Assises, Wages of Artificers, Parliament, Commissioners of Sewers, Wool Act 1427
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1427 c. 4 |
(6 Hen. 6) C A P. IV.
‘ITEM, Whereas it was ordained and established in the Seventh Year of King Henry the Fourth, Grandfather of our Lord the King that now is, that Knightsof Shires for the Parliament should be chosen in the Manner and Form following; that is to say, at the next County to be holden after the Delivery of the Writ of the Parliament, Proclamation shall be made in the full County of the Day and Place of the Parliament, (2) and that all they which be present there, as well Suitors duly summoned for this Cause, as other, shall attend to the Election of their Knights for the Parliament, (2) and then in fully County they shall proceed to the Election freely and indifferently, notwithstanding any Request or Commandment to the contrary; (4) and that after they be chosen, whether such persons chosen be present or absent, their Names shall be written in Indentures, under the Seals of all the Choosers, and annexed to the said Writ of Parliament, which Indenture, so sealed and tacked, shall be holden for the Return of the said Writ, as to the Knights of the said Shires: (5) And also in the Writs of the Parliament hereafter to be made, this Clause shall be put in the Manner as followeth:Et electionem tuam in pleno comitatu tuo factam distincte & aperte sub sigillo tuo & sigillis eorum qui electioni illi intersuerint, nobis in cancellaria nostra ad diem & locum in brevi contentos certifices indilate . (6) And for that in the same Statute no Pain was ordained, nor specially set upon the Sheriffs of the County, if they make their Return contrary to the said Statute, it was ordained and established the EleventhYear of the said King Henry the Fourth, That the Justices of Assises should have Power to inquire in their Sessions of Assises of such Returns made; (7) and if it be found by Inquest and due Examination before the same Justices, that any such Sheriff hath made, or hereafter shall make, any Return contrary to the Tenor of the said Statute, that the same Sheriff should incur the Pain of an hundred Pounds, to be paid to our said Lord the King. (8) And moreover, that the Knights so unduly returned shall lose their Wages of the Parliament in old Times accustomed; (9) to the great Mischiefs of Sheriffs and Knights of the Shire, which be forebarred and put out of their Answer against such...
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