case the king against roberts information for extort diverse sum of money for  passage in a ferry secundum raft sex denar pro whithersoever you please a  human being c uncertain SC Mod SC salk SC comb SC Carth SC holt SC cite ld ray  information in the king bench among the plead of the crown against the  defendant that time out of mind there be such a ferry in denbighshire and that  the usual rate for all the time aforesaid be two penny for a man and horse and  one penny halfpenny for a score of sheep and that the defendant such a day be  possess of the say ferry boat and design to make unlawful gain to himself do  between that day and the day of exhibit the information extort take and  receive of diverse subject diverse sum for passage in the ferry boat aforesaid  exceed the rate aforesaid videlicet secundum raft sex denar pro whithersoever  you please a human being et horse et quatuor denar pro whithersoever you  please twenty England score of sheep c on not guilty plead and verdict quoad  the rate for sheep guilty I move in arrest of judgement that this information  be too uncertain it mention not what sum be receive but only secundum raft it  mention not from who nor how many time that no adequate fine can be set in  this case because not say how many score of sheep we take for we may take only  for half a score or we may take for a hundred score which will require  different fine in information and indictment there be so much certainty  require as the court may be able to give a proportionate equal judgement here  every take be a several offence here non constat how many offence in the case  of king and Goldsbon v whidder indictment for engross separate finishing touch  grain of wheat ill because uncertain upon a indictment and Edward c for erect  to visit cottagia be ill nay for stop quandan parten aquae current be ill roll  Abr in Seavells case cro James for stop quandan parten palace way ill because  not say how much halsey case roll Abr shower KB sir William William e contra  here be sufficient certainty it appear here that he have take above the old  rate side in the case of king v Lovet he take fifty shilling multicolored duty  hold good these be immaterial circumstance in dyer presentment of a highway  out of repair pro diminution to dwell in good because number uncertain so here  he take from all it be pro whithersoever you please c for every score of sheep  he take so much the particular person need not be name for they be unknown to  the attorney in Johnson case cro James he be indict on Richard saint c for  that the common price of oat be not above twenty penny pro whithersoever you  please peck that he be common stabularius sell to visit to put under infra  house mansionalis in Holborn two hundred bushel of oat for two shilling and  eight penny the bushel contra form to cause to stand and hold good though not  say what be the common price though not say in his inn e in sir Edward  Lenthals case cro James information more uncertain and hold good and in the  case of bedo v sanderson cro James and in penn case cro car and diverse other  case c holt chief justice every several take be a several offence how many  several offence this man be convict of we can judge suppose a indictment that  between such a day and such a day he beat diverse of the king subject this be  not one complicate offence consist of several fact but several offence jumble  together be he not to be fine proportionable to the number and value of what  he take and frequency they be distinct offence a man may ingross great  magnitude straw for bedding et hay yet that have be hold ill a though but one  offence there ought to be a certainty and I think judgement must be arrest a  vide march lessee to have agreed lignum non succiendo arbores c covenant lie  for cut c and the case of porter v Swetnam style against a assignee upon a  imply covenant note to the former edition a cro car shower KB er p dolbin  justice judgement ought to be arrest we know not how to set a fine Gregory  justice ad idem eyres justice it be too universal judgement must be arrest b  see the case of Martin Vanhenbeck Leon for per eyres justice that be strong