them and to their Heirs males of their bodies or to the Heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten minding at the time of such gifts not only to prefer advance presently the donees but also their Heirs in blood of their bodies according to the limitatioÌ„ of the said gifts to the intent that the RecoÌ„pence for the service of such donees should not only be a benefit for their own persons but a continual profit and commodity to and for their Heirs coming of their bodies whereby such Heirs should have in special memory and daily remembrance the profit that they have and take by the service of their Ancestors done to the Kings of this Realm of England and thereby be the better incouraged to do the like service to their Sovereign Lords as to their duty and Allegiance appertaineth And because divers such Donees in tail and their Heirs daily before the making of the Act aforesaid have suffered by their assent false and feigned Recoveries to be had against them with common Voucher or otherwise of Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments so given or provided in tail by the aforesaid Lord the King or his Noble Progenitors as is aforesaid to the intent by fraud loin and undue meanes not only to binde and defraud their Heirs inheritable by the limitation of such gifts but also the said Lord the King of his prerogative Wardship primer seisin and other his rights whereby Questions and diversity of opinions have risen and yet be Whether such false and feigned Recoveries against such Tenants in tail by their own consents of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of which the Reversion or the Remainder were in the King at the time of such Recovery or Recoveries had should after the death of Tenant in tail binde the Heirs in tail or not For full Declaration thereof and to avoid and extinct from henceforth diversities of opinions in the like Cases It was enacted by the said Act That no such feigned recovery from henceforth after to be had by assent of parties against such Tenant or Tenants in tail of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereof the reversion or remainder at the time of such recovery should be in the Lord the King should binde or conclude the Heirs in tail whether any Condition or Voucher should be in any such feigned recovery or not but that after the death of every such Tenant in tail against whom any such recovery should be had the Heirs in tail might enter have and injoy the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments so recovered according to the form of the gift in tail the said Recovery or any other thing or things hereafter to be had and suffered by or against any such Tenant in tail to the contrary notwithstanding And further by the said Act by authority of the said Parliament It was enacted That the Heirs of every such Tenant in tail against whom any such feigned Recovery should be had should take no advantage for any Recompence in value against the Voucheenor his Heirs as by the said Act amongst other things more fully it appeareth And the said Iohn further saith That the said Thomas so of the aforesaid one Moyety of the Island aforesaid and of the Râ—version of the other Moyety thereof in form aforesaid being seised The Recovery aforesaid in form aforesaid by the said Iohn Godfrey against the beforesaid Thomas Wiseman the Son was had and executed contrary to the form of the Statute aforesaid and this he is ready to aver Wherefore he demands Judgement and his Debt aforesaid together with his Damages by occasion of the detaining of the said Debt to be ajudged unto him c. And the said Richard Barnerd saith That the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid Iohn Wiseman above by Replication pleaded and the matter in the same conteined are not sufficient in Law to maintain the said Iohn to have his aforesaid Action gainst the said Richard and that he unto the Plea aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid pleaded needeth not to answer by the Law of the Land And this he is ready to aver wherefore for default of sufficient Replication of the said Iohn in this part The said Richard demandeth Judgement and that the said John from having his Action aforesaid against him be Barred c. And the said John Wiseman for as much as he sufficient matter to have his Action against the said Richard by the Replication aforesaid hath alleged which he is ready to aver which matter the aforesaid Richard doth not deny nor to the same doth any wayes answer but doth altogether refuse to admit the averment aforesaid As before he demandeth Judgement and his debt aforesaid together with his damages for the deteining of his debt to be adjudged unto him c. And because the Justices here will advise of and upon the premises before they give Judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid here in 8 bis of Saint Michael to hear their Judgement because the Justices here are not yet c. at which day here come as well the said John Wiseman as the said Richard Barnard by their Attorneys aforesaid upon which the Plea of the said John VViseman upon the Replication pleaded being seen and by the Justices here fully understood It seemeth to the Justices here that the said Plea and the matter in the same conteined are not sufficient in Law for the said John to have and maintain his Action aforesaid against the said Richard Therefore it is granted That the said John take nothing by his Writ aforesaid but that he be in mercy for his false clamour And that the said Richard go thereof without day c. Debt Hillary Term 34. Eliz. in the Kings Bench Rott 169. Westbies Case Co. 3. part MEmorandum that at another time that is to say the Term of Saint Lond. ss Michael last past before the Lady and Queen at Westminster came Titus VVestby by Thomas Cooke his Attorney and brought here in the Court of the said Lady the Queen then here his Bill against Thomas Skinner and John Catcher late Sheriffs of London in the Custody of the Marshal c. of a Plea of Debt And are Pledges of Sute Iohn Doo and Richard Roo Which Bill followeth in these words ss London ss Titus VVestby complaineth of Thomas Skinner and Iohn Catcher late Sheriffs of London in the Custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsey of the Lady the Queen before the Queen her self being of a Plea that they render to him 440. pound of lawful Money of England which they owe him and unjustly do detein for that That is to say That whereas one Thomas Smith Gent Edward VVinter Gent. Anthony Bastard Gent. by the names of Thomas Smith of Camden in the County of Glocester Gent. Of Edward VVinter of VVorthington in the County of Leicester Cent. and Anthony Bastard of Alderbury in the County of Oxford Gent. the 20th day of Ianuary in the year of the Reign of the Lady
th year of his Reign and from thence adjorned to Westminster and there holden and from that time continued by divers prorogations untill the 4 th day of February in the year of his Reign the 27 th and then and there holden amongst other things it was enacted That the said late King Henry the 8 th his Heirs and Successors Kings of England should have hold and enjoy to him for ever the Lordships or Manor of Bishops Lynne and Gaywood amongst other with all and singular their Appurâ—enances As also all Liberties Franchises Goods and Chattels Waifes and Strays Views of Frank-pledge Courts profits of Courts and all and singular other Temporal possessions and Hereditaments with the appurtenances in Bishops Lynne and Gaywood aforesaid which late before then belonged to the late Bishop of Norwich as in the said Act of Parliament more fully appeared The said late King Hen. the 8th For that by the said Act the same Mannors and Possessions to him and his Heirs Kings of England were enacted and were willed and Ordained by the same his Letters Patents declared for him and his Heirs That the said Town of Bishops Lynne from thenceforth for ever should be named and called Kings Lynne and not by any other name and that the same name of Bishops Lynne from henceforth should be destroyed and deprived And further the said late King Henry out of his special grace and meer motion and for the love which he bore to the aforesaid his beloved and faithful Subjects The Mayor and Burgesses of his Borough of Lynne aforesaid in his County of Norfolk aforesaid and the said Borough and the Inhabitants of the same he had and bore desiring further peace quiet and tranquillity in the said Borough continually to be had and from time to time to be encreased from whence all prosperity utility and their accommodations undoubted take beginning had condescended and by the same his Letters Patents had granted for him his Heirs and Successors to the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesles and Inhabitants of his Borough aforesaid That they for ever after The name of Mayor and Burgesses of his Borough of Lynne Regis commonly called Kings Lynne in his County of Norfolk should have and enjoy and by the same name should be called and named and not by any other name And that by the same name they should be persons able and capable in Law to have and purchase Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels and other possessions whatsoever and to plead and be impleaded answer and to be answered defend and might be defended before whatsoever Justices either Judges Temporal or Spiritual in what Court soever and in all and singular Actions â—â—uses Matters Plaints and Demands of what kind soever they should be or nature in the same manner as the other Liege people of the said late King were able and capable in Law to plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend or might be defended as by the said Letters Patents to the Jurors aforesaid in evidence shewed amongst other things more fully appeareth And farther the Jurors say upon their Oath aforesaid That after the making of the said Letters Patents aforesaid that is to say the aforesaid 27 th day of Ianuary in the year of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6 th within written The aforesaid John Payne the Testator in his life The writing Obligatory in the Declaration above specified made sealed and as his Deed delivered to the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of the Lord the King of Lynne Regis commonly called Kings Lynne in his County of Norfolk in the aforesaid Letters Patents named By the name of the Mayor and Burgesses of Kings Lynne in the County of Norfolk But whether upon the whole matter aforesaid by them the said Jurors in form aforesaid found the writing Obligatory aforesaid in the Declaration within written be the Deed of the said John Payne or not the same Jurors are altogether ignorant and pray thereof the advise of the Justices and Court here c. And if upon the whole matter aforesaid by them the said Jurors in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Justices here That the writing aforesaid in the Declaration within written specified be the Deed of the aforesaid John Payne the Testator Then the said Jurours say upon their Oath aforesaid That the writing aforesaid is the Deed of the said John Payne the Testator and then they assess the damages of the said Mayor and Burgesses by occasion of deteining of the debt within written above their Costs and Charges by them in their sute in this behalf expended to 12. pence and for their Costs and Charges to 12. pence And if upon the whole matter aforesaid by them the Jurors in form aforesaid found It shall seem to the Justices here That the writing aforesaid be not the Deed of the aforesaid John Payne the Testator Then the said Jurors say upon their Oath aforesaid That the writing aforesaid is not the Deed of the aforesaid John Payne the Testator aâ— the aforesaid John Payne the Executor above in pleading hath alleaged And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before that they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid untill c. To hear their Judgement thereof because the said Justices here thereof are not yet c. Dower Trinity Term Anno 80. Of King JAMES Edward Althams Case Co. 8. part fol. 14. a. THomas Lawrence and Marcy his Wife by Charles Cardinal their Attorny demand against Edward Altham Gent. and Margaret his Wife the Third part of 100. Acres of Land 10. Acres of Meadow and 60. Acres of Pasture with their Appurtenances in Gosfield as the Dower of the said Marcy of the Endowment of Thomas Nash the Elder sometimes her Husband c. And the aforesaid Edward and Margaret by John Rowley their Attorny come and say That the aforesaid Thomas and Marcy the Dower of the said Marcy of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. Of the Endowment of the said Thomas Nash sometimes Husband c. Against them ought not to have because they say That the said Thomas Nash sometimes the Husand c. Was seized of the Tenements aforesaid whereof c. In his Demesn as of Fee and held the same of John Wentworth Esq as of his Mannor of Gosfield with the Appurtenances in the County aforesaid in Free Socage that is to say by Fealty only for all manner of Services and Demands And the said Thomas so of the Appurtenances whereof c. being seised The 10 th day of April in the yeer 1592. at Gosfield aforesaid made his Testament and last Will in writing And by the same his last Will willed and bequeathed the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof to one Zachary Nash Younger Son of the same Thomas Nash To have and to hold to the said Zachary for term of his
in consideration of service done 71 Consultations 220 Plea for it 215 Continuances 5 18 36 50 62 78 91 96 105 120 121 144 161 173 174 179 208 227 236 249 257 264 270 299 314 322 328 336 344 355 356 357 358 Covenants to stand seised to the use of himself in tail remainder to the Queen 38 39 307 To levy a Fine 82 164 100 201 To stand seised to Vses 171 193 195 To deliver Evidences 55 To free Lands from Incombrance 56 That the Rents shall continue payable to the bargainee and his Heirs 56 To make further assurance 57 3â—9 To make a Joynture 99 To suffer a Recovery to Vses 318 That an Estate tail upon an Alienation shall cease as if Tenant in tail were dead without issue 311 To make Leases in Reversion 350 Conusance made by Bayliffs for Arrerages of Rent 251 Countermand Of an Arbitrament and what words are a good countermand of it 25 26 Count. In Dower 32 In a Formedon in Discender 137 Costs le Incrementa 3 51 63 67 105 250 258 264 268 344 352 D. DAmages In an Action upon the Case 3 5 8 Declarations In an Action upon the Case for diverting a Water course 1 In Assumpsit to pay mony upon forbearance not to molest 7 In Andita Querela 22 In Debt upon an Escape against a Sheriff 44 In Debt 25 27 34 In Ejectione Firme 51 69 77 82 92 52 97 106 121 In an Action of false Imprisonment 126 In an Action for proceeding against the Queens Prohibition 214 215 In a Replevin 220 233 239 259 265 268 In a second Deliverance 250 251 270 In Trespass 306 316 324 329 339 345 352 360 366 In Trespass for disturbing him to execute his Office Ut Armis where good 361 362 In Waste for cutting down and destroying of Woods 395 396 Defence 25 27 33 40 46 70 80 122 137 251 265 268 271 324 339 352 361 3â—6 Deeds Of Confirmation of a Rent 255 A Deed read to a Man illiterate in other words than it is shall not bind him 343 344 Of appointment of a Master and Governour of the Lands of an Hospital 387 Debt 25 27 Against Executors For Rent 37 Against the Sheriff for an Escape of one in Execution 44 Departure 143 Devises 30 31 To Executors to perform his Will till his Son come of the Age of 21. yeers 94 Vpon Condition to perform his Will with several limitations over to other persons to that purpose 110 112 113 Of Lands to his Wise upon Condition to bestow the profits to charitable uses 158 159. And she to have the profits during her life discharging the said uses 158 159 Of Lands to superstitious uses where void 107 108 109 Of a Term to Executors 155 Of a Term 2â—1 Of Lands to one for life the remainder to the next right Heâ—r of Tenant for life 234 Dissability 9. And what shall be a good Plea in Dissability 9 Dies datus 11. In Assize 150 172 D stringas 156 Dower where not barred by a Release 31 32 33 E. ECclesiastical Court where they refuse to allow Plea in discharge of Tythes 214 Ejectione Firme 54 69 79 92 97 106 121 Entry where congeable 95 Where for a forfeiture by Tenant for lâ—fe a Joyntress 104 For a forfeiture by a Devisâ—e upon Condition for a condition broken 159 Escape â—â— here letting a Prisoner at large is escape 49 Errors Vpon a Judgement in Debt upon an Escape 51 Where assigned where not 66 Assigned for the Queen by her Attorny General 176 177 17â— Exemplification Of the Charter of 11. E. 3. Of the Kings grant of the Lutchy of Cornwall to the Prince 291 to 297 F. FAlse Imprisonment 126 Feoffments 117 252 269 324 341 Vpon consideration to make a Joynture to the Wife 99 By a Feoffee to use where it destroyeth contingent â—ses 331 To uses 107 221 330 331. Contingent uses 333 Vpon Condition to pay a Rent to be void upon tender 252 Of a Mannor 27â— Of a House and Lands where the livery and seisin is not good nothing passeth 260 261 262 263 Fessments Contingent uses destroyed by Fests though the Feoffee hath notice of the uses in contingency 333 Levied of Lands after a Bargain and Sale first made thereof though the deed be afterwards inrolled shall stand good 399 400 Fines levied 81 83 100 101 201 202 223 239 240 242 340 Of Lands levied to the King and his Heirs Males of his Body 164 Vpon Condition 341. till mony be paid Of an Advowson 224 By Tenant for life and he in the remainder where no forfeiture but a grant of their Estates 239 240 Fine Where paid for a contempt 162 Forfeiture When by Tenant for life who comes in a Vouchee upon a common-recovery 59 60 66 By a Woman Joyntress upon a Lease made contrary to the Statute of 11. H. 7 cap. 20. 140 Where Tenant for life the Tenant in tail enfeoffees him in the reversion it is a forfeiture and devests the remainder 334 Formedon 136 G. GAvel Kind 189 Grants Of a Rent charge by Tenant in Tail in th Remainder 222 Of a Rent for life with clause of distress 251 That a Condition and power to revoke uses shall cease 328 Of a Copy hold estate by a Disseisor not good 335 A Grant of Lands to 〈…〉 d his Heirs Habendum to him and his Heirs for yeers the Habendum is void 349 350 Of a Reversion upon a Lease for life to two and one attornes 354. Grants of the King 117 166 167 316 317 Of the Office of a Sergeant at Arms 390 Ex gracia speciali certa scientia mero motu 117 118 Of a Chauntry 118 In Fee Farm 118 Non Obstantes in the Kings Grants 118 119 Of a Ward and Wardship 190 Of the Office of Steward of his Manors and Lands to an Infant from his full age for yeers 360 362 Good from a Day past 361 H. HAbere Facias seisinam 246 321 Habendum in a deed of Grant where it shall be void where not 349 350 Hospital foundation and erection of it and giving Lands to it with all particulars touching a legal foundation 376 377 I. Ioynture to the Wife with remainders over 99 100 Indentures Declaring uses upon recovery 15 Of Bargain and Sale of a Messuage and Lands 55 Of uses with Power of Revocation and to limit new uses 195 197 Of Covenant to suffer a common recovery to uses 318 319 Incorporation Of Governours of an Hospital with the particulars incident to such an Incorporation 377 378 379 380 Indictments Of Murder and the form of it 144 145 Must be certain in all poynts and circumstances 146 149 150 151 152 Not of the Accessary before the principal be attainted 152 Of Declaration of new vses or to a power of revocation 200 201 Information Of Intrusion upon the Queens possession 153 162 Inquisitions 185 Intitling the King to seize upon default of executing an Office 301 Imparlance 2 8 46 80
said 8. Messuages and other the premises by these presents bargained and sold And that he hath full power and perfect lawful good authority to bargain fell and assure the same in manner form aforesaid And further that he the said Thomas Bowes and the Heirs of the said Thomas Bowes and all and every other person and persons and their Heirs having or lawfully claiming any lawful estate or interest of or in the premises or any part or parcell thereof shall and will at the costs and charges in the Law of the said VVill. Petham his Heirs and Assignes at all and every time and times hereafter during the Term of Four years next insuing the date thereof at the reasonable request of the said William Pelham his Heirs or Assignes do cause procure and suffer to be done All and every such reasonable and further act or acts thing or things devise or devises assurance and assurances whatsoever for the further and better assurance and sure making and for the clear and absolute having and enjoying of all and singular the aforesaid premises with their Appurtenances and every part and parcel thereof to be injoyed conveyed and assured to the said VVilliam Pelham his Heirs and Assignes be it by Fine Feoffment Recovery Deed or Deeds Inrolled Inrolement of these presents Recovery with single or double Vouchers and with warranty against all men or without warranty or otherwise as shall be reasonably devised or avised by the said VVilliam Pelham or by the Council learned in the Lawes of this Realm of the said VVilliam Pelham his Heirs or Assignes And that the said 8. Messuages and other the premises by these presents bargained and sold now are of the cleer yearly value of 67. pounds 13. shillings and 8. pence of lawful money over and above all charges and reprises And after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1688. of the cleer yearly value of 71. pounds 13. shillings and 4. pence of lawful Money of England over and above all charges and reprises In witness whereof the parties aforesaid to these Indentures sunderly have set their seals Given the day and year first above written Memorandum that afterwards that is to say the 21. day of December in the year abovesaid came the aforesaid Thomas Bowes before the said Lady the Queen in her Chancery at Westminster in his proper person And did acknowledge there the Indenture aforesaid all and singular in the same contained and specified in the former above written By Colour of which bargain sail and Inrollment aforesaid as also by force of a certain Act of transferring of uses into possession in the Parliament of the Lord Henry late King of England the 8th at Westminster in the County of Middlesex the 4th day of February in the 27th year of his Reign holden made and provided The said William Pelham was seised of the Messuage aforesaid with the Appurtenances amongst other things in which c. as the Law requireth And the said VVilliam so being thereof seised before the time in which c. A certain Recoverie was had in the Court of Hustingâ— of Pleas of Lands holden in the Guild-hall London before the Mayor and Sheriffs of the same City according to the custom of the aforesaid City by Nicholas Parker and Simon Patricke demandants against the said Willi. Pelham then Tenant of the said Messuage with the Appurtenances amongst other things in which c. in and upon a Writ of the Lady the Queen of Right Patent by the aforesaid Nicholas and Simon brought out of the Court of Chancery of the said Lady the Queen and in the said Court of Hustings and according to the custom of the City afore said prosecuted The Tenors of which Writ and the return and the proceedngs thereof as also of the Recovery aforesaid with all things touching the same follow in these words ss Pleas of Lands holden in the Hustings in the Guild hall London Monday next the feast Perpetue feliatatis In the year of the Reign of our Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defender of the faith the 14th At this Hastings came here in their proper persons Nicholas Parker and Simon Patrick and brought here in Court a Writ of the Lady the Queen of Right Patent to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London directed in these words ss Elizabeth by the grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen defender of the faith c. To the Mayor and Sherifs of London greeting We command you full Right you do to Nicholas Parker and Simon Patricke of 8. Messuages with the Appurtenances in London which they claim to hold of us by the free service of 1. penny by the year for all service which VVilliam Pelham Esquire deforced them that no more clamor thereof we hear for defect of Right Witnesse my self at VVestminster the last day of February in the year of our Reign the 14 th And they found Pledges to prosecute the said Writ that is to say John Doo and Richard Roo And then and there the said Nicholas Parker and Simon Patrick put in their place VVilliam Dalby their Attorny against the aforesaid VVilliam Pelham by the said their Attorny then there demanded Process c. according to the Custom of the City aforesaid and it is granted unto them c. Upon which then it was Commanded then and there by the said Court to the Sheriffs of London according to the Custom of the said City That they summon by good summoners the said VVilliam Pelham that he be here at the next Hastings London of Pleas of Lands in the Guild-hall of the City aforesaid according to the Custom of the said City to be holden to Answer to the said Nicholas Parker and Simon Patricke in the same plea here c. At which day that is to say at the Hastings London of Pleas of Lands holden in the Guid-hall London Monday next before the Feast of St. Edward King and Martyr in the year of the Reign of the said Lady Elizabeth c. the 14 th aforesaid The said Nicholas Parker and Simon Patrick by the said VVilliam Dalby their Attorny came and appeared here c. And the Sheriffs of London that is to say Henry Mills and John Branch now sent and retorned here upon the Precept aforesaid to them directed That they by virtue of the said Precept sommoned the said VVilliam Pelham to be here at this Hastings to Answer to the said Nicholas Parker and Simon Patricke in the plea aforesaid as to them c. by John Doo and Richard Roo summoners c. Which VVilliham at this Hastings put in his place Roger Coys and Robert Hogeson their Attornies joyntly and severally against the said Nicholas Parker and Simon Patricke in the Plea aforesaid c. by VVilliam Fleetwood Esquire Recorder of the City aforesaid c. And upon this the said Nicholas
with the appurtenances in the declaration aforesaid above specified at the time of the said recovery in the aforesaid Court of Hustings in the Guild Hall of London in form aforesaid had for which cause the entry of the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts into the Messuage aforesaid with the appurtenances in the said Declaration aforesaid specified was not lawfull Item in this also it is Erred for that the aforesaid recovery was had in the said Court of Hustings before the 8th day of May in the yeare of the Reign of the Lady the Queen that now is the 14th and that the said Thomas Bowes who before was Tenant for Term of life was vouched in the said Court by the aforesaid William Pelham in the said Recovery named to warrant the Messuage aforesaid with the appurtenances amongst other things which Thomas afterwards by Summons by his Attorny appeared in Court and freely the Messuage aforesaid to the said William did warrant and farther vouched to warrant the aforesaid Richard Horsted who present in the same Court the Messuage aforesaid with the appurtenances farther warranted and afterwards made default by which Judgement against the said William Pelham in the said Recovery was given and execution thereof in the form aforesaid was had so as the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts of the remainder without any demand in the Messuages aforesaid with the appurtenances to have stood utterly excluded and for that cause the aforesaid entry of the aforesaid Thomas Bowes Master of Arts into the said Messuage with the appurtenances after the said Recovery in form aforesaid had and executed was unlawfull 1. Item in this also it is erred because it was found that before any entry of the said Thmas Bowes Master of Arts the Judgement aforesaid was fully and in due manner executed after which Execution so had although the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts before the Execution aforesaid had had title of Entry Yet the said Thomas by the Law of the Land into the Messuage aforesaid after the Eexcution aforesaid so had could not enter Item in this further it is erred because it is found by the Jurors aforesaid That the said Thomas Bowes the Father c. who was Tenant for Term of his life of the Messuage aforesaid with the Appurtenances is yet living and is in full life And so the aforesaid Entry of the said Thomas Bowes Master of Arts in the Messuage aforesaid with the Appurtenances in form aforesaid during the life of the said Tho. Bowes his Father made ought not to be adjudged lawful And for these causes the Judgement aforesaid for â—he said Henry Page against the said Edward Griffin and all thereupon depending upon the Bill aforesaid against the said Edward in form aforesaid spoken and exibited is not sufficient in Law and he prayeth That the said Judgement aforesaid for the Errors aforesaid and others in the Record and processe aforesaid being be revised annulled and utterly holden for none and that he unto all which by the occasion of the Judgement aforesaid given he lost he be restored And further the said Edward Griffin the Writ of the Queen to warn the said Henry Page that he should be before the said Chancellor and Treasurer in the Court aforesaid at Westminster to hear the Record and processe aforesaid and also the Errors aforesaid and further to do and receive what should be just in the premises c. And it was granted to him retornable upoÌ„ Tuesday the 28 th day of Octo. next following c. At which day before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Court aforesaid at Westminster came the said Henry Page by his Attorny aforesaid And the Sheriffs of London that is to say Richard Gourney and Stephen Soame now sent by Thomas Bickliff and Humphry Walsingham good and lawfull Men of their Baliwick That they did warn the said Henry Page that he should be before the Chancellor and Treasurer aforesaid in the aforesaid Chamber at the day and place aforesaid to do and receive as the said Writ commanded and required And thereupon the said Edward by John Hawkesworth his Attorny came likewise and demanded the hearing of the Record and Processe as also of the Errors aforesaid And they are read unto him c. which being read and heard The said Henry Page said That in the Record and Processe aforesaid made in the giving of the Judgement aforesaid it is in nothing erred and prayed that the Court here proceed as well to the Examination of the Record and the Processe aforesaid as the causes aforesaid for Errors alleged And that the Judgement aforesaid in all things might be affirmed And because the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer would advise of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement day is given to the parties aforesaid here that is to say in the Chamber aforesaid until Tuseday the 11 th day of November next following to hear their Judgement c. At which day before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid at Westminster come the parties aforesaid by their Attornies aforesaid And because the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer are not yet avised of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises further day is given to the parties aforesaid before the aforesaid Chancellor or Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid untill Tuseday the 18th day of November then next following to hear their Judgement c. At which day before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid at Westminster come the parties aforesaid by their Attornies aforesaid And because the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer are not yet avised of giving their Judgement of and upon the premises further day is given to the parties aforesaid untill Tuesday the 25 th day of November following to hear their Judgement c. At which day before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid at Westminster come the parties aforesaid by their Attornies aforesaid and because the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer are not yet avised of giving their Judgement of and upon the Premises further day is given to the parties aforesaid here before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid untill Tuesday the 27 th day of January next following to hear their Judgement thereof c. At which day before the aforesaid Chancellor and Treasurer in the Chamber aforesaid at Westminster aforesaid come as well the said Henry Page by John Hawkesworth his Attorny aforesaid as the aforesaid Edward Griffin by Rich. Hatton his Attorny aforesaid and thereupon the said Henry sayd That the said Edward his Writ aforesaid for correcting of Errors against the said Henry in this case further to prosecute or maintain ought not because he saith That after the last continuance of the Plea aforesaid that is to say after the aforesaid Tuesday that is to say the 25 th day of November from which day the Plea aforesaid was last continued untill this day that is to say
in the Spiritual Court after the Queens Prohibition to the contrary thereof directed and delivered for that that is to say whereas all and singular Pleas and Conusans of Pleas of whatsoever grants demyses or conttacts arising within this Kingdom of England made and had and the validity of such grants and demyses in Law and other such Pleas and Conusance of Pleas so as they be not Testamentary or Matrimonial to the said Lady the Queen that now is and her Royal Crown do especially appertain and by the Laws of the Land of this Kingdom of England and not by the Laws or Sentences Ecclesiastical ought to be tryed determined and discussed and ever heretofore accustomed and ought to be And whereas Stephen by Divine Providence late Bishop of Winchester the 4th day of July in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord Henry late King of England the 8th the 38th was seized in his demesn as of Fee in the Right of his Bishoprick of and in the Manor of Eastmeon in the County aforesaid whereof one capital Messuage called the Scite of the Manor of Eastmeon 800. Acres of Lands 50. Acâ—es of Meadow 1000. Acres of Pasture and 400. Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Eastmeon in the County aforesaid being demesn Lands of the Manor aforesaid then and time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary was and yet are parcel and also of and in one Messuage with the Appurtenances being in Eastmeon aforesaid being to the Mansion house of the same Manor And whereas the said Stephen and all his Predecessors Bishops of the Bishoprick aforesaid for the time being seized of the Manor aforesaid and other the premises with their Appurtenances The Scite of the Manor aforesaid and the capital messuage aforesaid and the demesn Lands aforesaid with the Appurtenances by himself his Farmers and Tenants thereof and every parcel thereof for Term of yeers or at Wiil held and were injoyed exonerated acquitted freed discharged and privileged of and from the payment of Tithes whatsoever of in or upon the capital messuage aforesaid and the demesns aforesaid with the Appurtenances and of every and any parcel thereof yeerly what way soever for the whole time aforesaid growing happening renewing or arising And the aforesaid Stephen late Bishop aforesaid of the capital Messuage aforesaid and the demesn Lands aforesaid with the Appurtenances in form aforesaid being seized and the same having and holding exonerated acquitted freed and discharged and privileged of and from the payment of Tithes whatsoever of in and upon the capital Messuage aforesaid and other the premises with the Appurtenances or any parcel thereof growing renewing or any wise happening The said Stephen the 4th day of July in the yeer of the Reign of the said late King Henry the 8th the 38th at Eastmeon in the County aforesaid By his Indenture with his Seal Episcopal sealed and to the Court of the said Lady the Queen that now is here brought bearing date the same day and yeer demised to one Robert Wright Grandfather of the said Robert that now is plantif The Moyety of the demesn Lands aforesaid with the Appurtenances By the name of all the Demesn Lands oâ— the Mannor of Eastmeon aforesaid anciently belonging with all Houses Stables Barns and Buildings upon the Moyety aforesaid then and of old time situate lying and being with the Appurtenances which Moyety then lay in the fields on the South side of the Town of Fastmeon aforesaid Together with the Meadowes Feedings and Pastures Enclosures Wayes Pathes and other their Appurtenances together with the Farm of 40. Muttons called Weathers the highest price 16. pence 40. Ew Sheep the highest price 16. pence To have and occupy the said Moyety of the TenemeÌ„ts aforesaid with the AppurtenaÌ„ces in form aforesaid demised To the aforesaid Ro. Wright the GraÌ„dfather his Assignes from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the yeer of our Lord God 1575. until the end and Term of 40. yeers then next following and fully to be compleat and Ended Yielding therefore yeerly during the Term aforesaid to the aforesaid Stephen late Bishop aforesaid or his Successors at his Exchequer of Woluesloy in Winchester in the County of Southampton then being 10. pound and 10. shillings of lawful mony of England at the Feasts of Easter and St. Michael by even and equal portions to be paid and for the farm of the aforesaid 40. Weathers and 40. Ew Sheep 11. pound 13. shillings and 4. pence to be paid at the Feast of St. Martin the Bishop Ad vincula for the chief Weathers 3. pence and for the chief Ews 4. pence as by the same Indenture amongst other things it more fully appeareth Which Indenture of demise to the aforesaid Robert Wright the Grandfather in form aforesaid made and all and singular therein contained Afterwards that is to say the 20th day of July in the 38th yeer abovesaid William Kingsmill then Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity of Winchester aforesaid and the Chapter of the same place at Winchester aforesaid that is to say in their Chapter-house there by their Writing of Confirmation with the Seal of the Chapter sealed in the life time of the aforesaid Stephen then being Bishop of Winchester aforesaid and in the life time of the said Robert Wright the Grandfather now deceased ratified and confirmed as by the Writing of Confirmation thereof bearing date the day and yeer last aforesaid amongst other things it appeareth By virtue of which demise and Confirmation The same Robert Wright the Grandfather was of the Interest of the Term aforesaid in the aforesaid Moyety of the demesn Lands aforesaid with the Appurtenances in form aforesaid demised possessed and the aforesaid Robert Wright the Grandfather of the Interest of the Term aforesaid in the Moyety of the demesn Lands aforesaid with the Appurtenances in form aforesaid demised being possessed The said Robert Wright the Grandfather the 14th day of August in the yeer 1558. at Eastmeon aforesaid made his Testament and last Will in Writing and by the said his Testament made and ordained Margaret then his Wife and Nicholas Wright his younger Son to be Executors of his last Will And by the said his last Will gave and bequeathed all his Interest aforesaid of and in the aforesaid Moyety of the demesn Lands aforesaid so as is said demised with the Appurtenances then to come to Edward Wright the Eldest Son of the aforesaid Robert the Grandfather and afterwards the aforesaid Robert Wright the Grandfather at Eastmeon aforesaid dyed of his Interest aforesaid of and in the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances to the said Robert the Grandfather in form aforesaid demised possessed After whose death the aforesaid Margaret and Nicholas took upon them the burthen of Execution of his last Will Testament aforesaid at Eastmeon aforesaid And the said Executors at Eastmeon aforesaid gave their consent that the said Edward Wright should have and enjoy to him and his
his Writ aforesaid but be in mercy for his false clamour c. And the aforesaid Thomas go thereof without day c. And that he have retorn of the Cattel aforesaid to be kept by him irreplegible for ever And how c. The Sheriff make it here appear in 8. dayes of Saint Michael c. It is also granted That the aforesaid Thomas recover against the said Iohn his damages aforesaid by the Jurors in form aforesaid assessed as also 11. pound and 9. shillings and 6. pence to the said Thomas at his request for his costs and charges aforesaid by the Court here of encrease adjudged which damages in the whole do amount to 12. pound REPLEVIN Michaelmass Term Anno 27. and 28. Eliz. Rot 1739. in the COMMON PLEAS Co. 4. part Cornwal Bevils Case fol. 6. a. NIcholas Francis was Attached by the Writ of the Lady the Queen of Second Deliverance to answer to Walter Parker of a Plea wherefore he took the Cattel of him the said Walter and them unjustly detained against Gages and Pleges c. And whereupon the said Walter by Francis Eyrman by his Attorny complaineth That the aforesaid Nicholas the 30th day of October in the yeer of the Reign of the Lady the Lady the Queen that now is the 15th at Tallan in a certain place called Newton took the Cattel that is to say Two Oxen of him the said Walter and them unjustly deteined against Gages and Pledges until c. whereupon he saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 20. pound And thereof he bringeth Sute c. And the aforesaid Nicholas by William Leigh his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. And as Bayliff of John Bevill Esquire doth well acknowledge the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. And justly c. Because he saith That the same place called Newton in which it is supposed the taking of the Cattel aforesaid to be done doth contain and the time of the taking of the Cattel aforesaid supposed to be done did contain in it self 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Tallon aforesaid and that long before the aforesaid time in which c. One Robert Smith the Elder Esquire was seized of the said 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in his demesn as of Fee and held the said 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances of the aforesaid John Bevill as of his Manor of Kalâ—gath in the County aforesaid by Knights Service that is to say by Homage Fealty and Escuage to the Lady the Queen when it should happen â—2 shillings And when more more and when lesse lesse and also by the Service of doing Sute at the Court of him the said John at his Manor aforesaid twice by the yeer that is to say once within a Moneth next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and again within a Moneth next after the Feast of Easter every yeer at that Manor holden of which Services the aforesaid John Bevill was seized by the Hands of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Elder as by the Hands of his very Tenant that is to say of the Homage Fealty Escuage and Sute of Court as of his Fee and Right And that afterwards the aforesaid Robert Smith the Elder dyed of the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances seized After whose death the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with their Appurtenances discended to one Robert Smith Son and Heir of the aforesaid Robert Smith By which the said Robert Smith the Son before the time in which c. in the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances entred and was thereof seized in his demesn as of Fee And because the Homage of the aforesaid Robert the Son the aforesaid time in which c. to the aforesaid John Bevill behinde not done the said Nicholas as Bayliff of the said John Bevill doth well avow the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. And justly c. for that Homage so undone in the Lands of the said John in form aforesaid holden c. And upon the aforesaid Robert the Son as upon the very Tenant of the aforesaid John Bevill and within his Fee and Lordship And the aforesaid Walter saith That long before the said time of the taking of the Cattel aforesaid done The sâ—id Robert Smith was seized of the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances in Tallon aforesaid called Newton in his demesn as of Fee And so thereof being seized before the time of the taking aforesaid done thâ—t is to say the 24th day of January in the yeer of the Reign of the said â—â—dy the Queen that now is the 13th at Tallon aforesaid Leased the afore 〈◊〉 20 Acres of Land with the Appurtenances to him the said Walter To have to the said Walter his Assigns from the aforesaid 24th day of January in the yeer afores unto the end of the Term of 5. yeers then next following to be compleat and ended By virtue of which Lease the said Walter into the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances entred and was and yet is thereof possessed the Reversion thereof after the Term aforesaid ended to the aforesaid Robert Smith the Son and his Heirs expectant Without which Robert the Son the said Walter cannot answer to the avowry aforesaid of the said Nicholas nor the Plea thereof bring into Judgement And prayes aid of the aforesaid Robert Smith the Son who is present herein Court in his proper person and willingly joynes himself in aid against the aforesaid Nicholas in the Plea aforesaid c. And upon this as well the said Walter as the aforesaid Robert Smith the Son who c. say that the aforesaid Nicholas for the reason before alleged ought not avow the taking of the Cattel aforesaid to have been just For by Protestation that the aforesaid Robert Smith the Son did not hold the aforesaid 20. Acres of Land with the Appurtenances called Newton in Tallon aforesaid of the aforesaid J. Bevill as of his Manor of Keligath by Knights Service that is to say by Homage Fealty and Escuage to the Lady the Queen when it should happen 42. shillings and to more more and less less c. As also by the Service of doing Sute at the Court of the said John Bevill of his Manor aforesaid twice by the yeer that is to say once within one Moneth after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and again within one Moneth after the Feast of Easter every yeer at that Manor to be holden as the aforesaid Nich. above hath alleged For Plea he saith That the aforesaid John Bevil never was seized of the aforesaid Services as the said Nicholas above hath alleged And this they are ready to aver Wherefore in as much as the said Nicholas above acknowledgeth the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place
the death of every Tenant of the said 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. dying thereof seised the best Beast which should be of such Tenant at the time of his death in the name of a Heriot of which services the aforesaid John Talbot was seised by the hands of the aforesaid John Chapman the Father as by the hands of his very Tenant that is to say of the Fealty and sute of Court aforesaid as of Fee and right and of the Heriot aforesaid in his demesn as of Fee And the said John Chapman the Father of the three Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. in his demesn as of Fee in form aforesaid being seised afterwards and before the time in which c. At Albrighton aforesaid of such his Estate dyed thereof so seised And the said John Pendleton further saith That the aforesaid John Chapman the â—â—ther at the time of his death at Albrighton aforesaid was possessâ—d oâ— an Ox of the price of 100 shillings as his proper Ox which Ox was the best Beast of the aforesaid Iohn Capman the Father at the time of his death whereupon sell the Heriot thereof to the aforesaid Iohn and because the Heriot aforesaid after the death of the aforesaid Iohn Chapman the Father thâ— said time in which c. was behind not delivered the said said Iohn Pendleton as Bayliff of the aforesaid Iohn Talbot doth well avow the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. and justly c. for the Heriot aforesaid not delivered as within his Fee and Lordship c. And the said Iohn Chapman now Plaintiff saith That the aforesaid Iohn Pendleton as Bayliff of the aforesaid Iohn Talbot in the cause above before alleged ought not avow the taking oâ— the Cattel aforesaid to be just Because he saith That long beâ—ore the aforesaid time of the taking aforesaid done and before the aforesaid Iohn Chapman the Father had any thing in the said 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. One â—ohn â—arny was seised of a Messuage and of half a Yard Land of Meadow and Pasture with the appurtenances conteining by estimation 50. â—cres in Albrighton aforesaid whereof the said 3. Acres of Pasture with their appurtenances in which c. were parcel in his demesn as of Fee and the said Messuage and one half Yard of Land Meadow and Pasture wholy with the appurtenances whereof c. held of the aforesaid Iohn Talbot as of his Manor of Albrighton aforesaid by Fealty and doing sute at the Court of the said Iohn Talbot of his Manor aforesaid from 3. weeks to 3. weeks at that Manor yearly to be holden as also by the service of rendring after the death of every Tenant of the said Messuage and half Yard Land of Meadow and Pasture wholy with the appurtenances whereof c. dying thereof seised the best Beast that was to such Tenant at the time of his death in the name of a Heriot And the said John Barny of the Messuage and half Yard Land of such Meadow and Pasture with the appurtenanceâ— wholly in form aforesaid being seised long before the time of the taking c. that is to say the first day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the Lady the Queen that now is the 32th of the said 3. Acres of â—and parcel of the aforesaid half Yard Land of Land Meadow and Pasture with the appurtenances whereof enfeoffed the aforesaid â—ohn Talbot To have and to hold to the said John Talbot his Heirs and Assigns for ever By vertue of which Feoffment the aforesaid Iohn Talbot was and yet is seised of the aforesaid 3. Acres of Lands parcel c. in his demesn as of Fee and he the said Iohn so being thereof seised and the aforesaid Iohn Barny of the Messuage aforesaid and the rest of the aforesaid half Yard-Land of Meadâ—w and Pasture with the Appurtenances whereof c. in form aforesaid being seised The said Iohn Barny afterwards and before the time of the taking aforesaid done that is to say the first day of May in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 36th of the aforesaid 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. Enfeoffed the aforesaid Iohn Câ—apman the Father and his Heirs for ever By virtue of which Feoffment the said Iohn Chapman the Father was seised of the said 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. in his demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seised the said Iohn Chapman the Father after and before the time of the taking c. At Albrighton aforesaid of such his Estate of and in the same 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. dyed thereof seised after whose death the said 3. Acres of Pasture with their appurtenances in which c. discended to the said Iohn Chapman now Plaintiff as Son and Heir of the said Iohn Chapman the Father By which the said Iohn Chapman now Plaintiff into the 3. Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances in which c. entred and was and yet is thereof seised in his demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seised The said Iohn Chapman the now Plaintiff before the time of the taking c. put his Cattel into the aforesaid Place in which c. to eat the Grass in the same then growing as it was lawful for him to do which Cattell were in the place aforesaid in which eating the Grass there growing untill the said Iohn Pendleton the aforesaid second day of September in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord the King that now is the 6th abovesaid at Albrighton aforesaid in the afores place called Bromley VVake the Cattel of him the said Io. Chapman aforesaid them unjustly deteined against Gages and Pledges untill c. as he above against him complaineth this he is ready to aver wherefore in as much as the aforesaid Iohn Pendleton the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the aforesaid place in which c. to Barr and that he to that Plea in manner and form aforesaid pleaded needeth not nor by the Law of the Land is bound to answer wherefore for want of a sufficient Plea in Barr in this behalf the said Iohn Pendleton demands Judgement and Return of the Cattle aforesaid together with his damages to be adjudged unto him And the aforesaid Iohn Chapman now Plaintiff in as much as he sufficient matter in Law to Bar the aforesaid John Pendleton from justly avowing the taking of the Cattel aforesaid in the place in which c. above hath alleged which he is ready to averr which matter the aforesaid John Pendleton doth not deny nor to the same any wayes answereth but refuse to admit the same averment as at first demandeth Judgement and his damages by the occasion of the taking and unjust deteining of the same Cattel to
said late Queen after the beginning of her Reign was or then after should be intituled by any Attainder Escheat Conveiance or Assurance whatsoever and in which Letters Patents Grants or Writings no Estate Tail then before made or supposed to be made was recited or from henceforth should be and the Reversion or Remainder thereof expectant in the said Letters Patents Grants or Writings granted or mentioned to be granted or any defect of certainty or ill computing mistaking rating or setting forth of the yeerly value or rate of the premises or yeerly Rents reserved of and for the premises or any parcel thereof mentioned or conteined in the same Letters Patents aforesaid or other Writings or for that that the premises then were or any part thereof valued at a greater or lesser value in the said Letters Patents or Writings than the said Manors Lands Tenements and other premises then were or were in yeerly value or any misnaming or not true naming of Town Hamblet Parish or County where the said Honors Manors Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments and other the premises and every part thereof or any parcel thereof lay or were or any defect of true naming of the Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any parcel thereof or of the Nature Kind Quality or Quantity of the aforesaid Possessions or Hereditaments or of any parcel thereof or any default of true naming of any Corporation or any default of Attornment Livery or Seisin or any ill naming of any the late Tenants of the aforesaid Honors Manors lands Tenements and Hereditaments or of any part thereof so sold granted or given or any ill naming of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate who any time before the making of such Letters Patents were or then after should be proprietors of the premises or any any part thereof to the contrary notwithstanding as by the said Act amongst other things it more fully appearh And the said John Hele and Warwick further say That the said late Queen Elizabeth never had any Son And that the aforesaid Gellio Merick and Henry Liâ—dley were at and before the time of the making of the said Leters Patents so as before is said made Subjects of the said late Queen Elizabeth and born at Westminster aforesaid All and singular which The said John Hele and Warwick are ready to aver Whereupon they demand Judgement if the said Letters Patens of the aforesaid late Queen Elizabeth of the Manors aforesaid with the Appurtenances so as before is said made ought to be revoked and annulled or the Manors aforesaid with the Appurtenances or any of them ought to be seized into the Hands of the Lord the King that now is c. And the aforesaid Henry Hobert Knight Attorny General of the Lord the King that now is who c. present in Court in his proper person As to the aforesaid Plea of the said Henry Lindley above in form aforesaid pleaded for the said Lord the King saith That the said Henry Lindley ought not be admitted to plead That there is not any such Record of any such Act of Parliament of the aforesaid Lord King Edward the 3d. made Nor that there is any such Record of the aforesaid Charter of the said late King Edward the 3d. by Authority of Parliament made as in the aforesaid Writ of Scire Facias thereof is recited and specified Because he saith That the said Lord King JAMES now King of England saw the Inrollment of the aforesaid Act of Parliament of the said late King Edward the 3d. and of the aforesaid Charter of the said late King Edward the 3d. in the Rolls of the Chancery of the King that now is within his Tower of London in the yeer of the Reign of the aforesaid late King Edward the 3d. the 11th inrolled upon Record there remaining The Tenor of Inrollment of which Act of Parliament and Charter aforesaid the said JAMES now King of England by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England sealed here in Court by the aforesaid Attorny General of the Lord the King that now is for the said Lord the King that now is now brings in Court bearing date at Westminster aforesaid the 5th day of March in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lord the King that now is of England France and Ireland the 3d. and of Scotland the 39th Exemplified amongst other things Which Exemplification as to the Inrollment of the aforesaid Act of Parliament and Charter aforesaid followeth in these words JAMES by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. To All to whom these present Letters shall come greeting We have seen the Inrollment of a certain Charter bearing date the 17th day of March in the yeer of the Reign of the Lord Edward late King of England the 11th To his well-Beloved and Faithful Edward Earl of Chester his Eldest Son granted in the Rolls of our Chancery within the Tower of London remaining of Record in these words Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitain To the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons Justices Sheriffs Provosts Ministers and all Bayliffs and his faithful People Greeting Amongst other the tokens of Honour of our Kingdom we esteemed it the chiefest that the Order of Dignities and Offices of our Kingdom be fortified with the best and strongest Counsels Therefore there being many degrees of Inheritance in our Kingdom where by descent the Inheritance according to the Law of this Kingdom to Co-heirs and Parciners and for want of such issue and such like events the same came to our Hands We therefore desiring to beautifie our Kingdom and in best manner to defend our Kingdom and the holy Church thereof and our Subjects and Kingdoms against the endeavors and Adversaries thereof and considering and looking that Peace between us and Subjects be maintained and to dignifie the Places of honour of our Kingdom And taking into our consideration the person of our well-Beloved and Faithful Edward Earl of Chester our Eldest Son and taken to Honour the same our Son the name and Honour of Duke of Cornwall with the common consent and counsel of the Prelates Earls Barons and others of our Counsel in this present Parliament at Westminster upon Monday next after the Feast of Saint Mathew the Apostle last past being assembled we have given and made him Duke of Cornwall and girt him with a Sword as behoveth And that there may be no doubt hereafter what or how much the same Duke or other Dukes of the same place who for the time shall be in the name of the said Dutchy ought to have Our Will is that all in specialty which to the said Dutchy doth beloug be inserted in this our Charter Therefore for us and our Heirs we have given and granted and by this our Charter confirmed to the same our Son under the name and Honour of Duke of the said Place The
by these presents covenanteth granteth demiseth and letteth to Farm to the said Agnes and Anthony and to the Heirs of the same Anthony The said Tenement Mese or Farm called Vngthorp in the Parish of Marton in Craven in the County of York together with the Closures Feedings Pastures arable Lands Meadows Woods Waters Common of Pasture in the Moors of East and West Marton Common of Turbury with free passage to and fro the same Common of Easton to a Ground or Meadow called Tadholm lying in the demesn Closes of Marton Hall and all Houses Barns Boons and Buildings to the same Tenement or Farm called Vngthorp belonging or in any wise heretofore appertaining now and of old time being of the only yeerly Rent of 53. shillings and 4. pence To have and to hold the same Tenement or Farm called Vngthorp with all singular the premises with the Appurtenances to the same Agnes and Anthony and to the Heirs of the same Anthony from the date hereof to the end and Term of 99. yeers next and immediately following and fully to be compleat and ended and so from 99. yeers to 99. yeers until such time as 300. yeers be spent fully finished and expired without impeachment of any manner of Waste in and as ample free and large manner as ever Nicholas Simson Hugh Baldwin and the said Agnes Baldwin or any other Tenant or Farmer of the said Tenant or Mease of Vngthorp with all the singular the premises with the Appurtenances ever occupied or might have occupied the same without interruption let disturbance denial contradiction or resistance of the same Earl or of his Heirs and Assigns or of any other Officer Farmer or Farmers of the same Earls of the Manor or Capital Mese called Marton Hall for the time being or of any other at or by Will Assent Consent or furtherance of the same Earl his Heirs and Assigns And further the said Agnes and Anthony Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents for them and the Heirs of the said Anthony to and with the same Earl that they the same Agnes and Anthony and the Heirs of the same Anthony shall yeerly during the said Term at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and within 40. dayes after for certain urgent considerations content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the said Earl his Heirs and Assigns as well a Penny separately by it self as 5. shillings 4. pence Sterling in a grosse and intire sum if it be asked for the which payment of the said single Penny and of the said 5. shil 4. pence The said Earl covenanteth granteth for him his Heirs Assigns to and with the said Agnes and Anthony to discharge save harmless from time to time all the said Land and Tenements And the said Agnes and Anthony and the Heirs of the same Anthony as well of and from the payment of the said penny as for the payment of the sum of 4. shillings 4. pence as of all other Sutes Exactions Boons Gressions Fines Customs and all other Impositions or Demands whatsoever they be concerning the same Messuage or Tenement called Vngthorp and all other the premises with the Appurtenances during the said Term now granted or any time hereafter by force of this Indenture to be granted by the Earl and his Heirs as well against our Sovereign Lord the King and his Heirs as against all other person or persons whatsoever they be And further the said Earl covenanteth to and with the said Agnes and Anthony by these presents That the said Earl his Heirs and Assigns shall at the end and Term of 300 yeers make or cause to be made to the Heirs or Assigns of the said Anthony a like Demise and Lease of the said Messuage or Tenement and all other the premises with the Appurtenances if it be asked for so many more yeers as is contained in this Lease And the same Lease to be of like force effect and strength in the Law as this present is without any Covin Fraud Collusion Denyer or male Engine but truly and faithfully according to the true puport and meaning of these presents In witnesse whereof the parties abovesaid to these Indentures interchangeably have set their Seals the day and yeer abovesaid And the said Jurors further say upon their Oath That no licence or seisin of the Tenements aforesaid or any part thereof was delivered to the aforesaid Agnes Anthony or to any of them upon the Indenture aforesaid And that the aforesaid Agnes and Anthony had held the Tenement Mese and Farm aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof the aforesaid 4. acres with the Appurtenances in which c. are and then were parcel as the Law in this case requireth And the said Agnes and Anthony so having and holding the Tenement Messuage and Farm aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof the 4. acres in which c. are and then were parcel the said Agnes the last day of October in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 5th at Marton aforesaid in the County aforesaid dyed And the aforesaid Anthony her overlived and continued the possession of the Tenements Messuage and farm aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof the aforesaid 4. acres of Land with the Appurtenances in which c. are parcel and took the profits thereof and had occupied and held the Tenement Messuage and Farm aforesaid whereof the aforesaid 4. acres of Land with the Appurtenances in which c. with the Appurtenances are parcel of such estate and interest as the Law in this case requireth And he having occupying and holding the Tenement Messuage and Farm aforesaid whereof the within written 4. acres of Land are parcel The aforesaid Henry late Earl of Cumberland dyed having issue George now Earl of Cumberland his Son and Heir And the said George Earl of Cumberland entred into the Tenements aforesaid And afterwards that is to say the 17th day of April in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 24th enfeoffed the aforesaid Christopher Marton of the aforesaid 4. acres of Land with the Appurtenances To have to the said Christopher and his Heirs for ever And that the aforesaid Anthony at the time of the making of the Feoffment aforesaid and after that Feoffment made hitherto continued possession as well of the aforesaid 4. acres of Land with the Appurtenances as of the Messuage and rest of the Tenements and Farm aforesaid But yet the Jurors further say That before the Feoffment aforesaid the aforesaid Rent to the aforesaid Henry late Earl of Cumberland and his Heirs by the Indenture aforesaid granted as well to the aforesaid Henry Earl of Cumberland in his life and after the death of him the said late Earl to the aforesaid George now Earl of Cumberland as to the aforesaid Christopher Marton after the Feoffment aforesaid by the aforesaid Anthony was paid And the said Jurors further say upon their Oath
Lady the Queen of the Bench and other of the said Lady the Queens leige People then there present Between the aforesaid Richard by the name of Richard Libb Gentleman Plaintiff and the aforesaid William Haw and Ellen his Wise Deforceants of the Tenements aforesaid above in form aforesaid demised amongst other things by the name of One Messuage One Cottage Two Gardens 70. Acres of Land One Acre of Meadow 10. Acres of Pasture 60. Acres of Wood and 10. Acres of Furz and Heath with the Appurtenances in Goring and Whitchurch aforesaid in Maple Decam in the County aforesaid whereupon a Covenant was summoned betwixt them in the said Court that is to say that the aforesaid Williliam and Ellen acknowledged the Tenements aforesaid to be the Right of him the said Richard as those which the said Richard had of the gift of the aforesaid William and Ellen and them remised and quit claimed from them the said William and Ellen and their Heirs to the aforesaid Richard his Heirs for ever And further the said William and Ellen granted for them and the Heirs of the said William that they warrant to the aforesaid Richard and his Heirs the aforesaid Tenements with the Appurtenances against all men for ever as by the said Fine here in Court of Record Remaining more fully appeareth Which Fine in form aforesaid had and levied was to the use of the aforesaid Richard and his Heirs After which Fine so as afore is said levied that is to say the 20th day of April in the yeer of the Reign of the said Lady the Queen that now is the 30th aforesaid the aforesaid Indenture to the aforesaid Richard as before is said made before the aforesaid Justices of the said Lady the the Queen of the Bench here was inrolled And the said Elizabeth further saith That she to that grant of the Reversion of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances above as afore is said demised by virtue of which Fine aforesaid the aforesaid Richard did not attorn or agree And this she is ready to aver Whereupon she demandeth Judgement if the aforesaid Richard his Action aforesaid against her ought to have c. And the aforesaid Richard saith That the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid Elizabeth above in Bar Pleaded and the matter in the same contained is insufficient in Law to bar him the said Richard to have his Action aforesaid against the aforesaid Elizabeth And that he to that Plea in form aforesaid pleaded needeth not nor by the Law of the Land is bounden to Answer And this he is ready to aver Wherefore for want of a sufficient Plea in Bar in this behalf made the aforesaid Richard demandeth Judgement and his damages by the occasion of the Waste aforesaid to be to him adjudged And the aforesaid Elizabeth in as much as she hath alleged sufficient matter in Bar of the Acton aforesaid which she is ready to aver which matter the aforesaid Richard doth not deny nor to the same any wayes answereth but to that averment altogether refuseth demandeth Judgement and that the aforesaid Richard be barred from having his Action aforesaid against her c. And because the Justices here will avise themselves of and upon the premises before they give their Judgement thereof day is given to the parties aforesaid here until from the day of Easter 15. dayes to hear their Judgement thereof because the same Justices here thereof not yet FINIS THE TABLE A. AButtals of Acres set forth Folio 271 Action upon the Case for turning the Course of a water from a Mill 1 Vpon Assumpsit by a Woman Exâ—cutrix to pay mony upon forbearance not to molest her 7 Act of Parliament special to erect and found an Hospital 368. with the particulars of a foundation 368. 369 Adjornment of an Assize and for what Cause 18 19 Of Pleas 18 22 161 232 257 337 Of the Term 161 232 257 337 338 Agreement to pay Rent if it amount to an Attornment 271 Aid 266 Administration of goods committed 72 73 Alien born one born in Scotland since 1 Jac. nor Alien 10 Amoveas Manum 190 Arrests upon the Sabboth day 148 whereupon Arrest the Sergant is to shew his Mace c. 148 149 Arbitrament 25 Attornment 271 Two Joynts for life upon a grant of the Reversion one attorneth and good 354 355 Of one Joyntment is the Attornment of both 354 Audita Querela the form of it 21 To discharge the party out of Execution being taken upon a Capias ut lagaâ—um after juâ—gement 21 â—2 Averâ—ment 190 20â— 213 217 226 266 2â—0 â—26 Of Plea 10 24 26 Where it is Collateral of a thing out of the deed â—3 Authority of the Presidâ—nt and â—ensors of the Colledge of Physicâ—ans in London and the extent of it 131 Where it doth not extend to Doctors of Physick in the Vniverslties 134 135 Avowry 220 237 238 259 268 For Arrerage of a Rent charge granted by Tenant in tail â—n remainder 222 The taking of an Ox for a Heriot 269 For Arrerages of Rent 271 B. BAil 220 153 Bar 11 12 144 154 163 221 251 252 269 271 19â— 233 238 241 242 301 345 Fine annd Recâ—â—ery by Tenant in tâ—il is a Barr of a Rent granted by him in the remainder 224 In Avowry 260 In Audita Querela 22 In Dower 31 32 33 A grant of the King a Barr in a Scâ—re Facias to repeal Letters Pâ—â—ents 287 288 In Trespass 307 324 340 Of Conusance 252 Bargain and Sale 119 288 325 154 Of Lands to the Queen 160 Of Lands to Vses 171 172 By Tenant in tail 170 Of aterm for yeers 73 Of the Charter-house and of Lands belonging to it 372 373 374 Of Deeds Charters and Evidences 374 Of Lands to the Governours of an Hospital 390 391 392 Where it shall not relate to avoid a Fine 398 399 C. CErtificate of the Causes of disfranchising a Citizen or Burgess and removing him from his place and Office 274 to 279 Conditions to stand to an Award and Arbitrament 25 Not to alien a Term for years 70 Where broken because the thing is not done within convenient time 161 Where broken because the partâ— hath dissabled himself to perform it 161 Not to alien or discontinue Lands intailed 311 312 313 Colour 308 325 Common Recovery 244 312 The form of pleading it 41 59 320 86 141 Vses of it declared by a deed subsequent to the Recovery 12 In the Court of Hustings in London in a Writ of Right Patent 57 58 Where a Bar of an Estat 〈…〉 l 42 43 By Tenant in tail an 〈…〉 Release with warranty where shall bind the issue in tail 138 139 140 141 142 Vpon a Writ of Right Patent 138 Suffered by Tenant in tail 312 313 To Vses 86 87 88 89 139 Considerations 86 What good to ground an Assumpsit upon 6 7 What good to raise Vses 39 40 102 308 Confess and avoid 215 223 Confirmations 255 Of the King of a Lease