By § 16. no sheriff or bailiff of any liberty or franchise, or any of
their ministers, shall return any such person or persons as aforesaid, to
have been summoned by them, unless such person and persons shall have
been duly summoned, by the space of six days at least before the day on
which they ought to make their appearance; nor shall directly or
indirectly take money or other reward to excuse the appearance, of any
juror, by any of them to be summoned or returned, upon pain to forfeit
for every such offence the sum of 10l. [Continued by _7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32._
_9 G. 1. c. 8._ § 2. EXP.]
By _7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32._ § 4. all constables, tything-men and headboroughs
of towns in each county, or their deputies, shall yearly at the general
quarter-sessions of the peace to be holden for each county, riding or
division, in the week after the feast of St. Michael the arch-angel, upon
the first day of the said sessions, or upon the first day that the said
sessions shall be held by adjournment at any other particular division or
place, return and give a true list in writing of the names and places of
abode of all persons within the respective places for which they serve,
qualifyed to serve upon juries, with their titles and additions, between
the age of one and twenty and the age of 70 years, to the justices of the
peace in open court; which said justices, or any two of them, at the said
sessions, shall cause to be delivered a duplicate of the aforesaid
returned list, by the clerks of the peace of every county or riding, to
the sheriffs or their deputies, on or before the first day of January
next following, and cause the said lists to be fairly entered into a
book, by the clerk of the peace, to be by him provided and kept for that
purpose, amongst the records of the said court of sessions; and no
sheriff shall impanel or return any person or persons to try any of the
issues joined in any of the courts [of K. B. C. P. or E.] or to be or
serve in any jury at the assizes, sessions of _Oyer_ and _Terminer_, gaol
delivery, or sessions of the peace that shall not be named or mentioned
in the said list.
By § 5. every summons of any person qualifyed to any of the aforesaid
services shall be made by the sheriff, his officer or lawful deputy, six
days before at the least, shewing to every person so summoned the warrant
under the seal of the office wherein they are nominated and appointed to
serve; and in case any juror so to be summoned be absent from the usual
place of his habitation at the time of such summons, notice of such
summons shall be given by leaving a note in writing, under the hand of
such officer, containing the contents thereof, at the dwelling-house of
such juror, with some person there inhabiting the same[43]. [Made
perpetual by _6 G. 2. c. 37._]
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