The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and MarriagesAshton, John
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The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages
Ashton, John
Fleet Prison (London, England); Fleet, River (England)
Here is another example of the Cardinal's highhanded method of dealing
with those who did not exactly bend to his will, in Article 41 of his
Impeachment: "Also where one Sir Edward Jones, Clerk, parson of Orewly
in the County of Bucks, in the 18th year of your most noble reign, let
his s^d parsonage with all tithes and other profits of the same to one
William Johnson, for certain years; within which years, the Dean of the
s^{'d} Cardinal's College in[103] Oxenford pretended title to a certain
portion of Tithes within the s^d parsonage, supposing the s^d portion
to belong to the parsonage of Chichley, which was appointed to the
Priory of Tykeford, lately suppressed, where (of truth) the Parsons of
Orewly have been peaceably possessed of the s^{'d} portion _out of the
time of mind_: Where upon a Subpoena was directed to the said Johnson
to appear before the Lord Cardinal at Hampton Court, out of any term,
with an injunction to suffer the said Dean to occupy the said portion.
Whereupon the said Johnson appeared before the said Lord Cardinal at
Hampton Court, where without _any_ Bill the said Lord Cardinal
committed him to the Fleet, where he remained by the space of twelve
weeks, because he would not depart with the said Portion: and at last,
upon a Recognizance made, that he should appear before the said Lord
Cardinal, whensoever he was commanded, he was delivered out of the
Fleet. Howbeit, as yet, the said Portion is so kept from him that he
dare not deal with it."
[Footnote 84: Mag. Rot. 9 Ric. I. _Rot. 2a, Lond. & Midd._]
[Footnote 85: Mag. Rot. 9 Ric. I. _Rot. 14b, Kent._]
[Footnote 86: Liberate Rolls, p. 25. _Rot. Lit. Pat. Hardy_,
p. 4.]
[Footnote 87: Rot. Cancell. 3 John, f. 100.]
[Footnote 88: Close Rolls, 6 John, f. 33.]
[Footnote 89: Close Rolls, 2 Hen. III., f. 346.]
[Footnote 90: Mag. Rot. 1 Ric. I. _Rot. 2b, Bedef._ Til de
Oblatis Curiæ.]
[Footnote 91: Mag. Rot. 5 Ric. I. _Rot. 2a_, Nordfolch and
Sudfolch.]
[Footnote 92: See Platt's Case cited Vaughan's Reports 1677,
p. 243.]
[Footnote 93: Rolls of Parl. vol. iii. p. 469.]
[Footnote 94: Ibid. vol iii. p. 593a.]
[Footnote 95: Allowing a prisoner to go at liberty on finding
sureties.]
[Footnote 96: Hayne's State Papers, vol. i.]
[Footnote 97: The moat or ditch fed by the Fleet, which washed
the walls of the prison.]
[Footnote 98: See "Memorials of London and London Life in the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries," by H. T.
Riley, 1847, pp. 279, 280.]
[Footnote 99: "Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of
England," edited by Sir H. Nicholas, 1834, vol. ii. p. 303.]
[Footnote 100: Ibid. vol. iii. p. 93.]
[Footnote 101: Beneficed Clergy were given the title of Dominus or
Sir--as Sir Hugh Evans, in the _Merry Wives of Windsor_.]
[Footnote 102: A vexatious and litigious person--one who stirs up
strife.]
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