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.

Drunkenness.

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.

The second Conviction.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County, and to every of them, and to the Keeper of His Majestie's Gaol for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid.

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as it hath been this* 1.2 present day duly proved before me, That A. B. of the Parish of C. was upon the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish (con∣trary to the form of the Statute in that case

made and provided) And forasmuch as the* 1.3 said A. B. hath been once before lawfully con∣victed of the said offence of Drunkenness: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you the said Constable and Bors∣holders, that you, some or one of you, do cause the said A. B. to come before me, or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County, to be bound with two Sureties to His said Majesty in one Recognizance or Obliga∣tion of ten pound, with condition to be from thenceforth of good behaviour (according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided) which if he shall refuse to doe, that then you do him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid, and deliver him there to the said Keeper of the same, (together with this Pre∣cept.) Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol, and him there safely to keep untill he shall be so bound with two Sureties as aforesaid. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under my hand and seal at, &c.

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

Notes

• * 1.1

  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.
• * 1.2

  4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. View. Confession.
• * 1.3

  1 Witness within six months.