Bailiffs of Sheriffs, etc. Act 1413

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1413 c. 4
Year1413
Anno primo H E N R I C I V. Statutes made at Westminster in the First Year of the Reign of KingHenrythe Fifth, and in the Year of our Lord 1413 Sheriffs Bailiffs shall not be in the same Office in three Yeats after. Sheriffs Officers shall notbe Attornies.

(1 Hen. 5) C A P. IV.

‘ITEM, For as much as the King's liege People dare not pursue or complain of the Extorsions and of the Oppressions to them done by the Officers of Sheriffs, that is to lay, by Under-Sheriffs, Clerks of Sheriffs, Receivers and Bailiffs of Sheriffs, because that the said Under-Sheriffs, Clerks, Receivers, and Bailiffs be continually, from Year to Year, abiding with the Sheriffs interchangeably out of one Office into another;’ '(2) our Lord the King, by the Advice and Assent aforesaid, and at the Request of the said Commons, hath ordained and established, That they which be Bailiffs of Sheriffs by one Year...

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