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A.D. 1542-3] Limit, to the Intent that Process from thence may be awarded to the Sheriffs to levy the same to the King's Use, as appertaineth, which Sheriffs shall yearly make their accompts before the King's Auditors thereunto to be assigned and appointed.

53. Item, Over and besides the said President and Council, and Justices, there shall be Justices of Peace and Quorum, and also one Custos Rotulorum, in every of the said twelve Shires.

54. Item, that the said Justices of Peace, Justices of Quorum, and Custos Rotulorum in the said Shires, shall be named and appointed by the Chancellor of England, by Commission under the King's great Seal of England, by the Advice of the President, Council, and Justices aforesaid, or three of them, of the which the said President to be one, from Time to Time as the Case shall require.

55. Item, That there shall not exceed the Number of eight Justices of the Peace in any of the said Shires, over and besides the President, Council, and Justices aforesaid, and the King's Attorney and Solicitor; which President, Council, Justices, and the King's Attorney and Solicitor, shall be put in every Commission of Peace in every of the said twelve Shires,

56. Item, That such Persons as shall be named to be Justices of Peace within every of the said Shires, shall be of good Name and Fame; and after they be assigned by Commission, may use and exercise the Office of the Justice of Peace, albeit they may not dispend twenty Pound, nor be learned in the Laws of the Lands, without any Loss, Damage, or Penalties for Insufficiency of their Lands: And that every of the said Justices of Peace, before they shall execute their Commission, shall take their Oaths before the Chancellor of England, or else before the said President, or one of the said Justices in, by Virtue of the King's Writ of Dedimus potestatem, or before any other Person to be limited by the Lord Chancellor of England for that Purpose, the Contents of which Oath shall be after the Form as Justices of Peace in England use to make.

57. Item, That the said Justices of Peace, or two of them at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall and may keep their Sessions, within the Limits of their Commissions, four Times in the Year, and at other Times upon urgent Causes, as Justices of Peace in England use to do; and shall have like Power and Authority in all Things, and Fees of the King's Majesty for the Time of their sitting, as well for themselves as for their Clerks,