being thereof so seised and the said Earle being also seised in fee of the said manor as these defendants thinke died thereof so seised by and after whose death the said tenements and premisses in the said bill mentioned descended and came to the said I. S. the sonne as sonne and heire of the said I. S. deceased who is yet within the age of one and twentie yeares by meanes wherof the said Earle after the death of the said I. S. the father as garden of the said I. S. infant during his minority by reason of the tenute aforesaid seised the bodie of the said I. S. the infant without that that to the said defendants knowledge the said I. S. the father being of the premisses seised in fee did in his life time conuey and assure the same premisses vnto certaine persons and their heires to the vse of the said I. S. of the said I. then his wife of the longer liuer of either of them without impeachment of wast and after their decease to the vse of the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten with diuers remainders ouer as in the said bill of complaint is vntruely alleaged or that to these defendants knowledge by force thereof the said I. S. and the said I. S. then his wife being thereof so seised died thereof so seised or that to these defendants knowledge after his death the said I. held her selfe in the said messuages landes and premisses and was thereof so seised accordingly by force of any such conueiance or that she being thereof so seised tooke to husband the said I. W. or that by force of the saide entermariage the saide I. W. and the saide I. to the knowledge of these defendants were so lawfully seised of the said premisses in the right of the said I. as in the said bill is alleaged And without that that to these defendants knowledge the said I. W. and I. haue the custodie of the said I. S. the infant rightfully belonging to the said I. as Gardein in Socage as in the said bill is likewise alleaged And without that that any deeds euidences and writings touching and concerning the premisses and of right belonging to the said infant or to one of them are casually come to the hands custody and possession of the said defendants other then such deedes euidences and writings as the said I. did deliuer vnto the said T. S. the one of these defendants which he the said T. about one yeare now last past or more vpon the receipt of the Queenes Maiesties writ of Subpena deliuered to I. L. late of H. Haull in the County of D. Gentleman to the vse of the said infant which as he remembreth was done by appointment or agreement of the said I. And then an other old deede or writing without date conteyning these words following or the very like in effect and meaning viz. Sciant praesentes futur̄ quod ego Io. filius Tho. de B. dedi concess hac praesenti charta mea confirmaui Duranto de Toxdwood pro homag ' seruitio suo pro quadam pecuniae summa mihi prae manibus soluta totam terram meam quae vocatur le Haule cliffe in territorijs de B. cum boscis pratis pascuis pasturis omnibus suis pertin̄ sine aliquo retento quae iacet integre in latitud ' int̄ viam quae ducit versus B. terram quam L. de L. quondam tenuit extendit se in longitudin̄ de meta de B. vsque ad terram Abbat̄ de R. terram quae fuit A. F. terram R. de le Scagh vna cum tota illa terra cum domibus edificijs in ea sitis cum omnibus suis pertin̄ quam R. de T. quondam tenuit quae iacet integre inter terra c. And without that any other matters c. A Bill to be discharged of a Recognisance for the sauing of landes solde harmelesse for that a lease made thereof by which he seemeth to be dampnified was either made in trust or by surrender before the said bargaine with an answere replication and reioinder to the same bill COmplaining sheweth vnto your honorable Lordship Geor. Earle Sect. 120. of Shrowsbury that whereas Sir W. S. knight Lord M. deceaced in his life time about nine yeares now past was lawfully seised of an estate of inheritance amongst other lands and tenements of the third part of the scite mansion house of the late dissolued Abbey Monastery or Priory of B. in the county of L. and of all and singuler messuages houses edifices buildings orchards gardens fishings ponds lands tenements meadowes pastures commons hereditaments with the appurtenances to the said scite belonging then late in the occupation of F. S. afterwards in thoccupation of one M. and the said Lord M. being thereof so seised about the xvi day of December in the vii yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lady the Queenes Maiesty that now is of speciall and secret trust confidence by him the said Lord M. reposed in one W. S. of M. in the county of S. gentleman M. his wife or of one of them did make an Indenture bearing date the xvi day of September in the said vii yeare of a demise of the said third part of the said scite lands tenements and hereditaments with the appurtenances to the said W. S. and M. his wife to haue to hold the same vnto the said W. S. and M. from the decease of K. T. of S. for and during the terme of xxi yeares then next ensuing as by the said Indenture appeareth And deliuered the said Indenture to be deliuered as his deed when the said W. S. had performed certaine conditions agreements betweene them made vpon which Indentures made by them it was neuer intended nor agreed that the said W. S. and M. his wife or their executors or assignes or any of them should take any benefit to them but that the same lease should be surrendred and at all times disposed at the pleasure of the said Lord M. by force whereof the said W. S. and M. were possessed of the interest of the said terme accordingly and being thereof so possessed And the said L. M. being seised of the said R. of the third part of these tenements premisses of an estate of inheritance afterwards that is to say the xviii day of May in the xii yeare of the Raigne of our said Soueraigne Lady the said Lord. M. by Indenture bearing date the said day and yeare did bargaine and sell the said third part of the said premisses among other things to one I. C. of C. in the county of S. Esquire and F. S. of S. in the said County Gentleman and their heires for euer by which last recited Indenture the said Lord M. for him and his heires did couenant and grant to and with the said I. C. and F. S. and either of them that aswell the said I. C. and
ad quoddam vastum vocat̄ Blackdowne super M. in com̄ S. in articulis praedict ' specificat̄ personaliter accedatis vastum que illud superuideatis ac tam per depositiones testium quam alijs vijs modis medijs quibus melius sciueritis aut poteritis diligenter inquirat̄ quantum inde ad manerium de H. quantum inde ad manerium de W. in Comit̄ praedict ' pertinere debeat superinde limites bundas metas diuisas inter vnum alterum quantum ad vnum quantum ad alium maneriorum praedictorum pertinere vobis constare poterit poni faciat̄ limites examinationesque testium predictorum recipiatis in scriptis redigatis omnesque alias depositiones testium ante hac examinat̄ minumenta scripta recorda transcripta territoria chartas ac alias euidentias quascunque per partes in articulis praedict ' specificat̄ coram vobis exhibend ' acceptetis inspiciatis Et super hoc materiam in articulis praedictis specificat̄ iuxta sanas discretiones vestras finaliter si poteritis determinet̄ Sin autem nos in Cancellar̄ nostra de omni eo quod inde feceritis in quindena Sancti Michaelis prox ' futur̄ vbicunque tuncfuerit sub sigillis vestris distincte aperte reddatis certiores remittentes nobis articulos praedictos vna cum praesentibus Teste c. A Commission directed to the Lord deputie of Ireland and the Lord Chauncelour with others for the hearing and determining of a Title of Lande ELizabeth by the grace of God c. To our trustie and right well beloued Sect ' 61. Sir H. S. Knight of the order c. Lord Deputie of our Realme of Ireland H. C. Archbishop of D. our L. Chauncelour there Sir I. P. knight chiefe Iustice of the Pleas there I. B. Esq chiefe Barou of our Eschequer there F. A. Esquire one of our priuie Counsell there I. D. Esquire second Iustice of our chiefe Bench there R. F. Esquire our Serieant at the Law there and L. D. Esquire our Solicitor there Know ye that for certeine considerations vs thereunto mouing and of our meere motion and for the great confidence and trust we haue in your fidelities circumspections prouidences and wisedomes we haue deputed ordeined aucthorized appointed constituted giuen graunted and by these presents do depute ordeine aucthorize constitute appoint giue and graunt vnto you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be alwaies one full power iurisdiction and aucthoritie to hold plea heare determine discusse decree and finally to iudge of all and singuler actions debates strifes quarrels rights titles and demaunds whatsoeuer they be aswell reall as personall which by plaint supplication or bill to be exhibited or otherwise by any maner of meanes else shall or may appeare or come before you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be alwaies one of for and concerning the interest right title demaund and possession of two parts or moities of all those landes c. with the appurtenances in the Countie of D. within the said Realme of Ireland to be by O. D. late of c. I. D. widow F. D. M. D. D. D. gentl ' and sonnes to R. D. late deceased and R. D. Nephew to the said F. M. and D. or by any of them seuerally or iointly or any two iii. iiii v. or vi of them against C. S. alias H. Lord of H. within our said Realme of Ireland and all and euery other person or persons which shall claime from by or in the right of the said Lord or in his or their owne right or rights or by any meanes else whatsoeuer it be which he or they claime to haue to the said moities of the two parts of the said lands c. with the appurtenances aforesaid geuing and graunting and by these our Letters patents we do giue and graunt vnto you or to any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number we will that c. be alwaies one full power iurisdiction and aucthoritie to call before you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be alwaies one at such times and places according to your good discretions which vnto you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will c. be alwaies one and to cause the said Lord H. or any which claimeth in his or their owne right or rights or by any waies or meanes els whatsoeuer any interest right title or possession in the two parts or moities of the said lands c. with their appurtenances aforesayd or any parcell thereof to answere reioine and ioine issue or otherwise pleade as the cause matter shall require and vpon any plaint supplication action or suit whatsoeuer which shall be exhibited or come before you by the aforesaid D. D. P. P. I. D. F. D. M. D. and R. or by any of thē iointly or seuerally or any ii iii. iiii v. or vi of them of and concerning the said two parts or moities of the sayd lands c. with their appurtenances aforesaid Giuing and graunting and by these presents we do giue and grant vnto you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be alwaies one full power iurisdiction and aucthoritie according to your wisedomes discretions and prouidences to call before you all maner of witnesses and to examine all charters euidences muniments writings euery other thing els which may be a meane to proue fortifie disclose or make euident the interest right titles demand or possession of any of the aforenamed parties to the said two parts or moities of the said lands c. with their appurtenances aforesaid and vpon the same throughly and with mature deliberation and iudgement considered and waighed we do giue and grant vnto you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number we will that c. be alwaies one full power iurisdiction and aucthoritie to proceede to the full order decree definition sentence and finall iudgement according to your discretions of the interest right title demand and possession of the said two parts or moities of the said lands c. with their appurtenances aforesaid and to decree the possession of the premisses to him or them to whom of right it ought to appertain and his or their said possessions to maintaine And if any of the parties afore named or any other person or persons which shall haue to do in the same matter or cause do wilfully or obstinately withstand or disobey any processe order decree sentence or iudgement which shall he directed or giuen in the premisses by you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number we will that c. vt supra be alwaies one Then we
will and commaund you and by vertue of these our Letters patents giue full power warrant and aucthoritie vnto you or to any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number we will that you c. be alwaies one to commit him or them to prison there to remaine till his her or their conformities shall be therein had willing commaunding you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will c. be alwaies one that at such times places as to your discretions or to the discretion of any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number c. be alwaies one shall seeme fit and conuenient diligently to attend applie and with speede put in execution the effect of this our Commission so as the complainants before named or any of them which shall haue to do therein may not haue iust cause to make further complaint for delay or want of Iustice willing and commaunding you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will c. be one to admit no dilatorie exception to any supplication or supplications bill or bils of complaint exhibited or to be exhibited before you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which number we will that c. he alwaies one or otherwise to the ouerthrowing of this our Commission But according to our meaning herein to proceed and to go to the full hearing ordering decreeing iudging and determining of the right title and demaund of the parties aforesaid of for and concerning the premisses and euery part and parcell thereof and accordingly to decree and iudge as to equitie and right shall appertaine any act statute law prouision or ordinance to the contrarie thereof notwithstanding And therefore fayle you not as you tender our fauor for if our sayd Subiects O. D. P. P. I. F. M. D. and R. D. should be put from such triall of their right to the premisses as by this our Commission we haue prouided for them Their disabilitie and want of riches wealth friendship and alyance considered and of the other part the said Lord of H. their aduersarie being throughly furnished of all those things and withall being a Lord by byrth and of great calling and aucthoritie and inhabiting within the said Countie where the said lands c. do lye our said subiect should be in perill and danger to be without remedie at our common Lawes there which were no small mischiefe to them The premisses considered we haue graunted this our Commission according to the tenor aforesaid And further we will and commaund you and by vertue hereof giue full power and aucthoritie vnto you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be one that after the right interest title and demaund decreed adiudged and determined as is aforesaid that you haue consideration vnto the hinderance losses and damages which the Complaynants or any of them as is aforesaid haue had and susteyned by reason of the wrongfull deteyning of the possession of the premisses and the said damages by you as is aforesaid taxed and extracted thereof to cause a full execution and satisfaction to be had and made vnto the said complainants and euery of them as is aforesaid And for the better putting in execution of this our Commission we will and commaund the Shirife of that our said County of D. and all other our Officers for the time being to whom in this case it shall apperteine that they and euery of them be attendant vpon you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which we will that c. be one for thexecuting fulfilling and doing of all and euery act acts thing or things as shall be by you or any viii vii vi v. iiii or iii. of you of which be alwaies one commaunded limited or appointed In witnesse whereof c. Hauing hitherto in some sort shewed the writs of Commissions and course of proceeding in Chancerie suits It seemeth needefull now to expresse what Bills of complaint Answeres Replications Reioinders and Surreioinders be with diuers formes thereof according to the causes of suit ¶ What a Bill of Complaint is A Bill of Complaint is a declaration in writing shewing the Sect. 62. plaintifes griefe and the wrong which he supposeth to be done vnto him by the defendant and what damages he 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 sion thereof praying processe against him for â—edresse of the same as may appeare by many examples hereafter following whereupon Hostiensis hath these verses Quis quid coram quo quo iure petatur a quo Recte compositus quisque libellus habet And first the matter of euery bill ought to be true Secondarily the same matter ought to be layd downe therein plainely and certeinly in euery circumstance of the thing person time place maner of doing other accidents And thirdly the same ought to be sufficient in Law both for the forme thereof and for the matter that it be such as is examinable in this Court which being otherwise may be dismissed thence THe direction of all Bills in the Chancerie must be at the toppe Sect ' 63. thereof And when there is neither Lord Chancelor nor Lord Keeper it is thus To the Queenes most excellent Maiestie in her highnesse Court of Chancerie In most humble maner complayning sheweth vnto your most excellent Maiestie your most humble and obedient subiect H. C. c. And when there is a Lord Keeper as at this time thus To the Right honorable Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England And when there is a Lord Chancelor then thus To the Right honorable Sir C. H. knight Lord Chancelor of England Their other titles of honor may be also added in the said direction but they are not much necessarie What an Aunswere is AN aunswere is that which the defendant pleadeth or sayth in Sect ' 64. barre to auoid the plaintifes bill or action either by confession and auoiding or by denying and trauersing the material parts thereof And the title of such aunswere is thus The Aunswere of A. B. defendant to the Bill of complaint of C. D. complainant But if there be many defendants then thus The ioint and seuerall aunsweres of A. B. and C. D. defendants to the bill of complaint of E. F. complainant An aunswere is called in Latin Exceptio quae dicta est quasi quaedam exclusio quae interponi actioni cuiuscunque rei solet ad excludendum id quod in intentionem condemnationem iure deductum est Vlpianus What a Replication is A Replication is the plaintifes speech or answere to the defendants Sect. 65. answere which must affirme and pursue his bill and confesse and auoide denie or trauerse the defendants aunswere And note that the plaintife ought to replie the next Terme after that the defendant hath aunswered else may
day and vnder a certaine paine by your good Lordship to be limitted therein to stand to c. A bill contayning that the plaintife taking vp of a Mercer vpon his credit Silks and Veluets put his hand to the debt booke of the parcels of the said Silks and Veluets witnessing his debt for the same and afterwards the plaintife for the better securitie of his saiddebt made him a bill of his hand for the same debt and that the plaintife afterwards at the desire of the Mercer procured his eldest brother to become bound to the saide Mercer for the payment of the plaintifes saide debt vpon the Mercers promise to take no aduantage thereof vntill after the death of the plaintifes father Afterwards the Mercer dyeth intestate and the administration of his gods is committed to R. A. by a practise of the Mercers creditors The administrator bringeth an accion of debt against the saidplaintife vpon his said bill of debt and also threatneth to sue the plaintife and his brother vpon the said booke of parcels and the bond and then sheweth that he tendred the debt to the Administrator who refused the same and so prayeth proces To the Right Ho. Sir Io P. Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth vnto your Ho. Lordship Sect ' 144. your daily Orator T. D. Gentleman That whereas your Orator being of late seruant in houshold to the right Ho. Sir C. H. Knight of the most noble order of the Garter deceassed late Chancellor of England hauing then small maintenance from I. D. of D. in the Countie of C. Esquier his father did make his estate knowne to one N. B. of London Mercer now deceassed being your said Orators very neere kinsman who was content to giue your said Orator credit for diuers parcels of Silks and Veluets at sundrie times amounting in the whole to the somme of 22. l or there abouts for the which your Orator did subscribe his hand to the debt booke of the said N. B. wherein the said parcels of Silks were set downe vnder the same parcels witnessing the said debt And at an other time after that your saide Orator did seale and deliuer vnto him a bill of your Orators hand for his better securitie of the payment of the said debt And afterwards because your Orator was but a yonger brother the said N. B. desired your Orator to procure his eldest brother P. D. sonne and heire apparant of the saide I. D. for the better securitie of the said debt to become bound to the said N. B. by Obligation for the payment of the said debt promising neuerthelesse to take no aduantage of the said Obligation nor to put the same in suite during the life of the said I. D. whereupon the said P. D. at your Orators request did become bound to the said N. B. by Obligation accordingly and your Orator did then seale and deliuer to the said P. D. his brother a Counterbond to saue him harmelesse from the said Obligation So as the said N. B. by the seuerall meanes aforesaid had three seuerall kinds of assurances or specialties for one and the selfesame debt that is to say his debt booke subscribed with your Orators hand a bill of debt sealed and deliuered vnto him by your Orator and an Obligation sealed and deliuered vnto him by the saide P. D. And now so it is if it may please your good Lordship that the said N. B. is lately deceassed after whose deceasse the administration of his goods and cattels is committed to one R. A. an vnknowne person that cannot be found whose name is but vsed by others in all vnconscionable suits For if it may please your good Lordship R. S. Alderman of London R. W. and F. S. pretending themselues to be creditors of the said N. B. hauing procured the said bill of debt and obligation to be set ouer vnto them haue thereupon not onely commenced suit in the Queenes Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in the name of the said R. A. as administrator of the goods and cattels of the said N. B. against your said Orator vpon his said bill of debt of 22. l but also do threaten to commence one other suit against your said Orator vpon the said debt booke and alike suit against the said P. D. vpon the said Obligation And albeit your said Orator haue diuers and sundry times offered and tendered to pay the said debt of 22. pound to the said administrator with such reasonable costs and expences as hath bin by him expended and bestowed in the said suit at the Common lawe and is ready to pay the same Yet neuerthelesse the said R. A. R. S. R. W. and F. S. do refuse to accept thereof And the said R. S. c. do very hotely prosecute the said suit at the commonlawe in the name of the said R. A. contrarie to equitie and conscience and do procure and cause the saide R. A. to absent himselfe so as your saide Orator cannot tell where to finde him to deliuer vnto him any proces to compell him to answere to his said vnconscionable dealing and yet the said suit at the Common lawe is still prosecuted in his name by the meanes and procurement and at the costs and charges in lawe of the said R. S. c. or by some of them who haue procured the said debts to be assigned and set our vnto them as is aforesaid In consideration whereof and for that it is against all conscience to take aduantage of the said treble assurances made for one selfesame debt And for that your said Orator is remedilesse therein by the due course of the common lawes of this realme and for that your said Orator is readie to pay the principall debt being 22. pound together with reasonable costs of suit May it therefore please your good Lordship to graunt vnto your said Orator the Queenes Maiesties most gracious writs of Subpena to be directed to the saide R. A. R. S. c. commaunding them and euery of them to appeare personally before your good Lordship in her Maiesties high court of Chauncery at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein to be by your good Lordship limitted then and there to answere to the premisses and to stand vnto and abide such further order and direction therein as to your good Lordship shall seeme to stand with iustice and equitie and your said Orator shall dayly pray c. A bill contayning that a Widow seazed in fee of three messes c. thereof enfeoffed diuers persons in fee for the performance of her last will and testament and by the same she deuised the said measses c. to her sonne in taile generall with diuers remainders ouer and dyed That the deuisee dyed hauing issue the plaintife That the feoffment and will is come to the defendants hands That by cullour thereof he hath entred and expulsed the plaintife and hath made diuers
plaint if went about to take the benefit of his extent to keepe Courts and vnderstand what lands and how the tenants held and what rents seruices they paid for the same but could not performe his purpose therein for the tenants the noble man had the Courtrowles in their keeping and the leasses rentals c. and would not let him see the same and that the noble man refused to suffer the plaintife to enter into the manors lands extended or to keepe any Courts and would not suffer the tenaÌ„ts to pay the plaintife any of the rents or seruices due for the same manors or to declare vnto him what the same rents and seruices were And then the plaintife prayeth that the tenants occupiers and farmors of the said manors may vpon their oathes bring forth their leasses declare what lands they hold and what rents seruices euery of them pay And that all the defendants may shewe to the plaintife the Courtroâ—les rentals books oâ— suruay field books terrars in their custodie and so prayeth proces against all the defendants To the Right Honorable Sir Christopher Hatton of the most noble order of the Garter Knight Lord Chancellor of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth to your good Lordship Sect. 149. your dayly Orator I. L. Citizen and Clothworker of London That whereas the Ho. Ed. Lord M. Baron of R. the last day of December in the 26. yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth before Sir Christopher Wray Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the pleas before her highnes to be holden did acknowledge himselfe to owe to your Orator the summe of MCC of lawfull english money by his recognizance in the nature of an estatute staple with a defeazance thereupon made for the true payment of diuers seuerall summes of money at sundrie seuerall dayes now long sithence past And whereas likewise the saide Ed. Lord M. was and stoode iustly indebted to your saide Orator in diuers other summes of money by ohter bonds as also by your Orators booke for diuers wares taken vp of your Orator for the vse of the saide Lord Mo. And whereas also Tho. P. Esquier brother of the said Lord Mo. stood indebted did owe to your said Orator other certaine summes of money for the paimeÌ„t wherof the said Lord Mo. did vndertake and did make to your said Orator many seuerall sundrie promises the which as yet he hath in no sort performed And whereas the said Lord Mo. at the time of the knowledging of the foresaid statute staple was lawfully seazed in his demesne as of Fee of in the mannors of H. W. A. B. with two faires twice in the yeare with one market holden euery weeke at H. aforesaid with the hundred of F. with euery of their appurtenances scituate lying being in the Countie of Norffolke and of and in the manor of H. with their appurtenances in the said Countie of Norffolke which said mannors other the premisses aforesaid the said Lord Mo. by lawfull assurance conueyance in the Lawe did bargaine sell conuey assure the same with all and euery their appurtenances whatsoeuer to one Tho. Lord of H. in the saide Countie of Norffolke Esquier and to his heires for euer by vertue of which conueyance and assurance the said Tho. L. was and is yet seazed of the saide seuerall mannors and other the aforesaid premisses in his demesne as of Fee And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was likewise seazed in his demesne as of Fee at the time of the knowledging of the saide statute staple of and in the mannors of S. M. and W. with the aduousons of Sw. Mo. and Wo. with their appurtenances in the Countie of Norffolke aforesaid which said seueral mannors thaduousons aforesaid the said Lord Mo. by like conueyance and assurance did conuey and assure the same to one Ed. B. late of D. in the said Countie of Norffolke Esquier deceased and to his heires for euer to the only vse and behoofe of the said Ed. B. his heires and assignes for euer by whose death T. B. sonne and heire of the said Ed. B. Esquier deceased was and yet is seazed of the said mannors of S. Mo. and Wo. and of the aduowsons of S. Mo. and Wo. in his demesne as of Fee And whereas the said Lord Mo. was at the time of the knowledging of the saide statute staple likewise seazed in his demesne as of Fee of and in the mannor of B. with the appurtenances scituate and extending into the Townes of N. M. c. in the aforesaid Countie of Norffolke which said mannor the saide Ed. Lord M. did likewise conuey vnto T. G. GentÌ„ and to his heires for euer to the only vse and behoofe of the said T. G. his heires and assignes for euer And whereas the said Edw. Lord Mo. was at the time of the saide statute knowledged and yet is seazed of and in the mannor of A. with the appurtenances in the said Countie of Norffolke in his demesne as of fee and being indebted to your said Orator as aforesaid your Orator made sundrie and diuers earnest requests for the getting of the said debt and summes of money aforesaid and your Orator being by the saide Lord Mo. promised to haue the said debts at diuers seuerall dayes yet none of them were performed or kept whereby your Oratour seeing no performance but was delayed from time to time your saide Oratour about two yeares sithence sued forth his seuerall writs of Extendi facias directed to the Sheriffs of Norffolke Essex Hertford Sommersetshire and Yorke and to the Chancellor of the Countie Pallantine of Lancaster for the extending of all the mannors lands tenements and hereditaments within the Counties aforesaid whereof the said Lord Mo. was seazed the time of the saide statute knowledged which writ directed to the Sheriffe of the said Countie of Norffolke was deliuered to one Clement Pastone Esquier then Sheriffe of the same Countie to be by him executed and returned acordingly By vertue whereof the saide Clement Pastone Esquier did by the Othes of a Iury sworne charged within the said Countie of Norffolke acording to the due course of her Maiesties lawes extend and appraise the saide seuerall maunors faires markets lands tenements all other the premisses with the appurtenances lying within the said Countie of Norffolke as in and by the saide extents remayning of record in this ho. Court of Chauncery and by the returne of the said Sheriffe with the seisure of the said seuerall mannors into the Queenes Maiesties hands to the intent they might be deliuered to your Orator in extent more at large it doth and may apeare After which inquisition extent and seasure so taken had made your Orator sued forth her highnes writ of Liberate bearing Teste the 4. day of February in the 30. yeare of her highnes raigne directed tothe said Sheriffe of Norffolke commaunding him thereby to deliuer
I. D. or confusedly included with other things or held as an estate at will these defendants are not assertained and if the plaintife did hold them without any lawfull estate made vnto him or lawfull estate continuing it had beene meete that the defendants or their predecessors had beene made acquainted of this manner of holding of them and that the possessions and reuenews should not be caried away vnderhand or enioyed by coulour of a lease when there was no lawfull lease to warrant it And had the complaynants then breâ—e so readie to further the defendants in their right and possession to the best of his indeuour as now he pretendeth to be this question had not hapned but now standing as it doth if the information of the saide I. D. made to the saide Deane and Chapter be not grounded vpon any matter of truth the said complaynant shall receiue no impeachment by it these defendants intending to hold the said I. D. to his Couent that by coulour of his graunt he shall not call in question any tenant of theirs which hold by any lawfull interest And if it be grounded vpon matter of truth these defendants hope that this honorable court will not giue further allowance to the complaynants pretended lease then the validitie thereof requireth Humblie praying further that if vpon this interpleading betweene the said T. B. and the said I. D. it shall appeare that the said T. B. holdeth that which he should not hold or the sad I. D. vpon any vndue surmise or suggestion to haue obtayned any thing not fit or not meant to be passed to him which these defendants carrying themselues in a plaine and euen course haue not so farre looked into neither do or can charge him so to haue dealt That these defendants might not be preiudiced against either of them but left at libertie to do that for the iust and reasonable benefit and auaile of their Church which in lawe iustice and equitie shall be seeming for them to do And further or more then this the defendants desire nothing without that that the complaynant hath to their knowledge any lawfull estate or interest in the premisses or hath sought or offred himselfe vnto their church in such sort as hee alledgeth And without that that the defendants by any quicks quillets or nicities in lawe haue sought to rifle into the estates of their Farmers And yet humblie desire that if the complaynants enioy any thing without good lease which is vnknowne to these defendants that he may not be set in better state against their church then his estate requireth but may be referred to their church of whose dealings he sheweth neither can shewe any cause to complayne without that that any other matter or thing c. All which matters c. A bill by one tenant in common of a mannor in the North parts to haue a commission to examine witnesses which be aged and impotent that their testimonies may remayne of record in perpetuam rei memoriam for proofe of the plaintifes title to the said mannor for that the Lord President and Counsell of the North parts haue not power to graunt any such commission To the Right Honorable Sir Tho. Bromley Knight Lord Chauncellor of England HVmbly complayning sheweth vnto your good Lordship your Sect. 169. dayly Orator C. P. of T. in the Countie of C. Esquier That whereas your saide Orator and one L. P. of C. in the County of C. be and stand or ought to be and stand seazed in common in their demesne as of fee amongst other things of and in the Mannor of L. with the appurtenances in the saide County of C. concerning the partition of which said mannor variance and contention in lawe is like to arise betweene your Orator and the saide L. at the common lawe And for as much as there be yet liuing diuers aged persons inhabiting about the saide Mannor which do very well knowe the interest and title of your saide Orator in and to the said mannor in forme aforesaid And for that if the saide witnesses being very aged and impotent and not likely long to liue should fortune to dye before tryall of your saide Orators estate and title of in vnto the premisses it might thereby be greatly blemished and your said Orator in time to come disinherited of his said nioytie of the saide mannor And for that the saide witnesses dwelling in the North parts of this Realme be so aged that they be not able to trauaile neyther before your Honor to be examined in her Maiesties high Court of Chauncerie nor to any other ordinarie place of Iustice where the title of your saide Orator might or may conueniently come in question and tryall by the due course of the common lawes of this Realme And for that the Lord President and Counsell established in the North parts within the precinct of whose Commission not onely the said Mannor but also your said Orator and the said L. P. do inhabit and dwell do not vsually nor cannot graunt any Commission for the examination of witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam although there be great cause in equitie to graunt the same It may therefore please your good Lordship the premisses considered to graunt vnto your said Orator the Queenes Maiesties most gratious Commission vnder the seale of this most honorable Court to be directed vnto some Gentlemen of credit dwelling in those partes as to your good Lordship shall be thought conuenient for the examination of such witnesses as by your saide Orator shall be produced before them and to certifie and returne the examinations of the saide witnesses together with the same Commission before your good Lordship into her Maiesties high Court of Chauncerie there to remayne of record ad perpetuam rei memoriam and to be published at such time as to your good Lordship shall be thought meete and conuenient And further to graunt vnto your saide Orator the Queenes Maiesties most gratious writ of Subpena to be directed to the saide L. P. commaunding him thereby at a certaine day and vnder a certaine paine therein by your Lordship to be limited either to ioyne in Commission with your saide Orator for the examination of the saide witnesses or else to shewe cause before your good Lordship why your saide Orator should not haue a Commission alone for that purpose and your saide Orator shall accordingly to his bounden dutie dayly pray to Almightie God for the long preseruation of your Lordships good health with increase of honor A bill of Complaint for detayning of the plaintifes Euidences for entring into Mannors and Lands and contriuing of secret estates To the Right Reuerend Father in God Stephen Bishop of Winchester Lord Chauncellor of England IN most humble wise complayning sheweth vnto your honorable Sect ' 170. good Lordship your daylie Orator T. M. Gentleman That whereas one P. M. elder brother to your said Orator was lawfully seased in his demesne as of fee
E. 3. Persons ciuilly dead as Friers Nunnes Monkes Channons professed and other like supersticious votaries who are in subiection to their Soueraignes 14. H. 8. 16. 2. R. 2. 5. Of couerture ANd therefore a feme couert within age ought not to leuie a fine Sect. 8. for that she cannot reuerse it during the couerture nor after if the couerture continue till she be of full age 50. E. 3. 5. 27. Ass pla 53. And a feme couert ought not to leuie a fine but with her right husband 7. H. 4. 23. 42. E. 3. 20. But a fine leuied by a feme couert without her husband of her owne landes wherein she hath fee simple is an estoppell against her and her heires if her husband auoid it not by entrie or otherwise as he may during his wiues life and after her death during his owne life as if he be tenant by the Curtesie 17. E. 3. 52. and 78. 17. Ass 17. 7. H. 4. 23. But if lyuing her first husband she take a second husband and with him and by his name knowledge a fine this fine shall not bind her because she is misnamed 7. H. 4. 22. and 23. Yet if she with her right husband by a wrong christian name leuie a fine she is estopped during her life â— Ass pla 11. Brooke Fines 117. A feme couert must beware how she with her husband do leuie a fine of her Iointure least she thereby lose her dower Trin. 19. Eliz. Dyer fol. 359. pla 49. Neyther ought the husband without his wife to leuie any fine of her lands for she and her heires may auoid it after his death 32. H. 8. cap. 28. 12. E. 4. 12. 42. E. 3. 20. Villeines ANd Villeines by knowledging such fines should preiudice their Sect. 9. Lords thereby bereauing them of the landes aliened for such fines be good Persons dead in law ANd fines leuied by persons ciuilly dead are vtterly void Sect. 10. Imprisonment ANd if men compelled by threatnings or inprisonment should be Sect. 11. admitted to leuie fines they should thereby be barred because the law intendeth such persons are at libertie when they knowledge fines 17. E. 3. 52. 78. 17. Ass 17. Of persons hauing ioint power PErsons prohibited to be Cognizors by reason of ioint power are Sect. 12. they that haue ioint power and aucthoritie with others as the single members of euery Corporation or Society As a Bishop without his Deane and Chapter A Deane without his Chapter An Abbot or Prior without his Couent A Parson Vicar Prebendary or Chauntry priest without their Ordinarie A Maior without his Cominaltie Masters of colledges without their Felowes And of other Societies incorporate may not leuie fines Plow 375. b. 11. Elizab. fol. 538. a 21. Eliz. 21. E. 4. 13. 11. H. 4. 68. 12. H. 4. 11. 12. 38. E. 3. 33. Plow fol. 538. a. 20. Eliz. Of the estates of Cognizors ALbeit euery fine be good to bind the parties yet for the validitie Sect. 13. of the fine it is conuenient that either the Cognizor or the Cognizee be seazed of the lands aliened 41. E. 3. 14. 22. H. 6. 13. For the fine is void if neither of the parties be seazed at the leuying thereof 41. E. 3. 14. 33. H. 6. 18. 3. H. 6. 27. 27. H. 8. 4. and 20. 37. H. 6. 34. 13. Ass p. 8. 3. H. 7. 9. 5. E. 3. 22. H. 6. 57. Yet the vouchee after he hath entred into the warrantie may leuy a fine vnto the demandant though in facto neither of them is seazed For such vouchee is tenant in law and may confesse the action because of the priuitie betweene him and the demandant But a fine by him so leuied to an estranger is void 8. H. 4. 5. 5. H. 7. 40. Persons attained or wayued in personall actions may alien by fine or otherwise for their estates remayne in them still though they thereby forfeyt the profites of their landes 9. H. 6. 20. 21. H. 7. 7. And persons attainted of Felony or Treason may not be Cognizors by reason that by their offences their estates be forfeyted But if they do their fines be good against all persons but the King and the Lord of whom the lands beholdeÌ„ for their times 8. Ass pla 25. for their estats remaine in them during their liues Also tenant for life may leuie a fine sur graunt releas of the lands which he holdeth for life to hold to the Cognizee for life of the tenant for life and it is no forfeiture 44. E. 3. 36. But if the estate were larger or the fine sur cognizance de droit come ceo que c. it were a forfeiture of his estate 4. H. 7. fol. The same law is of such sins by tenant in tayle after possibility tenant in dower or by the curtesie 39. E. 3. 16. But such fine of a reÌ„t seemeth to be no forfeiture 2. H. 5. 7. Yet a particuler tenaÌ„t as in dower by curtesie or for life cannot by fine graunt surrender their estates to thowner of the reuersion or remainder but may by fine graunt and releas the same 17. E. 3. 62. 24. E. 3. 26. 20. E. 3. and 14. E. 3. A tenant in commen or Iointenant may leuie a fyne of his part 26. H. 8. 9. So may a Coparcener of his part Dyer 334. plac 30. Pasch 16. Eliz. A fine leuied by the heyre who is an Intrudor vpon the kings possession is voyd per le Praerog cap. 13. 1. H. 7. 5. 24. E. 3. 65. But if such fine be leuied without intrusion it bindeth the Cognizor and his heires 1. H. 7. 5. If a disseisor leuie a fyne with proclamation and the disseisee within fiue yeares after do not enter or caime he and his heires be barred for euer Plowd fol. 353. 11. Elizab. inter Stowell Zouch Also fines may be leuied by the tenant in taile general or special And by tenant in fee simple And by tenant in remainder or reuersion ¶ Hauing thus passed the capacities and estates of Cognizors let vs haue consideration how they may be named How Cognizors are to be named TOuching the names whereby parties to fines ought to be named Sect. 14. for so much as names be to no other end inserted into fines and other writings then that it may be certeinly knowen who be the parties thereunto it is requisite that they be certeinly named by their right names of baptisme and surnames whether the same be King Prince Duke Marquesse Earle Vicont Baron Lord or Knight which be names of dignitie some of which are sometimes named without their Surnames as Georg. Comes SalopÌ„ without his surname IoheÌ„s Dux LancastrÌ„ or he be an Esquire or Gentleman which be names of worship nobilitie and honor 14. H. 6. 15. 21. E. 4. 84. Whose addicions neuerthelesse of curtesie are communly vsed in fines as Io. Byron Miles H. D. armig T. L. generÌ„ Or if he be a â—eoman
F. S. their heires and assignes as all the said manors and tenements by the said Indenture to them bargained and sold at the ensealing and deliuery of the same Indentures were discharged exonerated or saued harmelesse and from thencefoorth at all times and from time to time hereafter for euer should be discharged exonerated acquited or saued harmelesse by the said W. Lord M. his heires executors or administrators of and from all and singuler giftes grants leases charges and incumbrances had made granted or suffered in or to the premisses or any part or parcell thereof by the said Lord M. or by any other person or persons whatsoeuer other then the said estate of the said K. S. late Dutchesse of S. and certaine other things in and by the said Indenture excepted as by the said Indenture appeareth For performance of which couenant of the said Indenture the said Lord M. Eagle the second day of Iune in the said xii yeare became vounden vnto the said I. C. and vnto one M. S. of I. L. in the County of B. Esquire by recognisance knowledged in this high court of Chancery in the summe of two thousand pounds as thereby appeareth And shortly afterwards that is to say about sixe yeares now last past the saide K. late D. of S. died and the said I. C. and F. S. entred into the manors tenements and premisses with the appurtenances and were and yet be thereof seised in their demesnes as of fee by force of the said conueyance and the profits thereof arising and comming to their owne vse tooke and yet doe quietly so take the same without any interruption let or trouble of the said W. S. and M. his wife and their assignes and euerie other person or persons according to the couenant true intent and meaning of the said Indenture of bargaine sale And afterwards that is to say about fiue yeares now last past the said Lord M. for the summe of sixe thousand pounds or thereabouts did bargaine and sell to the said Earle and his heires the manor of B. in the County of Yorke and diuers other lands and tenements in B. and other places in the said County by force whereof the said Earle was thereof lawfully seised in his demesne as of fee and the issues and profits thereof arising and growing did quietly take and conuert to his owne vse from the time of the bargaine during all the life time of the said Lord M. W. S. which was by the space of three yeares after the death of the said Dutchesse or thereabouts And afterwards that is to say about fiue yeares last past the said M. died since whose death the said I. C. M. S. F. S. T. H. D. W. M. and I. T. And the said M. late wife of the said W. S. and executrix or administratrix of the said Will as the saide Earle is informed by the agreement and priuitie of Ed. Lord Morley and the Lady Elizabeth his wife daughter and heire of the saide Lord Mount Eagle hauing gotten into their hands the said Indenture of demise albeit that the said T. performed not the conditions and couenants betweene him the said Lord M. amongst themselues did conceale and frustrate the saide trust reposed by the saide Lord. M. in the saide W. S. and M. or the one of them to the intent to extend the saide Recognisance of two thousand pounds vpon the saide manor of B And such other lands and tenementes as the saide Earle hath purchased of the said Lord M. contrarie to the good meaning of the said Lord M. contrarie to the great trust and confidence by him reposed in the said W. S. and M. his wife and the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease And for that purpose haue procured the said estate and interest of the said W. S. and M. of the said third part to be conueied to the said M. to the intent that the said W. M. should enter into the said third part so leased as is aforesaid to disturbe the possession of the said C. and F. S. which he hath done accordingly to the intent that therby the said I. C. M. S. might haue some colour to extend the said Recognisance of two thousand pounds aginst yâ— said Earle notwithstanding that the said I. C. F. S. euer since the entrie of the said M. haue quietly occupied the said demised third part yet do quietly occupy the same not hauing had any damage thereby to the value of xii d by reason of the said lease All which notwithstanding if it may please your good Lordship the said M. S. F. S. and I. C. haue procured execution of the Recognisance of two thousand pounds to be sued against the said Earle by proces out of this honorable Court according to the forme and effect of the said recognisance for that as they suppose the said third part is charged with the said lease thereof made to the said S. and his wife and assigned by the said S. to the said W. M. who by force thereof hath entred into the said third part and disturbed the possession of the said I. C. and F. S. and their assignes And for that by meanes therof the said manors lands and tenements to them bargained and sold by the said Lord M. in forme aforesaid were not saued harmelesse by the said Lord M. or his heires of and from all and singuler leases had made or granted of the said manor and other the premisses mentioned in the said Indenture of Bargaine and sale according to the forme and effect thereof which said practise and compact is much against the said trust and meaning of the said Lord M. reposed in the said W. S. and M. â—is wife and against the true meaning of the said Indenture of lease Recognisance tending to the great losse and damage of the said Earle and against all right equity and good conscience if the said purpose should not be equity and consideration of this honorable Court be preuented and mette withall In consideration wherof and for so much as aswell the said trust touching the said lease as the said compact and agreement amongst the said parties to extend the said Earle his said lands by reason of the said Recognisance by matters secretly agreed vppon amongst themselues the said Earle not knowing any witnesses which were present at the making thereof so that the said Earle can very hardly make such proofe in this honorable Court thereof or of the said conditionall deliuerie of the said Indenture as is necessary in the behalfe vnlesse the said parties or some of them will confesse the same in their answeres vpon their Oathes in this honorable Court as the said Earle verely thinketh they will And for asmuch also as it is very likely that the said Lord M. would neuer haue entred into the said recognisance of two thousand pounds for the performance of the said couenants of the said Indenture of bargaine and sale without making