A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries Upon Several Heads in Our English Antiquities: Together with Mr. Thomas Hearne's Preface and Appendix to the Former Edition. To which are Added a Great Number of Antiquary Discourses Written by the Same Authors. Most of Them Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II.].

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Sir Joseph Ayloffe
W. and J. Richardson., 1771

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Strona 270 - Item. — Because the commons do make a grievous complaint that the court of the constable and the marshal hath incroached to him, and daily doth incroach contracts, covenants, trespasses, debts, and detinues, and many other actions pleadable at the common law, in great prejudice of the King and of his courts, and to the great grievance and oppression of the people...
Strona 281 - The Act goes on to define champerty (campi-partitio). ' Champerters be they that move Pleas and Suits, or cause to be moved either by their own procurement or by others, and sue them at their proper Costs, for to have part of the Land in variance, or Part of the Gains.
Strona 303 - I purpofed to fay of this mod honorable court, the beams of whofe bright juftice do blaze and fpread themfelves as far as the realm is long and wide, and by the influence of whofe authority all other the courts of law and juftice are both the more evenly managed, and the more furely flayed up and maintained. And now I will fet down the fees due to the officers of that court, viz. The clerk of the court being intituled chief clerk of the council of ft ate. Imprimis, from his majefty by letters'?
Strona 271 - Plea, until it be discussed by the King's Council, if that Matter ought of Right to pertain to that Court or otherwise to be tried by the Common Law of the Realm of England, and also that they surcease in the mean Time.
Strona 201 - ... Albans. So during the wars of Richard the firft between England and France, the French king fent to king Richard to appoint a combat of five champions, and he would appoint five others for his part, which might fight in lifts for tryal of all matters in controverfy betwixt them, to avoid the fhedding of more guiltlefs blood. King Richard accepted the offer with condition, that either king might be of the number, but the French would not grant. Again Edward the third being at Calais, the conftable...
Strona 55 - ... doubtfullnefs of the law and right did arife when the fame was heard and proponed before them, that neither he nor the court of chancery, or any other courts wherein he is an officer, were able or...
Strona 373 - Normans) and of their kings, this realm was ftill ruled with the {elffame cuftoms that it is now governed withal, do like them that make the Orcadians to be elder than the Moon, and the god Terminus to be fo fixed on the Capitaline Hill, as neither mattocks nor fpades, nor all the power of men or of other gods could remove him from the place be flood in.
Strona 278 - Seventh, power is given to the chancellor, the lord treafurer of England, for the time being, and the keeper of the king's Privy feal, or two of them, calling unto them a bifhop, and a temporal lord of the king's moft honourable council, and the two chief juftices of the King's bench, arid Common pleas for the time being, or other two jultices in their abfence, to proceed as ia that act is exprefled, for the punifhment of fome particular offences therein mentioned.
Strona 426 - The Manner and Means how the Kings of England have from Time to Time supported and repaired their Estates.
Strona 286 - ... coffers, or defrauding him and the realm of that help which they might bring, if they were equally burdened as their neighbours are, and not favoured by them that manage those services, in respect that they belong unto them. Which things...

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