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 to the House of Correc∣tion of an idle Person, that would run away, and will not work to maintain his Family.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them, and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid.

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as it hath been proved* 1.1 before us upon Oath, (accor∣ding to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided) That A. B. of the Parish of C. aforesaid (being able to work, and there∣by relieve his Family) hath threatned to run away, and leave his said Family upon the Pa∣rish of C. aforesaid: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you the said Constable and Borsholders, and every of you, (unless he do put in sufficient Securities for the discharge of the Parish) that you, some or one of you, do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the said House of Correction, and there deliver him to the said Keeper of the same, (together with this Precept.) Com∣manding also you, the said Keeper, to receive him into the said House, and there deal with and detain him as a sturdy and wandring Rogue, and to be delivered at the next Assem∣bly or Meeting within this lower Division of the Lath of Scray, for the better execution of an Act of Parliament made in the seventh year

of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Iames over England, (intituled, An Act for the due Execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues, Vagabonds, and sturdy Beggars, and other lewd and idle Persons) or at the Quarter-Sessions, and not otherwise. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals at, &c.

Notes

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  7 Iac. c. •…•…. If run aw•…•… and lea•…•… his Fai•…•… to the Pa∣rish, is ad∣judged in∣corrigible Rogue. 2 Iustices of that Di∣vision. 2 Witnesses up•…•…n Oath.