Commons is a little above 500 persons whereof commonly near 200 are absent upon business or sickness c. Note that the Barons of the Cinque Ports are at this day onely as other Burgesses in Parliament but are still called Barons after the antient manner because heretofore they got great renown by their exploits at Sea in defending the Kingdom in memory whereof they have yet the Priviledge to send Burgesses to bear the Cloth of State over the Kings Head on the day of his Coronation and to dine that day in the Kings Presence A List of all the Knights Citizens Burgesses and Barons of the Cinque Ports that at present serve in the Parliament of England Bedford SIR Humphry Winch Bar. Sir John Nappier Bar. Town of Bedford Pawlet St. John Esq Sir William Beecher Kt. Berks. Richard Nevil Esq Sir Richard Powle Kt of the Bath Burough of New Windsor Sir Richard Braham Kt. Sir Thomas Higgons Kt. Borough of Reading Sir Thomas Doleman Kt. Richard Aldworth Esq Burough of Wallingford Sir John Benet Knight of the Bath Robert Packer Esq Borough of Abingdon Sir George Stonehouse Bar. Bucks Sir William Bowyer Kt. and Bar. Sir William Terringham Kt. of the Bath Town of Bucks Sir Richard Temple Bar. Sir William Smith Bar. Borough of Chipping Wiccomb Sir Edmond Pye Kt. and Bar. Sir John Burlace Bar. Borough of Aylesbury Sir Richard Ingoldsby Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Lee Bar. Borough of Agmondesham Sir Will. Drake Kt. Sir Thomas Proby Bar. Borough of Wendever Richard Hampden Esq Robert Crooke Esq Borough of great Marlowe Peregrine Hobby Esq Charles Cheyney Esq Cambridge Sir Thomas Chicheley Kt. Sir Thomas Wendy Knight of the Bath Vniversity of Cambridge Thomas Crouch Master of Arts Sir Charles Wheeler Bar. Town of Cambridge William Lord Allington Roger Pepis Esq Chester Sir Foulke Lucy Knight Thomas Cholmly Esq City of Chester Sir Thomas Smith Bar. John Radcliff Esq Cornwall Sir Jonath Trelawny Kt. Sir John Corryton Bar. Borough of Dunhivid alias Launceston Sir Richard Edgecombe Knight of the Bath Sir Charles Harbord Knight His Majesties Surveyor General Borough of Leskeard John Harris Esq Barnard Greenvile Esq Borough of Lestwithiel Charles Smith Esq Silas Titus Esq Borough of Truroe John Arundel Esq Edward Boscawen Borough of Bodmin Sir John Carew Bar. Hender Roberts Esq Borough of Helston Sir William Godolphin Bar. Sidney Godolphin Esq Borough of Saltashe Francis Buller Junior Esq John Buller Esq Borough of Camelford Thomas Coventry Esq Sir Will. Godolphin Kt. Borough of Port-Pigham alias Westlow Sir Henry Vernon Bar. John Trelawny Esq Borough of Grampound Charles Trevanion Esq John Tanner Esq Borough of Estlow Henry Seymour Esq Sir Robort Atkins Kt. of the Bath Borough of Penryn William Pendarvis Esq John Birch Esq Borough of Tregony Hugh Boscawen Esq Thomas Herle Esq Borough of Bossiny Robert Roberts Esq Richard Rous Esq Borough of St. Ives James Praed Esq Edward Nosworthy Esq Borough of Fowey Jonathan Rashley Esq John Rashly Gent. Borough of St. Germains John Elliot Esq Edward Elliot Esquire Borough of St. Michael Matthew Wren Esq Francis Ld Hawley Borough of Newport John Speccot Esq Nicolas Morice Borough of St. Mawes Arthur Spry Esq Sir Joseph Tredinham Borough of Kellington Sir Cyril Wych Kt. Sam. Roll Esq Cumberland Sir George Fletcher Bar. Sir John Lowther Bar. City of Carlile Sir Philip Howard Kt. Christopher Musgrave Esq Borough of Cockermouth Sir Wilfrid Lawson Kt. John Clark Esq Derby William Lord Cavendish Sacheveril Esq Town of Derby John Dalton Esq Anchetel Grey Esq Devon Sir John Roll Knight of the Bath Sir Copplestone Bamfield Kt. City of Exeter Sir James Smith Kt. Robert Walker Esq Borough of Totnes Sir Edward Seymour Bar. Sir Thomas Clifford Kt. Borough of Plymouth Sir William Morice Kt. Sir Gilbert Talbot Kt. Town and Borough of Okehampton Sir Edward Wise Knight of the Bath John Harris Esq Borough of Barnstable Sir John Norcot Bar. Nicholas Dennis Esq Borough of Plympton Sir William Stroude Kt. Sir Nicholas Slanning Kt. and Bar. Borough of Honiton Sir Courtney Poole Bar. Peter Prideaux Esq Borough of Tavistok George Howard Esq William Russel Esq Borough of Ashburton Sir Geo. Sonds Kt. of the Bath John Fowel Esq Borough of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnes William Harbord Esq William Gould Esq Borough of Beeralston Sir John Maynard Kt. the Kings Sergeant at Law Joseph Maynard Esq Borough of Tiverton Thomas Carew Esq Henry Ford Esq Dorset Giles Strangeways Esq Sir John Strode Kt. Town of Poole Sir John Moreton Bar. Thomas Trenchard Esq Borough of Dorchester James Gould Esq John Churchill Esq Borough of Kings Lime Sir John Shaw Kt. and Bar. Henry Henly Esq Borough of Weymouth Sir John Covenrry Kt. of the Bath Sir Winston Churchill Kt. Borough of Kings-mellcombe Bullen Reymes Esq Anthony Ashley Esq Borough of Bridport Humphrey Bishop Esq John Strangewaise Esq Bor. of Shaston alias Shastbury Henry Whittacre Esq John Bennet Esq Borough of Wareham George Pit Esq Robert Culleford Esq Borough of Corfe Castle Sir Ralf Banks Kt. John Tregonwell Esq Essex Banestre Maynard Esq Sir John Bramstone Knight of the Bâ—rbâ— Borough of Colchester Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir John Shaw Kt. Borough of Malden Sir John Tirril Kt. Sir Richard wiseman Kt. Borough of Harwich Thomas King Esq Sir Capel Luckin Gloucester John Grubham How Esq Sir Bainham Throgmorton Kt. City of Gloucester Sir Edward Massy Kt. Evan Seyes Serjeant at Law Borough of Cirencester Henry Fowle Esq John George Esq Borough of Tewksbury Sir Henry Capel Kt. of the Bath Richard Dowdswel Esq Hereford John Kerle Bar. Thomas Price Esq City of Hereford Roger Vaughan Esq Herbert Westphaling Esq Borough of Leompster Reynald Graham Esq Humphrey Cornwall esq Borough of Weobly John Barnaby Esq Sir Thomas Tompkins Kt Hertford Sir Richard Franklyn Knight and Baronet Will. Hale Esq Borough of St. Albans Sam. Grimston Esq Thomas Arris Doctor of Physick Borough of Hertford Sir Edward Turner Knight Speaker Thomas Lord Fanshaw Knight of the Bath Huntingdon Robert Vicount Mandeville Henry Williams Esq Borough of Huntingdon Sir John Cotton Bar. Lyonel Walden Esquire Kent Sir Thomas Peyton Bar. Sir John Tufton Kt. and Bar. City of Canterbury Thomas Hardâ—es Serj. at Law Sir Edward Masters Kt. City of Rochester Sir Francis Clerk Kt. Richard Heâ—d Esquire Borough of Maidstone Thomâ—s Heâ—lâ—ckenden Esquire Sir Robert Barneham Bar. Borough of Queenborough James Herbert Esquire Sir Edward Hales Bar. Lancaster Sir Roger Bradshaw Kt. Thomas Preston Esquire Borough of Lancaster Richard Kirkby Esquire Richard Harrison Esquire Borough or Town of Preston in Amounderness Edward Rigby Esquire John Otway Esquire Borough of Newton Richard Lord Gorges Richard Leigh Esq Borough of Wigon Charles Eâ—rl of Ancram Sir Jeofry â—hâ—kerley Kt. Borough of Clitheroe Sir John Heath Attorney of the Dutchy Ambrose Pudrey Esq Borough of Liverpoole Sir William Bucknell Kt. Sir Gilbert Ireland Kt. Leicester John Lord Roos George Faunt Esq Town of Leicester
Corporations and are so many Bodies Politique Of these there are 12 called the chief Companies and he that is chosen Lord Mayor must be free of one of these Companies which are 1 Mercers 2. Grocers 3. Drapers 4. Fishmongers 5. Goldsmiths 6. Skinners 7. Merchant-Taylors 8. Haberdashers 9. Salters 10. Ironmongers 11. Vintners 12. Clothworkers All which Companies have Assembly places called Halls which are so many Basilikes or Palaces and many of them worthy to be viewed by all Strangers It hath been the custom of some of our Kings to honour some of these Companies by taking their freedom thereof and the present King was pleased to be made free of the Company of Grocers and the present Prince of Orenge lately chose to be made free of the Company of Drapers There are besides near 60 other Companies or Corporations all enjoying large Priviledges by the Kings Gracious Charter granted unto them and fair Halls to meet in For the security and defence of this famous City and River there have been antiently divers Fortresses but that called the Tower of London hath been eminent above all others It is not only a Fort or Cittadel to defend and command both City and River but a Royal Palace where our Kings with their Courts have sometimes lodged a Royal Arsenal where are Arms and Ammunition for 60000 Soldiers the Treasury for the Jewels and Ornaments of the English Crown the only Mint for coyning of Gold and Silver the great Archive where are conserved all the Records of the Court of Westminster the chief Prison for the safe custody of great Persons that are Criminal in short if the great extent thereof within the Walls be considered and its authority over the several Hamlets without and the many high Priviledges and Liberties belonging thereto it may rather be reputed a City then a Cittadel The Tower of London is out of all County or Parish only a small part some hold to be in Middlesex is a liberty of it self exempt from all Taxes to the King to the Church or to the Poor It hath a Parochial Church exempt ftom all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Archbishop and is a Donative bestowed by the King without Institution or Induction There are Thirteen Hamlets in several Parishes of large extent belonging to the Tower whose Trainbands are all bound to assist the Constable or Lieftenant of the Tower they are all called the Kings Company are to wait on the Kings person in time of need and to go no farther than the King Within the Tower is kept the Office of Master of the Ordnance called in France le grand Mastre de l' Artillerie so called ab arte telorum mittendorum and hath been alwayes an Office of great Account and Importance commonly conferred on persons of great eminency and integrity It hath the ordering of that grand Magazin there lodged wherein and at the Minories Woolwich and Chatham is Ammunition at all times for as many Land and Sea forces as may not onely defend England but be formidable to all our Neighbours The place of Master of the Ordnance is since the death of that accomplished Gentleman Sir William Compton executed by Commissioners viz. by the Lord John Berkley now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Sir John Duncomb Knight and Thomas Chichely Esquire Lieutenant of the Ordnance is David Walter Esquire and Groom of his Majesties Bed-chamber and the Pay-master is Captain George Wharton Surveyor is Jonas More Esquire Keeper of the Stores is Richard March Esquire Clerk of the Ordnance is Richard Sherborn Esquire Clerk of the Deliveries is George Clerk Esquire Under which several Officers there are many Officers and Servants for brevity sake to be passed over The forementioned Commissioners have the charge and superintendence of all the Ordnance Arms offensive Ammunition of War by Sea and Land The Lieutenant of the Ordnance is Treasurer doth receive and disburse all moneys touching this Office The Surveyor of the Ordnance doth supervise all Arms. Clerk of the Ordnance is to record all Orders touching that Office Keeper of the Stores is to have the custody of all the Arms offensive Clerk of the Deliveries takes Indentures for all Stores issued out All these hold by Patent immediately from the King All Inferior Officers and Artificers places are in the gift of the Master or Commissioners of the Ordnance Moreover in the Tower is kept the office of Warden of the Mint where onely of later times is minted all the Bullion that is minted in England The Warden of the Mint is a very considerable charge and is at present Sir Anthony St. Leger Master Worker is Henry Slingsby Esquire Comptroller is James Hore Esquire These hold by Patent of the King assay-Assay-Master to try the pureness of the Mettal is Mr. John Brittle Surveyor of the Meltings and Clerk of the Irons is Mr. Thomas Swallow There is moreover a Weigher a Teller and a Graver all which five last named Officers hold also by Patent from the King but are to be approved by the three first Commissioned Officers in whose custody is all Money or Bullion brought in by the Subject There are besides many other Inferior Officers and Servants belonging to the Mint The office of His Majesties Records kept in the Tower of London is of venerable Antiquity and the place of Keeper and Deputy of the same dignified with special trust whereof Sir Algernon May Knight is at present the Keeper salary 500 l. per annum and William Ryley Esquire of the Inner Temple is Deputy thereof This place is properly in the Master of the Ro'ls his gift and then His Majesty by His Letters Patents hath usually confirmed it As the Chappel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane and Petty-Bag office doth fill with Records out of other Offices they are transmitted into the Tower after some years for it hath been the wisdom and care of former Ages to send the Records of several Courts to the Tower for their preservation and safety not onely as a Policy of State but the particular Interest of all Men having Estates requiring it there being many precedents for it remaining in the Records of the Tower and a particular Form of a Writ to send the Records in the Chappel of the Rolls to the Tower of London The Records of the Tower amongst other things contain the Foundations of Abbeys and other Religious Houses and the Records in the Rolls contain the dissolution of those Abbeys and the donation of the Lands of which many Families are now possest and if those Records were all in one place the people might have access unto them all under one and the same search and charge which would be a great ease and benefit to the people and a safety to the Records of this Nation Besides these Records at the Rolls being joyned to those in the Tower will make a perfect continuance of all the Ancient Rights of the English Nation which are now set forth in the Records of the Tower whereof these
of proceedings not used in Common Law Courts as the Defendants answering to the Bill and sometimes to the Interrogatories upon Oath though to the accusing of a mans self in divers matters dammageable and penal also by the whole manner of publication the depositions of Witnesses by the examining of witnesses upon Interrogatories and in perpetuam rei memoriam by the term and use of final Decree and many other points differing from the Common Law and wholly agreeing with the Civil Law This Court is alwayes open when all the others are shut but onely in Term time so that if a man be wrongfully imprisoned in the Vacation time out of Term the Lord Chancellour may grant his Writ of Habeas Corpus and do him justice according to Law So likewise may this Court grant Prohibitions in time of Vacation as well as in Term time A List of the several Officers belonging to the High Court of Chancery SIR Orlando Bridgman Knight and Barronet Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Then the 12 Masters of the Chancery as followeth Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir William Childe Knight Doctor of Laws Sir Justinian Lewin Knight Doctor of Laws Sir Thomas Escourt Knight Sir Mundeford Bramston Knight Doctor of Laws Sir Nathaniel Hobart Knight Sir William Glascock Knight Sir John Coel Knight Sir Robert Stewart Knight Sir Timothy Baldwin Knight Doctor of Laws Sir Andrew Harket Knight Sir William Beversham The House founded at first for the converted Jews was after their expulsson out of England annext for ever to the Office of Master of the Rolls where he hath the custody of all Charters Patents Commissions Deeds Recognisances which being made up in Rolls of Parchments gave occasion of the Name At present there are kept all the Rolls since the beginning of Henry 7. the rest are kept in the Tower of London In his gift are besides the six Clerks Offices the Offices of the Examiners and three Clerks of the Pettibag Next Clerk of the Crown Henry Barker Esquire this Office is of high importance he is either by himself or Deputy continually to attend the Keeper of the Great Seal for special matters of State and hath a place in the Higher House of Parliament he makes all Writs for summoning Parliaments and upon a Warrant directed to him by the Speaker of the House of Commons upon the Death or removal of any Member he makes a Writ for a new Election Protonatary of this Court is Robert Pescod Esquire this Office is chiefly to expedite Commissions for Embassies It is executed by a Deputy Clerk of the Hamper or Hannaper sometime stiled Warden of the Hannaper Whose Office is to receive all the Money due to the King for the Seals of Charters Patents Commissions and Writs and to attend the Keeper of the Seal dayly in Term time and at all times of Sealing with leather baggs now but antiently probably with Hampers wherein are put all sealed Charters Patents c. and then those Baggs delivered to the Comptroller of the Hamper This Office is now enjoyed by Henry Seymer Esquire and executed by a Deputy Warden of the Fleet or Keeper of the Fleet-Prison is an Office very considerable and is to take care of the Prisoners there who are commonly such as are sent thither from this Court for contempt to the King or his Laws or such as will not pay their Debts c. The present Warden is Sir Jeremy Whitchcote It is executed by a Deputy Serjeant at Armes is Humphrey Ley Esq whose Office is to bear a great gilt Mace before the Lord Keeper c. Six Clerks are Officers of great account next in degree to the twelve Masters in Chancery whose Office is to inroll Commissions Pardons Patents Warrants c. That are passed the Great Seal They were antiently Clerici and afterwards forfeited their places if they did marry till by Act of Parliament in the time of Hen. 8. they were allowed to take Wives They are also Atturneys for Plaintiffs and Defendants in causes depending in this Court The present six Clerks Sir John Marshal Matthew Pindar Esq Matthew Bluck Esq Sir Cyril Wyche John Wilkinson Esq and Edward Abney Esq who sit altogether at their Office in Chancery Lane Examiners in Chancery there are two Sir Robert Peyton and Sir Nicholas Strode Their Office is to examine the Witnesses in any suit on both sides on their Oaths This Office also is executed at the Rolls Clerks of the Petty Bag in Chancery are three Edmund Warcup Esq John Hobson Esq and George Low Esq they are under the master of the Rolls Their Office is to make all Patents for Customers Comtrollers all Conge d' eslires first summons of Nobility Clergy Knights Citizens and Burgesses to Parliament c. The Subpena Office is to issue out Writs to call a person into Chancery This Office is in the hands of Frances Lady Vane Sir Walter Vane and Charles Vane and executed by a Deputy Clerk of the Patents or of Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England is Sir Richard Pygot and executed by a Deputy erected 16 Jac. The Register of the Court of Chancery the Farl of St. Albans under whom are three Deputy Registers for the Court two Deputy Registers for the Rolls two entring Clerks and a Keeper of the Books Cursiters Office in the Chancery is to make out Original Writs they were antiently called Clerici de Cursu of these there are twenty four whereof each one hath certain Counties and Cities allotted to them into which they make out such Original Writs as are required These Clerks are a Corporation within them-themselves and are all persons of Quality whose names follow The Names of the Cursiters now in being are these that follow JOhn Symonds Principal William Barker Assistants Benjamin Gladman Assistants Henry Edmonds Ge. Norbury Abr. Nelson Rich· Plumpton Roger Brown John Norbury Richard Cross Edmund Eyre Will. Adderley Abr. Skynner Jo. Shelbury Will. Plumpton Thomas Fisher Elias Gladman Roger Twisden Ben. Storke John More William Loe. H. Amhurst Philip Barecroft Rich. Parmee Esquires who execute these Offices by themselves or by their Deputies This Office is kept near Lincolns Inn. Clerk of the Presentations of Spiritual Benefices Edwes Esquire Commissioners Sir George Courthop Sir Edm. Turner Halsal Esq Alienation Office N. Crew Esq Receiver Gen. Joh. Nichols All the forementioned Courts of Judicature at Westminster are opened four times the year called the four Termes viz. Easter Term which beginneth alwayes the seventeenth day after Easter and lasteth 27 dayes Trinity Term begins the 5 th day after Trinity Sunday and lasteth 20 dayes Michaelmas Term began heretofore a little after that Feast but now by a late Statute begins the 23 October and lasteth 37 dayes Lastly Hilary Term begins now 10 dayes after St. Hilary Bishop or the 23 of January and lasteth 21 dayes so in all 105 dayes from whence must be deducted about 20 Sundayes and Holydayes which
447 150 38 Welcome 400 150 38 Yarmouth 608 180 44 Fifth Rate    Augustin 300 110 26 Briar 180 90 18 Colchester 287 110 24 Convert 250 110 26 Coventry 200 110 20 Dartmouth 220 110 22 Dolphin 130 80 14 Eagle 299 110 22 Forester 230 110 32 Fame 200 95 20 Gift 300 100 26 Garland 2â—5 1â—0 20 Greyhound 150 90 22 Half-Moon 300 110 26 Happy Entrance 200 100 20 Hector 150 90 20 Hound    Lizard 100 170 16 Milford 262 115 22 Mermaid 287 110 22 Norwich 258 110 22 Nightingale 300 110 22 Oxford 240 105 22 Constant Warwick  80 22 Pearl 285 110 22 Pembroke 210 110 22 Paul 240 95 22 Richmond 235 110 22 Rosebush 300 100 24 Success Frigat 230 115 24 Speedwell 200 100 20 Sorlings 250 110 22 Success 380 130 34 Satisfaction 220 110 26 Saphire 300 100 26 Westergat 300 100 26 Sixth Rate    Bramble 120 70 14 Blackmore 90 50 12 Carnation 100 60 12 Chesnut 90 45 10 Cag-way 60 40 8 Cignet 60 40 6 Drake 146 70 12 Dolphin 50 25 4 Diver Smack    Eaglet 60 40 8 Fox 120 70 14 Francis 90 50 10 Griffin 90 50 12 Gift 120 70 12 Hind 60 40 8 Hawk 60 40 8 Harp 60 40 6 Hart    Hunter 50 30 6 Henrietta Pinnace 65 25 6 Kingsale 90 50 10 Lark 80 50 10 Lilly 60 40 6 Martin 130 70 12 Mary 120 60 12 Marygold Hoy    Nonsuch Catch 60 40 8 Minion    Paradox 127 70 12 Pearl Brigant 50 25 4 Roe 60 40 8 Rose 60 40 6 Sparrow 90 60 12 Swallow 60 40 6 True Love 100 60 12 Vulture 100 60 12 Weymouth 120 70 11 Wolf 120 70 16 Besides the above mentioned Vessels there was the New Gally the Eagle Stork Violet Ostridge Church and Elias in all 160 sail During the late War with the United Netherlands France and Denmark some of these forementioned Vessels were lost and since the Peace concluded many have been new built even this present year four Ships of the first Rate and three of the third Rate have been to his Majesties great expences built and perfectly finished or will be in a short time Those new built Ships of the first Rate are the Royal James Prince St. Andrew London All his Majesties Maritime Forces are under the Command of the Lord High Admiral of England touching whose Name Titles Power Priviledges c. See the first part The Lord Admiral hath under him many Officers of high and low condition some at Sea others at Land some of a Military some of a Civil capacity some Judicial others Ministerial so that the Dominion and Jurisdiction of the Sea may justly be stiled another Commonwealth or Kingdom apart In Mari sunt Regna distincta idque Jure Gentium sicut in arida terra saith Baldus that learned Oracle of the Civil Law And the Lord High Admiral of England may fitly be stiled or at least reputed as a Vice-Roy of the Maritime Kingdom of England The Vice-Admiral of England is an Officer to whom next under the High-Admiral it belongs to see the Royal Navy kept in good repair the wages of Mariners and Ship-wrights duly paid and the Ships provided of all things necessary for any Expedition The Lord High-Admiral of England doth by virtue of his place appoint in divers parts of the Kingdom his several Vice-Admirals with their Judges and Marshals by Patent under the Great Seal of the High Court of Admiralty These Vice-Admirals and Judges do exercise Jurisdiction in Maritime affairs within their several limits and in case any person is agrieved by any Sentence or Interlocutory Decree that hath the force of a definitive Sentence he may appeal to the High Court of Admiralty The present Vice-Admirals of the several Coasts of England with their Judges are these that follow in Alphabetical order Bristol City Sir Thomas Bridges Vice-Admiral Cheshire and Lancashire the Earl of Derby Vice-Admiral Sir Tim. Baldwin Kt. Dr. of Laws Judge Cornwall South parts Trelawny Vice-Admiral Cornwall North parts Sir John Godolphin V. Admiral Mr. Scawen Judge Cumberland Earl of Carlile V. Admiral Durham Earl of Carlile V. Admiral Devonshire John Vowel Esq V. Admiral Dr. Masters Judge Dorsetshire Bullen Reyms Esq Essex Sir John Bramston V. Admiral Sir Mundiford Bramston Judge Glocester Thomas Cheston Esq V. Adm. Kent Duke of Richmond V. Adm. Lincoln Lord Castleton V. Adm. Newcastle Earl of Carlile V. Adm. Norfolk Lord Townsend V. Adm. Sir Justinian Lewen Kt. Dr. of Laws Judge Northumberland Earl of Carlile V. Adm. Somersetshire Sir Thomas Bridges V. Admiral Sussex Sir John Pelham V. Adm. Dr. Low Judge Suffolk Sir Henry Felton V. Adm. Dr. Clark Judge Southampton and Isle of Wight Sir Robert Holms V. Adm. Dr. Lloyd Judge Wales North parts Col. John Robinson V. Adm. Mr. Walter Mansel Judge York Earl of Mulgrave V. Adm. For handling of Maritime Affairs the Lord High Admiral hath Courts of his own whereof that at London is the principal or supreme where all Process and Proceedings run in his name and not in the Kings as it doth in all Common-Law Courts in this Court usually call'd the Court of Admiralty he hath a Lieutenant called Judge of the Admiralty who is commonly some learned Dr. of the Civil Law and is at present Doctor Jenkins lately knighted for his great worth and now called Sir Lionel Jenkins The Proceeding in this Court in all Civil Matters is according to the Civil Law because the Sea is without the limits of the Common-Law but under the Admirals Jurisdiction therefore the Civil Law onely all Common Law secluded is made use of and by Libel they proceed to the Action the Plaintiff giving Caution to prosecute the Sute and to pay what shall be judged against him if he fail in the Sute the Defendant on the contrary securing the Plaintiff by sufficient surety or caution as the Judge shall think meet that he will appear in Judgment and pay that which shall be adjudged against him and that he will ratifie and allow all that his Proctor shall do in his name whereby the Clients are well assured to obtain that which by Law shall be adjudged to them let the Cause fall on which side soever In the Admiralty Court of England use is made not onely of the Civil Laws but the Laws of Rhodes and Oleron whereof the former is an Island in the Mediterranean Sea about twenty miles distant from the Continent of Asia Minor and is now under the Turk the antient Inhabitants whereof by their mighty Trade and Power at Sea grew so expert in the Regulation of all Maritime Matters and Differences and their Determinations therein were esteemed so just and equitable that their Laws in such affairs have ever since been observed for Oracles Those Laws were long ago incorporated into the Volumes of the Civil Law And the Romans who gave Laws to other
coming in not too late This office is now kept in Bishopsgate-street Of the Kings great Wardrobe THis Office was usually kept within the City near Puddle Wharfe in an antient House built by Sir John Beauchamp Son to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and afterward sold to King Edward the Third The Master or Keeper of the Great Wardrobe is an office of great Antiquity and Dignity High Privileges and Immunities were conferred by Henry the Sixth and confirmed by his successors King James enlarged the same and ordained that this Great Officer should be an incorporation or Body Politique for ever His Office is to make Provisions for Coronations Marriages and Funerals to furnish the Court with Beds Hangings Carpets and other necessaries to furnish Houses for Ambassadors at their first arrival here Presents for Foreign Princes and Ambassadors Cloaths of Estate and other furniture for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord President of Wales and all His Majesties Ambassadors abroad to provide all Robes for Foreign Knights of the Garter for the Officers of the Garter Coats for Heralds and Pursuivants at Arms Robes for the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer c. Rich Liveries for the two Lords Chief Justice all the Barons of the Exchequor divers Officers in those Courts all Liveries for His Majesties domestick servants all Linnen for the Kings person c. To defray all the forementioned charges ordinarily there is expended yearly about twenty five thousand pounds besides all Extraordinaries as Coronations Funerals c. This Office is at present enjoyed by Edward Montague Earl of Sandwich one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter The present Salary to his Lordship in compensation of all other antient Fees and Allowances is yearly 2000 l. The said House near Puddle Wharfe was long ago annext for ever to the Master of this Office but since the great Fire this Office is kept in the Savoy The chief Officers under the Master are a Deputy Thomas Townsend Senior Esq his Salary 200 l. and a Clerk Thomas Townsend Junior Esq whose Salary in compensation of all Fees and Allowances is yearly 300 l. Both these Officers had likewise fair dwelling houses which were also consumed by the fire Belonging to this Office are divers Tradesmen Artificers and others to the number of about 40 all sworn Servants to the King To this Office have lately been added by Patent during pleasure two cousiderable Officers viz. a Controuler Andrew Newport Esquire Brother to the Lord Newport and a Surveyour Colonel Bullen Reymes whose Salaries are 300 l. yearly to each one Of the Colledges in London THe Famous City of LONDON may not unfitly be stiled an University for therein are taught all Liberal Arts and Sciences not onely Divinity Civil Law Physick which in other Universities are usual are read here but also the Municipal or Common Law of the Nation is here taught and Degrees taken therein which can be said in no other Nation Moreover all sorts of Languages Geography Hydography the Art of Navigation the Art of Fortification Anatomy Chirurgery Chymistry Calligraphy Brachygraphy or Short-Hand the Arts of Riding Fencing Dancing Art Military Fire-works Limming Painting Enamelling Sculpture Architecture Heraldry all sorts of Musick Arithmetick Geometry Astronomy Grammar Rhetorick Poetry and any other thing that may any way contribute to the accomplishment of an ingenious Nobleman or Gentleman The Colledges of Municipal or Common-Law Professors and Students are 14 called still Innes the old English word for Houses of Noblemen or Bishops or of extraordinary note and which is of the same signification with the French word Hostel at Paris There are Two Inns of Sergeants Four Inns of Court and Eight Inns of Chancery The Inns of Chancery were probably so named because there dwelt such Clerks as did chiefly study the forming of Writs which regularly appertain to the Cursitors that are Officers of Chancery The first of these is called Thavies Inn begun in the Reign of Edward the Third and since purchased by Lincolns Inn as was also Furnivals Inn then there is Bernards Inn New Inn Clements Inn Cliffords Inn antiently the House of the Lord Clifford Staple Inn belonging to the Merchants of the Staple and Lyons Inn antiently a common Inn with the Sign of the Lyon These were heretofore preparatory Colledges for younger Students and many were entred here before admitted into the Inns of Court Now they are for the most part taken up by Atturneys Sollicitors and Clerks who have here their Chambers apart and their Dyet at a very easy rate in a Hall together where they are obliged to appear in grave long Robes and black round knit Caps These Colledges belong all to some Inns of Court who send yearly some of their Barresters to read to to these In these Inns of Chancery one with another may be about Sixty persons The Innes of Court were so named as some think because the Students therein are to serve the Courts of Judicature or else because antiently these Colledges received onely the Sons of Noble men and better sort of Gentlemen as Fortescue affirmeth Of these there are Four First The Two Temples heretofore the dwelling of the Knights Templers and purchased by some Professors of the Common Law above Three hundred years ago They are called The Inner and Middle Temple in relation to Essex House which was a part of the Knights Templers and called The Utter Temple because it is seated without Temple Bar. The two other Inns of Court are Lincolns Inn belonging anciently to the Earls of Lincoln and Greys Inn belonging to the Noble Family of the Greys In the Reign of Henry the Sixth they so flourished that there were in each of these about Two hundred Students and a Student then expended yearly about 20 l. Which was as much as Two hundred pounds now for they had usually as the French Nobles have now in their Academies every one an old discreet Servant and divers Masters for to instruct them in all laudable qualities and therefore saith the same Fortescue Ultra Studium legum sunt quasi Gymnasia omnium morum And the Students were onely saith he Nobilium Filii that is Gentlemen at least for so the word Nobilis was then taken here and is still in France And therefore by command of King James none were to be admitted into these Colledges but Gentlemen by descent Our Ancestors thought those of inferior rank would rather debase the honor of the Law and would be prone to chicane or play tricks and not like to be so fit for Trusts and Honors whereas the consideration of Birth and Fortune makes Men more careful of their Honor and Reputation These Societies are no Corporations nor have any Judicial Power over their Members but have certain Orders among themselves which have by consent the Force of Laws For lighter offences they are onely excommoned or put out of Commons not to eat with the rest and