Expenses of Sheriffs Act 1662

V. Remembrancers to enrol and certify to the Engrosser of the Great Roll Debts charged on Sheriffs, Fines, &c.

Such as are now returned to be delivered before 1st Feb. next; those to be hereafter returned the first Day of the next Term after Return made.; Penalty £40.

And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Process within convenient time Be it alsoe enacted and declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inroll and certifie to the said Ingrosser of the Great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of theire respective Returns made ʼno the Barons of the said Exchequer upon His Ma[jes]ties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and alsoe of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be sett and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects (that is to say) That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be alsoe delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made of such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or theire Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this p[re]sent Act shall forfeit the su[m]m of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof X1 one moyety shall be to the King His Heires and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agreived to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoyne Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]