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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 358   View pdf image (33K)
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358 19 H H. 7, CAP. 13, RIOT.
CAP. XIII.
Riot.
Whereas in the Parliament holden at Westminster the Tues-
day the morrow next after AH Souls, the thirteenth Year of
the Reign of King Henry the Fourth, among other things it
was enacted, ordained, and established. That if any Riot, As-
sembly, or Rout of People against the Law, were made in any
part of the Realm, that the Justices of the Peace, three or
two of them at the least, and the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of
the County where such Riot, Assembly, or Rout should be
done, after the same Statute, should come with the Power of
the Shire (if need should be) to arrest them, and them should
arrest; (2) and the same Justices and Sheriff, or Under-sheriff,
should have power to record that that they should find so done
in their Presence against the Law, (3) and that by the Record
of the same Justices and Sheriff, or Under-sheriff, the same
Trespassers and Misdoers should be convicted in manner and
form as it is contained in the Statute of Forcible Entries;
with divers and many other Articles touching and concerning
the Premisses, as in the same Statute made the said xiij. Year
more plainly at large it appeareth, (4) which Statute is thought
good and necessary: Wherefore by the Advice and Assent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the
same, Be it therefore ordained, established, and enacted, That
the said Act made in the said .xiij. Year of King Henry the
Fourth, concerning Riots, Assemblies, and Routs of People, and
all and every Article and Articles comprised in the same, and
also all other Statutes before this time made concerning the
Punishment of Rioters, at the" time of the making of this Act
being in force, from henceforth stand in their force, and be duly
put in execution after the Tenors and Purports of the same.
274* (5) And forasmuch as in the said Statute made in the
said xiij. Year it is not expressed of what Sufficiency the -Jurors
impanelled should be, or what Issues they should lose, if they
appear not, nor no Mention therein made of any Punishment
of the Maintainers and Embracers of the Jurors that so shall
lie impanelled, should have for their Misdemeanors, if any be:
(6) It is therefore furthermore enacted by the said Authority
in this present Parliament, That if any Riot, Rout, or unlawful
Assembly be committed and done at any time after the first

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