EXPENSES OF THE SHRIEVALTY. 25 



men, and this not for empty display, but to protect the judges 

 from the possible assaults of aggrieved persons or marauders. 

 The reader will possibly note with surprise various expenses 

 connected with the courts, the trial and execution of the 

 prisoners,* and other such matters — items which might reason- 

 ably have been paid by the Crown without passing through 

 the sheriff's hands. The High Sheriff, however, was, and still 

 is, responsible for the greater proportion of these expenses, 

 but at the expiration of his year of office he is empowered to 

 deliver " a bill of cravings/' whereupon an allowance is made 

 to him by the Treasury to meet certain assize expenses, which 

 include, at the present time, the judges' lodgings, the carriage, 

 the javelin men employed as an escort and about the courts, 

 and other such matters. In 1856, however, it was arranged 

 that in the future a fixed sum of money should be paid, which 

 was based upon a calculation of the average amount usually 

 claimed for such expenses. This, as partially revised in 1898, 

 is in vogue to-day. 



Among such expenses allowed by the Exchequer Office, even 

 as late as 1828, was a sum of money which had to be paid as 

 wages t to county magistrates, who could claim 4s. a day for 

 their attendance at Quarter Sessions. This, it is needless to 

 say, is now neither allowed nor required. In a claim made- 

 during that year by the then High Sheriff, Sir George Sitwell, 

 £4&t was allowed as justices' wages, ^30 for the judges' 

 lodgings, and ^14 for the diet of prisoners, which, with other 

 smaller sums, brought up the total to ^108. 



The modern High Sheriff has no expense with respect to 

 the entertainment of the grand jury. In Francis Bradshawe's 

 year, however, it will be noticed that they were entertained 

 with music, § possibly that of a band, played presumedly while 

 they were eating a sumptuous dinner of venison,|| for both of 

 which they were indebted to the High Sheriff. 



*P. 31. 



f Dr. Cox's Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals, Vol. i., p. 31. 



X Ibid., p. 63. § p. 33. post- II MM- 



