fonal, where the Debt, &c. amounts to forty Marks, who hath not Lands of 40 s. a Year above Reprizes, by 2 H. 5. c. 3. And the Lands and Tenements of that Value are to be Freehold. Stat. 35 H. 8. The Statute 27 Eliz. c. 6. increases the Qualification of Perfons to ferve on Juries, from 40 s. to 4 1. per Annum: And Jurors are to have 10l. per Annum at least above Reprizes, of Freehold or Copyhold, and Tales-Men 5. a Year, by the 4 & 5 W. & M c. 24.

Conftables and Headboroughs of Towns and Parifbes in each County, fhall yearly at the General Quarter-Seffions of the Peace, in the Week after the Feast of St. Michael, return a true Lift in Writing of the Names and Places of Abode of all Perfons within their Precincts, that are qualified to ferve on Juries, between the Age of Twenty-one and seventy Years, which Lift they fhall give to the Juftices, and they are to caufe the Clerk of the Peace to deliver a Duplicate thereof to the Sheriff of the County or his Deputy, on or before the first of January next following, and cause the faid Lift to be fairly entered in a Book, and kept among the Records of the Seffions: And no Sheriff shall impanel or return any Person to serve in any Jury at the Affifes, Gaol-Delivery, &c. that fhall not be named in the faid Lift. Conftables or Headboroughs failing to make fuch Return of Lifts of Jurors, fhall forfeit 5. to the King, made to . by a fubfequent Ac 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32. 3 Ann. c. 18.

Every Summons of Perfons qualified to serve on Juries, fhall be made by the Sheriff or his Officer, at least fix Days before the Day on which they ought to appear, fhewing to fuch Perfons the Warrant under Seal of Office, wherein they are nominated to ferve; and if any Juror to be fummoned be abfent from his ufual Habitation, a Note in

Writing

Writing under the Hand of the Officer, to that Effect, fhall be left at his Dwelling house, with fome Perfon there inhabiting. In Cafe the Sheriff, his Deputy or Bailiff, fhall fummon any Freeholder or Copyholder otherwise than as aforesaid, or neglect his or their Deputy, or fhall for Favour or Reward allow of any Exemption to any Person who ought to serve, being under the Age of feventy Years, fuch Sheriff, c. fhall incur the Forfeiture of 20/ to the Party grieved, or who elfe will fue for the fame. Stat. 7 & 8 W. 3.

There fhall be only one Panel, confifting of Forty eight Freeholders and Copyholders, and no more, each Perfon having 80 l. a Year in Lands, return'd to ferve on the Grand Jury; and no more than ten Panels of Twenty-four Jurors each fhall be return'd in Civil Caufes at any Affifes for the County of York, unless where Special Juries are directed by Rule of Court: And none fhall be return'd to serve on any Jury at the Affifes, GaolDelivery, or Seffions of the Peace for the faid County of Tork, above once in four Years.

The

Inhabitants of the City of Westminster fhall be exempted from ferving in any Jury at the Seffions of the Peace for the County of Middlefex. And this Act extends not to the City of London, nor to any other County of any City or Town, or any Town Corporate that hath Power by Charter to hold Seffions of Gaol-Delivery, or of the Peace. Ibid.

By the late A& 3 Geo. 2. c. 25. The Perfons required by the Statute 7 & 8 W. 3. cap. 32. for the Eafe of Jurors, and better regulating of Juries, fhall make and give in true Lifts of Jurors qualified according to the 45 W. & M. from the Rates of Parishes, and on Requelt to any Parish Officer who hath in his Cuftody any of the Rates for the Poor or Land-Tax, fhall have free Liberty

to

to infpect fuch Rates, and take the Names of Freeholders or Copyholders fo qualified therefrom; and fhall yearly, twenty Days at leaft before Michaelmas, upon two or more Sundays, fix on the Door of the Church, or other Place of Religious Worship within their several Precincts, an exact List of all the Perfons intended to be return'd to the Quarter-Seffions, as qualified to ferve on Juries; and leave a Duplicate of fuch Lifts with the Church-warden or Overfeer of the Poor, to be perused by the Parishioners, to the End Notice may be given of Perfons qualified omitted, or of Perfons inferted by Miftake who are not fo, &c. and the Lifts being fet right by the Juftices of Peace at their Quarter-Seffions, are to be entered in the Book kept by the Clerk of the Peace for that Purpose.

The Conftables, Tithingmen or Headboroughs, are to subscribe their Lifts of Perfons qualified to ferve on Juries for their refpective Parishes, and atteft the Truth of them upon Oath before one or more Juftices of Peace; and then deliver them to the High Conftables of the Hundreds or Divifions whereto they belong, who fhall deliver the faid Lifts attefted on Oath, that no Alteration hath been made therein, &c. to the Juftices in Seffions: And returning Officers wilfully omitting Freeholders qualified, or inferting any that ought to be omitted, c. fhall forfeit 20 s. on Conviction before a Juftice; and being certified to the QuarterSeffions, the Juftices there fhall direct the Clerk of the Peace to infert or ftrike out the Name of any Perfon who by the Certificate fhall appear to have been thus omitted or inferted in the Lifts, contrary to the Meaning of this Act. Duplicates of the Lifts when thus adjufted, to be tranfmitted to the Sheriffs of Counties, by the Clerk of the Peace,

during the Seffions, or within ten Days after, in order to returning Juries out of the faid Lifts, under the Penalty of 20. And the Sheriffs, or their Under-Sheriffs, fhall enter the Names of the Perfons in a Book alphabetically, with their Additions, and Places of Abede, &c.

And if any Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, Bailiff, or other Officer who hath the Return of Juries, fhall fummon and return any Perfons to ferve on any Jury in any Cause to be tried before the Juftices of Affife, &c. whofe Name is not inferted in the Duplicates of the Lifts aforefaid; or the Clerk of Affife, or Judge's Affociate, fhall Record the Appearance of any Perfon fummoned and return'd, who did not really appear; they fhall be fined not exceeding 10. nor less than 40 s. The like Penalty is inflicted on Sheriffs taking Money to excuse Perfons from ferving: And the Judges of Affife may fine the Sheriffs, &c. not above 5. for returning Jurors, that have ferved two Years before in any County, except of York, &c. Alfo Sheriff's are to enter the Names of thofe who have ferv'd in a Book, and give Certificates thereof, &c.

Every Sheriff, or other Officer, to whom the Return of the Venire Facias Juratores, or other Process for the Trial of Caufes before Juftices of Affife, in any County of England fhall belong, fhall upon the Return of every Writ of Venire Facias (unless in any Cause to be tried at Bar, or in Cafes where a Special Jury fhall be ftruck by Rule of Court) annex a Panel to the Writ, containing the Names, Additions and Places of Abode, of a competent Number of Jurors, named in fuch Lifts, not less than Forty-eight in each County, nor more than Seventy-two, without Direction of the Judges appointed to go the Circuit, who if they fee Caufe by Order under their Hands may dire& a

greater

greater or leffer Number; and the Persons named in fuch Panels fhall be fummoned to serve on Juries at the next Affizes for the Counties to be named in fuch Writs, and no other.

And the Name of each Perfon fummoned and impanelled, with his Addition and Place of Abode, fhall be written in diftin&t Pieces of Parchment or Paper, of equal Size, and be delivered by the Under-Sheriff to the Judge's Marshal, and he is to cause them to be rolled up all in the fame Manner, and put together into a Box or Glafs; and when any Cause is brought on, fome indifferent Person, by the Court's Direction, fhall in open Court draw out twelve of the faid Papers of Names, one after another; and the twelve Perfons fo firft drawn, and appearing, if not challenged, their Names being marked in the Panel, and they fworn, fhall be the Jury to try the Caufe; but if any are challeng'd, or do not appear, then a further Number is to be drawn till there be a full Jury, &c. and the Names of the Jury after fworn, fhall be kept apart in fome other Box or Glafs, till they have given in their Verdict, and the fame is recorded; and then thefe Names fhall be rolled up again, and returned to the former Box, to be kept with the other Names undrawn, as long as any Caufe remains to

be tried.

If a Caufe comes on, before the Jury in any other Cause shall have brought in their Verdict, the Court may order twelve of the Refidue of the Papers to be drawn in the like Manner as before, for the Trial of fuch Caufe: But where a View fhall be allow'd in any Cause, fo many Names only fhall be drawn to be added to the fix Viewers of the Lands or other Things in Question, as after all Defaults, &c. fhall make the Number of twelve to be sworn for Trial. And Jurors whofe

Names