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 Warrant to put out poor Children Apprentices.

To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the said County, and to every of them.

Kent ss. THese are (in His Majestie's name)* 1.1 to command you, that you do present unto us, or some of us, in writing under your hands, at the house of A. B. in, &c. upon the third day of Iune next, at nine of the clock in the morning of the same day, the names of all such poor Children of your said Parish as are Orphans, or whose Parents shall not by you, or the greater number of you, be thought able to keep and maintain them; toge∣ther with the names of the Parents of the said Children, (if they have any living) and the se∣veral Ages of the Children aforesaid: And that you do cause such of the said Children as be able to come thither, (and more especially such of them as by you shall be thought fit to be put forth Apprentices) to appear before us, (at the time and place aforesaid,) to be by us there viewed: And likewise that you do then and there also present unto us (in writing as afore∣said) the names of such substantial Inhabitants of your said Parish, to whom you shall think fit to put the said Children, or any of them, Apprentices; and more especially of such of the said Inhabitants as have not formerly taken such poor Children of the said Parish Appren∣tices: And lastly, that you do give notice* 1.2

to the said Inhabitants, that they are by us re∣quired then and there to appear before us, to shew cause why you (by our assent) shall not bind such of the said Children Apprentices unto them, (as to you shall seem convenient) unless they shall in the mean time consent to take and receive the same accordingly; and that you your selves be then and there also present, and have there this Precept. Of all which you are not to fail at your Perils. Given under our hands and seals the, &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Dalt. 162. 1 Iac. c. 25. 21 Iac. 28. 3 Car. c. 4. 2 Iustices, 1 of the Quorum. 43 Eliz. cap. 2.
• * 1.2

  7 Iac. 3.