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That sheriffs may not be hindered from accounting for want of estreats,
clerks not returning estreats amerced in Exchequer.
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IX. And for the more effectual enforcing and obliging the respective clerks of assize, clerks of the peace, or other persons, to whom it doth or may belong to make returns of estreats into the court of Exchequer, to make out and deliver their respective estreats, duplicates, certificates, and schedules in due time, so that the sheriffs may not be hindred or retarded in the passing their accounts for want of the said estreats, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the barons of the court of Exchequer from time to time to amerce such clerk of assize, clerk of the peace, or other person, to whom it doth or may belong to make returns of estreats into the said court of Exchequer, for refusing, neglecting, or omitting to perform and do his or their duty in returning the said estreats, and to cause the said amerciaments to be levied and answered by such ways and means, and in such manner, as other amerciaments set in the said court may or have been used to be done.
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