Reports and cases collected by the learned, Sir John Popham, knight ... ; written with his own hand in French, and now faithfully translated into English ; to which are added some remarkable cases reported by other learned pens since his death ; with an alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters contained in this booke.

The same Term in the same Court. Thomas Middletons Case.

THomas Middleton, alias Strickland was condemned for a Robbery at the * 1.1 Assises in Oxford, after which he made an escape, and being taken a∣gain he was brought to the Bar, and upon his own confession that he was the same party who did the Robbery, and that he was condemned for it, the Court awarded execution: And Mountague chief Iustice said, th••t was no new case, for it had been in experience in the time of E. 3. and 9 H. 4. and 5. E. 4. that the Court might so do upon his own confession: And because the Sheriff of Middlesex did not give his attendance upon the Court in this case, nor came when he was called, the Court fined him 10 l, And Mountage said, that it shall be levied by proces out of the Court, and also all other Fines there assessed and not estreated into the Exchequer, for then the party might compound for a matter of 20 s. and so the King be deceived.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Where a Fe∣lon is con∣demned, and elcapeth and is re-taken, upon confessi∣on that he is the same par∣ty, execution may be awar∣ded. The Sheriff of Middlesex fi∣ned for not attending the Court.