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 against them which refuse to take Apprentices.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of K. and to every of them.

Kent ss. WHereas the Church-wardens* 1.1 and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid did by our assent by Indenture, bearing date the, &c. put and bind out unto B. C. of the Parish afore∣said D. E. a poor Child of the said Parish Ap∣prentice, (according to the form of the Sta∣tute in that case made and provided in the 43 year of the Reign of the late Queen Eliza∣beth, intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor,) And forasmuch as the said B. C. doth refuse to take, receive and keep the said Apprentice ac∣cordingly, and doth likewise refuse to seal the Counterpart of the said Indenture: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you, that you, some or one of you, do cause the said B. C. to come before us, or one of us, or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County, to enter into Recognizance unto His said Majesty conditioned for personal appearance at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden at E. in the County afore∣said, then and there to answer the premisses, and farther to doe and receive as the said Court shall then consider of him in this behalf. Hereof fail not at your perils, Given under our hands and seals at, &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  On refusal to be bound to good Be∣haviour, or Indicted for a Contempt, and there∣upon to be Fined and Imprisoned. Dalt. 163.