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LETTERS FROM STEPHENS.
164 Sir Francis Bacon to the King...................
164 Sir George Villiers to Sir Francis Bacon, his ma-
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165 Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Buckingham... 173
to the Earl of Buckingham........
165 The Earl of Buckingham to the Lord Keeper... 174
to the Lord Keeper.......
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Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Buckingnam.. 174
The Privy Council to the King.....
175
The Earl of Buckingham to the Lord Chancellor 175
to the Lord Chancellor...
Sir Francis Bacon to the Marquis of Buckingham 176
to the Marquis of Buckingham.............
The Marquis of Buckingham to the Lord Chan-
cellor......
..... 176
Lord Bacon, Montagu, and Yelverton, to the King 177
Sir Francis Bacon to the Marquis of Buckingham 177
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to the Lord Chancellor.
to my Lord of Buckingham, touching Mom-
pesson's business, the maltsters, &c.......
From his Majesty to Lord Bacon, touching the
business of the mint.
Lord Bacon to my Lord Buckingham....... .... 168
to my very loving, friends, the Mayor, &c., of
Cambridge...
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178
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Sir Francis Bacon to the Marquis of Buckingham 179
to the Marquis of Buckingham...
to the Marquis of Buckingham..
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Lord Bacon to the Marquis of Buckingham..... 169 The Marquis of Buckingham to the Lord Chan-
cellor....
to the King........
180
Lord Bacon to the Marquis of Buckingham..... 169
T. Meautys to Lord St. Alban
170
to the Lord Chancellor.....
Sir Francis Bacon, Montagu, Coke, Hobarte, and
LETTERS FROM MALLET.
to the Lord Chancellor
.... 171
The Earl of Buckingham to the Lord Chancellor 171
Lord Bacon to my very loving friends Sir Thomas
Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Viscount Villiers. 171 Lord Bacon to the Right Honourable his very
to the Earl of Buckingham.....
good lords, the Lords Spiritual and Tempo-
ral, in the Upper House of Parliament as-
sembled.....
182
matters they anciently had jurisdiction... 248
The court of Marshalsea erected, and its juris-
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248
diction within twelve miles of the chief tun- nel of the king, which is the full extent of the verge..
Sheriff's Tourn instituted upon the division of
England into counties: the charge of this
court was committed to the earl of the
same county.
249
Subdivision of the county courts into hundreds 249
The charge of the county taken from the earls,
and committed yearly to such persons as
it pleased the king..................
The sheriff is judge of all hundred courts not
given away from the crown......
County courts kept monthly by the sheriff.... 249
The office of the sheriff.......
Hundred courts, to whom first granted..... 249
Lord of the hundred to appoint two high con-
stables.........
250
Recognisance of the peace delivered by the
justices at their sessions.....
Quarter-sessions held by the justices of peace. 250
The authority of justices of the peace out of
their sessions......
Judges of assize came in place of the ancient
judges in eyre, about the time of R. H.... 251
England divided into six circuits, and two
learned men in the laws assigned by the
king's commission to ride twice a year
through those shires allotted to that circuit,
for the trial of private titles to lands and
goods, and all treasons and felonies, which
the county courts meddle not in......... 251
The authority of the judges in eyre translated
by Parliament to justices of assize...... 251
The authority of the justice of assizes much
251
lessened by the Court of Common Pleas,
erected in Henry III's. time.......
The justices of assize have at this day five
commissions by which they sit, viz., 1.
Oyer and Terminer. 2. Jail Delivery. 3.
To take assizes. 4. To take Nisi Prius.
5. Of the peace..
Book allowed to clergy for the scarcity of
them to be disposed in religious houses.. 252
The course the judges hold in their circuits in
the execution of their commission concern-
ing the taking of Nisi Prius............
The justices of the peace and the sheriff are to
.........
253
- 249
Of what matters they inquire of in leets and
law-days.........
.... 249
Conservators of the peace, and what their office
Every heir having land is bound by the binding
acts of his ancestors, if he be named..... 254
Property of lands by escheat......
255
In escheat two things are to be observed... 255
Concerning the tenure of lands........
The reservations in knight's service tenure are
The power of the justice of peace to fine the
offenders to the crown, and not to recom-
pense the party grieved...
The institution of soccage in capite, and that