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3 - Sheriff's duties and ceremonial at Carlisle assizes 1661–2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

J. S. Cockburn
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University of Maryland
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The sherife must send his undersherife (or some other) unto Durham (or some other place) to invite the judges and to deliver them the sherifs letter, which they do partly expect, and to know certainly of them when and where their lordships would have the sherif to wait of them.

[When the judges are approaching towards the county the high sheriffe is to have in readinesse a strong and decent guard for receiveing of them, which guard must consist of the potents, knights, esquires, and gentlemen of the county with their men arrayed in liveries, with a trumpet for their convoy towards the cittie of Carliell.

Unto which famous cittie as soone as they are corned, after a litle repose, the first thinge that wilbe cald wilbe a kallendar of the gaole, which the judge which sitts upon life and death will demand, which the undersheriffe, must have in readinesse, fairely transcribed in paper, and another copy thereof he must deliver to the clarke of the assizes wherby to make ready the indictments against the court sitting; which kallendar must be very full and copious, setting forth every prisoners name, when they were comitted, by what justice of peace, and for what fact; as for those which are out upon bond, you need not trouble yourselves therwith for these comes in upon recognizance.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1972

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