A briefe summary of the lavves and statutes of England so far forth as the same do concerne the office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, churchwardens, and other officers and ministers of the commonwealth : together with divers other matters not onely acceptable for their rarity, but also very necessary for their great use and profit, for all persons, but especially for such as bear office in this common-wealth / collected by Nicholas Collyn ...

Title

A briefe summary of the lavves and statutes of England so far forth as the same do concerne the office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, churchwardens, and other officers and ministers of the commonwealth : together with divers other matters not onely acceptable for their rarity, but also very necessary for their great use and profit, for all persons, but especially for such as bear office in this common-wealth / collected by Nicholas Collyn ...

Author

Collyn, Nicholas.

Publication

London :: Printed by T.L. for Mathew VValbancke ...,

1655.

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Subject terms

Justices of the peace -- England.

Sheriffs -- England.

Bailiffs -- England.

Constables -- England.

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"A briefe summary of the lavves and statutes of England so far forth as the same do concerne the office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, churchwardens, and other officers and ministers of the commonwealth : together with divers other matters not onely acceptable for their rarity, but also very necessary for their great use and profit, for all persons, but especially for such as bear office in this common-wealth / collected by Nicholas Collyn ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• THE TABLE.
• A briefe SUMMARY, OF THE Laws and Statutes Of ENGLAND.
  • Alehouses and Drunkenness.
  • Archery,
  • Armour.
  • Artificers.
  • Assault.
  • Assize of Bread and Drink.
  • Badgers, Laders. Drovers.
  • Bark.
  • Barator,
  • Bastardy.
  • Brewer,
  • Buggary.
  • Burglary.
  • Burning of Houses.
  • Butchers.
  • Captains, Souldiers, Musters.
  • Church and Church∣yard.
  • Church-wardens, and Overseers.
  • Clergy.
  • Clark of the Market:
  • Cloth.
  • Dyers and Dying.
  • Conjuration, Witchcraft, Prophesying
  • Constables.
  • High Constables.
  • Correction-houses.
  • Coopers.
  • Corn.
  • Coroners.
  • Cottages and Inmates.
  • Counterfeiting of Letters or tokens.
  • Cut-purse.
  • Escape
  • Escheators.
  • Extortion.
  • Faire and Market.
  • Pheasants, Partrid∣ges, &c.
  • Fish and Fish daies.
  • Fish and the eating of Fish.
  • Force and forcible Entries
  • Forestallers, Regrators and Ingrossers.
  • Forging of Deeds.
  • Goldsmith and Gilding.
  • Good behaviour.
  • Guns and Crosbowes,
  • Hawks and Hawking.
  • Herons.
  • Highwayes.
  • Horses.
  • Huy and Cry:
  • Hunters and Hunting.
  • Husbandry and Tillage,
  • Indictments, and Pre∣sentments.
  • Informer.
  • Inholders,
  • Intolements
  • Jurors, Juries and Enquests
  • Labourers:
  • Labourers Servants, and Apprentices.
  • Larceny & petty Larceny.
  • Leather, Tanner, Currier.
  • Liveries and Retainers.
  • Mayme.
  • Maintenance, Champerty. Embracery.
  • Man-Slaughter, & Murder
  • Malt.
  • Milch-Kine
  • Mortuary.
  • Masons.
  • Matrimony, and Bigamy
  • Ordinary:
  • Parliament:
  • Perjury.
  • Petty Treason.
  • Pewter or Brass.
  • Plague.
  • Playes and Games,
  • Poore People
  • Preachers and Ministers of the Church.
  • Prison and prisoners.
  • Purveyors
  • Rape.
  • Recusants, Iesuites.
  • Removing prisoners or Records.
  • Rescues.
  • Restitution.
  • Receiving or buying stolne goods.
  • Riots, Routs, and unlawful Assemblies.
  • Robbery, Theft.
  • Rome.
  • Sewers.
  • Sheep.
  • Sheriffs.
  • Subsidie.
  • Swannes.
  • Tile-makers.
  • Toll.
  • Tongues, Eyes.
  • Transportation.
  • Traverse.
  • Treason.
  • Treasurers:
  • Trespass:
  • Vagabonds and Rogues.
  • Victualls and Victuallers.
  • Usury.
  • Wages.
  • Watch and Ward.
  • VVax:
  • Weights and Measures:
  • VVild Fowle and their Eggs.
  • Wines.
  • VVoods.
  • Wooll and Yarn.
• title page
• RESOLUTIONS OF THE IUDGES OF ASSIZE, UPON Certain QUESTIONS touching Parishes, &c. Mich. An. Dom. 1633.
• title page
• THE Iustices OPINION, Concerning the Commissi∣ons by which the JU∣STICES sit at Newgate, viz Goal-delivery, & Oy∣er and Ter∣miner. MDCXXXIII.
• CORONERS of their Office, and of their Authority. And where a man shall Ap∣prove, and where not. And which shall be good Appeals for Approvers, and of the answers unto them. And where a man shall have Sanctuary, and where not. And where a man may Ab∣jure, and where not.
• In what Cases a Man have Clergy, and what not. And where the Ordinary may refuse the Clerk, and where he may chal∣lenge him. And where the Abuses of the Clergy shall be punished. And where it is Finable. And which Acts shall bee judged an Escape, and which not.