I. The Court of COMMON-PLEAS.
Where he appointed Three Judgment-Seats, viz. at the Entry on the Right-hand, the Court of Com∣mon-Pleas;
The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent
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- The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent
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- De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.
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- London :: printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser and John How, at the Rose and Crown, and Seven Stars, in Sweetings-Alley, near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil,
- 1681.
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So called, because there are debated the usual Pleas between Subject and Subject, as about Tenures of Lands, and Civil Actions. None but Sergeants at Law may plead in this Court, and so many of them as the King shall appoint, are bound by Oath to assist all that have any Cause depending in that Court.
Pleas are distinguished into Pleas of the Crown, (as Treason and Felony, with Misprision of Felony, which belong to the Kings-Bench) and Common or Civil Pleas, whereof this Court takes Cogni∣zance.
This Court may grant Prohibitions, as the Kings-Bench doth. The Chief Judge is called the Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas, or de Commu∣ni Banco, the Common Bench, who holds his place by Letters Patents, Durante Beneplacito, and so do the other inferior Judges of this Court, whereof there are commonly Three.
Here all Civil Causes, Real and Personal, are usually Tryed, according to the strict Rule of the Law. Real Actions are pleadable in no other Court, nor Fines levied, or Recoveries suffered, but only in this Court. The King allows to the Lord Chief Justice of this Court, a Fee, Reward, Robes, and two Tun of Wine. Also to the other Judges of this Court, and to four Sergeants, is allow'd Fees, Re∣ward and Robes to each one. The Officers are ma∣ny, Custos Brevium, three Protonatories, Clerk of the Warrants, Clerk of the Kings Silver, four Exigenters, fourteen Filazers, Clerk of the Juries, Clerk of the Essoignes, Clerk of the Outlawries, which belongeth to the Attorney General, who ex∣ercises it by Deputy, &c. For which at large, see the Present State of England, Pag. 102. Edit. 1679.