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<P> AN ACT OF COMMON COUNCIL For the better Regulation of the COURTS of LAW In the GUILD-HALL <HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
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<P>Printed by <HI>James Fle&s;her,</HI> Printer to the Honou|rable City of <HI>LONDON,</HI> 1669.</P>
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<P>Commune Concilium tent' in Camera <HI>Guihald'</HI> Civitatis <HI>London</HI> die Lunae, undecimo die <HI>Octobris,</HI> Anno Domini mille&s;imo &s;excente&s;imo &s;exage&s;imo no|no, Ann&oacute;que Regni Domini no&s;tri <HI>CAROLI</HI> Se|cundi, Dei grati&acirc;, <HI>Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae</HI> &amp; <HI>Hiberniae</HI> Regis, Fidei Defen&s;oris, &amp;c. vice&s;imo primo, coram <HI>Willielmo Turner</HI> Milite, Majore Civitatis <HI>London, Sa|muele Starling</HI> Milite, Majore Electo dictae Civitatis, <HI>Johanne Frederick</HI> Milite, Aldermanno, <HI>Johanne Robin&s;on</HI> Milite &amp; Baronetto, Alderm' ac Locum|tenente Turris <HI>London, Johanne Lawrence</HI> &amp; <HI>Willielmo Peake</HI> Militibus, Aldermannis, <HI>Johanne Howel</HI> Milite, Recordatore dictae Civitatis, <HI>Richardo Ford</HI> &amp; <HI>Will. Hooker,</HI> Militibus &amp; Aldermannis, <HI>Johanne Forth, Franci&s;co Chaplin, Dannett' Forth, Will' Fluellin</HI> &amp; <HI>Johanne Randal,</HI> Armig', Alderm', &amp; <HI>Jacobo Edwards</HI> Arm', Alderm', ac uno Vicecomitum Civit' <HI>Lond',</HI> necnon majore parte Communiariorum de Communi Concil' eju&s;dem Civit' tunc &amp; ibidem a&s;&s;emblat'.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>An Act for the better Regulation of the Courts of Law in the <HI>Guild-Hall London.</HI></HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas in the City of <HI>London</HI> there <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Antiquity a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great conveniency the Courts in <HI>Lond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></HI></NOTE> are <HI>Courts of Record</HI> holden of ancient Cu&s;tome, that have cog|nizance of all Actions and Cau&s;es, both in Law and Equity, &s;o that no Citizen n&eacute;ed to go beyond the Walls of the &s;aid City for &s;p&eacute;edy Iu&s;tice; which Courts have b&eacute;en in all times &s;up|plied with able Iudges, many of which, for their Worth and Learning, have b&eacute;en advanced to places of great Honour and Dignity within the&s;e Realms;
<PB N="2" REF="3"> And the <HI>KINGS</HI> and <HI>QUEENS</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> out of their great Care, and Princely Re&s;pect to the Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> have from time to time, by their re&s;pective Charters, granted and confirmed to the &s;aid City divers excellent Privileges and Immunities, which have not b&eacute;en granted unto other Cities; among&s;t which it is not the lea&s;t, That no Citizen &s;hould plead, or be compelled to plead, without the Walls of the &s;aid City, but in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Charters of <HI>H.</HI></HI> 1. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d mo&s;t other Kings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d Queens of <HI>Eng|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> &s;ince the Con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t, (whereof di|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s were granted in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rliament,) No Ci|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en &s;hall be com|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l'd to plead with|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t the Walls of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty, &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> &s;ome few Ca&s;es excepted; and that Pleas &s;hould be holden in <HI>London</HI> for all Debts there made, ac|cording to ancient Cu&s;tome; and that none of the Fr&eacute;edome of the City &s;hould be impleaded at the Ex|chequer, or el&s;ewhere, by Bill, but of tho&s;e things which concern the <HI>KING</HI> or his Heirs:</P>
<P>And whereas by &s;everal Acts of Common Council of this City, &s;till in force, it is enacted, That no <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d by ancient Acts <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Common Council, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Freemen are pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ited to &s;ue one an|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her out of the City, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en they may have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eir Recovery in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eir own Courts, up|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great penalties, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ich have been &s;e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ely inflicted upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Offenders. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Freemen al&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e bound by Oath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their admi&s;&s;ion to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Freedome, not to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e one another out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the City, &amp;c. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e contrary not|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th&s;tanding much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed by Citizens of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mes.</NOTE> Fr&eacute;eman &s;hall implead another Fr&eacute;eman out of the City for any thing done within the City, where he may have his Recovery before the Mayor and the Sheriffs, upon the Peins therein limited: and whereas every Fr&eacute;eman of this City &s;tands obliged by his Oath, That the Franchi&s;es and Cu&s;tomes of the City he &s;hall maintain, and that he &s;hall im|plead or &s;ue no Fr&eacute;eman out of the City, whil&s;t he may have Right and Law within the &s;ame: and yet neverthele&s;&s;e &s;o it is, that of late years divers Citizens, of all qualities and degr&eacute;es, (forgetting their &s;aid Oaths and the Privileges of the &s;aid City) have commenced, and do frequently commence, their Actions in other Courts without this City, or, be|ing commenced within the &s;ame, do cau&s;e them to be thence removed by Writs, whereby the Courts of Iu&s;tice within the City of <HI>London</HI> are not onely &s;lighted, but the &s;aid Citizens, a&s;well for petty
<PB N="3" REF="3"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">au&s;es and &s;mall Debts as great, are troubled in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ther Courts, to their very great Charge and Vexa|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ion:</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as the Clerks and Atturnies in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Irregular practices of the Clerks &amp; Attur|nies of the Sheriffs Courts in commen|cing and removing Cau&s;es out of the City, and becoming Bail for their Clients.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">heriffs Courts of this City (contrary to &s;everal Orders of the Court of Aldermen, and Acts of this <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ourt of Common Council) do either advi&s;e their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">lients, Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> to commence their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ions in other Courts, or el&s;e, whenas Cau&s;es are <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">epared ready for Trial in the Sheriffs Courts of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e &s;aid City, do cau&s;e them to be removed by Writs <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">to &s;uch other Courts where they are likewi&s;e At|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">rnies, and there their Clients be enforced to begin <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">pon a new Charge, to the great Abu&s;e of Citizens, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d di&s;couraging of the Fr&eacute;emen of the &s;aid City to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">mmence their Suits in <HI>London,</HI> where they are <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">o&s;t properly determinable:</P>
<P>For remedy hereof for the future, Be it Enacted, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">rdained and E&s;tabli&s;hed, by the Right Honourable <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Lord Mayor, the right Wor&s;hipful the Alder|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">en, his Brethren, and the Commons, in this <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ommon Council a&s;&s;embled, and by the Authority <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> the &s;ame, That no per&s;on, or per&s;ons, be at any <NOTE PLACE="marg">None but Freemen &s;hall be admitted Of|ficers, Clerks and Atturnies in the Courts of the City&punc; for the future.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">me hereafter admitted into any the Places or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ffices of Secondaries of the Compters, Clerks <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Atturnies in the Mayors Court, Clerk of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">apers, Clerk-&s;itters, Atturnies in the Sheriffs <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ourts, of this City, Serjeants or Yeomen of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ompters, but that he or they do fir&s;t take his or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">eir Fr&eacute;edome of this City, according to former <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">s and Orders of Common Council.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as it is ob&s;erved, that the Clerks <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">d Atturnies of the Mayors and Sheriffs Courts of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">is City do br&eacute;ed and bring up under them a mul|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ude of young Clerks, taking with them con&s;ide|rable
<PB N="4" REF="4"> &s;umms of money, but for &s;horter terms the<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> hath b&eacute;en accu&s;tomed within this City; and that the Atturnies, Clerks and Officers, of an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> belonging to the Sheriffs of <HI>London,</HI> and the She+riffs Courts, do often tender them&s;elves to the De+fendants arre&s;ted in their Courts, to become thei<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Bail, whereby to oblige them the more to follow thei<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Inconveniences of Atturnies &amp; Officers being Bail for their Clients.</NOTE> Advice in con&s;enting to the Removal of their Cau&s;es<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> and whereby, in ca&s;e of the Defendants ab&s;entin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> him&s;elf, all po&s;&s;ible means are u&s;ed to delay and di&s;+appoint the Plaintiffs in their ju&s;t Suits, to thei<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> great wrong, and abu&s;e of Iu&s;tice:</P>
<P>Be it therefore Ordained, Enacted and E&s;tabli&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> by the &s;aid Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">None &s;hall be ad|mitted a Clerk or Atturny in the Courts unle&s;s he have &s;erved &s;even years.</NOTE> in this Common Council a&s;&s;embled, and by th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Authority of the &s;ame, That no per&s;on or per&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> what&s;oever be henceforth at any time admitted,<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> capable to be admitted, a Clerk or Atturny in th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;aid Mayors Court, or in either of the &s;aid Sheriff<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Courts of this City, before he or they &s;hall <HI>bona fid<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> have &s;erved &s;ome Ma&s;ter-Clerk or Atturny in on<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of the Courts of this City, as a Clerk, the fu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> term of &s;even years; And that every or any Gran<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Every Admi&s;&s;ion to the contrary &s;hall be void.</NOTE> or Admi&s;&s;ion, that &s;hall happen at any time her<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> after to be made contrary to this Act, &s;hall be nu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> and void, as if it never had b&eacute;en made: And th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> no Atturny, Clerk, or Officer, of or belonging to th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">No Atturnie, Clerk, or Officer, to become Bail.</NOTE> Mayors Court or Sheriffs Courts, or their Clerk<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or Servants, nor any of them, do or &s;hall, at an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> time from and after the twenty third day of <HI>Octobe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> in&s;tant, pre&s;ume to become Bail for any per&s;on or pe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+&s;ons what&s;oever, in any Action, Attachment, or othe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Suit or Cau&s;e what&s;oever, that &s;hall be entered, com+menced, or depending, in the &s;aid Mayors Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or Sheriffs Courts; And that neither the Clerk<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="5" REF="4"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Bails in the Mayors Court, nor Clerks of the Papers, nor Clerk-&s;itters of the &s;aid Sheriffs Courts, nor any of them, nor their or any of their Clerks or Servants, nor any other who&s;e duty it is to take the Bails, do pre&s;ume, from and after <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he &s;aid twenty third day of <HI>October</HI> in&s;tant, to take, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">cept, and enter upon Record, any of the &s;aid At|turnies, Clerks, or Officers, or any of their Clerks <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">r Servants, for the Bail of any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever, or their or any of their Promi&s;e or En|gagement, to &s;ave harmle&s;s &s;uch Clerk or other Of|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">icer, for taking of any other per&s;on or per&s;ons to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e Bail in any Cau&s;e what&s;oever, to be therein de|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ending.</P>
<P>And to the end that the &s;aid City-Courts, as well <NOTE PLACE="marg">None but Sub&s;idy-men, or per&s;ons of like quality, to be Jurors.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Mayors as the Sheriffs Courts, may be &s;upplied <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">om time to time with able and &s;ufficient Iury|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">en, Be it farther Ordained and Enacted by the &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Com|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">on Council a&s;&s;embled, and by the Authority of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">me, That no per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever be at <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">y time hereafter returned, by any the Inque&s;ts of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he Wards of this City, to &s;erve as Iury-man, or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ury-men, either Grand, or Petty, in the Courts of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his City, but &s;uch men as either have b&eacute;en, or for <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">me to come &s;hall be, Sub&s;idy-men, and &s;o taxed in <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he <HI>KING</HI>'s Books; or, in default thereof, &s;uch <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ther di&s;cr&eacute;et and &s;ufficient per&s;ons as &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">qual in Quality&punc; and E&s;tate with them: And that <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">he I&s;&s;ues upon Default of Iury-mens Appearan|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">s be con&s;tantly levied, and duly and truly an&s;wered. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Mayors Court, being a Court of Law and Equity, and &s;u|perior to the Sherifs Courts, hath power of Levating Cau&s;es out of tho&s;e Courts.</NOTE></P>
<P>And whereas the &s;aid Court, called the Lord <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ayors Court, is an ancient Court of Record, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">herein Cau&s;es, both of Law and Equity, and al&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ttachments, are determinable, and the &s;ame Court
<PB N="6" REF="5"> is &s;uperiour to the Sheriffs Courts; And wherea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> al&s;o the Lord Mayor for the time being, of ancien<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Cu&s;tome and con&s;tant practice, hath, and time where+of the memory of man is not to the contrary ever had power and authority, by his Warrant called a <HI>Leve+tur Querela,</HI> to remove Cau&s;es from and out of th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Sheriffs Courts into the Lord Mayors Court, with+out any re&s;triction or limitation of time, &s;o as th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;ame <HI>Levetur</HI> be brought before the Iury, or any o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> them, (&s;ummoned for trial of &s;uch Cau&s;e or Cau&s;es&punc; &s;hall be &s;worn; And whereas of very late time &s;uc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Levetur</HI> hath b&eacute;en often di&s;allowed, contrary to th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;aid ancient V&s;age, and in Contempt of the &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Mayors Court, upon &s;everal new pretences, neve<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> heard of till of late time, whereby Clients are ne+ce&s;&s;itated (e&s;pecially where they have cau&s;e to appea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to Equity) to remove their Suits out of <HI>London</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to other Courts, whereas they might otherwi&s;e b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> relieved in the Lord Mayors Court, with far le&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Charge and greater Expedition:</P>
<P>For remedy hereof it is Ordained, Enacted an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>No Judge or Clerk of the Sheriffs Courts &s;hall di&s;allow any <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">evetur</HI> brought be|fore the Jury &s;worn.</HI></NOTE> E&s;tabli&s;hed, by the &s;aid Lord Mayor, Aldermen, an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Commons, in this Common Council a&s;&s;embled and by Authority of the &s;ame, That at all times her<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> after the &s;aid Warrant of <HI>Levetur Querela,</HI> unde<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the hand of the Lord Mayor or Recorder of the Cit<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> of <HI>London</HI> for the time being, for removing of an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Plaint, Attachment, or other Cau&s;e or Cau&s;es, lev<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">+ed or depending in either of the Sheriffs Courts<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> this City, into the Mayors Court, (being brough<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> by a Serjeant at Mace and Mini&s;ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Mayor<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Court to the &s;aid Sheriffs Courts, either at th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Guild-Hall</HI> or <HI>Compter,</HI> at any time before the Iur<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or any of them, &s;hall be &s;worn for trial of &s;uch Cau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> or Cau&s;es,) &s;hall be pre&s;ently obeyed and allowed o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="7" REF="5"> And that neither the Iudge, nor any Clerk or Offi|cer, of either of the &s;aid Sheriffs Courts, do at any time hereafter pre&s;ume to reject or di&s;allow of any &s;uch <HI>Levetur Querela,</HI> &s;o brought or tendered un|to him or them, upon any pretence what&s;oever, other then in ca&s;e of a farther Order or Warrant, by and under the Hand of the Lord Mayor or Recor|der for the time being, in that behalf fir&s;t had and obtained, as anciently hath b&eacute;en u&s;ed and ac|cu&s;tomed.</P>
<P>And to prevent the daily Inconveniences happen|ing <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Novel device<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; Continuances con|demned and remedi|ed.</NOTE> in Suits now depending, or hereafter to be depen|ding, in the Courts of the &s;aid Sheriffs, by rea&s;on of the great Delays they m&eacute;et with there by putting off of Cau&s;es, under pretence of Continuances entered by the Atturnies on both &s;ides, for the mo&s;t part at the very time they &s;hould be tried, without the Con|&s;ents of the Parties Clients, contrary to the ancient practice and u&s;age of the &s;aid Courts, whereby the Cli|ent is delayed, Witne&s;&s;es and Iury-men di&s;couraged, by frequent and fruitle&s;&s;e Attendances, to the in|tolerable Expence of the Suitor: For the preventing hereof for the future,</P>
<P>Be it Enacted by the &s;aid Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in this Common Council a&s;&s;embled, and by Authority of the &s;ame, that no Cau&s;e or Cau&s;es in either of the Sheriffs Courts be at any time hereafter, from and after I&s;&s;ue joyned, put off from Trial by pretence of any &s;uch Continuances entered, or hereafter to be entered, by con&s;ent of the Atturnies on either part, but upon motion thereof <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ir&s;t made in open Court, and for &s;ome ju&s;t and rea|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">onable cau&s;e to be &s;hewed and allowed upon Oath <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">efore the Iudge of the &s;ame Court, and upon pay|ment
<PB N="8" REF="6"> of &s;uch Co&s;ts to the party thereby delayed as the Court &s;hall &s;&eacute;e cau&s;e to tax and allow; And that no Clerk do henceforth pre&s;ume to enter any Con|tinuance in any Cau&s;e &s;ummoned for Trial, with|out the &s;pecial Order and Directions of the Iudge of the Court in that behalf fir&s;t had, as afore&s;aid; And that no F&eacute;e be henceforth demanded, taken, or allowed, by or to any of the Atturnies of the She|riffs <NOTE PLACE="marg">No Fee upon a Con|tinuance.</NOTE> Courts afore&s;aid, for or in re&s;pect of the putting off of any Trail, under the pretence of &s;uch Conti|nuance entered, or hereafter to be entered, as afore|&s;aid, upon pein, that every Atturny &s;o demanding, taking, or receiving, &s;hall for every &s;uch Offence, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Penalty.</NOTE> for the fir&s;t time, forfeit the &s;umme of five pounds, and for the &s;econd, to be finally di&s;charged of and from his place of Atturny in the &s;aid Sheriffs Courts.</P>
<P>And to prevent the great Mi&s;chiefs now daily growing and increa&s;ing in the &s;aid Sheriffs Courts <NOTE PLACE="marg">What Co&s;ts &s;hall be taxed in the Sheriffs Courts, and how, for avoiding the pre|&s;ent Abu&s;es in that ea&s;e.</NOTE> by exce&s;&s;ive Co&s;ts taxed upon Iudgements there given, by the con&s;ent, for the mo&s;t part, of the Attur|nies of both &s;ides, contrary to the u&s;age of all for|mer Ages, Be it Enacted by the &s;aid Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in this Common Coun|cil a&s;&s;embled, and by Authority of the &s;ame, That no Bill of Co&s;ts, exc&eacute;eding the &s;umme of four and twenty &s;hillings for the Trial of a Grand-Iury Cau&s;e, or exc&eacute;eding the &s;umme of twenty two &s;hil|lings for the Trial of a Petit-Iury Cau&s;e, &s;hall at any time hereafter charge the Client of either &s;ide: Neverthele&s;&s;e it &s;hall and may be lawful for the Iudges of the &s;aid Courts re&s;pectively, for good and rea&s;onable cau&s;e &s;hewed to them re&s;pectively by the Parties of either &s;ide, upon due examination of
<PB N="9" REF="6"> the circum&s;tances of the Ca&s;e, (in the pre&s;ence of both Parties,) to increa&s;e the &s;aid Co&s;ts of Suit by their di&s;cretions, by &s;pecial Rule of Court to be entered for that purpo&s;e, expre&s;&s;ing the cau&s;e why &s;uch Co&s;ts are &s;o increa&s;ed: And upon complaint made by any per&s;on of greater Charges then as a|fore&s;aid, and producing the Bill under the Attur|nies hand, or other Witne&s;&s;e, that the re&s;pective Iudges of the &s;ame Court puni&s;h the Offender, and relieve the party grieved, according to their good di&s;cretions, and the Rules afore&s;aid: And that no Officer of either of the &s;aid Courts &s;hall pre&s;ume to make out Execution upon any Iudgement, where|in the Co&s;ts of Suit &s;hall exc&eacute;ed the &s;umms afore|&s;aid re&s;pectively, without &s;uch &s;pecial Rule as a|fore&s;aid to warrant the &s;ame, on pein to forfeit for <NOTE PLACE="marg">Penalty.</NOTE> his fir&s;t Offence five pounds, to the relief of the Pri&s;oners of that Compter wherein the Action &s;hall be entered; and for the &s;econd Default, to be expelled the Court for ever.</P>
<P>And to prevent the daily Abu&s;es of the Serjeants and <NOTE PLACE="marg">For redre&s;&s;e of &s;un|dry Abu&s;es commit|ted by the Serjeants and Yeomen.</NOTE> Yeomen of the Sheriffs, &s;ometimes in permitting per&s;ons arre&s;ted by them to goe at large without Bail, &s;ometimes in k&eacute;eping them in Ale-hou&s;es, or &s;ome other private places, and not returning the Pro|ce&s;&s;e in due time (by which the parties were arre&s;ted,) &s;o that the Plaintiff is delayed, and the Pri&s;oner, by the extortion of the &s;aid Serjeants and Yeomen, oftentimes put to a greater Expence then will di&s;|charge the originall Cau&s;e of Action, and &s;ometimes by di&s;charging per&s;ons by them duly arre&s;ted, with|out cau&s;ing the Actions whereon they were &s;o arre&s;ted to be withdrawn, although they take money from the Defendant &s;ufficient to do the &s;ame with, and &s;ome|times
<PB N="10" REF="7"> in not duly returning Executions by them executed, or by di&s;charging per&s;ons taken in Exe|cution before Satisfaction be entered upon Record, whereby the &s;aid per&s;ons are oftentimes doubly charged for the &s;ame Debt; Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That the Serjeants and Yeomen of the &s;aid Sheriffs, and every of them, &s;hall from time to time, and at all times hereafter, make due Returns into the &s;aid She|riffs Courts of all the Precepts of the &s;aid Courts to them to be directed, at the next Court after the Execution of the &s;ame Precepts: and that all per&s;ons by them to be arre&s;ted by vir|tue of the &s;aid Precepts, or any of them, &s;hall be either delivered upon good and &s;ufficient Bail, or, in default thereof, by him or them committed to &s;ome of the Pri&s;ons within the &s;aid City, at or before the next Court to be holden after &s;uch Arre&s;t &s;o to be made, to the end the party Plain|tiffe may proc&eacute;ed in his Action according to Law: and that none of the &s;aid Officers pre&s;ume to di&s;|charge any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o by him arre&s;ted, after Agr&eacute;ements made betw&eacute;en the parties, till &s;uch time as the &s;aid Officer &s;hall have cau&s;ed ei|ther the Action to be withdrawn, or Satisfaction to be acknowledged on Record, as the ca&s;e &s;hall re|quire. And if any of the &s;aid Officers &s;hall here|after offend in any of the ca&s;es afore&s;aid, and &s;hall be thereof convicted by Examination of the Iudge in open Court, upon complaint of the parties grieved, or, in default thereof, by any other who &s;hall inform the &s;ame, That then, and in every &s;uch ca&s;e, the &s;aid Officer or Officers &s;o offending &s;hall, for the fir&s;t Offence, be by the &s;aid Iudge
<PB N="11" REF="7"> forthwith committed to the Compter, there to remain till he &s;hall have paid down the &s;umme of five pounds, the one moiety to the party grie|ved, or, in default of Information to be given by him or them; as afore&s;aid, then to &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;ons who &s;hall inform the &s;ame to the &s;aid Court, over and be&s;ides &s;uch Remedy as the &s;aid party grieved may have by his or their Actions at Law again&s;t the &s;aid Officers, or any of them, for any of the Defaults afore&s;aid, and the other moiety to the relief of the poor Pri&s;oners in &s;uch of the &s;aid Compters wherein the &s;aid Cau&s;e is or &s;hall be entered: and if any of the &s;aid Officers, after he or they &s;hall have b&eacute;en once convicted of any of the Offences afore&s;aid, &s;hall pre&s;ume to offend in any of the &s;aid ca&s;es the &s;e|cond time, and be thereof convicted, as afore&s;aid, That then, and in every &s;uch ca&s;e, the &s;aid Offen|der, over and above all other Penalties herein a|bove limited and appointed, &s;hall be <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> ab&s;olutely di&s;charged from his &s;aid Office; and the Sheriffs of the City for the time being are here|by impowered and required to nominate and pre|&s;ent to the Court of Aldermen &s;ome other fit|ting per&s;on, to be by them admitted in his or their places, as if the per&s;ons &s;o offending and convicted, as afore&s;aid, were naturally dead.</P>
<P>Provided alwayes, that no Informer &s;hall be any wayes intituled to the moiety of the &s;aid five pounds, or any part thereof, unle&s;&s;e the &s;aid Of|fender
<PB N="12" REF="8"> &s;hall be convicted by the Evidence of one or more per&s;ons indifferent, and unconcerned to the profit or prejudice coming by the Default of the &s;aid Officer.</P>
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