Section XVI Recital that 16 & 17 Car. II. c. 3. is expired.

Jurors to have £10. per Annum.; Exception.; Jurors in Wales £6. per Annum.; Such Persons liable to serve.; Challenge of less Estate.; Issues to be duly estreated.

And whereas a certaine Act made att the Session of Parliament held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth years of the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for returning of able and sufficient Jurors is expired Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That all Jurors (other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem X1Lingue who are to be returned for Tryals of Issues joyned in any of the Courts of Kings Bench Co[m]mon Pleas and Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Goal Delivery or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace from and after the First day of May one thousand six hundred ninety three in any County of this Realme of England shall every of them have in their owne name or in trust for them within the same County Ten pounds by the yeare att least above reprizes of Freehold or Copyhold Lands or Tenements or of Lands and Tenements of Ancient Demesne or in Rents or in all or any of the said Lands Tenements or Rents in Fee Simple Fee Tale or for the Life of themselves or some other person And that in every County of the Dominion of Wales every such Juror shall then have within the same County Six pounds by the year att least in manner aforesaid above reprizes All which persons haveing such Estates as aforesaid are hereby enabled and made liable to be returned and serve as Jurors for the tryal of Issues before the Courts and Justices aforesaid Any Law or Statute to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. And if any of a lesser Estate and Value shall be respectively returned upon any such Jury it shall be a good cause of challenge and the party returned shall be discharged upon the said challenge or upon his owne Oath of the truth of the said matter And that no Jurymans Issues makeing default shall be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges before whom the Issue is to be tried for some reasonable cause proved upon Oath before the same Court or Judges And all such Issues shall be duely estreated and levied And the Writ of Venire facias which from and after the time aforesaid shall be awarded and directed for the impannelling of Juries in X2cases aforesaid within any County of England shall be after this Form.

Form of Venire.

Rex &c precipimus &c quod venire fac' coram &c Duodecem liberos & legales homines de Vicineto de A. quor' quilibet habeat Decem librat' Terre Tenementor' vel Redditum per Annum ad minus per quos &c. & qui nec &c.

Sheriff otherwise returning; Penalty £5.

And the residue of the said writ shall be after the ancient manner And that the Writts X3which shall be awarded and directed for the returning of Juries within the Dominion of Wales shall be made in the same manner altering only the Word Decem for Sex And that upon every such Writt or Writts of Venire facias the Sheriff Coroner and other Ministers of each respective County in England and Wales unto whom the makeing of the Pannell shall appertaine shall not returne in any such Pannell any Person unlesse hee shall then have Ten Pounds or Six Pounds respectively by the yeare att least as aforesaid in the same County where the issue is to be tried upon paine to forfeit for every Person being returned in any such Pannel that shall not then have Ten Pounds or Six Pounds respectively as aforesaid the sum[m] of Five Pounds to their Majesties their Heirs and Successors.