Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

A Warrant to levy the money upon the Offenders.

To the Constable, &c. (prout precedent War∣rant.)

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as W. W. of the afore∣said Parish of S. Gent. (one of the Church-wardens of the said Parish) I. H. of the Parish aforesaid, Yeoman, (the other Church-warden of the said Parish) T. N. of the Parish aforesaid, Chandler, (one of the Over∣seers of the Poor of the said Parish) I. W. the elder of the Parish aforesaid, Yeoman, G. P. &c. (many others) W. H. of the Parish aforesaid, Yeoman, (Headborough of the North Borough in the said Parish) &c. (prout) were every of them this present day by us convicted, (ac∣cording to an Act of Parliament to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided) of being present (in the Parish-Church of Sandherst aforesaid in the County aforesaid) upon Sunday the nineteenth day of Iune last past (between the hours of nine and twelve before noon the same day) at an As∣sembly then and there held, (under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner than ac∣cording to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England, contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid;) and we have (by virtue of the said Act) imposed upon every of the said Offenders (so convicted as aforesaid) a Fine of five shillings for that his respective offence: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name)

to command you and every of you, forthwith to levy upon every of the said Offenders (re∣spectively)▪ by Distress and Sale of his respective Goods and Chattels the aforesaid Fine of five shillings. And forasmuch as R. Giles of Rol. in the said County, Gent. did then and there take upon him to teach (in the Assembly afore∣said,) and did then and there teach, (against the form of the Act aforesaid) and was this present day by us (according to the said Act) convicted of his said Offence, and he hath (for the same) forfeited the summe of twenty pounds; and for that (in our judgments) we do think the said R. G. unable to pay the said summe so forfeited as aforesaid: We have there∣fore (by our discretions) adjudged the same to be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the aforesaid W. W. I. H. Da. Pet. and I. C. who (as aforesaid) were all of them present at the Assembly, and are thereof (as aforesaid) con∣victed; and the same summe of twenty pounds to be levied in manner following. That is to say, one hundred shillings thereof of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. other one hun∣dred shillings thereof of the Goods and Chat∣tels of the said I. H. other one hundred shil∣lings thereof of the Goods and Chattels of the said D. P. and the other one hundred shillings thereof (residue) of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. C. These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you and every of you, forthwith to levy one hundred shillings (parcel of the said summe of twenty pounds) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chat∣tels of the said W. W. and to levy other one hundred shillings (other parcel of the said summe of twenty pounds) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. H.

and to levy other one hundred shillings (other parcel of the said summe of twenty pounds) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said D. P. and to levy the other one hun∣dred shillings (residue of the said summe of twenty pounds) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. C. And for∣asmuch as Thomas Hur of the aforesaid Parish of Sand. Labourer, was (this present day by us convicted (according to the Act aforesaid) of being present at the Assembly aforesaid, (contrary to the said Act) and we have also (by virtue of the Act aforesaid) imposed upon him a Fine of five shillings (for that his Of∣fence;) and for that we do (in our judg∣ments) think the said Thomas Hur poor, and unable to pay the said summe of five shillings (upon him for his said Offence imposed, as aforesaid:) We have therefore (by our discre∣tions) adjudged the same to be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. W. who (as aforesaid) is convicted of the like Offence at the same Assembly. These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you and every of you, forthwith to levy the said Fine of five shillings by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. W. And forasmuch as T. H. of B. in the County aforesaid, Malster, was (this present day) by us convicted (according to the Act aforesaid) of being present at the Assembly aforesaid, (contrary to the said Act) and for that the said T. H. heretofore committed the like Offence, and (according to the form of the Act aforesaid) was thereof convicted, therefore he (for his said Offence of being present at the Assembly herein before mentioned) hath in∣curred the penalty of ten shillings: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command

you and every of you, forthwith to levy the said ten shillings by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said T. H. And for∣asmuch as Mary (the Wife of the said Iohn Wats) and Elizabeth (the Wife of the said Iohn Cogger) were both of them (this present day) by us convicted (according to the Act aforesaid) of being present at the Assembly aforesaid, (contrary to the said Act) and we have (by virtue of the Act aforesaid) imposed upon the said Mary a Fine of five shillings for that her said respective Offence; and we have also (by virtue of the said Act) imposed upon the said Elizabeth a Fine of five shillings for her said respective Offence; and for that the said Mary is a Feme-Covert, (cohabiting with the said Iohn Wats her Husband) and the said Eli∣zabeth is also a Feme-Covert, (cohabiting with the said Iohn Cogger her Husband;) These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you and every of you, forthwith to levy the aforesaid Fine of five shillings so impo∣sed upon the said Mary (as aforesaid) by Di∣stress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said Iohn Wats; and to levy the aforesaid Fine of five shillings so imposed upon the said Elizabeth (as aforesaid) by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said Iohn Cog∣ger. And forasmuch as the aforesaid W. W. (at the time of the said Assembly) was, and still is one of the Church-wardens of the Parish of Sand. aforesaid, and the aforesaid Iohn H. then also was, and still is the other Church∣warden of the aforesaid Parish, and the afore∣said Tho. Nurley then was, and still is one of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish, and the said Will. Hammon then was, and still is Headborough of the North Borough in the Pa∣rish

aforesaid; and every of them was (this present day) by us (according to the said Act) convicted, for that he knowing the Assembly aforesaid (in form aforesaid) to be holden within his aforesaid Parish, did not give infor∣mation thereof to any Justice of the Peace, nor endeavour the Conviction of the parties afore∣said, or any of them, but wittingly and wil∣lingly did omit the performance of his duty, in execution of the Act aforesaid, (against the form of the said Act) for which Offence every of them respectively▪ hath forfeited the summe of five pounds: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you and every of you to levy the summe of five pounds (by the said William Ward so forfeited as is last be∣fore mentioned) by Distress and Sale of his Goods and Chattels; and to levy the summe of five pounds (by the said W. H. so forfeited as is last before mentioned) by Distress and Sale of his Goods and Chattels; and to levy upon the other Church-warden, (prout.) And you and every of you are hereby (in His Ma∣jestie's name) farther commanded, that when you, or any of you, have (as aforesaid) le∣vied the several Fines and Forfeitures aforesaid, (or any of them) that then they or he so ha∣ving levied the same do forthwith deliver the same to us, (or one of us) to be distributed (according to the said Act.) Hereof neither you nor any of you, &c. (prout common form.)