Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part One THE STREAMS OF PARADISE
- Part Two ASSIZES AND GAOL DELIVERY
- Part Three THE PLANETS OF THE KINGDOM
- APPENDICES
- 1 Judges in commission 1559–1714
- 2 Sheriff's account for the Norfolk and Suffolk assizes Lent 1564
- 3 Sheriff's duties and ceremonial at Carlisle assizes 1661–2
- 4 Articles drawn up by prospective sheriffs of Buckinghamshire 1 August 1680
- 5 Preamble to Serjeant Davis's assize charge, York assizes Lent 1620
- 6 The course of assizes on the Western circuit 1586
- 7 Clerks of assize and associate clerks 1558–1714
- 8 Two documents relating to John Heath's disputed tenure of the Oxford Circuit clerkship 1643–60
- 9 Duties of the Oxford Circuit clerical staff c. 1650
- 10 Fees taken by the Oxford Circuit clerk of assize c. 1646–53
- 11 Order about the selection of juries made at the Somerset Lent Assizes 1648
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Articles drawn up by prospective sheriffs of Buckinghamshire 1 August 1680
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- Part One THE STREAMS OF PARADISE
- Part Two ASSIZES AND GAOL DELIVERY
- Part Three THE PLANETS OF THE KINGDOM
- APPENDICES
- 1 Judges in commission 1559–1714
- 2 Sheriff's account for the Norfolk and Suffolk assizes Lent 1564
- 3 Sheriff's duties and ceremonial at Carlisle assizes 1661–2
- 4 Articles drawn up by prospective sheriffs of Buckinghamshire 1 August 1680
- 5 Preamble to Serjeant Davis's assize charge, York assizes Lent 1620
- 6 The course of assizes on the Western circuit 1586
- 7 Clerks of assize and associate clerks 1558–1714
- 8 Two documents relating to John Heath's disputed tenure of the Oxford Circuit clerkship 1643–60
- 9 Duties of the Oxford Circuit clerical staff c. 1650
- 10 Fees taken by the Oxford Circuit clerk of assize c. 1646–53
- 11 Order about the selection of juries made at the Somerset Lent Assizes 1648
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
BUCKS. To the intent His Majesty may be faythfully and duly served, his justices of assizes the more decently attended, and for the better conformity to a late Act of Parliament concerning sheriffs. It is mutually agreed by and amongst us, the persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, this first day of August 1680 in manner and forme following, and we doe promise to performe the same upon our words and reputations.
1 That no subscriber (when he shall be made sheriffe of this county) shall have above twenty liverys for his attendance either at the assizes or any other time or place when his presence as sherriffe of the county shall be required except the bayliffs of the hundreds and keeper of the county gaole, and shall not exceed 8 other his private servants to attend his person.
2 That so soone as it shall happen that any of the subscribers shall be chosen sherriffe, he that is so first chosen shall receave by his certayne messenger, agent, or appointment 50s. from each and every the other subscribers in one weeke after notice given by him to the other subscribers, and his direction to whom it shall be payd, and therwith he shall provide twenty-seven livery coats and hatts: the livery shall be plaine grey cloath edged and lined through with blew, and javelines to twenty of them suitable, the hatts to be black.
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- A History of English Assizes 1558–1714 , pp. 303 - 307Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972