The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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Leonard, William.
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London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Henry Twyford, Thomas Basset, William Rawlins and John Place,
1686.
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"The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47718.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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CXCVI. Sir John Southwell's Case. Hill. 28 Eliz. In the Exchequer.
SIr John Southwel of the County of Lanc. 7 July,* 1.1 19 Eliz. made a Conveyance of all his Land to divers Feoffees and their Heirs, upon Condition, That they should find him and his Wife, and so many persons in his House, &c. prefer his Daughters in Marriage, pay his Debts, &c. And if there fell out at the years end upon Accompt made by the Feoffees any surplusage, that then at the end of every such year they should answer such surplusage as should then remain in their hands unexpended of the Rents and Profits of his said Lands, with Clause of Revocation, &c. After∣wards,
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the said Conveyance being in force, came the Statute of 23 Eliz. concerning Recusants: Vpon which Statute, the said Southwel was now Indicted: And afterwards, a Commission issued out of the Exchequer to the Sheriff of Lancast. to enquire of the Lands of the saith Southwel; And although against the said Conveyance it was given in Evidence, That after that Convey∣ance, the said Sir John Southwel had granted Trees out of the said Lands, and had taken Fines and Incomes for Leases, &c. Yet the Iurors, charged to enquire, would not find, That the said Sir John had any Lands, &c. And by special Commandment of the Queen, it was referred out of the Exchequer, to all the Iustices of England, If the Lands of the said Sir John Southwel contained ut supra, were subject to the said Statute, and the penalties thereof? And upon great deliberation had, It was by them all Re∣solved and Agreed, That notwithstanding that Conveyance, the said Lands were lyable to the said Statute. And as to the Iurors which against their Evidence given unto them for the Qeeen, gav their Verdict, ut supra; process was awarded against them out of the said Court, for to appear before the Lord Treasurer, and the Barons of the Exchequer: And for their said Contempt, they were committed to the Fleet, and each of them fined 20l.