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52 the King upon the trial of any traverse recognizance or other forfeiture, contrary to good and pregnant evidence ministered to them by persons sworn before the said Justiciar, Steward, Lieutenant or other Officer, or that the said Jurors or any of them do eat, drink, or speak to or with any other person or persons than to such as be sworn with them, or otherwise misdemean themselves, after they be sworn and before they have given their verdict, that then the Lord President and other of the Council of the Marches for the time being, upon notice or complaint thereof to them made, shall not only have power and authority by this present Act to call such Jurors before them, but also the same Justiciar, Steward, or other officer afore whom any such acquittal, untrue verdict, or misdemeanour shall happen to be made, shall have full power and authority to compel such Jurors and every of them upon pain of imprisonment to be bounden by recognizance in a certain sum of money by their discretion to be limited, that the same Jurors and every of them shall personally appear at a certain day, by the same Justiciar, Steward or other officer to be limited, before the Lord President and other of the Council aforesaid for the time being, then and there to abide and stand to such direction and order as the same Council shall make ordain and decree of in and upon the same: and that the same council shall thereupon have authority and power by examination or otherwise to hear and determine all and every such cause, and shall have like authority to commit every of the same Jurors to prison or other punishment as shall be thought most meet by the discretion of the said Council, or otherwise assess or tax every such Juror to his fine or ransom by the same discretion to be paid and levied of their lands goods and chattels to the use of the King's Highness.

A.D. 1534]

Forasmuch as daily divers felonies robberies and murders be many times committed and done in the counties of Gloucester and