The filacers office, or, The measne processe filacers make out before appearance, the nature and forms of their several writs, and the manner of their proceedings thereupon.: Together with a table of their fees. Very usefull for all attorneys and practisers of the law, for the dispatch of their businesse in the filacers office. With an exact table, relating to all the matters herein contained.

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The filacers office, or, The measne processe filacers make out before appearance, the nature and forms of their several writs, and the manner of their proceedings thereupon.: Together with a table of their fees. Very usefull for all attorneys and practisers of the law, for the dispatch of their businesse in the filacers office. With an exact table, relating to all the matters herein contained.
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J. B.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Firby, and are to be sold at his shop near Grayes-Inne-Gate in Holborn,
[1657]
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Courts -- Officials and employees -- England
Criminal procedure -- England
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"The filacers office, or, The measne processe filacers make out before appearance, the nature and forms of their several writs, and the manner of their proceedings thereupon.: Together with a table of their fees. Very usefull for all attorneys and practisers of the law, for the dispatch of their businesse in the filacers office. With an exact table, relating to all the matters herein contained." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76070.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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The Entry of a Habeas Corpus to the Chancelor of the County Pallatine of Lanc.

ss. It was commanded to the Chance∣lor of the Lord Protector of his Coun∣ty Pallatine aforesaid, or to him that holds his place there, that by the Writ of the said Lord Protector, under the Seal of the County Pallatine aforesaid duely to be made, he should command the Sheriff of the County of Lanc. that he should take Mark Woodrow, late of London, Draper, otherwise called M.W. of Manchester, in the County of Lanc. Draper, if, &c. and safely, &c. so that he might have his body here at this day (to wit) in the morrow of the Purification of the blessed Virgin Mary, to answer Edward Elioes in a Plea, that he render to him one hundred shillings, which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth, &c. and hereupon the Sheriffs of the Lord Protector now of London, returned to his Justices here from the day of S. Martin in 15. dayes last past, that the

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aforesaid Mark was not found in their Bayly-wick, when as it is witnessed in the same Court of the said Lord Prote∣ctor here, that the said Mark lurked wandred, and lay hid in the County a∣foresaid, and now here at this day came the aforesaid Edward by his Attorney, and offered himself the 4th. day against the aforesaid Mark in the Plea afore∣said, and he came not, and John For∣tescue Knight, Chancellor of the Coun∣ty Pallatine aforesaid, now returneth that he by virtue of the aforesaid Writ of the Lord Protector to him directed by the Writ of the said Lord Protector under Seal, &c. he commanded the She∣riffe of the County of Lanc. as, &c. which said Sheriff to him returned that he took the body of the aforesaid Mark, whose said body here at this day he hath readie, as &c. but because the Sheriffe, the body of the aforesaid Mark now here hath not, therefore he (to wit) Edmund Crafford Esq is in mer∣cy, &c. and it is commanded to the a∣foresaid

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Chancellour of the said Lord Protector of the County Palatine a∣foresaid, that by the Writ of the said Lord Protector under the Seal, &c. he cause the Sheriffe of the said County to be commanded that he have here from the day of Easter in 15. dayes the bodie of the aforesaid Mark, whom, &c. to answer the aforesaid Edward in the Plea aforesaid, &c.

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