The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes, both in forein parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentick testimonies / by William Dugdale.

The penalty of the Collectors, Jurors, and Expenditors not submitting to their election.

[ 9] Also it was farther decreed and ordained, that if any one, being of the before-mentioned xxiiij Iurats, Collectors, or Expenditors, in form afore••aid, who did refuse to accept of the said Office, and to take his Oath on that behalf, he should be amerced in xx ^s. to be im∣ployed to the benefit aforesaid, and to be le∣vyed by the said Bayliffs; and forthwith a∣nother made choice of in his stead, in form aforesaid. And if the said Iurats should be summoned within those limits (except be∣fore excepted) to be at the said several or special Last, to be held in form aforesaid; where at the least eight or ten did not come, so that such Iudgements and Decrees, for the safeguard of the said Lands and Marshes (except before excepted) could not be made, for want of a greater number of the said Iurats so absent, that then every one of the said Iurats, so absent, to be amerced in vi^d. to the common benefit aforesaid, to be levyed and expended by the Bayliffs of those Mar∣shes: Of which said amerciaments, and other the like above specified, the said Bayliffs to make accompt for, in the said principal Last in form aforesaid.