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

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by these presents in reliefe ease of the said F. M. that if the said F. M. his c. or any of them do well and truely pay or cause to be paied the said sum of 160. l according to the true meaning of this present award And if the said L. S. his heirs c. or some of them shall not well truely satisfie content pay vnto the said T. G. his c. the said seuerall sums aboue in this awarde appointed to be payed by the said F. M. before the seuerall daies herein aboue mentioned That then at all times after any such default of paiment so to be made by the said L. S. his c. the said T. G. his c. shall permit and suffer the said F. M. his executors and administrators euery of them at the costs charges of the said F. M. his exec and administ effectually to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted all and euery such execution and executions vpon the said iudgement so had for the said T. G. against the said L. S. as to them or any of them or the learned counsell of them or any of them shall seeme good And all and euery summe and sums of money thereby to be obtained to take and conuert to the only proper vse and behalfe of the said F. M. his exec administr without any accompt recompence or payment thereof or therefore to be yeelded or made to the said T. G. his c. or any of them any thing in this present award contained c. notwithstanding ✿ In witnes whereof the said Earle to both the partes of this present award hath set his hand and seale Dated c. All such couenants conditions as be vsually made for the assurāce or enioying of lands or tenements goods and chattels may be inserted into awards as shall seeme good vnto the arbitrators or parties Of notice of the arbitrement AND when the arbitrators haue made their award according to Sect. 48. the submission albeit perchance they be not bound to giue notice thereof to the parties yet it seemeth very requisite that they should in due time before that eyther party be to performe any part thereof notifie the same vnto them least otherwise they might breake their bōds or couenants in that behalfe if any such be before they know the same Notwithstanding that the booke in 8. Edw. 4. 1. 9. be doubtfull in that point The finall cause and effects of Arbitrements ANd thus by that which hath bin discoursed it sufficiently appeareth Sect. 49. as we thinke that the scope and end of arbitrements and other iudgments is all one And chiefly the finall determination of strif● suit and controuersie 19. H. 6. 36. And so consequently their effects be almost equall But the lawes seeme more fauourable to arbitrements then other iudgments in so much as by arbitrators the strict course and tedious ceremonies of law suits which are most commonly wont to wearie suters and picke their purses are cut off and shorter decisions by them made with little or no cost at all Wee differ to shew how arbitrements may be pleaded in barre of other actions vntill we come to their fit place amongst our presidents of pleadings and so end this treatise An Award made by an Arbitrator touching copyhold land betweene an Alderman of London and an other TO all Christen people to whom this present writing of award indented Sect. 50. shall come H. T. of Lincolns Inne in the countie of Middlesex Esquier sendeth greeting in our Lord God euerlasting Whereas suite variance and debate heretofore hath beene and yet is had moued and depending as well in the Queenes Maiesties Court of Requests as in diuers other Courts betweene R. H. Citizen and Alderman of London of the one partie and R. E. of K. in the countie of M. Yeoman of the other partie of for and concerning the right title vse interest and possession of diuers lands tenements hereditamēts with the appurtenances lying and being in K. within the manor or Lordship of T. within the said Countie of M. and containing by estimation about 200. acres of land meadow pasture and wood commonly called or knowne by the name of Hebines land for the appeasing final end and determina●ion of all which said suites variances and debates the parties aforesaid haue submitted compromitted themselues to stand to obay and performe the arbitrament ordinaunce dome and iudgemēt of me the said H. T. Arbitrator indifferently elected named and chosen by both the said parties indifferently to arbitrate order deeme awarde and Iudge as well of for and concerning the estate right title interest vse and possession of all and singuler the said premisses and euery parte and parcell thereof as also of for and vpon all maner of ac●ions suites quarels debts debates trespasses and demaunds whatsoeuer heretofore had moued stirred or depending betweene the said parties from the beginning of the worlde vntill the twentie day of Nouember last past as by their seuerall writings obligatorie wherein eyther of the said parties stand bounden to the other of the same parties in the summe of two hundred pounds bearing date the said 20. daie of Nouember and made for the true performaunce of the said award more at large it doth and may appeare Wherupon the said H. T. hauing taken vpon him the charge and burden of the said Arbitramen● And hauing present before him both the said parties hauing also very aduisedly and deliberatly weighed and considered the titles claimes allega●ions and proofes of either of the said parties to the said premisses And vpon sight and due consideration of all the euidences writings and proofes shewed and made before me the said H. T. by both the said parties do award arbitrate order deeme iudge of the premisses in maner and forme following That is to say First I the said Arbitrator do award deeme order Iudge that the said R. E. or his heires at al times within 3. yeares next ensuing the date of these presents vpon lawfull reasonable warning by the Steward Bailife or Reeue of the said manor of T. for the time being shall at the next Court so to be holden then next after such warning had surrender and giue vp into the hands of the said R. H. his heires or assignes in open Court according to the custome of the said Manor to the vse of the said R. H. and his heires for euer all singuler the aforesaid lands tenements and hereditaments hereafter in these presents mencioned expressed and declared That is to wit one mansion or dwelling house wherin the said R. E. now dwelleth with all edifices buildings c. And furthermore I the said H. T. do award ordaine deeme and Iudge by these presents that the said R. H. his heires or assignes at the said Court where and when the said surrender shal be so made shall assure and conuay vnto the said R. E. or to his
the bargaine and couenants therein contained they the said T. and G. being as is aforesaid vnder the age of one and twenty yeares at the time of the making thereof It may please your honorable Lordship the premisses considered to grant vnto him this complainant the Queenes Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. E. T. E. and G. E. and euery of them thereby commaunding them and euery of them at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein by your good Lordship to be limitted to be and personally to appeare before your honorable Lordship in the Queenes Maiesties high Court of Chancery then and there to answere vnto the premisses and further to stand to and abide such order and direction therin as to your good L. vpon the hearing of the said cause shal seeme to be agreeable with right equity and good conscience c. A Bill against the heire for entring into lands deuised to the plaintife praying a Commission to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your good Lordshippe your Sect. 110. poore and distressed orator G. W. of N. in the County of N. yeoman That whereas W. W. deceased father vnto your said Orator was in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in the manor and Capitall messuage of N. in the County of N. and of and in one farme set lying and being within the parish of W. in the said County of N. of diuers other lands tenements hereditaments in N. aforesaid And also whereas the said W. W. deceased was likewise in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of in certaine ground and one tenement with the appurtenances set lying and being within the parish of C. in the Countie of D. and also of and in the rectorie and personage of C. alias C. within the said County of D. and of diuers other landes and tenements set lying and being in the countie of N. and D. and he so being of the said landes and tenements seised did by his last Will and Testament in writing deuise and bequeath vnto your said humble Orator and to the heires males of his bodie lawfully begotten certaine parcels of land of and in the saide Manor of N. that is to say one mansion house wherein your said poore Orator now inhabiteth and dwelleth one close commonly called B. containing by estimation two acres or thereaboutes one other close commonly called C. containing by estimatiō two acres or therabouts one other close commonly called the vpper S. all which seuerall parcels of land are scituate lying and being in N. as is aforesaid in the foresaid Countie of N. one messuage or tenement commonly called by the name of an oxgang scituate and being in W. in the said County of N. and also one tenement called the N. scituate lying and being in the Countie of D. and also one lease of the rectorie and personage of C. in the County of D. by vertue force of which said deuise and bequeath your said humble Orator entered into the said premisses and the saide issues and profits of the same hath perceiued receiued and taken to his owne profit vse and behoofe as lawfull was for himselfe to doe as he verely beleeueth But now so it is if it may please your honorable good Lordship hhat one R. W. brother to your said humble Orator as sonne and heire apparant to the said W. W. his father deceased hath taken away concealed and cancelled as it is thought the said last Will and Testament of your said Orators father and hath taken vpon him the administration of all the goods and chattels of your said Orators father reiecting and disanulling the said last Will and Testament made by your said Orators father as aforesaid to thintent only therby of set purpose malice and vnbrotherlike dealing to defraud expell depriue and disinherit your said Orator of his right title and interest of and in the said lands deuised to him as aforesaid and also doth threaten your foresaid Orator that he may at his pleasure relinquish and disanul the beforesaid last Will and Testament made by your foresaid Orators father as is aforesaid and did take the administration of all your said Orators fathers goods and chattels and entred into all his said landes as is aforesaid contrarie vnto all right equity and good conscience and not christianlike but vnbrotherlike dealing and contrarie to the true intent and good meaning of your foresaid Orators Fathers Will made as is aforesaid vnlesse your good Lordship doe according vnto your accustomed goodnesse extend your clemency and pitty in that behalfe to your poore Orator In consideration whereof the premisses considered and for as much as the title of your said Orator by reason of the vndirect practise vsed as aforesaid in concealing cancelling and relinquishing the said last Will as aforesaid doth greatly depend vpon the witnesse and testimony of certaine persons dwelling within the County of N to prooue the true meaning of your said orators fathers Wil which are of great yeares and also very impotent not like long to liue nor yet able to trauell to this honorable Court to be examined for the testifying of the trueth touching the premisses as by common order appertaineth And also for that in time the said witnesses may die and by meanes thereof your said Orator may be in danger to sustaine disinherison of the premisses May it therefore please your good Lordship to grant the Queens c. A Bill for refusing to receiue the Plaintifes rent according to an order and taking of forfeiture of a bonde made for payment of the rent HVmbly complaining sheweth to your good Lo. your daily Orator Sect ' 111. I. T. of G. in the County of N. yeoman that whereas one I. K. of W. in the County of Yorke Miller pretended as in the right of his wife to be owner of a certaine messuage in E. in the County of N. aforesaid and of certaine land meadow and pasture thereuuto belonging and lying within the fields of E. aforesaid and the said I. R. so pretēding himselfe in the right of his said wife to be seised as is aforesaid about the 19. or 20. yeare of the Queenes Maiesties most gratious Kaigne that now is did demise the said messuage and land in E. aforesaid vnto your said Orator and one A. L. Gentleman to haue and to hold to them for the terme of 21. yeares from the time of the making thereof rendering therefore yeerely the rent of xx s̄ payable at Whitsontide and Martimnas by euen portions for the payment of which said rent of xx s̄ he the said K. knowing himselfe the title thereof to be questionable and likely to grow to some charges in law to your said Orator to defend did therefore cunningly get your saide Orator to become bound in an obligation of xx l for the yearely paiment of the said
s̄ of rent suit of Court from three weekes to three weekes holden within the said manor of D. And the said I. W. so being seazed of the premisses hath now lately conueyed assured part of the said manor lands tenements in C. aforesaid vnto one H. S. Esquier his heires assignes by reason wherof y● said H. S. doth now hold the said parcell of land of your said Orator as of his said manor of D. by the seruice aforesaid by part of the said rent of vi s̄ acording to y● quātitie of the said lands so by him purchased of the said I. W. And so it is right ho. Lo. that diuers deeds euidences writings courtrolls aswell tōcerning the said manor of D. as also cōcerning the said ren● seruice before rehearsed be now of late casually come to the hands custodie possession of the said I. W. and H. S. who by coulour thereof do intend now vtterly to disinherit your said Orator of his said rent and seruices and do deny refuse either to pay vnto your said Orator his said rent or else to do vnto him his said seruices And although your said Orator hath diuers sundry times required y● said I. W. H. S. aswell to deliuer vnto him the said Euidences deeds writings courtrolls as also to pay do vnto him the said rent seruices according as of right they ought to do yet neuertheles the said I. W. H. S. haue vtterly denied refused alwaies the same to do cōtrary to all equitie cōscience And forasmuch as your said Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the saide deedes euidences writings nor wherein y● same be conteined nor also knoweth not the certaintie of the said lands tenements that the saide H. S. hath purchased of the said I. W. therefore he is not only clearely without remedie for the recouerie of the said deeds and euidences but also by the order of the common lawe is not able to make any auowrie vpon the said H. S. for his said rent In consideration whereof may it please your good Lo. to graunt the King and Queenes most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed vnto the saide I. W. and H. S. commaunding them and either of them by vertue thereof personallie to apeare before your good Lordship in the King and Queenes most honorable Court of Chauncerie at Westminster there to make aunswere to all the premisses and therein to abide such order and direction as to your good Lordship shall be thought consonant to equitie and good conscience and your said Orator shall dayly pray to God for your good Lordship in health and honour long to continue An Answere to the bill next before The Aunswere of H. S. Esquier to the bill of complaynt of Sir T. H. Knight THe said defendant saith that the said bill of complaynt is vntrue Sect. 177. vncerteine insufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto and the matters therein conteined are determinable and ought to be determined at the Common lawe within the Countie Palantine of C. within which Countie aswell the saide complaynant as the saide defendant do dwell And also the said mannor and other the premisses mentioned in the said bill of complaint and supposed to be holden of the said complainant do lie and be and further saith that it apeareth by the saide bill of complaint that although it were true as it is not indeede that the said mannor of Capisthorne were holden of the saide complainant in such manner and forme as in his said bill is surmised yet the said defendant doth not nor can or ought by the lawe of the realme hold such parcell of the same mannor of C. as he hath purchased by the seruices mentioned in the saide bill And also that the saide complainant is compellable by the lawes and statutes of this realme to auow at his perill vpon such parcell of the said mannor of C. as is seuered frō the same in fee simple for such portion of the said rent as the value of the same parcell so seuered doth amount vnto and hath his ordinarie remedie for the same by the order of the common lawes and of the statutes of this realme in that case prouided if the allegations of his bill be true and the said rent can not by the order of the common lawe of this realme be aportioned in this honorable Court. For which matters and other causes aparant in the said bill the said defendant saith that the same bill and the matters conteyned in the same be insufficient in the lawe to be aunswered vnto And that he is not compellable nor ought by the lawe to be compelled to make any further aunswere to the same and demurreth in lawe vpon the same and prayeth to be dismissed out of this honorable Court without any further aunswere to be made thereunto And if this Court will not nor do admit this demurrer but the same notwithstanding will compell the said defendant to make further aunswere to the said bill as otherwise then by compulsatorie order of this Court the said defendant clayming the aduantage of the lawes of this realme whereby he ought to be tryed doth not nor will make any further or other aunswere to the same then the saide defendant after such order made by this Court to make further answere saith that the said I. W. named in the said bill of complaint was seazed in his demesne as of fee of and in one Mese and certeine lands and tenements conteyning by estimation 60. acres or thereabouts which mese and lands is called W. and are within the Countie of C. aforesaid and are of the yearely rent and value of 51. s̄ 4. d and the said I. W. so being thereof seised for certeine summes of money to him paid did bargaine and sell the said Mese lands and tenements called W. vnto the said defendant and his heires and thereupon did by sufficient and lawfull conueyance in the lawe conuey and assure the said Mese lands and tenements called W. vnto t●e said defendant and his heires to the proper vse of the said defendant and of his heires by force whereof the said defendant entred into the premisses and was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee and the same estate continued vntill about the fifth yeare of the raigne of the late King Eow the sixt that one R. B. by the commaundement of the said complainant did enter into the said Mese and into one pasture or croft cō●eyning by estimation 2. Acres of land lying on y● Southeast part of the said Mese and adioyning to the same and into one Orchard and one garden lying to the said mese being parcell of the saide lands and tenements called W. and in W. aforesaid and thereof did dissease the said defendant to the vse of the said complainant to which entrie and disseisin the said complainant did agree by force whereof the said complainant was and yet is seased
respondend ' W. R. de placito quod warr̄ ei octo mesuag ' sex gardina tria pomar̄ quatuor acr̄ terr̄ sex acr ' prati duas acr̄ pasture cum pertinent̄ in B. B. quae tenet de eo tenere clamat vnde cartā s●am habet c. Et vnde idem W. per W. C. atturn ' suum dic ' qd ' praed ' E. nuper fuit seisitus de tenementis praed ' cum ꝑtin ' in dominico vt de feodo sic inde seisitus existens idem F. 19. die S. anno Regni dn̄ae Reginae nunc 25. apud B. praed ' per quandam cartam suam quā idem W. R. sigillo p̄d ' F. signat̄ hic in cur̄ ꝓfert cuius dat̄ est eisdē die anno dedit concessit te● praed ' cum pertinent̄ praef W. R. habend ' sibi her̄ suis impepetuum vlterius p̄d ' F. per. cartam praed ' tenement̄ p̄d ' cum pertinent̄ eidem W. hered ' suis cōtra omneshomines warran̄ prout per cartam●llam plen ' apparet virtute quorum quidem don ' cōcessionis idem W. fuit adhuc est scisit̄ deten ' praed ' cum pertinent̄ in dominico suo vt defeodo Et sic inde seisit̄ existent̄ quidam D. D. arrain ' versus ipsum W. quandam assisam noue disseisi●e de praed ' tenement̄ cum ꝑtinent̄ coram I. C. vno baron̄ Scaccar̄ dn̄ae Reginae et F. R. vno seruien ' ipsius dn̄ae Reginae ad legem Iustic ' eiusd ' dominae Reginae ad assisas in com̄ praed ' capiend ' assign ' per formam statuti c. per qd ' idem W. R. pendente assisa illa sep●us requisiuit praef F. quod ipse praed ' tenement̄ cum pertinent̄ eidem W. warr̄ idem F. ten ' illa cum pertinent̄ eidem W. hucusque warr̄ contradixit adhuc contradicit vnde dic ' quod deteriorat est damnum habet ad valentiam centum librarum inde produc ' sectam c. SYMBOLEOGRAPHY Of Recoueries for Assurances c. called common or feigned Recoueries IN euery Recouerie are to be regarded the demandant Sectio 1. the tenant of the land the vouchee as the efficient causes thereof The land demaunded as the matter which must as certeinly be set downe in writs of Entre as in writs of Couenant whereupon fines are leuied The end and effect of such recoueries is to discontinue and distroy estates tailes remainders and reuersions and baire the former owners thereof The Demaundant is he that bringeth the writ of Entre and may be termed the Recouerer The Tenant is he against whom the writ is brought and may be termed the Recoueree The Vouchee is he whom the tenāt voucheth or calleth to warranty for the land in demaund And such persons may be demaundants tenants and vouchees in these recoueries as may be Cognizors and Cognizees in writs of Couenant and by such names Mutatis mutandis Sauing that if any recouery be had against any tenant in taile the reuersion or remainder being in the Queene of the gift of the Queene or of any of her Maiesties progenitors kings of England such recouerie will neither barre the issue in taile of his Entre nor discontinue his estate nor pluck such reuersion or remainder out of her Maiestie 34. H. 8. cap. 20. Quaere tamen si tiel recouerie barre lissue in taile during the continuance of the estate taile Dyer fol. 132. pla 1. Item before such persons by such meanes and in such maner may warrants of Attorney bee knowledged and certified as fines knowledged in the Countrie sauing that the recognizance of warrants of Attorney may be taken by any Iustice or Seriant without a writ of Dedimus potestatem And fines must be paied vpon writs of Entre as vpon writs of Couenant And all such writs of Entre must be signed by the Queenes Atturney before they can be sealed In a Recouerie with double voucher the fine must bt sued first to make him tenant at the time of the writ of Entre brought for euery writ of Entre must alwaies be brought against him that is tenāt of the freehold of the land demaūded at the time of the writ brought 18. R. 2. and Dyer fol. 252. pla 98. for that that the estate of the tenant in taile which is vouchee is barred in respect of the assets only which is or may be recouered in value Plow Basset vers Manxel fol. 11. a and of execution sued by the tenant against him And if the tenant haue but an estate for life or in dower or by the curtesie then to haue a good recouerie thereof it is meete that such tenant make a conditional Surrender of his estate to him in the reuersion or remainder to the end he may be a perfect tenant of the inheritance and then to bring the writ of Entre against him And after that the recouery is executed the particuler tenant for breach of the condition may enter and inioy his terme notwithstanding such surrender See the like Surrender in the Chapter of Surrenders in the first part of Symboleography Of what thinges writs of Entre may be brought and by what names PRaecipe quod reddat lyeth de vna acra terre aqua cooperta vel de Sect 2. acra terre 12. H. 7. fol. 4. de gurgite 10. E. 3. 14. Ed. 3. 842. Fitz. nat bre fol. 191. h. Et de passagio vltra a quam Fitz. nat br fo 191. i. de balliua 34. Ed. 3. 423. de officio 27. H. 8. fo 12. de aduocation̄ ecclesie aut de quarta ꝑte decimar̄ 34. Edw. 3. deporcione decimarum Dyer fol. 84. pla 83. de quadam parcella terre Dyer fol. 84. pla 83. de custod ' terre haered ' siue custod ' terre Register 161. 22. Edw. 3. fol. 19. Praecipe quod reddat lyeth of all maner of Ecclesiastical or Spirituall profits vt de Rectoria Vicaria porcionibus pencionbus decimis c. per statut̄ 32. H. 8. cap. 7. de omnibus omnimodis decimis maioriꝰ mixtis minutis infra villam siue hamlet̄ de B. in parochia de A. quoquo modo crescenc ' contingen̄ ac annuatim renouan̄ c. Thel lib. 8. cap. 9. S. 2. de quarta parte decimarū oblationum ecclesie sanct ' P. c. 16. Ed. 3. de quadam porcione decimarum or terre not shewing how much 1. H. 4. fo 1. Dyer fol. 84. pla 83. 84. 85. and 86. In old time de hida terre per Glanuile de caruca terre 4. E. 3. 161. de bouat̄ terre 6. Ed. 3. 291. de sex pedibus terre in longitudine quatuor pedibus in latitud ' 14. Ass 13. A Praecipe quod reddat lieth detofro situ molendini 14. Ed. 3. de hundredo de C. balliuato de B. 34. Ed. 1. 3. E. 3. de pastur̄ ad sex boues
award arbitrement order rule dome and iudgement of S. T. and W. R. arbitrators indifferently elected and chosen aswel on the part of the said A. B. on the one partie as on the part of the aboue named C. D. on the other partie to arbitrate awarde order and iudge of and vpon all and all maner of actions suites quarrels debts accompts trespasses controuersies debates and demaundes whatsoeuer had moued depending or accrewed or which might haue bin had or moued betweene the said parties at any time or times before the date hereof except one action of Eiectione firmae depending betweene the said parties in the Queenes Maiesties Court commonly called the Kings bench as by the Records thereof in the same Court remayning it doth and may appeare and except out of this submission all lands and tenements of the said A. B. or any like exception So alwaies that the same award arbitrement order and iudgement of and concerning the premisses be made by writing Indented vnder all their hands and seales before the first day of December now next ensuing and one part of the same deliuered or caused to be deliuered by the said Arbitrators to the said A. B. or his certain Atturney or Atturne●s deputie or deputies in that behalfe requiring the same the said first day of December now next ensuing at or in the parish Church of R. in the said Countie of Yorke And the other part of the said award be likewise deliuered by the said Arbitrators to the said C. D. or his certaine atturney or atturneis deputie or deputies in that behalfe requiring the same at the said day and place And so that by vertue or occasion of the said award neither of the said parties nor the seuerall heires executors or administrators of them or any of them be to do any act or thing to or by any straunger to the same award and to these presents And so as the said A. B. doe not discharge the said arbitrators before the said time That then this present obligation to be vtterly voide and of none effect or els to stande remaine continue and be in full strength and vertue Of the condition to performe an award of lands ANd if the award be cōcerning a title to land the words in the condition may be thus Aswell of for and concerning the right title interest vse possession Sect 40. and demaund of and in the manor of S. with the appurtenances in S. in the said countie of Y. and all landes tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances in S. aforesaid in the occupation of the said A. B. and his assignes as of and vpon all actions trespasses suites quarrels debts duties debates griefes inconueniences and demaunds had moued stirred or depending betweene the said parties concerning the said Manor tenements and premisses or any part thereof And also if the said A. B. before the feast of P. now next comming doe shew vnto the said Arbitrators all such writings as he hath concerning the said Manor and premisses at such time and place as the said Arbitrators shall appoint for the sight thereof So alwaies that c. vt supra That then c. vt supra Whether power to arbitrate may be assigned AN Arbitraitor chosen cannot graunt or assigne ouer his aucthoritie Sect 4● of arbitation to any other 8. Ed. 4. fol. 1. and 9. because it is but a nude power which is not to be graunted ouer notwithstanding the opinion in 47. E. 3. 20. to the contrary Neither doth the submission extend to giue the Arbitraitors power to elect others Whether the Compromittors may discharge the Arbitrators or no. ANd it seemeth that albeit the parties haue agreed vpon daiesmen Sect 42. or Arbitraitors yet before the arbitrement made either of the parties may reuoke the authoritie giuen to the arbitrators and discharge them thereof for power may be countermaunded but if the submission be made by bond then the bond seemeth to be forfaited 5. E. 4. 1. 21. H. 6. 30. 28. H. 6. 6. 49. E. 3. 9. But by Ashton Iustice if 2. plaintifes one defendant or 2. defendants and one plaintife put themselues to the award of others neither the one plaintife without the other nor the one defendant without the other may discharge the arbitrators 28. H. 6. 6. And by Finch 49. E. 3. 9. If the submission be by deede the discharge must likewise be by deede So much of submissions arming the arbitrators with power Now of Arbitrements issuing from the same What an Arbitrement is AN Arbitrement or award therefore arbitramentum laudum arbitratus Sect 43. Libro intration̄ debt in arbitr̄ 2. 3. is nothing else but the very dome order and decree pronoūced by arbitrators vpon the controuersie for the ending whereof they were chosen by the striuing parties Dier 356. 10. Eliz. pla 39. Of things regarded in Arbitrement IN the forme of euery Arbitrement fiue thinges are specially to be Sect 44. regarded First that it be made according to the very submission or compromise touching the things compromitted and euery other circumstance as is said 9. E. 4. 44. Plow 396. a Secondly that it be a finall ende of the controuersies compromitted 19. H. 6. 36. 21. Ed. 4. 38. Thirdly that it appoint either party to giue or do vnto the other some thing benes●ciall in apparance at the least 43. E. 3. 28. Dier 356. 19. Eliz pla 39. 12. H. 7. 39. H. 6. 9. 22. E. 4. 25. 7. H. 6. 40. 19. H. 6. 36. 10. Hen. 6. 19. Fourthly that the performance thereof be possible 22. H. 6. 46. 8. Ed. 4. 1. 9. 17. Ed. 4. 5. H. 7. Fifthly that there be a meanes how either party may by law attaine vnto that which is thereby awarded vnto him 5. Ed. 4. 24. 17. Ed. 4. 5. 18. Ed. 4. 22. 23. 5. H. 7. 23. For if it faile in any of these points then is the whole Arbitrement void and of none effect as it doth manifestly appeare by these special cases following As. An award that the parties shall obey the arbitrement of A. B. is void for power cannot be assigned 8. E. 4. 19. An award that any of the parties shal be bound or doe any other act by the aduise of the arbitraitors is not good because they cannot make seuerall awardes 18. Ed. 4. 22. 23. but that the parties shall be bound or make assurance by the aduise of Counsaile is good 18. Edw. 4. 22. 23. Arbitrement that the parties shall be nonsuit in actions is not good for euery award ought to be a satisfaction to the parties and a determination of things compromitted so as one party haue amends but when one hath bin nonsuit he may begin againe 19. H. 6. 36. 21. E. 4. 38. But an award that the parties shal make discontinuance and retraxits of their suits is good 21. E. 4. 38. 5. H. 7. 22. If the submission be of diuers things the award onely of some part
him your said Orator And for because your said Orator hath not any specialtie or witnesse to proue the deliuery of the saide xx pound he is therefore thereof without remedie by order and course of the common lawes of this Realme and is vtterly like to loose the said summe contrarie to all equitie good conscience and true dealing vnlesse your honorable Lo. fauor and lawfull aide be herein shewed In tender consideration whereof may it please your honorable Lo. the premisses considered c. The Answere of the said Bill THe said defendant saith that the said Bill of complaint is very vntrue Sect ' 84. and insufficient in the law to be answered vnto for diuers apparant matters therein conteined and that the same is deuised by the said complainant and exhibited into this honorable court of meere malice and euill wil to thintent to put this defendant to great charges and expences without any good matter or iust cause or colour of cause so to doe And that if the said supposed matter were true as indeede it is not yet were the same determinable at and by the common lawes of this Realme and not in this honorable crurt whereunto this defendant prayeth to be dismissed with his reasonable costes and charges in this behalfe wrongfully sustained without that that the said complainant by way of prest at the feast of Penticost in the saide three and twentith yeare of the Queenes Maiesties Raigne or at any other time did deliuer vnto this defendant the said summe of twentie pounds to be paid vnto him at or before the said feast of S. Bart. the Apostle as in the said Bill is supposed And without that that the said complainant manie and sundrie times required payment of the said twenty pound as in the saide Bill is likewise vntruely supposed And without that that any other matter thing or things clause sentence article or allegation in the said bill contained materiall or effectuall in the law to be answered vnto and not herein in this his answere sufficiently confessed and auoided denied or trauersed is true All which matters c. A Bill of deteining bonds and bils paid praying an Iniunction to stay suite thereupon To the Right Honorable Sir C. H. Knight of the noble order of the garter and Lord Chaunctllor of England HVmbly sheweth vnto your good Lo. F. L. of S. in Ie dale in the Sect ' 85. Countie of D. Esquier That whereas your said supplyant did long sithence in his fathers life time at diuers seuerall times the certainty whereof your Lordships said Orator doth not now remember vpon some occasion that he then had to vse more money then he had then in store did borrow and take to Ioane of one R. S. of S. in the said Countie of D. yeoman diuers summes of money vpon receipt whereof your Lordships said suppliant did alwaies deliuer vnto the said R. S. either sufficient Obligations of double the summe borrowed or else his the said F. L. your Lo. said suppliants single bill obligatorie for repaiment of all such summes of money as he then borrowed at such times as were then agreed vpon betweene them And amongst the rest your Lo. said Orator did about twentie yeares since as he now remembreth borrow of the said R. S. the summe of xx l for the repaiment wherof at a certaine day therefore then agreed vpon betweene them your Lo. said suppliant did then deliuer vnto the said R. S. his bill obligatorie for his sufficient assurance thereof the which said xx l like as also al the other sums of money so borrowed by your L. said suppliant as is aforesaid he the said F. L. your L. said suppliant hath most certainly now long sithence repaied vnto the said R. S. at such time as hethe said R. was wel therewith cōtented as wel in ful discharge of the said bill obligatorie of xx l as of all the other bonds and writings so entred by your Lo. said suppliant as is aforesaid And in respect that he the said R. S. had not the said bill obligatorie for the said xx l readie to be cancelled and redeliuered at the saide repayment of the saide xx pound he the said R. S. did then verie faithfully promise vnto him that made the saide repayment that he the saide R. S. woulde assuredly cancell the said bill obligatorie whensoeuer the same should next come into his handes But so it is if it may please your good L. that the saide R. S. hath lately put the said Bill for the saide xx pound in suite as your Lordshippes saide suppliant is credibly informed meaning to be double paid for the said xx pound in the said bill mentioned against all equity and good conscience In consideration wherof and for asmuch as your Lordships said Orator hath no remedie at the common law either to recouer the said bill obligatory for the said summe of xx pound from the said R. S. or otherwise to pleade in discharge thereof And forasmuch as the said R. S. hath diuers other the said obligations and writings yet remaining in his hands which are likewise satisfied and which he hath promised to deliuer ynto your L. said suppliant at diuers times now long sithence passed the which to do he hath hitherto not fulfilled and in verie good sort by your Lordships said Orator and his seruants oftentimes required for like recouery or discharge whereof your Lordships said suppliant standeth likewise destitute by the strict course of the common lawes It may therefore please your good L. to award aswell the Queene Maiesties most gratious writ of Iniunction to be directed vnto the said R. S. and all and euery of his Counsellers Attorneis Sollicitors and Factors comcommaunding them and euerie of them thereby at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein to be set downe by your good Lordship no further to proceede in the suite vpon the saide xx pound bill vntill your Lordshippe shall haue taken further direction therein as also the Queenes Maiesties writ of Subpena to be directed to the said R. S. commaunding him thereby c. A Bill to examine witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam touching a lease made in trust by the plaintife to the defendants To the right honorable Sir C. H. Knight Lord Chancellor of England IN most humble wise complaining sheweth vnto your honorable Sect ' 86. Lordship your suppliant and daily Orotor T. B. of B. in the countie of Y. Esquier That whereas your said Orator about sixe yeares now last past was and yet is lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and vpon one mesuage or tenement called B. and of diuers landes and grounds thereunto belonging or with the same commonly vsed or occupied lying and being within the Lordship of M. in the county of Y. and he being therof so seised vpon special trust and confidence which he then reposed in one W. G. of B. in the countie of Y. and M. his wife by his
of complaint if any such be he this defendant saith That true it is indeed that about three yeares now last past This said defendant or some of his seruants to his vse did receiue of this complainant xii yards of linnen cloth halfe an ell of cloth one quarter and a halfe of cloth and two scaines of threed which he thinketh to be parcell of the said wares in the said bill mentioned and supposed to be bought by this defendant of the said complainant which said wares were so receiued by this defendant or to his vse as is aforesaid to thintent that this defendant should pay to the said complainant so much money for the same as should be reasonably agreed vpon by this defendant and the saide complainant which said bargaine and agreement this defendant is and euer hitherto hath beene readie to haue performed without that that the said defendant about two yeares now last past did buy of the said complainant the said twelue yardes of linnen cloth at and for the said price of xxii s̄ or the said halfe elle of other cloth for the said price of ii s̄ viii d or the said quarter and a halfe of other cloth and two scaines of threed for the said price of xviii d for he this defendant saith that he and this complainant did neuer to his remembrance agree to anie certaine price for the said wares as in the said bill of complaint is vntruly alleaged And without that that he this defendant did euer buy of this complainant the said ten yards of beluet or any part therof or any other wares or marchandices amounting in the whole to twentie markes or for the paiment thereof euer required the said complainant to for be are him the said defendant for the space of one moneth then next following as in the saide bill is wrongfully alleaged And without that that he this defendant did faithfully assent and promise to pay the said debt vnto the said complainant at the said monethes ende Or that the said complainant trusting the bare promise of this defendant deliuered vnto him this defendant the said cloth wares veluet and marchandise as in the said bill is vntruly alleaged And without that that he this defendant perceiuing that this complainant can by no order of the common lawes of this Realme recouer any part of the said money for want of specialtie or witnesse to prone the said supposed assumption and contract hath plainely affirmed that he the said complainant shall not haue one penny thereof in such manner and forme as in the saie bill of complaint is most vntruely and slaunderously alleaged without that that any other matter c. thing things clause sentence article or allegation in the said bill of complaint contayned materiall or effectuall in the law to be answered vnto by this defendant and not c. A Bill to be discharged of sundrie bondes made by the Plaintife to diuers by the Defendants meanes vpon promise that they should not preiudice them laying open diuers cunning and lewde practises to circumuent the Plaintife HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your honorable L. your daily Sect. 92. Orator I. M. of M. in the Countie of Y. yeoman that whereas about sixteene yeares now last past certaine debts controuersies suits and variances did arise betweene one T. L. of E. in the Countie of Y. yeoman and your said Orator and certaine other freeholders of the Lordship of Ecclesall aforesaid concerning the inclosing vse possession and occupation of certaine parcels of wast or common ground called R. in E. aforesaid wherein your saide Orator and other freeholders and all those whose estate they then had and yet haue in certaine lands in the said Lo. by all the time whereof there is no memory of man to the contrary haue vsed to haue common of pasture for their beasts and cattel vpon the said lands leuant and couchantat all times of the yeare at their wils and pleasures as vnto their tenements belonging which parcels of waste ground one N. S. Esquier before that time had demised vnto the said T. L. for certaine yeares then induring for pacifying and ending of which said suites and controuersies and of such suits and controuersies as were then betweene the said L. and S. touching the same and other things your said Orator and T. D. and other of the freeholders aforesaid and the said L. by the meanes and intreatie of the said N. S. about the said time did submit themselues to the order arbitrement and award of I. F. R. M. C. W. and E. H. touching the said controuersies to the end that the said L. would be contented that the said suites betweene him the said S. might rather by that means receiue a quiet ende then by ertremitie of law there being then great suits betweene the said N. S. and L. which the said L. would not otherwise compromit your said orator the said D. was bound vnto the said L. in one obligation of C. l vnto the said N. S. in one other obligation of C. l for performance of the said award the said N. S. then promising to your said Orator that within short time after the making of the said bond vnto him he would haue cancelled or made voide the saide bond of C. pound made by them vnto the said N. S. the meaning of which bonde your saide Orator being a simple vnlearned man thought to haue reached no further but to actes to haue bin done by himselfe against the said awarde which he the rather so thought because the said N. S. tolde him so or to the effect and they were onely so agreed to haue the condition thereof made before the making thereof And the said L. was also bound in an C. l vnto your said Orator and the said D for the performance of this part of the said awarde And afterwardes viz. about the xi yeare of the raigne of the Queenes Maiestie that now is the said arbitrators made an awarde of the premisses that the said L. should haue inclosed the said grounds during such terme as he then had therein by the demise of the said N. S. by Indenture without veration of your said Orator the said T. D. and other freeholders of the said Lo. of E. by meanes of which awarde the said L. enioyed the premisses euer since the making thereof accordingly without any vexation of the said D. or your said Orator or any other the freeholders of E. aforesaid vntill such time as the said L. caused the said premisses to be purchased or taken by lease as lands concealed and vniustly withholden from her Maiestie and thereupon caused suites to be commenced against diuers of the said freeholders by information in the Ex. of intrusion supposed to be done by them into the said premisses which suite so long continued that a verdict and iudgement therein were had for the said freeholders whereby their title to the said common being then in issue was specially found as
his body lawfully begotten And he the said C. so being therof seised of such an estate died seised without any issue male of his bodie By after whose death all and singuler the said premisses with their appurtenances did discend and come vnto your said Orator as brother next heire male of the said T. G. But now so it is if it may please your good L. that aswel the said deed of intail al other the deeds euidences escripts writings muniments manifesting for feiting defending prouing the estate right interest title of your said orator of in to the said premisses are by some casuall or sinister meanes comen into the hands custody or possession of one R. W. E. his wife T. C. A. his wife I. D. I. W. or some of them who by colour thereof haue entred into the said premisses receiued perceiued taken the issues profits commodities thereof conuerted the same to their owne proper vses behoofes without yeelding any consideration or recompence to your said orator for the same And yet not so cōtented but they the said R. E. T. A. I. I. by colour of hauing the said deeds euidēces escripts writings myniments haue not only made great streppe wast of the premisses but also contriued made to themselues to other persons vnknowen to your said orator diuers sundry secret estates conueiances of the premisses to the plaine disinherison of your said orator contrary to all right equity good conscience And although your said Orator hath diuers sundry times by himselfe his friends requested the said R. W. E. his wife T. C. A. his wife I. D. I. W. and euery of them to yeeld vp the quiet possession of the premisses to deliuer vnto your said Orator the said deeds euidences escripts writings muniments yet they euery of them so to do haue vtterly refused denied and still do denie and refuse contrary to all right equity good conscience In tender consideration whereof and for asmuch as your said Oratr knoweth not the contents nor certaine dates of the said deeds euidences escripts writings and myniments nor weather they be contained in bagge or boxe sealed in chest or cubbord locked And therefore is at and by the strict course of the common law of this Realme remedilesse for the recouery of the same May it therefore c. A Bill for deteining of an Indenture of lease for yeares HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your honorable L. your daily Sect. 98. Orator I. B. of N. in the parish of A. in the Countie of Y. Esquier And T. B. sonne and heire apparant of the said I. That whereas your said Orator the second day of Iuly in the eight yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne Ladie the Queenes Maiestie that now is did demise and to ferme let vnto one R. M. of B. in the said Countie ye●man all his moitie or one halfe of his messuage or tenement called D. with all the lands meadows closes pastures commons vnto the same belonging or in any wise appertayning from the feast of Saint M. the Bishop last past before the date abouesaid vnto the full end and terme of 18. yeares then next ensuing fully to be complete ended By vertue of which demise aforesaid R. M. into the mesuage or tenemēt aforesaid did enter as was lawful for him to do And now sithēce the making of the lease aforesaid the said R. M. did often repaire come to the house of the said I. B. by that meanes in short time became very familiar with the said I. insomuch that he the said I. being aged by reason therof also lieth bedriden hath done for the space of many yeares And finding the said M. to be very diligent and carefull about him the said I. for the recouery of his health did so affect the said M. as y● he did wholly commit the custody keeping of all his euidences leases bonds bils amongst which the counterpaine of the said M. his lease was And vnlesse the said M. together with some of your said Orators seruants haue secretly conuaied taken it away as your said Orator doth vehemently suspect in that he wanteth the same lease by reason whereof he neither knoweth what conditions are contained in the same neither what penaltie if the rent be behind or whether there be any distresse for not paiment of the rent or else whether the lease be vtterly void if the rent be not paid at a day certaine what other couenants it containeth for prohibiting of wast to be done as also for the repairing of the messuage or tenement aforesaid with needfull reparations with diuers other couenāts to many good purposes specified in the same lease Add for that also y● the said coūterpain is by some such indirect means as before is aleaged come vnto the hands of the said M. as also for that your orator through want thereof by the strict course of the common lawes of this land cannot duely punish the breach of all or any the couenants therein expressed which on the said M. his part ought to haue beene performed and kept for want of the said counterpaine May it therefore please your good Lordship c. A Bill for money for bording with one whose Executor the Plaintife is HVmbly complaining sheweth vnto your honorable Lordship your Sect ' 99. daily Orator D. C. of B. in the Countie of D. yeoman executor of the last Will and Testament of D. C. his father That whereas about the first day of Iune which was in the 18. yeare of the raigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady the Queenes most excellent Maiestie that now is one W. S. of M. in the said Countie yeoman at B. aforesaid did put himselfe and A. then his wife to borde with the saide D. C. the Testator and there to remaine so long with the said Tesator as it should please both the said parties and the said W. S. in consideration there of there faithfully agreed to pay and satisfie for the same vnto the said D. C. the Testator or his executors during such time as he and his said wife should remaine at borde with the said Testator so much lawfull English money as the said bording should be reasonably worth and at such time as he should be thereunto required By vertue of which putting to borde agreement and faithfull promise the saide W. and A. his wife were at borde with the said Testator by the space of three whole yeares or thereabouts during all which time the said Testator at his owne costes and charges did finde vnto the said W. and A. conuenient and necessacie meate drinke and lodging and at sundrie times Hay and Grasse for the Horses of the said W. which bording Hay and Grasse by the said space of three yeares aforesaid was reasonably worth fortie pounds at least Yet the said W.
as your said Orator giuing faith and credite to the said promise assumption of the said H. C. did take their said promise and assumption of them without calling anie witnesse to them to heare the same so that your said Orator for want of such witnesses hath no remedie by the common lawes of thsi Realme nor otherwise to make them performe the same promise and assumption vnlesse the said H. C. and R. C. doe confesse the same in their answere in this Honorable Court as your saide Orator verely thinketh they will May it c. A Bill for entitling himselfe to the soyle of a common and for selling of woods therein growing IN most humble wise complaining sheweth and complaineth to your Sect. 105. Honor your daily Orator R. G. Clerke Prebendarie of the Prebend commonly called the Prebend of the Ouerhall in Norwell in the Collegiate Church of Southwell in the Countie of Nott̄ That wheras your said Orator was and is seised in his demesne as of fee in the right of the said Prebend of and in one Manor in Norwell in the said Countie whereof certaine wooddy grounds and springes being most commonly open and the herbage thereof taken and vsed as common by the tenants and other inhabitants of the same Manor and Towne of N. aforesaid is parcel And the tenants and inhabitants of the same Manor and Towne of N. aforesaid as tenants of the same Manor And other tenants and inhabitants within the townes and villages of C. and K. that is to say by them as Commoners because of Vicinage by reason of which said wooddy and spring of grounds vsed as common as is aforesaid part whereof is parcell of the same Manor of N. contayning by estimation twentie acres extending in length from a certaine Oke tree being a boundarie Oke betwixt the same and such other like grounds being parcell of an other Prebend in the Collegiate Church of S. aforesaid commonly called the Prebend of the Neatherhall or Palacehall in N. aforesaid and from thence extendeth along by a place where three trees lately there did grow commonly called the three brethren and so from thence along by a Meare which is as it hath beene an ancient drie ditch cast vp as it were or had beene a Meare Southward betwixt the seuerall Lords and owners of the lands in that place that is to say first Eastwardes betweene the Lord and owners of the same lands and the Manors and lands of Caunton Bestthrop and Westwarde vnto the manor of Kirksall and from thence downeward West vnto the parke pale of K. and by the same parke pale Northward by a certaine little riuer of water vnto certaine of the like landes and tenements of the said other manor of P. aforesaid and so Eastward vpward vnto the foresaid ancient Oke which said parcell of ground one R. W. and F. B. Gentlemen and one R. T. yeoman pretending to haue seuerall manors in C. aforesaid And hauing diuers deeds Charters euidences bonndaries terrars and muniments concerning the premisses of right belonging to your said Orator casually or by some sinister meanes come to their hands doe not onely claime the same to be parcell of their said seueral manors But also vnder pretence of their said pretended and vncertaine claime not onely some of them but also diuers other vnder the colour or permission of some of them hath not and caused to be cut downe the most part of the best trees growing vppon the said parcell of wood ground as in trueth all that was felled did grow there in a corner thereof towards the East part containing like 12. acres and that in absence of your said Orator then being and yet remaining a student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge that is to say a fellow of Gunuill and Caius Colledge and not soe contented but considering your saide Orators absence daily and continually both continue their former claime to the said ground within the meeres and boundes aforesaid and so doe cut downe and cause to be cut downe the residue of the wood there growing and so will very shortly leaue none there And also by colour and reason of the said permission they will shortly by such indirect meanes and practise winne and get the freehold and inheritance thereof to them as they haue in other the wasts common like grounds within the Manor of or in C. or at the least haue none able to testifie the contrarie whereas now in trueth there are diuers and sundry sufficient and ancient witnesses being very aged and some of them very impotent that can and will trauell so farre as they are able to trauell to testifie vpon their oathes the trueth of the premisses in manner and forme as before in effect is alleaged and more for the better proofe of your said Orators right in and to the said last recited premisses if cause and neede shall so require and that the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. vpon their answere vnto the matters in this bill of complaint will not confesse the trueth therein as it is most credibly to be presumed they will and the rather for that if they will denie the same they know in proceeding vpon their answeres to this bill all the whole trueth concerning the premisses must be examined by depositions of witnesses and their depositions if order presently be not taken of the same shall and may remaine of record in perpetuam rei memoriam to doe further therein as by this honorable Court shall be awarded wherefore the premisses tenderly considered and also the incertaintie whether the said R. W. F. B. and R. T. or any of them will confesse the whole trueth concerning the right and title of your foresaid Orator to the same And the wrong and damage by them and other by their meanes and consent to him done And if they should not the vncertainty whether that the foresaid ancient aged and impotent persons or any of them that now be liuing and can testifie the trueth concerning the same shall be liuing when the same shal come in triall at or by the course of the common lawes to whom the right of the freehold and inheritance thereof doth of right belong ouer and besides the impotency that they or most of them may haue at such time and times to trauel to witnesse testifie che trueth concerning the premisses with this that your said Orator doth not know the certaine date or dates of the said deeds charters euidences boundaries terrers miniments or wherein the same be contained whether in bagge or boxe sealed or locked or otherwise and so without remedy for the recouery of the same and redresse for the wrong aboue said at or by order of the common lawes of this Realme It may therefore c. A Bill against the executors or that the Testator did not deliuer specialties paid whereupon they threaten to sue the Plaintife IN most humble wise complaining sheweth to your good Lordship Sect. 106. your poore
at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein to be limited to appeare before your Lordship in her Maiesties high court of Chancery then and there to answere to the premisses and to abide such order and direction therein as to your Lordship shal seeme to stand with right equitie and good conscience and your said Orator shall daily pray to Almightie God for your honour in good health long to continue c. A Bill by the husband and wife as Gardeins to her childe for euidences IN most humble wise complaining sheweth vnto your good Lordship Sect. 118. your poore and daily Orator I. W. of B. in the Countie of D. yeoman and I. his wife late the wife of I. S. the elder of B. aforesaid yeoman now deceased That where the said I. S. in his life time was lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in one messuage or tenement commonly called H. of and in certaine lands meadow and pasture and other hereditaments with thappurtenances to the said tenement belonging and with the same vsually occupied scituate lying and being in B. aforesaid And he the said I. S. being of the premisses so seised did in his life time conuey and assure the same vnto certaine persons and their heires to the vse of the said I. and of the said I. then his wife and of the longer liuer of them without impeachment of waste And after their diseases to the vse of the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten with diuers remainders ouer by force whereof the said I. S. and the said I. then his wife were thereof seised accordingly And so seised the said I. S. about three yeares now last past died seised of such estate as aforesaid hauing issue betweene him and the said I. one I. S. an infant of the age of two yeares or therabouts After whose death the said I held her selfe in the said messuages and lands and was thereof seised accordingly And so seised tooke to husband the said I. W. the other of your said Orators by force of which entermariage the said I. W. and the said I. were lawfully seised of the premisses as in the right of the said I. And your said Orators haue also the custody of the said I. S. the infant rightly belonging to the said I. his mother as gardeine in Socage Now so it is if it may please your good Lordshippe that certaine deedes euidences and writings touching and concerning the premisses and of right belonging to your said Orators and the said infant or to the one of them are casually come to to the hands and possessions of T. C. of B. aforesaid and I. S. of H. being kinsman vnto the said I. S. of B. the elder deceased who by colour of hauing the said deeds euidences and writings haue wrongfully entred into the premisses with thappurtenances and thereupon haue contriued certain secret estates vnto diuers persons vnknowen to your said Orators and by colour thereof they the said T. C. and I. S. of H. or the one of them of late time hath wrongfully entred into the premisses and hath receiued and taken the issues and profits of the premisses or some part thereof from your said Orators and although your said Orators haue diuers and sundrie times gently requested the saide T. C. and I. S. of H. to permit and suffer your said Orators quietly to haue and enioy the same premisses and to deliuer vnto your said Orators the said deeds euidences and writings touching and concerning the premisses and which of right doe belong and appertaine vnto your said Orators and to the said I. S. the infant yet they the same to doe haue hitherto refused and yet doe refuse contrarie to all right equity and good conscience which is likely to turne not only to the losse and hinderance of your said Orators But also to the preiudice and disinheritance of the said infant if speedie redresse herein be not had by your good Lordship in consideration whereof and forasmuch as your said Orators doe not know the certaintie nor certaine number of the said deedes euidences writings nor whether the same be contained in bagge or boxe sealed or in chest locked and so your said Orators and the said infant are without any ordinary remedie for the recouerie of the same by the common lawes of this Realme And for that your said Orators do hope that the same C. and S. will vpon their Oathes in this honorable Court confesse the certainty and truety therein where the said euidences are to be had or to whom they haue deliuered the same May it therefore please your good Lordship the premisses considered to grant vnto your said Orators the Queenes Maiesties c. The Answere of the same THe said defendants say and euery of them seuerally saith that the Sect. 119. said bill of complaint is verie vncertaine vntrue and insufficient in the law to be answered vnto for diuers manifest defaults and imperfections therein contained and framed and exhibited into this honorable Court as these defendants verely thinke of malice and euill will to the intent to put these defendants to great trauaile charges and expences to make their personall appearance in this honorable Court the said defendants dwelling in B. aforesaid in the saide countie of D. which is sixscore miles distant from the Citie of Westminster and without any iust cause so to doe and these defendants further say that if the surmised matters contained in the said bil of complaint were true as in very trueth they are not yet were the same determinable and to be determined by the common lawes of this Realme and not in this honorable Court whereunto these defendants pray to be dismissed with their reasonable costes charges and damages in this behalfe wrongfully and without iust cause sustained yet neuerthelesse if these defendants shall be compelled by the order of this Court to make any further or other answere vnto the said vncertaine and insufficient bill of complaint then the aduantage of exception to the incertaintie and insufficiencie thereof to these defendants and either of them at all times here after saued for further answere thereunto and for a full and plaine declaration of the trueth say that they thinke it is true that the said I. S. was in his life time lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee of and in the said messuage or teuements commonly called the H. and of and in certaine lands meadow and pasture and other hereditaments with the appurtenances to the said tenements belonging and with the same vsually occupied scituate lying and being in B. aforesaid as in the said bil of complaint is alleaged but the said defendāts further say that the said tenements in the said bill of complaint contained as they verely beleeue are holden of the right honorable G. Earle of S. of his manor of C. in the said Countie of D. by knightes seruice and by the yearely rents of two shillings And that he
his hands because he had beene a very good customer vnto him did not so precisely keepe his day thinking he would haue reasonably dealt with him being allowed for consideration for forbearing thereof as at other times he had done Notwithstanding he the said C. D. contrarie to the said A. B. his expectation did put the same Recognisance in suit presently after the forfeiture thereof And the said A. B. being them busied in her Maiesties seruice the said C. D. had iudgement vpon the said recognisance against him before he could send vp to take any order for the said latter debt by the said recognisance and after tooke execution of the moitie of amanor of the said A. B. called c. in c. which for the payment and performance of the said debt was extended vnto twentie markes by the yeare And so did leuie the said whole forfeiture vpon the said A. B. his manors and lands with great extremitie vpon which extreme dealing he the said A. B. finding himselfe most cruelly and hardly dealt with did refuse to buy or sell with him and willed his Bailife of his said manor to take acquittances of him at euery payment who not onely did so but vpon the last payment the foresaid C. D. did acknowledge to him that paied the money that your said Orator was then cleere with him and did owe nothing or to such effect notwithstanding the foresaid A. B. accompted of him as of a verie extreame man which the said A. B. his displeasure towards him being notified verie well knowen vnto him both by letters from himselfe and otherwise yet the sayd C. D. liuing nine or ten yeares after that it can not be intended that he who whilest they were in amitie did sue the said A. B. vpon the said recognisance and debt therein conteined being of so small a value would at the first haue left the elder bond and debt being of a greater summe vnsued for if it had bin vnanswered for or not paid much lesse afterwards during all the space of nine or ten yeres when he the said A. B. for his hard dealing had left to be his customer or to deale with him and thought but hardly of him as he had no lesse cause So though it be most sure and true that the said debt for which the said two hundred pounds bond was made in the said first yeare of the raigne of c. was long since fully answered yet it being so long since the said A. B. can not precisely call to mind vpon the sodaine who paid it diuers of his officers which dealt for his reuenues and especially one I. P. whom principally he vsed in those affaires being now dead whereby he can not vpon a speedie triall at the common Law proue the payment thereof by strict and precise course in that behalfe requisite and the rather for that the Indentures for the defeasance of the said recognizance came by some casuall or negligēt meanes to the hands of the said C. D. and of I. his wife although it be manifest by the presumptions aforesaid that the said C. D. would not haue let it lye so long vndemanded if he had not bin satisfied which the said A. B. doubteth not to proue in this honorable court for that also he thinketh there be yet some liuing that were present at the last reckning that the said A. B. or his officers made with the said C. D. either when he agreed for the said extents or about that time at which time he the said C. D. did acknowledge that all matters debtes and reckonings whatsoeuer were then fully cleered and quit betwixt the said A. B. and the said C. D. And that the said A. B. did not then owe him any thing But so it is y● said C. D. now being dead and I. his wife being his executrix who finding the sayd bond of CC. pounds remaining vncancelled rather as it should seeme by those which haue conferred with her vpon some words spoken or conceit of offence that she hath conceaued of the said A. B. his displeasure towards her late husband then otherwise vpon any iust cause she the said I. hath published that she hath such an ancient bond of the said A. B. bearing date c. of two hundred poundes and inten●eth to put the same in suit against the said A. B. In tender consideration whereof the apparant likelyhood of the said debt before recited being most true and the same discharged and yet the proofe of the discharge thereof in strict course of law being hard for the said A. B. to make the said I. P. and some others who dealt for him being now dead and the said defeasance being come to her hands as aforesaid but onely vpon oath of the said I. D. who was priuy to that and most of her husbands reckonings and doings in his life time and yet would not vniustly charge the said A. B. with the said debt by meanes that she hath both partes of the defeasans in her hands whereby the said A. B. can not pleade them and not knowing the date of them or wherein they are conteined can not demaund them by the ordinarie course of the Law May it therefore please your good Lordship c. The Answere THe said defendant saith that the said bill of complaint exhibited Sect. 132. against her in this Ho. court is vncertaine and vnsufficient in the law to be answered vnto and the matters therein conteined vntrue and contriued more of purpose to put the said def to trouble and expences in law then for any good or iust cause Neuerthelesse if the same defendant shal be compelled by this Ho. court to make any further answere to the same then the aduantage of the insufficiencie thereof to this defendant at all times hereafter saued For further answere the said defendant saith that true it is that the said A. B. about the time mencioned in the said bill of complaint began to be a bargayner and buyer of Plate and Iewels of the saide C. D. late husbandman to this defendant and obtained credite at the hands of the said C. D. for the summe of c. For payment whereof the said C. D. presuming vpon the promises of the said A. B. was contented onely to accept of a bare single obligation which was sealed and deliuered vnto him about the time mencioned in the said bill which summe of c. the said C. D. after the day past which was limitted for the payment thereof often demaunded of the said A. B. who notwithstanding made no payment at all thereof but with faire promises delayed time and kept the said C. D. in hope from yeare to yeare that he should be answered thereof to the vttermost peny And at the last the said A. B. hauing neede of certaine other Plate or Iewels to the value of c. intreated with the same C. D. to giue him credit for the same and promised faithfully that if the saide C. D.
estouers and pastures as all other commons pastures profites and hereditaments whatsoeuer to the said premisses belonging or in any wise appertayning And afterwards the said Shirife that is to say vpon the third day of May c. by his deede bearing date vnder his hand and seale did in consideration of c. to him paied towards the satisfaction of the debt and iudgement aforesaid bargaine sell assigne and set ouer the said lease and terme of yeares yet to come of all and singuler the premisses vnto one G. H. of L. gen● which G. H. not long after did in consideration of c. by your Orator to him paied bargaine sell assigne and set ouer vnto your said Orator all and singuler the premisses and euery part thereof Vpon which bargain and assignement of the premisses so made as aforesaid your said Orator was in verie good hope to haue peaceably and quietly entred into the premisses and so to haue occupied and inioyed the same accordingly Neuerthelesse so it is right Honorable that one R. T. of c. in the sai● Countie of L. pretending to haue a lease for diuers yeres yet to come of some part of the said lands called c. made vnto him by the aforesaid E. F. long time before any assignements aforesaid hath and yet doth keepe your said Orator from the possession of the said lands vpon which lease or demise a certaine yerely rent is as he saith reserued to the said E. F. his executors or assignes which as your Orator verily thinketh is c. by the yeare and which rent whatsoeuer it be your Orator by reason of the lawfull conueyance to him made as aforesaid ought both in law and conscience to haue and inioy during such terme as the said R. T. shall hold and occupie the land aforesaid by reason of the said lease which he so pretendeth to haue But because your Orator doth not certainely knowe whether the said R. T. haue any such lease neither if he haue what date it beareth what terme the said R. hath therein vnexpired what rent thereby is reserued nor what couenants are therein conteined as also your Orator can not nor knoweth not how in due forme of law to enter or commence any action against the said R. T. either for the recouerie of the said land or rent aforesaid which the said R. T. right w●ll knowing being a man of little or no conscience but destitute of the feare of God thinking all things well-gotten which he may get and hould without the punishment of the law doth not onely vse the said land to his great profit and commoditie without yelding or paying therefore any rent ot your Orator or any other person lawfully clayming the same but also doth vtterly refuse to shewe his said Lease whereby he claymeth to hold the lands aforesaid vnto your said Orator to the great losse and hinderance of your Lordships said Orator In tender consideration whereof and for asmuch as your Orator hath no ordinarie way by the course of the common Lawes of this Realme to enforce the said R. T. to shew forth such writings as he hath for the holding and inioying of the lands aforesaid but is and shall be vtterly destitute of all maner of helpe or meanes to obtaine the same to his great hinderance and impouerishment except your honorable Lordship of your accustomed clemencie towards all such as are oppressed do extend your fauour in y● behalfe so that by the order of this honorable Court the said R. T. be inforced vpon his oath to shew what right he hath to the premisses or any part thereof and likewise to set downe in his answere the true copie of the said lease verbatim or other writings whatsoeuer they he whereby he claymeth the premisses or any part of the same May it therefore please your good Lordship c. The Answere THe said defendant not knowledging or confessing the matters Sect. 134. suggested in the said bill of complaint to be true for his answere touching the same saith That the said E. F. named in the said bill of complaint was possessed for diuers yeares yet to come and induring of the said three parcels of land called or knowen by the name of c. mencioned in the saide bill of complaint by vertue of a lease thereof made by the said T. S. also named in the said bill of complaint vnto the said E. F. long before the supposed extent specified in the said bill of complaint And the said E. F. so being thereof possessed long before the said supposed extent if any such were had in such manner as in the said bill of complaynt is supposed made a lawfull demise and lease of part of the said three parcels of land conteyning fowerteene acres or thereabouts vnto the said defendant for diuers yeares yet to come and remayning vnexpired vpon which lease the said E. F. reserued a yerely rent to be paied during the continuance of the said lease By force of which lease the said defendant entered into the said fowerteene acres of land part of the said three parcels called c. and was and yet is lawfully possessed accordingly And euer since and yet doth inioy the said fowerteene acres by vertue of the said d● 〈◊〉 and lease made by the said E. F. to the said defendant and is to haue and inioy the same during the continuance of the yeares of which there are diuers yeares yet to come and remayning vnexpired And the said defendant sayeth that y● said complaynant is a man to this defendant vtterly vnknowen And therefore the said defendant marueyleth much of the said suit exhibited by the said complaynant into this honorable court against the said defendant touching the said premisses And further saieth that the said E. F. after the said demise and lease by him made vnto the said defendant of the said fowerteene acres of land and before the said supposed extent if any such be made a graunt and assignement of the interest and terme of the said E. F. aswell of the said fowerteene acres which the said defendant hath and occupieth by vertue of his said lease for diuers yeares yet thereof to come and coutinuing vndetermined as also of the residue of the said three parcels of land mencioned in the said bill of complaint vnto R. F. the sonne of the said E. F. vnto which graunt and assignement the said defendant was priuy And therefore the saide defendant thinketh that he is for the payment of his rent chargeable and ought by the Law to pay the same rent reserued vnto the saide R. F. and not to the saide complaynant which saide R. doth verily thinke that he is lawfull Landlord during the continuance of his yeres yet to come and induring and not the said complaynant who is altogether a meere stranger vnto this defendant And which complaynant neuer at any time heretofore demaunded any rent for the said part of the lands that this defendant hath and
that your saide Oratrices poore husband should pay for the making of the writings For the payment whereof her said husband as then hauing no great store of mony was faine to giue him a gold Ring in pledge to pay the scribe for writing of the same All this notwithstanding most honourable Lord and that you said poore Oratrices husbande hath often and sundry times since by many waies meanes required the same writings cōcerning the said bargaine of the said c. he against all naturall loue and humanity nothing more coueting then the extreame destruction of her and her saide poore husband and well perceiuing how farre he is now vnable to helpe himselfe hath vtterly denyed to render the same and yet doth contrary to all conscience equity lawe or right In consideration whereof may it like your honourable Lordship of your accustomed pity to call the said c. before you together with the husband of your saide poore Oratrix and there to will him to deliuer the saide writings againe to her husband if it shall so seeme good vnto your honor or els to shewe sufficient matter why hee shoulde keepe the same And your said Oratrix with her poore husband and their poore children shall pray c. A bill of a title of Copyhold lands praying an Iniunction HVmbly complayning c. your daily Orator W. S. otherwise Sect. 139. named W. T. of L. cosin and heire of I. S. otherwise called I. T. while he lyued c. That whereas your said Orator at your Lordships last being at c. did exhibit vnto you a certaine bill of complaint mencioning therein that the foresaid I. S. otherwise called I. T. in his life time was seised of and in certaine Customarie lands tenements that is to say of and in c. holden by Copie of court Roll of the manor of c. at the wil of the Lord of the said manor according to the custome of the same manor of which one T. L. then was and yet is Lord And that the same I. S. so being seised of the premisses afterwards of like estate died thereof by protestation seised after whose death the said c. with the appurtenances and the right title vse possession and inheritance thereof discended and came and of verie right ought to discend and come vnto your said Orator as cosin next heire of the said I. S. that is to say as yongest sonne of I. yongest sonne and heire of the same I. S. according to the auncient custome of the saide manor And that your saide Orator had often and sundry times desired and prayed the said c. that with lawfull warning vnto the tenants of the said Lordship a Court might be holden at the saide manor by whose inquirie the title of your said Orator might be presented and found in the premisses according as both iustice right and good conscience do require Hawbeit most honorable Lord that notwithstanding for asmuch as the same c. hath kept the premisses in his owne handes these many yeares past and the profites and issues thereof comming hath by the same space to his owne proper vse receiued taken and yet doth your said poore Orator could neuer get the same c. to hold a Court there minding thereby vtter disheriting vnto your said poore Orator of and in the premisses Vntill such time as your saide must honorable Lordship moued with your accustomed loue to Iustice and pitie towards pouertie vouchsafed to graunt your benigne letters directed to the said c. willing him thereby with lawfull warning giuen vnto the tenants of the said Lordship to summon and keepe a Court at the saide manor for the triall of the right of your saide Orator in the premisses vpon the receipt of which letters the saide c. summoned and kept a Court at his said Manor of c. whereat vpon the open and plaine declaration of your said Orators title together with the examination of diuers witnesses brought in by your said Orator for the due proofe of the said title in the premisses And further vpō the shewing of such substanciall and anncient euidences maintayning the same the Homage therewith charged and sworne did present sind at the said c. before I. S. Steward of the same Court that the foresaid I. S. was possessor and held the premisses by Copie of court Roll according to the custome of the said manor And that also your said Orator was cosin and heire to the said I. S. according to the custome of the manor that is to say sonne of I. yonger sonne of c. as by the Copie of the same court Rols ready to be shewed more plainly may appeare vnto your good Lordship After which presentment at the same Court it was agreed betwixt the said Steward in the name of the said c. and your said Orator that if the said c. would not declare and show vnto your said Orator or to his learned Counsell at London within one Terme then next insuing a better title and interest to the foresaid premisses then your said Orator had then and there already proued that then your saide Orator should haue and inioy the premisses to him and to his heires according to right equitie and good conscience and according to the custome of the said manor But so it is most ho. Lord that although the said c. as he cannot so hath he not by the said space prooued any maner of title or colour of title to the premisses but onely with such and like fraudulent delayes he intendeth to weary your said Orator from the obtaining of the premisses and if he can disherite him from the same Wherefore may it c. of your accustomable goodnes alwayes to pouertie extended to graunt vnto your said Orator the Q. most gracious writ of Subpena to be directed to the said c. commaunding him by the same not onely to appeare personally before your good Lordship in the high Court of Chauncery at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine by your good Lordship therein to be limitted but also to permit and suffer your said Orator peaceably to haue hold occupie possesse and inioy the premisses aforesaid and the profits and issues of the same vntill such time as the same c. hath duely approued better Title to the premisses then he hath heretofore done And your said poore Orator shall c. A bill of complaint for Debt without especialtie IN most humble wise sheweth and complayneth vnto your good Sect ' 140. Lordship your daily Orator and poore bedeman I. G. of H. in the countie of D. That where the said I. G. by way of prest at the feast of Pentecost in the xxxiiii yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Ladie the Queenes Maiestie that now is did deliuer vnto one W. L. late of H. in the said countie of D. the summe of xviii pound of lawfull money of England to be paied vnto him
in his demes●e as of fee by disseisin as is aforesaid of the said mese orchard garden and croft without that that the said defendant I. W. did hold the said mannor of Capishorne of the saide complainant in manner and forme and by such seruices as by the said bill of complaint is alledged Or that there is any such mannor of C. to the knowledge of this defendant or that the said I. W. did or doth hold the said mannor of C. of the said complainant to the knowledge of the saide defendant or that the saide defendant had any other meses lands or tenements which at any time were the meses lands or tenements of the saide I. W. other then the said mese lands and tenements called W. or that the said mese lands and tenements called W. are or at any time were parcell of the said mannor of T. and if the said mese lands and tenements called W. had beene parcell of the said mannor of C. as they were not or if the saide defendant did hold the saide mese lands and tenements called W. of the said complainant acording to the quantitie of the said rent and seruice as the said complainant by his saide bill of complaint hath supposed as he doth not indeede yet forsomuch as the said complainant is seised of parcell of the said lands and tenements called W. by disseisin as is aforesaide and the same mese lands tenements called Woodford are holden all by one entire tenure the whole rent and seruices are suspended during the time of the saide deseisin and the said defendant is and ought by the lawe to be discharged during the time of the saide disseisin without that that any Euidences deedes writings or Courtrowles concerning the said mannor of Ouer or the said rent and seruice at any time came to the hands custodie and possession of the said defendant or that the said defendant doth intend vtterly to disinherit the saide complainant of the said rent and seruices or doth wrongfullie denie to do the the said complaynant any seruices which he ought to do or pay or that any other thing c. All which matters c. A Replication to the Answere next before The Replication of Sir T. H. Knight to the Aunswere of H. S. Esquier THe said complainant saith in all and euery thing as he before in his Sect ' 178. bill hath saide and auerreth all and euery thing therein conteined to be good and true in such manner and forme as in his said bill is alledged without that that the saide R. B. named in the saide aunswere did wrongfullie enter by the commaundement of this complaynant into the said mese other the lands named in the said answere being parcell of the said lands tenements called Woodford or thereof disseised the said defend to the vse of the said compl as by the saide answere it is vntrulie alledged or that the said compl did agree to any such entrie disseisin as by the said aunswere is supposed or that this compl was or is by force thereof seised by dissesin of the saide mesuage orchard and garden named in the said answere as by the said answere is vntruly alledged or that any other matter or thing alledged in the saide answere materiall to be replied vnto which heere in this replication is not confessed and auoided denied or trauersed is true All which matters c. G. Ge. A bill containing that the plaintife by bargaine and sale by feoffement and fine bought one mese c. in fee and that diuers euidences concerning the premisses are casually come to the plaintifes hands and that by cullour thereof the plaintife hath entred into parcell of the premisses and expulsed the plaintife from the possession thereof and wrongfully keepeth the same To the Right Ho. and the reuerend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester COmplayning sheweth vnto your ho. Lo. your Orator H. S. Esquier Sect. 179. that where one I. W. of C. in the County of C. was seised in his demesne as of fee of in one mese one gardē one orchard 60. acres of land meadow wood and pasture with the appurtenances in W. called W. in the Countie of C. and the said I. W. and his ancestors whose heire he is did cōtinue peaceable possession of the premisses by the space of 100. yeares and aboue and the said I. W. so being thereof seised for certeine great summes of money to the said I. W. by your said Orator cōtented paid did bargaine sell the premisses vnto your said Orator his heires to the proper vse of your said Orator of his said heires for euer and thereupon did by his deede sufficient in the lawe giue grant confirme y● premisses vnto your said Orator his heires for euer And for a further assurance thereof to be had vnto your said Orator and his heires the said I. W. before the Iustice of y● said County of C. did leuie a fine sur conusance de droit of the said mese lands and tenements vnto your said Orator and by by the same fine the said I. W. did knowledge all the right which he had in the same mese lands tenements to be the right of your saide Orator as those which your saide Orator had of his gift as by the said deede fine more at large it doth may appeare by force whereof your said Orator entred into the premisses was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee. But so it is if it may please your hon Lo. that diuers euidences deeds escripts miniments concerning the premisses are casually come to the hāds custodie possession of one Sir T. H. Knight who by coulour of hauing thereof hath wrongfully entred into the said mese orchard gardeine and into one croft conteining by estimation 2. acres of land lying adioyning vnto the said mese on the Southeast part of the said mese parcell of the premisses and expulsed your said orator from the possession thereof And the said Sir T. H. doth still wrongfully keepe your said Orator from the possession of the said mese orchard garden croft And although your said Orator haue diuers times required the said Sir T. H. not only to permit and suffer your said orator to haue inioy the said mese lands and tenements but also to make deliuerie thereof vnto your said orator which to do the said Sir Tho. at all times hath refused yet doth refuse contrary to right equitie and conscience In consideration whereof and for so much as your saide Orator knoweth not the certaintie of the saide Euidences deedes and writings nor wherein they be conteyned therefore he is without remedie by the order of the common lawe It may therefore please your honorable Lordship to graunt c. The Aunswere of Sir T. H. Knight to the Bill of complaint of H. S. THe said defend saith y● the said bill of compl is vncerteine insufficient Sect ' 180.