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.

Fire.

A Testimonial for Iustices of the Peace for Poor men that have had loss by Fire.

Kent ss. TO all Christian people to whom this present Writing or Te∣stimonial shall come to be seen, heard, or read; A. B. C. D. and E. F. Esquires, three of the Justices of the Peace within the said Coun∣ty of K. send greeting. Whereas it is both Godly, and consonant to Christian Charity, in matters doubtfull and ambiguous to certifie and

report the truth; We have thought it our duty, (at the earnest and lamentable Suit and Petition of our loving Neighbours the Bearers or Bringers hereof, G. H. I. K. &c.) to pub∣lish and declare unto your common knowledge, That on the twentieth of M. last past, between two and three of the clock in the morning, by casualty and great mischance by Fire, as well their several dwelling Houses, to the number of, &c. and all other Edifices and Buildings to every of their said dwelling Houses belong∣ing; and also all their Corn, and most of their several Goods and Houshold-stuff were consu∣med, wasted, and burnt, to the great danger of the Bodies of them and their Families, and their exceeding great loss and impoverishment. And forasmuch as it is a Godly and Charitable deed, to further, help, and relieve such poor, needy, and miserable persons, (being of honest name, fame, and conversation) as they who have suffered this great loss; And for that the Bearers hereof in the behalf of themselves and their Neighbours, are inforced by reason of their Losses to seek for help and succour for their relief. And we knowing their Estate to be such as is premised, and moved with com∣miseration of their sad Estate and Condition, Have therefore as much as in us lieth, given License unto them, and every of them, to make their repair from Parish Church to Pa∣rish Church, and to every Parish Church and Chapel, Town, and Place within the County of K. to ask, receive, and take Charitable De∣votion and Benevolence of all good and well disposed people towards the recovery of their said great Losses. And our request further is, That you, and every of you to whom they shall repair, do extend your lawfull favour

unto them, permitting them without your de∣nial to execute the tenour of this our Licence. Desiring all Ecclesiastical Persons, to whom these distressed persons shall make their Address in this behalf, to declare the tenor hereof to their Parishioners in every of their Parish Churches and Chapels on the Sabbath days, or other Festival days, exorting them to ex∣tend their Charity in this behalf; and those whom it concerns, to aid and assist them in the collection thereof. In Witness, &c.

A Charitable Request made by certain Iustices of the Peace to the Inhabi∣tants of a Division for Relief of F. S. who had been therein lately ruined by Fire.

K. ss. WE whose names are hereunto subscribed, his Majestie's Ju∣stices of the Peace of the County of K. and in∣habiting in and neer the division of the said County, wherein the Parish of B. in the Coun∣ty aforesaid is situate, having received cre∣dible information that F. S. of the Parish afore∣said Labourer, upon the second day of April last past (by a sudden Fire hapening in his said dwelling house in the said Parish) had his Flax (to the value of thirty and five pounds) suddenly burnt and consumed (to the utter undoing him, his wife and children) unless he be relieved by the Charity of well disposed people. We therefore taking the said Loss into consideration, and much commiserating

the same do, upon the humble Petition of the F. S. (so far forth as lawfully we may) ear∣nestly recommend his said sad condition, to the charitable consideration and benevolence of all well disposed people inhabiting within the division aforesaid, desiring them to con∣tribute (what God shall move their hearts unto) towards his help and relief, therein de∣siring also the Ministers and Church-wardens of every the Parishes within the division afore∣said to promote the said Charitable work. Given under our hands the, &c. of May, 1681. &c.