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A49392 Reports in the Court of Exchequer, beginning in the third, and ending in the ninth year of the raign of the late King James by the Honourable Richard Lane ... ; being the first collections in that court hitherto extant ; containing severall cases of informations upon intrusion, touching the King's prerogative, revenue and government, with divers incident resolutions of publique concernment in points of law ; with two exact alphabeticall tables, the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principall matters contained in this book. Lane, Richard, Sir, 1584-1650.; England and Wales. Court of Exchequer. 1657 (1657) Wing L340; ESTC R6274 190,222 134

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words of a fee to be in the feoffor and the Bar confesseth only as of a fee gained in an instant but I agree that if the Bar had been that the Feoffor was Tenant for years and made a Feofment this had been good without Traverse but when Tenant in tail makes a Feofment it shall not be intended that he gained a Fee because it may be he hath purchased the remainder and thereby had lawfully acquitted it as an addition to his estate and here the saying in the Deelaration that Edward Stanley was seised in Fee as a thing material and of necessitie and not superfluous as the pleading in a Declaration for debt upon an Obligation to say that the Obligor was of full age or as a Repetition of the writ which needs not be Traversed and that it appears in 15. Ed. 4. in some case a Surplus●ge ought to be Traversed and 7. Ed. 6. Title Formedon the Declaration as in our case ought to be special and 21. H. 7. if a man will maintain debt upon a lease he ought to shew how he was in titled to make the lease also although that in our case the lease for years is the effect of the suit yet I say that the seisin in Fee is the effect of the plea 27. H. 8.50 H. 7.14 in a replevin the Defendant avows as seised in Fee the Plantiffe sayes that he was seised for life and doth Traverse c. and 14. and 15. Eliz. was our very case Dyer 312. and there it is said that the sure way is to take a Traverse as it is also said in 11. Eliz. Dyer also where the Bar saith that one R. was seised in Fee and gave it to the Father of the Feoffor and the heirs of his body he ought to say that the land descended to the Feoffor as son and heir of the body c. also where the Plantiffe declareth of a lease for years made by force of a feofment made the 30. day of August 6. Iac. the Bar saith generally that the 30. day of August 6. Iac. the said Feoffor made a Feofment of the same land to the same persons c. but he doth not say that it is one and the same with the Feofment mentioned in the Declaration so he answereth not our title and for that cause not good and therefore he prayed Iudgement for the Plantiffe Jones of Lincolns Inne to the contrary it seemeth as to the first matter moved that in this case the resioue of the use shall result back to the Feoffor 34. Eliz. Balfores case if Tenant in tail make a Feofment to the use of himself for life without more by Popham the residue of the use shall be to the Feoffee for otherwise the estate for life would be drowned but otherwise it is when a remainder of an use is limited to another in Fee for this saves the drowning or confounding of the estate for life as to the point of remitter it seemeth that it is no other but that Tenant in tail makes a Feofment to the use of himself and his heirs and dies if the issue shall be remitted or not and as to that he said that the Statute of 27. H. 8. cap. 10. hath by express words a saving of all antient rights and therefore the antient right of the estate tail is saved and therefore the issue shall be thereunto remitted and so should the Tenant in tail himself if he had not been within the words of the Statute as it is resolved in Amy Townsends case in Plowden and the authorities of my part are 33. H. 8.54 in Dyer expresly with me and without any quere as to the point of remitter but there it is said that he ought to avoid the lease by entrie as in our ease it is pleaded and as to the pleading it seems there needs no Traverse First because it is matter in Law Secondly we have confessed a Fee in an instant as to the first reason the Declaration is generally of a seisin in Fee and not expresly of a Fee simple and therefore it is matter in Law 5. H. 7. and 11. H. 7.21 the Fee not Traversed 46 Ed. 3.24 in Dower the Defendant pleads a special tail made by one who was seised in Fee the other saith that the Dower had but an estate tail at the time of the gift without Traversing that he was seised in Fee 2. Ed. 4.11 that a seisin in Fee tail is sufficient to maintain an allegation of a seisin in Fee to the second reason it is not alledged expresly that he was seised in Fee but quod cum talis seisitus fuit c. and 34. H. 6.48 he needed not in his Declaration to say that he was seised in Fee Pasch 34. et 35. Eliz. Taylors case if the Plantiffe in a quare impedit alledgeth seisin in Fee and the Defendant confess the seisin by Vsurpation this is a sufficient confession of the seisin in Fee Fitzherbert Title Travers 154. a good case to this purpose and in Moils case cited before on the other side the Plantiffe doth not mention in his Declaration a seisin in Fee absolute and the Defendant saith that A. was seised and gave to the Plantiffe as long as A. had issue of his body he needs not Traverse the absolute Fee Pasch 33. Eliz. in the Common Pleas where there was a stronger case to the replication the Defendant said that the Countess of Devon was seised and leased for life the remainder to her self for life the other saith that the Countess was seised in tail and Traverseth that she was not seised in Fee it is there said that the Countesses estate in Fee need not to be Traversed and yet it was there agreed that in regard it was but matter of form it was aided by the Statute of Jeoffales for that was moved in arrest of judgement Tanfield chief Baron in the principal case the issue of the Feoffor is remitted without entrie notwithstanding the lease because it is not in possession but a lease in remainder and therefore the title of the Lessees is distrained before entrie by the Defendant and therefore the Defendant hath not answered the entrie upon the Lessees for you by your plea destroy the title to this Term which you have allowed them before they were ever in possession thereof and the Declaration is that they were possessed of a Term for years and that you ejected them and to this you give no answer upon the matter for clearly if Tenant in tail make a lease to commence at a day to come and dieth before the day this is meerly void by his death ad quod non fuit responsum see Plowden in Smith and Stapletons case for there it is made a quere and notwithstanding that Tanfield chief Baron with the ass●nt of the whole Court pronounced that judgement should be entred against the Plantiffe immediately and so it was done Bents case IN a suit depending in this Court between
of 99. years is agreed to be given Secondly if there be such an imployment of this land as the Statute requireth admitting the lease was not given Thirdly if the livery upon the Queens Lessee for years be good and I hold that the Fee is not given to the Queen Secondly the land is not imployed c. admitting that it was given Thirdly that the Feofment here is not good and as to the case at Bar the Feoffees may enter I doubt not of that because there is not any thing found but that it was imployed to the uses intended for 99. years Secondly if it were not imployed according to the condition after 1. Ed. 6. yet they cannot enter for themselves were parties to the Art which did prohibit it as 34. H. 8. Dyer 52. the Queen gives licence that Belmelt shall be transported notwithstanding any Statute made or to be made if after it be prohibited the licence is determined because the Patentee himself was a partie to such Statutes Secondly it is said in Addams and Lamberts case that a superstitious devise or other estate upon condition is within the Statute because the Patentee was partie thereunto Thirdly it is said in the said case that a superstitious devise or other estate upon condition is within the Statute because it is penal and compulsorie for the maintenance of a thing prohibited by the Law and also there it is said that there is a proviso towards the end of that Act that it shall not be Lawful by reason of any remainder or condition for any man to claim any lands c. for the not doing or finding of any such Priest as to the other point which was moved at Bar I hold that the use doth not arise upon the words subsequent and if they do not re-enter that then the land shall go to the use of the four Feoffees to the intent aforesaid is not a mis-ordering nor an imployment Secondly these words to the intent do not raise any use but only a confidence and trust reposed in the Feoffees Doctor and Student 94. for the first point therefore he held that there is no superstitious gift of the Fee-simple and if there were it is not imployed c. and therefore it is not given by the Statute of 1. Ed. 6. to the Queen and touching that we are to consider the Statute Indenture and the Schedule and there is not a word that after 99. years the land shall finde a Priest but the money and the land is not given but the money as in the Dean of Pauls case 22. Eliz. Dyer 368. if land be given to finde a Priest with part of the profits thereof those profits are only given to the King by this Statute and not the land but that belongs to the Dean and Chapter also the Schedule is if then it may be lawful and therefore if it were not then lawful the money is not given and it is like to the case where I make a lease for 21. years if I do allow of it before Michaelmas and before Michaelmas do not allow of it this is a void lease and so if I give land to the use of Westminster School if the Dean will enter into a Recognizance c. and if he will not enter into a Recognizance it is no gift like to the case 15 H. 7. a grant of Annuitie if such a thing be done c. secondly as to the imployment the lease is only found to be imployed and the imployment of the lease is no imployment of the Fee which was not given until the Term was expired and if the gift be not superstitious the imployment ought not to be superstitious and yet as it is said in Adams case there ought to be an imployment to intitle the Queen as the case there is if one gives the Mannor of D. and S. to superstitious uses the Queen shall have the lands out of the hands of the Feoffee and if land be given to finde a Priest in the Church of D. for 20 years and after to finde one in S. for 21. years and before the expiration of the first Term the Statute is made it seems the Queen shall have only the first Term because there is no imployment of the second Term within the Statute 5. Ed. 4.20.15 Ed. 3. Execu 63. I agree those cases for land or rent issue from a seisin 30. Ed. 3.12 in a quare impedit 5. Ed. 6. Benlowes a devise to 8. to the uses and intent that the Feoffees with the profits shall finde a Priest whilst the Law of this Realm will suffer it and if the Law will not suffer it then to the use of three of the poorest of the Parishes adjoyning by all the Iudges this is not within the Statute and as to the last point it seems that the Feofment is good and the interest of the Queen is no impediment which if it be not then there is no question as Dyer 20. Eliz. 363. Tenant in tail makes a feofment the servants of the Lessee for years being upon the land and livery is made and after the Lessee for years agrees saving his Term this is a discontinuance 14. Ed. 4.2 3. and 4. Ph. et M. Dyer 139. possession shall not be gained from the Queen but by matter of Record 4. Assises 5.21 Assises 2.8 H. 4.16.1 H. 7. no livery upon the Kings possession it may be devised by the heir or conveyed by bargain and sale or by fine from him and the Kings estate in reversion doth not priviledge the estate in possession as it is 23. Ed. 3.7 a disseisor conveys land to the Queen who grants for life and the disseisee shall have a writ of entrie against the Queens Lessee for life by the opinion of Thorp Cook lib. 4.55 a disseisor makes a lease for life the remainder to the King a recovery of the land against Tenant for life will defeat the Kings remainder 7. Rich. 2. aide of the King 61. Tenant in tail grants the land to the King with warranty and the King makes a lease for life if the issue recover in a Formedon the Kings estate is defeated and I was of Councel in the Court of wards in a case which was Pasch 43. Eliz. betwixt Chackston and Starkey for the Wardship of the heir of Clifford and it was this the Ward at full age tendred his livery and had six moneths to sue it and within the six moneths made a Feofment and after died before livery sued in this case the livery and seisin was void and it is all one as if no tender had been made for the Queens possession was priviledged the second point was that one being in Ward to the King had a reversion in Fee expectant upon an estate for life and before livery sued made a Feofment in Fee this makes a discontinuance of the reversion notwithstanding the Kings interest which he had in reversion for the Wardship which case is like to the case
above mentioned of a lease for years and also it was there said that if Tenant for life be the remainder to the King for years the remainder to another in Fee and the Tenant for life makes a Feofment in Fee this drawes the Kings remainder out of him and so he held that here is no gift Secondly that here is no imployment and so the Feofment is made good Altham second Baron contra I will consider only two points First if it be a gift for years or for ever and I say that it is a gift for ever for here is no intent in the Donor to determine the superstitious use because he doth not limit any other use to which it should revert but only that the Priest should be maintained for ever and as that which hath been said that it was not imployed he answereth that out of the Book of 22. Assises 52. where 12. d. is reserved for three years and after 100. s. seisin of 12. d. is seisin of the 100. s. because it is issuing out of the freehold as the case is in Littleton in the Chapter of Atturnement Tenant for life the remainder in Fee the Lord shall not avow upon the remainder but shall have it by way of Escheat for all the estates together are holden of the Lord but if land be given to finde a Priest in D. and one is maintained in S. this is a mis-imployment but in our case I conceive that the Feoffees have power to dispose the land as to them seems best and therefore it is uncertain and then given to the King as it was in Dales case land was given to the intent that a Priest should be maintained as I. S. and I. D. thought fit so that he had not less then 8. marks yearly the King shall have all for the Feoffees may give all to the Priest if they please and in Turners case land was devised to a Priest and divers poor men all is given to the King by the superstitious imployment and as to the words if by the Law it may be they are idle for id possumus quod de Jure possumus and therefore 9. Ed. 6. an office was given to one if he were able to exercise it these words are idle for the Law saith that he shall not have it if he be not able to execute it 30. Ed. 3.8 a gift to two and to the longer liver of them that the Survivor shall have it are idle words 10. H. 7. a Condition that c. and here it the condition had been until an Act of Parliament prohibit it they are Idle words for if land be given to I. S. and his heirs upon condition that if he die without heirs c. this is a void condition and Repugnant to Law Lastly I hold the feofment good by way of Admittance and that the livery takes effect notwithstanding the Queens interest 4. H. 6.19 the Kings Tenant for life is disseised he shall have an Assise and yet there is no intrusion upon the King 17. H. 7.6 the Kings Lessee makes a feofment the King enters and so he held that the judgement should he given for the Defendant Snig Baron argued much to the same intent that Bromley had done and that the Schedule is so circumspect that nothing is given after the 99. years and that a spirit of Divination forwarned him of the alteration and he agreed the Feofment to be good with this difference where the King is in possession actually and where the Reversion is in the King and the book of 2 H. 4.9 that none shall enter upon the Kings Farmor is to be understood of the Kings under Tenants and not of his Lessees Tanfield chief Baron said that neither by the intent of the Statute nor of the parties the fee is given to the Queen but it is apparant that during the 99. years the parties intent is in suspence for fear of alteration and that they would see the difference of the times and leave the disposing thereof to his Feoffees and if they had sold the land and with the money maintained a Priest as many stocks of money have used to do without doubt it had been forfeited to the King and not the land and it would be in vain to speak of an Amortization if it be for a stipendary Priest only for this would not be necessary to have a foundation incorporated and to make an Amortization for such a Priest and therefore it seems to him that there is no determination of his will after the 99. years but that all is left to the determination and disposition of the feoffees who then should be and after the intent of the Statute which was penned by Hales Iustice of the Common Pleas. I observe four words given appointed limited and assigned and I do not conceive that our case is within the compass of any of them for as I said before it is in suspence until the end of 99. years and the parties who should have the interest are not known untill the time come nor the estate setled until that time but if it had been conveyed to superstitious uses after it had been given to the Queen notwithstanding the conveyance had not been sufficient if he who did convey had power in respect of the abilitie of his person and the estate in him and therefore Pasch 22. Eliz. the case was this Sir William Say before the Statute of 32. H. 8. of Wills was seised of lands in fee not devisable and before the said Statute he devised it to finde a Priest and notwithstanding that the devise was not good yet it was adjudged that the land was given to the Queen by 1. Ed. 6. but if it were a feme covert or an infant who are disabled in Law or a Tenant in tail who is disabled in respect of his estate there it had not been given to the Queeen but in all cases there ought to be an assignment or otherwise nothing is given and there is a difference where one grants land to the intent with the profits thereof to finde a Priest there all the land is given to the Queen and where he grants a rent for the maintenance of a Priest for there the King shall have but the Rent and he said that the Case cited 5. Ed. 6. Benlos is good Law and as to that which hath been said That because the power of the Feoffees is uncertain it should be given to the Queen true it is where the power is uncertain to bestow the profits but if their power be certain it is otherwise and as to the imployment there is none because there is no gift but the imployment of the particular estate is an imployment of the Remainder and a small thing will make an imployment James case was of the Greyhound in Fleetstreet which was given to finde a Priest and the White Horse for the maintenance of another and the Feoffees of the White-horse maintained the Priest of the
this be confessed that the King there should take nothing without inrolment yet this is not like to our case for here this is but to merge a particular estate which differs much from the case of conveying of an inheritance also this is confessed if there had been a Memorandum made in the Margent then the surrender had been good and the want thereof is the laches of the Clark and then if it should not be a surrender before the Memorandum made the Clark should make the surrender and not the partie and as to the Book of 37. H. 6. it is not answered for to say that the King hath no right to the thing granted before inrolment but that he hath the propertie that cannot be and to that which hath been objected that there doth not appear any intention of the surrender because that although the Patents are surrendred the estate remained the Book of 32. E. 3. Monstrance of faith 178. proveth nothing for there it is said that a man may plead that a Dean and Chapter did not lease modo et forma without shewing any Deed for there this pleading is not to devest any thing out of c. and also it appears in the principal case that his intent was to surrender for the Iury do finde that the Letters Patents were restored by the command of the Lord Seymor to be cancelled and to that which hath been objected if the second Patent should be good that the Queen might lose her Rent or condition because the first lease hath his continuance to that I give answer that the first lease hath not his continuance and therefore no loss can grow to the Queen and to that which hath been objected that the Queen is deceived it appears by these words modo habens c. restituit c. that the intention of the Queen was that the Lord Seymor had surrendred his estate before and that he now had nothing because that the word modo being joyned with the word reddidit signifieth the time past but as to that it seems to me that although modo poetica licentia in the strict construction of Grammer may signifie the time past yet the signification thereof shall not be so taken in the letters Patents for there it shall be taken in common construction and not to the deceipt of the King and therefore in the Dean and Chapter of Bristols case 7. E. 6. Dyer the words are nuper in Tenura I. S. et modo in Tenura A. B. there nuper is taken for the time past but modo for the present time and in 11. H. 7. Rogerum Townesend modo militem is to be intended that he is now Knight and not that he was a Knight in time past and not now also it is so to be observed here that these words habens et gaudens are annexed to this word modo both which are in the present time and restituit comes afterwards and so modo is not annexed to restituit but unto habens et gaudens also although the word shall be referred unto restituit yet all may well stand together for restituit may be referred unto the time present as siquae fuerint in 35. H. 6.11 and to that which hath been objected that until the Queen agrees unto the surrender the estate is not in the Queen he thought that where Tenant for life surrenders before agreement he in the reversion is Tenant to the Praecipe although he shall not maintain a Trespass before entrie for by 21. H. 7.12 it appeareth that an estate for life may be determined aswel by word as by surrender so in 9. H. 7. where the Tenant dies without heir the freehold is immediately in the Lord but yet he shall not have an action of Trespas before entrie now as to the first point he conceived it to be an actual surrender although there be no Vacat made nor any Memorandum and to examine it he did relate what Acts might make a surrender and to that purpose he said that words being used which do prove an assent of the Tenant that he in reversion shall have an estate that shall be a surrender without express words of a surrender for a man may surrender by these words Remisit or resignavit for the words are not material if so there be substance as in 40. E. 3. placito 14. and 40. Assises pl. 16. if a lessee for life saith to his lessor that you shall enter and I will that you shall have this land this is a good surrender So in 28. H. 8. Dyer 33. if a Termor agree that he in the reversion shall make a feofment that is a surrender so in 8. Eliz. Dyer 251 252. lessee for life is content that he in the reversion shall have the land and his interest that is a surrender but in that case it appeared that a rent was reserved and an agreement that the lessee should have it againe if he survived the lessor and therefore appearing plainly that it was not intended to pass by way of surrender it was at the last adjudged no surrender so in 14. H. 8. the Grantee of a Rent did surrender the Deed and that held to be a good surrender of the Rent it is daubted in 2. Eliz. Dyer in Sir Maurice Barkleys case 156. if the surrender of the Patent of an Office unto a master of the Chancerie out of the Court be good without beliverie of the Patent to be cancelled but that Book proveth nothing but that a delivery of a Patent to be cancelled shall be a good surrender though the Patent be not cancelled in facto it hath been objected that it matters not what commandment the Lord Seymor did give nor in what Court the Patents were given up nor before whom but to that he said in asmuch as it is found that the Patents were given up by the commandment of the Lo●d Seymor to be cancelled that being it was by his command it was his own surrender also it appears that the letters Patents were under the great Seal of England which alwayes issueth out of the Chancery and therefore it cannot be cancelled in any other Court and it shall be intended that they were given up to be cancelled there also this word restituit signifieth to restore and a man cannot restore any thing but where he had it and he had it out of the Chancery and therefore it shall not be otherwise intended but to be there restored so in Baggots Assise 9. E. 4.7 it is pleaded Quod restituit litteras Patentes Cancellandas and sheweth not to whom nor where and it was held to be very good but it is there pleaded Quod sursum reddidit Patentes Domini Regis and shewed in special to whom they were surrendred because it may be to any that hath power at the time of the surrender but a man cannot restore unto any but such a one who granted unto him and therefore needs not shew unto whom he did restore
and these words restituit Cancellandas are no new words but usually used in surrenders of Patents as it appears by 9. E. 4.7 and in Altonwoods case Cook lib. 1. and there the not entring of a Vacat doth not hurt for it was the fault of the Clark and Sir Maurice Barkleys case in 2. Eliz. 176. cited before doth not question it that the entring of a Vacat should be material but the question here is because he did not deliver them up to be cancelled in the Lord Darcies case Dyer 195. the jury did think that there was no surrender at all but the Book-doth not marrant but that there may be a surrender without a Vacat and he said that at this time the matter is depending for Saint Saviours in Southwark if it be a good surrender without a Vacat entred and no opinion as yet given in that case and where it hath been objected that there is no actual surrender until that the Queen hath agreed and 8. and 21. H. 7. cited that where a man pleads a surrender he must also plead an agreement yet because the agreement cannot appear by any Record that the partie can procure to be made of it it shall be good although there be no record made of that agreement yet in this case the Queen doth agree as appears by the words in the second Patent Quam quidem sursum redditionem acceptamus c. Secondly admitting there is no actual surrender in this case yet if when the Queen did recite the particular estate and that she had accepted the surrender thereof and in consideration of it she maketh a grant whether this second Patent shall be good and it seemeth that it shall and therefore it appeareth by 37. H. 6.18 that the taking of a second lease shall be a surrender of the former and in Corbets case 11. Eliz. Dyer 208. 4. Mar. Dyer 140. although the first lease be by deed indented and the second but by word and in Ives case Cook lib. 5.11 acceptance of a future lease is a surrender of a lease in possession and to that purpose is 21. H. 7.14 H. 8.15.31 Assises placito 26. and other Books and in 3. Eliz. Dyer 200. the King granted a house for years and after did grant to the Patentee the custody of the house with a fee and the Patentee accepted the fee and it is there doubtted it that shall be a surrender of the Term and the matter was Compounded but he said that he heard that the opinion of the Iudges was that the acceptance of the custodie and fee was a surrender of the Term by that I do infer that there shall be a surrender by implication aswell where the King is partie as where a common person only first if a surrender be effectual it is sufficient although it be not formal because it worketh as much profit to the King and the surrender in this case was at the same instant that the Queen did Seal the letters Patents for the estate passeth from the Queen without delivery and it appears that the intention of the Queen was not to have any actual possession of that by these words modo habens et gaudens but it hath been objected in as much as this surrender was at an instant that it should be void because that in instants the best shall be taken for the King yet it seemeth to me that it is good as in the case of 49. E. 3.5 a. a man deviseth Burgage land holden of the King and dieth without heir this devise is not good against the King because the devise taketh not effect until the instant of the devisors death and at that instant also doth the title of the King begin by death without heir and he cited Plowden 108 109. in Fusmerstons case for the exposition of these words not now in being within the Statute of Monasteries and if in that case issue had been taken whether it had been a surrender or not it should have been found to be a surrender because it is a surrender in the law as it was in Thetfores case in the Common Pleas p. 28. Eliz. Rot. 122. in wast Baron and Feme Donees in tail make a lease for life the husband dieth and the wife disagreeth to the lease and the issue was if the husband and wife did lease and it was found that they did not lease because now by her disagreement it is become in law not the lease of the wife Cook lib. 3. Butler and Bakers case accordingly fo 27. 28. but if the King be to sustain any loss by the consideration if that were false then shall it make the Patent void as it is in 9. H. 6. where the King was deceived in the value so 18. Eliz. Dyer 352. where there was a loss in esse but it is contrary where there grows no loss to the King as 26. 28. H. 8. of a thing passed because the King is not to have benefit of it the Lord Chandos case is not answered on the other side for there the King did intend to have the actual possession where in facto he had not yet because that was only a recital and Collection in the matter in law it doth no hurt so in the principal case and so if the King grant a Mannor although he hath but a reversion of it yet it shall pass without the word reversion 7. Eliz. Dyer 233. and the Kings Patent also shall be so construed that one part may stand with another viz. that the Lord Seymor now having the estate c. doth restore unto us c. the which we do accept c. as in Sir John Molins case 40. Eliz. Cook 6. Lord measne and Tenant the Tenant was attainted of Treason and the King did grant the laud tenendum de nobis c. suis noftris et aliis cap. dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita et de jure consueta He shall in that case hold of the mesne as the Tenant held before for if he should hold of the King the words subsequent would be void and for that cause such a construction shall be made that all may stand together now for the third point admit that the surrender is not good yet it is aided by the Statute of 43. Eliz. cap. 1. which aides all grants and surrenders c. to or from the Queen the clauses for conveyances to the Queen are with restraint but for the conveyances of the Queen there are certain exceptions our case is within that part of the Statute which relates unto the 25th year of her Raign and our case is within the words of the Statute viz. surrenders and surrenders within the Statute are such as are surrenders to a common intent and therefore where the partie hath done that in him lieth but some thing is to the perfection of a surrender that is aided by the Statute also by this word assurance in the Statute a purchase
the which the Lord chief Baron Tanfield said insist not upon a labour of that kinde for it is plain enough because the Queen being partie there can be no Estoppel as to any part in that case also as to that part of his argument Mr. Walter agreed on the other side and also he said that if a grant of the Queeen were void at the Common Law for default of want of consideration this Statute aids not Walter for the Defendant and he divided the case into foure points the first whether the Tenant for life by the Kings guift by surrendring his letters Patents hath also surrendred his estate Secondly if the surrender in this case made be defective only for want of matter of circumstance as the inrolment c. whether such defects are saved by the Statute 43. Eliz. Thirdly whether in this case an actual surrender be the consideration meerly which moveth the Queen to grant or what shall be intended the consideration in this case Fourthly admitting that an actual surrender is the sole consideration in this case then whether a Patent shall be adjudg'd void for default of such consideration for a false consideration doth not avoid a Patent but a false surmise doth first when the Kings Tenant for life doth surrender or give up his Patent although without deed yet with such circumstances as the law requireth the surrender is good for although a surrender of letters Patents made by the Kings Tenant in tail will not make estate tail void or determine as it appears by the book case of 35. H. 8. title surrender and Cook 6. the Lord Chandos case yet the bare giving up of the letters Patents by a Tenant for life is a surrender of his estate so here in this case is some proportion between a Tenant for life of the Queen and a Tenant for life of a Common person to amount to a surrender and therefore it appeareth by 43. E. 3. that a Tenant for life may surrender without deed and without livery and from the land but a Tenant in tail may not do so also if a Common person hath a rent or other thing which cannot pass but by deed yet a surrender of such a rent shall be good by a bare deliverie up of the deed if he hath but an estate for life in the Rent and this also although it be but to the disseissor of the land out of which c. the same Law he took it of a particular Tenant for life of years also 32. H. 8. Brook Patents 97. it is made a doubt whether the estate tail of the Kings Donee be determined and gone by surrendring of the letters Patent and he referred that if thought worthy of a doubt whether it should be a good surrender of an estate tail they would hade held it clearly a surrender for an estate for life and it was admitted 3. Eli 2. Dyer fo 193. Mack-Williams case that if in the principal case if a Vacat or cancellation had been the surrender had been good actually without question and Sir Maurice Barkleys case cited on the other part proves the same also for there it is admitted that if the letters Patents had been given up there had been a perfect surrender And 40. H. 3. fol. 5. Belknap held that a surrender may be by word which is to be intended by giving up the Patent and that appears by Rolfs case in Dyer that a voluntary surrender needs no Conftat also where it hath been objected that the special verdict in this case hath not found in what Court the surrender was made he answered that the Law shall intend it to be made in the same Court from whence the letters Patents did issue for a surrender cannot be good being made in another Court and therefore it must needs be intended the same Court and he vouched 11. Ed. 3. fo 1. and 18. Eliz. Plinies Case and Covel and Cabels Case in Banco Regis 38. Eliz. wherein a special verdict it was holden that all things necessary for the perfecting of that the Iury hath found to be done must be necessarily intended concurrent Secondly the want of circumstances in a surrender are perfected and supplied by the Statute of 43. Eliz. for although matters of substance are not aided within this Statute yet matters of circumstances are aided And he said that all the defects in this Case are matters of circumstance and to prove that the defects in this Case are only in circumstance he said that there are three principal defects in conveyances which are meerly matters of circumstance and aided within this Statute the first is meerly want of form in a conveyance and that such a defect is aided he cited Hussies Case to be adjudged accordingly the second is where words are wanting in a conveyance and that such a conveyance is aided by this Statute he cited the opinion of Popham and Gawdy in 44. Eliz. in a cause depending in the Chancery the third matter of circumstance is where there is want of some matter concerning the executing of an estate and that such defect is only matter of circumstance and aided within this Statute he cited Morley and Whartons Case to be adjudged 7. Eliz. in the Common Pleas that the default of not inrolling is aided by this Statute and Mack-Williams and Kemps Case cited in Dyer before proves this to be but matter of circumstance and for that he thought the surrender in the principal Case wanting nothing but inrolment is aided by this Statute also in the argument of the second point he shews what defects in conveyances should be accompted matter of substance and so not aided by this Statute of 43. Eliz. and to this purpose he held that all disabilities of the person in a grant is matter of substance and so not aided within this Statute and he cited Twynes Case 32. Eliz. in the Exchequer to be accordingly Secondly he held that the nature of an assurance is not aided by this Statute and therefore if a man hath power to grant an estate by fine and he doth it by Deed this is not aided by the Statute for this is defective in matter of substance and he cited Wisemans Case and Sir Hugh Cholmleys Case in Cook l. 2. also he said if a man give land to the King and his heirs to have ten years after such grant this is not made good by the Statute Thirdly whereas it may be Collected that because it is found in the special verdict that an actual surrender was the cause which moved the Queen to grant or that it appears to be the cause he held that no consideration plainly appeareth but only by relation to a consideration before mentioned and he said that these words used by the Queen viz. modo habens et gaudens shew that the Queen took notice the state was still injoyed notwithstanding the delivery up of the letters Patents and therefore it cannot be intended by the verdict that the Queen intended
but another person cannot be presented to this benefice during the continuance of the first institution see Cook lib. 4. in Digbies Case fol. 79. that the institution to a second benefice is a present avoydance of the first Saint Saviours in Southwark in an Information IN an Information of intrusion against A. and B. the Defendants claim and justifie by force of a lease made unto them by the Queen of the Rectory of Saint Saviours in Southwark in the year 33. Eliz. and the truth of the Case was that the Church-wardens of the Church of Saint Saviours and their successors were incorporated by letters Patents in which Patents it was contained that the Parishioners or the greater number of them every year should elect two Church-wardens and that the said Church-wardens and their successors are a Corporation capable to take purchase and sell and after the said Charter so made in regard of the great number of the Parishioners of the said Parish the Bishop of the Diocess made an order that the Parishioners should appoint a certain number of the said Parish to be called Vestrie men the which Vestrie men should have the election of the Church-wardens from time to time for and in the name of the whole Parish and after it was used that the said Vestrie men elected the Church-wardens accordingly for a long time and that A. and B. being so elected the Queen Anno 33. Eliz. made a lease to them for years by the name of A. and B. Church-wardens of the Parish of Saint Saviours c. and their successors rendring rent and this appearing to be the Case upon evidence to the jury the Barons moved two points First if the election made by the Vestrie men were a good election to make them a Corporation capable to purchase within the intent of the Kings Charter in so much that saith that they shall be elected by the greater number of the Parishioners and here but a small number that is the Vestrie elected them and as to that it seems by the Barons that in regard it was not given in evidence that others of the Parish to a great number did withstand or gain-say the said election or nomination it being made at a day usual and place certain and therefore all the Parishioners by intendment were knowing of it or might by intendment of Law have been present at the said election it being in an open place where every Parishioner might make resort and did not therefore it was held that this election was as good as if all the Parishioners had met and elected them for it were hard in Law if the election by these that are present should not be good when the residue are wilfully absent and therefore Tanfield chief Baron cited a Case where the King did grant that the Parishioners of Wallingford should be a corporation to bargain and sell and that the greater number of the Parishioners there did make leases and estates and there was an usage that at the time of meeting for the making of any such leases by them they did use to Ring a bell by the which notice was intended to be given of the assembly and that after such Bell rung 20. of the Parishioners then present did make a lease there being 100. others in the Parish not present and yet this was adjudged in the Court 32. Eliz. to be a good lease and he said that if there be a day and place by usage certain for their meeting in such case there needeth no warning and therefore in the principal case the election was good but as for any order made by the Bishop that had been of no force to this purpose Secondly it was moved that although this were not good to make them Church-wardens within the intent of the Kings Charter of Corporations yet that this lease made by the King should amount to make them a Corporation and to a lease unto them also that being by intendment for the benefit of the King inasmuch as a rent is reserved like as when the King makes a lease to the honest men of Islington rendring rent but unto this Tanfield the chief Baron said that he held that this lease should not make a corporation where the King conceived that there was no corporation before but that the King should rather be said to be deceived for he took a difference where there is a reputed Corporation in being and where there is not and thereupon the Barons directed the Iury to give a general verdict In this case it was agreed by the Barons that if the King make a lease for years to A. and after he makes a lease of the same land to A. for more years this second lease is meerly void and therefore the acceptance of it shall not cause a surrender of the other lease and they said that it was holden accordingly in Harris and Wings Case see Plowden Fulmerston and Stewards Case in which case the second lease was one good although it was void after by relation It was held for Law that if a man do make a feosment to A. to the use of B. for the life of C. and that if B. and C. die then the remainder over this is a Contingent remainder by Borastons Case in Cook lib. 3. and also by Colthirsts Case in Plowden It was also held that if a man doth in consideration that his son shall marry the daughter of B. covenant to stand seised to the use of his son for life and after to the use of other his sons in reversion or remainder these uses thus limited in remainder are fraudulent against a putchaser though the first be upon good consideration viz. for marriage also it was holden though the consideration of marriage be a good consideration yet if a power of revocation be annexed to it it is void as unto strangers By Standon and Bullocks Case cited in Twins Case Cook lib. 3. if a man reserved a power of revocation by assent of a stranger this is fraudulent but if there be a consideration to be paid before the revocation it is otherwise Mich. 4. Jac. in the Exchequer An Information against Bates Mich. 4. Jac. in the Exchequer AN Information was exhibited against Bates a Merchant of the levant and it was recited that the King by his letters Patents under the great Seal had commanded his Treasurer that he command the customers and receivers that they should ask and receive of every Merchant denizen who brings within any Port within his dominions any Currants five shillings a hundred for impost above two shillings and six pence which was the Poundage by the Statute of every hundred and it was alledged that Bates had notice thereof and that he had brought in Currants into the Port of London and refused to pay the said 5. s. in contempt of the King whereunto Bates came and said that he is an English Merchant and an venturer and a denizen and that he made a voyage to Venice
it seems to me it is apparant by the Statute of the 26. H. 8. Cap. 10. which gives power to the King by his letters Patents to limit the time for importing of Wines against the Statute of 23. H. 8. Cap. 7. which was no more but a restoring of his power abridged before and so was the Statute of 31. E. 3. for otherwise the Parliament would never have given him Authoritie to contradict an Act of Parliament by his letters Patents or to revive these Acts Impositions are meerly a new custome and so are they stiled in the Margent of the Roll of the 3. E. 1. in this Court where it is Recorded that the King had assigned Merchants to receive using the same words which are used here half a Mark for every Sack of Wool and a Mark of every Last of Leather and that if the Merchant who is so appointed Transport any after that it shall be forfeited and out of this record I observe that three hundred Pelts make a Sack of Wooll from the 21. Ed. 1. unto the 28. E. 1. the customs for Wools was 40. s. a Sack and in 25. E. 1. the Imposition of Maletolt was repealed by Act of Parliament which Maletolt was an increase of Impost upon staple commodities and therfore was given to the King a great subsidie with this cause that it should never be drawn into president which shews that this Maletolt was rightly imposed otherwise the Parliament would never have given him so great a Recompence for the Abrogation of it but after in the 13. of E. 3. because it was a thing of so great consequence to the Crown it was revived and made 40. s. for Wool and Woolfels and 3. l. for Leather for denizens and double for strangers in the 14. Ed. 3. a Petition in Parliament to abate it and for a great subsidie it was released and in the 18. of Ed. 3. it was again revived and a new petition was made in Parliament and this petition was continued until the 36. of Ed. 3. and then it was abated and also by the 45. E. 3. it was again abated so that it seem that between these times it was revived but after it did not continue long for in 48. E. 3. it was again revived and for Wool the Impost was 50. s. et sic de singulis and in 1. R. 2. after it was answered to the King as it appears in the accompts here and in 5. R. 2. it was again suppressed by Parliament for a subsidie granted to the King with a saving of antient rights all these Statutes prove expresly that the King had power to increase the Impost and that upon commodities of the land and that he continually used this power notwithstanding all Acts of Parliament against it and so much for commodities of this land but for forrain commodities it appears by no Act of Parliament or other president that never any petition or suit was made to abate the Impost of forrain commodities but of them the Impost was paid without denial as for example for Wines in the 16. E. 1. as appears in this Court upon Record it was commanded to the Bailiff of Dover to levie and Gollece of every Tun of Wine of a stranger 4. s. and in the 22. E. 1.2 s. thereof was released at the suit of the French Ambassador in the 26. of E. 3. the King granted priviledges to Merchants strangers but there was given for it an increase of custome and this was answered as it appears upon accompt in the times of E. 1. and E. 2. the case of Allom was as it hath been recited by my brother Clark it is objected that the Merchant ought to have free passage upon the Sea but that both not conclude the King but that he shall have his Impost if he cometh into his Ports and here the question is for Merchandise after that they are brought into the Port but it is said that they cannot come into the Port but by the Sea that is true but if this reason should hold then the King could not grant Murage Pontage and the like because the common Channel to them is free and Average is for securitie aswel as Ports another objection that the Defendant here is not restrained but that is answered for if a pain be inflicted upon them who import this is an inhibition upon a pain to all another objection was that there was no consideration of the Imposition and if it be demanded what differences between the cases I answer as much as is between the King and a subject and it is not reasonable that the King should express the cause and consideration of his Actions for they are arcana Regis and no satisfaction needeth for if the profits to the Merchant faileth he will not trade and it is for the benefit of every subject that the Kings Treasure should be increased an objection was made against the form of proceeding because it was by the great Seal to the Treasurer and that he by the customers Peteret et reciperet and this could not be better as it was answered before it was objected that it should be by Proclamation and that needs not for it toucheth not all the subjects but only those who are Traders in Merchandising the best and aptest means to give them notice by the customers and it is alledged by the information expresly that he had notice It was lastly objected that there ought to be a quod damnum in the case before the grant that is not so for that shall be only when the King granteth any thing which appertaineth to his prerogative and not when he maketh Charters to his servants to levy his duties due to his Crown wherefore I think that the King ought to have judgement which was after given accordingly 6. Jac. in the Exchequer An Information against Sir Edward Dimock THe Bishop of Carlisle called John May in A. 26. Eliz. made a lease in reversion to Queen Eliz. of the Mannor of Horncastle whereof the Bishop was seised in right of his Bishoprick and this was for 4. years and it was acknowledged before Commissioners appointed for this purpose and the Bishop prayed it to be inrolled and this prayer is indorsed but not inrolled and in 37. Eliz. this lease was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter in the life of the lessor and in 44. Eliz. the successor Bishop leased this land to Sir Edward Dimock the Statute of the 43. of Eliz. hath a proviso that it shall not extend to any lease before made by the Bishop of Carlisle to Queen Eliz. then not inrolled and after the death of the Queen viz. 5. Jac. this lease in 26. Eliz. is returned and certified to be acknowledged and is then also inrolled and Sir Edward Dimock had entred and was in possession by vertue of his lease in the 3. Jac. and the information was for entrie and intrusion in 3. Jac. and upon the Bar all this matter was discovered and a
of no force to avoid the lease Altham Baron Contra for the matter in Law but for the insufficiency of the verdict he thought that there ought to be a new venire facias for no judgement may be given for any partie for the insufficiency of the verdict for it is not found that Doctor Airie was presented And therefore he cannot have an action for it cannot be intended that his presentation was by a better name then the other presentation was and he cited the 11. H. 7. fo 8. and 17. E. 3 title quare impedit he who will avoid a presentation ought to intitle himself Secondly it is not found here that the Church is void sufficiently he said that if a Provost present himself this is void meerly and he cited Heckers Case it is not found here that Doctor Airie entred post inductionem for it is said that he entred ante praedictum tempus quo c. but not that he entred after induction and therefore it may be he entred before and then it is not good but for the matter of Misnosmer it seemeth that this avoids the lease contrary to Baron Herns opinion wherefore the chief Baron Tanfield advised the parties to agree to have the true case rightfully found by a new special verdict for he said to Doctor Airie that no judgement can be given for him what opinion soever himself and Baron Snig should hold the which they would not deliver for Snig Baron said that by 40. Assise that if a man be indebted to the King and deviseth all his goods to A. and the Executor assenteth and after this debt is demanded the Legatee in this Case shall be charged for this debt and so was it ordered by him and Tanfield as reasonable and equal but Hern and Altham contrary for it was the folly of the Executor to assent to the Legacie and they said that it was so adjudged and resolved in Sir William Fitzwilliams Case in the Exchequer Chamber by an English Bill Upon a motion made by Walter it was shewed by him out of a Record in the Tower that in the 31. E. 1. a Statute was made to discharge Merchants strangers from the payment of Prisage of Wine and allowed by the Court that no Merchant shall be chargable for the prisage of Wines see more of this Case in the Tit. of Doublin in Ireland An Information against Sir Edward Dimock THe Case of the Information against Sir Edward Dimock which was the fast Term was now argued again by Thomas Crew for the King but his argument I have not written Walter for the Defendant said that the Commission for taking of the acknowledgement of the lease was not returned in the life of the Queen nor the case was not put in this case in the Queens life time as it was in divers of the cales cited of the other side and therefore it differs from them in this case he observed foure points First if this lease should be good if it were never inrolled Secondly admitting that it cannot if here be such an inrolment as is requisite Thirdly admitting that the fease is good without inrolment or with this inrolment then if this can avoid the lease made in the Interim Fourthly if no lease be good until inrolment then if the confirmation being made before the inrolment can be a good confirmation And as to the first he conceived that the Cases put of personal Chattels vested in the King without Record are good Law but here it is of a real Chattel and he said that there are three reasons to prove that personal Chattels are in the King without Record First they are in judgement of Law trivyal Secondly they are perishing and of no continuance Thirdly the Records would be infinite if they should be of Record but there are no such reasons to prove that real Chattels should not be of Record for in the judgement of Law they are of greater value and are also more permanent and therefore Thrope saith in the 18. E. 3. that it had been adjudged that Livery ought to be made upon a lease for 100. years also lessee for years shall have aid but lessee at will shall not also it appears by Cook lib. 4. in Sir Andrew Corbets Case that a Gardian shall not avoid a lease for years also the Statutes regard leases for years and it was holden in Gravenors Case in the 23. Eliz. in the Court of Wards that a woman shall forfeit her joynture for making of a lease for 40. years by acceptance of a fine and reservation of a rent also lessee for years may falsifie a recovery also it is agreed of the other part that the King cannot take an use without Record and 6. E. 6. Dyer Bourchers Case the King cannot take an use without record also he said that in every case where a Deed or Record is requisite for a freehold the same conveyance is also requisite for a lease for years and therefore if a freehold be conveyed to a body politick it ought to be by Deed the same Law if a lease for years be conveyed to them and so if a lease for years be made of a hundred or rent this ought to be by Deed by 15. H. 6. fo 38. also in Bayes and Norwoods Case 41. Eliz. it was adjudged that a lease for years cannot be made to a corporation without Deed 2. E. 6. Brook Tit. Recognizance 19. a man cannot make a surrender to the King without Record the second point he said that the inrolment being made after the death of the Bishop Lessor or of the Queen Lessee is no sufficient matter of record for in judgement of Law nothing shall pass out of the Lessor until the inrolment and therefore the inrolment is the thing which maketh the estate and not only which perfecteth it and in all cases as appears in Say and Fullers Case the thing which maketh the estate or which perfecteth it ought to be in the life of the Lessor and therefore if a reversion be granted attornament ought to be made in the life of the grantor 40. Assises pla 19. 16. Assises pla 15. and Cook lib. 2. in Tookers Case and to prove further that the thing which ought to perfect the estate ought to be in the life of the grantor or feoffor he vouched 31. E. 3. tit abbe 10. and 41. E. 3. and temps H. 8. tit feofments if a feoffe enter not by force of a livery within the View this is not good and if a Bishop make a lease and the Chapter do not confirm it until after his death it is not good by 31. E. 3. tit Abbe 10. also here to prove that in respect of the Queen Lessee died before inrolment that the lease is not good for this purpose he vouched 24. E. 3. and the 11. E. 4. and the 7. H. 4. and 21. E. 4. that Chattels granted to the King shall go to the successor and not to the Executor and
the said resolution and he said that the case concerning parcel of the land contained in S. the Deed come in question in Parliament in the 43. Eliz. and it was then commanded that the Deed should be inrolled and also he compared it to a case put in Shelleys Case that the heir shall have land as by discent from his father although that the conveyance be not inrolled in the life of the father also he said that the Queen dieth not as to her body politick to the third point he said that the confirmation need not to be inrolled for it passeth nothing and is but a bare assent and therefore differeth from the case of Patron and Ordinary and of a disseissee for the disseisee hath right to grant end the Patron and Ordinary have interest in R. but Bishops are seised in their own right and therefore their lease wants the approbation only of the Dean and Chapter and he vouched Cook lib. 3. the Dean and Chapter of Norwiches Case and the writ of Sine Assensu Capituli in the Register proveth it for the tit confirmation pl. 30. observes and Littleton in the end of his chap. of discontinuance saith that a parson may charge the Gleab by the assent of the Patron and Ordinary and the opinion of Brook in the case of the 33. of H. 8. tit confirmation pl. 30. agreeth to this opinion and so are some opinions in the 7. H 4. fo 15. 16. and he said that this point was adjudged accordingly in the first of Ma. but he had not the record thereof and therefore he would not insist upon it and he vouched 1. and 2. of Ma. Dyer fo 106. and Cook lib 6. fo 15. Hodges Case that the acceptance of the Patron is good enough to make a confirmation to the fourth point he said that the confirmation was good notwithstanding it be before the inrolment of the lease for the lease shall stay his operation until all the Ceremonies be used for the perfection of the estate and he vouched Littleton fo 122. and 6. E. 6. Dyer fo 69. where a parson made a lease to commence after his death the Patron and Ordinary in the life of the parson confirmed it and this is good and he vouched also Anne Maiowes Case Cook lib. 1. where the father confirmed the sons grant when he had but a possibilitie and yet good and he vouched Dyer 2. 3. Eliz. fo 194. where a grant was incertain and the inception was before the confirmation after makes it good and therefore he said if disseissor and disseissee bargain land although it be but a confirmation of the disseisee which may be well enough without inrolment of the Deed by a bare delivery yet this shall hinder the operation until the inrolment of the Deed which should pass the estate from the disseisor and by Cook lib. 5. Fitz. Case it appeareth that one part of the assurance shall stay his operation until another part hath his perfection and therefore he concluded that here the confirmation in judgement of Law should stay his operation until the lease be inrolled which passed the estate see the argument of Serjeant Nichols to the contrary and also the argument of Thomas Crew in Easter Term and Trin. 7. Jac. Pasch 7. Jac. in the Exchequer Catesbies Case Pasch 7. Jac. in the Exchequer TAnfield chief Baron said that in the year 31. Eliz it was adjudged in Goar and Peers Case if Tenant for life infeoffe A. and his heirs to the use of the feoffee and his heirs during the life of the feoffor that this is a forfeiture because these words during the life of the feoffor shall be but to the use limited and he put the case which Serjeant Nichols put at the Bar of the Lady Catesby which was that a man suffered a recovery to the use of William Catesby and Anne his wife and of the longer liver of them and of the Executors of William for forty years if one Elizabeth Catesby should so long live William Catesby dies and the reversion came to the King by forfeiture and he pretended that Elizabeth Catesby being dead the estate is also determined in regard that these words if Elizabeth shall so long live refer to all the estate but Curia avisari vult It was said by the chief Baron that if a man plead a deed in writing and the other partie do not pray Oyer the same Term he shall not have Oyer in another Term in the Common Pleas but in the Kings Bench Oyer shall be granted in another Term. It was found by office that Elizabeth Bowes was convicted of Recusancy in 35. Eliz. and that a lease for years was made unto her in the year 36. Eliz. in trust and that she had conveyed this lease over according to the trust and a question was demanded if the King shall have this term or not for her Recusancy and it seemed that he shall because she is not capable nor lyable of any trust and therefore the conveyance made by the Recusant was as if it had been without any compulsion by reason of the trust If a Coppiholder of the Kings Mannor pretendeth prescription for a Modus decimandi against the Parson the right of Tithes shall be tried in the Exchequer and a prohibition was granted to the Ecclesiastical Court in this Case Owen Ratliff was lessee for years of the King rendring rent and he assigned his Term to Sir Thomas Chichley in trust for payment of the debts of the said Owen Ratliff and after the Debts were paid Chichley resigned it but in the interim between the assignment and the resignment divers rents incurred to the King and the Barons agreed that these arretages in Law may be levied upon the land of Chichley notwithstanding the trust but because the Court was informed that the Executors of Ratliff had assets and continued farmer of the farm at that time they compelled him to pay it and being present in Court they imprisoned him untill payment made and allowed him his remedy by English Bill against Chichley and that by the agreement Chichley was to have paid the rents to the King The Earl of Cumberlands Case IT was found by diem clausit extremum after the death of G. Eearl of Cumberland that King E. 2. gave to the Lord Clifford inter alia the Mannor of Skipton in Craven to him and to the heirs of his body and found further the discent in a direct line until the time of H. 6. and that the first Donee and all others to whom it descended were seised prout lex postulat without determining any estate in certain in the Donee and they found that H. 6. by sufficient conveyance concessit Revertionem nec non manerium de Skipton in Craven to Thomas Lord Clifford to whom the estate given by E. 2. was descended and his heirs by force whereof the said Thomas was seised prout lex postulat and found the discent to the
but otherwise it should be if an express confirmation was requisite in the case for then it had not been good and this difference is where the parties who confirm have an interest and where they have only an assenting power and this is well proved by 29. H. 8. Dyer 40. the Dean of Sarums case and by Cook lib. 5. 81. and 33. H. 8. tit confirmation Thirdly it seemeth that the bare returning of the Commission without an express inrolment is no sufficient matter of Record to intitle the King to the lease for it is without inrolment no more but an acknowledgement and the Deed ought to be of Record to pass the estate 7. E. 4. fo 16. but he agreed that if the Commissioners return an acknowledgement of a debt this is sufficient to make a debt upon Record 2. H. 7.10 but if Commissioners by a dedimus potestatem to take Conizance of a fine receive the Conizance of the fine and return it yet it is not a fine until the final Concord be recorded Cook lib. 5. Tayes case and so here it is no record until the inrolment Fourthly in regard there is no inrolment in the l●fe of the Bishop and so no perfect leale in his life this can never be good for this circumstance of inrolment is as requisire to the essence is the attornament is to the grant of a reversion and is causa sine qua non for the successor of the Bishop comes in paramount the Lessor as the issue in tail comes in partly by form of the guift and this is proved by the writ of de ingressu sine assensu Capituli in the. Register and therefore if the Bishop make a lease and dieth this leale cannot be affirmed after his death by the Chapter 33. E. 3. entry Congeable 79.11 H. 7. and yet a lease made by the Bishop is not altogether void by his death as it appears in Cook lib. 3. in Pennants case and he compared this case to the case of Smith and Fuller in Plowden where if a lease be made for so many years as A. shall name the years ought to be named certainty in the life of the Lessor for otherwise it is not good clearly and so here the Lessee ought to come in by the Bishop who was Lessor or otherwise this is no good lease and it cannot be so in our case because it wanteth inrolment to make it a lease in the life of the Bishop Fifthly he said the inrolment after the death of the Lessor shall not have relation to make the lease good for the Queen takes nothing until the inrolment made and therefore all is but words until the inrolment and it differeth much from the case of a bargain and sale for in such case an use passeth at the Common Law before any inrolment and this may relate well enough if the Deed be inrolled after within 6. moneths for the Statute of the 27. H. 8 of inrolments doth not hinder the relation for the words are that nothing shall pals by the bargain except the Deed be inrolled c. so that if the Deed be inrolled in due time it passeth from the beginning well enough but otherwise it is in our case see the 12. H. 4. fo 12. so a fine cannot relate but from the recording thereof for nothing passeth but by the Record and it doth not relate as a bargain and sale c. and as to the exceptions taken to the Bar he said that notwithstanding them the plea is good for it shall be intended the same writing which the information mentions and it is not like to Mary Dickensons case Cook lib. 4. fo 18. where the Plantiff alledged that the Defendant published a forged writing in discredit of the Plantiffs utle and the Defendant said quod talis Indentura qualis c. this doth not answer the Declaration for no like is the same but in our case the Bar cannot be better for the information is that by writing he demised c. and the Bar is that well and true it is that the Bishop by his certain writing made purporting a demise which he pretended to be no demise in fact and if he should say in express words as the information ought to be then he should confess the thing which is matter in law and ought not to take a Traverse to the demise alledged because it is a matter in Law if it be a demise or not to the second exception he said that he needs but to answer the express surmise of the information which is that two Commissioners c. and the Bat is expressy that they did not c. without speaking any thing that the other Commissioners did do any thing as if an action of accompt be brought and the Plantiff saith that the Defendant accompted before A. it is a good plea that the Desendant did not accompt before A. for though peradventure he accompted before another but this shall not be incended so the Bar is good He accepted to the information First it doth not mention within what time the first lease was intolled for the words are modo irrotulat Secondly the information saith not that the deed of confirmation was ever sealed but that the Chapter with their seal c. and saith not sealed and then it is not good wherefore upon all the matter it seemeth that judgement ought to be given against the King Snig Baron that the Bar is good and also the information first it seemeth that here is no Record to intitle the King to this land by the lease from the Bishop for if this deed which purporteth a lease made by the Bishop were found by inquisition to be acknowledged yet it is no sufficient Record 7. E. 4. and 5. E. 4. for the title of the King ought to be by the Record immediately from the party who makes the estate and Mr. Stamford is to be considered that if the King hath an antient right he may peradventure be in actual possession without Record but if he cometh in as a purchaser he shall not have without a Record and this is proved by the case of the Duke of Somerset in 19. Eliz. Dyer and Mackwilliams case in 3. Eliz. and be said that as to the relation if a man seised of a Mannor bargaineth it to me and rent incurreth before the inrolment I shall not have the rent although the Deed be inrolled within 6. monehts after and so of a condition and if a reversion be granted and before attornament of the Tenant the rent incurreth the grantee shall not have the rent notwithstanding any relation as to the point of confirmation he vouched the case of Patrick Arch-Bishop of Dublin in Ireland cited in Dyer also he vouched Dyer fo 105. and by these books it seemed that in this case a confirmation is required to be made and a bare assent is not sufficient and therefore if an incumbent make a lease for years and the Patron grants the next
avoidance and after confirms the lease here the lease is not good in respect the next avoidance interrupts it for his life but after the death c. the term will be good as it was here lately adjudged and so he thought that in this case the confirmation is not good and also that the Commission not being returned is not good and after one of the Commissioners die before the return it cannot be recurned and by the inrolment here made the lease cannot take his effect with any relation and so be concluded that judgement ought to be given against the King Tanfield chief Baron the Commission for the acceptance of the acknowledgement of the Bishop touching that it is to be known whether this makes it the Deed of the Bishop and that the Commissioners should return c. the confirmation in this case was made in the life of the Bishop Lessor and of the Queen Lessee although that some of my brethren conceive the Record to be otherwise also in this case Dimock entred by vertue of his lease before the inrolment of the lease made to the Queen as the Record purporteth to the points First I conceive that nothing resteth in the Queen without inrolment but if Lessee for years be outlawed the King shall have this lease by the outlawry for the outlawry is intended to be upon Record but of a wardship for land that is not in the Queen by the death of the Queens Tenant without an office because there is no matter of Record if an Alien hath a lease of land this is forfeited yet he shall have personal Chattels and as to the Book of 18. E. 3. cited on the other side where the King brought a quare impedit c. this may be well agreed for the Prior of Durham confessed by Record that he had made a grant and this is a sufficient Record and as to the book of 20. E. 4. where the Patron was outlawed and before the outlawry the Church became void that the King shall present it may be well agreed although that no office be found for this presentation is but a thing personal and transitory and therefore those Books prove nothing in this case Secondly he said that when this lease was acknowledged before Commissioners yet that was not sufficient to make a record to intitle the King and it is here expresly denied in the Bar that this lease was certified into the Chancery in the life of the Queen and therefore he thought that here was no Record to intitle the Queen and to this purpose he cited a case in 19. Eliz. Robins and Greshams case if a Recognizance were acknowledged before a Master of the Chancery and not inrolled this is no Reco●d and an Action of debt lieth not thereupon and the 34. Eliz. in Brock and Bainhams case in this Court a Recognizance was taken before a Baron of this Court yet this was no Record without inrolment and therefore the bare acknowledgement in our case is no Record also he denied the opinion of Davers in 37. H. 6. to be Law but only for personal Chattels and the 12. Eliz. Brook and Latimers case was adjudged against the opinion of Davers for land or leases Thirdly he said that the successor of the Bishop comes in paramount the lease made to the Queen and the new Lessee entring before any inrolment hath made the successor of the Bishop as in his remitter and when an antient right comes this prevents the relation which otherwise might be by the inrolment and he said that the first lease here made to the Queen is meerly dead until inrolment and he vouched the 11. E. 4. fo 1. Vactons case the discontinuor enters upon the discontinuee after the discontinuee dieth his heir within age the discontinuor dieth this causeth a remitter and so by him if the disseissee enter upon the heir of the disseissor being an infant and dieth this avoids the descent by reason of the antient right which the disseissee had and by 7. H. 7. and 11. H. 7. Eriches case it appears that an Act of Parliament will not revive a thing that is meerly dead by reason of any inrolment and much more here an inrolment cannot revive this lease which is meerly void by the death of the Lessor and the entrance of the Lessee of the Bishops successor and there is a great difference betwixt the inrolment in this case and the inrolment of a bargain and sale in regard that the sale is dead before the inrolment and yet in the case of bargain and sale it was adjudged in the Common Pleas Pasch 2. Jac. in Sir Thomas Lees case called Bellinghams case that if a man bargain land to A. and before inrolment of the Deed A. bargaines the land to B. which second bargain is inrolled this inrolment makes not the bargain good to B. for the relation of the first is only to perfect and make good the conveyance to A. from all incumbrances after his bargain but not to make the second Deed good which was void before also in 36. Eliz. in Sir Thomas Smiths case if the Bargainee suffer a recovery before the Deed inrolled yet that doth not make the recovers good and he said that in this case until an inrolment of the lease made to the Queen there is no Lessee and a lease cannot be without a Lessor and Lessee and before an inrolment of the lease the Lessor is dead so that there never was a Lessor and Lessee in life together and therefore the inception of this lease was altogether imperfect before the consummation came and so it leemeth by him that the death of the Bishop Lessor intervening before the inrolment is the principal cause that the first lease is not good as to the 4 th point of confirmation it seems to me in regard that the Bishop was seised in right of his Bishoprick and the Dean and Chapter have no interest in the land so that an assent is only sufficient in this case it seems to me that the confirmation as you call it is good enough for it is clear that an assent may be aswell before the lease as after for it passeth no interest no more then an Attornment Cook lib. 5. Foords case proveth this diversity plainly and by the same reason also it seems to me that this assent of parties who have no interest is good enough without inrolment but otherwise it should be if a confirmation were required in the case and as to the pleading I think the Bar is good and as to the exceptions which have been made viz. if the lease supposed to be made to the Queen be answered and he said it was good enough for the purpose of the Defendant is to bring the matter in Law before the Iudges and the matter in Law is if it were any lease or not as the information supposeth and therefore the Defendant ought not to agree with the information for the matter in Law and
Slade and Morleys case a case was put which proves it to be according Snig Baron agreed that Iudgement ought to be given for the Plantiff and by Tanfield if I take your goods and detain them until I have caused you to pay me 10. l. a general Action of Trespass lieth and not an Action upon the case and it is cited 7. H. 4. or 7. E. 4. to be accordingly but yet he agreed that judgement should be entred and so it was appointed to be done but then Chibborn for the Defendant said that here is a mistrial for if this trust be not material because it is not effectually shewed in the Declaration as you have argued then the Venue shall come only from the parish where the Wares were laid upon the land and not from the parish also where the appointment or trust was made by the Plantiff and therefore the trial also being from both parishes is a mistrial and the Court agreed that this is a mistrial upon that reason for now the appointment or Trust is but an inducement and therefore needs not to be shewed within what parish it was made and therefore a new Venire facias was granted and upon that a new trial and damages more then before and judgement was given accordingly Arden against Darcie NOta a good case of Attornament which was decreed in the time of Baron Manwood betwixt Arden and Darcie and it was this one Arden was seised in fee of divers lands in the County of c. and made a lease for years and after made a feofment with words of Grant of those lands to A. and B. to the use of the feoffor and his wife for their lives the remainder to Arden his son in tail and after the feoffor said to the Lessee that he had conveyed his land which the Lessee held in lease to the uses aforesaid and the Lessee said I like it well and after he paid his rent to the feoffor generally and it was decreed in the Exchequer Chamber that this is no Attornament because the Attornament ought to be to the feoffees and it appeareth not that the Lessee had notice of the names of the feoffees and therefore it cannot be said to amount to an Attornament but notwithstanding that Decree Arden the same to whom the remainder was limited had his Action depending in the Kings Bench to trie the point again as he said to me also this Term a point concerning the said Decree was in question upon another Bill exhibited in the Exchequer Chamber by Sir Edward Darcie against Arden and the case was as followeth Sir Edward Darcie exhibited his Bill here in the nature of a scire facias against Arden to shew cause wherefore the said Edward Darcie should not have execution of a Decree made in the time of Baron Manwood and the Defendant shewed that Darcie in his first suit supposed by his Bill that he had a grant of the land then and now in question from Queen Elizabeth rendring rent as it appears by the letters Patents and in facto there was no rent reserved upon the Patent and that the Defendant gave answer to the said Bill and admitted the Iurisdiction of the Court and after a Decree was made against the Defendant and the Defendant now having shewed this special matter demurred upon this Bill in respect that by his pretence the Court had not jurisdiction to hold plea in the first suit and here it was shewed that the first decree was made upon a matter in Law not properly examinable by English Bill and that in facto the Law was therein mistaken and therefore the Defendant prayed that the decree may be re-examined Tanfield chief Baron it is usual in the office of Pleas that if an action be brought as a debtor of our Lord the King this is good although that de facto no suggestion be made thereof if it be not shewed on the other side and therefore a writ of Error for this falsity shall not cause the judgement to be reversed as it was resolved in a case in which I was of Councel and so here as it seemeth Altham Baron here we are in equity wherein we are not tied to so strickt a course as if it were in the office of pleas Brock of the Inner Temple for the Defendant in a Court of equity it is in the discretion of the Court to deny Execution of a decree if good cause be shewed and in 18. E. 4. fo 1. judgement was given against a married wife by the name of a feme sole and reversed although she did not shew in the first suit that she was married and in 8. E. 4. judgement was given in the Kings Bench in a suit and by writ of error was reversed although the Defendant had admitted the Iurisdiction of the Court and the chief Baron and all the Court inclined that Arden may exhibit a Bill to reverse this Decree made against him and may shew what point in Law the Iudges mistook in the Decree or otherwise we should not do as Law and Iustice requireth for it is not expedient to be examined by way of Bar to this Bill in the nature of a scire facias and after Arden according to the Decree of the Court and their direction did exhibit his Bill in the nature of a writ of error Comprising how the first decree was erroneously made and prayed that the said decree might be reversed and in his Bill he shewed the point in Law which was decreed and that upon divers long conveyances appears to be thus and so it was agreed by Councel on both parties that Arden the father was seised of the Mannor of Cudworth in the County of c. and was also seised of the Mannor of Parkhal in the same County and of Blackclose c. which was parcel of the Mannor of Cudworth but lying neer unto Parkhal and alwayes used and occupied with it and reputed parcel thereof but in truth it was parcel of Cudworth and that Arden the father made a Conveyance of the Mannor of Parkhal and of all the lands thereunto belonging and reputed as parcel thereof or occupied with it as part or parcel thereof and of all other his lands in England except the Mannor of Cudworth to the use of Arden his son that now is Plantiffe here and if Blackclose will pass to the son by this conveyance or if by intendment it shall be excepted by the exception made it was the question here and was decreed in the time of Baron Manwood that it is excepted by the exception but all the Barons now thought it to be a strong case that Blackclose is not excepted by the exception of the Mannor of Cudworth and so the first decree was upon a mistake out of the Law and Tanfield chief Baron said that the point is no other but that I infeoffe you of Blackacre parcel of the Mannor of D. exceyt my Mannor of D. this doth not except the King
Heir except that judgement be given against the Ancestor and for that see 40. E. 3. Executors 74. and 41. Ass pl. 15. and 15. Eliz Dyer 322. And also if a Recusant had been convicted upon the Sat. of 23. Eliz. and dyed before judgement cleerely this forfeiture shall never be charged upon the Heir for the words are that a Recusant shall forfeit 20. l. a moneth and if he doe not pay it then appoints the recovery by Bill Plaint or Information and this ought to be alwaies in the life of the party then the Stat. of 28. Eliz. maketh not a new debt or Forfeiture but gives a penalty for the non-payment of that which was a debt within 23. Eliz. and that the intent of the Stat. of 28. Eli. was but such this is proved by the Title of the Act. viz. for the more speedy and due execution c. 2. It is proved by the first words of the Act for the avoiding of all delaies c. so that it appears that this Act is but as a penalty meerly Also he said that this Stat. of 28. Eliz. dispenceth with the conviction as to the penalty but doth not take away the Conviction also he said that conviction without Iudgement maketh not a Debt Also he who is convicted by proclamation and dieth is discharged Also he said that our Case hath been compared to a Debt upon an Obligation but this is not like for the Stat. stands not indefinite but hath reference to 23. for otherwise a Recusant may be doubly charged that is upon both the Statutes for there is no means to recover the Debt but by this Statute of 23. Eliz. See Sir Edward Walgraves case Dyer 231. Wentworth and others against Stanley WEntworth and his Wife and Rich and his Wife brought an Ejectione firmae against Stanley and shewed in their Declaration how one Edward Stanley was seised in Fee and infeoffed the Earl of Darby others to the use of himself for life the remainder to the use of the Plantiffs wife for 100. years and died and the Plantiffs entred and the Defendant ejected them c. and this Feofment was made in 40. Eliz. the Defendant saith that long before one Richard Stanley was sesed in Fee and gave it to the said Edward Stanley in tail and that he so seised made a Feefment to the uses as is alledged and died and the Plantiffs entred and the Defendant as issue of the Feoffor re-entred and so by his pretence his is remitted whereupon it was demurred and upon the opening this case the Barons were clear of opinion that the issue in tail is remitted and came paramount the lease and so the lease for years is gone also by the chief Baron and Baron Snig there needs no Traverse to be alledged by the Plantiffe because it was but of a fee gained in an instant by the feofment of a Tenant in tail and a fee-simple gained in an instant needeth not to be Traversed 5. H. 7. and 2. E. 4. wherefore the Court said that judgement ought to be given against the Plantiffs but yet at the desire of the some the Court gave day to the Councel on both parts to argue the case at which day came Heneag Finch for the Plantiffs and he argued to the matter in Law and therein he said that by the feofment of Tenant in tail the use to himself for life the remainder to his daughters for years without limiting the residue of the use that in this case the residue of the use shall be in the feoffes and not in the feoffor for by him there is a difference between a feofment by him who had a fee with limitation of an use as above and a feofment made by him who derives an estate out of a fee for when Tenant for life or Tenant in tail makes a feofment and limits an use for part of the estate as above there the residue of the issue shall be to the feoffee and he vouched Castle and Dods case adjudged in the Common Pleas 8. Iac. that if Tenant for life grant over his estate without limiting of an use it shall be to the use of the grantee more strong here in a tortious act as our case is but if Tenant in tail will levy a fine with limitation of uses as above there the residue of the use shall be to the use of the Conusor Secondly admit that the residue of the use in this case shall he to the feoffor yet he shall not be remitted to the use as it seemeth the words of the Statute of 27. H. 8. are that cestuy que use shall have like estate in the land as he had in the use and therefore it is clear that the first taker of the use shall not be remitted as it is resolved in Amy Townsends case in Plowden and although the words of the Statute mention not heirs or issues yet by the intent of the Statute they are in equal degree but the Books which are against this opinion are two viz. 33. H. 8. Dyer fo 51. but there it is not expresly said that the issue is remitted but 34. H. 8 Br. remitter 49. is expresly against me but the same year in Dyer fo 54. it is there made a quere and in Bevils case it is only said that the first taker of the use cannot be remitted but of my opinion was Baldwin and Shelley in 28. H. 8. Dyer 23 24. and in Sanages case and 29. H. 8. it is resolved that if a man hath land by Act of Parliament there shall be no remitter and so here wherefore c. and he said if Tenant in tail be the remainder in fee and Tenant in tail makes a feofment to the use of himself in tail the remainder to him in remainder in fee in this case he in the remainder in fee shall not be remitted for then the first taker should be remitted to the pleading it seemeth that the bar is not good and first the general demurrer here doth not confess the matter of fact no more then in Gawins case in 29. H. 8. fo 40. by Brown a demurrer upon account in an appeal is no confession of the fact and in 44. Eliz. in Crisp and Byrons case accordingly see Sir Henry Browns case before a good case to this purpose then as to the Bar it seems it is not sufficient for want of a Traverse of a seisin in fee alledged in the feoffor who was Edward Stanley for it is a rule that two affirmatives cannot be allowed in a Declaration and the Bar without Traverse of that which is mentioned in the Declaration is not good except there be cause of some impossibilitie or inconvenience but yet this is to be understood where the affirmatives are express and not by implication as in Moiles case if the Defendant in his Bar confess a fee determinable he needs not Traverse the fee alledged by the Plantiffe but in our case here is an allegation made by the
purpose as to the avoiding of the Benefice but his want of privitie availeth to excuse him of being Simoniacus yet because he is Simoniace Promotus the presentation is void and the King shall have it by the expresse words of the Statute and therefore as it seems if in this Statute there had been an expresse saving of the interest of the Incumbent by reason of his innocency yet such a saving of Interest had been void and repugnant in respect that it was expresly given to the King before as it is in Nichols case in Plowden upon the Stat. of 1. H. 7. See 1. Mar. Dyer and 7. Eliz. Dyer 231. such a saving doubted if it be void and in Cook lib. 1. Altonwoods case a saving Repugnant to the expresse words of the Premisses is void and so in our Case the Presentation is given to the King expressely and therefore if there were a saving in the words subsequent this were void much more in our Case where there is no saving And to prove that by the Symonie in the Patron that the Patron shall be prejudiced he vouched 42. E. 3. fo 2. It goods be given to B. by A. this is by fraud in A. to the intent that he may defraud another although B. is not knowing of this friend yet the gift is void as to him 34. E. 1. Title Garranty accordingly and Burrells case Cook lib. 6. upon the Statute of 27 Eliz cap. 4. to the same purpose To the second matter it seems that by the Queens death her Presentation is determined cleerely and so in case of a common person for if an Admission c. should follow after the death of the Presentor this is without any Authority of the instrument of Presentation for although there were no Admission there is no Presentation and he said that the Presentation passeth no interest but is as a Commendation and therefore he compared it to the Case of Say and Fuller in Plowden Com. If a Lease be made for so many years as a stranger shall name there ought to be certainty of years appointed in the life of the parties or otherwise it will be void and in 38. E. 3.3 If a Bishop present and die before c. Now the King shall present anew and also there it appears that the King may present by Paroll well enough and so it is said in 34. E. 3.8 tit Quare impedit 11. That a Presentment made by the Bishop becometh null and void by his death and therefore it appeareth in Fitzh Office of Court 29. that licence to alien granted to the King is void by the Kings death there needeth no actual Repeal or recital of the new presentation yet I agree that the King may make an actual repeal if he will as it appears by divers cases which have been cited before but that is of necessity to be done and as it seems the words of the Statute 6. H. 8. prove that before this Statute a second Grant made the first void without actual repeal in case where the thing passed by the Grant and by 38. E. 3. fo 3.4 it appears that a second Presentation made by the King was good without a repeal of the first and by Gascoigne 7. H. 4.32 if the King make a Presentation to one and then presents another without recitall or repeal of the first yet the Bishop ought to receive the latter Presentee for it is good without actual repeal wherefore judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff Snig Baron said that as the Action is brought judgement ought to be given for the Plaintiff but if the Plaintiff had brought a Quare impedit peradventure I should have been of another opinion And as to the point of Symonie by the Civill Law it was punishable by deprivation and the guilt of the Patron should prejudice the Parson as to matter of Commodity in the Parsonage and at the Common Law if the Parson will pleade such Presentment he should be prejudiced as appears by our Books and hereby the incumbency the words of the Statute will not be satisfied for then the Queen should not Present if an usurper present and the Presentee is in by six moneths this gives Title of Presentation to the King against the rightfull Patron also it seemeth That if I. S. hath an Advowson and A. purchase the next avoidance to the intent to present B. and the Church becomes void and A. presents B. this is Symonie by averment as by good pleading the Presentation of B. shall be adjudged void To the second Point in respect that the Plaintiff had the possession by induction it is no question but he may retaine a possessorie Action for the Titles But if it were in a Quare impedit it would be materiall whether a Repeal should be in the case or not according to the Presidents in the Booke of Entries fo 303 304 305. for if a Licence be Granted to purchase in Mortmaine this may well be executed after the death of the Queene as it appeareth by Fitzherberts natura brevium expresly and so in Dyer a license of Transportation doth not cease by the Kings death 7. H. 4. in the Countess of Kents case it appears when the King makes a grant which is void yet there shall be no new grant without an actual repeal but it seems we are out of the intent of the Statute of 6. H. 8. because the words during his pleasure are not in the grant or Patent and so upon the whole matter judgement shall be given for the Plantiffe Tanfield accordingly the case is that the Defendant had prioritie of the possession of the Corn for which the action is brought and yet it seems judgement ought to be given for the Plantiffe and first as this case is here is Simonie by the Civil Law and the partie had his benefice by Simonie although he be not conusant thereof Secondly admit that here was not Simonie by the intendment of the Civil Law yet the Statute hath made an avoidance of the benifice in this case although it be not Simonie for the Statute speaks not one word of Simonie throughout the Act and yet by express words it doth avoid such presentations as this is and as to the Civil Law such benefice is to be made void by sentence declaratorie but it is not void ipso facto as it seems in the case where a common person was consenting to the Simonie but the text of the Civil Law sayes expresly that the Church ought not to be filled Corruptivè or by corruption and the Civil Law expresseth such a person as is in our case by Simoniace promotus and calls him who is particeps criminis Simoniacus and he who is Simoniacus is by the Civil Law deprived not only of the benefice ipso facto but also is deprived to be a Minister and adjudged guiltie in Culpa et poena Petrus Benefieldus a late writer of good authoritie saith that if a friend
false the Patent is void although it hath these words Ex certa scientia et mero motu and so is 18. Eliz. Dyer 352. where the Patent was ex certa scientia et mero motu c. but there Dyer held that this falsitie in the matter of Recital did avoid the Patent notwithstanding the words ex mero motu c. but he held it otherwise if it were in a consideration which is faise for at that time the point of falsitie in matter of consideration for 100 l. to be paid although it be much contraverted in our Books and it seems in what place soever of the patent it appears that the King is mis-informed deceived in any matter material or concerning his own estate in the thing to be granted that that will dictate the Patent and therefore 17. Eliz. the Queen seised of the Mannor of D. grants all her purpartie of the Mannor of D. if in this case a Common person had granted by such words the Mannor had passed but in the Queens case it will be a void grant because a thing which she intended to pass cannot pass in such plight as she conceived it viz. as a purpartie and 36. Eliz. the Queen granted all her portion of Tithes c. although she had a Parsonage there yet it doth not p●●s for this manner of Appellation implies that the Queen was mis-informed and not well instructed of the thing to be granted and therefore void see Cook lib. 4. in Bozuns case Ex certa scientia et mero motu c. doth not help it also if the King recite that whereas he had such land by the attainder of I. S. where in truth he had it not by his attainder now although that he grants this land Ex certa scientia et mero motu yet this will not pass but if the King be not deceived in the point of intitling himself but in the deducing of his title that will not prejudice the Patent as if the King recite that whereas I. S. had land by descent from his father and he grants it to the King and the King doth re-grant the same to I. S. this grant is good notwithstanding that I. S. had it not by descent from his father see the Lord Lovels case in Plowden that if the King be deceived only in the point of mis-conveyance the Law will not avoid the Patent as if be grant to one and his heirs born at D. the last words are void and the grant is good Pasch 42. Eliz. it was agreed that if the King be Tenant for life or years and makes a lease for one and twenty years this lease is void to all intents against the King because it appears not in the grant what estate the King had and by that lease the King conceived that he had power by his estate to make an absolute lease whereas legally his lease ought to determine by his death so by implication it is manifest that the King was not well instructed of his estate 39. Eliz. the Queen leased for twenty one years to begin whensoever the land should fall in possession by the expiration of any former lease then in being if in that case there were no precedent lease then in being this lease will be void for these words implie that the Queen conceived her former lease to be in being and so impliedly she is deceived in her intent in like manner in the principal case the Queen was deceived in her intention for the recital is that all the estate which Potter had is come to the Queen by surrender and in truth all the estate is not come unto her in respect of a mean estate to Wilkinson c. as to the second point it seems the consideration being that he did assume to new build implies asmuch as if he had said he faithfully promised and then it is all one as if it had been for that that he shall build for it is a consideration executory and is of value and then the not performance thereof vitiates the Patent and the estate was as if it had been by a limitation to cease and these words that he did assume upon himself cannot be construed to any other intent but unto an executory consideration because the King hath no remedy by way of Action for the breach of this promise and it cannot be conceived that the Covenant is satisfied in giving securitie for it is observable that the Covenant is but the ordinary Covenant viz. to repair and keep repaired and so a Trivial reparation will satisfie that but it appears that the Queens intent was not to make the lease for such a petty consideration because the Lessee had undertaken at his own charges to new build the Mills but the express Covenant doth not binde him to the new building of them and in 6. Eliz. the like lease was made of the Mannor of Lidlescourt to Customer Smith and the lease was for that that he assumed that he at his costs would c. and he avoided his lease upon a former lease made to A. of the premises and in truth the lease formerly made to A. was meerly void upon the making of this lease though perad venture the condition may be good and the consideration performed but the Queen was not well instructed of her title also in this case the lease to Hitchmore is not determined by a condition as it hath been objected but it ceaseth and is determined by a limitation and this may well enough revest in the Queen without entrie or office because it was but a Term and such words purporting an executory consideration in the Queens case implies as much as if in case of a Common person it had been said expresly to cease upon an act not performed for in the Kings case the Law speaketh and if so then the lease for years is void and the Patentee may enter without office and all considerations executory in leases made by the King amount to a conditional limitation and then he who will have benefit by such a lease ought to aver the performance of the consideration as if a man declare upon a lease made unto him c. if I. S. should so long live he ought to aver his life in the Declaration because it determines by limitation at his death but otherwise it is upon a condition if a Parson make a lease for years the Lessee must aver the life of the Parson because by his death the lease ends by a limitation implied but otherwise it should if it were upon condition for the performance of that needs not be averred but that ought to be shewed on the other part and so it seemeth that as wel for the point of falsitie in the recital as also in the not performing of the consideration that the lease is void and the Plantiffe should have judgement which was entred accordingly Snig Baron was of opmion against all the other Barons and he held that
declares the use to be to himself for life and after to T. B. with power of revocation and to limit new uses and if he revoke and not declare then the use shall be to the use of himself for life and after to Henry Becket with power in that indenture also to revoke and limit new uses and that then the fine shall be to such new uses and no other and after 42. Eliz. by a third Indenture he revoked the second Indenture and declared the use of the fine to be to the use of himself for life and after to Hen. Becket in taile the remainder to I. B. c. R. B. dies and T. B. his brother and heire is found a Recusant and the lands seised and thereupon comes H. B. and shews the matter as above and upon that the Kings Atturney demurreth Bromley and Altham Barons that the Declaration of the uses made by the third Indenture was good and he having power by the first to declare new uses may declare them with power of Revocation for it is not meerly a power but conjoyned with an interest and therefore may be executed with a power of Revocation and then when he by the third Indenture revokes the former uses now it is as if new uses had been declared and then he may declare uses at any time after the Fine as it appears by 4. Mar. Dyer 136. and Coke lib. 9. Downhams case and in this case they did rely upon Diggs case Cooke lib. 1. where it is said that upon such a Power he can revoke but once for that part unlesse he had a new power of Revocation of Vses newly to be limited whereby it is implyed that if he had a new power to appoint new uses he may revoke them also Snig Baron to the contrary and said that he had not power to declare 3. severall uses by the first contract which ought to Authorise all the Declarations upon that Fine and then the Revocation by the third Indenture is good and the limitation void and then it shall be to the use of R. B. and his heirs and so by the death of R. B. it doth descend to T. B. the Recusant and also he said that such an Indenture to declare uses upon uses was never made and it would be mischievous to declare infinite uses upon uses Tanfield held that the uses in the second Indenture stand unrevoked and the new uses in the third Indenture are void and then H. B. ought to have the Land again out of the Kings hands The power in the second Indenture is that he may revoke and limit new uses and that the Fine shall be to those new uses and no others and then if there be a Revocation and no punctuall limitation he had not pursued his Authority for he ought to revoke and limit and he cannot doe the one without the other Also he said that after such Revocation and limitation the fine shall be to such new uses and no other then if there be no new uses well limited in the third Indenture the former uses shall stand void Nota it seemeth that if a man make a Feoffement and declare uses and reserve a power to revoke them without saying moe he cannot revoke them and limit new for the use of the Fine being once declared by the Indenture no other use can be averred or declared which is not warranted thereby for he cannot declare the fine to be to new uses when it was once declared before Cook lib. 2.76 That no other use can be averred then that in the conveyauce Cooke lib. 9 10 11. Although that the first uses are determined as if a man declare the use of a Fine to be to one and his Heires upon condition that he shall pay 40. l. c. or untill he do such an Act if the first use be determined the Fine cannot be otherwise declared to be to new uses And therefore it seemes that all the uses which shall rise out of the Fine ought to spring from the first Indenture which testifieth the certain intention of the parties in the leaving thereof and then in the Case above the second Indenture and the limitation of new uses thereby are well warranted by the first Indenture and in respect that this is not a naked power only I conceive that they may be upon condition or upon a power of Revocation to determine them But the power to limit the third uses by a third indenture after revocation of the second uses in the second indenture hath not any Warrant from the first Indenture and without such Warrant there can be no Declaration of such new uses which were not declared or authorised by the first Indenture which Note for it seems to be good Law FINIS AN EXACT TABLE of the Principall Matters contained in this BOOKE A. AN Action of false impriprisonment for taking his wife in execution she appearing as a Feme sole 48 52 An Action upon the Case for conspiring to outlaw a man in a wrong County 49 Amerciament for a By-law 55 An Action upon the Case where against a Servant for breach of trust much good matter 65 66 67 68 Amerciament where well levied by the Sheriff 74 Action by an Executor against a Sheriff in the debet and de●●net where good 80 81 Authority in fact and authority in Law abused a difference 90 Action for these words against I. S. spoken of the Plaintifs wife she would have out her husbands throat and did attempt to doe it 98 C. Custome for Pirates goods if payable 15 Coppy hold surrendred to the use of a younger Sonne he can have no Action before admittance 20 Churchwardens if elected by Vestry-men where good and capable to purchase Lands 21 Conspiracy see Action Collector of a fifteenth leviable upon one Township 65 Commissioners of inquiry and their power 83 84 D. DEbt against the Sheriff for an escape a good Case 20 Distresse for a By-law upon the Kings Tenant he must bring his Action in the Exchequer 55 Devise to the wife until the issue accomplish 18. years endeth not by death of the issue before 56 57 Decree where execution thereof may be stayed 68 69 E. ERror a Writ directed to an inferiour Court ought to be executed without fee paid or tendered 16 Elegit the party who sued it dieth no scire facias for the Heire 16 Equity where releviable in the Exchequer 54 Estreats where they may be discharged for insufficiency in the Indictment or not mentioning the offence 55 Estoppell in the Kings case 65 Exception in a Grant 69 Escape a difference where caused by a rescous and where by the Sherif or Bailif 70 71 Executor see Action 80 81 Erroneous judgement given in the Kings Mannor reversed in the Exchequer by Petition 98 F. A Feoffement to the use of the Husband and Wife for their lives and after to the heirs of the body of the wife begotten by the Husband what estate 17 First fruits ought
to be paid before induction 20 Forfeiture by Tenant for life by what Acts 38 Forfeiture by a contempt for not returning upon a command by Privy Seale and what and how long the forfeiture continueth an excellent Case 42 43 False imprisonment see Action Fine if void for uncertainty 55 Where it shall be directed by the Covenant ibid G. GRant of the King what shall be a good surrender thereof 1 And what shall be a good consideration therein 4 Where such a Grant is aided by 43. Eliz. cap. 1. ibid Grant by the King of a reversion nec non manerium de Skipton 39 I. INformation upon 3. 4. E. 6. for buying of Butter against two and one found guilty 19 An information against one for refusing to pay Impost for Currants a famous Case 23 An information for ingrossing 1000. quarters of Corne one Defendant found of 700. only 59 Informer where he shall have a moity upon 23. Eliz. but not upon 28. Eliz. against a Recusant 60 Judgement must be paid before a debt to the King 65 Judges if bound to take notice of a generall pardon 71 Injunction to enjoy possession no hindrance to him that claimeth Common therein 96 Information of intrusiion into a Close and for asportation of 9. Cart loads of wheat between the 24. of March and 1. of October the Jury found him guilty of 3. loads the 24. of March and dammages taxed for all no judgement can be given for any part 97 98 Indentures severall with severall powers therein to declare uses how to be expounded 118 119 K. THE King where he may extend for outlawry after alienation 20 The King where he may take without inrolment and what Acts amounts to an inrolment 31 35 60 The King where he shall have his rent of the Assignee in trust in the Interim before a reassignment made 39 The King where he may extend a Term conveyed in trust 50 51 The King shall not charge the successors of a Bishop for a subsidie but the Executor or the heire 51 The King where he shall be ordered in equity to perform a trust by an English Bill 54 King see Judgement 65 King what interest he hath by an outlawry 83 King where he shall have his debt of his Debtor or Trustee 91 King cannot distrain the Cattell of one Tenant in Common for the debt of the other 96 97 King may charge the debtor of his debtors Debtor 112 113 L. LIvery and seifin of Lands in 2. Towns by Letter of Atturney countermanded by livery in one by the Lessor himself 97 Livery if it can be made upon the Queens Lessee 114 M. A Memorandum in the Exchequer and the operation thereof 5 Misnomer of a Corporation where it voids a Grant 15 33 Mistriall and a venire facias de novo awarded 68 Misnomer of a Corporation 35 N. NOtice of an use or promise maketh a man lyable to execute the same 60 Notice see Judges 71 Notice of payment upon a condition ought to be givea to an infant 100 101 O. OYer of a Deed must be demanded the same Term in the Common Pleas but otherwise in the Kings Bench note the diversity 39 Outlawry in Northumberland for a debt in Durham if the King or the Bishop be intitled 90 P. PAtent of Denization what words therein make it conditionall 58 59 Patent where void for false recitall or want of consideration 75 76 and 108 109 Pleas before a Justice of Nisi prius what allowable and what not 81 82 86 Plea discontinued for want of a day given 89 A Parliament pardon the debt being agreed withall relates ab initio 118 R. A Remainder where contingent 22 Rent where it must be demanded and where not 56 57 Record what makes a double matter of Record to make the party sue by Petition 58 59 Recusancie see S. Remitter in what cases 93 94 c. Recusant if chargable for lands bought in trust and if seisible after his death and if liable by 1. Jacobi 104 105 S. THe Statute of 43. Eliz. cap. 1. well expounded 5 c. The Statute of 33. H. 8. cap. 39. well explained 51 Simony in what Cases and excellent matter thereof 71 72 100 Statutes of 23.28 Eliz. and 1. Iacobi expounded concerning Recusants 91 92 Surrender where countermandable 99 Statute of 1. Ed. 6. of Chantries and the meaning thereof amplie debated by the Barons 113 114 T. TIthes where due for Head-land 16 Tithes where discharged by unity of possession 17 Traverse where good 18 Trust where a Recusant convict is capable thereof 39 Tithes a prescription therein for the Kings Coppyholder it must be tried in the Exchequer 39 Trust where forfeitable 54 55 The tenth according to the Statute leviable only upon part of the lands out of which c 56 Tenorem platiti or Tenorem recordi as good as Recordum praedictum 83 A trust in a Term by the Wife belongs not to the Husband after her decease 113 V. USes where fraudulent against a Purchasor 22 Venire facias de Vicineto of a forrest 33 Vses see Indentures 118 119 A Catalogue of LAVV BOOKES and such as appertain to the LAVV. AShes Tables 2. Volumes Folio Ashes Tables to Cooks Reports Epeciea or table of equity Fasiculus Florum Arguments on the Writ of Habeas Corpus Assise of Bread Atturnies Guide Atturney of the Common Pleas. 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