parliament; and the jurisdiction of this court is derived from justice distributive, and is for criminal offences, and held twice every year. 2. The County Court, wherein he doth determine all petty and small causes civil under the value of forty shillings, arising from the said county; and therefore it is called the county court. The jurisdiction of this court is derived from justice commutative, and is held every month. The office of the sheriff is annual, and in the king's gift, whereof he is to have a patent. The office of escheator. Every shire hath an officer called an escheator, which is an office to attend the king's revenue and to seize into his majesty's hands all lands escheated, and goods or lands forfeited, and therefore is called escheator; and he is to inquire by good inquest of the death of the king's tenant, and to whom the lands are descended, and to seize their bodies and lands for ward if they be within age, and is accountable for the same: he is named by the lord treasurer of England. The office of coroner. Two other officers there are in every county called coroners; and by their office they are to enquire by good inquest in what manner, and by whom every person dying of a violent death came so to their death; and to enter the same of record; which is matter criminal, and a plea of the crown: and therefore they are called coroners, or crowners, as one hath written, because their inquiry ought to be in corona populi. These officers are chosen by the freeholders of the shire, by virtue of a writ out of the chancery de coronatore eligendo: and of them I need not to write more, because these officers are in use elsewhere. General observations touching constables, gaolers, and bailiffs. Forasmuch as every shire is divided into hundreds, there are also by the statute of 34 H. VIII. cap. 26. ordered and appointed, that two sufficient gentlemen or yeomen shall be appointed constables of every hundred. Also there is in every shire a gaol or prison appointed for the restraint of liberty of such persons as for their offences are thereunto committed, until they shall be delivered by course of law. In every hundred of every shire the sheriff thereof shall nominate sufficient persons to be bailiffs of that hundred, and under-ministers of the sheriffs: and they are to attend upon the justices in every of their courts and sessions. Pages 325 and 369. NOTE. The origin of the bad grammar in Reg. 19, which I only observed while correcting the press, is to be found at the end of the second paragraph of p. 407, where we have iisdem modis quibus, &c. INDEX TO THE LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL WORKS. Note. The parts of the Index printed in Italic refer to the Editors' Prefaces and Notes. A. Abator, vii. 477. Abduction made a capital offence by statute of Abergavenny, Lord, fined by Henry VII. for imprisoned for a short time, vi. 221. firm to Henry VII. against the Cornish Abingdon, Abbot of, sent as commissioner by Academia nova modum prorsùs excessit, vi. 672. Accessories, vii. 348, 349, 359, 365. Achaians compared by Titus Quintius to a Achelous, his fight with Hercules, interpreta- Act of God, vii. 344. Actæon, or curiosity, the fable interpreted, vi. 719, 720. interpretatio fabulæ, vi. 645. Action in oratory, saying of Demosthenes re- Actium, battle of, vi. 451. Actus inceptus, cujus perfectio pendet ex vo- si autem ex voluntate tertiæ personæ, vel Aculeate words, vi. 511. Administration, letters of, vii. 502, 504. Adrian VI., Pope, vi. 92. Adrian de Castello, the Pope's ambassador to Adrian's case, vii. 655. Adultery, man taken in, saying of one of the Advancement of Learning, the, a key to the the blessing of the New Testament, ib. best discovers virtue, ib. Advertisement touching an Holy War, vii. Advocates, behaviour of Judges towards, vi. Advowson, vii. 354, 359. in gross, vii. 327. Egyptian, on the recent origin of Greece, vii. Eneas Sylvius, of the donation of Constantine a Cyclopibus interemptus, vi. 632. 470. of the fly on the chariot wheel, vi. 503, of the two frogs, vii. 81. of the fox and the cat, vii. 83. of the man who called for Death, vii. 84. Estimatio præteriti delicti ex post facto nun- Affidavits in Chancery, vii. 769-770. Affinitatis vincla, sacramenta naturæ, vi. 634. Agathocles to his Syracusan captives, vii. 143. 569. characteristics of, vi. 487. of one who counterfeited a nightingale, Agrippa raised by Augustus, vi. 439. de vanitate, vii. 102. Ailmer, Sir Lawrence, Mayor of London, fined good pledge of success in practice, vi. 761. Alderman never welcomes Death as a friend, Alderwasley, Manor of, vii. 546. Alexander the Great, his Persian conquests, his saying, of Craterus and Hephæstion, that Antipater was all purple within, vii. to Parmenio, vii. 142. knew himself mortal by two things, sleep when asked to run at the Olympian games, for his own reward, kept Hope, vii. 149. Alexander VI., Pope, sends a nuncio to re- his saying of the Frenchmen in Italy, vi. attempts to organise a crusade, vi. 209. made a denizen, to pay strangers' customs, friend, vii. 648. tradesmen within the realm, vii. 653. Allegiance, false opinion concerning, vii. 650, applies to the person of the king, not to of greater extent than laws, ib. Almains, under Martin Swart, aid the Irish Alonzo of Arragon, his praise of age, vii. 139. Amalthea, vi. 664, 739. Amason, secretary of Ferdinando of Spain, vi. Amazons, an unnatural government, vii. 33. Ambassadors sent by Henry VII. to Charles excused of practices against the state Ambiguitas verborum, latens, verificatione Ambiguity in pleading, of words, vii. 338. that grows by reference, vii. 338. patent, vii. 385. latent, vii. 385-387. Ambition, essay on, vi. 465-467, 567–568. how to be curbed, ib. Ameled, vii. 207. America, discovered by Columbus, vi. 196. results of its discovery, vii. 20. Amortised, a part of the lands, vi. 94. Anacharsis, of the Athenians, vii. 158. Andes, far higher than our mountains, vi. 513. on a sermon without divinity, vii. 159. Angels not to be introduced in antimasques, Angeovines, faction in Naples, vi. 158. to calm the natural inclination, vi. 510— to repress the motions of, vi. 511. to raise and appease in others, vi. 511, a kind of baseness, vi. 510. its causes chiefly three, vi. 511. Ann Bullen, her speech at her execution, vii. Anne of Brittaine, vi. 33. See Brittaine. Ant, a wise creature for itself, vi. 431, 561. |