Middlesex
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county of Middlesex · the County of Middlesex
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
English county cited as the site of a successful revival of the ancient hundred-court model.
That a special county court shall be held at least once in a month, in every hundred of the county of Middlesex, by the county clerk.
That twelve freeholders of that hundred, qualified to serve on juries, and struck by the sheriff, shall be summoned to appear at such court by rotation;
That in all causes not exceeding the value of forty shillings, the county clerk and twelve suitors (jurors) shall proceed in a summary way, examining the parties and witnesses on oath, without the formal process anciently used;
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Middlesex, the county in which this particular loan commission and its commissioners operate.
call before you all such persons within our county of Middlesex and the liberties thereof as by our instructions (which we shall send unto you herewith) are appointed;
[Endorsed] A Commission to the Lords and others of His Majesty’s Privy Council and others, concerning the loan of monies to His Majesty within the county of Middlesex.
and upon or about the 30th day of November in the same year, at Brentford, in the County of Middlesex;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The county surrounding London, leased to the citizens along with the city itself under Henry I's charter.
—(1) The firma was fixed at the reduced rate of £300 per annum, the citizens obtaining a lease in perpetuity of their own city with the surrounding county of Middlesex—the grant being made to the citizens and their heirs;