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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1693

King Charles 2 intituled An Act for returning of able and sufficient Jurors, is expired; Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Jurors (other than Strangers upon Trials per Medietatem Linguae) who are to be returned for Trials of Issues joined in any of the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, or before Justices of Assize, or Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer, Gaol Delivery or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, from and after the First day of May One thousand six hundred ninety three in any County of this Realm of England, shall every of them have in their own Name or in Trust for them, within the same County, Ten Pounds by the Year at least above Reprizes, of Freehold or Copyhold Lands or Tenements, or of Lands and Tenements of ancient Demesne, or in Rents, or in all or any of the said Lands, Tenements or Rents in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, or for the life of themselves or some other person: And that in every County of the Dominion of Wales, every other Juror shall then have within the same County six Pounds by the Year at least, in Manner aforesaid above Reprizes, All which persons, having such Estates as aforesaid, are hereby enabled and made liable to be returned and serve as Jurors for the trial of Issues before the Courts and Justices aforesaid; any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And if any of a lesser Estate and Value shall be respectively returned upon any such Jury it shall be a good cause of challenge, and the Party returned shall be discharged upon the said challenge, or upon his own Oath of the truth of the said matter, &c., &c.

19. Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawful to return any Person to serve upon the Tales in any County within the Dominion of Wales, who shall have within the same County three Pounds by the Year, above Reprizes, in Manner aforesaid and not otherwise.

A.D. 1693]
5 and 6 William and Mary, c. 4.
An Act to repeal a Clause in the Statute made in the four and thirtieth and five and thirtieth Years of King Henry the Eighth, by which Justices of Peace in WALES are limited to eight in each County.

"Whereas in a Statute made in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth Years of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesty's Dominion and Princi-