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?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A2 Howe moche money get the Somners..by assityng the people to the commissaries court and afterward releasing thapparaunce for money?

1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 16 If shee be rich, and hath abilitie to bring her accuser to the Comissaries Court?

1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 19 There are other Courts, which they call the Commissaries Court, whereof the chiefe is at Edenborough, whereas they plead before foure Iudges.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. vii. 401 Some that were allured to subscribe, with the Promises of Favour and better Preferment, were neglected and forgotten, and troubled in the Commissaries Court as much as before.

1823 Times 1 July He (Lord A. Hamilton) moved in the last session for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the Scotch Commissaries' Court altogether.

1850 2nd Rep. Select Comm. Fees 244 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 711) XIII. 721 Returns of the description and amount of the several fees legally demandable during the year ending the 5th day of April 1848..in each and every Diocesan Court, Bishops' Commissaries Court, and Archidiaconal Court throughout England and Wales respectively.

1901 Eng. Rep. 4 1180 The summons was for a declarator of marriage and adherence, filed in the Commissaries Court on the 25th of March 1818.

1983 P. Collinson Godly People vi. 173 The familiar abuses of the archdeacons' and commissaries' courts were an embarrassment even to Archbishop Whitgift.