By § 2. all the bailiffs of franchises who ought to levy the debts of the
King, and shall be answerable to the sheriffs at their commandment
according to the estreats of the summons of the exchequer, shall come and
answer sufficiently. And those who shall not, their bodies shall remain
in custody of the sheriffs; and the sheriffs, for their defaults, shall
send to levy the debts by their own bailiffs wherever they can, as they
have used to do in time passed. And if the bailiffs do not come to answer
at the day, the sheriffs shall let them know, the sheriffs shall enter
into the franchise, and cause the debts to be levyed by their own
bailiffs.
By § 7. when a sheriff or bailiff hath begun to account, no other shall
be received to account until the first that is appointed hath fully
accounted, and that the sum be received.
By § 9. about the feast of St. Margaret before the Exchequer be closed,
they shall every year narrowly search and see if a sheriff or other
bailiff who ought to have accounted that year have not. And if he be a
sheriff, _&c._ And if he be another bailiff he shall be summoned or
distrained that he come at a certain day to account, so that no account
be suffered to sleep.
[Sidenote: Estreats.]
By _42 E. 3. c. 9._ estreats shall not be doubled by the sheriffs, but
the copy of the estreats wherein they touch the franchises of lords shall
be delivered to the bailiffs of the franchises under the seal of the
sheriff, and the same bailiffs shall yield their account in the Exchequer
by the same copies and no other.
[Sidenote: Bailiffs of the Savoy, and Borough of Southwark.]
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