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Sheriff's Tourn Act 1357

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1357 c. 15
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 31 Ede III. Stat. 1. and Anno Dom. 1357 At what Time a Sheriff shall hold his Turn.

(31 Edw. 3 St. 1) C A P. XV.

‘ITEM, Whereas in the Great Charter it is contained, That no Sheriff nor his Bailiff shall make his Turn by Hundreds, but two Times in the Year, in a Place due and accustomed, that is to say, once afterEaster, and another Time after Michaelmas; (2) and now divers of the Commons have grievously complained them, that some Sheriffs make their Turns oftentimes in Lent, when Men ought to intend Devotion, and other Works of Charity, for Remedy of their Souls; and sometime after the Gule of August, when every Man almost is occupied about the cutting and entring of his Corn, whereby the People perceived them much grieved and disquieted:’ '(3) Our Lord the King, desiring the Quietness of his People, hath ordained and stablished, That every Sheriff from henceforth shall make his Turn yearly one Time within the Month after Easter, and another Timewithin the Month after SaintMichael; and if they hold them in other Manner, that then they shall lose their Turn for the Time.'

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