should have satisfied and paid in case the said Accompts had beene delivered in due time And for that it is found by experience that the Vnder-Sheriffe that takes upon him the execution of the whole Office both in attending at the Assizes Sessions and upon other Courts of Iustice returning of Iuries and other service of the Country betweene party and party cannot in any such due time as he ought looke into and attend the levying of the Kings Rents and other the Debts and Duties sent forth in proces to Sheriffes by severall Writs of Distringas Fieri facias Capias and Extent out of the two Remembrancers Offices and by the Summons of the Pipe and Greenwax some such like Act may bee passed in Parliament for the better expediting of the Kings service that it may be lawfull to and for such person or persons of ability and sufficiency as shall be hereafter appointed by the Sheriffe of every County for whom he will answer to be his Deputy or Clerke for the leavying of the Kings Rents and other his Debts and Duties as shall be so sent out by the said Summons and for executing all such Writs out of both the Offices of the said Remembrancers as aforesaid and for no other businesse may continue in the said Office yeare after yeare so long as hee shall be approved of and allowed by the said Sheriffes as aforesaid without incurring any of the penalties and forfeitures provided by the Lawes against such Vnder-Sheriff or Sheriffes Clerk as shall remaine in his Office above one yeare Stat. anno 23. H. 6. And that notwithstanding any former Act Statute or Ordinance to the contrary heretofore made Neverthelesse that such Vnder-Sheriff Deputy-Sheriffe or Sheriffs Clerk shall not thereby be exempted from taking any such oaths nor from any other penalties which by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme are to be taken or undergone by them Stat anno 27. Eliz. 12. And in regard all the Sheriffes of this Kingdome doe finde themselves much grieved and damnified by reason of the foresaid Statute made in the seven and twentieth year of the reigne of K. Ed. 1. by force whereof they are to answer for al such issues by them returned against any person or persons their mainpernors or pledges which shall be Nichelled or prove to be illeviable especially in the case of Writs of Distring sent out of the Excheq for the homages other services of the Kings Tenants that some consideration may be taken of the said ancient Statute in case of the said Sheriffs so farre forth as may stand with Justice and the preservation of his Majesties said Rights and Services And that in further ease of Sheriffs there may be a review of the decree lately procured by the parcell makers for Sheriffs and Lords of Liberties to accompt before them for Felons Goods and other Escheats c. the same being found very grievous and burthensome to the said Sheriftes and other his Majesties Subjects without any profit to the King And in regard diverse ancient Farmes and Rents now in charge in the Pipe and before his Majesties Auditors for the revenue and in the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster which by reason of sundry alienations of the lands and hereditaments out of which the same are issuing and for divers other causes are now at this day very hard and difficult to be levied by reason whereof many of them are like to bee utterly lost unlesse they may by some good and lawfull wayes and meanes be revived and more of them like to be lost hereafter That for remedy herein a perfect survey may bee made of all his Majesties Honors Manors Lands Tenements Rents and Heredaitments in every Shire Hundred and what particular Rents and services either by way of Fee Farme or otherwise in perpetuity or for terme of life or years are answered for the same And that inquisition be made for and concerning all the dispersed Rents which are within the collection of the Bayliffes or Collectors thereof and of all other Rents within the collection of Sheriffes or Receivors generall and of what lands or other hereditaments the same are particularly issuing and where the said lands and hereditaments doe lye and in whose possession they now are and when and how to be paid And that all good and lawfull wayes and meanes may be used as well by the view of ancient Records Inquisitions where any such are to be found as otherwise for reviving of all decayed Rents belonging to the Crowne And after the making of such surveies that some fit course may be devised for the better securing of all the said petty and dispersed Rents in the charge of the said Bailiffes and Collectors of the same from further decay and for easing the King from the great charge and hazard he now undergoes in the collecting thereof Jtem that the state of the Kings Castles and Houses may be surveyed all decaied Castles and Houses not useful for further service if it shall be so thought fit converted to the best profit and the Fees for the keeping thereof discharged And whether the like survey may not be made of all the Forrests Parkes Chaces and Warrens not as yet dissaforested or disparked except such as his Majesty shall reserve for his royall disport and the waste number of them to be converted to the best profit by the yeare and to be letten as other lands are and with like condition saving to every man a recompence for such interest as he hath And that the Farmes of the Vlnages and Gaugers be surveied that it may be knowne what Rent is fit to be set upon them when the terme expireth Many other parcells there are of the ancient Revenues being flowers of the Crowne as the Goods and Chattels of Felones Fugitives and Outlawed persons the petty Fines and Amerciaments anciently set and affeered in the higher Courts upon the Plantiffes and Defendants pro falso clamore quia non est prosecut c. and the like whereof little or no profit hath of late beene made to the Crowne according to the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome by reason whereof divers persons finding they may doe it with such impunity have beene incouraged to violate the Lawes and to set on foot and maintaine sundry unjust and vexatious suits c. For remedy whereof this may also be taken into consideration and some life given to those Lawes in a moderate way so farre forth as may stand with his Majesties ancient Rights the Justice of the Kingdome and the discouragement of such offendors for time to come And whereas there remains at this day a great bulke of Arrerages and Debts as well in the Exchequer as in the Court of Wards and Liveries and in the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster a great part whereof is conceived to be good as having beene suffered to sleep through the connivence or negligence of some of the Kings Officers other part
Realme participating so much of the Regality of the Crowne having a Court a Chancellor and Seale of their owne might make some use thereof for bringing in the Arrerages of Rents their Aurum Reginae and other debts and duties belonging to them in their owne particular estates but it is so far otherwise that by the common Lawes of this Land they have the same power for bringing in their said debts and duties as the King hath as appeares by a Writ directed to the Sheriffe of Norfolke and Suffolke out of the Exchequer 24. Maii Anno 14. Edwardi primi The tenor of which Writ followeth Edwardus Dei gratia Angliae Rex Dominus Hiberniae Dux Aquitan Vic. Norff. Suff. salutem Cum secundum antiquam consuetudinem approbatam hactenus optentam Idem modus in debitis Reginarum levandis reddendis qui in nostris servari debeat ac debita nostra juxta candem consuetudinem a aebitor nostris sunt levanda nobis reddenda antequam quibuscunque Creditor corundem de debitis suis satissiat Cumque Willielmus de Huntingfield charissime matri nostre Alionore Reginae Anglie in xxxij l' teneatur prout nobis constat per inspect Rotulorum de Scaceario nostro I demque Wilielmus teneatur quam plur in diversis pecuniarum summis prout tu retornasti coram Baron in crastino clausi Pasche prox pretcrit volentes ipsam matrem nostram prerogativa predict quoad debita sua levand sicut aliae Reginae Angliae eadem in casu consil sint gavise tibi precipimus quod de bonis catall de exit terrar ipsius Willielmi in Balliva tua fieri facias predictas xxxij l' antequam debita quorundam creditorum suorum leventur Ita quod eas habeas ad idem Scaccarium nostrum apud Westmonasterium à die sanctae Trinitate in xv dies Waltero de Castello custodi Auri ejusdem liberand hoc breve Teste c. Per Rotul memor de anno 54. H. 3. And that this course by Writs directed out of the Exchequer to Sheriffes and no other was used as well in those ancient times as in all the times sithence even unto and in the time of Hen. 8. for bringing in the debts and duties belonging to the nuptiall Queenes of England appeares by divers like Writs and Records remaining in the Exchequer And the reason why such a legall course and no other was allowed to the said Queens for getting in their debts I conceive was this because the Subject might demurre or take Issue upon any such writ where there was just cause which he could not doe in case a messenger or other demand out of the Queens Court had beene made for the same I have the rather vouched this precedent here concerning the manner of levying the Queens debts in regard some of the Auditors of the Revenue having of late moved and pressed the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury at the Councell board for signing of warrants to messengers for bringing in divers supers and debts aswell within the Queenes joynture as parcell of the Kings Revenues depending in the Accompts of generall Receivors which a noble Lord at that board being tender of all unjust vexations to his Majesties Subjects withstanding as conceiving the ordinary proces of the Exchequer to be most proper and sufficient for bringing in his Majesties debts a direction was made to the Barons of the Exchequer to call unto them the Officers of the said Court and to certifie whether the imployment of messengers in those cases were legall who certified their Lordships that their imployment in that kinde was not according to Law and that by the ancient course of the Exchequer and the Laws of this Kingdome the Auditors ought to deliver the Accompts of the receivors and ministers of the Revenew in charge before them into the Pipe every yeare by the twentieth of March so as proces might bee made from thence to the Sheriffes for levying of the supers and debts depending in those Accompts but I shall have occasion to speake somewhat more of this in the ensuing discourse concerning the great and superfluous charge and losse the Crowne hath beene put unto in bringing in those Revenewes which was alwayes carefully avoided by the like wisdome of our Ancestors it being provided by the foresaid Statute of the Exchequer Anno 51. H. 3. that the Exchequer be not charged with mo persons then is necessary For as our Ancestors had one principall care in the constitution of the Exchequer to see that the Kings Farmes Rents and other his sperate debts and duties were duely answered and not prolonged or posted off from yeare to yeare whereby they might either grow desperate The prolonging of the Kings good debts makes them desperate or grievances to the Subject or become grievances to the subject by being charged upon the debtors suerties or the purchasers of their lands as hath beene formerly observed so had they a like speciall care to see that all unnecessary and superfluous charge in bringing the said Revenewes into the Kings Coffers should be avoided which rules if they had beene of late yeares observed in the Exchequer many great and unspeakeable losses to the Crowne and many unsufferable grievances to the Subject might have been prevented It is true that for some private ends and other respects upon the great glut of Revenew which came to the Crowne in the time of Hen. 8. many new Exchequers and Courts of Revenew were created and erected by Parliament besides the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster erected in the time of Hen. 4. As the Court of Angmentations the Court of generall Surveiors the Court of first Fruits and Tenths the Court of Wards Liveries But it is well known what is become of most of those Courts as namely the Court of Augmentations Generall Surveiors and first Fruits and Tenths all of them being dissolved by Act of Parliament in anno primo Mariae Regine and turned into the old Channell viz. annexed to the Exchequer where be the Kings Revenew two millions or more it may be as well managed and brought in as if it were but one the reasons why the said Courts were then so dissolved being in those dayes notoriously knowne and openly declared as namely for that the Revenewes in those Courts were in a manner wholly wasted and devoured by the new and unnecessary Officers of those Courts the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster and that of the Wards and Liveries being also offered by the Parliament at the same time to be by the said Queen Mary in like manner dissolved by her letters patents and annexed to the Exchequer where all the benefit arising by Wardships and Liveries was before the erection of the said Court Anno 32. Hen. 8. answered to the Crowne And howsoever the said Court of Wards and Liveries as being at that time a profitable Court to the Crown might in the same time of Queen Mary
provideri contra firmariorum avaritiam contra Officiariorum vero infinitas fraudes aliter provideri non potest idque long a experientia nimis cognitum est As by the said Report remaining in his Majesties Library at White-Hall amongst other things may appeare Wherein it is most evident of what use and estimation Sheriffes being but for a year have alwayes been for bringing in the Revenues of the Crowne especially if they bee well chosen and held to the performance of their duties by the Officers of Exchequer with this further observation How remisse the Receivors were in those dayes and had ever been in paying what they received and making their accompts in due time Besides it is well knowne how many Receivors both in the time of the late Queene Elizabeth and the late King James as is before observed have broken for very great summes of money which were never paid at such a rate per annum as the interest amounted unto But it cannot be proved that ever any one Sheriffe broke in that kinde Moreover by the said Report may be observed the faithfull advice given to the Queene by the said Lords of her Councell to demise all her Manors in Grosse with the Casualties and Woods and so to make her Rents certaine and cut off the great charge of Stewards Bailiffes and other Officers for that otherwise Contra Officiarum infinitas fraudes provideri non potest idque longa experientia nimis cognitū est as before is observed On the other side it may bee observed whether the advice of those Officers who then advised the Queen to keep the Royalties and Casualties of her Manors in her own hands by appointing Stewards and Bailiffes of her own to manage the same and onely to demise the Demeanes of every Manor at the old Rent payably halfe yearly was the best Counsell we that have had the experience of those and our owne times can best judge as those Lords in their experience then found it viz. that it had been much better for the Queen to have demised the Mannors in grosse with the casualties as was by them prescribed at a certaine Rent For that upon severall mediums cast up by the Auditors of the profits of Courts and Casualties and of the Fees of Bayliffes and the Fees and Diets of Stewards for keeping of Courts it hath appeared that the Fees and Dyets of the said Stewards and Bayliffes have in all times sithence exceeded the casualties three thousand pounds per annum at least besides the Fees of the Receivors Collectors and Auditors causa exercitii and the riding charges And for that it also appeareth that the best and most valuable and choisest parts of every Mannor have been demised at the old Rent for three lives and for xxj xxxj and xl years in reversion booke after booke insomuch as the Crowne hath beene by that meanes in a manner forestalled from making any benefit thereof as if the same had beene granted in Fee Farme So as I shall be bold for the reasons aforesaid to conclude that the ancient course of demising the Mannors and Lands intirely with the casualties by the Lord Treasurer for the time being by way of Custody with the ordinary proviso of si quis plus dare voluorit de incremēto sine fraude vel malo ingenio The granting of the Kings lands in Custody by the Lord Treasurer with the proviso of Si quis da re voluerit c. reserving the best Rent with the other exceptions before mentioned was and is the most prudent and safest course for the Crowne for that then upon all occasions either for provision for the royall Issue or other urgent occasions the King might have his lands at his owne disposall when he pleased But now at the close and upshot of all The complaints of Sheriffes of their excessive charge trouble in passing their Accompts the case being cleared that the Sheriffe is the onely Officer appointed by the Lawes of this Kingdome for bringing in and answering the Revenues of the Crowne I cannot stoppe mine eares against the loud cries which Sheriffes make of the great and excessive charge and trouble which they are unjustly put unto in passing their Accompts in the Exchequer 1. By reason they have beene inforced by the Officers of the Exchequer to take into their charge all the seisures upon their forraine Accompts leaviable or not leaviable and other dead Farmes and desperate debts which they cannot leavy 2. To pay divers new exacted and extorted Fees and Rewards upon the passing of their Accompts 3. To collect and leavy at their own charge the Greenwax moneyes and other his Majesties casual Revenues and Debts granted in Farme and given to divers Farmers and other Patentees who take the benefit thereof 4. To accompt before the parcell maker of the Exchequer for such fellons goods and other like Escheates wherewith they have beene and are charged by the Auditors upon their forraine Accompts when there were or are any such 5. And for that also divers Hundreds Wapontakes and Gaols parcell of their Balywicks which by severall Acts of Parliament have been annexed to their Counties have beene contrary to the said Statutes granted away to sundry persons and severed from their said Counties so as they cannot have the Bayliffes at their command and yet are still charged upon their Accompts with their said Bailywicks under the title de proficuis Com. By reason whereof all men of quality have beene of late much discouraged to take the said Office upon them Which said complaints of theirs being so just and true may not be passed over in silence but some fit remedies applied for their better incouragement according to the Lawes of this Kingdome the said Office of Sheriffe being an Office of high trust and authority both for the service of the King and Common-wealth The sheriffe anciently stiled Firmarius cu stos Cem. and the Sheriff being anciently stiled Firmarius custos Cō And first as to the injury offered to Sheriffes in charging them with all the seisures in their forraine Accompts and with other dead Farmes and desperate debts which at their apposalls they averre to be illeviable all Sheriffes ought to be relieved herein by the foresaid Statute of Rutland An. 10. E. 1. which provides that nothing shall bee written out to Sheriffes but such debts whereof there is some hope that something may bee leavied and that all dead Farms and desperate debts are to be removed from the Annual into the exannuall Roll and not to be written out in proces to Sheriffes but only read to them at their Apposalls to see if any thing may bee revived And that a Commission bee awarded out of the Treasurers Remembrancers Office to faithfull and circumspect men in every County as is before prescribed to inquire of the severall seisures charged upon Sheriffes in their forraine Accompts which they cannot leavy to see if the same can be revived and made good
Pipe and sent in processe for leavying thereof in Terrorem of all other Sheriffes but suffered to sleep sometimes for many yeares or to bee taken off or compounded for some small matter to the King An eight cause is In that Commissions have not been awarded out of the Exchequer according to the foresaid Statutes of Westm 1. Anno 3. E. 1. Cap. 19. 6. H. 4. Cap. 3. for inquiry to be made into the Accompts and Receipts of Sheriffes and other Accomptants to the end the King may bee recompenced and the subject relieved in all such cases where it shall bee found that the said Sheriffes have defrauded the King or abused the Subject A ninth cause is In that the Auditors of the Revenue have not as hath beene formerly observed according to the ancient course of the Exchequer and the said Ordinance of Anno 1. Maeriae Articulo 9. delivered ingrossed in parchment the Accompts of the generall Receivors and Bayliffes of the said Revenues into the Pipe every yeare yearly by the 21. of March so as Proces might in due time be made from the said Accompts to the Sheriffes for all debts supers therein depending against the next liberate or sealing day of the Exche but have for some private respects heretofore and stil kept the said accompts in their owne hands some whereof are said not to be ingrossed for many years together by which means many great Arrerages of Rents Supers have heretofore sleyt in the same accompts for 10 20 30 years c. before they were written forth in Proces which hath not onely occasioned great losse to the Crowne but many grievances to the Kings Subjects by seising the lands which they purchased for valuable cōsideratiō of the said debtors for which if proces had been made in due time they might have bin paid by the debtor himself a great part of the said arrerages recovered which by reason of long forbearance becomes desperate as in the foregoing discourse hath been observ'd In like manner it may be here remembred that by the like omission of Stewards of the Kings Manors to send up the double of their Court Rolls to the Exchequer to be kept in the Treasury there as well for the King and Subjects evidence as that it may appeare what each Bayliffe is to bee charged withall every yeare for fines upon Copy-holders and other profits of Courts according to the said Ordinance of Anno primo Mariae many great losses to the crown inconveniences to the subject have been occasioned there being but few such Court Rolls or any entries thereof to be found which are now extant either in the times of the late Queen Elizabeth or the late King Iames. And that there hath beene the like neglect of sending up Rentalls of the Kings Manors which once every seven yeare are to be renewed by the Steward upon presentment of the Homage and to be returned up and sent into the said Treasury A tenth cause is In that the Estreats of the Fines Issues Amerciaments and other Forfeitures set lost and forfeited before the Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas Justices of Assize and Gaole Delivery and Justices of Peace c. commonly called Green-wax have not been certified into the Exchequer in such sort as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme they ought to be but have been obstructed diverted or suppressed contrary to the said Lawes to the encouragement of offendors and the great prejudice of the Crowne whereof divers instances in that kinde were lately made before the Lords Commissioners for the Treasury whereby it appeared that sundry recognizances and fines forfeited and imposed at the Assizes and Sessions in the Countrey in cases of great and Criminall offences and misdemeanors had been some yeares since removed by Cerciorari into the Crowne office and both these and many others of the like nature kept backe and stopped there and in other places which were never certified into the Exchequer as they ought to bee which every way turnes to his Majesties great prejudice and losse whether they be pardoned or suppressed For that if the King pardon or give them away the Farmers of the Green-wax will looke for a Defalcation out of their Rent of so much as they amount unto by reason of a covenant from his Majesty that hee will neither pardon nor give any of them away during their terme unlesse it be by a generall Pardon in Parliament In which case it had been much better for the King they had beene altogether suppressed and lost then to be pardoned or given away but by a generall pardon in Parliament In consideration whereof of the inconveniences formerly mētioned by letting the Green wax to farme and that the Fines in the Kings Bench are like to be increased by putting downe of the Star-chamber-Court some composition may be made with the Farmers as the case shall require and present order taken as well for resuming the said Farmes of the Green-waxe into his Majesties hands as for the reforming of such abuses as tend to the suppressing or diverting any of the said Greenwax as aforesaid But then in case of such resumption I cannot in my duty but make some Remembrance of the complaints of the great abuses and disorders which were committed in the managing of the said Revenue when it was in the Kings hands by the practice of some inferiour Clerks and Bailiffes c. As namely That where divers issues were estreated against Sheriffes out of severall Courts Quia non habuit corpus and against Noblemen and others for not appearing at the suits of divers persons either for payment of money owing by Bond or upon actions of accompt detin or the like In which cases the Plaintiffes could have no proceedings at Law for recovering of their rights or what was due unto them without an appearance and the estreating of the said Issues to be levied for the Kings use being the Coertion appointed by the Law to procure such Appearances the said Issues were neverthelesse by the undue practices aforesaid upon some ordinary suggestions procured to bee discharged or respited till a generall Pardon or compounded for some small matter which in no sort ought to have been done by the Lawes of the Kingdome before certificate had been made that appearance was given to the Plaintiffs action or the debt satisfied c. to the utter subversion of justice And the like abuses were committed in procuring discharges for Recognizances of such parties as had beene bound over with Sureties to the Assizes or Sessions for keeping a bastard childe or for performing some other publicke service in the Countrey or upon suspition of Felony c. and the like without procuring any certificate from the Justices or Countrey that the Parish was discharged the service performed or what the cause was for which every such Rccognizance became forfeited insomuch as the poorer sort that could use no meanes for their discharge were for
the most part left to bee written for who if they had but a Cow or any poore Utensills were driven from time to time to make their peace with the Sheriffes Bailiffe in the Countrey with some of their poore estate which the said Bailiffes tooke as it were nomine districtionis to their own use without answering any part thereof to the King to the greater impoverishing and sometimes undoing of the said poorer sort of the Kings subjects In consideration whereof and for the better preventing of the like abuses for time to come it was in the time of the late King James thought fit by the Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer All mens care no mans care that there should bee for ever an Officer in the Exchequer called the Surveyor of the Green-wax formerly mentioned who should take speciall care to see the said Revenue better managed and from time to time to attend the Court and acquaint the Barons therewith as the case should require And this was upon the matter agreeable with an ancient Statute made in Anno 27. E. 1. Stat. anno 27. E. 1. By which it was provided that at one time certaine every yeare one Baron and one Clerke of the Exchequer should goe through every Shire of England to examine and view the Acquittances of Sheriffes and their Bailiffes touching Green-wax and to inroll them and also to heare and determine complaints made against Sheriffes and their Clerks and Bailiffs that had been done concerning the premises and the offenders to bee grie vously punished It being conceived that the discontinuance of that good ordinance had occasioned the many abuses and grievances aforesaid In the last place the remedy for preventing the like abuses and misdemeanors in generall both towards the King and his Subjects for time to come is That speciall care bee taken to see that the ancient course of the Exchequer and the Lawes of the Kingdome formerly mentioned for the better and more timely and husbandly answering and the more due and legall charging and discharging of the Kings Revenues bee strictly observed and kept and to see that due punishment be inflicted upon the violators there of accordingly As also to see that all those fore-going causes which hinder the Kings service therein and the quiet of his Maties subjects be removed And especially that the Sheriffe in his yeare according to his Proces sent unto him out of the Exchequer in the Lent Vacation and Summer Vacation without any respect of persons doe his uttermost to levie all such debts and summes of money as shall be so written to him as a foresaid And yet where I say without respect of persons I desire to bee rightly understood that the persons of all the English Nobility and their Dowagers Barons and Baronnesses are exempted from all arrests for the Kings debts as by the Prerogative Writ before mentioned may appeare And so are the persons of all and every the Knights and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament so long as the Parliament continues Neverthelesse in my best understanding and observation I doe not finde but the Rents and Debts due to the King have in time of Parliament been levied by Sheriffes upon the issues and profits of their lands and goods Moreover forasmuch as the Kings Majesty his Heires and Successors may be much hindred by the negligence and connivence of the Officers of the Exchequer by reason of a late Statute made in the one twentieth year of the reigne of the late King James whereby it is provided that all and every Sheriffe and Sheriffes within the Realme of England and Dominion of Wales their Heires Executors and Administrators and their Lands Goods and Chattels shall bee absolutely discharged of all and all manner summe and summes of money which hee or they shall leavie or receive unlesse such Sheriffe or Sheriffes shall bee called in question for such summe or summes of money pretended to bee leavied and received by them or any of them and not accompted for within foure yeares next after they have finished or shall finish their accompts and had their Quietus est That for preventing thereof some Act may bee passed in Parliament that where any Sheriffe or Sheriffes which since the making of the said Act or at any time hereafter have or shall procure and obtaine any such Quietus est by meanes whereof they or any of them are or hereafter shall bee by force of the said Act discharged or acquitted against the King his Heires or Successors of or for any summe or summes of money by them leavied and not answered upon their said accompts or of or for any untrue or double allowance upon their said accompts that in all such cases the Officer or Officers who have or shall make any such Quietus est and have not nor shall not within the time by the said Statute limited by some proces or other proceedings in the Exchequer called or call the same in question against the said Sheriffes their Heires Executors or their Lands Goods or Chattels for preventing the losse and prejudice which otherwise may happen to the Crowne thereby and every Officer by whose default any such summe or summes of money by force of the said Statute shall bee lost to the King his Heires or Successors being thereof lawfully convicted shall pay and forfeit to the use of his Majesty his Heires and Successors all such summe and summes of money as the said King his Heires or Successors shall or may lose thereby to be recovered against the said officers their Heires Executors Administrators their Lands Goods and Chattels in such manner and sort as the same might have been recovered by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme against the said Sheriffes if the said Act had not beene made And that in all such cases where by the Lawes of this Kingdome and the course of the Exchequer any Officer or Officers of the said Court are to deliver any Accompt or Accompts into any Office or Offices of the said Court by and at some certaine time so as proces may bee made upon such Supers and Debts as are or shall bee depending in the same accompts upon any person or persons So as for default of their delivering in of any the said accompts in due time any the said Supers or Debts shall be afterwards required and recovered against the purchasers of the Lands of any such Debtor or Debtors by whom the said Supers or Debts were so due or against their Sureties which might have been recovered against the said Debtors themselves if the same accompts had been delivered in due time that such Officer or Officers so making default in delivering of the said accompts in due time shall and may for their neglect therein being thereof lawfully convicted be subject to discharge the purchasers of the said Debtors lands and their suerties against the King his Heires and Successors and to satisfie and pay what the said principall Debtors