Subpoena 93 Defend wife examined as a witnesse 94 Deeds neglected to be inrolled Sub. to shew cause why not 97 Decree for the plaintant and yet put out of possession by the defendant 104 Defend departing without license an attach. against him 104 Def. discharged of the Attach the Sub. being counterfeit 104 Defendant licensed to depart after answer in a Writ of the priviledge 106 Defend committed for a rescue brought his action for a false returne 92.106 Demurrer without shewing any cause ordered to answer 107 Debt for 5 l dismissed 108 Dismission for that they have bin in possession 100. years 110 Day given to defend to rejoyne 111 Def. not to answer till a counsellors hand be to the Bill 112 Dismissed the lands being under 40 s. per annum 112 Demurrer generally ordered to answer 113 Defend charged upon account shall not answer upon promise shall 113 114. E. EXtents Law no reliefe in Chancery 5 Equitas sequitur legem 11 Executor not to release without his copartners 15 Executor not to answer without his copartners 15 Executors how upon trust 21 Executors husband ordered to pay debts 24 Entring decrees and dismissions 34 F. FInes recoveries c. the Lord Chancellor will not question 4 Feoffees to use 10 Feoffee dying no remedy against his heire 10 Feoffee shall doe acts for the feoffors good 10 Fraud in goods 18 Feoffee to retain the Land to his own use 11 Fraud upon fraud 13 Feoffee punishable for makeing estate 13 Forced to sue an obligation 15 Fines fraudulent 20 Fines of Copyholds 27 Fraud by making a Lease after a feoffment and before livery and seizin 82 Feme sole sueth out a Subpoena and the same day is married dismissed with costs 98 Feme covert whose husband is in the Gallies must answer matter of equity 100 101 Feb. 20. Dyed Sir Nicholas Bacon 12. April Sir Thomas Bromely had the seale delivered 108 Feme covert sueth for maintenance 87 G. GIving day to one it shall help the other 1 Greater part of debt paid and the rest offered reliefe here 2 Goods of felons difficult to prove a Subpoena 15 Grand lease forfeited by coven reliefe for it 18 Generall customes reduced to certainty 21 Grantee distraines one ordered to sue the rest 23 H. HElp against executors 12 Heire of purchasor to pay money behind 25 Husband appears and demurrs the wife not Attachment 39 Husband appears the wife not Attach against them both 65 Habeas corpus to the warden of the Fleet to have the defend in Court to be charged with a debt 71 Heire sued to make a lease for which his elder brother took a fine or to repay the same 77 I. JUdgement not to be examined here 3 Iuramentum delatum a partâ— 11 Intent specified in a feoffment 11 Justifying the detaining of evidences 16 Joyntenants one taking the profits 21 Judges called into the Exchequer Chamber about a lease 32 Injunction to deliver goods 34.61 Injunction to stay proceedings at Law 36 Injunction for possession as at the time of the Bill 36 Jurisdiction of Wales rejected 36 Injunction to stay suite according to promise 37 Injunction with a clause si ita sit 37 Injunction for not appearing and to stay suits 40 Injunction to discharge execution 41 Injunction for possession 45 Injunction for possession as at the Bill 3 yeeres before 47 Injunction upon Certificate of Justices of Assize 49 Injunction dissolved if cause be not shewed 49 Injunction because the defendant began first in Chancery 50 Injunction for Corne sowed upon a Lease paroll 51 Jurisdiction of Oxford rejected 55 Jurisdiction of Lancaster alloweds 56 Injunction disobeyed an Attachment 58 Jurisdiction of Chester allowed 59 Jurisdiction of Oxford allowed 65 Jurisdiction of the Exchequer rejected 67.68 Injunction against the spirituall court 73 Jurisdiction of Oxford allowed 73 Jurisdiction of Wales allowed 74 Injunction to stay Judgement in an action of waste 76 Injunction to stay suits because the Queene was not paid her fine 77 Jurisdiction of Chester allowed 82 Jurisdiction of Wales allowed 84 Injunction for defrauding the Queene of her fine 85 Jurisdiction of the Mannor of Woodstock overruled 85 Jurisdiction of Wales overuled 89 Jurisdiction of Wales admitted 92 Jurisdiction of the North allowed 95 Jurisdiction of the Exchequer disallowed 96 Jurisdiction of the Dutchy of Lancaster allowed 97 Jurisdiction of Wales not allowed for a promise 99 Injunction left at the defendants house and disobeyed an Attachment 101 Jurisdiction of Wales allowed 102 Injunction to stay suit at common Law 105 Jurisdiction of Chester allowed 109 Injunction to stay suit at common Law 112 Injunction to stay suit of Quo Minus in Exchequer 113 Injunction to stay suits at common Law 113 L. LEases dammages in waste moderated 2 Lease in paroll no help in Chancery 7 Lease for 1000 yeares no help 8 Lands sold in two Counties livery made in one 17 Leassor to have the woods excepting fireboot c. 17 Leases devised to his wife to come to his sonne 22 Leases conveyed in trust to pay debts 25 Lease paroll no help 27 Lands intended for a Schoole otherwise given by will 28 Leases of corporations their names mistaken 31 Leases holpen against Patentees 32 Leassee of a Copyholder punishable in waste though the Copyholder himselfe be not 63 Lord Chancellors Letters to a Noble man that had broken a decree to performe the same 73 Leassee not named in the premises decreed 86 Liberty for a common Fishing 104 M. MUlier and Bastard 4 Marriage portion recovered and reversed holpen 8 Money given to buy Lands 10 Money paid upon a single Obligation 17 Messuage cum pertin. carries the Land used with it 18 Mannor demised except court Baron 18 Mulier and Bastard Joyn 20 Misdemeanor in Courts reformed 30 Man and wife plaintants she dyes no Bill of revivor but he must answer 62 Money paid for a reversion which could not be enjoyed ordered to repay it 93 N. NVdum pactum no help here 5 No reliefe against his own deed 14 No seizin of rent-seck no help here 5 No reliefe against a voluntary act 21 No help touching power to make Leases 29 No witnesses to be examined till the defendants have put in their answer 93 No costs upon a disclaimer 109 New Commission to examine witnesses not appearing at a former Commission 111 Not to extend one mans Land onely where many are subject 111 New Commission to the defendant and publication staid 112 O. ONe Deed by which two claime 15 Oath for serving a Subpoena before witnesses examined in perpetuall memory 34 Order for evidences 43 One Executor sueth the other to put in sureties to perform the Will 79 One Executor gets the estate and dyeth the other sueth his Executor 86 One Subpoena against two defendants and two Bills put in ordered to answer both 87 P. PAyment after the day holpen upon bonds 1 Payment without acquittance 2 Purchasor of parcell not subject to the whole rent charge 2
aide in Chancery If a man grant a rent charge out of all his Lands and afterwards selleth his Lands by parcels to divers persons and the grantee of the rent will from time to time levy the whole rent upon one of the purchasors onely he shall be eased in Chancery by a contribution from the rest of the purchaseâ—s and the grantee shall be restrained by order to charge the same upon him onely A man recovered at the common Law a debt in one County where the obligation was made in another county against the Stat. 6. R. 2. c. 2. The Defendant sued and suggested in Chancery that by this meanes he was put from divers Pleas of which he might have taken advantage if the obligation had been sued in the very County and he had ayde there for the Chancellor said that he sued to hide the truth and against conscience also which cannot be so well found in any place as in the very County where a thing is done 9. E. 4.2 and 9. E. 4.15 A man shall not be prejudiced by formality or mispleading c. Touching Copy-holders Mr. Fitz-Harbert in his Natur. Brevium fol. 12. noteth well that forasmuch as hee cannot have any writ of false Judgement nor other remedy at common Law against his Lord therefore he shall have aide in Chancery and therefore if the Lord will put out his Copyholder that payeth his customes and services or will not admit him to whose use a surrender is made or will not hold his Court for the benefit of his Copyholder or will exact fines Arbitrary where they be customary and certaine the Copyholder shall have a Subpoe to restraine or compell him as the Case shall require Dyer 264. and 124 Fitz. Subpoena 21 First this Court forbeareth directly to examine any Judgement given at the common Law to which end the Statutes 27. E. 3. cap. 12.39 E. 3. cap. 14.4 H. 4. cap. 23. and 16. R. 2. cap. 5. were made and it seemeth that the common Law used some power to restraine such examinations of Judgements before all these Statutes for 13. E. 3. upon a recovery had upon a Quare impedit the Defendant sued for help in the Chancery and they sent a prohibition and upon that an Attachment against him Fitz-Harbert prohibition 21 the like hath been done upon suits in the courts of requests But yet 9. E. 4.65 one recovered debt upon an obligation in one county whereas the obligation was made in an other county and he complained in Chancery because he had lost some advantages which he might have taken if the triall had been in the other county which thing in effect was made a Law by the Statute 6. R. 2. c. 2. And in the Case of Paramore Ann. 3. 13. Eliz. A fine supposed to be levyed by an Infant was examined in Chancery after it had been allowed by examination of the Justices of the com Pleas but whether these and such other may seeme rather to examine the manner then the very matter and substance of the thing adjudged it is worthy of consideration Sir Will. Cordall Mr. of the Rols denyed to compell one to atturn here that was at liberty by the common Law in the Case of Sir Iohn Windham Chancellor Bromeley likewise denyed such compulsion generally but where the party quarrelled with the particular Tenants Estate or entreth iuto some part of the Lands in demise or hath covenanted for recompence for non atturnment there he utterly denyeth to inforce the atturnment Pasch. 21. Eliz. in Case of Philips and Doctor Sandford Such assurances as be used for the common repose of mens Estates the Chancery will not draw in question for a fine with Proclamation ought after the five yeares to be a bar in conscience as it is in Law so shall it be of a common recovery for docking the intaile Doctor and Student 33.155 So likewise it seemeth that the continued possession of the Bastard eisne shall prevaile in conscience against the right of the Mulier â—â—sne And albeit a feme covert may be thought to joyne with her Husband for fear in a fine of her lâ—nds yet after the five yeares it shall not be recalled for the generall inconveniences that may ensue to that highest assurance Doctor and Student 154. And if remedy in Chancery should be extended to a Collaterall Warrantye the same Saint Germaine saith that then all writings shall be examined If the extender undervalue the Lands as there is no remedy at the common Law 15. H. 7. Dupleges Case because the Debtor may help himselfe by payment of the debt so in conscience there ought to be no reliefe unlesse it were done by Covin. Idem Upon Nudum PactuÌ„ there ought to be no more help in Chancery then there is at the common Law neither against him that hath waged his Law in debt though peradventure falsely Idem Where a man made Title to a rent seck of which there was no seizin nor for which he had any action at the common law and prayed help here it was denyed upon conference had by the Lord Keeper with the Judges Michal 1596. A Copyholder dyeth leaving two daughters by divers Venters both which do enter and take the profits without doing fealties or paying fine and without any admittance by the Court and the eldest dyeth without issue This onely possession sufficeth to order the Copyhold to the collaterall heir of the eldest and not â—or the sister of the half bloud 12. Eliz. Dyer 291. A Copyholder in Fee hath issue a daughter and a son by two venters the Lord committeth the custody of the Land and of the son to the Mother who taketh the profits and the son dyeth before any admittance this Copyhold was ordered also for the Heire Collaterall against the Sister of the halfe bloud because the Mothers possession serveth for the son Anno 12. Eliz. Ibid. The Lord devised a Copyhold to C. for life and after passed the Freehold of the soyle thereof by livery of seizin thereof to B. for life reserving a rent and then by fine levyed doth grant the said Land to the said C. come ceo que il ad de son done c. And C. accepteth the said rent of B. and thereupon it was questioned whether or no the Copyhold of C. were gone in conscience 28. H. 8. Dyer 30. A Copyholder within age is admitted and the Lord committeth the custody to the Mother of the Infant whose under-Tenant cutteth down Timber Trees which being presented the Lord seizeth the Land for the forfeiture during still the nonage and keepeth it till he dyeth and it descendeth to his Heire who and his Father had kept it 40 yeares and for that the Copyholder moved suite in the Chancery 29. yeares since which was now revived and the forfeiture was taken during his minority he was restored to his possession
till the Lord should recover it for the forfeiture by the common Law in the case of Mr. Litton Mich. 41. and 42. Eliz. Justice Clench and the Masters Tenure by Tenant Right as it is usuall towards the borders of Scotland shall not pay any uncertaine fine or incombe at the change of the Lord by alienation but by death which is the Act of God for otherwise the Lord might weary the Tenant by frequent alienations but it may be fine uncertaine upon the alienation of the Tenant as well upon death as discent for that it is the Act of the Tenant and in his power Sir Thomas Egerton Mich. 1599. Case Mannor de thwaites les Iustices accord the same holdeth in Copyholders for the custome must be reasonable A Copyholder in Fee surrendreth to the use of one and to his Heires upon condition of redemption writeth downe his debts and willeth part of his Copyhold to be sold for payment of his debts after his death one of the creditors payeth the money at the day to the morgage who neverthelesse inrolleth the surrender afterward this other creditor complaineth against him and the Heir in Chancery and had a decree that the Copyhold should be sold for the payment of debts and the remainder of it if any were should discend to the Heire 41. Eliz. For although the devise of the Copyhold be void yet to take it from the surrendree who held it onely for money to be paid and to pay him and the other creditors therewith hath good warrant in equity and the Heire hath no wrong for that it was gone from him by the surrender lawfully Termino Trinitatis 40. Eliz. the Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Egerton pronounced openly that he for avoyding perjuries and other abuses would not give help to a Lease claimed by paroll onely One Cutting brought an action upon Assumpsit for one hundred pound against the Executors of a Testator that promised the money in marriage with his daughter and recovered at the common Law which judgement was reversed in the Chequer Chamber but Cutting sought help in Chancery where it was proved that the Executors had Assets for Funeralls Debts and Legacies with a good overplus to satisfie the complainant and therefore after hearing and report thereof by Doctor Stanhope and Mr. Lambert it was decreed for the complainant but the Executor exhibited his Bill for remedy upon which Justice Owen thought he was not to be heard till he had satisfied the decree and then also but onely upon new matter not thus resting the Executor exhibits a second Bill which was referred to Master Lambert but he excused himselfe that he was not to judge in his own cause and recommended it to the censure of the Lord Keeper who ordered the Executor to performe the first decree Micha 40. Eliz. 1598. Trinity 41. Eliz. The Lord Egerton pronounced openly that he would give none aide in Chancery â—or the maintenance of any perpetuities nor of any Lease for hundredâ— or thousands of yeares made of lands holden in Capite because the latter be grounded upon fraud and the former be fights against God A. was bound in a Statute to B. And one C. lendeth 100 l. to A. with which A. bought lands and assured the same to C. for his hundred pound A faileth in payment B. extended that land C. was denyed help in Chancery although the land was bought with his mony for B. hath priority of right in Law without Covyn Crompton 63. a. A. delivereth twenty pound to B. to the use of C. a woman to be delivered her the day of her marriage before her marriage A countermandeth it and calleth home the money C. shall not be ayded in Chancery because there is no consideration why she should have it Dyer 49. A Term or devised his Terme and whole Lease to B. Provisoe that if B. dye living C. Then the Terme shall wholly remaine to C. B. selleth the Terme and dyeth living C. And by the opinion of the Justices C. shall have no remedy Dyer 74. The Vice Countesse Mountague claimed the Wardship of the body of the Heire of a Tenant of hers which was esloyned from her 〈◊〉 she suspecting some of the Heires friends exhibited her Bill in Chancery and it seemed they should not answer to charge themselves criminally especially in this Case where so great a punishment as abjuration may follow c. Cromer and Peniston married two Sisters joyntly possessed of a Lease for yeares the wife of Cromer dyed Peniston claimed the whole by Survivor Cromer exhibited a Bill suggesting that Peniston had in her life time severed the joyneture by some act â—ecretly The Lord Keeper over-ruled that the defendant should not answer Mich. 39. and 40. Eliz. As concerning confidence secretly knit to Estates it hath manifold considerations first if my Feoffee upon confidence doe infeoffe another bona fide that knoweth not of the confidence I am without remedy Fitz Harbert sub 19 But if the second Feoffee have notice of the use he shall be compelled here to performe it 5. E. 4.7 So if my Feoffee dye and the land discend to his Heire I have no remedy against him 8. E. 4.6 All the Justices and this confidence extendeth not onely to the taking of the profits but also that the Feoffees shall doe acts for the good of the Feoffor and if the Feoffor require him to make an estate to any other he oâ—ght to doe it but thereof he ought to have request in writing for he is not to doe it upon a bare message or upon desire by word onely 37. H. 6.35.36 And if the Feoffor will have him make an Estate to I. for life the remainder in Fee to B. though I will not take the Estate yet B. shall compell him to make Estate to him in the life of I. ibid. 36. Finch So if the Feoffee be disseised the Feoffor shall compell him to sue an Assize 2 E. 4.7 Neverthelesse those Feoffees might grant necessary Offices as Stewardships Bailyweeks c. though they may not grant Annuities to learned men to defend the Land 8. H. 7.12 They may also as it seemeth give Fees to Councell and shall have allowance thereof so far as they are from being maintainors If I give money to one to purchase Lands therewith to him and his Heirs and to permit me to take the profits thereof during my life and he with-holdeth the profits he shall be compelled by Subpoena Crompton Fol. 48. b. If Cesti que use be attainted of Felony the Lord shall not be ayded by Subpoena to have his escheat and if the Heir be barred by the corruption of his bloud then the Feoffee as it seemeth shall retaine the Land to his own use 5. E. 4.7 Feoffments of use Brooke 34. When the use is to the Feoffee and his Heirs without any other intent there Cesti que use
hath the deed shall be compelled here to shew it for the defence of the others Title 9. E. 4.41 A. made a Deed of Feoffment to his own use to B. but gave no livery of seizin A. dyeth C. his heire bringeth a Subpoena against B. but by Morton Master of the Rolls C. was denyed help here because B. had nothing in the Land and if he abate there is remedy at the common Law against him 18. E. 4.13 Where certainty wanteth the common Law faileth but yet help is to be found in Chancery for it for if the Queen grant to me the goods of A. that is attainted of Felony and I know not the certainty of them yet shall I compell any man to whose possession any of them be come to make Inventory of them here 36. H. 6.26 Cur. It is most usuall in Chancery to demand evidence concerning the complainants Lands to which he maketh Title which are not in Châ—sts Baggs or Boxes and whereof he knoweth not the Date c. And in that Case the Defendant made Title to the Lands and justified the detaining of the evidences for maintenance of his right whereupon it was ordered that the complainant should bring an action for the Land at the common Law to which the Defendant should plead in chiefe and that he for whom the verdict should passe should also have his possession stalled here 28. Eliz. If a man have cause to demand land by action and knoweth not the Tenant of the land by reason of the making of secret Estates it hath been lately used to draw them in by oath to confesse the Tenant but it is now doubted A Tenant in common of a Manor for long time occupyed wholly by the other Tenant in common which knoweth not the quantity of the Mannor by reason the other hath also sold Lands intermingled had the sight of the Court Rolls and Writings of his companion concerning onely the quantity of the Mannor but not concerning the sold Lands nor his Title to the Mannor and the other was ordered also to shew the like on his part Capell and Mym 1599. The Chancery also giveth help for perfecting of things well meant and upon good consideration As if in a Feoffment of Lands for money the word Heires be omitted in the deed Audeley Chancellor 9. H. 8. said that he would supply it A man bought debts due upon Obligations and gave his own Obligation for the money to be paid for them and because he had not quod pro quo but onely things in action and the seller would not use action upon them for the benefit of the Vendee It was ordered here by the assent of the Judges thereto called that the Vendor should bring in the Obligation to be cancelled 37. H. 6.14 But if a man pay money upon an Obligation or a Statute that is single the Obligee or Counsee shall not be called hither to cancell it though the other had no acquittance upon the payment made 22. E. 4. b. les Justices and Doctor and Student 23. who said that a man shall have no ayde here to supply his folly As if he pay a debt upon a single Obligation or Statute without taking acquittance But Robert Stillington Episcopus Bathoum said that deus est proâ—urator futurus I thinke if money be paid upon a redemption of a morgage by Indenture without taking an acquittance the morgage shall bring in the Indenture to be cancelled here So if a man sell lands in two Counties for money and maketh livery in the one onely he shall be compelled in conscience to perfect the assurance by another livery Doctor and Student 37. for the contract faileth onely in a circumstance or ceremony A lease is made of a House and Woods wherein it is covenanted thâ—t the Leassee shall have Housboot and Fireboot By this it is implyed and meant that he shall not have any of the Woods to any other purpose but that they belong to the Lessor and it is usuall to help him in the Chancery to them leaving sufficient for these boots A Messuage was demised cum pertinentiis onely but for that sundry Lands had been occupyed therewith for the same rent and by the same words the Lord Chancellor Bromley by advice of the Judges ordered those Lands should now passe also yet in Law they do not passe as some Justices hold The Lord North demised a Mannor excepting the Court Baron and perquisites c. the exception was found void in Law and the Tenant Lady Dacres would not make suite to the Court kept by the Lord North But the Lord Keeper Puckering assisted with some Judges decreed her to make suite for that it was plainly so intended A man made a gift of his goods of intent to defraud his creditors and yet continued the possession of them and took sanctuary and dyed there now his Executors having the goods were charged towards the Creditors 16. E. 4.9 So if a Lessee for years demiseth parcell of the Terme to another and covenously forfeiteth his whole Lease for any condition broken and taketh the Land back in Lease againe his Lessee shall find help in Chancery Crompton 64.65 And Stillington the Chancellor 8. E. 4.4 was of opinion that pro laesione fidei or breach of promise a man was at liberty to sue either in the spirituall Court Canonicae Injuria or else in the Chancery for the damage accrewed by the breach A man had Lands of ancient deâ—neasne in extent for debt and they were recovered from him by the sufferance of the Vouchee whereby he was ousted in this Case he shall be holpen here Morton Chancellor per Assent Bryan and Hussey Justices 7. H. 7.11 If one that is bound with another for the debt of the other payeth it at the day for fear of Arrest now if he sue his counter-bond which he hath to save him harmelesse non est damnificatus is a good Plea at the common Law against it but yet the Chancery will give order for his repayment Mich. 31.32 Eliz. And whereas such a surety paid the debt and sued the principal upon his Obligation to save him harmlesse the principall brought a Subpoena and alleadging that he having delivered goods into the hands of the surety to save him harmlesse prayed an Injunction to stay his suite but because the surety made another title to the goods the Court would not stay the suit for him 16. E. 4.9 Where Deeds and Mynuments do concern as well the defence of the Tenant for life his Title who also possesseth the Deeds as the right of another in reversion or remainder it is usuall to have them brought into this Court for the avoyding all perils and the indifferent custody of them Dixies and Hillary 40. Eliz. A Lease is made for life the remainder for life the remainder over in Fee the first
made by the Feoffees of them for founding a Chauntry and this in the 20. of H. 6. and held no superstitious use nor by the Lord Chancellor if it had been absolutely given ad divina Celebranda and for saying of Obites for most part of the Churches of England are so founded if it be granted to a Priest contra if it be granted to a particular Priest ad divina Celebranda and saying Obites c. The Case was that those Lands were after given to found a Chappell of Ease by the Feoffees and then new come in upon the first grant would have had it a concealement and got a Pattent thereof and Commissioners upon the Statute 39. Eliz. took it from the Pattentee And note that the Commissioners make the decree the Lord Chancellor heareth the exceptions against the said decree and decreed the possession according to the Commissioners decree leaving the Pattentee to exhibite his Bill against the parishioners and to shew what cause he could for reversing thereof 18. Iunii 1. Iacob George Littleton of the Inner Temple lent money upon bonds taken in other mens names and had not any in his own name among the rest he purchased five markes per annum in two other mens names with this trust that he might injoy it during his life and after it should be to the erecting of a Schoole in the Towne where the said George was born and buryed as the Feoffees declared in their answer and in his life time after the purchase he repealed his intent of converting the same to the use of the Schoole to divers others but by his will he gave certaine Acres of Land to I. C. and I. H. and then devised all the rest of his lands to his Brothers Sonne who sues Ceux que trust for converting unto him the five marke land which Justice Warberton presently decreed for him saying his will was his Declaration But in his words there was but a meaning onely exprest me contradicente for if I. C. make a Feoffement to the Use over according to Articles annexed he cannot alter the same by a later will contra if it be to the use of his Will 19 Iunii 1. Iacobi Cutting Cleark of the Outlawries bought lands of Bedwell whereof he was seized as Tenant by curtesie promising the Heire should assure at full age and by morgage assured other lands for performance thereof Cutting before full age dyeth without issue his Heire not known for some claimeth as Hâ—ire on the Fathers side some as Heire on the Mothers side others as assignees by devise and another as Executor sued a Statute for performance of Covenants Bedwell being willing to assure brought all into the Chancery that he might incurre no prejudice till he should know to whom he should assure and ordered that he should assure to two of the six Clarks they to reassure to the Heire when he should be found 10. Octob. 1. Iacobi Nota that the Lord Chancellor Egerton in the Case of Pigot that if a power be reserved to make Leases by a Covenant without transmutation of possession the Chancery shall not help because the first is void in Law if upon transmutation of possession and the power be not precisely followed that doubtfull and rather most strong against help for then the Estate workes and the power gone and upon Wills no help causa patet antea fol. 1. and difference inter will and testament testament requires Executors will of lands 11. Octob. 1. Iacobi Young purchased lands in the name of one Mason to the use of him and his Heires dying without declaring any setled determination of this trust or confidence Dethicke a kinsman procures Mason to convey the lands to him and he conveyes it over to infants Mericke a nearer kinsman sues in Chancery as next Heire if the benefit of the trust appear to appertain to Mericke notwithstanding the conveyance to infants being decreed for them they shall hold by the decree during the minority And a proviso for the infants to assure at full age per Cook Attorney veniendo de Westm and there appearing no certain disposing thereof it was ordered that Mason should repay the money he had for making the conveyance to Dethicke and Merick to have the lands ordered for him 11. Octob. 1. Iacobi Those who are curious to have the defendants to amend their answers ordered first by the Lord Chancellor to put in sureties in Court for proof of the contents of their Bills according to the Statute 15. H. 6. or Iuramentum Calumniae were better perchance 13. Novemb. 1. Iacobi Commission to examine witnesses went out to Sir Aâ—exander Brett and others who made certificate against Sir Alexander of partiall proceedings Philipps Serjeant moved at the Rolls for a Commission to others to examine in whom the misdemeanor was in Sir Alexander or in the certifyers fuit negatum for such collaterall certificates are not required of the Commissioners but let them certifie the matters committed to their charge and if there be misdemeanor let the party wronged thereby make affidavit thereof and then take out his Attachment 13. Novemb. 1. Iacobi A release was offered to be deposed that it had been seene by some at the Barre it being affirmed that by casuall meanes it was lost but the Lord Chancellor said the oath should be that he saw it sealed and delivered and not that he saw it after it was a deed For in Munson the Justice his Case a Deed was brought into the Chancery and a Vidimus upon it being but a counterfeit copy and after the fraud discovered and the true Deed produced therefore none allowance to be given of a Deed without producing the Deed or proving the execution thereof and here appeareth what want we have of Notaries and their Deputies 16. Novemb. 1. Iacobi The Deane and Chapter of Bristoll made sundry Leases misreciting the name of their Corporation and an intricate Case of sundry such Leases made of one thing to divers men wherein the Lord Chancellor said that it was fit to help such Leases in Chancery being for reasonable time and upon good consideration contra of long Leases without consideration of fine or good rent and that Judges might have done well at the first to have expounded the Law so with averment that they were the same parties and so was the old law till now of late especially where the mistaking rose on their part who had the keeping of the evidences the which the Leases could not see but must take a Lease by the Colledge Clark in a writ where you may have a new no harme to abate it for a misnomer and yet in that case sometimes in old times an Averment of Comer per lieu nosme â— auter where they were sued by others and not named so by themselves 23. Novemb. 1. Iacobi Haule had a Dutchy Lease gotten upon untrue surmises and the King
to our understanding by the cause of errour and attaint in the same Statute what Jurisdiction it was that the Statute meant to restraine viz. such Jurisdiction as did assume to reverse and undoe the Judgement as error or attaint doth which the Chancery never doth but leaves the Judgement in peace and onely meddles with the corrupt conscience of the party for if the Chancery should assume to reverse the Judgement in the point adjudged it is void as appeareth 39. E. 3. f. 14. 5. We find no presidents of any proâ—ceeding to conviction or Judgement upon any indictment framed or grounded upon this Statute no more then upon the Statute of Praemunire and the â—ate Indictments are contra diversa Statuta not mentioning the particular Statutes 6. Lastly it was a great mischiefe to force the Subject in al cases to seek remedy in equity before he knew whither the Law will help him or no which oftentimes he cannot do till after judgement and therefore he is to seek his salve properly when he hath his hurt There be divers other things of weight which we have seene and considered of whereupon we have grounded our opinion but we goe no further upon that we have seene But because matters of presidents is greatly considerable in this case and that we have been attended by the Clerks of the Chancery with the presidents of that Court and have not been yet attended by any officer of the Kings Bench with any president of judgements if it shall please your Majesty faithfull report of them as we have done of the other all which c. Francis Bacon Hen. Mountague Randall Crew Hen. Yelverton Iohn Walter Now forasmuch as Mercy and Justice be the true supports of your Royall Throne and that it properly belongeth to us in our Princely office to take care and provide that our Subjects have equall and indifferent Justice ministred to them and that where their case deserveth to be relieved in course of equity by suit in our Court of Chancery they should not be abandoned and exposed to perish under the Rigor and extremity of our Lawes we in our Princely judgement having well weighed and with mature deliberation considered of the said severall reports of our learned Councell and of all the parts of them doe approve ratifie and confirme as well the practise of our court of Chancery expressed in the first Certificate as their opinions for the Law upon the Statutes mentioned in their latter Certificate the same having relation to the case sent them by our said Chancellor and doe will and command that our Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seale for the time being shall not hereafter desist unto our Subjects upon their severall complaints now or hereafter to be made such reliefe in equity notwithstanding any former proceedings at the common Law against them as shall stand with true merits and Justice of their cases and with the former ancient and continued practise and proceeding of our Chancery and for that it appertaineth to our Princely care and office onely to Judge over all our Iudges and to discerne and determine such differences as at any time may or shall arise between our severall courts touching the jurisdictions and the same to settle and decide as we in our Princely wisdome shall find to stand most with our Honor and the example of our Royall Progenitors in the best times and the generall weale and good of our people for which we are to answer unto God who hath placed us over them Our will and pleasure is that our whole proceedings herein by the decrees formerly set down be inrolled in our court of Chancery there to remaine of record for the better extinguishing of the like questions or differences that may arrise in future times Per ipsum Regem Fran. Bacon Hen. Yelverton Decimo octavo Iulii Anno 14. R. Regis c. FINIS Payment after the day upon bonds holpen Condition to undoe estates in Lands Giving day to one it shall help the other Payment without acquittance Lessees damages in waste moderated by the death of the Lessor The greater part of the debt paid and the rest offered relieved in Chancery Purchasor of parcell of land not snbject to the whole rent charge Suing in a wrong County Copyholders Not to examine any Judgement given at the common Law Dyer â—01 and 301. Atturnement Atturnement denyed but in some Cases Fineâ— Recoveries c. Mulier and Bastard Warranty Extentâ— Lawes Nudum pactum Wager of Law No seizin of a reâ—t seck Possessio so oris in Copâ—yhold Copyhold Possession of the Mother for the hâ—r Collaterall Copyhold devise Copyhold forfeited for cutting of Trees during minority Tenant right Fines for alienation of the Tenant but not of the Lord Payment of Creditors out of a Copyhold forfeited by Morgage Lease paroll Marriage poâ—tion recovered at common Law and reversed in the Exchequer holpen in Chancery Perpetuities Lease for 1000 yeares Statute lands bought with Money lent prâ—oâ—ity â—ans Covyn Bailement sans consideration countermanded Voide limitation de Lease in vol. Cook lib. 8.95 Ravishment de gâ—rd Survivor in Joynt Tenaâ—cy de Lease Feoffees to use Notice of the use If my Feoffee dye I have no remedy against his Heir The Feoffee shall doe Acts for the Feoffors good They may grant Offices but not annuities Fees to councell Money given to buy Lands The Feoffee shall retain the Land to his own use fur-attain der de felony Intent specified in a Feoffment to use Uses of gavell kinde at the common Law 26. H. 8. Dy. 6. Cesti que use de tearme de ans. Jurament delatum a parte AEquitas sequitur legem Things left to the conscience of the party Help in Chancery against Executors Surety The surety chargeable To help the surety No other reliefe for the surety then for the principall Purchasor Fraud upon fraud Feoffee punishable for making Estate at the wives request during the Coverture No reliefe against his own deed Release of joint Feoffee Subpoena gainst one appointed by will to sell To discharge himselfe of a bond is permitted in equity Forced to sue an Obligation Executor shall not release a bond without his Co-partner Executors shall not answer without his Copartners Copartners to joyne in Plea or presentment One deed by which two claime severally Where remedy at common Law no help here Goods of Felons granted which are difficult to prove Bringing evidence into Court Justifying detaining of evidences Tenants of the Land uncertaine Tenants in common to know the certainty Supply of true meanning in Feoffments To bring in an obligation to be cancelled Money paid upon Obligation single or single Statute not compelled here to cancell it Yet upon a morgage he shall be compelled to bring in the indenture to be cancelled here Lands sold in two counties and livery made onely in one Leassor to have the woods leaving sufficient booteâ— Messuage cum pertin. carries the land used with it Mannor demised
Possession sororis for the heire collaterall 5 Possession of the Mother for the Heire collater 6 Payment of creditors out of a Coppyhold 7 Perpetuities no help 8 Purchasor better then a surety in case of reliefe 13 Power to make Leases 21 Payment by the surety 19 Possession bound by decree 23 Plaintant mistaking his Title in his Bill 24 Proceeding where there is no proofe 25 Publication of witnesses in perpetuall memory a yeare past 33 Publication of witnesses to be used in a Court Baron 35 plaintant in execution at the suit of the King delivered by supersedeas 39 Plaint bringing 223 l. in Court execution to stay for the rest 47 Plaint distraineth after replication therefore an Injunction 48 Plaint in execution upon Statute delivered upon recognizance 50 Plaint to take execution for 100 l. of a Judgement of 300 l. 51 Plaint married before answer no Bill of revivor 52 Plaint sueth for tokens delivered as a suitor in marriage 54 Prosecuting contempts after a generall pardon payeth costs 56 Plaint to make one a party whom the defendant prayeth in ayde 57 Plaintant requires one to appeare in the Queens name costs 68 Prohibition for Tythes of Lands held in capite 79 Plaint enters upon the defendants possession an Injunction or dismissed 98 Prohibition for tythes parcell of the Dutchy of Cornewall consultation 98 Perjury for making oath one of the same name sued and discharged 99 Plaint to shew where he had his counterfeit Writs 107 R. RAvishment de guard a Subpoena 9 Release of Joint feoffee 14 Reliefe for a trust upon a Lease 76 Rent reserved and paid the heire ordered to pay it 92 Rent charge upon severall men Lands and levyed upon one an Injunction is granted 22 S. SUing in a wrong County ayde for the plaintant here 2 Statute Lands priority sans coven 8 Survivor in joynt Tenancy 9 Suerâ—y chargeable and not in some cases 12 Supply of true meaning in feoffments 16 Statute acknowledged in my name 22 Statute for charitable uses 28 Subpoena to appear before the Major of London 43 Sheriffe amerced for return non est inventus 44 Setting down depositions in a wrong sence 47 Subpoena delivered to the defendants wife 54 Subpoena hanged on a dore where the defend resorted 56 Suit to have the defend performe an award 57 Subpoena to testifie Attachment for not appearing 61 Soliciter served to testifie ordered not to be examined 62 Soliciter served to testifie is discharged 63 Suit to have an award decreed 64 Suit for common of pasture 64 Subpoena delived to the defendants servant 65 Suit retained after Judgement and execution 74 Subpoena delivered to the defendants wife 78 Suit for 10 s. rent per annum dismissed 80 Suit for a hawke and evidences dismissed 82 Suit stayed in the Kings Bench removed from London 83 Suit for common 83 Svbpoena served within two dayes of the Termes end 88 Soliciter ordered to be examined with caution 89 Subpoena left in the defendants Hall Attachment 91 Server of a Subp. imprisoned attach against defend 91 92 Subpoena shewed and offered attach for not appearing 94 Suit upon a promise to surrender a Lease dismissed 95 Subpoena to testifie where no suit is discharged 95 Subpoena cautiously served attachment against the plaint 96 Suit for Hay c. not worth 40 s. dismissed 103 Suit for poor under 40 s. per annum retained 103.107 T. TEnant right fines how paid 6 Things left to the conscience of the party 12 Tenant of the land uncertaine a Subpoena 16 Tenants in common to know the certainty 16 Turning of water courses 26 Two contend for a tenant the Tenant paying his rent in court 46 The server of a Subpoena payeth costs 64 Trustee to convey the Lands according to the trust 67 Two joyntenants the one dies the other to make estate 81 Two executors exhibit two Bills answer one the other dismissed 88 U. VOyd limitation del Lease in volunt 9 Uses of Gavelkind land 11 Vendee against one appointed to sell him Land 14 Variance in a Bill of revivor from the first Bill disallowed 55 W. WArranty Collaterall no remedy 5 Wager of Law no help 5 Where remedy at Law no help here 15 Waste holpen here and no remedy at Law 19 Waste forbidden here and not punishable at Law 26 Witnesses ad informandum conscientiam 27 Witnesse served to testifie pressed for a Souldier 41 Writ of priviledge granted to a Sutor 43 44 Witnesses examined before answer 48 Witnesses examined by fraud suppressed 56 Witnesses taken after publication ad informand conscien 58 Wife after the death of her husband sueth a Bill of revivor 70 Witnesses that answer insufficiently againe examined 81 Witnesses examined in perpetuall memory moved to use their testimony 88 Witnesses examined before the Towne Clarke of York suppressed 91 Witnesses examined 1. and 2. P. and Mary ordered to prefer a Bill for publication 94 Witnesse not able to travell discharged 99 Writ of priviledge disallowed 102 Reports in Chancery IF a man be bound in a penalty to pay money at a day and place by obligation and intending to pay the same is robbed by the way or hath intreated by word some further respite at the hands of the Obligee or commeth short of the place by any misfortune and so failing of the payment doth neverthelesse provide and tender the money in short time after in these and many such like cases the Chancery will compell the Obligee to take his principall with some reasonable consideration of his dammages quantum expediat for if this was not men would doe that by covenant whiâ—h they do now by bond The like favour is extendable against them that will take advantage upon any strict condition for undoing the estate of another in lands upon a small or trifling default So if two be joyntly and severally bound to pay money and the obligee will give longer day or other favour to the one and then will sue the other for the debt he which is sued shall sue in Chancery 9. E. 4.41 A man payeth debt upon a single obligation without taking acquittance therefore this will not discharge him at the common Law but he shall be relieved therein in Chancery quare 22. F. 4.6 By the parties oath but not by witnesse If a man fell Trees upon the Lands of a Lessee for life and the Lessee recovereth dammages amounting to the treble value that he ought to answer to his Leasor in waste and the Leasor dyeth before any recovery in waste now the Leassee shall not be suffered to take those damages himselfe being so discharged of them but shall be restrained in Chancery Doctor and Student 33.34 and 40. If the obligee have received the most part of the money payable upon the obligation at the peremptory time and place and will neverthelesse extend the whole forfeiture immediately refusing soone after the default to accept of the residue tendered unto him the obligor may find
may declare his will thereof and may vary at his pleasure but if it be to any intent certain as to take back an estate taile or with remainders to others then he cannot change it for the interest that is in others 5. E. 4.8 a. Whether the use of gavell kind Lands should ensue the nature of the land and so of Borrough English or shall be at the common Law because the customes doe extend to Lands and not to uses or rents as is said against Fitz Harbert Although Cesti que use of a terme for yeares be not within the Statute of uses rather therefore he shall have remedy in Chancery Crompton 64. Where the complainant will rest upon the oath of the Defendant and be contented to be judged there by their the oath of bewraying is hardly granted Conscience never resisteth the Law nor addeth to it but onely where the Law is directly in it selfe against the Law of God or the Law of reason for in other things Equitas sequitur legem Saint Germaine Fol. 85.155 Sometimes equity helpeth a man to that for the which there is no Law of man provided fol. 85. ibid. Sometimes equity followes the meaning of the parties in their contract 86. Ibid. where a common inconvenience will follow if the common Law be broken there the Chancery shall not help 155. For albeit the party cannot with a good conscience take the advantage of sundry things to which he comes yet the Court of conscience is not thereby bound to help the other but must leave some things to the conscience of the party himself It is reported 8. E. 4.6 and 22. E. 4.6 yeare Book That the Lord Chancellor and Judges were of opinion that a Subpoena lyeth not against the Heire of a Feoffee in trust but our time affordeth that help against Executors very commonly as between Ouslowe and Ouslowe Lord Norris and Lester Cutting and Huckford c. At the common Law if a man were surety for anothers debt he was chargeable if the debtor failed in payment but Magna Charta cap. 8. ordereth that the pledge shall not be distrained if the principall debtor be sufficient to pay this grew troublesome to the Creditor and therefore it fell in use that the pledge should bee bound as principall and so by the common Law he is chargeable notwithstanding the sufficiency of the principall neverthelesse it is now usuall in Chancery to help this suerty against whatsoever default of the principall if so be he will offer the principall debt and dammages but in my opinion he ought to finde here no other reliefe then the principall debtor should find because he is not onely a principall by his own Bond but also was the cause for which the money was lent seeing that without him the principall had not been credited And experience bewrayeth that this favour to sureties breedeth contempt of Bonds Nihil est autem saith Cicero quod vehementius remp. continet quam fides quae nulla esse poterit si non erit necessaria solutio rerum creditarum fraudandi vero spe sublata solvendi necessitas consequitur But the Case of the purchasor bona fide of land subject to a Statute or recognizance is better then of such a surety and so is the Case also of the Heire of the Recognizor or Obligor for though the land be charged in their hand with the debt yet equity ought to relieve them touching any penalty unlesse they be found in Mora c. If a debtor will Collude with some of his friends in fraud of his Creditors and the friend breake trust with him this Court will not punish the breach yet Greene and Cotterells Case to the contrary fraus non est fallere fallentem But two Doctors and I took order in such a Case between Woodford and Multon Mich. 42. and 43. Eliz. by our report that the goods so conveyed in fraud should be transferred to the benefit of the Creditors A. Man was enfeoffed to the use of a woman sole which taketh an Husband they both for money sell to B. The land which payeth it to the wife and she and her Husband do pray the Feoffee to make Estate to B. Afterwards her huâ—band dyeth now by the Chancellor and all the Justices she shall have aide against the first Feoffee by Subpoena to satisfie her for the land and if the second Feoffee were conusant a Subpoena shal be against him for the land for all that the wife did during the Coverture as they said shall be taken to be done for fear of the husband 7. E. 4.14 Subpoena Fitz-Harbert 6. If A. sell land to B. for 20 l. with confidence that it shall be to the use of A. yet A. shall have no remedy here because the bargain hath a consideration in it selfe Dyer 169 per Harpar and such a consideration in an Indenture of bargaine and sale seemeth not to be examinable except fraud be objected because it is an estopell Lands be morgarged to A. and B. where A. onely payeth the money and the intention was that B. should take nothing now B. shall be compelled to release to A. 27. Eliz. A. willeth that B. shall sell his Land to C. now C shall have a Subpoe against B. to compell him to sell the testators land unto him 15. H. 7.12 Pyers was bound in a Statute to Hawes and Ioan for the behoof of Ioan and Hawes released to Pyers whereupon she brought a Subpoena against them both but Pyers was discharged although he knew the confidence because it is permitted in such a case a man should help himselfe to be discharged of his bond and the Subp. stood against Hawes because he had deceived Ioane 11. E. 4.8 a. Tamen quaeâ— for it is no conscience to be a partaker in fraud therefore if my Feoffee in use had made a Feoffment unto one that knew of the use the Subpena did lye against them both 5. E. 4.7 And the Case precedent kiked not the reporter If an Obligation be made to B. to the use of C. now B. shall be compelled here to sue upon that Obligation 2. E. 4.2 If one Executor will release a debt without the consent of his copartner whereby the Will cannot be performed the releasor and the releasee shall be ordered therefore in Chancery 4. H. 7.4 By the Chancellor against the opinion of â—ineux If a Subpoena be brought against three Executors and one of them appeareth he shall not be compelled to answer till they be driven to appear also for they are but one 8. E. 4.5 By the Chancellor So if two Copartners or joynt Tenants-joyne in a Quare impedit and the one will plead covenously he shall be compelled here to joyn with the other in Plea or presentment And so if lands be severally given by one deed to two men he which
is ordered the plaintant shall between this and Friday next bring into this Court a certificate from the officers of the Queens house or otherwise whereby this Court may credibly understand that his attendance in Court is necessary and that he cannot conveniently be absent or if he cannot so doe then the matter is remitted to the determination of the Commissioners in the marches of Wales Phillip Mannering plaintant Henry Smallwood and Alice defendants Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 51. Mannering plaintant Smallwood and Alice defendants for want of a certificate that the plaintants attendance in Court is necessary the cause is dismissed into the marches of Wales Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 62. The plaintants husband was bound in a Statute of 160 l. to pay 160 l. and after by Indenture the defendant did grant unto the plaintants husband that if he failed in the payment of the said 160 l. the same should be levyed of certaine lands then the said plaintants husbands lands called Stirbeck and some other lands specially named lying in Hawthorne in the County of Lincolne the husband dyed and the defendant sued execution as well of other lands in the occupation of the plaintants late husband as of the said lands mentioned in the Indenture And Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England granted an injunction against the defendant immediately to remove from the possession of all the other lands except of those onely contained in the Indenture and that he should quietly suffer the plaintant to enjoy the same Margaret Pulvertost widdow plaintant and Gilbert Pulvertost defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 51. An Injunction was granted to the plaintant upon the surmises of his Bill with this clause si ita sit that the plaintant be in possession by good conveyance in Law as he alleadgeth Nota it was then usuall to grant Injunctions upon surmises with a proviso si ita sit Fodringham Christopherus plaintant Richard Chomeley defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 67. Forasmuch as the defendant is under age and by inspection not above the age of fifteen yeers therefore George Wyat is by this Court named and appointed Gardian to the defendant Hugh Langley plaintant and Philip Mark defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 73. A Commission is awarded to the Sheriffe of Nottingham and â—erby to put the plaintant in possession of certain lands for which he formerly had an Injunction against the defendants which they have disobeyed William Boles plaintant Richard Walley and Alice defendants Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 84. The defendant is enjoyned in open court upon paine of 200 l. not to proceed any further in an action upon the case by him commenced in the Kings Bench against the plaintant nor that he procure the Jury to be sworne in the issue but onely to record their appearance untill to morrow at which time further Order shall be taken by the Court George Riche plaintant Edmond Foard defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 88. Upon information the defendant disobeyed a writ of subpoena brought to be served against her and that they which should have served the said writ were beaten and wounded therefore an Attachment was granted against the defendant and a subpoena against Edmond Pirton returned immediate William Rove and Rose his wife plaintants Agnes west widdow defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 90. and 97. Where the said Edward Pyke hath of long time been aâ—d yet is in execution upon a Statute at the suite of the late King Edward the 6. Forasmuch as upon the examination of the matter befoâ—e the Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England in open Court it manifestly appeareth that there was not just cause why the said Pyke should remaine in execution as Gâ—lbert Gerrard and Rosewell Esquire the Queenes Majesties Attorney and Solliciter Generall being present did confesse and agree It is therefore now ordered that a Writ of supersedeas be directed to the Warden of the Fleet in whose custody the said Pyke now is commanding him by the same forthwith upon the receipt thereof to deliver out of prison the body of the said plaintant provided alwayes before his deliverance he be bound to her Majesty by Recognizance in 100 l. not onely to make his further appearance to answer her Highnesse any thing hereafter shall happen to be laid to his charge concerning the said execution but also to stand to and obey all such order and determination as the said Lord Keeper of the Great Seale and this court shall hereafter take in the matter in variance between him and the said Graunt Edward Pyke plaintant Robert Graunt defendant Anno 1. Eliz. fol. 166. Pakine the Husband onely appeared and put in a demurrer in both their names without oath of impotency or otherwise for non appearance of Ioan his wife whereupon an Attachment is awarded against the defendants Thomas Spicer and Katherine his wise plaintants Iohn Pakine and Ioanâ— his wife defendants An. 1. Eliz. fol. 170. Thomas Hodge plaintant William Smith defendant the defendant demurred by his Counsell not appearing in person therefore a Subpoena was awarded against him to make a direct answer An. 1. Eliz. fol. 230. Iohn Iackson Attorney for the defendant at the common Law is in open Court enjoyned that neither he nor any other by his means do further proceed in an action of tresp commenced against the plaint and depending at the coÌ„mon law nor call for Judgement untill further order shall be therein taken by the Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and high Court of Chancery Iohn Sedgewick and Alice plaintants Will Redman defendant An. 1. Eliz. fol. 212. The plaintant served the defendant with a Subpoena to appear in Chancery whereof he made oath and because the defendant did not appear and Injunction was awarded against the defendant his Councellors and Attorneyes upon paine of 200 l. not to proceed in Judgement in an action of debt of 40 l. in the common Pleas against the defendant An. 1. Eliz. fol 213. Thomas Knot plaintant Thomas Iackson defendant David Eyre was served with a Subpoena ad testificandum for the plaintant in a cause depending in this Court and Thomas Eyre made oath that the said David Eyre was at the serving of the said Subpoena upon him and yet is so sick that he is not able to travell hither to testifie therefore a Commission is granted to such Commissioners as the plaintant will nominate to examine him Iohn Wade plaintanr Gwye and Alice defendant An. 1. Eliz. fol. 240. An Attachment was awarded against the defendant for his not appearance upon oath he was served with a Subpoena who now appeared gratis and would have excused himselfe that he had no notice of the Subpoena but he that served the Subpoena deposed he did hang the same upon the defendants doore and within halfe an houre after saw him abroad with a writ in his hand which he supposed to be
the cause to be dismissed Iohn Fyfield plaintant Iohn Vinore and Alice defendants An. 2. Eliz. fol. 122. The plaintant at the day appointed for hearing appeared not therefore the defendant is dismissed with costs Richard Fincham plaintant William Backwood defendant An. 2. Eliz. f. 125. The defendant notwithstanding an Injunction delivered unto him got a Judgement upon an action of debt in the common Pleas and decreed upon the hearing of the cause that the defendant shall within 14. dayes next after the decree resort to the Record in the common Pleas whereupon the said judgement is entered and there to confesse of record a full satisfaction of the said Judgement Nota the action of debt in the common Pleas was for not delivering to the defendant a Statute which by the depositions of witnesses appeared to be delivered and by the Clarke of the Staples cerficate the record was discharged Nicholas Colverwell plaintant Ralph Bongey defendant Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 126. It is decreed the plaintant his heires and assignes and his or their Farmors of the said Farme or Tenement called Stubles shall from henceforth hold and enjoy as appendant to the same Farme or Tenement called Stubles all the same Fould course or common of pasture for the full number of 300 sheep within the said fields of Wentforth alias Wentford Basill Fielding and Alice plaintants Thomas Wren defendant Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 137. and 155. The plaintant exhibited his Bill thereby shewing that there is question and controversie between two defendants for the reversion of the Mannor of Aldwell which he holdeth for yeares by Lease made thereof to him by one Anthony Marmyon and that he doth not know to which of them the rent and reversion is due and therefore desireth that upon payment of his rent into this court according to the Covenants and articles of his lease he may be discharged saved harmelesse from molestation suite and trouble for the same rents by the defendants or either of them wherefore it is ordered an Injunction be awarded against the defendants not to molest the plaintant for his said rent during the said contention so as the plaintant pay his rent into this Court Iohn Alnete plaintant Christopher Bettam and Edmond Marmyon defendants Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 141. Upon hearing of the matter three witnesses examined by Commission did in open court depose that the commissioners have set downe their depositions otherwise then they did depose therefore it is ordered those depositions shall be void and the same witnesses shall be examined again Iohn Peacock plaintant Edward Collens defendant Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 146. For that the Court was credibly informed the plaintant was in peaceable possession at the time of the Bill exhibited and three yeares before an Injunction is awarded Iohn Sapcote plaintant William Newport defendant Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 173. The suite was concerning the custome of Tenant right for Lands in Dent in the County of Yorke and for that both parties confessed that Justice Dallison and Serjeant Rastall Justices of Assizes in that County had made an award in the cause between the parties therefore it was decreed that both parties should performe it and an Injunction is granted to either party against the other for that purpose and where an Injunction was the last Terme granted against the defendant for stay of execution upon a Judgement in the common Pleas it is ordered the said Injunction shall stand in force and the defendant shall obey the same and the defendant shall answer the plaintants Bill William Burtet and Alice plaintants William Redman defendant An. 2. Eliz. fol. 174. It is ordereâ— the Injunction formerly granted the defendant for stay of his action in the Kings Bench be dissolved and the defendant to be at liberty to take Judgement upon his action of bebt of 500 l. Provided if the plaintant doe bring into court on Munday next 223 l. then execution for the rest is to be suspended untill this Court take other order Thomas Stanebridge plaintant Thomas Hales defendant An. 2. Eliz. fol. 176. The plaintant exhibited his bill in this Court and before the defendant answered had a Commission to examine his witnesses upon pretence the witnesses were old and in danger to dye Sir Radnus Bagnold Miles plaintant Greene defendant An. 2. Eliz. fol. 178. The defendant first exhibited her Bill in this Court for land conveyed to her in joynture and evidences of the same land and after did molest the same plaintant by distresses after answer and replication put into this Court therefore an Injunction is granted Richard Kidnere plaintant Agnes Harrison defendant An. 2. Eliz. fol. 173. The plaintant setteth forth that his Father and he are joyntly seized for life of the Lordship of Barrington in the County Palatine of Durham and that the defendant sues his Father for those lands before the Chancellor of Durham and for that it was informed that the plaintant dwelleth in Ratcliffe in the County of Middlesex and that the plaintants Father is an old diseased man and not able to follow his suite therefore a Certiorare is granted directed to the Chancellor of Durham to certifie into this Court the whole matter depending before him William Hilton and Alice plaintants Râ—â—â—rt Lawson and William Lawson defendants Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 200 l. The plaintant being sonne and heire to his Father who dyed intestate entred into the house whereof his Father dyed seized in Fee and possessed himselfe of certain small parcels of goods to the value of 5 s. of his Fathers goods who dyed intestate and the defendant having an Obligation of 400 l. made by the Father unto him for performing the covenants of an Indenture sued the son as Executor to his Father who dyed intestate and upon the testimony of some witnesses that the plaintant had sold or given away the said small parcels of goods a verdict passed for the defendant for the whole 400 l. which appeared by Certificate of the Justices of Assizes and thereupon an Injunction was granted to stay Judgement and all other actions to be commenced by the defendant against the plaintant upon the same Obligation untill the matter be heard or otherwise determined by the Court Edward North plaintant George Keâ—ewich defendant Anno 2. Eliz. fol. 237. It is ordered if the defendant shew not cause on Friday next then the Injunction before granted for the defendant against the plaintant to stay his Execution in the Kings Bench shall be dissolved or else the money for which the plaintant lyeth in Execution at the defendants suite shall remaine in his hands in part of payment of such money as is due unto him by the defendant and afterwards upon Fryday because the Lord Keeper did not sit in Court to hear such cause aâ— was offered further day was given and afterwards the plaintant was left at liberty to call for Execution upon the Judgement because
defendant was served with a Subpoena at his suit got an attachment against the defendant whereupon he was apprehended and returned languidus It is ordered that the attachment be discharged by supersedeas the defendant paying 20 s. 6 d. to the Warden of the Fleet and the ordinary charges to the plaintant Brearton plaintant Ap Roberts defendant Anno 22. Eliz. It is informed that Coleston one of the defendants examined his own wife as a witnesse It is thereofore ordered the plaintant may take a Subpoena against her on his behalfe and if Colston will not suffer her to be examined on the plaintants party then her examination on the said Colstons party is suppressed Bent plaintant Allot and Colston defendants Anno 22. Eliz. Upon the hearing of the cause it appeared that the suit was to be releived of a promise made by the defendant to the plaintant to surrender a lease upon payment of 100 Markes by the plaintant unto him and for that the matter is meet for the common Law therefore dismissed Grevill plaintant Bowker defendant Anno 22. Eliz. The Court was informed by one Palmer that the three defendants are his servants and were served with Subpoena to be examined before the Town Clark of London who refused to be there examined because the matter is not depending in London but in her Majesties Bench and yet Attachment is gotten against them which kind of examination of witnesses this Court taketh to be unorderly and therefore ordered the Attachment be discharged Price plaintant Tench Holland and Packhouse defendants An. 22. Eliz. The Earle of Huntingdon Presedent of the North signified by his Letters to the Lord Chancellor that the lands for which the Bill is exhibited were ordered for the defendant by the Counsell of the North parts where the parties dwell and land lyeth and the now plaintant upon serving his Subpoena was ordered by the councell there to surcease his suit in this Court and stand to the order of the said counsell and yet the plaintant hath procured an Attachment against the defendant therefore ordered the Attachment be discharged and the matter dismissed Harrison plaintant Harrison defendant An. 22. Eliz. The defendant demurred because he is the Lord Treasurers man and therefore ought to be priviledged in her Majesties court of Exchequer which cause of demurrer the Court allowed not for that the defend can have no priviledge unlesse it were in such a case as the plaint might have remedy in the Court of Exchequer Lewin plaintant Fawdesley defendant An. 22. Eliz. The defendant made oath the plaintant shewed him a Subpoena holding it in his own hand and said it was against him but would not let him have it or see it so that he might read it neither would he deliver him any note of his appearance nor tell him the same but took witnesse that he had served the Subpoena and about an hour after came again to the defendant saying you were desirous to see the Subpoena here it is and thereupon shewed the labell to the defendant but in such sort as he could not see the returne whereupon the defendant appearing found no Bill therefore Attachment against the plaintant for misdemeanor Mead plaintant Crosse defend An. 22. Eliz. The plaint is Grandfather on the Mothers side to whom the Lands cannot come by the death of the infant exhibiteth a Bill against the Grandfather on the part of the fathers side to have the education and bringing up of one Richard Edge an infant who is seized of an Estate Taile of Lands the remainder to the defendant and to have the disposing of the profits of the Lands But ordered with the defendant for that it appeared there were divers remainders between the defendants and the infants estate Sweetman plaintant Edge defendant An 20. Eliz. Francis plaintant Sacheverill defendant The defendant is adjudged to pay to Iohn Hide 20 s. costs he appearing upon a Subpoena to testifie on his behalfe An. 22. Eliz. The plaintant purchased Lands of the defend An. 2. Eliz And had a Recognizance then acknowledged unto him for performing Covenants of the bargaine and sale and put one in trust to get both the indenture and â—ecognizance inrolled and paid him for the same and now being evicted out of the possession of the lands came to take out a scir. fac upon the Recognizance but finds it not inrolled and therefore desireth the same might now be inrolled It is ordered that a Subpoena be awarded against the defendant to shew cause why it should not and M. Solliciter who is present at the motion is to give notice to some of his Clients who have purchased as he alleadged parcell of the lands to shew cause why it shall not be inrolled Siddenham plaintant Harrison defendant An. 22. Eli. The defendants informe that the Bill is exhibited for certaine Lands parcell of the Dutchy of Lancaster and therefore ordered that for so much it shall be dismissed Price plaintant Lloyd Owen and Read defendants Anno 22. Eliz. The matter upon hearing appeared to be for a promise wherewith the defendant chargeth the plaintant and 12 d. in money accepted upon the said promise whereupon some trials or non suits have passed it is orded that for the ending of the said matter of promise that the matter be referred to the Common Law to be tryed Sutton plaintant Erington defendant An. 22. Eliz. The defendant informed he was called upon by Subpoena dated the 8. of February and by answer saith the said Iane Piers was married the 8. of February and so at that time purchasing the Writ a woman Covert therefore the defendant is dismissed with 13 s. 4 d. costs Iane Peirs plaintant Iohn Cawse defendant Anno 22. Eliz. The defendant was in possession at the time of the Bill exhibited the plaintant entered upon him the defendant desired that either he might have an Injunction for his possession or else that the cause might be dismissed which the Court thought reasonable it is ordered the plaintant shall shew cause why it should not be granted Hill plaintant Portman defendant Anno 22. Eliz. The plaintant Thomas Hilliar exhibited his Bill against the said William Kendall that the said Thomas Hilliar was seized in Fee of two Messuages 70. Acres of Pasture Furzes and Heath in Lanlivery parcell of the Queenes Majesties Dutchy of Cornewall and thereupon a prohibition against the said Will Kendall libelling in the Spirituall Court for Tithes as Farmer to the said Batten Vicar there pretending that right of Tythes for lands holden of her Majesty as of her Dutchy of Cornewall ought to be determined in this Court and also that the said Iohn Hilliar had exhibited the like Bill and procured a prohibition out of this Court against the said Batten It is ordered a Subpoena be awarded against the plaintant to shew cause why a consultation should not be granted Hilliar and Hilliar