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<P>In Camera Scaccarij. Maij 1608.</P>
<P>DIRECTIONS for Commi&s;sioners, with the Steward of each Mannour, A&s;well for admitting of Tenants to Copy hold E&s;tates, as for A&s;&s;e&s;sing of Fines of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Re&s;olued on by the right Honourable <HI>Robert</HI> Earle of Salisbury L. high Trea&s;ourer of England, Sir <HI>Iulius Cae&s;ar</HI> Knight, Chancellour and vnder-Trea|&s;ourer of his Maie&s;ties Exchequer at We&s;t|min&s;ter, Sir <HI>Laurence Tanfield</HI> Knight, L. Chiefe Baron, and the re&s;t of the Barons there.</P>
<P>&para; IMPRINTED AT London by <HI>Robert Barker,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excel|lent Maie&s;tie. 1608.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Directions for Commi&s;|&s;ioners with the Steward of each <HI>Mannour, to admit Tenants to</HI> Copy-hold e&s;tates for Life or Liues, accor|ding to the Cu&s;tome of the Mannor: Re&s;olued on by the right Honourable ROBERT Earle of Salisburie L. high Trea&s;ourer of England, Sir IVLIVS CAESAR Knight, Chancellour and vnder-Trea&s;ourer of his Maie&s;ties Exchequer at We&s;tmin&s;ter, Sir LAVRENCE TANFIELD Knight, L. Chiefe Baron, and the re&s;t of the Barons there.</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t the Commi&s;&s;ion|ers and the Steward with all care and dili|gence to informe them|&s;elues of all &s;urrend|ers, forfeitures, and de|cea&s;es of Tenants for terme of life or liues, and of the quanti|tie, qualitie, and true yeerely value of
<PB N="2" REF="3">each thing &s;o &s;urrendered, forfeited, or happened by decea&s;e, which thereby are in ca&s;e to be granted in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion or reuer&s;ion for life or liues, by Copie of Courtroll, according to the cu&s;tome of the Mannor.</P>
<P>Item, where by determination of &s;uch e&s;tates the Copyholde is in his Maie&s;ties hands, &amp; is harrietable, one Iu&s;tice of Peace, the Surueyor of the Countie, or in his ab&s;ence two Iu&s;tices of the Peace neere&s;t dwelling to the Mannor of and the Steward thereof, To a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the fines at nine yeres true value of ech thing, the ancient Rent and yeerely va|lue of Cu&s;tome workes being repri&s;ed. And thereupon to grant three liues, ac|cording to the Cu&s;tome of the Mannor; or if the Cu&s;tome beare but two liues, then at &s;euen yeeres true value, And where but one life, fiue yeeres value, and not vnder, repri&s;ing <HI>vt &s;upra.</HI></P>
<P>And where the land is not harriet|able
<PB N="3" REF="3">and &s;o the le&s;&s;e charge to the Te|nant, which land may in that regard beare the greater Fine to his Maie&s;tie, To a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Fine for three liues at tenne yeeres true value, and for two liues in pre&s;ent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion at eight yeres true value, And for one life in pre&s;ent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, if the Cu&s;tome will beare no more, at &s;ix yeeres profit, repri&s;ing <HI>vt &s;upra.</HI></P>
<P>And where there is only a widowes e&s;tate in Copyholde land being harri|etable, To contract with &s;uch as de&s;ire grant thereof by Copy for three liues after &s;uch widowes e&s;tate for &s;ix yeeres true value of each thing, the ancient Rent and yeerely value of the workes being repri&s;ed. But where it is not har|rietable, at &s;euen yeeres true value and not vnder.</P>
<P>And where the Cu&s;tome alloweth foure or fiue liues, (as in &s;ome fewe Mannors it doeth, or is &s;o pretended) There to aduance the Fine for his
<PB N="4" REF="4">Maie&s;ties profite accordingly.</P>
<P>And where there is but one life in Copie and po&s;&s;ibilitie of a widowes e|&s;tate, the Copyhold being harrietable, To contract for two liues in reuer&s;ion at three yeeres profit, and not vnder (the rent and yeerely value of Cu&s;tome workes repri&s;ed.) And where the Cu|&s;tome alloweth no widowes e&s;tate, or the Copyholde is not harrietable, To a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Fine at foure yeeres of the true value, and not vnder.</P>
<P>And where there is two liues in Co|pyholde and po&s;&s;ibilitie of widowes e|&s;tates, being al&s;o harrietable, To con|tract for no further e&s;tate.</P>
<P>And where the pre&s;ent Tenants ha|uing three liues in Copie will &s;urren|der by compo&s;ition that three others may be &s;tated in Copie, There for the exchange of the liues being of like age, to contract for one yeeres true value and not vnder. But where tho&s;e that
<PB N="5" REF="4">are to bee admitted, or any of them are younger then tho&s;e that were formerly in Copie, The Commi&s;&s;ioners to ad|uance his Maie&s;ties profit accordingly. And &s;o for exchange of one, two, and three liues or more in reuer&s;ion, the Commi&s;&s;ioners to haue re&s;pectiue re|gard thereto.</P>
<P>Prouided, that the children and next of the kindred of each former Tenant haue heerein preferment, if willingly he or they will de&s;ire to giue the Fines before mentioned.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o, that none of the &s;ayd Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Steward, nor Surueyor, to be heereafter appointed, be Copyhold Tenant of any the Man|nors whereof the Tenants are to be &s;o admitted.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; Directions for Commi&s;|&s;ioners with the Steward of each Mannour, to a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e Fines of Copy-holds wherein the Tenants haue e&s;tates of Inheri|tance, according to the Cu&s;tome of the Mannor: Re&s;olued on by the right Honourable ROBERT Earle of Salisburie L. high Trea&s;ourer of Eng|land, Sir IVLIVS CaeSAR Knight, Chancellour and vnder-Trea&s;ourer of his Maie&s;ties Exchequer at We&s;tmin&s;ter, Sir LAVRENCE TANFIELD Knight, L. Chiefe Baron, and the re&s;t of the Barons.</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t the Commi&s;&s;ion|ers and the Steward with all care and dili|gence to informe them|&s;elues of all &s;urren|ders, and De&s;cents of Tenants not yet admitted, and of the quantitie, qualitie and true yeerely value of each thing &s;o Surrendred or De&s;cended, and whe|ther
<PB N="8" REF="6">by the true and ancient Cu&s;tome the Fine be arbitrable or certaine.</P>
<P>Item, where the land is harrietable, and the fine arditrable, The Steward with one Iu&s;tice of the Peace next dwelling to that Mannor, &amp; the Sur|ueyor of the Countie, or in his ab&s;ence two of the Iu&s;tices neere&s;t dwelling, to a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Fine vpon admittance at one yeere and a halfes profit, according to the true yeerely value, and not vn|der nor otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Item, where the land is not har|rietable, and the Fine arbitrable, to a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e the Fine at two yeeres profit, ac|cording to the true yeerely value and not vnder.</P>
<P>Item, where the Fine is certaine, &amp; &s;o to be prooued by the ancient Court Rols, <HI>tempore H. 7.</HI> and before, or by o|ther &s;ufficient matter of Record, there to admit the Tenants for &s;uch Fine certaine.</P>
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Item, where the Fine is pretended certaine, and cannot bee &s;o prooued to the Commi&s;&s;ioners as afore&s;ayd, yet neuerthele&s;&s;e (in &s;uch ea&s;e) to admit the tenants, and re&s;pect the a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing of the Fine vntill &s;uch tenants haue at|tended the Kings learned Coun&s;ell, and &s;ati&s;fied them therein, or that &s;ome further order &s;hall be taken concerning the &s;ame: And for better notice and in|formation to bee giuen, the Steward &amp; Commi&s;&s;ioners to certifie the State of &s;uch que&s;tionable certainty or vncer|taintie of the Fines, to the Barons of the E&s;chequer.</P>
<P>Item, the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners and Steward to inquire with like care and diligence what harriets, reliefes, or o|ther matter of profit is due vnto his Maie&s;tie by &s;urrender, alienation, or decea&s;e of any the tenants (of &s;uch Mannour) a&s;well of Freeholde as Copyholde, as al&s;o of Lea&s;e lands, and to take &s;uch order that his Maie&s;tie be duly and truly an&s;wered the &s;aid fines,
<PB N="10" REF="7">harriets, reliefs, and other profits from time to time as they grow due.</P>
<P>The &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners &amp; Stew|ard to make true Certificate of their proceedings herein to the Chancellour and Councell, immediatly after euery Court, vnder their handes. And al&s;o like Certificate of all Copyhold lands that &s;hall happen to e&s;cheat or other|wi&s;e come to his Maie&s;ties hands, be|fore they grant them againe by Copie.</P>
<P>Prouided, that none of the &s;ayd Iu|&s;tices of the Peace nor Surueyor be Copyhold tenant of any the Mannors whereof the tenants are to be &s;o ad|mitted.</P>
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