By § 4., every sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff of any liberty, gaoler and
keeper of any prison or gaol, and other person and persons, to whose
custody or keeping any one shall be arrested, taken, committed or charged
in execution, by virtue of any writ, process, or action, or attachment,
shall permit and suffer every such person and persons, during his, her
and their respective continuance under arrest or in custody or in
execution for any debt, damages, costs or contempt, at his, her and their
free will and pleasure, to send for or have brought to him, her or them,
at seasonable times in the day-time, any beer, ale, victuals or other
necessary food, from what place he, she or they shall think fit, or can
have the same; and also to have and use such bedding, linen or other
necessary things, as he, she or they shall have occasion for and think
fit, or shall be supplied with during his, her or their continuance under
any such arrest or commitment, without purloining or detaining the same,
or any part thereof, or inforcing or requiring him, her or them to pay
for the having or using thereof, or putting any manner of restraint or
difficulty upon him, her or them, in the using thereof, or relating
thereto; and no such prisoner or prisoners shall pay any thing in respect
thereof to any such sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff of any liberty,
gaoler, keeper, or other person as aforesaid.
[Sidenote: Certificate of felons.]
By _3 H. 7. c. 3._ every sheriff, bailiff of franchise, and every other
person having authority or power of keeping of gaol or of prisoners for
felony, shall certify the names of every such prisoner in their keeping,
and of every prisoner to them committed, &c. at the next general
gaol-delivery in every county or franchise where any such gaol or gaols
have been or shall be, there to be kalendered before the justices of the
deliverance of the same gaol, upon pain to forfeit for every default an
hundred shillings.
[Sidenote: Felons goods.]
By _1 R. 3. c. 3._ no sheriff, &c. nor bailiff of franchise shall take or
seize the goods of any person arrested or imprisoned for suspicion of
felony before that the same person be convicted or attainted of such
felony according to law, or else the same goods otherwise lawfully
forfeited; upon pain to forfeit double the value of the goods so taken,
to him that is so hurt in that behalf.
[Sidenote: Return of jurors.]
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