at Westminster before T. Frâ—wick and his fellows then Justices of him the Lord the King and other faithfull people of the said late King then there present a certain Fine was levyed of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances amongst other Tenements and Rents by the name of the Mannor of D. with th' appurtenances and of one Messuage CCC acres of land twelve acres of Meadow twenty acres of Pasture and five pounds Rent and the rent of 20. Cocks 100. Capons 160. Sheep with th' appurtenances in D. in the County of K. between William Frost then Plaintif and the said I. and A. by the names of I. Batiller and A. his Wife then agreeing whereupon the Plea of Concord was summoned between them in the same Court that is to say that the said I. and A. doe recognize the said Mannor with th' appurtenances to be the right of him the said W. as that that the said W. then had of the Gift of the said I. and A. And the same Remized and quit claymer of them the said I. and A. and the Heirs of her the said A. unto the said W. and his Heirs for ever And afterwards they the said I. and A. granted for themselves State in the tayl made by Fine and the Heirs of her the said A. that they should Warrant unto the said W. and his Heirs the said Mannor with th' appurtenances against all men for ever And for that Recognizance Remise quit claymed Warrant Fine and Concord the said VV. granted unto the said I. and A. the said Mannor with th' appurtenances and that unto them rendred in the same Court to have and to hold unto the said I. and A. and the Heirs of the body of them the said I. and A. begotten of the chief Lords of that Fee by the Services which to the said Mannor appertaineth for ever And if it should happen that they the said I. and A. should dye without Heir of their bodyes begotten then after the Deceases of them the said I. and A. the said Mannor with th' appurtenances should wholly remain to the Heirs of her the said A. of her body begotten to be held of the chief Lords of that Fee by the Services which to the said Mannor doe appertein for ever And if no Heir of the body of her the said A. should be begotten then the said Mannor with th' appurtenances should wholly remain to the right Heirs of the said I. B. to be held of the chief Lords of that Fee by the Services which to the said Mannor apperteineth for ever as in the said Fine is more fully conteyned And afterwards the said Prioress of the said ten acres of land being seized at C. in the County aforesaid Attornment of the Tenant unto the Lord. to the said I. and A. retorned her self by pretence of which Fine they the said I. and A. afterwards and before the said time in which c. into the Mannor with th' appurtenances entred and thereof at the said time in which c. were and as yet doe remain seized in their Demesn as of Fee-tayl And because the Rent aforesaid for eight years after the levying of the said Fine and before the said taking supposed to be done that is to say for eight years next before the Feast of St. Michael th'Arch-Angell in the fifth year of the Reign of the now King at the said time in which c. ended was in arrear unto the said I. and A. and as yet remaineth unpaid the said I. in his own right and in the right of the said A. doth well avow and the said H. as Bayliff of him the said I. doth well acknowledge the taking of the said Beasts and Chattels in the said place in which c. and justly c. that is to say for 14. shillings Rent aforesaid and of and for the six first years of the said eight years being behind and unpaid and upon the said Prioress as upon the true Tenant of them the said I. and A. in form aforesaid in the said place in which c. and within their Fee c. And this they are ready to prove whereupon they pray Judgement and the retorn of the said Beasts and Chattels to be adjudged unto them c. And the said Prioress saith The Plaintif saith that the Defendant never was seized of the Rent and Services in barre specified c. after the first going over of the Lord H. King Son of the King in Valton that she by any matter by the said J. and H. before alleged the said J. the taking of the said Beasts and Chattells in the said place in which c. to avow just nor the said H. the same taking in the same place in which c. to acknowledge just they ought not because portesting that there hath not been nor from the time of the said taking had there been any such Mannor called D. within the said County of K. protesting also that she hath not Attorned unto the said I. and A. as the said I. and H. have alleged protesting also that the said place in which c. is and at the said time in which c. was without the Fee of the Lordship of them the said I. and A. for Plea saith that the said I. and A. never were seized of the Rents and Services aforesaid or of any parcell thereof in manner and form which the said I. and H. before alleged after the first going over of the Lord King Henry into Vaston as by the said Avowment and Acknowledgement before supposed And this they are ready to prove whereupon from which the said I. and H. the taking of the Beasts and Chattells above acknowledging prayeth Judgement and her Damages by occasion of the taking and unjust detension of the said Beasts and Chattells to be adjudged unto her c. And they the said I. and H. say that they the said I. and A. were seized of the said Rent and Services by the hands of their true Tenant thereof in what manner and form they the said I. and H. before have alleged Issue of Scizin of Rent And of this they put themselves upon the Country And the said Prioress likewise c. Therefore c. Defendant prayeth Judgment of the Plaint retorned by the Sheriff upon a Recordare and saith that it is insufficient for that the Sirname of the Defendant was not put in the Plaint therefore that he may have the retorn of the Cattell c. ss AND the said I. C. in his person commeth and defendeth the force and Injurie when c. and prayeth hearing of the Plaint of the taking and deteyning of the said Cattell before the Sheriff of the said County made and here in Court at this day that is to say on the morrow of All Souls by virtue of a Writ of the said Lord the King of Recordare retorned and it is read to him in these words ss I. B. complaineth of the
c. into the possession of him the said R. by that deed ever passed into the said Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. before the said time in which c. entred upon the possession of which said R. thereupon the said S afterwards that is to say at the said time in which c. into the said Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. claiming the said Tearm then to come of and in the same re-entred and the said Close as the proper close of him the said S. then and there did break and the said grass as the proper grasse of him the said S. then and there growing with his cattell did eat up tread and consume as unto him it was lawfull and this c. whereupon c. Judgement if action c. NOt to be precluded because he saith that well and true it is that before the said time of the said Trespas done the said late Master and fellowes of the said late Colledge were seized of the said Mannor with the appurtenances whereof the said hundred acres of pasture with the appurtenances in which the said Trespas was done are and at the said time of the said trespas done and also from the time the contrary of which memory c. were parcell in his Demesne as of fee and so thereof seized they the said Master and fellows before the said time of the said trespas done and before the said demise of the said Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. unto the aforesaid S. in form aforesaid made that is to say the last day of January in the twentieth year of the Raign of the said late King at E. in the said county of N. by their certain Deed with the common Seal of the same late Master and fellowes Sealed whose date is the same day and year did demise and to farm let unto one E.B. and the said S. the said mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. to have and to hold to the same E. and S. from the feast of the invention of the holy Crosse from thence forth next insuing untill to the end and Tearm of â—fty years from thence next following and fully to be compleat in manner and form as the said S. in his bar before in pleading hath alleadged And further the same R. saith that by a certain Act in Parliament of the Lord Henry the eighth late King of England Father of the said now King at Westminster in the county of Middlesex the twenty eighth of Aprill in the thirty first year of the Raign of him the late King began and there then held and continued untill the twenty eighth day of June then next following amongst other things it was enacted ordained and established by him the late King and the Lords spirituall and temporall and also the commonalty in the same Parliament then assembled and by the authority of the same that not only all late Monasteries Abbyes Priories Monks Houses Colledges Hospitalls Fryers Houses and other Religious and Ecclesiasticall Houses and Places Scites Circuits Precincts Mannors Demesnes Granges Messuages Lands Tenemenss Meadowes Pastures Reversions Services Woods Tythes Pensions Portions Rectoryes Appropriations Vicaridges Chappell 's Advowsons Patronages Annuities Interests Entries Conditions Commons Courts Leets Liberties Priviledges Franchises and all the rest of the Hereditaments whatsoever henceforth immediatly and then presently but also all other Monasteries Abbyes Priories Monks Houses Colledges Houses of Monks Colledges Hospitalls Fryers houses and other religious and Ecclesiasticall houses and Places which from thenceforth afterwards should happen to be dissolved suppressed renounced forsaken forfeited surrendred or in any other manner come to the Kings most excellent Majesty and also all Scites Circuits Precincts Mannors Demesnes Granges Messuages Lands Tenements Mannors Pastures Rents Reversions Services Woods Tythes Pensions Portions Rectories Appropriations Vicaridges Churches Chappell 's Advowsons Nominations Patronages Annuityes Rights Interests Conditions Commons Court Leets Liberties Priviledges Franchises and other Hereditaments whatsoever belonging or appertaining unto them or any of them whensoever as often as they should be dissolved suppressed renounced forsaken forfeited surrendred or by any other means should come unto the Kings Excellency they should be vested deemed and adjudged by the authoriry of the same Parliament in the true actuall and reall seizin and possession of the said late King his heirs and Successors for ever in the State and condition as at the making of the same act then were and even as all the said late Monasteries Abbyes Priories Monks Houses Colledges Hospitalls Fryers Houses and all religious and Ecclesiasticall houses and places so dissolved suppressed renounced forsaken forfeited surrendred or come to the Kings Excellency as it is before said as also the said Monasteries Abbies Priories Friers Houses and all Religious and Ecclesiasticall Houses and Places which then afterwards should happen to be dissolved suppressed renounced forfeited surrendred or become to the Kings Excellency the Scites Circuites Precincts Mannors Demesnes Granges Lands Tenements and the rest of the Premises whatsoever should be in the same Act specially and particularly recited nominated and expressed by expresse Words Names Titles and Faculties in their kindes natures and qualities And further it was enacted by the said Authority that if any Abbot Prior Prioresse or other Ecclesiasticall Governor or Governesse of any Monastery Abbey Prior Monks House Colledge Hospitall Friers House or other Religious Houses or Places which then afterwards should happen to be dissolved suppressed renounced forsaken forfeited surrendred or come to the Kings Highnesse within one yeare next before the first day of the same Parliament had made or from thence afterwards should make any Demise or Grant under their Conventuall or common Seale or otherwise for tearm of yeares or life or lives of the Scite Circuit and Precinct of their aforesaid Monastery Abbey Priory House of Monks Colledge Hospitall House of Friers or other Religious or Ecclesiasticall House or Place or of any part of them or of any Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories appropriate Tithes Pentions Portions or other Hereditaments belonging or pertaining to their aforesaid late Monastery Abbey Priory House of Monks Colledge Hospitall House of Friers or Religious or Ecclesiasticall House or Place Which Mannors Messuages Granges Lands Tenements Rectories appropriate Tithes Pentions Portions and other Hereditaments whatsoever had not been before the same Demise commonly used to be let nor set to Farm but kept and reserved in the manurate Tillage or Occupation of the aforesaid Governor or Governesse for Maintenance of Hospitality and good House keeping or within one yeare next before the first day of the same Parliament had made or afterwards should make any Demise or Grant for tearm of life or for tearm of yeares of any Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Meadowes Pastures Woods Rectories appropriate Tithes Pentions Portions Churches Chappels or other Hereditaments whatsoever whereof and in which the State or Interest for tearm of life yeare or yeares at the time of the making any such Grant or Demise then had there being or continuance or after that time should have their being or continuance and then were not determined ended or expired or within one yeare next before the first day of the aforesaid Parliament had made or afterwards should make any Demise or Grant for tearm of life or for tearm of yeares of any Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Meadowes Pastures Woods
Rectories appropriate Tithes Pentions Portions Churches Chappels or other Hereditaments whatsoever upon which Demises and Grants the usuall and old Rents and Formes accustomed to be rendred and reserved by the space of twenty yeares next before the aforesaid first day of the same Parliament were not or should not be or afterwards had not been thereupon reserved and rendred or if any such Governor or Governesse of any such Monastery Abbey Priory House of Monks Colledge Hospitall House of Friers or other Religious or Ecclesiasticall House or Place which from that time should happen to be dissolved suppressed renounced lost forfeited surrendred or come to the Kings Highnesse within one yeare next before the aforesaid first day of the aforesaid Parliament had made or afterwards should make any Bargain or Sale of their Woods which Woods were then growing or standing that then all and every such Demise Grant Bargain and Sale of Wood or Woods should be altogether void and of none Effect as in the same Act amongst other things more fully appeares And further the same R. saies that the aforesaid late Master and the then Brotherhood of the Mannor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. in form aforesaid being seized before the said time wherein c. to wit the sixth day of the Month of December in the three and thirtieth yeare of the aforesaid late King Henry the eighth at the Colledge aforesaid by their certain Writing with the common Seale of them the said late Master and then Brother-hood sealed And in the Court of Chancery of him the said late King at Westminster in the County of Middlesex inrolled of Record whose Date is in the Chapter House of them the said late Master and then Brother-hood there the same day and yeare wâ—th their unanimous Assent and Consent and Deliverance of Mind certain knowledge and meer motion for certain just and reasonable causes them the said late Master and then Brotherhood conscientiously moving their Soules voluntarily and of their own accord they gave and granted and by that Writing did give grant render deliver and confirm to the aforesaid late King Henry the eighth their whole Colledge with their Appurtenances and the aforesaid Mannor of E. and other the Premisses with the Appurtenances whereof c. and the Reversion and Reversions of the same Mannor amongst other things to have hold and injoy the aforesaid Colledge with all their Appurtenances and the aforesaid Manner of E. and other the Premisses with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other things to the aforesaid late King his Heires Successors and Assignes to the sole proper behoofe use and profit of the same late King his Heires Successors and Assignes for ever as by the same Writing amongst other things more plainly appeares By virtue of which said Gift Grant and Act aforesaid the same late King was seized of the Mannor aforesaid and other the Premisses with the Appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesne as of Fee and Right in right of his Crown of England and being so thereof seized the same late King afterwards and before the aforesaid time of the Trespasse aforesaid made to wit the tenth day of December in the thirty fourth yeare of his Reigne by his Letters Patents which he the said R. brings here into Court whose Date is at Westminster the same day and yeare did give and grant unto Henry then Earle of Surrey the Mannor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other things And the Reversion of the same Mannor to have and to hold to him the said Earle his Heires and Assignes for ever By virtue of which said Letters Patents the same late Earle was seized of the aforesaid Mannor with the Appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesne as of Fee and Right and so being thereof seized after and before the aforesaid time of the Trespasse aforesaid made the same late Earle the twentieth day of May in the thirty sixth yeare of the aforesaid late King by his Indenture at E. between him the said Earle by the name of the Honorable Henry Earle of Surrey Knight of the Honorable Order of the Garter on the one part and the aforesaid Richard by the name of Richard Filmerston Gentleman of the other part which other part with the Seale of the aforesaid Earle signed he the said R. brings here into Court whose Date is the same day and yeare did bargain and sell to him the said R. the Mannor aforesaid with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other things by the name of the whole Mannor of E. with the Appurtenances in Suffolke and all Lands and Tenements Meadowes Feedings Pastures Woods Under-Woods Possessions and Hereditaments accepted reputed or taken as part parcell or Member of the aforesaid Mannor or to that Mannor in any manner pertaining as also all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments being of the aforesaid Earles in E. or elsewhere in the County of S. which the aforesaid Earle had of the Gift and Grant of the aforesaid late King or which pertained or belonged or were part parcell or member or unto the aforesaid Colledge or of the Possession thereof within three yeares next before the dissolution of the same Colledge to have and to hold the aforesaid Mannor and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the aforesaid R. his Heires and Assignes for ever as by the same Indenture amongst other things it more fully appeares Which sayd Indenture before Sampson Michell Clerke one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery of the aforesayd late King afterwards the same twentieth day of May in the thirty sixth yeare aforesayd as the Deed of him the sayd Earle by him the Earle was acknowledged and in the Chancery aforesayd the same day and yeare according to the forme of the Statute in that case published and provided was inrolled by which the same R. was seized of the Mannor aforesayd with the appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesne as of Fee untill the aforesayd S. afterwards to wit the aforesayd time wherein c. into the Mannor aforesayd with the appurtenances whereof c. did enter and the Close aforesayd then and there broke and the Grasse aforesayd then and there growing with the Cattell aforesayd did eate up trod downe c. in manner and forme as the aforesayd R. above against him complaines And further the same R. sayes That the aforesayd Demise of the Mannor aforesayd with the appurtenances whereof c. by the aforesayd late Master and the Brotherhood to the aforesayd E. Bestroy and S. in forme aforesayd made had
or had but by that whole time were and every part and parcell thereof was altogether discharged from the payment of such Tythes as afore it is said And whereas also such causes or businesses and the Cognizance of the same Pleas of Tythes against the form of the aforesaid Acts and Statutes demanded should not appertain to the Ecclesiasticall Court in any manner notwithstanding the said W.S. Farmer of the Rectory of R. in the said Counties of Warwick Worcester Diocesse not being ignorant of the Premisses thinking him the said W.C. against the due form of the Law of this Kingdom of England and against the form and effect of the said Statute unduly to grieve oppresse and weary and also the said now Queen and her Regall Crown and the Cognizance of Pleas to deprive which to the said Queen and her Regall Crown and not to the Court Christian doth belong to another Tryall in the Christian Court to bring him the said W.C. into the said Court before the Worshipfull c. as insuing of and for the taking away and non-payment of the Tyth of Hay by the said W. C. of in and upon the Tenements with th' appurtenances in the year of our Lord 1570. from thence comming had and taken the supposed Tyth of that Hay to have been thereout comming of the said Closes called R. and M. and of divers parcells of Meadow unto the same adjoyning and unto the Mannor of P. belonging and appertaining within the bounds and Limits of the said Parish Church of R. and the tythable places of the same brought into the Plea and the said W. S. him the said W. C. in the Court Christian aforesaid before the said spirituall Judge by the said occasion to appear and unto the said W. S. of and in the Premisses unjustly inforced to answer And although the said W. C. the said matter in this suggestion conteined in the said Court Christian before the said spirituall Judge in his discharge in the Premisses had pleaded and brought inevitable testimony to prove the same Notwithstanding the said Judge altogether refused to admit the said Plea and allegation And the said W. C. in the said cause if Substraction of the said Tyth to condemn and to compell him to pay the said Tyth of Hay by the definitive sentence of the said Court Christian and with all his forces indeavoured and from day to day was dâ—vising to the Contempt of the now said Queen and the Damage prejudice impoverishing and manifest grievance of him the said W. C. and against the force form and effect of the said Statute And this the said W. C. is ready to prove Whereupon the said W. C. most humbly imploring the aid and munificence of the Court of the said Queen unto him desireth Remedy and a Writ of the said Queen of Prohibition unto the said spirituall Judge or unto any Competent Judge in this behalf whatsoever to be directed that neither they nor any of them the said Plea touching the premisses in what manner soever before them or any of them may any further hold c. And it is granted to him c. A Declaration for that the Defendant 〈◊〉 pâ—osecuted in the Court Christian after the Queens Prâ—hâ—bâ—tion U. K. Esquire who aswell for the said Queen prosecuteth as for himself Complaineth of W.S. Farmer of all and singular the Tythes to the Rectory of the parish Church of Badby with Neâ—â—ham in the County of Northampton aforesaid in the Diocesse of Peterborrough and of the Province of Canterbury in the Custody of the Marshall c. of a Plea wherefore he is prosecuted in the Court Christian against the Queens Prohibition unto him formerly thereof to the contrary directed and delivered for that Suggestion for Prohibition for that the said Rectory unto an Abbot was appâ—opriate and hâ—ld discharged of the payment of any Tithes that is to say that whereas within the said Parish of B. with N. in the said County of N. there hath been and remained and from the time of which contrary the Memory of men remaineth not there had been accounted and there were aswell a Rector and a Vicar as a Rectorie and Vicarage of the parish Church of B. with N. aforesaid which said Rectory is and from time out of the memory of man was a Rectorie appropriate And whereas Philip late Abbot of the late Monastery of the blessed Mary of St. Ogwin of Eversham in the County of VVorcester at the time of the dissolution and suppression of the same late Monastery and all his Predecessors Abbots of the same late Monastery for the time being from the time out of the memory of man were seized aswell of the said Rectory with th' appurtenances as of D. acres of Land 40. acres of Meadow Together at once and all at once seized and 100. acres of Pasture with th'appurtenance in B. with N. aforesaid called the Demesns together and at once and all at one time in his Demesn as of Fee in the right of his said late Monastery and that by reason thereof the said late Abbot and all his Predecessors Abbots of the said late Monastery for the time being the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns and every parcell thereof from time out of mind untill at the time of the dissolution or suppression of the said late Monastery And also the said late Abbot at the time of the dissolution or suppression of that Monastery held and enjoyed discharged and acquitted of and from the payment of the Tythes following that is to say of the Tythes of Grain Hay of in or upon the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns yearly in whatsoever manner growing happening renewing or comming and the Tythes of Lambs and of Wooll sheer'd by Sheerers falling and happening of Sheep in or upon the said Tenements with th' appurtenances depasturing feeding and lying and also of the Tythes of Heifers and of Milk falling happening and milkt of Cowes in and upon the same Tenements with th'appurtenance depasturing feeding and lying and also the Tythes of Herbage and of whatsoever dry or barren Cattell in and upon the said Tenements with th'appurtenance depasturing feeding and lying and also of the Tythes of Pigs falling and happening of Sows in and upon the same Tenements with th' appurtenances depasturing feeding and lying and also of the Tythes of Wood and Underwood growing and happening in and upon the said Tenements with th'appurtenance And whereas the said late Abbots as well of the said Rectory with th'appurtenance as of the said Tenements with th'appurtenance called the Demesns for the payment of the said Tythes for the said occasion afore alleged is discharged as before it is said Statute of 31. H. 4. for holding religious Lands in such form as Abbots c. and others held being seized by a Statute in Parliament of H. 8. late King of England held at VVestminster the 23. day of April in the 31. year of
appurtenances in those years of the Lord depasturing feeding and lying c. and so repeat all the Tithes the Defendant sued for in the 8th day of October in the 31. year of the Reign of the said now Queen at London that is to say in the Parish of the blessed Mary in the Arches c. drew into Plea and the said Defendant him the said V. the now Plaintif into the said Court Christian before the said spirituall Judge by the said occasion altogether unjustly inforced to appear and to answer unto the Defendant of and in the premisses And although the said V. the now Plaintif the said Statute and the rest of the premisses in discharge of the payment of the said Tithes by the said Defendant in the said Court Christian as afore it is said being required often had pleaded and alleged and had brought to prove that truth inevitable testimony Notwithstanding which the said spirituall Judge altogether refused to admit that Plea and Allegation And the said Defendant him the said V. the now Plaintif in the said Court Christian in the said Cause of Substraction of the Tithes aforesaid with all his force indevoured and from day to day devised to condemn and to compell to pay the said Tithes unto him by the definitive Sentence of the said Christian Court. Delivery of the Writ of Prohibition alleged And although the Writ of Prohibition of the said now Queen unto the said Defendant the third day of November in the 31. year of the Reign of the said now Queen aforesaid at London aforesaid in the Parish of c. in this behalf in the premisses directed and was delivered Notwithstanding the said Defendant the said Plea after that Prohibition unto him to the Contrary thereof directed delivered as afore is said that is to say the seventh day of November in the 31. year of the Reign of the said now Queen abovesaid in the said Court Christian before the spirituall Judge at London aforesaid in the Parish c. was further sued and in that Plea proceeded notwithstanding the said Writ of the said Queen of Prohibition unto him in form aforesaid directed and delivered to the contempt of the said now Queen and to the manifest damage prejudice Impoverishment and grief of him the said V. the now Plaintif and against the form and effect of the said Acts and Statutes whereupon the said V. the now Plaintif who aswell c. saith that he is the worse and hath damage to the value of 26. pounds And thereupon aswell for the said Queen as for himself produceth the Sute c. with this that the sayd V. the now Plaintif will prove that the sayd V.R. who demised the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns unto the said V. the now Plaintif in form aforesaid is yet alive and in full life at B. with N. aforesaid remaineth And the said Defendant by Stephen Worley his Attorney commeth Defendant saith that the Abbot did not hold the Tenements discharged from the payment of Tithes and defendeth the force and Injury when c. all Contempt and whatsoever c. And saith that he did not sue the said Plea in the Court Christian aforesaid after the Queens Prohibition unto him to the contrary thereof first directed and delivered in manner and form as the said Plaintif above and against him Complaineth And of this c. And the said c. But for Consultation of the said now Queen thereupon had the said Defendant protesting that the said Rectory is not nor from the time c. was a Rectory appropriate Protestation and protesting also that the said late Abbot of the said late Monastery of the blessed Mary and St. Egwyn of Evesham aforesaid at the said time of the dissolution and suppression of the said late Monastery by all his Predecessors Abbots of the same late Monastery for the time being from the time of which to the contrary c. were not seized aswell of the Rectory aforesaid with th' appurtenances as of the said 500. acres of land 40. acres of Meadow and 100. acres of Pasture with th' appurtenances in B. with N. aforesaid called the Demesns Together at once and all at once together at once and all at once in his Demesn as of Fee in the right of his said late Monastery And also protesting that by reason thereof the said late Abbot and all his Predecessors Abbots of the said late Monastery for the time being did not hold the said Tenements with th'appurtenance called the Demesns and every parcell thereof from the time of which to the contrary c untill the said time of the dissolution or suppression of the said late Monastery in manner and form as the said Plaintif afore against him complaineth for Plea the said Defendant saith that the said late Abbot at the said time of the dissolution or suppression of that Monastery did not hold and enjoy the said Tenements called the Demesns and every parcell thereof discharged and acquitted of and from the payment of the said Tithes in manner and form as the said Plaintif before against him complaineth And of this c. And the said c. therefore c. England ss Mich. 11. 22. of Eliz. Statute of 13. R. 2. MEmorandum that such a day in that same Term before the said Queen at Westminster came Jo. Osborn in his proper person and giveth the Court of the said now Queen here to be understood that whereas in the Statute in Parliament of the late Lord Richard late King of England the second after the Conquest at Westminster in the County of Middlesex in the 13th year of his Reign held published amongst other things that the said Admiralls or their Deputies of any business within the Kingdom of England unless onely of a matter upon the Sea done Suggestion for a Prohibition to the Admiralty for that it holdeth Plea for words Statute of 15. year of R. 2. as in the time of the said now Queen Elizabeth the third year of the Reign of _____ late King of England was duly used and in no wayes whatsoever they themselves should hinder And whereas also in the Statute in Parliament of the late King Richard the second at Westminster aforesaid in the 15th year of his Reign held amongst other things Ordeined and firmly it remaineth that all manner of Contracts Pleas and Plaints and all other matters arising within the body of the County aswell by Land as by Water and also of Wreck of Sea the Court of Admiralty should in no wayes have the Cognizance power nor Jurisdiction Cognizance of Plea And that all such Contracts Pleas and Plaints and all other Emergencies within the body of the County aswell by Land as by Water as before is said and also Wreek of Sea should be tryed ended discussed and remedied by the Lawes of the Land and not before the Admirall nor by the Admirall nor by his Deputy in any
Lord John Chaplain of the Chauntery of the holy Virgin Petronill of Harvow of a Plea of taking and unjust deteyning of Cattell Pledges to prosecute and of those Cattell to be retorned if the retorn thereof should be adjudged unto I. T. and I. H. And upon this the said I. C. prayeth Iudgement of the said Plaint for that that the Chaplain of a Chauntry is not a name of Dignity and the said I. C. in that Plaint is not nominated by any Sirname whereupon he prayeth Judgement and that that Plaint may be made void and the retorn of the said Cattell adjudged unto him c. And because it appeareth unto the Justices here Retorn to be had Adjudged for insufficient Plaint before the Sheriff Plaintif in mercy Defendant without day that the said Plaint is not sufficient in Law to the said I. G. before the said Justices here to the same Plaint to be put to answer for that that the Chaplain of a Chauntery is not a name of Dignity And the said I.C. in that Plaint is not named by any Sirname It is Considered that the said I. shall take nothing by the said Plaint and be in Mercy for his false Clamour c. And the said I. C. shall goe thereupon without day and shall have retorn of the said Cattell c. Defendant avoweth the taking of the Cattell for Rent behind and for Homage and Fealty not done ANd the said I. B. in his own person cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. and doth well avow the taking of the said Cattell in the place in which c. and justly c. because he saith that one M. N. late the Wife of I. C. late was seized of one Messuage one plow-Plow-land twelve acres of Meadow and twelve acres of Pasture with th' appurtenances in C. in her Demesn as of Fee whereof the place in which it is supposed the said Cattell were taken is parcell and held the same of the said I. B. and of one I. P. and I. M. his wife as of his Mannor of C. by Homage and Fealty and at Escuage of the Lord the King fourty shillings when it should happen And at more more and at less less c. And by Service to doe Sute to the Court of them the said I. B. I. P. and I. M. of their said Mannor from three weeks to three weeks c. and by the Rent of 14. shillings one peny and half peny in every year at the Feasts of Easter and of St. Michael to Arch-Angel by equall Portions to be paid and also by the Rent of two shillings 6. pence yearly at the end of every fourteen weeks to be paid for the keeping of the Castle of Dover Defendant saith that he was seized of all the Services besides Homage and Fealty notwithstanding avoweth for all the Services they the said I. B. I. P. I. M. and M. the same Tenements with th' appurtenances of the said Castle by the same Rent of 2. s. 6. pence in like manner to be paid doe further hold of which said Services except Homage and Fealty the said I. B. and the said I. P. I. M. and M. were seized by the hands of the said M. as by the hands of their true Tenant And aswell for the said Rent of fourteen shillings and a peny half peny at the Feasts of Easter and of St. Michael th'Arch-Angel by ten years next before the day of the said taking remaining behind unpaid as for the 25. shillings of the said Rent of 2. shillings six pence unto them the said I. B. J. P. J. M. and M. by ten years next before the day of the said taking after the end of every fourteen weeks yearly in form aforesaid to be paid being likewise behind unpaid and also for Homage and Fealty of the said M. undone the said J. C. as in his own right and of the said J.P. J.M. and M. doth well avow the taking of the said Cattell upon the said Margery and upon their true Tenant in the said place in which c. as in parcell of the said Tenements of them in form aforesaid held and within their Fee c. And the said P. saith Plaintif saith that the place in which c. is out of the fee. that the said J.B. the taking of the said Cattel in the said place in which c. ought not to avow just because he saith that the said place in which c. is and at the said time of the said taking done was without the Fee and Lordship of the said J.B. J. P.J.M and M. and this he is ready to prove whereupon from which c. he prayeth Judgement c. And the said J. D. saith that the said place in which c. is and at the said time of the taking done was within the Fee and Lordship of him the said J. B. and of the said J.P. J.M. and M. in manner and form as the said I. B. by his said Avowment before hath supposed and not without his Fee And of this he putteth himself upon the Country and the said P. likewise c. Therefore commeth c. ss AND the said T.W. by T. S. his Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and Wrong when Defendant as to all the Beasts and Chattels besides c. he did not take and as to the residue saith that the property was in a Stranger and desireth Judgment of the Writ c. And as to all the said Cattell besides one Horse of the said Horses and all the said Chattels besides one Patel aforesaid at the said Town of P. taken saith that he did not take the said Beasts and Chattels Except before excepted in the form which the said R. before against him Complaineth And of this putteth himself upon the Country And the said R. likewise c. And as to the said Horse and Patell residue of the said Horses and Chattells the said T.VV. saith that at the time of the said taking the property of that Horse residue was unto one A. P. And the property of that Patel residue then was unto one P. T. and not to the said R. as he by his said Writ and Declaration supposeth And this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth Judgement of the Writ c. And for to have the Retorn c. And the said R. saith that his said Writ for the reason before alleged ought not to be made void because as to the said Horse and Patell residing Plaintif saith that the property was in himself saith that at the time of the said taking the property of the same Horse and Patell was unto the said R. in the form which he by his said Writ and Declaration hath supposed And this he prayeth that it may be enquired of c. Defendant saith as to the taking of the goods that the property was in the Stranger and justifie as his servants AND they the said R. S. I. N.Y
pence of the said Tenements unto the said T. W. his heirs and Assignes for ever at the feasts of th' Annuntiation of the blessed Mary c. and of St. Michael th'Arch-Angel to be paid by equall Portions and the said I. M. by his said writing willed and granted that if the said annuall Rent should happen to be behind in part or in all unpaid beyond any Term of the payment thereof before limitted that then it should be lawful unto the said T. W. his heirs and Assignes in all the said Tenement land Meadow feedings pasture and Woods and every parcell of them to enter and distrain and the distresses so taken thereupon to lead drive carry away and retain the same untill of all the said annuall Rent which then should be behind together with the damages and Expences had and incurred by occasion of the Not-payment of the said Rent unto the said T. W. his heirs or Assignes should be fully paid and satisfied by vertue of which said Grant of the said I. M. twenty six shillings and eight pence unto the said T.W. in his life that is to say Payment of a Rent charge alleged by which the Defendant was thereof seized at the feast of St. Michael th'Arch-Angel in the year of the said Lord Henry late King of England the seventh eighteenth at H. aforesaid did pay by which the said T.W. was of that Rent seized in his Demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seized the said T. long before the taking aforesaid supposed to be done that is to say the twelvth day of August in the third year of the Reign of the said now King at Feversham in the County aforesaid dyed thereof seized after whose death the said Rent with th' appurtenances descended unto the said T. as Son and heir of the said T. and because Eightteen pound thirteen shillings and four pence of the said Rent for seven years ended at the feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel next after the death of the said T. W. and next after the said taking supposed to be done unto the said T. were behind and as yet remaineth unpaid the said V. for five pound six shillings and eight pence of that Rent unto the said T. for the two first years of the said seven years next before the death of the said T. due as bailiff of the said T. doth well acknowledg the taking of the said Cattel in the said place in which c. as parcell of the said Tenements unto the distress of the said T. in form aforesaid charged And justly c. And this he is ready to prove c. whereupon he prayeth judgement and the return of the said Cattel to be adjudged unto him c. And the said S. M. saith Plaintif saith that the Grantor did not grant the annuall rent in barr specified Protestation that the said V. by any matter in his said acknowledgment before alleged the taking of the said Cattel in the said place in which c. ought not to acknowledg just because protesting that the said I. M. hath nothing in the said Tenements at the time of the Grant of the said Rent supposed to be done for Plea saith that the said I. M. by his said Writing gave and granted unto the said T. W. the said annuall Rent of the said fifty three shillings and four pence going forth of the said Tenements in manner and form as the said V. in her said acknowledgement before hath alleged And this he is ready to prove c. Whereupon from which the said V. the taking of the said Cattel before acknowledging prayeth judgement and his dammages by reason of the taking and detension of the said Cattel to be adjudged unto him c. And the said V. saith that the said I. M. by his said writting gave and granted unto the said T. V. the said annuall Rent of fifty three shillings and four pence going forth of the said Tenements in manner and form as the said V. before hath alleged and this she prayeth that it may be inquired of c. Cambridge Defendant justifies the taking of the hurdles for that that he was seized of the Mannor of C. and had accustomed to have folding within the Precinct of the same and that if any other any fold there should levy then it should be lawfull unto the Lord of the same Mannor the same fold to cast down flat and those hurdels to distrain and to keep untill c. And saith that the Plaintif hath levyed a fold within the precinct of the said Mannor c. Mich 33. H. 8. roll 100. ss AND the said T. Braken by I.W. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. All taking and whatsoever c. And doth well avow the taking of the said thirty six Folding Hurdels in the said two Ridges of Land and justly c. Because he saith that one T.D. Master or Keeper of the Kings Hall or College within the University of Cambridge vulgarly called the Kings Hall and the Fellowes of the same Hall or College were seized of the said two Ridges of Land in their Demesn as of Fee in the right of their said College and that the said T. likewise seized in his Demesn of and in the Mannor of Chesterton in the said County and the said T.B. and all those whose estate he hath of and in that Mannor with th' appurtenances they had and were accustomed to have free folding in and through the Precinct of the Town of Chesterton aforesaid and further the said T. B. saith that if any one any other folding within the precinct of the said Town of Chesterton without leave of the Lord of the Mannor of C. aforesaid for the time being did levy that then the Lord of the Mannor of C. aforesaid who for the time should be that folding by all the said time at his will hath accustomed to cast down flat and also those Hurdels of such folding so erected by the whole time aforesaid to distrain and at his will under safe custody likewise accustomed to put as long as and untill such those Hurdels in due manner out of his possession should be sued forth and because the said T. G. before the said time in which c. a certain fold in and upon the said two Ridges of Land in C. aforesaid by the command of the said Master and Fellowes of the said Hall or College without the leave of him the said T. H. with the said thirty six folding Hurdles did set up and levyed the said T. B. those thirty six folding Hurdles took and the same under safe Custody put as to him it was lawfull which is the same taking and detaining of the said thirty six folding Hurdles whereof the said T.G. before himself now Complaineth Enquire And this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth judgment and the return of those thirty six folding Hurdles and also dammage according to the form of the
the said T. late Prior and all his Predecessors heretofore Priors of the said Church from the time of which c. in the Right of that Church distreined and used to distrein for the said Rent and the Arrerages of the same in the said twenty acres of Land with th' appurtenances and in every parcell thereof when that Rent or any parcell thereof unto the Prior of the said Church for the time being by any Feast in which as is premised ought to be paid should happen to be behind unpaid and the Distresses so taken to lead chase carry away and wholly to retein them untill that Rent and the Arrerages of the same unto the Prior of the said Church for the time being should be fully satisfied and paid which said T. the late Prior afterward dyed The death of one of the Priors the Choosing of another after whose death the said now Prior was elected and made Prior of the said Church And because the said Rent at the time of the said taking supposed to be done was behind for two years next before the day of the said taking done unto the said now Prior unpaid the said R.B. as Bailiff of the said now Prior for thirteen shillings four pence of that Rent of those two years so being behind doth well acknowledge the taking of the said Cattell and Chattels in the said place in which c. And justly c. as in parcell of the said twenty acres with th' appurtenances unto the Distresse of him the said Prior of that Rent in form aforesaid charged And justly c. And this he is ready to prove c. whereupon he prayeth Judgement and the Retorn of the said Cattell and Chattells to be adjudged unto him c. ACTIONS OF TRESPASS upon the CASE TRESPAS UPON THE CASE Declaration for scandall of a Tytle ss R Stevens otherwise Walker complaineth of Thomas Gittens in the Custody of the Marshall c. for that namely that whereas the eighth day of October in the eleventh year of the Reign of the said Lady the now Queen one I. E. was seized in his Demesn as of Fee of and in one Messuage a hundred acres of Land fourty acres of Meadow two hundred acres of Pasture and twenty acres of Wood with th' appurtenances in H. in the said County and so being thereof seized the same I. afterwards that is to say the 22. day of October in the sayd eleventh year infeoffed the said R. of the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances to have to the said R. to him and his Assigns for ever by virtue of which the said R. into the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances entred and was and yet is thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee which said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances being desirous to sell to pay divers sums of money unto divers persons unto whom he was indebted the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances unto one G. P. and divers other subjects of the Lady the now Queen after the said 22. day of October in the eleventh sent aforesaid and before the 20. day of March in the twenty third year of the Reign of the said Lady the now Queen for one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England could have bargained and aliened the said Thomas well knowing of the Premisses craftily and deceiptfully imagining and intending the said R. of the Sale of the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances for a good value of the same maliciously to hinder and the right and Title of the said R. of in the said R. and the rest of the Premisses unjustly and untruly to extenuate scandalize and to bring into obloquy Afterwards that is to say the 22. day of March in the twenty third year abovesaid at H. aforesaid in the said County by colour of a certein Deed indented by one W.E. unto the said T. of and in the Premisses made in the presence and hearing of divers Venerable and of other worthy people of Credit subjects of the now Lady the Queen then and there being and hearing did speak these false feigned and scandalous English words and plainly with a loud voice pronounced and published that is to say I himself the said T. B. meaning have better right to half the Lands meaning the half of the said Messuages and Tenements above specified than he the meaning the same R. now Plaintif hath Which said W. E. had no right to sell the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses where in truth the said R. S. purchased the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances of the said I. E. who at the time of that purchase had right to sell the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances and where in truth the said T. E. nothing of right or lawfull claim of to or in the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances then had or as yet hath or in any manner whatsoever was able or is able lawfully to sell or demand by pretence of which said speech publication and claim aforesaid the said R. at any time after the 20. day of March in the twenty third year above said the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses Enquire whether these words are sufficient to maintain the said Action because the Defendant spoke the words in his proper right and tytle with th' appurtenances unto any person in no wise could bargain or sell by reason of which the said R. was not onely constreined to his great charges and costs to borrow of divers persons divers sums of money to be paid at the debt of him the said R. and also true it is the same R. for clearing of the said Title and Claym by the said T.G. in form aforesaid made and for the manifestation and proof of the right and title of him the said R. aforesaid of and in the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances he took upon him and underwent divers grievous Labours of his body and hath divers wayes spent vast sums of money and also certain other great dutifull Affairs of him the said R. doe remain undone and neglected Whereupon the said I. saith that he is the worse and hath Damage to the value c. Justification of the speaking of the scandalous words by reason of a Feoffment ss AND the said T. E. by E. B. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when c. And saith that he ought not to maintain an Action because he saith that the said W. E. tenth day of August in the eleventh year of the Reign of the now Lady the Queen was seized in his Demesn as of Fee of and in the Moitie of the said Messuage and the rest of the Premisses with th' appurtenances in H. aforesaid
R. that is to say upon the said thirty six Acres of Land growing eating up and Damage there unto the said R. doing the same W. W. that Colt for that Damage then and there as afore it is said done took and lead away as unto them it was lawfull And this c. whereupon c. Not to bee precluded because he saith that long before the said time in which c. the said R. M. in the said Bar before named was seized of the said Tenements with the Appurtenances in his Demesne as of Fee and so thereof being seized before the said time in which c. that is to say the twelfth day of August in the first yeare of the Reigne of the said now King Edward the sixth at A. in the said County of D. demised the said Tenements with the Appurtenances unto the aforesaid W. S. to have to him and his Assignes from the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell from thence next ensuing untill the end and tearm of three yeares from thence forth next following and fully to be compleat by virtue of which said Demise the same W. S. into the said Tenements with the Appurtenances before the said time in which c. entred and was thereof possessed and he the said W. S. of the said Tenements with the Appurtenances so being possessed the same W. S. before the said time in which c. the said Colt into the said Tenements with the Appurtenances to the Grasse there growing as the proper Grasse of him the said W. S. put to feed which said Colt was there the Grasse there growing feeding upon untill the said W. W. at the said time in which c. upon the Possession of him the said W. S. into the said Tenements with the Appurtenances entred and the said Close in the said place in which c. did breake and the said Colt then and there did take and lead away in manner and form as the same W. S. before against him complaineth And this c. whereupon from which the said W. W. the said Trespasse in form aforesaid done before acknowledging prayeth Judgment and his Damages by occasion of the said Trespasse to be adjudged unto him c. Defendant maintaineth Plea without this that the said stranger demised the said Tenements AND the said W. W. as before saith that the said Tenements with the Appurtenances are and at the said time in which c. were the Ground and Free-hold of the said R. M. by which the same W. W. at the said time in which c. into the said Tenements with the appurtenances as Servant of the said R. and by their Command entred and the said Close as the proper Close of him the said R. did breake and for that he the same W. W. found the said Colt the said Grasse of the said R. upon the Ground of him the said R. that is to say upon the said thirty six Acres of Land growing eating up Damage thereunto the same R. doing the same W. that Colt for that Damage Without this then and there as before is said done did take and lead away as to him it was lawfull without this that the said R. M. demised the said Tenements with the Appurtenances unto the aforesaid W. S. in manner and form as the said W. S. before in replying hath alleadged And this c. whereupon as before prayeth Judgment and that the said W. S. from his said Action against him the said W. W. had may be precluded c. And the said W. S. as before saith that the said R. M. demised the said Tenements with the Appurtenances unto the said W. S. in manner and form as the said W. S. before in replying hath alleadged and this he prayeth that it may be inquired of c. AND the said S. S. by W. D. his Attorney Suff. ss Defendant iustifies Trespasse by virtue of a Demise made by a Master of a Colledge cometh and defendeth the force and wrong when c. And as to the coming with force c. not guilty and as to the residue of the said Trespasse before supposed to be done the same S. saith that the said R. no Action because he saith that the said Close and also the place in which it is supposed the said Trespas before to be done are and at the said time of the said trespas before supposed to be done were a hundred Acres of Lands and Pasture with the Appurtenances in E. aforesaid parcell of the Mannor of E. with the appurtenances in the County aforesaid of which said mannor with the appurtenances long before the said time in which c. one G. W. Clark late Master of the late Colledge of R. in the County of Norffolke and the Fellowes of the same late Colledge were seized in their demesne as of fee in the right of their said Colledge and them the said late Master and fellowes of the said late Colledge of that Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c so thereof being seized they the said late Master and fellowes of the said late Colledge before the said time in which c. that is to say the twentieth day of December in the year of the Raign of the Lord Henry the eighth late King of England 30. at R. in the said County of Norffolke by their certain writing indented with the common seal of them the late Master and fellowes sealed and unto the Court of the Lord the now King here shewed whose date is the same day and year by their unanimous assent and consent did demise and to farm let unto the aforesaid S. his heirs Executors and Assignes the said mannor of E. with the appurtenances in the laid county of Suffolke with all arrable Lands and pasture of Sheep with all their appurtenances and other commodities unto the said Mannor and preimses belonging as well within the town E. aforesaid as within other towns unto the same adjacent with the Lands and Pastures lying at Dead-mans Grave to have and to hold the same Mannor with the appurtenances whereof c and other the premises unto the aforesaid S. his Executors and Assigns from the Feast of the invention of the holy Crosse last past before the date of the said writing indented untill the end and tearm of fifty years from thence forth next insuing and fully to be compleat by virtue of which said demise the said S. into the said mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. before the said time in which c. entred and was thereof possessed and the said R. claiming the said mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. by colour of a certain deed of demise unto him thereof made for the tearm of his life by the said late Master and fellowes of the said late colledge long before the said demise unto the aforesaid S of that mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. as afore is said made where nothing of that Mannor with the appurtenances whereof
ACTIONS OF PROHIBITION PROHIBITION ss MEmorandum England Suggestion where the Suggestor affirmeth the Tenement whereof the Tithes are required to be held parcel of a Priory that the Tuesday next after the Month of Easter in that same Term before the Queen at Westminster cometh W. C. in his proper person and giveth unto the said Queen here to be understood that whereas M.W. late Prioresse of the late Priorship of P. in the County of W. was of late seized of and in the same late Priorship of and in one Orchard one Close called the Barn-yard containing by estimation half an acre of Meadow and Pasture of one Close and Meadow called Mott Meadow conteining by estimation sixteen acres of Pasture in P. in the said County unto the same late Priory lately belonging and apperteining and parcell of the possessions thereof and from the time of which the Memory of men is not to the contrary untill the time of the Dissolution or suppression of the said late Priory and also at the time of the dissolution or suppression of the same for himself his Farmers or Tenants thereof for the time being amongst other things they had held and occupied discharged of and from the payment of any Tythe of Hay of in or upon those Tenements with th' appurtenances or any parcell thereof yearly in whatsoever manner by the whole time aforesaid growing renewing comming forth or happening and the said late Prioresse of the said late Priory and of the sayd Tenements with th' appurtenances so as it is beforesaid from the payment of the Tythe of Hay thereupon growing renewing or taken being seized discharged the said late Priory and all the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments unto the same late Priory lately belonging whereupon c. by force of a Statute in Parliament at Westminster in the County of Middlesex in the 27th year of the Reign of H. 8. Statute of â—7 year of H. 8. for suppression of land belonging unto religious houses late King of England held published were suppressed or dissolved and to the hands of the same late King by virtue of that suppression came by virtue of which the said late King was seized of and in the said late Priory and the said Tenements called M. Meadow and R. Close in his Demesn as of Fee in right of his Crown of England And whereas in the Statute in Parliament of the said late King H. 8. Statute of 31. year of H. 8. for the discharge of their land for the payment 〈◊〉 Tithes c. held at VVestminster aforesaid the 28. day of April in the year of his Reign the 31th amongst other things It was firmly Ordeined that as well the said late King his Heirs and Successors as all and singular other Persons their Heirs and Assigns who then had or from thenceforth afterwards should have any Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryer houses or other Ecclesiasticall houses or places Sites Circuits and Precincts of them or any of them or any Mannors Rectories Appropriations Tythes Pensions Portions or any Hereditaments whatsoever which before then did belong or appertein or which then did belong or appertein unto the said Abbeys Monasteries Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryer houses or other Religious and Ecclesiasticall houses or places or unto any of them they should have hold reteyn keep and enjoy aswell the said Rectories Appropriations Tythes Pentions Porsions as the said Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Fryer houses and other Religious and Ecclesiasticall houses Sites Circuits and Precincts Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments whatsoever and all of them according to their estates and every of their Titles discharged and acquitted from the payment of Tythes so freely and in as ample manner and form as the said late Abbots Priors Nuns Prioresse and Ecclesiasticall Governours or Governesses or of any of them they should have hold occupy possesse use or enjoy the same or any parcell thereof at the dayes of their dissolution suppression dissertion forfeiture Surrender or comming to the hands of the said late King of such Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryer houses or other Religious houses or places or at the day of Dissolution Surrender or be comming to the hands of the said Late King of any of them by the said Act or any thing in the same conteined to the contrary thereof notwithstanding by force of which said Statute or by pretence of the rest of the Premisses the said late King H. 8. held the said Premisses with the appurtenance called M. Meadow and R. Close by himself his Farmees and Tenants thereof had and held discharged from the payment of the Tyth of Hay of in and upon the same tenements with th'appurtenance or any parcell thereof yearly in whatsoever manner growing renewing comming or happening and so thereof being seized the said late King afterwards that is to say _____ day _____ in the year of his Reign _____ at Westminster in the County of Middlesex by his Letters Patents sealed with his great Seal of England and in due manner executed bearing date the same day and year gave and granted the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called M. Meadow and R. Close with th'appurtenance unto the aforesaid W.C. To have to him and his Heirs for ever To hold of the same late King as of _____ by pretence of which said Letters Patents the said W.C. into the said tenements called M. Meadow and R. Close with th'appurtnance entred and was thereof seised in his Demesn as of Fee and so thereof being seized the same tenements with th' appurtenances by himself his Farmers or Tenants had and held discharged from the payment of any Tyth of Hay of in or upon the said Tenements called M. Mead and R. Close or any parcell thereof yearly in whatsoever manner growing renewing comming or happening by pretence of the said Act and of the rest of the Premisses And whereas also in the Statute in Parliament of the said late King H. 8. Statute 31. H. 8. that no person should be sued or constrained to pay Tythes where c. The like Statute of the second year of Edw. the 6th held at Westminster aforesaid in the 31. year abovesaid It was enacted that no person nor persons should be sued or constrained to render give or pay any Tythes for any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom of England or by any Privilege or prescription were not chargeable with the payment of Tythes And further whereas in the Statute of the late King Edw. the 6th in the second year of his Reign amongst other things firmly it remaineth that no person should sue or otherwise Compell to render give or pay Tyths for any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdom of England or by any Privilege or Prescription were not chargeable with the payment of any such Tythes of Hay thereupon growing taken
his Reign amongst other things it was ordained and firmly remaineth that aswell the said late King his Heirs and Successors as all and singular such person and persons their Heirs and Assigns who then had or from thence afterwards should have any Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryer houses or other Ecclesiasticall houses or places Sites Circuits and Precincts of them or any of them or any Mannors Messuages Rectories appropriate Tythes Pensions Portions or other Hereditaments whatsoever they should be which belonged or appertained or which then that is to say at the time of the publishing of that Statute did belong or appertain unto the said Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryers houses or other Religious and Ecclesiasticall houses or places or unto any of them they should have hold retein keep and enjoy aswell the said Rectories appropriate Tythes Pensions and Portions as the said Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Colleges Hospitalls Fryer houses and other Religious and Ecclesiasticall houses and places Sites Circuits Precincts Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments whatsoever they should be and every of them according to their Estates and Titles discharged and acquitted from the payment of Tithes as freely and in as large and ample manner as the said late Abbots Priors Abbesses Prioresses and other Ecclesiasticall Governours and Governesses or any of them had held occupied possessed used reteined or enjoyed the same or any parcell thereof at the dayes of their dissolution suppression renouncing dissertion forfeiture giving up or comming to the Highness of the late King of such Monasteries Abbeys Priories Nunneries Hospitalls Friers houses or other Religious or Ecclesiasticall houses or places or at the day of dissolution suppression renuntiation desertion giving up or comming to the hands of the said late King of any of them by the said Act or any thing in the same conteined to the contrary thereof notwithstanding as by the said Statute among other things more fully it doth and may appear Giving up of the Abbey land by the Abbot unto the King The foresaid late Abbot as well of the said Rectory as of the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns from the payment of the said tithes was discharged as afore is said in form aforesaid being seized the said late Abbot the 28. day of January in the said 31. year of the Reign of the said late King H. 8. at Westminster aforesaid by the assent of the said late Monastery then called together by his certain Writing then sealed with the Conventuall Seal of the said late Monasterie and in the Chancery Court of the said late King at Westminster aforesaid then held and being and in due manner inrolled of Record bearing date the same day and year gave granted and gave up unto the said late King H. 8. the said late Monastery and also the said Rectory and the said Tenements called the Demesns with th' appurtenances amongst ather things To have and to hold unto the said late King his Heirs and Successors amongst other things for ever by virtue of which and by force of the said Statute the said late King H. 8. was of that Mannor Rectory and Tenements with th' appurtenances amongst other things seized in his Demesn as of Fee in the right of his Crown of England and so thereof being seized the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns and every parcell thereof held and enjoyed and ought to hold and enjoy discharged and acquitted from the payment of any Tithes aforesaid above in this behalf recited of in or upon the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns and every or any parcell thereof yearly in manner and form aforesaid above in this behalf alleged in any manner growing happening sheering milking or renewing by pretence of the said Act of the rest of the premisses and the foresaid late King of the same Tenements with th'appurtenance called the Demesns from the payment of the said Tithes in that manner aforesaid discharged in form aforesaid being seized the said late King Intailment made by Letters Patents of the King the 20th day of April in the 34th year of his Reign at Westminster aforesaid by his Letters Patents sealed with his great Seal of England and in due manner made and to the Court of the said now Queen here proffered bearing date the same day and year gave and granted the said Tenements with th'appurtnances called the Demesns unto one E.R. Knight and unto the Lady V. then his Wife To have and to hold to them the said E. and V Form of pleading of a Deed in the tayl and the Heirs males of the body of him the said E. lawfully begotten and for default of such issue the Remainder thereof unto one F. R. Esquire brother of the said E. and to the Heirs males of the body of him the said E. lawfully begotten and for default of such issue the Remainder thereof unto the right Heirs of one R. R. Knight then deceased late Father of the said E. for ever To hold of the said late King his Heirs and Successors in Chief by the Tenth part of one Knights fee As by those Letters Patents amongst other things more plainly it doth and may appear By pretence of which said Letters Patents they the said E. and V. into the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns entred and were thereof seized that is to say the said E. in his Demesn as of Fee tayl in form aforesaid and the said V. in her Demesn as of Free-hold for term of her life the Remainder thereof as aforesaid is remaining and the said E. and V. of the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns in that manner afore-spoken of being seized they the said E. and V. the same Tenements with th'appurtnances likewise held and enjoyed of and from the payment of the said Tithes before in this behalf alleged in whatsoever manner growing happening sheering milking or renewing By right of increase altogether discharged by pretence of the said Act and of the rest of the Premisses and so thereof being seized the said E. afterwards at B. with N. aforesaid dyed without Issue male of his body lawfully begotten and the said V. him survived and held her self in into the said Tenemenes with th'appurtences called the Demesns and was thereof solely seized in her Demesn as of Freehold for term of her life the remainder thereof in form aforesaid being And the said V. of the same Tenements with th' appurtenances in that manner afore spoken Note whensoever any doth allege land to be discharged from the paying of Tithes and the same land was conveyed from the King to divers persons the Plaintif in Prohibition ought to allege the same lands to be held and discharged by whatsoever persons using the same lands being seized She the said V. likewise held and enjoyed the said Tenements with th' appurtenances altogether discharged of and from the
payment of any the said Tithes above in this behalf specified in or upon the same Tenements with th'appurtenance called the Demesns yearly in manner and form aforesaid before in this behalf alleged in whatsoever manner growing happening comming sheering milking or renewing by pretence of the said Act and of the rest of the Premisses and so thereof being seized she the said V. afterwards at B. with N. aforesaid dyed of her said estate thereof seized after whose death the said F. R. in the said Letters Patents named in the said tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns entred and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee-tayl that is to say to him and the Heirs males of his body lawfully begotten according to the form of the said Gift and so thereof being seized the same Tenements likewise held and enjoyed from the payment of any Tithes aforesaid above in this behalf specified in or upon the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns yearly in manner and form aforesaid above in this behalf alleged in whatsoever manner growing happening comming sheering milking or renewing altogether discharged by pretence of the said Act and of the rest of the Premisses and so thereof being seized the said F. afterwards at B. with N. dyed of the said estate thereof seized after whose death the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns according to the form of the said Gift descended unto one V. R. Esqiure as Son and Heir male of the said F. R. in the Letters Patents as it is aforespoken mentioned by virtue of which the said V. R. into the said Tenements with th' appurtenances entred and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee-tayl according to the form of the said Gift And so thereof being seized the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns likewise held and enjoyed from the payment of any of the said Tithes above specified in and upon the same Tenements with th'appurtenance called the Demesns yearly in manner and form aforesaid above in this behalf alleged in whatsoever manner growing happening coming sheering milking or renewing altogether discharged by pretence of the said Act and the rest of the Premisses and so thereof being seized the said V. R. the first day of May in the 21. year of the Reign of the said now Queen at B. with N. at B. with N. aforesaid Lease for years demised the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns unto the said V. R. the now Plaintif to have and occupy to him and his Assigns from the Feast c. then last past untill the end and term of 21. years from thence next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended by virtue of which said Demise the said V. R. the now Plaintif into the said Tenements with th' appurtenances entred and was and as yet is thereof possessed and so thereof being possessed the same Tenements with th' appurtenances unto him as aforesaid Demised had and occupied and as yet hath and doth occupy and should and ought to have and occupy from the payment of any the said Tithes above in this behalf specified in or upon the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns yearly in manner and form aforesaid above in this behalf alleged in whatsoever manner growing happening coming sheering milking or renewing discharged by pretence of the said Act and of the rest of the Premisses And whereas farther by the Statute in Parliament held at Westminster aforesaid the fourth day of November Statute of 2. Ed. 6. that no person should sue for the payment of Tiths where c. in the second year of the Reign of the Lord Edward the sixt King of England among other things it remaineth enacted by Authority of that Parliament that no person should be sued or otherwise compelled to render give or pay any Tithes for any Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdom of England or by any Privilege or Prescription were not chargeable with the payment of any such Tithes or which were discharged by any open Composition as by that Act amongst other things more fully it doth and may appear And whereas also the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns and every part and parcell thereof from the whole time abovesaid of which the memory c. hitherto hath been and every part and parcell thereof was by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdom of England altogether discharged and acquitted of and from the payment of any the said Tithes above in this behalf recited of in or upon the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns and of in or upon every or any parcell thereof in whatsoever manner by the whole time aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid before in this behalf alleged growing happening coming sheering milking or renewing And whereas also the Cognizance of such like Causes or Businesses and the Pleas of the same of Tithes against the form of the said Act and Statute desired in such Case Cognizance of a Plea in Prohibition in no manner do pertain to the Ecclesiasticall Court Notwithstanding which the said Defendant not being ignorant of the premisses Imagining unjustly to grieve oppress and weary the said V. the now Plaintif against the due form of the Lawes of this Kingdom of England and against the form and effect of the said Acts and Statutes and also against the said now Queen and her Regall Crown and it doth not belong to the Court Christian to another Tryall in the Court Christian to draw the said V. the now late Plaintif in the Court Christian before the Worshipfull and learned Master Bartholmew Clark Addition of the Judge of the Arches of London Doctor of Law lawfull Deputy Officiall of the Court of Canterbury of the Arches of London of and for the substraction and not payment of the Tithes following That is to say of the Tithes of Wheat of Marsklyn of Barley of Oats Beans Tares of Hay and Wood in the year of our Lord 1589. now comming and also four other years the next preceding of the said years and moneths in the same concurring whatsoever more one than another of in or upon the said Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns growing happening and comming by the said V. the now Plaintif in those years of the Lord had and received And of and for the Substraction and not payment of Tithe of Calves Milk and Piggs in those years of the Lord falling milked brought forth and happening of Cowes and Sows of him the said V. now the Plaintif in and upon the same Tenements with th' appurtenances called the Demesns in those years of our Lord pasturing feeding and lying And of and for the Substraction and not payment of the Tithe of Wooll in those years of our Lord shorn of the sheep of him the said V. the now Plaintif in and upon the Tenements called the same Demesns with th'
May in the 30. year of the Reign of the said now King were in arrear unto the said I. Broker and Agnes not paid they the said J. Cop. T. Cop. and J. Horn as servants of them the said J. Broker and Agnes and by their Command at the said time in which c. the aforesaid Cattell in the said place called Wilpark by the name of Distresse for the said 30. shillings so as it is aforesaid of the sayd annuall Rent remaining behind Without this that they took the Cattell again for which cause they formerly had taken them they took and deteined as it was lawfull for them to do without this that the said J. Cop. T. Cop. and J. H. at the said time in which c. they took the said Cattell for the same occasion which before they had taken them as the said J. G. before against them Complaineth And this c. Whereupon he prayeth Judgement if an Action c. he ought to maintain c. Plaintif saith that the said Rent was not behind but that the said Cattell were taken for the cause before Venit ' fâ—c ' awards upon 2. Issues ss ANd the said I. G. saith that he by any matter before alleged from his said Action sued had of the taking and deteyning of the said Cattell against the foresaid I. Cop. T. Cop. and I. Horn ought not to be precluded because he saith that the said Rent was not in arrear unto them the said I. Broker and Agnes at the said Feasts as c. and so as before saith that the said I. Cop. T. Cop. and I. H. took the said Cattell for the same occasion which they formerly took them as the said I. G. before against them complaineth And this he prayeth that it may be inquired of the Country c. And the said I. Cop. T.C. and I. H. likewise c. therefore as to the trying of that issue as the other issue between the said parties before likewise joyned thereupon commeth the Jury before the said King from the day of S. Hillary in fifteen dayes wheresoever c. ss AND the said I. B. by T. A. his Attorney commeth Defendant avoweth the taking of the Cattell for that the Plaintif being his Tenant by homage Fealty and Escuage and sute of Court and because he did not Homage and Sute of Court at the said Court of him the Defendant he avows c. and defendeth the force and Injury when c. and doth well avow the taking of the said Cattell in the said place in which c. and justly c. Because he saith that the said I.G. doth hold of him the said I.B. as of his Mannor of S. in the same County one Messuage and two acres of land with th' appurtenances in the said Town of S. wherof the said place in which c. is parcell by Homage and at Escuage of the Lord the King 40. shillings when it should happen 40. d. and at more more and at lesse lesse And by service to do Sute to the Court of him the said I. B. of his Maannor of S. aforesaid at G. from three weeks to three weeks and by the Rent of ten pence unto him the said I. B. and his Heirs at the Feast of Easter and St. Michael the Arch-Angel by equall portions yearly to be paid of which said Services one T. P. grand-father of him the said I. B. whose Heir he is was seized by the hand of one R. F. then Tenant of the said Messuage and Land with th' appurtenances As by the hand of his true Tenant of which said R.F. the Estate of the said I.G. now hath in the same Messuage and Lands with th' appurtenances and from the said T. P. Grandfather c. descended the said Mannor and Services with th' appurtenances unto one Iohane P. as his Daughter and Heir of the said T. P c. And from her the said Iohane descended the same and Services with th' appurtenances unto the foresaid I. B. who now avoweth as Son and Heir of the said Iohane And because the homage of the said I. E. and also sute at the said Court of him the said I. B. holden at G. aforesaid sixth day of October next before the day of the said taking they justly belonged unto the said I. B. the said I. B. avoweth the taking of the said Cattell in the sayd place in which c. as in parcell of the said Tenements of him the said I. B. in form aforesaid holden above the said I. G. and above his true Tenant and within his Fee c. ss AND the said I. G. saith that the said I. B. the taking of the said Cattell in the foresaid place in which Plaintif saith that the place in which c. is without his Fee c. ought not to avow just because he saith that that place is and at the time of the said taking was without the Fee and Lordship of him the said I. B. And this he is ready to prove whereupon from that the said B. before hath acknowledged the taking and detension of the said Cattell he prayeth Judgement and his Damages by that occasion to be adjudged unto him c. ss AND the said I. B. saith that the said place in which c. is and at the time of the said taking was within the Fee and Lordship of him the said I. B. in the form which the said I. B. by his Avowment aforesaid hath supposed and not without his Fee and Lordship And of this he putteth himself upon the Countrey c. Defendant avoweth the taking of the Cattell for that one N.L. held the other parcel of land whereof the place in which c. is parcel of one R.B. whose Heir the Defendant is by Homage Fealty and Escuage and Rent of 20. s. by the year one I. L. hâ—d the estate of the said N. L. suffered the Homage to be unperformed and the Rent unpaid Discent ss AND the said I. T. by W.B. his Attorney commeth and Defendeth the force and injury when c. and doth well avow the taking of the said Cattell in the said place in which c. And justly c. because he saith that one N. L. was lately seized of six Messuages with th' appurtenances in little L. aforesaid in his Demesn as of Fee whereof the place in which c. is parcell and the said Messuage with th' appurtenances held of R. B. by Homage Fealty and Escuage of the Lord the King 40. shillings when it should happen 10. shillings and at more more c. and at lesse lesse c. and by the Rent of 20. shillings unto the said R. and his Heirs at the Feasts of Easter and St. Michael th'Arch-Angell by equall portions yearly to be paid of which Services the said R. was seized by the hand of the said N. as by the hand of his true Tenant of the said Fealty as of Fee and right and of the
deliver ss W Burton of L. Chaplain and B.W. were summoned to answer unto I.I. of a Plea wherefore they took the Cattel of him the said I.I. and them unjustly detained against the sureties and pledges c. And whereupon the said I. I. by I. C. his Attorney complaineth that the said W. and B. the day c. in the year c. In the Town of H. in a certain place called they took four score sheep of him the said Iohn and seaventy sheep thereof they unjustly detained untill c. And ten sheep residue thereof of the price of twenty shilling as yet unjustly detain against the sureties and pledges c. Whereupon he saith that he is the worse And hath dammage to the Value of twenty pound And thereupon he bringeth his Sute c. And prayeth that the said W. and B. may secure the delivery of the said Ten sheep unto him c. Defendant acknowledgeth the taking of the sheep as bailiffes of the Dean and Chapter c. of Lincoln with which the Dean and Chapter c. one annuall Rent of the burthen of a certain Mannor whereof the place is parcell thereout going was granted and liberty for not payment thereof to distrain c. And as to the rest of the sheep c. the defendant saith that the Plaintif hath deliverance there upon in the Countrey ss AND they the said W.B. and B.W. by T.S. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when c. And as Bayliffes of I. M. Dean c. Doth well acknowledg the taking of the said sheep in the said place in which c. And justly c. Because he saith that one R. S. knight son and heir of the Lord R. of S. in the County of L. was lately seised of the Mannors of H. and B. with th' appurtenances whereof the said place in which c. is parcell in his demesn as of fee and so thereof seized by his certain writing indented whose other part is signed with the Seal of him the said R. they the said W. and B. profer here in Court the date of which is at L the second day of June in the fourth year of the reign of the Lord the now King gave and granted and by his said Writing indented confirmed unto J. S. then Dean of the Church c. By the names of Dean and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of the blessed Mary of Lincoln and his Successors forever to the use and augmentation of the Support of five Chaplains of one Church and six singing boyes for the * Justification for the burthen of Rent Souls of the most illustrious Prince Lord Edward the third late King of England deseased and B. and the Souls of his Predecessors and of all the faithfull in the Chapell of St. Katherine founded in the Church aforesaid and also to the Aid of Sustentation of one Chaplain divine services for the said Souls and for the Soul of B. is to be celebrated by them the said five Chaplains and their Successors of a new Maintenance by Licence of the said Lord King Richard late had and obtained by the Chapter of him the said king dated at Westminster the 23. day of February in the aforesaid twentyth year of his Reign one yearly perpetuall Rent of twenty marks to be perceived yearly of all and singular his Mannors or Cattel Lands and tenements with th' appurtenances in H. to be paid unto them the said late Dean and Chapter and their Successors every year forever at two terms of the year that is to say at the feasts of Easter and St Michael th'arch-Angell by equall portions in the Court Chamber of the said Cathedrall Church At which said payment of the said perpetuall Rent of twenty mark unto the said late Dean and Chapter and at the said feasts faithfully as it was preadvised to be done obliged all and singular the said Mannors by the name of all and singular the said Mannors or Lordships lands and tenements of H. and B. with th' appurtenances in whosoevers hands they should be or come from thenceforth to come that if the said perpetuall annuall Rent of twenty marks should be behind in part or in all after any Term before assigned for the payment whereof then it should be lawfull for the said late Dean and Chapter Claim of distress for the Rent Charge and their Successors in all and singular the Mannors Lordships lands and tenements of him the said R. aforesaid with th' appurtenances in whatsoever hands they should come from thence in future for the said yearly Rent and the Arrearages thereof if any should be and the distresses taken to drive or carry lead away impound and retain aswell within the County as without wheresoever it should please the said Dean and Chapter and their Successors untill themselves of the said perpetuall yearly Rent together with all and singular the Arrearages of the same and the dammages which they should sustain and expend which they should lay out by reason of the not payment of the said continuall annuall Rent at the said Terms should be fully satisfyed By vertue of which gift and Grant of the said I. S. late Dean of the said Cathedrall Church chief of the same were late seized of the said Rent of twenty marks by the hands of the said R. S. then tenant of the said Mannor and tenements and because the said Rent unto them the said Dean and Chapter of the said Church Command to the Sheriff to deliver the Cattel whereupon the Plaintif desireth Security and the Defendant saith that he hath the deliverance in the Country A special Writ shall issue unto the Sheriff to deliver them c. Plaintif saith that he hath nothing in the Tenements unless a certain Demise unto him by one W. J. made and the Freehold and Fee thereof in the person of the said W. J. being and prayeth of the same W. aid and hath c. Prayer of Aid Summons in Aid by one year next before the day of the said taking was in arrear unpaid they the said W. and B. as Bailiffs of the said Dean and Chapter for 20. Marks of the said annuall Rent so being behind they doe lawfully acknowledge the taking of the said Sheep in the said place in which c. as in parcell of the said Mannors of the said now Dean and Chapter of the yearly Rent in form aforesaid charged with Distresse c. And as to the Sureties of the said Sheep He saith that he had deliverance thereof in the Country c. therefore the Sheriff is commanded that if the said I. I. had not the Deliverance of the said Sheep then the said Sheep he should cause to be delivered unto the said J. J. and whatsoever c. he should make known unto the Lord the King from the day of Easter in fifteen dayes wheresoever c. ss AND the said I. I. not acknowledging any matter by the said W. B.
was seized by the hands of the said I. as by the hands of his True Tenant And because aswell the said Rent unto the said T. was not paid as the said other Services were undone by two years next before the day of the said taking the said T. doth well avow the taking of the said Cattell in the said place in which c. as in parcell of the said Tenements of him the said T. in form aforesaid held Acknowledgeth the Avowment by the Plaintif Judgement that the Defendant shall have the retorn of the Cattell irreplegiable Defendant without day Plaintif in mercy Defendant avoweth the taking of the Cattell doing damage and the Plaintif prayeth that the Defendant may secure the deliverance unto him for that the same Defendant claymed no property in them And the Defendant find Pledges c. and within his Fee c. And the said I. saith that he cannot deny but that he holdeth of the said T. as of the said Mannor the said Tenements with th' appurtenances by the Services aforesaid Neither but that aswell the said Rent as those Services unto the said T. by the time aforesaid remained behind in the form which the said T. P. by his said Avowment hath supposed Therefore it is considered that the said T. shall got thereupon without day and that the said I shall take nothing by his said Writ but that he be in mercy for his false Clamour And that the said T. shall have the retorn of the said Cattell irreplegiable for ever ss AND the said M. by R.T. his Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and Injury when c. And doth well avow the taking of the said Cows in the said place in which c. and justly c. because he saith that he is seized and at the time of the said taking was seized in one Messuage and twelve acres of Meadow with th' appurtenances in the said Town of G. whereof the place in which c. the said Cows were taken is parcell in his Demesn as of Fee And for that he at the time of the said taking found the said Cows doing Damage in the said place in which c. the said M. those Cows in his ground and freehold so doing dammage took as to him it was lawfull And this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth judgement and the return of the said Cattel c. And upon this the said R. saith that the said M. as yet remaineth possessed of the said Cowes whereupon from which the aid M. hath claimed no property in the same Cowes desireth that the same M. may secure the delivery of the said Cowes unto the said R. and he findeth pledges of that delivery to be made that is to say R.T. of c. and W.S. of c. Therefore the said R. may have the delivery thereof c. And the said R. saith that he by any matter before alleged from his said action had ought not to be precluded Plaintif sayth that he was seized of one Messuage c. and that the same Plaintif and all those whose estate had used to have common c. in a certain Moor c. in which c. And so justifies using the common c. because he saith that he the day before the time in which it is supposed the said Cowes were taken and at the same time was seized of one Messuage and twelve acres of Meadow with th' appurtenances in G. and that the said R. and all his Ancestors and all those whose estate the said R. now hath had common of pasture in a certain Moor of the said M. called H. by the whole year and in six acres of Meadow with th' appurtenances in G. whereof the said place in which it is supposed the said Cowes were taken that is to say in the said Moor by all the year in the said Meadow after the grasse was cut and the Hay thereof coming made and carried away with all his Cattle depasturing and so faith that he for using his said common in the said place called H. put the said Cowes in the said Moor As it was lawfull for him to doe And this c. whereupon c. And the said M. saith that the said Moor and Meadow Defendant saith that the said Moor is his freehold without this that the Plaintif and all his ancestors c. used to have common c. Without this of him the said M. are the ground and freehold of the same M. and at the time of the said taking were without this that the said R. and all his Ancestors and all those whose estate the said R. now hath in the same twelve acres of Meadow had common of pasture in the said Moor and Meadow as the said R.G. before hath alleged And this c. whereupon c. as before prayeth judgment c. And the said R. saith that he and all his Ancestors whose estate the said R. now hath in the said Messuage and twelve acres of Meadow had common of pasture in the said Moor and Meadow as the said R. before hath alleged and this he prayeth that it may be enquired of c. ss AND the said R.A. by R.C. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when Defendant allegeth that the Plaintif held of him by Homage fealty and three shillings rent and sute of Court and to render a Herriot at death or alienation of every tenant and that the Plaintif did not doe sute of court and so avoweth the taking c. c. and doth well avow the taking of the said Cattel in the said place in which c. and justly c. because he saith that the said T. Harrington at the time of the said taking supposed to be done and long before he was seized of one Mesuage and one Virge of Land with th' appurtenances in B. aforesaid whereof the said place in which c. is and at the said time of the said taking supposed to be done was parcell in his Demesn as of Fee and so seized the same held of the aforesaid R. A. as of his Mannor of B. in C. aforesaid by Homage fealty and three shillings Rent unto the said R.A. at the feasts of St. Michael the Archangell and the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary by equall portions yearly to be paid by the Service to doe sute to the Court of him the said R. of his said Mannor from three weeks to three weeks there to be held And also by the service to render aswell after the death of every Tenant of the said Messuage and of one Virge of land Seised of services with th' appurtenances dying seised As after every alienation thereof made or to be made the best living thing which was of him the said Tenant by the name of Herriot Of which services the said R.A. was seized by the hands of the said T. H. as by the hands of his true Tenant that is to say of
the said Homage fealty and sute of Court as of fee and right and of the said Rent and residue of the said Services in his Demesn as of Fee And because the sute of him the said T. H. at the Court of the said R. A. held at his said Mannor on fryday next after the Epiphany of our Lord in the fourteenth year of the reign of the now King unto the said R. A. remaining undone the said R. A. doth well avow the taking of the said Cattel in the said place in which c. as in parcell of the said tenement of him the said R. A. in form aforesaid held and upon the said T. H. as upon his true Tenant thereof c. And within his fee c. And this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth judgment and the return of the said Cattel to be adjudged unto him c. Defendant protesting that he did not hold the premisses by the services in the avowment of the Plantif specifyed and that the Defendant was not of the same seized c. for Plea saith that he holdeth by fealty 3. shillings tent onely without this that he holdeth as above And the said T. H. saith that the said R. A. by any thing before alleged the taking of the said Cattel ought not to avow just because protesting that the said T. doth not the said Messuage and Virge of land with th' appurtenances of the foresaid R. A. by the said services in the avowment of him the said R. before specified c. And protesting also that the said R. A. was not seized of the said services by the hands of him the said T. in manner and form as the said R. A. before hath alleged for Plea saith that the said T. doth hold the said Messuage and Virge of land of the aforesaid R. A. as of his Mannor of B. by fealty and the Rent of three shillings onely for all services and ancient demands without this that the said R. A. was seized of the said services to doe sute at the Court of him the said R. A. of his said Mannor from three weeks to three weeks there to be held and of the residue of the said services in manner and form as the said R. A. in his said avowment before hath alleged and this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth Judgement and his Damages by that occasion to be adjudged unto him c. And the said R. A. saith Issue upon the Tenure that the said R. was seized of the said Services to do Sute to the Court of him the said R. of his said Mannor from three weeks to three weeks there to be held and of the residue of the said Services in manner and form as the said R. before hath alleged And of this he putteth himself upon the Country and the said T. likewise c. ss AND the said I.T. and H. by R. M. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and injury when The form of a Plea where the Defendant took more Beasts and Chattels than the Plaintif by his Declaration supposeth himself to have taken the Defendants say as to one Horse they did not take as to the residue say that he the said J.D. one of the Defendants in right of his Wife was seized of the Mannor of D. of which Mannor the Plaintif holdeth ten acres of land wherof c. of the Defendant by Fealty and four shillings Rent and to do Sute of Court and a Fine was leavyed of the same Mannor between W.F. Plaintif and the said I. E. and his Wife and that afterwards the said W. F. granted the said Mannor unto the said I.E. and his Wife and to the Heirs of their bodies c. in Fee-tayl and that after the Plaintif attorned unto them the said I. P. and his Wife and because the said Rent was behind the Defendants took the Beasts c. c. and as to the taking of one Horse of the said Horses they the said J. and H. say that they did not take that Horse in manner and form as the said Prioress before against them complaineth And of this they put themselves upon the Country And the said Prioress likewise c. And the said I. and H. further say that they at the time in which the taking of the said Cattell is supposed to be done they took four Horses of the said five Horses in the said Declaration specified and also one Cart with six Stacks of Barley in the same Cart being with the whole Tacklyn to the sayd Cart belonging that is to say Cartharness for the said four Horses in the same Cart to be drawn of the said Oxen and Cattell of the said Piroress in the said place in which c. which said four Horses and the said Cart with the said six Stacks of Barley in the same Cart being and the said Cattell that is to say the tackling of the said Cart called Horse Harness for the said four Horses drawing that Cart of I.N. Knight Sheriff of the said County at the Complaint of the said Prioress unto the said Prioress caused to be replevyed and of the said four Horses and Chattells the said I. in his own right and of Anne his Wife doth well avow And the said Hen. as Bailiff of the same I. doth well acknowledge the taking of the said Cattell in the said place in which c. and justly c. because he saith that the said place in which c. doth contein in it self ten acres of land with th' appurtenances in C. aforesaid whereof the said Prioress at the said time in which c. long before c. was seised in her Demesn as of Fee in the right of her said Monastery and so thereof being seized held the same of the said I. and A. his Wife in the right of her the said A. as of her Mannor of D. in the said C. of K. by Fealty and the Rent of 4. shillings every year at the Feast of St. Michael th'Arch-Angell to be paid and by Service to do Sute at the Court of them the said I. and A. of their said Mannor from three weeks to three weeks there to be held of which Services the said I. and A. in the right of her the said A. were seized by the hands of the said Prioress as by the hands of their then true Tenant that is to say of Fealty and Sute of the said Court as of Fee and in right and of the said Rent in their Demesn as of Fee And them the said I. and A. in the right of her the said A. so of the said Mannor Rent and Services being seized long before the said time A Fine levied where the wise is Cognisee seized of the lands acknowledged in which c. that is to say in Eight dayes of St. Michael in the 21. year of Henry late King of England and France the seventh from the Conquest in the Court of him the said late King
I.G. and W. by I.B. their Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and injury when c. and as to the taking and deteyning of the said five Cart-â—oad of Wheat in Sheaves ten Cart-load of Barley in Sheaves ten Cart-load of Oats in Sheaves and eight Cart-load of Hay they the said R.S. I.N. Y. I. G. and VV. prayeth Judgement of the Writ c. because they say that the property of those Chattel's at the time of the said taking supposed to be done was unto R. S. of I. c. and T. H. by which they the said R. the now Defendant I.N. Y. I.G. and W.V. Servants of him the said R. S. of L. c. and T. H. and by their Command at the said time in which took and deteyned the Chattels and the same as yet they detein as unto them it is lawfull And this they are ready to approve whereupon as to the taking and detension of those Chattels they pray Iudgement of that Writ c. And as to the taking of the said Cattell they the said R. S. the now Defendant I. N. Y. I. G. and W. as Bailiffs of the said R. S. of L. and T. doe well acknowledge the taking of those Cattell in the said place As to the taking of the Cattell the Defendants justifie as servants of another doing damage in which c. and justly c. because they say that the said in which c. is supposed the taking of those Cattell to be done is and at the said time in which c. was the ground and Free-hold of the said R. S. of L. and T.H. And that those Cattell at the same time were in the same place eating the grass there then growing and Damage there doing by which they the said R. S. the now Defendant I. N. Y. I. G. and VV. as Bailiffs of the said R. S. of L. and T. at the said time in which c. took and deteyned those Cattell and the said Ewe-sheep as yet they detein as to them it was lawfull and this they are ready to prove whereupon they pray Judgement if the said I. his Action thereupon against them ought to have c. And the said R. S. of L. and T. pray retorn of the Oxen Steers Cows Calf Heifers and the said Living goods to 〈◊〉 adjudged unto them The Plaintif prayeth that the Defendant may secure unto him of some of the Cattell for that he hath not claimed any property Defendant as to parcell saith that he put them in an open Pound and in default of the Plaintif with hunger they perished to find pledges of deliverance for the residue And upon this the said I. N. saith that the said R. S. the now Defendant I. N. Y. I. G. and VV. of the said Ewe-Sheep whereof out of which they the said R. S. the now Defendant I. N. Y. I. G. and VV. have claymed no property in the same Ewe-sheep prayeth that they the said R. S. the now Defendant I.N.Y.I.G. and VV. may put in Security here in Court unto the said I. N. for the Delivery of the same Ewe-sheep Upon which they the said J.S. the now Defendant J. N. Y. J. G. and VV. as to the Security and Delivery of two Ewe-sheep of the said three Ewes say that the Delivery thereof unto the said I.N. they ought not to secure because they say that immediatly after that they the said Cattell in form aforesaid took those Cattell they put in a certain open Pound at C. in the County aforesaid and afterwards the said two Ewe-sheep with hunger and for want of Sustenance in default of him the said I. M. there perished And this they are ready to prove whereupon they pray Judgement if they ought to secure the Deliverance of those two Sheep unto the said I. N. c. which said matter to the securing of the Deliverance of those two Sheep the said I. N doth not gainsay and as to the Deliverance of that one Ewe-sheep as is before said deteyned they the said R.S. the now Defendant I. N. Y. I. G. and W. they have found pledges of the Deliverance thereof to be made unto the said I. N. namely I. Hercum and J. Beuning Plaintif saith that the property of the Chattels was his and not anothers as to the residue pleads a certain Demise unto him made by virtue of which he entred and was thereof possessed until another disseised him and after that the Plaintif put Cattell in the place in which c. And that the Defendant took the same Def. pleads a Demise at will c. therefore the said I. N. may have the Deliverance thereof c. ss AND the said I. N. saith that his said Writ as to the taking and Detension of the said Chattels for the reason before alleged ought not to be made void because he saith that the property of those Chattels at the said time in which c. was unto the said I. N. and not unto the said R. S. of L. and T. as the said R. S. the now Defendant and the others above have alleged and this he prayeth may be inquired of by the Countrey and the said R. S. the now Defendant and others likewise c. And as to the taking of the said Cattell the said I. N saith that the said R.S. the now Defendant and the others the taking of those Cattell ought not acknowledge just because he faith that the said place called W. in which c. is and at the time of the said taking was three closes conteining Ten acres of Land and eight acres of Pasture in L. aforesaid whereof the said W. H. long before the said time was seized in his Demesn as of Fee and so thereof seized before that time in which c. that is to say the Tenth day of January in the Tenth year of the Reign of the said now King at G. in the County aforesaid those Closes with th' appurtenances amongst other Lands Tenements in G. aforesaid demised unto the said I.N. to have and occupy unto the said I. N. from the same Tenth day of January from thence next following and so from year to year at the will of him the said W. H. paying therefore yearly unto the said W. H. as long as the said I. N. those Closes and also the said Lands and Tenements by reason of that Demise should have and occupy 26. shillings 8. pence to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael th'Arch-Angell by virtue of which Demise the said I. N. of the said Closes together with those Lands and Tenements was possessed untill they the said R. S. of L. and T. H. the aforesaid W. H. of those Closes before the said time in which c. Disseised and from those Closes of him the said I. N. expelled and amoved by which they the said R. S. of L. and T. were seized in those Tenements with th' appurtenances in their Demesn as of Fee by Disseisin And after that the said
Statute in such case made and provided to be adjudged unto him c. Plaintif saith that the Master and Fellowes of the Kings Hall in Cambridge of the Mannor of Rectory of Chesterton And the said T.G. saith that the said T.B. by any matter before alleged the taking of the said thirty six folding Hurdles in the said place in which c. ought not to avow just because he saith that the Master or keeper of the said Hall or College and the Felowes c. at the said time in which c. were seized of the Mannor of the Rectory of Chesterton aforesaid whereof the said two Ridges of Land are and at the said time in which c. were parcell and the said Master or Keeper of the said Hall or College and the Fellowes Whereof c. They the said Master and Fellowes accustomed to have for themselves and their farmors free folding in the whole precinct of the Town of C. without this that the Defendant c. Without this c. and all those whose estate they had in the Mannor of the said Rectory had and were accustomed to have for themselves their Tenants and Farmers free folding in and through the whole Precinct of the Town of C. aforesaid by reason of his said Mannor without any Contradiction or leave of any to hinder By which the said T. G. as Farmer of the said Master and Fellowes of the said College or Hall set up the said fold as unto him it was lawfull Without this that the said T. B. and all those whose estate he hath of and in the Mannor of C. had and were accustomed to have any free fold in and through all the precinct of the Town of C. aforesaid as the said T. B. by his said avowment before hath acknowledged prayeth judgment and his dammages by reason of the taking of those thirty six folding Hurdles to be adjudged unto him And the said T. B. as formerly saith that they and all those whose estate he hath in the said Mannor of C. aforesaid had and were accustomed to have free folding in and through the whole Precinct of the Town of C. aforesaid as he by his said avowment before hath alledged And of this he putteth himself upon the Countrey c. ss PEter Marton was attached to answer N.C. of a Plea wherefore he took the goods and Chattels of him the said N. and the same unjustly detained against the Sureties and pledges c. And the said P. by W.W. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and wrong when Defendant as Major of a Burrough Town justifies the taking of the skins for Toll denied Burrough Town c. And doth well avow the taking of the said Oxe skins in the said place in which c. and justly c. Because he saith that the said Town of Helliston is and from the time of which the Memory c. was an ancient Town corporate of Major Bailiffs and Burgesses of the Town of H. within which said Town they the said Major Bailiffs and Burgesses and all their Predecessors Majors Bailiffs and Burgesses of that Town for the time being from the time of which contrary the Memory of men doth not c. had and from all the said time used to have a certain market in every Saturday in the year in which said Market they the said Majors Bailiffs and Burgesses they took and accustomed to take a certain Toll of all and all manner Oxen and Cowes skins of whatsoever person or persons of the same Toll not lawfully discharged or otherwise with the same Majors Bailiffs and Burgesses concerning the same Toll agreed and accorded within the Precinct of the said Town that is to say of every Buyer of Beef Skins in the said Market so sold unto any person or persons foreiners One half-pennie and if any refuse to pay that Toll then the said Major Bailiffs and Burgesses and all their Predecessors Majors Bailiffs and Burgesses of the said Town for the time being from the time of which contrary c. used and accustomed by themselves their officers or Servants within that Town or within the Precinct of the same Town to take and keep such Oxen and Cowes skins so in the said Market being sold untill the said Toll thereof be paid and the said P. saith that the said N. before the said time in which c. at H. aforesaid within the Precinct of the said Town that is to say in the Market place there he bought the said two Oxe skins in the Market day of the same Town upon which the said P. the then Major of the said Town at the said Town in which c. at H. aforesaid demanded of the aforesaid N. one penny unto the said P. the then Major of the said Town and to the Bailiffs and Burgesses of the same Town due for Toll for the said two Oxes skins at the same time in the said place in which c. being which said pennie and every parcell thereof the said N. unto the said P. to the use of the said P. at that time Major of the said Town Bailiffs and Burgesses then and there refused to pay by which the said P. then Major of the said Town the said two Beef skins of the said goods and Chattels of the said N. then and there being for the same penny in form aforesaid denied at H. aforesaid in the said place in which c. in the same time doth well avow the taking of the said two skins for the said Toll in form aforesaid denied and refused And this he is ready to prove whereupon he prayeth judgment and return of those two skins to be adjudged unto him c. Plaintif saith that he is Burgesse of the Burrough of Bodmin and that by reason thereof he is discharged of all Tolls within the Town of H. in barr specified And the said N. C. saith that the said P. by any matter before alleged the said taking of the said two skins in the said place in which c. ought not to avow just because he saith that he the said N. at the time of the taking of the said skins and long before that was a free Burgesse of the Burrough of the Lord the King at Bodmyn in the said County And that the said Burrough of Bodmyn is and from the time of which contrary the Memory of men doth not remain was an ancient Burrough of a Major Bailiffes and Burgesses of that Burrough within which said Burrough all the Burgesses of that Burrough and their Predecessors Burgesses of the same Burrough from the time of which contrary c. were and from all the time aforesaid were used to be discharged freely and quietly from all Tallages and Tolls aswell within the said Town of Helliston as in and through all C. aforesaid and that they may freely buy and fell all and singular Marchandize things and Wares aswell within the said Town of H. or otherwhere without Toll
Freehold of him the said I. he did break and enter and the said R. from the possession of the said House expelled and amoved and him the said R. from the possession thereof by the time aforesaid withheld and kept as to him it was lawfull And this c. whereupon c. ss AND the said R. B. saith that he by any thing Replication c. ought not to be precluded because he saith that the said House in which the Trespass aforesaid was done is and at the time in which c. was the ground and Freehold of him the said R. and not the ground and Freehold of him the said I. in manner and form as the said T. above in pleading hath alleged and this he prayeth may be enquired c. Defendant pleads to part property in himself and to the residue that he did not take ss AND the said G. and E. by I. B. his Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and Injury when c. and prayeth Judgement of the said Writ because as to the taking and detention of three of the Topsail of the Tapestry and other things c of the aforesaid goods and chattells in the said Declaration above specified parcell they the said G. and E. say that the property of the same goods and chattells parcell c. at the said time of the taking aforesaid above supposed to be done was in them the said G. and E. and not in the said I. in manner and form as the said T. himself doth now Complain and this c. whereupon he prayeth c. and that the said Declaration as to the taking and deteining of the said goods and chattels parcell may be made void c. and as to the residue of the goods and chatteâ—ls in the said Declaration above specified they the said G. and E. say that they did not take those goods and chattells residue c. in manner and form as the said T. above in his Declaring hath all god And of this he putteth himself upon the Countrey and the said T. likewise c. Replication for other parcell ss AND the said T. saith that the Declaration aforesaid as to the taking and deteining of the said goods and chattells parcell c. by any matters by the said G. and E. above by pleading hath alleged ought not to be made void because he saith that the property of the said goods and chattells parcell c. at the said time of the said Caption done was in the said T. and not in them the said G. and E. in manner and form as they the said G. and E. above in pleading have alleged And this he prayeth c. and the said c. likewise therefore as to the Tryall of that Issuâ— as the aforesaid other Issues between the said parties above likewise joyned Cometh thereupon the Jury c. and upon this the Plaintif findeth Pledges to deliveâ— the goods and chattells of the Defendant c. Defendant just fiâ—th as Tenant of the Plaintif by Copy of Court Roll of the Mannor of Foaley ss AND the said Defendant by I. S. his Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and injury when c. and as to the comming with force and arms c. not guilty and as to the rest of the Trespass aforesaid above supposed to be done the said Defendant â—aith that the said Plaintif ought not to have an action because he saith that the Close and house aforesaid and also the places in which the Trespass aforesaid is supposed to be done are and at the time of the said Trespass above supposed to be done were one Messuage and two acres of Land with th' appurtenances in Foxley aforesaid which said Messuage and two acres of Land with th' appurtenances at the time of the said Trespass above supposed to be done and also from the time of the Memory of man were parcell of the Mannor of Foxley of which said Mannor with th' appurtenances aforesaid which is and at the said time in which c. and also long before the said time in which c. was seized in his Demesn as of Fee and that the same Messuage and two acres of Land with th' appurtenances are and by all the said time were and are Customary Land and from the whole time aforesaid of which the Memory of men is not to the contrary were Demised and Demiseable by Copy of Court-Roll of the Mannor aforesaid by the Lord of that Mannor or his Steward of that Mannor for the time being unto whatsoever person or persons would be willing to take the same in Fee-simple Fee-tayl at Term of life or of years at the will of the Lord according to the Custome of the said Mannor and the said Plaintif of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. as aforesaid being seized the said Plaintif before the time aforesaid in which c. that is to say the twelfth day in the thirty sixt year of the Reign of H. 8. late King of England at F. aforesaid at the Court of that Mannor then there held at the said Mannor by one I. W. then his Steward there by Copy of Court Rolls of that Mannor granted the Tenements aforesaid with th' appurtenances in which c. the said Defendant to have to himself and his Heirs for ever To hold of the said Plaintif by a Rod at the Will of the Lord of that Mannor by the Rent and Service thereupon due and accustomed by virtue of which Grant the said Defendant into those Tenements with th' appurtenances in which c. before the foresaid time in which c. he entred and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee at the Will of the Lord of the said Mannor according to the Custome of the said Mannor and he the Defendant being so thereof seized the said Defendant the foresaid time in which c. the Close and House aforesaid with th' appurtenances in which c. as the proper Close and House of him the Defendant did break and enter and the aforesaid Oak in and upon the said two acres of Land then growing as the proper Oak of him the Defendant did cut down and carry away as to him it was lawfull and this c. whereof c. ss AND the said Plaintif saith Plaintif confesseth the Defendant to be his tenant by Copy of Court Roll but saith that the same Defendant forfeited his estate to him by doing waâ—â— in cutting down an Oak of the age of ten years that he ought not to be precluded because he saith that well and true it is that he the said Plaintif is and at the time of the said Trespas done and long before was seized of the Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesn as of Fee and that the aforesaid Messuage and two acres of Land with th' appurtenances are and at the foresaid time in which c. and also from the time of the memory c.
were the customary Lands and parcell of the Mannor aforesaid and Demised and Demiseable by the Lord of that Mannor and by the Steward of the Court of the same Mannor for the time being to whatsoever person or persons were willing to take the same in Fee-simple Fee-tayl for term of life or years or otherwise at the Will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor aforesaid and that he the said Plaintif of the Mannor aforesaid with th' appurtenances whereof c. so being seized before the said time of the foresaid Trespass done at his the said Court of the Plaintif of his said Mannor holden the said twelfth day of October in the thirty fift year abovesaid by the aforesaid I. W. at that time his Steward of his Mannor aforesaid granted the aforesaid Tenements with th' appurtenances unto the foresaid Defendant to have and to hold to the said Defendant and his Heirs by a Rod at the Will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor by vertue of which said Grant the said Defendant into the aforesaid Tenements with th' appurtenances entred and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee at the Will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor in manner and form as the said Defendant above in pleading hath alleged And that the said Defendant being so thereof seized before the time of the said Trespass done that is to say the tenth day of November in the first and second year of the Reign of the now Lord the King and the now Lady the Queen made waste in the said Tenements with th' appurtenances in felling and cutting down one Oak of the age of Ten years and more and by Destroying the branches of the stem of the same Oak thereout growing with his Cattell under pretence of which the said Plaintif before the said time in which the said Trespass was done into the Tenements aforesaid with th' appurtenances in which c. entred as into the Tenements unto him the Plaintif by the said Defendant forfeited and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee untill the said Defendant the said first day of October in the second and third year abovesaid with force and arms c. the Close and House aforesaid at F. aforesaid brake and the aforesaid Oak to the value c. there lately growing cut down and carried away against the peace of the said now King and Queen as he above against him complaineth and this he is ready to prove whereof from which the said Defendant the said Trespass aforesaid above acknowledging the said Plaintif prayeth Judgement and his Damages by reason of that Trespass to be adjudged unto him c. Defendant pleads the Custome of the Mannor to give the customary Tenants liberty to cut down Trees growing upon their Tenements ss AND the said Defendant by Protestation not acknowledging any matters in the said Replication above to be true for Plea saith that within the Mannor aforesaid it hath from the time of which the memory of men is not to the contrary it had such a Custom that is to say that every Costomary Tenant of the Mannor aforesaid who held any Customary Tenements within that Mannor unto him and his heirs at the Will of the Lord of the Mannor by Copy of Court-Roll of that Mannor according to the Custome of the same Mannor could and might cut down whatsoever Trees and Wood growing in or upon the Customary Tenements without forfeiture of such Customary Tenements unto the Lord of that Mannor for the time being for such waste by which the said Defendant being seized of the Tenements aforesaid with th' appurtenances in which c. in his Demesn as of Fee at the will of the Lord of the said Mannor that Oak the said first day of October in the years of the Reign of the now King and Queen the second and third abovesaid then and there growing did cut down as to him it was lawfull and this he is ready to prove whereof as before he prayeth Judgement and that the said Plaintif from his action aforesaid against him the Defendant had may be precluded c. ss AND the said Plaintif as formerly he saith Plaintif maintains the Replication without this that there is such a Custom as the Defendant in his Rejoynder allegeth c. that he the said Plaintif is and at the time of the said Trespass done and long before was seized of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesn as of Fee and that the said Messuage and two acres of Land with th' appurtenances are and at the time in which c. and also from the time c. were Customary Lands and parcell of the said Mannor and Demiseable and demised by the Lord of that Mannor and by the Steward of the Court of the same Mannor for the time being unto whatsoever person or persons is or are willing to take them in Fee-simple Fee-tayl for term of life or years or otherwise at the will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor And that the Plaintif of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. before the said time of the said Trespass done that is to say at the said Court of him the Plaintif of his said Mannor holden the twelfth day of October in the thirty fift year abovesaid by the aforesaid I. W. then his Steward of his said Mannor granted the said Tenements with th' appurtenances unto the foresaid Defendant to have and to hold unto the said Defendant and his Heirs by a rod at the will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor by vertue of which said grant the said Defendant into the said Tenements with the appurtenances entred and was thereof seised in his demesn as of Fee at the Will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor in manner and form as the said Defendant above in pleading hath alleleged and that the said Defendant so being thereof seized before the said time of the said Trespass done that is to say the tenth day of November in the years 1. 2. abovesaid he made waste in the same Tenements with th' appurtenances that is to say in cutting and felling down one Oak of the age of ten years and more by destroying the branches of the stem of the same Oak thenceforth growing with his Cattell under pretence of which before the said time in which the said Trespass was done into the Tenements aforesaid with th' appurtenances in which c. he entred as into the Tenements unto him the Plaintif by the said Defendant forfeited and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee untill the said Defendant the said first day of October in the years second and third abovesaid with force and arms c. the said Close and House at Foxley aforesaid did break and the Oak aforesaid to the value c. there lately growing
for the time being or to their certain Attorney four pounds Sterling at the four Terms in the year in the City of London usuall by equall portions as by that Writing here in Court shewed more fully it doth and may appear by vertue of which said Demise the said I. R into the said Messuage with th' appurtenances before the said time in which c. entred and was thereof possessed and so thereof being possessed the said John afterwards that is to say the fifteenth day of May in the sixth year of the Reign of the King that now is at the said City of London that is to say in the Parish of St. Swithin in the Ward of Walbrook London made his Will and by the same Will constituted and appointed one P. B. and N. S. Citizens and Cloth workes of London Executors of his said Will And afterwards and before the said time Lessee for years makes his Will and dyes and his term commeth to his Executors in which c. there dyed after whose death the said P. and N. as Executors of the said Testament into the said Messuage with th' appurtenances entred and was thereof possessed and the said R. H. claiming the said Messuage with th' appurtenances by colour of a certain Charter of Demise unto him thereof made for term of his life by the foresaid R. C. Rector of the said Church before the said Demise by the said B. C. thereof unto the said I. R. made in form aforesaid where none of that Messuage with th' appurtenances into the possession of the said R.H. by that Charter ever passed over into that Messuage with th' appurtenances before the said time in which c. he entred upon the possession of which said R. H. thereupon the said I. R. afterward that is to say the foresaid time in which c. into the said Messuage with th' appurtenances as servant of the said P. and N. and by their Command re-entred as to him it was lawfull to doe And this c. whereof c. ss AND the said R. Hartings saith Plaintif saith that the lands were appertaining to a Singing man and by Act in the Parliament of King Edw. 6. it came to the hands of the King and that the King gave the same lands unto one who sold them the Plaintif without that the said Rector Demised in manner and form c. Upon the Statute of the first of E. 6. for suppressing of Singing men of Colleges and free Chappels that he by any matters by the said I. above c. ought not to be precluded because he saith that well and true it is that the said R. C. Clerk late Rector of the said Church of St. Swithin in Candlewick-street London long before the said time of the foresaid Trespass done he was seized of and in the said Messuage with th' appurtenances in his Demesn as of Fee in the right of his said Church to the use to find a Chaplain to celebrate Divine Services in the said Church of St. Swithins for ever and so thereof being seized to the same use afterward and before the said time of the aforesaid Trespass done by an Act in Parliament of the Lord the now King held and begun at Westminster the fourth day of November in the first year of his Reign and from thence untill the twenty fourth day of December then next following continued and then and there begun it was Ordained and enacted by Authority of the same Parliament that all manner of Colleges free Chapels and Chanteries being and to be had within five yeers next before the first day of the fame Parliament which were not in actuall and reall possession of the said Lord H. late King of England the eighth Father of the Lord the now King neither in reall and actuall possession of the same now Lord the King Neither excepted in a certain Act in Parliament of the same Lord the Lord the King held at Westminster the said twenty third day of November in the thirty seventh year of his Reign other than such which by Commissions of the Lord the King in form afterwards in the said Act made in the first year of the said Lord the now King should be mentioned altered transposed or changed And all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Tithes Pensions Portions and other Hereditaments and the matter mentioned in the aforesaid Act made in the first year of the said Lord the now King abovesaid appertaining unto them or unto any of them and also all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents and other Hereditaments and the other things in the said Act mentioned by any Assurance Will Devise or otherwise had made or acknowledged or declared given assigned limited or appointed to the sustentation of any Presbytery to have continuance for ever and with which or by which any Presbyter should be susteined maintained or found within five years next before the first day of the same Parliament of him the said Lord the now King which were not in actuall and reall possession of him the said Lord the now King And also all annuall Rents Profits and Emoluments at any time within five years next before the beginning of the same Parliament of the first year abovesaid deteined paid or gathered towards or for the Maintenance Supportation and Exhibition of any Stipendary Presbytery intended by any Act without writing to have continuance for ever by Authority of any Parliament immediatly after the Feast of Easter then next it should be adjudged and also it should be in true actuall and reall possession and seizin of the Lord the now King his Heirs and Successors for ever without any Office or Inquisition therof to be had or found and in as ample manner and form as the Presbyters Wardens Masters Ministers Governours Rectors and other Incumbents of them or any of them at any time within six years next before the beginning of the said Parliament of the said Lord the now King were had occupied or enjoyed or at that time they had occupyed and enjoyed the same And as if all and singular the said Colleges Free Chapells Chaunteries Stipendaries Salaries of Presbyters and the said Mannors Lands Tenements and all the Premisses whatsoever and every of them had been or were in the same Act specially particularly and certainly recited nominated and expressed by expresse words names Addition of names Corporations Titles and Faculties and in their own natures kinds and qualities as by the same Act more fully appeareth And the said R. H. saith that the said Messuage at the said time of the making and finishing of the said Act of Parliament of the said Lord the now King and continually before was applied and given to the sustentation of a Chaplain in the said Church of St. Swithins to celebrate Divine Service in the same Church And further the said R. H. saith that at the said time of making the said Act and before the said Messuage was not in actuall and reall possession of the said
so long as they live Protesting also that the said Alice did not Demise unto the said Plaintifs the said Tenements in manner and form as the said Plaintifs in their said Replication before have alleged for Plea as before saith that the said Thomasine was seized of the said Tenements with th' appurtenances in N. in her Demesn as of Fee And so seized demised the same Tenements with th' appurtenances unto the said Defendant To have to him from the Feast of St. Michael th'Archangell untill the end of the Term of four years from thence next following and fully to be Compleat By vertue of which Demise the said Defendant was of those Tenements possessed in manner and form as the said Defendant in barre before hath alleged Without this Without this that the said Thomasine at the time of the said Demise by the said Alice unto the said Plaintiffs of the said Tenements supposed to be done was seised of the said Tenements with the appurtenances to the use of the said Alice in manner and form as the said Plaintiffs before in pleading have alleged And this c. whereupon he prayeth Judgement and that the said Plaintiff from his said Action against him the said Defendant had may be precluded c. And the said Defendants say that the said Thomasine at the time of the said Demise by the said Alice unto the said Plaintiffs in form aforesaid made was seized of the said Tenements with the appurtenances to the use of the said Alice in manner and form as they the said Plaintiffs before in pleading have alleged And this they pray that it may be enquired of by the Country c. â—uff Declaration in Trespass wherfore they broke the Close against two Defendants who plead severally Parl. 32. H. 8. Rot. 111. One of the Defendants pleads that he is seised of certain Lands c. in Fee by reason of which hee ought to have Common in the place in which c. and that he put the Cattle c. for using the CoÌ„mon c. which is the same Common and so justifies ss R. B. late of Levistost in the said County Yeoman and W. H. late of L. c. were attached to answer unto Edward B. together with R. H. late of c. of a Plea wherefore with force and Arms the Close of him the said E. at G. they did break and his Grass to the value of 10. l. there late growing with certain Cattle they did eat up tread and consume And other Wrongs c. To the great Damage c. and against the Peace c. And the said R. B. and W.C. by R. B. their Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and wrong when c. And as to the comming with force and Arms c. Not guilty and as to the residue of the said Trespass before supposed to be done the said R. B. saith that the said E. no Action because he saith that the place in which the said Trespass is supposed to be done is and at the said time of that Trespass supposed to be done was a certain place called the Dens conteining in it self D. Acres of Land in G. aforesaid extending it self from the South from a certain place called G. in L. aforesaid unto a certain place called H. in G. aforesaid against the North-West and so extending from the foot of the Rock of the Cliff untill the Sea against the East and that he at the said time of the said Trespass supposed to be done and long before of 3. Messuâ—ges and 16. Acres of Land with the appurtenances in L. aforesaid was seised in his Demesn as of Fee And that he and all those whose estate he hath in the said 3. Messuages and 16. Acres of Land with the appurtenances from the time of which c. had were accustomed to have common of Pasture of and in the said places caâ—led the Dens within the said Bounds and Limits with all and all manner of his Cattle and living Creatures whatsoever at all time of the year by which the said R. B. at the said time of the said Trespass supposed to be done his said Cattle into the said Close in the said place called the D. in G. aforesaid within the said Bounds and Limits to the said Grass there then growing to feed in using his said Common by the time aforesaid did put as to him it was lawfull which things are the same breaking of the Close treading consuming and eating up of the said Grass whereof the said G. before himself doth now complain And this c. Whereupon he prayeth Judgement if an Action c. And the said W.C. saith that the said E. No Action The other Defendant saith that he likewise is seized of certain other Lands c. in Fee by reason of which he hath Common of pasture in the place in which c. and that he put in Cattle c. in using the Common c. which is the same Trespass c. and so justifies because he saith that the place in which the said Trespass supposed to be done is and at the said time of that Trespass before supposed to be done was the said place called the Dens and that he at the time of that Trespass before supposed to be done and long before was likewise seised in his Demesn as of Fee of and in two Messuages and 2. Acres of Land with the appurtenances in L. aforesaid and that he and all those whose estate he hath in the said two Messuages and two Acres of Land with the appurtenances from the time of which c. had and were accustomed to have Common of Pasture in the said place called the Dens within the said bounds and limits with all and all manner of his Cattle and living Creatures whatsoever at all time of the year by which the said W.G. at the said time of the said Trespass supposed to be done his said Cattle into the said Close in the said place called the Dens in G. aforesaid within the said bounds and limits to the said Grass there then growing to feed in using his said Common by the said time put as to him it was lawfull which matters are the same breaking of the Close treading consuming and eating up of the said Grass whereof the said E. before himself how complaineth And this c. whereupon c. And the said E. B. saith To the Plea of one of the Defendants the Plantiff saith that the Trespass done was aswell in the said place called the Dens as in another place called the East Heath and because the Defendants to the Trespass in the same place called East Heath of new assigned doe not answer prayeth Judgment c. New Assignment that he by any matter before alleged from his said Action against the said R. B. and W.C. had ought not to be precluded because he saith that the said Close and also the place in which the said Trespass whereof the said E.
before himself now complaineth was done are and at the said time of that Trespass done were aswell the said place called the Dens in G. aforesaid as the said other place called the East Heath with the descending of the Cliff in G. aforesaid whereupon from which they the said R. and W. to the said Trespass in the said place called the East Heath with the descending of the Cliff before of new Assigned to be done doe not answer prayeth Judgement and his Damages by occasion of that Trespass to be adjudgâ—d unto him c. And as to the said Plea of the said R. B. before pleaded the same E. saith that he by any matter in the said Plea before alleged from his said Action against the said R. had ought not to be precluded because he saith that he himself at the time of the said Trespass done was seised in his Demesn as of Fee of and in the Mannor of G. in C. aforesaid whereof the said place called the Dens to the said time in which c. was parcell untill the said R. together c. the day and year aforesaid in the said Declaration before specified the Close of him the said E. aforesaid at G. aforesaid in the said place called the Dens within the said bounds and limits did break and his Grass to the value c. there late growing with his said Cattle by the time aforesaid was eaten up trodden down and consumed in what manner and form the same E. before against him complaineth Without this Without this that the said W. C. and all those whose Estate he hath in the said three Messuages and 16. Acres of Land in the Bar of the said R. before specified from the time of the contrary of which the memory of Man doth not remain had and accustomed to have common of pasture of and in the said place called the Dens in G. aforesaid within the bounds and limits aforesaid with all and all manner of his Cattle and living Creatures whatsoever in all time of the year as the said R. before in the said Bar hath alleged And this he is ready c. whereupon from what the said R. the said Trespass in the said place called the Dens done in G. aforesaid afore hath acknowledged prayeth Judgement and his Damages by occasion of that Trespass to be adjudged unto him c. And as to the said Plea of the said W. C. before pleaded the said E. saith that he by any matter in the same Plea before alleged The Plaintiff to the Plea of the other Defendant pleadeth as to the Plea of the first from his said Action against the said W. had ought not to be precluded because he saith that he himself at the said time of the said Trespass done was seised in his Demesn as of Fee of and in the said Mannor of G. whereof the said place called the D. is and at the said time in which c. was parcell untill the said W. C. together with c. the day and year aforesaid in the said Declaration before specified the Close of him the said E. aforesaid Without this at G. aforesaid c. as before Without this that the said W. C. and all those whose Estate he hath in the said two Messuages and two Acres of Land with the appurtenances from the time c. as before And this he is ready to prove whereupon from what c. as before One of the Defendants to the trespass of the new Assignment pleadeth not guilty to the other Plea maintaineth as before and Issue upon that And the said R. B. as to any Trespass in the said place called the East Heath with the descending of the Cliffin G. aforesaid of new Assignment made supposed to be done saith that he in nothing is thereof guilty And of this he puts himself c. And the said E. likewise c. And as to the said Plea of the said E. before in replying pleaded the said R. as before saith that he and all those whose estate he hath in the said 3. Messuages and 16. Acres of Land with the appurtenances from the time of which c. had and accustomed to have Common of Pasture of and in the said place called the Dens in G. aforesaid within the said bounds and limits with all and all manner of his Cattle and living Creatures whatsoever in all time of the year as the said R. before in his said Bar hath alleged And of this he putteth himself upon the Country And the said E. likewise c. And the said W.C. as to any Trespass in the said place called the East Heath with the descending of the Cliff in G. aforesaid of new Assignment supposed to be done saith that he in nothing is thereof guilty And of this putteth himself upon the Country and the said E. likewise c. And as to the said Plea of the said W. C. afore to the replying pleaded as before saith that he and all those whose Estate he hath in the said two Messuages and two Acres of Pasture with the appurtenances from the time of which c. had and accustomed to have Common of Pasture of and in the said place called the Dens in G. aforesaid within the bounds and limits aforesaid with all and all manner of his Cattle and living Creatures whatsoever in all time of the year as the said W. before in his said Bar hath alleged And of this putteth himself upon the Country and the said E. likewise therefore as well as to the trying of that Issue as the said c. Middles Declaration in trespass for taking and leading away of a horse Hill 22. H. 8. Roll 26. ss I. W. complaineth of R. W. in the custody of the Marshall c. of that that he in the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin in the 21. year of the Reign of King Henry the 8. with force and Arms that is to say with Staves c. one Gelding of Colour black Gray of him the said I. of the price of 5. marks at W. in the County aforesaid found took and lead away And other Wrongs Defendant pleads that before the time of the trespas c. he was possessed of the horse c as of his proper horse and that certain Malefactors took the said horse out of his possession and it came to the hands of the Plaintif out of whose possession the Defendant took the horse as his own horse and so justifies c. to the Damage c. 10. marks And thereupon he bringeth his Suit c. And the said R. by W.T. his Attorney cometh and defendeth the force and wrong when c. And as to the comming with force c. or whatsoever thing c. Not guilty And as to the residue of the Trespass no Action c. because he saith that before the said time of the said Trespass supposed to be done the same R. was of the said Horse as of his
own Horse possessed And afterwards and before the said time in which c. that is to say the 24. day of July in the 20. year of the Reign of the said now King the said Horse by certain Malefactors unto the said R. unknown out of the possession of him the sayd R. feloniously was taken and led away and afterward the said Horse came to the possession of him the said I. And because the said R. at the same time in which c. found the same Horse in the possession of him the said I. the same R. the said Horse of him the said R's own out of the possession of him the said I. did take and lead away as to him it was lawfull And this c. Whereupon c. The Plaintif saith that one I. R. being of the said Horse possessed at B. in the Fair there sold that Horse that he paid unto the Bailiff of the Fair toll c. Protestation And the said I. saith that he by any matter before alleged c. ought not to be precluded c. because protesting that the said Horse was never the Horse of the said R. as the said R. in his said barre before hath alleged for a Plea notwithstanding the said I. saith that before the said time of the said Trespass done the said I. R. was possessed of the said Horse and so possessed in the Feast day of the Body of Christ in the 21. year of the Reign of the said now King abovesaid at Canbury in the County of Oxon ' in a certain Fair or Market there then held did bargain and sell unto the said I. W. the said Horse for the sum of 31. shillings six pence of lawfull c. which the said I. W. then and there unto the said I. R. paid And further the said I. W. saith that he then and there paid unto one R. C. the then Bailiff of the said Fair one penny by the name of Toll for the said Horse by which the said W. was of the same Horse possessed untill the said R. W. the day and year in the Declaration of him the said I. W. before specified at W. aforesaid in the County aforesaid the same Horse with force and arms aforesaid did take and lead away in manner and form as the said I. W. in his said Declaration before against the said R. W. doth Complain And this c. Whereupon from what the said R. the said Trespass before hath acknowledged to have done he prayeth Judgement and his Damages by occasion of that Trespass to be adjudged unto him c. The Defendant saith that I. R. did not sell unto the Plaintif in the Fair nor the Plaintif paid the Tol. Without this And the said R. W. as before saith that before the said time of the said Trespass supposed to be done the same R. W. of the said Horse as of his own Horse was possessed untill the same Horse by the said Malefactors unto the said R. unknown out of the possession of him the said R. feloniously was taken and led away as the said R. in his Bar before hath alleged Without this that the said I. R. did bargain and sell unto the said I. W. the said Horse in the Market or Fair aforesaid Nor the same I. W. unto the aforesaid R. C. the then Bailiff of the said Fair one penny in the name of Toll for the said Horse did pay as the said I. in his Replication before hath alleged And this c. whereupon he prayeth Judgement and that the said I. W. from his said Action against him the said R. had may be precluded c. And the said I. W. saith that the said I. R. did bargain and sell unto the said I. W. the said Horse in the said Market and unto the said R. C. the then Bailiff of the said Fair one penny by the name of Toll for the said Horse did pay as the same I. in his Replication before hath alleged Ven ' fac ' to the Sheriff of Oxoâ— And this he prayeth that it may be enquired of the Countrey And the said R. likewise c. Therefore Command is to the Sheriff of Oxon. that he cause to come before the Lord the King at Westminster the day c. twelve c. of the Visn of B. in the said County of Oxon. by whom c. and who neither c. To Recognize c. Because aswell c. The same day is given to the said parties there c. ss AND the said I. M. by R. M. his Attorney commeth and defendeth the force and wrong when Staff Justific ' in Trespass for that that the Tenements in which c. were Customar ' c. and as to the Comming with force and arms c. Not guilty And as to the residue of the said Trespass before supposed to be done the same I. M. saith that the said I. S. No action because he saith that the said Tenements with th' appurtenances in the said Declaration before specified are and from the time whose contrary c. were Customary Tenements and Lands and parcell of the Mannor of Harnedesworth with th' appurtenances in the County aforesaid of which said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. long before the said time in which the said Trespass is supposed to done one T. late Earl of Ormond was seized in his Demesn as of Fee and that the same Tenements with th' appurtenances are and from all the time aforesaid were Demised and demiseable by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Mannor by the Steward of the said Court of that Mannor for the time being unto any person or persons willing to take the same in Fee-simple Fee-tail to Term of life or years or otherwise at the Will of the Lord according to the Custom of the said Mannor and him the said Earl of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. so as before is said being seized the same Earl afterwards and before the said time in which c. that is to say at the Court of him the said Earl of his said Mannor held at that Mannor the tenth day of October in the twentieth year of the Reign of the said now King of England the seventh after the Conquest by one W. H. the then Steward of him the said Earl of the said Mannor according to the Custom of the said Mannor Demised by Copy of Court-Roll the said Tenements with th' appurtenances amongst other things by the names of one Messuage By names and a certain parcell of Land unto the aforesaid Tenement with th' appurtenances belonging unto one R. M. To have and to hold unto him and his heirs for ever according to the Custom of the said Mannor by vertue of which said Demise the same R. was of those Tenements with th' appurtenances seized in his Demesn as of Fee according to the Custom of the said Mannor And he the said R. of those Tenements with th' appurtenances
so being seized the same R. of such his Estate before the said time in which c. dyed thereof seized after the death of which said R. the said Tenements with th' appurtenances descended unto one Matild as Daughter and Heir of the said R. by which the same Matild into the same Tenements with th' appurtenances entred and was thereof seized in her Demesn as of Fee according to the Custom of the said Mannor and so thereof seized the same Matild before the said time in which c. took to Husband the said I. M. by which they the said I. and Matilda were of the same Tenements with th' appurtenances seized in their Demesn as of Fee according to the Custom of the said Mannor Colour by demise by Copy of Court-Roll in the right of the said M. And the said I. S. claiming the said Tenements with th' appurtenances by Colour of a certain Deed of Demise to him thereof made by the said late Earl in his life long before the said Demise of the said Tenements with th' appurtenances unto the aforesaid R. M. in form aforesaid made where nothing of the said Tenements into the possession of him the said I. S. by that Deed ever passed into the said Tenements with th' appurtenances entred Upon the possession of which said I. S. the same I. M. in the right of the said M. his Wife afterwards that is to say at the same time in which c. into the said Tenements with th' appurtenances re-entred and the said Close and House as the proper Close and House of them the said I. M. and M. did break and the said Grass as the proper Grass of the said I.M. and M. with the said Cattell did eat up tread and consume as to him it was lawfull The form of Pleading where Land is granted by Copy of Court-Roll to him and his And further the same I. M. saith in fact that within the said Mannor it hath and from the time the Contrary of which the memory c. it had such Custom that is to say that all Tenants of any Lands and Tenements within the said Mannor having and holding the same Lands or Tenements as of the said Mannor by Copy of Court-Roll by these words in the same Copies that is to say To have to him and his according to the Custom of the said Mannor they shall have an estate in the same Lands and Tenements with th' appurtenances in Fee-Simple according to the Custom of the said Mannor And this c. And whereupon c. And the said I. S. saith that he by any matter c. not to be precluded because he saith that well and true it is that the said late Earl of Ormond was seized of the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. in his Demesn as of Fee and so thereof dyed seized after the death of which said Earl the said Tenements with th' appurtenances Discent descended unto the aforesaid I. S. as to the Cosin and Heir of the said late Earl that is to say as Son and Heir of George as Son and Heir of Anne Daughter and Heir of the said Earl by which the said I. S. before the said time of the said Trespass done into the said Mannor with th' appurtenances whereof c. entred and was thereof seized in his Demesn as of Fee untill the said I. M. at the said time in which c. into the said Tenements with th' appurtenances entred and the said Close and House then and there did break and the said grass then and there growing with the said Cattell did eat up tread and consume in manner and form as the said I. S. before Without this himself now Complaineth Without this that the said Tenement with th' appurtenances are and from the time the contrary of which the memory of man doth not remain were Customary Lands and Tenements and Demised and demiseable by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Mannor in manner and form as the said I. M. before in pleading hath alleged And this c. Whereupon from what the said I. M. of the said Trespass before acknowledgeth prayeth Judgement and his Damages by occasion of the said Trespass to be adjudged unto him c. And the said I. M. as before saith that the said Tenements with th' appurtenances are and from the time the Contrary of which the memory of men doth not remain were Customary Tenements and Lands and Demised and demiseable by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Mannor in manner and form as the said I. M. before in Pleading hath alleged And of this he putteth himself upon the Countrey And the said I. S. likewise c. Therefore c. I. I. lately of c. and B. P. lately of Declaration in Trespass and false imprisonment c. were attached to answer W. N. of a Plea wherefore by force and arms him the said W. at London they took imprisoned and evill handled and him there so in prison against the Law and Custome of the Realm of our Lady the Queen that now is they long deteyned and other harms to him they did to the great Damage of him the said W. and against the Peace of our Lady the Queen c. And whereupon the same W. by I. W. his Attorney complaines that the aforesaid I. and B. such a day and year by force and arms that is to say with Clubs and Knives him the said W. at London c. they took imprisoned and evill handled And him there in Prison against the Law and Custom of the Realm of our Lady the Queen that now is they long that is to say for the space of thirty dayes they deteined And other harms c. To the great Damage c. And against the Peace c. Whereupon he saith he is worsted and hath Damage to the value of 300. pounds And thereupon he brings his Sute c. To this Declaration above the Defendants plead specially the Charter of the Universitie and that they were Proctors And that the Plaintif was fined for ingrossing and forestalling c. And this in the Chancellours Court in Cambridge and so justifie the taking of him for the Fine and to this the Plaintif Demurs and the Defendants joyn in Demurrer At which day here came aswell the aforesaid W. as the aforesaid I and B. by their Attorneys aforesaid The Demurrer adjudged good and a Writ of Enquirie of Damage awarded And upon this the aforesaid Plea of the aforesaid I. and B. above in Bar pleaded being seen and by the Justices here fully understood it seems to the same Justices here that that Plea in the manner and form aforesaid pleaded and the matter conteined in the same is insufficient in the Law to debar him the said W. from having his Action aforesaid against the aforesaid I. and B. For which the aforesaid Plaintif ought to recover his Damages by occasion of the Trespass aforesaid against the aforesaid
possession of the said T. by that grant ever passed into those Tenements with the appurtenances before the said time in which c. entred upon the possession of which said T. thereupon they the said T. and I. afterwards that is to say in the same time in which c. into the said Tenements with the appurtenances entred and the said close as the proper close of them the said T. and I. did break and the said Grasse as the proper grasse of the said T. and J. then and there growing with the said Cattell did eat up tread and consume and the said Ground as the proper ground of them the said T. and J. then and there with the Plough aforesaid did rip up and also the said underwood as the proper underwood of them T. and J. then and there growing did cut down and carry away as to them it was lawfull and this c. and whereupon c. Plaintiff saith that well and true it is that the Tenements are customary lands c. but saith that within the said mannor it hath been a custome that if any customary Tenant should inhabit by one year without the Mannor then the Lord might enter and him thereof expell OUght not to be precluded because he saith that well and true it is that the said Tenements with the Appurtenances whereof c. are and from all the time aforesaid were parcell of the Mannor of Bromefeild aforesaid of which said Mannor with the appurtenances the said T. S. late Prior of the said late Priory of the blessed Mary of B. aforesaid before the said time of the said Trespasse done was seized in his Demesne as of Fee in the Right of his said Prioty and that the said Tenements with the appurtenances in which c. are and from all the time aforesaid were demised and demisable by the Lord of the said Mannor or by his Steward of the court of that Mannor for the time being by copy of Court Roll of the said Mannor unto whatsoever Person or Persons willing to take the same in fee simple fee-tail for tearm of life or yeares at the Will of the Lord according to the custome of the said Mannor and him the said Prior so thereof being seized the said late Prior before the said time in which c. that is to say at the court of him the said late Prior at that mannor held the said Wednesday in the said Match of Saint George in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of the said now King by the said T.C. than his Steward of his said mannor granted the said Tenements with the Appurtenances whereof c. unto the said R. Davyes and Jo then his wife and to the aforesaid John Son of the same R. and I. To have and to hold to them and either of them longer living successively at the will of the Lord according to the custome of the said mannor By pretence of which said Grant the said R. I. and J. were seized of the said Tenements with the appurtenances whereof c. in their demesne as of Freehold at the Will of the Lord according to the custome of the said Mannor and them the said R. J. and I. so thereof being seized the said R. and John afterwards and before the said time in which c. dyed and the said Joane them survived and held her self in in the said Tenements with the Appurtenances and was thereof seized in her demesne as of freehold at the VVill of the Lord according to the custome of the said Mannor by the right of increase and shee the said I. so thereof being seized the same J. before the said time in which c. took to husband the said T.N. by which they the said T. and J. were seized of the said Tenements with the appurtenances in their demesne as of Freehold in the Right of him the said I. at the will of the Lord according to the custome of the said Mannor in manner and forme as the said T. and I. before inpleading have alleadged Custome that any customary Tenant doth abide without the mannor by a year and a day then it shall be lawfull to the Lord of the mannor to seize his customary Tenements And further the said C. saith that in the said mannor it hath and from the time the contrary of which c. it had such custome that is to say that if any customary Tenant or Tenant by copy of Court Roll of the same Court doth abide or inhabit within any other Mannor without this mannor of B. by the space of one year and a day without the license of the Lord or that Mannor that then it shall be lawfull unto the Lord of the said mannor for the time being into all and singular his Lands and Tenements by copy of court Roll of the said mannor in any manner whatsoever demised to re-enter and such Tenant by occasion of the Premises thereof wholly to expell and amove and the same Lands and Tenements to him and his heirs to have again re-enjoy and re-possesse the said custome notwithstanding And the said C. further saith that before the said time in which c. the said mannor with the appurtenances by the Dissolution of the said late Priory came to the hands and possession of the said now King by which the said now King was seized of the said mannor with the appurtenances whereof c. in his demesne as of Fee in the Right of his Crown of England and him the said King so thereof being seized the same late King before the said time in which c. by his Letters Patents here in court offered whose date is at Westminster the twentieth day of Ianuary in the one and thirtieth yeare of his Reigne for diverse causes and considerations him the late King specially moving and out of his certain Knowledge and meer motive did give grant and to Farme-let unto the same C. his Executors and Assignes the said Mannor with the Appurtenances whereof c. to have and to hold unto the same C. his Executors and Assignes from the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch-angell then next following untill the end and Term of eighty nine yeares then next following and fully to be compleat By vertue of which said giving granting and to Farm-letting the same Charles was of that Mannor with the Appurtenances whereof c. amongst other things possessed And because the said T. and J. do inhabit without the said Mannor of B. that is to say at C. in the said County within the Mannor of C. by the space of one yeare and one day that is to say from the two and twentieth day of Aprill in the fourth yeare of the Reigne of the said now King untill to the foure and twentieth day of Aprill in the fifth yeare of the same Reigne of the said now King then next following against the Custome of the said Mannor the said C. afterward and before the said time of the said
Marsh called forty acres is in Seasalton aforesaid and not in the parish of H. by protestation also that the aforesaid E. was not seized of the aforesaid forty acres of Marsh nor demised them to him the said Prior in form aforesaid and not acknowledging any thing by the said T. A. R. and which is above alledged to be true For plea saith that the said T. A. R. and others are guilty of the Trespasse aforesaid in Seasalton aforesaid in the form wherein he the same Prior above against them complaineth and this he praies may be enquired of by the Country and the aforesaid T. A. R. and others in like manner c. ANd the aforesaid W.T. and T.C. by W.R. their Attorney come and defend the force and injury when c. Justification in Trespasse for a â—erriot Custome And as to the coming by force and armes c. or whatsoever c. not guilty And as to the taking of the Oxe aforesaid they the said W. and T. say that the aforesaid Administrator ought not to have his Action aforesaid against them Because they say that long before the aforesaid time wherein the aforesaid I. the Testator c. was seized of twenty acres of Lands with the appurtenances in B. aforesaid in his demesne as of Fee And being so thereof seized held the same twenty acres of Land with the appurtenances of Thomas Bishop of London as of his Mannor of Boughton Aylusse in the County aforesaid by fealty and rent of 12 d. by the year that is to say at the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle 3 d. thereof and at the feasts c. 3 d. thereof residue by equall portions yearly to be paid And by the service of doing Suit to the Court of the said Bishop of his Mannor aforesaid from three weekes to three weekes at Boughton A. aforesaid to be held and by the service of rendring after the death of each Tenant dying thereof seized and after each alienation of the same twenty acres of Land in fee made by way of releife three pence one farthing and the third part of one farthing And by the service of rendring to the aforesaid Bishop after the death of each Tenant dying of the aforesaid twenty acres of Land seized the best living beast of the same Tenants at the time of his death in the name of a Herriot of which said services the same Bishop was seized by the hands of the aforesaid Testator as by the hands of his true Tenant and otherwise thus That the aforesaid Bishop and all his Ancestors and all they whose estate the same Bishop hath in the aforesaid Mannor of B A. with the appurtenances have had and time out of minde were accustomed to have of all and all manner of Tenants of the Mannor aforesaid and of each Tenant of the same Mannor whose Lands or Tenements of the Lord of the Mannor aforesaid as of the same Mannor holdeth and these Lands or Tenements or any parcell thereof so held he alienateth to any person or persons in fee notice thereupon in the life time of him who alienateth those Lands or Tenements by them or by him to which or to whom such Lands or Tenements should be sold to the Lords of the said Mannor for the time being being not given or made after the death of such Tenant so alienating the best living beast which was his the said Tenants so alienating at the time of his death by the name of a customary Herriot And the aforesaid W. and I. say that the aforesaid I.S. the Testator c. was seized of the aforesaid twenty acres of land with the appurtenances in his demesne as of Fee and being so thereof seized enfeoffed T.S. and I.S. of the same twenty acres of Lands with the appurtenances of the aforesaid Bishop in forme aforesaid then being held to hold to them their heirs and assigns for ever By vertue of which said Feoffment they the said T.S. and I.S. were thereof seized in their demesne as of Fee and the aforesaid J.S. the Testator afterwards dyed No notice by the same T.S. and I.S. or either of them of that Feoffement to the aforesaid Bishop at the time of the said Feoffement then as yet being Lord of the Mannor in the life of the aforesaid J.S. the Testator being given or made and the aforesaid W. and T. further say that the aforesaid I. S. the Testator at the time of his death was possessed of the Oxe aforesaid as of his proper Oxe which then was his best living beast at the time of his death By means whereof they the said W. and T. as the servants of the same Bishop and by his command the aforesaid time wherein the Trespasse aforesaid was supposed to be made The Oxe aforesaid as the best living Beast which was the aforesaid I.S. the Testator at the time of his death in the custody of the aforesaid Administrators at B. A. aforesaid there found in the name of a customary Herriot they took and led away as it was lawfull for them to doe And this c. whereupon c. AND the aforesaid I.T.S. and I. Administrators c. say The Plaintiffe sayes by Protestation that the Lands were 〈◊〉 held by such or so many services put c. for Plea that they did the Trespasse de injuria propria and traverse the custome that they levy any thing c. ought not to be debarred from having their action aforesaid against them because by Protestation that the aforesaid twenty acres of Lands are not sold of the aforesaid Bishop by such nor so many services as the aforesaid W. and T. above have alleadged for Plea they say that the aforesaid W. and T. the day and year aforesaid by force and armes of their proper injury the Oxe aforesaid out of the possession of the Administrators aforesaid at B. aforesaid found they tooke and led away as the same I. T. S. and I. above against them complaine without that that the aforesaid Bishop and his Ancestors and all they whose estates the same Bishop hath in the aforesaid Mannor with the appurtenances were and from the whole time aforesaid were used and accustomed of all and all manner of the Tenants and of every Tenant of the Mannor aforesaid who holds Lands or Tenements of the Lord of the Mannor aforesaid as of the same Mannor And those Lands or Tenements or any parcell thereof so held shall have sold to any person or persons in Fee notice thereof in the life of him who shall so have alienated those Lands and Tenements by him or them to which or to whom these Tenements shall be sold unto the Lord of the same Mannor for the time being not being given or made after the death of the Tenant so alienating the best living beast which was of his the said Tenants so alienating at the time of his death in the name of a customary Herriot as the aforesaid W. and T. above hath
alleadged And this c. Whereupon for that the same VV. and T.C. the taking of the Oxe aforesaid above acknowledge they pray judgement and their damages upon that occasion to be adjudged unto them c. Issue upon the Herriot custome AND the aforesaid W. and T. say that the aforesaid Bishop and all his Ancestors and all they whose estates he the said Bishop hath in the Mannor aforesaid with the Appurtenances hath had and from the whole time aforesaid were used and accustomed to have of all and all manner of Tenants of every Tenant of the Mannor aforesaid who held Lands or Tenements from the Lord of the Mannor c. as of the same Mannor and doe alien those lands and Tenement or any parcel thereof to any person or persons in Fee Notice thereof in the life time of him who shall so sell those Lands or Tenements by them or by him to which or to whom those Tenements shall be sold to the Lord of the same Mannor for the time being not being given and made after the death of such Tenant so alienating the best living beast which was his the said Tenant so alienating at the time of his death in the name of a customary Herriot as the same W. and T. above have alleadged And of this they put themselves upon the Country c. AND the aforesaid R.J. A.E. J.C. and R.L. by R. G. their Attorney come and defend the force and injury Some of the Defendants plead not guilty and others justifie for that the place in which c. is the Kings highway Trin. 16. Hen. 7. Rol. 35. whom c. And the aforesaid R.I. A.E. and R. say that they are in nothing guilty c. And of this c. And the aforesaid Plaintiffe in like manner c. And the aforesaid J.C. as to the comming with force and Armes c. as also the whole trespasse aforesaid besides the breaking of the Close aforesaid saith that he is in nothing guilty c. And as to the Trespasse aforesaid of breaking the Close aforesaid supposed to be done the same I.C. saies that the aforesaid Plaintiffe ought not to have his action aforesaid against him because he sayes that the place in which the Trespasse aforesaid is supposed to be made is and at the time wherein c. was seven Acres of Land called Otefield-brook with the Appurtenances in W. aforesaid whereof the said I. C. at the time of the Trespasse aforesaid supposed to be made and long before the said time was seized in his Demesne as of Fee Over which said seven Acres of Land with the Appurtenances is and from time out of minde was the Kings common high-way tending and leading from the Kings way there called the Ashford high-way unto the Village of Adelsford in the County aforesaid containing in breadth eight foot that is to say as well for horsemen as for foot-men there by the same way willing to ride or journey And further he the same I.C. saies that he the aforesaid time wherein c. did ride and travell from the aforesaid Kings way called Ashford high-way unto the village of A. aforesaid over the aforesaid seven Acres of Land using that high-way of the Kings there as it was lawfull for him to do which said riding by that high-way of the Kings over the aforesaid seven Acres of land is the same breach of the Close whereof the aforesaid I. C. above complaines c. And this c. whereupon he prayes judgement whether the action c. And the aforesaid Plaintiffe sayes that he ought not to be debarred from having his action aforesaid against the aforesaid I. C. because hee saith that the foresaid I. C. together with c. the day and yeer aforesaid by Force and Armes aforesaid of his proper injury the Close aforesaid in the aforesaid seven Acres of land did breake and also his grasse upon the same seven Acres of Land then growing with the cattell aforesaid did eat up tread down and consume in manner and forme as the same I. C. above now complaineth VVithout that that there is The Traverse or from the aforesaid time out of minde c. there was a common Kings high way tending and leading from the Kings high-way there called Ashford high-way unto the village of Adelsford as well for horsemen as for footmen over the aforesaid seven Acres of Land in manner and forme as the aforesaid I. C. above by pleading hath alleadged And this c. VVhereupon for that the same I. C. the Trespasse aforesaid of breaking the Close aforesaid above acknowledgeth he prayes judgement and his damages by that occasion to be adjudged unto him c. AND the aforesaid I.C. as formerly saith that there is Issue upon the Traverse and from the said time out of minde c. there was a common Kings high-way tending and leading from the aforesaid high-way called Adelsford high-way unto the village of Adelsford aforesaid as well for horse-men as for footmen over the aforesaid seven acres of Land with the appurtenances in manner and forme as the aforesaid I. C. above by pleading hath alleadged And of this hee puts himselfe upon the Country and the aforesaid Plaintiffe in like manner c. The Defendants plead that a stranger was seized c. And Enfeoffed certaine c. And justifie the Trespasse as servants to the Feoffees Paschae 19. Hen. 7. Rol. 60. AND the aforesaid T. and VV.B. by T.S. their Attorney come and defend the force and injury when c. And as to the coming by force and armes or whatsoever c. not guilty And as to the residue of the Trespasse aforesaid supposed to be done the same T.A. and VV. say that the aforesaid T.R. ought not to have his action aforesaid against them because they say that the place in which the Trespasse aforesaid is supposed to be done is and the aforesaid time wherein c. was one Garden three Crofts of Land containing twelve acres of Land and one Pagholl in L. aforesaid whereof one E.B. long before the said time wherein c. was seized in his demesne as of Fee And so being thereof seized by his certaine Deed indented long before the said time enfeoffed F.A. and I.R. to have and to hold to them and their heires for ever By vertue of which said Feoffement they the said R. and I. long before the aforesaid time Colour by Feoffement wherein c. were thereof seized in their demesne as of Fee And the aforesaid T.R. claiming the Tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances by colour of of a certaine demise to him thereupon made for terme of his life by the aforesaid Edmond long before the aforesaid Feoffement to them the said F. and I. made where nothing of the aforesaid Tenements with the appurtenances into the possession of him the said T.B. by that Deed ever passed into the same Tenements with the appurtenances long before the said time of the
And the same B. so being thereof possessed the Falcon aforesaid with the Belles and Varvils aforesaid out of his hands and possession did casually lose which said Falcon afterwards that is to say such a day year and place to the hands and possession of the aforesaid J.G. by finding came Judgement had for the Plaintiffe and damages 18 l. 16 s. and 8 d. And the aforesaid J.G. knowing the Falcon aforesaid to be the proper Falcon of the aforesaid B. to him the said B. of right to belong and pertain that Falcon although often required c. to render or deliver hath wholly refused And that Falcon voluntarily hath used and handled so ill so that that Falcon by the ill usage and handling aforesaid afterwards to wit such a day year and place dyed to the damage of him the said B. 40 l. And thereupon he brings his suit c. Ss A B. complaines of W. B. in the custody of the Marshall Declaration for keeping a dog accustomed to bite sheep c. for that that is to say whereas the aforesaid W. did knowingly keep and retaine a certaine Dog accustomed to bite sheep at M. in the County aforesaid which said Dog ten Ew-sheep and ten lambs of him the said A. to the price of 4 l. at M. aforesaid found such a day and yeare and place did so grievously bite that those sheep and lambs by the biting of the Dog aforesaid then and there dyed Whereupon the same A. saith that he is worse and hath damage to the value of 10 l. And thereupon he brings his suit The like with some addition Ss B. F. complaines of R. W. in the custody of the Marshall c. for that that is to say whereas the aforesaid R. such a day yeare and place a certaine Dog accustomed to bite sheep he knowingly retained which said Dog the day and year aforesaid at H. aforesaid the sheep that is to say a hundred and fifteen Ewes and eighty Weathers of him the said B. did chase and bite so that by the chasing and biting eighty of the Ewe sheep of the sheep aforesaid of the price of 40 l. dyed and forty of the Weathers aforesaid of the price of 30 l. dyed in like manner And the residue of the aforesaid Ewe sheep great with young cast their lambs abortive And the residue of the Weather sheep were much worsted And other harmes c. Norfolk HEnry Darcy Knight complaines of Iohn Leigh Gentleman in the custody of the Marshall Declaration upon warranty of a Hawk c. for that that is to say whereas the aforesaid I. such a day yeare and place in the County aforesaid in consideration of 5 l 2 s. and 6 d. of lawfull money of England to him the said I. by the aforesaid H. before hand payed had bargained and sold to the aforesaid H. a certaine Hawk called a Gos-hawk the same I. in consideration thereof then and there warranted the Gos-hawk aforesaid to him the said H. to be sound and in good health whereas in truth that Gos-hawke then and there was troubled with divers great infirmities and much grieved of which said infirmities the Hawke aforesaid such a day then next following at O. aforesaid dyed By which the same I. at O. aforesaid the aforesaid H. of the Hawk aforesaid and of the aforesaid 5 l. 2 s. and 6 d. against the forme of the Warrant aforesaid falsely and fraudulently deceived to the damage of him the said H. twenty Marks And thereupon he brings his suit c. A B. complains of I.P. the elder and I.P. the younger in the custody of the Marshall Declaration for making of a banke by which the Plaintiffes land was downed c. of a plea wherefore whereas a certain course of water called C. ought to run in a certaine stream at C. in the County aforesaid for the serving of the Lands and Tenements near the Water-course aforesaid the aforesaid I. and I. not ignorant of the premises plotting the aforesaid A. to worse and hurt in his Lands and Tenements goods and chattels a certaine banke on crosse the Water-course aforesaid at C. aforesaid they made by reason of which the water aforesaid was hindered of his course aforesaid By which six hundred acres of Pasture of his the said A. neer adjoying to the VVater-course aforesaid was so extraordinarily drowned that the same A. the profit of that his pasture for a great time he lost VVhereby he sayes he is worsted and hath damage c. SS W. J. Mercer complaines of T. B. in the custody of the Marshall Declaration against an Inne-keeper for selling his guests horse c. for that whereas the same T. such a day year and place a certaine horse of his the said W. of the prâ—ce of 15 l. to have kept in the Stable of the aforesaid T. and there to be fed and dressed and that horse safely and soundly to be kept and to him the said W. when he should be thereunto required to be redelivered and in consideration of a certaine summe of money between them agreed upon that is to say for every day and night as long as the horse aforesaid with the aforesaid T. as is aforesaid should happen to be three pence at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid had assumed upon himselfe yet the aforesaid T. plotting the aforesaid W. falsely deceitfully and fraudulently in that behalfe to deceive and defraud the horse aforesaid although often required c. to the aforesaid W. he hath not re-delivered but that horse afterwards to wit such a day and year and place to a certaine unknowne man for 24. s. to him the said T. in hand payed falsely craftily and deceitfully he there sold and the money thereof comming to his own proper use he there converted disposed to his damage 30 s. c. Ebor. ss T. F. was attached to answer A. F. of a plea wherefore whereas the same A. had bargained to buy twenty Oxen of the aforesaid B.T. at B. the same T. knowing these Oxen to be fallen into divers diseases and infirmities Declaration upon warranty of cattell these Oxen by warranting them to be sound and in good health for a great sum of money the Oxen aforesaid to the aforesaid A. he falsely and fraudulently here sold to the damage of him the said A. 40. l. as he sayes And whereupon the same A. by S. L. his Attorney complaines that whereas the same A. such a day and yeare had bargained to buy of the aforesaid T. twenty Oxen at B. the same T. knowing these Oxen to be fallen into divers diseases and infirmities that is to say of such a disease those Oxen for a great summe of money that is to say for 60 l. warranting them to be sound and in health then and there sold falsely and fraudulently whereupon hee saith that hee is worsted and hath damage to the value c. AND the aforesaid T. by W.
lost afterwards to wit such a day yeare and place to the hands and possession of the aforesaid I. C. by finding came yet the aforesaid I. C. knowing the writing aforesaid to bee the proper writing of him the said R. and to him the said R. of right to belong and pertaine plotting and contriving him the said R. wholly to debarre and exclude from the recovery of the aforesaid two hundred pound That writing to him the said R. although afterwards to wit such a day yeare and place hee hath beene thereupon required hee hath not delivered but that writing to deliver to him the said R. hitherto hee hath altogether refused and the writing aforesaid and the profit thereupon comming afterwards to wit such a day yeare and place to his the said I. C. proper use and profit hee hath converted and disposed to the damage of him the said R. three hundred pound And thereupon hee brings his Suit c. Trâ—ver for a Ring Sur. I. G. complaines of G. C. in the custody of the Marshall c. for that that is to say whereas the same I. such a day yeare and place was possessed of a certaine gold Ring and one precious Stone called a Puffyn set and infixed in the same Ring as of his owne proper Ring And so as in other Actions of Trover The Defendant pleads he bought it in open Market AND the aforesaid G.C. in his proper person comes and defends the force and injury when c. And sayes that the aforesaid I. ought not to have his action aforesaid against him because by protestation that the aforesaid Ring the aforesaid time wherein c. was worth but seven shillings and no more And that the aforesaid I. was not thereof possessed as of his proper goods and chattels in manner and forme as the same I. above against him complaineth For Plea he saith that the City of London is an ancient City of our Lady the Queen and of her Progenitors late Kings of England And that within the same City there is had and from time out of minde there hath been had a certaine publicke and open Market in every open place within the same City weekly every day in the week the Lords day onely excepted for all manner of persons to buy and sell whatsoever matters and merchandizes within the City aforesaid in every part of the same City in all open places and shops of the City aforesaid every day in the week the Lords day onely excepted from the rising of the Sunne to the setting of the same And that long before the said time wherein c. to wit such a day and yeare one R.A. was possessed of the Ring aforesaid at the City of London in the Parish of St. Botolphs in the Ward of Aldersgate London And so being thereof possessed afterwards to wit such a day and yeare at such a place in the Parish and Ward aforesaid that is to say about ten of the clocke before noon of the same day in a certaine open shop there in a certaine place called Little-Britain in the Parish and Ward aforesaid the same Ring then there being sold to him the said G. for seven shillings to him then by the aforesaid G. paid By vertue of which said sale in forme aforesaid made the aforesaid G. was of the Ring aforesaid possessed as of his proper Ring By which he the said G. the Ring aforesaid the time wherein c. to his owne proper use and profit as it was lawfull for him to doe And this he is ready to aver whereupon he prayes judgement whether the aforesaid I. ought to have his action aforesaid against him ANne Lady G. complaines of M. N. in the custody of the Marshall c. for that that is to say Action of the case for scandalizing of a title whereas the same Lady A. such a day and yeare and long before and continually after hitherto was seized in demesne as of Fee of and in the Mannor of S. with the appurtenances in the County of C. whereof a great peece of Land containing a hundred acres called the Warren is and time out of minde was parcell And whereas also the same Lady A.G. and all they whose estate she now hath of and in the Mannor aforesaid with the appurtenances from time out of minde were used to have a free Warren of Conies in the aforesaid hundred acres of Land called the Warren And the aforesaid Lady A. of the Mannor aforesaid and the aforesaid hundred Acres of Land called the Warren being seized as aforesaid had conference with divers persons of and for the sale of the Mannor aforesaid and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances and thereupon might have had divers great summes of money for the Mannor and Warren aforesaid yet the same M. not ignorant of the premises plotting and contriving her the said Lady A. greatly to disturbe and vexe And to bring into scandall and ignominy the right title and interest of her the said Lady A. of and in the Mannor and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances such a day yeare and place to very many of the faithfull subjects of our Lady the Queene and chiefly to I.P. Esquire who had conference with the same Lady A. of and for the purchasing of the Mannor and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances and who then intended to buy the same Mannor and Warren with the appurtenances of the same Lady A. falsely and maliciously spoke pronounced and published that one R.G. then was the true Lord and Proprietor of the third part of the aforesaid hundred acres of Land and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances And that she the Lady A.G. had no good right state title or interest in the same third part of one hundred Acres of Land and Warren aforesaid Whereas in truth the aforesaid R. G. then was not Lord or Proprietor of the aforesaid third part of the one hundred Acres of Land and Warren aforesaid nor of any parcell thereof but the same Lady A. was and yet is the true and sole Lady and Proprietor of the whole hundred Acres of Land and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances and thereof sole seized in her demesne as of Fee By reason of which said false speaking asseveration and publication the aforesaid state title and interest of her the said Lady A. in the Mannor and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances are fallen into great scandal and ignominy And the aforesaid I. P. who would have given for the Mannor and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances to be purchased from the aforesaid Lady A. two thousand pounds and had offered to purchase the Mannor and Warren aforesaid of the same Lady A. hath thereupon now refused to give any manner of summe for the same to her the said Lady A. and as yet refuseth nor by that meanes can the same Lady A. the same Mannor and Warren aforesaid with the appurtenances nor any parcell thereof be able to sell to any person for
take them and as to the residue the propertie in a strange title Replevin 45 Playntiff replyes that the propertie was in himselfe c. title Replevin 46 Plea that the property was in a stranger title Replevin 46 Prescription to take tolle in a Market by a Major of a Burrough title Replevin 55 Propertie of part of the goods pleaded in Barre to an Action of trespas and not guilty to the rest title Trespas 84 Prescription for common for all manner of cattell all times of the year title Trespas 104 Prescription for a foot way to the Church title Trespas 31 Prescription for a Mortuary title Trespas 32 Prescription for a Horse and Foot way leading from one Village to another title Trespas 47 Prescription for cutting of Wood for Estovers title Trespas 69 R. REplevin a Declaration in it see title Replevin 28 Replevin to which some of the Defendants plead that they took not the cattell and the others justifie as servants c. by prescription for Rent arreare title Replevyn 29 Replevyn Declaration in it parcell in the Detinuit and parcell in the Detinet title Replevyn 34 Replevyn Declaration in it for takeing of Hides in a Market title Replevyn 55 Replevyn a Declaration in it for taking of cattell title replevyn 58 Replevyn Declaration in it for takeing of severall cattell in severall places title replevin 68 Replevin where the cattell were taken in one town and were impounded and detained in another title replevyn 70 Replevin for taking and detayning of beasts and chattells title replevin 70 Release pleaded in trespas by the wife of the Playntiff whilst she was sole title Trespas 100 Recognizance entred into in an Audita querela title Audita querela 17 Returne of a Scire facias in an Audita querela title Audita querela 17 S. STate in tayle made by Fine title replevin 42 Statute a Declaration upon the Statute of 1. and 2. of Phillip and Mary for impounding of cattell out of the County title Trespas upon the Case 75 Statute of 1 Edward the 6th for suppressing Chantries and singing pleaded tittle trespas 91 Statute of 8. Henry the 6th of forcible Entries a Declaration upon it title trespas 5 Iustification pleaded in Barre to the Statute by vertue of a certaine Demise and issue thereupon title trespas 7 Sole Seisure pleaded and a traverse of the tenure in common title Abatement 2 Scire facias awarded in an Audita querela title Audita querela 17 Statute of Mayntenance Declaration in it title Statute of Mayntenance 90 Vpon the Statute of Mayntenance a Justification especiall because of consanguinity title Statute of Mayntenance 95 Vpon the Statute of Mayntenance one Defendant pleads not guilty and the other justifies especially title Statute of Mayntenance 91 Vpon the Statute of Mayntenance Justification pleaded as a Counsellor title Statute of Mayntenance 93 Vpon the Statute of Mayntenance Justification pleaded by vertue of a Warrant of Attorney title Statute of Mayntenance 94 Vpon the Statute of Mayntenance Justification as a servant especially pleaded title Statute of Maintenance 96 Satute of Mayntenance a Declaration in it for buying a title questioned title Statute of Maintenance 97 Statute of Mayntenance a Declaration in it where the Defendant took promise to have parcell of the Land title Statute of Mayntenance 98 Statute of Scandalum magnatum a Declaration upon it title Statute of Mayntenance 101 Statute of 23. Henry the 6th a Declaration upon it title Statute of Maintenance 101 T. TRaverse of a misnomer in the Addition to a name and issue up-it in the title Abatement 3 Traverse of a misnomer in the Sirname title Abatement 3 Traverse of a tenure title Replevin 34 Traverse of Desseisin title replevin 37 Traverse of a prescription title Replevin 39 Traverse of disseisin and issue upon it title replevin 48 Traverse of a prescription to be free from paying of tolle title replevin 57 Traverse of a Custome of Eâ—closuâ—e and issue thereupon title replevin 68 Trespas IN trespas the Defendant justifies as tenant to the Plaintiff by Copie of Court Roll title Trespas 84 In trespas the Plaintiff confesseth the Defendant to be his tenant by Copy of Court Rolle but that he hath forfeited his Estate for wast title Trespas 85 In trespas the Defendant justifies by vertue of a Custome of a Mannor giving liberty to cut down trees upon their free-hold title Trespas 86 Traverse of the prescription and Custome and issue upon it in title Trespas 87 88 In trespas justification as servant by vertue of a certain Demise title Trespas 89 Traverse of a Demise and issue thereupon title Trespas 93 In trespas Justification as servant of one who had the freehold title Trespas 93 Traverse of land being parcell of a Mannor c. and issue thereupon title Trespas 94 In trespas Justification as Lessor of one of the Coheirs in Gavelkinde title Trespas 95 Trespas a Declaration against two who plead severally title Trespas 104 In trespas Justification by prescription for Common title Trespas 104 Traverse of a Prescription of Common and issue thereupon title Trespas 106 Trespasse for taking and leading away a Horse title Trespasse 107 The Defendant pleades that the property of the Horse was in him till such time as he was stole and that finding of him hee tooke him title Trespasse 107 In trespasse the Defendant justifies for that the tenements were Customary Lands title Trespasse 109 Trespasse and false Imprisonment title Trespass 111 Trespasse with a Continuando title Trespass 112 In trespasse Justification for that the tenements were customary lands c. title Trespass A. 1 To the Justification the Plaintiffe pleads in Bar a custome that if any customary tenant doth abide out of the Mannor for a yeare and a day then it shall be lawfull for the Lord of the Mannor to seize his customary Lands title Trespass 3 In trespasse justification as damage feasant by vertue of a Demise title Trespasse 9 Justification in trespasse for that the Lands in which c. were Gavelkinde title Trespasse 12 In trespasse the Defendant justifies as servant to another the Cattell doing damage title Trespasse 15 In trespasse the Defendant justifies by vertue of a Demise made by the Master and Fellowes of a Colledge title Trespasse 17 In trespasse a justification by a prescription for a Procession way in another place then in the Declaration with a traverse of the place and issue upon it title Trespas 25 In trespasse justification for a Custome of a Herriot title Trespas 26 Plea in bar to the justification that the Lands were not held by such or so many services and that he did the trespasse De injuria sua propria and traverse the Custome issue upon the Herriot Custome title Trespasse 27 In trespasse some of the Defendants plead not guilty and others justifie for that that the place in which c. is the Kings high way title Trespass 28 The Plaintiff replies that they did the trespass