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CUSTOMS AND ORDINANCES. 165 for every default to come to the church to the common service, pay 40!. to the church, if they had not reasonable excuse. 4. That the mayor's sergeants should make true attachments, and levy all executions, or in default that the mayor should make execution against the sergeants. 5. That if the defendant in any action pending in the borough court failed to appear by the 3rd or 4th court to answer the plaintiff, the portreeves were to distrain the defendant by his goods, if he dwelt within the borough, and if he were a stranger to distrain his sureties ; and if the defendant did not appear by the 5 th court he was to be condemned, and the portreeves were to make execution. / 6. No freeman, burgess, or other person or commoner within the borough, was to disobey the mayor, or any alderman, in railing or rebuking them while sitting on the bench, on pain of 10s., and his body to prison. 7. No alderman, burgess, freeholder, or commoner inhabiting within the borough should sue in a foreign court any man who was a dweller within the borough, on pain of 20s., and the loss of his privilege as a freeman : The penalty to be distrained for by the mayor's officers to the use of the commonalty. 8. Any person obstructing an officer in the execution of his duty was to pay, to the town's use, 6s. 8d. 9. All persons who had been portreeves were to plead no man for their account, but bring their books before the mayor and his fellows, on pain of 20s. 10. Every mayor should truly levy all the common rents before the feast of the Purification next after his departure from office, on pain of forfeiting his annual pension. 1 1 . Every mayor on departing from his office was to pay over the balance of his account to his successor. 12. When the mayor for the time being had any business for the town he might call his brethren to him, and if any burgess or other person inhabiting within the burgh would not come, each person so disobeying was to pay 10s., and his body to prison, unless there were reasonable excuse. 13. If any person, sworn on a jury within the burgh, utter or disclose the counsel of others, he should pay to the town 10s., and his body to prison for six days. 14. No person must presume to wash at any well or conduit