Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Warrants for Jury Trials

Warrants, signed by the Attorney-General, authorising trial by jury at Westminster during term, or at nisi prius outside of it by justices of assize for the county in which the action lay. The tales, which issued at the same time, assumed deficiency in the number of jurors responding to the original summons. The talesmen were to be selected from the list of freeholders who formed the common jury panel of the county or, in default, from any persons present in court or who could be found.

The warrants all concern revenue actions heard on the King's Remembrancer's side of the Exchequer. The warrants in this series were maintained in separate files in the offices of the sworn clerks. They cite the relevant term and year of the memoranda roll entry. Some of the early warrants name the informer, and give some indication of the nature of the suit; most record only the suit of the Attorney-General and the name of the defendant.

Earlier warrants of similar type are filed on bille files, which are in E 207