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History and Description of the Ancient City of York: Comprising All the Most ... William Hargrove No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 390 - ... to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners for the custody of the Great Seal, or Master of the Rolls...
Page 375 - ... action or suit, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act, and the special matter, in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 375 - ... in any other county or place than as aforesaid, then the jury shall find for the defendant or defendants...
Page 374 - ... unless it is proved upon the trial of such action, that such notice was given, as aforesaid; but, in default thereof, such justice shall recover a verdict and costs, as aforesaid.
Page 297 - Also the said lord cardinal, of his further pompous and presumptuous mind, hath enterprised to join and imprint the cardinal's hat under your arms in your coin of groats made at your city of York, which like deed hath not been seen to be done by any subject within your realm before this time.
Page 393 - The monks softened, by their instructions, the ferocious manners of the people, and opposed their credit to the despotism of the nobility, who knew no other occupation than war, and grievously oppressed their subjects and inferiors.
Page 375 - And be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for...
Page 180 - Knaresborough, where she heard of her husband's fate, and came upon the field the next morning in order to search for his body, while the attendants of the camp were stripping and burying the dead. Here she was accosted by a general officer, to whom she told her melancholy story. He heard her with great tenderness, but earnestly desired her to leave a place where, besides the distress of witnessing such a scene, she might probably be insulted.
Page 375 - Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, or if, upon Demurrer, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have in any other Cases by Law.
Page 374 - Peace until one Calendar Month at least after a Notice in Writing of such intended Action shall have been delivered to him, or left for him at his usual place of abode, by the party intending to commence such Action, or by his Attorney...