Chap. 36, 37.
22 H. 1. 10.
Rast. 135. |
Egyptian. Estreats.
CHAP. XXXVI. V. 19.
Egyptian.
EVery Justice of Peace, Sheriff, and Escheator, within
one month
after their arrival may seize all Goods of any Outlandish Persons
calling themselves Egyptians, that shall come into this Realm, and
may also
keep the one moiety thereof to his own use, making account to the
King in the Exchequer for the other moiety. And every person
that can
prove by two credible Witnesses (before the said Justice or other Officer
that so seizeth the said Goods) that any of those Goods were craftily or
feloniously taken from him, shall incontinently be restored thereto (by
the party that so seizeth them) upon pain of the double value thereof to
be forfeited by such Seizer to such prover. |
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§. 1.
One Justice. |
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But note, That after the month the Offence is made
Felony by the Statute
of 1 & 2 Ph. & Mar. cap. 4 & 5 Eliz. cap. 20.
p. 2. And then it seemeth
the King is to have the Goods wholly. And Quære
whether the Statute
of 22 H. 8. be still in force, or be altered by the said Statutes
of 1 &
1 Ph. & Ma. c. 4. & 5 Eliz. cap. 20. |
§. 2. |
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Also note, That by the Statute of 1 & 2 Ph.
& Ma. & 5 Eliz. the word
' Egyptian, is now extended to such counterfeit Rogues and Vagabonds,
' as being English or Welsh people, do call themselves Egyptians, or
do accompany
' themselves together, disguising themselves by their Apparel,
' Speech, Countenance or other Behaviour, like unto Egyptians, or
like
' unto such Vagabonds as call themselves, or are commonly called Egyptians;
' And so they are all Felons, or at least they are all incorrigible
' Rogues; therefore the Justice must send all such to the Gaol.
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CHAP. XXXVII.
Estreats.
'EVery Clerk of the Peace shall delivery to the Sheriff
with in Twenty
' days after the 29th day of September in every year, a perfect
' Estreat of all Fines, Issues, Amerciaments, Recognizances, monies and
' forfeitures imposed, set, lost or forfeited in any Sessions of the Peace,
before
' Michaelmas, by any person due to his Majesty, 22 & 23 Car.
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' And the said Clerk shall on or before every second
Monday after the
' morrow of All Souls deliver into the Exchequer a perfect Schedule
of all
' such estreats and Schedules by him delivered to the Sheriffs, on pain
to forfeit
' 5 l, one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer, 22 &
23 Car. 2.
' 2. No Justice of peace, or Clerk of the Peace, shall spare, discharge,
or
' conceal any Indictment, Fine, Issue, Amerciament, forfeited Recognizance,
' or forfeiture, set., lost or forfeited, or money paid in satisfaction
of
' Fine or Forfeiture under, by order of Court, nor miscertifie or estreat
' the same, whereby the Process of Exchequer may be made invalid., upon
' paid to forfeit the treble value thereof, one moyty to the King, the
other
' the the Informer, 22 & 23 Car. 2. |
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' Where any Fine or Forfeiture shall be paid to
any Clerk or the Peace,
' and be estreated into the Exchequer, the Summons or Process of Greenwax
' shall go to the Sheriffs against him, 22 & 23 Car. 2. |
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Quære, where a Sheriff demands money
on the Green-wax, he ought
' to shew the same to the party, and that which is paid shall be totted,
or else
' he shall pay treble damage to the party, and be fined to the King, and
the
' party may bring his Suit before Justices of Peace, Stat. 42 E.
3.9. Sta. 7. H. 4.
' 3 W. 2. c. 19. |
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