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, one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50855_occ282">High Constables</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50855_geo543">Edmonton</rs>
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Hundred in the said County.</p>
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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,<lb></lb>
three of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50855_occ283">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50855_geo544">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, assembled at the General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the Peace holden at the SESSION-HOUSE, in and for the said County, on th Day of<lb></lb>
the Date hereof, do hereby, in his Majesty's Name, will and require you to issue out your Precepts to<lb></lb>
the several and respective Petty Constables, and Head boroughs, 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 Gaol Delivery, and Sessions of the Peace, with their Titles and Additions, between the Age of<lb></lb>
One and Twenty Year and the Age of Seventy Years, having in their own Names, or in Trust for<lb></lb>
the, within the said County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least, above Reprizes, of Freehold or Copy-<lb></lb>
hold Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesne, or in Rents, or in all or any<lb></lb>
of the said Lands, Tenements, or Rents, in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for the Life of themselves or<lb></lb>
Some 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 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 Lease holders upon Leases, where<lb></lb>
the imoproved Rents or Value shall amount to Fifty Pounds pr 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 Free holders,<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 of 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<lb></lb>
Church-warden, Chapel-warden, or Overseer of the Poor, of the said Parish or Place, to be perused by<lb></lb>
the Parishioners, without Fee or Reward, to the End that Notice may be given of Persons so qualified<lb></lb>
who are omitted, or of Persons inserted by Mistake, who ought to be omitted out of such Lifts; which<lb></lb>
Lifts the said Constables and Head boroughs, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace, to be holden<lb></lb>
for the said County, in the Week after the Feast of St. Michael next, upon the First Day of the said<lb></lb>
Session, or upon the First Day that the said Session shall be held by Adjournment at any other parti-<lb></lb>
cular Place, are to return, and give to the Justices of the Peace, in open Court. Or in case it shall be<lb></lb>
inconvenient for any of the said Constables, or Headboroughs, by Reason of the Distance of their<lb></lb>
Abode, to deliver in such Lifts at the Quarter Session aforesaid; IT IS lawful and Sufficient for them,<lb></lb>
all, or any of them, (after they have made and compleated such Lifts) to subscribe the same, in the<lb></lb>
Presence of one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace for the said County; and also, at the same Time,<lb></lb>
to attest the Truth of such Lifts upon Oath. to the best of the Knowledge or Belief. And the said Lifts<lb></lb>
(being first Signed by the said Justice or Justices respectively, before whom the same shall be attested on Oath,<lb></lb>
and subscribed as aforesaid) are to be delivered by the said Constables, or Head boroughs, to you, the said<lb></lb>
High Constable, who are required to deliver in such Lifts to us, and others his Majesty's Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace, at the said General Quarter Session of the Peace, in open Court; attesting, at the same Time, upon<lb></lb>
Oath, your Receipt of such Lifts from the constables, or Head boroughs, respectively, and that no Alter-<lb></lb>
ation hath been made therein sice your Receipt thereof : And in Default of you, the said High Constables,<lb></lb>
making out such Precepts as aforesaid, you are to forfeit and incur the Penalty of Ten Pounds. And the<lb></lb>
said Petty Constables, and Headboroughs, respectively, sailing to meet you, to prepare and make such<lb></lb>
Lifts, and to return the same, in Manner as is above directed, are to for seit and incur the Penalty of Five<lb></lb>
Pounds each. And, moreover, the said Constables and Head boroughs, and every of them respectively,<lb></lb>
who shall wilfully omit out of any such Lift any Person or Persons, whose Name or Names ought to be<lb></lb>
inserted, or shall wilfully insert any Person or Persons who ought to be omitted, or shall take any Money,<lb></lb>
or other Reward, for omitting or inserting any Person whatsoever, will, for every such Offence, forfeit the<lb></lb>
Sum of Twenty Shilling, to be recovered in such Manner as by the Act in that Behalf is directed. Given<lb></lb>
under our Hands and Seals, in open Session, this fifth Day of July in the Thirtieth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great<lb></lb>
Britain, France, and and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord one<lb></lb>
Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety</p>
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