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 for Drunkenness, the first Conviction.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County, and to the Church∣wardens of the Parish of, &c. in the County aforesaid.

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as it hath this present* 1.1 day been duly proved before me, That A. B. of the Parish of C. was on the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish (contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided: These are therefore (in His Maje∣stie's

name) to command you, that you the faid Constable or Church-wardens do require the said A. B. to pay (for the said Offence) to the hands of you the said Church-wardens (to be by you accounted for to the use of the Poor of the same Parish) five shillings of lawfull mo∣ney of England within one week now next en∣suing, and if the said A. B. shall refuse or ne∣glect to pay the same as aforesaid, that then you the said Constable or Church-wardens do levy (to the use aforesaid) the said 5 s. of the Goods of the said A. B. by Distress and Sale of the same (rendring unto him the overplus of the moneys remaining of the said Sale,) and if the said A. B. be not able to pay the said summ of 5 s. that then you the said Constable do set him in the Stocks, there to remain by the space of six hours. Hereof fail not at your perils. Gi∣ven under my hand and seal at, &c.

• Convicted upon my view.
• Convicted by his Confession before me.

Notes

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  4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. View. Confession. 1 Witness within six months. Upon Con∣viction pay 5 s. to the Poor.