Privilege of Parliament Act 1512
(4 Hen. 8) C A P. VIII.
'L Amentably complaineth and sheweth vnto your most discreete wisdomes in this present Parliament assembled,Richard Strode Gentleman of the countie of Deuonshire, one of the burgesses of this honorable house for the Burgh of Plimton in the Countie aforesaid, that where the said Richard condescended and agreed with other of this house, to put foorth certaine Bils in this present Parliament against certaine persons, named Tinners in the Countie aforesaid, for the reformation of the perishing, hurting, and destroying of diuers Ports, Hauens, and Creeks, and other bils for the common weale of the said Countie, the which herein this high Court of Parliament should and ought to be communed and treated of.
And for because the saidRichard is a Tinner, for the causes and matters afore rehearsed, one Iohn Furse Tinner, Vnder-steward of the Steimerie in the said countie, in & at foure Courts of the said Steimerie at diuers places and times before him seuerally holden in the said Countie, he and other have condemned the said Richard in the sum of one hundred and threescore poundes: that is to wit, at euery Court day forty poundes, and by the procurement of the said Iohn Furse, at the said foure seuerall Courts and Lawdaies, in the said Steimerie, by him holden, in this maner published and said, that the same Richard at the last Parliament holden at Westminster, would have auoided and vtterly destroyed all liberties, priuileges, and franchises concerning the Steimerie: by reason whereof the said Richard, vpon foure bils had and made thereof by the said Iohn Furse and other, caused that the said Richard was presented and founden guiltie of the premisses in euery of the said Courts in fortie pounds to be lost and forfeit by him, by reason of an Act and Ordinance by Tinners made and had at a place in the said countie called Crokerentor: the tenor of the which Acte appeareth in a Schedule to his Bill annexed: to the which the said Richard was neuer warned nor called to make answere to the premisses, contrary to all lawes, right, reason, and good conscience. And for the execution of the same, one Iohn Agwilliam vpon a surmise by him made to the King's highnesse to the said condemnation to be to his grace forfeit, thereof atteined a Bill assigned of twentie pounds parcell of the said hundred and threescore poundes, to be to him granted...
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