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A64853 Considerations for regulating the excheqver in the more timely answering, better husbanding and more orderly and safe conduct of the revenues of the crown into His Majesties coffers, as hath been heretofore used by sheriffes : and for freeing the subject from all unjust vexations concerning the same : with the causes and remedies of the inconveniences which have been occasioned by the breach of the lawes and ancient course of the exchequer : as also for the better enabling and easing of sheriffes in the execution of their offices and passing their accompts / per C. Vernon ... Vernon, C. (Christopher) 1642 (1642) Wing V244; ESTC R5970 47,165 128

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the most part left to bee written for who if they had but a Cow or any poore Utensills were driven from time to time to make their peace with the Sheriffes Bailiffe in the Countrey with some of their poore estate which the said Bailiffes tooke as it were nomine districtionis to their own use without answering any part thereof to the King to the greater impoverishing and sometimes undoing of the said poorer sort of the Kings subjects In consideration whereof and for the better preventing of the like abuses for time to come it was in the time of the late King James thought fit by the Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer All mens care no mans care that there should bee for ever an Officer in the Exchequer called the Surveyor of the Green-wax formerly mentioned who should take speciall care to see the said Revenue better managed and from time to time to attend the Court and acquaint the Barons therewith as the case should require And this was upon the matter agreeable with an ancient Statute made in Anno 27. E. 1. Stat. anno 27. E. 1. By which it was provided that at one time certaine every yeare one Baron and one Clerke of the Exchequer should goe through every Shire of England to examine and view the Acquittances of Sheriffes and their Bailiffes touching Green-wax and to inroll them and also to heare and determine complaints made against Sheriffes and their Clerks and Bailiffs that had been done concerning the premises and the offenders to bee grie vously punished It being conceived that the discontinuance of that good ordinance had occasioned the many abuses and grievances aforesaid In the last place the remedy for preventing the like abuses and misdemeanors in generall both towards the King and his Subjects for time to come is That speciall care bee taken to see that the ancient course of the Exchequer and the Lawes of the Kingdome formerly mentioned for the better and more timely and husbandly answering and the more due and legall charging and discharging of the Kings Revenues bee strictly observed and kept and to see that due punishment be inflicted upon the violators there of accordingly As also to see that all those fore-going causes which hinder the Kings service therein and the quiet of his Maties subjects be removed And especially that the Sheriffe in his yeare according to his Proces sent unto him out of the Exchequer in the Lent Vacation and Summer Vacation without any respect of persons doe his uttermost to levie all such debts and summes of money as shall be so written to him as a foresaid And yet where I say without respect of persons I desire to bee rightly understood that the persons of all the English Nobility and their Dowagers Barons and Baronnesses are exempted from all arrests for the Kings debts as by the Prerogative Writ before mentioned may appeare And so are the persons of all and every the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament so long as the Parliament continues Neverthelesse in my best understanding and observation I doe not finde but the Rents and Debts due to the King have in time of Parliament been levied by Sheriffes upon the issues and profits of their lands and goods Moreover forasmuch as the Kings Majesty his Heires and Successors may be much hindred by the negligence and connivence of the Officers of the Exchequer by reason of a late Statute made in the one twentieth year of the reigne of the late King James whereby it is provided that all and every Sheriffe and Sheriffes within the Realme of England and Dominion of Wales their Heires Executors and Administrators and their Lands Goods and Chattels shall bee absolutely discharged of all and all manner summe and summes of money which hee or they shall leavie or receive unlesse such Sheriffe or Sheriffes shall bee called in question for such summe or summes of money pretended to bee leavied and received by them or any of them and not accompted for within foure yeares next after they have finished or shall finish their accompts and had their Quietus est That for preventing thereof some Act may bee passed in Parliament that where any Sheriffe or Sheriffes which since the making of the said Act or at any time hereafter have or shall procure and obtaine any such Quietus est by meanes whereof they or any of them are or hereafter shall bee by force of the said Act discharged or acquitted against the King his Heires or Successors of or for any summe or summes of money by them leavied and not answered upon their said accompts or of or for any untrue or double allowance upon their said accompts that in all such cases the Officer or Officers who have or shall make any such Quietus est and have not nor shall not within the time by the said Statute limited by some proces or other proceedings in the Exchequer called or call the same in question against the said Sheriffes their Heires Executors or their Lands Goods or Chattels for preventing the losse and prejudice which otherwise may happen to the Crowne thereby and every Officer by whose default any such summe or summes of money by force of the said Statute shall bee lost to the King his Heires or Successors being thereof lawfully convicted shall pay and forfeit to the use of his Majesty his Heires and Successors all such summe and summes of money as the said King his Heires or Successors shall or may lose thereby to be recovered against the said officers their Heires Executors Administrators their Lands Goods and Chattels in such manner and sort as the same might have been recovered by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme against the said Sheriffes if the said Act had not beene made And that in all such cases where by the Lawes of this Kingdome and the course of the Exchequer any Officer or Officers of the said Court are to deliver any Accompt or Accompts into any Office or Offices of the said Court by and at some certaine time so as proces may bee made upon such Supers and Debts as are or shall bee depending in the same accompts upon any person or persons So as for default of their delivering in of any the said accompts in due time any the said Supers or Debts shall be afterwards required and recovered against the purchasers of the Lands of any such Debtor or Debtors by whom the said Supers or Debts were so due or against their Sureties which might have been recovered against the said Debtors themselves if the same accompts had been delivered in due time that such Officer or Officers so making default in delivering of the said accompts in due time shall and may for their neglect therein being thereof lawfully convicted be subject to discharge the purchasers of the said Debtors lands and their suerties against the King his Heires and Successors and to satisfie and pay what the said principall Debtors