cast up will shew you the yeare of our Lord in which the years shall end so that if your Lease commenced at Michaelmas it will end at Michaelmas in the same yeare Or if it begin the twenty fourth of March in that yeare which is but one day before the end and change of the yeare then it will end the twenty forth of March the said yeare As for example A Lease began Michaelmas Anno. 7. Eliz. 1564. to endure for the terme of ninetie yeares I demand how many yeares is to come of this Lease and when the same terme of yeares will be determined first I set downe the day of the Month and the yeare of our Lord in which the Lease tooke his commencement as at Michaelmas 1564. unto which summ I adde the number of yeares which was granted by the Lease being ninety yeares which being cast up maketh the summe to be one thousand six hundred fifty four in which yeare at Michaelmas the yeares will be expired and the Lease determined then to know how many yeares are to come of the same Lease I set downe the Lease will expire and then substract out of that summe the yeare of our Lord which then is as for example one thousand six hundred twenty eight whereby I find the substracted number to be twenty six and so many yeares there is yet to come from Michaelmas 1628. A Lease was made for eighty yeares to commence at Michaelmas 1567 80 1647. the Lease will end The yeare of our Lord 1628 substracted sheweth that 0019. there is 19. yeares to come at Michaelmas 1628. A Warrant to Summon a Court of Surveigh THese are to will and in his Highnesse name to require you to give notice warning to be given to all singular the Tenants aswell Freeholders as Copiholders and they that hold by Lease or at Will of or within his Highness Mannor of C. in the County of S. that they and every of them do make their personal appearance at his highnes Court of Surveigh there to be holden upon Wednesday next being the 16. of July 1655. by 8. of the Clock in the forenoone of the same day at the usuall place of keeping the Court of the same Mannor and that they and every of them do then and there bring and shew forth or cause to be brought and shewd forth all their Deeds Leases Copies of Court-Rolles and all other their evidences whereby they and every of them doe pretend or claime to hold any Lands and Tenements whatsoever of or belonging to the said Mannor And also that they and every of them doe then and there bring and shew forth all such Rentalls Court-rolls Surveighes Terrats Suit-rolls and all other Escripts Writings Minuments and Records which they or any of them have any way concerning the said Mannor or any part member or parcel of the same and to give such further attendance in and about his Highnesse said service of survey as shall be of them and every of them necessarily required wherof faile not as you tender his Highnesse service dated c. Your loving friend I. N. To the Bayliff of his Highnesse Mannor of C. or to his deputy or to every of the Tenants of or belonging to the said Mannor and the members thereof Cause this to be published in the Church at the time of divine service and cause the under Tenants to give notice to them whose undertenants they are that dwell remote ARTICLES to be enquired of at a Court of Survey and Court-Baron for the Mannor c. 1. IMprimis you shall declare the true circuit and generall Boundarie or Boundaries of this Mannor Butts and Bonds and how farr and into what place or places doth the same extend and upon what other Lords Lands doth the same bound and border aswell on the East West North and South sides and whether have any of the generall or utmost bounds Meers or Markes been altered and by whom and where Concealments 2. Item whether do any person or persons within the precinct of this Mannor or any other whatsoever covenously conceale and wrongfully occupy any part or parts of this Mannor and who the same persons be and where and in what place and what be the names of the grounds concealed or encroached and in whose occupation be they and how long have the same been concealed or enclosed The mansion house demean lands 3. Item you shall enquire of the chiefe Scyte and Capitall Mansion house of this Mannor with the perticular Members and buildings and what demeane Lands Meadowes Pastures Arable Grounds Woods Underwoods hereditaments whatsoever are belonging to the same what be their severall names and where and in what parts of the Mannor doe the same lie and how be they butted and bounded and who be now the occupiers thereof and under what Estates Rents Herriots or services to your knowledge 4. Item what free-hold Lands Freehold Tenements or hereditaments be holden of this Mannor who be they that be seised thereof and what Rents reliefes workes customes or other duties do they pay or ought to pay for the same and by what tenure to your knowledge doe they and every of them hold and how are they butted and bounded and what quantity and number of Acres do the same containe and what is the true yearly value thereof 5. Item Copy-hold lands what Lands or Tenements be holden by Copy of Court-Roll within this Mannor who they be that are seised thereof and what Rents Herriots works customes or other duties do they pay or ought to pay for the same and what quantity and number of Acres do the Tenants severally hold and the quality therof and what is the true yearly value of the same 6. Item Tenants at will Tenants by Indenture Who be they that be tenants at will or tenants by Indenture what lands or tenements doe they hold or what rents or duties do they pay or ought to pay for the same and what is the quantity or yearly value therof 7. Item Decay of houses whether there be within this mannor any ancient houses decaied or fallen downe or any houses or buildings out of reparations and where and how long have the same been ruinous decayed or out of reparations and in whose default and to what charge or value would the new erecting or repairing of them or any of them amount unto 8. Item you shall enquire of all the falling down Wast Woods destruction and wasts of any Woods Underwoods or Trees in and upon the said Mannor or any part or parcell thereof made or done by any person or persons and by whom where and when and to what value Names of commons c. 9. Item what be the names of the Lords VVasts Heaths or Commons of what name or kind soever belonging to this Mannor which of them are free for the Lord of this Mannor to use in severalty and who be they that doe enter-common
And that they have all the Goods and Chattels forfeited of all their men and Tenants resident or not resident and of all others resident within or upon their Tenements Lands or Fees There are divers Immunities granted by divers old Charters as to be quit de Geldiâ—… Danageldis Hildagiis Carucagiis Auxilis Wardpenny Averpenny Thething penny Theolonio Pontagio Passagio Pavagio Cestagio Tallagio Carriagio c. And are explained in that which follows Certain Saxon words in Doomsday Book expounded by Mr. Agar of the Receit in the Exchequer A. ALneâ—um a place where Alder-trees grow Alodium the old translation of the Saxon Laws useth this word for Bockland Aloacii or rather as I take it Alodacii they that hold Bockland or Charter-land Arabant they that held by tenure of Plowing and Tilling ground Arpens the Frenchmen say that an hundred Perches make an Arpent 18. Foot a Perch 12. Inches a Foot Columel l. 5. c. 1. Demi-arpent they take for Jugum or Jugerum Arsura concerning Coynage Avera Service or Avarage B. BAtsweines we call them Botswains or Bothouls Berewich I am of Mr. Cambden's minde in his Book that it signifieth a Town-parcel or belongin to another Berquarii I take it for to be Shepheards we call Bercarium a Shepherd both seem to come from the French Beragiâ—… Bordacii they be Tenants that occupy part of the Demesns which are called Bordlands i. Terra ad mensam Bruaria we call that which the Latines term Erica Bruere Heath Burse or Colibti it may be this word is written for Bury which sometime I reade in this Book Bure is that which the Dutchmen call a Bore Colâ—…s a Paysant Burgheristhe I think it should be Burgberiche Violatio Pacis in villa Buzecatle Bursecapls or Botsecals the same that Botswain Merchiner or Shipmen C. CAballa I think it should be Caballus a Horse Caruca a Plough Carucata a Plough and Land Censarii such as might be taxed Cervisarii the Saxons had a duty called Drinkleum that is retributio potus Canutus Laws c. 8. 28. 38. whereupon such Tenants may be called Cervisarii Circset the Saxons call it Cirikseat but Fleta calleth it Circseâ— quasi semen ecclesiae Corn paid to the Church Coliberts see Burf Cosez Cottages Cotemans Cotigers of Coten or Coath an house Cuna servicii a Kan of Drink B. DEna terrae a hollow place between two Hills Drenchs in Cheshire a Fermor F. FOrtgingels Ferthindel is the fourth part of an Acre or Penny or any thing else Ferlingi a quantity of Land in Huntingdon Somerset and Hampt Feudum that which we call Feodum Firma Rent in money or victual but properly in victual in the Charter of Edgar to Ely it is limited for a penalty to pay one nights ferm if the privileges be broken by any man Foristell Forestall the stopping of ways that is now used for such as buy things before they come at the market Fraxmetum a place where Ashes grow Frustum terrae a piece of Land G. GAllum the Saxons called it Gasell custom paid to the King or rent Garb Garben a Sheaf of corn Garsum â—…e a Fine or Amerciament Goldum Solutio Gribrige Grith brecbe Fractio pacis H. HAga est in Burgo vel in Civitate Hangennita Hanguits Latro suspensus sine indicoÌ„ Harduices in Burgo Glouc. ubi sunt currucat terrae villanni Hede or rather a Hide a port or landing-place Henfare an amerciament for flight for murder Hesthas a service to the King in Closhaw Hasta I think rather it should be so written Henewarde a duty to the King in Cambridgshire Hominacio it may be called Dominacio many use Hominum where we use Homagitum Huscarbus Famulus a servant in your house Hida an uncertain quantity of arable land in several Counties I. INewardus one attending the King in Hereford and Cambridgshires Inland so the Saxons call the Demesns of a mannour and the Lands that were holden of them Vtland Jugum half an Arpent 50. Perches nota that in one place of Doomesday Book it is said tenet unum jugum terrae ust di car L. LAgeman that is homo habens legem Lagh is Law Landgeble the Saxons call both rents and customary payments of works or other things and tribute Gastel and they had special names for sundry sorts as Beregavel payment of Burly-cheese Gavel rent-cheeses Pridgavel the Welchmen use for Landgavel Legruita or rather Lethervita but more usually Lierwite punishment for lying with a woman Lenna A mesne of a mile of Land Lenga A mesne of a mile of Land Lennides A mesne of a mile of Land Libras arsas pensatas a quantity of coin M. Mansum Houses Mansura Houses Marsum a quantity of of coin quâ—…re P. PAracium the tenure that is between parceners viz. that which the youngest oweth to the eldest Pasuagium money taken for mast or feeding of Hogs we call it Pannage Bracton calleth it Pessona Pensa in Saxon Peza a weigh of cheese or other thing Q. QVarentena that which the Saxons call Furlang is translated Quarentena in divers places O RAdechenistres Bracton amongst other tenures speaketh of Rhode Knights which I suppose this word expresseth Radechenight for che is writen often-in Doomesday Book for C. or K. as Chent for Kent their tenure is to ride with their Master or Mistris the Saxons call Padâ—…ayarney Radmans I think it all one with the former word unless peradventure this be derived from Reade counsel and so Readmans signifieth Counsellours Relevacion Revalementum a French word of Celever to lift up again for the Land by the Tenants death is as it were fallen into the Lords hands and the Heir raiseth it up again but that which the Book of Doomesday mentioneth seemeth rather to express the Harriot or Heryate of the Saxons spoken of in Canutus's Laws c. 69 Reveland that is reaved from the King S. SAca Conusans of Pleas in causes concerning his own Tenants Sâ—ca Suit to ones Court or Mill or any other liberty Scangium exchange quaere Scotum solutio Sochemans Sochi Sochemanni men to whom some special liberties and privileges are given Solin Solus 400. acr di faciunt 2. Solinos di T. TAilla Taxes or Tallages Taini thegnes ministri Regis vel aliorum Taniland terra quam tenuerunt Thani Trabes Thraves Corn 24. Sheafs make a Thrave vel potius a weigh of Corn. The four Termes with their Returnes Hillary Terme beginneth Jan. 23. and endeth Feb. the 12. In 8 daies of St. Hillary Jan. 20 Jan. 21. Jan. 22. Jan. 23. From the day of St. Hillary in 15. daies Jan. 27. January 28. January 29. Jan. 30. In the morrow of the Purification of the blessed Mary Feb. 3. Febr. 4. Febr. 5. Feb. 6. In 8. daies of the Purification of the blessed Mary Feb. 10. Feb. 10. Feb. 11. Feb. 12. Easter terme begins 17. daies after Easter and ends and returnes FRom the day of Easter in 15. daies From the day of Easter in three weekes From the day of Easter
go according to those agreements nature and reason allowing those provisions which equity and honesty is the use and the use being created in this sort the statute of 27 H. 8. containeth the estates of the Land as the use is appointed and so this covenant to stand seised to uses is at this day a conveyance of land and with this difference from a bargaine and sale in that this needs no inrolement nor needeth not to be a writing indented as a bargain and sale must and if the party to whose use he agreeth to stand seised of the land be not wife or Child Cosin or one that hee meaneth to marry then will no use arise and so no conveyance Vpon a fine Feoffement or recovery a man may limit the use to whom he will without consideration of bloud or money otherwise in a bargaine and sale or Covenant for although the law alloweth such weighty considerations of marriage and bloud to raise uses yet doth it not admit so trifling considerations as of acquaintance Schooling service or the like but where a man maketh an estate of his land to others by Fine Feoffment or Recovery he may then appoint the use to whom he listeth without respect of marriage kindred money or other thing it is not so when he maketh an Estate but agreeth to stand seised nor when he hath taken any thing as in the cases of Bargaine and Sale and Covenant to stand seised to Uses The last of the six conveyances is a Will in writing which course of conveyance was first ordained by the statute of 32 H. 8. before which statute no man might give land by will except it were in a Burrowgh-Towne where there was a speciall custome that men might give their lands by Will as in Lond. and many other places In what manner the statute of 32. H. 8. giveth power to dispose of lands by Wil. By the Statute of 32 H 8. a man may give lands by will in this sort first it must be by Will in writing Secondly he must be seised of an estate in Fee-simple for tenant for another mans life or tenant in taile cannot give lands by Will by that statute If a man be seised of Capite Lands and Socage he cannot devise but two parts of the whole Thirdly he must be solely seised and not jointly with another and then being thus seised for all the Land he holdeth in socage being tenure he may give it by the Will except he holdeth any peece of Land in capite by Knights service of the King and laying all his lands together he can give but two parts by will for the third part of the whole aswell in socage as in capite must discend to the heire to answer Wardship Livery and Primmer seisin to the Crowne And so if he hold Lands by Knights service of a subject he can devise but two parts of his Lands and the Lord by Wardship and the heire by discent is to hold A conveyance by devise of Capite Lands to the wife for her Joyner or to his Children for their good or to pay debt is void for a third part by 32 H. 8. And if a man that hath three Acres of Land holden in capite by Knights service do make a Jointure to his wise of one and convey another to any of his children or to friends to take the profits to pay his debts or Legacies or daughters portions then the third Acre or any part therof he cannot give by Will but must suffer it to descend to the heir and that must satisfie Wardship Yet a man having three acres as before may convey all to his wife and children by conveyance in his life time as by Feoffment Fine Recovery Bargaine and Sale or Covenant to stand seised to Uses and to disinherit the Heire but if the Heire be within age when the Father dieth the King or other Lord shal have that Heire in VVard and shall have one of the three acres during the VVardship to sue Livery and primer Seisin But at full age the Heire shall have no part of it but it shall go according to the conveyance made by the Father It hath been debated how the Thirds shall be set forth for it is the use The King nor Lord can intermeddle if a full third part be left to descend to the heir Entailed lands part of the Thirds that all lands which the Father leaveth to descend to the Heire being Fee-simples or in taile must be part of the Thirds and if it be a full Third then the King nor Heire nor Land can intermeddle with the rest if it be not a full Third yet they must take it so much as it is and have a supply out of the rest This supply is thus to be taken if it be the Kings VVard then by a Commission out of the Court of VVards whereupon a Jury upon Oath may set downe so much as shall make up the Thirds except the Officers of the Court of VVards can otherwise agree with the parties if there be no VVardship due to the King then the other Lord is to have a supply by a Commission out of the Chancery and a Jury thereupon But in all the Cases these Statutes do give power to him that maketh the VVill The Statute giveth power to the Testator to set out the Thirds himselfe and if it be not a third part yet the King or Lord must take that in part and have a supply out of the rest to set forth and appoint of himselfe which lands shall go for the Thirds and neither King nor Lord can refuse it and if it be not enough yet they must take that in part and onely have a supply in manner as before is mentioned out of the rest A Feoffment made to the use of ones VVill if his VVill be declared before or at the time of his Feoffment it cannot be altered because it is executed otherwise it is if his Will be declared afterwards 20 H. 7. 11. vide fol. 27. b. What persons may make Leases at this day There be three kinds of persons at this day which may make Leases for three lives c. in such sort as hereafter is expressed which could not so do when Littleton wrote Any person seised of an Estate in Fee-simple in the right of his Church and any person seised of an Estate in Fee-taile in his owne right Any Husband and VVife seised of any Estate of Inheritance in Fee or in Fee-taile in the right of his wife or joyntly with his wife before the Coverture or after viz. The Tenant in taile by Deed to bind his Issues in taile but not the Reversion or Remainder The Bishop by Deed without the Deane and Chapiter to bind his Successors the husband and wife by Deed to bind the wife and her and their Heires and these are made good by the Statute of 32 H. 8. which enableth them thereunto but to the making
c. those which are meere Recognizances are not sealed but are inrolled And sometimes are sealed with the seale of the party and may be with condition annexed or may bee single and then to have indentures of defeasance Also the King may by his commission give authority to any man to receive connusance of another man and to returne it in Chancery and by vertue of such commission if the man knowledge it before a commission any debt to another to be paid to him at a certain day and that certifieth into the Chancery with the commission c. Now upon certificate made of this connusance if he doth not pay the debt at the day he shall have an elegit upon this recognizance so taken aswell as if it were taken in the Chancery Upon a Recognizance there shall not goe a Capias but a Scire facias returnable in Chancery and upon the returne thereof they use to award a Capias a fieri facicias or an Elegit at the election of the Connusee 48 E. 3. fo 14. Upon a Recognisance the connusee may not have an action of debt against the heire for the recognizance is quod tunc vult concedit quod dictae pecuniae summa de bonis catall terr tenementis c. levetur so that the charge is imposed upon his Goods and Lands so that debt lieth not therupon against the heire co 3. 15. Yet upon a recognizance acknowledged to the use of the King although the words of the recognizance are de bon catt terr tenemenntis c. levetur the King shal have liable to his execution as wel the body as the lands goods of his Debitor see co 3. 12. b 11 93. a. Execution by force of a Recognizance in case of a common person shall bee of all the Goods and Chattels of the Connusor except his Plowcattle and implements of husbandry and of the moietie of his lands west 103. Note that this word Recognizance extendeth oftentimes in our Books to Statute Merchant and Statute staple Execution by Elegit AN Elegit is a Writ judiciall and lieth for him that hath recovered debt or damages in the Kings Court and must be sued within the yeare Tearmes de ley By force of an Elegit the Sheriff may take in Execution and deliver unto the party scil unto the cerditor the one halfe of the lands of the Connusor and all his good and chattels praeter Boves affros de carvia sua saving onely his Oxen and beasts of his plow untill the debt be levied upon a reasonable price or extent And this is by force of the Statute of Westminster 2. cap. 18. which is the first statute that did subject land to be taken in execution or upon a recognizance which is in the nature of a judgement 13 E. 1 ca. 18. co 3. 12. This Statute of Westminster 2. which giveth the Elegit provideth quod Vicecomes liberet ei omnia cattalla c. medietatem terrae suae quousque debitum fuerit levat per rationabile praetium extentum which last word praetium is to be referred to Chattels extentum to be referred unto lands rationabile praetium extentum ought to be sound by inquisition and verdict scil the apprizing of the goods and the extent or valuation of the Lands ought to be per sacram 12. probor legalium hominum c. for the Sheriff himselfe cannot appraise the goods nor value nor extend the lands upon an elegit neither can the Sheriff upon an elegit deliver any goods in Execution or extend any lands but onely such as are appraised and valued by the Jurors of the inquisition Co. 4. 74. otherwise it seemeth of all other sorts of Executions The words of this Statute of Westminster 2 ca. 18. are thus liberent ei medietaeem terrae debiteris which by construction of Law is the moietie of all that he hath at the time of the judgment given or at any time after Co. 7. 19. and by the equity of that Statute the Sheriff may deliver to the Creditor or Connusee the moietie of the Rents Br. Parliament 10â— Plow 178. Also these words in the said statute quousque debitum fuerit levatum shall be intended be or might be levied for if the Conusee or tenant by elegit or tenant by statute Merchant or Staple neglect to take the profits yet when the connusee might have been satisfied of his debt according to the extent the connusor shall have againe his land but it seemeth he may not enter in such case but is put to his scire facias Co. 4. 82. If Tenant by elegit be outed by a stranger there the time shall on and he is put to his remedie against the trespasser ibm If the Connusee be outed by wrong by the connusor or by any other claiming under him for life or years c. the connusee shall hold over co 4 66. If the lands delivered in execution be lawfully recovered taken or evicted from the possession of the connusee before his debt be satisfied he shall have a scire facias and upon that a new writ of Execution Statute 32 H. 8. ca. 5. co 3. 87. This Statute of Westminster 2. cap 18. that giveth the elegit doth not extend to Copyhold Lands for it should be prejudiciall to the Lord and against the custome of the Mannor that a stranger should have interest in the land holden by copy where by the custome it may not be transferred to any without c. co 3. 9. Terme for yeares may not be extended by the Sheriff upon elegit without finding the beginning and certainty of the terme by inquisition for execution by elegit ought to be by inquisition and if it be found by the inquisition that the debitor was possessed of certain land per terminum quorandum annorum ad tunc ventur This inquisition is insufficient for they ought to find the certainty and the reason is because that after the debt satisfied the party is to have again his terme if any part thereof remaine which certainty of terme ought to appear upon the returne of the Sheriff as it seemeth Cok. 4. 74. But upon a Fieri facias the Sheriff may sell the lease or terme without reciting any certainty scil the Sheriff may recite that the Debitor hath a terme of such a thing pro terminis diversis annorum ad nunc ventur and that he sold that by force of a fieri facias to I. S. and that is good so if the Sheriff sell all the interest that the Debitor hath in the Land that is good notwithâ—standing misreticall for by the common intendment the Sheriff may not have precise connuzance of the certainty of the commencement and certainty of the end of the terme but if he take upon him to recite the terme and mistake it reciting it falsly and sell the same terme this sale is void because there is not any
life make a Feoffment that is a forfeiture and yet nothing passeth but his own estate But making a Livery in fee it is a forfeiture though none of the remainders be divested Coke 2. pars fol. 76. b. Bredons case vide plus fol. 50. this is a forfeiture and yet no reversion or remainder is divested out of the King A particular Estate of any thing that lyeth in Grant cannot be forfeited by any grant in Fee by Deed As if Tenant for life or years of an Advowson Rent Common or of a reversion or remainder of Land by Deed grant the same in fee this is no forfeiture But if such a Tenant levy a Fine c then it is a forfeiture Note The diversiâ—y between Livery and Seâ—sin of Land and the delivery of a deed and what is a good delivery of a deed in Law there is a diversity between Livery and Seisin of Land and the delivery of a Deed for if a man deliver a Deed without saying of any thing it is a good delivery but to a Livery of Seisin of Lands words are necessary as taking in his hands the Deed and the ring of the doore if it be of a house or a turff or twig if it be of Land and using the words aforesaid And a Deed may be delivered to the party without words without any act of delivery As if the Writing sealed lyeth upon the Table and the Feoffor or Obligor saith to the Feoffee or Obligee Go and take up the said Writing it is sufficient for you or it will serve the turne or take it as my Deed or the like words it is a sufficient delivery Cokes Littleton title Dower fol. 36. a. 29 H. 8. Dyer fol. 95 43 Eliz. inter Hawsly Lacker in Banco Rs. Hillary 12 Jac. Rs. in Com. Banco The Grant of a Seignory Rent-charge Rent-seck Attornment in toto withall incidents therunto as also the Remainder or reversion of any of these or the remainder or reversion of the Land it self is nothing worth without Attornment viz. the agreement of the Tenant that must be presently charged As Lord Mesne and Tenant the Lord grants his Seignory the Mesne must attorne and not the Tenant prevaile for the Mesne is Tenant to the Lord Lord and Tenant the Tenant letteth the Land for life or giveth in taile saving the reversion to himself Now if the Lord grant his Seignory he in the reversion must attorne to the Grantee and not the Tenant for life or Tenant in taile for he in the reversion is Tenant to the Lord and not the other But if the Tenant had let his Land to one for life the remainder in fee thereupon a grant of the Seignory the Tenant for life must attorne for he is Tenant to the Lord so is not he in the remainder so long as Tenant for life liveth If Lands be let for years or given in taile saving the reversion upon a Grant of the reversion the Tenant of the Land must attorne And an Attornment may either be by word as to say I agree or am content with the Grant Or I attorne to you and become your Tenant by force of the Grant or else by the delivery of a penny and to the Grantee c. in name of Attornment or by any other matter implying an agreement as by a surrender to the Grantee of the reversion praying in aide of him c. and if such an Attornment be not to the Grantee in the life of the Grantor then the Grant is void In the Grant of a Reversion depending on a Freehold the attornment of the Freeholder is sufficient though he be not the Tenant that must presently be charged As if Lands be let to a man for years the remainder to another for life and hee in reversion grant the reversion to another the attornment of him in the remainder is sufficient 1 Littleton fol. 1â—… 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 nly and where not If a man bind himself and his Heires in an Obligation or 〈◊〉 covenant by writing for him and his 〈…〉 or 〈◊〉 grant an Annuity for him and his â—…res in all these cases the Law chargeth the Heire after the death of the Ancestor with this Obligation Covenant Annuity Warranty yet with these three cautions that the party must by speciall name bind himself and his Heires for if the party in the bond Covenant Annuity or Warranty doth not bind himself as well as his Heires in such case the Heire shall never be bound 2. Some Action must be brought against the Heire whilest the Land or other Inheritance resteth in him unalienated away For if the Ancestor dye and the Heire before an Action be brought against him upon those Bonds Covenants or Warranties do alien away the Land then the Heire is cleaned discharged of the burthen 3. No Heire is further to be charged then the value of the Land descendeth to him from that Ancestor that made the charge and that not to be sold outright but to be kept in extent and at a yearly value untill the Debt or damage be run out Neverthelesse if an Heire that is sued upon such a Debt of his Ancestor doth not deale clearly with the Court when he is sued that is if he come not immediatly by way of confession and set down the true quantity of his Inheritance discended and so submit himself as the Law requireth then that Heire shall be charged of his owne other Lands Goods and money for this Deed of his Ancestor As if a man bind himself and his Heirs in an Obligation of a hundred pounds and dieth leaving but ten acres of Lands to his Heire if his Heire be sued upon the Bond and cometh in and denieth that he hath any by discent and it is found against him by verdict that he hath ten acres this Heire shall be now charged by his false plea of his owne Lands Goods and body to pay the hundred pounds though the Land be not worth ten pounds All words which do prove by specialty Words onely which do shew a man to be a Debtor to another is a good Obligation without binding the Executor that the maker of the Writing is a Debtor to another that is a sufficient Obligation and though the Executor or Administrator are not expressed yet the Law will charge them because they represent the Estate of the Testator but the Heire shall never be charged without expresse mention of the Heire Dyer fol 2 3. Acquittance for one Rent is a discharge of all former Rents Those cannot be heirs If a Rent be behind for twenty years and the Lord make an Acquittance for the last that is due all the rest are presumed to be paid and the Law will admit no proofe against this presumption Cokes Littleton fol. 373. A Bastard can be no Heire nor have any unlesse it be his owne Child A man attainted of Treason or Felony can be no Heire nor have an Heir though it be his
Heires so that his Heire may not have it by discent and the King shall not have it because he that did the Treason had not the Fee at the time of the Treason or afterward Plowden 562. 556. If a man do lease or assure his land to another and all the Mynes and Pits thein for life or yeares the lessee may open and dig the ground for Coale Morter Stone c. and take and carry away the same although there were not any Myne open at the time of the lease for by this assurance it appeareth that the lessor was contented that waste should be made in any part of the ground leased by myning or digging And in this case the lessee may sell and dispose the same Coale Stone Marle Morter c. at his pleasure for it is as much as if the lease had been made without impeachment of any manner of waste to be committed by Myne Pits or digging Lessee for life the Remainder for life the Remainder in Fee the first doth waste that is not punishable by him which hath the Fee by reason of the meane Remainder otherwise it is if the meane estate be for years If Lessee for life be the Remainder for life and the Lessee for life doth Waste this Waste is dispunishable at this time for the advantage of him in Remainder for life And where a Lease for life is granted and then the Reversion is granted for life and the Tenant attorneth an Action of Waste lyeth not yet vide the Register 75. that Waste lyeth where there is a mean estate for life in Remainder And though the Waste be unpunishable in the first case yet it seemeth the Chancery may enjoyne him upon complaint against the first Lessee that he shall not do Waste for that he ought not to do Waste by the Law although no Action lyeth The Process in Waste is Summons Attachment and Distresse and if he appeare not at the Distresse then a Writ to the Sheriff to enquire of the Waste by the Oath of twelve men There are two kinds of Waste viz. Voluntary or permissive Waste in houses Waste may be done in houses by pulling them downe or by suffering them to be uncovered whereby the Spars or Rafters Planchers or other Timber of the house are rotten But if the house be uncovered when the Tenant cometh in it is no Waste in the Tenant to suffer the same to fall downe But though the house be ruinous at the Tenants income yet if he pull it downe it is Waste unlesse he reedifie it againe if Glasse-Windowes though glazed by the Tenant himselfe be broken downe or carried away it is Waste for the Glasse is part of the house And so it is of Wainscot Benches Doores Windowes Furnaces and the like annexed or fixed to the house either by him in Reversion or the Tenant Though there be no Timber growing upon the ground yet the Tenant at his perill must keep the house from wasting If the Tenant do Waste or suffer Waste to be done in houses yet if he repaire them before an Action brought there lyeth no Action of Waste against him but he cannot plead Quod non fecit vastum but the speciall matter Waste in Gardens and Orchards If the Tenant cut downe or destroy any Fruit-trees growing in the Garden or Orchard it is Waste but if they grow upon any of the ground which the Tenant holdeth out of the Garden or Orchard it is no Waste Lopping of Trees by a Copyholder is not a forfeiture but a Copyholder may not lop and burne them in another house of the Land or Mannor nor sell the Lops unlesse by the Custome he may do waste Kitchin forfeiture 125. Waste in building of a new house If the Tenant build a new house it is Waste and if he suffer it to be wasted it is a new Wast if the house fall downe by tempest or be burned by the lightning or prostrated by enemies or the like without a default of the Tenant or was ruinous at his coming in and fall downe the Tenant may build the same againe with such matterials as remain and with other Timber which he may take growing on the ground for his habitation but he must not make the house larger then it was if the house be uncovered by tempest the Tenant must in convenient time repaire it Waste in Dove-houses Parks Ponds c. Waste in Timber-trees If the Tenant of a Dove-house Warren Parke Ponds or the like do take so many as such sufficient store be not left as he found when he came in this is Waste Waste properly is in houses Gardens Timber-trees viz. Oke Ash and Elme and these be Timber-trees in all places either by cutting them downe topping them or doing any act whereby the timber may decay Also in Countries where timber is scant and Beeches or the like are converted to building for the habitation of man or the like they are also accounted timber that is if the Tenant cut downe timber-trees or such as are accounted timber as is aforesaid this is Waste And if he suffer the young Gerignes to be destroyed Wast in cutting Beeches c. this is destruction Cutting down of Beech Willowes Birch Aspe Maple or the like standing in the defence and safeguard of the house is destruction if there be a Quick-set fence of Whit-thorne if the Tenant stub it up or suffer it to be destroyed this is destruction and for all these and the like destructions an Action of Waste lyeth turning of Trees to Coales for Fewell when there is sufficient dead Wood is waste If the Tenant suffer the houses to be wasted Waste digging for Gravell Cole c. and then fell downe timber to repaire the same this is a double waste digging for Gravell Lyme Clay Brick Earth Stone or the like or for Mynes of Mettall Coale or the like hid in the Earth and were not open when the Tenant came in is waste but the Tenant may dig for Gravell or Clay for reparations of the house as well as he may take convenient Timber-trees If the Tenant convert arrable land into Wood Wastin converting arrable into wood or Meadow into arrable or wood into arrable or Meadow into arrable it is waste The Tenant may take sufficient wood to repaire the Walls Pales Fences Hedges and Ditches as he found them but he can take no new and he may also take sufficient Plow-bote Fire-bote and other House-bote The Tenant cutteth downe Trees for reparations and selleth them and after buyeth them againe and imployes them about necessary reparations yet it is waste for the Sale he cannot sell Trees and with the money cover the house burning of the house by negligence or mischances waste An Occupant shall be punished for waste and so if an estate be made to A. and his Heires during the life of B. A. dieth the Heire of A. shall be punished in an action of waste If a Lease be
good of such Leases by the said Statute there are nine things necessary to be observed belonging to them all and some other to some of them in particular 1. The Lease must be made by Deed indented 2. He must be made to begin from the day of the making or from the making thereof 3. If there be an old Lease in being it must be surrendred or expired or ended within a year of the making of the Lease and the surrender must be absolute and not conditionall 4. There must not be a double Lease in being at one time As if a Lease for years be made according to the Statute he in the Reversion cannot expulse the Lessee and make a Lease for life or lives according to the Statute nor e converso for the words of the Statute be to make a Lease for three lives or one and twenty yeares so as the one or the other may be made and not both 5. It must not exceed three lives or one and twenty yeares from the making of it but it may be for a Lesser terme or fewer lives 6. It must be of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments maynorable or corporeall which are necessary to be letten and whereunto a Rent by Law may be reserved and not of things that lye in Grant as Advowsons Faires Markets Franchises and the like out whereof a Rent cannot be reserved 7. It must be of Lands or Tenements which have been most commonly letten by the space of twenty years next before the Lease made so as if it be letten for eleven yeares at one or severall times within those twenty yeares it is sufficient A Grant by Copy of Court Roll in fee for life or yeares is a good letting to farme within this Statute for he is but Tenant at will Secund. Cons Manerii And so it is of a Lease at will by the Common Law But those lettings to Farme must be made by some seised of an Estate of inheritance and not by a Guardian in Chivalry Tenant by Gurtesie Tenant in Dower or the like 8. That upon every such Lease there be reserved yearely during the said Lease due and payable to the Lessors their Heirs and Successors c. so much yearly Farme or Rent as hath been most accustomably yeilded and paid for the Land within twenty yeares before such Lease made Hereby first it appeareth that nothing can be demised by authority of this Act but that whereon a Rent may be lawfully reserved Secondly that where not only a yearly Rent was formerly reserved but things not annuall as Herriots or any Fine or other profit at or upon the death of the farmor yet if the yearly rent be reserved upon a Lease made by force of this Statute it sufficeth by the expresse words of the Act And if twenty acres of land have been accustomably letten and a Lease is made of these twenty and one acre which was not accustomably letten reserving the customably yearely rent and so much more as exceeds the value of the other acre this Lease is not warrantably letten and the rent issueth out of the whole If Tenant in taile let part of the land accustomably letten and reserve a rent pro rat or more this is good for that is in substance the accustomable Rent If two Coparceners be Tenant in taile of 20. acres every one of equall value and usually letten and they make partition so as each have ten acres they may make Leases of their severall parts each of them reserving the halfe of the accustomable rent If the usuall Rent had been payable at foure dayes or Feasts of the yeare yet if it be reserved yearly payable at one Feast it is sufficient for the words of the Statute be reserved yearely Ninthly nor to any Lease to be made without impeachment of Waste therefore if a Lease be made for life the Remainder for life c. this is not Warranted by the Statute because it is dispunishable for VVaste but if a Lease be made to one during three lives this is good for the Occupant if any happen shall be punished for VVaste the words of the Statute be seised in the right of his Church yet if a Bishop that is seised in jure Episcopatus A Deane of his sole possessions in jure Decanatus An Arch-deacon in jure Archidiaconatus A Prebendary and the life are within the Statute for every of them is generally seised in jure Ecclesiae All Grants Feoffments Leases and other Conveyances or Estates to any Master or Fellowes of a Colledge Deane and Chapiter Master or Guardian of an Hospitall Parson Vicar c. other then for one and twenty yeares or three lives from the time of such Lease or Grant reserving the accustomable yearely rent yearly payable shall be meerly void 18 Eliz cap. 11. All Leases made by such persons as 13 Eliz. cap. 10. before where another Lease for yeares is in being not to be expired surrendred or ended within three years next after the making of such new Lease shall be void All Bonds and Covenants for renewing or making of any Lease contrary hereunto or to 13 Eliz. cap. 10. before shall be void But a Parson and Vicar are excepted out of the Statute of 32 H. 8. and therefore if either of them make a Lease for three lives c. of lands usually letten reserving the usuall rent it must be also confirmed by the Patron and Ordinary because it is excepted out of 32 H. 8. and not restrained by the Statute of 1. or 13 Eliz. and what hath been said concerning a Lease for three lives doth hold for a Lease of one and twenty yeares Now to speak somewhat of the disabling Statutes of 1. and 13 Eliz. the words of the exception out of the restraint and disability of 1 Eliz. are Notes of things well and duty to be observed other then for the terme of one and twenty years or three lives from such time as any Grant or assurance shall be given whereupon the old and accustomed yearely rent or more shall be reserved And to that effect is the exception in the Statute of 13 Eliz. First it is to be understood that neither of these nor any other do in any sort alter or change the enabling Statute of 32 H. 8â— but leaveth it for a patterne in many things for Lease to be made for others Secondly it is to bee knowne that no lease made according to exceptation of 1 Eliz and 13. Eliz. and not warranted by the Statute of 32 H. 8. if it be made by a Bishop or any sole Corporation but it must be confirmed by the Deanes and Chapiters or others that have interest as hath been said in the case of the Parson and Vicar but examples do illustrate If a Bishop make a Lease for one and twenty yeares and all these yeares being spent saving three or more yet may the Bishop make a new Lease to another for one and twenty yeares to begin from the making
during his life If a rent be granted to one for life by deed and willeth that the Grantee and his heires distraine in the Lands charged for the same rent the grantee hath in this case fee-simple in the rent and not estate for life for the distresse is the creation of the rent-charge and therefore the limitation and creation of the rent-charge shall enure according to the effect and limitation of the distresse for therein he retaineth it for a terme which is as long as he hath in the Land and therefore hath not any certainty that terme will ever commence and therefore the grant void And where Lessee for yeares without any habendum granteth to another all his tearme which shall be to come at the time of his death shall be all void A Termor reciting by Indenture his terme and lease granted all his terme estate and interest to another habendum sibi assign suis immediate post mortem ipsius the Grantor and the case was ruled and adjudged that the habendum was void and the premises of the grant good to make the whole terme to passe forthwith Dier fo 272. If I have a rent in Fee if I grant it to another and stay there this is a grant for life but if I goe further and say habendum after the death of I. S. there all shall be void vide fo 2. If tenant for yeares of land grant out of that a rent-charge to another for the life of the Grantee the grantee shall not have a state of Frank-tenement because he cannot have a stare of Frank-tenement derived out of a Chattel reall but he shall have the rent during all the yeares if the Grantee so long shall live Plowden fo 525. If I have a rent in fee and grant it to another post mortem I. S. this grant is void for the nature of a grant is that the thing ought to passe forthwith If a man make a lease for yeares and afterwards the lessor grants a rent charge out of the Land that grant shall charge the reversion And this proveth that the Land and the reversion are nor two distinct things but that in the reversion the Land is contained Plowden fo 173. The Abbot leased land for life and afterward leased the reversion to have the Land from Michaelmas next after the first Lease ended by death surrender or forfeiture for 21. yeares this is a good Lease Plowden fo 146. A grant of a reversion Habendum the said reversion after the end and expiration of the Tenant for life Attornement needdes for sixty yeares this is a good grant without Attornement If I make a Lease to one for life and afterwards I grant the reversion to another habendum from the Feast of St. Michael next ensuing to him and his heires this grant is void because that no franke-tenement be it in possession reversion or remainder may be limited to commence at a day to come If I have a rent in Fee I may not grant it to commence in futuro or at a day to come but if I have land I may grant a new rent out of it to commence at a day to come for there I shall not have any particular estate in the meane for it was not in esse before but doth commence of new and therefore I may appoint it to commence when I will Pertinentiis A man makes a Feoffement of a house cum pertinent nothing passeth by these words cum pertinentiis but the Garden Curtilage and close adjoyning to the house and whereupon the house is built and no other Land though other Lands have been occupied with the house A man leased a house cum pertin no land passeth by these word but otherwise it is where a man leaseth a house cum omnibus terris eidem partin there the lands therewithall used doe passe If a man makes a Feoffement of a house ac omnes terras tenementa heriditamenta eidem messuagio pertin aut cum eodem occupata locata aut dimissa existent hereby the land used with the house doth pass Tenant in taile and the Lessee shall acknowledge the Tenements to be the right of one A stranger Lease by fine to bind Tenant in Taile and his issue and that A. shall grant and render by the same fine to the Lessee for 60. yeares the remainder to the Lessor and his heires and it was with proclamations which shall bind the taile after proclamation made If Tenant in taile make a Feoffement and a common recovery is had against the Feoffee Recovery the best to barr estates taile and remainders who voucheth tenant for taile who voucheth over c. there the tail shall be barred because that he when he commeth in as vouchee shall bee in the degree of tenent in taile and the recompence in value which he hath or may have shall goe in taile and therefore such manner of recovery is best and the surest way to barr the taile and all the remainders and the reversion also If A. be tenant in taile the remainder to B. in taile the remainder to C. in taile the remainder to B. in Fee A makes a Feoffement the Feoffees suffer a common recovery wherein B. is vouched he over the common vouchee In this case A. is not bound but B. and all the remainders over are barred For although that by the Feoffment of A. all the remainders were discontinued and the estates that B.C.D. had converted into meere rights and though the remainders may never be remitted before the estate taile in possession be recontinued yet in case of a common recovery which is the common assurance of the Land he that commeth in as vouchee shall bee in judgement of Law in privity of estate which he over had though the precedent estate wherupon the state of the vouchee dependeth be devested or discontinued Coke 3 pars fo 60. Tenement is a large word Tenement and Hereditament to passe not onely lands and other inheritances which are holden but also Officers Rents Commons Profits apprender our of lands and the like wherein a man hath any Frankenement and whereof he is seised ut de libero tenemento but an Hereditament is the largest word of all in that kind for whatsoever may be inherited is an hereditant be it corporeall or incorporeall reall or personall or mixt Vesturam terrae If a man hath twenty Acres of Lands and by Deed granteth to another and his heires Vesturam terrae and maketh Livery secundum formam chartae the Land it selfe shall not passe because he hath a particular right in the land for thereby he shall not have the houses timber trees and other reall things parcell of the inheritance but he shall have the vesture of the Land that is the Corne Grasse and Vnder-wood Sweepage and the like and shall have trespasse quare clausam fregit Herbagium terrae If a man grant herbagium terrae he hath a
it is if a man make a Feoffment in Fee upon condition that the Feoffee shall not take the profits of the Lands this condition is repugnant and against law and the estate is absolute But a Bond with condition that the Feoffee shall not take the profits is good If a man bee bound with a condition to enfeoffe his wife the condition is repugnant void and against law because it is against a Maxime in Law and yet the Bond is good Deeds suspitions to be forged Yet before anno 13 H. 8. the Deed do stile the King Defender of the Faith or Supream head before the 20. H. 8. such a Deed is a forged Deed. King H. 8. used not the stile of Supreame head in his Charters till 22. of his Raigne nor King of Ireland before 33. of his Raigne New Littleton fo 7. Age to bind man or woman 21. yeares is the full age for man or woman to make good any act they doe 14. their age of discretion and therefore that is the competent age to bind a man in matter of marriage 12. to bind a woman and 9. to deserve her Dower Remainder No remainder may commence upon any repugnancy or impossibility precedent nor upon any condition that goeth to the destruction of the particular estate for conditions alway enure in a privity so that none shall take advantage of conditions but those which are privies for none shall enter for a condition broken but onely the Feoffor Donor Lessor or their heires and as none shall avoid an estate formerly made by the Breach of a condition but onely the privies so none shall take a new estate by performance of a condition but onely the privies Generall Livery and speciall Livery the difference A generall Livery hath two properties first it is full of charge to the heire for he must find an Office in every County where he hath Land or else he cannot sue a generall Livery and he must sue out his Writ of aetate probanda The second property is it is full of danger first it concludeth the heir for ever after to deny any tenure found in the Office Secondly if Livery be not sued of all and of every parcell which the King ought to have whether it be found in the Office or not found the Livery is void and the King may reseise the Land and be answered of the meane profits so it is if the Office be insufficient or the process wherof the Livery was made be insufficient or the like the King shall re-seise Therefore for the ease of the heire and for avoiding such danger the heire for the most part sueth out a speciall Livery which containeth a beneficiall pardon and saveth the said charges and preventeth the said conclusion and other dangers which being of grace and not of right as the generall Livery is the King may justly take more for a speciall Livery then for a generall but ever with such moderation as the heire may ever goe cheerefully through with it 23 Eliz. 77.28 H. 8. One Mr. Shotbolt was bound in an obligation to one Hickman and in the Obligation he was named John Shotbolt which was mistaken but Mr. Shotbolt well perceiving his misnaming sealed and delivered the Obligation as his Deed and in Debt brought upon this Obligation against him by the name of William Shotbolt alias dictus Johannes Shotbolt he pleaded non est factum and this speciall matter was found by verdict at Guild-hall London and whether he should be charged by this Obligation and plea that was the doubt and the Postea was speciall ut supra and by the opinion of the Justices of the Bench the plantiff shall not recover upon this Verdict but it had been better for him to have brought the Action by the name of John Shotbolt as he is named in the Obligation and then if he appeared therunto and pleaded ut supra non est sactum he should have been concluded by the Obligation vâ—… 3 H. 6. 34 H. 6. 5 E. 4. this matter well debated similis casus inter Turpin Jaxon viz Ann for Agraes and she sued by her right name nuper dicta Anna. Hillar 18. Rotulo 738. Dier fo 279. An obligation made beyond the Seas may be sued here in England in what place the party will what if it beare date Bourdeaux in France where shall it be sued and answer was made that it may be alleadged in quodam loco vocat Bourdiaux in France in â—slington in the County of Midd. and there it shall be tryed for whether there be such a place in Islington in the County of Midd. or not is not traversable in that case and so the varieties of opinions in our Bookes well reconciled New Littleton 361. b. 6. pars fo 47. Dondales case 32 H. 6. 25. 48. E. 3. 3. 11 H. 6. 16. Mise Mise is a word of Act appropriated onely to a Writ of right so called because both parties have put themselves upon the meere right to be tried by grand Assize or by Battel so as that which in all other actions are called an issue in a Writ of right in that Case is called a Mise A yeare how into how many parts it is divided A quarter of a yeare is 91 daies halfe a yeare is 182 daies a yeare is 365 daies and to the 6. houres the Law hath no regard Diers Abridgement fo 89. this is according to the computation in the Kalender And when a Patron is to present hee hath six months to present according to the computation of the Kalender which is 182. daies before any Lapse shall accrue But a Month according to the computation of the Law for reservation of rents and re-entries for non payment of Rent c. doth account 28. daies to the Month and no more Kings-Silver Note that the fine pro licencia concordandi is that which is called the Kings-Silver or post fine And if the Fine in the Hamper which is commonly endorsed upon the writ of Covenant be 26. shillings 8. pence then alwayes the Kings-Silver or post-fine is halfe as much more as the Fine in the Hamper Suspension If a Lease be made of 10. Acres of Land for yeares reserving rent and after the Lessor enters in 2. Acres the entire rent is thereby suspended for a contract which is entire may not be apportioned but being suspended in part it is suspended in all being destroyed in part is destroyed in the whole and especially as to the Act of the Lessor which doth suspend or extinguish it Suspension A man gives Land in taile or leaseth it for life or yeares rendant rent with condition for default of payment to re-enter there if the Lessee lease part of the Land to the Donor or Lessor or if the Donor or Lessor enter in part of the land he may not re-enter for rent behind after for the condition is suspended in all and a condition
with the tenants of this mannor in any part or parts thereof and with what Chattle and where and bywhat right custome or duty to your knowledge Enter commoners 10. Item VVhether may the Lords and Tenants of this Mannor enter-common in the VVasts Downes Heathes Moores or commons of any other Mannors or Lordship And if they may then with what kinde of Cattle and what be the names of the Mannors and commons and who is now seised thereof to your knowledge Exchange of Land 11. Item what exchanges have been made of any land within this Mannor by whom when and where were the same exchanges made and what lands and for what terme Lands forfeited or escheated 12. Item whether have any parts or members of this Mannor been forfeited or escheated or ought have been unto the Lord of this Mannor and not yet seised to his use by reason of any death Bastardy granting of Leases without license aliening of copy-hold land by feoffment Wast Demise or otherwise what and were be the same lands and who do occupy the same and how and in what manner were the same so forfeited or escheated 13. Item what Herriots reliefs or other duties Herriots reliefs c. are or ought to be due unto the Lord of the Mannors upon the decease of any tenant of what estate soever or upon any alienation or surrender and whether such as doe hold under divers rents ought to pay diverse Herriots And if they doe of what kind or kinds be the said Herriots or ought the same to be to your knowledge 14. Item what quit rents workes Quit-rents work customes c. customes or other duties are or have been of old time of right paid out of this manner and to what person or persons and upon what cause 15. Item you shall enquire if any evidences Court-Roles or writings belonging to this Mannor Writings or Court-Rolles concealed are with-holden or kept back from the Lord of this Mannor and by whom The interpretation explanation and meaning of divers words used in ancient Charters c. Fleta Sock A Power to seek after Thieves and to do justice upon them after such inquisition Also a Liberty to have Suitors to their Courts that have the same Also it is taken for a company of Tenants which live within such a Liberty and they are by the same exempted from the common services of the Prince and Country whereunto other Subjects are ordinarily bound Sochemans Are men to whom some special Liberties are given Ham Socha Is the dwelling of a Farmer Dr. Cowel Ham is a Town and from thence comes Hamlet Sack Signifieth Causa and from thence cometh this saying For whose sake scilicet For whose cause Skene de verb. signif Lam. f. 132. Sack Is called Placitum emenda de transgressione hominum in curia nostra It is the Amerciament paid by him which denieth the thing proved against him to be true or affirmeth the contrary to the truth Fleta Sack Significat acquietantiam de Secta ad Comitatum hundredum l. 1. c 47. Cassaneus in consuetudine Thol or Toll Tolvetum alias Theo onium hath two significations viz. 1. A Liberty to buy or sell within a certain precinct which importeth to a Fair or Market 2. And in the second it is a Liberty to take Toll as to be free from the payment thereof He that is infeoffed with Toll is Custome-free and payeth no custome Skene when it is written Hoc est quod vos homines vestri de toto homagio vestro fint quieti de omnibus mercanciis de tolveto de omnibus rebus emptis venditis Privy contracts were held unlawfull and therefore the Lord of the Fair or Market in testimony of the contract received toll Is a power to have slaves which are called Nativi Bondi Villani Teame alias Theme And all Baronies infeoffed with Theam hath the same power for unto them their Bond-men their Children Goods and Chattels properly belong It is a Royalty granted onely by the King himself A compound of three Saxon words Infangthef the Preposition In fang to take thef a Felon Infangthef est Justicia cognoscentis latroniâ— de homine suo si captus fuerit super terram suam Illi vero qui non habent has consuetudines coram Justicia regia rectum faciant in Hundredis Wapentagiis vel Shiris An out-taken-thief Vtfangthef Bracton l. 2. c. 24. diciturlatro extraneus veniens aliunde de terra aliena qui captus fuerit in terra ipsius qui tales habet libertates Significat acquietanciam misericordiae intrationis in domum alienam vi injuste Handsok Fleta l. 1. c 47. Grith a word of the old Angles signifying Peace Brich quasi Breach Grith brich Rastal expositione verborum Those amerciaments due for Bloudshed Blout in Saxon est Sanguis Wite est Culpa Blodwite D. Cowel A liberty to take amerciaments pro melletis Flitwite Bona utlegatorum Fredwite Significat quietanciam misericordiae de latrone suspenso absque consideratione Hengwite Fleta l. 1. c. 27. Cowel Cowel est muleta pro homine injuste suspenso Liâ—…wite Is a liberty to take amends of him that defiles your Bond-woman Flemene frith A liberty to challenge the Cattel or amerciaments of your man a Fugitive Forstall To be quit of amerciaments and cattle arrested within your lands and the amerciaments thereof coming Gidel Grest A kinde of purgation in old time whereof there was two sorts viz. per ignem aquam Henfare An amerciament for flight for murder Vetito namio is power to have Pleas of Withernam that is if any of his men or Tenants to whom such power is given be arrested in another Liberty the next man of that liberty that comes into his Fee shall be taken and deteined untill the other be freed In a Charter of King Edward the Third dated at Walton 25. Junii Anno Regni sui 12. reciting divers former Charters doth declare and grant That by the obscure and dubious and general words in the former Charters the Grantees should have all amerciaments as well of Free-men as of Villains and that they should receive all that the King ought to have for any fault or transgression to be amerced in the Court of the King before the Barons of the Exchequer before the Justices of the Bench or before his Justices Itinerant at Common Pleas or before his Justices assigned to take Assizes or to deliver Goals or to whatsoever Inquisitions to be made or amerced before any other Justices Sheriffs Inquisitors Reeves Bayliffs or other ministers as well of the Forrests as others to whatsoever Office they were deputed by the King And that they have the Goods and Chattels of Utlaws Condemned persons and Fugitives and of Felons as wâ—ll of themselves as of all other Felons