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 17, 2024.

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An Huy and Cry upon the escape of a Prisoner from the Constable.

To the Constable, Borsholders, and other Officers, as well within the said County as elsewhere, within the Kingdom of England, to whom the Execution hereof doth or may concern.

Kent ss. WHereas A. B. Constable of* 1.1 the Hundred of M. within the said County, having yesterday (together with two Precepts) delivered unto him the Body of C. D. of, &c. before charged with the suspicion of his felonious taking of one Gelding, to be by him the said Constable and other Officers conveyed to the Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid, hath this day (as the said Constable hath upon his complaint informed me) made a felonious es∣cape from him: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to require you, and every of you, to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the said C. D. being a Person about 30 years of age, of a middle sta∣ture, slender body, long black curled hayr, having on his body a short coloured close Coat, light grey Breeches and Stockings, a narrow-brim'd Hat; And also that you the said respective Officers do make Huy and Cry

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after him from Town to Town, and from County to County, and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen; And if you shall find him the said C. D. that then you do convey him before some Justice of the Peace, within the County where he shall be taken, by him to be dealt withall according to Law. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given, &c.

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