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319 THE JURY A ND ITS DE VEL OPMENT. 3 1 g practices in procuring juries, both of accusation and trial, and praying for the correction of these evils, — "that hereafter when any people are at issue and the inquest is charged and sworn, all evidence which is to be said {totes evidences que sont a dire) be openly said at the bar, so that after the inquest departs with its charge, no justice or other person have conference {parlance') with them to move or procure the said inquest, but that they say the fact upon their own peril and oath." This petition was granted. It seems to promise a public offering at the bar of what- ever evidence was to be given. But, observe, it does not inform us that, in fact, any other evidence was as yet given except such as we have heretofore considered. But further consideration of this matter, and much else, must be crowded into a final article in the next number of the Review. James B. Thayer, Cambridge. [To be concluded.]