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A.D. 1562] writ doth not run, and process of capias from thence not returnable into the said court of the King's bench, after any significavit being of record in the said court of chancery, the tenor of such significavit by mittimus shall be sent to such of the head officers of the said counties of, counties palatines and places exempt, within whose offices, charge or jurisdiction the offenders shall be resiant; that is to say, to the chancellor or chamberlain for the said county palatine of Lancaster, and Chester, and for the cinque ports to the lord warden of the same, and for and Ely, and the county palatine of Durham, to the chief justice or justices there: and thereupon every of the said justices and officers to whom such tenor of significavit with mittimus shall be directed and delivered, shall by virtue of this estatute have power and authority to make like process to the inferior officer and officers to whom the execution of process there doth appertain, returnable before the justices there at their next sessions or courts, two months at the least after the teste of every such process: so always as in every degree they shall proceed in their sessions and courts against the offenders, as the justices of the said court of king's bench are limited by the tenor of this Act in term times to do and execute.

A.D. 1562]

Where in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the 35th year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth, Father to our most dear Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, one wholesome and profitable Act and Statute amongst others was then established and enacted, intituled by the name of an Act concerning the appearance of Juries in Nisi Prius, where amongst other things in the Act, it was established that where a full Jury returned betwixt party and party did not appear before the Justices of Assize or Nisi Prius, or else after Appearance of a full Jury by challenge of any of the parties the Jury was like to remain untaken for default of Jurors, that the same Justices upon request made by the party Plaintiff or Demandant should have authority, by virtue of the same Act, to command the Sheriff, or