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Account, action of,
-, - - against Collectors,
guardians,
merchants, apprentices,
-, - juries and wager of law in,
-, - removed to the Court of
Husting,
-, - on writs of Monstravit, n.,
-, - in the Husting and Mayor's
Court, xxii
Acquittance, action of,
-, - made in Court,
Acton Burnel, Statute of, concerning Recognizances, n.
Aethelred, the Laws of, xxxv
Affrays, inquests on,
-, - - by writ,
Alderman, assault upon an,
Almaine, see Hanse
Appeal of Felony, xxviii xxix xxxi, xxxii
Apprentices, enrolment of, in the
Paper of Guildhall, n.
-, - Ordinance of the Spurriers
relating to,
Apprenticeship, actions relating to,
in the Chamberlain's Court,
-, - - for ejecting an apprentice,
-, - - against an apprentice's surety,
-, - - failing to provide for an
apprentice,
-, - - enticing away an apprentice,
-, - - harbouring a fugitive apprentice,
-, - - an apprentice summoned to
render account,
-, - - unjust dismissal,
-, - - non-enrolment,
-, - - quitclaiming term after one
year's service,
-, - - leaving a master's service,
-, - - marriage during apprenticeship,
Arbitration,
Arogañn , meaning of, n.
Arrest, of stolen money in the
hands of bankers,
-, - action for unjust, of boats by
Sheriff's orders, of a debtor
at Calais, of goods at Abbeville,
Assault, common,
-, - on City officers, beadles, the
Watch,
on an alderman,
on a landlord's agents,
on an impounder of stray sheep,
-, - and asportation of goods,
and damage,
and ejection,
-, - with wounding,
personal injury,
-, - by beating doors and windows,
by opprobrious words,
see Defamation
-, - in Guildhall,
-, - by the Watch,
-, - harbouring persons guilty of,
Assembly, charge of unlawful, against the brewhouse-keepers, Smiths, Spurriers, Fruiterers,
Assize of Bread, prosecutions under,
-, - of Candles,
-, - of Cloth,
-, - of Wine, n.
Attachment, hindering and resisting,
-, - charges of unjust, against
Sheriff's officers,
-, - action for unjust, of a ship and
goods,
-, - actions for unjust delivery of,
-, - for debt, procedure in,
-, - foreign, custom of, n.
-, - per corpus, where distraint impossible,
Attorney, appointments of,
under the Mayoralty
Seal, by writ,
-, - - discussion as to the continuance of,
-, - letters of, of the Fair of Champenoise Brie,
Auditors, in actions of accounts,
Avowry, of the goods of non-freemen, actions relating to,
Bakers, forbidden to buy grain on
credit,
-, - list of those hiring bakehouses,
-, - punishment of fraudulent, xx
-, - seals for bread,
Bankers, Lumbard,
Bardi, Society of the, of Florence, n.
Batours, complaints of the Girdlers against the Mistery of,
Beam, charge of breaking the
King's,
-, - action by the weigher of the
King's,
-, - charge of weighing with a
private,
Bequest, for construction of pavement of Bishopsgate Within,
Bermen (porters), Society of the,
Billingsgate, Wardenship of,
Bishopsgate, Hanse merchants
charged with the repair of, n.
-, - bequest for pavement of,
Black Book of the Admiralty, n. n.
Blackfriars, murage taken for rebuilding the Wall by, n.
Bladers, acquitted of a charge of selling dearer after the Proclamation about Pollards,
Bonus system, among the cordwainers,
Bread, price of, actions relating to,
Breadstreet Ward, brewhousekeepers of,
Bridge Ward, Collectors of,
Brokers, the Sworn,
-, - persons charged with acting as
unlicensed, n.
Buckler-play, forbidden, n.
Burellers, complaints of, against
the Weavers,
-, - action of, against the Weavers
for ceasing work,
Burglary, man caught in, committed to Newgate,
Butchers, enhancing of prices by,
-, - ordinance as to cash-payment
by,
Candles, Assize of,
Carmelite Friars, the robbery at the,
Carpenters, alleged confederacy of, to disobey an ordinance touching their craft and wages,
Chamber of the Guildhall,
Chamberlain, Pleas in the Court of the,
Champerty, charge of taking a house unlawfully in, n. see Maintenance
Chandlers, charged with enhancing prices,
-, - Craft of the,
Cheap, presentment by the Ward of,
"City Law", description of the Mayor's Court in, xxvi-xxvii
City officers, charge of resistance to,
Clergy, Writ of Delivery in favour of a clerk unlawfully imprisoned in Newgate,
Cloth, Assize of,
-, - prices for weaving,
Coal, Sea-Coal, bought at Retheresgate,
-, - price of,
-, - sent from Newcastle-on-Tyne,
-, - unhealthiness of,
Coal Meter, the,
Cobblers, accused of bad work,
Cocket, meaning of, n.
Coin, base and counterfeit, cases relating to,
Cokedonii, cokedeni, cocodones, base money,
Collision at Sea, action relating to, n.
Colognese, Guildhall of, n., n.
Commission, sales by,
Commonalty, prosecutions by, for unlawful brokerage, forestalling and harbouring foreigners, retail trading by foreigners, avowry of foreign bargains, unlawful confederacies, forestalling, unlawful ordinances by the Weavers, refusing pollards, neglecting to repair the bridge over Walbrook, assault on City officers,
Compurgation, see Law, Wager of
Conduit, gift for building the,
Confederacy, charge of unlawful, against the Coopers,
Carpenters, Fruiterers, Skinners, Smiths,
Contempt of the King, by defiant
words against him,
-, - by breaking the King's Beam,
Contract, breach of, for tiling
houses, for roofing a
chapel,
-, - - to acknowledge and confirm
the sale of a house, to
sell a house,
-, - - decisory oath of plaintiff in,
n.
Coopers, charged with suing a
cooper in the Court Christian,
-, - - making an ordinance enhancing prices,
-, - fines paid by, on conviction,
Cordwainers, ordinances relating
to apprentices, n.
-, - accused of bad work,
-, - charged with enhancing prices,
-, - complaints of journeymen against
masters,
-, - and cobblers, Scrutiny of,
Corn, metage of, at Queenhithe,
Coroner, of the City of London, xviii
Court Christian, charges of impleading in,
-, - King's prohibition against,
-, - Mayor's precept against,
-, - action in 1292 relating to, xx
Courtesy-gift, to the King, Queen and other magnates,
Covenant, actions relating to,
Curfew, prohibition of nightwalking after,
Curriers, charged with enhancing
prices,
-, - complaints of the Skinners
against,
Custom of the City, in essoins,
-, - foreign attachment, n.
-, - gavelet, n.
Customs, actions relating to the
collection of, n.
-, - the King's,
-, - of wools and hides in Ireland,
Rolls of,
Customs, for metage of corn at Queenhithe sanctioned by Mayor, Aldermen, and four men of each Ward,
Customs and Services, writ of, in
action of Gavelet, n.
-, - pleas of, in the Husting, xiv
Custumals, of the City of London,
viii
Damage, caused by interference
with a tiler, action relating to,
-, - charges of wilful,
Damages, complaint that a jury
taxed,
-, - a day given for defendant to pay,
if he thought fit,
-, - mitigation of,
-, - taxed by Court,
-, - taxed by jury, increased by
Court,
-, - taxed in Sheriff's Court, action
for payment of,
De aresto facto, writ of,
Debt, actions of,
-, - against executors,
-, - by writ,
-, - removed into the Sheriff's
Court,
-, - submitted to arbitration,
-, - against an official for allowing
a debtor to escape,
-, - in the Sheriff's Court,
-, - by writ in the Sheriff's Court,
-, - against Sheriff for refusing to
execute a judgment,
-, - against a foreigner who makes
his law with the seventh hand,
-, - Court of the Weavers allowed in,
-, - for detinue of a horse,
-, - against a father as debtor for his
son,
-, - for detinue of money recovered
in the Sheriff's Court,
-, - in the Husting and Mayor's
Court, xxii
Defamation, action of, in the
King's and local Courts, n.
-, - - for opprobrious words to a
citizen, an employer,
-, - - for defaming the Earl of
Athol, the Forest Justiciar,
the Mayor, the
Sheriff, an Alderman,
the Mayor, Aldermen
and Bailiffs, the Mayor
and Court, the Mayor's
Serjeant, the Sheriff's
Serjeants, the Clerk of the
Chamber, a jury, the
Collectors,
a plaintiff in Court,
Defamation, action of, by a jury against a defendant, against a fellow-juror,
Detinue, actions of, of chattels,
deeds,
pledges after payment,
recognizances,
-, - by bailees,
-, - in the Husting and Mayor's
Court, xxii
Disrespect to the Mayor, charges of,
Distraint, actions for resisting,
-, - actions against officials for unjust,
-, - actions against creditors for unjust,
-, - method of, in the City, n.
-, - by removing doors and windows,
Divorce, action relating to,
-, - definition of, n.
Dower, action of, in the Husting, xiv
Dubbing, forfeiture of fishbaskets for, n.
Easterlings, merchants of Almaine, n.
Edward II, Articles of, with regard to the Mayor's Court in xvii
Edward III, Charter of, to London, xii
Eloignment of a deed, action relating to,
Equitable jurisdiction of the Mayor's Court, n.; see Petitions
Error, actions of,
-, - - by writ in the Sheriff's Court,
Error, actions of, by writ in the
Husting, x, xx
-, - - Mayor's Court jurisdiction
in, xx
-, - - by plaint in the Mayor's
Court, xxiv
Essoin, definition of,
-, - cannot purge previous default,
lain.
-, - de communi,
-, - de servicio regis,
-, - warrant for,
-, - not admissible for witnesses of
a foreigner,
-, - separate, disallowed where plaintiffs prosecuted jointly,
-, - two essoins not allowed without
intervening appearance,
-, - invalid owing to subsequent
presence in Court,
Estrepement, action of,
Exceptions, that plaintiffs in
separate suits against the same
defendant, should not call each
other to witness (not allowed),
-, - that the action was pending in
another court (resisted as dilatory),
Exchequer, mainprise taken at the,
-, - writ of, in an action of trespass,
Export, prohibition of,
-, - action relating to unlawful,
Fairs, Champenoise Brie, Luton, St Botulph's, n. Thoraud, Turruk, Westminster,
False Imprisonment, see Monstravit, writ of
Felony, appeal of, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxii; mainprise in, xxviii- xxix; Great Law in, xxx-xxxi; Middle Law in, xxxi-xxxii; Third Law in, xxxii-xxxiii; punishment of, xi-xiii; jury in, xxxi n. n. xxxix-xl
Feme Sole , Custom of the City relating to, n.
Fish, foreigner charged with selling
retail,
-, - rules as to the purchase of,
-, - charge of selling putrid,
-, - action for unjust forfeiture of,
Fishmongers, charged with enhancing prices,
-, - - - forestalling,
Fishmongers, Ordinances of, relating to dubbing,
-, - ordered to allow freedom of
trade to fishmongers of the
Stalls,
-, - complain of forestalling,
-, - their Ordinances of
n.
Fixtures, action relating to,
Flemish and Brabantine lodging-house keepers,
Flemish tiles,
Flotsam, allegation of delaying a journey for,
Folkmoot, the, x, xiv, xxxii
Foreign Attachment, custom of,
n.
-, - jury in,
Foreigners, Sheriff's Court for,
-, - required to produce witnesses
incontinenti,
-, - unlawful sale of their goods
after departure,
-, - prosecuted for buying and selling
retail,
-, - - trading with other foreigners,
keeping lodging-houses for foreigners,
-, - provisions of for hearing
pleas of, xx
Forestalling, prosecutions for, against a broker, a broker of carts, a butcher, cooks, corrimongers, fishmongers, fruiterers, freemen, ironmongers, the keeper of the Winchester Seld, pepperers, poulterers, timber-merchants, woodmongers,
Forfeiture, actions against the Sheriffs for unjust,
Frankpledge, system of, in the City, n., xxx
Fraud, actions of,
Freedom of the City, action
relating to,
-, - offenders deprived of,
-, - foreign poulterers admitted to,
-, - purchase of,
-, - methods of obtaining, n.
Freshforce, Assize of, xviii n. see Novel Disseisin
Frairs Preachers, Order of,
Fruiterers, charged with making an unlawful confederacy to enhance prices,
Furs, Article on, in Notes and Queries, n.
Galley, the King's,
Gallows, the City, xii
Gaol Delivery, Justices of, xi, xii
Garnishee, oath of, with third hand,
Gavelet, action of, n.
German lodging-house keepers,
Gift to King, Queen and other Magnates,
Girdlers, complaints of the Mistery of, against the Batours,
God's Penny,
Gotland Sea Law, on collisions, n.
Grain-Measures, seizure of false,
Grossores , Hanse Merchants charged with acting as,
Guardians, of orphans, appointed by Mayor and Aldermen, see Wardship
Guildhall, actions for assault
committed in,
-, - account rendered at, bread
weighed at, acknowledgment
of receipt at, horse valued
at,
-, - jury of the people living round,
of servants and attorneys of,
-, - Chamber of, enrolment in,
payment made in,
-, - New Chapel of,
-, - the Paper of the, n.
n.
-, - of the Hanse, and Colognese,
n., n.
Hand-Looms, destruction of, by weavers,
Hand-Mills, price of,
Hanse of Almaine, Merchants of
the, n.
-, - Thetard le Estreys, Alderman
of,
-, - Court of, claimed,
-, - Guildhall of, n., n.
Harbouring, of foreigners forbidden to brokers,
-, - of prostitutes, prosecutions for,
Henry I, miskenning forbidden in
Charter of, n. x
-, - right of withernam granted by,
n.
Horse-slaughtering, forbidden in the City,
Hue and Cry,
Husting, origin of the Court of,
xiii-xiv
-, - delegation of pleas from, xvixviii
-, - pepoudrous merchants sue in,
xvi
-, - distinction between the Mayor's
Court and, xxi
Husting, Court of, action for
execution of a judgment given in,
-, - - non-enrolment of a deed in,
-, - judgment in an action for
impleading a citizen against
the liberty, to be given in,
-, - - in an action of forestalling,
to be given in,
-, - fine to be levied in,
-, - City's claim to the probate of
wills in, n.
-, - distress for rent delivered in,
-, - unlicensed broker deprived of
the freedom in,
-, - verdict and judgment in action
for assault given in,
Husting of Common Pleas, good
men of Portsokne Ward summoned to,
-, - action of gavelet in,
-, - action of account removed to,
-, - action of replegiare in, n.
-, - actions in Mayor's Court for
malicious suit by monstravit in,
-, - writs in the Bag of,
Husting of Pleas of Land, action
in, for unjust forfeiture of fish,
-, - verdict and judgment removed
to the Mayor's Court,
Imprisonment, see False Imprisonment, Monstravit, writ of
Infangenthef And Outfangenthef, in the City, xi-xiii
Intimidation, actions for,
Intrusion, pleas of, xviii
Italian Merchants, presentment of jury against,
Ininerant Justices, their sessions at the Tower, viii, xi
Itinerant Justices, their sessions
at the Tower, in, xvi
-, - - in 1226, xxviii, xxx
-, - - in 1244, xiii, xv, xxxii, xxxix
-, - - in 1276, xxxi
-, - - in 1321, viii, xxv, xxix, xxxi,
xxxiii, n.
Judicia Civitatis Lundonie, ix n.
Jurisdiction of Mayor's Court,
in equity,
-, - in trespasses,
-, - does not extend to offences committed in France,
-, See Husting, Sheriff's Court
Jury, in the Mayor's Court, xxxixxliii
-, - as witnesses, xli, n.
-, - amerced for repudiating verdict,
-, - sues for slander,
-, - accused of lying,
-, - two juries summoned for one
issue,
-, - arbitrators chosen to examine
challenge against,
-, - of persons attending Guildhall,
of persons living round
Guildhall, of merchants and
masters of ships, of sailors
and merchants, of sailors,
travellers and good men of
Billingsgate, of native and
foreign merchants, travellers and
sailors, of physicians and
surgeons, of word-merchants
and dyers, of butchers,
of foreign merchants and of
Billingsgate,
-, - no skinners to be summoned on
a,
Justiciar of London, x
-, - trials for murder before the
xxx
King's Court, prohibition of actions between citizens in,
Kissers, charged with selling dearer after the Proclamation about Pollards,
Law, Wager of, by the Great Law,
xxx-xxxi
-, - by the Middle Law, xxxi-xxxii
-, - by the Third Law, xxxii-xxxiii
-, - - in trespass, xxxiii-xxxv
-, - in civil actions, xxxv-xxxvii
-, - of twelve oath-helpers, xxxii
Law, Wager of, in conspiracy, xxxv
-, - by single hand, in foreign
attachment, n.; in verification of goods,
-, - third hand in foreign attachment, in verification of
goods attached,
-, - seventh hand by foreigner in
action of debt,
-, - decisory oath of plaintiff in
breach of contract, n.,
in detinue, in trespass,
-, - - of defendant in detinue,
in covenant,
-, - plaintiff ordered to make, on
allegation of defendant,
-, - admitted in actions of account,
assault, n.,
breach of contract, covenant,
debt,
defamation, detinue,
disrespect to the
Mayor, enhancing prices,
prohibition,
-, - in trespass, Statute law as to,
n.
-, - not admitted in actions of
assault on the King's bailiffs,
forestalling, fraud,
where witnesses could be
called, where a bond
was produced,
-, - pleadings against, in an action
of account, in an action
involving imprisonment,
Law Merchant,
-, - arbitration according to,
-, - on agreement of witnesses,
-, - wager of law in, xxxv
-, - in foreigners' pleas, xvi
Leathersellers charged with selling dearer after the Proclamation about Pollards,
Letters Testimonial,
Liability for servant's losses, action relating to,
Libertas Londoniensis, date of, xiv
Liberty, of the Abbot of St Albans,
Liberty of London, actions for infringement of,
Lombard and Provencal lodginghouse keepers,
Ludgate, murage taken for rebuilding the Wall by, n.
Magnus Liber de Chartis et Libertatibus Civitatis, xxv-xxvi
Mainpernor, judgment on,
Mainpernors: one, for payment,
to render account,
to keep the peace,
-, - two, to come up for judgment,
for
return of a mazer when repaired,
to pay amercements,
to make a law,
to render account, to restore
goods,
-, - three, to come up for judgment
for assault,
-, - four, to come up for judgment
for assault, forestalling,
contempt of court, to
pay a fine for breach of sequestration,
-, - five, to answer in an action of
debt,
-, - six, to answer for threats,
for breaking a sequestration,
to hear judgment on assault,
to pay a fine to the King,
to hear judgment in maintenance, for good behaviour,
-, - twelve, to hear judgment on
assault, to keep the peace,
-, - fifteen, to keep the peace,
Mainprise and Bail, City customs relating to, xxviii-xxx
Maintenance, actions relating to,
Malice, allegation of, in leasing houses,
Malicious error, issue as to,
Malicious prosecution,
Maritime actions,
Marlborough, the Statute of, relating to false judgment, xx
St Martin's, Soke of, xiii n.
Masons and Carpenters, the Four
Sworn, n.
-, - the King's, intimidated by City
masons,
Mayhem, payment for,
-, - the Middle Law in, xxxi
Mayor, defamation of,
-, - disrespect to,
-, - deriding the,
Mayor's Court, action adjourned
owing to absence of Aldermen in,
-, - jurisdiction of, in trespass,
covenant, debt, over
foreigners, n.
-, - equitable jurisdiction of, n.;
see Petitions, actions by
-, - the Files of the, vii
-, - later importance of the, ix
-, - Edward II's articles relating to,
xvii
-, - first recorded actions in, xix-xx
-, - distinction between the Husting
and, xxi
-, - relation between the Sheriff's
Court and, xxiii-xxv
-, - described in Ricart's Kalendar,
xxv-xxvii
-, - treatises on the practice of the,
xxvii n.
Metage, of coal at Retheresgate,
-, - of corn at Queenhithe,
-, - and Porterage of corn at Queenhithe,
Military Service, action relating to losses during,
Miskenning, n.
Monstravit, writ of, in the Court
of Husting, n.,xxi, xxii, xxii n.
-, - - actions for unjust imprisonment by,
Mort d' Ancestor, Rolls of, viii n.
-, - Assizes of,
Murage, history of, in the City,
n.
-, - payment of, by foreign poulterers,
Nightwalkers, actions against,
-, - inquest relating to,
-, - King's Articles against, n.
-, - measures against, xx
Northampton, arrest by bailiffs of,
Notes and Queries, Article on furs, n.
Novel Disseisin, Rolls of, viii n.
-, - Assizes of, xiii, xviii
Nuisance, action of,
Oath, decisory, peremptory, in the Mayor's Court, xxxvi-xxxvii; see Law, Wager of
Oath-Helpers, proof by, xxx- xxxvii; see Law, Wager of
Obstructing, the Sheriff's Serjeants, charge of,
Official of the Archdeacon of
London, defendant committed
to,
-, - executor appointed by,
See Court Christian
Oleron, Law of, on collisions,
n.
-, - on cost of pilotage and stores,
n. n.
Ordinactionum, Liber, evidence of,
as regards debtors, xvii
-, - - date of, xvii n.
Orphanage, see Wardship
Oxford, Charter to, xi
Paper of the Guildhall, n., n.
Parisian Livre, value of, n. n., n.
Parliament, prisoners remanded
to appear before,
-, - carpenters charged with making
a,
-, - smiths charged with making a,
Partitioning of tenement held by co-parceners,
Patria, meaning of, n.
Peace, the King's, xxxiii
-, - breach of,
-, - - at night,
-, - justice of,
-, - guardians of,
-, - six mainpernors for keeping,
-, - twelve mainpernors for keeping,
See Assaults, Affrays, Watch
Pesage, taken at London Bridge, n.
Petitions, actions by,
n.
-, - description of, xxvii-xxviii
See Equitable jurisdiction of the
Mayor's Court
Piepowder, Courts of, xvi
-, - - wager of law in, xxxv
Pilotage, cost of, n
Plaintiffs, committed to prison on charges in defendant's pleading,
Plaints, actions by, in the Husting
and Mayor's Court, xviii-xx
-, - description of, xxvii-xxviii
Plea and Memoranda Rolls, vii, viii
Pleas of the Crown, x-xi
Pledges, for good behaviour, for payment for board and lodging, for payment of damages, for payment of rent,
Pledges, action of, in the Husting,
n.
-, - actions for return of voluntary,
-, - actions for pledges unjustly
taken for rent, for
debt,
Pollards and Crocards, actions
relating to,
-, - proclamation about n. 2
-, - value of,
Poulterers, charged with forestalling,
-, - foreign, at Cornhill, n.
-, - foreign, charged with exporting
poultry,
-, - proclamation relating to,
Prices, enhancing of,
-, - of bread,
-, - by the batours, bladers,
butchers, chandlers,
cordwainers, curriers,
fishmongers,
foreigners, fruiterers,
kissers, leathersellers, tanners,
weavers, see Forestalling
-, - regulation of, by girdlers and
batours,
-, - - unlawful, by the coopers,
Prisoners, actions on escape and wrongful delivery of,
Privies, common, of the City,
Proclamations, against bearing
arms, nightwalking,
-, - relating to pollards and crocards,
n.
-, - against stonebows,
-, - - defiling the streets,
Prohibition, writ of, n.
-, - actions of, see Court Christian
Prostitutes, assault by,
-, - charges of harbouring,
-, - Ward presentment relating to,
Protection, letters of,
Punishments, pleading that one offence should not incur two,
Purveyance, actions relating to,
Quays of citizens, payment by
foreigners for discharging wines
or woad upon,
-, - action for preventing merchants
from unloading at,
Queen's Gold, the City's liability
for the payment of, n.
-, - a Fifteenth taken for,
-, - actions relating to the collection
of,
Recognizances, Rolls of, n.
-, - actions on,
-, - enrolled,
-, - in the Sheriff's Court,
-,
See Statute Merchant
Recorder, the, xxv
Records, keeping of, in mediaeval
London, vii
-, - loss of, during the Great Fire,
vii
Refusal to quit,
Regrators,
Replegiare, action of, in the Husting of Common Pleas, n.
Reprisal, actions of,
-, - - by writ,
See Withernam
Retail, foreigners charged with selling,
Ricart's Kalendar, xxv-xxvi
St Laudus, patron of the Smiths,
St Martin's le Grand, Curfew at,
-, - Commissioners of Error at,
xxv
St Paul's, Court of, allowed,
St Paul's Soke, composition
between the City and the Bishop
of London with regard to thieves
taken in, xii n.
-, - claim of jurisdiction in, xiii n.
Salvage, payment to men of Sandwich and Margate for,
Sanitation, Chamberlain responsible for public, n.
-, - offences relating to,
Schertford, tenements recovered as, n.
Scrutiny, the Sworn, of cordwainery,
-, - - saltery and vinegar,
-, - - wine,
Sea, see Maritime actions, Oleron
Sequestration, method of, in the
City, n.
-, - actions for breach of,
-, - - for resistance to,
-, - - for unjust,
-, - - for allowing lapse of,
-, - - for unjust delivery of,
Servants, liability of master for losses of,
Serviens, general use of term, n.
Sheriffs, as servants of the Mayor's
Court, n.
-, - as plaintiffs and defendants in
the Mayor's Court, xxiii-xxiv
-, - action against, for returning an
attachment,
-, - - for not producing a desendant,
Sheriffs' Court, origin of, xiv-xv
-, - the Rolls of, viii
-, - held in the Sheriffs' houses in
the 13th century, xv
-, - action for assault in,
-, - execution of debt granted by,
sued in Mayor's Court,
-, - for foreigners,
-, - jurisdiction of in account, n.;
covenant, debt, foreign
obligation, trespasses,
-, - jury of persons frequenting,
Sheriffs' Customs, see Customs
Sheriff's Tourn, xiv
Ships, see Maritime actions, Oleron
Skinners, alleged confederacy of
journeymen,
-, - complaint of, against the Curriers for enhancing prices,
-, - a currier charged with dealing in
peltry against the ordinances of
the,
Smiths, unlawful confederacy of the,
Sokes, of the Bishop of London,
-, - proceedings in the Court of the
Soke of the Prior of St Bartholomew,
-, - their claims at the Quo Warranto
enquiry, xiii n.
Spurriers, unlawful confederacy and ordinance of,
Statute Merchant, n.,
-, - a judgment in itself,
Statutes, Acton Burnel, n.,
n.
-, - Marlborough, xx
-, - Quo Warranto,
-, - Wales, n., xxxv
-, - Westminster,
-, - de Falsa Moneta, n.
See Westminster, Provisions of
Steelyard, the, n.
Steward and Marshal,
-, - Court of, n.,
-, - action for unlawful prosecution
in Court of,
Stocks Market, Fishmongers of, n.
Stonebows, offence against the proclamation concerning,
Streets, actions relating to defilement of,
Summons, evidence of, required in
Court,
-, - refusal to receive,
Tallages, 2000 marks for renewing
liberties of the City,
-, - 18d. in the pound,
-, - £1000,
-, - £1100,
-, - for gift to Prince of Wales,
-, - to acquit purprestures and
Sheriff's debts,
-, - of a Twentieth,
-, - actions relating to,
Tawyers, n.
Threats, action for intimidating
the King's masons by,
-, - actions relating to,
-, - imprisonment for,
-, - demanding money by,
Tilers, action for preventing an employer from obtaining,
Tournois, value of the Livre, n.
Traylebaston, Justices of,
Trespass, see Assault, Defamation,
Detinue, Distraint, Fraud, Intimidation, Maintenance, Monstravit, Threats
-, - Mayor's Court jurisdiction in,
-, - wager of law in, n., n.
-, - action by writ for housebreaking
and theft,
-, - no damages below the value of
4d. in,
-, - abetting disorderly persons,
-, - carrying away grass,
-, - enticing away an apprentice,
-, - obtaining the sealing of a deed
under duress,
Trespass, overcharge by officials,
-, - preventing merchants from using
a citizen's quay,
-, - procuring unjust arrest at
Calais,
-, - refusal to execute judgment,
-, - - by weavers to work,
-, - - to surrender a shop,
-, - - to leave a tenement on notice,
-, - by carrying away appurtenances
from a house, fixtures,
wine before payment,
a horse and corn,
-, - the Sheriff's jurisdiction in, xv
-, - actions of, in the Husting, xxii-
xxiii
-, - the Third Law in, xxxiii-;xxxv
Trone, the King's, see Beam, the King's
Unlawful Assembly, see Assembly, Parliament
Verification, of goods attached,
-, - - by single hand,
-, - - third hand,
-, - - six witnesses,
-, - - in the Mayor's Court, xxxvi
Victuals, prosecutions for selling putrid,
Viewers, the Sworn, n.
Villeins, legal position of, n. 1
Wages, intimidation of King's
masons in a matter relating to,
-, - regulation by cordwainers,
Walbrook, oath-helpers chosen from either side of, xxx
Wales, King's expedition to,
War, between England and France,
Wardmote, presentment in, for harbouring prostitutes,
Wardrobe, Dividend of the King's,
n.
-, - the Prince's,
Wards, four from each of the, summoned to set up customs for Queenhithe,
Wardship, Custom of London in,
n.
-, - actions relating to,
-, - Husting and Mayor's Court
jurisdiction in, xxii
Warranto, Statute de Quo,
Warranty of a horse, case relating to,
Watch, Ordinances relating to the,
n.
-, - assault upon the,
-, - charge of assault by the,
Weapons, unlawful carrying of,
Weavers, bailiffs of the,
-, - Charter of Henry II to,
-, - Court of, n.
-, - disputes between burellers and,
-, - complaint of the Guild of,
against foreign weavers,
-, - ordinances relating to the, n.,
Westminster, the provisions of, relating to false judgment, xx
William I, Charter of, ix
Wills, action for execution of,
-, - - for production of,
-, - City's claim to the probate of,
n.
Winchester Seld, the keeper of, xx-xxi
Wine, allowance for gauging,
-, - Assize of, n.
-, - Scrutiny of,
-, - foreigners charged with selling
retail,
-, - harbouring new among old,
-, - prices of,
-, - sale of unsound,
Wisbury, Law of, relating to collisions,
Withernam, action of, n.; see Reprisal
Witnesses, Trial by, xxxvii-xxxix
-, - calling of, passim
-, - oath not to suborn, etc.,
passim
-, - to be produced incontinenti by
foreigners, n.,
-, - qualifications necessary for,
-, - examination of, by Aldermen,
n.
-, - examination of, to be fully
recorded,
-, - objection to two separate plaintiffs calling each other as,
-, - for payment not admitted against
an uncancelled bond,
-, - required to testify as to origin
of contract in action of debt,
-, - divergence in testimony of,
Woad, method of using, n.
Women defendants, not to answer without husbands, n. see Feme Sole
Woodmongers, complaint of, against foreigners,
Writs, actions by, in the Husting
and Mayor's Court, xviii-xx
-, - of attorney,
-, - de computo inter mercatores,
-, - de debito in the Sheriff's Court,
-, - of delivery in favour of a clerk
imprisoned for debt,
Writs, de execucione facienda in the
Husting,
-, - of justicies in computo, n.
-, - of monstravit, n.,
xxi, xxii, xxii n.
-, - of reprisals,
-, - of right in the Husting, xiii
-, - of trespass,
-, - on behalf of a debtor who produced acquittances,
-, - to hold an inquest on an affray,
-, - charge against Sheriff of failing
to obey,