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BY Virtue of the Several Acts of Parliament made Concerning the returning of able and sufficient
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Jurors, and for the better Regulation of Juries; We, whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set,
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three of his Majesty's
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Justices of the peace
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for the County of Middlesex, assembled at the General
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Quarter Session of the Peace holden at the SESSION-HOUSE, in and for the said County, on th Day of
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the Date hereof, do hereby, in his Majesty's Name, will and require you to issue out your Precepts to
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the several and respective Petty Constables, and Head boroughs, of every Parish and Place in your
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Division or District; thereby directing and requiring them, and all and every of them, within Fourteen
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Days next after the Date of Such Precept, to convene and meet you at some usual or convenient Place
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in the said Division or District; then and there to prepare and make a true Lift, fairly written, and signed
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by them, of the Names and Places of Abode of all Persons within the respective Places for which they
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Serve, that are qualified to serve on Juries, for Trials of Issues joined in the Courts of Chancery, King's
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Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, or to serve on Juries at Assizes, Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, Ge-
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neral Gaol Delivery, and Sessions of the Peace, with their Titles and Additions, between the Age of
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One and Twenty Year and the Age of Seventy Years, having in their own Names, or in Trust for
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the, within the said County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least, above Reprizes, of Freehold or Copy-
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hold Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesne, or in Rents, or in all or any
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of the said Lands, Tenements, or Rents, in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for the Life of themselves or
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Some other Person, or having an Estate in Possession in Land, in their own Right, of the yearly Value of
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Twenty Pounds, or upwards, over and above the reserved Rent payable thereout, such Lands being held
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by Lease or Leases, for the absolute Term of Five Hundred Years or more, or for Ninety- nine Years or
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any other Term determinable on one or more Life or Lives. And all Lease holders upon Leases, where
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the imoproved Rents or Value shall amount to Fifty Pounds pr upwards per Annum, over and above all
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Ground Rents, or other Reservations payable by Virtue of the said Leases, according to the Direction of
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the Several Statutes in that behalf. And in order to assist them to compleat such Lifts, every Constable
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and Headborough, within Your Division or District, hath free Liberty to Inspect the Rates for the Poor,
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and Land Tax, Within his Parish or Place, and from thence to take the Names of all Such Free holders,
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Copyholders, or other Persons qualified to serve on Juries. dwelling within their respective Parishes or
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Precincts. And the Said Constables, and Headboroughs, are required, within Twenty Days, at least, be-
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fore the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next, upon two or more sundays, to six upon the Door of
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the Church, Chapel, and every other publick Place of religious Worship within their respective Precincts,
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a true and exact Lift of all such Persons intended to be returned to the next Quarter Session of the Peace,
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as qualified to serve on Juries; and shall leave, at the same Time, a Duplicate of such Lift with a
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Church-warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish or Place, to be perused by
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the Parishioners, without Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Persons so qualified
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who are omitted, or of Persons inserted by Mistake, who ought to be omitted out of such Lifts; which
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Lifts the said Constables and Head boroughs, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, to be holden
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for the said County, in the Week after the Feast of St. Michael next, upon the First Day of the said
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Session, or upon the First Day that the said Session shall be held by Adjournment at any other parti-
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cular Place, are to return, and give to the Justices of the Peace, in open Court. Or in case it shall be
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inconvenient for any of the said Constables, or Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their
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Abode, to deliver in such Lifts at the Quarter Session aforesaid; IT IS lawful and Sufficient for them,
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all, or any of them, (after they have made and compleated such Lifts) to subscribe the same, in the
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Presence of one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace for the said County; and also, at the same Time,
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to attest the Truth of such Lifts upon Oath. to the best of the Knowledge or Belief. And the said Lifts
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(being first Signed by the said Justice or Justices respectively, before whom the same shall be attested on Oath,
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and subscribed as aforesaid) are to be delivered by the said Constables, or Head boroughs, to you, the said
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High Constable, who are required to deliver in such Lifts to us, and others his Majesty's Justices of the
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Peace, at the said General Quarter Session of the Peace, in open Court; attesting, at the same Time, upon
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Oath, your Receipt of such Lifts from the constables, or Head boroughs, respectively, and that no Alter-
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ation hath been made therein sice your Receipt thereof : And in Default of you, the said High Constables,
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making out such Precepts as aforesaid, you are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Ten Pounds. And the
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said Petty Constables, and Headboroughs, respectively, sailing to meet you, to prepare and make such
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Lifts, and to return the same, in Manner as is above directed, are to for seit and incur the Penalty of Five
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Pounds each. And, moreover, the said Constables and Head boroughs, and every of them respectively,
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who shall wilfully omit out of any such Lift any Person or Persons, whose Name or Names ought to be
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inserted, or shall wilfully insert any Person or Persons who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money,
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or other Reward, for omitting or inserting any Person whatsoever, will, for every such Offence, forfeit the
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Sum of Twenty Shilling, to be recovered in such Manner as by the Act in that Behalf is directed. Given
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under our Hands and Seals, in open Session, this fifth Day of July in the Thirtieth
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Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great
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Britain, France, and and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord one
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Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety
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