By _13 C. 2. st. 2. c. 2._ § 2., no person or persons who shall happen to be arrested by any sheriff, undersheriff, coroner, steward, or bailiff of any franchise or liberty, &c. by force or colour of any writ, bill or process issuing out of his majestys courts of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas, or either of them, in which said writ, bill or process, the certainty and true cause of action is not expressed particularly, and for which the defendant or defendants in such writ, bill or process named, is and are bailable by the statute in that behalf made in the three and twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the Sixth, shall be forced or compelled to give security, or to enter into bond with sureties, for the appearances of such person or persons so arrested, at the day and place in the said writ, bill or process specifyed or contained in any penalty or sum or sums of money exceeding the sum of forty pounds to be conditioned for such appearances; and all sheriffs and other officers and ministers aforesaid, shall let to bail and deliver out of prison, and from their and every of their custodies respectively, all and every person and persons whatsoever, by them or any of them arrested upon any such writ, bill or process wherein the certainty and true cause of action is not particularly expressed, upon security in the sum of forty pounds and no more, given for appearance of such person or persons so arrested unto the said sheriff or officer aforesaid, according to the said statute in the said three and twentieth year of the reign of the said late King Henry the Sixth in that behalf made and provided. [Sidenote: Treatment of person arrested.]