364 OFFICE OF CONSTABLES. 



appointed, that two sufficient gentlemen or yeomen shall be 

 appointed constables of every hundred. 



Also there is in every shire a gaol or prison appointed for 

 the restraint of liberty of such persons as for their offences 

 are thereunto committed, until they shall be delivered by 

 course of law. 



In every hundred of every shire the sheriff thereof shall 

 nominate sufficient persons to be bailiffs of that hundred, 

 and under-ministers of the sheriffs : and they are to attend 

 upon the justices in every of their courts and sessions. 



Note. Archbishop Bancroft notes on this last chapter, 

 written, say some, by Sir John Dodderidge, one of the 

 justices of the King s Bench, 1608. 



AN 

 ACCOUNT OF THE LATELY ERECTED SERVICE, 



CALLED, 



THE OFFICE OF COMPOSITIONS 



FOR 



ALIENATIONS. 



WRITTEN [ABOUT THE CLOSE OF 1598] BY MR. FRANCIS BACON, 



AND PUBLISHED FROM A MS. IN THE INNER-TEMPLE LIBRARY. 



The sundry ALL the finances or revenues of the imperial crown of this 

 sorts of the realm of England be either extraordinary or ordinary. 



Those extraordinary be fifteenths and tenths, subsidies, 

 loans, benevolences, aids, and such others of that kind, 

 that have been or shall be invented for supportation of the 

 charges of war; the which, as it is entertained by diet, so 

 can it not be long maintained by the ordinary fiscal and 

 receipt. 



Of these that be ordinary, some are certain and standing, 

 as the yearly rents of the demesne or lands ; being either 



