bills and notes of hand to that a

mount, and your lordship is welcome to inquire into it.

Judge. Take the bail.

This is the general mode of proceeding in justifying bail in court; but when it is done in chambers, the plaintiff's attorney has a handsome fee to wink at fuch bail as the defendant's attorney may be able to procure: but what must appear a very extraordinary cafe, when the bail fuffer themselves to be fixed for the debt, the plaintiff must find them before he can touch the defendant.

It becomes now neceffary to take notice of the writs iffued by the three courts of Common Pleas, King's-Bench, and Exchequer, for debt.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

ORIGINAL.

George the Second, by the grace of God, of "Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, king, de"fender of the faith, and fo forth; to the fheriff " of Oxfordshire, greeting. Command Charles "Long, late of Burford, gentleman, that juftly " and without delay he render to William Burton

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"two hundred pounds, which he owes unjustly detains, as he faith.

And

"fhall fo do, and if the faid William fh "you fecure of profecuting his claim, th "mon by good fummoners the aforefaid "that he be before our justices at Westmi "the octave of St. Hilary, to fhew wher "hath not done it: and have you there « fummoners and this writ. Witness, S

Willes, knight, at Westminster, the twent day of January, in the twenty-eighth " our reign."

SHERIFF'S RETURN.

Pledges of J. Doe, (Summoners of the profecution, R. Roe, named Charles I j

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Burford, in the county of Oxford, if he may be "found in his bailiwick, and him safely keep, fo "that he may have his body before the king at "Westminster, on Wednesday next after fifteen

days of Eafter, to answer William Burton, gen❝tleman, of a plea of trespass: [And also to a bill " of the said William against the aforefaid Charles, "for two hundred pounds of debt, according to "the custom of the court of the said lord the king, " before the king himself to be `exhibited :] and "that he have there then this precept. Witness, "Sir Dudley Ryder, knight, at Westminster, the "18th day of April, in the eighth year of our " reign."

SHERIFF'S RETURN.

By virtue of this writ to me directed, I have "taken the body of the within named Charles Long, " which I have ready at the day and place within " contained, according as by this writ is com"manded me."

COURT

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

QUO MINUS.

George the Second, by the grace of God, of "Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, and fo forth; to the fheriff " of Berkshire, greeting. We command you, that

you omit not, by reafon of any liberty of your C county, but that you enter the fame, and take "Charles Long, late of Burford in the county of "Oxford, gentleman, wherefoever he shall be "found in your bailiwick, and him fafely keep, fo "that you may have his body before the barons of our Exchequer at Westminster, on the morrow " of the Holy Trinity, to answer William Burton,

our debtor, of a plea, that he render to him "two hundred pounds which he owes him, and unjuftly detains; whereby he is the less able to fatisfy us the debts which he owes us at our faid Exchequer; as he faith he can reasonably shew "that the fame he ought to render; and have you "there this writ. Witnefs, Sir Thomas Parker,

knight, at Westminster, the fixth day of May, "in the twenty-eighth year of our reign."

SHERIFF'S

SHERIFF'S RETURN.

"By virtue of this writ to me directed, I have "taken the body of the within named Charles

Long, which I have ready before the barons "within written, according as which it is com"manded me."

PROCESS OF EXECUTION.

WRIT OF FIERI FACIAS.

"George the Second, by the grace of God, of "Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, de"fender of the faith, and fo forth; to the fheriff " of Oxfordshire, greeting. We command you, "that of the goods and chattels within your baili"wick of Charles Long, late of Burford, gentleman, you cause to be made two hundred pounds << debt, which William Burton, lately in our court "before us at Westminster, hath recovered against "him; and alfo fifty pounds, which were adjudged "in our court before us to the faid William, for "his damages which he hath sustained, as well by "occafion of the detention of his faid debt, as for

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