Sheriffs and Bailiffs, Fees, etc. Act 1444
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(23 Hen. 6) C A P. IX.
'ITEM, The King, considering the great Perjury, Extortion, and Oppression which be and have been in this Realm by his Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, and their Clerks, Coroners, Stewards of Franchises, Bailiffs, and Keepers of Prisons, and other Officers in divers Counties of this Realm, hath ordained by Authority aforesaid, in eschewing of all such Extortion Perjury, and Oppression, that no Sheriff shall let to ferm, in any Manner, his County, nor any of his Bailiwicks, Hundreds, nor Wapentakes; (2)nor that the said Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Bailiffs of Franchises, nor any other Bailiff, shall return, upon any Writ or Precept to them directed to be returned any Inquests in any Panel thereupon to be made, any Bailiffs, Officers, or Servants to any of the Officers aforesaid, in any Panel by them so to be made; (3)nor that any of the said Officers and Ministers, by Occasion, or under Colour of their Office, shall take any other Thing by them, nor by any other Person to their Use, Profit, or Avail, of any Person by them, or any of them, to be arrested or attached, nor of none other for them, for the omitting of any Arrest or Attachment to be made by their Body, or of any Person by them or any of them, by Force or Colour of their Office, arrested or attached, for Fine, Fee, Suit of Prison, Mainprise, letting to Bail, or shewing any Ease or Favour to any such Person so arrested, or to be arrested, for their Reward or Profit, but such as follow; that is to say, For the Sheriffxxd. the Bailiff which maketh the Arrest or Attachment, Four-pence, and the Gaoler, if the Prisonerbe committed to his Ward, Four-pence; (4) And that the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff; Sheriffs Clerk, Steward or Bailiff of Franchise, Servant of Bailiffor Coroner, shall not take any Thing by Colour of his Office, by him nor by any other Person to his Use, of any Person for the making of any Return or Panel, and for the Copy of any Panel, but iv d. (5)And that the said Sheriffs, and all other Officers and Ministers aforesaid, shall let out of Prison all Manner of Persons by them or any of them arrested, or being in their Custody, by force of any Writ, Bill, or Warrant in any Action Personal, or by Cause of Indictment of Trespass, upon reasonable Sureties of sufficient Persons, having...
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