1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 389. To make him a lawfull Iewrie man.
1652. W. Leach (title), The Bribe-Takers of Jury-men … discovered.
1712–4. Pope, Rape Lock, III. 22. The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. xxiii. 380. Here therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen … will be found the best investigators of truth.
1861. Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 24. The distinction of the judge of law from the judge of fact or juryman was derived from Italian sources many hundred years later.
b. As rendering of Gr. δικαστής DICAST or of L. judex.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, iii. 26. All cases of importance, civil or criminal, came before courts of sixty or seventy jurymen.
1881. S. H. Butcher, Demosthenes, i. 10. There were still jurymen eager to serve and litigants ready to supply cases.
c. With qualification, as grand-juryman, a member of a grand jury.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 3. I’le be sworne hee was a grande iurie man, in respect of me.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. ii. 17. They haue beene grand Iurie men, since before Noah was a Saylor.
1752. J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 196. Naming all the Grand Jury-mens Names without their Additions.
1881. E. Robertson, in Encycl. Brit., XIII. 786/1. The qualification of the grand jurymen is that they should be freeholders of the county,—to what amount appears to be uncertain.
