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Circuits

a size towns throughout England are regulated periodically by Orders in Council. (1) Northern Circuit: Counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancaster. (2) North-Eastern Circuit: Counties of Northumber-land, Durham, and York, and counties of the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, … divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice