and in such Writs by the said Statute this clause shall be hereafter put Et electionem tuam in pleno Comitatu tuo factam distincte aperte sub sigillo tuo sigillis eorum qui electioni illi interfuerunt nos in Cancellaria nostra ad diem locum brevi contentum certifices indilate Such persons as are eligible shall be resiant in the County for which they are chosen the day of the date of the Writ of summons and likewise those that chose them Also Citizens and Burgesses shall be resiant in and free of the Cities and Boroughs for which they are chosen One under the age of one and twenty years is not elegible neither can any alien be elected of the Parliament untill he be naturallized by Parliament after which he is eligible to this or any other place of judicature None of the Judges of the Upper Bench or Common Pleas or Barons of the Exchequer that have judicial places can be chosen Knight Citizen or Burgesse of Parliament because they are assistants in the House of Lords As for the present times I make a quaere of this A man attaint of Treason felony c. is elegible for touching the election of two Knights the words of the Writ are Duos milites gladiis cinctos magis idoneos discretos elegi fac And for election of Citizens and Burgesses the words of the Writ are Duos c. discretioribus magis safficientibus which they cannot be said to be when they are attainted of Treason or felony c. Any of the profession of the Common Law and who are in practice of the same are elegible By the Humble Petition and advice those are disabled to be elected who have advised assisted or abetted the Rebellion of Ireland ad those who do or shall prosesse the Popish Religion and likewise all those who have aided abetted advised or assisted in any war against the Parliament since the first day of Ianuary 1641. unlesse he or they have since born arms for the Parliament or his Highnesse or otherwise given signal testimony of their good affection to the Common-wealth and so continued and such as have been actually ingaged in any plot conspiracy or designe against the person of his Highness or in any insurrection or rebellion in England or Wales since the 16. day of December 1653. are disabled and made uncapable to be elected The punishment of Sheriffs for their negligence in returning of Writs or for leaving out of their returns any City or Borough which ought to send Citizens and Burgesses vide 5 R 2 Stat 2. cap. 4. Also if one be duly elected Knight or Burgesse and the Sheriff return another the return must be reformed and amended by the Sheriff and he that is duly elected must be inserted for the election in these cases is the radix or foundation and not the return Rot Parl 5 H 4. num 38. Co Iust 4. fol 49. By the Stat of 16 Car. Every County City Cinque port and Borough that shall not make election of their Knights and Citizens Barons and Burgesses respectively shall incur the penalties following that is to say every County the summ of one thousand pounds and every City which is no County 200 l. and every Cinque port and Borough the sum of 100 l. Except the Free-holders of any County and Inhabitants or other persons having or claiming power to make election of any Knights Citizens Barons or Burgesses shall proceed to making of elections of them which elections shall afterwards fall out to be adjudged or declared void in Law by the Parliament by reason of equality of voices or misdemeanor of any person whatsoever then the said County City c. shall not incur the penalties aforesaid so as an election de facto be made But who shall be Electors and who shall be elected and the time place and manner of elections and therein the duty of the Sheriff you may read more ample in the positive lawes of 7 H. 4. cap. 15. 11 H. 4. cap. 1. 1 H. 5. cap. 1. 8 H. 6. cap. 7. 10 H. 6. cap. 2. 23 H. 6. cap. 15. 6. H. 6. c. 4. c. which need not here be particularly rehearsed Of the Office of Vnder-Sheriff THe Under-Sheriffe in effect is but the Sheriffs Deputy and acts whatsoever is to be acted by the High-Sheriff except some particulars which are to be done by the Sheriffe himselfe as you shall finde in severall places of this Tract and therefore according to the nature of a Deputation must be removeable as an Attorney is and though the Sheriff should make him irrevocable yet may he revoke him for there is neither Common Law nor Statute Law that makes him immoveable He is but in the nature of a general Balliffe errant to the Sheriff and the whole County as other Bailiffs are over a particular Hundred The Sheriffe constituting an Under-Sheriffe doth implicitly give him power to execute all the ordinary Offices of the Sheriff himselfe that may be transferred by the Law As serving of Processe and Executions c. But he cannot deal in a Writ of Redisseisin because in that the Sheriffe is Judge nor in the case of a Writ of Wast where the Sheriffe himselfe in propria persona is commanded to go to the place wasted c. The Sheriffe ought to be very cautious in taking good and sufficient security of the Under-Sheriffe to discharge protect and save him harmlesse of Escapes upon arrests made by himselfe for since that he transfers his authority unto him it is reason that he take security of him to perform all things justly and honestly to himselfe and others not acting or intending any thing against law See more in the Articles betwixt the High-Sheriffe and Under-Sheriff amongst the Presidents The Sheriffs Fees Upon an arrest TO the Sheriff 00 01 08 To the Bailff who makes the Arrest or Attachment 00 00 04 To the Goaler if the person be committed to prison 00 00 04 For the Obligation for appearance if the prisoner be bailed 00 00 04 For making the Warrant upon the Writ for every name 00 00 04 For the Copy of a Pannel 00 00 04 For returning of a Pannel though it seems to be extortion by Lamb. fol. 4. 15. and Cromp. fol. 205. b. they use to take 00 02 00 For the return of every Cepi corpus 00 00 04 For the return of a Nihil or Non est inventus 00 00 04 For making Proclamation at the Church door upon an Extent c. 00 01 00 For the Return of a Proclamation 00 01 00 For the return of every Venire facias Tales Habeas corpora and Distringas 00 02 04 For every name returned outlawed 00 00 04 For making a Precept upon a Writ to a speciall Bailiff for every name 00 02 00 For the arrest of every Desendant from the Plaintiff 00 01 00 For the
T. by E B. his Attorney complains of R R. of a plea that he render unto him 20 s. of c. which he oweth unto him and unjustly detaineth from him c. For that whereas the said W. T. the 11th day of November in the yeare c. at c. being then Farmer of the Rectory of for one yeare then next following did let unto the said R R. all the Tythes of Corne being of and on six acres and three roods of arrable Land being part of the Land of O P. in VVeatherby aforesaid and parcell of the said Rectory for 20 s. of c. to be paid to the said VV T. in manner and forme following that is to say 12 s upon the Feast of St. Marke the Evangelist then next following and the other 8 s. upon the Feast of St. Martin the Bishop in Winter then next following Yet notwithstanding the said R. R. though often thereunto requested the said 20 s. to the said W T. hath not yet rendred but the same to render hath contradicted and yet doth contradict Whereupon the said W. T. saith that he is worse and hath damage to the value of 30 s. And thereupon produceth suit c. Vpon a Bond where one is bound to two and one dyes before the commencement of the Suit J. P. by vertue of a VVrit of Justicies c. complains of M. M. of S. yeoman otherwise called M. M. of S. Yeoman of a plea that he render unto him 40 l. of c. which he oweth to him and unjustly detaineth from him c. For that whereas the said M. M. the second day of May in the yeare c. at c. by his certain writing obligatory sealed with his seale and here in Court produced the date whereof is the day and yeare abovesaid did grant himselfe to owe and to be firmly bound unto the said I. P. and E. G. late of the City of Y. deceased in the sum of 40 l. to be paid to the said I. P. or E. G. or either of them when he should be thereunto requested which said E. G. afterward and before the commencement of this suit dyed and the said I. P. him survived and outlived by which action doth accrew to the said I. P. to have and demand of the said M. M. the aforesaid sum of 40 l. Notwithstanding the said M. M. though he hath beene often requested the said 40 l. unto the said E G. hath not rendered nor to the said I. P. since the death of the said E. G. hath not rendered but to render c. Another upon the same I. H. by vertue c. complains of VV. H. of L. otherwise called c. of a plea that he render unto him 20 l. which to him he oweth and unjustly detaineth c. For that whereas the said VV H such a day and yeare at c. by his writing obligatory did acknowledge himselfe to be bound to the said I. H. and one M. H. now dead whom the said I. H. hath survived in the aforesaid 20 l. to be paid unto the said I. H. and M. H. or either of them when he should be thereunto requested Yet the said VV. H. although often requested the aforesaid 20 l. to the said I. H. and M. H. or either of them in the life-time of the said M. H. or to the said I. H. after the death of the said M. H. whom c. hath not rendered but the same to them to render hath denyed and the same to the said I. H. yet to render doth deny Whereupon he saith that he is made worse and hath damages to the value of 30 l. And thereof he bringeth his suit c. And bringeth here into the Court the writing aforesaid which testifieth the said debt in manner aforesaid the date whereof is the day and year abovesaid Vpon a Bond for an Executor against Sisters as Co-heires one of them being married T. P. Executor of the Testament of VV. P. by Writ c. complains against R. M. late of L. Knight and A. his wife and L B. late of L. Spinster daughters and co-heirs of C B. Gent. lately called C B. c. of a plea that they render unto him 80 l. which from him they unjustly detain c. For that whereas the said C B. Father of the aforesaid A. and L. whose heirs they are in his life time the 10th day of June c. at c. by his writing obligatory did acknowledge himselfe to be bound to the said W. P. in his life time in the aforesaid 80 l. to be paid unto the said W. P. when he should be thereunto requested And to the same payment well and faithfully to be made the aforesaid C. B. hath bound himselfe and his heires by the same writing Yet the said C. B. in his life time and the aforesaid A. and L. daughters and co-heirs of the said C. B. after the death of the said C. B. whilst they were sole and the said R. and A. and L. after the Marriage between them the said R. and A. celebrated although often requested the aforesaid 80 l. to the said W. P. in his life time or to the said T. P. after the death of the said VV. P. have not rendred but the same to them to render have denyed and the aforesaid R. and A. and L. the same to the said T. P. yet to render doth deny and unjustly detaine whereupon he saith that he is made worse and hath damage to the value of 10 l. And thereof he brings his suit c. And he bringeth c. as in another upon a Bond for an Executor c. Vpon a Bond against an Administrator for an Administrator during the minority of the Executor of an Executor W. T. E. his Wife Administratrix of the goods and Chattels which were of E. A. of H. late of Executor of the Testament of E. A. of T. by Writ c. complains against M. C. c. Administratrix of the Goods and Chattels which were of R. C. who dyed intestate c. lately called R. C. of T. in the County of Yo. Gentleman of a plea that she render unto them 40 pounds which from them shee unjustly deteyneth c. For that whereas the sayd R. C. in his life time the fourth day of January c. 1649. at Y. by his certaine writing obligatory did acknowledge himselfe to be bound to the said E. A. of T. in his life time in the aforesaid 40 pounds to be paid unto the said E. A. when he should be thereunto requested Yet the said R. C. in his life time and the aforesaid M. C. after the death of the said R. C. to whom the Administration of all the Goods and Chattels which were of the said R. C. at the time of his death at Y. aforesaid after the death of the said R. C. was committed although often requested the aforesaid 40 pounds to the said E.
A. of T. in his life time and to the said E. A. of H. in his life time after the death of the said E. A. of T. or to the said E. after the death of the said E. A. of H. while she was sole to whom the Administration of all the Goods and Chattels which were of the said E. A. of H. at the time of his death during the minority of the said E. A. the younger Executor of the Testament of the said E. A. of H. which said E. A. the younger is yet within the age namely of 14 years and no more by the Keepers of the Liberty of England c. the tenth day of May 1651. at Y. aforesaid after the death of the said E. A. of H. was commited or to the sayd VV. T. and E. after the marriage betwixt them celebrated have not rendred but the same to them to render have denyed And the said M. C. the same to the said VV. T. and E. yet to render doth deny and unjustly detayne Whereupon they say that they are made worse and have damage to the value of thirty pounds and hereof they bring their suit c. And they bring here into the Court aswell the Writing aforesaid which testifieth the debt in manner aforesaid the date whereof is the aforesaid 14th day of Ianuary 1649. aforesaid as the Letters testamentary of the said E. A. of T. by which it doth sufficeently appeare to the Court here the said E. A. of H. to have beene Executor of the Testament of the said E. A. of T. And thereof to have had Administration c. As also the Letters testamentary of the said E. A. of H. By which it doth sufficiently appeare to the Court here the said E. A. the younger to be Executor of the Testament of the sayd E. A. of H. And also the Letters of Administration of the sayd Keepers which testifieth the committing of the Administration aforesaid to the said E. in form aforesaid c. For not delivering of a Pawn upon tender of the money borrowed A. S. by Writ c. complains against E. P. of a Plea whereas the said A. the first day of May c. at c. borrowed of the said E. P. 12 l. of c. and then and there did pawn and in the name of a pledge gave and delivered to the said E. P. divers goods and chattels of the said A. S. to the value of 172 l. of lawfull c. for security to the aforesaid E. P. for the repayment of the aforesaid 12 l. together with interest for deferring and giving day of payment of the said 12 l. according to the rate of 6 l. in the hundred by sum until the aforesaid A. S. the aforesaid 12 l. to the aforesaid E. P. should repay And the aforesaid E. P. then and there that is to say the first day of May the year c. aforesaid at c. in consideration of the premisses upon him did assume and to the said A. S. then and there faithfully promised that he the aforesaid E. P. the goods and chattels aforesaid to him by the aforesaid A. S. formerly pawned and delivered to the said E. P. upon the payment of the aforesaid 12 l. together with interest for the said 12 l. according to the rate aforesaid to him to be made he would well and faithfully redeliver and restore although the said A. S. afterward that is to say the 16. day of S. the year c. and often after at c. the aforesaid 12 l. together with the interest for the said 12 l. according to the rate of 6 l. in the hundred by the whole to the aforesaid E. P. fully to pay and satisfie offered Notwithstanding the aforesaid E. P. his promise and assumption aforesaid little regarding but shifting and fraudulently intending the said A. S. in that part craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud the aforesaid the aforesaid 12 l. together with the interest for the same 12 l. according to the rate aforesaid of the aforesaid A. S. to receive and the goods and chattels aforesaid to the A. S. to redeliver altogether hath refused and as yet doth refuse to the great damage of the said A. S. c. Against a Carrier for losse of goods delivered to him G. B. Esquire by vertue c. complains of P. M. upon an action of trespass upon the Case for that whereas the aforesaid P. M. such a day and year at c. and long before and always after hitherto was and yet is a Common Carrier from the City of Y. in the County of the same City unto the Town of S. in the said County and from the said Town of S. unto the said City of Y. And the same P. M. the same day and year and long before and continually after hitherto was used and accustomed by himself and his servants upon the horses of him the said P. M. to carry goods and chattels for any manner of persons for a reasonable and a lawfull stipend and sallary in that behalfe therefore to be paid to be carried to and from between the aforesaid Town of S. and City of Y. according to an usual agreement and payment in that behalf to be made and had and whereas also accordding to the Law and Custom of this Commonwealth of England all such like common Carriers who do receive goods and chattels of any manner of persons so to be carried for a reasonable or lawfull stipend or sallary therefore to be given or paid are bound to keep and carry the same goods and chattels of such like persons so received without spoiling with-holding or losing of them so that for or by the default of such Common Carrier no damage should in any manner happen to such persons by carrying of their Carriages And whereas the aforesaid P. M. the aforesaid such a day and year at S aforesaid in the County aforesaid had taken upon him to carry one Trunk fast locked with divers moneys goods and chattels of him the said G. B. to the value of 10 l. in the same Trunk then being sasely and carefully from the aforesaid City of Y. to and unto the said Town of S. and for a certain and usuall stipend sallary and rate for carrying of the said Trunk moneys goods and chattels aforesaid by the aforesaid G. afterwards to wit such a day and year aforesaid at the City of Y. aforesaid received of him the said G. B. the Trunk aforesaid with the moneyes goods and chattels aforesaid in the same chest then as aforesaid being locked in form aforesaid to be carried the aforesaid P. M. the Trunk aforesaid with the moneys goods and chattels aforesaid of him the said G B. afterwards to wit such a day year and place did so negligently and improvidently keep and carry that divers moneyes goods and chattels of him the said G. B. in the said Trunk as aforesaid before that being locked that is to say 5 l. in
themselves from the company and society of the said E. R. do now withdraw and absent themselves and further with the aforesaid E. R. to intermeddle buy sell or commerce have altogether refused and still do refuse to the great damage of the said E. R. of 30 s. And therefore he hath brought this suit c. For slanderously calling the Plaintiffe Bankerupt E. B. complains of E. M. in a Plea of Trespasse upon the Case For that whereas the said E. B. a good true faithful and honest member of this Common-wealth and like a good honest and faithful member of the said Common-wealth now and from the time of his Nativity hitherto without any spot or suspition of deceit corruption bankrupt or fraud or any one of them hath carried behaved and governed himselfe and of good name fame credit and estimation trust and carriage of great substance of riches alwayes hitherto hath been reported and held and honestly justly and faithfully in all his intermissions and businesses with whomsoever had and made throughout the whole time aforesaid himselfe hath carried and behaved And whereas he the said E. B. the day yeare c. and by the space of ten yeares last and continually afterwards hitherto the art mystery or faculty of an Apothecary of the said City of Y. exercised and used his living and maintenance of himselfe and his Family by exercising amd using the art mystery or faculty through the whole time aforesaid well plentifully and sufficiently had gotten and gained and also divers great sums of money by lawfully buying and selling merchandising and bargaining upon his credit of divers wares and other things belonging to the art mystery or faculty of him the said E. B. to the better maintenance of him and his Family and to the great increase of his riches justly and honestly through the whole time aforesaid had obtained and all and singular sums for what things or merchandizes whatsoever by him or of any other persons throughout the said time upon credit had bought or received or by any way due he the said E. B. to any such person to him the said E. B. so giving credit according to the contract and agreement betwixt them concorded and made without fraud or delay had paid by the parcell of which said premisses and also by reason of his honest carriage towards all persons he the said E. B. the chief credit and good opinion amongst all his neighbours and amongst very many honourable persons and other people of the said Common-wealth to whom he was known he deservedly had and gained to himselfe The said E. N. notwithstanding not ignorant of the premisses but the hap and condition aforesaid of the said E. B. maliciously devising imagining and fraudulently intending the said state name fame credit trust and estimation of the said E. B. to hurt deprive and to cause him the said E. B. to fall into want discredit and poverty and to be accepted and reputed of such an evill carriage and also for a Banckrupt and a man of no credit amongst all the faithfull members of this Common-wealth that they all from the company of him the said E. B. as from the consort of a Banckrupt person or man worthy of no credit might altogether withdraw themselves and forbear with the said E. B. to bargain sell or deale they might altogether give over afterwards to wit on the day yeare c. aforesaid at Y. aforesaid these false scandalous and opprobrious English words following of him the said E. B. in the presence and hearing of divers faithfull members of this Common-wealth then and there present and hearing falsly maliciously and scandalously with a loud voyce said proclaimed pronounced and published to wit E. B. meaning the said E. B. Plaintiffe is a Rogue and a Banckrupt and I meaning himself the said E. N. now Desendant will prove him one By reason of the speaking and proclaiming of which said false scandalous and opprobrious words he the said E. B. not onely in his good name fame credit trust and estimation aforesaid is greatly hurt and scandalized but also hereby doth stand deprived and utterly spoiled that his said neighbours and other faithfull members of this Common-wealth with him the said E. B. to buy merchandize bargain or any way to meddle or deal do altogether distrust and refuse him the said C. D. for a consumer waster and detayner of other mens riches and estates they repute and suppose him to be by the said E. N. not onely in exercising and maintaining of his art mystery or faculty is very much hindered and his estate and substance is very much weakned and consumed but also hath been constrained and compelled to lay out and spend divers great sums of money in clearing himselfe of the premisses aforesaid laid upon him for the recovering of his good name fame credit trust and estimation aforesaid Whereupon the said E B. saith that he is made worse and hath damage to the value of 200 l. And thereupon produceth this suit c. In consideration that the Plaintiffe would marry E. R. the Defendant promised to make him worth 200 l. W. P. c. complains of P. W. of a Plea c. That whereas the day yeare c. at the Castle c. there was a communication between the said W. P. and the said P. W. of and concerning the said W. P. taking to Wise one E. R. the daughter of one S. R. of c. County c. the said P. W. in consideration that the said W P. at the speciall instance and request of the said P W. according to the Laws and customes of England by the consent of the said S R. would marry and take to wise the said E R. upon himselfe did assume and to the said W P. then and there did faithfully promise that he the said P W. would make him the said W. P. worth 200 l. of c. and better immediately after the solemnization of the marriage of the said W P. and the said E R. And the said W P. indeed saith that in hopes of the performance of the promise and assumption of the said P VV. and at the speciall instance and request of the said P. VV. afterwards that is to say the day year c. at c. aforesaid the said VV P. according to the Lawes and customes of England by the consent of S R. did marry and take to wife the said E R. Neverthelesse the said P W. little regarding his promise and assumption aforesaid but contriving and fraudulently intending craftily and subtily to deceive and defraud the said W P. in this behalfe hath not made the said W P. worth 200 l. and better albeit afterwards that is to say the day year c. at c. aforesaid by the said W P. he hath been thereunto required but hath hitherto refused to do the same and still doth refuse to his damage of c. For stopping up of anothers light for depriving
de officio Coronat de pace plagis And Britton in his first Chapter where he treats of it at large and Fleta E. 1. cap. 18. But more amply in Stamfords Pleas of the Crowne lib. 1. cap. 51. It is amply expressed in F N B. fol. 186. That the Coroner shall carry the Records of his own view abjurations outlawries appeales accusations of Thefts done before him and of all other things done in the County that is certaine to the Coroners office and also in the Court of Freemen which have Franchises of infangtheft c. And in the presence of the Coroner shall all appeales of Robbery and Larceny be framed Now as to the view of the body of a man it is his office that so soon as he shall be certified thereof to send to the Constable of the Hundred of the place to summon sufficient and able men of the towns adjacent that at a day certaine they be before him at such a place all which done the body is to be viewed and if it be buried it is to be taken up and he is to record the names of those who buried him and if it hath been decreased or endamaged by ill keeping or laine so long that it cannot be judged how it came by its death the same must also be recorded that this negligence may be punished at the coming of the Justices of Assize into the Circuit for the Towne where the amerciament was shall be grievously amercied upon sight of the Coroners rolls He ought to do his office in person and to see the dead body when he maketh inquisition otherwise the inquiry is invalid for if he will inquire of any dead person without view this is without authority and void If the Coroner be remisse and negligent in coming to execute his office after he is sent unto he shall be amerced But to proceed if the Coroner with the advice of the people present be able to judge of the death then are they to present the manner of his killing whether he died of anothers felony or of his own or by mischance and if of blows whether of a staff or a stone or any other weapon and he is to record in his rolls the names of those who were summoned and appeared not that the same offences of disobedience remain not unpunished whereby the Coroner could not at that time proceed for want of Jurors Therefore we will inquire what persons may be of the Enquest What persons are to be of the Coroners Inquest and how to be qualified THe Inquisition before Coroners is to be of persons within the four next adjacent Villages to be made by the Bailif or Constables of those Villages as appeareth by the Stat. of 4 E. 1. de officio Coronatoris Crompton fol. 113. In these Enquests lye no exceptions or challenges to the persons of the Jurors but he ought to make his pannels of the discretest of the ablest and best of them The names of the Jurors ought to be certified for peradventure they be not probi legales homines but Villains and Outlawes 15 H. 4. 41. for note that an Indictment before Coroners was found that the Earle of B. was felo de se was quashed because it did not appear that it was per sacramentum proborum legalium hominum Pophams rep fol. 202. Harrison against Errington And likewise in Hillary termo 2. Car. B. R. Pophams rep fol. 209. 210. a great multitude of Welshmen were indicted for the death of a man by an Inquisition taken before the Coroner in the County of Montgomery in Wales and exceptions were taken to the Inquisition as first that the Coroner cannot take any Inquisition unlesse it be super visum corporis and to this was cited Britton 6. R. 2. Coron 107. 21 E. 4. 70. 2. R. 3. 2. This is also the reason that if a man drown himselfe and cannot be found the Coroner cannot inquire of the death of this man but for the King or Protector to have a forfeiture of his goods an Inquisition ought to be taken before the Justices of the Peace The second exception was that the Inquisition was per sacramentum proborum legalium hominum Com. praedict whereas by the Statute of 4 E. 1. this enquest ought to be by men of the four next Towns adjoyning and this ought to appear in the Indictment also Hill 10. Jac. Rot. 3. Co. Lib. Intr. 354. and in Pasc 3. Car. This Indictment was quashed for these exceptions The empannelling of the enquest and the view of the body and the giving of the verdict is commonly in the Street in an open place and in corona populi but this name rather cometh because the death of every Subject by violence is accounted to touch the crown of the Prince and to be a detriment unto it The Prince accounting that his strength power and crowne doth consist in the force of his people and the maintenance of them in security and tranquillity The method of keeping the Coroners Court THe Coroners Court is a Court of Record and holden after this manner When a Coroner cometh to view a party that hath hanged killed or drowned himselfe or that hath come to his death by any other accident he must make out his warrant to impannel a Jury to the Bailiffe in whose Liberty the party lyeth dead to appeare before him at such a day and place as he shall mominate and appoint The forme of the Warrant is thus To the Bayliffe and also to the Constable and Tithing-men of the Hundred of R. in this behalfe joyntly and severally greeting BY vertue of mine office these are in the name of Richard Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging to will and require you immediatly upon the receipt and sight hereof to summon and warn twenty foure able and sufficient men to be and appear before me at Skipton the 21. day of November next ensuing the date hereof at the common Tolbooth of the said Towne then and there to do execute such things as on his Highnesse behalfe shall be given them in charge whereof faile you not as you and every of you will answer the contrary at your perils Dated under my hand and seale the 12. day of September in the yeare of our Lord 1158. By me W. G. one of the Coroners of his Highnesse the Lord Protector If it be in a City or Corporation then the form of the warrant or precept is thus To the Sheriffe of the City of York and to the Serjeants at Mace attending the said Sheriffs THese are to will and require you and in the name of his Highnesse the Lord Protector of c. straitly to charge and command you that you cause to come before me one of the Coroners of the City of York and County of the same City at the house of T. P. in