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 Mittimus upon the third Con∣viction.

To the Constable and Borsholders, &c. (as in the precedent Warrant.)

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as C. D. was this* 1.1 present day (according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made, in∣tituled, An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles) convicted (by Record by us made) of being present in the Parish of T. in the said County at a 1.2 under b 1.3 of exer∣cise of Religion in other manner than is al∣lowed by the c 1.4 of the Church of England,

(contrary to the Act aforesaid;) And foras∣much as the said C. D. hath been twice be∣fore that time convicted of the like Offence, (contrary to the said Act:) These are there∣fore (in His Majestie's name) to charge and command you the said Constable and Bors∣holders, and every of you, that you, some or one of you, do take the said C. D. and him safely convey to His Majestie's Gaol aforesaid, and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same, (together with this Precept.) Command∣ing also you, the said Keeper, to receive him into the said Gaol, and him there safely keep (without Bail or Mainprise) untill the next general Quarter-Sessions for the West-Division of this County, the next Assizes, Gaol-delivery, Great Sessions, or Sitting of Oyer and Ter∣miner, in the County aforesaid, (which shall first happen;) And that you then and there have him, to be farther proceeded against as by the said Act is directed. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals the, &c.

The like Mittimus (mutatis mutandis) to the House of Correction, if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither: which they must not do, if they be satisfied that the Offender (or her Husband, if Feme-Covert) have 5 li. per annum Free-hold or Copy-hold, or be worth 50 li. in Goods.

Notes

• * 1.1

  22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices.
• a 1.2

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

  colour or pretence.
• c 1.4

  Liturgy or practice.