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 8, 2024.

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The Oath taken by the Officers of the Marshal's Court.

YOU shall well and truly behave your self in the Office which you now un∣dertake of one of the Bearers of the Virges of the Household of our Sovereign Lord the King, and one of the Officers and Ministers of the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King of His Majestie's Palace of Westminster; you shall well and truly execute all process of the said Court that shall come to your hands, and which may be by you executed with as much expedition as possibly you can; you shall execute no Writ but such as is signed and sealed with the sign and seal of this Court. You shall take no bribe, reward, or other gratuity for the exe∣cuting of any process of this Court, other than the Court will allow of, or the Parties them∣selves without exaction shall willingly afford

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you; you shall make a true and just return of all such Writs of this Court as shall be by you sued the next Court day after the same are executed. You shall not disclose any process of the said Court to the Defendant or any other whereby he may have intelligence there∣of; you shall not conceal any wrong or injury done or offered to the said Court, but shall forthwith disclose the same to the Judges thereof, and shall be ready with all diligence to perform the uttermost; you shall be com∣manded by the Judges of the Court aforesaid.

So help you God.
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