the Law of God which recompenseth these bondmen with freedom whom the Master hath by some blowes maymed o Exo. 21. ver 26. 27. which lawe Constant the Emperor did put in practise p l. 1. de EmeÌ„d seruor C. but all the lands goods purchased possessed by the villaine the law frankly giueth to the Lord if he wil seise claime theÌ„ q Litt ' lib. 2. c. 11. sect ' 8. 10. wretched I coÌ„fesse is the estate of such men but yet paciently to be tollerated because quaÌ„ potestateÌ„ alijs deferre voluimus ferre debemus and they whose auncestors or theÌ„selues haue acknowledged theÌ„selues to be villains must now duetifully beare the yoake though Cui plus licet quà m parest plus vult quà m licet r Gellius lib. 17. c. 14. and let the Lords of such villaines harken to that which is spoken of an heathen man diuinely Boni moderatoris est restringere potestatem Å¿ Ammian lib. 29. but to leaue these particulers to proceed more generally as one man may hold lands of another by euery of these 4 The tenure wherby a man holdeth of an honor or Manor is discribed and by examples illustrated abouesaid seruices as of his person so likewise he may hold of him as of his Honor or Manor for if a man hold of the king as of any Honor which is come to his highnes by disceÌ„t from any of his auÌ„cestours he shall not holde in Capite for by the words in the first Chapter of Prerogatiua regis it is euident that if it shal be said a tenure in Capite it must be holden of the Crowne of a long time the words be ab antiquo de Corona and that cannot be when it is but newly comen to the Crowne and the statute of Magna Charta cap. 31. did as Master Stamford saith helpe this matter by expresse words if such an Honor came to the Crowne by way of escheate but not if it came by way of discent or any other way and that statute doth set 5 Certain honors which be not of the auncientnes of the Crowne forth certaine honours by name which be not of the auncientnes of the Crowne that is to say the honor of Wallingford NotinghaÌ„ Bullingbrook and Lancaster therefore he that holdeth of the King as of these Honors holdeth not of the king in chiefe t Stamfords Praerog c. 7. but other honors there be which of so long time haue been annexed to the Crowne that to hold of theÌ„ is to hold in chiefe for wheras one held of the king as of a certaine honor to 6 Some honors which are annexed to the Câ—owne yeeld a certaine rent to the keeping of the Castell of Douer this hath beene taken to be a tenure in chiefe and so it hath been thought if one held of his highnes as of the Honour of the Abbe of Marle u Fitz. nat bre 256. and Anno vndecimo of king Henry the seuenth the honor of Ralegh was annexed to the Crowne therefore if any man hold as of that honor it is a tenure in capite x 34. H. 8. â—r Cas 230. and therefore there is a good rule in the Register of Writtes that a man shall not make a fine for alienation of lands helde of the King as of his honor but for lande helde in Capite onely for there be certaine honors which be held in Capite there is a certain writ that the Eschetor shal not greeue any maÌ„ for alienation of land held as of an Honor for that is as of an honor and not as of the kings person no Fine shall be paied for the alienation of such lande a Regist ' 184. Br. Alienac ' 33. And whereas it was found by Office that lande was helde of the Queene as of her principalitie of Wales by the seruice of goinge with the Prince in Warre at the charge of the Prince per CuriaÌ„ b 18. Eliz. Dy. per Curiam This is no Tenure in capite and Master Finchden putteth this diuersity that where an Honour is seised into the Kings handes if a Manor held of the Honor do escheat to the king by a common Escheate if the King alien the Manor to holde of him the tenant shall hold by the same seruices as hee helde by before of the Honour for the Honour seemeth to bee vice domini in this case and as a meane Lord but if it come to the King by forfaiture of warre or by some other treasoÌ„ or by some other cause which toucheth the Kings person and the King seiseth and enfeoffeth an other the feoffee shall holde of the King as of his Crowne c 47. E. 3. 21. per Finchden and though the Statute of Magna Charta Cap. 31. before recited doe say Si quis tenuerit de nobis de aliqua escaeta vt de honore Wallingforde Bolen c. non faciet aliud seruitium quam fecit praeante yet this is to be intended of a common Escheate and not otherwise d 19. H. 8. 〈◊〉 Ca. 114. So a man may holde of the King as of his Manour and yet not holde in Capite for it was found by office that one helde land of the King as of his Manor of Plimpton and other landes as of his Manour of Darington which came to the king by the attainder of treason of the Marquesse of Exetor this hath beene thought to be no Tenure in capite for tenures in chiefe did begin in auncient time vpon the graunts of Kings to defende them against rebelles and enemies and at this day the Queene may create a tenure in Capite if shee giue lande to holde of her person otherwise it is if it be giuen to hold of an Honor Manour c. for a Tenure in chiefe must be immediatly of the King and is created by the King onely for a tenure created by a subiect cannot be a tenure in chiefe nor haue any prerogatiue annexed vnto it and if the tenants of an Honour should holde of the King in Capite the Honour when it came to the King should bee destroyed which may not be and there is no reason that the tenant in whom there is no default should be preiudiced in his tenancie by the offence of the Lorde e 30. H. 8. 44. Dyer and if the Q. purchase a Manour of which I. S. holdeth by knights seruice the tenant shall holde as he helde before and he needeth not to tender his liuerie nor primer seisin for he doth not hold in Capite but as of a Manour and if his heire be in ward by reason thereof he may haue an Ouster le maine at his ful age and if the Queene graunt the Manour afterward to W. N. in fee excepting the seruices of I. S. now I. S. holdeth of the Queene as of her highnesse person yet hee shall not holde in Capite but by such seruices as he
a lease of a house so that the lessee may make his profit of the houses within it the lessee cannot in this case take downe or demolishe the houses nor make wast in them for the intent was not so a 17. E. 3. 17. but if the King graunt to me visum franciplegij in omnibus terris meis feadis I cannot haue this in any landes and tenements which I shall afterwards purchase b 38. H. 6. 10. But 4 Howe the â— Queens grants and licences shal be construed and interpreted if the king graunt to a man that he and his heires shal be quit of taxe for their landes which they haue this is a good graunt though there be no taxe due at the time of the graunt c Ibid And so is the Law of Tenths and fifteenes d 19. H. 6. 62. 21. H. 6. 43. 21. E. 4. 45. and he to whom the King graunteth a licence may not vary from the proper sense the significancy of the words e 18. E. 2. Fines 124. And if the king before the dissolution of Monasteries had licenced an Abbot and his Couent to make a feoffement if the Abbot onely had made it the feoffement had beene voide f 21. H. 7. 8. And 3. Ed. 3. the King licenced one to leuie a fine of the mannour of Dale to the intent to maintayne two Chaplaines and hee woulde haue leuied the fine omitting the Chapleines but was not suffered g 3. E. 3. 5. and 30. Edward 3. the licence was to leuie a Fine of the Mannour of Dale and hee woulde haue leuied the Fine with a foreprise or exception of certaine acres parcell of the Mannour rendering rent but was not admitted to it because it coulde not stande with the licence which was that all the Manour should bee charged with the rent h 30. E. 3. 17. So if the Queene licence one to make a Feoffement by deede he cannot make it without deede i 21. H. 7. 8. per Frowike and this Lawe holdeth likewise in a common persons case for if hee that hath a warrant of Attourney to deliuer seisin absolutely doe deliuer-seisin vpon condition this is a disseisin to the feoffour k 12. Ass pâ— 24 And a graunt is not to bee fauoured contrarie to the euident perspicuous sense of the words 5 That a graunt is not to be fauoured contrary to the manifest sense of the words For if a man graunt to an other a loade of wood to take in his soyle euery yeare and the grauntee surceaseth the two first yeares and the third yeare hee taketh three loade hee is a wronge doer for two of them so if a man graunt to an other a common for three beastes yearely and hee taketh nothing the two first yeares he shal not haue common for three beastes the third yeare l 27. H. 6. 10. The aduowson of the Hospitall of Saint Katherins is appendant to the Mannour of B. the Hospitall being voide the Queene graunteth manerium ac omnes aduocationes cum pertinentijs the present presentment doth not passe m 13. Eliz 300. Dyer for it is fructus aduocationis and not the aduowson it selfe n 11. Elizab. 283. Dyer Codicgn The words of a graunt are to bee taken most strictly against the grauntor because nn Phil. Deci. in Comm. ad Regul iur he might haue expressed his meaning in more full large and manifest words Nomom Nowe resolue me whether a graunt 4. Diuision that is not good at the first may be made good by matter ex post facto Anglonomoph In no sorte for if there bee 1 That by the common law a graunt that is not good at the first may not be made good by matter ex post facto neither by the Câ—uil Law Lorde and three iointenauntes and the Lorde graunteth the seruices of one of them to a straunger this is a voyde graunt thoughe the same tenant doe attourne and suruiue his compaignions For no attournement can make an euill graunt to bee good o 5. E. 3. 34. and if a man lease lande to the husbande and wife duringe their liues and after graunteth the reuersion of the lande which the husbande holdeth for terme of life and then attournement is had the graunte is voide and the attournement also p 13. E. 3. Bro Iointen 63. And if a man be bound to a FemÌ„ sole and a straunger releaseth to the obligour and after maryeth the feme yet the release is not good q 15. E. 3. FeoffemÌ„t 63. So it is if in auncient time a Monke Fryer or Cannon professed which was no Soueraigne of an house had graunted to one an annuitie this was a void graunt though he had bin after dereigned or made Soueraigne of the same house or some other r 2. R. 3. 5. Codign As that which is lawfully done cannot be made void to all intents so that which is altogether void at the beginning cannot be strengthned by continuance of time rr Phili. Decr. Comment ad reg iur Nomom Let me aske you this question Anglonomoph 5. Diuision 1 Whether a tenant at wil may graunt ouer his estate whether may a tenant at will graunt ouer his estate or no especially if he in the reuersion doe after agree to it Anglonomoph I thinke not for it is not properly an estate because it wanteth certaintie Å¿ 27. H. 6. 3. but if my 2 That the estate of the tenant at will is in maner no estate tenant at will be outed by a straunger hee may reenter without my commandement for the entre of a stranger doth not determine my will t 11. E. 4. 3. and an other reason why he cannot grant his estate is because his estate dependeth as well vpon his owne will as the will of the lessor and if he lease ouer the land his will as to that intent is determined and by consequent his estate u 22. E. 4. 5. per Brian and his estate is such a non-estate in the eye of Law that he cannot haue ayd of his lessor w 12. E. 4. 5. and if the heire accept a rent reserued vpon a lease at will made by his father this cannot make the lease good because it was void before no more then his acceptance of a rent reserued vpon a lease for yeres which is determined by reentre can make that lease good x 14. H. 8. 11. Codicgn The estate of such a tenant is none at all in our law vnlesse he should set downe his will in certaine who demiseth y l. qui se patris C. vnde liberi Canonologus So it is likewise in our Law z C. de summa tri side cathol l. 1. Nomom I will not insiste any more vpon this matter but wil passe to the consideration of bargaines and sales The third Dialogue of Bargaines and Sales NOmomat I will
with a kisse greeted such as made the like protestation of obedience and loyaltie vnto him e Plutarth in Alexand. and long before that as it seemeth it was vsed in Iudaea for vpoÌ„ these words of the Psalme ee Psalm 2. r. 12. kisse the sonne our english glosse addeth by way of interpretation in signe of homage and Tremellius and Iunius in signe of fealty sithence these times this respectiue humiliation hath spred it selfe into other countries and territories for the Duke of Gelderland did conceiue an oath in these words to Charles King of Fraunce Ego deuenio vassallus ligeus Caroli regis Francorum pro ratione quinquaginta millium scutorum auri ante festum diui Rhemigij mihi soluendorum c. e Bodin lib. 1. de repub c. 9. Nomom I desire greatly to know the originall 3. Diuision and first blossoming of other seignories Anglonomoph The most common seignorie of 1. What a Manor is and whereof it coÌ„sisteth accompt which wee haue in our Law is a seignorie by reason of a Manor which may be thus defined A Manor it an inheritance of ancient continuance coÌ„sisting of demesnes and seruices perquisites casualties things appendant and regardant customes liberties c. Nomoma What do so many things concurre to make a Manor will not demesnes and seruices serue Anglono Yes demesnes seruices will suffice as material causes to make a Manor f 26. H. 8. 4. but it is a naked Manor which hath nothing els Nomom I would gladly heare somewhat of the commencement and first creation of a Mannor Anglonomo M. Parkins doth very well originally 2. The originall of a Manor describe it in this manner The originall of a Manor was when the King did giue a thousand acres of lande or a greater or lesse parcell to one of his subiectes and his heires to holde of him and his heyres and the donee edifieth a house vpon this lande as his mansion place and of 20. acres or lesse or greater parcell he doth enfeoffe a straunger before the Statute of Quia empto terrar to holde of him and of his heires as of the same house by the plowing of 10. acres of arable laÌ„d parcell of that which remaineth in his owne possession and enfeoffeth and other of an other parcell to hold of him by carying ordure to his arable land and enfeoffeth a third man of a third parcell to goe with him in the warre against the Scots and so by continuance of time saith he a Manor is made g Park Reseruat fol. 128. Sect. 670. Yet by his fauour somewhat els goeth to the making of a Manor namely suite of Court at his house or mansion place h 33. H. 8. Br. Comprise 31. Mannor 5. and this suit must be the suite of more freeholders then one so that some doubt may be made of M. Kitchins assertion wheÌ„ he saith that in some Manors there be no tenaÌ„ts but copiholders and yet in such Mannors be Court barons i Kitch Court Leete Baron tit Manerâ—um fol. 4. for if all the freeholds do eschete vnto the Lord beside one or if he purchase al but one the maÌ„nor is extinct for it can not be a maÌ„nor vnlesse there be a Court baron belonging to it and a Court baron must be helde before suitors and not before one suitor therfore one freehold can not make a mannor k Br. Ca. Sect. 210. 23. H. 8. Br. Court baron 22. in fi 33. H. 8. Br. Suit 17. Nomom You haue well delared vnto me the 4 Diuision beginnings of Seignories and mannors but haue there bene no lawes made for the strengthning preseruing of theÌ„ for me thinks they be good meanes to increase support the wealth puissance and florishing estate of the Realme Anglono Yes our law in this case hath not either sluÌ„berd or winked For in the ancieÌ„t Statute of Magna Charta it is prouided that Nullus liber homo Statutes made for the preseruation of seignoties and Mannors det de caetero amplius de terra sua vel veÌ„dat de caetero quà m vt de residuo terrae suae possit sufficienter fieri domino feodi seruitium ei debitum quod pertinet ad feoduÌ„ illud l Magna charta c. 31. which statute as M. StaÌ„ford auoucheth is but a confirmation of the CoÌ„mon law he a most diligent and exquisite searcher of the reasons of Lawe so that I may boldly speake of him that which I shall not say impudently vntruly Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas sifteth out the reason of this Lawe For saith he if one that held by Knights seruice might haue bene suffered to haue aliened the greatest part of his land he would haue aliened the same peraduenture to holde of him but in Socage or by some small rent and then hauing so little a liuelod lefte to himselfe how had he bene able to haue done the seruice of a Knight or man of warre or what should his Lord haue had in warde to haue found one to haue performed the seruice surely little or nothing m Stamf. praerog c. 7. tit Alienati sans licence But it seemeth doubtfull notwithstanding the Statute of Magna Chart. whether the tenaunt might alien his whole tenancie or not whereupon the Statute of Quia emptores terrarum was made which permitted euerie free man to sell his lands or tenements or any part therof at his pleasure to hold of the chief Lord by the same seruice that the feoffer held prouided alwaies that by any such sale there come no lands to mortmain This Statute as M. Stamford noteth remedieth the mischief which was before found in the wardship but not the other mischiefe touching the defence of the Realme for when one mans liuing is so dismembred neuer a one of the feoffees nor the feoffor is able to doe the seruice of a warrior for want of liuelode there being so little quantity of land in euery of their hands yea much more vnable sithence this statute is the feoffor then before for before when he gaue it to hold of himselfe he reserued somewhat in lieu of the land which went from him whereas now he can reserue nothing of common right n Stamf. ibid. And the land which he retaineth in his owne hands may perhaps be of small value Nomom What is the most generall and most common seruice of all 5. Diuision Anglonomoph Fealtie for that is incident to euery 1. Fealtie is the most generall seruice in the Common law 2. And in the Ciuill law tenure vnles it be tenure in frankalmoign o Littlet lib. 2 c. 3. Sect. 13. c. 5. Sect. 22. Codicgn So it is with vs for fealtie which of vs is called fidelitas is due to euerie Lord to whom any seruice is to be performed and euery â— That by the Ciuill law the Common law and the Canon law a
religious man ought to doe fealtie tenaÌ„t ought to do such seruice yea though he be a religious man and professed vnder rule p ca. vnico tit de natura feudi Et tit qualiter vassall iur deb sideli domi Et in ca. vnico tit quib mod feud amittatur Et in quib causis feudum amitt tit quae â—uit pri causa benef amit Canonolog But such a religious man may not say Ego deuenio homo vester nor humiliate himself to execute the rite of homage q C. venieÌ„s C. ex diligenti de Simon grauem de excess praelat cap. fin de re Iud Anglonomo By our Law he may do homage but may not say to his Lord ego deuenio homo vester because he hath professed himself to be onely God his man but he may say I doe vnto you homage and to you shal be faithfull and loyall r Littlet lib. 2. c. 1. Sect. 2. Nonoma Shewe me I pray you some speciall 6. Diuision kinds of these seruices that I may know them morefully and more distinctly Codicgn Seruices are diuersified according 1. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the ciuill Law and their definitions to the qualities of the persons to whom they are to be done if it be to bee done to an Emperour it is to be tearmed an Imperiall seruice if to a King a regall seruice Å¿ Cap. 1. de feud march ducatâ— in ca. 1. quis dicat dux comes marchio if to Religious persons Ecclesiasticall if to Lay men secular t Tit. de his qui feud dar pos tit Episcop vel Abbat but when it is to bee done to a lesser estate then to an Emperour or King as to a Duke Marquesse or Earle then it is called feudum honoratum sometime land is giuen by inferior persons meaner men without expressing any seruice and theÌ„ the Law intendeth that fealty onely is to be done this is called FrancuÌ„ or LiberuÌ„ u Ca. 1. de no. form fidel sometime it is giuen with reseruation of speciall seruice that is feudum non nobile a Ca. fâ— de capilan qui cur vendid somtime it is giueÌ„ in perpetuuÌ„ sometime but for tearme of life and then it is called Perpetuum vel temporale b De feud march in prin de alien feud in fine de feud guard castald But though by the oath of fealtie the vassalle be bound to serue his Lord in warre yet this is limited to such case where the warre is not notoriously vniust or vnlawfull for if it be otherwise though hee doe him no seruice in warre yet he shall not forfeite his tenement c In cap Domino guerram in prin in tit hic sini lex deinde c. neither is he bound to do his seruice to his Lord if his Lorde bee excommunicate or bannished vntill he haue obteined absolution or a recalling from bannishment but d D. cap. Domino guerraÌ„ in sin in a iust warre the vassalle is bound to helpe his Lorde against euery other person who is not the Lorde of the vassalle yea euen against his father brother or sonne Anglonomoph Seruices in our Law are of diuerse 2. The diuerse kindes of seruices in the Common law and their definitions sorts some being more noble and some lesse noble of these which are more noble some belong to the king and some both to the king to subiects of these that belong to the king some be domestical only as Petite Sergeancie some bellicall onely as Knights seruice in Capite some both domesticall bellicall as grand sergeancie some of the more noble seruices belong vnto subiects as well as to the king as knights seruice and homage these which be lesse noble may be diuided into two braÌ„ches for either they are ingenuous or seruile the ingenuous are of two sorts either performable by particular men or a certaine people as fealtie rent seruice the like which make socage tenure or els performable by a certaine people onely as burgage the seruile or base seruice is villenage Of all these seruices saue such only as haue bin before described I will speake somewhat seuerally briefly and in order Petite Sergeancie is where a man holdeth his land of the King paying yerely vnto him a Bow or a speare or a dagger or a launce or a spurre of golde c. e Littlet lib. 2. ca. 9. sect ' 1. Knights seruice in Capite is where a man holdeth his landes or tenements of the king as of his crowne immediatly ab antiquo by doing some warlike seruice Graund sergeancie is where a man holdeth his lands or tenements of the king as of his Crowne immediatly by doing some speciall seruice to the King in person as by carying his banner or launce or by being his marshall or sewer or caruer or butler c. f Litt ' li. 2. ca. 8. sect ' 1. 23. H. 3. Gard 148 of homage and fealtie hath beene spoken before Rent seruice is where the tenant holdeth his lande of his Lorde by a certaine rent for which if it be behinde at the day wherein it ought to be paied the Lord may distreigne for it of common right Burgage is where the tenants of an auncient borough doe holde landes within the Borough of the King or some other person as of his borough by a certaine rent g Litt ' lib. 2. c. 10. sect ' 1. 2. Villenage is where a man holdeth of his Lorde either by doing vnto him some partiticuler base seruice and such a one is called a tenant by villenage or by doing generally whatsoeuer base seruice his Lorde will commaund and impose vpon him such a tenant he is tearmed in our Law a villaine h Litt. lib. 2. c 11. sect ' 1. 2 This miserable estate of villenage had his beginning soone after the diluge and now by the consent of all nations it is ratified for the West Indians though they haue 3 The original of villenage and the nature thereof no knowledge of diuine or humane Lawes yet bondmen they haue and the Mahometistes make Christians their bondeslaues the Portugallians make villaines of the Mahometistes which they sell by companies as flockes of sheepe in the market i Bodin lib. 1. de repub c. 5. The Romains had power by their law to sel or kil their villains k Tacit. li. 14. but for mittigation of cruelty the Law Petronia was made whereby it was forbidden that none should put his villaine to death without cause which law was executed by Nero l Senec. lib. 3. de benefic after by Adrianus m Sparcian in Adrian but our law a more concionable fauorer of life hath restrained the hands of the Lord from the bloudshed of his villaine and from the mayming of him n Litâ— ' lib. 2. c. 11. sect ' 32. hauing regard to
helde by before of the Manor for the Queenes acte may not preiudice her tenant f 29. H. 8. Br. Ca. 113. but where a man holdeth of the Q. by reason of an other thing as namely by reason of a Manour this is no tenure in Capite g 3. Eliz. Com̄ 241. Wilgous case but if the King be seised of a Manour and giueth to a straunger an acre of the Manour to haue and to hold to him and to his heires of his body engendred without expressing any seruice the donee shall hold of the king by knights seruice in Capite h Ibid 240. per Car. and tenures likewise may be to hold of one as of his person or of his Manor by diuerse other seruices as if a man had made a feoffement of land before the statute or a gift in taile sithence the statute to holde of him by the making of a bridge ouer certaine land or by making a beacon in the lande giuen this is a good tenure for a man may holde of an other by doing seruice for a common good as well as for the priuate profit of the Lord as to repaire a bridge or a high way or by keeping such a Castle for the Lorde himselfe in this hath profit with others i 11. H. 7. 12. 12. H. 7. 18. p Finch 24. H. 8. Br. Cas 51. Nomom You haue taken some paines Anglonomoph 7. Diuision 1 Whether one within age be compellable by law to do all maner of seruice either by himselfe or some other in discribing the particuler kindes of tenures now I would here somewhat of Codicgn whether one within age be excused from personal seruice because his age is not fit to serue so that the seruiceage is suspēded vntil the maturity of his age or whether he shal be compelled to do his seruice by a substitute Codicgn To dissolue that question a difference is to be taken for either the Father of the heire which is within age died in the warlike seruice 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuill law whether the father of such an infant dyed in a iust warre or at home in his bedde vndertaken for the defence of his Lorde in a iust warre I meane that which is waged for the safetie of the common weale or els he dyed in his house by humane infirmitie without any bearing of armes in the first case he is not bound to doe any seruice either in his owne person or by any other person interposed during his minoritie because his father who died in the field is supposed in Lawe still to serue by the glorie of his valor k Instit de Excus tutor §. sed si in bello ff ad leg Aqu. l. qua actione §. si quis in colluctatione which the best and most learned of all Poets did well imagine who when he had placed Caesar in the middest of extreme troubles to comforte and encourage him representeth vnto him the ghost of Scaeua one that dyed a good while before but yet after many assaults and many woūds stoode out as a Conqueror l Lucan li. 10. which conceite of Lucan Tasso a moderne Italian writer a man of an excellent poeticall witte in the discriptyon of Guidoes funerall doth passionatelye though Popishely glaunce at m S. Torquat Tasso Canto 4. Gierusal liberat but if the father died not in warre nor in the expedition but by naturall death in his owne house then if the heire at the death of his Father bee in his pupillage he must perfourme that seruice by a substitute Anglonomoph But by our Lawe he shall be in 3 That by the common law the infant shal be in warde if his father died seised of land helde by knights seruice without any such diuersitie warde to the Lorde during his minoritie if hee holde his landes by Knightes seruice and the Lorde shall haue the profits of his lande that he may maintaine a sufficient man to doe him seruice in the warre whereas the heire by reason of his tender age cannot personally performe the seruice nor by the want of discretion prouide a conuenient person to accomplishe it n Litt ' lib. 2. c. c 4. sect ' 3. but if he be made a Knight within age then because the Lawe intendeth that he is fit to doe his seruice because knighthoode is bestowed in regarde of precedent merite or of some eminent prowesse and towardnes as may appeare by that saying of Scipio in the Senate ab annis septemdecim ad senectutem semper vos aetatem meam honoribus vestris anteistis ego vestros honores rebus gerendis precessi o Liuius li. 38. the Law is otherwise But 2. Ed. 6. in the case of Sir Anthony Browne of Surrey vicount Mountegue a difference was taken where the tenant by 4 A diuersitie in the commō law where the heire of the tenāt by knights seruice is within age and a knight at the time of his fathers death where not Knights seruice dieth seised his heire being within age and a Knight at the time of his death and when after his death he is made Knight during his minoritie for in the former case it was helde that he should be in warde notwithstanding his knighthoode p 2. E. 6. Br. Gard 42. 72. For otherwise the auncestor may procure his sonne within age to be made knight by collusion to the intent to defraude the Lord of his warde but this seemeth to be but a weake reason because knighthood is not by intendement of the law graunted vpon so sleight a cause but it seemeth to Master Brooke where the heire is in ward and is made knight being in warde this shall free him from wardship for the statute of Magna Chartaca 3. Postquam heres fuerit in custodia cum ad aetatem peruenerit scil 21. annorum habeat heredit atem suam sine releuio sine fine ita tamen quod si ipse dum infra aetatem fuerit fiat miles nihilominus terra sua remaneat in custodia dominorum vsque ad terminum supradictum this saieth q Br. ibid. Master Brooke verie probaly guyding his opinion by the premisses is onely to be intended where the heire is made Knight within age being in warde after the death of his auncestour and not where he is made knight in the life of the auncestour but admitte this to be meant of such an heire onely yet by no consequence can a man inferre hereof that if an heire within age bee made knight in his fathers life time he shal be in warde after the death of his father nay there is good authoritie for the contrarie r 6. Elizab. Comm̄ 268. Nomomat Let mee knowe I pray you what 8. Diuision penalties lye vpon the tenant if hee doe not his seruice Codicgn By our Lawe the vassalle is depriued 1 What penalties lye vpnon the tenant if he do not his seruice of his
tenancie of whom fealtie is demaunded and he refuseth to perfourme it ſ C. vnico que fuit prima causa §. sed non est alia so that the Lorde doe demaunde fealtie at due times and allowed by Lawe because if he should demaund it euerie yere the vassalle should not loose his tenancie t §. si vastallus si de feud de funct ' §. licet vastallus c. domino guerrā in tit hic finit lex c. also the vassall looseth his tenancie if 2 Many causes of the tenants forfaiture in the ciuil Law being at full age he be not in expedition with his Lord or if he doe not depute some able person for the discharge of the duetie or if he doe not pay to his Lord stipendia militiae pro quantitate feodi when he is lawfully demaunded u de pace iuram firm §. fin and that is said to be a due quantitie of a knights see whē the vassall which goeth not in war nor sendeth a sufficient man doth yeelde the halfe part of the yerely value of his tenancy to the Lord. x C. Imperialem § firmiter de prohi feud alien p Freder Angonomo There be many conclusions in our 3 Some cause of forfaiture at the common Law Lawe aunswerable to that which you haue said for it hath bin affirmed that if a man holde his land of his Lord by homage and fealtie and he hath done homage and fealtie to his Lorde and the Lorde hath issue a sonne and dyeth and the seignorie discendeth to the sonne in this case the tenaunt which hath done homage to the father shal not do homage to the sonne because when a tenaunt hath once done homage to his Lorde hee is excused for tearme of lyfe to doe homage to any other heire of the Lord a Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect 13. But if a man bee seised of a Mannour and an other man holdeth lande of him as of the foresayde Mannour by homage and hath done his homage vnto him and a straunger bringeth a Precipe quod reddat against the owner of the Mannour and recouereth the Mannour against him and sueth execution in this case the tenaunt shall agayne doe homage to him that recouered the Mannour though he haue done homage before because the estate of him who receiued the first homage is defeated by the recouerie and it lyeth not in the mouthe of the tenaunt to falsifye or defeate the recouerie which was against his Lorde b Litt ' ibid ' sect ' 17. And if if a tenaunt which ought by his tenure to doe homage to his Lorde come to his Lorde and say vnto him that hee is readie to doe him homage for the tenements which hee holdeth of him and the Lorde doth then refuse to receiue it after such refusall the Lord cannot distreigne the tenaunt for the homage before the Lorde require him to doe homage vnto him and he refuseth c Litt ' lib. 2. c. 7. sect ' 19. 20. and he that holdeth by Knights seruice of the King neede not goe to warre with him if hee will finde a sufficient person conueniently armed and fitte to goe with the King and this seemeth good reason For it may bee that hee that holdeth by such seruices doth languishe in sickenesse so that he cannot goe nor ryde And a Feme sole which holdeth by such seruices may not in such case goe in proper person and it hath beene said that Escuage shall not bee graunted vnlesse the King goe to warre himselfe in proper person and after such a voyage royall it hath beene likewise affirmed that by authoritie of Parliament Escuage shall be assessed and put in certaine how much euery one that holdeth by an entier fee of Knightes seruice which was not with the King by himselfe or by an other for him shall pay to his Lord of whom he holdeth by Escuage as if it be ordeigned by authoritie of Parliament that euery one which holdeth by an entier fee of Knights seruice that was not with the King nor any other c. for him shall pay to his Lord fortie shillinges then euery one that holdeth of his Lord by the moitie of a Knights fee shall pay to his Lorde fortie shillinges and he that holdeth by a fourth parte tenne shillinges and soe pro rata d Litt ' lib. 2. e. 3. sect ' 5. 6. 8. 7. E. 3. 29. Nomom Resolue me I pray you whether when 9. Diuision the tenant hath committed treason or felonie and thereof is conuicted and attainted he shal as to his tenancie incurre any preiudice Codicgn In such case either the offence is 1 Whether when the tenant hath cōmitted felony or treason and is attainted he shall suffer any preiudice in his tenancie 2 A diuersitie in the Ciuil law where the offence is committed against the person of the Lord and where against the person of a straunger committed against the person of his Lord and so he doth preiudice all these that are to succeede him in the land by order and course of Law depriuing them of the aduantage of inheritance e Cap. vnico §. denique in si in illis verbis si tamen fuerit paternumt it que fuit prima causa ben amitt or he hath offended against some other person and not against the person of the Lord then the children onely and such as were to take benefit by the person of the father as issuing from his bodie are repulsed from the inheritance f §. Si vassallus culpam si de feud◠defunct ' and then it goeth to them of the kinred which are nearer in degree g Gloss super verbo reuocabuntur in d. si vassallus culpam Anglonomoph By our Lawe where the tenant is outlawed of felonie it is in the Lords election to haue a writ of Escheate supposing that his tenant was outlawed of felony or that he dyed without heire for by the attainder the bloud is corrupted h 48 E. 3. 2. But it seemeth by Nicholses case 3 That by the common law by attainder of felonie or treason the bloud is corrupted and in the one case the land shall eschete to the king and in the other to the immediate Lord. that the partie attainted ought to bee dead before the lande can escheate for according to the opinion of Dyer and Barham in the Kinges case after the attainder and till Office be found the see simple shall bee in facto in the person attainted so long as he shall liue for as he hath a capacitie to take land of a new purchase so he hath power to hold his auncient possessions and he shall be tenant to euery Precipe and if he died before office found and the land be held of the King the lande shall goe to the King in nature of a common eschete i 18. Eliz. Com̄ 477. Nichols case but this is to be intended in
liuerie onely transferreth the land otherwise it had beene if the word exchaunge had beene vsed in the deede and the estate which the parties are to haue in the land exchaunged ought to be equal 3. That the estates most be equall and Choke saith that both the things exchanged ought to be in esse at the time of the exchaunge and therefore an exchange of land for rent granted de nouo is not good but an exchaunge betwixt 4. That the things exchaūged must be in Esse a rent and a common which are in esse at the time of the exchaunge is good and so it is of land and rent c 9. E. 4. 21. p Brian Choke Nedham And according to his opinion an exchange of the right which the dissesee hath to the land wherof the disseisin is committed for an acre of land in which the disseisor hath right is no good exchaunge d 3. E. 4. 10. p Choke And where the worde exchaunge is mentioned though the conueyance be but an Indenture of couenants yet it shall amount to a good exchaunge for an Indenture of couenants was made betwixt a Prior and the Maister of Gunnell hall in Cambridge that the Maister should haue three acres of land to him and to his successors in perpetuall exchaunge for one chamber of two chambers to be assigned by the said Maister at his election to the said Prior and his successors this hath beene held to be a good exchaunge though it be by way of couenant e 9. E. 4. 38. And though it be auouched for lawe that if by a deed of composition it be agreed betwixt two that the one shall haue such landes in allowance of other lands belonging to him that this is a good exchaunge f 3. E. 3. 19. yet I doubt whether an exchange may be accōplished by such counteruaileable words but a man may 5. That an exchaunge is good though the one parte of it doe mure by way of extinguishment giue land in exchāge for a release which cannot mure but only by way of extinguishmēt though there be some authoritie against it g 7. E. 3. 37. therefore Nortons opiniō is iustly denied by Thorpe wheras he held that in euery exchaūge there must be a mutuall transmutation of the possession h 16. E. 3. Exchaunge 2. for if a man release to an other his estouer of wood which he is to take yeerely in his wood in exchaunge for land giuen to him in exchaunge for the same release this is a good exchange though the release take effect by way of extinguishmēt but it is as great a profite and aduauntage to the tenant to be discharged of the estouers as if so much had bene graunted vnto him out of an other mans wood i Park tit Exchaun 53. 31. E. 1. Exchange 16. and the Law well perceiueth the profite which a man may haue by way of extinguishment for if the father being tenant in taile doe alien the land entailed with warrantie and hath a rent charge in fee issuing out of the lande of his Sonne which doth discend vnto the sonne this is a good assets in value notwithstanding the extinguishment k 31. E. 3. Garrantie 29. Nomomath Whether may Ecclesiasticall benefices 2. Diuision promotions and liuings bee exchaunged or no. Canonolog The incumbents may not by their 1. That incūbents may not exchaunge their benefices by the Canon law sole authoritie chaunge their benefices but they may exchaunge them Interueniente authoritate Episcoporum ad quos pertinet collatio but there is a question in the glosse whether the Chapiter 2. That the Chapiter may warrant permutations sede vacāte in such benefices wherein they haue interest or authoritie may authorise such permutations sede vacante l C. quaesitū de rer permut glos in Clem vnica E. tit and it resolueth briefly that in such things wherein they haue a common collation either by reason of authoritie or by reason of interest and consent it may authorise exchanges sede vacante but in other cases not m Glos in d. Clem. vnic super verbo Conferantur Anglonomophylax The reason in our Lawe 3. That by the Common law Ecclesiasticall persons their patrons and ordinaries ioyning together can not make any good exchange of Ecclesiasticall benefices wherefore such ecclesiasticall persons nor their patrons and ordinaries though they all agree can not exchaunge the inheritances of spirituall liuings is because the statute strictly prouideth that no alienation be made in mortmaine for a thing which was amortised before may be again amortised and therefore if a religious person do appropriate a Church which is of his owne presentation without the kings licence it is forfeited though it were amortised before n 19. E. 3. Mortmain 8. and in such case where one Abbot did alien to an other the collusion was to bee enquired of as well as in the alienation of land made by a secular man to a religious corporation o 16. Assis pl. 1. for the wordes of the Statute of Mortmaine bee very 4. That the statute of Mortmain is most strict and pregnant in wordes strong and large against such purchasors which are thus Prouisum est quòd nullus religiosus emere vel sub colore donationis aut termini aut alterius tituli cuiuscunque ab aliquo recipere aut arte vel ingenio sibi appropriare praesumat per quod terrae tenementa huiusmodi ad manum mortuam quocunque modo deueniant p Statut. de religios 7. E. 1. Mortmain 3. and therefore the case was that a femme sole purchased lande in fee and tooke to husbād the villaine of a Bishop which he had in right of his Bishoprike and the Bishop entred and this was adiudged a mortmain for according to Wickinghams opiniō the words of the Statute of Mortmaine are quocunque modo otherwise it shall be if the tenant of the Bishop do die without heire q 41. E. 3. 21. but 19. Henr. 6. the contrarie is held to be Lawe but if the villaine himselfe purchase lande it is helde there that in such case a Bishop or an Abbot can not enter r 19. H. 6. 56. but Thorpes opinion is 41. E. 3. that though hee may not enter in the case aforesaid yet hee may reteigne the land against the villaine and the king may afterward ratifie his estate which is no more in plaine tearmes then that an estate so gained is voidable onely and not voide and as to the exchaunge of benefices betwixt parson and parson it is seuerely punished by edict of Parliament in our realme ſ 31. Eliz. Nomomathes I will not stay longer vpon the inquirie of exchaunges for you haue opened vnto mee the nature of them and how farre they extende in these few cases now let vs passe to a larger examination of the doubts and pointes of deuises and legacies The
Seuenth Dialogue Of Deuises and Legacies NOmomathes First I pray you tell 1. Diuision me whether this manner and custome of disposing by a mans last will and Testament hath bene in auncient time practised or no. Codicgn It is very auncient for it was one 1. The antiquity of willes of the Lawes of the twelfe Tables Vti legassit suae rei ita ius esto a L. verbis legis ff de verb. signif But before Solons time it was not lawfull for a man to deuise his goods Extra familiam to straungers and therefore when Solon did by Lawe established graunt this libertie to the Athenians it was plausibly receiued of them and accompted the best of all his Lawes b Plutarch in Solon But Plato in his writings straungely 2. Plato his exception against Solon his Law concerning willes howsoeuer diuinely conceited dispraiseth this Lawe and calleth the makers of it childish because by that meane a window is opened to deceite and to flatterie for hee saith that when men are at point of death they beginne to dote and their vnderstanding is broken and therefore it is very likely that euery man dying will dispose and appoint many thinges contrarie to the Lawe to the vsuall practise of them that liue to the example of their ancestors c Plat. lib. 11. de legib This sentence of Plato Iustinian an Emperour exquisitely busied in the compiling of Lawes because hee had rather erre with Plato then yeelde vnto the truth with Solon alloweth and frameth his Lawes accordingly d Authent de trient sem in l. Paulus ad Treb. and S. Ierom writeth that Solons Lawe was repealed in his time because Priestes which were commonly employed in the making of willes did greedily and odiously drawe to themselfes the inheritance of the dead dd L. 1. C. de sacr Eccles and an other reason may be added in defence of Platoes opinion because men in daunger of death are for the most parte too prodigall which Aristotle noted e Diogen Laerti in vit Aristotel and Tacitus pronounceth more peremptorily speaking of Otho f Tacit. lib. 2. lustor Pecunias distributt parce nec tanquam periturus hauing affirmed before Difficilius est temperare qua te non putes diu vsurum But Solons 3. Solons lawe is mainteined and defended against Plato Lawe leaneth to a more stable roote then that it may bee shaken by the weake blaste of such colourable reprehensions and Solon did make exceptions to his Lawe for hee made these testaments voide which were made by any in the extremitie of his disease or which a man was enforced to make by imprisonment or torment or by the perswasions and flatterie of his wife But surely the making of willes is necessarie g L. 3. D. qui test fa. pos and without it men can not effect the good education and bringing vp of their children nor be able of their proper goodes chattels and other mooueable substaunce to discharge their dettes and after their degrees set foorth and aduance their children and posteritie h 32. H. 8. c. 1. Willes 2. nor leaue their wife 's such comfortable support as in conscience they ought Nomomathes Lette mee know I pray you 2. Diuision what persons may be legataries or deuisees and who not Codicgnostes Euerie one that may bee made 1. Such as bee vncapable of inheritances goods may not be deuisees heires or executors by the Ciuill law 2. A difference in the Ciuill law betwixt the making of a deuisee and the making of an executor heire or executor may be a legatarie or deuisee but to thē which are vncapable by Law of inheritances or goods no deuise can be made neither can they be made heires or executors i C. de haered instit l. 1. but there is a difference betwixt the making of a deuisee and the making of an heire or executor because he that is to be made heire or executor must bee an able person in Lawe as well at the time of the making of the Testament as at the death of the testator and the vndertaking of the executorship or entre into the inheritaunce k ff de haered Insti l. si alienū §. de extraneis Iust de haer qual differ §. in extraneis but as to the deuisee it is sufficient if he be capable at the time of the death of the testator l ff de donat causa mort l. in mortis de condit demon l. eū qui. ff de iur fisc l. non intelligitur §. quando Anglonom By our Law to al such persons to whom a graunt may be made a deuise may bee 3. That by the Common law all persons to whom a graūt may be made a deuise may be made vnlesse it otherwise happen in some fewe cases made vnlesse it otherwise happē in some few cases and the deuise ought to be good effectual at the time of the death of the deuisor as if a mā seised of landes deuisable doe deuise the same to the fellowes of a colledge or the Priestes of a Chauntery and there is no such Colledge nor Chauntery at the time of the death of the deuisor after such a colledge or chauntery is made yet the deuise is void because deuises are purchases and when a man taketh lands or tenements 4. That the deuisee must be a person capable of the thing deuised by purchase hee must be an able person to take when it falleth to him by the purchase m Park 97. Sect. 505. 9. H. 6. 23. 2. Eliza. 119. Pl. 18. Dy. 13. Eli. 303. Pl. 49. Dy. 300. Pl. 39. 5. E. 4. 6. p Billing and the Cōminaltie of a guild which is not incorporate by the kings charter to purchase lands is not capable of lands and if a mā seised of lands deuiseable in fee do deuise the same land to A. for life to find a Chapleine chaunting in the Church of Dale the remainder to two of the best men of the Guilde or fraternitie of Whittawers in Londō to find a chaplaine c. if the Whittawers be not incorporate by the Kings charte◠enabled to purchase this remainder is void n Park 98. sect 510. 49. E. 3. 3. and if a rent be granted for life to I. S. the remainder in fee to him that shall first come to Powles the next daie in the morning this remainder is good though it be vpon condition if I. S. die not before the next daie and if one come to Powles the next daie in the morning if he which commeth thither then be not a person disabled to take by the graunt o 30. Assis pl. 47. Perk. 13. Sect. 56. so that whereas you say that by your Lawe it is 5. That by the Common law the deuisee ought to be capable at the time of the death of the deuisor sufficient
Corne bee seuered the issue in taile may well deuise it h Park Deuis 100 sect 520. and if a man which is seised of land in fee haue issue a daughter and dyeth his wife being grossement enseint with a sonne and the daughter entreth and soweth the lande and after the sowing and before the seuerance the sonne is borne and one of his next friendes entreth for him yet the daughter may deuise the Corne growing vppon the lande i 19. H. 6. 6. And the Statute of Merton which sayeth that omnes viduae possint legare blada is but an affirmation of the common Lawe which was vsed in the time of King Henry the thirde aboue mencioned in the beginning of his raigne and so it is of other thinges future contingent they may bee deuised well enough for if a man enfeoffe a straunger of his lande vpon payment or non-payment on the part of the feoffee as if the feoffee shall pay vnto the feoffour twentie poundes at the feast of Easter next ensuing that then he may reteigne the lande to him and to his heires and if hee doe not pay that then it shall bee lawfull for the feoffour to re-enter nowe if the feoffour make his will and deuise the money when it shall bee paied to A. and dyeth before the day of payment this is a good deuise condicionally that is if the feoffee pay the mony to the executors k 12. E. 3. Condic 8. For when 6 That when the partie hath a certaine and lawfull interest in a thing he may lease it graunt it or deuise it before the existence of it the partie hath a lawfull and a certaine interest in a thinge hee may graunt lease or deuise it before the thing haue actuall existence therefore the saying of Master Keble that worthie man is well to be marked when hee sayeth that the King cannot graunt any disme before it bee graunted to his highnesse by Parliament neyther a wardshippe cum acciderit otherwise it is of the amerciaments of his tenants in such a village the wrecke of the Sea or catalla felonum for he hath an inheritance in them and a possession in law but in the disme hee hath no interest before the graunt l 21. E. 4. Abbot de Walth case 45. p Keble Codicgn By our Law a man may deuise to one 7 That a deuise may be vncertaine but yet good in Law because it may by special meanes be reduced to certaintie that he shall haue yerely xx loade of stone out of his quarrie in Dale or three load of wood out of his groue or coppies in Sale m ff de legat 1. l. apud Iulian §. si quis and if the testator doe deuise one of his vineyardes one of his horses or one of his rickes of corne it shall be in the election of the heire or the executor what vineyarde what horse or what ricke of corne he will giue him so that he giue him not the verie worst but these which be indifferent n l. legato generaliter ff de lega 1. Anglonomoph So in our Law a man may graunt therefore as I think if one deuise vnto an other one of the horses in his stable and he hath fiue in his stable the grauntee may chose which of them he will haue and if a man graunt to one xx s. of rent charge or xl s. of rent charge I may distreine for which of the rents I will o 9. E. 4. 39. 11. E. 3. Annuity 27. Park Grāts 17. sect 74. Nomomat Let me aske you this question The 4. Diuision Testator hauing but one daughter deuiseth by his wil that 1000. li. shal be payd for the mariage of his daughters meaning as well other daughters that shoulde be borne as her that is liuing there is none afterwarde borne the testator dyethw hether is the executor bounde to pay the whole thousande poundes to the daughter that is liuing Codicgn I thinke he is bounde by Lawe to pay 1 That by the Ciuil law Ius acrescendi taketh effect in legacies the whole summe vnto her p l. qui quartā §. fin ff de legat 1. for ius accrescendi habet locum in legatis q d. §. fin cum l. seq l. a Titio ff de verbo oblatio and so if the testator do deuise that if he shall haue a daughter the executor shoulde giue a C. li. for the mariage of his daughter and two daughters be borne nowe the executor shall pay to euery of them C. li. r l. qui filiabus §. si quis ita ff de legat 1. and if the case be that the testatour doth deuise the sixthe part of his houses of his landes or vineyards to Sempronius whereupon Sempronius demaundeth a sixth part of euery house of euery farme and of euery vineyarde and the heire saith that these thinges cannot well be deuided but that hee is readie to pay to the deuisee the verie 2 Whether when the 6. part of a thing is deuised the heire is compellable to deuide it by the Ciuil law or to render the value value of euery sixth parte the question is whether the law regardeth this aunswere of the heire and for this doubt we haue this generall decision if the thing which is so to be deuided be indiuisible by the nature of it or if it cannot bee commodiously diuided the heire hath the choise to pay the value but if it be deuisible then the law is otherwise ſ l. non amplius §. cum honorum ff de legat 1. Anglonomoph As to your last case our law doth accorde with yours for legacies shal be fauoured and ordered as dower is and if a woman haue title of dower to a house a chamber in the house may be allotted vnto her as the third part of the 3 That by the common law some time there may be a seuerance of the thing deuised sometime of the profits of the thing or of the aduantage house or in allowance of her dower but she shal not so be indowed of a milne but shall haue the third part of the profit of the milne because the milne cannot be seuered and a woman may bee endowed of a villaine ingrosse as to haue his seruices euery third day and of an aduowson in grosse to haue the third presentment and of the moitie of an aduowson ingrosse to haue the sixth presentment and a woman shall be endowed of a bailywicke to haue the third part of the profit of it t 1. H. 5. 1. 45. E. 3. Dower 50. Na. Br. 7. 2. H. 6. 11. 13. E. 2. Dower 161. Fitz. na br 148 C. 150. G. 149. K. 148. C. 12. E. 2. Dower 157. 11. E. 3. Dower 85. 15. E. 3. Dower 81. Nomomat Let the case bee that the Testatour 5. Diuision deuiseth to one a plotte of grounde and speaketh nothinge of the house which is built vppon it
legat 3. And if a house be deuised the Bathe belonging to the house and the orcharde also which belongeth to it doe passe if from the house there be a way to the Bathe or orcharde for then they may well be sayd to belong to the house and to be prouided for the benefit of the inhabitant l l. praedijs in §. balneas §. qui domum ff de legat 3. and if a man do by his last wil deuise land liue many daies after the testament made 2 That a mine of coale passeth with the land if it be iointly vsed with it otherwise it is if it be seuerally vsed and in his life time a myne of coale lead or tinne is opened and discouered in the soile then the testator dieth after that hee hath vsed the myne iointly with the land in this case the deuisee shal haue the mine but if he had demised for life or for yeres the mine to one and the land to an other so that they had beene seuered and disioined in particuler interest then the deuisee should not haue had the mine m l. cuÌ„ fundus nominatim ff de legat 2. but if the Testator deuise all his corne which he hath in such a barne and the deuisee being one of his housholde seruants of purpose bringeth a greater quantitie of corne into the barne the deuisee shall not haue this increase because it grewe by the fraude of the deuisee n cum ita legatur in princ ff de legat 2. Anglonomoph As to your two last cases deuises as I haue said before are so to be fauoured as dower and I thinke that if a man doe marrie a wife and die seised of lande and after his death a mine of coale is discouered in the ground and 3 That a woman shall be endowed of a mine of coale discouered after her husbands death then the woman bringeth a writ of dower she shal haue her dower as well of the mine being parcell of the lande as of the lande it selfe being the principal o 14. E. 3. Admeasurement 10. 13. E. 1. Itin North. 17. Fitz. na br 149. C. and as to your other case where the corne in such a barne is deuised and it is afterward increased the deuisee shall haue no more corne then was in the barne at the time of the deuise for it is as much as if he should haue said al the corne which he now hath in his barn for words of the present tense which hath a present beginning and ending may not be drawne either to a time past which hath had his beginning and 4 That words of the present tense in a deuise may not be extended to the future tense end or to a time future which hath neither beginning nor end and therfore if a man be bound to keepe the prisoners of the gaole of D. that they shall not escape this shall extende onely to the prisoners which are in the Gaole at the time of the making of the bonde and not to such which shall be afterwarde in the Gaole vnlesse it had beene expresly said which be or shall be in the Gaole p 21. H. 7. 37. and so if the Queene graunt to me visum franciplegij in omnibus terris meis feodis I shall not haue viewe of frankepledge in any landes but such as I haue at the time of the graunt q 38. H. 6. 10. so if a man be bound for the tenants of I. S. it shall be intended of these tenants onely which I. S. hath at the time of the obligation made r 39. H. 6. 6. and if a man graunt to another housewood and hedge-wood to be burnt in his houses in Dale this shal not extend to houses which are afterward built Å¿ Temps E. 1. Common 28. and though Wilbyes opinion be that if a man graÌ„t to another a way ouer his land with waines and the grauntee hath no freeholde at the time to which he may haue caryage yet if he purchase freehold afterward he may haue a way to it and Hankeford seemeth to be of this opinion 11. H. 4. t 21. E. 3. 2. per Wilby 11. H. 4 82. per Hank because in a generall graunt there needeth to be no naming of a certaine freehold yet in that very case dubito quid sit lex Nomomat Admitte that a man deuise the profittes of his lande for fiue yeres to I. S. the deuisee dyeth within two yeres next after the deuise then the deuisour dyeth whether shall the residue of the terme goe to the benefit of the executor 1 That by the ciuil law if the deuisee of a terme die before the deuisor the executor shal haue the terme or administrator of the deuisee Codicgn We haue expresse authoritie in our Law that it shall a l. vxori vâ—ufru §. quaesituÌ„ ff de vâ—ufru le Angonomoph Brettes case which is very famous in our law is to the coÌ„trary aa 10. Eliz. 46. ComÌ„ Brets case but if a man deuise 2 By the common law a diuersity is taken where the deuisee dieth in the life of the deuisor and where after his death but before the legacy executed xx li. to be paied yerely in 4. yeres after his death to I. S. and died and after the deuisee dyeth within foure yeres yet the executours of the deuisee shal haue the money or the residue of it by suite before the Ordinary in the spiritual Court for it is a duetie by the testament or deuise b 24. H. 8. Br. Deuise 27. 45. Condic ' 187. and an administrator may as well sue for that duety in the spiritual Court as he may haue a writte of Couenant at the common law vpon the couenaÌ„t made with the partie intestate c Fitz. na br 146. D. 2. Mar. 112. Dy. Nomom What if the testator do say I deuise such 10. Diuision a thing to God or to Christ what is wrought by this deuise Cononol The thing so deuised is due to the 1 That by the ciuil law when a thing is deuised to God or to Christ it shall goe to the Church of the parishe where the Testator dwelt Church of the parish where the testator did dwel at the time of the deuise d Authent de ecclesiast ' titÌ„ §. si quis in nomine argu l. quae coÌ„ditio §. sin ff de cond de monstr Anglonomoph In auncient times such deuises were good and so was a fine leuied deo ecclesiae but the lawe is now altered e Scir faci 18. E. 4. 22. 19. E. 4. 2. 4. 7. per Pigot en le cas de Prior de Merton and in the one and twenteth yere of king Richarde the second a deuise of lande was made to one for life the remainder to an other for life the remainder to the Churche of S. Andrew in Holborne and this was adiudged
14. Diuision a common coÌ„tingent The testator ordeigneth by his will that his daughters shall be married by the appointment and disposall of Titius his brother the Testator dieth Titius also dieth before he hath disposed any thing of the maryage whether may the mariage and the portion be arbitrated disposed by some other or no as namely by the executor of Titius Codicgn I thinke the executor of Titius may 1 That by the Ciuil law if a man ordeigne by his wil that his daughters shall marry by the appointment of Titius that Titius his executor may dispose of the mariage well enough order and accomplishe this matter according to the degree of the daughters the wealthe of the father and the number of the children a l. si filiae pater ff de legat 3. Anglonomoph I thinke quite contrary because there is a confidence reposed specially incommunicably in the person of Titius and there be many cases in our Lawe to proue this assertion Cesty que vse before the statute of 27. of king H. 8. did deuise that A. B. and C. his feoffees should 2. That by the Common law where a confidence is reposed in certaine persons it is incommunicable to others sell his land whereof they were seised to his vse A. dieth it was helde that B. and C. could not sell the land otherwise it had beene if he had spoken generally of his feoffees without naming them specially b 2. Elizab. 177. Dy. Likewise a man deuised that after the death of his wife his land should be sold by his executors together with the assent of A. and maketh his wife and a stranger his executors and dieth the wife dieth A. dieth the authoritie of selling the land is fully determined and gone c 5. Eliz. 219. Dy. and so it was held per curiam that if a man did declare his will that B. and C. his executors should sell his land and the testator dieth and B. dieth and C. maketh M. his executor and dieth and M. selleth it this sale is void for the trust is strict but M. Brudnell saith that if a man deuise by his will that H. and N. his executors shall sell his land and they refuse to be executors yet they may sell the land because they are named by their proper names d 19. H. 8. 9. But where the executors are not specially named for the sale of the land there one of them onely may well enough sell the land for the case was that a man did deuise all his lands to his sister except one manor which he appointed to pay his debts and he made two executors and died the one executor died yet the other may sell the mannor and pay the debts per intentionem testatoris the words of the deuise as touching the sale were generall which I appointe to pay my debts e 23. Eliz. 371. Dy. Nomomath I haue often heard that a deuise 15. Diuision shall be taken most largely and beneficially for the profite and auaile of the deuisee I praie yee let me heare some cases which may coÌ„firme this vnto me Codicgnostes If the testator doe deuise all his 1. That by the Ciuill law deuises are for the most parte construed for the deuisce horses to one all his horses and mares shall passe by the deuise f L. legatis seruis §. iuÌ„ctis ff de legat 3. and if the testator doe deuise all his beastes all fourefooted cattaile which are beasts of pasture doe passe by this deuise g D. l. legatis §. pecoribus if a flocke of Sheepe bee deuised the Lambes and the Rammes are conteined in the deuise h L. seruis legat §. si ff but if he deuise his Sheepe without saying his flocke of sheepe his lambes do not passe i D. l. legatis seruis §. ouibus and if a man deuise his plough horses to one and after the deuisor selleth the horses and buyeth and vseth mares for his plough and dieth now the mares shall passe by the deuise k L. qui duos mulos ff de legat 3. and if the testator doe deuise to one all his woolle all his woâ—lle as wel washed as not washed spunne as not spunne generally al his woolle which is not wrought into clothe is deuised l L. si cui lana in princip in §. lanae ff de legat 3. and herein it differeth from lyne because vnder the name of lyne euen lyne that is wrought or linnen is conteined m D. l. si cui lana §. lino so if a man deuise all his siluer to one his siluer cuppes and all his other vessels of siluer doe passe n L. cum aurum ff de auro argent leg in princip l. lana §. fi ff de legat 3. but no siluer coine doth passe o L. Quintus in prin ff de aur argent leg otherwise it had beene if he had deuised all his siluer wrought or laboured p Ibid. for if the testator deuise to one all his cloth which is in such a cheste no garments nor apparell are contained within the deuise but onely the rude and plaine matter of clothe because when marble is deuised the imageries of marble are not meant but the grosse matter of marble q L. quaesitum §. illud fortassis ff de legat 3. and if wood be deuised onely wood fit to be burnt is comprehended in the deuise but not timber r L. ligna ff de legat 3. yet the testator his meaning is in these later cases to be examined by circumstances Å¿ L. pediculi §. labeo ff de aur arg leg Anglonomoph And by our Lawe the fauour of which is equally diuided betwixt the aduantage of the deuisee and the intent of the deuisor Deuises are often times ampliated and extended by beneficiall construction for the helpe and profite of the deuisee if they be not repugnant to 2. That the Common law so fauoureth deuises that it vpholdeth equitie the correspoÌ„dence of reason law but if they bee repugnant the Lawe then as a Lady iealous of her Iustice doth vtterly frustrate and make voide the deuises That which I affirme shall by cases and examples better appeare The L. Latimer did deuise to his Ladie and wife the third part of all his goods and chattels and great question was made whether this deuise should be intended of the third part of the goods and chattels as it should be after the dettes and legacies paied or as it was at the death of the testator and whether the third parte of the dets due to the testator doe passe by this deuise but it was agreed by the Iustices that by the woord vtensils Plate and Iewels doe not passe and if a man deuise to his daughter fiue huÌ„dred pouÌ„ds for and towarde her mariage and she dieth before the mariage by the opinion of the greater parte
such as enter into suit ar not vtterly reiected of our law for as to the 2. first which concerne profit and necessitie our law doth rigorously exact them as to the other it is not against it for it doth not forbid nor hinder any man to be curteouse to an other but it being a science rather politike then morall doth more respect the Iustice of causes then the curteous gestures of men our law doth vrge men to deale well and honestly if they do otherwise it doth punish thē but curtesy is a free spontaneal ingenious quality to which no inforcement may be vsed but I wil first examine by your patience how farreforth our law regardeth the abilitie of the person which is to impleade an other and then by course will examine all the partes of your precedent speech inquiring by our bookes howe they may sort and be sutable to our law First it hath beene receiued of vs as a currant rule from all antiquitie that the desendant may 4 Disablemēts in the person of the plaintife at the comon Law plead outlawrie in disablement of the plaintife but if he doe imparle nowe he cannot plead outlawrie to the disablement of his person but yet he may well plead it in barre of the action n 32. H. 6. 32. 35. H. 6. 36. so in a writ brought by one as sonne and heire to I. S. after imparlance the tenant cannot pleade to the writte that hee is bastarde or that hee is not heire but he may verie well pleade it in barre of the action o 22. E. 4. 35. and so outlawrie is a good plea in barre of an action of debt for by the outlawrie of the plaintife the debt if it growe by especialtie is vested in the Queene otherwise it is of an action of debt vpon a contract p 16. E. 4. 4. for in that case the debtor might wage his lawe against the debtee who is outlawed and as it seemeth by 10. Hen. 7. the outlawrie goeth rather in barre of the action then to the writte for there it is sayde that where a man cannot pleade to the writte but by shewing of a matter in barre there he may shewe it and conclude to the writte for in an action of debt a man may pleade outlawrie in the plaintife and conclude to the person and yet the matter goeth in barre and he may pleade it also in barre q 10. H. 7. 11. and conclude to the action and after that a voucher is counterpleaded and the tenant put to an other aunswere hee may notwithstanding plead that the demaundant is outlawed r 21. E. 4. 64. but after voucher the tenant may not plead to the fourme of the writte ſ 5. E. 3. 223. and 32. Hen. 6. is verie playne that where a man pleadeth that the plaintife is an alien borne or a villaine or an outlawed person it is left to his choise whether he will conclude these special matters to the writte or to the action t 32. H. 6. 27. and though the defendant haue made an attourney in a repleuin yet he may afterward alleadge that the plaintife is his villaine u 29. E. 3. 24. So 21. R. 2. in Assise brought by the husbande and wife against diuerse persons the tenantes sayde that the wife of the plaintife was entred into religion in the house of B. and there was a Nun professed demaunded iudgment if she should be aunswered and the Assise was adiorned into the common place and a writte was sent to the Bishoppe to certifie who certified that she was professed wherefore the defendants praied that the husband and wife might be barred foreuer and it was helde by the whole Court that forsomuch as the pea did stretche onely to disable the wife of the plaintife and if the husbande and wife had purchase iointly that the baron should notwithstanding the disablement haue an Assise of the whole but otherwise it is if the husbande and wife bring an Assise and a feoffement or release of the husbande or the wife or of some auncestour of one of them bee pleaded in barre both of them shall be barred therefore in this case it was helde that the iudgement ought not to be that the husbande should be barred but by the aduise of the whole Court it was awarded that the husbande and the wife nihil capiant per breue suum sed essent in misericordia x 21. R. 2. Judgem̄t 263. and in the thirde yeare of Henry the sixth it was held a good plea to say that the demandant was an alien borne in Portugall which is out of the Kings legeance with conclusion sil serra respondu a 3. H. 6. 11. and therefore Master Theloall in his Digest of writtes well obserueth that an exception taken to a writ propter defectum nationis vel potius defectum subiectionis vel ligeantiae is peremptorie and that the action can not bee reuiued by peace or league subsequent and that the King may graunt lycence to aliens to impleade and likewise that such aliens as come into the Realme by the Kinges licence and safe conduite may vse personall actions by writte though they bee not made denizens and that denizens lawfully made by the Kinges graunt and such aliens borne which are within the expresse wordes of the statute of 25. of Edward the thirde may vse actions reall by originalll writte b Thelo Digest de briefes lib. 1. ca. 6. And where a man is excommunicated and hee sueth an action reall or personall the tenant or defendant may pleade that the plaintife is excommunicated and hereof he ought to shewe the Bishoppes letters vnder his seale testifying the excommunication and then he may demaunde iudgement whether he ought to bee aunswered c Litt ' lib. 2. ca. 11. sect ' 42. but if the demaundant or plaintife cannot denie this the writ shal not abate but the iudgement shal be that the tenant or def shall go quite without day because when the demandāt or plaintife hath purchased letters of absolution and they are shewed forth to the Court he may haue a resummons or reattachement vpon his originall according to the nature of his writte d Litt ' ibid. and whereas you say that it behoueth the plaintife to be sure that he haue a good cause of action least he pay the costes that now by statute is made common Law for by the statute of 23. H. 5 The statute of 23. H. 8. of giuing damages to the defendant is cōpared with the rule of the ciuil Law 8. it is enacted that if any person or persons commence or sue in any Court of Recorde or elsewhere in any other Court any action bille or plaint of trespasse vpon the statute of King Richarde the seconde made in the fifthe yeare of his raigne for Entries into landes or tenements where no entrie is giuen by the Law or any action bill or plaint
de singulis q Stamf. lib. 1. c. 26. Nomomat Well I pray you proceede in your purpose Anglonomoph As to that which is vttered of 10 How treason is committed by coining of money according to the censure of the common law Codicgnostes touching the vnlawfull coyninge of money it is for the most parte consonant to the Common Lawe of this Realme as nowe it is and as it was in auncient times by the testimonies of Bracton r Bract li. 2. tiâ— de crim laes mai Britton Å¿ Britt fol. 16. and Glanuille t Glan lib. 14. and the aforesayd Statute of 25. Edward the 3. maketh it treason for a common person to coine the kings money without his warrant and authentike which the statut calleth Counterfaiting wheras the statute saith the kings mony it must be intended the coine of this Realme or the dominions of it u Sramf 1. lib. 1. ca. 1. and this worde counterfeit doth import that if a man doe counterfait the Kings money though he doe not vtter it this is treason w 6. H. 7. 13. 1. R. 3. 1. and the forging and counterfaiting of coyne of another Realme is made treason awel as the couÌ„terfaiting of the coyne of this Realme a 4. H. 7. c. 18. 1. 2. Phi Ma ca. 11. But then it must be currant by proclamation in this Realme b 1. Mâ—r c. 6. Cromp I P 40. and as to the clipping of money heare the statute of 5. of our Soueraigne Ladie the Queene Be it enacted c. that after the first day of May next coÌ„ming clipping washing rounding or filing for wicked lucre or gaine sake of any the proper money or coyne of this Realme or the dominions thereof or of any other Realme allowed or suffered to be currant within this realme or the dominions thereof c. shal be taken and adiudged to be treason by vertue of this act c. c 5. Eliz. c. 11. Nomomat I pray you now declare the forfaitures and punishments of these seueral treasons Anglonomo The iudgment of him that is conuicted 11 The seueral punishmeÌ„ts of treasons by the common law of high treason is to bee caryed backe to the place whence he came and from thence to be drawne vpon a hurdle vnto the place of execution there to be hanged by the necke and to be cut downe quicke and his entrailes and priuy members to be sundred from his body and to be burnt within his view and his head to bee cut off and his body to be diuided into 4. parts and to be disposed at the Queenes will d Stamf. lib. 3. ca. 19. This is the Iudgement and sentence of condempnation of a man but of a woman it is otherwise namely that she shall be drawne on a hurdle and burnt e Stamf. ibid 23. lib. Ass pl. 2. ComÌ„ 31 6 and the offendour shall forfait his goods and landes to the King of whosoeuer the landes are holden f 25. E. 3. c. 2. Stamf. ibid 1. H. 6. 5. Stamf. li. 2. c. 37. c. 40. lib. 3. ca. 20. 4. H. 7. 11. per Towns but hee which hath estate in landes for terme of life or for yeares shall forfaite his estate onely g Stamf. lib. 3. c. 26. and by the statute of 26. H. 8. ca 13. and 5. and 6. Ed. 6. ca. 11. tenant in taile shall forfait his lande if he offende in high treason but no man shall forfaite lands which he hath in the right of an other as in the right of his wife or in the right of a Church h 5. 6. E. 6. ca. 11. Stamf. lib. 3. c. 26. and with the lande which a man forfaiteth he shall forfaite his â—uidences which concerne the lande i 49. H. 6. 15. and if a man leuie warre against the King and is slaine in it yet his lande shall be forfaited k 7. H. 4. 27. P Mark 34. E. 3. c. 12. 39. H 6. c. 1. Stamf. lib. 3. 29. and in such case the wife of such offendour shall loose her dower and his bloud or linage shall bee corrupt l Stamf. lib. 3. c. 19. But such as clippe washe round or file money are onely to forfait their lands during their life m 5. Eliz. c. 11. but such offence causeth not corruption of bloude nor the losse of Dower Nomomat Now time and order doth require that ye should speake of Homicide The fourtenth Dialogue of Homicide that is Murder Manslaughter Homicide by chaunce or misfortune NOmomat Because the apt diuision 1. Diuision of thinges giueth great light and ministreth exceeding helpe to the knowledge and vnderstanding of them I would therefore knowe Codicgnostes how many kindes of Homicide are set downe in your Law Codicgn Homicide in our Law is either the 1 The seueral kinds of Homicide by the ciuil Law and first murder is described wilful killing of a man of set purpose a l. 1. in princ in §. diuus ff ad l. Corn. de sicar l. 2. C. eod or els the killing of a man in the defence of his owne person as if I. N. should assault I. S. with a sworde he 2 Manslaughter se defendendo by the ciuil law may defend himselfe with a sworde and so auoid the iniurie if otherwise he cannot eschewe it but if I. S. may flie from him without daunger then the Lawe bindeth him to flie but if a man should so assault me that he should driue me to a very narrow pinch so that I cannot find a meane to escape with my life in this case it is lawful for me manfully to defende my selfe though it bee with killing him b Iodoc DaÌ„â—ouderius in reâ—uÌ„ criminal prax c. 78 79 and these sorts of manslaughter may be committed with clubbe c in d. §. Diuus l. 1. ff ad leg Corn de sicar stone sword or dart with arrowes launces pertisanes iauelins or with gunnes d Iusti de pub iudic §. IteÌ„ lex Cornelia or a man may be killed by poyson dd l. 3. §. 1. ff Ad Corn de sicar or by precipitation and being throwne headlong from the toppe of some house or some bridge or some hill or some tree e d. l. 1. ff ad leg Corn de sicar There is an other 3 The discription of selfe-slaughter by the ciuil law kind of Homicide which is tearmed homicidium sui ipsius wheÌ„ a man killeth himselfe such offendors are punished by our Law according to the quality of their minde whereby they were moued for if they kill themselues through griefe or impatience ee G. de Bonâ— eoruÌ„ qui mort sibi consc of some infirmitie no punishmeÌ„t followeth their fact but they are left to the tribunal 4 A diuersitie of killing a mans selfe by the ciuil Law of the almighty Iudge of the quick and the dead but if