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A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST INVASION BY THE ROMANS TO THE ACCESSION OF WILLIAM AND MARY, IN 1689 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt: ... defined; and that the courts christian might not assume the undue cognizance of temporal rights, they were confined to matrimonial and testamentary causes, the non-payment of tithes, perjury, defamation, mortuaries, and the infliction of public penance. The institution 1285.of itinerary judges was retained; and, for the more 'prompt administration of justice, it was enacted that two of the number, aided by one or more discreet knights, should hold assizes in each county thrice in the year. These officers might not be deficient in learning or talents; but there is great reason to doubt their integrity. With small salaries they amassed immense riches; and when the king, after an absence of three years, returned to England in 1289, all the judges were apprehended, and indicted for bribery. Two only were acquitted. Weyland, the chief justice of the king's bench, was found guilty of having first instigated his servants to commit murder, and then screened them from punishment. He abjured the realm, and all his property, both real and personal, was adjudged to the king rf Stratton, the chief baron of the exchequer, suffered a long imprisonment, was deprived of his lay fees, and paid a fine of thirty-four thousand marks. Sir Ralf de Hengham, the grand justiciary, and regent during the king's absence, was amerced in the sum of seven thousand, the rest in smaller sums, amounting in the aggregate to twentyfour thousand marks. Stat 13 Edw. I. c. 30. Eight years later lie divided the kingdom into four circuits, and appointed two judges to each, to be always employed in this office to the ease of the people. Middlesex was in no circuit, because the king's bench was in the county. Stat, of Realm, 1. 112. The history of Weyland is curious. He escaped from custody, disgui...
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