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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… refuses wills ready engrossed to be engrossed, to the double charge; takes of every widow administratrix 33s. 4d. … in effect but against extortion pays treble damages and double costs and ordains that a table of fees shall be set …
23rd February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… to make warrants for new writs in cases of death or double return. SIR HENRY HOLCROFT elects for Stockbridge. MR. … Crown for new writs to be made in all cases of death or double returns during all this Parliament. SIR HENRY … it is the order of the House that every member that is double chosen must make his election here in the House, and …
24th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… [CJ 716; f. 4] Martis , 24 0 Februarii SIR EDWARD HOWARD, double-returned, elects to serve for Calne in Wiltshire. L. … commission, etc. of monopolies does sue, shall recover double the damages he suffers and in such cases the defendant … SIR EDWARD COKE would have the breakers of the Sabbath double-punished, and therefore that the ecclesiastical courts …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… for the Turkey merchants. A complaint made by them of double impositions on currants and increase of custom on raw …
25th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… examined at the committee. CHANCELLOR DUCHY. Here a double return. Therefore not to be admitted. SIR H[ENRY] … CHANCELLOR DUCHY. This not the same case. Here a double return: therefore not to be admitted. SIR HENRY POOLE. … have a touch of this to the Lords. MR. CHANCELLOR DUCHY, double returned, elects to serve for Leicester. [f. 8v] SIR …
25th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… be employed any other way. For his own relief this was a double reason, the abatement of his customs and the increase …
26th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… as are not of their company, and they say also the double-traders that trade here in this country and also …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… horses, burning houses, buggery, rapes, taking away women, double marriages, witchcraft, etc., goods of felons, printing …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… this contribution by themselves, or their friends, to pay double. Sir Robert Pye, Sir P[eter] Heyman, Sir Francis … [ sic] either by themselves or their friends, shall pay double, and if they pay not the same to the treasurers or … by themselves or by their friends sedente curia should pay double. A select committee appointed to consider of the …
2nd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… have [?devised] so many sorts of custom that they double the King's custom. They vouch higher powers for their … who have devised so many fees and duties that they do double the King's imposition. The fifth kind is the … of foreign commodities being increased brings a double mischief. The importation exceeds the exportation …