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A51526 An answer to two books the first being stiled a reply to Sir Thomas Mainwaring's book, entituled, An answer to Sir Peter Leicester's Addenda, the other stiled Sir Thomas Mainwaring's law-cases mistaken / written ... Sir T.M. Mainwaring, Thomas, Sir, 1623-1689. 1675 (1675) Wing M299; ESTC R21694 25,559 69

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servitio obnoxium so that Maritagium the Genus comprehends the Members and both opposite one to another as either free marriage or not free marriage let Sir Peter therefore answer this his own Argument as he thinks fit As to what he pretends in the 22 23 and 24 pages I did not say that the Gift of Ellesmere to Lhewellin was but an Estate for Life it being said in the Precept to make Livery to be an Estate in maritagio though not in libero maritagio and to make Livery thereof would have been needless if it had been a Gift in free marriage Neither is Joane his Wife proved to be a Bastard so that that Precedent is out of doors but I did give some Reasons why that Precedent would have stood him in no stead if she had been a Bastard and that a Gift in free marriage and could yet say more in that particular if occasion did require but that not being the Case I will forbear to say any more concerning the same In his 24 page and so on to the 42 besides some mistakes of his which because they are not material to the point I will not here take notice of he spends a great deal of time in proving that Hellen the Wife of John Scot was the Daughter of Lhewellin by his Wife Joane Daughter of King John whereas he did clearly prove the same in his 28 and 29 pages in very few words and the same doth also appear by a Record hereafter mentioned which very lately came to my knowledge but yet for all that this Precedent will do him no good as well because the said Joane is not proved to be a Bastard as also because Budeford and Suttehale were not given to the said Lhewellin in libero maritagio as will anon appear Sir Peter doth indeed tell us that those Mannon were given in libero maritagio to the said Lhewellin but the Deed lately belonging to Somerfield Oldfeld Esq doth prove no such thing but doth only prove that the said Lhewellin did mistake himself and think that they were given him in free marriage when they were not so given I therefore believing Sir Peter that those Mannors were given in free marriage to Lhewellin when they were not and perceiving Lhewellin to say that King John had given them to him but not telling with whom and knowing as appears in the 13 14 15 and 16 pages of my Answer to his Addenda if they were given to him in frank marriage with his Wife Joane the Daughter of the said King that the said Lhewellin had not power to dispose of them from his Son David who was his right Heir could not find out any other way to reconcile every thing in this particular but by supposing that Lhewellin had a former Wife who was a Kinswoman to King John with whom those Lands were given and by whom he had his Daughter Hellen And what I said was by way of consequence for I relied only upon my fourth Argument as appears in the said 13 page and brought the other three but as concurrent And what I there believed might very well have been true for Sir Peter proves that Lhewellin had a former Wife and if his words had been true in saying that those Mannors were given to the said Lhewellin with the said Joane in libero maritagio my words must necessarily have been true also for I was only mistaken in Hellens Mother by building upon that unsound foundation which Sir Peter did there lay But mark what work Sir Peter doth make of it now he hath proved Hellen to be Lhewellin's Daughter by his said Wife Joane for he in his 37 page grants all my Quotations I would I had cause to say the like by him and also grants what by those Lawyers is said in the 14 and 15 pages of my Answer to his Addenda which is a certain sign he doth not understand what they do say for by what is there said it appears that if a Man have Land given him in free marriage with a Wife he hath only custodiam cum uxore and hath not so much as an Estate for his own life until he be Tenant by the courtesie of England and by consequence he cannot dispose of those Lands to any person whatsoever from the next Heir And this ignorance of his runs him upon his mistake in the 36 and 37 pages of his latter Book wherein he says that a man would have but custodiam cum uxore although the Wife were not of the blood of the Donor whereas you may see in the 14 and 15 pages of my Answer to his Addenda that though when Lands be given with a Woman to a Man in frank marriage it is liberum tenementum uxoris non viri cum non habeat nisi custodiam cum uxore yet it is secus otherways when the Land is given in marriage pro homagio servitio viri and one reason of this difference betwixt Land given in marriage for which no service is to be done and Land given in marriage for which Homage is to be done is because in the one Case the Land may revert to the Donor but in the other Case the Land can never revert as you may find in Glanvil lib. 7. cap. 18. who after he hath told you what free marriage is hath these words Cum quis itaque terram aliquam cum uxore sua in maritagium ceperit si ex eadem uxore sua haeredem habuerit filium vel filiam clamantem auditum infra quatuor parietes si idem vir uxorem suam supervixerit sive vixerit haeres sive non illi in vita sua remanet maritagium illud post mortem vero ipsius ad donatorem vel ejus haeredes est reversurum Sin autem ex uxore sua nunquam habuerit haeredem tunc statim post mortem uxoris ad donatorem vel haeredes ejus revertetur maritagium Et haec est quaedam causa quare de maritagio tali non solet recipi homagium Si enim sic donata esset terra aliqua in maritagium vel alio modo quod inde reciperetur homagium tune nunquam de cetero ad donatorem vel ejus haeredes licite possit reverti ut supradictum est Sir Peter therefore must either confess that Lhewellin had no power to dispose of those Lands in such manner as he did and then that Precedent will be of no more force if the said Joane had been a Bastard than a Precedent would be of a Man who now should give Lands is libero maritagio to one who is not of the blood or else he must acknowledge that those Lands were given to Lhewellin but in maritagio and so he being liable to do homage for them might dispose of them as he did please And that they were given to him but in maritagio will appear as well by the making of Livery of them which is needless in a Gift in frank marriage as also