[40] See before, p. 23. In Yorkshire, when bailiff of the liberty has no prison of his own, the usage is for him to bring the body to the sheriff, who makes out an ordinary commitment to the county jail.
[41] De ballivis suis; the printed translation reads "any of their bailiffs;" but this is only one out of numberless instances of its gross and shameful inaccuracy.
[42] This act extends to inquests before coroners. Cro. Car. 134.
[43] By § 9. The inhabitants of Westminster are exempted from serving in any jury at the sessions before the justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex.
[44] This proviso, with respect to actions or informations upon penal statutes, is taken away by 24 G. 2. c. 18. § 3.
[45] By 3 & 4 Ann. c. 18. §§ 3, 4, particular directions are given relative to the return of jurors within the county of York. See also 1 Ann. st. 2. c. 13. § 3. and 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32. §§ 7, 8.
[46] By 4 G. 2. c. 7. § 1. this clause not to extend to the county of Middlesex. And by § 2. no person shall be returned to serve as a juror at any session of nisi prius in the said county, who has been returned at any such session, in the two terms or vacations immediately preceding.
[47] By 4 G. 2. c. 7. all leaseholders in the county of Middlesex, upon leases where the improved value shall amount to 50l. or upward per annum, over and above all ground rents or other reservations, shall be liable and obliged to serve upon juries.
[48] That this statute was made in a parliamentary council at Westminster, in the forty-third year of this King, and not at Marleberge, in the fifty-second, is proved by Mr. Prynne in his Animadversions on 4 Inst. p. 190.
[49] And so it is if he that distrain chase the distress into any other house, park or other place of strength. 2 Inst. 193.