The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Machester, from the Year 1552 to the Year 1686, and from the Year 1731 to the Year 1846: Printed Under the Superintendence of a Committee Appointed by the Municipal Council of the City of Manchester, from the Original Minute Books in Their Possession, Band 1

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Seite 11 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Seite 223 - This Book of Articles before rehearsed is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Seite xv - ... shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord. and shall say thus: I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our sovereign lord the king; and then...
Seite x - You shall therefore first inquire if any man within your inquirie haue broken the peace, or made any affray or bloodshed. If any haue offended herein, you must present him or them, and the manner of it, with what weapon, for that it is forfeit to the Lord of this Leet, and the offender or offenders are to be fined for such offence.
Seite xv - When a freeholder (frank tenant)," says Littleton, "doth fealty to his lord he shall hold his right hand upon a book, and shall say thus : Enow ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do at the terms assigned, so help me God and his saints; and he shall kiss the book.
Seite xv - I become your man from this day forward, of life and limb and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king;' and then the lord so sitting shall kiss him.
Seite xv - There is great diversity between the doing of fealty and homage ; for homage cannot be done to any but to the lord himself, but the steward of the lord's court, or bailiff, may take fealty for the lord.
Seite xii - Also you shall inquire whether the bakers doe their duties or not, in making of good and wholesome bread for man's bodie, of sweet corne and not corrupted, and that they make their Bread in weight according to the price of Wheat in three markets next adioyning, not changing the assise of Bread, but by six pence in weight in increasing or abating ; and if they doe the contrarie, and bee thereof duly conuicted, then for the first, second, and third time they shall bee amerced after the quantitie of...
Seite x - Of such as have double measure, and buy by the great and sell by the less. 28. Of such as continually haunt taverns. 29. Of such as sleep by day and watch by night, and eat and drink well, and have nothing.
Seite xii - ... goods. Waifes are Cattell stolne and weiued out of the possession of him that stole them, and straies are Cattell straied out of their haunt, and they ought to bee seised vpon to the...

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