coke b Bullen case pasch James in the common plea the lord of a leet may have  a certain sum pro certainly let of all the resiants within the leet one who be  resiant be return as a chief pledge by the chief pledge of the leet but make  default and be amerce but do not appear nor be he swear as a chief pledge this  do not make he a chief pledge SC Brownl Yelv between Robert Bullen plaintiff  and Richard Godfrey Esq defendant lord of the manor of bale in Norfolk it be  agree that the lord of a leet may well have a certain sum as S pro a   a a  roll Rep Inst a certainly lat of all the resiants within his leet call  sometime capitagium c and sometime that which is fixed let and by other name  and it may have a reasonable beginning sure when the lord purchase and acquire  the leet for the b roll Rep Inst Sorogs Scriven Cop b ease of the resiants  therein so that they need not go to the sheriff tear but to do their suit real  at the lord leet also the lord of a leet be at every eire oblige at his own  cost to claim this franchise c and in the case at bar the issue be whether the  plaintiff at the courtleet mention in the record be a chief pledge of the same  court or not and thereupon a special verdict be find that the plaintiff be  resiant and that he be certify in the say leet to be a chief pledge by the  chief pledge of the leet but he make default and be c   a Scriven Cop c amerce  for his default S d so that he do not appear nor be swear as chief pledge si c  and it seem to the court that they can not adjudge he a chief pledge upon this  verdict for leet be divide in group of ten or decennas unde to say decennari  to this day and out of every ten each of they be pledge for the other from  whence the court be call d Inst d curian look the Franks pledge one be call  copitatis pledge seu first in rank trust jussor and in some place at this day  he be call the Tythingman and in Yorkshire e Inst e Tenmantale and therewith  agree Lambert in his book de ancient Anglor law and Fleta lib c and reason  prove it for he can coke a be call capital pledge but in respect that other be  inferior pledge vide the statute of e de look Franci pleg of chief pledge and  our book speak of chief pledge vide e and e e of the old impression h b so  that the return of the constable or the presentment of the jury in the leet do  not make a man chief pledge and it appear by the say Act of e that it ought to  be inquire at the coke report b er p leet if all the chief pledge with their  decenners that be the other nine appear by which it appear that the ten  principal man be the chief pledge send time to move our to move in strike  against so that true institution what grievous to vanish just as umbra the  same thus far remanet and this case be very obscure and doubtful at the first  and afterward means this lull to sleep to be in arbitration vide e of the  frankpledge of the town and his authority