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lord_n	earl_n	knight_n	sir_n	59,280	5	6.9270	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39466	An exact abridgment of all statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Carta until 1641 / by Edm. Wingate of Grayes-Inne, Esq. ; with a continuation, under their proper titles, of all acts in force and use, untill the year 1666, and alphabetically digested under apt titles ; whereto is annexed four tables directing to the several matters and clauses throughout the said statutes.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.; Manby, Thomas, of Lincolns-Inn.	1666 (1666)	Wing E906; ESTC R33346	579,794	810

be of as good force as the orignal record it self CLIX. The Justices Clerks may write out and enroll the said Records but shall not carry them out of their offices CLX No Fine or Recovery heretofore levied or suffered shall after exemplification be amended CLXI This Act shall not prejudice the heirs of Sir Edward Gray Knight Lord Powis or Sir Edward Herbert Knight his heirs or assigns or Henry Vernor or John Vernor Esquires their heirs or assigns concerning any fine levied or recovery suffered by or against the said Lord Powis of Lands in the County of Mountgomery Nor to Henry now Earl of Kent concerning any lands in Wales whereunto he pretends title Walsingham I. Stat. 35 H. 8.13 The Demesne Lands in Walsingham belonging to the late Priory there may be let by Copy and shall hereafter be Copyholds Wapping-Marsh I. Stat. 35 H. 8.9 An Act for the Partition of Wapping-Marsh Wards I. Magna Charta 3. 9 H. 8.9 The Lord shall take homage of the heir within age before he have the Wardship and such heir after he hath been in ward shall at his full age of 21 years have his Inheritance without relief or fine and if the heir within age be made a Knight yet his Land shall remain in Ward untill his full age aforesaid II. Magna Charta 6. 9 H. 3. Heirs shall be married without disparagement III. Magna Charta 27. 9 H. 3. If any hold of the King by Fee-farm Soccage or Burgage and holdeth lands of another by Knight-service the King shall not have the custody either of the heir or land by reason of the tenures in Fee-farm Soccage or Burgage Neither shall he have the custody of such Fee-farm Soccage or Burgage except Knight-service be due to him out of such Fee-farm Also by reason of petty Serjeancy viz. to pay a Knife Arrow or the like the King shall not have the custody either of the heir or land IV. Merton 6. 20 H. 3. Where heirs are led away and withholden or married by their Parents and others with force against the Peace if a Lay-man be convict thereof he shall render to the party the value of the marriage and remain in prison until he hath satisfied the same if the child be married and besides until he hath satisfied the King for the trespass Howbeit this is to be understood of an heir within age of 14 years V. If an heir 14 years old or above marry himself without licence of his Lord to defraud him of the marriage and his Lord offer him reasonable and convenient marriage without disparagement the Lord shall retain the Land beyond the term of his full age until he may receive the double value of the marriage according to the estimation of lawful men or as was offered him before without fraud or collusion and as it may be proved in the Kings Court. VI. If Lords marry their heirs to Villains Burgesses or others whereby they are disparaged such heir being then within the age of 14 years In this case upon complaint of the Wards friends the Lord shall lose his Wardship and the profits thereof shall be by friends converted to the use of the heir But if it be 14 years old or above and consent to such marriage no pain shall insue VII Merton 7. 20 H. 3. If an heir of what age soever he be will not marry at the request of his Lord he shall not be compelled thereunto But when he is of full age he shall pay his Lord before he receive his land as much as any would have given the Lord for the marriage And that whether the heir will marry himself or not for of right the marriage of the heir within age pertaineth to the Lord. VIII Marlbr 6. 52 H. 3. Where any enfeoff their eldest sons and heirs within age of the Inheritance with purpose to defraud the Lords of their Wardships It is accorded that by occasion of any such Feoffment no chief Lord shall lose his Ward IX As for such as feign false Feoffments of their land which they would deliver out for term of years with purpose to defraud the chief Lords of their Wards in which Feoffments is contained that they are satisfied of the whole service due unto them until a certain time so as such Feoffees are bound at the said term to pay a certain sum to the value of the same lands or far above so that after the end of such term the land shall return to such Feoffors and their heirs because no man will be content to hold it at the price It is accorded that by such fraud no chief Lord shall lose his Ward Howbeit the Lords shall not disseize such Feoffees without judgment but shall have a Writ of Ejectione custodiae to recover the Ward And when by the witnesses to the Feoffment with other lawful men of the Country the value of the land and the quantity of the sum payable after the term it shall be tryed whether such Feoffments were made bona fide or by Collusion as aforesaid And if the chief Lords in such cases recover their Wards by judgment the Feoffees nevertheless may have their action to recover such term or fee which they had therein when the heirs come to their lawful age X. Where chief Lords maliciously implead such Feoffees feigning this ease when the Feoffments were made bona fide in such cases the Feoffees shall recover against the chief Lords their damages and costs and besides the Plaintiffs shall be punished by amerciament XI Marlbr 7. 52 H. 3. In a plea of Communi Custodia if the deforceors come not at the great distress that Writ shall be renewed twice or thrice at such terms as it may be done in within the half year following so as at every such time the writ may be read in open County if the deforceor be not found before and be there openly proclaimed that he may appear at the day limited and if he come not in to answer within the half year nor the Sheriff can take his body to answer before the Justices according to Law then as a Rebel and one that will not be justified he shall lose the seisin of the Ward saving to him at another time his Action if he have right to the same XII Howbeit where the Wardship belongs to the Guardian of Wards being within age and where Guardians demand a Wardship which belongeth to the heir such heirs within age shall not lose their inheritance by the negligence of their Guardians as in the case aforesaid but in such cases the Common Law shall run as hath been accustomed XIII Marlb 17. 52 H. 3. Guardians in Soccage shall make no waste sale or destruction of the heirs inheritance but safely keep the same to the use of the heir and when he cometh to age shall answer him the issues thereof by a lawful accompt saving their reasonable costs Neither shall such Guardians sell the marriage of such heir but to his advantage and