Index

abduction 132

account, action of 138

Adams, Richard 64

Adlington (Cheshire) 93

affinities 83

Ainsworth, John 38, 61–9, 73–7

William 32, 76

Alencon, Francis, duke of 112

annuities 84, 92

apparel 96

appeals 42

arbitration 45, 76, 133, 142

archery 110

arches, court of 59

arrest 19, 22, 81

articles of enquiry 80

Articuli super Cartas 25

artisans 123

asportation of goods or animals 50, 98, 131, 132, 139

assault 14, 50, 52, 98, 132

assize, special 49, 55, 61

assizes 61, 64, 68, 77

athletic ability 110

attaint, action of 5, 29, 38, 72–3

attendance on 94, 105

attorney general 17, 130

Audley, Thomas, Lord 136

Auncel, William 30

Babthorp, William 29

bail 30

bailiffs 12, 14, 21, 43, 87

bannerets 82, 85

Banyard 65

Barnet, battle of 114–15

barrators 17, 82, 125

Barronners 107

Basset, family of 36

Bayne, C.

Baynham, Thomas 64

Bedfordshire 5

Berkeley, family of 60

Henry, Lord 34, 38, 52, 63–4, 71, 75, 93

Maurice, Lord 60

William, marquess of 34, 42

Berkshire 36

bills (petitions) 86, 142

Bingham, wapentake of 67

Black Death 100

Blofeld, hundred of 97

bondmen 43, 46

bouch of court 94, 103

Brandon, Sir William 120–1

Braydeston (Norfolk) 58, 97

Brews, Elizabeth 47

bribes 13, 27–8, 30, 32, 68, 72, 108–9

Bridgewater, customership of 108

Bristol, St Augustine's Abbey 62

Britton 30

Brook, John or Richard 61

Brown, Sir George 106

Brudenell, Robert 61

Bryanabell 100

Buck 69

Burgundy, duchy of 115

Byron, Sir Nicholas 59

Caister (Norfolk) 58, 113–14, 120–1

Calais 115

Calcote (Suffolk) 46

Calle, Richard 44

Caly 59

Cam (Gloucestershire) 63

Cambridgeshire 65

capias, writ of 12

Cardiff, family of 36

Castiglione, Baldassare 111

Cecil, Sir William 18

ceremonies, royal 112

certifying 22–3, 87, 127, 141

certiorari, writ of 77

cestui que use 36, 133–9

chamber, king's 103, 118

privy 103, 105

champerty 55

chancellor 17, 21, 28–9, 37, 53–5, 87–8, 128, 130–1, 142

chancery 54, 82

Chandos, Giles Brydges, Lord 64

Chapel en le Frith (Derbyshire) 67

Chokke, Richard 73

Church, Roger 97

Clippesby, John 120

Codnor (Derbyshire) 96

Coke, Sir Edward 131

Cologne, archbishopric of 115

Colwick (Nottinghamshire) 67

common pleas, court of 20, 34, 63, 69, 73, 84, 90

conspiracy 27, 80, 82

constables 15, 21, 25, 87

continual claim 39, 47

convictions 51

copyholders 134, 139

Costessey (Norfolk) 44, 47

costs, legal 29, 70, 73, 75, 84, 86, 93, 127, 140

Cotton (Suffolk) 44

council, king's 6, 10, 17, 21, 24, 51, 53, 77, 81, 87, 96, 99, 117, 127–31, 142–4

privy 26

counsel, legal 60–2, 73, 84, 86, 116

countenancing a trial 71, 96

countinghouse, king's 102

county court 12, 80

court clerks and officials 31, 74

court of 1487, 29, 142

court, royal 8, 102–22

Coward, B.

Cowell,John 91

criminal law 4, 9, 88–9, 141–3

Cromwell, Thomas 91, 103, 136–7

curtesy of England 136

Dacre of the South, Thomas Fiennes, Lord 135

damages 16, 29, 49, 53, 55, 70, 73, 86, 132, 137, 140

Daniel, Thomas 58

Darcy, Thomas, Lord 98

Debenham, Sir Gilbert 48, 97

debt, action of 12, 27, 63, 73, 95, 133, 136–7

Dedham (Essex) 41, 107, 119

Derby 59, 61, 64, 67, 75

Derby, Thomas Stanley, earl of 59, 74, 76

descent cast 139, 117

Devon 30

disseisin 8

distraint 46–8, 51, 76, 96, 124

Dorset, Thomas Grey, marquess of 107, 111, 126

dower 36, 77, 136

Drayton (Norfolk) 41–2, 44, 46, 118

Drayton Bassett (Staffordshire) 124

Dudley, Edmund 31, 88

duelling 124–5

Dunstable (Bedfordshire) 62

Dymoke, Sir Edward 124

Dyne, William 73

Dryward 107

ecclesiastical courts 37

Edgar, Gregory 61

Edward I 3

Edward IV 105–8, 111, 113–16, 119–21

ejectio jirmae (ejectment), action of 63, 70–1, 134

Elizabeth I 18, 30, 105, 109, 112, 124

Eltham (Kent) 114

embracery 4, 7, 20, 23–4, 28–9, 55, 82, 86, 89, 123, 126–7, 129, 131, 141

Empson, Sir Richard 61, 88, 96

enrolment of land transactions 137

entails 35, 37, 74, 135–6, 138–9

entry into land 39, 42–3, 45–6, 49, 50–1

right of 39, 49

error, action of 73, 75, 87

escape from custody 12

escheators 135

esquires 81, 83, 85

Essex 23, 124

Essex, Henry Bourchier, earl of 107, 113

essoins 59, 84

evidence 68, 87, 139–40

β€?evidences’ 14, 28, 37, 41, 60, 62, 125

examination 20–1, 23–5, 83, 86, 88, 91, 127–9, 131, 142

exceptions, bills of 71

exchequer 90, 140

barons of 10

clerks of 32

exchequer chamber 56, 135

executors 95

Exeter 68

Exeter, Henry Courtenay, marquess of 111

expenses of jurors and witnesses 67–8

extortion 16, 30, 55, 86

eyre, general 81

farms 43

Fastolf, Sir John 17, 32, 47, 60, 68, 72, 106–7, 112–13, 117

favourites, royal 103, 105

fealty 43

fee simple 136

fees 31, 84, 91

felony 4, 11, 18, 25, 36, 77, 98–101

feoffees 36–7, 95, 133–4, 137

β€?feoffment over’ 39, 49

Ferrer, James 99, 101

feudal obligations and profits 36, 133–7

feuds 4–5, 35–6, 76, 120

fine (i.e.

fines 20–2, 28, 30, 49, 72, 83–4, 124, 140

Fineux, John 65

Fitzherbert, Anthony 19

Folville, family of 98

forcible entry 4, 7, 14–15, 22–4, 39–41, 49–52, 58, 98, 123–6, 130–1, 137, 140–1

action of 38, 40, 70–1

forfeiture 36, 84, 115, 121, 127

forgery of deeds 140–1

Fortescue, John 10, 25, 32

Framlingham (Suffolk) 116

French wars 115

Frowick, Thomas 61

Gamelyn, tale of 126

Gascoign, Sir William 126

Gates, Sir John 108–9

genealogies 2, 35, 62

gentlemen 123

gentry 10–12, 17, 35–6, 138

Germyn, Richard 107

Ghent 115

Gloucester, Richard, duke of 106

Gloucestershire 36

β€?good lordship’ 58–9, 74, 96–7, 144

goods, sequestration of 12

grants 108–9

great seal, keeper of the 21, 88, 127, 129

Greene, Godfrey 106

Gresham (Norfolk) 45, 54–5, 59

Gresham, James 54, 59

Grey of Codnor, Henry, Lord 96

Guton (Norfolk) 47

Guy, J. A. 29, 90

Hacche, Robert 30

Hampshire 23

hanaper 53

Haselbach farm 69

Hastings, William, Lord 107, 111, 115

Hawte, Anne 114

Hellesdon (Norfolk) 42

Henmales, Cotton (Suffolk) 117

Henry IV 119

Henry V 119–20

Henry VI 59, 103

Henry VII 126, 128–9, 134–5, 141–2

Henry VIII 89, 109–10, 124, 134–5, 139

heriots 136

Hert, Nicholas 95

Hinton (Gloucestershire) 63

Hobart, James 126

Hoby, Sir Thomas 111

Hogan, William 65

homicide 14, 42, 54, 86, 89, 98, 125, 128

horsemanship 110

Houghton, James 98

Holt Castle (Denbigh) 99

Horncastle (Lincolnshire) 124

household, royal 81, 102–4, 113

clerks of the 103

esquires of the 110

offices in the 102–3

ordinances regulating the 102–3

Howard, Sir John 48

Howes, Thomas 113

Hudson, William 28, 30

hundreds 25, 67

hunting, illegal 128

Huntingdon, Ferdinando Hastings, earl of 60

husbandmen 51, 123

Illingworth, Richard 73

imprisonment 28, 49, 55, 71, 87

indentures 91–2

indictments 16, 21, 25–7, 51–2

information and informers 16, 20–1, 25, 29, 64, 84–9, 97–8, 127–31, 140–3

β€?ingenuity’ 110

Inns of Court 60

insurrection 98

issue, joinder of 61–2, 72

Jakes, Thomas 62

James I 123

Jefferies, P.

Jenny, John 73

William 65, 68

judgement, execution of 17, 75, 132

judges (i.e. justices of the two benches) 10, 16, 17, 29, 31–2, 48, 53, 56, 86–8, 129, 135

clerks and servants of 31, 76

jurors 5, 14–16, 30, 32, 45, 53, 63, 80–1, 87, 101, 127, 141–2

challenge of 65–6

empanelling of 14, 25–6, 63–6, 75, 129

of accusation 9, 11, 14, 25–7, 80, 83, 88, 131, 142

of attaint 72–3

of trial in criminal cases 15, 30, 32, 80, 83, 88, 141–2

of trial in private actions 13, 27–30, 63–9, 71–2

justices' charges 80

justices of assize 15–16, 19–21, 26, 31, 81, 83, 85–6, 89, 129

justices of gaol delivery 16, 84–5, 90, 100

justices of oyer and terminer 32

justices of the peace 11, 15–26, 30, 49–51, 83, 86, 89–90, 123, 127–8

kidnapping 76

king's bench, court of 4, 21–4, 27, 29, 51–3, 56, 62, 73, 80, 84–90, 97, 120, 128–9, 140–2

king's yeoman 106

Kinoulton (Nottinghamshire) 64, 67

Knaresborough, forest of 94, 106

knight service 137

knights 83, 85

labour laws 142

labourers 15, 51

Labourers, Ordinance of 15

β€?labouring’ 5, 13, 28, 66, 95

Lambarde, William 19, 25–6, 90

Lancaster, duchy of 46

chamber of the 75

land wars 6, 8, 12, 34–56

Langley, family of 36

leases 60, 62

Ledham, Robert 97

Lehmberg, S. E. 90

Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of 35, 64–5, 71, 91, 103, 105, 110

lessees 133–4, 138

licences, royal 91, 108

Lincoln, Henry Clinton, earl of 124

Lisle, Thomas Talbot, Viscount 38, 42

litigation 5, 11, 35, 37, 43, 45–6, 57–77

Littleton, Thomas 73

livery, giving or taking or wearing 47, 19–21, 24, 80–91, 126, 131, 141

Magna Carta 89

maintenance 4, 7, 19–21, 24, 28, 55, 79–83, 86–91, 95, 99, 123–6, 131, 136, 140–1

Maitland, F. W. 3, 8

malfeasance of office 30–1, 54, 80–1, 131, 143

Mancini, Dominic 111

manners 110

manor court 43, 45, 119

Markham, John 73

Marowe, Thomas 18

McFarlane, K.

Mellor (Derbyshire) 62, 64, 66, 73–7

military service 110–11

ministers of the king 102–6, 119

Moleyns, Robert Hungerford, Lord 38, 45, 54–5, 59

Montgomery, Sir Thomas 120

More, Sir Thomas 26, 30, 111, 132

mort d'ancestor assize of 27

Morton, John, bishop of Ely 107

master of the rolls 120

Mundford, Osbert 38, 58

musical instruments, playing of 111

Neuss 115

Nibley Green (Gloucestershire) 42

nobility 2, 17, 52, 86, 92, 111, 125, 136–7

nonsuit 69–70

Norfolk 23, 52, 54–5, 60, 90, 97, 100

Norfolk, John Mowbray, duke of58, 72, 97, 107, 114–17, 120–1

Elizabeth, duchess of 114, 116, 121

Norwich 98, 114

Nottingham 61

novel disseisin, assize of 8, 25, 27, 28, 38, 40, 50, 58–60, 70–1, 77, 133

Nowell, Charles 97

oath, deposition on 87

offices 57, 97, 109

Oldminster 52, 62

Oxford, John de Vere, twelfth earl of 95

John de Vere, thirteenth earl of 114, 117

John de Vere, fifteenth earl of 99

Oxfordshire 68

Oxnead (Norfolk) 61

oyer and terminer, commissions of 4, 6, 24, 32, 52–6, 90, 143

pardon 4, 91, 99, 106

parish priest 43

parliament 7, 53, 128

elections to 95, 113

history of 1

lords in 81

petitions in 119

rolls of 6

partition, writ of 63

Paston, family of 6, 10, 17, 31–2, 42, 47, 75, 93–4, 106, 117

Agnes 61

Edmund 120

John I 17, 32, 40–2, 44, 46–8, 54–5, 59, 65, 72–3, 95, 98, 112–13

John II (Sir John Paston) 46, 58, 62, 97, 106–8, 112–21

John III 28, 45–7, 66–7, 106–7, 113, 116, 120

Margaret 42, 44, 47, 65, 112, 115–16, 118

William, justice of common pleas 60, 112

Payn, John 106

peace, commission of the 11, 23, 30

sessions of the 50–2, 87, 123, 126

Peasants' Revolt 68

Pecke 99

penal law procedure 20, 83, 127, 141

perjury 29, 87, 95, 99, 129

β€?pernors of profits’ 137

Peterborough, deanery of 108

petitions 75, 118–20, 28

physical deportment 110

Pilkington, family (of Lancashire) 6

Robert 28, 32, 38, 42, 59, 61–4, 66–9, 73–7, 93–4

pillaging 42–3

pillory 140

plague 100

pleadings 61–2

Plumpstead (Norfolk) 98

Plumpton, family of 6, 60

Sir Robert 28, 44, 58, 60–1, 63–4, 67, 96

Sir William 106

posse 22

Poynings, Elizabeth 34

privy seal, writs of 21, 86–7, 129

proclamations 89, 91, 128, 141

profits from land 132, 136

protection, royal 38, 84

public order 3, 125

Pullan, John 61

pulpit 37

Pulton, Ferdinand 40

qui tam … quam suits 20, 83

rape 128

β€?record’ 23–4, 137

conviction by 51, 130

recovery (of land) 136, 138

reliefs 36, 136

remaindermen 138

rents 40, 44–6, 132

requests, masters of 104

restitution, writ of 55

retainers and retaining 3, 7, 18–24, 29, 80–99, 126–7, 129, 131, 141

reversioners 138

rewards 72, 127

Richmond, Henry Fitzroy, duke of 98

riot 4–5, 7, 14–15, 21–4, 48, 51–2, 77, 86, 89, 120, 123–32, 141

Ripon (Yorkshire) 944

Rising (Norfolk) 58

Rivers, Richard Woodville, Earl 106–7

robbery 86, 101

highway 98–9

β€?roberdsmen’ 12

rolls, clerk of the 10, 87

master of the 29

Roubotham, William 59, 94

rout 89

Sacheverell, Sir Richard 126

St Benet's, Holme, abbey of 66

St German, Christopher 135–6

Sampson, William 99

Saul, N.

Savage, James 62

Sir John 64, 76, 94

Thomas, bishop of London 61, 66, 74

Saxthorpe (Norfolk) 45

Scales, Anthony Woodville, Lord 66, 114, 118

Scarsdale, wapentake of 67

seisin 8, 43–4, 46, 132–3, 137–8

primer 137

servants, household 19–20, 52, 65, 82–3, 85, 93, 110

settlement out of court 29, 54, 69, 73, 97, 143

Shareshull, William 30

sheriffs 5, 10–17, 22, 25, 30, 32, 64, 66, 73, 75, 80–1, 125, 141

Shrewsbury, Margaret, countess of 34

Sibton Abbey (Suffolk) 65

Slimbridge 63

Smith, Thomas 29–30, 72

Smyth, John 34, 52, 60, 62–3, 93

Smythe, Sir John 91

socage 137

β€?solicitors’ 84

Somerset 99

Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, duke of 58

Song on the Venality of the Judges 31–2

Southwark 68

Sparham (Norfolk) 44

speculators, commodity 89

Staffordshire 24

Stapleton, Sir Miles 95

Star Chamber, court of the 7, 30, 34, 87, 90, 123–7, 131–5, 140, 143

complainants in 133–5

decrees of 132–3, 143

statutes, of Marlborough 135

of Westminster I 80

of Westminster II 52

28 Edward I c.ll 127

1 Edward III c.l 17

1 Edward III st.2 c.l4 81

2 Edward III c.7 81

4 Edward III c.ll 81

5 Edward III c.10 28

5 Edward III c.14 12

10 Edward III st.2 c.3 81

14 Edward III st.l c.7 10

20 Edward III c.l 81

20 Edward III c.4 81

20 Edward III c.5 81

20 Edward III c.6 16, 28

21 Edward III c.34 41

42 Edward III c.ll 14

1 Richard II c.44 48, 81

1 Richard II c.7 19, 48, 80, 81

1 Richard II c.9 81

2 Richard II st.l c.6 21

5 Richard II st.l c.7 22, 39, 49

7 Richard II c.5 12

12 Richard II c.10 17

13 Richard II st.3 19, 48, 82, 85

15 Richard II c.2 15, 22–4, 45, 49–50, 84, 130

16 Richard II c.4 82

17 Richard II c.8 23

20 Richard II c.2 19

1 Henry IV c.7 48, 82, 84, 85, 90

2 Henry IV c.21 83, 90, 130

4 Henry IV c.8 49, 55

7 Henry IV c.14 48–9, 83, 84, 127

13 Henry IV c.3 83

13 Henry IV c.7 15, 22–3, 51, 127–8, 130

2 Henry V st.l c.9 128

2 Henry V st.2 c.l 17

2 Henry V st.2 c.3 27

4 Henry VI c.l 16

8 Henry VI c.4 20, 49, 83, 84, 86

8 Henry VI c.9 16, 22–3, 50, 127

8 Henry VI c.14 128

8 Henry VI c.16 127

11 Henry VI c.4 72

15 Henry VI c.5 72

18 Henry VI c.ll 17

23 Henry VI c.7 10

23 Henry VI c.9 14, 16

1 Edward IV c.2 11–12

8 Edward IV c.2 21, 23, 24, 83–5, 89, 90, 127, 131

1 Richard III c.l 135

1 Richard III c.3 12

1 Henry VII c.7 128

3 Henry VII c.l 29, 86, 88, 129, 142

4 Henry VII c.l7 135

11 Henry VII c.3 21, 22, 86, 88, 89, 126–7, 130

11 Henry VII c.5 16

11 Henry VII c.7 128, 141

11 Henry VII c.24 16, 72

11 Henry VII c.25 29, 87, 88, 129, 142

19 Henry VII c.13 15, 23, 24, 88, 127, 141

19 Henry VII c.14 21, 23, 87, 88, 127, 130, 142

19 Henry VII c.15 137

1 Henry VIII c.6 89, 130

21 Henry VIII c.20 130

27 Henry VIII c.10 137, 138

27 Henry VIII c.16 137

32 Henry VIII c.l 137

32 Henry VIII c.7 39

32 Henry VIII c.9 140

32 Henry VIII c.28 39

32 Henry VIII c.31 138

32 Henry VIII C.33 39

32 Henry VIII c.36 138

33 Henry VIII c.10 89, 90

35 Henry VIII c.6 27

37 Henry VIII c.7 89, 90

5 Elizabeth I c.9 140

5 Elizabeth I c.14 140

27 Elizabeth I c.6 27

27 Elizabeth I c.12 16

β€?stoball’ 110

Stonor, family of 6

William 59, 68, 107

Strange, George, Lord 59, 74, 76

Strangways, Sir Giles 99–100

Stratton 47

subpoena, writ of 21, 86–7, 127, 129

Suffolk 65, 97

Suffolk, John de la Pole, duke of 40, 42, 47, 62, 107, 117–18

William de la Pole, duke of 103

supersedeas, writ of 55

Surrey 90

suspects 21

Sutherland, D. W. 9

Sydney, Sir Philip 35

Sir Robert 35

tenants 40, 43–8, 92–3, 101

termors, see lessees

Throckmorton, Sir Thomas 38, 52, 62, 64, 75

Tideswell (Derbyshire) 38, 63, 67, 77

tithes 62

title, suits over 38–9, 49, 69, 74, 77, 132–3, 136

tourn, sheriff's 11, 16

tournaments and tilt yard 110, 114

trailbaston, commission of 27

ordinance of 81

treason 54, 128

treasurer 28, 87, 113

treaties 41, 45, 121

trespass, action of 25, 37–40, 50, 58, 70, 77, 133, 137

trespasses (misdemeanours) 11, 14, 18, 25, 52–3, 77, 88, 128, 142

truncated or summary procedure 15, 19–24, 29, 49–50, 83–9, 127–8, 141–2

undersheriff 12, 16, 64, 125

uses, feoffees to 36, 49, 135, 137

foeffment to 36–7, 449, 70, 132–9

statute of, see 27 Henry VIII c.lO 36, 137–8

vagabonds 12, 15, 89, 142

verdicts 29, 68–72, 86, 141

Vernon, Henry 69

John 69

wager of law 63

wages, excessive 86

β€?waiting on’, see β€?attendance on’

Walsingham (Norfolk) 116

Walsingham, Sir Francis 91

wardship 36, 135–6

warrantors 95

Wars of the Roses 92

Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, earl of 35, 71

waste, action of 138

β€?well willers’ 93, 95

Wigan (Lancashire) 80

Williams, John, bishop of Lincoln 124, 125

Willoughby, family of 6, 95

Henry 104

Sir John 104

wills 36–7, 57, 132, 135–8

Wiltshire 123

Wingfield, Thomas 107

witnesses 5, 62–3, 86, 95, 101, 125, 139–40

suborning of 140

Witton (Norfolk) 98

Wolsey, Thomas, cardinal 29, 90, 131–2

woods 43

Woodville, Queen Elizabeth 111, 118

Sir Edward 111

Sir John 107

Worth, Thomas 59

writs 13, 16, 30, 76, 96

Wykes, John 106

Wylton, John 98

Yates 59

Yaxley, John 61

Year Books 6, 63

Yelverton, Sir William 32, 44, 47

yeomen 51, 82, 85, 123

York 61, 96

John Kemp, archbishop of 94

Richard, duke of 95, 113

Yorkshire 100, 126

Yotton, Master John 118