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The King shall only challenge for cause certain.
Court may bid a juror stand by.
Prisoner allowed twenty peremptory challenges only in felony.
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9. In all inquests to be taken before any of the courts in Ireland, wherein the King is a party, howsoever it be, notwithstanding it be alleged by them that sue for the King that the jurors of those inquests, or some of them, be not indifferent for the King, yet such inquests shall not remain untaken for that cause; but if they that sue for the King will challenge any of those jurors, they shall assign of their challenge a cause certain, and the truth of the same challenge shall be inquired of according to the custom of the court; and it shall be proceeded to the taking of the same inquisitions, as it shall be found, if the challenges be true or not, after the discretion of the court: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall affect or be construed to affect the power of any court in Ireland to order any juror to stand by until the panel shall be gone through, at the prayer of them that prosecute for the King, as has been heretofore accustomed; and that no person arraigned for treason, or murder, or for other felony, shall be admitted to any peremptory challenge above the number of twenty; and if any person so arraigned for treason, or murder, or for other felony, shall peremptorily challenge more than twenty, such excessive challenge shall be rejected, and the jurors so challenged beyond the number of twenty shall be sworn on the inquest, and the trial shall proceed as if such excessive challenge had not been made or taken.
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