Small Debts, Chippenham Act 1765
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1765 c. 9 |
| Year | 1765 |
(5 Geo. 3) C A P. IX.
'WHEREAS in the Towns ofChippenham, Calne , and Corsham , and the Places adjacent, all lying within the Hundreds of Chippenham, Calne , and Damerham North , and Lordship or Liberty of Corsham , in the County of Wilts , there is carried on a large and extensive Manufacture, which employs many thousand People, many of whom contract Small Debts: And whereas an easy and speedy Method of recovering Small Debts, will greatly tend to promote Industry, and to support useful Credit, within the Hundreds and Lordship aforesaid;' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, ThatSirRobert Long Baronet, Sir Edward Bayntun Baronet, the Honourable Thomas Fitzmaurice, Edward Popham, James Long, William Northey, Paul Methuen, John Talbot, Thomas Hedges, John Walker, Charles Long, James Montagu, Edward Montagu, Thomas Maundrell, Robert Houlton, John Houlton, Thomas Boudler, Ezekiel Dickinson, Vicarius Dickinson, Joseph Colborne, William Colborne, Benjamin Colborne, Robert Neale, Hungerford Keate, William Neate, Henry White, James Gilpin, Townsend Andrews, Benedict Brown, Anthony Brooke, Henry Brooke, Matthew Barlow , the Reverend Doctor Robert Hort , the Reverend Doctor John Scroop , the Reverend Doctor Richard Scroop , the Reverend John Rolt Clerk, the Reverend Robert Ashe Clerk, the Reverend William Atkinson Clerk, the Reverend William Juson Clerk, the Reverend Francis Welman , the Reverend Pitcarne Clerk, Edward Yescombe , the Reverend Thomas Heath, Thomas Smith, John Morris, Prior, John Bowman, Francis Merewether, Cornelius Norwood , Clerks; Anthony Guy junior, Richmond Aland, Benjamin Edwards, Benjamin Stephens, Thomas Eacott, Alworth Merewether M. D. John Merewether, John Jennings, Stephen Wilson, John Scott, Richard Withers, Thomas Eaton, John Eaton, George Beames, John Beames, Henry Singer, James Hulbert, John Hulbert Baker, Walter Wiltshire of Guttleton, Daniel Ponting, Thomas Tanner, Henry Prior, John Sadler Gale, Isaac Gale, Robert Pinnel, William Stroud, John Bedford, Ambrose Lovegrove, Richard Sainsbury, Richard Singer, Henry Kemm, Abraham Prichard, John Russel, Robert Colborne, William Kyte, William Pope, William Sympson, William Edwards, Robert Rose, Isaac Taylor, Adam Goldney, Gabriel Goldney, Thomas Goldney, Esmead Edridge, Isaac Humphreys junior, Thomas Edridge, William Tarrant, William Bright, Thomas Young, John Porter, John Gaby, Richard Pocock, John Brown, Walter Coleman, Robert Crooke, Thomas Crooke, Edward Crooke, James Green, John Eddolls, Nicholas Barrett, Robert Gale, William Smith, William Essington, Thomas Neate, Daniel Smith, John Bishop, George Bishop, Robert Baily, Edward Smith, Ralph Hale junior, Matthew May, Edward Stretch, Robert Foreman, Stephen Hale, John Srantial, Thomas Vincent, Joseph Bodman, Drew Davis Stretch, Richard Aishley, Robert Baldwin, Joseph Strong, John Oakford, Robert Dyer, James Lowe, Richard Cole, Webb Lawrence, William Mortimer, William Heath, Simon Vivash, Michael Smith senior, John Hughes, Francis Child, John Davis, John Segrum, James Pound, Henry Smith, Richard Gale, Robert John Harrison, John Butten, Henry Bailey, Edward Crooke, John Neate, Edward Mitchell, William Mitchell, John Hulbert Clothier, William Arnold, Charles Arnold, William Stump, William Hulbert, William Dalmer, John Dalmer, William Dalmer junior, John Davis, Richard Cozens, John Edwards, William Silvester, Joseph Legeyt, Richard Batchelor, William Davis, William Kington, John Chanter, Edward Mitchell junior, Thomas Mitchell, John Galloway Hulbert, Jeffery Halliday, William Brewer, Samuel Guy, George Tucker, Joseph Oriel, Moses Pullen, John Skeate of Biddeston, William Mountjoy, James Fowell, James Davis, Edward Hulbert, Jonathan Collett, Stanfield Davis, Stephen Sartain, William Hulbert junior, James Porch, Edward Horne, James Chapman, David Griffin, Samuel Heath, Richard Fry, John Bennett, John Stump, Mark Stump, Johnson Hayward, Peter Drewett senior, Peter Drewett junior, Anthony Drewett, George Drewett, Joseph Pinchin, George Lee, Stephen Bridges, John Ford, James Lee, Tobias Pynching, William Ailiffe, George Mullins, Henry Fielding, Morris, Thomas Goddard, John Lee, John Neate, Edward Lee, Robert Reynolds , His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Wilts for the time being who shall reside within the Hundreds or Lordship aforesaid, the Bailiff and Burgesses of the Borough of Chippenham for the time being, the Stewards and Burgesses of the Borough of Calne for the time being, and the Bailiff of the Lordship or Liberty of Corsham for the time being, shall be, and are hereby declared, constituted, and appointed, Commissionersto hear and determine all such Causes and Matters of Debt as are herein after mentioned; and such Commissioners, and their Successors, are hereby constituted a Court of Justice, by the Name and Stile ofThe Court of Requests for the Hundreds of Chippenham, Calne, and Damerham North, and Lordship or Liberty of Corsham, in the County of Wilts: And they the said Commissioners, or any three or more of them, shall and are hereby authorized, impowered, and required, to meet, assemble, and hold the said Court in each of the said Towns or Chippenham, Calne , and Corsham , alternately and by Turns, once in every Week (to wit) on every Monday , or oftener, if there shall be Occasion, in a Court-house, or some convenient Place to be provided by the major Part of the said Commissioners, who shall be assembled at some General Meeting to be held for that Purpose; which General Meeting of the said Commissioners shall be, for the first Week atChippenham aforesaid, on the Monday Fortnight next after the passing of this Act; for the second Week at Calne aforesaid, the Monday three Weeks after the passing of this Act; and for the third Week at Corsham aforesaid, on the Monday then next following; and for the fourth Week at Chippenham again, on the same Day of the Week; and so on in Succession and Rotation.
II For want of a sufficient Number to act, Court to be adjourned to another Day.
II. Provided nevertheless, That in case three or more of the said Commissioners, appointed or to be appointed by virtue of this Act, shall neglect or refuse to assemble on any of the Days appointed for holding the said Court; that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Clerk or Clerks of the said Court, or his or their Deputy or Deputies for the time being, to adjourn the said Court to some other convenient Day, within one Week from the Day on which the said Court ought to have been held, or till the next General Court Day to be held by Rotation as aforesaid.
III Commissioners Power.
III. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners so named and appointed, and their Successors, to be chosen as herein after is mentioned, or any three or more of them, from time to time assembled as aforesaid, shall have Power and Authority, by virtue of this Act, to hear and determine all such Causes and Matters of Debt as shall be brought before them, in Manner as hereafter is mentioned; and to give such Judgements, and to make such interlocutory and final Orders and Decrees therein, and to award such Execution thereupon, with Costs, both against the Bodies and the Goods and Chattles of all and every the Person and Persons against whom they shall give or make any such Judgement, Order, or Decree, as to them shall seem just and most agreeable to Equity and good Conscience: And if the Commissioners so assembled shall happen to be equally divided upon any Question that may come before them, the Commissioner present whose Name stands first on the List of the Commissioners directed to be kept in the Court-house or Place where they shall respectively meet shall have the Casting Vote.
IV Election of Commissioners.
IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from time to time, and as often as it shall be necessary, either by the Death of any of the said Commissioners herein before particularly named, or of any of their Successors, to be chosen in Manner herein after mentioned, or by his or their refusing or neglecting for the Space of twelve Months to act herein, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners hereby appointed, and such their Successors, or any eleven or more of them, to meet and assemble together, at any Time after such Death, Refusal, or Neglect to act, and to elect and appoint one or more Commissioner or Commissioners in the Stead and Place of such Commissioner or Commissioners dying or refusing to act; and every such Commissioner so elected and appointed, shall be and is hereby enabled to act in the Execution of the Powers granted to the Commissioners hereby appointed, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if he or they had been particularly named in this Act.
V First Clerks and Serjeants.
V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, ThatGeorge Searle Bailiffe and Henry Merewether , Gentlemen, shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed Clerks of the said Court of Requests; and that George Nowell, William Little, Hugh Lawrance, Matthew Cottle , and John Kingston , shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed Serjeants of the said Court of Requests; who shall continue Clerks and Serjeants of the said Court so long as they shall be have themselves well in their respective Offices.
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