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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, three
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of his Majesty's
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, assembled at the General Quar-
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ter Sessions of the Peace holden at the Session House in and for the said County, on the Day
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of the Date hereof, do hereby, in his Majesty's Name, will and require you to issue out your Precepts
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to the Several and respective Petty Constables, and Headboroughs, 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 to convene and meet your 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 laces 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 Affizes, Session of Oyer and Terminer, Ge-
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neral Goal Delivery, and Sessions of the Peace, with their Titles and Additions, between the Age of One
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and Twenty Years and the Age of Seventy Years, having in their own Names, or in Trust for them,
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within the said County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least, above Reprizes, fo Freehold or Copyhold
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Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesn, or in Rents, or in all or any of
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the said or Tenements, or Rents, in Fee simple, Free Tail, or for the Life of themselves, or some
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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 of Leases, for the absolute Terms 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 Leaseholders upon Leases, where the
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improved Rents or Value shall amount fifty Pounds or upwards per Annam, over and above all
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Ground Rents, or other Reservations payable by Virtue of the said A 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 Headborougg, 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 al such Freeholders,
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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 or 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 Church-
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warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish of Place, to be perused by the Pa-
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rishioners, without Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Persons so qualified who are
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omitted, or of Persons inserted by Mistake. who ought to be omitted our of such Lifts; which Lifts the
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said Constables and Headboroughs, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, to be holden for the said
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County, in the week after the Feast of St. Michael next, upon the First day of the said Session, or upon
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the Frist day that the said session shall be held by Adjournment, at any other particular Place, are to
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return, and give to the Justices of the Peace, in open Court. Or in cafe in shall be inconvenient for any or
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the said Constables and Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their Abode, to deliver in such Lifts at
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the Quarter Session aforesaid; It is lawful and sufficient for them, all, or any of them, (after they have
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made and completed such Lists) to subscribe the same, in a Presence or one or more Justice or Justices
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of the Peace for the said County; and also, at the same Time, to attest the Truth of such Lifts upon Oath,
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to the best of their knowledge or Belief. And the said Lifts (being first signed by the said Justices or
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Justices respectively, before whom the same shall be attested on Oath, and subscribed as aforesaid) are to be
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delivered by the said Constables, or Headboroughs, to you, the said High constable, who are required to
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deliver in such Lifts to us, and other his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, at the said General Quarter
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Session of the Peace, in open Court; attesting, at the same time, upon Oath, your Receipt of such Lifts
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from the Constables, or Headboroughs, respectively, and that no Alteration hath been made therein since
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your Receipt thereof: And in Default of you, the said High Constable, making out such Precepts as afore-
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said, you are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Ten Pounds. And the Petty Constables, and Head-
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boroughs, respectively, failing to meet you, to prepare and make such Lifts, and to return the same in
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Manner as is above directed, are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Five Pounds each. And, moreover,
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the said Constables, and Headboroughs, and every of them respectively, who shall wilfully omit out of any
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such Lift and Person or Persons, whose name or Names ought to be inserted, or shall willfully insert any
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Person or Person who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money, or other Reward, for omitting or in-
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ferting any Person whatsoever, will, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Twenty Shillings, to be
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recovered in such Manner as by the Act in that Behalf is directed. Given under our Hands and Seals, in
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open Session, this first Day of July in the 22 Years of the Reign of our Sovereign
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Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender
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of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and
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Seventy nine.
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eighty two.
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