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lord_n	daughter_n	marry_v	son_n	44,819	5	5.8094	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81194	A compendium of the laws and government ecclesiastical, civil and military, of England, Scotland & Ireland and dominions, plantations and territories thereunto belonging, with the maritime power thereof, and jurisdiction of courts therein. Methodically digested under their proper heads. By H.C. sometime of the Inner Temple.	Curson, H. (Henry)	1699 (1699)	Wing C7686A; ESTC R231895	237,927	672

was before the Conquest For in an ancient and Authentical Manuscript Intituled Authoritas Seneschalli Angliae where putting an Example of his Authority saith Sicut accidit Godwino Comiti Kanciae tempore Regis Edw ' antecessoris Willielmi Ducis Normandiae pro hujusmodi male gestis consilijs suis per Seneschallum Angliae adjudicatus forisfecit Commitivam suam In the time of the Conqueror William Fitz Eustace was Steward of England and in the Reign of William Rufus and Hen. 1. Hugh Grantsemenel Baron of Hinkley held that Barony by the said Office Of ancient time this Office was of Inheritance and appertained to the Earldom of Leicester as it also appeareth by the said Record Seneschalcis Angliae pertinet ad Comitivam de Leicester pertinuit ab antiquo That is that the Earldom of Leicester was holden by doing of the Office of Steward of England Other Records testified tha● it should belong to the Barony of Hinkley The truth is That Hinkley was parcel of the Possessions of the Ear● of Leicester for Robert Bellomont Ear● of Leicester in the Reign of Hen. 2 Married with Petronilla Daughter and Heir of the said Hugh Grantsemenel Baron of Hinkley and Lord Steward o● England and in her right was Steward of England And so it continued until by the Forfeiture of Simon Montford it came to King Hen. 3. who i● the 50th year of his Reign created Edmond his Second Son Earl of Leicester Baron of Hinkley and High Steward of England which continued is his Line until Henry of Bullinbrook So● and Heir of John of Gaunt Duke o● Lancaster and Earl of Leicester who was the last that had any Estate of Inheritance in the Office of the Steward of England since which time it wa● never granted to any Subject bu● but only hac vice and the reason was for that the Power of the Steward of England was so transcendent that it was not holden fit to be in any Subjects hands For the said Record saith Es Sciendum est quod ejus Officium est supervidere regulare sub Rege immediatè post Regem totum regnum Angliae omnes Ministros legum infra idem Regnum temporibus pacis guerrarum c. and proceedeth particularly with divers exceeding High Powers and Authorities which may well be omitted because they serve for no present use And albeit their Power and Authority have been since the Reign of Henry the Fourth but hac vice yet is that hac vice limited and appointed As when a Lord of Parliament is Indicted of Treason or Felony then the Grant of this Office under the Great Seal is to a Lord of Parliament reciting the Indictment Nos considerantes quod Justitia est virtus excellens Altissimo complacens aeque prae omnibus uti volentes ac pro eo quod Officium Seneschalli Angliae cujus praesentia pro administratione justitiae executione ejusdem in hac parte facien requiritur ut accepimus jam vacat De fidelitate strenuitate provida circumspectione indu●tria vestris plurimum c●nfidente● ord●n●vimus constituimus vos ex hac causa causis Seneschallum nostrum Angliae ad Officium illus cum monibus eidem Officio in hac parte debitis pertinentibus hac vice gerend ' accipiend ' exercend ' dantes concedentes vobis tenore praesentium plenam sufficientem potestatem authoritatem ac mandatum speciale indictamentum praedict ' c. So that it appeareth that this great Officer is wholly restrained to proceed only upon the recited Indictment And he to whom this Offic is granted must be a Lord of Parliament and his proceeding is to be Secundum Leges Consuetudines Angliae for so is his Commission And hereof you may read more at large in Coke's 3 Inst Chap. High Treason Also at every Coronation he hath a Commission under the Great Seal hac vice to hear and determine the Claims for Grand Serjeanties and other Honourable Services to be done at the Coronation for the solemnization thereof For which purpose the High Steward doth hold his Court some convenient time before the Coronation See a President hereof before the Coronation of King Richard the Second John Duke of Lancaster then Steward of England who in Claims before him was styled Tres Honourable Seignior Roy de Castile Leon Seneschalle d' Engleterre and held his Court in Alba Aula apud Westm die Jovis proximè ante Coronationem Quae quidem coronatio habita solemnizata fuit die Jovis sequente viz. 16 Julij Anno 1 Ric. 2. The first that was Created Hac vice for the Solemnization of the Coronation of Henry the Fourth was Thomas his second Son and upon the Arraignment of John Holland Earl of Huntingdon the first that was Created Steward of England Hac vice was Edward Earl of Devon When he sitteth by force of his Office he sitteth under a Cloth of State and such as direct their Speech unto him say May it please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England The style of John of Gaunt was Johannes filius Regis Angliae Rex Legionis Castellae Dux Aquitaniae Lancastriae Comes Derbiae Linconliae Leicestriae Seneschallus Angliae And in respect his Power before it was limited was so Transcendent no mention is made of this Great Officer in any of our ancient Authors the Mirror Bracton Britton or Fleta It seemeth they liked not to treat of his Authority neither is he found in any Act of Parliament nor in any Book Case before the 1st of Henry the Fourth and very few since which hath caused me to be the longer saith the Lord Coke in another place to set forth his Authority and due proceeding upon the Arraignment of a Peer of the Parliament by Judicial Record and Resolution of the Judges agreeable with constant Experience As the Peers of the Realm that be Tryors or Peers are not sworn so the Lord Steward being Judge c. is not sworn yet ought he according to his Letters Patents to proceed Secundum legem consuetudinem Angliae Co. 4. Inst. cap. 4. In Enditemene de Treason ou Felony ver● un des Pieres del Realm le Tryal est per s●s Pieres quel maner de tryal in Appel nes● grauntable per que depuis que cel Trial per ses Pieres est le proper Trial que appertient al piere del Realm quant sur Enditement de Treason ou Felony il ad plead d●rien culpable Veions l'order proces d●cest Tryal Appiert An. 1. H. 4. fol. 1. An 13 H. 8. fol. 11. que quant un Seigniour del Parlement serra arraigne de Treason 〈◊〉 Felony dount il est endite Le Roy pers●● Letters patents ferra un graunde sag● Seigniour d'estre de grand Senescha●● d' Engleterre pour le jour de l'arraignment qui devant le dit jour ferra precept a son Serjaunt d'Arms qui