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 May 3, 2024.
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A Warrant to levy 40 s. upon the Seizor or Church-wardens that shall fail in killing, or making distribution as aforesaid.
To the Constable and Borsholders of, &c.
Kent ss. WHereas I am given to under∣stand, That A. B. having seized within your Precinct certain great Cat∣tel, Sheep and Swine, viz. (here name the Cattel ut supra) lately belonging to or in the possession of C. D. as forfeited for being Im∣ported from Foreign parts beyond the Seas, contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf. And that the same are convicted and forfeited according to the same Acts, yet the said A. B. by the space of six days next after such Conviction and Forfeiture, have delayed and do still delay to cause the same Cattel and Beasts to be killed, and distribution to be made thereof according to the said Acts. Now forasmuch as Oath hath been made before me of the premisses: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to will and require you forth∣with after sight hereof, to levy or cause to be levied the summe of 40 s. for every one of the said great Cattel, and 10 s. for every of the said Sheep, and 10 s. for every of the said Swine which should have been killed and distri∣buted as aforesaid, in pursuance of the said Acts by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. rendering the said A. B. the
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over-plus, (necessary Charges of destreyning being first deducted) and in default of such Distress, to commit the said A. B. to the com∣mon Gaol of the said County, there to remain for the space of three months without Bail or Mainprise, according to the Statute in that behalf. Hereof you are not to fail. Given un∣der my hand and seal, &c.
According to these Presidents may like Warrant or Warrants be made for Fish or other Goods, prohibited by the said Acts, Mutatis mu∣tandis.