An Act for the relief of Debtors.
11. And for the more speedy punishing Gaolers, Bailiffs and others employed in the execution of Process, for Extortion or other abuses in their respective Offices and Places, Be it enacted that, upon the Petition, in Term Time, of any Prisoner or Person being or having been in arrest or in custody, complaining of any Exaction or Extortion by any Gaoler, Bailiff or other Officer or Person in or employed in the keeping or taking care of any Gaol or Prison or other Place where any such Prisoner or Person under or having been under arrest or in custody by any Process or Action is or shall have been carried, or in respect of the arresting or apprehending any Person or Persons by Virtue of any Process, Action, or Warrant or if any other abuse whatsoever committed or done in their respective Offices or Places, unto any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster from whence the Process issued, by which any Person who shall so petition was arrested, or under whose Power or Jurisdiction any such Gaol, Prison, or Place is; ... and if within the Principality of Wales, ... then to the Justices at some great Sessions to be holden for the County in the Principality of Wales, where any such Prisoner or Person being or having been under arrest or in custody was arrested or in custody in the said Principality of Wales ...; every such Court ... and Justices of Great Sessions, are to hear and determine the same in a summary way and may make such Order thereupon for redressing the Abuse and punishing the offender as they shall think just; and may inforce Obedience to such Orders.
"Whereas certain Accommodations are provided for his Majesty's Justices of Assize upon their Circuits in England, by the Sheriffs of the respective Counties, who are allowed the Expences thereby occasioned in their Bills of Cravings in each Year: And whereas it
