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<p n="189"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo233">Middlesex</rs>
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To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50596_n189-1">John Farnell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50596_occ121">Gentleman</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50596_occ122">High-Constable</rs>
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of &<lb></lb>
within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo234">Hundred of Isleworth</rs>
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in the said County.</p>
<p n="190"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50596_n190-1">Elisha Bissoe</rs>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50596_n190-2">Richd: Ripley</rs>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50596_n190-3">Benj. Cowdy</rs>
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BY Virtue of the several Acts of Parliament made concerning the returning of able and sufficient<lb></lb>
Jurors, and for the better Regulation of Juries; We, whose Hands and Seals are hereunto set, three<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50596_occ123">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo235">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, assembled at the General Quar-<lb></lb>
ter Sessions of the Peace holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo236"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo237">Hicks-Hall</rs>
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, in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo238">Saint John Street</rs>
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, in and for the said County, on the Day<lb></lb>
of the Date hereof, do hereby, in his Majesty's Name, will and require you to issue out your Precepts<lb></lb>
to the several and respective Petty Constables, and Headboroughs, of every Parish and Place in your<lb></lb>
Division or District; thereby directing and requiring them, and all and every of them, within Fourteen<lb></lb>
Days next after the Date of such Precept, to convene and meet you at some usual or convenient Place<lb></lb>
in the said Division or District then and there to prepare and make a true Lift, fairly written, and signed<lb></lb>
by them, of the Names and Places of Abode of all Persons within the respective Places for which they<lb></lb>
serve, that are qualified to serve on Juries, for Trials of Issues joined in the Courts of Chancery, King's<lb></lb>
Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer; or to serve on Juries at Assizes, Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, Ge-<lb></lb>
neral Goal Delivery, and Sessions of the Peace, with their Titles and Additions, between the Age of One<lb></lb>
and Twenty Years and the Age of Seventy Years, having in their own Names, or in Trust for them,<lb></lb>
within the said County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least, above Reprizes, of Freehold or Copyhold<lb></lb>
Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenememts of ancient Demesn, or in Rents, or in all or any of<lb></lb>
the said Lands, Tenements, or Rents, in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for the Life of themselves, or some<lb></lb>
other Person, or having an Estate in Possession in Land, in their own Right, of the Yearly Value of<lb></lb>
Twenty Pounds, or upwards, over and above the reserved Rent payable thereout, such Lands being held<lb></lb>
by Lease or Leases, for the absolute Term of Five or Hundred Years or more, or for Ninety-nine Years, or<lb></lb>
any other Term determinable on one or more Life or Lives. And all Leaseholders upon Leases, where the<lb></lb>
improved Rents or Value shall amount to Fifty Pounds or upwards per Annum, over and above all<lb></lb>
Ground Rents, or other Reservations payable by Virtue of the said Leases, according to the Direction of<lb></lb>
the several Statutes in that Behalf. And in order to assist them to compleat such Lifts, every Constable<lb></lb>
and Headborough, within your Division or District, hath free Liberty to inspect the Rates for the Poor,<lb></lb>
and Land Tax, within his Parish or Place, and from thence to take the Names of all such Freeholders,<lb></lb>
Copyholders, or other Persons qualified to serve on Juries, dwelling within their respective Parishes or<lb></lb>
Precincts. And the said Constables, and Headboroughs, are required, within Twenty Days, at least, be-<lb></lb>
fore the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next, upon two or more Sundays, to fix upon the Door of<lb></lb>
the Church, Chapel, and every other public Place of Religious Worship within their respective Precincts,<lb></lb>
a true and exact List of all such Persons intended to be returned to the next Quarter Session of the Peace,<lb></lb>
as qualified to serve on Juries; and shall leave, at the same Time, a Duplicates of such List, with a Church-<lb></lb>
warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish or Place, to be perused by the Pa-<lb></lb>
rishioners, without Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Persons so qualified who are<lb></lb>
omitted, or of Persons inserted by Mistake, who ought to be omitted out of such Lists; which Lists the<lb></lb>
said Constables and Headboroughs, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, to be holden for the said<lb></lb>
County, in the Week after the Feast of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50596_geo239">St. Michael</rs>
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next, upon the First Day of the said Session, or upon<lb></lb>
the first Day that the said Session shall be held by Adjournment, at any other particular Place, are to<lb></lb>
return, and give to the Justices of the Peace, in open Court. Or in case it shall be inconvenient for any of<lb></lb>
the said Constables, or Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their Abode, to deliver in such Lists at<lb></lb>
the Quarter Session aforesaid; It is lawful and sufficient for them, all, or any of them, (after they have<lb></lb>
made and compleated such Lists) to subscribe the same, in the Presence of one or more Justice or Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the said County; and also, at the same Time, to attest the Truth of such Lists upon Oath,<lb></lb>
to the best of their Knowledge of Belief. And the said Lists (being first signed by the said Justice or<lb></lb>
Justices respectively, before whom the same shall be attested on Oath, and subscribed as aforesaid) are to be<lb></lb>
delivered by the said Constables, or Headboroughs, to you, the said High Constable, who are required to<lb></lb>
deliver in such Lists to us, and others his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, at the said General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace, in open Court; attesting, at the same Time, upon Oath, your Receipt of such Lists<lb></lb>
from the Constables, or Headboroughs, respectively, and that no Alteration hath been made therein since<lb></lb>
your Receipt thereof : And in Default of you, the said High Constable, making out such Precepts as afore-<lb></lb>
said, you are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Ten Pounds. And the said Petty Constables and Head-<lb></lb>
boroughs, respectively, sailing to meet you, to prepare and make such Lists, and to return the same, in<lb></lb>
Manner as is above directed, are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Five Pounds each. And, moreover,<lb></lb>
the said Constables and Headboroughs, and every of them respectively, who shall wilfully omit out of any<lb></lb>
such List any Person or Persons, whose Name or Names ought to be inserted, or shall wilfully insert any<lb></lb>
Person or Persons who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money, or other Reward, for omitting or in-<lb></lb>
serting any Person whatsoever, will, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Twenty Shillings, to be<lb></lb>
recovered in such Manner as by the Act in that Behalf is directed. Given under our Hands and Seals, in<lb></lb>
open Session, this 26th. Day of June in the Ninth Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland,<lb></lb>
Defender of the Faith, And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine.</p>
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