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Acts. 351


mainder or in trust or in or Unto which they have or Any or Either
of them hath any Claim or Interest whatsoever And Do likewise
betwixt the Days aforementioned Convey Assign Transfer and Make
Over unto the Sheriff of Such County wherein the said Prisoners or
Any of them are Detained in Goal for the Use of their said Credi-
tors All such their Estate Interest or Claim as aforesaid after Such
Manner as by the Said Sheriff and the Major Part of the said Credi-
tors or of Such of them as shall think fit to Direct therein or their
Councill learned in the Law shall reasonably Devise or require. At
the Cost and Charges of such Persons as shall Claim the Benefit
thereof so as the said Prisoners nor Any of them be not burthened
with Any warrantys thereby Other then from themselves And
those that Claim by from or Under them And that the said Pris-
oners and Every One of them at the time of Such their Sur-
render and transferring their Estates as aforesaid shall take his or
their Solemn Oath before the said two Justices of the Several and
Respective Counties afd so to be Summoned as afd to the Effect
following Viz.
I A B Do Solemnly Swear that the Goods Debts and Effects which
I have Delivered Assigned & Made Over to the Sheriff of
County And in trust for the Use of my Creditors is the whole Estate
both real and Personal of my Own in Possession or have Any Title
to in the world (save as to John Medcalfe such Lands as I now hold,
or have Any Title to in Right of my Wife) And that I have not Any
Estate Goods or Effects of any kind whatsoever left Either in Pos-
session Reversion or Remainder (the Necessary wearing Apparrell
for my Self wife and Children Excepted) And that I have not
directly or Indirectly Sold Leased or Otherwise Conveyed Disposed

Liber LL, 5
Acts

off or Intrusted All or Any Part of my Estate thereby to Secure the
Same to receive or Expect Any Profit or Advantage thereof.
So help me God

It shall and May be lawfull for the Sheriffs of the Several Counties
aforesaid after the End of the said twenty Days And the Said
Sheriffs are hereby required to Discharge the Persons of the said
Several Prisoners out of their Custody And to Suffer them to go
at large And the Persons of the said Debtors so as aforesaid Dis-
charged out of the Custody of the Sheriff and Suffered to go at Large
shall never Any more be lyable to be taken in Execution for or upon
the Account of Any Debts Dues or Demands of what nature Soever
that at the time of the makeing this Act was Due from the aforesaid
Debtors to any of their Creditors. Provided Always and be it
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that "Notwithstanding the Dis-
charge of the Persons of the Prisoners aforesaid upon takeing the
Oath aforesaid All and Every Judgment now had and taken or that
shall hereafter be Obtained had and taken against Any of the Afore-
named Prisoners by Any of their Creditors for Any Debt or Debts

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