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30 parties. We do therefore agree, that every head bailiff now in being, shall at the lawcourt next coming within the stannary whereof he shall be bailiff, and every head bailiff hereafter shall at the next law-court coming after he shall be made head bailiff in chief, exhibit his patent in court, there to be entered and remain on record, and shall take oath in open court, in the presence of th& grand jury then and there sworn for the said stannary if it be a law-court, for the due execution of his office, and that he shall in person attend on his office every court, or by sufficient deputy; and that neither he, his son, deputy, nor servant, be of council or attorney, or solicit any cause directly or indirectly, or bring, or get any cause in action in the stannary-court, whereof he is bailiff, upon pain of forfeiture for everything solicited directly or indirectly, the sum of five pounds.

31. No more than twenty bailiffs to be allowed in each stannary.

31. We agrree, that twenty bailiffs be allowed in each stannary, and no more, who shall eithcr give bond or rccognizance in the court, in the sum of five pounds for the good abearing of themselves in their office or place; and they to be chosen by the six stannators, or most part of them in the several stannaries where they dwell, or in default of the stannators by the grand jury at the law-court, and upon the death or discontinuance of any one of them, the defect to be made up as aforesaid. But in case where the plaintiff will have a special bailiff, that then the plaintiff is to answer for his bailiff's misdemeanor, and that no steward shall disallow any special bailiffs, which shall be nominated by