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 16, 2024.
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A Mittimus for selling less than Mea∣sure for want of Distress.
To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to every of them, and to the Keeper of the common Gaol at M. in the County aforesaid.
Kent ss. WHereas it hath been duly* 1.1 proved before me, That A. B. of the Parish of C. in the said County did lately utter and sell in his house in C. aforesaid less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer for a penny (against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided;) And whereas I did thereupon, by Warrant under my hand
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and seal, command you the said Constable and Borsholders and the Church-wardens of the Pa∣rish of C. aforesaid, that you, they, or some or one of you or them, should levy (to the use of the Poor of the said Parish) twenty shillings, for the offence aforesaid, by way of Distress of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. to be taken and detained for the same; and that for want of sufficient Distress, you, they, or some or one of you or them, should within twenty days then next ensuing certifie unto me the default of such Distress, to the end that I might farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain; And forasmuch as it hath been certified unto me, that no sufficient Distress can be found whereby the said twenty shillings may be levied, and that the same is not yet satisfied: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to com∣mand you the said Constable and Borsholders, that you, some or one of you, do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the Gaol afore∣said, and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same, to be by him there kept untill the said twenty shillings shall be truly paid. Com∣manding also you, the said Keeper, to receive him into the said Gaol, and him there safely to keep, untill the said twenty shillings shall be paid accordingly. Hereof fail not at your pe∣rils. Given under my hand and seal at, &c.