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.

Against a Peer for suffering a Con∣venticle, &c. to be kept in his House, &c. the first Conviction.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them.* 1.1

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as T. Lord C. (a Peer of this Realm) was this present day (according to the form of an Act of Par∣liament lately made, intituled, An Act to pre∣vent and suppress Seditious Conventicles) con∣victed (by Record by us made) of wittingly

and willingly suffering a 1.2 under b 1.3 of exer∣cise of Religion in other manner than is allow∣ed by the c 1.4 of the Church of England to be held in his d 1.5 in the Parish of V. in the said County upon the 12. day of Iune now last past, (contrary to the Act aforesaid:) These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to charge and command you and every of you, that you, some or one of you, do levy upon the Goods and Chattels of the said T. Lord C. ten pounds, (for the Offence aforesaid;) and that you pay the moneys so levied to the Church-wardens of the aforesaid Parish of V. (for relief of the Poor of the said Parish.) Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals the, &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices of the place or division where the Peer dwels. 1 of the Quorum.
• a 1.2

  an As∣sembly, Con∣venticle, or Meeting.
• b 1.3

  colour or pretence.
• c 1.4

  Liturgy or practice.
• d 1.5

  in House, Out∣houses, Burns or Rooms, Yard or Back-side, Woods or Grounds.