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A.D. 1300.
Anno vicesimo octavo Edwardi I.
Stat. 3.
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Debts, nor driven too far; (3) and if the Debtor can find able and convenient Surety until a Day before the Day limited to the Sheriff, within which a Man may purchase Remedy to[1] agree for the Demand, the Distress shall be released in the mean Time; [2](4) and he that otherwise doth, shall be grievously punished.

  1. ↑ Read or.
  2. ↑ Regist. 97, 185.; Rast. pla. 226.

CAP. XIII.
What Sort of Persons the Commons of Shires shall chuse for their Sheriffs.

[1]AND forasmuch as the King hath granted the Election of Sheriffs to the Commons of the Shire; (2) the King will, that they shall chuse such Sheriffs that shall not charge them, and that they shall not put any Officer in Authority for Rewards or Bribes; and such as shall not lodge too oft in one Place, nor with poor Persons, or Men of Religion.

See 9 Ed. 2. stat. 2. who shall assign Sheriffs.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 566.

CAP. XIV.
Bailiwicks and Hundreds shall not be letten too dear, to charge the People with Contribution.

[1]FROM henceforth the King will, That the Bailiwicks and Hundreds of the King, nor of other great Lords of the Land, be not let to Ferm at over great Sums, whereby the People are over-charged by making Contribution to such Ferms.

Enforced and amended by 4 Ed. 3. c. 15.  14 Ed. 3. c. 9. And see 4 H. 4. c. 5. and 23 H. 6. c. 9. prohibiting Sheriffs from letting any Part of their Hundreds or Bailiwicks.

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 556.

CAP. XV.
In Summons and Attachments in Plea of Land the Writ shall contain Fifteen Days.

[1]IN Summons and Attachments in Plea of Land, the Summons and Attachments from henceforth shall contain the Term of Fifteen Days full at the least according to the common Law, if it be not in Attachment of Assises taken in the King's Presence, or of Pleas before Justices in Eyre during the Eyre.

  1. ↑ Fitz. Jour, 16, 17, 36.; Bro. Attach. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17.

CAP. XVI.
What shall be done with them that make false Returns of Writs.

[1]THAT shall be done with them that make false Returns (whereby Right is deferred) as it is ordained in the second Statute of Westminster, with like Pain.[2]

  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 568.
  2. ↑ 13 Ed. 1. stat. 1. c. 39.

CAP. XVII.
The Statute of Winchester shall be read four Times in the Year, and put in Execution.

[1]AND forasmuch as there be more Malefactors, in the Realm, than had wont to be, and that Robberies, Burnings, and Man-slaughters are committed out of Measure, and the Peace little observed, by Reason that the Statute which the King not long past caused to be made at Winchester is not observed; (2) the King will, That the same Statute be sent again into every County, to be read and published four Times in the Year, and kept in every Point as straitly as the two Great Charters, upon the Pains therein limited. (3) And for the observing and
  1. ↑ 2 Inst. 569.
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