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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... OBSERVATIONS on these Charters, and the Right of the City of London to "sell the Secondaries place. . How does it appear, by these documents, that the city of London hare the right, in defiance of the sheriff himself, when appointed, to nominate his subordinate officers without at all being under his control? Who is to prevent the sheriff when he enters upon his office, from going to his Compter, where his court is held, and where there is a judge, and all the officers regularly appointed, and after doing the business there, from adjourning to Guildhall, or to the King's Head, in the Poultry, or any other place he pleases, and appointing his own officers, and taking his own bail-bonds by himself and his under sheriff? Or who can prevent him going to Newgate, taking the keys of the prison, and residing in the gaolers house, and managing the concerns of the prison himself? The sheriff, perhaps, would say, "as the secondary has acted as under sheriff for many years, I shall be only getting myself into a dhTi culty." But why so? He runs the risk in Middlesex, and is satisfied with the security, and, in fact, he does in London; for he is liable to be attached, should the secondaries not protect him. The under sheriff would be glad, no doubt, to give the additional security in London also. Every now and then an extent coming against a merchant or banker's house, produces perhaps some thousands. They have got by two extents only, in one year, near „£ 15,000. Why should not a sheriff to the first city in the world, set an example to other cities and counties, and, instead of sending his officer out to execute his writ for nothing, and to repay himself by extortion, give him one half, or one-third of the poundage, with which he would be well satisfied, his sit...
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