your bailiwick, so that neither he, nor any one through him, may lay hands on the fame, until "you fhall receive from us another command thereupon, and that you anfwer to us of the "iffues of the fame; and that you have his body "before our juftices at Westminster, from the day " of Easter in fifteen days, to answer to William "Burton, of a plea, to render to him two hundred pounds, which he owes him and unjustly de tains, as he faith; and to hear his judgment of his many defaults. Witnefs, Sir John Willes, "knight, at Westminster, the twelfth day of Fe bruary, in the twenty-eighth year of our reign." Sheriff's Return, Nibil. (forged.) "The within named Charles Long hath no I thing in my bailiwick whereby he may be "diftrained." Then follows, Capias ad refpondendum. "George the fecond, 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 "that you take Charles Long, late of Purford, gentleman, if he may be found in your bailiwick, and him fafely keep, fo that you may have his body before our juftices at Weftmin fter, from the day of Eafter in five weeks, to "anfwer to William Burton, gentleman, of a plea, "that he render to him two hundred pounds, "which he owes him and unjustly detains, as he "faith; and whereupon you have returned to our 'juftices at Westminster, that the faid Charles hath nothing in your bailiwick whereby he may " be distrained: and have you there then this " writ. Witness, Sir John Willes, knight, at "Westminster, the fixteenth day of April, in the twenty-eighth year of our reign." Sheriff's Return, Non eft inventus. (forged.) "The within named Charles Long is not found " in my bailiwick." Then follows, Teftatum capias. George the second, by the grace of God, of "Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, de"fender of the faith, and so forth; to the fheriff "of "of Berkshire, greeting. We command you, that ¢ "man, if he you take Charles Long, late of Burford, gentleif he may be found in your bailiwick, and « him fafely keep, so that you may have his body "before our justices at Westminster, on the mor" row of the Holy Trinity, to answer to William "Burton, gentleman, of a plea, that he render to "him two hundred pounds, which he owes him "and unjustly detains, as he faith; and where"upon our sheriff of Oxfordshire hath made a return to our justices at Westminster, at a certain day now past, that the aforefaid Charles is not "found in his bailiwick; and thereupon it is tefti"fied in our faid court, that the aforefaid Charles lurks, wanders, and runs about in your county: " and have you there then this writ. Witnefs, "Sir John Willes, knight, at Westminster, the fe"venth day of May, in the twenty-eighth year of our reign." Sheriff's Return, Cepi Corpus. "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 "within contained, according as by this writ it is "commanded me." SPECIAL BAIL on the Arreft of the Defendant, pursuant to the Teftatum capias. Bail Bond to the Sheriff. "Know all men by these prefents, that we "Charles Long, of Burford, in the county of Ox"ford, gentleman, Peter Hammond, of Bix, in "the faid county, yeoman, and Edward Tomlin fon, of Woodstock, in the faid county, inn holder, are held and firmly bound to Christo pher Jones, efquire, fheriff of the county of "Berks, in four hundred pounds, of lawful money " of Great Britain, to be paid to the faid fheriff, "or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or affigns; for which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each "of us by himself, for the whole and in grofs, our " and every of our heirs, executors, and admini"ftrators, firmly by these presents, sealed with "our feals. Dated the fifteenth day of May, in "the "the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our fo"vereign lord George the Second, by the grace of "God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ire* land, defender of the faith, and so forth; and in "the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun«dred and fifty-five. દર "The condition of this obligation is fuch, that "if the above bounden Charles Long do appear "before the juftices of our fovereign lord the "king, at Westminster, on the morrow of the Holy Trinity, to answer William Burton, gen"tleman, of a plea of debt of two hundred "pounds, then this obligation fhall be void and " of none effect, or else shall be and remain in * full force and virtue. "Charles Long, (L.S.) |