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 Condition of a Recognizance in case* 1.1 of an Appeal made touching Conventicles.

THe Condition of this Recognizance is such, That whereas R. G. of R. in the within named County of Kent, Gentleman,

was lately convicted by the within named Ju∣stices of taking upon him to teach in an As∣sembly lately held in the Parish-Church of Sandherst within written, (under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner then ac∣cording to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England, against the form of the Statute lately made to prevent and suppress Se∣ditious Conventicles) and had therefore (ac∣cording to the Statute aforesaid) forfeited the summe of twenty pounds; And for that (in the judgments of the said Justices) they did think the said R. G. unable to pay the said summe of twenty pounds, they did therefore (by their discretions) adjudge five pounds thereof to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the within bound W. W. who was also (according to the said Statute) convicted of being present at the said Assembly, (contrary to the Statute aforesaid:) And whereas the said W. W. was also by the said Justices convicted, for that he at the time of the said Assembly was one of the Church∣wardens of the said Parish, and knowing the said Assembly to be holden within the same, did not give information thereof to any Ju∣stice of the Peace, nor endeavour the Convic∣tion of the parties which were at the said As∣sembly, nor of any of them, (according to the duty of his said Office) but wittingly and wil∣lingly did omit the performance of his Office aforesaid in the execution of the said Statute, (against the form of the same) by which he forfeited the summe of five pounds: And the said two several summs of five pounds have (by Warrant of the said Justices) been le∣vied of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. and he hath the day and year within writ∣ten

appealed from the Justices aforesaid to the judgment of the Justices of the Peace of the said County in their next Quarter-Sessions: If therefore the said W. W. do prosecute the said Appeal (with effect,) that then this Recogni∣zance shall be void, or else it shall stand in full force.

And forasmuch also as the aforesaid Wife of* 1.2 the said S. B. is a Feme-Covert cohabiting with the said S. B. (her Husband;) These are therefore, &c. (prout, &c.) forthwith to levy the aforesaid five shillings (so imposed upon her as aforesaid) by Distress, &c. (prout, &c.)

And forasmuch as a man unknown did then* 1.3 and there take upon him to preach or teach, (prout the Record) you may levy twenty pound upon any the Offenders as in your judgment shall seem fit.

Notes

• * 1.1

  See Title Recogni∣zances.
• * 1.2

  Where Of∣fender is a Feme-Co∣vert, levy upon her Husband.
• * 1.3

  Where Tea∣cher is a man un∣known.