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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54695	Tenenda non tollenda, or, The necessity of preserving tenures in capite and by knight-service which according to their first institution were, and are yet, a great part of the salus populi, and the safety and defence of the King, as well as of his people : together with a prospect of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences, which by the taking away or altering of those tenures, will inevitably happen to the King and his kingdomes / by Fabian Philipps ...	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2019; ESTC R16070	141,615	292

ejus in artibus sint experti quod domus regia sit tanquam gymnasium supremum nobilitatis regni schola quoque Strenuitatis probitatis morum quibus regnum honoretur floret ac contra Irruentes securatur hoc revera bonum accidisse non pottuisset regno illi Si nobilium fil●i Orphani Pupilli per pauperes amicos parentum suorum nutrirentur and greatly approve as he did of our Tenures in Capite and by Knight Service which have heen since better ordered and more deserve that and a better commendation and to put forth your hand to rescue them who have hitherto as great Beams peices of Tymber or Pillars helped to bear up and sustain the Fabrick of our Antient and Monarchical Government and have no other fault but that they are misunderstood and misrepresented to the vulgar who by making causelesse complaints multiplying them have done of late by our Laws and best Constitutions as the Boys are used to do when they hunt Squirrels with Drums shouts and Noyses And that your Lordship who is able to say much more for that Institution and Right use of Tenures will be pleased to accept of my good Intentions and pardon the Imperfections of London 23. November 1660. Your Lordships most Humble Servant Fabian Philipps THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. OF the antiquity and use of Tenures in Capite and by Knight service in England and other Nations page 1. CHAP. II. The holding of Lands in Capite and by Knight service is no Slavery or Bondage to the Tenant or Vassals 12. CHAP. III. Tenures of Lands in Capite and by Knight service are not so many in number as is supposed nor were or are any publique or general Grievance 29. CHAP. IV. How the design of altering Tenures in Capite and by Knight service into Socage Tenures and D●ssolving the Court of Wards and Liveries and the Incidents and Revenue belonging thereunto 〈◊〉 out of the Forges of some private mens imagi●●●ions to be afterwards agitated in Parlia●●nt 145. CHAP. V. The Benefits or Advantages which are expected ●y the people in putting down of the Court of wards ●nd Liveries and changing the Tenures in Capi●e and by Knight service into free and common S●cage 154. CHAP. VI. The great and very many Mischiefs and Inconveniences which will happen to the King and Kingdom by taking away Tenures in Capite and Knight service 157. CHAP. VII That Tenures in Capite and Knight service holden of the King and the Homage and Incidents thereunto appertaining and the right of the Mesne Lords cannot be dissolved or taken away by any Act of Parliament The Conclusion 258. Errata's or Faults escaped in Printing by the hast of the Presse PAge 1 line 1 leave out and p. 2 l 28 for be read by p. 6 l 12 for or Knights r and Knights p. 8 l 16 leave out that ib. r in Capite and Knight service p. 9 l 25 for where r were p. 17 in the margent leave out the quotation note p. 21 l 18 r. his enfant p. 23 l 23 r. be the lesse free p. 24 l 26. for was r. were p. 36. l 12 r them 20 H. 3.6 p. 38 l 3 for E 1 r. E 3. p. ib. l 6. r person 42 E 3.5 p 40. l 31. for of r. or p. 43. l 18. r thought to p. 54 l. 16. leave out and. p. 68 l. 14 leave out was p· 81 l. 12 for a● r. in p. 82 l. 15 for E. 3 r E 1. p. 100 l. 7 for 1648 r. 1643. p. 111 l. 2 leave out his p. 125 l. 1 for Episcopium r Episcopum ib. l 18. r hold by ib. l. 23 r nor could 126. l 12 for ●e r. to p. 131 l 32. r For it p. 13● l. 1 leave out Lawes after the. ib. l. 2 leave out the. ib. l. 15 for and r. for p. 135 l 6. r or by p. 136 l. 14 for and ● which p. 138 in the margent leave out Litletons quotation p. 140 l. 13 leave out an p. 154 l. 10 r. Grand and Petit. p 159. in the margent for XI r II. p. 162. against l 12 in the margent put V. ib. against l 33. put VI. p. 163. l 4. for Protections r Portions ib. in the margent against l 8 put VII ib. against ● 20 put VIII p. 164 l 4. for and r shall ib. in the margent against l 15 put IX p. 165 against l 33. put X. p. 166 against l 5. put XI ib. against l. 10 put XII ib. against l 14 put XIII ib. against l 26. put XIV p. 17 r l. 15 for amore r. more p. 174 in the margent for Olbertus r. Obertus p. 183 in margent for Lovelaces r. Lo●es p. 184 l. 16. leavo out in p. 185 l. 32. leave out they p. 187 l. 9. for enernate r enervate ib. l 24. for displaced r. displayed p. 192 l. 15. leave out if not recompensed by some Annual payment p. 194 l. 8. r. under the penalties of ibib l 9. leave out under the penalties p. 212 l 22. r be a Baron ibib leave out of Holt. p. 217 l. 2. for derived r. deemed p. 222 in the margent against l. 15 put L. p. 241 in the margent against l 6. put LXIV p. 24● against l 4 put LXV p. 246. against 26 put LXXII p. 247. l 4. for know r knowing p. 254. l 20 r which is ib. 28 r and the● p. 255 l 24 r or that p. 259 l 18. for it r them ib. l 23 leave out upon all p. 268. l 4. leave out and. p. 269 l 15 r or to● p. 274. l 33 for of r if p. 275. l 11 leave out would ruine● 〈◊〉 l 13 r Baronies would be ruined CAP. I. Of the Antiquity and use of Tenures in capite and by Knight service in England and other Nations THe Law of Nature that secret and great Director under God and his Holy Spirit of all mens Actions for their safety and self preservation by the Rules or Instinct of Right Reason and the Beams of Divine Light and Irradiations So far as those Laws of Nature are not contrary to positive and Humane Laws which are alwayes either actively or passively to be obeyed having in the beginning of time and its delivery out of the Chaos made and allowed Orders and distinctions of man-kind as they have been found to be more Rich Wise Virtuous Powerful and Able than others therfore the fitter to Protect Defend and do good unto such as wanted those Abilities Endowments and constituted ordained the faith and just performances also of Contracts Promises and Agreements and the acknowledgements of benefits and favours received being no strangers to those early dayes when the Patriarch Abraham had leave given him by Abimelech King of Gerar to dwell in the Land where it pleased him and that Abimelech in the presence of Phicol the chief Captain of his Host who took himself to have some concernment in it required an