these Bailiffs of Hundreds that they are now but bare Messengers and Mandataries within their Liberties to serve Writs and such vile Offices for which see Crompt Just of Peace fol. 49. a. Yet is the name otherwise still in good esteem for the chief Magistrates in divers Corporate Towns are called Bailiffs as of Ludlow Leominster c. And again there are certain persons to whom the Kings Castles are committed who are called Bailiffs as the Bailiff of Dover Castle These ordinary Bailiffs are of two sorts Bailiffs Errant and Bailiffs of Franchises Bailiffs Errant Balivi Itinerantes are those whom the Sheriff appoints to go up and down the County to serve Writs Summon the County Sessions Assises and such like Bailiffs of Franchises Balivi Franchesiarum aut Libertatum are those who are appointed by every Lord within his Liberty to do such Offices therein as the Bailiff Errant does at large in the County Of these read Sir Tho. Smith de Repub. Angl. lib. 2. cap. 16. There are also Bailiffs of the Forest Manwood part 1. pag. 113. and Bailiffs of Husbandry belonging to private Men of good Estates who are so called because they dispose of the under servants every Man to his labor and task check them for misdoing their business gather the profits to their Lord and Masters use and deliver an account thereof at the years end or otherwise as it shall be called for The Office or Duty of a Bailiff of a Manor or Houshold which in ancient time seems to have been all one Fleta well describes Lib. 2. cap. 72 73. The word Balivus is derived from Baal i. Dominus quia Balivi Dominantur suis subditis quasi corum Magistri Domini Bailiff of the Moot See Moot Bale Fr. A Pack or certain quantity of Merchandise as a Bale of Spicery of Books or Thred I finde the word in the Statute 16 Rich. 2. cap. 1. and still in use And Ballot Fr. a little Pack Balenger Seems to have been a kinde of Barge or Water-vessel by the Statute 28 H. 6. cap. 5. Baliva Statute of Marlbridge 52 Hen. 3. cap. 2. Ubi Balivam habeat vel jurisdictionem Here Baliva is well expounded by the Statute it self for in this place it signifies Jurisdiction Cokes 2 Inst fol. 105. Balivo amovendo Is a Writ to remove a Bailiff out of his Office for want of sufficient living within his Bailiwick Reg. of Writs fol. 78. Balkers or Balcors See Conders Ban or Bans Bannum from the British Ban i. Clamor Is a Proclamation or publick notice given of any thing This word Bans we use in publishing Matrimonial Contracts in the Church before Marriage to the end If any Man can speak against the intention of the parties either in respect of Kinred Pre-contract or otherwise they may take their Exception in time And in the Canon Law Banna sunt Proclamationes sponsi sponsae in Ecclesiis fieri solitae Yet our word Banning seems to come thence being an Exclamation