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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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should have satisfied and paid in case the said Accompts had beene delivered in due time And for that it is found by experience that the Vnder-Sheriffe that takes upon him the execution of the whole Office both in attending at the Assizes Sessions and upon other Courts of Iustice returning of Iuries and other service of the Country betweene party and party cannot in any such due time as he ought looke into and attend the levying of the Kings Rents and other the Debts and Duties sent forth in proces to Sheriffes by severall Writs of Distringas Fieri facias Capias and Extent out of the two Remembrancers Offices and by the Summons of the Pipe and Greenwax some such like Act may bee passed in Parliament for the better expediting of the Kings service that it may be lawfull to and for such person or persons of ability and sufficiency as shall be hereafter appointed by the Sheriffe of every County for whom he will answer to be his Deputy or Clerke for the leavying of the Kings Rents and other his Debts and Duties as shall be so sent out by the said Summons and for executing all such Writs out of both the Offices of the said Remembrancers as aforesaid and for no other businesse may continue in the said Office yeare after yeare so long as hee shall be approved of and allowed by the said Sheriffes as aforesaid without incurring any of the penalties and forfeitures provided by the Lawes against such Vnder-Sheriff or Sheriffes Clerk as shall remaine in his Office above one yeare Stat. anno 23. H. 6. And that notwithstanding any former Act Statute or Ordinance to the contrary heretofore made Neverthelesse that such Vnder-Sheriff Deputy-Sheriffe or Sheriffs Clerk shall not thereby be exempted from taking any such oaths nor from any other penalties which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme are to be taken or undergone by them Stat anno 27. Eliz. 12. And in regard all the Sheriffes of this Kingdome doe finde themselves much grieved and damnified by reason of the foresaid Statute made in the seven and twentieth year of the reigne of K. Ed. 1. by force whereof they are to answer for al such issues by them returned against any person or persons their mainpernors or pledges which shall be Nichelled or prove to be illeviable especially in the case of Writs of Distring sent out of the Excheq for the homages other services of the Kings Tenants that some consideration may be taken of the said ancient Statute in case of the said Sheriffs so farre forth as may stand with Justice and the preservation of his Majesties said Rights and Services And that in further ease of Sheriffs there may be a review of the decree lately procured by the parcell makers for Sheriffs and Lords of Liberties to accompt before them for Felons Goods and other Escheats c. the same being found very grievous and burthensome to the said Sheriftes and other his Majesties Subjects without any profit to the King And in regard diverse ancient Farmes and Rents now in charge in the Pipe and before his Majesties Auditors for the revenue and in the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster which by reason of sundry alienations of the lands and hereditaments out of which the same are issuing and for divers other causes are now at this day very hard and difficult to be levied by reason whereof many of them are like to bee utterly lost unlesse they may by some good and lawfull wayes and meanes be revived and more of them like to be lost hereafter That for remedy herein a perfect survey may bee made of all his Majesties Honors Manors Lands Tenements Rents and Heredaitments in every Shire Hundred and what particular Rents and services either by way of Fee Farme or otherwise in perpetuity or for terme of life or years are answered for the same And that inquisition be made for and concerning all the dispersed Rents which are within the collection of the Bayliffes or Collectors thereof and of all other Rents within the collection of Sheriffes or Receivors generall and of what lands or other hereditaments the same are particularly issuing and where the said lands and hereditaments doe lye and in whose possession they now are and when and how to be paid And that all good and lawfull wayes and meanes may be used as well by the view of ancient Records Inquisitions where any such are to be found as otherwise for reviving of all decayed Rents belonging to the Crowne And after the making of such surveies that some fit course may be devised for the better securing of all the said petty and dispersed Rents in the charge of the said Bailiffes and Collectors of the same from further decay and for easing the King from the great charge and hazard he now undergoes in the collecting thereof Jtem that the state of the Kings Castles and Houses may be surveyed all decaied Castles and Houses not useful for further service if it shall be so thought fit converted to the best profit and the Fees for the keeping thereof discharged And whether the like survey may not be made of all the Forrests Parkes Chaces and Warrens not as yet dissaforested or disparked except such as his Majesty shall reserve for his royall disport and the waste number of them to be converted to the best profit by the yeare and to be letten as other lands are and with like condition saving to every man a recompence for such interest as he hath And that the Farmes of the Vlnages and Gaugers be surveied that it may be knowne what Rent is fit to be set upon them when the terme expireth Many other parcells there are of the ancient Revenues being flowers of the Crowne as the Goods and Chattels of Felones Fugitives and Outlawed persons the petty Fines and Amerciaments anciently set and affeered in the higher Courts upon the Plantiffes and Defendants pro falso clamore quia non est prosecut c. and the like whereof little or no profit hath of late beene made to the Crowne according to the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome by reason whereof divers persons finding they may doe it with such impunity have beene incouraged to violate the Lawes and to set on foot and maintaine sundry unjust and vexatious suits c. For remedy whereof this may also be taken into consideration and some life given to those Lawes in a moderate way so farre forth as may stand with his Majesties ancient Rights the Justice of the Kingdome and the discouragement of such offendors for time to come And whereas there remains at this day a great bulke of Arrerages and Debts as well in the Exchequer as in the Court of Wards and Liveries and in the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster a great part whereof is conceived to be good as having beene suffered to sleep through the connivence or negligence of some of the Kings Officers other part