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.

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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.
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Popham, John, Sir, 1531?-1607.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1656.
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Law reports, digests, etc. -- England.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55452.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.

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The same Term in the same Court. Taylors Case.

JOhn Taylor a Citizen and Alderman of Glocester, was put out of his place by the Common Counsel of the City, for some misdemeanor, and he sued out

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a Writ of Restitution, and for that the cause of his displacing was not suffi∣cient * 1.1 his Writ was allowed, by reason wherof the other Alderman who was elected in his place was to be removed, for the number of Aldermen was full: But Hazard another Alderman, to the end that the new elect (who now was Major) should not be displaced, was contented to surrender his place, in consideration of 10 l. a year granted to him by the Corporation for term of his life, with which the Wife of Hazard was not content, and therfore he would have left his agreement: And therupon the question was, whether he might surrender, or not: And it was said by Coventree Sollicitor, that he cannot; and he cited Middlecots case an Alderman of B. where the opini∣on of the Court was, 13 Eliz. that he cannot surrender: Doderidge, per∣haps they would not except his surrender: Mountague said, that Alderman Martin of London, gave up his Aldermans place, and without question any man in such a case may surrender or leave his place, to which the Court a∣greed, and therfore it was ordered that Hazard shall have his 10 l. a year, and that he shall stand to his first agreement.

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