View source for Legal opinion concerning the right of a Lieutenant of the Tower, 1620, L.b.669

This article features a transcription of a [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] [[Manuscripts (disambiguation)|manuscript]], Legal opinion conerning the right of a Lieutenant of the Tower, L.b.669, (1620), featured in the ''[[Age of Lawyers]]'' Exhibition, September 13, 2015-January 3, 2016.

More manuscripts from this collection can be found in the [http://titania.folger.edu/findingaids/dfoloseley2002.xml#contents Guide to the Loseley Collection, 1489-1682].

== Transcription ==
Below is a semi-diplomatic transcription of folio 1 recto of Folger manuscript L.b.669. The transcription below was created by the [http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=EMMO&redirect=no Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO)] project. To access an image of the original leaf, click on each transcription's heading.

=== [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3zpya2 L.b.669] ===
A prisoner committed to the towre of London bringeth into 

the towre for his vse there, furniture for his lodging, and plate 

and howshold stuffe. Then the prisoner is attainted of treason or 

fellony. The Lieutenant of the towre claymeth these goods as 

belonging to hym by his Office. but doth not seaze them nor 

take them away out of the possession <sup>of</sup> the prisoner, and then the 

Lieutenant giveth over his place, the prisoner still continuing 

in the towre, and vnder the Custodie of a newe Lieutenant 

The question is, whether these goods doe 

appertens to the first Lieutenant, and 

whether he may take them and seaze them 

so long as the prisoner continueth in 

the towre and vseth them /. 

In my opinion the good''es'' Aboue mentioned do clerlye 

belong to the Lieutenant of the towre for the time 

being at the time of the Attaind''e''r And not to 

the successor. the not seisure of such good''e''s by 

the sayd former Lieutenant before the departure 

of him from his sayd office notwithstanding                                                                                          

Humfray Dauenport 29. 

Iune. 1620.

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