MIDDLESEX .

To Robert Paddon< no role >
of the Hundred of Elthorne

one of the
Gentleman , High Constables
in the Said County.

Geo Booth< no role >
Thos. Brooksbank< no role >
Wilmot

By Virtue of the Several Acts of Parliament made concerning the returning of able and sufficient
Jurors, and for the better Regulation of Juries; We, Whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, three
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex , assembled at the General Quar-
ter Sessions of the Peace holden at the Session House in and for the said County, on the Day
of the Date hereof, do hereby, in his Majesty's Name, will and require you to issue out your Precepts
to the Several and respective Petty Constables, and Headboroughs, of every Parish and Place in your
Division or District; thereby directing and requiring them, and all and every of them, within Fourteen
Days next after the Date of such Precept, to to convene and meet your at some usual or convenient Place
in the said Division or District; then and there to prepare and make a true Lift, fairly written, and signed
by them, of the Names and laces of Abode of all Persons within the respective Places for which they
serve, that are qualified to serve on Juries, for Trials of issues joined in the Courts of Chancery, King's
Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer; or to serve on Juries at Affizes, Session of Oyer and Terminer, Ge-
neral Goal Delivery, and Sessions of the Peace, with their Titles and Additions, between the Age of One
and Twenty Years and the Age of Seventy Years, having in their own Names, or in Trust for them,
within the said County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least, above Reprizes, fo Freehold or Copyhold
Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesn, or in Rents, or in all or any of
the said or Tenements, or Rents, in Fee simple, Free Tail, or for the Life of themselves, or some
other Person, or having an Estate in Possession in Land, in their own Right, of the Yearly Value of
Twenty Pounds, or upwards, over and above the reserved Rent payable thereout, such Lands being held
by Lease of Leases, for the absolute Terms of Five Hundred Years or more, or for Ninety-nine Years, or
any other Term determinable on one or more Life or Lives. And all Leaseholders upon Leases, where the
improved Rents or Value shall amount fifty Pounds or upwards per Annam, over and above all
Ground Rents, or other Reservations payable by Virtue of the said A Leases, according to the Direction of
the several Statutes in that Behalf. And in order to assist them to compleat such Lifts, every Constable
and Headborougg, within your Division or District, hath free Liberty to inspect the Rates for the Poor,
and Land Tax, within his Parish or Place, and from thence to take the Names of al such Freeholders,
Copyholders, or other Persons qualified to serve on Juries, dwelling within their respective Parishes or
Precincts. And the said Constables, and Headboroughs, are required, within Twenty days, at least, be-
fore the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next, upon two or more Sundays, to six upon the Door of
the Church, Chapel, and every other publick Place or Religious Worship within their respective Precincts,
a true and exact Lift of all such Persons intended to be returned to the next Quarter Session of the Peace,
as qualified to serve on Juries; and shall leave, at the same Time, a Duplicate of such Lift, with a Church-
warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish of Place, to be perused by the Pa-
rishioners, without Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Persons so qualified who are
omitted, or of Persons inserted by Mistake. who ought to be omitted our of such Lifts; which Lifts the
said Constables and Headboroughs, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, to be holden for the said
County, in the week after the Feast of St. Michael next, upon the First day of the said Session, or upon
the Frist day that the said session shall be held by Adjournment, at any other particular Place, are to
return, and give to the Justices of the Peace, in open Court. Or in cafe in shall be inconvenient for any or
the said Constables and Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their Abode, to deliver in such Lifts at
the Quarter Session aforesaid; It is lawful and sufficient for them, all, or any of them, (after they have
made and completed such Lists) to subscribe the same, in a Presence or one or more Justice or Justices
of the Peace for the said County; and also, at the same Time, to attest the Truth of such Lifts upon Oath,
to the best of their knowledge or Belief. And the said Lifts (being first signed by the said Justices or
Justices respectively, before whom the same shall be attested on Oath, and subscribed as aforesaid) are to be
delivered by the said Constables, or Headboroughs, to you, the said High constable, who are required to
deliver in such Lifts to us, and other his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, at the said General Quarter
Session of the Peace, in open Court; attesting, at the same time, upon Oath, your Receipt of such Lifts
from the Constables, or Headboroughs, respectively, and that no Alteration hath been made therein since
your Receipt thereof: And in Default of you, the said High Constable, making out such Precepts as afore-
said, you are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Ten Pounds. And the Petty Constables, and Head-
boroughs, respectively, failing to meet you, to prepare and make such Lifts, and to return the same in
Manner as is above directed, are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Five Pounds each. And, moreover,
the said Constables, and Headboroughs, and every of them respectively, who shall wilfully omit out of any
such Lift and Person or Persons, whose name or Names ought to be inserted, or shall willfully insert any
Person or Person who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money, or other Reward, for omitting or in-
ferting any Person whatsoever, will, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Twenty Shillings, to be
recovered in such Manner as by the Act in that Behalf is directed. Given under our Hands and Seals, in
open Session, this first Day of July in the 22 Years of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender
of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy nine.eighty two.