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CAP. V.
That the Kings Servants whilst they are in his service, ought not to be Vtlawed or prosecuted in order thereunto, without leave or license first obtained of the King, or the Great Officers of his most H••nourable Housh••ld, under whose several Jurisdictions they do officiate.
ANd to as little or no purpose would that antient and just Priviledge of the Kings Servants in ordinary, not to be arrested, troubled or imprisoned without leave first obtained, pro∣fit them, if whilst they shall be busied in attend∣ing the person of the King, or some other of his affairs, they may be sued to an Utlary, and forfeiture of all their Goods and Personal Estate, put out of the protection of the King and his Laws, and thrust under the many damages, inconveniences and incapacities which do way∣lay and fall upon Utlawed persons, and will be hugely contradictory to the right reason and in∣tention of our Laws; neither can any Sheriff retorn upon an Original Writ, retornable in the Court of Common Pleas, to which and no other Court (except in the Court of Kings Bench, in Actions of Trespass, or upon the Case importing a breach of the Peace) in all Civil Actions, the prosecution of Writs to the Utlary doth only and properly appertain; or upon a Bill of Middlesex, a great encroacher upon the Rights