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No. 8.

"same Date, by reason whereof
"divers of the King's liege People 18 Hen. VI. c. 1.
"having such Offices, Ferms,
" and other Things of the Gift or
"Grant of the King, by his
"gracious Letters Patents thereof
"to them long Time before duly
"made, by such subtil Imagina-
"tion of such Antedates desired
"by such Petitions, of such Of-
"fices, Ferms, and other Things,
" often have been put out,
"amoved, and expelled, against
"Right, good Conscience, and
"Reason:"Our said Lord the
King, willing to put out such
Imaginations, by the Advice and
Assent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal aforesaid, and at
the special Request of the said
Commons, hath ordained, by
Authority of the same Parlia

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ceo faiz ount porte mesme la
date a cause de quell divers lieges
du Roy eiantz tielx offices fermes
et autres choses du don ou graunte
! du Roy par sez gracious lettres
patentz a eux longe temps devaunt
duement fait par tielx subtils y
maginations de tiels antedates de-
sirez par tiels petitions de tiels
offices fermes & autres chosez
sovent ount este oustes amoves &
expelles encountre droit bon con-
science & reason. Nostre dit
Seignur le Roy voillant oustier
tiels ymaginations del avys & as-
sent des Seignurs espirituelx et
temporelx et al especiale request
des ditz Communes ad ordine par
auctorite de mesmes le parlement
qe de qeconqe garrent en apres
par mesme nostre Seignur le Roy
ou sez heires al Chaunceller dEn-
gleterre pur le temps esteant ad-ment, That of every Warrant
dresse le jour du livere dicell al
Chaunceller soit entre du recorde
en la Chauncerie & qe le Chaun-
celler face faire lettres patentes sur
mesmes les garrantz portantz date
le jour du dit livere en la Chaun-
'cellerie & nemy devaunt en null
manere & si ascuns lettres patentes
soient desore faitz al contrarie
soient voidez irritez & tenuz pur
nulles.

'hereafter sent by the same our
'Lord the King, or his Heirs, to
the Chancellor of England for
the Time being, the Day of the
Delivery of the same to the
Chancellor shall be entered of
Record in the Chancery; and
that the Chancellor do cause Plow. f. 491.

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'Letters Patents to be made

upon

20 H. 7, f. 8.

the same Warrant, bearing Date Dyer, f. 133. the Day of the said Delivery in the Chancery, and not before in 'any wise; and if any Letters 'Patents be from henceforth ⚫ made to the contrary, they shall be void, frustrate, and holden ' for none.'

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18 Henry VI. cap. 6.-No Lands shall be granted by Letters Patents, until the King's Title be found by Inquisition.

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No. 9.

2 I eon. 124, 185.

Goldsb. 21, pl. 1. Savil 70.

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"granted nor let in any wise to 18 Elen. Vi c.64 ferm by the Chancellor, or Trea"surer of England, or any other the King's Officer, until the same Inquests and Verdicts be "fully returned into the Chancery, or into the Exchequer, " but all such Lands and Tenements shall wholly and conti"nually remain in the King's "Hands, until the said Inquests "and Verdicts be returned, and "by a Month after the same Re* turn; if it be not so that he "or they which feel themselves grieved by the same Inquests, *or put out of their Lands or *Tenements, come into the "Chancery, and offer themselves to traverse the said Inquests, and offer themselves to take the same Lands or Tenements to ferm; and if they so do, that "then the same Lands and Tene<<ments shall be committed to them, if they shew good Evi"dences proving their Traverse to "be true, according to the Form **of the Statute made the Six and Thirtieth Year of EDWARD the "Third, to hold until the Issue "taken upon the same Traverse "be found and discussed for the "King, or for the Party, finding "sufficient Surety to pursue the "said Traverse with Effect, and "to yield and to pay to the King "the yearly Value of the Lands "or Tenements, whereof the Tra"verse shall be so taken, if it be "adjudged for the King; and if "any Letters Patents of any Lands "or Tenements be made to any "other Person to the contrary, or "let to ferm within the said "Month of the Retern, they shall "be void, and holden for none. "The which good Statute and "Ordinance divers Persons de"vising to subvert, and by their "Subtility to serve as for no Pur"pose, have sued to obtain such "Gifts and Grants, and Ferms, "by the King's Letters Patents,

36 Ed. 3, c. 13.

before any Inquisition or Title "found for the King of the same, "pretending such Gifts and Grants "not comprised nor remedied by "the said Statute, notwithstand

ferme par Chaunceller ou Tresorer dEngleterre ou autre officer le Roy qeconqe tanqe mesmes les enquestes & verditz soient retournez plainement en la Channcerie ou en lescheqer mes demurgent toutz tiels terres & tenementz entier. ment & continuelment en lez mayns le Roy tanqe les ditz enquestes & verditz soient retournes & par un moys apres mesme le retourne si issint ne soit qe ceux ou celuy qi sente ou sentent eux grevez par mesmes les enquestz ou oustes de lour terres ou tene

mentz veignent en la Channcery & soy proferont de traverser les ditz enquestes & soy offeront de prendre mesmes les terres & tenementz a ferme soient commys a eux sils monstrent bons evidences provauntz lour traverse estre vet. roiez solonc la fourme de lestatuit fait lan xxxvime le Roy E. tierce a tener tange lissue sur mesme le traverse pris soit trove & discusse pur le Roy ou pur le partie trovent suffisaunt surete de suer le dit traverse ove effecte & de rendre & paier au Roy le annuell value des terres ou tenementz doant la traverse ensy ferra pris sil soit discusse pur le Roy & si ascuns lettres patents des ascuns terres ou tenementz soient faitz a contrarie a ascun autre persone ou lesse a ferme deinz le dit moys de retourne soient voidez & tenuz pur null. Le quel bon estatuit & or denaunce divers persones ymaginantz a subverter & par lour subtilite de servir come de null pursuount daver tielx dones grauntes & fermes par lettres patentes du Roy devaunt ascun inquisition ou title trove par le Roy dicelx pretendauntz tielx dones & grauntes nient estre comprise ne remedies par le dit estatuit nient obstant qil

No. 9.

est en owell meschief de le dit "ing that it is iu like Mischief of estatuit. Nostre Seignur le Roi "the said Statute.' Our said 18 Hen. VI. c. 6. considerant les premisses & voil-Lord the King, considering the lant en ceo partie purvoier de re- 'Premisses, and willing to pro- Bro. Office, 56. medie ad ordeigne par lauctorite 'vide due Remedy in this Behalf, Fitz. Grant. 91. desuisdit qe nullez lettres patentes hath ordained, by the Authority Dyer, f. 146. soient faitz a ascun persone ou 'aforesaid, that no Letters Patents persones dascunes terres ou tene-shall be made to any Person or mentz devaunt inquis' de title du Persons of any Lands or TeneRoy en yceux trove en sa Chaun-ments, before Inquisition of the cerie ou en son Eschequyr retourne si title du Roy en yceux ne soit trove de recorde ne deinz le

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King's Title in the same be found ' in the Chancery or in his Exchequer returned, if the King's Title

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moys apres mesme leretourne silin the same be not found of Rene foit a celuy ou ceux qi tende rou tendent lour traversez come desuis est dit & si ascuns lettres #patentes soient faitz a contrarie soient voides & tenuz pur null.

cord, nor within the Month after the same Return, if it be not to 'him or them which tender their Traverses as afore is said; and if March 84. any Letters Patents be made to 1 H. 8, c. 10. the contrary, they shall be void, and holden for none.'

No. 10.

18 Henry VI. c. 7.-In what Time an Escheator shall return an Office found before him.

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eschetour preigne ascun office devaunt luy & ne retourne mesme loffice en la Chauncerie ou leschequyr du Roy deins le moys apres la prise dicell qil outre la peyne de xl. li les queux il ad forfait par lestatut fait lan du reigne nostre dit Seignur le Roy oeptisme soit tenuz a paier a mesme nostre Seignur le Roy a taunt come il est endamage a cause de non retourne de tiel office Et qe le Chaunceller dEngleterre apelle a luy le Tresorer dEngleterre en lessant tieux fermes pur due execution faire de dit estatut fait le dit an oeptisme.

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No. 11.

1 H. VIII. c. 8

which is found by a Jury.

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1 Henry VIII. c. 8.-The Act of Escheators and Commissioners.

ORASMUCH as divers of the King's Subjects lately have been

Commissioners, causing untrue Offices to be found, and sometime returning into the Courts of Record Offices and Inquisitions that were never found, and sometime changing the Matter of the Offices that were truly found, to the great Hurt, Trouble, and Disherison of the King's true Subjects, that like before Time hath not been seen in this Realm: Wherefore be it ordained, established, and enacted in this present Parliament, and by Authority of the same, That if No Office shall any Escheator or Commissioner hereafter return or put into any of the be returned but King's Courts any Inquisitions or Offices concerning Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, not found nor presented by the Oaths of Twelve Men, and indented, and by them sealed, that then the same Escheator or Commissioner forfeit for every such Office or InWhat Land an quisition so returned, and put into any of the said Courts, an C. li. to Es heator or Com- the Party or Parties grieved by any such Inquisition or Office: And must that from henceforth no Escheator, ne no Man sit by Virtue of any Commission, to inquire of Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, except he, or other to his Use, have Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of the yearly Value of xl. Marks, above all Charges and Reprises, upon Pain of xx. li. And that it shall be lawful for all Persons that be not sufficient of Freehold in Possession or Use at the Time of any such Commission to them delivered, to refuse to sit and inquire by Virtue of the same Commission.

missioner

have.

The Escheator shall sit in D Open

every 'erson giv Evidence

II. And that they, upon Process made against them out of the King's Exchequer by Virtue of the same Commissions, to be discharged upon their Oaths for their said Nonsufficiency, without Fine or Fee.

III. And that every Escheator and Commissioner shall sit in Pla, and suffer convenient and open Places, according to the Statutes heretofore to made: And that the said Escheators and Commissioners shall suffer 34 Ed. 3, c. 13 every Person to give Evidence openly in their Presence, to such In36 Ed. 3, c. 13. quest as shall be taken before any of them, upon Pain of xl. li. 23 H. 6, c 17. IV. And that no Sheriff, nor other Person, which shall or ought What Lands those to return Writs or Precepts, return before Escheators, or such ComJurors must have. missioners, any Person or Persons to inquire of any Lands or Tene

The Jury must re

ceive the Counter found, and leave it with the First

pae of an Office

Men.

ments, except every of the same Jury so returned, or other to their Use, have Lands or Tenements of the yearly Value of xls. within the same Shire where the same Inquiry shall be made, without Fraud or Collusion, above all Charges and Reprises, upon Pain of Forfeiture for every Person so returned C. s. And that the Jury that shall be sworn before any Escheator, or such Commissioner, to enquire of Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, shall receive the Counterpane of the Office or Inquisition that by them shall be presented, indented and sealed by the Escheator, or by such Commissioner, and the same deliver and suffer to rest in the Possessiou of the first Person that shall be sworn in the said Jury, with him to remain, to the Intent that the said Commissioner or Escheator may not change nor imbesil the said Offices or Inquisitions; and this to be done upon Pain of An Escheator every of the said Persons that shall be sworn, xx. s. And that every Escheator and Commissioner, (after a Jury or Inquest before any of them sworn, be ready to give their Verdict or Presentment, and offer to present the same) that the said Escheator or Commissioners, or Part

must receive

an

Office round by the Jury.

No. 11.

unto him, and put

ceive Offices found

of them, shall receive the same Verdict without further Delay, upon Pain of C. li. and deliver the Counterpane of the Indenture to the 1 H. VIII. c. 8. Jury, in Form above rehearsed, upon like Pain. And that if the An Officer of the Clerk of the Petit Bag of the King's Chancery for the Time being, or Chancery must rehis Deputy or Deputies, or any other Officer there, having Authority ceive an Inquisito receive any such Office or Inquisition, to whose Hands any such tion found offered Office or Inquisition shall come, which ought to be returned into the it on the Files said Chancery, will not receive the same Office or Inquisition, and Dyer, f. 170. put it on the Files to remain of Record, within Three Days after it be 8 H. 6, c. 16. received or offered to him to be received, he to forfeit for every such 18 H. 6, c. 7. Default el. li. And the Commissioners or Escheator before whom the same Office or Inquisition is found, (and as is aforesaid) offered to be delivered into the Chancery, to be discharged of the Penalty of al. li limited by Statute for non-returning of the same Office or Inquisition within the Month; and that the like Law and Penalty be to Officers of the Excharge the Officer or Officers of the King's Exchequer for the Time chequer must rebeing, which ought to receive Inquisitions or Offices returnable into and tendered unto the same Exchequer, for refusing so to receive them; and that the them Commissioners or Escheator, before whom the said Inquisitions or 13 Ed. 4, c. 8. Offices be found, be discharged of the Penalty of the Statute for nonreturning of the same Inquisitions or Offices, so that then the said Escheator or Commissioners, at any Time after the Month of any such Offices before them or any of them taken, within another Month then next ensuing, return the said Office into the Chancery or Exchequer, as the Cause shall require; and that the said Clerk of the Petit Bag for the Time being certify, or cause to be certified, the Transcript certified into the of every such Office or Inquisition, taken before any Commissioners Exchequer, or Escheator, to the King's Exchequer the next Term following the Receipt thereof, upon Pain of Forfeiture for every such Default C. s. And that no Man be compelled, after the Feast of All Saints next coming, to occupy nor exercise the Office of an Escheator by any one Patent over One whole Year; and that he that is once Escheator, shall not be made Escheator again within Three Years after the foresaid whole Year ended. And if any Escheator after the Feast of All The Penalties of Saints be made Escheator, or exercise his Office by Reason of one the Offenders, and Patent over the Time of one whole Year ended, or be made Escheator Benefit of them, within three Years after, as is aforesaid, that then after the said whole and by what Year in Form aforesaid ended, his Patent so made to be void and of none Effect; and that the Party or Parties so grieved, shall have his or their Recovery of every the said Forfeitures of one C. li by Action of Debt, in which Action the Defendant shall not wage his Law, nor be by Protection nor Essoign, &c. And the Residue of the other Forfeitures expressed in this present Act, the King shall have the one Moiety thereof, and the Party that will sue therefore by Action of Debt the other Moiety; and the Defendant shall have no other Delay, but as is aforesaid.

A Transcript of an Office shall be

None shall be Escorator above a Year.

who shall have the

Means.

Who may be Es

V. Provided alway, That this Act concerning Escheators for exercising of their Office over an whole Year together, and the Letters cheators above one Patents or Grants made or to be made by any Escheator for Term of Year, and by what Life, or for Years, or otherwise, extend not ne be prejudicial to any Means. Escheator that now is, and that hereafter shall be made and ordained in any City or Town Corporate, or in the Duchies of Lancaster, Cornwall, and the Counties Palatines of Lancaster, Chester, Durham, or Ely, or to any other County Palatine within the Realm of England, Wales, or the Marches of the same; or to any Escheator nade, or hereafter to be made, by any Person or Persons Spiritual or Temporal, having Authority by Reason of any Franchises, Liberties, Privileges, Prescriptions, or Grant, to depute or make any such Escheator in the same.

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