THE OFFICE OF ALIENATIONS. 3G5 



of the ancient possessions of the crown, or of the later aug 

 mentations of the same. 



Likewise the fee-farms reserved upon charters granted 

 to cities and towns corporate, and the blanch rents and 

 lath silver answered by the sheriffs. The residue of these 

 ordinary finances be casual, or uncertain, as be the escheats 

 and forfeitures, the customs, butlerage, and impost, the 

 advantages coming by the jurisdiction of the courts of re 

 cord and clerks of the market, the temporalities of vacant 

 bishoprics, the profits that grow by the tenures of lands, 

 and such like, if there any be. 



And albeit that both the one sort and other of these be 

 at the last brought unto that office of her majesty s exche 

 quer, which we, by a metapor, do call the pipe, as the ci- xhe pipe, 

 vilians do by a like translation mame it jiscus, a basket or 

 bag, because the whole receipt is finally conveyed into it 

 by the means of divers small pipes or quills, as it were 

 water into a great head or cistern ; yet nevertheless some 

 of the same be first and immediately left in other several 

 places and courts, from whence they are afterwards carried 

 by silver streams, to make up that great lake, or sea, of 

 money. 



As for example, the profits of wards and their lands be 

 answered into that court which is proper for them; and 

 the fines for all original writs, and for causes that pass the 

 great seal, were wont to be immediately paid into the ha- 

 naper of the chancery ; howbeit now of late years, all the The hanaper. 

 sums which are due, either for any writ of covenant, or of 

 other sort, whereupon a final concord is to be levied in the 

 common bench, or for any writ of entry, whereupon a com 

 mon recovery is to be suffered there ; as also all sums de- 

 mandable, either for license of alienation to be made of 

 lands holden in chief, or for the pardon of any such alien 

 ation, already made without license, together with the 

 mean profits that be forfeited for that offence and trespass, 

 have been stayed in the way to the hanaper, and been let 

 to farm, upon assurance of three hundred pounds of yearly Tim office is 

 standing profit, to be increased over and above that casual derived out of 

 commodity, that was found to be answered in the hanaper the hana P er - 

 for them, in the ten years, one with another, next before 

 the making of the same lease. 



And yet so as that yearly rent of increase is now still 

 paid into the hanaper by four gross portions, not altogether 

 equal, in the four usual open terms of St. Michael, and St. 

 Hilary, of Easter, and the Holy Trinity, even as the former 



