This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...in the same town, suburbs, and precincts, as other our sheriffs elsewhere within our kingdom of England have. To hold his Court Monthly. 3. The sheriff shall hold his county court in the town of Newcastle, on Wednesdays from month to month once a month, in the same manner as other our sheriffs elsewhere in the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...in the same town, suburbs, and precincts, as other our sheriffs elsewhere within our kingdom of England have. To hold his Court Monthly. 3. The sheriff shall hold his county court in the town of Newcastle, on Wednesdays from month to month once a month, in the same manner as other our sheriffs elsewhere in the same kingdom hold their counties. To account to the Exchequer. 4. The sheriff for the time being shall every year be able to account for the proceeds of his office before the treasurer and barons of our exchequer, etc., by sufficient attorneys thereunto deputed and to be deputed, by letters patent, signed and to be signed, under the common seal of the said town, etc.; and the said attorneys may make and render such profits and accounts in place of the said sheriff. Burgesses not to plead, etc., out of the Town. 5. We have also granted, and by this our charter have confirmed for us and for our heirs, as much as in us is, to the same burgesses, their heirs and successors for ever, that none of them shall plead or be impleaded out of the town concerning any tenements or tenures within the same town, suburbs, etc., nor for any trespasses, covenants, or other contracts whatsoever arising within the same town, etc., but that the mayor and sheriff of the town for the time being shall have, and either of them by himself shall have, congnizance of all pleas, as well real as personal or mixed, concerning all lands, tenements, and tenures within the town, etc., and also of all manner of trespasses, covenants, and other contracts whatsoever, arising out of, or made within the same town, etc., before them or either of them, in the Guildhall of the town aforesaid, to be held and determined, as well in the presence of us and our heirs as in the absence of us and our...
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