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Sessions.
' Statute of 5 El. 4. be made and published in Easter Sessions
yearly, or
' within six weeks after; and every Justice of the Peace not present thereat
' (being no let by sickness) shall forfeit 10 l. with divers
others of
' like nature. |
Chap. 185. |
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' Divers other things there be that may be done
in any, but must be
' done in some Sessions, and not out of the same; as an Apprentice ill
' used by his Master must be discharged by four Justices of Peace in Sessions
' under their Hands and Seals, by 5 el. 4. Badgers must be
licensed in open
' Sessions under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of Peace, Quorum
' unus. Every person having any Office or Place of Trust
of the Kings
' Gift or Grant, shall in the next Sessions after his being admitted into
' that Office, after receiving of the Sacrament, in open Sessions (between
' the hours of 9 and 12 in the morning) prove the doing thereof by two
' Witnesses, and take the Oaths prescribed by 1 El. 1. and 3 Jac.
4. and
' make a declaration against Transubstantiation, according to 25 Car.
2.
' And many other particulars there be of that nature. |
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§. 15.
Private
Orders. |
' This also I would observe, that the manner in
some Counties is to
' make Orders in the Chamber after the Adjournment of the sessions,
' touching several matters of great importance; which is a very ill usage,
' and contrary to the Honor and Dignity of the Imployment: and such
' doings are for the most part to promote some private design, and to serve
' turns and by-ends, but not the publick, and are neither valid nor safe
' should they be complained of. |
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§. 16.
Reversing
Orders. |
' Another thing censurable in our Justices of Peace
is, their over easie
' discharging and setting aside orders made in open and publick sessions;
' whereas be it an order that is made by them upon an Appeal from the
' Order of other Justices, as from the Order of two Justices of Peace in
' case of Bastard Children, by and upon 18 El. 2. and in like manner
be
' it an Order made upon Appeal from the order of two Justices upon
' 14 Car. 2. touching Settlements: in these cases the same
nor any other
' Sessions can repeal these Orders, according to Pridgeons Case.
Nay, be
' it an Order made by themselves, intended to be final and made absolute,
' without any time to shew cause; I see not how another Sessions can repeal
' it: for such Order is in the nature of a Judgment on record, as
all
' things are that are done in Sessions, and may be reversed by a superiour
' Court, but not by themselves. |
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§. 17.
Wages. |
' By the Statute of 14 R. 2. c. 11.
none above the degree of a Knight
' shall take the Kings Wages for Service at the Sessions, nor above eight
' Knights at one time. Quære, whether a Knight shall
take wages, whereas
' a Banneret shall not, for so is the Original, not a Baronet. |
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§. 18.
Estreats. |
The Estreats of Sessions are a great part of the
Justice of Peace his
' duty; and they are to be doubled, and one part thereof unto the Justices
' hands is to be delivered to the Sheriff to levy by them, and thereout
' to pay the Justices of Peace their Wages by the hand of the Sheriff,
' by Indenture between them to be made; and the Justices Names are
to
' be put into those Indentures, that the Sheriff may know whom to pay,
' and for whom to have Allowance made. 14 R. 2. 11. |
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