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II y ad unqore une manere de moneye qest fait en Avynein desouz le noun Edward Roi Dengleterre qe pois auxi poi ou meins qe la monoie de la mitre & ceo ne poet estre conue si ceo ne soit per pois.
Lautre fausin qe lem faite en la monoie si est qil ad ascuns qi portent plates de peutre ou de plombe a la fourme dun denier si les mettent entre deux foilles dargent & puis les ferrount ou en coigne ou en quire ou autre denier bien forge ad este feru.
Les autres auxibien de cea come de la retoundent la bone & loial monoie au damage de toute la comunalte.
Cestes monoyes qe sount faites ou retounduz hors Dengleterre sount apportez per trespassourz & nomement per marchauntz Et purceo qils savent bien qe homme les serche a Dovorr' il les mettent entre draps en bales si ne viegnent nient a Dovorr' ne a Sandewiz mes ils viegnent a Loundres ou en Essex' ou en Suffex' ou en Lyndesey les queux choses si eles fuissent longement suffertz celes metteront la monoye Dengleterre toute a nient.
Stat. De iis qui ponendi sunt in Assis, made 21 Edw. I. Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1293.
What Freehold Lands Jurors must have, which shall pass in Trial within the same County, or without.
[1]FOrasmuch as our Lord the King, by the continual and grievous Complaint of his inferior People,
doth perceive that divers Persons, being of least Ability of his Realm, are many Times intolerably troubled by Sheriffs and their Bailiffs, Bailiffs of Liberties, which impanel them to the Recognisances of Assises, Juries, Inquests, and Attaints, triable out of the Shires where they be dwelling; and do spare the Rich People, and such as be more able, by whom the Truth of the Matter might be better known, whereby great
Expences and Trouble
doth daily manifestly ensue, to the Impoverishment and utter Disheriting of many:
What Freehold Land those Jurors must have which pass in Trials.(2)
[2]Our said Lord the King, providing for the
Indempnity of his People, and desiring to set convenient Remedy in the
Premisses for the public Weal of his Realm, in his Parliament holden in the Term of Saint
Michael, the one and twentieth Year of his Reign,
hath ordained in this Behalf, That no Sheriff, Under-sheriff, or their Bailiffs, Stewards, or Bailiffs of Liberties, shall from henceforth put in any Recognisance abovesaid, that shall pass out of their proper Counties, any of their Bailiffs, except he have Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of an hundred Shillings at the least. (3) And the King
intendeth not by this Statute to restrain the last Statute of
Westminster, wherein Mention is made of Recognisors to be put in Juries and Assises, but of such only as ought to pass in Assises, Juries, and Recognisances triable out of their proper Counties; (4) so that within the County before Justices of our Lord the King, or other Ministers assigned to the taking of any such Inquests, Juries, or other Recognisances, none shall be
impanelled, except he have Lands or Tenements to the yearly Value of forty Shillings; (5) and likewise saving that before Justices Errant, that hold Common Pleas in their Circuit,
Juries in Cities or Boroughs.and also in Cities, Boroughs, and other Market Towns, where Recognisances, Assises, and Juries or Inquests do pass upon any Matter touching the said Cities, Boroughs, and other Towns, it shall be done like as
hath been accustomed in Times passed,
T. R. at the
See farther for the Qualifications of Jurors
28 Ed. 1. c. 9.
34 Ed. 3. c. 4.
42 Ed. 3. c. 11.
2 H. 5. stat. 2. c. 3.
1 R. 3. c. 4.
11 H. 7. c. 21.
4 H. 8. c. 3.
5 H. 8. c. 5.
23 H. 8. c. 13.
35 H. 8. c. 6.
2 & 3 Ed. 6. c. 32.
27 Eliz. c. 6.
4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24.
7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32.
3 G. 2. c. 25. And
4 G. 2. c. 7.
- ↑ 2 Roll. 486.
- ↑ Kel. 97.; 13 Ed. 1. stat. 1. c. 38.