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What Evidence the Jury shall have with them after Evidence given.
The Jury may not carry any other Evi∣dence with them, but what is delivered to them by the Court, and shewn in Evidence. Upon Evidence to a Jury, to prove J. S. to be Heir to W. S. The Court will not accept the Pedigree drawn by an Herald at Arms for Evidence, nor will suffer the Jury to have it with them; its but only Information for Direction, p. 8. Jac. B. Plumton and Ro∣binson.
If an Exemplification comes out of Chan∣cery, of Witnisses there examined upon Oath who are Dead, the Jury shall have it with them; not so if some are Living and some are Dead, p. 10 Jac. B. Tomlinson and Croke.
If after Evidence given to the Jury at the Bar, and they depart, the Solliciter of the Plaintiff come to them and delivers to them a Church Book, to take an Age which was given to them, in Evidence before at the Bar, and their shewed to them, and after they found for the Plaintiff; yet this shall not avoid the Verdict, because it was no other than what was given to them in Evi∣dence before, Vicars and Farthing's Case.