"All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors). To women it is forbidden by law that they be judges; and thence it is, that feme coverts are exempted to do suit in inferior courts. On the other part, a villein cannot be a judge, by reason of the two estates, which are repugnants; persons attainted of false judgments cannot be judges, nor infants, nor any under the age of twenty-one years, nor infected persons, nor idiots, nor madmen, nor deaf, nor dumb, nor parties in the pleas, nor men excommunicated by the bishop, nor criminal persons. * * And those who are not of the Christian faith cannot be judges, nor those who are out of the king's allegiance."--_Mirror of Justices_, 59-60. In the section "_Of Inferior Courts_," it is said: "From the first assemblies came consistories, which we now call courts, and that in divers places, and in divers manners; whereof the sheriffs held one monthly, or every five weeks, according to the greatness or largeness of the shires. And these courts are called county courts, _where the judgment is by the suitors_, if there be no writ, and is by warrant of jurisdiction ordinary. The other inferior courts are the courts of every lord of the fee, to the likeness of the hundred courts. * * There are other inferior courts which the bailiffs hold in every hundred, from three weeks to three weeks, _by the suitors of the freeholders of the hundred. All the tenants within the fees are bounden to do their suit there_, and that not for the service of their persons, but for the service of their fees. But women, infants within the age of twenty-one years, deaf, dumb, idiots, those who are indicted or appealed of mortal felony, before they be acquitted, diseased persons, and excommunicated persons are exempted from doing suit."--_Mirror of Justices_, 50-51. In the section "_Of the Sheriff's Turns_," it is said: "The sheriffs by ancient ordinances hold several meetings twice in the year in every hundred; _where all the freeholders within the hundred_ are bound to appear for the service of their fees."--_Mirror of Justices_, 50. The following statute was passed by Edward I., seventy years after Magna Carta: