waste, partition, dower, and replevins determined.

3. The Lord Mayor's Court, a court of record, held in the chamber
of Guildhall every Tuesday, where the Recorder also sits as judge,
and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen may sit with him if they see fit.
Actions of debt, trespass, arising within the City and liberties, of
any value, may be tried in this court, and an action may be removed
hither from the Sheriff's Court before the jury is sworn.

The juries for trying causes in this and the Sheriff's Courts, are
returned by the several wards at their wardmote inquests at
Christmas, when each ward appoints the persons to serve on juries
for every month in the year ensuing.

This court is also a court of equity, and gives relief where
judgment is obtained in the Sheriff's Court for more than the just
debt.

4. The Sheriff's Courts are also courts of record, where may be
tried actions of debt, trespass, covenant, &c. They are held on
Wednesdays and Fridays for actions entered in Wood Street Compter,
and every Thursday and Saturday for actions entered in the Poultry
Compter. Here the testimony of an absent witness in writing is
allowed to be good evidence.

5. The Chamberlain's Court or office is held at the chamber in
Guildhall. He receives and pays the City cash and orphans' money,
and keeps the securities taken by the Court of Aldermen for the
same, and annually accounts to the auditors appointed for that
purpose. He attends every morning at Guildhall, to enroll or turn