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-A. D. 1433. Anno undecimo Henrici VI. C. 1—3. 569 Statutes made at Weftminfter, Anno 11 Hen. VI. and Anno Dom. 1433. o Ex Rot. in Turr. Lond. NOSTRE Seignur le Roy a fon parlement tenuz a Weftm' le viij. jour de Jule Ian de fon regno unzifme a la reverence de Dieu & pur le bien du poeple de fon Roialme del advis & aflent des Seignurs efpirituelx & tem- porelx de mefme le Roialme & a la elpeciale requeft dez Communes de fon dit Roialme en fon dit Roialme efteantz par aucforite de mefme le parlement ad fait ordeigne & eftable certeins eftatuitz declarations & ordenaunces en la fourme qenfuit. CAP. I. They that dwell at the Stews in Southwark fhall not be impanelled in Juries, nor keep any Inn or Tavern but there. See appendix. CAP. II. The Penalty where a Sheriff is named a Diffeifor in an Affife. U R Sovereign Lord the King, at his Par- liament holden at TVeftminfter the Eighth Day of July, the Eleventh Year of his Reign, to the Reverence of God, and for the Weal of the " People of his Realm, by the * Aflent of the Lord-s * Aii M«™. " Spiritual and Temporal, and at the fpecial Requeft"" " of the Commons of his Realm in his (aid Parlia- " ment affembled, by Authority of the fame Parliament, " hath ordained and ftabliihed divers Statutes, Decla- " rations, and Ordinances, in the Form following." ITEM come divers gentz fovent foitz fuent affifcs de novell diffeifyn devaunt Juftices af- •fignez envers diverfez perfones & par fubtillite & collufion pur avoir lour brefs de loures ditz aflifes -dire&z as coroners dez countees ou les tenementz fount pur faire execution dicell brefs fount nomer ■en loures ditz aflifes le vifcount de mefme le coun- te une dez difleifoures lou il neft ne unqes fuift .diffeifour ne tenaunt dez tenementz en demaunde parount fovent foitz lez ditz aflifes fount agardez par defaute dez tenantz quex nount my conu- faunce de ceux aflifes en tant qils ne trovent my afcune aflife envers eux en la felace de vifcount & nount afcune fufpecion de afcune tiel aflife .priz envers le vifcount & eux Noftre Seignur le Roi voillant en ceo cas purvoir de remedie del aflent & auclorite fuifditz ad ordeigne qen tous tiels aflifes purchafez & a prefent pendantz ou a purchafers defore enavaunt parentre queconqes .oerfones devaunt afcuns tieux Juftices en quex aflifes afcune tiel vifcount foit nomez deffeifour fi lez tenantz en lez ditz aflifes ou afcun de eux voil averrer qe le dit vifcount neft ne unqes fuift diffeifour ne tenaunt dez tenementz en demaunde mais fuift nome diffeifour par collufion foit laver- rement receuz. Et ft trove foit par la dit aflife qe le dit vifcount ne foit ne unqes fuit difleilor ne tenaunt dez tenementz en demaunde mais fuift nome diffeifour par collufion adonqes lez ditz Juftices facent abater & caffer le dit brief purchafe -ou purchafer en la fourme fuifdit & qe lez plein- tifs ou pleintife foient ou foit en le greve mercy le Roi. ITEM, Whereas feveral Perfons do often fue Af- fifes of Novel dijfeifin before Juftices affigned againft divers Perfons, and by Craft and Collulion, to have their Writs of their laid Aflifes directed to the Coroners of the Counties where the Tenements be, to make Execution of the faid Writs, do name in their faid Aflifes the Sheriff of the fame County one of the Diffeifors, where he is not, neither ever was Diffeifor or Tenant of the Tenements in De- mand, whereby oftentimes the faid Aflifes be award- ed by the Default of the Tenants which have no Knowledge of thofe Aflifes, for that they found not any Aflife againft them in the File of the Sheriff, nor have any Suspicion of any fuch Aflife taken againft the Sheriff' and them j" ' (2) our Lord the King, willing in this Cafe to provide Remedy, of the Aflent and Authority aforefaid, hath ordained, That in all fuch Aflifes purchafed, at this Time de- pending, or hereafter to be purchafed, between any Perfons whatfover they be, before any fuch Juftices, in which Aflifes any fuch Sheriff is named Dif- feifor, if the Tenants in the faid Aflifes or any of them will aver, that the faid Sheriff is not, nor ever was, Diffeifor, nor Tenant of the Tenements in Demand, but was named Diffeifor by Collufion, the Averment fhall be received. (3) And if it be found by the faid Aflife, that the faid Sheriff is not, nor ever was, Diffeifor nor Tenant of the Tenements in Demand, but was named Diffeifor by Collufion, then the faid Juftices fhall caufe to be abated and quafhed the faid Writ purchafed, or to be purchafed in the Form above-faid ; (4) and that the Plaintiffs or Plaintiff" be in the grievous Mercy of the King.' CAP. III. An Affife, &V. maintainable againft the Pernor of the Profits. ITEM come par eftatuit fait Ian quart le Roy Henry pier noftre Seignur le Roi quoreft .«ntre autres ordene foit' qe les diffeifez eiant lour Vol. I. " TTEM, Whereas by a Statute made the Fourth 4 h. 4. c, " X Year of the Reign of King Henry, Grandfa- " ther of our Lord the King that now is, amongft Dddd "other