By the Lord Verulam Viscount of S. Albons, &c. LONDON, Printed by the Assignes of IOHN Cum Privilegio. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS ENSUING TREATISE. WHAT the Use of the Law principally consisteth in Action of the case, for slander, battery, &c... Manslaughter, and when a forfeiture of goods, and when not 208 Felo de se, felony by mischance, deodand.... ... 208 Cutting out of tongues, and putting out of eyes, made felony. 208 The office of the constable 208 .... Two high constables for every hundred, and one petty con stable for every village .... 209 The King's Bench first instituted, and in what matters they anciently had jurisdiction. 209 The court of Marshalsea erected, and its jurisdiction within twelve miles of the chief tunnel of the king, which is Sheriff's Tourn instituted upon the division of England into ... Subdivision of the county courts into hundreds.. The charge of the county taken from the earls, and com 209 210 210 mitted yearly to such persons as it pleased the king.. 210 The sheriff is judge of all hundred courts not given away Page Lord of the hundred to appoint two high constables . Of what matters they inquire of in leets and law-days Conservators of the peace, and what their office was Conservators of the peace by virtue of their office.... Justices of peace ordained in lieu of conservators; of placing of the justice of peace to fine the offenders to the crown, and not to recompense the party grieved ...... 212 Authority of the justices of peace, through whom ran all the The authority of justices of the peace out of their sessions.. 214 Judges of assize came in place of the ancient judges in eyre, England divided into six circuits, and two learned men in the laws assigned by the king's commission to ride twice a year through those shires allotted to that circuit, for the trial of private titles to lands and goods, and all The authority of the justices of assizes much lessened by the Court of Common Pleas, erected in Henry III. time.. 215 The justices of assize have at this day five commissions by |