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A14970 The second part of Symboleography, newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure seuerall treatises. 1. Of fines and concordes. 2. Of common recoueries. 3. Of offences and indictments. 4. Of compromises and arbitrements. Wereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie, the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerye: of supplications, bils, and aunsweres, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also retornable: likewise much augmented with diuers presidents, very necessary for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and aunsweres. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easy and readie finding of the matters herein contayned: the new additions hauing therein this marke * set before them; Symbolaeographia. Part 2 West, William, fl. 1568-1594. 1601 (1601) STC 25278; ESTC S119713 604,936 622

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by these presents in reliefe ease of the said F. M. that if the said F. M. his c. or any of them do well and truely pay or cause to be paied the said sum of 160. l according to the true meaning of this present award And if the said L. S. his heirs c. or some of them shall not well truely satisfie content pay vnto the said T. G. his c. the said seuerall sums aboue in this awarde appointed to be payed by the said F. M. before the seuerall daies herein aboue mentioned That then at all times after any such default of paiment so to be made by the said L. S. his c. the said T. G. his c. shall permit and suffer the said F. M. his executors and administrators euery of them at the costs charges of the said F. M. his exec and administ effectually to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted all and euery such execution and executions vpon the said iudgement so had for the said T. G. against the said L. S. as to them or any of them or the learned counsell of them or any of them shall seeme good And all and euery summe and sums of money thereby to be obtained to take and conuert to the only proper vse and behalfe of the said F. M. his exec administr without any accompt recompence or payment thereof or therefore to be yeelded or made to the said T. G. his c. or any of them any thing in this present award contained c. notwithstanding ✿ In witnes whereof the said Earle to both the partes of this present award hath set his hand and seale Dated c. All such couenants conditions as be vsually made for the assurāce or enioying of lands or tenements goods and chattels may be inserted into awards as shall seeme good vnto the arbitrators or parties Of notice of the arbitrement AND when the arbitrators haue made their award according to Sect. 48. the submission albeit perchance they be not bound to giue notice thereof to the parties yet it seemeth very requisite that they should in due time before that eyther party be to performe any part thereof notifie the same vnto them least otherwise they might breake their bōds or couenants in that behalfe if any such be before they know the same Notwithstanding that the booke in 8. Edw. 4. 1. 9. be doubtfull in that point The finall cause and effects of Arbitrements ANd thus by that which hath bin discoursed it sufficiently appeareth Sect. 49. as we thinke that the scope and end of arbitrements and other iudgments is all one And chiefly the finall determination of strif● suit and controuersie 19. H. 6. 36. And so consequently their effects be almost equall But the lawes seeme more fauourable to arbitrements then other iudgments in so much as by arbitrators the strict course and tedious ceremonies of law suits which are most commonly wont to wearie suters and picke their purses are cut off and shorter decisions by them made with little or no cost at all Wee differ to shew how arbitrements may be pleaded in barre of other actions vntill we come to their fit place amongst our presidents of pleadings and so end this treatise An Award made by an Arbitrator touching copyhold land betweene an Alderman of London and an other TO all Christen people to whom this present writing of award indented Sect. 50. shall come H. T. of Lincolns Inne in the countie of Middlesex Esquier sendeth greeting in our Lord God euerlasting Whereas suite variance and debate heretofore hath beene and yet is had moued and depending as well in the Queenes Maiesties Court of Requests as in diuers other Courts betweene R. H. Citizen and Alderman of London of the one partie and R. E. of K. in the countie of M. Yeoman of the other partie of for and concerning the right title vse interest and possession of diuers lands tenements hereditamēts with the appurtenances lying and being in K. within the manor or Lordship of T. within the said Countie of M. and containing by estimation about 200. acres of land meadow pasture and wood commonly called or knowne by the name of Hebines land for the appeasing final end and determina●ion of all which said suites variances and debates the parties aforesaid haue submitted compromitted themselues to stand to obay and performe the arbitrament ordinaunce dome and iudgemēt of me the said H. T. Arbitrator indifferently elected named and chosen by both the said parties indifferently to arbitrate order deeme awarde and Iudge as well of for and concerning the estate right title interest vse and possession of all and singuler the said premisses and euery parte and parcell thereof as also of for and vpon all maner of ac●ions suites quarels debts debates trespasses and demaunds whatsoeuer heretofore had moued stirred or depending betweene the said parties from the beginning of the worlde vntill the twentie day of Nouember last past as by their seuerall writings obligatorie wherein eyther of the said parties stand bounden to the other of the same parties in the summe of two hundred pounds bearing date the said 20. daie of Nouember and made for the true performaunce of the said award more at large it doth and may appeare Wherupon the said H. T. hauing taken vpon him the charge and burden of the said Arbitramen● And hauing present before him both the said parties hauing also very aduisedly and deliberatly weighed and considered the titles claimes allega●ions and proofes of either of the said parties to the said premisses And vpon sight and due consideration of all the euidences writings and proofes shewed and made before me the said H. T. by both the said parties do award arbitrate order deeme iudge of the premisses in maner and forme following That is to say First I the said Arbitrator do award deeme order Iudge that the said R. E. or his heires at al times within 3. yeares next ensuing the date of these presents vpon lawfull reasonable warning by the Steward Bailife or Reeue of the said manor of T. for the time being shall at the next Court so to be holden then next after such warning had surrender and giue vp into the hands of the said R. H. his heires or assignes in open Court according to the custome of the said Manor to the vse of the said R. H. and his heires for euer all singuler the aforesaid lands tenements and hereditaments hereafter in these presents mencioned expressed and declared That is to wit one mansion or dwelling house wherin the said R. E. now dwelleth with all edifices buildings c. And furthermore I the said H. T. do award ordaine deeme and Iudge by these presents that the said R. H. his heires or assignes at the said Court where and when the said surrender shal be so made shall assure and conuay vnto the said R. E. or to his
the bargaine and couenants therein contained they the said T. and G. being as is aforesaid vnder the age of one and twenty yeares at the time of the making thereof It may please your honorable Lordship the premisses considered to grant vnto him this complainant the Queenes Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. and euery of them thereby commaunding them and euery of them at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein by your good Lordship to be limitted to be and personally to appeare before your honorable Lordship in the Queenes Maiesties high Court of Chancery then and there to answere vnto the premisses and further to stand to and abide such order and direction therin as to your good L. vpon the hearing of the said cause shal seeme to be agreeable with right equity and good conscience c. A Bill against the heire for entring into lands deuised to the plaintife praying a Commission to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your good Lordshippe your Sect. 110. poore and distressed orator G. W. of N. in the County of N. yeoman That whereas W. W. deceased father vnto your said Orator was in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in the manor and Capitall messuage of N. in the County of N. and of and in one farme set lying and being within the parish of W. in the said County of N. of diuers other lands tenements hereditaments in N. aforesaid And also whereas the said W. W. deceased was likewise in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of in certaine ground and one tenement with the appurtenances set lying and being within the parish of C. in the Countie of D. and also of and in the rectorie and personage of C. alias C. within the said County of D. and of diuers other landes and tenements set lying and being in the countie of N. and D. and he so being of the said landes and tenements seised did by his last Will and Testament in writing deuise and bequeath vnto your said humble Orator and to the heires males of his bodie lawfully begotten certaine parcels of land of and in the saide Manor of N. that is to say one mansion house wherein your said poore Orator now inhabiteth and dwelleth one close commonly called B. containing by estimation two acres or thereaboutes one other close commonly called C. containing by estimatiō two acres or therabouts one other close commonly called the vpper S. all which seuerall parcels of land are scituate lying and being in N. as is aforesaid in the foresaid Countie of N. one messuage or tenement commonly called by the name of an oxgang scituate and being in W. in the said County of N. and also one tenement called the N. scituate lying and being in the Countie of D. and also one lease of the rectorie and personage of C. in the County of D. by vertue force of which said deuise and bequeath your said humble Orator entered into the said premisses and the saide issues and profits of the same hath perceiued receiued and taken to his owne profit vse and behoofe as lawfull was for himselfe to doe as he verely beleeueth But now so it is if it may please your honorable good Lordship hhat one R. W. brother to your said humble Orator as sonne and heire apparant to the said W. W. his father deceased hath taken away concealed and cancelled as it is thought the said last Will and Testament of your said Orators father and hath taken vpon him the administration of all the goods and chattels of your said Orators father reiecting and disanulling the said last Will and Testament made by your said Orators father as aforesaid to thintent only therby of set purpose malice and vnbrotherlike dealing to defraud expell depriue and disinherit your said Orator of his right title and interest of and in the said lands deuised to him as aforesaid and also doth threaten your foresaid Orator that he may at his pleasure relinquish and disanul the beforesaid last Will and Testament made by your foresaid Orators father as is aforesaid and did take the administration of all your said Orators fathers goods and chattels and entred into all his said landes as is aforesaid contrarie vnto all right equity and good conscience and not christianlike but vnbrotherlike dealing and contrarie to the true intent and good meaning of your foresaid Orators Fathers Will made as is aforesaid vnlesse your good Lordship doe according vnto your accustomed goodnesse extend your clemency and pitty in that behalfe to your poore Orator In consideration whereof the premisses considered and for as much as the title of your said Orator by reason of the vndirect practise vsed as aforesaid in concealing cancelling and relinquishing the said last Will as aforesaid doth greatly depend vpon the witnesse and testimony of certaine persons dwelling within the County of N to prooue the true meaning of your said orators fathers Wil which are of great yeares and also very impotent not like long to liue nor yet able to trauell to this honorable Court to be examined for the testifying of the trueth touching the premisses as by common order appertaineth And also for that in time the said witnesses may die and by meanes thereof your said Orator may be in danger to sustaine disinherison of the premisses May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant the Queens c. A Bill for refusing to receiue the Plaintifes rent according to an order and taking of forfeiture of a bonde made for payment of the rent HVmbly complaining sheweth to your good Lo. your daily Orator Sect ' 111. I. T. of G. in the County of N. yeoman that whereas one I. K. of W. in the County of Yorke Miller pretended as in the right of his wife to be owner of a certaine messuage in E. in the County of N. aforesaid and of certaine land meadow and pasture thereuuto belonging and lying within the fields of E. aforesaid and the said I. R. so pretēding himselfe in the right of his said wife to be seised as is aforesaid about the 19. or 20. yeare of the Queenes Maiesties most gratious Kaigne that now is did demise the said messuage and land in E. aforesaid vnto your said Orator and one A. L. Gentleman to haue and to hold to them for the terme of 21. yeares from the time of the making thereof rendering therefore yeerely the rent of xx s̄ payable at Whitsontide and Martimnas by euen portions for the payment of which said rent of xx s̄ he the said K. knowing himselfe the title thereof to be questionable and likely to grow to some charges in law to your said Orator to defend did therefore cunningly get your saide Orator to become bound in an obligation of xx l for the yearely paiment of the said
s̄ of rent suit of Court from three weekes to three weekes holden within the said manor of D. And the said I. W. so being seazed of the premisses hath now lately conueyed assured part of the said manor lands tenements in C. aforesaid vnto one H. S. Esquier his heires assignes by reason wherof y● said H. S. doth now hold the said parcell of land of your said Orator as of his said manor of D. by the seruice aforesaid by part of the said rent of vi s̄ acording to y● quātitie of the said lands so by him purchased of the said I. W. And so it is right ho. Lo. that diuers deeds euidences writings courtrolls aswell tōcerning the said manor of D. as also cōcerning the said ren● seruice before rehearsed be now of late casually come to the hands custodie possession of the said I. W. and H. S. who by coulour thereof do intend now vtterly to disinherit your said Orator of his said rent and seruices and do deny refuse either to pay vnto your said Orator his said rent or else to do vnto him his said seruices And although your said Orator hath diuers sundry times required y● said I. W. H. S. aswell to deliuer vnto him the said Euidences deeds writings courtrolls as also to pay do vnto him the said rent seruices according as of right they ought to do yet neuertheles the said I. W. H. S. haue vtterly denied refused alwaies the same to do cōtrary to all equitie cōscience And forasmuch as your said Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the saide deedes euidences writings nor wherein y● same be conteined nor also knoweth not the certaintie of the said lands tenements that the saide H. S. hath purchased of the said I. W. therefore he is not only clearely without remedie for the recouerie of the said deeds and euidences but also by the order of the common lawe is not able to make any auowrie vpon the said H. S. for his said rent In consideration whereof may it please your good Lo. to graunt the King and Queenes most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed vnto the saide I. W. and H. S. commaunding them and either of them by vertue thereof personallie to apeare before your good Lordship in the King and Queenes most honorable Court of Chauncerie at Westminster there to make aunswere to all the premisses and therein to abide such order and direction as to your good Lordship shall be thought consonant to equitie and good conscience and your said Orator shall dayly pray to God for your good Lordship in health and honour long to continue An Answere to the bill next before The Aunswere of H. S. Esquier to the bill of complaynt of Sir T. H. Knight THe said defendant saith that the said bill of complaynt is vntrue Sect. 177. vncerteine insufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto and the matters therein conteined are determinable and ought to be determined at the Common lawe within the Countie Palantine of C. within which Countie aswell the saide complaynant as the saide defendant do dwell And also the said mannor and other the premisses mentioned in the said bill of complaint and supposed to be holden of the said complainant do lie and be and further saith that it apeareth by the saide bill of complaint that although it were true as it is not indeede that the said mannor of Capisthorne were holden of the saide complainant in such manner and forme as in his said bill is surmised yet the said defendant doth not nor can or ought by the lawe of the realme hold such parcell of the same mannor of C. as he hath purchased by the seruices mentioned in the saide bill And also that the saide complainant is compellable by the lawes and statutes of this realme to auow at his perill vpon such parcell of the said mannor of C. as is seuered frō the same in fee simple for such portion of the said rent as the value of the same parcell so seuered doth amount vnto and hath his ordinarie remedie for the same by the order of the common lawes and of the statutes of this realme in that case prouided if the allegations of his bill be true and the said rent can not by the order of the common lawe of this realme be aportioned in this honorable Court. For which matters and other causes aparant in the said bill the said defendant saith that the same bill and the matters conteyned in the same be insufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto And that he is not compellable nor ought by the lawe to be compelled to make any further aunswere to the same and demurreth in lawe vpon the same and prayeth to be dismissed out of this honorable Court without any further aunswere to be made thereunto And if this Court will not nor do admit this demurrer but the same notwithstanding will compell the said defendant to make further aunswere to the said bill as otherwise then by compulsatorie order of this Court the said defendant clayming the aduantage of the lawes of this realme whereby he ought to be tryed doth not nor will make any further or other aunswere to the same then the saide defendant after such order made by this Court to make further answere saith that the said I. W. named in the said bill of complaint was seazed in his demesne as of fee of and in one Mese and certeine lands and tenements conteyning by estimation 60. acres or thereabouts which mese and lands is called W. and are within the Countie of C. aforesaid and are of the yearely rent and value of 51. s̄ 4. d and the said I. W. so being thereof seised for certeine summes of money to him paid did bargaine and sell the said Mese lands and tenements called W. vnto the said defendant and his heires and thereupon did by sufficient and lawfull conueyance in the lawe conuey and assure the said Mese lands and tenements called W. vnto t●e said defendant and his heires to the proper vse of the said defendant and of his heires by force whereof the said defendant entred into the premisses and was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee and the same estate continued vntill about the fifth yeare of the raigne of the late King Eow the sixt that one R. B. by the commaundement of the said complainant did enter into the said Mese and into one pasture or croft cō●eyning by estimation 2. Acres of land lying on y● Southeast part of the said Mese and adioyning to the same and into one Orchard and one garden lying to the said mese being parcell of the saide lands and tenements called W. and in W. aforesaid and thereof did dissease the said defendant to the vse of the said complainant to which entrie and disseisin the said complainant did agree by force whereof the said complainant was and yet is seased
in his demes●e as of fee by disseisin as is aforesaid of the said mese orchard garden and croft without that that the said defendant I. W. did hold the said mannor of Capishorne of the saide complainant in manner and forme and by such seruices as by the said bill of complaint is alledged Or that there is any such mannor of C. to the knowledge of this defendant or that the said I. W. did or doth hold the said mannor of C. of the said complainant to the knowledge of the saide defendant or that the saide defendant had any other meses lands or tenements which at any time were the meses lands or tenements of the saide I. W. other then the said mese lands and tenements called W. or that the said mese lands and tenements called W. are or at any time were parcell of the said mannor of T. and if the said mese lands and tenements called W. had beene parcell of the said mannor of C. as they were not or if the saide defendant did hold the saide mese lands and tenements called W. of the said complainant acording to the quantitie of the said rent and seruice as the said complainant by his saide bill of complaint hath supposed as he doth not indeede yet forsomuch as the said complainant is seised of parcell of the said lands and tenements called W. by disseisin as is aforesaide and the same mese lands tenements called Woodford are holden all by one entire tenure the whole rent and seruices are suspended during the time of the saide deseisin and the said defendant is and ought by the lawe to be discharged during the time of the saide disseisin without that that any Euidences deedes writings or Courtrowles concerning the said mannor of Ouer or the said rent and seruice at any time came to the hands custodie and possession of the said defendant or that the said defendant doth intend vtterly to disinherit the saide complainant of the said rent and seruices or doth wrongfullie denie to do the the said complaynant any seruices which he ought to do or pay or that any other thing c. All which matters c. A Replication to the Answere next before The Replication of Sir T. H. Knight to the Aunswere of H. S. Esquier THe said complainant saith in all and euery thing as he before in his Sect ' 178. bill hath saide and auerreth all and euery thing therein conteined to be good and true in such manner and forme as in his said bill is alledged without that that the saide R. B. named in the saide aunswere did wrongfullie enter by the commaundement of this complaynant into the said mese other the lands named in the said answere being parcell of the said lands tenements called Woodford or thereof disseised the said defend to the vse of the said compl as by the saide answere it is vntrulie alledged or that the said compl did agree to any such entrie disseisin as by the said aunswere is supposed or that this compl was or is by force thereof seised by dissesin of the saide mesuage orchard and garden named in the said answere as by the said answere is vntruly alledged or that any other matter or thing alledged in the saide answere materiall to be replied vnto which heere in this replication is not confessed and auoided denied or trauersed is true All which matters c. G. Ge. A bill containing that the plaintife by bargaine and sale by feoffement and fine bought one mese c. in fee and that diuers euidences concerning the premisses are casually come to the plaintifes hands and that by cullour thereof the plaintife hath entred into parcell of the premisses and expulsed the plaintife from the possession thereof and wrongfully keepeth the same To the Right Ho. and the reuerend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester COmplayning sheweth vnto your ho. Lo. your Orator H. S. Esquier Sect. 179. that where one I. W. of C. in the County of C. was seised in his demesne as of fee of in one mese one gardē one orchard 60. acres of land meadow wood and pasture with the appurtenances in W. called W. in the Countie of C. and the said I. W. and his ancestors whose heire he is did cōtinue peaceable possession of the premisses by the space of 100. yeares and aboue and the said I. W. so being thereof seised for certeine great summes of money to the said I. W. by your said Orator cōtented paid did bargaine sell the premisses vnto your said Orator his heires to the proper vse of your said Orator of his said heires for euer and thereupon did by his deede sufficient in the lawe giue grant confirme y● premisses vnto your said Orator his heires for euer And for a further assurance thereof to be had vnto your said Orator and his heires the said I. W. before the Iustice of y● said County of C. did leuie a fine sur conusance de droit of the said mese lands and tenements vnto your said Orator and by by the same fine the said I. W. did knowledge all the right which he had in the same mese lands tenements to be the right of your saide Orator as those which your saide Orator had of his gift as by the said deede fine more at large it doth may appeare by force whereof your said Orator entred into the premisses was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee. But so it is if it may please your hon Lo. that diuers euidences deeds escripts miniments concerning the premisses are casually come to the hāds custodie possession of one Sir T. H. Knight who by coulour of hauing thereof hath wrongfully entred into the said mese orchard gardeine and into one croft conteining by estimation 2. acres of land lying adioyning vnto the said mese on the Southeast part of the said mese parcell of the premisses and expulsed your said orator from the possession thereof And the said Sir T. H. doth still wrongfully keepe your said Orator from the possession of the said mese orchard garden croft And although your said Orator haue diuers times required the said Sir T. H. not only to permit and suffer your said orator to haue inioy the said mese lands and tenements but also to make deliuerie thereof vnto your said orator which to do the said Sir Tho. at all times hath refused yet doth refuse contrary to right equitie and conscience In consideration whereof and for so much as your saide Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the saide Euidences deedes and writings nor wherein they be conteyned therefore he is without remedie by the order of the common lawe It may therefore please your honorable Lordship to graunt c. The Aunswere of Sir T. H. Knight to the Bill of complaint of H. S. THe said defend saith y● the said bill of compl is vncerteine insufficient Sect ' 180.
all the seuerall townes into which it extendeth as de manerio de S. cum pertin̄ in D. E. 19. Ed. 4. fol. 9. ● 43. E. 3. fol. 9. a. Bracton Lib. 4. cap. 31. Sect 3. 9. E. 4. fol. 61. 9. a 16. ● 17. b. 11. H. 7. fo 22. b 49. For if any of the townes into which the manor extendeth be omitted nothing of the Manor in that towne passeth 5. E. 4. 103. A Castell or a Hundred may be parcel of a Manor and passe by the A Castel or Hundred Manor Castell name of the manor whereof they be parcel 26. Ass 54. And one Manor may be parcel of an other 2. E. 3. fo 36. And a Castel may be demaunded by his proper name as de castello de B. cum pertin̄ 1. E. 3. fol. 4. An Hundred may be demanded by it selfe as de hundredo de S. 27. Hundred H. 6. fol. 2. Mesuagiū is a dwelling house By the name of a Mesuage may passe A Mesuage a Curtelage a gardein an orchard a douehouse a shop a mill as parcell of an house Bractō Lib. 5. cap. 28. Sect 1. Plow fo 169. 170. 171. The like of a cottage a toft a chamber a celler c. yet may they be demaunded by their single names A Chappell or an Hospitall must be demaunded by the name of a mesuage A Chahpell A Hospitall 13. Ass 2. A Toft is the place wherein a mesuage hath stood A Curtelage is a garden or a yard or fold or a peece of void ground A Toft A Curtelage lying neere and belonging to a mesuage Plow Molendinum is good without adding ventriticum or aquaticum albeit A Mille the latter be more vsual 44. E. 3. fol. 13. Of a Reuersion by the name of the land or otherwise 43. E. 3. 22. A Reuersion Land is to be demaunded by the certeine measure of the superficiall Land quantitie thereof as hida carucata bouata virgata acra roda terrae In like maner boscus subboscus bruera mora iuncaria mariscus alnetum ruscaria may be demaunded by the number of acres thereof 16. Ass 9. Turbarie may be demaunded by the name of More Rent by the multitude and number of the things which are to be rēdred Rent as x. librar̄ or sex denar̄ or vno obulat̄ or quinque solidat̄ reddit̄ Housebote Haybote and Plowbote may be demanded by the name Estouers of Estouers thus de rationabili estouerio in boscis viz. in decem acris bosci ipsius A. in D. c. Parsonages Rectories Aduowsons Vicarages or Tythes impropriate A Parsonage passe not by the names de Aduocatione Ecclesiae but de Rectoria Ecclesiae de S. cum pertin̄ But whē it is but of a presentation it must be de Aduocatione ecclesiae A Presentatiō de S. and not cum pertin̄ And of all Vicarages endowed the writ must be de Aduocatione A Vicarage Vicariae Ecclesiae de S. and not cum pertin̄ And where no Vicarage is endowed it passeth vnder these words de Aduocatione ecclesiae de S. c. If an entier manor mesuage or other entier thing be deuided or parted Parts seuered and after a fine is to be leuied of some of the parts of the thing so seuered thē must not the fine be de medietate or de quarta parte or other part of the manor mesuage or other thing but such part must be demaūded by the name of a whole thing As if the manor of D. be deuided into 2. parts the fine of th one part if the deuision be so made that the manor of that part be not extinct must be de manerio de D. So if a mesuage and xx acres of land be parted into two parts the fine of th one part must be de vno mesuagio decem acris terre c. and not de medietaie vnius mesuagij xx acrarum terre for the things new diuided from the rest are now become whole thinges by themselues though lesse in quantity then the whole was before diuision thereof made If a thing be Twise named twise named in a writ of Couenant it hurteth not as a Manor and an Hundred parcel of the same manor 27. H. 8. 2. If lands in diuers Shires passe there must be seuerall writs of Couenant Diuers Shires thereof accordingly and but one Concord Dyer 227. pla 44. 15. E. 4. 33. Of the names of the place wherein the lands do lye ANd the place wherein the lands do lye is taken to be parcel of the Sect 27. Place name thereof And thefore we must regard the places wherein the lands do lye as the shire Towne Parish or Hamlet for a fine is good in a Hamlet 38. E. 3. fol. 19. 8. E. 4. fol. 6. and 7. E. 6. Br. Fines 44. 91. Hamlet Towne decaied or in a Towne decaied 7. E. 6. Br. Fines 91. Neuerthelesse it is also good to name the Towne wherein the hamlet is as it seemeth and that with addition for distinction if there be diuers Townes of the same name in the same Countie And if a Manor extend into diuers Townes as A. B. C. it is good to A manor in diuers townes expres al or none as de manerio de S. in A. B. C. for if any of the townes be omitted none of the manor in that towne passeth Yet a fine of a manor cum pertin̄ would haue caried the whole manor 9. E. 4. 6. But if a mā haue diuers Manors of one name as South S. North Two manors of one name S. it is good in a writ of one of the same manors to expresse certainly which of them is intended to be passed 47. E. 3. 12. H. 7. 6. Albeit it is thought good ynough by the name of the manor of S. without addition for certeintie is alwaies best How seueral things must be placed in writs of Couenant NOw that we haue partly learned of what things fines may be leuied Sect ' 28. Orderly placing and by what names yet seemeth time to shew in what order and forme they must be therein placed one before an other when diuers thinges passe by one writ for which we may obserue these rules First Worthyest the more worthy thinges must be put before things lesse worthy as a Mesuage is set before land a Manor before a mesuage a Castle before a Manor 7. H. 6. 39. Plow 168. 169. Secondly things general before things special as lande being the Things general general or genus to meadow pasture wood Iuncaria mariscus is first to be placed And wood being the general to wood grounds as alnetum salicetum c. is to be set before them the writs Thirdly entier or whole things are to be set before their partes as Whole things Parts de manerio de C. medietate manerij de B. cum pertinen̄ c. Fourthly parts of
heires that shall so surrender the premisses as aforesaid by copie of Court Rolle according to the custome of the said Manor or otherwise as by the said ● E. his heires and assignes or any of them or by his or their learned counsell shal be reasonably deuised or aduised at the proper costes and charges of the said R. E. his heires assignes not altering by the said assuraunce or assuraunces so to be deuised or aduised as is aforesaid any custome libertie or iurisdiction of the said Lordship manor or other the premisses with all and singuler the said lands tenements and hereditaments and al other the premisses with their appurtenances whatsoeuer before by these presents ordered and iudged to be surrendred as is aforesaid foure acres of land now in the occupacion of c. parcell of the premisses to be chosen by the said R. H. c. only excepted foreprised To haue to hold the same lands tenemēts all other the premisses with the app●rtenances except before excepted vnto the said R. E. to his heires males incorrupt within the 4. degree of consanguinitie according to the ancient custome of the said manors And if it happen that the said R. E. do dece●●● before the said surrender made as is aforesaid Then to haue to hold the said premisses with the appurtenances to the heires of the said R. E. which so shall surrender the same to his heires males incorrupt within the 4. degree of consanguinitie c. An Awarde reciting that either of the parties stand bound to other to performe the award And that the award is made before the prefixed time in the Obligations and with the full consent of both the parties TO all christian people to whom this present writing indented of award Sect 51. shal come R. W. and R. C. send greeting in our Lord God euerlasting Know ye that whereas variance strife debate and controuersie hath heretofore bin had moued and stirred betweene A. B. of C. and D. E. of E. of for and concerning the right title interest vse possession and occupation of c. for the appeasing ending whereof either of the said parties by their mutual assents consents agreements haue submitted compromitted and bound themselues either to other by their seueral writings obligatory bearing date c. in the suume of c. to stand too abide obey obserue performe fulfill and keepe the award arbitrement ordinance dome and iudgment of vs c. Arbitrators indifferently elect and chosen betweene the said parties of and for the premisses as by the said seueral obligations with condition for the performance therof more at large appeareth Whereupon we the said Arbitrators taking vpon vs the labour busines and charge of the same award and willing to set the said parties at a final peace vnitie and concord for and concerning the premisses haue by good aduise deliberation seene heard and throughly examined both their titles allegations euidences and proues in and to the said premisses and thereupon before the day and time appointed vnto vs by the said obligations for the making giuing vp and finishing And finishing of the said award wee the said Arbitrators by and with the full assent consent and agrement of both the said parties do make publish declare and giue vp this our present award betweene the said parties of for and concerning the premisses in manor forme following First we award ordaine deeme and iudge that c. Also we awarde c. And finally we award ordeine deeme and iudge c. In witnesse whereof we the said Atbitrators and also both the said parties to to the award haue interchangeably put our hands and seales the x. day of M. in the xx yere of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queene defendor of the faith c. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY Of the Chauncerie Proceedings in the same and Supplications Billes and Aunsweres The Chauncerie SEing by Gods fauor we intend somewhat to Sect 1. discourse of the maner of proceeding in Chancerie suits and to set downe some Presidents thereof to the performing whereof it seemeth requisite first to vnfold the nature of Equitie Conscience the rigor of the common Lawes of this Realme as the proper obiect or matter whereabout such suites are for the most part occupied to the end it may with the more facilitie be vnderstood how and when such suits are fitly to be taken in hand Therefore we wil first speak of Summum ius which oftentimes precisely regardeth the verie letter and words of the common Lawes for remedie whereof parties grieued pray aide of this honorable Court of Chauncerie to bridle extremitie and reduce such rigor to Equitie and Conscience Of strict or precise Law which is called Ius summum ARistotle calleth it Eract or precise Law because that if it haue Sect 2. no allay in it to qualifie the harshnes seuerity of it it is vnpleasant and sower in tast and repugnant to Equitie And Budaeus saith that this word strict and precise Law is a word which amongst the Ciuilians signifieth verie hard law exact and ful of rigor and almost vniust For they that writ of the Law make these words strict Law and Equitie opposite the one to the other thus farre Budaeus The Lawiers do also tearme it Ius subtile subtil Law Other Lawiers do tearme it Summum Ius Law in the highest degree or most exact and it is so taken of them when men stand more vpon the letter of the Law then vpon the meaning of the writer or maker of the Law In which behalfe it so falleth out oft times that vnder a colour of knowledge of the Lawes many grosse and dangerous errors be committed Corasius Missel li. 2. ca. 8. Nu. 12. Oldendorpius deuideth this Ius summum or Law in the highest degree into two branches the one proper the other improper Law in the highest degree so properly termed or taken is an vndoubted infallible rule of honestie which may generally without exception be put in executiō in any cōmon weale whether it be originally groūded vpon the Law of Nature or vpon the Law of Nations For examples whereof you may take all the rules and principles of the Law for these rules and principles of the Law do in their kind most strictly and exactly define and bound out the matter which th●y handle barely and nakedly without any regard of circumstances of the fact that may fal out of which sort of rules are these Keepe thy word hurt no man these are general rules of Law in the highest degree so righteous and full of Iustice in their kind that by the Law of Nature it selfe better and more rightfull cannot be giuen Li. 1. F. de pactis But here you see no respect had to any circumstance of your worde or hurting for this point belongeth to Equity or the Court of Conscience which with vs is called
' 95. said bill of complaint exhibited against these defendants into this most honorable Court is very certaine true and sufficient in the law to be answered vnto and not deuised and exhibited into his most honorable Court of malice and euill will without cause conceiued against the said C. C. one of the said defendants to thintent thereby to vexe and molest him his said wife and daughter with vniust trauell and expences as in the said answeres is vntruly alleaged Nor chiefly to thintent and purpose so to wearie and impouerish and terrifie the saide C. C. with such suites that he should neither be able nor willing to prosecute the law against the said complainant for di●ers great summes of money which he doth owe vnto him the said C. C. and vniustly detained from him but is exhibited vpon iust cause of suit as the said complainant doubteth not to make manifest and proue vnto this honorable court with that that the said def or some one of them by sinister practise instigation and perswasion did allure prouoke intice the said complainants wife to grow to some discord with the said complainant to essoine and conuey into their or some or one of their keepings the said money goods in the said bill of complaint mentioned promising that the same should be readie vsed for her vse and behoofe to the end that they might the better bring to passe indirectly to gaine or get into their or some or one of their custody possession the said money goods by that means to defeat defraud the said complainants thereof as in the said bill of cōplaint is very truly alleaged And also with that that the said complaināts wife did with violēce break open some part of the said cōplainants house at S. in the said bill mentioned his said chist there being locked did essoine steale imbeasil conuey away from the said cōplainant seuerall sums of money diuers parcels of his goods houshold stuffe in the night season in the day time by the practise of the said def or some or one of them or of some other person or persons by their or some or one of their means as in the said bil of complaint is likewise very truly declared And with that that the said complainants wife did deliuer or cause to be deliuered the said money goods in the said bill of cōplaint mentioned vnto the custody and possession of the said def or of some or one of them or of some other person or persons by their or some or one of their meanes or consent as likewise in the said bil of complaint is most truly alleaged And without that that there was cause why the said cōplainant should vse speech communication with the said defendants or some or one of them touching the premisses require to haue the said mony goods essoined imbeasiled to be to him restored or to haue some recompence for the same And that the said defendants or some or one of them do conuert and dispose the said money and goods to their or some or one of their vses whereby the said complainant shall be vtterly defeated thereof to his great hinderance as in the saide Bill of complaint is likewise most truly alleaged without that that any other matter cause or thing materiall or effectuall in the said answeres contained to be by the said complainant replied vnto and herein not sufficiently replied vnto confessed and auoided c. A Bill far that the Defendant hath got the Plaintifes bill for payment of money by them into their hands and thereby meane to defraude him of the same HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your good Lordship your daily Sect ' 96. Orator N. T. of T. in the Countie of D. yeoman That whereas about two yeares now last past your said Orator did sell vnto one I. M. G. W. P. T. alias S. and R. H. foure oxen and three kine for 14. pound of lawfull English money And at the same time made vnto your said Orator a Bill of their hands for the payment thereof at the feast of S. Michaell tharchangell last past But now so it is if it may please your L. that the said bill of 14. pound is by casuall meanes come vnto the hands and possession of the said I. M. G. W. P. T. alias S. and R. H. or of some of them who haue cancelled and defaced the same bill And therefore albeit they haue beene diuers times gently required by your said Orator to pay vnto him the said 14. pound so to him due yet that to doe they and euery of them haue hitherto denied and refused and yet doe denie and refuse to doe the same against all right equitie and good conscience In due consideration whereof and for that your said Orator hath no remedie to recouer the said 14. pound without the said bill by the common lawes of this Realme May it therefore please your good Lordship c. A Bill for wrongfull entering into Copyhold lands intailed detayning of them and of the writings of the same for wasting the same and concontriuing secret estates thereof IN most humble wise sheweth vnto your good L. your daily Orator Sect. 97. A. G. of D. in the Countie of D. That whereas one T. G. father vnto your said Orator was in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee taile to him and to his heires males of his body lawfully begotten of and in one mesuage or tenement with thappurtenances scituate lying and being in W. in the said Countie of D. And was likewise seised to him and the heires males of his body lawfully begotten of and in foure cottages three closes or pastures and eight acres of arrable land with their appurtenacces lying and being in W. aforesaid being customarie lands and holden of the Q. Matestie as of her highnesse manor of W. aforesaid at the will of the Lord according to the custome of the said manor And the said T. G. being of all and singuler the premisses with their and euery of their appurtenances so seised as aforesaid of such estate died thereof seised By and after whose death all and singuler the premisses with their appurtenances did discend vnto H. G. as sonne and next heire male of the bodie of the saide T. by force and vertue whereof the said H. entred into all and singuler the said premisses with their appurtenances and was thereof lawfully seised to him the heires males of his body lawfully begotten And he so being therof seised of such an estate died seised By after whose death all and singuler the said premisses with their appurtenances did discend and come to T. G. as sonne next heire male of the bodie of the said H. by force wherof he the said T. entred into al singuler the said premisses was thereof lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee taile to him and the heires males of
replied vnto for diuers vntruths and imperfections therein conteined without that that the said M. one of the said defendants did honestly faithfully and truely behaue her selfe in the seruice of the said complainant as by the same defendants in their said aunsweres is vntruely alleaged for this saide complainant saith as he before by his saide Bill hath said that the said M. one of the saide defendantes did secretly deliuer to the saide A. the other defendant diuers parcels of the goods of the saide complainant that the said defendants most wrongfully detaine and withhold from him the said complainant against right and equitie and further the said complainant saith and will auerre and proue that the said A. one of the said defendants did giue her faithfull promise to satisfie and pay vnto the said complainant the vttermost value of euery losse or hinderance the said complainant should sustaine by the said M. as by his bill is most truly set forth declared without that that any other matter or thing in the said defendants answere contained materiall or effectuall to be replied vnto in and hereby not sufficiently replied vnto is true All which matters the said complainant is readie to auerre and proue as this honorable court shall award And praieth as he before by his said bill hath praied A Bill for entring into and detaining copihold lands sold by the defendant to the plaintifes grandfather which descended to the plaintife being an infant the said entrie being made by reason that the copy and court rolle of the said bargaine came to the defendants hands HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your Lordship your daily Orator Sect. 117. F. H. of W. in the countie of Yorke gentleman that whereas about the xxiiii day of September in the third yeare of the raigne of the late King of famous memory Edward the sixt one Christopher Baxter late of F. in the said Countie husbandman was lawfully and rightfully seised in his demesne as of fee as a copiholder according to the custome of the Manor of the prebend of Laghton it the said Countie of and in one customarie messuage or tenement and one oxgange of land with thappurtenances in F. aforesaid and in another messuage or tenement and thirtie acres and a halfe of land with thappurtenances in F. aforesaid and he being thereof so seised about the time aforesaid for a certaine great summe of money to him paid by F. H. of W. aforesaid grandfather of your said Orator did surrender according to the custome of the said Manor the said customarie tenements and premisses with thappurtenances into the hands of the then Lords of the said Manor to the vse of the said F. H. the grandfather his heires for euer by force whereof the said F. H. the grandfather was thereof admitted tenant accordingly and was of the same as a copiholder lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee by and according to the custome of the said Manor and the rents issues and profits thereof arising and growing did likewise lawfully take conuert to his owne vse vy the space of diuers yeares and afterwards the said F. H. the grandfather being thereof so seised of the said tenements and premisses died thereof so seised about the second yeare of the raigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie that now is By and after whose death the said tenements and premisses discended and came and of right ought to discend and come vnto your said Orator being then of very young and tender yeares viz. about the age of sixe yeares as next cosin next heire vnto the said F. H. the grandfather that is to say sonn of T. H. sonne heire of the said F. H. the grandfather but now so it is if it may please your good L. that after the death of the said F. H. the grandfather all the copies of Court rols of the said manor and the very Court rols themsel●●● concerning the premisses did by casuall meanes come vnto the handes custody possession of the said C. B. one T. G. of T. in the said county husbandman or to the hands of one of them which they or the one of them haue cancelled defaced intending thereby vtterly to disinherite your said Orator of the same tenements premisses by colour therof shortly after the death of the said F. H. the grandfather y● said C. B. old wrongfully abate and enter into the said tenements and premisses And euer since his said wrongfull entre that is to say by the space of xxiiii yeares or thereabouts hath wrongfully occupied the premisses or the most part therof and receiued and taken and conuerted to his owne vse the rents issues and profits of the said tenements premisses and will not by any meanes permit or suffer your said Orator to enter meddle or haue to do therewith And notwhithstanding that your said Orator not onely by himselfe but also by his friends hath in gentle and quiet manner diuerse times come vnto the said C. T. gently requiring thē to deliuer vnto him your said orator y● said copies of court rols to make reasonable recompence satisfaction vnto him your said Orator for the rents issues profits of the said tenements premisses so as is aforesaid by the said C. wrongfully receiued according to your said Orator his good right title therunto yet that to do they either of them haue euer hitherto refused denied yet do refuse and denie to doe the same against all right equity and good conscience and to the disinherison of your said orator of in the premisses to his great losse hinderance if speedy remedy be not by your good Lordship in this honorable court speedily prouided to preuent the same In tender consideration wherof and for so much as your said Orator not knowing the certain number dates or contents of the said copies and Court rols nor wherein they or any of them be conteined in bagge bore or chest locked sealed or open is therefore without all remedy by the due course of the common lawes of this Realme to recouer the same and for lacke thereof your said Orator is very like to lose the said tenements and premisses and for that also that the contents of the said bargaine and surrender of the said tenements and premisses so as is aforesaid made betweene the said F. H. grandfather and the said C. B. cannot now otherwise be proued then by answere of the said C. B. and T. B. made vpon their Dathes in this honorable Court all such persons as were witnesses of the same bargaine being now either dead or else vtterly vnknowen vnto your said Orator being so young as it is aforesaid at the time of the making of the same May it please your honorable Lordship to grant vnto your said Orator the Queenes Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed vnto the said C. and T. straightly commaunding them and either of them
exception therein of the saide lease if the said lease of the said third part before the making of the saide Indenture of bargaine and conueyance had not beene so deliuered of credit and of trust frustrated or granted ouer to the said W. M. or some other by the consent and agreement of the said I. C. and F. S. for their benefit for the auoiding of new charges growing betwene the making of the said lease the said bargaine And albeit aswell the other two parts of the said lands as all other lands tenements with thappurtenances bargained sold by the said Indenture were be clearly discharged of al incumbrances according to the true meaning of the said Indenture it may therefore please your good Lordship the premises cōsidered to grant vnto the said Earle the Queenes Maiesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed vnto the said I. C. M. S. E. L. M. and E. his wife C. D. W. M. I. T. M. commaunding them and euery of them at a certaine day and place and vnder a certaine paine therein to be limitted to be and personally to appeare before your good Lordship in the Queenes Maiesties high Court of Chancery then and there to answere vnto the premisses and to abide such further order and direction therein as to your honour shall seeme to stand with right equitie and good conscience And the said Earle c. A Bill for the defendant by meanes of en●ermariage with the wife and executrix of one who by casuall meanes got the possession of one deede of demise indented made vnto the plaintife detaineth the said demise and by colour thereof doth occupie the tenements demised and taketh the profits to his owne vse IN most humble wise complaining sheweth vnto your good Lo. your Sect ' 121. daily Orator I. M. of B. in the County of N. That whereas one T. C. of D. within the County of Y. did by his deed Indented of demise about the fiueteenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie the Queenes Maiestie that nowis demise and grant to your said Orator ten acres of land fiue acres of meadow and fiue acres of pasture with thapppurtenances lying and being in B. aforesaid To haue and to hold to your said Orator and his assignes for the terme of xxi yeares from and after a certaine day therein expressed if the said T. C. should so long liue for the yearely rent of xx shillings payable at the feast of P. and Saint M. the Bishop in winter by euen portions But now so it is if it may please your good Lordship that the said Indenture the certaine dates or contentes whereof your saide Lordshippes Orator knoweth not before the day when the said lease should begin and take effect did by casuall meanes come to the hands custodie and possession of one I. W. who made his last Will and Testament and therein appointed one E. then his wife his sole executrix and died by and after whose death the said Indenture came into his hands and custodie of the said E. since which time the said E. did marie and tooke to husband one R. I. of B. by reason of which intermariage the said Indenture is now come to and remaineth in the hands custodie and possession of the said R. I. and E. his wife or of the one of them who by reason of hauing of the said Indenture without any iust title or interest therein haue entred into the said premisses with thappurtenances and will not in any wise quietly permit and suffer your Lordships said Orator to haue and inioy his said terme of and in the premisses according to his lawfull right and interest therein but contrarie to all equitie and good conscience haue euer sithence taken and conuerted and as yet doe daily take and conuert the issues to their own proper vse and behoofe and will neither deliuer vnto your Lordships said Orator the said Indenture nor permit and suffer him to haue and peaceably enioy the said premisses as aforesaid or any part thereof although your said Orator hath at diuers sundrie times required them so to doe In consideration whereof and for as much as your Lordships said Orator is without all helpe and remedie at the common law for that he knoweth not nor remembreth the dates or contents or any other certainty of the said Indenture May it please your good Lordship to grant her Maiesties gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. I. and E. his wife and to either of them commaunding them and eyther of them thereby personally to appeare before your honor in her Maiesties high Court of Chancery at W. at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine by your honor therein to be limited there c. A Bill against an Infant for bourding and apparrell deliuered to him by the plaintife and for not performing of a lease IN most humble wise complaining sheweth vnto your Honorable Sect. 122. Lordship your daily Orator T. T. of B. in the Countie of D. husbandman That whereas about foure yeares now last past one G. B. of B. aforesaid yeoman being seised in his demesne as of ●ee of and in diuerse landes tenements and hereditaments with their appurtenances in B. aforesaid holden in Socage of I. S. as of the Manor of D. which said tenements and premisses the said G. B. had by discent by and after the death of B. his late father and the said G. B. being thereof so seised and being of the age of xx yeares or thereabuuts and vnder the age of xxi yeares about the xxv day of Iuly which was in the thirtie yeare of the Raigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty that now is by means counsaile procurement and perswasion of diuers euill disposed persons that is to say one A. E. I. M. W. M. T. C. H. M. N. H. W. H. and D. D. intending by their vngodly compact practise to make a pray of the simplicity of your said Orator being an ignorant vnlearned man the said G. B. came vnto your said Orator pretending that he did then beare great good will and fauour to your said Orator and therefore entreated your said Orator that he might boord remaine with your said Orator in his house at B. aforesaid and not onley haue meat drinke lodging but also such apparrell rayment as your said Orator should thinke meet conuenient for his degree calling at the costs charges of your said Orator promising faithfully and fully to satisfie your said Orator for all such charges expences as he by reason of the premisses should in any wise sustaine Wherefore your said Orator giuing credit vnto the said G. B. in the premisses thinking that that he had faithfully promised he would fully and effectually haue performed did then fully consent and agree to and with the said G. B. to find him meat drinke lodging apparrell as is aforesaid for the consideration promised
Lordship Sect. 172. your Suppliants I. W. and the Lady Iane his Wife daughter and heire to the Lady Iane P. deceased That whereas the said Lady Iane P. in her life time was lawfully seased in her demesne as of fee of and in one mesuage or house with a gardeine thereunto belonging set lying and being in B. in the Countie of D. and of and in 12. acres of errable land medow and pasture with their appurtenances thereunto belonging in B. aforesaid and so being of such an estate thereof seised about foure yeares past died thereof seised After and by whose death the premisses discended and came as of right they ought to discend and come vnto your sayde Oratrix as daughter and heire of the saide Lady Ia. P. her mother So it is if it may please your good Lordship that diuers Deeds Euidences Charters Miniments and writings concerning onlie the premisses and of right belonging to your said Oratrix as in the right of the said Lady I● P. by casuall meanes are come to the hands possession and custodie of I. C. Gentleman and E. his Wife who by cullor of hauing the sayde Euidences and writings haue entred into the premisses and by cullour thereof haue contriued conueyed and made to themselues diuers secret estates of the premisses and thereby do likewise detaine and keepe the possession of the same premisses from your said Orators albeit they haue beene diuers and sundrie times thereunto by your suppliants required for the deliuerie of the same yet that to do they haue alwayes hitherunto denyed and yet to denye to the manifest disinheriting of the saide A. and the great wrong and losse of both your saide Orators for that your saide Orators do not knowe the certeine number or certaine dates of the deedes and conueyances nor whether they be contayned in bagge or boxe sealed or chest locked whereby they be for the recouerie of the same premisses cleane without remedie by the strict course of the common lawes of this Realme In consideration whereof the premisses by your good Lordship tenderly considered it may please your good Lordship to graunt vnto your said Orators the Qu. Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said I. C. and E. his wife commaunding them and eyther of them thereby personallie to appeare before your good Lordship in the Queenes Maiesties high Court of Chauncerie at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein by your good Lordship to be limitted and appointed then and there to answere to the premisses and further to stand to and abide such finall order and direction therein as to you Ho. good Lo. with right and equitie shall seeme most meete and conuenient And your said Orators shall pray for c. A bill by the leassee for yeares of the Scite of a Man●or c. contayning the detayning of the plaintifes lease of the premisses the breaking of the seales thereof and that the defendandts by a practise amongst them to the intent to impouerish the plaintife and vniustlie to get from him the premisses haue brought an Assise in the towne of Salop against him for the same in which suit there is a partial Iurie returned by the Bayliffes of the said towne And one other suit comenced against him for part of the premisses by one of the defendāts before the Counsell in the marches of Wales and therefore prayeth an Iniunction for stay of the said suits and also a Subpena against the defendants to appeare and aunswere the bill To the Right Ho. Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great seale of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth vnto your Ho. good Lo. Sect. 174. your poore dayly Orator H. D. of A. in y● Countie of Salop Gent̄ That whereas one Io. late Duke of Northumberland in his life time amongst diuers other lands tenements hereditaments was lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of in the manor of A. lying being within the said County of S. and so being thereof seised by his deede indented about the 27. yeare of the Raigne of the late King of famous memorie King Henry the 8. by the name of Sir Io. D. Knight did demise graunt set and to farnie let vnto P. C. the Scite of the Manor of A. aforesaid together with the mansion or hall place of the same And all and singular lands meadowes leasowes pastures feedings woods waters and commons with all other commodities duties seruices and customes to the said Scyte of the said Mannor belonging or in any wise appertayning To haue and to hould the aforesaid Scyte of the saide Mannor and all other the premisses and all and singuler the appurtenaunces to the said P. C. his executors and assignes from the feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell then next comming after the date of the aforesaide Indentures vnto the end and tearme of threescore yeares then next ensuing and fullie to be compleated and ended yeelding and paying therefore yearely vnto the saide Sir Iohn Dudley his heires and assignes foure pound sterling at the feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michaell the Archangell by euen portions with diuers other couenaunts graunts and agreaments contayned and specified in the saide Indentures as by the same more at large it doth and may appeare By force whereof the said P. C. into the premisses entered and was possessed accordinglie The state and interest of which saide P. C. to and in the premisses and euery part and parcell thereof your poore Orator by iust and lawfull conueyance and assurance in lawe of long time hath had and now hath and the same hath quietlie and continuallie possessed and enioyed for and by the space of fourteene yeares nowe last passed by force of the sayd Lease made to the sayde P. C. by the aforesayde Duke without lette or interruption of anye person or persons vntill now of late that the aforesayde Lease is casuallie come to the hands possession of Ed. Le. of P. in the County of S. Esquier which persons malitiously intending your poore Orators impouerishment and vtter vndoing haue not only wilfully broken in pieces and disseuered from the said Lease the seales of Armes of the saide late Duke annexed by him to the aforesaid lease and otherwise defaced the same to the intent your said Orator although he should recouer against them by due order and course of the lawes of this Realme the aforesaid lease yet he might be the lesse able to prooue the saide Lease to be made by the aforesaid Duke for that they well perceiue the time now so farre spent that very fewe or none of the witnesses that were present at thensealing and deliuerie of the said Lease be now liuing as they suppose But also they haue further conspired and agreed amongst themselues together with one R. W. of A. in the Countie of Salop and R. S. of the towne of Salop and Countie aforesaid That he the said R.
in y● law to be answered vnto the matters therein cōteined beene very vntruly deuised imagined and set forth without any good matter or iust cause only to the intent to put this defendant to wrongfull vexation trouble and expences And for aunswere vnto the saide insufficient bill the said defendant saith that our late soueraigne Lord King Henry the eight late King of England father to our most soueraigne Ladie that now is was seised among other lands in his demesne as of fee as in the right of his said Crowne of and in the Mannor and Lordship of D. with the appurtenances and hamlets to the same appertaining set lying and being in the Countie of C. whereof the said messuage garden orchard and croft conteining by estimation the said two Acres of land lying in D. parcell of the premisses in the said bill of complaint mentioned be parcell And our said late soueraigne Lord King Henry the eight being so thereof lawfullie seised aswell for and in consideration of the faithfull seruice that the saide defendant had done to the said late King Henry the 8. as also for diuers summes of money paid by y● said defendant to the said late King Hen. the 8. the said late King Henry the 8. by his letters patents in this honorable Court readie to be shewed the date whereof the said defendant doth not perfectly remember did giue and graunt of his prescience and meere motion vnto the said defendant the said mannor and other the premisses in the saide Aunswere mentioned to haue and to hold vnto the said defendant and his heires for euer by force whereof this defendant vnto the premisses entred and thereof was seised acordingly and tooke the profits thereof acordingly and yet doth as well and lawfull it was and is for him to do And further the said defendant saith that such euidences deedes escripts and writings concerning the premisses mentioned in this aunswere as the said defendant hath concerning the same he the said defendant doth detaine and keepe them for the preseruation of the right title and interest that he hath to the same as well and lawfull is for him to do And furthermore the saide defendant saith that as to any other deedes euidences writings and miniments concerning the residue of the said lands and tenements specified in the saide bill of complaint or any parcell thereof in W. aforesaid which do concerne the Interest inheritance and title of the said complaynant the said defendant aunswereth and saith that he doth not withhold any nor yet at any time hath withholden from the saide complaynant any such as by the saide bill is vntruly deposed without that that the said Io. W. of C. named in the said bill was seised in his dem●sne as of fee of or in y● said mese orchard garden or croft mentioned in the said bill or any parcell thereof set lying and being in D. aforesaid Or that the said I. W. or his aunce●●ors whose heire he is did continue peaceable possession of the premisses by the space of 100. yeares and aboue as by the saide bill of complaint is vntrulie surmised or that the said Io. so being thereof seised for certeine summes of money did bargaine or sell or might lawfully bargaine and sell the premisses conteyned in the said Aunswere or any part thereof set lying and being in D. or the Lordship of the same to the said complaynant and his heires as by the said bill it is in like manner vntrulie alledged and supposed Or that the said Io. before the Iustice of Assise of the said Countie of C. did leuie a fine sur conusance de droit of the said mese and other the premisses mentioned in the said aunswere or of any parcell thereof vnto the said complainant as by the said bill is also vntrulie surmised or that by the said supposed fine the said Io. did knowledge or might lawfullie knowledge the said mese and other the premisses conteined in the said bill to be the right of the said complainant as those which the said complainant had of his gift as it is in like manner vntrulie supposed or that by force thereof the said complainant entred or might lawfullie enter into the said mese and other the premisses in this aunswere mentioned or that he was thereof lawfullie seised in his demesne as of fee as by the said bill it is also vntrulie surmised and without that that any other matter or thing alledged in the saide bill materiall to be aunswered vnto which heere in this aunswere is not confessed and auoided denied or trauersed is true All which matters this defendant is readie to auerre 7 prooue as this Court shall award and prayeth to be dismissed out of this Court with his costs and expences in this wrongfull vexation sustained R. Ge. The Replication of H. S. to the Aunswere of Sir T. H. Knight THe said complainant saith that the said bill of complaint is true Sect. 181. certeine and sufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto and not imagined and set forth by the said complainant of malice or wrongfullie to put the said defendant to costs labour or expences for the saide complainant auerreth his said bill of complaint and euery thing therein conteined to be good and true in manner and forme as in the said bill of complaint is alledged without that that the late King Henry the 8. named in the saide aunswere was seazed in his demesne as of fee as in the right of his Crowne of and in the saide mese garden orchard and croft conteining by estimation two acres of land lying in D. parcell of the lands and tenements mentioned in the saide bill of complaint as parcell of the mannor and Lordship of D. in the said Countie of C. or that the saide mese garden orchard and croft or any part or parcell thereof is or at any time was parcell of the same mannor or that the said late King by his letters patents gaue and graunted vnto the saide defendant and his heires for euer the saide mese garden orchard and croft or that the saide late King Henry the 8. did or might lawfullie giue the said mese garden orchard and croft vnto the said defendant or that the saide mese garden orchard and croft did or might lawfullie passe or come vnto the said defend by the said graunt if any such graunt had beene as there was not indeede or that the said defend by force of any such graunt or letters patents entred into the premisses last before mentioned and was thereof seazed acordinglie or did or might lawfullie take the issues and profits thereof by force of the same letters patents or that any other thing c. All which matters the saide defendant c. And prayeth that it may be ordred by this ho. Court that the said complainant may quietly enioy the lands and tenements mentioned in the said bill of complaint without let suit vexation or impediment of the saide defendant or of his heires or
in 3. partes deuided of 8. acres of land c. 35 Of a personage impropriate 36 Of a mannor of rent and free foldage for sheepe 37 A writte of Couenant of diuers seuerall things 37 A writ of couenant of Tithes 38 A writ o● couenant of the Scite of a Monastery 39 A writ of couenant of diuers things 40 A writ of couenant of Dismes and Tithes 41 A writ of couenant of a personage c. 42 A Releas by fine of one to two 43 A fine vpon cognizaunce de droit by the husband and wife to two 44 by Baron and feme and an other 45 Of a parcell in reuersion by a copercener 46. Of a mannor to an Archbushop and an other 47 A concord from 2. to 1. with special warrantie 48 Vpon cognizāce of right as that c. with releas and warrantie by c. 49 A concord of many things together sur cognizance de droit come ceo c. 50 A fine of a rent 51 Of the third part of a rent 52 A praecipe with an exceptiō of some parcels 53 A writ of couenant brought by 3. against 3 of a mannor c. 54 A concord with a ●ender for life the rem̄ to the 1. 2. c. sons of the cognisor 55 A fine of homage rent and seruices 56 Of a mannor knights fees seruices 57 An old fine in frā●kalmo●gne before Iustices in E●re 58 A fine of lands in the countie Palantine of Lancaster 59 A lease for yeares reseruing a rent by graunt 60 A lease for yeares rendring rent with a render and a distresse 61 A lease for yeeres sauing the reuercion 62 A lease by tenant for life for 21. yeares if she liue so long 63 A lease for 21. yeeres c reseruing a rent the cognisees graūt back the sam● reuersion and rent 64 A fine of a rem̄ for yeeres reseruing rent c. 65 A lease in reuercion paying a rent 66 A lease to diuers for yeeres if the parties liue so long reseruing a rent and c. 67 A lease reseruing rent with a nomine penae and a distr●sse 68 A fine with graunt and render for life without impeachment of wast and for c. 69 A render for life with diuers remainders ouer 70 A lease for life with rem̄ ouer 71 A fine of landes bought by the husband which are regraunted by him to the Cognizors for his wifes life 72 A concord of diuers tenements rents Rectory and aduowson with the moity of a mill 73 A Fine of a fourth part to two 74 Of landes parte in pos●ession and parte in Reuercion of a third part for c. 75 Graunt and render of a reuercion of a moytie 76 A render to the Cognisor for one weeke remainder to a straunger for life remainder to his wife for life vpon condicion with diuers remainders ouer 77 A fine of two reuersions 78 To the cognisee and his wife in speciall tayle with warrantie in tayle 79 A grant with a rēder back againe for life with remainder in tayle diuiding the landes 80 A Fine to entayle lands to the heires of one deceased 81 A graunt to the Cognizee ' for lyfe of the tenant for lyfe with wa●● antie a render to the Cognisor for his wiues life to conuey her title to her husbād 82 A Fine of a moytie of diuers thinges in possession and of a reuercion in fee. 83 A graunt of lands to two who render to the Conusor in taile the remainder to the Queene and her Successors 84 A graunt of landes in tayle to be holden of the grauntor in Socage 85 A graunt of landes in tayle to be holden of the grauntor by suite of Court and v● s. rent 86 A Fine sur releas of knights seruice ●astle garde and murage vpon a writ of customes and seruices 87 Of a mannor in possession and other lāds in reuereion 88 Of lands part in possession and part in reuercion with a render againe to the conusor and there heires 89 For a reuercion of a rent 90 A concorde of a reuercion for a rent 91 Of rent seruice 92 The husbande and wife sell the wiues iointure absolutely to him in reuercion 93 Tenant for lyfe maketh a lease reseruing a rent during her life 24 A Fine of a Reuercion 95 A Fine of a rent graunted for life with a clause of distresse for the same 96 Of seuerall rents graunted out of a mannor 97 Of a rent with a nomine penae 98 A Fine in fee farme yeelding a rent with a distresse 99 A Fine in fee farme rendring rent suit of court herriot after decease recease and al●enacion 100 A Fine in fee farme rendring a rent with a nomine penae 101 By the husband and wife to the husband and wife with render 102 A writte of Couenant for the Queene 103 ✿ A Fine of diuers things with warrantie against all men 104 ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie with a regraunt and render of the premisses by the conusees to the conusors 105 ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie from the conusors of two partes in 3. partes deuided of d●uers seueral parcels 106 ✿ A Fine with generall wa●rantie with graunt and render by the conusees to one of the conusors of parcell of the premiss with diuers rem̄ ouer of other parcels reseruing a rēt with a clause of distres●e for non payment 107 ✿ A fine with warrantie with graunt and render of all mines of coales with libertie to digge 108 ✿ Of the 3. part of seueral things with generall warrantie for life rendring rent with a clause of distres with a grant render of the reuercion in fee. 109 ✿ Of a mānor with a regrant of xij li. out of the same mannor and afterwards of the whole mannor in fee. 110 ✿ Of diuers things with warrātie against the conusor and his wife and the heirs of the husband 111 ✿ A Fine with two seuerall warranties 112 ✿ A Fine of diuers thinges with generall warrantie 113 ✿ With generall warrantie in generall taile and for default of heire male to diuers others of the name and kindred of the conusor 114 ✿ A Fine knowledged before the Iustices of Chester of diuers things with warrantie 115 ✿ By an Earle his wife of diuers things 116 ✿ With graunt and render to the wife of one of the conusors for yeeres rēdring rent with a clause of distres with a gr●t afterwards of the reuercion in fee. 117 ✿ By 2. to 1. with generall warrantie 118 ✿ Of diuers thinges with seuerall warr̄ 119 ✿ A Fine to 2. of diuers things with warr̄ 120 ✿ By 2. husbands and their wiues with seuerall warr̄ 121 ✿ By the husband and the wife of diuers things with warrantie 122 ✿ Of a rent issuing out of diuers mannors 123 ✿ A fine with grant and render for ye●res to beginne at a time to come reseruing a rent with a graunt of the reuercion to c. 124 ✿ A Fine of
forein thing if it be not consequent As in a writ of land rent common c. may be rendred issuing out of it 18. E. 4. 22. And a Concord may be with an exception of some part 44. E. 3. 21. If a man will he may make a Iointure by fine thus If I. leuie a fine to A. in fee sur cognizance de droit come ceo c. and after A. rendre to I. for life without impeachment of wast the remainder to B. his wife for terme of her life the remainder to I. and his heires 38. H. 8 Br. Fines 108. The Manors tenements conteined in the writ may be diuided As if a fine be leuied betweene R. and M. of ii manors which M. knowledgeth all his right of the said ii manors to be the right of the said R. as that which c. for which R. graūteth rendreth th one manor to M. for life with ii parts of the other manor which N. holdeth in dower To haue th one manor and two parts of the other manor to M. for life the remainder after her death to R. in taile and that after the death of A the third part shall remaine to an other 43. E. 3. 11. 45. E. 3. 12. And in like maner a fine is leuied of the manor of G. cum pertinen̄ by A. vnto C which A. knowledgeth the right in C as that c. and C. granteth and rendreth the same to A. in tayle The remainder of the 4. part of the manor towards the west to the said A. and her heires the remainder of an other 4. part towards the East to I. in fee the remainder of an other 4. part towards the South to one R. in fee and of the other 4 part towards the North to W. and his heires it is good 44. Ass p. 11. Or incerteinly by 3. third parts to A. B. and C. in remainder seuerally 18. H. 7. Br. Fines 111. A fine leuied to one in tayle vpon condition with remainder is holden to be good 27. H. 8. 24. Plowd 34. b. 24. E. 3. 62. Contra per Prisot 33. H. 6. 52. and 44. E. 3. 22. But a fine with a reentrie was reiected 44. E. 3. 22. A lease for yeares may be made by a fine in this forme The lesse must knowledge the tenements to be tthe right of the lessor as that c. and then the lessor must graunt the lands backe againe to the lessee for so many yeres as are agreed vpō reseruing a rēt with a clause of distresse But this fine wil not bind the issue in taile because he taketh by the fine but giueth nothing thereby Br. Fines 106. tempore H. 8. 36. H. 8. Br. Fines 118. Plow 455. 14. Eliz. Or a lease for yeares may be made by fine to bind the tenant in taile thus The tenant in taile and the lessee to knowledge the tenements to be the right of an estranger as that c. and the Cognizee to graunt and render the tenements to the lessee for certain yeeres yeelding a rēt with a clause of distresse and then graunt the reuersion to the tenant in taile 36. H. 8. Br. Fines 118. If an estranger which hath nothing in the lands leuie a fine to him in the remainder in taile dependant sur estate pur vie sur cognizance de droit come ceo que il ad de son done c. and the cognizee by the same fine render to the cognizor for yeares de commēcer al Mich. ensuant and dieth and al the proclamations are made after his death The tenant for life after such time as the said leas is limitted to begin dieth it is adiudged a good leas to barre the issue in taile for the terme 14. Eliz. Plowd fol. 437. b. inter Smyth Stapleton which seemeth contrarie to the opinion before Br. Fines 106. 118. A. by fine graunteth his tenements which I. holdeth for life and which after his decease c to W. for life rendring rent c. with a distresse sauing the Reuersion 44. E. 3. 45. Fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo c is leuied to A. in fee rendring rent this reseruation is void because the fine is executed for no reseruation can be but of a fine executorie as sur render 50. E. 3. 9. 24. E. 3. 26. 39. E. 3. 1. And if diuers ioine in a fine the warrantie must be by them and the heires of one of them which is the owner of the land 44. E. 3. 1. 21. E. 3. 27. 42. E. 3. 13. 24. E. 3. 66. Contr̄ sur terres de Gauelkind ibm̄ A particuler tenant as for life c. cannot surrender his terme to him in the reuersion or remainder by fine But he may graunt and releas it to him by fine 44. E. 3. 36. One Concord may be of lands in seuerall Counties and the fine pro licenc ' concord ' of all extracted entierly Yet must there be seuerall writs of Couenant returnable all at one day 6. Eliz. Dyer fol. 227. pl. 44. 15. E. 4. 33. And finally in Concorde all the speciall names of things conteyned in the writ whereupon the fine is leuied are not to be rehearsed But onely the generall words therein mentioned as manor tenements rents aduowson common c. As where the writ is de vno messuagio vno gardino vno pomario decem acr̄ terrae v. acr̄ prati x. acr̄ pasturae iiij acr̄ bosci communia pastur̄ cum pertin̄ in C. c. The Concord hath Recogn̄ ten̄ta coīam praedictam cum pertinentijs esse ius c. But the examples following will more plainely expresse this and all the differing formes of Concords here before mencioned A writ of Couenant of 3 messuages and of common of pasture PRaecipe c. de tribus mesuag ' c. cum pertin̄ in D. T. de cōmunia Sect. 31. pastur̄ pro omnibus omnimodis auerijs ac de pastura pro 400. o●ibus cum pertin̄ in D. in parochia de C. Et nisi c. Of one messuage one curtilage one gardeyne of a rent and of sheepewalke PRaecipe c. de vno mesuag ' vno curtilagio vno gardino c. ac Sect. 32. v. li. reddit̄ cum pertin̄ in F. Necnon de libert̄ vnius faldagij cursu ouium cum pertin̄ in F. Et nisi c. Of Wood and a Foldage PRaec ' c. de centum acr̄ bosci cum pertin̄ in N. ac de libertate faldagij Sect. 33 pro xl ouibus cum pertin̄ in S. Et nisi c. Of Wood. PRaecipe c. de c. quatuor virgat̄ bosci c. in parochijs de B. Sect. 34. L. c. Of 2. partes in 3. partes deuided of 8. acres of land of pasture acres of reede and of freshe and salte marshe land PRaecipe c. de duabus partibus in tres partes diuidend ' viij acr̄ Sect. 35. terrae lx acr '
pastur̄ lx acr ' arun dinarum x. acr̄ marisci frisci ma●sci salsi cum pertinen̄ in D. c. Et nisi c. Of a parsonage impropriate and of the moyti● of the tithes PRaec ' c. de Rector̄ impropriat̄ de H. cum pertin̄ ac de medietate Sect. 36. omniū decimarū granor̄ bladorum garbar ' foeni de terris vocat̄ le B. lands cum pertin̄ in H. praedict ' c. Et nisi c. Of a manor of rent and free foldage for sheepe PRaecipe c. de maner̄ de c. decem solid ' redd ' ac de libero faldagio Sect. 37. ouium cum pertin̄ in R. de Hundred ' de L. Et nisi c. A writte of Couenāt by one of the Queenes Secretaries of the 3. parte of 4. messuages 4. cottages one mille gardeins orchards lands medowe pasture more turbarie and rent the 3. parte of the view of franke pledge of goods and cattels wayued of fellons fugitiues put in exigent felon● de se deodans treasure founde extrahur and of the 3. parte of a Parsonage PRaecipe W. S. Militi dn̄o M. quod ten̄ W. C. Milit̄ principal ' Secretar̄ Sect. 37. dn̄ae Regin̄ conuenc ' c. de tertia parte iiij mess iiij cotag ' vnius molendin̄ x. gardin̄ x. pomar̄ 200. acr̄ terrae 200. acr ' prati 200. acr̄ pastur̄ 30. acr̄ morae 30. acr ' turbar̄ v. s. redd ' cum ꝑtin̄ in A. B. C. D. ac de tertia parte Vis franci pleg ' bonor̄ catallor̄ wauiat̄ felon̄ fugitiuorum vtlag●t̄ in exigen̄ positorum fel de se deodand ' thesaur ' inuent̄ ac extrahur̄ cum pertinentijs in M. c. Necnon de tertia parte Rector̄ ecclesiae de K. cum pertin̄ Et nisi c. A writ of Couenant of Tythes L●i● ss PRaecipe T. N. Milit̄ qd ' ten̄ T. P. conuenc ' c. de proficuis Sect. 38. granor̄ foeni lanae agnor̄ ac de omnimod ' alijs decimis cum pertinentijs in M. Et nisi c. A writ of Couenant of the Scite of a Monasterie of messuages of comon of pasture for all maner of beastes of rent and of rent hennes and rent worke Derb. ss PRaec ' A. B. quod ten̄ C. D. conuenc ' de situ Monast de Sect. 39. B. cum pertinen̄ Ac de xx messuag ' c. ac de communia pastur̄ pro omnibus animal ' ac de C. s. reddit̄ ac de redditu C. galinar̄ C. oper ' cum pertinen̄ in E. F. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scz quod p̄dictus A. B. recognouit praed ' situm ten̄t̄ communiam pastur̄ redd ' cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius C. vt ill ' c. cum relax ' warrant̄ c. A writ of Couenant against the Father and his sonne and heire apparant of cottages toftes barnes watermils of one windmill doufehouses gardeins orchardes land medow pasture wood marishe furres heath moore rent halfe a pound of rent peper of a myne of cole and the ad●owson of a Church Linc̄ ss PRaecipe F. M. armig ' T. M. filio haeredi apparent̄ Sect. 40. eiusdem F. quod ten̄ F. F. N. R. gent̄ conuenc ' c. de maner̄ de T. S. H. iuxta N. super Trentam Ac de xl mes xx cotag ' xl toft ' xxx horreis ij molend ' aquatic ' vno molend ' ventritico iij. columbar̄ xl gardin̄ xl pomar̄ mille acr̄ terrae mi●le acris prati mille acr̄ pasturae 500. acr̄ bosci 100. maris 100. iampn̄ bruer̄ 100. acr̄ alneti 110. acr̄ iuncar̄ 500. acr̄ morae iiij libr ' reddit̄ redd ' dimid ' vnius librae piperis cum pertin̄ in T. c. Ac etiam de minera carbon̄ cum pertin̄ in T. S. Necnon de Aduocac ' Ecclesiae de T. H. Et nisi c. A writ of Couenant of Dismes and Tythes Notting ss PRaec ' D. E. qd ' c. teneat R. Y. armig ' conuenc ' c. de Sect. 41. decimis garbarū granorū foeni cum pertin̄ in R. W. Ac de decima foeni in V. Necnon de decimis lani agnorum oblationum ob●entionū emolumentorum de omnibus alijs decimis quibuscu●que venien̄ crescen̄ renouan̄ in W. praedict ' Et nisi c. A writ of Couenant against the husband and the wife of a Parsonage and of the aduouson of a Vicarage and of messuages cottages barnes and gardeins PRaecipe T. B. A. vxori eius quod ten̄ C. W. armig ' Sect. 42. conuenc ' c. de Rectoria de L. ac de aduo●ac ' vicar̄ de L. ac de decem mesuag x. cotag ' x. horreis x. gardin̄ c. cum pertin̄ in L. praed ' Et nisi c. Praec ' c. qd ' iuste c. de x. mes c. in W. Necnon de Rectoria eccles de G. de decim̄ granor̄ foeni lane agnor̄ omnium aliar ' decimarū quarumcunque in G. praed ' Ac etiam de aduocac ' Vicar ' ecclesiae de G. praedict ' cum pertinentijs Et nisi c. A fine knowledged by one to two persons of sixe messuages with warrantie against him and his heires Surr̄ ss PRaecipe W. W. quod iuste c ten̄● L. A. P. con̄ c. Sect. 43. de sex mesuagijs c. cum pertine● in C. W. E. c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scil●cet quod praedict ' W. recogn̄ praedict ' tenementa cum pertinen̄ esse ius ipsius I. vt ill ' quae ijdem I. A. habent de dono praedict ' W. Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clam̄ de se haered ' suis praedict ' I. A. haered ' suis imperpetuum Et praeterea idem W. concessit pro se haeredibus suis quod ipse warrant̄ praedict ' I. A. haered ' ipsius I praedict ' tenementa cum pertinen̄ contra praedict ' W. haered ' suos imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A Fine by the husband and wife to two of messuages toftes lands medowes pasture and rente with warranties against the Conusor and his heires Surr̄ ss PRaecipe I. T. A. vxori eius quod iuste c. ten̄ W. Sect. 44. R. R. D. conuenc ' c. de quatuor mesuag ' quatuor toftis xl acr̄ t̄errae xx acris prati 120. acr̄ pastur̄ quinque solid ' iiij denar̄ reddit̄ cum pertinen̄ in S. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' I. A. recogn̄ praedictū tenementum cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. vt illa quae idem W. R. habent de dono praedictorū I. A. Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clamauer̄ de ipsis I. A.
c. Et nisi c. Et est Concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' Comes Comitiss recognouerunt reddit̄ praedictum cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius W. vt illa que idem W. habet de dono praedictorum Comitis Comitisse Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clamauer̄ de se heredibus suis praefat̄ W. heredibus suis imperpetuum Et preterea ijdem Comes Comitissa concedunt pro se heredibus ipsius Comitis quod ipsi warrant̄ redd ' p̄dict̄ cum pertin̄ pref W. hered ' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuū Et pro hac c. A Fine of the third part of a rent by the husband and wife Suffolk ss PRaec ' R. I. vxori eius quod teneant H. C. conuenc ' Sect ' 52. c. de tertia parte quinque libr̄ sex solid ' octo denar̄ reddit̄ cum pertinentijs exeun̄ de manerijs de K. Et nisi c. Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praed ' R. I. recognouer̄ tertiam partem praedict ' cum pertin̄ esse ius ipsius H. vt ill ' quam idem H. habeat de dono praed ' R. I. Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clamauer̄ de se heredibus ipsius I. pref H. hered ' suis imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem R. I. concesser̄ pro se heredibus ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant̄ pref H. hered ' suis predictam tertiam partem cum pertinen̄ contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A Fine of a personage exceeding the aduowson of the vicarage of the same parsonage PRaec ' c. Con̄ c. de Rectoria de T. cum pertin̄ except̄ Aduocatione Sect ' 53. vicar̄ ecclesiae de T. Et nisi c. Et est c. quod praedict ' A. recogn̄ Rectoriam praed ' cum pertin̄ except̄ praeexcept̄ esse ius c. Et ill ' remis c. except̄ praecept̄ Et praeterea idem c. concess pro se c. quod ipse warrant̄ p̄dict ' c. Rectoriam praedict ' cum ꝑtin̄ except̄ praeexcept̄ c. A writ of couenant brought by three against three of one manor 10. mesnages 8. cottages and of land meadow pasture moore and of rent Ebor̄ PRaec ' C. B. F. vxori eius quod ten̄ E. D. R. con̄ c. de Sect ' 54. manerio de S. cū pertin̄ ac de x. messuag ' viij cotag ' CC. acr̄ terre CC. acr̄ prati 160. acr̄ pasture 300. acr̄ more vj. s. redd ' cū pertin̄ in A. F. B. C. Et nisi fecerint c. A Concord with a Render for life to the husbād and the wife being the conusors of parcel of manors and lands contained in the writ of Couenant the remainder to the first and second begotten sonne of the conusors in taile and to the heires males and for default of such issue then to the conusors in general taile and for default of such issue then to the right heires of the conusors for euer with graunt and render of x. mesuages c. residue of the same manor c. to the said conusors ET est Concordia talis scilicet quod praedictus T. F. recogn̄ maner̄ Sect ' 55. tenementa redd ' praedict ' cum pertin̄ esse ius ipsius E. vt ill ' que ijdem E. R. habent de dono p̄dict ' T. F. Et illa remiser̄ quiet̄ clam̄ de ipsis T. F. hered ' ipsius F. pref E. R. hered ' ipsius E. imperpetuum Et preterea ijdem T. F. concesser̄ pro se hered ' ipsius F. quod ipsi warrant̄ manerium ten̄ta redd ' cum pertin̄ pref E. R. hered ' ipsius E. contra ipsos T. F. hered ' ipsius F. imperpetuū Et pro hac recogn̄ c. ijdem E. R. concesser̄ pref T. F. maner̄ de S. pred' cūpertin̄ ac x. mesuag ' viij cotag ' 20. acr̄ terr̄ 20. acr̄ prati 160. acr ' pasture 300. acr ' more 6. solid ' redditus cum pertin̄ in A. F. predictis parcellas maner̄ tenementorum redd ' praedict ' Et ill ' eis reddider̄ in eadem curia ✿ Habendum tenendum pref T. F. pro termino vitae ipsorum T. F. alterius eorum diutius viuent ' absque impetitione alicuius vasti Et quod post decessum praedict ' T. F. eorū alterius diutius viuent ' praedict ' ꝑcell ' maner ' ten̄torū redd ' praed ' cum pertin̄ reman̄ primogentio filio de corporibus praedict ' T. F. inter eos legitim̄ procreat ' hered ' mascul ' de corpore praedict ' primogenit ' filij legitime procreat ' Tenend ' c. ✿ Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius primogeniti filij fuer ' legitime procreat ' praed ' parcell ' maner̄ ten̄torū reddit̄ pred' cum pertin̄ reman̄ secundo genito filio de corpore p̄dict ' T. F. inter eos legitime procreat̄ hered ' mascul ' de corpore dicti secundi geniti filij legitime procreat̄ Tenend ' c. ✿ Et si nullus heres de corpore ipsius secundi geniti filijfuer̄ legitime procreat̄ tunc p̄d ' parcell ' mane● ten̄torum redd ' praedict ' cum pertinen̄ reman̄ hered ' de corporibus p̄d ' T. F. inter eos legitim̄ procreat̄ Tenend ' c. Et si nullus heres de corpor̄ ipsorū T. F. inter eos fuer̄ legitime procreat̄ tunc praedict ' parcell ' maner̄ ten̄torum redd ' p̄d ' cum ꝑtin̄ remaner̄ inde rectis hered ' ipsorum T. F. imperpetuum Tenend ' c. Et vlterius ijdem E. R. concess praef T. F. decē messuag ' c. cnm pertin̄ in B. C. praed ' residuum p̄d ' maner̄ ten̄tor̄ redd ' praedict ' Et ill ' eis redd ' in eadem Cur̄ A Fine of one acre of land homage rent and seruices Salop̄ PRaecipe E. T. armig ' quod te● N. P. con̄ de vna acr̄ terre Sect ' 56. quindecim solidos redđ cū ꝑtin̄ in G. F. Et nisi c. Et est concordia talis scz quod praed ' E. T. recognouit praed ' acr̄ t̄re cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius N. vt ill ' quam idem N. habeat de dono praed ' E. Et ill ' remisit quiet̄ clam̄ de se heredibus suis pref N. heredibus suis imperpetum Et p̄d ' E. concessit p̄f. N. praed ' reddit̄ simul cum homagio toto seruitio I. H. heredum suorum detot ten̄tis quot praed ' E. prius tenuit de F. praedict ' Habenđ percipienđ gaudenđ p̄d ' reddit̄ simul cum homagio toto seruitio praed ' N. hered ' suis imperpetuum Et
C. W. R. T. P. L tota vita ipsius E. praedict ' I. haered ' sui warrant̄ praedictis T. C. W. R. T. P. L. p̄dicta maneria tenementa redd ' cum pertin̄ si cut dictum est contra omnes homines durant̄ vita praedict ' E. c. A Fine of messuages cottages land medow pasture wood hea●he linge rent of a Parsonage of the aduowson of a Church HEC est finalis concordia facta in Curia dn̄ae Reginae apud W. a Sect. 73. die P. in quindecim dies Anno regni Elizab. dei gratia A. F. H. Reginae fidei defensoris c. a conquestu vices●mo quarto coram E. A. T. M. F. W. W. P. Iustic ' alijs dominae Reg. fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus inter I. B. gen̄ R. C. generof quaerent̄ R. C. seniorē armiger̄ R. C. de Graies Inne in comitatu Midd ' generos deforc ' de centum messuagijs centum cotagijs duobus millibus acr̄ terrae mille acr̄ prati duobus millibus acr̄ pasturae centum acr̄ bosci mille acr̄ iampnorum bruerae centum solidis reddit̄ cum pertin̄ in c. Necnon de Rectoria de K. cum ptinentijs Ac de aduocatione Ecclesiae de K. vnde placitum conuenc ' summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadē curia scilicet qđ p̄dict ' R. R. recognouerunt praedicta tenementa redditus rectoriā cum ꝑtinentijs ac aduocationem p̄dictam esse ius ipsius I. vt illa quae ijdem I. et R habent de dono praedictor̄ R. et R. Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clamauer̄ de ipsis R. haeredibus suis p̄dict ' I. et R. et haered ipsius I. imperpetuum ✿ Et praeterea ijdem R. et R. cōcesserunt pro se haeredibus ipsius R. C. senioris quod ipsi warrant̄ praedictis I. et R. et haeredibus ipsius I. p̄dict ' ten̄ta reddit̄ et rectoriā cum ꝑtinen̄ ac aduocationem p̄dict ' cōtra p̄dict ' R. R. haered ' ipsius R. C. ●enioris imꝑpetuū ✿ Et pro hac recogn̄ remissione quiet̄ clamac ' warrant̄ fine concordia ijdē I. et R. dederunt p̄d ' R. et R. duo mille libr̄ sterlingorum A Fine by the husband and his wife of the lands of the wife with graunt and render of the 4. parte of 2. messuages 4. tofts two gardens two orchards 200. acres of land 20. acres of medow 40. acres of pasture 12. acres of wood and 100. acres of moore in 4. partes deuided the Conusors do graūt the same againe to the Conusees for their liues without impeachmēt of wast and after their deaths to one of their sonnes in generall taile for default of such issue then to one other of the conusees sonnes in general taile for default of such issue then to the 3. sonne of the conusees in generall taile and for default of such issue to the right heires of the wife of the Conusor for euer HEC est finalis cōcordia facta in Cur̄ dominae Reg. apud Westm̄ Sect. 74. in Octab sancti Mich. Anno ●egni Eliz. dei gratia Angl ' Franciae Hibern̄ Regin̄ fidei defens c. a cōquestu xxxvj corā R. A. T. W. R. W. T. L. Iustic ' et alijs dn̄ae Reginae fidelibus tunc ibidem praesentibus inter G. I. et W. W. quer̄ et I. C. I. vxorem deforc ' de quarta parte 2. messuagiorum 4. toftor̄ 2. gardinor̄ 2. pomar̄ ducent̄ acr̄ terr● 20. acr̄ prati 40. acr̄ pasturae 12. acr̄ bosci 100 acrar̄ more cum pertinen̄ in G. L. in quatuor partes diuis vnde placitū conuentionis summ̄ fuit inter eos in eadē Curia scilicet quod praedict ' I. I. recogn̄ praedictā quartam partē cum ꝑtin̄ esse iusipsius G. vt illam quam ijdē G. W. habent de dono praedict ' I. I. Et illam remis quiet̄ clam̄ de ipsis I. I. haered ' ipsius I. praedict ' G. W. haered ' ipsius G. imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem Io. Ia. concesserunt pro se hered ' ipsius la qd ' ipsi warrant̄ praedict ' G. W. haered ' ipsius G. praedict ' quartam partem cum pertin̄ contra p̄dict̄ I. I. hered ' ipsius ●a imperpetuum ✿ Et pro hac recogn̄ c. ijdem G. W concesserunt p̄dict ' I. I. p̄dict ' quartam ꝑtem cum pertinentijs Et ill ' eis reddider̄ in eadem cur̄ Habend ' tenend ' eisdem I. I. de capitalibus dn̄is feodi illius per seruitia quae ad p̄dict ' quartam partē pertment tota vita ipsorum I. I. eorum alterius diutius viuent̄ absque impetitione alicuius vasti Et post decessum ipsorum I. et I. praedict ' quarta pars cum pertinentijs integre reman̄ B. C. filio praedictorum I. I. haered ' de corpore ipsius B. legitime procreat̄ Tenend ' de capitalibus dn̄is feodi illius c. imperpetuum ✿ Et si contingat quod idem B. obierit sine haered ' de corpore suo legitime procreat̄ tunc post decessum ipsius B. p̄dict ' quarta pars cum pertinen̄ integre reman̄ P. C. al' fil' praedict ' I. I. haered ' de corpore c. Tenend ' de capitalib ' c. imperpetuum ✿ Et si contingat qd ' idē P. obierit c. tunc post decessum ipsius P. p̄d ' quarta pars integre reman̄ R. C. al' fil' p̄dictor̄ I. I. haered ' de corpore c. Tenend ' de capitalibus c. imperpetuum Et si contingat qđ idem R. obierit c. tunc post decessum ipsius R. praedict ' quarta pars cum pertin̄ integre reman̄ rectis haered ' praedict ' Ia. Tenend ' de capitalibus dn̄is feodiillius per seruitia quae ad praedict ' quartam partem pertinent imperpetuum c. A fine of one messuage and of a 3. parte of 4. messuages in 3. partes deuided part in possession and part in reuersion of a third part for terme of the life of the tenant in Dower and for terme of the life of an other tenant for terme of life Ebor̄ ss PRaecipe I. W. A. vxori eius quod iuste c. ten̄ I. E. Sect. 75. E. E. conuenc ' de vno messuag ' c. necnon de tertia parte in tres partes diuidend ' quatuor messuag ' cum pertinen̄ c. ¶ Et est cōcordia talis scilicet quod p̄dict ' I. et A. recogn̄ tenementa praedicta ac tertiam partem praedict ' cum pertinentijs e●●e i●s ipsius I. de quibus ijdem I. E. et E. E. habeant vn●m mess cum pertin̄ in praedictis vill ' de T. B. parcell ' tenementorum praedictorum ac praedict ' tertiam partem quatuor
F. haered ' de corporibus suis legitime procreat̄ ac etiam rectis haeredibus ipsius W. si praedicti W. et F. obier̄ sine haeered ' de corporibus suis legitime procreatis octo libr̄ nomine penae ✿ Et sic qualibet septimana post p̄dictas quinque septimanas octo libr̄ quoties praedict ' annualis reddit̄ nonaginta libr̄ aretro foret quod tunc toties bene liceret praedict ' W. F. haered ' de corporibus suis legitime procreat̄ ac etiam rectis haeredibus ipsius W. si ijdem W. F. obier̄ sine haered ' de corporibus suis legitime procreat̄ in praedict ' maneria tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare distringere districtionesque sic ibidem capt̄ habitas abducere asportare effugare ac penes se retinere quousque tam de praedicto annual ' reddit̄ nonaginta libr̄ cum arreragijs eiusdem si quae fuerint quam de praedict ' octo libr̄ vt praefertur no mine penae forisfact ' post praedict ' quinque septimanas pro octo libr̄ pro qualibet septimana post praedict ' quinque septimanas vt praefertur eisdem plene fuerit satisfact ' persolut̄ c. A Fine wherein an Annuitie is graunted out of fiue acres of land to one in fee with a clause of distres for default of paiment of the same Annuitie Essex ss PRaecipe T. S. de C. armig ' A. vxori eius quod ten̄ Sect. 99. W. D. conuenc ' de quinque acr̄ terrae cum pertinentijs in E. c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' T. A. recognouerunt tenementa praedict ' cum pertinētijs esse ius ipsius W. vt illa quae idem W. habet de bono p̄dictorium T. a. Et ill ' remiser̄ quiet̄ clamauer̄ de se haeredibus suis praefato W. haered ' suis imperpetuum Et pr●terea praedict ' T. A. concess prose haered ' ipsius T. quod ipsi warrant̄ praef W. haered ' suis tenementa praedict ' cum pertinentijs contra omnes homines imperpetuū Et pro hac c. p̄dictus W. concessit praefato T. quandam annuitatem siue annualem redditum xx s. legalis monetae Angliae exeunt̄ exitur̄ de ex tenemētis praedict ' cum pertinentijs Et ill ' ei reddidit in eadem curia Habend ' tenend ' percipiend ' p̄d ' annuitatem siue annualē reddit̄ xx s. praedict ' praefato T. haeredib ' suis ad festa S. Martini Episcopi in hyeme Pentecost ' per aequales portiones annuatim imperpetuum soluendum Et si ac quoties contingat praedict ' annuitatem siue annualem rendit̄ xx s. praedict ' aretro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum quo vt praefertur solui debeat non solut̄ per spacium quadraginta dierum quod tunc toties bene liceat licebit praefato T. et haerebidus suis in praedicta tenementa cum pertinentijs intrare distringere districtionesque sic ibidem capt̄ licite asportare effugare abducere penes se retinere quousque de tota p̄dict̄ annuitate siue annual ' redditu viginti solid ' praedict ' vna cum arreragijs eiusdem si quae fuerint sibi sit plenarie satisfact ' persolut̄ c. A fine wherein an annuitie is graunted in fee out of 20. acres of land with suit of Court and Heriot after decease recease and alientation of any tenant with a clause of distres for default of payment South ss PRaecipe A. B. C. D. quod ten̄ F. G. connenc ' de vigint̄ Sect. 100. ac● terrae c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' A. B. C. D. recognouer̄ tenementa praedict ' esse ius vt in fin ' sur recognisance de droit Release Warrantie Et pro hac c. praedictus T. concessit p̄fatis A. B. et C. D. quandā annuitatem siue annualem reddit̄ xij d' legalis monetae Angliae exeunt̄ exitur̄ de e● tenementis p̄dictis cum pertinentijs Et ill ' eis reddidit in eadem curia Habend ' percipiend ' praedictam annuitatem siue annualem red dit̄ xij d' eisdem A. B. et C. D. haered ' ipsius A. ad festa Sancti Mich. archangeli Annunciation̄ beatae Mariae virginis per aequales porciones annuatim soluend ' ✿ Ac etiam praedict ' F. concessit pro se haeredibus suis praefatis A. B. C. D. haered ' ipsius A. a d faciend ' sectam annuatim Cur̄ praedict̄ A. B. C. D. haered ' ipsius A. apud manerium suum de C. bis in anno super licitam monitionē inde p̄habitur̄ Tenend ' c. Ac soluend ' post decessum recessum alienationem tam p̄dicti F. haered ' suorū quam cuiuslibet alterius tenentis existen̄ liber● tenentis ten̄torum p̄dictor̄ vel alicuius in de parcell ' optimū animal ' cuiuslibet hm̄ di tenent̄ nomine Heriot̄ ✿ Et si contingat praedictam annuitatem siue annualem reddit̄ aretro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum quo vt praefertur solui debeat non solut̄ aut sect ' cur̄ p̄dict̄ non fieri siue heriot̄ praedict̄ cum acciderit non solui aut deliberar̄ qđ tunc bene licebit praedict̄ A. B. C. D. ac haered ' ipsius A. in ten̄ta p̄dicta cum pertinen̄ intrare distringere districtionesque sic ibidē capt̄ licite abducere asportare penes se retineee donec quousque tam de praedicta annuitate siue annual ' redd ' xij d' vna cum arreragijs eiusdem si quae fuer̄ quam de sect ' Cur̄ Heriot̄ praedict ' aretro existen̄ eisdem A. B. C. D. haered ' ipsius A. plenarie fuer̄ solut̄ content̄ satisfact ' c. A fine wherein an Annutie is graunted out of a manor messuages and rent in fee payable at a certaine day houre and place with a forfaiture Nomine penae for the default to payment of the Annuitie and paine Warw. ss PRaecipe A. B. armig ' quod ten̄ C. D. conuenc ' de manerio Sect. 101. de L. cum pertinentijs Necnon de quatuor mesuag ' decem solidis reddit̄ cum pertinent●●s in L. praedict̄ c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict̄ A. B. recognouit ve in fine sur recognisance de droit Et pro hac c. idem C. concessit praefato A. quandam annuitatē siue annualem redditum vij libr̄ legalis monetae Angliae exeunr̄ exitur̄ de et in manerio tenementis praedictis cum pertinētijs Et ill ' ei reddidit in eadem curia Habend ' percipiend ' praedictā annuitatem siue annualem redditum vij li.
preterea ijdem T. et E. concesserūt pro se hered ' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt maneria tenement̄ reddit̄ praeđ cum pertinentijs prefat̄ W. I. hered ' ipsius W. contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac recognicione c. ijdem W. et I. concesserunt pređ manerium ten̄ta et reddit̄ praeđ cum pertinen̄ et illa ei reddiderūt in eadem curia Habenđ et tenenđ eidem T. et hered ' suis imperpetuum A Fine knowledged by H. K. and I. his wife I. C. and K. his wife to R. G. of one messuage one garden of land pasture and the same conusors for them and the heires of lo doe warrant two parts of the premisses in iij. parts deuided to the c●usee and his heires against all men for euer PRaecipe I. H. I. vxori eius quod iuste c. teneant R. G. conuenciones inter eos fact ' de vno messuagio vno gardino 40. acris terre quatuor acris pasture cum pertin̄ in c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis quod p̄d ' I. I. recognouer̄ tenementa praed ' Sect ' 106. cum pertinen̄ esse ius ipsius R. vt illa que idem R. habet de dono praedict ' H. I. I. K. illa remiserunt quiete clamauerunt de ipsis H. I. I. K. heredibus suis praefat̄ R. hered ' suis imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem H. I. I. K. concesserunt pro se hered ' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant̄ duas partes ten̄torum praedict ' cum pertin̄ in tres partes diuiden̄ p̄f. R. hered ' suis contra ōnes homines imꝑpet̄ Et pro hac c. A Fine knowledged by I. F. knight and M. his wife and R. H. of two messuages one garden one or chard and of land meadow and pasture to T. P. and I. K. with warrantie against all men And the conusees by the said fine graunt render to the said R. one of the conusors in the fine vi acres of land c. parcel of the premisses for one moneth to come next afterwards the same to remain to one I. now the wife of R. N. R. N. son of the said R and I during their liues and the longer liuer of them And after their deceases the the said vi acres of land to remaine to I. N. daughter of the said R. and I. his wife during her life reseruing a rent with clause of distres for non payment thereof And the residue of the premisses viz. the two messuages one garden one orchard c. the said conusees graunt and render to R. H. for one moneth and afterwards to one R. N. I. his wife To haue to hold to the said R. I. during their liues and the longest liuer of them reseruing also thereupon a rent with a clause of distres for non payment thereof And lastly the said conusees doe graunt and render the reuersion of the whole premisses and the seueral rents reserued vpon the said graunts and renders vnto the said I. F. and M. his wife two of the said conusors and to the heires of the said I. F. for euer PRaec ' I. F. milit̄ ac M. vxori eius et R. H. quod iuste c. tenent Sect ' 107. T. W. I. K. c. de duobus messuag ' 1. gardin̄ 1. pomar̄ 21. acris t̄re 6. acr̄ prat̄ 58. acr̄ pastur̄ cū ꝑtin̄ in M. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scz qd ' p̄d ' I. M. R. recogn̄ ten̄ta p̄d ' cū ꝑtin̄ esse ius ipsius T. vt illa que idē T. I habēt de dono p̄f. I. M. R. Et illa remiser̄ quiete clam̄ de ipsis I. M. R. hered ' suis p̄d ' T. I. hered ' ipsius T. imꝑpetuū Et p̄terea ijdē I. F. M. R. concesser̄ pro se Warrantie hered ' ipsius I. qd ' ipsi warrant̄ ten̄ta p̄d ' cū ꝑtin̄ p̄f. T. I. hered ' ipsius T. cont̄ oēs hoīes imꝑpetuū Et pro hac c. ijdem T. I. concesser̄ The Render of parcel of the premisses p̄d ' R. vj. acr̄ terre 3. acr̄ pastur̄ et 46. acr̄ prati de ten̄tis p̄d ' cum ꝑtin̄ illa ei reddider̄ in ead ' cur̄ Habend ' et et tenend ' eid ' R. pro termino vni mensis iam prox ' futur̄ Et post t̄min̄ illū finit̄ easd ' 3. acr̄ t̄re 3. acr̄ prat̄ 46. acr̄ pastur̄ cū ꝑtin̄ integre reman̄ cuidā I. modo vxori cuiusd ' R. N. cuidā R. N. filio eorund ' R. I. Habend ' tenend ' p̄f. I. et R. tota vita ipsor̄ I. et R. et eor̄ alterius diutius viuen̄ Et post decessū eorund ' I. R. easdem 6. acr̄ t̄re 3. acras prati 46. acr̄ pastur̄ cū ꝑtin̄ integre reman̄ I. M. filie p̄d ' R. et I. vxoi eius Habend ' et tenend ' eid ' I. filie tota vita eiusd ' Therent I. filie reddend ' inde annuatim p̄d ' T. I. hered ' suis cent̄ 8. s. 10. d' ad sestū Annunc ' c. per equales porc ' annuatim soluend ' Et si A clause of distresse contingat praed ' ānualem reddit̄ Cviij s. x. d. vel aliqua inde ꝑcella a retro fore in ꝑte vel in toto ꝑaliquod festum festorū p̄d ' quo siue quibus vt prefertur solui debeat non solut̄ Qd ' tunc beneliceat p̄d ' T. I. hered ' assignat̄ suis tam tota vita naturali p̄d ' I. R. N. modo vxoris p̄đ R. eorum alterius diutius viuen̄ quā tota vita p̄d ' I. fil' in p̄d ' 6. acras terre c. cum ꝑtin̄ in quanilibet inde ꝑcellam intrare distringere distriction̄ sic ibid ' capt̄ liceat inde abducere effugare penes se retinere quousque de p̄d ' annuali reddit̄ Cviij s. x. d. de qualibet inde ꝑcella vna cū arrerag ' eiusd ' si que fuerint eis plena sie satisfact ' ꝑsolut̄ Et vlterius ijdem T. I. concesser̄ p̄d ' R. H. duo messuagia vnū pomatiū The render of the residue vnū gardinū 16. acr̄ terre 3. acr̄ prati 12. acr̄ pasture resid ' cū ꝑtinen̄ ten̄tor̄ praed ' Et illa ei reddider̄ in eadem curia Habend ' tenend ' eid ' R. pro termino vnius mensis Et post terminū ill ' finit̄ ead ' duo messuagia vnum gardin̄ vnū pomar̄ xvj acr̄ terre tres acr̄ prati et duodecē acr̄ pasture resid ' integre remanere ●uidam R. N. I. vxori eius Habend ' et tenend ' eisdem R. R. I. tota vita ipsor̄ R. R. et
I. et hered ' eorum alteriꝰ Rent for the residue A clause of distres diutius viuen̄ Redded ' inde annuatim p̄d ' T. et I. et hered ' eorū xiij s. legalis monete Angl ' ad festa praed ' per equales porcion̄ soluend ' Et si cōtingat praed ' annualem reddit̄ xiij s. aut aliquam inde parcellam a retro fore in parte vel in toco post aliquod festū festor̄ p̄d ' qua vt prefert̄ solui debeat non solut̄ Quod tunc bene licebit praef T. et I. in praed ' duo messuag ' vnū gardin̄ vnum pomar̄ xvi acras terre 3. acras prati xij acras pasture resid ' cum pertin̄ quamlibet inde parcell ' intrare distringere districtionesque ibidē sic capt̄ liceat abinde abducere effugare The render of the reuerfion of all the premisses and all the rents reserued et penes se retinere quousque de p̄d ' reddit̄ xiij s. vna cū arrerag ' eiusdē si que fuerunt plenarie fuerint satisfact ' ꝑsolut̄ Concesserunt etiā p̄đ T. et I. K. p̄d ' I. F. M. reuersion̄ omniū et singulor̄ ten̄tor̄ p̄d ' cum ꝑtin̄ oēs reddit̄ p̄d ' superius reseruat̄ illa eis reddider̄ in ead ' curia Habend ' et tenend ' eisdē I. et M. et hered ' ipsius I. imperpetuū de capital ' dn̄is feodi illius ꝑ seruitia que ad p̄d ' ten̄t̄ cū ꝑtin̄ ꝑtinent imꝑpetuum A Fine knowledged by G. H. and D. his wife T. S. Esq and M. his wife of xl acres of land to R. B. and W. N. with warrantie And the conusces doe graunt and render to the said D. and to her heires all mines of coales in a close parcel of the premisses called Stanley field with libertie to digge for the same PRaecipe G. H. arm̄ D. vxori eius T. S. arm̄ M. vxori Sect ' 108. eius quod iuste c. teneant R. B. W. W. conuencionem inter eosfact ' de 40. acris terre cum ꝑtin̄ in Stanley Spendon Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scz quod praed ' G. D. T. M. recognouerunt tenementa praed ' cum pertin̄ esse ius ipsius R. vt illa que ijdem R. W. habent de dono praedict ' G. D. T. et M. Et illa remiserunt et quiete clamauerunt de ipsis G. D. T. et M. hered ' suis pref R. et W. et heređ ipsius R. contra praeđ G. D. T. et M. et heređ ipsius T. imperpetuum Et ꝓ The conusees do graunt and ●ender Co●le mines in part of the pr●●●s●es to two of the con●sors and libertie to get them hac recog●icione c. praeđ R. et W. concesserunt pref G. et D. omnes mine●as carbonum vocat̄ all Mines of Coales existen̄ in quodam campo parcell ' tenementorum praeđ vocat̄ Stanley field necnon liberum ingressum et egressum in ●t super praeđ camp̄ ad fodend ' in mineris illis pro carbonibus illis omni tempore Anni ad libitum ipsorum G. et D. et hered ' eiusdem D. Et illa omnia eis reddiderunt in eađ cur̄ Habenđ capienđ et percipienđ praedict ' miner̄ ingressus egressus ac libertat̄ praedict ' cum pertinentijs prefat̄ G. et D. et heredibus ipsius D. imperpetuum A Fine knowledged by W. K. and K. his wife of the third part of one messuage one barne one garden c. to I. K. and T. H. with warrantie against all men and the said conusees do graunt and render to the said S one of the conusors the said third part of the premisses from Micha or Thannunciation c which first shal happen to be next after the death of one E. now the wife of W. T. for the terme of xxi yeres reseruing a rent yerely to the con●sees with a clause of distresse for the said rent And lastly the said conisees graunt and render the reuersion of the said premisses to W. K. and K. h●s wife being ij of the said conusors in the said fine and to the heires of the said K. for euer PRaecipe W. K. et K. vxori ●ius quod iuste c. teneant I. Sect ' 109. K. et T. H. conuencionem inter eos fact ' de tertia parte vnius mef●agij vnius horrei vnius gardini 30. acrarum terre duar● acrarum prati et acrarum pastu● cum pertinen̄ in c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praeđ W. K. S. recognouerūt tertiam partem praeđ cum pertinenn̄ es●e ius ip sius ● vt illa que ijdem I. et T. habent de dono praedict ' W. K. S. Et illa remiserunt quiete cla●auerunt de ipsis W. K. S. heređ suis praefat̄ I. et T. heređ Warrantie ipsius ● imperpetuum Et preterea ijdem VV. K. S. concesserunt prose heređ ipsius K. quod ipsi warran̄ tertiam partem predict ' cum pertinentijs prefat̄ I. et T. et heređ ipsius I. contra omnes homines imperpetuum The Render Et pro hac recognicione ijdem I. et T. concesser̄ praedict̄ S. tertiam partem praedict ' cum pertinen̄ illam ei reddiderunt in eadē curia Habenđ tenenđ eidem S. a festo sancti Michaelis Arch. vel a festo Annunc ' beate Mariae virginis quod prius proxim̄ contigerit vel e●it post mortem cuiusdam E. modo vxor̄ W. T. nuper vxor̄ R. C. def●nct ' vsque ad finem terminum xxj annorum extunc proxim̄ sequ●● plenar̄ complenđ Reddenđ inde per Ann̄ praedict ' I. T. xij đ. ad festum Annunciacionis beate Mariae virginis sancti Michaelis Clause of distresse for the rent Archang ' per equales portiones soluend ' Et si contingat praedict ' annualem reddit̄ xij đ. vel aliqua inde parcella aretro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedict ' quo vt prefertur solui debeat non solut̄ quod tunc bene licebit prefat̄ I. et T. hered ' assignat̄ suis in tertiā pa●tem praedict ' cum pertinen̄ in quamlibet inde parcellam intrare et distringere districtionesque sic ibidem capt̄ liceat abinde abducere effugare asportare penes se retinere quousque de praeđ annuali reddit̄ xij đ. de qualibet inde parcella vna cum arreragijs eiusdem si quefuerint plenarie eis fuerit satisfact ' persolut̄ Concesser̄ etiam praedict ' I. K. The graunt o● the reuersion the rent reserued vpon the leas for 21. yeres T. H. praed ' W. K. reuercionem 3. partis praed ' cum pertin̄ reddit̄ p̄đ superius reseruat̄ Et illa eis rediderunt in eadem curia Habend ' tenend
' eisdem W. K. hered ' ipsius K. imperpetuum de capitalibus dominis feod ' illius per seruic ' que ad eandem tertiam partem pertinent imperpetuum A Fine knowledged by W. P. and M. his wife of a manor c. one water mille one winde mille iij. douehouses c. to E. B. and R. C. and the conusees by the same fine do graunt vnto the said M. a yerely rent of xij li. going out of the said Manor Habend ' from Michaelmas or Thannunciation next after the death of the said W. P. her husband and one of the conusors in the said fine during her life in full recōpence of her title of dower or iointure in any of the lands of her said husband with a clause of distresse for the said rent And lastly the said conusees graunt and render againe the said manor c to the said W. P. the conusor and husband to the said M. and to his heires for euer ET est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' W. M. recognouerunt Sect ' 110. manerium ten̄ta praed ' cum pertin̄ es●e ius ipsius E. R. vt illa que idem E. R. habent de dono praed ' W. M. Et illa remiserunt quiete clamauer̄ de se hered ' suis prefat̄ E. R. hered ' ipsius E. imperpetuū Et p̄terea ijdē W. M. concesser̄ prose hered ' ipsius W. quod ipsi Warrantie warrantizabunt manerium ten̄ta praed ' cum pertin̄ prefat̄ E. B. R. hered ' ipsius E. contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac recognicione c. ijdem R. E. concesserunt p̄f. M. quandam annualem reddit̄ A graunt of a rent in recompence of iointure dower xij li. exeun̄ de praef Manerio tenementis cum pertin̄ Habend ' tenend ' annuatim percipiend ' praed ' annualem reddit̄ xij li. prefat̄ M. assignat̄ suis a festo sancti Michaelis Archangeli vel Annunciac ' beate Marie virginis prox immediate s●quen̄ post mortem praedict ' W. pro durante vita naturali eiusdem Mariae ad duos Anni terminos viz. ad festa sancti Michaelis Arch. Annunc ' beate Mariae virginis equalibus portionibus annuatim soluend ' in plenam recompencionem totius tituli vel Iuncture siue dotis que eidem M. contingere debent de aliquibus terris vel ten̄tis p̄d ' W. P Et si cōtingat praed ' annual ' reddit̄ xij li. vel aliquam inde parcellam a retro fore per aliquod festum festorū praeđ quo siue quibus vt prefertur solui debeat Quod tunc tocies bene licebit praed ' M. assign̄ suis in praeđ maner̄ ten̄tum siue in aliquam inde ꝑcellam intrare distringere districtionē siue districtiones sic ibidem capt̄ abducere effugare penes se retinere quousque de praeđ annuali reddit̄ xij li. de qualibet inde parcella vna cum arreragijs eiusdem The render of the manor c. by the conisees to the conusor and his heires for euer si que fuerint plenarie satisfact ' fuerint ꝑsolut̄ Et vlterius ijdem E. R. concesserunt praed ' W. Maneriū et ten̄ta p̄d ' cum pertin̄ illa ei reddiderunt in ead ' curia Habend ' tenend ' praed ' maner̄ cum pertinen̄ pref W. et hered ' suis impertuū Tenend ' c. A Fine knowledged by I. G. and M. his wife to R. R. knight Lord R. of one messuage one barne c. v. s. rent the parsonage of B. and the aduowson of the vicarage of B. with warrantie against the conusor and his wife the heires of the husband PRaecipe I. G. alias G. M. vxori eius quod ipse c. teneat Sect ' 111. R. R. milit̄ domino R. conuencionem c. de vno mesuagio vno horreo xv acris terre 6. acris prati 20. acris pasture v. s. reddit̄ cum pertinen̄ in B. ac de rectoria de B. praedict ' Necnon de aduocatione vicar̄ Ecclesiae de B. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' I. et M. recognouerūt praedict ' ten̄ta reddit̄ rectoriam cum pertinen̄ ac aduocac ' praed ' esse ius ipsius dn̄i R. vt illa que idem dn̄us R. habet de p̄d ' I. M. illa remiser̄ quiete clamauer̄ de ipsis I. et M. hered ' suis praefat̄ domin̄ R. hered ' suis Et preterea ijdem I. M. concesserunt prose hered ' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant̄ praed ' dn̄o R. hered suis praeđ ten̄ta reddit̄ et rectoriam cum pertin̄ ac aduocac ' p̄d ' contra praeđ I. et M. et hered ' ipsius I. imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A Fine knowledged by I. S and M. his wife of one garden c. with two seueral warranties The first warranty against the conusors and their heires onely and in the second the said I. S and M. his wife graunt to warrant the premisses for them and the heires of the husband against all men PRaecipe I. S. M. vxori eius quod iuste c. teneant N. Sect ' 112. W. cōuencionem inter eos fact ' de vno gardino et decem acr̄ terre cum pertin̄ in S. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' I. M. recognouerunt ten̄ta praed ' cum pertin̄ esse ius ipsius N. Et illa remiserunt quiete clam̄ de ipsis I. M. hered ' suis prefat̄ N. hered ' suis E. imperpetuum Et The first war●anti● p̄terea ijdē I. M. concesser̄ prose hered ' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrantizabunt ten̄ta praed ' cum pertin̄ prefat̄ N. hered ' suis imperpetuum The second warrantie Et preterea ijdem I. et N. concesser̄ pro se hered ' ipsius I. quod ipsi warrant̄ praed ' ten̄ta cum pertin̄ pref N. et heređ suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A Fine knowledged by E. R. of a manor c. twelue messuages x. toftes x. gardens ij winde milles c. and vi li. rent with warrantie against all men PRaecipe E. R. armig ' quod iuste c. teneat H. W. gent̄ Sect ' 113. conuentionem intereosfact ' de manerio de S. cum ꝑtin̄ ac de xij mesuagijs x. toftis x. gard●is duob ' molenđ ventilibus 600. acris terre 40. acris prati 6. acris pasture ducent̄ acr̄ bosci quingent̄ acris iampn̄ et bruere et vj. li. reddit̄ cum pertin̄ in c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod prae● E. R. recognouit manerium tenementa et
a fould course for 2000. sheepe PRaecipe Tho. comiti Sussex et Fran. vxori eius quod Sect. 116. iuste c. teneant Will ' Curson ar̄ conuenc ' inter eos fact ' de manerio de B. cum pertmen̄ ac de 80. mesuagijs 40. cotagijs 10. toftis 100. gardinis 60. poma●ijs 400. acris terrae 60. acris prati 200. acris pasturae 20. acris bosci 40. acris Iampnorū brueres 200. acris more 100. acris alneti et 20. s. red ' cum ꝑtinen̄ in Billingford alias Billingfoorth Bylowe alias Bylingh c. nec nō aduocationē ecclesiae de Bylingfoord ac de libertate vnius Foldagijad 2000. ouium libera warrenna libera piscaria in B. c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' comes Francisca recognouerunt praedict ' maneria tenement̄ et reddit̄ cum pertinentijs ac aduocationem libertatem liberam warrennam liberam piscariam praedict ' esse ius ipsius W. vt illa quae idem W. habent de dono praed ' comit is et Fr. Et illa remiser̄ quiete clamauerunt de se haered ' suis Warrantie imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdē comes et Fr. concesser̄ pro se haered ' ipsius comitis quod ipsi warrantizabunt manerium tenementa et reddit̄ praed ' cum pertinentijs ac aduocationem libertatem liberam warrennam et liberam piscariam praed ' praefat̄ W. haered suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A fine knowledged by the husband and the wife and a third person of certain acres of land meadow and wood and the husband and the wife warrant the land to the Conusees and to the heires of the one of them and the same Conusces graunt and render againe the land to E. wife of one of the Conusors from Michelmas past for the tearme of 99. yeares without impeachment of wast yeelding a rent to the Conusees and to the heires and assignes of one of them with a clause of distresse for non payment of the rent and afterwards they graunt the rent and the reuercion of the lands in fee to one W W. PRaecipe W. Walgraue arm̄ E. vxori eius E. E. Sect. 117. quod iuste c. teneant R. R. et T. G. conuencionem c. de duabus acr̄ terrae duabus acr̄ et dimid ' prati et 70. acris bosci cum pertinentijs in E. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' W. E. E. recognouer̄ praedict̄ tenemēta cum ꝑtinentijs esse ius ipsius R. vt illa quae idem R. T. habent de dono praedict ' W. E. et E. Et illa remiserunt et quiete clamauer̄ de ipsis W. E. et E. haered ' suis praedict ' R. T. et haered ' ipsius R. imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem W. et E. concesserunt pro Warrantie se et haered ' ipsius W. quod ipsi warrantizabunt praedict ' R. T. haered ' ipsius R. praedict ' tenementa cum pertinen̄ contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac recognicione c. praedict̄ R. R. et T. Therender G. concesser̄ praefat̄ E. praedict̄ tenementa cum pertinen̄ illa ei reddiderunt in eadem curia Habend ' tenend ' eidem E. a festo sancti Michael●s Archangeli iam vltimo p̄territ̄ vsque ad finem terminum 99. annorum tunc proxim̄ sequen̄ et plenarie complend ' absque impeticione alicuius vasti Reddend ' inde annuatim praefat̄ R. et T. et haered ' Rent assignat̄ ipsius R. duran̄ toto termino praedict ' sexagin● solid ' vnum denar̄ legalis monete Angliae ad festum Annunciacionis beatae Clause of Distresse Mariae sancti Michaelis Archangeli equis porcionibus soluend ' Et si contingat praedict ' reddit̄ 60. solid ' vnius denarij a retro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedict ' quibus vt praemittitur solui debeat non solut̄ quod tunc bene licebit praefat̄ R. T. haered ' assignat̄ ipsius R. in tenementa praedict ' cum pertinentiis intrare et distringere districtiones ibidem sic capt̄ abducere asportare penes se retinere quousque de praedict ' reddit̄ vna cum arreragijs eiusdem si quae fuerint plenar̄ fuerint satisfact ' content̄ persolut̄ The render of the Rent reuercion of the land to one in ●ee Et vlterius ijdem R. R. et T. G. concesser̄ praedict ' reddit̄ praedict ' 60. solid ' ac vnius denarij ac reuercionem tenementorum praedict ' cum pertinentijs praefat̄ W. W. haered ' suis imperpetuum Capt̄ recognit̄ fuit coram me W. Bendlose seruien̄ ad legem apud S in parochia de B. c. A fine knowledged by two vnto one with warrantie against all men ET est concordia talis scilicet Quod praed ' L G. T. B. recognouer̄ Sect. 118. Fine sur cognisance de droit tenementa pred' cum pertinen̄ esse ius ipsius I. G. vt illa quae idem I. habet de dono praedict ' E. T. Et illa remiser̄ et quiete clamauerunt de ipsis L. G. et T. hered ' suis praedict ' I. G. et haered ' suis imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem L. G. T. conces●er̄ pro se et hered ' ipsius G. Warrantie quod ipsi warrantizabunt praed ' I. ●t hered ' suis tenementa praed ' cum pertinen̄ contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A fine knowledged of two messuages and two gardens c. by the husband the wife and diuerse others to W. C. with seuerall warranties PRaec ' R. F. E. vxori eius G. C. et B. vxori eius qđ Sect. 119. teneant W. C. gen̄ conuencionem c. de duobus mesuagijs duobus gardinis vno pomario 30. acris terrae decem acris prati 40. acris pasturae xvj s. redd ' cum pertinen̄ in W. D. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' R. E. G. B. recognouerunt tenementa praedict ' cum pertinen̄ esse ius ipsius W. vt illa quae idem W. habet de dono praedict ' R. et E. G. et B. Et illa remiser̄ Generall warrantie quiete clamauerunt de ipsis R. E. et G. B. haered ' ipsorum G. E. et B. praefat̄ W. et haered ' suis imperpetuum Et praeterea ijdem C. E. concesserunt pro se haered ' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt Speciall warrantie tenementa pred' cum pertinen̄ praefat̄ W. hered ' suis contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et vlterius ijdem G. et B. concesserunt
droit gardens c. and of the moity of xx messuages c. one water mille one douehouse c. with warranty against all men PRaecipe I. P. gener̄ E. vxori eius quod iuste c. teneant Sect ' 133. I. L. conuenciones inter eos fact ' de nouem messuagijs nouem gardinis trescent̄ acr̄ terre cent̄ acris prati cent̄ acris pasture viginti acr̄ bosci centum acris iampnorum bruere c. Ac de medietate viginti mesuagior̄ viginti gardinorum vnius molendini aquatici vnius columbar̄ sexagint̄ acris terre ducent̄ acris prati trescent̄ acris pasture sexagint̄ acris bosci trescent̄ acris iampnorum bruere cum pertinentijs in N. B. C. D. c. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praedict ' I. P. E. recognouerunt praed ' ten̄ta medietatem cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius I. L. vt illa que idem I. L. habet de dono praed ' I. P. E. Et illa remiser̄ quiete clamauer̄ de se hered ' suis prefat̄ I. L. hered ' suis imperpetuum Et preterea ijdem I. P. E. concesserunt pro se hered ' ipsius E. quod ipsi warrantizabunt prefato I. L. hered ' suis praedict ' ten̄ta medietatem cum pertin̄ contra omnes homines imperpetuū Et pro hac c. The order of taking the knowledge of a Fine by Dedimus potestatē directed to diuerse but the knowledge taken onely by two of the Commissioners and the certifying thereof by the Commissioners that tooke the knowledge After the Fine is acknowledged the Commissioners must write vnder the Concord of the said Fine as followeth Capt̄ recognit̄ die c. Anno c. coram A. B. armig ' C. D. gener̄ virtute breuis dominae Reginae de Dedimus potestatem nobis alijs direct Commissioners A. B. C. D. Then write vpon the backe of the Dedimus potestatem Respons A. B. Arm̄ C. D. gener̄ duorum Commiss infra nominatorum Execucio istius Commissionis pater in quadam Schedula huic commissioni annex ' Then must the Commissioners subscribe their names A Fine knowledged by W. D. and I. D. to ● R. I. D. of one messuage and one cottage in ●pswich with warranty against all men In consideration whereof the conusees doe graunt and render the premisses to the said I. D. one of the conusors for terme of seauen daies next following and afterwards the same premisses wholy to remaine to one M. G. for her life and after her death the premisses wholy to remaine to the said W. D. one of the said conusors and his heires for euer PRaecipe W. D. I. D. quod iuste c. teneant I. R. gen̄ Sect ' 134. I. D. conuenc ' de vno messuagio vno cottagio cum pertin̄ in I. Et nisi c. ¶ Et est concordia talis scilicet quod praed ' W. D. I. D. recogn̄ tenementa praedict ' cum pettinentijs esse ius ipsius I. vt illa que idem I. I. D. habent de dono praedict ' W. D. I. D. Et illa remiserunt quiete clamauerunt de se hered ' suis prefat̄ I. I. heredibus ipsius I. imperpetuum Et preterea ijdem W. I. concesserunt pro se Warrantie hered ' ipsius I. D. quod ipsi warrantizabunt prefat̄ I. I. heredibus ipsius I. tenementa praedict ' cum pertinentijs contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac recognicione c. ijdem I. I. concesserunt The render tenementa praedict ' cum pertinentijs prefato I. D. Et illa ei reddiderunt in eadem curia Habend ' tenend ' eidem I. D. pro termino septem dudierū extunc proxim̄ sequen̄ Et post termin̄ illum finit̄ praedict ' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remanebunt cuidam M. G. Habend ' tenend ' eidem M. tenend ' de Capitalibus c. tota vita ipsius M. ●● post decessum ipsius M. praedict ' tenementa cum pertinentijs integre remanere prefat̄ W. D. hered ' suis imperpetuum Tenend ' de Capitalibus c. A Fine knowledged by the husband and his wife to H. S. Esquire of two messuages two Wich houses two shoppes two Chambers one Stable and xx acres of land c. with warranty against all men HEC est finalis concordia fact ' in curia dominae Reginae apud Sect ' 135. A Fine sur conusās de droit Cestriam die Lune septimo die c. Anno c. inter H. S. querentem W. G. S. vxorem eius deforcean̄ de duobus mesuagijs duobus Salimis vocat̄ Wich houses alias Salthouses duobus shopis duobus cameris vno stabulo decem acris terre 4. acris prati sex acres pasture cum pertinentijs in c. vnde placitum conuencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem curia Scilicet quod praedict ' W. E. vxor eius recognouerunt tenementa praedict ' cum pertinentijs esse ius praedict ' H. S. vt illa que idem H. S. habet de dono praedict ' W. E. Et illa remiserunt quiete clamuerunt de se heredibus suis praefat̄ H. heredibus suis ●perpetuum Et preterea prefat̄ W. E. concesserunt pro se hered ' ipsius W. quod ipsi hered ' praedict ' W. tenement̄ p̄dict ' cum pertinen̄ prefat̄ H. hered ' suis warrantizabunt hered ' suis imperpetuum Et pro hac c. A Fine knowledged before the Iustices of the Common pleas at Westminof two messuages one toft 80. acres of land c. with warrantie against all men HEc est finalis Concordia fact ' in Curia domini Regis apud Westmonaster̄ Sect ' 136. in octabis sancti Martini Anno c. coram E. M. W. S. H. B. I. H. Iustic ' etalijs dn̄i Regis fidelibus tunc ibi presentibus inter R. Barm̄ I. L. gen̄ et R. L. gen̄ Quer̄ H. D. deforcean̄ de duobus mesuagijs vno tofto 80. acris terre xx acris prati 40. acris pasture tribus acris bosci cum pertinentijs in H. W. vnde placitum conuencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in ead ' curia scilicet quod praedict ' H. recogn̄ praedict ' tenementa cum pertinentijs esse ius ipsius R. B. vtilla que ijdem I. R. I. R. habent de dono praedict ' H. Et illa remiserunt quiete clamauer̄ de se hered ' suis praedict ' R. I. R. hered ' ipsius R. imperpetuum Et preterea idem H. cōcessit pro se hered ' suis quod ipse warrantizabit Warrantie I. R. hered ' ipsius R. praedict ' ten̄ta cum pertin̄ contra omnes
award arbitrement order rule dome and iudgement of S. T. and W. R. arbitrators indifferently elected and chosen aswel on the part of the said A. B. on the one partie as on the part of the aboue named C. D. on the other partie to arbitrate awarde order and iudge of and vpon all and all maner of actions suites quarrels debts accompts trespasses controuersies debates and demaundes whatsoeuer had moued depending or accrewed or which might haue bin had or moued betweene the said parties at any time or times before the date hereof except one action of Eiectione firmae depending betweene the said parties in the Queenes Maiesties Court commonly called the Kings bench as by the Records thereof in the same Court remayning it doth and may appeare and except out of this submission all lands and tenements of the said A. B. or any like exception So alwaies that the same award arbitrement order and iudgement of and concerning the premisses be made by writing Indented vnder all their hands and seales before the first day of December now next ensuing and one part of the same deliuered or caused to be deliuered by the said Arbitrators to the said A. B. or his certain Atturney or Atturne●s deputie or deputies in that behalfe requiring the same the said first day of December now next ensuing at or in the parish Church of R. in the said Countie of Yorke And the other part of the said award be likewise deliuered by the said Arbitrators to the said C. D. or his certaine atturney or atturneis deputie or deputies in that behalfe requiring the same at the said day and place And so that by vertue or occasion of the said award neither of the said parties nor the seuerall heires executors or administrators of them or any of them be to do any act or thing to or by any straunger to the same award and to these presents And so as the said A. B. doe not discharge the said arbitrators before the said time That then this present obligation to be vtterly voide and of none effect or els to stande remaine continue and be in full strength and vertue Of the condition to performe an award of lands ANd if the award be cōcerning a title to land the words in the condition may be thus Aswell of for and concerning the right title interest vse possession Sect 40. and demaund of and in the manor of S. with the appurtenances in S. in the said countie of Y. and all landes tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances in S. aforesaid in the occupation of the said A. B. and his assignes as of and vpon all actions trespasses suites quarrels debts duties debates griefes inconueniences and demaunds had moued stirred or depending betweene the said parties concerning the said Manor tenements and premisses or any part thereof And also if the said A. B. before the feast of P. now next comming doe shew vnto the said Arbitrators all such writings as he hath concerning the said Manor and premisses at such time and place as the said Arbitrators shall appoint for the sight thereof So alwaies that c. vt supra That then c. vt supra Whether power to arbitrate may be assigned AN Arbitraitor chosen cannot graunt or assigne ouer his aucthoritie Sect 4● of arbitation to any other 8. Ed. 4. fol. 1. and 9. because it is but a nude power which is not to be graunted ouer notwithstanding the opinion in 47. E. 3. 20. to the contrary Neither doth the submission extend to giue the Arbitraitors power to elect others Whether the Compromittors may discharge the Arbitrators or no. ANd it seemeth that albeit the parties haue agreed vpon daiesmen Sect 42. or Arbitraitors yet before the arbitrement made either of the parties may reuoke the authoritie giuen to the arbitrators and discharge them thereof for power may be countermaunded but if the submission be made by bond then the bond seemeth to be forfaited 5. E. 4. 1. 21. H. 6. 30. 28. H. 6. 6. 49. E. 3. 9. But by Ashton Iustice if 2. plaintifes one defendant or 2. defendants and one plaintife put themselues to the award of others neither the one plaintife without the other nor the one defendant without the other may discharge the arbitrators 28. H. 6. 6. And by Finch 49. E. 3. 9. If the submission be by deede the discharge must likewise be by deede So much of submissions arming the arbitrators with power Now of Arbitrements issuing from the same What an Arbitrement is AN Arbitrement or award therefore arbitramentum laudum arbitratus Sect 43. Libro intration̄ debt in arbitr̄ 2. 3. is nothing else but the very dome order and decree pronoūced by arbitrators vpon the controuersie for the ending whereof they were chosen by the striuing parties Dier 356. 10. Eliz. pla 39. Of things regarded in Arbitrement IN the forme of euery Arbitrement fiue thinges are specially to be Sect 44. regarded First that it be made according to the very submission or compromise touching the things compromitted and euery other circumstance as is said 9. E. 4. 44. Plow 396. a Secondly that it be a finall ende of the controuersies compromitted 19. H. 6. 36. 21. Ed. 4. 38. Thirdly that it appoint either party to giue or do vnto the other some thing benes●ciall in apparance at the least 43. E. 3. 28. Dier 356. 19. Eliz pla 39. 12. H. 7. 39. H. 6. 9. 22. E. 4. 25. 7. H. 6. 40. 19. H. 6. 36. 10. Hen. 6. 19. Fourthly that the performance thereof be possible 22. H. 6. 46. 8. Ed. 4. 1. 9. 17. Ed. 4. 5. H. 7. Fifthly that there be a meanes how either party may by law attaine vnto that which is thereby awarded vnto him 5. Ed. 4. 24. 17. Ed. 4. 5. 18. Ed. 4. 22. 23. 5. H. 7. 23. For if it faile in any of these points then is the whole Arbitrement void and of none effect as it doth manifestly appeare by these special cases following As. An award that the parties shall obey the arbitrement of A. B. is void for power cannot be assigned 8. E. 4. 19. An award that any of the parties shal be bound or doe any other act by the aduise of the arbitraitors is not good because they cannot make seuerall awardes 18. Ed. 4. 22. 23. but that the parties shall be bound or make assurance by the aduise of Counsaile is good 18. Edw. 4. 22. 23. Arbitrement that the parties shall be nonsuit in actions is not good for euery award ought to be a satisfaction to the parties and a determination of things compromitted so as one party haue amends but when one hath bin nonsuit he may begin againe 19. H. 6. 36. 21. E. 4. 38. But an award that the parties shal make discontinuance and retraxits of their suits is good 21. E. 4. 38. 5. H. 7. 22. If the submission be of diuers things the award onely of some part
of them yet it is the award good for that part notwithstanding as if the submission be of all actions real and personal and the award of actions personall onely and if it be de iure possessione and the award is only de possessione 19. H. 6. 6. per cur̄ notwithstanding the contrary opinion of Prisot 39. H. 6. 9. An award that an action shal be sued betweene the parties by the aduise of A. and B. is good for that A. and B. in this case are not Arbitrators but executors of the award yet quere for it is vncerteine whether they will giue aduise or no. 8. E. 4. 1. 4. Arbitrement that the plaintife shall pay to the defendant x. li. and release to him all actions And that the defendant shall release to the plaintife all actions is good 20. H. 6. 18. 19. Arbitrement that either partie shal release to other all actions that because the one hath trespassed more then the other he shall pay to the other ● s. is good 20. H. 6. 18. 19. Arbitrement that either party shall go quite against other is good 20. H. 6. 18. 19. 10. H. 6. 14. 19. H. 6. 36. 22. H. 6. 39. Dyer 356. 16 Eliz. pla 39. 21. H. 6. that it is not good if the submission were by parol 9. Ed. 4. 8. An arbitrement in trespasse is not good if it award not something to the plaintife for amends 43. E. 3. 28. In trespasse of goods taken it is no good award that the defendant shall reteine part of the goods and the plaintife haue the rest 17. Edw. 3. 16. In debt of x. li. it is no good Arbitrement that the plaintife shall retaine the one moity the defendant haue the other 45. E. 3. 16. In trespas award that if the defendant wil wage his Law that he is not guiltie that then he shall go quite and that the plaintife shal release vnto him seemeth good 46. E. 3. 17. Award that for so much as the one hath done more trespasse then the other therefore he shall giue him a peny for amends And that the other shall go quite against him is good 19. H. 6. 3. 6. By Prisot if two submit themselues to Arbitrement of all trespasses c. and it is awarded that the one shall make amendes to the other and nothing is awarded for the others benefit this award is void 7. H. 6. 40 39. H. 6. 9. 22. E. 4. 25. So if it were that the one only shall go quite against the other for an award must be final obligatory and satisfactory to both parties 7. H. 6. 40. 19. H. 6. 36. 20. H. 6. 18. Award in trespas of goods taken that the defendant shal cary and redeliuer the goods taken to the plaintife is good 12. H. 7. 14. 15. Award that the one partie shall pay xx s̄ or enfeoffe c. is good and the performance of either suffiseth 21. H. 6. 22. H. 6. 52. An award that one of the parties shall do an act to an estraunger is void if the parties be not bound 22. H. 6. 46. Or if an award be to pay x. li. to an estraunger it is void for how can he pay the same if he will not accept it 22. H. 6. 46. 8. E. 4. 1. 9. Or if the award be that hee shall cause an estraunger to enfeoffe the other partie for he hath no meane to compell the straunger 17. E. 4. 5. So if it be awarded that he shal be bound with suerties 18. E. 4. 22. 23. 5. H. 7. 23. Arbitrement that money shal be payd at a day to come is good for the partie may thereof haue an action of debt after the day if it be not paied accordingly 20. H. 6. 12. 5. E. 4. 7. But award to do any other thing at a day to come is void if the submission be not by specialtie because the partie hath no meanes to compell his aduersarie to performe it 5. E. 4. 7. and 24. An award is void as is said if it neither be executed nor any meanes by law for the execuiton thereof As if it be awarded that th one shal pay to thother x. pound this is good for hee may recouer the same by action of Debt But if it were awarded that th one should deliuer to thother an acre of land or do such like act executory it were void if it be not deliuered straight way or prouision made by bond or otherwise to compel the performance thereof according to the award 19. H. 6. 36. 20. H. 6. 12. 5. E. 4. 7 19. E. 4. 8. Thus much of the doctrine of Arbitrementes now of their seuerall formes An Arbitrement or award of lands by which the partie couenanteth to performe it THis Indenture made c. betweene T. R. of c. of the one partie Sect 45. and L. M. of c. of the other partie Witnesseth that whereas there hath beene and yet is contention variance and suite betwixt the said parties not onely for and concerning the right title and interest of and in a certaine quantity of ground by estimation two acres or thereabout lying in K. and adioyning to the Mill of the said T. R. in T. aforesaid claymed by eyther of the said parties to be his owne land and inheritance But also for and concerning certayne wayes to the Mill of the sayd T. through the ground of the said L. from al the Townes Villages Hamlets and other places in the North side of the riuer of D. bordering lying and being within the space of ten miles of the said Mill and all other matters and controuersies betwixt the said parties For the friendly ending and appeasing of which said variances and controuersies the said parties haue compromitted and submitted and by these presents do compromit and submit themselues and all matters in variance aforesaid to the order arbitrement award doome and iudgement of F. W. and T. W. Whereupon the said arbitrators hauing viewed the said groūd in variance and perused diuers writings and euidences concerning the same and heard the testimony and witnes of diuers auncient men neighbors dwelling nigh the said ground aswell touching the occupation and vsage of the said ground by the said T. R. and his auncestors as also the said waies vsed vnto the said Mill by thinhabitants aforesaid time out of mind do make and declare their award order doome and Iudgement touching the premisses and euery part of them ✿ And the said T. R. and L. M. do couenant and grannt seuerally either of them to and with the other for themselues their heires executors and administrators in maner and forme following And first the said Arbitrators do order award and iudge And the said L. M. is so contented and agreed and accordingly doth couenant and graunt for him and his heires to and with the said T. R. his heires c. that he the said T. R. shal and may from hence forth haue hold occupie and
quietly inioy to him and his heires for euer the said parcel or quantitie of ground containing by estimation two acres lying and being on the North side of the riuer of D. directly ouer against the said Mill and demesne lands of the said T. R. in T. aforesaid as it is now bounded and meared foorth with stones by the said Arbitrators And shall also haue and may take to his and their owne proper vse all the trees now standing or beyng or that hereafter shall growe in and vpon the saide grounde and all other profites and commodities comming off and vpon the saide ground onely the thornes briars and herbage excepted and foreprised with free libertie entrie and passage for the felling hewing leading carrying away and taking of the same trees and all other the said profits and commodities except before excepted at all and euery time and times hereafter at his and their pleasure And that the said T. R. his heires and assignes and all and euery other person and persons that shall come and bring any corne to the Mill of the said T. R. called T. Mill from the said townes villages hamlets or any other place inhabited shall haue free libertie waies and passage for the carrying fetching and bringing of their corne to the said Mill aswell ouer and through the said parcell of ground set foorth and meared as is aforesaid as also through and ouer other the grounds of the said L. M. in K. aforesaid in as ample and large manner and forme as the inhabitants of the said townes villages and hamlets or other places haue beene accustomed and vsed to do at any time heretofore and as it is now most commonly vsed ✿ And shall and may tie and fasten any their horses mares or other beasts wherewith they carrie any corne to the said Mill to any tree growing or other thing beyng in and vpon the said ground so that the string corde or rope exceed not the length of foure whole yards at the most ✿ And that the said T. R. his heires and assignes shall and may lawfully at all and euery time and times so oft as need shall require amend and repaire all and singuler the waies and euery part thereof for the ease sauegard and passage of the inhabitants of the said townes villages hamlets and places inhabited cōming and going to and from the said Mill without any let trouble vexation or contradiction of the said L. M. his heires or assignes or any of them And that the said L. M. his heires and assignes shall at all times within ●he space of two yeares next ensuing the date hereof doe make knowledge and suffer or cause to be made knowledged and suffered all and euery act and actes thing and things as shal be reasonably deuised or aduised by the said T. R. his heirs or assignes or his or their learned counsell at the onely proper costes and charges in all things of the said T. R. his heires or assignes for the further and better assurance and sure making aswell of the said parcell or quantity of ground containing about two acres as also of the said waies in maner forme before expressed vnto the said T. R. his heires and assignes for euer according to the true effect meaning and purport of these presents In consideration whereof it is further ordained awarded deemed and iudged by the said Arbitrators ✿ And the said T. R. doth so couenant c. that he the said L. M. his heirs and assignes shall and may haue take and enioy onely the grasse herbage with the thornes and briers yearly growing or being in or vpon the said parcell or quantity of ground so bounded or set foorth as is aforesaid And in further consideration of the premisses the said T. R. hath paied to the said L. M. at the insealing hereof at the request of the said Arbitrators the summe of xx pounds c. ✿ In witnesse whereof not onely the said parties to these present Indentures of award interchangeable haue put their seales and subscribed their names But also the said Arbitrators to both the parts of these Indentures haue put their seales and subscribed their names the day and the yeare c. An other Arbitrement of debte where the parties are bound to performe it TO all true Christian people to whome this present writing of award Sect. 46. indented shall come G. W. G. N. S. S. and T. N. of c. send greeting in our Lord God euerlasting Whereas diuers suites c. betweene T. W. and I. S. of c. For pacifying ordering and ending whereof the said T. W. and I. S. haue bound themselues either to other in the summe of a M. l of lawfull English money by their seuerall obligations bearing date c. with conditions there vnder written to stand to c. vt supra of the said G. J. S. and T. Arbitrators indifferently elected and chosen aswell vpon the part and behalfe of the said I. S. as of the said T. W. to award arbitrate order rule iudge end determine al and al maner of suites debts actions controuersies debates and demaundes whatsoeuer depending betweene the said I. S. and the said T. W. and W. W. his sonne and heire So that the said award were made and giuen vp in writing vnder the hands and seales of all the said Arbitrators at or before the c. at c. as by the saide obligations and conditions amongst other thinges doeth and may appeare ✿ Know you now that the said G. I. S. T. taking vpon them the charge and burden of the said award hauing deliberately heard the griefes allegations proofes of both the said parties do by these presents arbitrate award order deeme iudge of and concer●ing the premisses in maner forme following that is to say ✿ First they do award order deeme iudge by these presents that the said I. S. his executors or administrators or some of thē shal wel and truly pay or cause to be paid vnto the said T. W. or his certain Atturney exec or administr or some of them at or before the c. at or in the c. 200. li. of c. and at or before the c. other 200. li. of c. in full satisfaction of 400. li. For paiment whereof the said I. S. stood bound to the said T. W. in and by fower seuerall Obligations whereof two are already forfaited as thereby may appeare ✿ Also the said Arbitrators do award order c. that the said I. S. his exec administr or some of them at their or some of their costs and charges shall before the c. cause procure that all suits bils plaints and informations heretofore commenced against the said T. W. in any court or courts whatsoeuer either by or in the name of the said I. S. or by or in the name of H. S. his sonne or by or in the name of our Soueraigne Lady the Q. Maiestie
hath once affirmed of record in a Court of Record nor affirme that which he hath once denied of record in a Court of Record nor that whereof he wilfully estopped or excluded himselfe by deed indented or otherwise As if a daughter which is sole heire to her father sue liuerie with her bastard sister she is remedilesse by law D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19. If a thing be found by verdict against trueth before iudgement D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19. Where the cause of the law ceaseth the law also ceaseth in conscience As lessee for yeares recouereth by iudgement treble damages for a trespas of wast done by an estranger And he in the reuersion dieth before his action of wast be ended yet in conscience he ought to sue execution for his single damages for he had no more hurt thereby D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19. A Law groūded vpon a false presumption is not to be holden in conscience D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19. Conscience may not preuaile against a lawfull Custome either generall or particuler As in discents of lands to the eldest sonne by the common Law to the yongest by Borough English and to al by Gauelkind D. S. lib. 1. cap. 19. So if a man without consideration make a deede of feoffement of two acres of land lying each in a seuerall Shire and make liuery of seisin in th one acre onely in the name of both that wherein liuerie of seisin was made onely passeth in law and conscience Doct. St. lib. 1. cap. 20. If one Iointenant of a wood sell the wood and keepe all the money receiued for it wholly to himself his fellow may haue remedy in Chancerie lib. 1. cap. 19. And so it seemeth if they were Iointenants in common or Coparceners of other things If a common person of his mere motion without other consideratiō make a feoffement of a manor without these words with the appurtenances he hath right onely to the demeanes and cōmons and rents of the attournement but neither to Aduowson appendant nor villein regardant But in the Kings case notwithstanding the words with thappurtenances were in the graunt yet neither Aduowsons nor Villeines do passe either by Law or conscience vnlesse they be especially named D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 19. 6. E. 3. 286. Regist fol. 228. Fundamenta Legum fol. 70. 43. E. 3. 22. If a lease for yeares be reseruing rent with a clause of reentrie the rent is behind the lessor dieth before demaund the heire can neither enter by law nor consci●●e Otherwise if he made a lawfull demaund thereof D. S. lib. 1. cap. 20. If tenant in Dower sow the land and die before the Corne be reaped hir executors shall haue the Corne but not the grasse nor other fruits D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. If tenant for life or tenant in taile after possibilitie of issue alien in fee he in the reuersion or remainder may enter and haue the land by the forfeiture in law and conscience D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. 45. E. 3. 3. Euery Law ordeined for the disposition of lands or goods contrarie neither to the Law of God nor to the Law of Reason bindeth in the Court of Conscience D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 20. Whether one of the age of xx yeares who hauing reason and wisdome to gouerne himselfe selleth his land for money and therewith buy other lands of better value and taketh the profits thereof may haue his first land againe in conscience as he may in law repaying the money which he receiued Yet seemeth he may because the contract is insufficient by reason of the infancy D. S. lib. 1. cap. 21. If a man sell his land by a sufficient and lawfull contract though he want liuerie or attournement or such other solempnities of the Law yet the sellor is compelable in the Chauncerie to performe the contract D. S. lib. 1. cap. 21. If the tenant for life impanelled on an Inquest loose issues die they are leuiable by law on him in the reuersiō And so be the husbands issues after his death vpon the wiues land and as it seemeth in Conscience for the necessitie of the execution of Iustice D. S. lib. 2. cap. 21. No man is bound in Conscience to pay the penaltie of a penall statute nor other penaltie vntill it be lawfully recouered against him D. S. lib. 1. cap. 23. If A. infeoffe B. in fee of land vpon condition that if he infeoffe any other that A. and his heires may enter this condition seemeth void in Law and Conscience because it is contrary to the Maximes of the law notwithstāding thintent of the parties for thintent must be ordered by law if it be not it is void as by a feoffement of lands without recompence to A. for euer he hath estate for life onely for want of the woord heires And a Lease to A. his heires for xx yeares shall go to his executors because it is a chattel so by feoffement without recōpence to a man his wife a third person the husband wife take only the moitie because they are but one person in law D. S. lib. 1. cap. 24. A fine with proclamation no claime within v. yeres extinguisheth the right of all estrangers aswell of the parties by law And by Conscience also as it seemeth because thereby the right and title is made certaine and thereby the common wealth more quiet and it is not contrarie to Gods law Doct. St. 25. Common recouery with vouchers vpon writs of Entre orderly pursued and no recouery in value to be had in deed barre thissue in taile in law 23. H. 8. Br. Taile 23. 14. E. 4. 14. 19. 13. E. 4. 1. And in conscience as it seemeth for as the intailes are made by law West 2. ca. 1. euen so by law may they be adnulled And such Lawes as concerne right or propertie to things and be not contrarie to the lawes of God or of reason are good in conscience D. S. lib. 1. cap. 6. If a disseisor giue the lands to I. S. in taile he graunteth vnto the disseisee rent out of the same lands in consideration wherof the disseisee releaseth his right this graunt bindeth the issue in taile for euer in law and conscience because this release doth confirme his estate which the disseisee might else haue defeated D. S. Lib. 1. cap. 27. 44. E. 3. 22. If the bodie of a debtor that hath nothing be by iudgement imprisoned vntill he pay his debt hee seemeth remedylesse in Conscience D. S. lib. 1. cap. 29. A recouerie with vouchers of an annuitie intailed bindeth thissue in taile neither in law nor conscience because a writ of Entre doth not lie for an Annuity nor any other writ then only a writ of Annuity against the person of the grantor or his heire hauing assets by discent Or against a Corporation if it be graunted to be perceiued out of their cofers for that an Annuitie is no freehold in
law D. S. lib. 1. cap. 30. 44. E. 3. 5. 2. H. 4. 13. Fitz. Na. br fol. 152. If tenant in taile be disseised and die and a collaterall aunce●●er to the heire in taile release to the disseisor with warrantie and die and the same warrantie discend vpon the said heire he is barred in law and conscience D. S. cap. 31. 35. H. 6. 63. 41. E. 3. 7. 45. E. 3. 23. 19. H. 6. 59. 15. H. 7. 9. 10. 21. H. 7. 39. 3. H. 7. 9. Tenant in taile after possibilitie of issue is dispunishable for wast by law and conscience because he had once inheritance 45. E. 3. 3. 39. E. 3. 16. and thereby power to wast without punishment which power endureth so long as his estate D. S. lib. 2. cap. 1. If a man be outlawed before he haue knowledge of the suit albeit the surmised cause of action be vntrue yet the Queene may haue his goods by Law and conscience by reason of his disobedience in not appearing to the hindrance of the effect of law for he is bound to take notice of the suit being of record at his perill And the forfeiture groweth by a generall Maxime made for the necessarie execution of Iustice But it seemeth the defendant may haue remedie in conscience against him which caused him to be outlawed without iust cause D. St. lib. 2. cap. 3. 21. H. 7. 7. 9. H. 6. 20. If an estranger do wast lands which another holdeth for yeares life in dower or by the curtesie without the tenants assent the owner of the reuersion may recouer the place wasted and treble dammages against the tenant in law And in conscience notwithstanding that the stranger be insufficient to recompence him for the same for it is his owne act and follie to take such estate subiect to the chance D. S. lib. 2. cap. 4. If a real action be brought by a very lawfull heire and yet bastardie being pleaded in him he is vntruely certified by the Ordinarie to be a bastard and so barred the tenant knowing this certificate to be vntrue ought not in conscience to reteyne the land yet is there no remedie for him in law nor in Chauncerie as it seemeth for that the Bishops certificat is the highest triall that the law affordeth in this behalfe And euery stranger may take aduantage of this certificate and no moe writs may be awarded for further trialll of the trueth thereof for the auoyding of the incōuenience which might happen if another Bishop should certifie such bastard to be legitimate D. S. lib. 2. cap. 5. If a feoffement in fee be made without deed or a gift in taile or a lease for life the remainder ouer in fee Or if tenant for ●fe graunt his whole estate by deed Poll reseruing rent in these cases the reseruation is void in law and there is no remedie therefore but in conscience D. S. lib. 2. cap. 9. Learne whether Executors or Administrators hauing assets be compellable in Chauncerie to make amends for trespasse done by their testator or to pay debt due by him vpon a simple contract Do. St. lib. 2. cap. 10. If tenant in fee haue two sonnes and die and I. S. abate and thelder sonne make his executors and dieth and the yonger recouereth against the abator in Assise of Mortdauncester the lands and damages from the death of his Father the executors of the elder brother haue no remedie for the damages accrued in his life time as it seemeth Do. Stu. lib. 2. cap. 13. Tenant in dower hath no remedie in Equitie against the alienee of her husband for damages growing betweene his death and her demaūd D. S. lib. 2. cap. 13. Tenant for life disseised dieth his disseisor dieth his heire entreth against whom the owner of the reuersion recouereth the landes but no damages by law nor Equitie D. S. lib. 2. cap. 13. If a man seised of lands knowing that an other hath good right thervnto leuieth a fine with proclamation to extinguish such right And maketh no claime within v. yeres he is remedilesse in law and Equitie D. S. lib. 2. cap. 14. A man seised of lands in fee hath a daughter she marieth and hath issue her father dieth the husband so soone as he knoweth of his fathers death hasteth to take possession of the land but before he come to it his wife dieth he shal not be tenant by the Curtesie of England by law nor conscience because he had not actual possession thereof in the life time of his wife D. S. lib. 2. cap. 15. If without consideration a new rent be graunted without deede or a reuersion without attornement the grauntee is remedilesse Do. St. lib. 2. cap. 15. A man seised in fee of lands holden by Knights seruice deuiseth the whole to A. B. the deuisee thereof is remedilesse for a third part thereof for that there is no Maxime in law for him D. S. li. 2. ca. 15. If the tenant make a feoffement of the land which he holdeth by prioritie taketh estate thereof backe againe and dieth the Lord of whom he held by priority is remedilesse D. S. lib. 2. cap. 15. If the grauntee of a rent charge take a feoffement from the grauntor of parcel of the lands charged to his owne vse the whole rent is extinct by the vnitie of possession because such rent is against common right And the law deemeth it his owne folie to accept the feoffement and neither his ignorance of the deede nor of the law can helpe him D. S. lib. 2. cap. 16. 17. Yet Quaere in Equitie because the grauntor himselfe is priuie to the said feoffement D. S. lib. 2. cap. 17. A. graunteth a rent charge out of two acres of land vnto B. and then infeoffeth H. of the one acre in fee to his vse and after H. intending to extinguish the whole right causeth the same acre to be recouered against him by common recouerie in a writ of Entre sur disseisin in le Post in the name of the said grauntee not knowing thereof and of an other man who by force thereof entreth and dieth so that the grauntee is sole seised of all the same acre by suruiuor to thuse of the said H. The whole rent is hereby extinct by law through the vnitie of possession though the vse be to H. it is also extinct in conscience as to the grauntor because he is neither party nor priuie to that by which thextinguishment groweth But Quere whether in conscience the grauntee ought to haue the whole rent of H. who caused the said recouerie to be so had Do. S. Lib. 2. cap. 17. If a Villein graunted for life purchaseth lands in fee and the grauntee entreth before the villein alieneth the same the grauntee shall haue the land for euer as a perquisite by reason of the villein And this both by Law 5. E. 4. 61. and by conscience D. S. lib. 2. cap. 18. Perkins Sect ' 94. 95. 96. 97.
69. exhibited into this honorable Court is very incertaine vntrue and insufficient in the Law to be answered vnto by the said defendant for diuers and sundry apparant faults imperfections therein contained And deuised and exhibited into this honourable Court partly of malice and euill will without any iust cause conceiued against the said defendant to the intent thereby vniustly to vexe molest him with tedious trauell being an aged man and to put him vnto great expences being very poore But chiefely to thintent and purpose to wearie impouerish and terrifie him this defendant Neuerthelesse if by the order of this honorable Court this defendant shal be compelled to make any further or other aunswere vnto the said vntrue incertaine insufficient bil of complaint then and not otherwise the aduantage of exception thereof to this defendant at all and euerie time and times hereafter saued for further answere thereunto and for a full and plaine declaration of the trueth touching so much of the materiall contents of the said bill as in any sort concerneth this defendant He for himselfe saith that whereas the said complainant in his said bill alleageth that one H. E. his father deceased was in his life time by good and lawfull conueyance and assurance in the Law lawfully seised to him and his heires in fee simple according to the custome of the said manor of W. in the saide bill mentioned of one copyhold or customarie mesuage or tenement and of certaine customarie lands meadowes and pasture to the quantitie of an hundred acres or thereabouts and that he being thereof so seised and visited with sicknes during the minoritie of the said Complainant by good and lawfull conueiance and assurancein the Lawe and according to the Custome of the said manor of W. did conuey assure and surrender the same Copyhold or Customarie mesuage or tenement and other the premisses with the appurtenances thereunto belonging for his better maintenance to the vse of the said cōplainant To haue and to hold to the said complainant and to his heires and assignes at the will of the said Lord according to the custome of the said manor And that by force thereof the said complainant in the Court of the saide manor paid his fine and was of the said copyhold or customarie tenements with thappurtenances by the then steward of the said manor of W. admitted tenant He this defendant saith that to his knowledge the said H. E. late father of the said complainant was neuer either lawfully seised to him and to his heires according to the custome of the said manor of W. of the said tenements and premisses in the said bill mentioned by any good and lawfull conueyance and assurance in the law according to the custome of the said manor Nor did euer conuey assure and surrender the said customarie tenements and other the premisses to the vse of the said complainant his heires and assignes Neither did the said complainant euer pay his fine for the same in the saide court neither was he euer lawfully admitted tenant thereof as he the said complainant in his said bill vntruely pretendeth And whereas the said complainant in his said bill also pretendeth that the euidences and copies of and concerning the said mesuage lands tenements and premisses being left in the hands custody possession of the said complainants father whilest he liued in right belonging vnto this complainant are now by casuall meanes comen to the hands and possession of this defendant and that he by colour of the hauing thereof hath wrongfully entred into the said mesuage lands and premisses aforesaid and hath made conueyed to himselfe and to others to his vse diuers and sundry secret estates therein and doth pretend thereof wholly to disinherite the said complainant This defendant saith that none euidences or copies of or concerning the said mesuage tenements and premisses are by casuall meanes or otherwise come to the hands or possession of this defendant and that by colour of hauing thereof he this defendant neither wrongfully entred into the said mesuage tenements and premisses nor any part thereof neither hath he this defendant conueyed to himselfe or to any other person to his vse diuers and sundrie or anie secrete estates thereof neither doth he pretend thereof wholly to distinherite the said complaint as in the said bill it is vntruely alleaged without that that the said complainant by diuers and sundrie meanes in friendly manner hath oftentimes sought to haue the saideuidences and copies and requested the same at the handes of this defendant And also that he would yeeld vnto your said Orator the quiet possession of the said mesuage tenements and premisses or that he this defendant doth well know the same in right to belong vnto him the said complainant as in the said bill it is vntruely alleaged And without that y● he this defendant of malice against the said complainant doth threaten him the said coōplainant in such sort that he for want of the said euidences dareth not make his iust lawfull entrie or claime to in the same premisses or that he the said defendant hath or could commit or doth or can continue daily committing great outragious wastes and spoiles in decaying of the houses and felling downe of the woods and timber trees of the premisses to the great losse and disherison of the said complainant and contrarie to all right equitie and good conscience as in and by his said bill of complaint he hath most vainely and vntruely alleaged For touching the said supposed threats this defendant saith that he is a verie feeble poore olde quiet man verie desirous of the fauour and good will of all men and therfore neither willing nor able by his threats to terrifie or feare the said complainant being a gentleman of worship power and liuing hauing many kinsfolkes alies friendes and seruants so that he this defendāt hath rather iust cause to be affraid of the said complainant then the said complainant to feare him And further touching the said wastes and spoyles this defendant saith that the said customarie or Copihold in W. aforesaid are holden of the manor of W. aforesaid And without that that the said complainant hath or euer had anie lawfull title to commence anie action or suite or to make anie entrie against or vpon this defendant for anie landes tenements or hereditaments in the said bill of complaint mentioned as it is therein vntruely alleaged And without that that this defendant can vpon his corporall Oath manifest such matter whereby the saide complainant may the more better easily and readily proceed and attain to the recouering of anie iust or lawfull right or inheritance or in anie other maner then in this answere is set downe as the said complainant vnwisely gesseth and most bainely hopeth as he in his said bill alleageth And without that that any other matter thing or things clause sentence article or allegation in the said bill of complaint conteined
and place appointed where this defendant was present with his commissioners and witnesses and one of the said complainants commissioners was in the towne where the place was appointed the same day and time readie to haue executed the said commission if the said complainant would haue spoken to him therefore as this defendant was credibly informed and the said complainant was there present at the same time and place and did or might haue spoken with him that was named commissioner for him who had a dwelling house in the same towne being the towne of M. in the same Countie and then and there the deponents vpon this defendantes behalfe were sworne and examined by and before these defendants then commissioners and some of them sworne in the presence of the said complainant And thereupon the depositions and examinations of the witnesses so sworne were by these defendants then commissioners caused to be ingrossed in parchment and certified into this honorable court and afterwards published and after publication this defendant staied without doing any thing therein by the space of two termes or thereabouts during which time the said complainant did or said nothing at all in the said court touching the said suit that this defendant euer heard of And then this def caused the said depositions to be exemplefied vnder the great seale of Eng. to his great charges which he hath readie to shew to this H. Court And the said complainant being not contented with these causels vexations of this defendant Anone after that this complainant had obtained the said commission the said cōplainant for this defendants further vexation commenced suit against this defendant in the ecclesiasticall court of the Archb. of Yorke within whose dioces the same lands and tenements in N. in the bill mentioned be where the said father of this complainant and defendant died vpon surmised matters touching the supposed will mentioned in the said bill whereupon this defendant to his great charges appeared answered as behoued for the time by himselfe his procter as is there vsual whith suit the said complainant relinquished also as this defendant thinketh for he hath heard nothing therof these xii moneths and more And now the said complainant meaning nothing else but this defendants trouble molestation hath renued the said suit in this H. Court againe which before he had in the same court by the said first bill conteining the same matters in effect almost word for word as in the same bill is mentioned whereunto this defendant hath alreadie answered as appeareth by the same answere remaining of record here in this court and the same proceeded vpon both as afore is said wherefore this defendant for the causes aforesaid and for the said double vexation in this honorable court by two bils conteining in effect but one matter in substance demurreth in law and praieth that he this defendant may be dismissed out of this honorable court with his reasonable costes and charges in this suit wrongfully sustained A Bill for not surrendring a lease made by the Plaintife to the defendant in trust to trie a title and for occupying and wasting the tenth dem●sed and for deteining of writings of copyhold lands contrarie to their agreement HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your H. Lordship your daily Sect ' 77. Orator I. K. of W. in the Countie of Y. yeoman that whereas about 40. yeeres now last past one W. M. yeoman was lawfully seased in his demesne as of fee of in one mesuage with thappurtenances in E. in the County of M. and of in diuers lands tenements meadowes pastures hereditaments therunto belonging being freehold land in E aforesaid H. in the said con●ty of N. and he being there of such estate so seazed about the first yeere of the raigne of the Q. Maiesty that now is by his last will and testament in writing made written in the life time of the said W. M. did giue bequeath the same to one E. then his wife now wife vnto your said Orator for the time of her natural life the remainder thereof after her decease to one R. M. as by the said will appeareth and afterward the said W. M. died of such his estate thereof so as is foresaid seised by force of which wil and deuice the said E. by and after his death entred into the said mesuage or tenements was thereof lawfully seased in her demesne as of freehold for the terme of her life the remainder thereof after her decease to the said R. M. in forme aforesaid belonging also whereas the said W. M. was in his li●● also seased of or in certain copihold or customary lands lying being within the manor of S. in the said county of N. and holden of the said manor by copy of the court rolles of the same manor in his demesne as of fee according to the custome of the saidmanor and he being thereof so seazed died therof so seazed by after whose death the said E. his wife was endoments of the third part of the said copihold or customary lands and tenements and according to the custome of the said manor admitted therof tenant by the Steward of the Court of the said manor accordingly by force wherof she likewise entred into the third part of the said customary tenements and premisses and was therof likewise seazed in her demesne as of freehold as tenant in dower therof for the terme of her life naturall according to the said oustome and quietly and peacably occupied and enioyed the same vntil about ten yeares now last past Now that your said Orator through importunancy and earnest perswasions of some friends of the said I. T. and A. L. was contented in some maner to yeeld vnto their suit and therupon for the furtherance and triall of the title and interest of the said I. T. about the fourteenth day of I. in the 26. yeare of the Queens Maiesties raign that now is without any fine income or other cōsideration to him paid but giuing credit vnto the speaches of the said I. T. and A. L. that they would seeke nothing at the hands of him your said Orator but onely vse the benefit of his present estate for the resisting of certaine vnlawfull suits attempts which were then offered as they then affirmed by the said R. and others did by this your said Orators Indenture of lease bearing date about the said time demise graunt and to farme let to the said I. T. and A. L. all the said freehold lands tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances in E. and H. aforesaid to haue and to hold the said tenements and premisses with the appurtenances to the said I. T. and A. L. their executors and assignes from the feast of S. M. the Bishop in winter last past before the date of the said Indenture vnto the full end and terme of 21. yeeres thence next following and fully to be complete and ended if the
as your said Orator giuing faith and credite to the said promise assumption of the said H. C. did take their said promise and assumption of them without calling anie witnesse to them to heare the same so that your said Orator for want of such witnesses hath no remedie by the common lawes of thsi Realme nor otherwise to make them performe the same promise and assumption vnlesse the said H. C. and R. C. doe confesse the same in their answere in this Honorable Court as your saide Orator verely thinketh they will May it c. A Bill for entitling himselfe to the soyle of a common and for selling of woods therein growing IN most humble wise complaining sheweth and complaineth to your Sect. 105. Honor your daily Orator R. G. Clerke Prebendarie of the Prebend commonly called the Prebend of the Ouerhall in Norwell in the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Countie of Nott̄ That wheras your said Orator was and is seised in his demesne as of fee in the right of the said Prebend of and in one Manor in Norwell in the said Countie whereof certaine wooddy grounds and springes being most commonly open and the herbage thereof taken and vsed as common by the tenants and other inhabitants of the same Manor and Towne of N. aforesaid is parcel And the tenants and inhabitants of the same Manor and Towne of N. aforesaid as tenants of the same Manor And other tenants and inhabitants within the townes and villages of C. and K. that is to say by them as Commoners because of Vicinage by reason of which said wooddy and spring of grounds vsed as common as is aforesaid part whereof is parcell of the same Manor of N. contayning by estimation twentie acres extending in length from a certaine Oke tree being a boundarie Oke betwixt the same and such other like grounds being parcell of an other Prebend in the Collegiate Church of S. aforesaid commonly called the Prebend of the Neatherhall or Palacehall in N. aforesaid and from thence extendeth along by a place where three trees lately there did grow commonly called the three brethren and so from thence along by a Meare which is as it hath beene an ancient drie ditch cast vp as it were or had beene a Meare Southward betwixt the seuerall Lords and owners of the lands in that place that is to say first Eastwardes betweene the Lord and owners of the same lands and the Manors and lands of Caunton Bestthrop and Westwarde vnto the manor of Kirksall and from thence downeward West vnto the parke pale of K. and by the same parke pale Northward by a certaine little riuer of water vnto certaine of the like landes and tenements of the said other manor of P. aforesaid and so Eastward vpward vnto the foresaid ancient Oke which said parcell of ground one R. W. and F. B. Gentlemen and one R. T. yeoman pretending to haue seuerall manors in C. aforesaid And hauing diuers deeds Charters euidences bonndaries terrars and muniments concerning the premisses of right belonging to your said Orator casually or by some sinister meanes come to their hands doe not onely claime the same to be parcell of their said seueral manors But also vnder pretence of their said pretended and vncertaine claime not onely some of them but also diuers other vnder the colour or permission of some of them hath not and caused to be cut downe the most part of the best trees growing vppon the said parcell of wood ground as in trueth all that was felled did grow there in a corner thereof towards the East part containing like 12. acres and that in absence of your said Orator then being and yet remaining a student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge that is to say a fellow of Gunuill and Caius Colledge and not soe contented but considering your saide Orators absence daily and continually both continue their former claime to the said ground within the meeres and boundes aforesaid and so doe cut downe and cause to be cut downe the residue of the wood there growing and so will very shortly leaue none there And also by colour and reason of the said permission they will shortly by such indirect meanes and practise winne and get the freehold and inheritance thereof to them as they haue in other the wasts common like grounds within the Manor of or in C. or at the least haue none able to testifie the contrarie whereas now in trueth there are diuers and sundry sufficient and ancient witnesses being very aged and some of them very impotent that can and will trauell so farre as they are able to trauell to testifie vpon their oathes the trueth of the premisses in manner and forme as before in effect is alleaged and more for the better proofe of your said Orators right in and to the said last recited premisses if cause and neede shall so require and that the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. vpon their answere vnto the matters in this bill of complaint will not confesse the trueth therein as it is most credibly to be presumed they will and the rather for that if they will denie the same they know in proceeding vpon their answeres to this bill all the whole trueth concerning the premisses must be examined by depositions of witnesses and their depositions if order presently be not taken of the same shall and may remaine of record in perpetuam rei memoriam to doe further therein as by this honorable Court shall be awarded wherefore the premisses tenderly considered and also the incertaintie whether the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. or any of them will confesse the whole trueth concerning the right and title of your foresaid Orator to the same And the wrong and damage by them and other by their meanes and consent to him done And if they should not the vncertainty whether that the foresaid ancient aged and impotent persons or any of them that now be liuing and can testifie the trueth concerning the same shall be liuing when the same shal come in triall at or by the course of the common lawes to whom the right of the freehold and inheritance thereof doth of right belong ouer and besides the impotency that they or most of them may haue at such time and times to trauel to witnesse testifie che trueth concerning the premisses with this that your said Orator doth not know the certaine date or dates of the said deeds charters euidences boundaries terrers miniments or wherein the same be contained whether in bagge or boxe sealed or locked or otherwise and so without remedy for the recouery of the same and redresse for the wrong aboue said at or by order of the common lawes of this Realme It may therefore c. A Bill against the executors or that the Testator did not deliuer specialties paid whereupon they threaten to sue the Plaintife IN most humble wise complaining sheweth to your good Lordship Sect. 106. your poore
the said time did amount vnto 10. l or there abouts besides the costs expences laid out by him in the same which costs expences laid out by your Lordships said orator did amoūt vnto 8. l 19. s̄ 9. d which were behind vnpaid vnto your said orator by means wherof action accrued vnto your said Orator to demaund and haue of the said I. M. in his life time the said summe of 18. l 19. s̄ 9. d and of the said A. M. vnto whom the administration of all the goods chattels which the foresaid I. M. had at the the time of his death were after his death lawfully committed yet therfore the said I. M. in his life time the said summe of 18. l 19. s̄ 9. d nor any peny therof though often times in his life time therunto by your said Orator required or the said A. M. his administrator after his death notwithstanding that the goods chattels which were the said I. M. be sufficient for the paiment of the said 18. l 19. s̄ 9. d vnto your said Orator and of all other debtes which the saide I. M. ought to haue paid did come to the possession of the said A. M. and still remaine in the possession of her the said A. M. or of such person and persons vnto whom she hath yeelded left or deliuered the same notwithstanding that she hath sundry times since the death of the said I. M. bin gently required by your said Orator to pay to him the same 18. l 19. s̄ 9. d or any part thereof hath not yet paid and contented but the same to content and pay hath euer hitherto denied and refused and the said A. doth yet denie and refuse to pay the same thereof intending vtterly to defraud and deceiue your said Orator against all right equity and good conscience notwithstanding also that she the said A. M. hath her selfe at sundrie times heard the said I. M. in his life time promise that he would pay vnto your said Orator all such summes of money as were behinde vnto your said Orator and notwithstanding also that she well knoweth that the foresaid summe of 18. l 19. s̄ 9. d due vnto your said Orator by the aforesaid I. M. in his life by reason that she hath seene and hath a perticular bill thereof which was sent and deliuered to him in his life time by your said Orator and notwithstanding also that she her selfe since the death of the said I. M. did assume faithfully promise to pay vnto your foresaid orator all such mony as was due vnto him at the said time of his death if she the said A. M. did take vppon her the administration of his goods and chattels which she hath done as is said All which things she the said A. hath done partly by her owne iniurious minde but chiefly by the wicked and sinfull perswasion of R. M. gentleman her sonne by whose counsaile and perswasion she hath closely and secretly conueyed away a great part of the saide goods being of verie great value to diuers places and persons to your said Orator vtterly vnknowen and left the same out of the Inuentorie of the said I. M. his said goods which she hath exhibited and also hath caused such goods and chattels as be mentioned in the said Inuentorie to be praised much vnder the value thereof and a great part thereof to be set downe therein so confusedly and inconueniently that it cannot well be knowen either what they be or of what value And furthermore she the said A. by the like sinister counsaile and perswasion hath consented and caused one H. B. and T. C. and diuers other persons being her especiall friends couenously to commence diuers and sundrie fraudulent actions of debts and executions against her as administratrix of and to the same I. M. suffering her selfe therein to be conuicted and condemned though in verie trueth either nothing or verie little was due vnto them and in a manner nothing at all taken of her by them by vertue of the said actions and executions to the intent thereby to das●e the eies of your Orator and of other the creditors of the said I. M. not knowing the trueth of the same vngodly deuises intending by such meanes to defraud and defeat your said Orator and the rest of his said creditors of the most part of their seuerall debts which their vnlawfull practises are like to be to the great losse and hinderance of your said Orator if speedie remedie be not by your good Lordships meanes prouided to meete with and preuent the saide vnconcionable and vniust dealing in the premisses for that the promises and assumptions of the said I. M. and A. M. were made secretly and priuately vnto your said orator nor persons being present with thē at the making of the said seuerall promises nor anie man liuing which can testifie the same so that your said Orator for want of such proofe thereof as is requisite by the strict course of the common lawes of this Realme is altogether remediles if it be not by thorder of this honorable court wherein your L. said Orator hopeth verily thinketh that she the said A. M. in her aunswere to the premisses vpon her corporall oath will confesse the same to be in effect as it is herin set forth disclosed May it therfore please c. A Bill for diuers Euidences HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your Lordship G. Earle of S Sect. 108. That whereas the said Earle is lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in the manor of S. in the County of Y. and in the hundred of S. with thappurtenances in the County of D. and of and in the castle and manor of S. with thappurtenances in the Connty of Y. and of the castle manor of B. in the County of D. and of and in the castle manor and hundred of B. in the County of D. with thappurtenances and of and in diuers mesuages lands tenements hereditaments franchises and liberties to the said seuerall manors hundreds belonging Now so it is if it may please your good Lordship that diuers and sundry court-roles charters euidences exemplifications of records extracts terrers pleadings writings and muniments concerning the said seuerall manors hundreds and premisses with thappurtenances of right belonging vnto the said Earle and whereby the said Earle should make his title vnto the said manors hundreds liberties and premisses with thappurtenances or to the most part thereof are by casual meanes come vnto the hands custodie and possession of one N. C. of S. in the County of D. And albeit that the said Earle hath sundry times sent vnto the said N. C. gently requiring him to deliuer vnto the said Earle the said court rolles charters euidences exemplifications of recordes extractes pleadings writings and muniments yet that to do the said N. hath euer hitherto vtterly denied yet doth deny to do the same against all right equity and good
F. S. their heires and assignes as all the said manors and tenements by the said Indenture to them bargained and sold at the ensealing and deliuery of the same Indentures were discharged exonerated or saued harmelesse and from thencefoorth at all times and from time to time hereafter for euer should be discharged exonerated acquited or saued harmelesse by the said W. Lord M. his heires executors or administrators of and from all and singuler giftes grants leases charges and incumbrances had made granted or suffered in or to the premisses or any part or parcell thereof by the said Lord M. or by any other person or persons whatsoeuer other then the said estate of the said K. S. late Dutchesse of S. and certaine other things in and by the said Indenture excepted as by the said Indenture appeareth For performance of which couenant of the said Indenture the said Lord M. Eagle the second day of Iune in the said xii yeare became vounden vnto the said I. C. and vnto one M. S. of I. L. in the County of B. Esquire by recognisance knowledged in this high court of Chancery in the summe of two thousand pounds as thereby appeareth And shortly afterwards that is to say about sixe yeares now last past the saide K. late D. of S. died and the said I. C. and F. S. entred into the manors tenements and premisses with the appurtenances and were and yet be thereof seised in their demesnes as of fee by force of the said conueyance and the profits thereof arising and comming to their owne vse tooke and yet doe quietly so take the same without any interruption let or trouble of the said W. S. and M. his wife and their assignes and euerie other person or persons according to the couenant true intent and meaning of the said Indenture of bargaine sale And afterwards that is to say about fiue yeares now last past the said Lord M. for the summe of sixe thousand pounds or thereabouts did bargaine and sell to the said Earle and his heires the manor of B. in the County of Yorke and diuers other lands and tenements in B. and other places in the said County by force whereof the said Earle was thereof lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee and the issues and profits thereof arising and growing did quietly take and conuert to his owne vse from the time of the bargaine during all the life time of the said Lord M. W. S. which was by the space of three yeares after the death of the said Dutchesse or thereabouts And afterwards that is to say about fiue yeares last past the said M. died since whose death the said I. C. M. S. F. S. T. H. D. W. M. and I. T. And the said M. late wife of the said W. S. and executrix or administratrix of the said Will as the saide Earle is informed by the agreement and priuitie of Ed. Lord Morley and the Lady Elizabeth his wife daughter and heire of the saide Lord Mount Eagle hauing gotten into their hands the said Indenture of demise albeit that the said T. performed not the conditions and couenants betweene him the said Lord M. amongst themselues did conceale and frustrate the saide trust reposed by the saide Lord. M. in the saide W. S. and M. or the one of them to the intent to extend the saide Recognisance of two thousand pounds vpon the saide manor of B And such other lands and tenementes as the saide Earle hath purchased of the said Lord M. contrarie to the good meaning of the said Lord M. contrarie to the great trust and confidence by him reposed in the said W. S. and M. his wife and the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease And for that purpose haue procured the said estate and interest of the said W. S. and M. of the said third part to be conueied to the said M. to the intent that the said W. M. should enter into the said third part so leased as is aforesaid to disturbe the possession of the said C. and F. S. which he hath done accordingly to the intent that therby the said I. C. M. S. might haue some colour to extend the said Recognisance of two thousand pounds aginst y● said Earle notwithstanding that the said I. C. F. S. euer since the entrie of the said M. haue quietly occupied the said demised third part yet do quietly occupy the same not hauing had any damage thereby to the value of xii d by reason of the said lease All which notwithstanding if it may please your good Lordship the said M. S. F. S. and I. C. haue procured execution of the Recognisance of two thousand pounds to be sued against the said Earle by proces out of this honorable Court according to the forme and effect of the said recognisance for that as they suppose the said third part is charged with the said lease thereof made to the said S. and his wife and assigned by the said S. to the said W. M. who by force thereof hath entred into the said third part and disturbed the possession of the said I. C. and F. S. and their assignes And for that by meanes therof the said manors lands and tenements to them bargained and sold by the said Lord M. in forme aforesaid were not saued harmelesse by the said Lord M. or his heires of and from all and singuler leases had made or granted of the said manor and other the premisses mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargaine and sale according to the forme and effect thereof which said practise and compact is much against the said trust and meaning of the said Lord M. reposed in the said W. S. and M. ●is wife and against the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease Recognisance tending to the great losse and damage of the said Earle and against all right equity and good conscience if the said purpose should not be equity and consideration of this honorable Court be preuented and mette withall In consideration wherof and for so much as aswell the said trust touching the said lease as the said compact and agreement amongst the said parties to extend the said Earle his said lands by reason of the said Recognisance by matters secretly agreed vppon amongst themselues the said Earle not knowing any witnesses which were present at the making thereof so that the said Earle can very hardly make such proofe in this honorable Court thereof or of the said conditionall deliuerie of the said Indenture as is necessary in the behalfe vnlesse the said parties or some of them will confesse the same in their answeres vpon their Oathes in this honorable Court as the said Earle verely thinketh they will And for asmuch also as it is very likely that the said Lord M. would neuer haue entred into the said recognisance of two thousand pounds for the performance of the said couenants of the said Indenture of bargaine and sale without making
his hands because he had beene a very good customer vnto him did not so precisely keepe his day thinking he would haue reasonably dealt with him being allowed for consideration for forbearing thereof as at other times he had done Notwithstanding he the said C. D. contrarie to the said A. B. his expectation did put the same Recognisance in suit presently after the forfeiture thereof And the said A. B. being them busied in her Maiesties seruice the said C. D. had iudgement vpon the said recognisance against him before he could send vp to take any order for the said latter debt by the said recognisance and after tooke execution of the moitie of amanor of the said A. B. called c. in c. which for the payment and performance of the said debt was extended vnto twentie markes by the yeare And so did leuie the said whole forfeiture vpon the said A. B. his manors and lands with great extremitie vpon which extreme dealing he the said A. B. finding himselfe most cruelly and hardly dealt with did refuse to buy or sell with him and willed his Bailife of his said manor to take acquittances of him at euery payment who not onely did so but vpon the last payment the foresaid C. D. did acknowledge to him that paied the money that your said Orator was then cleere with him and did owe nothing or to such effect notwithstanding the foresaid A. B. accompted of him as of a verie extreame man which the said A. B. his displeasure towards him being notified verie well knowen vnto him both by letters from himselfe and otherwise yet the sayd C. D. liuing nine or ten yeares after that it can not be intended that he who whilest they were in amitie did sue the said A. B. vpon the said recognisance and debt therein conteined being of so small a value would at the first haue left the elder bond and debt being of a greater summe vnsued for if it had bin vnanswered for or not paid much lesse afterwards during all the space of nine or ten yeres when he the said A. B. for his hard dealing had left to be his customer or to deale with him and thought but hardly of him as he had no lesse cause So though it be most sure and true that the said debt for which the said two hundred pounds bond was made in the said first yeare of the raigne of c. was long since fully answered yet it being so long since the said A. B. can not precisely call to mind vpon the sodaine who paid it diuers of his officers which dealt for his reuenues and especially one I. P. whom principally he vsed in those affaires being now dead whereby he can not vpon a speedie triall at the common Law proue the payment thereof by strict and precise course in that behalfe requisite and the rather for that the Indentures for the defeasance of the said recognizance came by some casuall or negligēt meanes to the hands of the said C. D. and of I. his wife although it be manifest by the presumptions aforesaid that the said C. D. would not haue let it lye so long vndemanded if he had not bin satisfied which the said A. B. doubteth not to proue in this honorable court for that also he thinketh there be yet some liuing that were present at the last reckning that the said A. B. or his officers made with the said C. D. either when he agreed for the said extents or about that time at which time he the said C. D. did acknowledge that all matters debtes and reckonings whatsoeuer were then fully cleered and quit betwixt the said A. B. and the said C. D. And that the said A. B. did not then owe him any thing But so it is y● said C. D. now being dead and I. his wife being his executrix who finding the sayd bond of CC. pounds remaining vncancelled rather as it should seeme by those which haue conferred with her vpon some words spoken or conceit of offence that she hath conceaued of the said A. B. his displeasure towards her late husband then otherwise vpon any iust cause she the said I. hath published that she hath such an ancient bond of the said A. B. bearing date c. of two hundred poundes and inten●eth to put the same in suit against the said A. B. In tender consideration whereof the apparant likelyhood of the said debt before recited being most true and the same discharged and yet the proofe of the discharge thereof in strict course of law being hard for the said A. B. to make the said I. P. and some others who dealt for him being now dead and the said defeasance being come to her hands as aforesaid but onely vpon oath of the said I. D. who was priuy to that and most of her husbands reckonings and doings in his life time and yet would not vniustly charge the said A. B. with the said debt by meanes that she hath both partes of the defeasans in her hands whereby the said A. B. can not pleade them and not knowing the date of them or wherein they are conteined can not demaund them by the ordinarie course of the Law May it therefore please your good Lordship c. The Answere THe said defendant saith that the said bill of complaint exhibited Sect. 132. against her in this Ho. court is vncertaine and vnsufficient in the law to be answered vnto and the matters therein conteined vntrue and contriued more of purpose to put the said def to trouble and expences in law then for any good or iust cause Neuerthelesse if the same defendant shal be compelled by this Ho. court to make any further answere to the same then the aduantage of the insufficiencie thereof to this defendant at all times hereafter saued For further answere the said defendant saith that true it is that the said A. B. about the time mencioned in the said bill of complaint began to be a bargayner and buyer of Plate and Iewels of the saide C. D. late husbandman to this defendant and obtained credite at the hands of the said C. D. for the summe of c. For payment whereof the said C. D. presuming vpon the promises of the said A. B. was contented onely to accept of a bare single obligation which was sealed and deliuered vnto him about the time mencioned in the said bill which summe of c. the said C. D. after the day past which was limitted for the payment thereof often demaunded of the said A. B. who notwithstanding made no payment at all thereof but with faire promises delayed time and kept the said C. D. in hope from yeare to yeare that he should be answered thereof to the vttermost peny And at the last the said A. B. hauing neede of certaine other Plate or Iewels to the value of c. intreated with the same C. D. to giue him credit for the same and promised faithfully that if the saide C. D.
estouers and pastures as all other commons pastures profites and hereditaments whatsoeuer to the said premisses belonging or in any wise appertayning And afterwards the said Shirife that is to say vpon the third day of May c. by his deede bearing date vnder his hand and seale did in consideration of c. to him paied towards the satisfaction of the debt and iudgement aforesaid bargaine sell assigne and set ouer the said lease and terme of yeares yet to come of all and singuler the premisses vnto one G. H. of L. gen● which G. H. not long after did in consideration of c. by your Orator to him paied bargaine sell assigne and set ouer vnto your said Orator all and singuler the premisses and euery part thereof Vpon which bargain and assignement of the premisses so made as aforesaid your said Orator was in verie good hope to haue peaceably and quietly entred into the premisses and so to haue occupied and inioyed the same accordingly Neuerthelesse so it is right Honorable that one R. T. of c. in the sai● Countie of L. pretending to haue a lease for diuers yeres yet to come of some part of the said lands called c. made vnto him by the aforesaid E. F. long time before any assignements aforesaid hath and yet doth keepe your said Orator from the possession of the said lands vpon which lease or demise a certaine yerely rent is as he saith reserued to the said E. F. his executors or assignes which as your Orator verily thinketh is c. by the yeare and which rent whatsoeuer it be your Orator by reason of the lawfull conueyance to him made as aforesaid ought both in law and conscience to haue and inioy during such terme as the said R. T. shall hold and occupie the land aforesaid by reason of the said lease which he so pretendeth to haue But because your Orator doth not certainely knowe whether the said R. T. haue any such lease neither if he haue what date it beareth what terme the said R. hath therein vnexpired what rent thereby is reserued nor what couenants are therein conteined as also your Orator can not nor knoweth not how in due forme of law to enter or commence any action against the said R. T. either for the recouerie of the said land or rent aforesaid which the said R. T. right w●ll knowing being a man of little or no conscience but destitute of the feare of God thinking all things well-gotten which he may get and hould without the punishment of the law doth not onely vse the said land to his great profit and commoditie without yelding or paying therefore any rent ot your Orator or any other person lawfully clayming the same but also doth vtterly refuse to shewe his said Lease whereby he claymeth to hold the lands aforesaid vnto your said Orator to the great losse and hinderance of your Lordships said Orator In tender consideration whereof and for asmuch as your Orator hath no ordinarie way by the course of the common Lawes of this Realme to enforce the said R. T. to shew forth such writings as he hath for the holding and inioying of the lands aforesaid but is and shall be vtterly destitute of all maner of helpe or meanes to obtaine the same to his great hinderance and impouerishment except your honorable Lordship of your accustomed clemencie towards all such as are oppressed do extend your fauour in y● behalfe so that by the order of this honorable Court the said R. T. be inforced vpon his oath to shew what right he hath to the premisses or any part thereof and likewise to set downe in his answere the true copie of the said lease verbatim or other writings whatsoeuer they he whereby he claymeth the premisses or any part of the same May it therefore please your good Lordship c. The Answere THe said defendant not knowledging or confessing the matters Sect. 134. suggested in the said bill of complaint to be true for his answere touching the same saith That the said E. F. named in the said bill of complaint was possessed for diuers yeares yet to come and induring of the said three parcels of land called or knowen by the name of c. mencioned in the saide bill of complaint by vertue of a lease thereof made by the said T. S. also named in the said bill of complaint vnto the said E. F. long before the supposed extent specified in the said bill of complaint And the said E. F. so being thereof possessed long before the said supposed extent if any such were had in such manner as in the said bill of complaynt is supposed made a lawfull demise and lease of part of the said three parcels of land conteyning fowerteene acres or thereabouts vnto the said defendant for diuers yeares yet to come and remayning vnexpired vpon which lease the said E. F. reserued a yerely rent to be paied during the continuance of the said lease By force of which lease the said defendant entered into the said fowerteene acres of land part of the said three parcels called c. and was and yet is lawfully possessed accordingly And euer since and yet doth inioy the said fowerteene acres by vertue of the said d● 〈◊〉 and lease made by the said E. F. to the said defendant and is to haue and inioy the same during the continuance of the yeares of which there are diuers yeares yet to come and remayning vnexpired And the said defendant sayeth that y● said complaynant is a man to this defendant vtterly vnknowen And therefore the said defendant marueyleth much of the said suit exhibited by the said complaynant into this honorable court against the said defendant touching the said premisses And further saieth that the said E. F. after the said demise and lease by him made vnto the said defendant of the said fowerteene acres of land and before the said supposed extent if any such be made a graunt and assignement of the interest and terme of the said E. F. aswell of the said fowerteene acres which the said defendant hath and occupieth by vertue of his said lease for diuers yeares yet thereof to come and coutinuing vndetermined as also of the residue of the said three parcels of land mencioned in the said bill of complaint vnto R. F. the sonne of the said E. F. vnto which graunt and assignement the said defendant was priuy And therefore the saide defendant thinketh that he is for the payment of his rent chargeable and ought by the Law to pay the same rent reserued vnto the saide R. F. and not to the saide complaynant which saide R. doth verily thinke that he is lawfull Landlord during the continuance of his yeres yet to come and induring and not the said complaynant who is altogether a meere stranger vnto this defendant And which complaynant neuer at any time heretofore demaunded any rent for the said part of the lands that this defendant hath and
occupieth by the lease for yeres yet continuing of the said defendant And the said defendant also saieth that he is sued for the rent reserued vpon his lease by the said G. H. named in the said bill of cōplaint in the kings Bench in an action of debt brought by him against the saide defendant And therefore the said defendant much marueileth of this suit of the saide complaynant brought in this honorable court against the said defendant touching the said premisses By which suit of the said complaynant the said defendant is wrongfully sued and vexed without any iust cause of suit without that that there is any such extent made of the said three parcels of land called c. or that after the same extent there was any such bargaine sale made by the said Shirife named in y● said bill of complaint of the said terme lease of yeres of the said premisses vnto the said G. H. Or that the said G. H. bargained or sold the said premisses vnto the said complaynant or that the said complaynant ought to haue and inioy the said premisses to the knowledge of this defendant And without that there is any other matter or thing c. All which matters c. ●ill for a title of land intailed IN most humble 〈◊〉 sheweth and complayneth vnto your good Sect ' 135. Lordship your daily Orator R. R. husbandman That where one W. late of S. in the county of W. husbandman grandfather of your said Orator was lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee by due course of inheritance vnto him lawfully discended from his auncestors and other lawfull conueyances in the law of and in one messuage c. CC. acres of land meadow wood and pasture with their appurtenances in S. aforesaid And the said W. R. so being of the premisses seised about ten yeres now past It was condiscended granted agreed betweene the said W. R. and one I. E. late of H. in the said countie deceased that A. B. then sonne and heire apparant of the said W. R. before a certaine day should marry and take to his wife one A. E. daughter of the said I. E. and that the said W. R. in consideration thereof and for that the said A. should be greatly aduanced and preferred in goods and substance by the mariage of the said A. would immediatly after the said mariage had and solemnized conuey and make vnto the said A. and A. a good sufficient and lawfull estate in the Law of and in the said mesuage lands tenements and other the premisses To haue and to hold vnto the said A. and A. and to their heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten And afterward the said A. according to the said agreement did marrie and take to his wife the said A. E. immediatly after which mariage had and solempnized the said W. K. according to his said promise and agreement did lawfully enfeoffe of and in the said mesuage lands tenements and other the premisses the said A. R. and A. then his wife To haue and to hold vnto the same A. and A. and to their heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten by force whereof the said A. and A. were seised of and in the premisses in their demeanes as of fee taile speciall and they so being thereof seised the said A. and A. had issue male betweene them lawfully begotten one I. R. and your said Orator and one W. R. and the said W. R. the elder died by and after whose death the reuersion in fee simple of the premisses discended vnto the said A. as sonne and heire vnto him And afterward the said A. and Agnes dyed after whose death the said messuage lands tenements and other the premisses discended and came and of right ought to discend and come vnto the said I. R. as sonne and heire male of the bodie of the said A. and A. lawfully begotten by force whereof the said I. R. entred into the said messuage lands tenements and other the premisses and was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee taile And he so being thereof seised the said I. R. about foure yeres now past of the said messuage and other the premisses dyed seised without issue male of his bodie lawfully begotten by force whereof the said messuage and other the premisses discended and came and of right ought to discend and come vnto your said poore Orator as brother and heire male to the said I. R. by the vertue of the gift aforesaid So it is my singuler good Lord that aswell the deede of intaile made of and for the premisses by the said W. R. the grandfather vnto the said A. R. and A. and to the heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten as is aforesaid as diuers other charters euidences and deedes writings and muniments concerning the premisses prouing the said interest and title of your said Orator in and to the premisses been disceiptfully comen to the hands and possession of I. W. and C. his wife late wife of the said I. R. G. W. gentleman and T. S. the elder and remaine there as they haue conueyed and put them and by colour of hauing the said euidences deedes writings and mumments in their hands and possession the same I. W. and E. haue now of late wrongfully entred into the said messuage and other the premisses And the possession thereof do so yet wrongfully deteine keepe from your said Orator and also the rents issues and profites thereof haue wrongfully receiued perceiue● and taken to their owne vse by the space of fower yeres past and so yet do contrary to all right and good conscience And albeit that your sayd Orator hath often and sundry times required and instantly desired the said I. W. and E. G. W. and T. S. aswell to deliuer vnto your said Orator the said euidences deedes writings and muniments concerning the premisses as also to auoid the possession of the premisses and peaceably and quietly to permit and suffer your said Orator and his assignes to haue and inioy the same and to receiue and take the rents and profits thereof to his owne vse according to his said interest and title therein which to do they at all times haue refused and denied and yet do contrarie to all right and good conscience And for asmuch as your said Orator knoweth not the certaine number contents ne other certainties of the said euidences deedes writings and muniments nor wherein they be conteined And also for that the said I. W. E. G. W. and T. S. be of so great substance riches and also greatly frinded and borne in the said Countie of W. And your said Orator being but a poore man and hauing but few friends in the said Countie the same your said Orator is and shall be therefore without remedy concerning the premisses by due course and order of the common Law and otherwise vnlesse your good Lordships ayde and fauour be vnto him shewed in this behalfe In consideration whereof
that your saide Oratrices poore husband should pay for the making of the writings For the payment whereof her said husband as then hauing no great store of mony was faine to giue him a gold Ring in pledge to pay the scribe for writing of the same All this notwithstanding most honourable Lord and that you said poore Oratrices husbande hath often and sundry times since by many waies meanes required the same writings cōcerning the said bargaine of the said c. he against all naturall loue and humanity nothing more coueting then the extreame destruction of her and her saide poore husband and well perceiuing how farre he is now vnable to helpe himselfe hath vtterly denyed to render the same and yet doth contrary to all conscience equity lawe or right In consideration whereof may it like your honourable Lordship of your accustomed pity to call the said c. before you together with the husband of your saide poore Oratrix and there to will him to deliuer the saide writings againe to her husband if it shall so seeme good vnto your honor or els to shewe sufficient matter why hee shoulde keepe the same And your said Oratrix with her poore husband and their poore children shall pray c. A bill of a title of Copyhold lands praying an Iniunction HVmbly complayning c. your daily Orator W. S. otherwise Sect. 139. named W. T. of L. cosin and heire of I. S. otherwise called I. T. while he lyued c. That whereas your said Orator at your Lordships last being at c. did exhibit vnto you a certaine bill of complaint mencioning therein that the foresaid I. S. otherwise called I. T. in his life time was seised of and in certaine Customarie lands tenements that is to say of and in c. holden by Copie of court Roll of the manor of c. at the wil of the Lord of the said manor according to the custome of the same manor of which one T. L. then was and yet is Lord And that the same I. S. so being seised of the premisses afterwards of like estate died thereof by protestation seised after whose death the said c. with the appurtenances and the right title vse possession and inheritance thereof discended and came and of verie right ought to discend and come vnto your said Orator as cosin next heire of the said I. S. that is to say as yongest sonne of I. yongest sonne and heire of the same I. S. according to the auncient custome of the saide manor And that your saide Orator had often and sundry times desired and prayed the said c. that with lawfull warning vnto the tenants of the said Lordship a Court might be holden at the saide manor by whose inquirie the title of your said Orator might be presented and found in the premisses according as both iustice right and good conscience do require Hawbeit most honorable Lord that notwithstanding for asmuch as the same c. hath kept the premisses in his owne handes these many yeares past and the profites and issues thereof comming hath by the same space to his owne proper vse receiued taken and yet doth your said poore Orator could neuer get the same c. to hold a Court there minding thereby vtter disheriting vnto your said poore Orator of and in the premisses Vntill such time as your saide must honorable Lordship moued with your accustomed loue to Iustice and pitie towards pouertie vouchsafed to graunt your benigne letters directed to the said c. willing him thereby with lawfull warning giuen vnto the tenants of the said Lordship to summon and keepe a Court at the saide manor for the triall of the right of your saide Orator in the premisses vpon the receipt of which letters the saide c. summoned and kept a Court at his said Manor of c. whereat vpon the open and plaine declaration of your said Orators title together with the examination of diuers witnesses brought in by your said Orator for the due proofe of the said title in the premisses And further vpō the shewing of such substanciall and anncient euidences maintayning the same the Homage therewith charged and sworne did present sind at the said c. before I. S. Steward of the same Court that the foresaid I. S. was possessor and held the premisses by Copie of court Roll according to the custome of the said manor And that also your said Orator was cosin and heire to the said I. S. according to the custome of the manor that is to say sonne of I. yonger sonne of c. as by the Copie of the same court Rols ready to be shewed more plainly may appeare vnto your good Lordship After which presentment at the same Court it was agreed betwixt the said Steward in the name of the said c. and your said Orator that if the said c. would not declare and show vnto your said Orator or to his learned Counsell at London within one Terme then next insuing a better title and interest to the foresaid premisses then your said Orator had then and there already proued that then your saide Orator should haue and inioy the premisses to him and to his heires according to right equitie and good conscience and according to the custome of the said manor But so it is most ho. Lord that although the said c. as he cannot so hath he not by the said space prooued any maner of title or colour of title to the premisses but onely with such and like fraudulent delayes he intendeth to weary your said Orator from the obtaining of the premisses and if he can disherite him from the same Wherefore may it c. of your accustomable goodnes alwayes to pouertie extended to graunt vnto your said Orator the Q. most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said c. commaunding him by the same not onely to appeare personally before your good Lordship in the high Court of Chauncery at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine by your good Lordship therein to be limitted but also to permit and suffer your said Orator peaceably to haue hold occupie possesse and inioy the premisses aforesaid and the profits and issues of the same vntill such time as the same c. hath duely approued better Title to the premisses then he hath heretofore done And your said poore Orator shall c. A bill of complaint for Debt without especialtie IN most humble wise sheweth and complayneth vnto your good Sect ' 140. Lordship your daily Orator and poore bedeman I. G. of H. in the countie of D. That where the said I. G. by way of prest at the feast of Pentecost in the xxxiiii yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie the Queenes Maiestie that now is did deliuer vnto one W. L. late of H. in the said countie of D. the summe of xviii pound of lawfull money of England to be paied vnto him
secret estates to diuers vnknowne persons to defraude the plaintife of his apt remedie by the common lawe and so prayeth proces against the defendant To the Right Honorable Sir T. E. Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth vnto your good Lordship Sect. 145. your dayly Orator I. B. labourer That whereas R. G. Widowe was lawfully seazed in her demesne as of fee of and in three messes twentie acres of land meadow leasowe and pasture with the appurtenances set lying and being in M. in the Countie of B. And the said R. G. being so seazed of all the premisses did of the same about fortie yeares last past enfeoffe certaine persons To haue and hould to them and their heires to the vse and performance of the last will and testament of the saide R. G. and by the same her will deuised all the premisses or the vse thereof to her sonne W. B. and to the heires of his body lawfully begotten with diuers remainders ouer and dyed by and after whose death the said W. B. into the premisses entred and was thereof lawfully seazed in his demeasne as of fee tayle generall by force of the gift aforesaid And the said W. B. so being seazed of the premisses died of such an estate thereof seased by an after whose death the same premisses did discend and come to your said Orator as sonne and heire of the body of the said W. B. by force of the deuise aforesaide by reason whereof your saide Orator in the premisses entred and was thereof seazed in his demesne as of fee by force of the saide gift in taking the issues and profits accordingly vntill of late that is to say about foure yeares last past that as well the saide deede of feoffment and last will and testament aforesaide as also diuers other euidences charters escripts and miniments concerning the premisses are by casuall meanes come to the handes custodie and possession of one R. W. of S. aforesayde in the sayde Countie yeoman who by cullour of hauing of them hath not onely entred into the premisses and thereof expulsed your sayde Orator but also hath contriued diuers secret estates to diuers and sundry persons to your Orator vnknowne in purpose to defraude and delay your sayde Orator to his apt action and remedie by the course of the common lawes of this realme for recouerye of the pr●misses to your Orators vtter vndoing and disinheritance for euer And for as much as your sayde Orator knoweth not the certayne number nor the dates and contents of the sayde Euidences Charters Escripts or Miniments nor yet wherein the same be contayned whether in bagge or boxe sealed or vnsealed or in chest locked or vnlocked by reason whereof your sayde Orator is clearely without all remedye for the recouerie thereof by the ordinarie course of the common lawes of this Realme In tender consideration whereof may it please your good Lordship the premisses considered to graunt vnto your sayde Orator the Queenes Maiesties most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed vnto the sayde R. W. commaunding 〈◊〉 thereby perso●●lly to appeare before your good Lordship in the Queenes Maiesties high court of Chauncerpe at a short day and ●●der a certayne payne therein to be limited then and there to answere to the 〈◊〉 and to abide such order and direction therein as to 〈◊〉 and iustice shall appertayne And your said poore Orator shall dayly pray as ●e is bounden for the health and long life of your good Lordship with all increase of honour to Gods will and good pleasure A bill against two for the deliuerie of he●reloomes or principalls to the plaintife being sonne and heire according to the custome of the Countie Pallantine of Chester To the Right Honorable Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight Lord Keeper of the great seale of England COmplayning sheweth vnto your good Lordship your dayly Orator Sect. 14● I. S. of Lincolnes I●●● Ge●● sonne and heire of I. S. of D. within the Countie of ● That where as the sayde I. S. was in his life time lawfully possessed of and in diuers goods and Chattels as of his owne proper goods that is to say Plate Iewels houshold stuffe beasts cattaile horses and other manner of goods amounting to the value of fiue hundred pound or neere thereabouts and so being thereof possessed made his testament and last will ordeyning thereof Elizabeth then his Wife and nowe Wife to B. P. his sole executrix and shortly after dyed possessed of the premisses as aforesayde within the said Countie of C. Immediatly after whose death the said E. did take vpon her the administration of the said goods and other the premisses accordingly by vertue whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly But so it is and please your Honor that the custome of all the countrie within the said Countie of C. is and time out of minde of man to the contrarie hath beene that if any person or persons being possessed of goods and cattels as of his owne proper goods and cattels and dye thereof possessed that the next heire to him that so dyeth possessed shall haue the best and principall thing of euerie sort and kinde of the said goods and cattels for and in the name of the principals and heire Lomes by force vertue whereof your Orator being the sonne and heire of the said I. S. was after the death of the saide I. S. iustlie entituled to a great part of the said goods and cattels amounting at the least in value to 200. pound or neere thereabouts by reason whereof and for that your said Orator was at the time of the death of his saide father vnder age of xxi yeares and yet is and in ward to the Queenes Maiestie and hauing the possession of so much of all the said goods and cattels as to your said Orator did appertayne and of right belong by vertue of the custome aforesaid being verie neere to the value of two hundred pound by deliuerie of the saide E. in her Widowhood immediatly after the death of the saide I. S. your saide Orator did incontinently thereupon deliuer the same to the said E. to be safely by her kept to your saide Orators vse and to be in like maner safely redeliuered to your saide Orator at such time or times as by your saide Orator or his assignes she should be thereunto required sithence which said redeliuerie made by your said Orator to the said E. as aforesaid the said E. hath taken to husband one B. P. Gen● by reason whereof all the said goods cattels and other the premisses were and did come after the said entermariage into the hands and possession of the same B. P. which said E. sithens the said deliuerie made by your said Orator vnto her as aforesaide before the day of entermariage hath vtterly refused to make any redeliuerie of the said goods and cattels so by your said Orator to her deliuered as aforesaid or yet to make
the said Audita querela was true viz. that the said compl was then and at the knowledging of the saide statute vnder the age of 21. yeares which witnesses were examined and deposed accordingly in the behalfe of the said compl before the said defend had any knowledge or vnderstanding of the said compl proceeding therein and before any writ or Scirifacias was awarded and taken forth to warne the said defendant of the said suit as by the saide depositions and proceedings therein remayning of Record in the said court of Common pleas whereunto the said defendant for certaintie of the time doth referre himselfe more certainely doth appeare which said suit of Audita querela for the auoyding of the said statute the said complaynant by his solicitors seruants did most earnestly follow vpon a bare pretence that the said compl wanted some fewe moneths of the age of 21. yeares for maintenance of which said statute the said defend was called in by proces did pleade thereunto after which plea pleaded and after the said defend had bin drawne into great charges expences for the defence of the said statute cause the said compl and his Councell sollicitors Attorney or some of them seeing no likelyhood to preuaile in that course did become nonsuit without any regard had of the penaltie thereof did faile and neglect to pay to the said defendant his said principall debt of fiue hundred pound at the dayes times wherein the same was limited appointed to be paid by a writing of defeazance made between the said compl defend touching the penaltie of the said statute the same daies of paiment or some of them being now expired 18. moneths past and more and yet the whole debt still vnpaid vnto the said defendant for payment whereof the said defendant hath and doth keepe the said statute and the first two bonds wherein the saide complaynant with his men are bound as his sureties as aforesaid for payment of part of the said principall debt being this defendants own proper goods as both by lawe and conscience the said defendant thinketh he may lawfullie do And yet neuerthelesse the said defendant further saith that if y● said cōplaynant will forthwith pay vnto him the saide defendant the said summe of 500. pound being his principall and iust debt together with the charges he hath bin put vnto and consideration after the vsuall rate of ten pound for the hundreth like as the defendant himselfe doth pay to others for the long time the said defendant hath forborne his said debt he the saide defendant will forgoe the penaltie of the saide statute and will deliuer the same statute and the said bonds to the said complaynant without that that the said defendant did sell vnto the said complaynant any peece or peeces of Veluet or Silke at the seuerall times in the bill mencioned or any other time or any other thing at any excessiue or vnreasonable price the dayes of payment considered Or that the said complaynant did ouer and besides the 〈◊〉 price of any such thing allow and pay to the saide defendant any further consideration or vsurie for the forbearing thereof till the time of payment otherwise then is before truly layd downe in this aunswere Or that the saide complaynant and the saide R. S. or any other did enter into any more bounds for any the summes in the said bill mencioned to the saide defendant then such as before are confessed to the knowledge of this defendant And without that the said complaynant did at the intreatie of the said defendant during his the said complaynants minoritie enter into the said statute in the bill mentioned to the knowledge of this defendant but vpon the importunate request and intreatie of the saide plaintife to supplie his wants as aforesaid the said defendant was content to accept of his said statute not being able to giue better assurance as the saide defendant required Or that the said defendant did then or at any other time promise to the saide complaynant or his said sureties in the bill mencioned any the bonds by them or any of them entred into to y● said defendāt for or touching the saide debt as he now remembreth or any part thereof other then the said obligacions which the said defendant did redeliuer to the plaintife to be cancelled as aforesaid or did promise to cancell or make void the same in manner and forme as in the said bill of complaint is surmised to the remembrance of this defendant And without that that the said complaynant or any other for him did require the redeliuery of the said bonds as this defendant remembreth or that there is any cause or reason why the said complaynant should make any such request or the said defendant to make any such promise vntill his said debt be paid And without that that the said compl hath or doth seeke to make any reasonable composition with the said defend for or touching the said debt or any part thereof but rather hath endeuoured to defeate the said defend of his said debt And therefore he the said defend hopeth that the said compl shall not haue or receiue any fauour in this honorable Court against the said defend seeing that the said defend desireth nothing els but his principall with reasonable recōpence for the great wrong iniurie the said compl hath done both in putting him to great charges expences by the long withholding deteining of the said debt as aforesaid without that that the said defend hath hetherunto taken or recouered y● penalties of y● said statute or bonds or any of thē or that the said compl ' is or hath shewed himselfe at any time readie to satis●ye the said debt vnto the said defend or any part thereof in manner forme as in the saide bill of complaynt is alleaged And without that that any other matter or thing c. A Bill exhibited against a noble man against diuers tenants farmers and officers of diuers mannors contayning that the noble man for his debt due to the plaintif became boūd in a statute staple of 1200 li. and for that the debt was not paid at the day it was due the plaintife extended diuers manors lands which the noble man had and was seased of at the time he knowledged the said statute and had sould the same before the time of the extent to diuers persons and vpon a Liberate to the Sherife had the same mannors lāds deliuered vnto him to hold in extent till his debt were satisfied Afterwards vpon the noble mans suit to the Lord Chaunce llor and vpō the Lord Chauncellors request to the plaintife he was contented to forbeare the taking of the profits of the lands extended to referre the hearing ending of the matter touching his debt to two thereunto appointed by the Lord Chauncellor who heard and ended the matter the which end afterwards the noble man refused to performe whereupon the
plaint if went about to take the benefit of his extent to keepe Courts and vnderstand what lands and how the tenants held and what rents seruices they paid for the same but could not performe his purpose therein for the tenants the noble man had the Courtrowles in their keeping and the leasses rentals c. and would not let him see the same and that the noble man refused to suffer the plaintife to enter into the manors lands extended or to keepe any Courts and would not suffer the tenāts to pay the plaintife any of the rents or seruices due for the same manors or to declare vnto him what the same rents and seruices were And then the plaintife prayeth that the tenants occupiers and farmors of the said manors may vpon their oathes bring forth their leasses declare what lands they hold and what rents seruices euery of them pay And that all the defendants may shewe to the plaintife the Courtro●les rentals books o● suruay field books terrars in their custodie and so prayeth proces against all the defendants To the Right Honorable Sir Christopher Hatton of the most noble order of the Garter Knight Lord Chancellor of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth to your good Lordship Sect. 149. your dayly Orator I. L. Citizen and Clothworker of London That whereas the Ho. Ed. Lord M. Baron of R. the last day of December in the 26. yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth before Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the pleas before her highnes to be holden did acknowledge himselfe to owe to your Orator the summe of MCC of lawfull english money by his recognizance in the nature of an estatute staple with a defeazance thereupon made for the true payment of diuers seuerall summes of money at sundrie seuerall dayes now long sithence past And whereas likewise the saide Ed. Lord M. was and stoode iustly indebted to your saide Orator in diuers other summes of money by ohter bonds as also by your Orators booke for diuers wares taken vp of your Orator for the vse of the saide Lord Mo. And whereas also Tho. P. Esquier brother of the said Lord Mo. stood indebted did owe to your said Orator other certaine summes of money for the paimēt wherof the said Lord Mo. did vndertake and did make to your said Orator many seuerall sundrie promises the which as yet he hath in no sort performed And whereas the said Lord Mo. at the time of the knowledging of the foresaid statute staple was lawfully seazed in his demesne as of Fee of in the mannors of H. W. A. B. with two faires twice in the yeare with one market holden euery weeke at H. aforesaid with the hundred of F. with euery of their appurtenances scituate lying being in the Countie of Norffolke and of and in the manor of H. with their appurtenances in the said Countie of Norffolke which said mannors other the premisses aforesaid the said Lord Mo. by lawfull assurance conueyance in the Lawe did bargaine sell conuey assure the same with all and euery their appurtenances whatsoeuer to one Tho. Lord of H. in the saide Countie of Norffolke Esquier and to his heires for euer by vertue of which conueyance and assurance the said Tho. L. was and is yet seazed of the saide seuerall mannors and other the aforesaid premisses in his demesne as of Fee And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was likewise seazed in his demesne as of Fee at the time of the knowledging of the saide statute staple of and in the mannors of S. M. and W. with the aduousons of Sw. Mo. and Wo. with their appurtenances in the Countie of Norffolke aforesaid which said seueral mannors thaduousons aforesaid the said Lord Mo. by like conueyance and assurance did conuey and assure the same to one Ed. B. late of D. in the said Countie of Norffolke Esquier deceased and to his heires for euer to the only vse and behoofe of the said Ed. B. his heires and assignes for euer by whose death T. B. sonne and heire of the said Ed. B. Esquier deceased was and yet is seazed of the said mannors of S. Mo. and Wo. and of the aduowsons of S. Mo. and Wo. in his demesne as of Fee And whereas the said Lord Mo. was at the time of the knowledging of the saide statute staple likewise seazed in his demesne as of Fee of and in the mannor of B. with the appurtenances scituate and extending into the Townes of N. M. c. in the aforesaid Countie of Norffolke which said mannor the saide Ed. Lord M. did likewise conuey vnto T. G. Gent̄ and to his heires for euer to the only vse and behoofe of the said T. G. his heires and assignes for euer And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was at the time of the saide statute knowledged and yet is seazed of and in the mannor of A. with the appurtenances in the said Countie of Norffolke in his demesne as of fee and being indebted to your said Orator as aforesaid your Orator made sundrie and diuers earnest requests for the getting of the said debt and summes of money aforesaid and your Orator being by the saide Lord Mo. promised to haue the said debts at diuers seuerall dayes yet none of them were performed or kept whereby your Oratour seeing no performance but was delayed from time to time your saide Oratour about two yeares sithence sued forth his seuerall writs of Extendi facias directed to the Sheriffs of Norffolke Essex Hertford Sommersetshire and Yorke and to the Chancellor of the Countie Pallantine of Lancaster for the extending of all the mannors lands tenements and hereditaments within the Counties aforesaid whereof the said Lord Mo. was seazed the time of the saide statute knowledged which writ directed to the Sheriffe of the said Countie of Norffolke was deliuered to one Clement Pastone Esquier then Sheriffe of the same Countie to be by him executed and returned acordingly By vertue whereof the saide Clement Pastone Esquier did by the Othes of a Iury sworne charged within the said Countie of Norffolke acording to the due course of her Maiesties lawes extend and appraise the saide seuerall maunors faires markets lands tenements all other the premisses with the appurtenances lying within the said Countie of Norffolke as in and by the saide extents remayning of record in this ho. Court of Chauncery and by the returne of the said Sheriffe with the seisure of the said seuerall mannors into the Queenes Maiesties hands to the intent they might be deliuered to your Orator in extent more at large it doth and may apeare After which inquisition extent and seasure so taken had made your Orator sued forth her highnes writ of Liberate bearing Teste the 4. day of February in the 30. yeare of her highnes raigne directed tothe said Sheriffe of Norffolke commaunding him thereby to deliuer
the said seuerall mannours extended as aforesaid vnto your Orator to hold them in extend vntill your Oratour were of the saide summe of 1200. l with his costs and expences herein sustayned fully satisfied paid By vertue of which said writ the said Clement Paston then Sherife did deliuer in extent to your saide Oratour the xii day of March then next following the foresaid seuerall mannors of H. W. A. and B. with the two faires holden twise by the yeare and the market of H. there holden euery weeke with the hundred of F. with their appurtenances And the said mannor of H. with the appurtenances And also the said mannor of S. Mo. and WO. with thaduowsons patronage of Sw. M. and W. with their appurtenances together with the mannor of B. with thappurtenances the foresaid mannor of A. with thappurtenances to hold to your said Orator his assignes according to the said extent vntill the said debt of 1200. l together with your Orators costs and damages were taken and leuied of the premisses By vertue whereof your said Orator was of the premisses possessed and so being possessed the said Lord Mo. before that your said Orator had or could receiue any profit of the premisses or of any part or parcell thereof by meanes or reason of the said execution thereupon made deliuered to your saide Orator did make humble suit to your ho. Lordship that it would please the same to moue your sayd Orator to forbeare the taking of the issues rents profits of the said seuerall manors other the premisses from the molesting of the farmors tenants occupiers thereof for the same vntill your ho. Lordship or some others to be by your Lordship apointed had heard determined the cause and reckoning betweene the said Lord M. your said Orator whereupon your said Orator was content at the motion request of your ho. Lordship to permit the tenants of the premisses to continue in their possession quiet and to forbeare the taking of the rents and profits thereof and to referre the hearing and ending of all reckonings demaunds betweene your said Orator and the saide Lord Mo. to the order and determination of maister Doctor S. one of the maisters of this most honorable Court of Chauncerie to S. B. Gent̄ one of your Honors Secretaries being thereunto assigned and apointed by your Lordship in fauour of the said Lord Mo. who entred into examination of the premisses in controuersie betweene the said Lord Mo. and your said Orator and by their mediations and at their requests your saide Orator was content in forgo neere the summe of 100. pound of his iust demaund so that the said Lord Mo. would content and pay the residue to your said Orator in such sort and at such times as the said maister S. and maister Br. did conclude and set downe but the said Lord Mo. meaning and intending still to delay your said Orator and to keepe him both without his money and the profits of the said mannors and other the premisses with the appurtenances whcih were deliuered vnto your said Oratour in execucion towards the satisfying of the debt costs and damages did not only neglect to performe the saide agreement and order taken by the saide maister S. and maister Br. but hath and doth vtterly refuse and denie to performe the same by reason whereof your said Orator for the leuying of his debt costs and damages did purpose and intend to take the benefit of his said execucion and for that end your said Orator about the feast day of S. Michaell the Archangell last past trauayled into the saide Countie of Norffolke where the saide mannors and premisses do lye and there did offer to keepe Courts and did likewise require the tenants occupiers and farmors of the saide mannors and premisses to render and pay to your said Orator the rents issues and profits then due for the said premisses to your said Orator and therewithall your saide Orator did require the saide tenants and occupiers of the saide mannor and premisses to discouer and make knowne to him how and in what sort and by what title they and euery of them did hold claime and enioy the seuerall parcels of the said premisses which they the said farmors and occupiers did seuerally occupie possesse and enioy to the end that your saide Orator might hereafter be assertained and fully instructed how to demaund recouer and come by the rents reserued vpon their seuerall estates and interests which be rightfully belonging and appertayning to your saide Oratour by reason of the saide extent but so it is if it may please your honourable Lordship that the saide L. Mo. T. L. Tho. B. Theodora Goodwin Hen. Blage Steward Thomas Louell Thom. More Henry Hynde Rich. Handford Edmond Coles Tho. Baylie Wil. Drake Geo. Thurstone Rap. Story being all Owners Farmors Tenants Occupiers and Officers of the sayde Mannors and premisses in whose hands and keeping all the Court Rolles Rentalls Leases and counterparts thereof which touch or concerne the saide mannors and premisses or any part or parcel thereof be and remaine Haue confederated together both to defeate your Orator of his lawfull execucion and estate in the premisses and also to defraude and vtterly to take away from your said Orator the rents issues and profits thereof and therefore and for that end the saide Lord Mo. c. did not only denye and refuse to permit and suffer your saide Orator or any other person to his vse to enter into the saide mannors and premisses or to keepe any Courts in and vpon the same but also did and do denie and refuse to pay to your saide Orator any free or farme rents for the saide mannors or premisses or to shew to your said Orator how or by what leases or other titles they or any of them do possesse or enioy the premisses or any part or parcell thereof or what rents or seruices ought to be paid for the same by reason whereof your saide Orator is like to be kept from the benefit of his said execucion against all right equitie and conscience vnlesse your ho. accustomed help be vnto him in this behalfe extended In tender cōsideration whereof for that the said Lo. Mo. c. being owners occupiers of the mannors premisses aforesaid and do conceale keepe from the knowledge of your said Orator aswell your yearely rents seruices fermes as also the sight of their seuerall Indentures of Lease as also the Courtrowles whereby your Orator is without remedy either to recouer any yearely ferme or other the rents and seruices of the Freehold or Copyhold lands pertaining to the said mannors and for that your Orator hath not the counterpanes of your said Indentures of Lease neither knoweth the dates of them nor the certeintie of your fermers reserued or of the rents seruices due payable for your said lands hauing not the Courtrowles to shew forth so as your Orator cannot
by the course of the common lawes of this realme make any Auowrie for either the yearely farmes nor yet for the rents seruices due vpon for the foresaid freehold or copiehold lands holden of the said seuerall mannors as aforesaid nor yet for any other dutie or seruice due for the same nor can shewe forth the certentie of the lands that the said tenants do seuerally hold May it therefore please your ho. Lordship that some good order may be by your Lordship set downe whereby the foresaid seuerall Farmors tenants occupiers of the said seuerall mannors all the other parties before mentioned may be inforced to set downe vpō their othes as also bring forth their seueral Indentures of Leases whereby your Orator may know the seuerall dates of thē as also what lands they hold by the same by what yerely rents fermes And the the tenants of the said seueral mannors may likewise be inforced vpon their oathes to set downe what lands they hold of the said seuerall mannors either freely or by copy of courtrowle by what rents fines duties seruices As also the foresaid Eo Lord Mo. c. hauing the custodie of any the rentalls Courtrowles bookes of suruey feild bookes or terrors concerning thaforesaid seuerall mannors or any of them may likewise be inforced to shew them forth to your Oratour to the intent your Orator may vnderstand what lands tenements or hereditamēts are holden of the said seueral mannors or of any of them by what rents duties or seruices the said lands tenements or hereditaments are holden by whereby your Orator may according to equitie good conscience reape receiue recouer haue take the yerely reuenews issues and profits of the foresaid seuerall mannors euery of them as in lawe and right belongeth vnto him as he ought to do vntill your said Orator be satis●●ed of the summe conteined in his foresaid statute staple knowledged vnto him as aforesaid w e his reasonable costs damages herein susteined to th end that al these points may be performed accordingly May it further please your good Lordship to get to your said Oratour the Qu. Ma. most gratious writs of Subpena to be directed to the foresaid Ed. Lord Mo. Baron of R. c. Commaunding them euery of thē thereby at a certaine day vnder a certaine paine personally to apeare before your good Lordship in the said ho. Court of Chancerie then and there to answere to the premisses to abide such further order direction herein as to your Ho. shal seeme good to stand with right equitie and good conscience And your said Orator shall according to his most bounden dutie euer pray for the increase and continuance of your good Lordship in health and all honour long to endure The ioint and seuerall aunsweres of T. M. H. B. c. Defendants to the bill of complaint of I. L. Complaynant THe said defendants and euery of them sauing to them and euery of Sect ' 150. them thaduantage of excepcion to the incertaintie insufficiencie of the said bill of complaint say And first the said T. More for himselfe saith That he the said T. Moore doth hath by the space of 2. yeares last past or thereabouts exercised the Office of Baylife of the mannors of H. A. and B. in the saide Bill mentioned whereof this defendant supposeth T. Lo. Esquier to be seased of some estate of inheritance and hath in his hands some rentalls of the saide mannors which this defendant thinketh he ought not to impart to the said complaynant neyther ought the said complaynant to haue the issues rents and profits of the said mannors as this defendant thinketh for that as this defendāt hath credibly heard verily beleeueth it to be true the said Ed. Lo. M. in the said bill mentioned the day of the date of the said recognizance in the said bill mentioned or at any time since was neuer seazed in his demeasne as of fee simple fee tayle or freehold of and in the said mannors of H. A. and B. or any part or parcell thereof as in the said Bill is vntrulie alledged But one T. H. was then seazed thereof who since hath conueyed the same to the said Th. Lo. as this defendant hath heard By reason whereof the said Tho. Lo. ought in this defend opinion to haue the rents issues profits thereof notwithstanding the said execution without that this defend is farmor customarie or free tenant of any part or parcell of the said mannors or other the premisses in the said bill mentioned other then of parcell of the demesnes of the said mannor of H. which this defend holdeth by lease for certain yeares yet to come rendring yerely 5. l and of the Faires of H. the profits thereof which he holdeth for diuers yeares yet to come rendring yearely 26. s̄ 8. d and of the sixth part of the Warren of H. which he houldeth for diuers yeares yet enduring rendring 12. shillings by yeare or thereabouts And of diuers Freeholds houlden of the mannor of H. by the rents of 20. s̄ or thereabouts And without that that this defendant hath in his hands any Court Rolles Rentalls or Leases concerning the premisses in the said Bill mencioned other then in this aunswere before is mencioned as in the saide Bill is vntrulie alledged And without that that this defendant hath vnlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said Bill mencioned to defeat the saide complaynant of his lawfull execucion and estate in the premisses in the said bill mencioned as in the said Bill of complaint is also vntrulie alledged And the saide Henry Blake for himselfe saith that hee hath exercised the office of steward of the said mannors of H. and B. in the said Bill mencioned and of the mannors of H. in the said Bill likewise mencioned lawfully constituted thereunto as this defendant thinketh by the said T. Lo. being seazed of some estate of inheritance of the said mannors as this defendant supposeth and that the Court Rowles and euidences concerning the saide mannors are kept in the house of the saide T. Lo. at E. in the Countie of Norffolke and are not at this defendants disposition to yeeld vp or impart to the said complaynant otherwise then as the saide T. Lo. shall appoint whereof this defendant humblie prayeth this honorable Court to haue consideration without that that this defendant in Farmor or Customarie or free tenant of any part or parcell of the said mannors or other the premisses in the saide Bill mencioned or hath in his hands any Court rowles Rentals or Leases concerning the premisses in the said Bill mencioned other then as in his aunswere before is mencioned as in the saide Bill of complaint is vntrulie surmised And without that that this defendant hath vnlawfullie confederated with any person or persons in the said Bill mencioned to defeat the said complainant of his lawfull execucion and estate
in the premisses in the saide Bill mencioned as in the saide Bill of complaint is also vntrulie alledged And the saide Thomas Aynsworth for himselfe saith that he hath and doth exercise the Office of Baylife of the manor of S. in the said BIll mencioned vnder and by the apointment of T. B. Esquier in the said Bill mencioned whome this defendant supposeth to be seazed thereof of some estate of inheritance and hath in his hands certaine rentalls of the same mannor which Rentalls this defendant thinketh he ought to dutie to keepe and vse to the benefit and seruice of the saide Tho. B. and to employ the same according to his direction and not otherwise And further this defendant saith that this defendant is Farmor of parcell of the demesnes of the mannor of S. aforesaid which he holdeth for diuers yeares yet to come yeelding and paying therefore yearely 14. l 8. s̄ 4. d of lawfull money of England And also holdeth by coppie of Court rowle at the will of the Lord of the saide mannor of Swanton Morley according to the custome of the said mannor diuers lands and tenements within the precincts of the said mannor and yeelding yearely for the same 40. s̄ or thereabouts which rents this defendant thinketh are not payable to the plaintife for that the rents reserued vpon Leases made of any parcell of the extended premisses before the knowledging of the saide statute are not expressely extended nor deliuered to the said complainant in execucion But the saide complainant hauing extended and receiued the premisses into execucion as demeane in possession is to stay and expect till he may haue and enioy the same according to his extent and to the liuerey thereof made vnto him And further this defendant saith that the said mannor of Swanton Morley is and at the time of the awarding of execucion was as this defendant thinketh the inheritance of the saide Th. B. which he then had by purchase from the saide Lord Mo. since the knowledging of the said recognizance And in asmuch as the saide Lord Mo. at the time of the knowledging of the said Recognizance had and was seazed in Fee simple Fee taile or for terme of life as this defendant is crediblie enformed and partly apeareth by the Schedule of the liuerie of the saide Lord Mo. of and in the mannors of H. in the Countie of Essex of the yearely value of 100. l or there abouts and of and in the mannors of F. and Todenhoberie in the Countie of Hertford of the yearely value of fortie pound or thereabouts and of a certaine yearely rent of thirtie pound or thereabouts going out of the mannor of Shobington in the Countie of Buckingham and of diuers other mannors lands tenements and hereditamēts in diuers other Counties of England which ought to be contributorie to the payment of the saide twelue hundred pound and therefore the same is vndulie and contrarie to lawe charged vpō the said mannor of Swanton cum Worthinge which the said Th. B. houldeth as a Feoffee for which cause the sayde T. B. as this defendant supposeth hath pursued his Sciri facias against the saide complainant in this honorable Court for the discharge of the said mannor of Swanton cum Worthinge from the saide due execucion and from the recouerie of the issues and profits comming and growing of the same mannor from the time of the said execucion For which cause this defendant humblie prayeth this honorable Court that the saide complainant may be referred to the Common Lawe to bring his Accion against this defendant for the recouerie of the saide rents due vpon such Leases and Coppie holds as this defendant houldeth of the said mannor of Swanton cum Worthinge wherein the validitie of the sayde E●tent may be tryed so as this defendant may know to whom he may pay his saide rents without danger or further trouble And his defendant is readie to stand to such order as this honorable Court shall award concerning the shewing vnto the said complainant of his estate and terme which he hath of and in any part of the said mannor of Swanton cum Worthinge or holdeth of the same and other circumstances thereof without that this defend is Farmer or Customarie or free tenant of any other part or parcell of the said mannors or other the premisses in the said Bill mentioned or hath in his hands any Courtrowles Rentalls or Leases cōcerning the premisses in the said bill mentioned other then as in this aunswere before is mentioned as in the said bill of complaint is vntruly alledged And without that that this defend hath vnlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said Bill mentioned to defeate the said compl of his lawfull execucion and estate in the premisses in the said BIll mentioned as in the said Bill is falsely surmised And the said Henry S. Iohn for himselfe sayth that he hath and doth exercise the office of Baylife of the mannors of Hockering c. in the saide bill mentioned whereof this defendant supposeth Th. Lo. Esquier to be seazed of some estate of inheritance and hath in his hands certaine Rentalls of the said mannors which Rentalls this defendant thinketh he ought in dutie to keepe and vse to the benefit and seruice of the said maister Louell and to employ the same according to his direction not otherwise And further this defendant saith the he this defendant is Farmer of certaine demesnes of the said mannor of Hockering whereof he holdeth some part for yeares some for life by Lease made by the said Lord Mo. whose estate the said maister Lo. now hath of and in the same yeelding paying therefore yearely 30. l or thereabouts which rent this defendant thinketh is not payable to the said complaynant for that the rents reserued vpon Leases made of any parcell of the extended premisses before the knowledging of the saide statute are not expressely extended nor deliuered to the said complaynant in execution But the said complainant hauing extended receiued the premisses into execution as demesne in possession is to stay and expect till he may haue and enioy the same according to his extent and the liuerey thereof made vnto him And further this defend saith that the said mannors of Hockering Northtuddenham are and at the time of the awarding of the saide execution were as this defendant thinketh thenheritance of T. Lo. which he then had by purchase from the said L. Mo. since the knowledging of the said Recognizance And in asmuch as the said Lo. Mo. at the time of the said Recognizance had was seised in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life as this defend is credibly enformed and partly apeareth by the Schedule of the liuerey of the said Lord Mo. of and in the mannors of Halingburie Morley and Salcot Verley in the Countie of Essex of the yearely value of 100. l or thereabouts and of and in the mannors of Furnex and Tuddenhoberie
in the Countie of Hertford of the yearely value of 40. l or thereabouts and a certaine yerely rent of 30. l or thereabouts going out of the manor of Shobington in the Countie of Buckingham and diuers other mannors lands tenements and hereditaments in diuers other Counties of England which ought to be contributorie to the payment of the sayd 12. C. pound and therefore the same is vndulie and contrarie to lawe charged vpon the said mannors of Hockering and Northtuddenham which the saide maister Lo. holdeth as a Feoffee for which reason the said maister Lo. as this defendant supposeth hath pursued his Scire facias against the saide complaynant in this honorable Court for the discharge of the said mannors of Ho. and N. from the saide vndue execution and for the recouerye of the sayd issues and profits comming and growing of the same mannors from the time of the said execution for which cause this defendant humbly prayeth this honorable Court that the said complaynant may be referred to the Common lawe to bring his action against this defendant for the recouerie of the said rents due vpon the saide leasses and estates which this defendant holdeth of the saide mannors wherein the validitie of the said extent and execution may be tryed so as the said defendant may know to whom to pay his saide rent without danger or further trouble and this defendant is readye to stand to such order as this honorable Court shall award concerning the shewing to the saide complainants of his estates tearmes which he hath of and in the said parcell of the demesnes of the said mannor of Ho. or holdeth of the same and other circumstances thereof without that that this defendant is Farmer Customarie or free tenant of any other part or parcell of the saide manors or other the premisses in the saide bill mentioned or hath in his hands any Courtrowles Rentalls or Counterpanes of leases concerning the premisses in the saide bill mentioned other then in his Answere before is declared as in the said bill of complaint is vntruly alledged And without that that the said defendant hath vnlawfully confederated with any the persons in the said bill mentioned to defeate the saide complaynant of his lawfull execution and estate in the premisses in the said bill mentioned as in the said bill of complaynt is also vntrulie alledged And without that that any other matter or thing in the said bill of complaynt mentioned materiall or effectuall to be answered vnto and not herein sufficiently answered confessed and auoyded trauersed or denyed is to these defendants or any of their knowledges true All which matters these defendants are ready to auerre and prooue as this honorable Court shall award and prayen to be dismissed out of the same with their reasonable costs and charges in this behalfe most wrongfully sustained A Bill into the Chauncery for detayning of euidences entering into a meadowe and a pasture and making to themselues diuers estates To the Reuerend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Ely Lord Chauncelor of England IN most humble wise sheweth and complayneth vnto your good Sect ' 151. Lordship your dayly Orator G. I. That where W. I. father vnto your said Orator was seised in his demeasne as of fee of and in fifteene Acres of pasture and meadowe with thappurtenances in Clare in the Countie of Suffolke and so being thereof seised dyed by protestacion seised After whose death the saide fifteene Acres of pasture and meadowe and all other the premisses with the appurtenances descended and came and of right ought to descend and come vnto your said Orator as sonne and heire vnto the saide W. I. So it is if it may please your good Lordship that certaine euidences deedes charters and other muniments concerning the premisses are come to the hands and possession of M. G. Widow and A. G. who by colour of hauing the saide euidences haue entered into the premisses and haue conueyed vnto them and to their heires diuers and sundrie estates in the lawe for the disherison of your said Orator and of his heires for euer And because your said Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the saide euidence nor whether it be contayned in bagge or bore sealed or in chest locked he is without remedie for the recouerie of the same by the order of the Common lawe except your Lordships fauour be vnto him shewed in this behalfe In consideration whereof it may please your good Lordship the premisses considered to graunt a writ of Subpena to be directed to the saide M. G. Widow and A. G. commaunding them by the same personally to appeare before your good Lordship in the Kings high Court of Chauncerie at a certayne day and vnder a certayne payne by your good Lordship to be limited there to aunswere vnto the premisses and after to abide such decree and order therein as to your good Lordship shall be thought to stand with right and conscience And your saide Orator shall dayly pray for the preseruation of your Lordships Honor long to endure The Aunswere of one of the defendants to the Bill next before who pleadeth that the plaintifes father sould the landes in the Bill mentioned to T. H. who sould the same to the defendants husband who conueyed the same to the defendant for her life And sheweth that at the time of the saide purchase and after the premisses were in diuers Feoffes in vse and sheweth afterwards the making of the Statute of 27. Hen. 8. for transferring of vses into possession The Aunswere of M. G. Widow to the Bill of complaynt of G. I. THe said defendant saith that the said Bill of complaint is vntrue Sect ' 152. vncertaine and insufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto and the matters therein contayned determinable at the Common lawe and not in this honorable Court whereunto the said defendant prayeth to be dismissed and thaduantage thereof to the said defendant alwayes saued if she shall be compelled to make any further aunswere vnto the saide insufficient Bill Then for the declaration of the truth the saide defendant sayth That as to any pasture or meadowe in Clare the saide defendant knoweth not that she is Tenaunt of or hath any that was belonging to the saide W. I. within the sayde towne or parish of Clare or detayneth any euidence concerning the same to her knowledge But the saide defendant sayth the sayde W. I. mentioned in the sayde Bill of complaynt together with I. W. alias Miller I. F. c. were seised of and in seauen Acres of pasture and moore and three Acres and one Roode of meadowe in S. in their demeasne as of fee to the vse of the sayde W. I. and of his heires and so beeing thereof seised the sayde W. I. bargained and soulde the pasture moore and meadowe last before remembred vnto one T. H. and to hys heires for euer By vertue of which bargaine the sayde W. I. and hys sayde other Coefeoffees were thereof
of and in the Mannors of M. W. with diuers messuages lands tenements hereditaments to the said Mannors belonging in the County of C. to the yearely value of 50. l and aboue and he being of the said Mannors and other the premisses seised died of such an estate thereof seised without issue of his body lawfully begotten After whose decease the premisses descended and of right ought to discend vnto your saide Orator as brother and next heire of the saide Peter your saide Orator then being but of tender age that is to say of the age of twelue yeares or there abouts But so it is right honorable Lord that all the Euidences Deedes Charters writings and miniments concerning the said mannors and premisses during the minoritie of your said Orator came casually to the hands possession of R. D. Esquier who by cullor of hauing of the said Euidences Deedes Charters writings and miniments hath wrongfully entred into the saide manors lands tenements and other the premisses and of the same hath made and contriued diuers and sundrie secret and false estates and conueyances to diuers persons to your saide Orator vnknowne to his owne vse to the vtter disherison of your saide Orator And albeit your saide Orator hath diuers and sundrie times required the saide R. D. as well to deliuer vnto him the said Euidences Deedes Charters writings and miniments as also peaceablie and quietly to suffer and permit him to enioy the said manors lands tenements with their appurtenances yet y● said R. D. hath alwaies hitherto denied refused yet denieth refuseth so to do cōtrary to all right equitie good conscience And forasmuch as your Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the said euidences deeds charters writings miniments nor whether they be contained in bag or box ensealed or chest locked yea or no he is like to be without all remedy for y● recouery of y● same by the order due course of y● cōmon lawe except your Lo. goodnes be vnto him shewed in this behalf In cōsideration wherof it may please your good L. to grant vnto your Orator the King and Queenes Maiesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the saide R. D. Commaunding him by the same at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine by your Lordship to be limited personally to appeare before your good Lordship in the King and Qu. high Court of Chauncery at Westminster then and there to make aunswere to the premisses c. R. Cat. The Aunswere of the defendant to the said Bill wherein is confessed the hauing of diuers euidences concerning the lands mentioned in the said Bill and that he is readie to deliuer them to whom the Court shall order them to belong And for that the plaintifes father is yet liuing the defendant prayeth that he may be called into the Court to shew what title he hath to the said euidences and disclaymeth to haue any interest in any of the mannors c. mentioned in the Bill but an Interest he may be entituled to haue by reason of a Statute merchant he hath which was acknowledged by the complaynants father The Aunswere of R. D. Esquier to the Bill of complaynt of T. M. Gentleman THe said defendant by protestation not confessing or acknowledging Sect ' 171. any such seisin dying seised or discent as in the said Bill is alleaged for aunswere sayth that he is not nor at the time of the exhibiting of the said Bill was not Tenant of the said mannors and other the premisses sauing only such benefit interest and title as the said R. is or may be entituled to haue in or to the premisses by reason of a certaine Statute merchant or Recognizance knowledged by W. M. Esquier father of the said complaynant to Sir P. D. Knight deceased Thaduantage of exception thereof and all other benefits and interests that the said defendant hath or may haue by reason of the said Statute merchant or Recognizance knowledged by the saide W. M. Esquier father of the said complaynant as aforesaid and the execution to be sued of the same to the said defendant alwayes saued and reserued the saide defendant for all other Interests or Titles disclaimeth in the said manors lands or tenements And as to any euidences concerning the said manors lands and tenements mentioned in the said Bill except one Indenture and one other writing made by the saide W. M. and one writing made by the said complaynant The said defendant by protestation not knowing the certaintie what euidences he hath in his custodie concerning the said mannors and other the premisses for that they be in the County of Chester now farre from the said defendant for aunswere saith that the saide W. M. father to the said complaynant long time past was seised of the said Mannors lands and Tenements of an estate of inheritance in possession or in vse by discent from his Auncestors and the said Euidences came to the hands of the said Sir P. D. Knight long time past and by and after the death of the said Sir P. D. the same euidences came to the possession of the said defendant which said defendant desireth that the saide W. M. which is yet in full life may be called into this honorable Court to shewe what title he hath or claymeth to the saide euidences and the saide defendant is and shall be readie to deliuer such euidences as he hath concerning the premisses except the said Statute merchant and other writings and defeasances of the said Statute as appertaineth to the said defendant to such person or persons to whome this honorable Court shall award the same to appertayne And as to three writings before excepted the said defendant hath them here readie in this honorable Court to be deliuered to whome this honorable Court shall adiudge the same to appertayne Without that that the saide defendant hath wrongfully entered into the said Mannors lands and Tenements and of the same hath made or contriued any estates and conueyances to diuers persons in such sort as in the said Bill is vntruly alleaged And without that that any other thing materiall to be aunswered vnto other then that in this present Aunswere is confessed and auoyded is true All which matters the said defendant is ready to auerre and prooue as this honorable Court shall award and prayeth as before he hath desired And also that he may be dismissed out of this honorable Court with his reasonable costs and charges for his wrongfull vexations sustained in this behalfe Am. Gilbert A bill of complaint by I. W. and the Lady lane his Wife daughter and heire of the Lady Iane deceased against the husband and his wife for entring into a house and lands and keeping of the possession thereof for detayning of Euidences and contriuing of secret estates in the premisses To the right reuerend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester Lo. Chauncellor of England IN right humble wise complayning sheweth vnto your good
beene sundry times thereunto gently required but by practize and confederacie with other their complices aduersaries of your sayde Orators goe about to impeach hinder and ouerthrow your Orators good and lawfull estate in and to the premisses contrarie to all right equitie and good conscience and to the manifest and expresse wrong and iniurie of your said Orators In consideration whereof and for that your Orators knowe not the certeine dates number nor contents of the said Euidences and writings nor wherein the same are conteyned whether in bag or boxe sealed or vnsealed chest or cofer locked or vnlocked and so consequently without apt remedie at the common lawe for the recouerie thereof or to compell the saide Robert Williams Barbara his wife and the Executors or Administrators of the said Eliz. Mosier or any of them to make vnto your Orators further assurance of the premisses or to keepe or defend their lawfull title thereunto May it therefore please your good Lordship to graunt vnto your Orators her Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena with a Duces tecum to be directed to the said Robert Williams and Bersaba alias Barbara his wife commaunding them and either of them thereby at a certeine day and vnder a certeine paine by your Lordship to be limited to be and personallie to appeare before your Lordship in her Maiesties most high Court of Chauncerie and to bring with them the said originall Indenture of lease the said deede of gift and all other the meane assignements thereof Then and there aswell to auNswere to the premisses as also to stand to and abide such further order and direction therein as to your Lordship shal be thought to stand with equitie and good conscience And your saide Orators according to their bounden dutie shall pray to God for your Lordships long life with increase of much honour The ioint and seuerall aunsweres of R. W. and Bersaba his wife defendants to the bill of complaint of I. L. and N. M. complaynants THe said defendants by protestation not confessing the said B. to be Sect. 175. lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in the said house or tenement called the signe of the Lambe with the shops sellers sollars and other their appurtenances Neither that the saide Brincton did graunt it to the saide W. L. for certeine yeares vpon a ceerteine rent in maner as the said plaintifes haue alledged neither that the said L. was thereof possessed accordinglie and so being possessed did bargaine sell and conuey the said Indenture and all his title and terme vnto the said T. H. and his Assignees or that the said H. was thereof possessed accordinglie or that after his decease the administration of all the goods and chattels were committed to Ioane his wife or that she was possessed thereof by vertue of the said administration or after tooke to husband the saide Pinchbecke But the saide defendants for aunswere say that they haue heard that the saide Pinchbecke was possessed of the saide house called the Lambe but whether the saide Pinchbecke conueyed his estate to the said Mosier or that the said Mosier was possessed thereof or by his deede of gift did assure the premisses vnto the saide B. she knoweth not but saith that about 26. yeares sithence the said Mosier did giue all his goods and Chattels to the said B. and the said Bersaba one of the said defendāts but she knoweth not whether the said B. was possessed of the said house or died thereof possessed And the said Bersaba saith that the said B. apointed her his Executrix of his last will but knoweth not whether the premisses came to her by suruiuorship or executorship or any other wayes or whether she was possessed thereof by those or any other meanes And the saide defendants further say that it is more then they do certainelie knowe whether they or either of them were thereof in right possessed and the saide Robert Williams saith that whether he assigned or set our his Interest or the Lease thereof in the said house and premisses vnto the said Smith he knoweth not but to his remembrance he sealed and deliuered an obligation as he taketh it to the saide Smith but vpon what condition he knoweth not being three yeares past and he altogether vnlearned without that that the said Smith gaue the said Robert Williams for his interest of the saide house any money to his remembrance neither do the saide defendants know whether the said Smith did bargaine sell assigne or set ouer all his estate in to the premisses and the Indenture with other writings vnto the said complainants Or that the said cōplainants did enter accordingly or were possessed thereof or tooke the profits thereof as it is alledged without that that the originall Indenture of lease or y● meane conueyances or assignements thereof are come to the possession of the said defendants But the said Bersaba saith that the said deede of gift made by the said William Moysier was in her possession about 3. yeres now past but what is become of it since she knoweth not And without that that the saide defendants haue by coulour thereof vnlawfully entred into the possession of the premisses or disposessed the said complainants in such maner and forme as in and by their said bill of complaint is alledged And without that c. A bill containing that the plaintife is seazed in fee of the mannor of O. and that one of the defendants is also seased of the mannor of C. in fee holden of the plaintifes manor by homage fealtie escuage and rent and that the same defendant hath assured parcell of his said mannor to the other of the said defendants in fee and that the same is holden of his said mannor by the same seruices and part of the rent and that diuers Euidences c. are come to the hands of the defendants and that the defendants intend to disherit the plaintife of the rent and seruices and that they refuse to pay the plaintife the rent or to do him the seruices and so prayeth a Subpena against the two defendants To the right honourable and reuerend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester and L. Chauncellor of England SHeweth complaineth vnto your good Lo. your dayly Orator Sir Sect. 176. T. H. Knight that where your said Orator is lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of in the manor of D. in the County of C. of which manor diuers persons being tenants and freeholders do hold by suit of Court and other seruices And where also one Io. W. of C. in the said County of C. Esquier is also seazed in his demesne as of fee of in the Manor Lordship of C. in y● said County of C. and of in diuers lands tenements in C. in the said County of C. and so being thereof seazed the same doth hold of your said Orator as of his said manor of D. by homage fealty escuage vi
diuers things with warrantie in consideracion of a rent with a clause of distresse c. 125 ✿ Of the 3. parte of a rent with warrantie 126 ✿ Of the 3. part of certaine land by these words Concesserunt reddiderunt 127 ✿ A Fine with general warrantie of an estate pur aut vie after whose death the land is to reuert to the conusor 128 ✿ Of diuers things to a Presidēt schollers of a Colledge with wa●ranty 129 ✿ With warrātie against the conusors the heires of the husband 130 ✿ Of diuers things with general warra●tie 131 ✿ Of the 3. part of diuers things with generall wa●rantie 132 ✿ By the husband and the wi●e of diuers things with generall warrantie 133 ✿ The order of taking the knowledge of a Fine by Dedimus potestatem fol. 37. b ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie with a graunt and render to one of the conusors for 7. daies with a remainder for life to a straunger the reuercion after to the said conusor in fee. 134 ✿ By the husband and the wife of diuers things with generall warrantie 135 ✿ A Fine before the Iustices of the Common pleas at Westminster with generall warrantie 136 ✿ A Fine with warrantie against the conusor and his heires 137 ✿ The engrossement of the Fine before as it is vpon Record 138 ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie with a graunt and render for certaine termes and after to remaine ro the conusor in fee. 139 ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie with a graūt of the conusee for life the reuercion to the conusor in fee. 140 ✿ Of a Rent with generall warrantie 141 ✿ A Fine with generall warrantie in consideration of an Annuitie imposing a payne for the non payment thereof 142 ✿ A Fine of lande to holde by Knights seruice and rent with generall warrantie 143 ✿ A Fine of a mannor reciting c. with warrantie against the Conusors during c. 144 ✿ A Fine with warrantie in consideration whereof the conusee regraunts the premisses for a certaine tearme after the ende whereof the premisses are to remayne to the Conusee in fee. 145 ✿ The taking of the knowledge of the fine fol. 41. a ✿ Notes to bee obserued in fines fol. 41. a ✿ A fine of diuers things with render to the conusors for life and with diuers remainders ouer after the● death in generall tayle for default of issue ●o the c. 146 Adiunctes of Concordes 147 A licence of alienacion of landes holden in capite 148 A licence to alien in Mortmaine 149 A Quod permittat finem leuari 150 The writ of Ad quod damnum 151 Of a Pardon for alienacion 152 Of the Dedimus potestatem to take recognizance of a fine 153 The Dedimus● potestatem thereof fol. 44. a The Praecipe and Concord which m●st be filed to the Dedimus potestatem fol. 44. b Of the Queenes siluer 154 Obseruations necessarie at the knowledging of fines 155 How and when cognisaunces of fines must be certified and what may hinder the same 156 Of thinrollement of writtes of couenant Dedimus potestatem and knowledges thereupon which is tearmed the foote of the fine 157 Of the Note of the fine 158 Quid Iuris clamat 159 What persons may obtayne attournement by Quid Iuris clamat and what not 160 What persons bee compelable to atturne in a Quid Iuris clamat and what not 161 What pleas will barre the plaintife of atturnement 162 What processe will lie in a Quid iuris clamat 163 The manner of the writte in a Quid iuris clamat 164 The distresse in a Quid Iuris clamat fol. 49. b. Diuers formes of Entries if the parties appeare after the daie of the retur●e fol. 49. b Atturney in Quid Iuris clamat 165 The writ of Quem redditum reddit 166 The writ of Per quaeserui●ia 167 Vpon whose alienation the tenant is not compel●ble to atturne 168 Against whom a Per quaeseruitia lieth whom not 169 Of the ingrossing of fines 170 Of the tabling of fines ingrossed 171 How many Proclamacions are to bee made vpon fines and when 172 Of Proclamacions of fines at the assises and generall Sessions how they must be certified 173 Of the Inrolement of al the partes of fines after the ingrossing thereof proclamacions passed 174 Of the Exemplification of the partes of fines inrolled 175 How Fines executory bee executed 176 The manner of execucion of fines by writte 177 Of exccucion of Fines by Scire facias 178 Certayne cases of the nature and forme of a Scire facias vpon a fine 179 What fines with proclamacions barre the issue in tayle 180 What time after a fine leuied and Proclamacion made any man hath to enter or clayme by action or otherwise and who are thereby barred and who not 181 How priuies in blood are bounde in fines 182 Of Estraungers hauing present right and no impediment 183 Of Estraungers hauing present right and impediments 184 Of Estraungers hauing diuers defectes 185 Of Estraungers without impediments haue future right for cause precedent 186 Of Estraungers with impediment hauing future right 187 Of Estraungers hauing no right before the Fine 188 Of Estrāgers hauing diuers future rights by diuerse titles 189 Estrangers to fines hauing neyther presēt nor future right to the tenements in the fine at the leuying therof but onely vnto rents common c. issuing out of the same 190 Pleas to auoid Fines 191 Of a writ of Error 192 Of a Certiorari 193 A Mittimus of the transcript of a fine out of the Chauncerie into the Common place 194 A Mittimus 195 A Mittimus for the foote of a fine fol. 72. b Whether any but he which reuerseth a fine may take benefit thereby 196 A writte of Warrantia chartae 197 Recoueries OF Recoueries for assurances commonly called Common or feigned Recoueries Sect. 1 Of what thinges writtes of Entre may be brought and by what names 2 Of what things a writ of Entre lieth not 3 A Certiorari to the Executor of the Iustice before whom the warrants were acknowledged 4 A recouery with single voucher 5 A recouery with double voucher 6 A recouery with treble voucher 7 A recouery of an Aduowson 8 All the partes of a recouerie in a writ of Right de Praecipe in capite exemplified 9 Remissio Curiae in breui de Recto 10 The Exemplification of a recouerie inrolled according to the Statute of 23. Eliz. cap. 3. 11 Perdon alien̄ super te●● per breue de ingressu recuperat̄ 12 Exemplificacion of a recouerie with double voucher out of the Prothonataries office 13 An other of the like effect 14 A Dedimus potestatē to take knowledge of a warrant of Atturney of the vouchee 15 The manner of the returne fol. 83. a A Dedimus potestatem de attornat̄ rec in breui de ingressu super disseisinam in ●e post pro tenen● 16 The manner of the Returne fol. 83. a Aliud
cuius rei testimonium c. And vpon this Commission a writ shall be sent to the Shirife to returne a panel before the Commissioners at a certaine day before them limitted vnto him by their Precept Thus A Venire facias to the Shirife vpon the same Commission REgina Vicecomit̄ c. Praecipimus tibi quod summon̄ per bonos Sect. 202 summonit̄ xij tam Milites quam alios probos legales homines de visinet̄ de N. quod sint coram dilectis fidelibus nostris A. B. C. hijs quos sibi associauerimus ad certos diem locum quos ijdem A. B. C. tibi scire facient parati sacram̄to recognoscere si F. filius haeres C. apud N. natus in ecclesia eiusdem villae baptiz fuit qui ratione minoris aetatis suae in custodia nostra existit plenae aetatis sit vt dicit necne interim ad p̄d ' ecclesiam villam accedant vt veritatem aetatis p̄d ' diligenter inquirant nomina eorum imbreuiari faciant Et sci fac E. S. custodibus terr̄ praed ' her̄ quam tunc sint ibi ad audiend ' illam recogn̄ ad ostend ' si quid obstare debeat quare praed ' I. terras tenementa sua habere non debeat habeas ibi nomina illorum duodecim hoc breue Teste c. Whereby appeareth that the committee of the King shall be warned to be there But if the King haue the Ward in his owne hands then this clause Et scire facias E. S. custodibus c. shall be omitted in the writ Of Homage done or respited WHen a writ de Aetate probanda is executed and returned and Sect. 203. that the heire hath proued his age then he must do homage or agree with the Queene to respect the same and pay reliefe before liuery sued and a writ testifying homage to be done when the heire is at full age at the death of his auncestors Regina Eschaetor̄ c. Sciatis quod cepimus homagium I. de H. filij hered ' B. de H. defuncti de omnibus terris tenem̄tis que idem B. pater suus tenuit de nobis in capite die quo obijt ei terras ten̄ta illa reddidimus Et ideo tibi praecipimus quod accepta securitat̄ a praef I. de rationabili releuio suo nobis soluend ' ad Scaccarium nr̄um eid ' I. de omnibus terris tenem̄tis praed ' de quibus praef B. pater suus fuit seisitus in dn̄ico suo vt de feodo in balliua tua die quo obijt queque occasione mortis eiusd ' B. capt̄ sunt in manum nr̄am plenam seisinam habere facias Saluo iure cuiuslibet salua Matildae que fuit vxor B. rationabili dote sua ipsam de terris tenementis praed ' secundum legem consuetudinem regni nostri Angliae contingent̄ ei per nos assignand ' Teste meipsa c. But if the heire were in ward and hath proued his age the writ of the homage receiued must be thus Regina c. Quia N. de E. fil' haeres R. de C. defuncti qui de domino Ed. nuper Rege Angl. auo nostro tenuit in capite aetatem suā corā te sufficienter probauit sicut per probationem de mandato nostro captam in Cancellar̄ nostram retornat̄ est compertum ceperimus homagium ipsius N. de omnibus terris tenem̄tis quae idem R. pater suus tenuit de dicto auo nostro in capite die quo obijt ei terras tenementa illa reddidimus Ideo tibi p̄cipimus quod eidem N. de omnibus terris tenementis praedict ' de quibus praedict ' R. pater suus fuit seisitus in dominico suo vt de feodo in balliua tua die quo obijt per mortem eiusdem R. in manum dicti aui nostri capta fuer̄ in manu nostr̄ sic capta existunt plenam seisinam habere facias saluo iure cuiuslibet Teste c. Diem claufit extremum post mortem felonis WHen the King hath the lands of the Wife by reason that her Sect. 204. Husband was outlawed for felonie then after the Husbands death the Diem clausit extremum is such Quia A. cuius terrae tenem̄ta que ipse tenuit de iure haereditate N. nuper vxoris suae ad huc superstitit ad manus domini E. nuper Regis Angl ' 4. post conquestum occasione cuiusdam vtlagariae in ipsum A. pro quadam felonia vnde indictatus fuit vt dicit̄ promulg ' deuener̄ in manu domini H. c. patris nostri extiterunt sic in manu nostra existunt diem clausit extremum c. Tibi praecipimus quod per sacramētum c. inquiras que ten̄ta ratione feloniae praed ' ad manus ipsorum nuper regis deuener̄ ad huc in manu nostra sic existunt de quo vel de quibus teneantur per quod seruitium qualiter quo modo quantum terrae tenem̄ta illa valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus iuxta verum valorem ●orundem quis vel quiterras tenementa illa a tempore perpetrationis feloniae praed ' occupauit vel occupauerunt exitus proficua inde percepit vel perceperunt quo titulo qualiter quomodo inquisit̄ c. Nihil simul natum perfectum W. WEST FINIS The Table to the Second parte of SYMBOLEOGRAPHY the new addicions hauing this marke ✿ set before them Of Fines and Concordes THe Definition Sect. 1 The parties 2 What persons may be cognisors what not 3 Of Infancy 4 Defects of the body 5 Impediments legall or cyuill 6 Of legall Subiection 7 Of Couerture 8 Villeins 9 Persons dead in Law 10 Imprisonment 11 Of persons hauing ioynt power 12 Of the ●states of Cognisors 13 How Co●isors ought to be named 14 What persons may be cognisees and by what names c. 15 Before what persons they may be knowledged 16 Of a Dedimus potestatem de fine leuando 17 I●dges to whom cognis●nces are to bee certified and before whom they are to be recorded 18 The diuision of Fines 19 Of Fines executed executory 20 Of single and double Fines 21 Of the parts of the writ of couenāt 22 Of writs whereupon they are leuied 23 Whereof they be grounded 24 Of what things they may be leuied 25 By what names things may passe 26 Of the names of the place wherein the lands do lie 27 How seuerall thinges must bee placed in w●its of Couenant 28 Of Adiuncts proper to the writs whereof fines be leuied 29 The seuerall formes of Concordes 30 Writs of Couenant of Common 31 A Fine of land a Shepewalke 32 Of wood and Foldage 33 Of Wood. 34 Of 2 parts