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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	penny_n	pound_n	shilling_n	5,001	5	11.2551	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90208	The practice of the Exchequer court, with its severall offices and officers being a short narration of the power and duty of each single person in his severall place. Written at the request of the Lord Buckhurst, sometime Lord Treasurer of England. By Sr. T.F. Whereunto are added the rules and orders of proceedings by English bill.	Osborne, Peter, 1521-1592.; Fanshawe, Thomas Fanshawe, Viscount, 1596-1665, attributed name.	1658 (1658)	Wing O527; Thomason E1928_1; ESTC R8740	61,106	176

Terme while hee come in and plead as aforesayd He admitteth any such person that hath any such Land whereof the Tenant is returned Mortuns est or Nihil habet before the Dic. Tenement goeth forth thereof with a Nec non ad ostendend upon the sayd return to come into his Office and inroll there his licence or pardon of Alienation of the same Land and to shew his conveyance thereof and likewise to enroll his Livery speciall generall the Ousterlemain or after the course of the Chancery and upon the same enrollment and shew he doth admit such person to do his fealty and to pay his Fine upon a Writ made from the sayd enrollment and shew of his evidences to agree therewith without any manner of pleading because all such Writs be like the first writts inrolled from the originall and written out as aforesaid against the first tennant onely of the land by good matter of Record He upon all pleas put into his Office where the Kings Attorney may make an Averrment contrary to the plea of the partie and where the partie pleadeth anie forraigne matter then is of record in that Court and allowed of or would discharge any Claim title or Interest of the King by the same plea save in the said ordinarie Writts for fealtie and Homage sealtie and such like doth by himselfe or some Clerk of his make the Kings Attorney ever privy to all such pleas their replications and rejoynders who doth respect them and consider them and at length either doth confesse them or referreth them or giveth his Warrant out under his hand to have them tryed in the Countrie at the Assizes of Nisi prius He according to the Ancient order of the Court upon all other ordinarie Pleas examined by him with one of the Clerks of his office concerning Writts of service and such like doth enter Judgment alone without making the kings Attorney or the Court privie thereto which ever in this wise were dispatched as agreeable to the President of the Court. He either upon the first writ from the originall or upon the writts written from the said Pleas or upon distresses from the Streat of the fines of the Commission pleas or from writts upon such like records in his office doth set over persons fines for respit of Homage payable every fifth Terme according to a rate given him by the Court at his first comeing into his office whereof a record was then made and is as followeth the Fines for respit of Homage every fift Terme of lands and Tenements s Three pounds per Annum downwards 0 4 Five pounds per Annum downwards 0 8 Sixe pounds thirteene shillings four pence per annum downwards 1 0 Ten pounds per annum downwards 1 8 Eighteene pounds per annum downwards 2 0 Twenty pounds per annum downwards 3 4 Thirty pounds per annum downwards 5 0 Forty pounds per annum downwards 6 8 Sixty pounds per annum downwards 10 0 And noe such fines are set higher but upon Noblemen which according to the greatness or meanesse of their lands are set some at thirteen shillings fourpence some at twentie shillings some twentiesix shillings eight pence some at thirtie shillings and some at forte shillings to be payed every fifth Terme and none above nor so high but for Dukes He hath set downe in his Book called nomina Vic. by the Clerk of the Pipe every yeare the debts of all Sheriffs Bayliffs of liberties and men of certain Towns that are found and cast upon their accounts entred in the Pipe and in another of his Bookes called Nomina Ecaetor he hath every yeare the like debts of Escheators set downe by the same Clerk of the Pipe for all the which he maketh Attachment and other ordinarie processe of the Court for the levying of the same as the case doth require He hath in a third Book in his Office called Schedula Pipe All debts set downe by the Clark of the Pipe of such persons as upon the opposalls of the Sherift of their summons be said by them to be dead to the end he should make a Diem clausit Extremum after the death of such debtors to the Sherift which is the award of the Court and of purpose to enquire what day and yeare they died and what goods and Chattells and of what value they had at the day of their death and to whose hands the same came and now be and to seize the same in whose hands soever they be and to leavy the same debt and have them before the Barons such a day And if their goods and Chattells be not sufficient to pay the said debt then to enquire what lands and Tenements and to what yearely value they had at the day of their deaths or when they became debtors or ever since and to whose hands and possession the same came after their decease and in whose hands they now be and the same to seize in whose hands soever they be and keepe safe and to Answere the issues and profits thereof untill the said debt be fully satisfied and payed or that he otherwise is Commanded and to distraine all the Executors of the Testament of the said debtors as Administrators of the goods and Chattells that were his and also the heires and Ter Tenants of the same debtors if they have not Executors to Answere the same debt and all to the intent the same might this way be payed that could not by the summons of the Pipe be so levied And likewise he hath put in his said Booke of Schedula Pipe by the Clerk of the Pipe other great and speciall debts that the Court will have spedeier and sharper process made for them by the said summons to the intent the Debtors should be either quickly Attached and brought into the Court or the money payed and Answered to the Sheriffs or into the Reccit as should best fall out for the ease and dispatch of the debtors He taketh into his Office all Streats of Fines issues and Amerciaments sent into the Court from the Kings Bench the common pleas the Justices of Assize and all Justices of the Peace through England which are by him delivered over by the Rolls of streats into his Office to the Clark of the Streats to write out who sets his hand thereto for the Receipt of the same He taketh on his side also as the Kings Remembrancer doth afore all Sheriffs for raigne accounts Bayliffs accounts Escheators accounts Customers accounts Collectors accounts of Subsidies and fifteens and the Cofferers accounts as before is declared in the point amongst the matters of the Kings Remembrancers side He ruleth the ordinary petitions that any of the sayd Accountants do make or pray upon their sayd accounts to be allowed them without the privity of the Court being matter of Record and President in Court for the discharge of the same and other their new and first petitions are allowed from time to time by the Judgement of the Court

the uniting of the late Court of uniting of first Fruits and Tenths to the Court of Exchequer at Westminster 1 FIrst Her Highness doth ordain that all the Records of the said Court of the first Fruits and Tenths shall be hereafter placed in the said Exchequer and shall be of the same force and strength as they were in the said Courts of the said first fruits and Tenths Item her highness is pleased and ordaineth that there shall be in the said Exchequer a certain Office called the Office of the Remembrancer of the first Fruits and Tenths which Office for divers and sundry great considerations for and at the first erection only shal be exercised by two persons by her highness to be nominated which shall joyntly exercise the same office during their lives and after the death of the Survivor of them the said office to be exercised by one of them Item That all Records belonging to the same court of the first Fruits and Tenths shall be in the charge and keeping of the said Officer Item That the said Officer shall make and deliver the true values of all spirituall promotions dignities and benefits within the Realm of England and Wales and other the Queens Dominions to such persons as shall sue for them taking for the same like fees as were wont to be paid before the dissolution of the first fruits and Tenths Item The same Officer shall take composiions of the first Fruits of every Arch Bishop prick Arch-Desconry Deanry Prebendary Parsonage Vicaridge and of every other dignity office benefice promotion spirituall aforesaid 6. Item The same officer to make all writings obligatory Indentures and all other writings concerning the same first fruits and tenths and shall see the same sealed and delivered by the parties to the Queens highness use and also shall make Acquittances and other discharges to such as shal pay their mony in hand without making bonds for the same taking fees accustomed of the parties for the same Lord Treasurer 7. Item The said Lord Treasuror to call such persons as shall please him to his assistance at the declaration of the foresaid accounts or any officer or auditor of the same Court that to them shal be thought meet for the passing of the same accounts 8. Item The accountant or accountants that shall not come to determin his or their accounts in form aforesaid his or their goods and lands shall be seised to the Queens use nomine districtionis and shall loose the benefit thereof and that shall have the allowance of the same in discharge of his debt according to the ancient custom of the Exchequer 9. Item all Sci. fac attachments and writs of distresses for debts or accounts concerning the premisses shal be made by the Treasurers Remembrancer from time to time as to the discretion of the Court in that be half shall be thought meet and convenient according to the ancient custom and course of the Court. 10. Item All Letters Patents of any Mannors land tenements or other hereditaments or concerning any annuities pardons or other such like shal be inrolled in such office of the said Exchequer as by the discretion of the Lord Treasurer and the said Court shal be appointed the parties to pay fines according to the ordinance and statute in that behalf provided 11. Item All recognizances of payments of any farm or any debt of or for any part of the premisses to be inrolled in the Remembrancers office and to be taken in the open Court when the Term is open if the Term be not open then by the chief Baron and in his ablence by any of the Barons and by force of a Dedim Potestat if necessity shall require taking for every such recognizince taken out of the court 6 s. 8 d. only whatsoever number of persons be bound in the same and for the entry of the same recognizance the said Remembrancer shall have and take for his fee of and for every Recognizance of 41. and upwards 3 s. 4 d and no other or more Fees to be taken for a Recognizance whatsoever number of persons be bound in the same 12 Item that the said Sheriffs or other accomptants shall yearly pay all such summes of money as shal be due to anie person or persons for any Annuities Fees pensions issueing or going out of any of the premisses according to their grants allowed and inrolled unlesse they shall have speciall Commandement by the Court to the contrarie 13. Item that the Farmors and Lesses shall be bound to the Queen and by Recognizance to performe their Covenants in their Leases in such forme as by the Court shall be ordered 14. Item all Warrants for leases to passe by the Lord Treasuror and if the yearly rent of the land to be letten shall be above the summe of forty shillings by the yeare then the same lease to passe under the great Seale of England and if the rent be above the value of 71. 13 s 4 d. then every such lessee to pay the Fees of the Signet and privy Seale as hereto fore in like Cases hath beene accustomed And if the land to be letten doe passe not the yearly rent of 40 s. then the Lease to passe the seale of the same Court of Exchequer paying 6 s. 8 d. to the Queens use 3 s. 4 d. to the Chancellor of the said Court and 4 d. to one appointed to Attend the seale for his Attendance and wax And the said Leases under the value of 40 s. to be alwayes made by the Clark of the Pipe and filed together for every yeare by themselves and there to be inrolled within the said Office as the said Clark of the Pipe may report the Indentures for the more surety of the parties taking for the inrollment as shall be ordered by the Court. 15. Item the said Lord Treasuror shall not have any Authoritie to make any lease in Reversion of any part or parcell of the premisses or of any woods or anie Mannors in grosse for the terme of certaine yeares without the Queens highnesse speciall Warrant to him to be directed in that behalfe and then Warrant to be made by the Lord Treasuror of England in forme aforesaid 16. Item the Lord Treasuror taking to him the Advice of the Chancellor under-treasuror and cheife Baron or two of them shall have Authoritie to assesse Fines for any Leases of any part or parcell of the premisses to be made by the said Lord Treasuror in forme aforesaid 17. Item the same Officer to write and make all manner of processe Commissions Entries Books Judgments and decrees of the Court with all other writings and miniments whatsoever aswell for the arrerages of such first fruits as for all Tenths and Subsidies of the Clergie due to her highnesse heires and Successors by such speciall persons their Sureties Farmers and occupiers taking therefore such Fees of the parties as were used before the dissolution of the same Court of first fruits and Tenthes 18.