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148 or other Minister or Ministers having commandment by the said Justices to omit the returning of such Issues as is aforesaid upon such Juror or Jurors, shall be therein discharged of the Penalties aforesaid for the non returning of the said Issues, and that yet notwithstanding the said Return to be good and effectual in the Law; any Law Usage Ordinance or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

4. Provided also and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said Justices or their Deputies afore whom any such Jury should appear in the Shires or Counties Palatine where such Issue is to be tried, do not come at the Day and Place appointed, That then every one of the same Jurors shall be discharged for forfeiting of any Issues upon him returned in the same Writ; And the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers shall be likewise discharged of the Penalties of this Statute for the non returning of such Issues as are before limited in this Act; any Article or Sentence herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

5. And also be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if upon any such Writ of Habeas Corpora or Distringas, Issues be returned upon any Hundredors Juror or Jurors by the Sheriff, or other Minister or Ministers to whom the execution of the same Writ or Writs shall appertain, where as the same Hundredors and Jurors shall not be lawfully summoned warned or distrained in that behalf. That then every such Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers aforesaid shall lose for every such Offence so committed double so much as the said Issues returned upon such Hundredors or Jurors not lawfully summoned warned or distrained shall amount unto; The moiety of all which forfeitures contained in this present Act, other than the issues to be returned upon the Jurors as is aforesaid, shall be to the Queen our Sovereign Lady her Heirs and Successors, and the other half to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information, in the Queen her Grace's Great Court within the said County where such forfeiture shall happen to be, before the said Justices his or their Deputy or Deputies, in which no Wager of law Essoin or Protection shall be allowed nor admitted.

6. Saving to all manner of Persons Bodies Politic and Corporate their Heirs and Successors, having lawful Right Title and Interest to have such Issues to be before any such Justices or their Deputies at any time or times hereafter lost and forfeited, all such Right