Executor prosecureth as Executor c. and for the Testator and there it ought to have a resemblance of the Regionall debt and although that the Statute appoints that the sayl shall be to the party as Altham Baron remembred yet here as the pleading purports the Bayl is to the aforesaid Executor which implies a legall dependency upon the first suit Then it hath been granted and the Law is so that if an Executor recover a debt which was due to the Testator and hath judgement for it now if you will have an action upon this judgement this ought to be in the detinet because it is a legall pursuance of a thing given to the Testator and not voluntary as a bond for further security or assurance and so here the Bayl being pursuant and compulsory but by 5. E. 3. if it be voluntary then it ought to be put in the Kings Bench to an Executor which is to be resembled to our case if an Executor bring debt upon a Bayl it ought to be as Executor and not as I. S. cleerely Altham the Bayl in the Kings Bench is upon the originall suit and so it is not here wherefore c. to which it was not answered but for that matter it was adjourned see H. 6. in the Kings Bench if a Feme c. take Husband and one of the Debtors of the Testator promise the husband if he will forbear his suite to pay the debt if the Husband will commence his action upon this promise it ought to be in the name of his Wife also because the action pursueth the Originall debt Williams contr it was agreed that if the Law were such that the Action ought to be in the detinet only then the bringing of it in the debet and detinet is such a Ieofaile as is not aided by the Statute of 18. Eliz. Nichols case and Chamberlains case Cook lib. 5. Tanfield chief Baron said in this case that it is proper that the Action ought to be brought in the detinet only but as our case is here is no issue joyned because here is not a negative and an affirmative for the declaration is that he oweth and detaineth and the Bar whereupon the issue is joyned is that he oweth not so where if his Action ought to be in the detinet then there is not any Nâ—gative and so no issue which was not denyed at another day they agreed that the action ought to have bin in the detinet only and therefore judgement was given that the Plaintif take nothing by his bill Sir Henry Browns case touching the Countesse of Pembrook SIR Henry Browns case wherein Hawkins and Moore were parties was this the Plaintif declared of an ejectment of the Mannor of Kiddington Dâ—le Sale and doth not mention them to be adjacent to any Ville and also of an 100. Acres of Land lying in the same Ville of S. and that upon not guilty pleaded the Iury at the Assises at Oxon were ready and then the Defendant pleaded that the Plaintif after the last continuance had entred into a Close called Well Close parcell of the Tenements mentioned with conclusion and this in the Declaration he is ready to aver and demanded judgement if it c. and this was before Yelveton Iudge of Nisi Prius there and now the Plea here was debated And 1. in this case it was upon conference with all the Iudges allowed that this plea may be pleaded at the Assises well enough and the Iudge there accepting of it had done well but as Tanfield chief Baron said the Iudges may allow it or not for if they perceive that it is Dilatory they may refuse it for it is in their discretion and therefore c. But by Dodderidge the Kings Serjeant the Iudge of Nisi prius is not Iudge thereof if it be well pleaded or not but is to give day to the Parties in Court where the Suit depends to maintain this Plea for he is only appointed Iudge to take the issué and upon such Plea he ought to discharge the Iury of the matter in issue and record the Plea and this is all his duty and by him in this case here is a Discontinuance for the parties have no day given upon the Roll as it ought to be for the day in bank in judgement of Law is all one with the day of Nisi prius and this is of course given to the Parties to hear Iudgement only concerning the matter in issue and here is other matter and therefore the Iudge c. Nota that in all Cases where a thing is pleaded triable before other Iudges the Iudge before whom it depents ought to give day to the Parties to be before the Iudges where the matter is tryable 12. E. 3. Voucher 115. and Title Day 25. and 34. and Assise pla 14. a Lord demands Cognizance of Pleas day ought to be given to the Franchises or otherwise it is a discontinuance of the Nisi prius for there ought to be a speciall day for the parties here to hear judgment in this Plea 10. H. 7. fo 26. so if at the Nisi prius a protection be cast the Iudges shall give day to the Parties in Bank to hear judgment if this protection shalve allowed or not for the Iudg of Nisi prius is no Iudg therof Also the Iudg in this case ought to have discharged the Iury it appears not here that he had done so therefore upon the whole matter it is a discontinuance but admitting that here was no discontinuance it seemeth that the plea was good and I agree that in all cases of Pleas issuable the plea ought to be expresly shewed or that which Tantamounts and here is shewed that which Tantamounts for when the Plantiffe in his Action had shewed the names of the Mannors and the Towns in which the acres lies then the Venue to try it for every parcel shall come de vicineto from all together and by consequence it is reasonable that the Venue for the trial of one particular to be parcel or not parcel shall come from all for if the plea in this case were that the Plantiff hath entred into the premises this had been good and then if it be good for the general it seemeth it should be good for every particular also it is clear that two may be parcel of all the three Mannors as in this case it is admitted to be parcel of all the premises by the demurrer if so c. Coventry the plea here is not good for the plea is to the writ and the conclusion ought to be pursuant to the premises of the plea or otherwise the plea is not good 36. H. 6. if a man plead to the writ and conclude to the Action it is evil 20. Eliz. Dyer 361. also the plea is not good because it is not shewed where the land lies wherein the entrie is alledged and therefore if the Plantiffe had denied it then is there no
the Plantiffe shall be outed to take advantage of a bad plea and so upon the whole matter it seems that judgement shall be given in the ejectione firme for the Plantiffe Altham second Baron to the same purpose there needs no special day to be given by the Iudge of nisi prius although that it be upon a Collateral matter or plea for by the record in this Court a day is given to the Iurors conditionally viz. if the Iustices of nisi prius at the Assises do not come c. but to the parties it is given absolutely fee 6. Assises pla 7. and L. 5. E. 4. fo 2 3 and 4. where there are several cases to this purpose see 9. E. 3.21 H. 6. fo 10. if the Defendant make default at nisi prius a new distress shall issue to the same Iurors to be here in Bank and 3. H. 6. fo 8. and 9. if a man appear and plead he shall never take advantage of any discontinuance Also it seemeth that the plea is not good and to say that the word Tenementorum refers only to the odde acres and not to the Mannor it seemeth that it refers to all but if it shall be taken to refer only to the odde Acres yet this is not good and this is proved by the Book in L. 5. E. 4. fo 110. for a plea to the writ ought to be alwayes certain and this case also answereth that which hath been said that the demurrer confesseth the matter against the Plantiffe for I say if you plead a release in Bar of a debt and shew no place where the release was made this demurrer is no confession of the release except that the cause of the demurrer fall out against me wherefore in respect that the plea is not good and is peremptory to the Defendant as other pleas to the writs are for this cause I conceive Iudgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Snig Baron accordingly that the plea is not good for the not shewing of a place certain wherein the entrie was as by the matter of discontinuance it seemeth that the day of nisi prius is all one with the day in Bank and therefore there needs no day to be given and for that the death of any of the parties after the verdict and before the day in Bank shall not stay the judgement the Books which were cited on the other parts are different from our case for there the suit was adjourned into another Court and the Courts in the Country are not as the Courts here and therefore it was necessary that in such cases a day ought to be given for the manner of pleading we ought to give judgement against him who pleads the plea notwithstanding the matter admitted by the Plantiffe wherefore judgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Tanfield chief Baron accordingly the plea whereupon the issue was joyned was for three Mannors and lands in three Towns and entrie is alledged to be in two Closes called c. parcel of the premises in Bar of the Action if the Defendant in liew of not guiltie plead an affirmative plea and at nisi prius he pleads another plea then the entrie ought to be that the Defendant relicta verificatione c. but in our case such an entrie needs not the plea here ought to be more certain then others for two reasons First it is pleaded in abatement of the writ Secondly it is in delay of the Plantiffe and to which no rejoynder can be made as to the plea it seemeth it is not good for by 10. H. 7. fo 16. a quare impedit was brought by an Administrator of a grantee of a next avoidance and shewed that the Bishop of Sarum granted Administration to him the Defendant saith that the intestate had bona notabilia in divers Diocesses and so the Administration void and shewed in what Diocesses the goods were but shewed no place where they were and therefore it was adjudged that the plea was not good because he did not shew a place c. see 2. R. 3. and 5. H. 7. accordingly and this plea shall not be amended by a rejoynder as is 21. H. 7. also to say parcel of the premises this cannot be intended that parcel of three Mannors or of the three Towns in certain and therefore the plea cannot be good because there is no place from whence the venue should come and it is inconvenient that the venue should come from all if the place where c. lies but in one Town for as it appears in Arundels case Cook lib. 6. if a Mannor be alledged to be within a Town the venue shall come from the Town because it is a place more certain as to the general demurrer that the plea aforesaid is lesse sufficient in Law c. in 18. E. 4. it appears that in debt upon an Obligation the Plantiffe doth not shew a place where the Obligation c. and the Defendant confessed the Action yet notwithstanding this fault Iudgement ought to be given against the Defendant but this differeth from our case because here is an express confession and in our case here is not also here needs not to be shewed any special cause of demurrer but advantage may be taken well enough upon the general demurrer but if the demurrer were that the plea amounted to the general issue only there ought to be shewed a special cause or otherwise no advantage to be taken and he cited the agreement of seven Iudges to be at Serjeants Inne in Fleetstreet this Term in a writ of Error in Dickensons case the case intended was between White and Priest parties in an Action upon Trover and conversion and the Record thereof is in the Kings Bench Trin. 7. Jac. Rot. 843. as to the matter in Law touching the discontinuance for want of a doy given by the Iudge of nisi prius it seemeth there is no discontinuance in this case for there needs not to be any day given as our case is yet in some case the Iudge of nisi prius ought to give day but that shall not be a new day but only the day within contained and that but in special cases viz. if the issue be joyned and at the shewing of the evidence there is a demurrer here the Iudge giveth to the party the day within contained as it appears in 10 H. 8. Rot. 835. and Hill 11. H. 8 accordingly in the Common Pleas but Hill 36. Eliz Rot. 448. upon non-suit at the Assises no day given so if the party confess the Action and so if there be a bill of exceptions yet no day shall be given Hill 38. Eliz. Rot. 331. in the Kings Bench but peradventure it will be said that these Authorities do not match with our case because it is upon a material plea but I say it is all one and therefore in case of a release pleaded after the last continuance this is recorded and yet no day given as appears Hill 4. H. 8.
the letters Patents is not material for he said it seemed to him that in rei veritate the particular estate cannot be sufficiently surrendred by this bare giving up of the letters Patents by the Tenant for life as it appears by Walshes Case cited in Altonwoods Case Cook lib. 1. and therefore he insisted not upon that Secondly he argued that a recital in the Kings Patents of a thing material if it be false and come by information of the partie is all one as a false Consideration and not otherwise and he said that it appears by Brook tit Patents pla 100. that all Considerations valuable although they are false do not avoid a Patent as where the King grants lands prodecem libris sibi solutis although that in facto this is false yet the grant is good also it appears by 26. H. 8. and Sir Thomas Wrothes Case and by 21. E. 4 fol. 48. that a consideration executed avoideth not a grant although it be false but he said that it appears by the Case of 18. Eliz. Dyer 352. that if the King make a lease in Consideration of a surrender of a precedent lease which in truth was void by some that the King may avoid the lease but others contrary because it was not done upon the suggestion of the partie but for a consideration executed and the surrender of the estate precedent was the material cause and consideration of the grant and he said that although in this Case there be not a good surrender of the letters Patents yet the Consideration being only the surrendring of the estate that is not material for as it is said in Altonwoods Case Cook lib. 1. if the King in Consideration only of the surrender of precedent Patents makes a grant in this Case there needs no averment of an estate for the surrender is not material of the letters Patents Also it appears Cholmleys Case Cook lib. 2. that if the King recite an estate to be made with Condition although that at the same time of the recital this is not Conditional yet if once this were Conditional the King is not deceived although the condition be now released and he cited also the Lord Chandos Case Cook lib. 6. where it appears that if the King recite a thing untruly which cometh not of the information of the partie this shall not hurt the Grant except it be part of the consideration and he said that Harris and Wings Case differs from this Case for there the King had a Tenant who held a Tenement by the yearly rent of six pounds and another Tenement of him by the yearly rent of nineteen pounds and he made a new lease of both those to the said Tenant without any recital of the former leases reserving but Nineteen pounds for both and there it was adjudged that the second lease was not good but he said that the reason of that judgement was not because the antient lease was not recited but by reason that a loss in the rent came to the King and so by intendment he was deceived and this was also upon the matter the reason of the resolution of Barwicks Case and also in Mack-Williams Case for there was not a surrender of the estate as the King intended which ought to be but in our Case the estate is well surrendred clearly and he thought that these words modo habens may well stand with the Kings intent aswel to a surrender in Law as to an actual surrender The Attorney generall to the contrary First for the recital that the information of the partie was that the King should have an actual surrender and so was the Kings intent collected upon the information of the partie Secondly that here is not any actual surrender Thirdly that by consequence it followeth that the Queen is deceived Fourthly here is no surrender in Law in this Case Fifthly although here were a surrender in Law yet that is not sufficient to make the grant good to the first point be said that alwayes a familiar construction ought to be made of the Kings grants and therefore if the King grant all his portion of Tithes in D. this doth not pass his Parsonage in D. although he had no other Tithes there so if the King grant all his Titheable lands within the Mannor of B. although the lands of Coppiholders are parcel of the demeasnes of the Mannor of B. yet these lands in such Case do not pass Cook lib. 1. Bozuns Case and Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods Case fo 46. aâ—so it appears by the pleading in Plowden in Wrothesleys case and in Adams case and also in Fulmerstons case that although the antient particular estate be gone in Law by the acceptance of a new estate yet it ought not to be pleaded as a surrender and therefore it shall not be construed that the King intended such a surrender which pleaders in their pleading do not accompt a surrender also he said that in regard that the Queen saith quam quidem sursum redditionem acceptamus it seems by that that she did not intend a surrender in Law and therefore accepted nothing but gave an estate c. and must be meant such a surrender to which she is partie by her acceptance also where the words are modo habens et gaudens and therefore it is inferred that the Queen intended an estate containing in the Patentee this is true for although that the Queen intended an actual surrender precedent to be made by the Patentee yet his estate continues against the Queen untill an acceptance of a surrender by her although also this may be called a surrender like unto a surrender of a benefice untill an acceptance by the ordinary also although it was found that the Queen made a new lease or letters Patents of the said Land to the said Lord Seymor yet it appears not that the new letters Patents were accepted by the Lord Seymor until a moneth after the making of them when he made a lease to Johnson and until that time without question there was no surrender either in fact or in Law and where it hath been objected that these words modo habens implie only the present time he said that the word modo will alwayes signifie such a time as the Verb with which it is joyned will signifie and therefore Cicero saith modo hoc malum in hanc Rempublicam invasit also the words Jam et nunc are of such signification as this word modo is and these words are alwayes governed by the Verb as Jam venit c. so in the Bible the story of Naaman and Gehesey Jam modo venerunt duo behold two young men are come to me c. and as to the second point it is clear that here is not any actual surrender for the King cannot take by an actual surrender without matter of Record And therefore it was holden in the Lord Stanleys Case that the King took nothing although his officers by his command did
a place priviledged for Venison and not a place certain from whence a Venue may come and it was said that in the 16. Eliz. in Banco Regis in the Lord Padgets Case a Trespass was brought of 3. Acres of land in Beer-wood and the venire facias was awarded de vicineto de Beer-wood and the chief Baron Tanfield said that in this case the venire facias was not well awarded and so it was holden in the Kings Bench and therefore he would be advised in this Case and after at another day it was moved and then the chief Baron said that he had perused the Books touching the Case in question and that it appears by the 47. E. 3 fo 6. by Fuchden that a forrest is many times out of any Parish and therefore shall not be intended to be within any Parish and he said that the Defendant in this case ought to have pleaded that the forrest was within such a Parish and demanded judgement if he shall be answered without alledging it to be within a Parish and that otherwise judgement ought to be given for the Plantiff and so he said that it was now lately adjudged in the Kings Bench where a man was indicted for Hunting in a forrest and a venire facias was awarded de Foresta and good and he vouched also the 8th of H. 8. in Savages Case and the 7. of E. 3. and Baron Altham Accorded and he vouched also the Book of the 18. of E. 3. fo 36. where it is said expresly that if shall not be intended to be within a Parish except it be shewed in the pleading on the other side and he vouched also 27. H. 8. fo 12. and then all the Barons agreed that judgement shall be given for the Plantiff Airie and Alcock THe Case was argued again between Airie and Alcock concerning the misnaming of Corporations which was argued before as appeareth fo and Thomas Stephens the Princes Attorney argued that the lease is void by the reason of the misnosmer and he observed the Misnosmer to be principally in these two material things First where the foundation was by the name of the Hall or the Colledge of the Queen c. the presentation of the Parson and also the confirmation of the lease made by the name of the Queens Colledge c. omitting the word Scholers which should immediately precede the word Aulae Reginae which he held a material variance the second variance he observed to be thus that where the foundation was by the name of the Hall or Colledge of the Queen in Oxford the presentation and confirmation of the lease was by the name of Provost of Queens Colledge in the Vniversitie of Oxford so that the word Vniversitie was added which was not in the foundation and to prove that these variances were material for the avoiding of leases he cited the case often remembred in the argument before which conceived Merton Colledge in Oxford and the parties to this case were Fish and Boys which was in Trin. 30. Eliz. Banco R. Rot. 953. wherein the case was that the said Colledge was incorporated by the name of Warden and Scolers of the house or Colledge of Scholers of Merton in the Vniversitie of Oxford and that they made a lease by the name of the Warden and Scholers of the house or Colledge of Merton Colledge in Oxford so that the word Scholers which did immediately preceed the word Merton in the foundation is omitted in the lease as in the principal Case also where the word Vniversitie was added in their Corporation the same was omitted in the lease whereas on the other side this was not mentioned in Airies Case to be contained in the foundation but added in the lease and he said that for these variances in Merton Colledge Case the lease was holden to be void which he held to be all one with our case but he agreed that in divers cases variances in addition of surpluage shall not be hurtful in a lease as appears by 21. and 22. E. 4. and therefore though in the principal Case the word fellows was added in the lease which was not in the foundation he would not argue that this should be any variance to hurt the lease Hern Baron seemed that the verdict is not sufficient to move him to give judgement for the Plantiff for he said although it be admitted that the lease by reason of the variance is not good yet the verdict doth not sufficiently finde that Doctor Airie is a person who may take advantage of the invaliditie thereof for it appeared not of whose presentation Doctor Airie came to have the Parsonage for although that it should be admitted as it is said in Heckers Case 14. H. 8. that here might be Parson of his own presentment yet it is not found that he did so here and he said that in every quare Impedit it ought to be expressed what person made the presentation to the variance he thought the lease to be good notwithstanding that for he said that the word Scholers is not added in the foundation as a part of the name of a Corporation but only to express what kinde of Colledge this should be viz. to distinguish it from a Merchants Hall or Colledge and therefore though the word Scholers be put in yet we properly call it the Queens Colledge and not the Queen Scholers Colledge for it is not of necessitie that the Scholers of the said Colledge should he the Queens Scholers but that they are Scholers of the Queens Colledge and he vouched 2. H. 7. Fitz. Titles Grants and as to the case of Merton Colledge cited by Stephens he said that in that Case there was a main imperfection in the verdict which as he thought might move the said judgement to be given as it was and not the matter in Law for they did not finde that the lessor was warden of the Colledge at the time of the lease made also he vouched Cook lib. 6. Sir Moil Finches Case and he vouched Sir Peter Seawels Case where in a lease made by a Corporation that these words ex fundatione Regis E. 6. which were part of their foundation were omitted and yet the lease good and he cited also the case of the Bishop of Peter Bourough where the Corporation was by the name of Episcopi de Burgo Sancti Petri and a lease was made by the name of the Bishop of Peter Bourough and the lease good and that no difference in substance and if a Corporation were made by the name of Scholers and fellows and in a lease the word fellows is omitted yet it is good and therefore in the principal Case it seemeth that the omission of the word fellows is not material also he said that the addition of the word Vniversitie which is no part of the Corporation is not fatal to the lease for in the Lord Norths Case 36. 37. Eliz. the addition of the word Vniversitie or the omission thereof was holden
Earl of C. now dead and found that by fine and recovery he conveyed an estate in this land to the use of his brother that now is Earl of C. in tail the remainder over to c. and died having a daughter now Countess of Dorset who moved by Dodderidge the Kings Serjeant in the Court of wards that this office was insufficient for by the pretence of the said Countess the first estate given to the Cliffords by E. 2. was a general tail and then the fine levied and the recovery suffered by the last Earl her father is no Bar but that it may discend to this Countess as his heir in tail and therefore Serjeant Dodderidge said to the Lord Treasurer then present in Court that if this should be allowed that Iurors may finde generally a grant made and shew no quallitie of the conveyance nor any place or time but if this were a grant of reversion or of a possession he said that many men by such offices should have their lands given away whereunto they had no means for uncertainties to take a Traverse and as to insufficiency of this office he said that the insufficiency therein consisted first in matter Secondly in form for the insufficiency of the matter is two fold First because that the office findes only that King H. 6. by sufficient conveyance not limited any manner of conveyances nor any qualitie thereof which ought to be shewed and it is material because we may give a different answer thereunto for against letters Patents we may plead one thing and against an other conveyance we may plead another thing and so our answer differeth according to the qualitie of the conveyance Secondly it is insuffient in matter because it is found that H. 6. granted the possession and that he granted the reversion nec non manerium which is repugnant for if the King grant a reversion then no possession passeth and if he pass a possession then no reversion passeth and therefore it is repuguant to say that he granted Reversionem nec non manerium which implieth a possession also he said that his exceptions to the office as to the Mannor of it are two-fold First the office doth finde any time of the grant made by H. 6. and this is material for the grants upon Record take their force from the time of their date as appears by Ludfords Case in Plowdens Commentaries and he said that at this time the case is material to be exprest in respect that H. 6. was for part of his reign deposed and after restored and it might be in the time that he was deposed by Edward the fourth but unto that it was answered by the attorney of the wards that the office found that H. 6. granted c. that it was not in the time when he was deposed the second insufficiency in the Mannor is because it is not found at what place H. 6. made the said grant and that this is material to be found by office he vouched 36. H. 6.32 and he said that it is very requisite that in such offices all circumstances ought to be expressed in as ample certaintie as in a declaration so that the partie prejudiced by the office may know where to search for the conveyance but the Attorney general said that there needs no such express finding of all circumstances by a Iury as it ought to be in pleading for it shall be taken by intendment in divers cases but yet he said that it appears by 1. Eliz. Dyer 174. it is a good plea to say that A. granted a reversion c. to the King without shewing how much more in office which is the Act of the Iurors and therefore Serjeant Harris cited the Book of 14 15. H. 7.22 where an office found an estate tail without mention of the Donor and yet good and the Attorney general said also that it appears by the finding of the Iury in Fulwoods Case Cook lib. 4. that the Iury need not precisely to finde all circumstances for if there be convenient certaintie the residue shall be supplied by intendment as it is there said and the Attorney said that whereas it hath been objected that the issue is evil because it is found that H. 6. granted the reversion and also the Mannor and Castle aforesaid and doth not limit incertaintie that the King granted a reversion or that he granted a Mannor in possession to that he said that it is clear that the King may after recital of a particular estate grant the reversion nec non terras sive manerium and then be the land in lease or be the lease void in Law yet the land shall pass and this is his course alwayes in granting the Kings lands to others and therefore the Iury did well to finde the truth without determining what should pass for admit that there were no estate precedent in being yet by this finding it appears plainly that the Mannor and Castle should pass by the grant in the time of H. 6. to which the Lord Cook agreed for Law and so he said it was his use when he was Attorney general to which also the Lord Treasurer Flemming chief Justice and Tanfield chief Baron agreed and the Attorney general said that his use was if A. had a lease from the King of B. acre which by effluction is to determine in Anno. 1612. and the said A. doubting that this lease was not good in Law prayed to have a new lease that in this case he recited the first lease in the new letters Patents and thereby granted the land for twentie years from c. which shall be in Anno 1612. or from the sooner determination of the former lease and the Iudges allowed it to be good and Dodderidge Serjeant said that after the difference taken between the pleading and the finding of the Iury it seemed to him that there is a great difference between them but after the finding of the Iury upon an office as our case is and a pleading there is no difference for the office is a thing to which an answer may be made but a verdict given upon issue joyned between the parties hath no other proceeding but to judgement immediately and therefore such a verdict shall be divers times supplied by the construction of the Iudges but a verdict upon an office ought to be as certain as an indictment because the partie may Traverse and to prove that upon such uncertain offices there is no remedy by Traverse he vouched the case of 3. H. 4 5. upon an insufficient office after the outlawry of A. and no time is found of the outlawry and he observed out of the said book that the partie outed by the said insufficient office had no remedy by Traverse but was compelled to make a motion to the Court and after this case for difficultie was referred to the two chief Iustices and the chief Baron to consider upon who the said Term at Serjeants Inne appointed it to be
and therefore he vouched a case between Scockwood and Sear where a man devised part of his land to his wife for life and another part of his land until Michaelmas next ensuing his death and further by the said will he devised to his younger son all his lands not devised to his wife and adjudged that by the said words the younger son shall have only that parcel which was devised to the wife for life and not that which was devised unto her till Michaelmas and yet by Popham it appeareth that his intent was otherwise viz. that all that should go to his younger son so there ought not to be a strained construction made against the heir and so in our case the words being that if he die without issue c. that then it shall go to his wife herein as much as he had issue at the time of his death it cannot be said that he died without issue but that he is dead without issue and this appeareth by the pleading in the Lord Bartleys case in Plowden and he vouched also a case in the Kings Bench 4. Jac. between Miller and Robinson where a man devised to Thomas his son and if he die without issue having no son there it was holden that if the devisee had issue a son yet if he had none at the time of his death the devisee in the remainder shall have it yet he was once a person having a son and so in our case there was a person who did not die without issue and he vouched also the case of Bold and Mollineux in 28. H. 8. Dyer fo 15.3 when a man deviseth to his wife for life paying a yearly rent to his sister and that if the rent be not paid that the sister may distrain it seems to me that this is a conditional estate in the wife notwithstanding the limitation of the distress and he vouched 18. Eliz. in Dyer 348. which as he said proved the case expresly for there in such a case it is adjudged that the devisee of the rent may after demand thereof distrain and yet the heir may enter for the not payment of the rent although it were never demanded so that the subsequent words of distraining do not qualifie the force of the condition although there be there an express condition and in our case but a condition implyed and he said that it seemed reasonable that such a construction for the distress and condition also shall stand as appeareth by divers cases that upon such words the Law will allow a double remedy and therefore he vouched Gravenors case in the Common Pleas Hill 36. Eliz. Rot. 1322. where a lease was made by Magdalen Colledge to husband and wife so that if the husband alien that the lease shall be void and provided that they do not make any under-tenants and to this purpose he vouched the case of the Earl of Pembrook cited in the Lord Cromwels case Cook lib. 2. where the words amounted to a covenant and a coudition and if this word paying should not be construed to be a condition then it were altogether void and idle and such a construction ought not to be made in a will and he conceived that this rent ought to be paid by the wife without any demand upon the pain of the condition and therefore he vouched 22. H. 6. fo 57.14 E. 4 21. E. 4. by Hussey and 18. Eliz. Dyer 348. vouched before and so it was resolved as he said in the Court of Wards in Somings case where a man made a devise paying a rent to a stranger this ought to be paid without demand and he said that the Common case is proved when a feofment is made upon condition that the feoffee shall do an act to a stranger this ought to be done in convenient time without request by the stranger and so here it seemeth although a demand ought to be made by the sister yet the wife ought to give notice to the sister of the Legacy so that she may make a demand and therefore he vouched Warder and Downings case where a man devised that his eldest son upon entry should pay to the younger son such a summe of money here the eldes brother ought to give notice at what time he will enter to the intent that the younger brother may be provided to make a demand Edwards of the Inner Temple contrary First it seemeth that by this limitation the wife ought to retain the land until the issue of the devisor should have come to the age of 18. years for this a time certain and as it is construed upon such words in Borastons case Cook lib. 3. that the Executors there have an interest certain so it should be construed here to refer to a certainty which is until the time by computation that the issue should have attained to 18. years and the rather in this case in respect the devisor had otherwise disposed of the land until the son should have accomplished the said age Secondly it seemeth that the wife hath an estate for life not conditional in so much as the words are not joyned in the case the 18. Eliz. Dyer hath been vouched but that was upon an express condition but here it is by implication and then the clause of distress taketh away the force of the implication which otherwise might be thereupon inferred and therefore in 5. Eliz. Dyer it appeareth that the word Proviso annexed to other words makes it no condition in judgement of Law and so in 14. Eliz. Dyer 311. and he vouched also 18. Eliz. Dyer Greens case that if a man deviseth lands to his friends paying to his wife with a clause of distress this is no condition as it is adjudged Thirdly it seemeth that this summe to be paid to the sister is a rent and therefore ought to be demanded or otherwise in judgement of Law the condition shall not be broken and the 21. E. 4. the case of an obligation to perform covenants c. and a case between Wentworth and Wentworth 37. Eliz. that a demand ought to be made for a rent which is granted in liew of Dower for the wife brought a writ of Dower for the land of her husband the Tenant pleaded that she accepted a rent out of the land in liew of her Dower and the wife replied that the said rent was granted upon condition that if it were not paid at certain dayes that it should be void and that she should have Dower of the land and she said that the rent was not paid at the dayes c. but shewed not in her pleading any demand to be made and therefore it was holden evil pleading for such a rent ought to be demanded or otherwise the condition is not broken and so here Nota that this case was appointed to be argued again but after as I heard the Barons amongst themselves resolved to give judgement for the Defendant upon one point only which was that the estate
Slade and Morleys case a case was put which proves it to be according Snig Baron agreed that Iudgement ought to be given for the Plantiff and by Tanfield if I take your goods and detain them until I have caused you to pay me 10. l. a general Action of Trespass lieth and not an Action upon the case and it is cited 7. H. 4. or 7. E. 4. to be accordingly but yet he agreed that judgement should be entred and so it was appointed to be done but then Chibborn for the Defendant said that here is a mistrial for if this trust be not material because it is not effectually shewed in the Declaration as you have argued then the Venue shall come only from the parish where the Wares were laid upon the land and not from the parish also where the appointment or trust was made by the Plantiff and therefore the trial also being from both parishes is a mistrial and the Court agreed that this is a mistrial upon that reason for now the appointment or Trust is but an inducement and therefore needs not to be shewed within what parish it was made and therefore a new Venire facias was granted and upon that a new trial and damages more then before and judgement was given accordingly Arden against Darcie NOta a good case of Attornament which was decreed in the time of Baron Manwood betwixt Arden and Darcie and it was this one Arden was seised in fee of divers lands in the County of c. and made a lease for years and after made a feofment with words of Grant of those lands to A. and B. to the use of the feoffor and his wife for their lives the remainder to Arden his son in tail and after the feoffor said to the Lessee that he had conveyed his land which the Lessee held in lease to the uses aforesaid and the Lessee said I like it well and after he paid his rent to the feoffor generally and it was decreed in the Exchequer Chamber that this is no Attornament because the Attornament ought to be to the feoffees and it appeareth not that the Lessee had notice of the names of the feoffees and therefore it cannot be said to amount to an Attornament but notwithstanding that Decree Arden the same to whom the remainder was limited had his Action depending in the Kings Bench to trie the point again as he said to me also this Term a point concerning the said Decree was in question upon another Bill exhibited in the Exchequer Chamber by Sir Edward Darcie against Arden and the case was as followeth Sir Edward Darcie exhibited his Bill here in the nature of a scire facias against Arden to shew cause wherefore the said Edward Darcie should not have execution of a Decree made in the time of Baron Manwood and the Defendant shewed that Darcie in his first suit supposed by his Bill that he had a grant of the land then and now in question from Queen Elizabeth rendring rent as it appears by the letters Patents and in facto there was no rent reserved upon the Patent and that the Defendant gave answer to the said Bill and admitted the Iurisdiction of the Court and after a Decree was made against the Defendant and the Defendant now having shewed this special matter demurred upon this Bill in respect that by his pretence the Court had not jurisdiction to hold plea in the first suit and here it was shewed that the first decree was made upon a matter in Law not properly examinable by English Bill and that in facto the Law was therein mistaken and therefore the Defendant prayed that the decree may be re-examined Tanfield chief Baron it is usual in the office of Pleas that if an action be brought as a debtor of our Lord the King this is good although that de facto no suggestion be made thereof if it be not shewed on the other side and therefore a writ of Error for this falsity shall not cause the judgement to be reversed as it was resolved in a case in which I was of Councel and so here as it seemeth Altham Baron here we are in equity wherein we are not tied to so strickt a course as if it were in the office of pleas Brock of the Inner Temple for the Defendant in a Court of equity it is in the discretion of the Court to deny Execution of a decree if good cause be shewed and in 18. E. 4. fo 1. judgement was given against a married wife by the name of a feme sole and reversed although she did not shew in the first suit that she was married and in 8. E. 4. judgement was given in the Kings Bench in a suit and by writ of error was reversed although the Defendant had admitted the Iurisdiction of the Court and the chief Baron and all the Court inclined that Arden may exhibit a Bill to reverse this Decree made against him and may shew what point in Law the Iudges mistook in the Decree or otherwise we should not do as Law and Iustice requireth for it is not expedient to be examined by way of Bar to this Bill in the nature of a scire facias and after Arden according to the Decree of the Court and their direction did exhibit his Bill in the nature of a writ of error Comprising how the first decree was erroneously made and prayed that the said decree might be reversed and in his Bill he shewed the point in Law which was decreed and that upon divers long conveyances appears to be thus and so it was agreed by Councel on both parties that Arden the father was seised of the Mannor of Cudworth in the County of c. and was also seised of the Mannor of Parkhal in the same County and of Blackclose c. which was parcel of the Mannor of Cudworth but lying neer unto Parkhal and alwayes used and occupied with it and reputed parcel thereof but in truth it was parcel of Cudworth and that Arden the father made a Conveyance of the Mannor of Parkhal and of all the lands thereunto belonging and reputed as parcel thereof or occupied with it as part or parcel thereof and of all other his lands in England except the Mannor of Cudworth to the use of Arden his son that now is Plantiffe here and if Blackclose will pass to the son by this conveyance or if by intendment it shall be excepted by the exception made it was the question here and was decreed in the time of Baron Manwood that it is excepted by the exception but all the Barons now thought it to be a strong case that Blackclose is not excepted by the exception of the Mannor of Cudworth and so the first decree was upon a mistake out of the Law and Tanfield chief Baron said that the point is no other but that I infeoffe you of Blackacre parcel of the Mannor of D. exceyt my Mannor of D. this doth not except the King
by express terms quaer if in this case there was any land occupied with Parkhal which was not parcel of Cudworth nor of Parkhal for if so then it seems that Blackclose will be within the exception in regard that the words and lands occupied therewith viz. Parkhal are well satisfied Harris Serjeant said that the case is to be resembled to the point in Carter and Ringsteeds case concrrning the Mannor of Odiam where a man was seised of of a Mannor within which the Mannor of D. did lie and is parcel thereof and he by his will devised the Mannor of D. excepting the Mannor of Odiam where the Mannor passeth by the devise and is not excepted Snig and Altham Barons agreed that this proves the case in equity but by the chief Baron Tanfield because this is a rare case that we should reverse or undo a decree made by our predecessors in the very point decreed by them it is good to be advised and therefore they directed Arden to finde presidents if he could by search made for them in the said case and therefore the Attorney general who was of Councel for Darcie had demurred upon the Bill which was exhibited by Arden and that he being not present day was given until another term to hear Councel on both parts at which day the Attorney said that he conceived it a strange case and without president that a Court should impeach and reverse the decrees given in the same Court and that if it should be suffered the subjects would be vexed and troubled without any end or quiet and this stands with the gravity of every Court to maintain their own judgements and therefore several Statutes were made to reverse judgements upon erroneous proceedings and judges of other Courts constituted to examine them which proveth that before the Statutes aforesaid and without aid of them the Iudges would not reverse their own Iudgements and so here Harris to the contrary it is not without presidents that in a Court of equity one and the same decree in the same Court hath been reversed by decree of the same Court upon some consideration had of the erroneous misprisions of Law and it is no dishonour to a Court of justice so to do for matter in Law but otherwise it were for matter of fact for then that betrayeth an Ignorance in the Iudges which would be a dishonour to the Court but for Law men are not Angles and for that point there may be errour to prove that the Court of equity may do so he vouched the Book of 27. H. 8. fo 15. Martin Dockwraies case which is our very case ruled in the Chancery and so he said that in this Court 3. Jac. a decree made in the time of Baron Manwood was reversed upon the like reason and Tanfield chief Baron said to Serjeant Harris that if it appear by your president that if the same matter in Law which was decreed was reversed in the same point in Law then this proveth for you but if it were for matter of fact otherwise it is and therefore we will see your president Kent and Kelway KEnt and Kelway entred Hil. 6. Jac. Rot. 722. in the Exchequer in the case between Kent and Kelway which was debated Pasc 8. Jac. the Iudges pronounced in the Exchequer Chamber that judgement ought to be affirmed notwithstanding their opinion before to the contrary as it appeareth and therefore I demanded of Mr. Hoopwel Clark of the Errors what was the reason of their opinions and he told me that the case was debated by them this Term at Serjeants Inne and then they resolved to affirm the Iudgement and the reasons as he remembred were as followeth and he also delivered unto me the case as he had collected it out of the Records and delivered it to the Iudges which was that the Plantiff in the Kings Bench declared that one Benjamin Shephard was indebted to him in 300. l. and that he sued out of the Kings Bench an Alias Capias directed to the Sheriffe of N. to the intent to compel the said Benjamin Shephard upon his appearance to put in Bail according to the custome of that Court for the Recovery of his debt which writ was delivered to John Shaw Sheriffe of the said County to be executed the Sheriffe made his warrant to the Bailiffe of the liberty of the Wapentake of Newark and the Plantiffe himself delivered it to James Lawton Deputy of the Lord Burley the Kings chief Bailiâ—e of that liberty to be executed and the Deputy Bailiffe by vertue of the said warrant arrested the said Benjamin Shephard whereupon the Defendant with others made an Assault and rescued the said Benjamin Shephard out of the custody of the said Deputy Bailiffe whereby he lost all his debt and damages were assessed at 172. l. and cost 10. l. and in this case the Iudges agreed that notwithstanding the Defendant had rescued the said Benjamin Shephard out of the hands of c. when the said Benjamin Shephard was arrested upon an Alias Capias out of the Kings Bench which writ is only in nature of a plea of Trespass yet the party who rescued him shall answer in this action damages for the debt because the Plantiffe by this means had lost his debt And yet it is not shewed that the Rescuer knew that the Plantiffe would declare for his debt but if in this case the Sheriffe or Bailiffe had suffered a Negligent escape they should be charged only with the damages in the same plea as the writ supposeth and no for the debt and so a diversity also they agreed that the Declaration is good enough to say that he was rescued out of the hands of the Deputy Bailiffe and the course in the Kings Bench was alwayes so upon the return of a rescue notwithstanding the Book of the 7. Eliz. Dyer fo 241. also it was resolved that the Declaration was good saying that he sued an Alias Capias without mention of any latitat before sued also it was agreed that the arrest was good made by the Deputy Bailiffe by vertue of a warrant delivered to the Sheriffe but quere if they should not examine if the Bailiffe had a power given to make a Deputy by his Patent for this appears not in the case Bently and others against Leigh in Trespas Hill 45. Eliz. Rot. 1231. Trin. 7. Jac. in the Exchequer TPe Iudges affirmed a Iudgement this Term between Leigh Plantiffe in a writ of Error and one Bentley and others Defendants and the matter assigned for Error was because the Trespass was brought in the year 45. Eliz. for a Trespass made in the 42. Eliz. and the judgement upon the verdict was against the Defendant and the Margent of the Roll it was entred quod Defendens capiatur where it ought to be pardonatur as he pretended for the general pardon which was in 43. Eliz. had pardoned the fine to the King for the Trespass and this is a thing whereof the Iudges
Bent and another for a Close it was ordered and an Injunction accordingly awarded that the Defendant should suffer the Plaintiffe to injoy the said Close with the appurtenances until c. and contrary to this order the Defendant had put his Cattle into the Close and thereupon an Attachment issued to answer this contempt and he said that he put in his Castle for a title of Common and it was ruled that this was no breach of the Injunction because the Common was not in question in the Bill but only the title of the Close wherefore he was discharged of the contempt and with the appurtenants doth not include the Common to be taken in the said Close Henry Clares case UPon a motion made by Serjeant Barker it appeared that one Henry Clare was indebted to the King and was seised of a third part of certain lands in Norfolk and that Mr. Richardson of Lincolns Inne was seised of other two Acres of the same laud as Tenant in Common and the beasts of Mr. Richardson pastured promiscuously upon all the land and Henry Clare put more Cattle in and upon proces to levy this debt for the King the Sheriffe took the Cattle of Mr. Richardson and sold them and it was now ruled that in regard it was lawful for a Tenant in Common to put in his Cattle upon all the land and that if they depasture all the grass the other hath no remedy and for that cause the Sheriffe could not take those Cattle for the debt of another Tenant in Common but otherwise it would be if the Cattle had been levant and Couchant upon the land of the Kings debtor and in the principal case the Sheriffe was ordered to restore the monie to Richardson for which they were sold and that if they were worth more yet the Sheriffe should not be charged therewith except it could be made appear some fraud in the sale or that sufficient suerties were to pay and discharge the dutie but if my Cattle are levant and Couchant upon the land of the Kings debtor the King may distrain them damage Feasant but he cannot distrain them for the debt by Tanfield chief Baron and Altham clearly to which Baron Bromley consented but Snig said beware of that Smith and Jennings case VPon evidence to a Iury it was said by Tanfield that if a man make Charter of Feofment of lands in two Towns and a Letter of Attorney to make livery and before livery made by the Attorney the Feoffor himself maketh livery of the land in one Town this is a Countermand of the Letter of Atturney and so livery cannot be made by the Attorney in the other Town and quere if the Towns were in several Counties Bacon the Kings Solicitor said that if a man make a Charter of Feofment of two several Acres whereof one is in lease for years and the other in demeasne and the Feoffor makes a Letter of Attorney to make livery and before that be executed the Feoffor himself makes livery now although that one Acre cannot pass by this livery because it is in lease yet this is a Countermand and revocation of the authoritie given by the Letter of Attorney for his intent is manifest so to be to which Tanfield and all the Court agreed Hobert Attorney general said that in this case although that one of the Acres was in lease yet in regard it appeareth not that the Lessee was in actual possession therefore he conceived that it should be construed that the Lessee was not in actual possession at the time of the livery made by the Lessor in the name of all and in respect there was no house upon the Acre in Lease it may be intended that the Lessee should be in actual possession but for that cause he rather conceived that it should be construed that the Lessee was not in possession and so the livery might well operate to pass it Tanfield and all the Court denied that the livery was good to pass it although that the Lessor was in actual possession but where Mr. Atturney alledged further that before the livery made an Infant had a Term for years in this Acre in lease and that the Feoffor at the time of the livery was gardian to the Infant and thereby had a possession therein and therefore the livery made in the other Acre in the name of all should be good to pass all to which the Court agreed and thereupon directed the Iury to finde the livery and seisin to be made of all and in this case the Court inclined that because this Feofment was made but ten dayes before that the Feoffor committed Treason and in asmuch as it was made to the use of the son being an Infant and not upon consideration of marriage that therefore the Feofment should be fraudulent and void as to the King but the Atturney general said that this Feofment was made in performance of a precedent agreement viz. it was agreed that the Feoffor should make such a conveyance to an use c. and that the wife of the Feoffor also being an Inheritrix should make such a conveyance of her land which was done accordingly and upon proofe of this agreement the Court inclined that it was no fraud and in this case it was ruled by the Court if parties have matter of evidence by the Records of this Court they ought to produce the Records themselves for Copies of them are not allowable It was said by Altham and agreed by the Court that if an Information be exhibited for intruding into a Close the 24th day of March and for the asportation of 9. Cart Loads of Wheat betwixt the 24th of March and the first of October the which the Detendant converted c. and upon not guiltie pleaded the Jury found that the Defendant took three Cart Loads of the said Corn upon the 24th day of March and after before the first of October they took also three Cart Loads more and damages were assessed for all that here no judgement shall be given upon this verdict for the Information doth not charge the Defendant with the taking of any part upon the 24th day of c. and then in regard that damages are more judgement can be given for no part of it see Cook lib. 5. Plaisters case but this case being moved at another day Tanfield said that he having inspected the Record he found the verdict insufficient for another cause because the Jury found that as to one Cart Load of Wheat to the value of 20. l. the Defendant was guiltie and doth not mention to what damage viz. to the damage of 100. s. or otherwise and by him ad valentiam is not sufficient without shewing also to what damage and for that cause by him a venire facias de novo ought to be awarded and so it was done by the Court. Edwards case EDwards case was that an erroneous judgement was given in a Coppihold Court where the King was Lord and this
judgement ought to be given for the Defendant for he laid that the Patent made to Hitchmore proveth that it was not made by reason of any suggestion of the partie for it is expressed to be made ex mero motu c. and then the not surrendring of the other Term doth not vitiate also if the lease be forfeited to the Queen for not repairing then the Queen should have a title before the lease made to the contractors under which the Plaintiffe claims and that not being found by office the contractors shall have no benefit thereof and as to the cases 9. H. 6. and Torringtons case cited Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods case the words of the Patent which express that the Patent should be good so that it be not ad nocumentum c. which is not in our case doth not prove the case in question also if the consideration be smal and recited as executed it doth vitiate the Patent although it be false and it is said in Sir Thomas Wrothes case in Plowden that it is not honourable for the King to construe his Patent to be void by colour of deceipt upon an inference except it be upon a manifest deceipt and in Barwicks case Cook lib. 5. the consideration was a surrender of all the estate and therefore it differed from the case in 18. Eliz. Dyer because there it was in consideration of an estate which in truth was never in being and the cases whereupon he relied for the proofe of this matter is the principal case of Altonwoods and the Lord Chandos case that if a violent intendment might be admitted in the Kings grants upon an inference it might be here inferred that the King should have the estate by this particular surrender but the Book is resolved that no such inference shall be admitted to avoid the Kings patent or otherwise but in that case of the Lord Chandos it appeared that the information of the partie was true and so it was not here because it was informed that all the right which Potter had is devolved to Hitchmore which is not so and therefore a difference between those two cases Nota that the course of this Court is that if A. be indebted or be an accomptant to the King and A. hath another debtor which debtor hath a third person indebted unto him in such case A. may by English Billin the Exchequer pray that the estate of the debtor of his debtor Pasch 9. Jac. in the Exchequer may be extended for the debt of the said A. and it shall be granted Clerk against Rutland IN 6. Jac. in Ejectione firme between Clerk and Rutland it appeared that a feme sole possessed of a Term of years assigns this to A. in trust and after entermarries with him in reversion and after the husband being in quiet possession he and his wife joyn in a Bargaine and sale to B. upon valueable consideration and after the wife dies and the assignee doth set on foot the lease and if this shall be void against the Bargainee was the question upon evidence and it seemeth not because the Bargainee claimeth nothing by conveyance from the wife and also this trust in the Term doth not belong to the husband after the death of the wife for Tanfield said that it was decreed in the Chancery and the opinion of the Iudges was in one Denies case if a feme sole assign a lease in trust and after taketh husband and dieth that the administrator of the wife should have this trust and that the Administration shall be granted for this Term although there be no other thing for which the Administration ought to be granted also it was touched in this case that if the father make a lease for fortie years to a stranger and continue in possession and after conveys the land to a younger son who for a valuable consideration conveyeth it over it was doubted if the purchasor should avoid this lease or not but it was said that if in that case the father after the making of such a lease had suffered the land to descend to his eldest son who had been privie to this trust that then the Purchasor of the eldest son should avoid this lease as it was ruled in Burwels case Cook lib. 6. Upon a motion made by Prideaux that Robert winter one of the Powder Traitors made a lease for years 1. Jac. to one Gower and that after 3. Jac. the Lessor was attainted of Treason by Parliament which attainder related to a time before the conveyance of the Fee and if in this case the Term be saved or lost it was the question Pasch 9 Jac. in the Exchequer Wickham against Wood Pasch 9. Jac. in the Exchequer EDward Wickham declared in an Ejectione firme that Skreen 17. April 6. Jac. at Framlingham in Suffolk demised to him 30. Acres of pasture to have for three years c. and upon the general issue pleaded the Iury found that Thomas Cooper and three others were seised of the lands in question and the fifth of February 24. H. 8. infeoffed by Indenture M. B. and five others to the uses and intents mentioned in a Schedul annexed and that was upon condition that if they aliened to any other uses or purposes that the Feoffor should re-enter and the Iury also found the Schedule which in effect was this viz. that the Feoffees and their heirs should take the profits and therewith finde an honest priest by them or the greater number of them to be hired and competently paid to say Mass for the soules of the Feoffor and his friends and that by the space of 99. years then ensuing and at the end of the said years the Feoffees their heirs and assigns who then should be seised should sell the lands and with the money finde a Priest to Chaunt for the soules aforesaid and with the said moneys or lands also to make further provision for a competent poor honest Priest for the timr being if then it could be by a Amortization or otherwise as they should think best for the sure and long continuance of the said honest Priest if so it could be continued by order of Law the Iury found all things executed accordingly and the finding of a Priest from the 24th of H. 8. untill the first of Ed. 6. by which Act the King was entituled prout lex postulat and that Queen Eliz. granted to Mildmay for 21. years upon whom Fuller the heir of the surviving Feoffee entred and made a Feofment to Wilbey and Skreen by force whereof they were seised and Mildmay re-entred and his Term expiring he obtained a new lease 43. Eliz. and made a lease to Wood and Skreen survived Wilbey and made a lease to Wickham who entred and being outed by Wood brought this Action Bromley puisne Baron upon all the matter I observe three things First if the Fee-simple in this case by the letter or meaning of the Statute be given to the Crown for the lease