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A35593 The Case concerning the office of clerk of the treasury, or keeper of the records of the Court of Common Pleas 1680 (1680) Wing C864; ESTC R20522 3,140 1

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THE CASE CONCERNING THE Office of Clerk of the Treasury OR Keeper of the Records of the Court of Common Pleas. IN the Act of Parliament made 15 Hen. 8. It is recited that George Roll was deputed and make Clerk and Keeper of the Records of the Common Pleas remaining in the Treasury by Sir Robert Brudenel then Chief Justice of the said Court. Which said Keeper or Officer and all and every Person Exercising the same Office have heretofore severally been made by the Chief Justice for the Time being and removed from the Office at the Admission of New Chief Justices at the Pleasure of every such Chief Justice And thereupon Enacted that Roll should enjoy the Office for Life by vertue of the Grant made him by the said Chief Justice notwithstanding Death or Removal of the Chief Justice Mich. 10 Car. 1. Sir John Finch was made Chief Justice and upon his coming into that Place by Indenture inrolled in the Exchequer Sir John Finch Covenants and Agrees that he will not grant any the Offices of Philizer Exigenter Prothonotarie Clerk of the Treasury or other Offices of that Court to any Person or admit any Person to the Execution of these Offices but only such as should be named by the King and his Successors And would admit and put in to Execute those Places such Persons as should be so named by the King Hillary Term 15 Car. 1. Sir John Finch was removed and made Lord Keeper and Sir Edward Littleton made Chief Justice of the Common Bench. But before his coming in by Indenture dated 25 January 15 Car. 1. made betwixt the Bishop of London then Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington then Under-Treasurer Trustees for the King and Sir Edward Littleton inroll'd in the Exchequer Reciting That whereas the King did purpose to make Sir Edward Littleton Chief Justice of the Common Bench Sir Edward Littleton did Covenant and agree That he being admitted to the Office of Chief Justice shall not or will not by vertue of the same Office grant or dispose of the Offices or Places of Prothonotaries Exigenters Philizers Clerks of the Warrants Clerk of the Kings Silver Clerk or Keeper of the Treasury Clerk of the Essoines in the said Court nor admit any Person to the Execution without the special Direction or Commands of the King And that he will from Time to Time grant and dispose all and every of the said Offices falling void to such Person or Persons as the King shall nominate and him and them according to the Custom of the Court shall and will admit and place Pursuant to these Agreements 10 Car. 1. and betwixt that and 16 Car. 1. there were not less than twenty Patents made by his said late Majesty of these Offices some in Possession some in Reversion as by the Records thereof appears and in every of these Patents express notice taken of the said Covenant and Agreement and a Command to the Chief Justice for the Time being to admit One of which Patents is to Lord John Berkley reciting That whereas George Duncumbe then held the Office of Clerk of the Treasury by the Nomination and Appointment of the Chief Justice Finch to hold so long as Chief Justice Finch should continue Chief Justice And that the same John Finch had agreed with the King or others for the King not to grant that Office to any Person or put any in without the King's Command and from Time to Time to grant it to such Person as the King shall name Then Grants the Office of Clerk of the Treasury to John Berkley Esq afterwards Lord Berkley for his Life to hold when it should fall void for his Life with all Fees c. And by the same Patent Names and Appoints him to the said Office And Commands by the same Patent as well the said John Finch then Chief Justice as every other Person that afterwards should be Chief Justice of that Court as the same should become void to admit the said Lord Berkley under the Chief Justice to that Office And that these Letters Patents should be to the said John Finch and every succeeding Chief Justice a sufficient discharge for their so doing Hill 16. Car. 1. Chief Justice Littleton is made Lord Keeper and the Kings then Attorney Sir John Banks is made Chief Justice In the Parliament then holden Petitions against these Patentees with the Schedule of them annexed is exhibited Patentees and their Councel all heard The Opinion of the Judges of the Kings-Bench and Barons of the Exchequer Sir John Brampston then Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Humphrey Davenport then Chief Baron are then taken under their hands and then The Lords in Parliament declare that the Rights and Priviledges truly incident to the Place of Chief Justice of the Common Bench should be restored and continued And do Unanimously resolve and order that these Offices naming the Office of Clerk of the Treasury do of right belong to the disposition of the Chief Justice for the time being And that the Grants made by Letters Patents were all Illegal and void in Law And further ordered that these Patents should be brought to the House In this Order and in the Opinion of the Judges concerning the Clerk of the Treasury it is expressed That the Office of Clerk of the Treasury is grantable by the Chief Justice for the time being to such persons as he shall nominate to continue only during the time he continueth Chief Justice Concerning one of these Offices The Office of Exigenter in the vacancy of the Chief Justices place granted by Queen Mary to one Colshall for Life in the Rep. of the Case in Dyer 175. The Resolution is in these VVords Quod ad Dominam Reginam Donatio Officii predicti nullo modo nullo tempore pertinet aut pertineat sed tantummodo ad Dispositionem Capitalis Justiciarii pro tempore existentis at incidens Inseparabilis ad personam dicti Capitalis Jusiciarii spectans Et boc Ratione Prescriptionis usus 2 Februarii 37 Car. 2. four days before his late Majesties death another Patent was granted to his Grace the Duke of Grafton consisting as the Lord Berkleys and the rest of the forementioned Patents did of two Parts 1. A Grant of the Office of Clerk of the Treasury to the Lord Duke for his Life 2. A Precept and Mandate to every person that after the then Chief Justice Jones removed should be Chief to admit the said Lord Duke or cause him to be admitted and to put and institute him in possessionem Corporalem Dicti officii And to grant and confirm it to him to be exercised by him or his Deputy And to hold it in as ample manner and form as John late Lord Berkley held the same Easter Term last was three years Chief Justice Jones who had put in Mr. Tench his Clerk of the Treasury was removed and Chief Justice Beddingfield came in and as Mr. Tench hath affirmed my Lord Duke and Mr. Tench applyed to Chief Justice Beddingfield and shewed him his Graces Patent Tench delivers him the Keys he is acquainted that his Grace had deputed Mr. Tench and Chief Justice Beddingfield re-delivers the Keys to Mr. Tench It is Probable that Chief Justice Wright and Chief Justice Herbert did the like Vpon Inquiry this Office was never granted by any Chief Justice by Deed or Writing but his admitting allowing or approving is all that is done No other Ceremony requisite From these Premises it Appears 1. That the Kings Grant to my Lord Berkley was Illegal and void and so resolved by the Lords in Parliament and the Judges 2. That the Office belongeth to the Chief Justice as inseparably incident to his Person And if inseparably incident he cannot be diffeised or dispossessed of it If he could 't is not inseparable 3. That the Patent to my Lord Berkley of this Office as well as the other Patents of the other Offices do not rely upon the Kings right but upon the Covenant and Agreement with the said Chief Justices to admit and put in the persons the King should nominate Else why in all these Grants is the Agreement mentioned and the Mandatory Clauses to the Chief Justices for the time being to admit put in Grant and Confirm 4. That by the Act of Parliament Indentures of Covenant Patents Opinions of the Judges and Resolutions in Parliament The Clerk of the Treasury ceaseth with the removal of the Chief Justice that put him in The words of the Act of the opinion of the Judges and Resolution are express herein And what other reason is there in the Patents for the Mandatory Clauses not only to the then present but to all and even the Chief Justice that afterwards should be to admit put in Grant and Confirm This shews that he is out by removal of the Chief Justice that admitted him in And must be new put in or else hath neither right or possession 5. Besides the possession of Offices do in Law follow the right and he that hath the right hath in Law the possession and cannot be disseised or dispossessed thereof without his own consent and at his election