Mamecestre: Being Chapters from the Early Recorded History of the Barony; the Lordship Or Manor; the Vill, Borough, Or Town, of Manchester, Volume 1John Harland Chetham Society, 1861 - 627 pages |
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Page 119 - Tenure in socage is where the tenant holdeth of his lord the tenancy by certain service for all manner of services, so that the service be not knight's service. As where a man holdeth his land of...
Page 90 - ... by reason of a fee held of us by knight's service; and for the abbeys founded in any other fee than our own, in which the lord of the fee says he has a right; and when we return...
Page 58 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 168 - Care; and every such Warrant shall be kept among the Public Records in the Custody of the Master of the Rolls, and shall be a sufficient Warrant for the Removal of such...
Page 68 - ... or return, his rent or service for the land he claimed to hold. If he held only half a knight's fee, he was only bound to attend twenty days, and so in proportion.
Page 90 - ... chosen by creditable persons of the same county ; and within forty days after the said inquest be utterly abolished, so as never to be restored; so as we are first acquainted therewith, or our justiciary, if we should not be in England.
Page 90 - But a chase differs from a park in that it is not enclosed, and also in that a man may have a chase in another man's ground as well as in his own ; being indeed the liberty of keeping beasts of chase or royal game therein, protected even from the owner of the land, with a power of hunting them thereon.
Page 177 - And if any stranger do pass by them he shall be arrested until morning ; and if no suspicion be found he shall go quit ; and if they find cause of suspicion, they shall forthwith deliver him to the sheriff, and the sheriff may receive him without damage, and shall keep him safely, until he be acquitted in due manner. And if they will not obey the arrest, they shall levy hue and cry upon them, and such as keep the...
Page 69 - The books appear to have been compiled near the close of the reign of Edward the Second, or the commencement of that of Edward the Third, partly from Inquests taken on the Presentments of Jurors of Hundreds before the Justices itinerant, and partly from Inquisitions upon Writs awarded to the Sheriffs for collecting of Scutages, Aids, &c.