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To <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n469-1">Robert Paddon</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo455">Hundred of Elthorne</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50756_occ106">High Constables</rs>
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in the Said County.</p>
<p n="471"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n471-1">Geo Booth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50756_n471-58">Thos. Brooksbank</rs>
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<p n="472"> 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="LMSMPS50756_occ107">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50756_geo456">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, assembled at the General Quar-<lb></lb>
ter Sessions of the Peace holden at the Session House 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 to convene and meet your 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 laces 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 Affizes, Session 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, fo Freehold or Copyhold<lb></lb>
Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesn, or in Rents, or in all or any of<lb></lb>
the said or Tenements, or Rents, in Fee simple, Free 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 of Leases, for the absolute Terms of Five 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 fifty Pounds or upwards per Annam, over and above all<lb></lb>
Ground Rents, or other Reservations payable by Virtue of the said A 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 Headborougg, 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 al 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 six upon the Door of<lb></lb>
the Church, Chapel, and every other publick Place or Religious Worship within their respective Precincts,<lb></lb>
a true and exact Lift 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 Duplicate of such Lift, with a Church-<lb></lb>
warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish of 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 our of such Lifts; which Lifts 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 St. Michael next, upon the First day of the said Session, or upon<lb></lb>
the Frist 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 cafe in shall be inconvenient for any or<lb></lb>
the said Constables and Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their Abode, to deliver in such Lifts 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 completed such Lists) to subscribe the same, in a Presence or 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 Lifts upon Oath,<lb></lb>
to the best of their knowledge or Belief. And the said Lifts (being first signed by the said Justices 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 Lifts to us, and other 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 Lifts<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 Petty Constables, and Head-<lb></lb>
boroughs, respectively, failing to meet you, to prepare and make such Lifts, 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 Lift and Person or Persons, whose name or Names ought to be inserted, or shall willfully insert any<lb></lb>
Person or Person who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money, or other Reward, for omitting or in-<lb></lb>
ferting 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 first Day of July in the 22 Years of the Reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender<lb></lb>
of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and <del>Seventy nine.</del>
eighty two.</p>
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