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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44301	A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ... ; to which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, Kt.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1683 (1683)	Wing H260; ESTC R14358	33,283	119

ad perficiendum corpus Comitatus remanet 97l 13s 10d de quibus respondet de proficuo in magno Rotulo Claus 13. H. 3. m. 2. Sciatis quod perdonavimus dilectoe Sorori nostroe A. Comitissoe Pembroc centum triginta quinque Libras blanc quoe extensoe sunt ad centum quadraginta unum Libras quindecim Solidos In Compoto Bedf. Bucks 13 E. 3 Nic. Passelew de 18 l. 4 s. 4 d. numero pro 17 l. 7 s. blanc In all these the proportion riseth very near bating the small fragments in Pence that every Pound blanc answered one Shilling over to reduce it to its value And hence it is that at this day the ancient Firmors of Cities as London c. which were commonly reserved blanc do pay the same in Sterling Money and one Shilling for every pound over As if 100 l. blanc be reserved there is answered at this day in the Receipt 105 l. which as before makes me suppose that blanc Firme or dealbata Firma was in truth when it was reduced to fine Silver and not barely Sterling for this advance of 12 d. in the Pound upon such blanc Firmes is still answered though paid in Sterling CHAP. IV. Concerning the manner of answering the King's Firmes anciently IN ancient times viz. about the time of William the first and Henry the second the reservation of the King 's Firmes and Rents were so many Pounds or Shillings c. in Money and they were answered numero or in Pecuniis numeratis untill afterward for the avoiding of corrupt Money they were reserved in blanc or white Money which as before is observed was intended either of pure Silver or at least Silver reduced to the Allay of Sterling and then whitened or blanched as is used in the Mint to this day for all Sterling Money I shall not much contend whether it were the one or the other but for the most part in this Discourse I shall suppose it fine Silver But although Firmes were reserved in Money as the best and commonest measures of values yet it appears by Tilburiensis Lib. 1. Cap. A quibus ad quid instituta fuit Argenti examinatio that it was in those ancient times of King W. 2. and H. 1 usually practised that those Firmes should according to their values be answered in Cattle Corn and other provisions which perchance in its first institution might be a convenience to the King to have his Family furnished with provisions in specie and to the Country among whom Money was not then very plentifull and they could better answer their Rents in Provisions And to the end that an equation might be made between the Rents reserved in Money and the Provision delivered by the Tenants in lieu thereof the same Tilburiensis tells us there were certain prices and rates set upon provisions that the Tenant might know what to pay and the King's Officers might know what to receive As for Wheat for 100 men 12 d. for a fat Ox 12 d. c. which it seems were dilivered to the hands of the Sheriff who if he firmed the County might retain it to his own use but if he firmed it not he accompted to the King for these Provisions or their values as he did for other rates of the County collected by him But as for Cities and Franchises that were granted out to Firme because they had not Provisions of this nature to answer they paid their Rents in Money Thus it seems the King 's Firmes of Rents of his Firmors and Tenants in the Country were answered in the time of King William the first and William his son But in the time of H. 1. the Tenants were weary of answering their Rents in provisions and the King 's foreign occasions called rather for a supply of Money and so the Rents were answered by the Tenants as formerly in Money according to the tenour of their reservations and the delivery of Victual and other Provisions in lieu thereof ceased CHAP. V. Concerning the manner of collecting the King's Revenues of the County and the several kinds of them with their several Titles THE Sheriff of the County had a double Office 1. As a Minister of Justice under the King for the preservation of Peace and Writs issuing from the King's Courts 2. As the King's Bayliff of his Revenues arising in the County which was of two kinds 1. The improving and letting and sometimes stocking of the King's Demesnes and such Lands as were seized into the King's hands other than such as belonged to the Escheator as Wardships and Escheats And hence it is that there are upon the accompts especially of Buckingham and Bedford allowances made to the Sheriff of that County ut ..... Comitatus 2. The second part of his Office was in collecting of the King's Rents of his County which sometimes he did as Custos or Bayly sometimes ut Firmarius viz. he took the Rents to his own use and answered the King a certain Firme or Rent at his own peril whereof more in the ensuing Discourse Now concerning the kinds of the King's Revenues arising in the several Counties we are to take notice that they were of two kinds viz. Annual or Casual The Annual Revenue was again of two kinds viz. Fixed and Certain or Casual and Uncertain The Annual Fixed and Certain Revenue of the Counties were of these kinds 1. The King's Demesnes that were in his own hands or let at Rack rents to Tenants whereof I have before spoken and they make not much for that purpose I aim at 2. Firmes which were of two kinds viz. Gross Firmes which were charged upon particular persons or Cities or Towns and so charged in the great Roll as thus Philippus d'Aura debet 2 Marc. de reditu unius virgate terre And these were thus charged upon these two reasons 1. Either because they were never parcel of the Sheriffs Firme of this County de quo infra but great Firmes written out to the Sheriff to be answered by the persons upon whom they were charged 2. Or else they were such as happened to be reserved after the Firme of the County was reduced to certainty and answered by the Sheriffs Or else Secondly they were small rents commonly called Vicontiel Rents the Particulars whereof we shall enumerate under their several heads in due time 3. Common Fines at first imposed upon Townships upon several occasions as for Bon pleder for Suit and Ward for excuse of attending the Sheriffs turn and these grew in process of time to be fixed and setled Revenues And these again were of two Sorts such as came within the Title of Firma Comitatus and were written out under that general head viz. sub nomine Vicecomitis And some again were written to the Sheriff in the particular charge of such and such Townships and Lands and so charged upon the Towns by the express words of the process 4. Arrentations of Assarts and Purprestures in Wasts and