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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1562

other Minister or Ministers to whom the making of the said Return should appertain, to name and appoint as often as need should require, so many of such other able persons of the said County then present at the said Assize or Nisi Prius as should make up a full jury, which persons so to be named and impanelled by such Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, should be added to the former Panel, and their Names annexed to the same; and further as in the same Act more plainly may appear; Which said beneficial Act doth not extend unto the Twelve Shires of Wales, nor to the County Palatine of Chester, nor to the County Palatine of Lancaster, nor to the County Palatine of Durham; By reason whereof many Juries remain untaken betwixt the parties, what for lack of appearance of Jurors, and some because of challenges, to the great hindrance of Justice and great Expenses and charges to the parties: For Reformation whereof be it enacted by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, That in every of the Shires of Wales that is to say, Pembroke Carmarthen Cardigan Brecknock Radnor Glamorgan Montgomery Denbigh Flint Merioneth Anglesea Carnarvon and in the County Palatine of Chester, and in the said County Palatine of Durham, and in the said County Palatine of Lancaster, where a full jury shall not appear before the Justices of the Great Session in any of the said Shires or County Palatines, or their Deputies there, or else after appearance of a full Jury by challenge of any of the parties the Jury is like to remain untaken for default of Jurors, that then the same Justices, in every of the said Shires and County Palatines for the time being or their Deputy or Deputies, upon request made by the party Plaintiff or demandant, shall have full authority by virtue of this Act to command the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers to whom the making of the said Return shall appertain, to name and appoint as often as need shall require, so many of such other able persons of the said Counties then present at the said Great Session as shall make up a full Jury, which persons so to be named and impanelled by such Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, shall be added to the former Panel, and their Names annexed to the same. And that every of the parties shall and may have his or their Challenge to the Jurors so named added and annexed to the said former Panel by the said Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, in such wise as if they had been impanelled