By _27 Eliz. c. 6._ § 1. in all cases where any jurors to be returned for
trial of any issue joined in any of the Queens courts of Kings Bench,
Common Pleas and the Exchequer, or before justices of assise ought to
have estate of freehold in lands, &c. of the clear yearly value of 40s.
the jurors shall every of them have estate of freehold in lands, _&c._ to
the clear yearly value of 4l. at the least, (penalty on sheriff, _&c._
for returning that cannot dispend so much, 20l.)
By § 2. upon every first writ of _habeas corpora_ or _distringas_ with a
_nisi prius_ delivered of record to the sheriff or other minister or
ministers to whom the making of the return shall appertain, [such
sheriff, _&c._] shall return in issues upon every person impanelled and
returned upon any such writ at the least 10s. and at the second writ 20s.
at the least, and at the third writ 30s. and upon every writ further
double the issues last afore specified, until a full jury be sworn, or
the process otherwise determined, upon pain of 5l.
By _27 Eliz. c. 7._ no bailiff of any liberty, nor any his or their
deputy or deputies, shall of himself return any juror, or deliver to the
sheriff, his undersheriff, deputy or deputies, the names of any persons
to be returned upon any panel or jury, without the true addition
certified under his or their hands to the sheriff, of the place of
dwelling or abode of every person so to be returned at the time of the
said return, or within one year next before the said return, or some
other addition by which the party returned may be known.
By _4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24._ § 15. all jurors (other than strangers upon
trials _per medietatem linguæ_) who are to be returned for trials of
issues joined in any of the courts of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, or
Exchequer, or before justices of assize, or _nisi prius_, _oyer and
terminer_, gaol delivery, or general quarter-sessions of the peace in any
county of the realm, shall have in their own names, or in trust for them
within the same county, ten pounds by the year at least above reprizes,
of freehold or copyhold lands or tenements, or of lands and tenements of
ancient demesne, or in rents, in feesimple, feetail, or for the life of
themselves or some other person; and that upon every writ of _venire
facias_ the sheriff, coroner, and other ministers, unto whom the making
of the panel shall appertain, shall not return in any such panel any
person unless he then have 10l. by the year at least as aforesaid, in the
same county where the issue is to be tried; upon pain to forfeit for
every person, &c. the sum of 5l.
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