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Seipp Number:
Year
Court
Writ
Marginal Heading
1424.014 1424 Common Place Trespass Quaere
Judicium
Term
Regnal Year
King: Plea Number Folio Number
Trin. 2 Hen. 6 5 12b-13a
Serjeants/ Justices Plaintiff Surname Plaintiff First Name v. Defendent Surname Defendent First Name
Babington, William CJCP (Nisi prius J)
Paston, William Sjt (for P)
Cottesmore, John Sjt (for D)
Paston, William Sjt
Cokayn, John JCP Cokain
Babington, William CJCP
Strangeways, James Sjt
Martin, John JCP
Cokayn, John JCP Cokein
Swillington Alice, widow of R.
Other Plaintiffs Other Names Places Other Defendents
Swillington, R., deceased husband of plaintiff
Abridgements Cross-References Statutes
Statham Briefe 63
Fitzherbert Briefe 9
Brooke Protection 78, Trespas 7 
cross-referenced in 1490.016 = Pasch. 5 Hen. 7, pl. 4, fol. 22b-24a
7 Hen. 6, fol. 21b
5 Edw. 4, fol. 6b
21 Hen. 6, fol. 10
5 Edw. 4, fol. 8
40 Edw. 3, fol. 32
7 Hen. 6, fol. 36
7 Hen. 7, fol. 2
Fitzherbert Natura Brevium 42g
4 Hen. 5, fol. 5
15 Hen. 6, fol. 7, 20
7 Hen. 6, fol. 23
28 Edw. 3, Lib. Ass. pl. 20
10 Hen. 6, fol. 10
12 Hen. 6, fol. 7
5 Edw. 4, fol. 8
14 Hen. 4, fol. 22 
 
Incipit (First Line) Number of Lines
Alice qui fuit la feme R. Swillington porte briefe de Trespas envers iiij persons, qui vindront 36
Process and Pleading
Defendants appeared and pleaded not guilty.
Defendants were found guilty at Nisi prius, to plaintiff's damages 100 marks.
The record came into Common Pleas.
Plaintif prayed judgment.
Defendants pleaded that since Nisi prius one of defendants was dead.
Plaintiff could not deny this, and prayed judgment against defendants who were alive.
Cokayn JCP by advice of all the Justices awarded that plaintiff recover against defendants who were alive, and against he who was dead, that plaintiff take nothing by his writ.
Language Notes (Law French)
le record vient en le Common Place
Cokayn JCP: le parole sera mys sans jour; un que fuit partie & privie ad verdit est mort, & nul Jugement peut estre done un mort person
Babington CJCP: jeo di que ceo sera dit en Ley, several ple, & nemy joint ple: car un joint ple al common entent est, ou le ple plede ne peut estre void envers un d'eux, sinon que il soit envers touts: 'nec via versa'
Abstract Context
perhaps Alice, widow of s.v. Robert (de Swilington), Lord Swilington, d. 1380, in Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol. 12A, p. 581
Commentary & Paraphrase
damages of 100 marks (= 66 pounds, 13 shillings 4 pence) found at Nisi prius
Babington CJCP: in the case at bar where they all pleaded not guilty, by this issue it could be found that some were guilty and others not, and against those who were found guilty the plaintiff would have judgment, and against the others he would be amerced.
When a defendant was found not guilty in Trespass, the plaintiff was amerced.
Sjt Strangeways: if at the inquest one of the defendants defaulted, the inquest ought to be taken against the others
Manuscripts Mss Notes Editing Notes Errors
Statham Briefe 63 dated this Mich., stated that this case was well debated, and added that in a former case, after the plea and before the inquest was taken, all the writ was abated.
Translations/Editions
Plea Roll Record Year Record Plaintiffs Record Defendants Last Update
0 2007-07-23
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