The manner of choosing the Bayliff.
[ 6] Likewise it was decreed and ordained, that the said Iurats, Collectors and Expen∣ditors, chosen, constituted and directed, as aforesaid, should be Bayliffs, Iurats, Colle∣ctors, and Expenditors, in form aforesaid: And that if, and as often as any of the Bay∣liffs, xxiiij Iurats, Collectors or Expendi∣tors, of and in the said Lands and Marshes, within the before-mentioned limits (except before excepted) for the time being, should decease, or be removed from his Office; that then in the room of the said Bayliff so de∣ceasing, or removing, another of the Land∣holders and residents within those Lands and Marshes (except before excepted) to be cho∣sen and constituted by the common assent of the Lords of the Fees, having authority there for that time, or by their Attornies. And where the greater number of them should con∣sent, the said election to stand in the said principal and general Last, to be held in form aforesaid; unlesse upon necessity or cause rea∣sonable, any of those Bayliffs, for the time be∣ing, should sooner, within the same year, be removed; and that it were expedient, before the said principal and general Last ought to be held in form aforesaid, that another were put in his place; and that then an election be made of a Bayliff, in form aforesaid, in any other Last, as aforesaid to be held. So like∣wise in the stead of any of the said xxiiij Iu∣rats, Collectors, and Expenditors, so decea∣sing, or removed from his Office, as aforesaid, another of the said Land-holders and resi∣dents to be chosen and constituted; so that the said election be made, by the said Lords of the Fees and Bayliffs, and ten or eight of the Iurats aforesaid, out of the most trusty, discreet and wealthy Land-holders, within those Lands and Marshes, except before ex∣cepted.