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362 7 H. 8, CAP. 4, REPLEVIN. have been compelled to attend upon such Constableship, Watches, and Juries, as is aforesaid; (4) be it enacted and es- tablished by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, that from henceforth your said Suppliants be discharged, and not charge- able of Constableship, Watch, and of all manner of Office bear- ing any Armour, and also of all Inquests and Juries within the City of London; (5) and also that this Act in all things do extend to all Barber-Surgeons admitted and approved to exercise the said Mystery of Surgeons, according to the form of the Statute lately made in that behalf, so that they exceed not. ne be at one time above the Number of twelve Persons. The Causes why Surgeons have been exempt from bearing of Armour, or other Services. The Surgeons of London shall be exempt from bearing Armour or Parish Offices, &c. 32 H. 8, c. 11. 32 H. 8, c. 42. It is observed by Kilty (Rep. 230) that it has not been the practice to summon physicians and other medical persons on juries in the province or in the State, although they are not exempted by the Act of 1715, ch. 37; from which he infers that this statute as well as 32 H. 8, c. 40, and 6 W. & M. c. 4, (q. v.) extended to the province. They are not exempted by the Code, but on a like principle it is presumed that they are now exempt under these statutes. STATUTES Made at WESTMINSTER, Anno 7 HEN. VIII. and A. D. 1515. CAP.IV. The Act concerning Avowries for Rents and Services. III. And also that every Avowant, and every other person or persons that make Avowry, Conisance, of Knowledge, or 278* justify, as Baily to any other person or persons in any Replegiari, or second Deliverance for any Rent, Custom, or Service, if their Avowry, Conisance, or Justification be found for them, or the Plaintiffs in the said Actions otherwise barred, shall recover their Damages and Costs that they have sustained, as the Plaintiff should have done, if they had recovered in the said Replevins. |
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