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
3 - Sheriff's duties and ceremonial at Carlisle assizes 1661–2
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
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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- A History of English Assizes 1558–1714 , pp. 297 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972