June, 1654
[21 June, 1654.]
Judges for the Northern Circuit shall be Justices of Assize and Goal-delivery within the County Palatine of Lancaster.; Keeper of the Seal to issue Commissions.
Whereas by an Ordinance of His Highness the Lord Protector
and His Council, for reviving the Jurisdiction of the County
Palatine of Lancaster, and for holding of Assizes there, Matthew
Hales, one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas at
Westminster, and Hugh Windham Serjeant at Law, were
appointed Justices of Assize and Gaol-delivery within the said
County Palatine; Be it Ordained by His Highness the Lord
Protector, by the advice of His Council, That from henceforth
such of the Justices of the Court of the Upper-Bench, or of the
Justices of the Court of the Common-Pleas, or of the Barons of
the Court of the Publique Exchequer, or Serjeants at Law, or
one or more of them, as from time to time are or shall be
appointed Judges for the time being, for the Northern Circuit,
shall be Justices of Assizes and Gaol-delivery within the said
County Palatine, in the room and place of the said Matthew Hales
and Hugh Windham, and the said Justices or either of them
that are or shall be from time to time so appointed, shall and
may act, do and perform all matters and things, as well concerning
Criminal as Common Pleas, and all other Pleas and Proces
whatsoever, in such maner and form as any other Justice or
Justices of Assizes at Lancaster have lawfully acted, done and
performed at any time heretofore. And the Commissioner for
keeping the Seal of the said County Palatine of Lancaster (for
the time being) is hereby authorized and appointed from time to
time, to issue forth to the said Justices that are or shall be so
appointed for the execution oi the premises, such Commission or
Commissions as in such cases have been heretofore in the said
County Palatine used and accustomed.