As Chancellor he issued precepts and summonses as to the services to be performed by the Ports in return for their privileges, and exercised in his court of chancery the complicated jurisdiction that gradually arose out of these records.
Every year a letter was sent to each Port asking “whether a Brotherhood or Guestling is necessary to be arreared this year,” and when the common consent was given the summonses were issued.
A less palpable means of evading the consent of the commons was by the extortion of loans, and harassing those who refused to pay by summonses before the council.
Ultimately the case was remanded till the following Monday, Mr. Maloney intimating that he should apply for fresh summonses for other numbers of the Freethinker, as well as a summons against Mr. Bradlaugh for complicity in our crime.
The original summonses and other legal instruments were preserved, and copies of them are given herein.
Your Lord and lover hath graciously taken out your husband's name and your name out of the summonsesthat are raised at the instance of the terrible sin-revenging Judge of the world against the house of the Kenmures.
Many were old summonses discharged, notices to quit withdrawn, and so on; but at last he came to two papers pinned together, at sight of which he almost jumped from his chair.
They'll have summonses enough at Carrow Bay to keep them out of mischief," returned Dr.
As I was conducting my exhausted but triumphant party off the course, the Poundlick Sergeant of Police met me and asked me if I would sign a few summonses for him, as he was after taking some parties into custody for fighting.
Many Courts are occupied with sixty or more judgment summonses a month.
The summonses referred to in the last chapter had been very widely distributed among all those of the tenantry of Trevethian, who had been cotemporaries of poor Margaret Basset.
As he refused all summonses to attend the Council, her Majesty ordered him to proceed to his government in Ireland, where his presence was much needed.
Mr. Hammill said it certainly was a most extraordinary proceeding for anyone to adopt, and after the learned gentleman's statement he had no hesitation whatever in granting summonses against the whole of the persons engaged in it.
The unwearied Edward once more issued summonses for a fresh campaign.
By and by a war broke out between England and France, and Edward sent summonses to the Scottish barons to attend him with their vassals.
Summonses were therefore sent out, and the Londoners, with whom the Queen was very popular, came in great force, and laid siege to Leeds Castle.
When he found that the case against himself and his colleague had gone to the three Powers a little of the suddenest, he could launchsummonses (which it seems he was afterwards glad to disavow) against Messrs.
Mr. Cufaude had applied for 17 more summonses against Church Rate defaulters, and Mr. Garson Blake had been summoned for a like default by the Gorleston Churchwardens.
The further hearing of the case was adjourned, as were also the other summonses of a like nature.
In the spring of 1853, they were all served with summonses of removal, accompanied by a message that Sir John Macneil, chairman of the Board of Supervision, had agreed to convey them to Australia.
The summonses were distributed with the utmost preciseness.
A few days before the famous “Battle of the Braes,” in the Isle of Skye, we received information that summonses of ejectment were served on Mackenzie and Maclean, Lochcarron.
Summonses of ejectment were issued and despatched all over the district.
Summonses of ejection were served over the whole property, even on families the most closely connected with the chief; and if we now seek for the Highlanders of Glengarry, we must search on the banks of the St. Lawrence.
It was accordingly, in 1843, attempted to serve summonses of removal upon the tenants.
Summonses of removal were served upon them at once.
In the month of March the old tenantry received notices to quit at the ensuing May term, and a few days after the summonses were served the greater portion of the heath pasture was, by his orders, set on fire.
There are over a million small debt summonses issued every year and nearly four hundred thousand judgment summonses, of which about a quarter of a million are heard.
Four days later summonseswere served on Dafydd Dafis and two other men.
The serving of those summonses had an instant and very remarkable effect.
To these summonses Mendel Cerf replied that she would not return with him, and that she required him to send her, according to the Jewish forms, a bill of divorce, in order that she might marry another Jew.
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