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Sessions.
' Com' perpetrata audiend' & terminand' assignati. Vic'
ejusdem Com' salut'.
' Ex parte dicti Dom' Regis tibi præcipimus, quod non omittas
propter aliquam
' libertat' in Balliva tua, quin eam ingrediaris, & venire fac'
cor' nobis, vel
' sociis nostris Just' Pacis, &c. (tali die, &c.) prox'
futuro, apud E. in Com'
' pred' tam 24 probos & legales homines de quolibet Hundredo
in Balliva tua,
' quam 24 Milites & al' probos & legales homines de Corpore
Com' tui (tam
' infra Libertates quam extra) quor' quilibet habeat 40 s. terrar'
& tenem'
' liber' per an' ad minus, ad inquirend' tunc & ibid' super hiis que
ex parte
' dicti Dom' Regis eis injungentur. Scire facias etiam omnibus Coronatoribus
' Com' tui, Seneschal' Constab' Subconstab' Ballivis Libertat' infra Hundreda
' & Libertates pred' quod sint tunc ibi ad faciend' & perimplend
ea quæ ratione
' Officior' suor' facienda fuerint. Proclamari præteraea facias
per totam Ballivam
' tuam (in locis idoneis) pred' Session' Pacis ad diem & locum pred'
fore
' tenend. Et tu ipse tunc sus ibid' ad faciend' & exercend' ea
que ad Officium
' tuum pertinent. Et habeas ibi tunc tam nomina Jurat' Coronator'
Seneschalc'
' Constab' Subconstab' & Ballivor' pred' quam hoc Præcept'.
Dat' sub sigillis
' nostris apud D. in Com' pred' 16 die Mar. anno Regni
dicti Dom' nostri
' Regis Caroli Secundi, &c.
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' The Persons that ought to appear at these Sessions
are as follow. |
§. 7. |
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First, ' The Justices of peace. For as a Sessions
cannot be held without
' a competent number; so the business of the Sessions cannot be
' well done without their Appearance, not only in the returning thither
' such Recognizances and Examinations as they have taken, and seeing
' the parties prosecuted and convicted, or acquitted of the Crimes charged
' on them; but also for deciding and determining such Difficulties as shall
' arise, and also to give information touching persons and things that
' fall within their Knowledge respectively; for in the multitude of
Counsellors
' there is safety. |
Who ought
to be present. |
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2. ' The Custos Rotolorum, who by virtue
of his place hath the custody
' of the Rolls of Sessions, ought to be there by himself or his Deputy,
' who is the Clerk of the peace. |
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3. ' The Sheriff by himself or his Deputy,
to receive the Fines, to return
' Jurors, to execute Process, and what else to his Office doth appertain:
' for by virtue of the Commission he is commanded to be attendent
' on the Justices of peace at all times, especially in Sessions. |
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' The Constables of Hundreds ought there to be,
and all other Officers
' to whom any Warrant hath been directed in order to make return
' thereof. |
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5. ' The Gaoler, to bring thither such as
have been sent by Mittimus
' to him, there to remain until Sessions; and such as are sent thither
for
' Larcenies and such Offences of like nature, of which the Sessions do
' usually deliver the Gaol; and to give a Calendar of such, as are in
' prison, and to receive such as may be there committed for any contempt
' or offence. |
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6. ' The Governor of the House of Correction,
to give in a Calendar
' of such Rogues and disorderly persons as have been committed to his
' custody, and an account of them; or in default thereof he is finable
by
' 7 Jac. 4. |
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7. ' All Jurors returned by the Sheriff by
virtue of the said Precept. |
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8. ' All persons bounds by Recognizance to
answer, or to prosecute
' and give evidence. |
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