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a13252	A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes very profitable to be vnderstoode of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse delightfull, aswell for the rarenes of the worke, as for the easines of the stile, and method: compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundrie customes, aswell general as particular, not impertinent thereunto: besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected, especially of Iustinianists, or young students of the ciuil law: vvith two tables, the one analyticall ... the other alphabeticall ... By the industrie of Henrie Swinburn, Bachelar of the Ciuill Lawe.	Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.	1591 (1591)	STC 23547; ESTC S118058	497,477	642

the full profits thereof of all the said manours lands tenements hereditaments of euerie such owner or deuisour so to bee had to the king in the title of wardship or primer season as the case shall require And the deuision thereof to be had and made and with the restitution of the profits of the two partes of the said manours lands tenementes and hereditamentes in such maner and fourme as is aboue rehearsed And like benefit and aduantage to be giuen had and taken by the said authority to euerie Lord and Lordes of whom anie such manours lands tenements or hereditaments beene or shall be holden by knightes seruice in maner and fourme as is aboue said concerning onelie his or their third partes thereof according to their said interest therein And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that if it happen the same third parte or anie part thereof left willed or assigned to the king or other lord at anie time during their interestes therein to be lawfullie euicted or determined that than the king and the other lord shall haue as much of the two partes residue as shall accomplish and make vppe a full thirde part in cleere yeerelie value after the rate and portion of such manours landes tenementes and hereditamentes as shall then happen to remaine of the same third part not deuicted nor determined and of the other two parts of such manours landes tenementes and hereditamentes as the kinge or other lorde shoulde or ought to haue had by vertue of the said former act and this present act and the same to be deuided in maner and fourme aboue rehearsed anie clause in the said former acte notwithstanding And be it further enacted and declared by the authoritie aforesaid that the sauing and reseruing for fines for alienation by anie such last will and testament of such manours landes tenements or hereditaments holden of the king by knightes seruice in cheefe or of the nature of knightes seruice in cheefe or by socage in cheefe or of the nature of socage tenure in cheefe or for fines for alienation of such manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes whereof there shall be anie alteration of freeholde or of inheritance made by anie such last will comprised in diuers and sundrie articles mencioned in the said former acte be and shall be intended expounded taken deemed and iudged by the authoritie aforesaid that all such person or persons to whom the said manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes or anie of them be or shall be giuen disposed willed or deuised by anie such last will shall be exonerated acquited and discharged for euer against the king his heires and successours for all such fines for alienations by anie such last will or testament without licence by suing forth of the kinges pardon for alienation out of the kinges courte of Chauncerie paying to the king his heires or successours for the fine of euerie such alienation the third parte of the yeerelie value of the same manors landes tenementes or other hereditamentes to him or them willed or deuised and this acte from time to time shall be a sufficient warrant to the lord chauncellor of England or keeper of the great seale for the time being for the graunting out of the saide pardon or pardons vnder the kings great seale as heretofore hath beene vsed for pardons for alinations without anie further suite to bee made to the king for the same And it is further declared enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that willes or testamentes made of any manours lands tenements or other hereditaments by any woman couerte or person within the age of 21. yeeres idiote or by any person de non sane memorie shall not bee taken to be good or effectuall in the lawe And further be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaide that if anie person or persons hauing estate of inheritaunce of or in manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes holden of the king by knightes seruice in cheefe or otherwise of the kinge by knightes seruice or of anie other person or persons by knights seruice hath giuen at anie time sithen the 20. daie of the said month of Iulij 32. H. 8. An. do 1540. or hereafter shall giue wil deuise or assigne by will or other acte executed in his life his manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes or anie of them by fraude or couin to anie other person or persons for terme of yeeres life or liues with one remainder ouer in fee or with diuers remainders ouer for terme of yeeres life or in taile with a remainder ouer in fee simple to anie person or persons or to his or their right heires or at anie time sithen the said 20. daie of Iulie hath conueied or made or hereafter shall conueie or make by fraude or couin contrarie to the true intent of this act anie estates conditions menalties tenures or conueiaunces to the intent to defraud or disceiue the king of his praerogatiue primer seasō liuerie releef wardship mariages or rights or any other lord of their wardships releefs heriots or other profites which should or ought to accrue grow or come vnto thē or any of them by or after the death of his or their tenant by force and according to the former estatute and of this present acte and declaration and the same estates and other conueiaunces beeinge found by office to be so made or contriued by couin fraude or disceipt as is abouesaid contrarie to the true intent and meaning of the said former acte and of this act That then the king shall haue as well the wardshippe of the bodie and custodie of the landes tenementes and hereditamentes as liuerie primer season releefe and other profites which shoulde or ought to appertaine to the kinge according to the true intent and meaning of the said former acte and of this present acte as though no such estates or conueiaunces by couin had neuer beene had or made vntill the said office bee lawfullie vndon by trauers or otherwise And that the other lord and lordes of whom anie such manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes shal be holden by knightes seruice as is aforesaid shall haue their remedie in such cases for his or their wardships of bodies and landes by write of right of warde and shall distreine and make auowrie or cognisaunce by themselues or their balifes for their releefes heriots and other profits which should haue beene to them due by or after the death of their tenaunt as if no such estate or conueiaunce had bene had or made Sauing and reseruing alwaies by the authoritie aforesaid the right and title of the donees feoffees leassees and deuisees thereof against the said deuisour and his heires after the interest and title of the king or other lord therin ended and determined Prouided alwaies that this acte explanation and declaration or anie of them or anie thing in this said acte explanation or declaration contained shall not extend to the wil or deuise of sir Iohn Gaynsforde late of

it is sufficient if the landes and tenementes be holden in burgage k) Brook tit deuise n. 22 For that not he onelie is said to holde in burgage who is a citizen or burgesse of the place where the lands or tenementes be and holdeth of the kinge or other lorde landes or tenementes lying in the citie or borough yeelding therfore to his said lord a certaine yeerelie rent but he also that is no citizen or burgesse which holdeth of anie lord landes or tenementes in burgage yeelding vnto him a certaine rente by the yeere l) Old tenures verb. burgage which tenor in burgage is but a kind of tenure in soccage m) Litleton tit burgage in princ Howbeit there is this difference betwixt citizens burgesses and freemen and those which be not citizens burgesses or freemen that is to saie citizens burgesses and freemen maie bequeath their burgage landes to Mortmain which others can not doe n) Brook Abridg. tit custome n. 7. 38. 41. tit deuise n. 22. 28. Doct. Stud. lib. 1. c. 10. And in some borough by the custome thereof a man may deuise by his testament lawfullie made his landes and tenementes which hee hath in fee-simple within the same borough at the time of his death and by force thereof the deuisee after the death of the testator maie enter into the tenementes to him deuised to haue and to holde to him after the forme and effect of the deuise without anie libertie of seasin thereof to be made vnto him o) Litleton tit burgage But if there be two iointe tenauntes in fee-simple within one borough where the landes and tenementes within the same be deuisable by testament if one of the said iointe tenauntes deuise that which to him belongeth by testament and die this deuise or legacie is voide p) Principall grounds fol. 20. b. The reason is for that no deuise can take effect till after the death of the testator who did bequeath and deuise the same but by his death all the lande dooth incontinentlie by the lawe of this realme come to the suruiuor who neither claimeth nor hath anie thing by deuise but of his owne right by the suruiu●ir according to the course of the lawe of this lande and for this cause such deuise is voide q) Principall grounds fol. 20. b. An other case there was also some-times vsed and practised of deuising lands tenements and hereditamentes by willes to certaine vses intentes and trustes which willes or testamentes of landes tenementes and hereditamentes in feoffees handes were for the time accompted and taken for good r) Stat. H. 8. an 27. c. 10. But this custome was reformed in manie things for diuers good considerations namelie because by the common law of this realme lands tenements hereditaments be not deuisable by testament and also for that such deuises were not onelie hurtfull to the heire of the testator beeing manie times thereby disinherited but also for that diuers other inconueniences did by reason thereof insue as that the lordes lost their wardes mariages reliefes harriots escheates aids Pur faire fitz chiualer pur file marier Furthermore by occasions of suche willes and other conueiaunces to secrete intentes vses and trustes men could not be certainelie assured of anie landes by them purchased nor knew not against whom they should vse their actions executions for their rights and titles Besides this men married lost their tenāces by the curtesie women their dowries finally the prince himselfe lost the profits of the landes of persons attainted For reformation whereof a statute was made in the time of King Henrie the eight and enacted as followeth s) d. Stat. H. 8. an 27. c. 10. That is to say that where anie person or persons stand or be seized or at anie time hereafter shal happen to be seized of and in anie honors castels mannors landes tenementes rentes seruices reuersions remainders or other hereditamentes to the vse confidence or trust of anie other person or persons or of anie body politike by reason of anie bargaine saile or feofment fine recouery couenant contract agreement will or otherwise by anie maner meanes whatsoeuer it be that in euerie such case all euerie such persō persons bodies politike that haue or hereafter shall haue anie such vse confidence or trust in fee simple fee taile for terme of life or of yeeres or otherwise or anie vse confidence or trust in remainder or reuerter shall from hence-foorth stand and bee seized deemed and adiudged in lawfull seizon estate and possession of and in the same honors castels manors lands tenements rentes seruices reuersions remainders and hereditaments with their appurtenances to all intents constructions and purposes in the lawe of and in such like estates as they had or shall haue in vse trust or confidence of or in the same And that the estate title right and possession that was in such person or persons that were or hereafter shall be seized of anie landes tenements or hereditaments to the vse confidence or trust of anie such person or persons or of anie bodie politike bee from hence-foorth cleerelie deemed and adiudged to be in him or them that haue or hereafter shall haue such vse confidence or trust after such qualitie maner forme and condition as they had before in or to the vse confidence or trust that was in them And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that where diuers and many persons be or hereafter shall happen to be iointlie seized of and in anie landes tenements rents reuersions remainders or other hereditaments to the vse confidence or trust of anie of them that bee so iointlie seized that in euerie such case that those person or persons which haue or hereafter shall haue any such vses confidence or trust in anie such landes tenements reuersions remainders or hereditaments shall from hence foorth haue and bee deemed adiudged to haue only to him or them that haue or hereafter shall haue such vse confidence or trust such estate possession and seizon of and in the same lands tenements rents reuersions remainders or other hereditaments in like nature maner forme condition and course as he or they had before in the vse confidence or trust of the same landes tenements or hereditaments sauing and reseruing to all singular persons and bodies politike their heirs and successors other than those person or persons which be seized or hereafter shall be seized of anie landes tenementes or hereditaments to anie vse confidence or trust all such right title entree interest possession rents and action as they or anie of them had or might haue had before the making of this acte And also sauing to all and singuler those persons and to their heires which be or hereafter shall he seized to anie vse all such former right title entree interest possession rents customs seruices and action as they or anie of them might haue had to his or their

own proper vse in or to any manors lands tenements rents or hereditaments wherof they be or hereafter shal be seized to anie other vse as if this present act had neuer beene had or made any thing conteined in this acte to the contrarie not withstanding And where also diuers persons stand and be seized of and in any lands tenements or hereditaments in fee simple or otherwise to the vse or intente that some other person or persons shall haue and perceiue yeerely to them and to his or their heires one annuall rent of tenne pounds or more or lesse out of the same lands and tenements and some other person one other annuall rent to him and his assignes for terme of life or yeeres or for some other speciall time according to such intent and vse as hath bin heretofore declared limited made thereof Be it therefore enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that in euery such case the same persons their heirs and assignes that haue such vse and interest to haue and perceiue any such annuall rents out of any lands tenements or hereditaments that they and euery of them their heires and assignes be adiudged and deemed to be in possession and seizon of the same rent of and in such like estate as they had in the title interest or vse of the said rent or profit and as if a sufficient grant or other lawful conueiance had bin made executed to them by such as were or shal be seized to the vse or entēt of any such rent to be had made or paied according to the very trust intent therof And that al euery such person or persons as haue or heereafter shall haue any title vse and interest in or to any such rent or profit shall lawfully distreine for non paiment of the said rent and in their owne names make aduouries or by their balifs or seruants make cognizances and iustifications and haue all other sutes entries and remedies for such rents as if the same rents had bin actually and really graunted to them with sufficient clauses of distresse reentree or otherwise according to such conditions paines or other things limited and appointed vpon the trust and intent for paiment of suretie of such rent And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that where as diuerse persons haue purchased or haue estate made and conueied of and in diuers lands tenements and hereditaments vnto them and to their wiues and to the heires of the husband or to the husband and to the wife and to the heires of their two bodies begotten or to the heirs of one of their bodies begotten or to the husband and to the wife for terme of their liues or for terme of life of the said wife or where any such estate or purchase of any lands tenements or hereditaments hath bin or hereafter shall bee made to any husband and to his wife in manner and forme aboue expressed or to any other person or persons and to their heires and assignes to the vse and behoofe of the said husband and wife or to the vse of the wife as is before rehearsed for the iointer of the wife that then in euery such case euery woman married hauing such iointer made or hereafter to be made shall not claime nor haue title to haue any dower of the residue of the lands tenemētes or hereditaments that at any time were her said husbands by whom she hath any such iointer nor shall demand nor claime her dower of and against them that haue the lands and inheritaunces of her said husband But if she haue no such iointer then she shall be admitted and inabled to pursue haue and demand her dower by write of dower after the due course and order of the common lawes of this realme this act or any law or prouision made to the contrarie thereof notwithstanding Prouided alway that if any such woman be lawfully expulsed or euicted from her said iointer or from any part therof without any fraud or couin by lawfull entree action or by discōtinuance of her husband then euery such woman shal be indowed of as much of the residue of her husbands tenements or hereditaments whereof she was before dowable as the same lands and tenements so euicted and expulsed shall amount or extend vnto Prouided also that this act nor any thinge therein conteined or expressed extend or be in any wise hurtfull or preiudiciall to any woman or women heretofore being married of for or concerning such right title vse interest or possession as they or any of them haue claime or pretēd to haue for her or their iointer or dower of in or to any manors lands tenementes or other hereditamentes of any of their late husbands being now dead or deceased any thing conteined in this act to the contrary notwithstanding Prouided also that if any wife haue or hereafter shall haue any manors lands tenements or hereditaments vnto her giuen or assured after mariage for terme of her life or otherwise in iointer except the same assurance be to her made by act of parliament and the said wife after that fortune to ouer-liue the same her husband in whose time the said iointer was made or assured vnto her that then the same wife so ouer liuing shall and may at their liberty after the death of her said husband refuse to haue take the lands and tenements so to her giuen appointed or assured during the couerture for terme of her life or otherwise in iointer except the same assurance be to her made by acte of parliament as is aforesaid and thereupon to haue aske demaund and take her dower by write of dower or otherwise according to the common law of and in all such landes tenements and hereditaments as her husband was and stood seized of any state of inheritance at any time during the couerture any thing conteined in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Prouided also that this present act nor anie thing therein conteined extend or be at anie time hereafter interpretated expounded or taken to extinct release discharge or suspend anie statute recognizance or other bond by the execution of any estate of or in any lands tenements or hereditaments by the authority of this act to any person or persons or bodies politike any thinge conteined in this acte to the contrary thereof notwithstanding And for as much as great ambiguities and doubts may arise of the validity and inualidity of wils heretofore made of any landes tenements hereditaments to the great trouble of the kings subiects the kings most roial maiesty minding the tranquillitie and rest of his louing subiects of his most excellent and accustomed goodnesse is pleased and contented that it be enacted by the authority of this present parliament that all maner true and iust willes and testaments heretofore made by any personne or persons deceased or that shall decease before the first day of May that shall be in the yeere of our

wards and liueries if the maister of the wards and liueries for the time beeing and the parties therunto can not otherwise agree vpon the same diuision And that the issues and profits of the two partes of the same manours lands tenements and hereditaments vpon euery such diuision to bee restored to them that shall haue right or title to the same frō the death of the owner or deuisour therof And further be it enacted and declared by authoritie aforesaid that all and singuler person and persons hauing a sole estate or interest in fee-simple or seized in fee-simple in copercenary or in common in fee-simple of and in any manours lands tenements rents or other hereditaments in possession reuersion or remainder or of and in any rents or seruices incident to any reuersion or remainder holden of the king his heires or successours by knights seruice and not in cheefe or holden of any other person or persons by knights seruice shall haue full and free libertie power and authority to giue dispose will or deuise to any person or persons except bodies politike and corporate by his last will and testament in writing or otherwise by any act or acts lawfully executed in his life by himselfe solie or by himselfe and other iointly seuerally or particularly or by all those waies or any of them as much as in him of right is or shall bee two parts of all the saide manors lands tenements and hereditaments or any of them so holden by knights seruice or any rents common or other profits or commodities out of or to be perceiued of the same two parts or out of any parcell thereof in three parts to be deuided or as much thereof as shal amount to the full and cleere yeerely value of two parts thereof in three parts to be deuided at his free will pleasure And that the said will so declared by authority aforesaid shal be good and effectuall for two parts of the said manors lands tenements or hereditaments although the will so declared be or shal be made of the whole landes and tenementes so holden by knights seruice or of more than of two partes of the same And also for the whole of all other such manours lands tenements and hereditaments or any of them not holden of the kinge by knights seruice in cheefe or otherwise by knights seruice nor of anie other person by kinghts seruice and of any rents commons or other profits or commodities out of or to bee perceiued of the same or out of any parcell thereof at his free will and pleasure The same diuision to be made and set foorth by the owner of the said manours lands tenementes and hereditaments by his last will and testament in writing or otherwise in writing And in default thereof for as much of the same manors lands tenements and hereditaments as shall concerne the kings interest by commission to be directed out of the kings court of the wards and liueries in maner forme as is aforesaid if the master of the wardes and liueries for the time being and the parties thereunto can not otherwise agree vpon the same diuision And that restitution of the issues and profits of the two parts thereof shal be had and made in maner and fourme abouesaid And for such of the same manors lands tenementes and hereditaments as shall concerne the interest of any other lord or lords by commission to be graunted out of the kings court of the Chauncery to enquire thereof by the othes of 12. men if the same lord or lordes and the parties thereunto can not otherwise agree vpon the same diuisiō And be it further enacted and declared by authority aforesaid that the sauings reseruings and prouisions concerning sauing of the custodie wardship releefe and primer season to the king of such manors lands tenements and hereditaments or as much thereof as shall appertaine vnto him by vertue of the said former act and by the declaratiō and expositiō thereof declared by this present act during the kings interest therein And also of the custody and wardship to other lords of as much of such manours lands tenements and hereditaments holden of them as shall amounte and extende to the cleere yeerelie value of the third parte thereof ouer and aboue all charges without any diminution or abridgement of the thirde part or of the full profits thereof comprised and mencioned in diuers articles in the saide former act contained by the authority aforesaid be and shal be intended expounded and taken as hereafter ensueth that is to say that the king shall haue and take for his full thirde part of all such manours lands tenements and hereditaments where vnto he is or shall be intitled by the said former act and by this present act such manours lands and tenements as shal by any meanes discend or come by discent as well of the estate of inheritaunce in fee taile as in fee-simple or in fee taile onely to the heire of any such person or that shall make any will gifte disposition or deuise by his last will in writing or by any act or acts lawfully executed in his life immediately after the death of the same deuisour or owner thereof And that the will gift and deuise of euery such deuisour or owner of and for the two partes of the saide manours lands tenements and hereditaments residue shall by the authority aforesaid be and stand good and effectuall in the law albeit the same will gift or deuise be had and made of all his fee simple lands tenementes and hereditamentes and in case the same manours landes tenementes and hereditamentes which after the death of anie suche owner or deuisour which shall make any such gift disposition or deuise by his last will in writing or otherwise by any act or acts lawfully executed in his life to his wife children or otherwise as is aforesaid which shall immediatly after his death discend reuert remaine or come to his heire or heires as well of estate of inheritaunce in fee taile as of estate in fee simple or fee taile onely be not or shall not amount or extend to the full cleere yeerelie value of the full thirde part with the full profites thereof of all the said manours lands tenements or other hereditaments of the said deuisour or owner according to the true intent and meaning of the said former act and of this present acte that then the king shall and may haue take into his handes and possession to make vp his full third parte with the full profites thereof according to his interest therein as much of the other manours lands tenements or hereditaments willed giuen disposed or assigned by any such person to his wife children or otherwise as is aforesaid as with such of the same manours lands tenements and hereditaments discended or by any meanes come vnto the heire as heire of anie such deuisour or owner shall make vp the cleere yeerelie value of the said full third parte with

vlt. vol. lib. 11. tit 6. n. 9 Wherefore if the testator make thee his executor or giue thee an hundred pounde if he die without issue after which will made he dieth leauing his wife with child In this case he is reputed to die without issue and so thou art to be admitted to the executorship maist recouer thy legacie b) Mantic. d. tit 6. n. 9. post Bald. in d. L. qui. in vtero el. 2. vnlesse it be more beneficiall to the childe that his father shoulde haue beene reputed to haue died without issue for then thou art excluded c) L. iubemus §. pen. C. ad Trebel ibi Paul de Castr When † the childe dieth so soone as it is borne we must consider whether it were borne in due time or not if it were borne in due time so that by possibilitie of nature it might haue liued longer as in the vii ix or x. moneth d) L. septimo mense de stat hom L. Gallus in princ de lib. posthu L. intestat §. vlt. de suis legit ff the father is iudged to haue issue especially † if the childe were once heard to crie e) Mantic. de coniect. vlt. vol. lib. 11. tit 6. n. 10. Mascard Tract de probac. verb. Natus concl 1088. n. 9. 10. per L. quod certatum C. de posthu haered instituend Sichard in d. L. n. 4. for then also by the lawes of this realme that man whose wife was seased in fee simple or in fee taile generall or as heire in fee taile speciall shal be said to haue had issue and by reason thereof after the decease of his wife shall holde the same land during his life and shall be called tenant by the curtesie of England for that it is thought that the same law is not vsed in any other Countrey sauing onely in England f) Litleton tit curtesie d'engleterr But † if the childe which he had by his wife were not heard to crie it is thought that he cannot be tenāt by the curtesie g) Bract. de leg consuet Angl. lib. 5. tit de excep c. 30. n. 7. 8. Which opinion though auncient hath beene strongly encountered of late and shrewdly shaken by men of deepe iudgement and reuerent aucthoritie *) Dyer fol. 25. n. 159. post Fitzh and so the same not being free from contradiction cannot bee vtterly voide of doubt and therefore as it becommeth me I doo verie willingly referre the determination thereof to the lerned and expert in the studie and practise of the lawes temporall of this land Neuerthelesse to other purposes and testamentarie effectes determinable in the ecclesiasticall courts I suppose he shall not bee reputed to haue died without issue although his childe did neuer crie so that it did sensible breath or moue h) L. quod dicitur ff de lib. posthu L. 2. 3. C. de posthu Felin in c sicut de homicid ex●r Mascard Tract de probac. verb. natus conclus 1088. sub finē for what if the childe were borne dumbe i) d. L. quod dicitur d. L. 2. 3. DD. ibid. Therefore I say by the ciuill and ecclesiasticall lawes concerning testamentarie effectes the father shall not bee accounted to haue died without issue if the childe did but breath and though it did not nor coulde not crie but died in the handes of the midwife k) d. L. 3. C. de posthu for crying is not an onely proofe of life l) L. quod certatum C. de posthu ibi Sichar n. 4. Mascard de ꝓbac conclus 1088 n. 10. since it may be prooued by other meanes as by motiō breathing and such like m) L. si magister C. de Instit sub Mascard d. concl 1088. sub finē Sichard in d. L. quod certatum In deede † if the childe be borne deade n) L. qui mortui ff de verb. signif or being halfe borne aliue yet dieth before it be wholy borne o) Alciat in d. L. qui mortui Cui adde Tiraquel in rep L. si vnquam C. de reuoc donac verb. susceperit n. 132. vbi etiam disputat an talis baptizari possit cuius tantum caput in partu apparet hee shall not bee reputed to haue issue p) d. L. 3. in sin d. L. qui mortui DD. in LL. Likewise in the other case that is to say when the child is not brought forth in due time as perhappes before the seuenth moneth or in the eight moneth so that it is impossible for the same to liue the parents for and concerning testamentarie effectes shal not be accompted thereby to haue had issue howsoeuer the childe for a while after the birth did sensiblie breathe and moue q) L. 2. C. de posthu Socin sen cons 275. n. 20. vol. 2. Mantic. de coniect vlt. vol. lib. 11. tit 6. n. 10. Grass Thesaur com op §. fideicommissum q. 33. in fin If † the testator make thee his executor or do bequeath vnto thee any legacie conditionally if he shall haue no issue and afterwards his wife doe bring foorth a monster or misshapen creature hauing peraduenture a heade like vnto a dogges heade or to the head of an asse or of a Rauen or Ducke or of some other beast or birde such monstrous creature though it should liue as commonly none doo yet is it not accounted amongst the testators children r) L. non sunt ff de stat hom Olden in eand L. Sichard in d. L. 3. C. de posthu for the lawe doth not presume that creature to haue the soule of a man which hath a forme and shape so straunge and different from the shape of a man s) Bald. in d L. nō sunt Sichard in d L. 3. n. 5. But if the creature brought forth do not varie in shape from a man or woman but haue somewhat more then God by the ordinarie course of nature alloweth as hauing sixe fingers on either hand t) DD. in d. L. 3. C. de posthu in d. L. non sunt in L. ostentum in L. quaeret ff de verb. sig Idem quoque iuris est si quis habeat tres testes Alciat in d L. quaeret n. 9. or on the contrarie wanting some of the ordinarie members as hauing but one hande or one foote v) Bald. Aug. in L. quod dicitur ff de lib. posthu such creature is not excluded but is to be accounted for the testators childe What if there be duplication of notable members as to haue foure armes or two heades or disorder in the principall members as the face standing backwardes or in the breast In this case I suppose much to bee attributed to the discretion of the Iudge x) Sichard in d. L. 3. C. de postu n. 5. verb. cum autem And albeit the writers seeme rather to encline to this opinion

Plowd in cas inter Greisb Fox and were in his possession at the time of his death e) Cagnol in L. in precibus C. de impub. alijs sub n. 278. and hath action against euerie debtor of his testator f) ●nstit de perpet temp action Terms of law verb. executor So shall euerie one to whom the testator was indebted haue action against the executor especially hauing an obligation or other specialtie so farre as the goods of the testator will extend g) L. fin sin de iure de lib. C. and so long as the executor hath assets in his hands h) Terms of Law verb. executor howbeit where anie debt is due to the testator this shall not charge the executor as assettes because it is a thing in action not in possession i) Brook Abridg. tit executor n. 112. which conclusion is very reasonable when as the executor hath vsed such diligence for the recouerie thereof that he cannot be iustly charged or woorthily blamed for not hauing the same in his owne hands k) c. sine c●lpa de regiur 6. quod si per cum st●tit quo minus ha●eat in eo casu est de iure ciuili et ●an ac si in manibus retineret L. iure ciuili ff de cond demon Peckius in c. cùm non stat de reg lib. 3. c. 6. 7. As † for landes tenements and hereditaments of the testator they shall descende to his heire and shall not come to the executor For by the lawes of this realme as † the heire hath not to deale with the goods and chattels of the deceased l) Doct. Stud. lib. 1. c. 7. c. 24 Idem lib. 2. c. 10. c. 12. termes of law verb. executor no more hath the executor to doo with his lands tenements and hereditaments m) Doct. Stud. vbi supra Tract de repub Angl. lib. 3. c. 6. 7. Albeit where lands be deuisable by wil wherof we haue spoken before n) Supr part 3. §. 1. cum sequentibus the † testator maie giue power and authoritie to his executor to sell the same landes either for the paiment of his debts or for some other purpose o) Perkins tit deuise fol 104. 105. and the sale made thereof by the said executor is good and lawfull p) Perkins eod loco insomuch that diuers persons being named executors by the testator though † part of the executors named in any such testamēt of any such person making or declaring any such will of any landes tenemens or other hereditaments to be solde by his executors after the death of any such testator doo refuse to take vpon him or them the administration charge of the same testament and last wil wherein they be so named to be executors and the residue of the same executors doo accept and take vppon them the care and charge of the same testament and last will it is enacted by the statutes of this realme q) Stat. H. 8. an 21. c. 4. that then all bargaines and sales of such landes tenements and hereditaments so willed to bee solde by the executors of anie such testator as well before the making of that statute as after made or to be made by him or them onely of the same executors that so doth accept or hath accepted or takē vpō him or thē any such cure or administration of any such will and testament shall be as good and effectuall in lawe as if all the residue of the same executors named in the saide testament so refusing the administration of the same testament had ioined with him or them in making of the bargaine and sale of such landes tenements or other hereditaments so willed to be solde by the executors of any such testator which before that time had made or declared or that after should make or declare any will of any such landes tenements or other hereditaments after his decease to be solde by his executors as may appeare by the statute in that behalfe made Howbeit it is prouided that the said statute shal not extend to giue power and aucthoritie to anie executor or executors at anie time after to bargaine or to put to sale anie landes tenements and hereditaments by vertue and aucthoritie of anie will or testament made before the saide statute otherwise then they might doo by the course of the common lawe afore the making of the same Besides that supposing the case were such as the landes being deuisable the executors had power by testament to sell the same lande and to distribute the profits in pios vsus yet after the death of the testator the inheritaunce shall descende vnto the heire and shall remaine in him vntill the executor haue solde the same r) Perkins tit deuises fol. 104. 105. And if the executors themselues doo enter into the landes after which entrie some man offereth a summe of money or price of the same land and the executors refuse to take the money offered because the money offered is vnder the value of the lande and the executors intende to sell the same dearer and so keepe the lande in their owne handes by the space of one two or three yeares conuerting in the meane time the profites arising forth of the same land to their own proper vse In this case the heire of the testator deceased may enter to the landes and put out the executor s) Perkins vbi supra Brook Abridg. tit deuise n. 19. As † for rents due to the testator by the order of the common law of this realme t) Vide stat H. 8. an 32 c. 37. the executors or administrators of tenants in fee simple tenantes in fee taile and tenants for tearme of life of rent seruices rent charges rent secks and fee fermes haue no remedy to recouer such arrerages of the said rentes or fee fermes as were due vnto those testators in their liues nor yet the heires of any such testator nor any person hauing the reuersion of his estate after his decease may distraine or haue any lawfull action to leaue any such arrerages of rentes or fee fermes due vnto him in his life by reason wherof the tenantes of the demaine of such landes tenements or hereditaments out of the which such rents were due and paiable who of right ought to pay their rents fermes at such daies terms as they were due did many times keep holde and retaine such arrerages in their owne handes so that the executors and administrators of the persons to whom any such rents or fee ferms were due could not haue or come by the arrerages of the same towards the paiment of the debts and performance of the will of the said testator For remedie wherof it is enacted by the statutes of this realme as followeth viz. that the executors and administrators of euery such person or persons vnto whome anie such rents or fee fermes

alibi ꝑ eundem intersuos casus an 24. Hen. 8. quem locum diligenter obserues cupio or vnlesse so much onely were lefte vnto their said children as would serue for their competent sustentation or nourishment h) Plad ita ●ure Can. c. cū haberet de eo quit dax in vx ext quod c. locum habet non solū in spurijs sed etiam in incestuosis vt est com op teste Decio in c. in patria de prob extr n 39. Gabr. lib. 6. de alimen concl 1. n. 5. or vnlesse the children were appointed bare executors without any other benefit In which cases the testamente is good i) Inf. 5. part §. 7 Petr. Duen reg 366. Limitae 9. verb. filius Simo de Praetis de interp vlt. vol. lib. 5. fol. 17. n. 27. as heereafter more at large k) Infr. part 5. §. 7. Of a Sodomite 1 VVho is a Sodomite 2 A Sodomite can not make a testament 3 VVhat if he were neuer condemned of Sodomitrie §. xviij A † Sodomite that is to say a) Sodomia autem dicitur non solùm illud nefandum peccatum inter masculos sed etiā flagitium illud contra naturam cum faemina Et haec opinio communis est contra Socin contendentem istiusmodi peccatum non sodomiam sed extraordinariam quandam pollutionem dici debere quem DD. communiter reprobant vt refert Viuius lib. com op verb. sodomia Dec. in L. j. de secundis nuptijs n. 9. C. Card. in clem 1. de consang aff q. 13. he or she that dooth commit that wicked horrible sinne against nature as did the Sodomites whereof mentiō is made in the holy scripture b) Gen. c. 19. is † prohibited to make a testament c) Spec. de Instr edit §. compendioso n. 5. and to bequeath his goods and cattelles And albeit hee were neuer conuicted † or condemned thereof in his life time yet I suppose this exception may be obiected against the probate of the testament d) Dec. in L. 1. de secundis nup. C. Simo de Praetis de interp vlt. vol. lib. 2. dub 1. soluc 4. n. 97. for that he was intestate at the time of the fact committed e) Simo de Praetis Dec. vbi supra Adde Cardinal in clem eos de sepul q. 19. Of a Libeller 1 VVhat is a famous Libell 2 A Libeller intestable §. xix A † Famous a) Famosum quandoque in malam partem sumi multis exemplis ostēdit Petrus à Placa epit delict c. 3. Libell is a writing made to the infamie of any man published abroad to that ende b) Summa Angel Summa Siluest verb. libellꝰ and he that † is condemned for deuising writing or publishing the same is thereby depriued of the abilitie of making a testament or disposing of any his goods or cattelles c) L. si cui §. si quis ff de testa L. vnic de famos libel C. Petr. á Pla. epit delict lib. 1. c. 3. Of him that killeth himselfe §. xx IF any mā do wittingly willingly kil himself his testamēt if he made any is voyd a) L. si quis filio §. eius de testa ff L. 2. qui testa fac poss C. both concerning the appointment of the executor and also concerning the legacie or bequest of any goods for they are confiscate b) Vasq de success resoluc lib. 1. §. 3. n. 31. Of him that is outlavved 1 An outlawed person looseth his goods and benefite of the lawe 2 VVhat if the action be personall 3 VVhat if the action be vniust 4 VVhether an outlawed person may make his testament 5 VVhat if the prince giue the goods to the executor whether is he therefore chargeable with the paiment of legacies 6 He that is outlawed dooth some time forfeite not goods onely but lands also 7 An outlawed person may make his testament of landes not forfeited 8 An outlawed person may assigne tutors testamentarie to his thildren 9 Certaine other cases wherein hee that is outlawed may make his testament §. xxj AN † outlawed person is not onely out of the protectiō of the Prince out of the aid of the laws of this realme a) Fitzher Nat. Br. fol. 161. Termes of law verb. vt legarie but also all his goods and cattelles be forfeited to the Prince by meanes of the outlawrie b) Doct. Stu lib. 2. c. 3 although † hee were outlawed but in an action personall c) Termes vbi supr and although † also the action peraduenture were not iust neuerthelesse his goodes and catelles are forfeited by reason of his contempt in not appearing for it is a maxime in the common lawes of this realme that he that is outlawed doeth forfeite all his goods and cattelles to the Prince without distinction whether the action be iust or vniust d) Doct. Stu. lib. 2. c. 3 And therefore † it followeth that he that is outlawed can not make his testament of his goodes so forfeited e) Iul. Clar. §. testm̄ q. 19. In so much that † if the prince hauinge seased the forfeited goods of the testator should giue the same againe to the executor neuerthelesse the testament is voide in respect of such goods neither can the legatarie recouer the same at the hands of the executor f) Doc. Stu. lib. 1. c. 6. for by the forfeiture and seasin the propertie thereof is altered and so ceasing to bee the goodes of the testator doe not charge the executor as assets g) Doc. Stu. lib. 2. c. 3. lib. 1. c. 6 If † the testator be outlawed by an outlawrie for felonie then he doth not onely forfeite his goods and cattelles but also his landes and tenementes whether they be holden in fee simple or for terme of life h) Termes of law verb. vt legat And hee that is thus outlawed can neither make his testament of those goods nor of those landes for they are none of his Howbeit † I suppose that he that is outlawed in an action personall may make his testament of his landes for they are not forfeited i) Vide quae sequuntur hoc §. litera L. quo etiā tendit quod scripserūt Brook Tit. Gard. n. 6. Perkins tit grants fol. 6. Or if † he doe assigne tutors to his children as within the prouince of Yorke and other places by custome there vsed parentes may doe k) Infr. part 3. § vij the same assignation is to be confirmed l) Is enim qui nostratibus dicitur vt legatus parùm differt à relegato Cùm relegatio sicut vtlegatio nihil aliud est quàm exilium temporarium L. relegati ff de paen Quinimo relegati quandoque prout etiam vtlegati bona confiscata sunt Iul. Clar. §. testm̄ q. 22. Attamen non amittit testm̄ factionē relegatus quoad bona si quae sint non

rule of the deuise of landes is negatiue 2 The exceptions of this rule are of two sortes §. ij TRue it is that this matter of the deuise of landes tenementes and hereditamentes which in this realme of Englande with all questions incident thereunto is to be determined according to the lawes temporall of this realme and is not subiecte to the rules and decisions of the lawes ciuill or ecclesiasticall lest therefore whilest I would seeme a meere professor of the ciuill lawe I might seeme altogether to neglecte both lawe and ciuilitie by thrusting my sickle into an others haruest and setting my foote in an others possessions without licence first obtained for the auoiding of this offence before I go any further I am to craue this fauour learned professors and serious students of the laws temporal of this realm that for as much as this your fielde wherein groweth all these questions concerning the deuise of landes dooth lie so iust betwixt me and those other groundes wherein the marke whereat I aime is placed and wherein the fruite which I would gladlie vtter is planted so that I can not as nowe my iourney lieth haue readie accesse vnto the one but through the other It would therefore please you giue mee a little leaue to walke through a corner of your large dominions vnto those foresaid places more proper to them of mine own professiō Your territories I confesse are verie fertile and ful of hidden treasure the fruite also of that soile I meane the golden cases much like the golden fleece of Colchos the growing very pleasant profitable Howbeit you neede not be afraid of any preiudice for neither wil I disturbe your quiet possession with any long abode neither cā I if I wold cōueigh away the riches you should reape by disclosing of the mysteries of your gaineful arte to me vnknown vnles I would seeme to be more bold then blinde baiarde more arrogant then the ignoraunt Cobler who for his saucinesse receiued this admonition Ne sutor vltra crepidam And further that as a poore passenger I maie bee allowed to take a taste of those thinges which you haue set abroache to all the world and which by your sundrie bookes you haue made common to all trauellers the rather for that I am prepared in some sorte to requite the same This onelie I desire and this I hope you will not denie to the purpose therefore Touching the bequest or deuise of landes tenementes and hereditamentes this appeareth to be a true position and ground agreeable to the ciuill lawe a) c. imperialis de prohib feud alien lib. 2. Feud Bald. in c. 1. de success feud and also the laws of this realme b) Stat. H 8. an 27. c. 10. in princ Doct. Stud. lib. 1. c. 8. Perkins tit deuise 102. that landes tenementes or hereditamentes can not be disposed or deuised by will but in certaine cases of which some are approued by force of certaine customes c) Infr. §. prox within this realme and some by force of certaine statutes d) Infr. ead par §. 4. Certaine cases approoued by custome wherein it is lawfull to deuise landes tenementes or hereditaments 1 Gauelkinde landes may be deuised by will 2 The cause wherefore the custome of Gauelkinde did continue 3 Burgage lande deuiseable by will 4 To whom and after what manner Burgage landes be deuiseable 5 Whether anie other person maie deuise Burgage landes but a citizen 6 Burgage tenure a kinde of tenure in Soccage 7 Whether liuerie or seasin bee needefull where burgage land is deuised 8 Whether the Iointenaunt may bequeath his part of Burgage land otherwise deuiseable 9 Of landes deuised to certaine vses 10 The custome of deuising landes to feoffes reformed 11 The causes of this reformation 12 The statute or acte of reformation §. iii. THe first case wherein by custome of this realme of England it is lawfull for a man by his laste will or testament to deuise or bequeath landes tenements or hereditamēts is this namely whē lands tenements or hereditaments are holden in Gauel-kind for such † landes tenements or hereditaments by ancient custome maie be giuen or deuised by wil a) Dyer fol. 153 verb. deuise Termes of law verb. Grauelkind ita saepissimè accepi à nonnullis huius regni iurisperitis the same otherwise being duelie made For † after that William duke of Normandie had inuaded and conquered all England Kent onelie excepted at last also the kentish-men yeelded but vpon condition that they might enioy their auncient customes of Gauelkind which was graunted vnto them since hath continued b) Lambert perambulation of Kent fol. 23. amongest which customes being verie large and benificiall this is one that they which holde landes in Gauelkinde may giue and sell the same without licence asked of their lordes sauing vnto the lordes the rentes and seruices due out of the same tenementes c) Termes of law vbi supr Lambert vbi supr fol. 416. The † second cause is when the lands or tenementes be holden in Burgage tenure d) Fitzherb Nat. Bre. ex graui querela in prin Doct. Stud. lib. 1. c. 7. 10. For it is the custome of diuers Cities and Borroughes of this land as in London Yorke Oxford c. that such persons as are seased of landes tenementes or hereditamentes lyinge and being in such cities or boroughes and hold the same in burgage tenure maie by their testamentes or last willes giue or bequeath the same to whom they will e) Brook Abridg. tit deuise n. 22. 51. Fitzber in d. Br. ex graui querela Doct. Stud. d. c. 7. 10. Lindw in c. statut de testam lib. 3. prouincial constituc Cant. verb. de consuctudine verb. laicalis feodi eod c. to holde in fee simple or in fee taile or for life or yeeres or otherwise and such bequest or deuise is good f) Fitzherb in d. Breui ex graui querela the will being lawfullie made and prooued before the ordinarie as touching the goodes and cattelles bequeathed in the same and enrowled before the maior of the said citie or borough g) Fitzher in d. Bre. ex graui querela Howbeit it is not alwaies necessarie that the testament be proued before the ordinary or inrolled wherein landes onelie and no goodes and cattelles are bequeathed h) Brook Abridg. tit deuise n. 43. For in some places by the custome there vsed the deuisee maie enter to the landes deuised of his owne auctoritie without any probation or inrolment praecedent and in other places hee is to bee put in seasin or possession by the Balife i) Brook d. tit deuise n. 43. principall grounds tit burgage fol. 43. And it seemeth not to be needeful to the validitie of the deuise in this case that the testator should be a citizen or burgesse of that citie or boroughe where the landes or tenementes deuised doo lie but

executorship three questions maie bee demaunded First whether hee that is named executor in the testament may be compelled to vndertake the executorship or that it is in his power to refuse the same a) De hac Q. consulas Henr. Boic in c. tua nos de testa extr Panor in c. Iohannes eo tit Bar. in L. 1. de leg 2. ff Secondlie what is to be considered of him that is named executor whereby he maie be resolued whether it were better to accept or refuse the executorship b) Infr. §. prox Thirdly how long time he that is named executor hath to deliberate and determine of accepting or refusing the executorshippe c) Infr. ead part §. 4. To the first it maie bee answered that hee † that is named executor maie bee cited to appeare before the Ordinarie or other hauing authoritie to proue the will and there either to accept the executorship or at least to refuse the same d) Boic Panor Bar. vbi supra Plowd in casu inter Greisb Fox And in case † either he will not appeare or appearing † refuse to proue the testament the Ordinarie or other Iudge maie commit the administration of the goods of the deceased as if hee had died intestate e) Brook Abridg. tit adm̄str n. 32. tit exec n. 49. 102. stat H. 8. an 31. c. 5. and the administrators haue action and may administer the goods of the deceased as if he had died intestate and their authoritie or act done is good and effectuall in the lawe f) Brook vbi supra Plowd vbi supra in the meane time vntill the executors vndertake the executorship g) Bald. in L. de beri C. de fidei commiss liberta Plowd in d. cas inter Greisb Fox for then the Ordinarie maie reuoke the administration before by him committed h) Brook Abridg. tit adm̄str n. 33. quod facilitis procedit cum administratio commissa fuerit vt sēper solet saluo iure cuiuscunque c. But he † that is named executor cannot be precisely compelled to stand to the will and vndertake i) Panor in c. Io. de testa extr n. 3. Olden de exec vlt. volunt tit 7. in fin the executorship vnlesse † hee haue alreadie medled with goodes of the testator as executor for then he is not only to be cōpelled to performe the office of an executor k) Panor Olden vbi supr Boic in c. tua de te sta extr Plowd in cas inter Greisb Fox but also if he should refuse and the Ordinarie commit the administration vnto him this refusall is void and he shall be charged as executor l) Fitzh Abridg. tit execut n. 35. Moreouer albeit † the executor named who hath not medled with the administration of the goodes of the deceased cannot be precisely or absolutely compelled yet if anie legacie bee left vnto him in the testament he maie be compelled to stand to the executorshippe or else to loose the legacie so that he shall not reape the benefite if being duely admonished he refuse the burthen m) Quae positio locum vendicat etiamsi executor sit coniuncta persona vt habet communis opinio Gribald Thesaur com op verb. tutor Rom. consil 235. Adde Io. de Canib d. Tract de executore vbi plures enumerat huius regulae limitationes nempè quod non est compellendus quarum firmitatem quia suspectam habeo eas silētio praetereo What is to be considered of the executor desirous to be resolued whether it were better to accept or to refuse the executorship 1 Diuerse things to be considered of him which would be resolued whether it were better to accept or to refuse the executorship 2 The first thing to bee inquired in this case concerning the testator 3 Of the aucthoritie and charge of the executor 4 The executor may not medle with the landes tenements or hereditamēts of the testator but the heire 5 The heire hath not to deale with the goods and cattels of the testator but the executor 6 The testator may giue power to his executor to sel his landes for paiment of his debts or other purpose 7 What if some of the executors named do refuse whether may the rest sell the lands according to the testament 8 Whether the executor of him that had lands in see simple fee taile or for tearme of life maie recouer the rents fee fermes or other arrerages against the tenant which ought to haue paied the same in the life of the testator 9 The second thing to be required concerning the testator 10 Of the authoritie and charge of the executor of an executor 11 Whether diuerse being assigned executors whereof some be dead the executor of the executor deceased may bee ioined in action with the executor suruiuing 12 Of the aucthoritie and charge of the executor of an Administrator 13 What is to be considered about the last will of the testator 14 Whether the executor maie conuert the residue to his owne vse 15 Whether he that is named executor shall lease his legacie if he do refuse the executorship 16 What is to be considered in the person of the executor 17 What is to be considered in a wise executrix 18 What is to be considered in the person of the coexecutor 19 Whether one executor maie preiudice another 20 Whether one executor maie sue another 21 VVhether one of the executors maie alone sell the goodes of the testator 22 VVhether the coexecutor after refusall maie meddle as executor 23 VVhat is to bee considered in other persons with whom the executor is to deale §. iij. HE † that is desirous to be resolued whether it were better for him to vndertake the executorship or to refuse the same muste consider diuers things whereof some concerne the testator some concerne the executor him selfe and some concerne the persons of others a) Haec alia quae ab executore deliberante consideranda sunt tradunturà Io de Canib in Tract de executor vlt. vol. 2 part q. 1. cum seq Cui si place at adiungas Sichar in Rub. de iure de lib. C. Of those things which concerne the testator the first and principall thing to be regarded in this consultation is his substance or wealth First of all therefore † it behoueth him that is named executor to enquire diligently and to learne certainly if he can what goodes and cattelles did belong to the testator at the time of his death b) Sichard in d. Rub. de iure de lib. C. and what debtes were then due vnto him And on the contrarie what debts he the said testator did owe vnto other men c) Cuius rei vtilitas statim subijcitur For † as the executor may enter to all the goodes and cattels which did belong vnto the testator d) L cùm haeredes de acquir post L. haereditas de reg iur ff

is or shall be due and not paide at the time of his death shall and maie haue an action of debt for all such arrerages against the tenant or tenants that ought to haue paide the saide rent or fee ferme so being behind in the life time of their testator or against the executors and administrators of the said tenants And also furthermore it shall be lawfull to euerie such executor or administrator of any such person or persons to whom such rent or fee ferme is or shall be due and not paide at the time of his death as is aforesaid to distraine for the arrerages of all such rentes and fee fermes vpon the landes tenements or other hereditaments which were charged with the paiment of such rents or fee fermes and chargeable to the distresse of the saide testator so long as the saide landes tenements or hereditaments continue remaine and be in the seasin or possession of the said tenant in demaine who ought immediately to haue paide the saide rent or fee ferme so being behinde to the saide testator in his life time or in the seasin or possession of any other person or persons claiming the said lands tenements and hereditaments onely by and from the said tenant by purchase gift or discent in such like maner forme as their said testator might or ought to haue done in his life time And the saide executors and administrators shall for the same distresse lawfully make auowrie vpon their matter aforesaid Prouided alwaies that this act nor any thing therein conteined shall not extend to any such mannour lordship or dominion in Wales or in the marches of the same whereof the inhabitants haue vsed time without minde of man to pay vnto euerie Lord or owner of such lordship mannor or dominion at his or their first entrie into the same any summe or summes of money for the redemption and discharge of all duties forfaitures and penalties wherewith the same inhabitantes were chargeable vnto any of the saide lordes auncestors or predecessors before his said entrie And further be it c. that if any man which now hath or hereafter shall haue in the right of his wife any estate of fee simple or fee taile or fee ferme and the same rents or fee fermes now be or hereafter shall be due behinde and vnpaide in the wiues life then the said husbande after the death of his saide wife his executors and administrators shall haue an action of debt for the said arrerages against the tenant of the demaine that ought to haue paid the same his executors or administrators and also the saide husbande after the death of his saide wife may distraine for the saide arrerages in like maner and forme as he might haue done if his said wife had beene liuing and make auowrie vpon his matter as is aforesaid And likewise it is c. that if any person or persons which now hath or heereafter shall haue any rentes or fee fermes for tearme of life or liues of any other person or persons and the saide rent or fee ferme nowe or hereafter shall be due behinde and vnpaide in the life of such person or persons for whose life or liues the state of the saide rent or fee ferme did depende and continue And if the saide persons doo die then he vnto whome the saide rent or fee ferme was due in forme aforesaide his executors or administrators shall and may haue an action of debt against the tenant in demain that ought to haue paide the same when it was first due his executors and administrators also distraine for the same arrerages vpon such lands and tenements out of the which the saide rentes or fee fermes were issuing and paiable in such like maner and forme as he ought or might haue done if such person or persons by whose death the aforesaid estates in the said rents and fee fermes was determined and expired had been in full life and not deade and the auowrie for the taking of the same distresse to bee made in maner and forme aforesaid Secondly † concerning the testator it shall be behouefull for thee that art desirous to bee resolued whether it were better to accept or refuse the executorship to inquire learne whether the same testator were executor or administrator to anie other person If he were executor then by the statutes of this realme v) Stat. 4. Ed. 3. an 25. c. 5. Idem iure ciuili in haerede haeredis L. 2. 3. de petic haered ff Contrarium in haerede executoris tàm iure ciuili quàm canonico Bar. alij in L. à filio ff de alimen leg gloss in c. fin de testa 6. verb. mortuo thou † being executor of an executor shalt haue actions of debts accountes and of goodes caried away of the first testator and execution of recognizances made in court of recorde to the first testator in the same maner as the first testator shoulde haue if hee were in life aswel of actions of the time past as of the time to come in all cases where iudgement is not as yet giuen betwixt such executors but the iudgement giuen to the contrarie in times past ought to stand in their force And on the contrarie the executor of the executor shal answere to others to whom the first testator was indebted as much as he shall recouer of the goods of the first testator euē as the first executor should doo if he were in full life But the goods which did belong to the first testator shall not bee put in execution for the debt of the second testator which goods the executor of the executor shall haue by relation to the first testator as immediately executor vnto him and not by relation to the second testator executor to the first testator x) Plowd in casu inter Bransby Grantham Atque ita soluitur nodus de quo Bar. alij in L. veluti ff de petic haered vtrum videlicet haeres haeredis succe dat priori testatori ex testamēto vel ab intestato nobis enim intelligitur succedere ex testamento vtcunque●on fuit in primo testamēto nominatus id quod disputandi rationem praebuit and so the propertie which the second testator had by the saide relation is taken away and is in such case as if the second testator had neuer beene executor y) Plowd vbi supr Howbeit this is to bee vnderstoode with this limitation viz. if there bee no executor of the first testator suruiuing For † if the testator did make diuerse executors whereof some be yet liuing that executor of the first testator suruiuing and the executor of his coexecutor cannot be ioined both together in one action z) Brook Abridg. tit execut n. 99. Contrarium in haeredibus constituit ius ciuile quo si aliquis ex haeredibus decesserit pluribus relictis haeredibus hi omnes accipere debent illampartem quae ad