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. : With an Account of the Lives and Writings of the Original Society of Antiquarians..

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Thomas Hearne
T. Evans, 1773
 

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Página 272 - 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...
Página 283 - 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.
Página 305 - 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'?
Página 273 - 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.
Página 314 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold...
Página 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...
Página 280 - 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.
Página 326 - The fame king caufed the libraries of all monafteriesand other places of the realm, to be purchafed for the further and manifeft declaration of his title, as chief lord of Scotland; and the record thereof now extant, doth alledge divers leger books of abbeys for the confirmation thereof: the like was done in the time of king Henry the Eighth.
Página 431 - Orchestra, an unfinished poem, "expressing the Antiquity and Excellency of Dancing in a Dialogue between Penelope and one of her Wooers.
Página 288 - ... 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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