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.

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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.
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Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.
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London :: printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, Esquires, for Richard Tonson within Grayes-Inn-Gate next Grayes-Inn-Lane,
1681.
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Forms (Law) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Justices of the peace -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47352.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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A Precept to bring in a Scould to be tried at a Court-Leet.

K. ss. RIchard Kilburne, Esquire, Steward of His Majestie's Court-Leet, hol∣den this present day for the said Hundred, to the Constable of the Hundred aforesaid, and Officer of the said Court greeting. Forasmuch as E. P. of the Parish of C. in the said County, Spinster, otherwise called E. the Wife of R. T. of the aforesaid Parish of C. in the County a∣foresaid, Labourer; was at His Majestie's said Court, holden before me this present day, by the Oaths of twelve honest and lawfull men of the Hundred aforesaid, presented for her being a common Scould at the Parish aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, within the Jurisdiction of the said Court, as well with her Neighbours as with other the Liege people of the King, whereby they are much molested, disquieted and grieved (against the Peace of the said King, his Crown and Dignity,) to the great disturbance and disquiet of His Majestie's Liege people, and against his Peace, These are therefore to command you to cause the said E. P. to come before me, or my sufficient De∣puty, at the next Court-Leet of our Sovereign Lord the King, to be holden at C. aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, (within the Juris∣diction of the said Court) upon Saturday the second day of Octob. next ensuing, to answer the premisses. And further to do and receive as the said Court of the said King shall con∣sider of her in that behalf. And have you

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there this Precept. Given under my seal at C. aforesaid, the tenth day of April in the seven and twentieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

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