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 for the Overseers of the Poor to account and name other fit persons.

To the Constable and Borsholders of A. in the Hundred of B. and to every of them.

Kent ss. THese are (in His Majestie's* 1.1 name) to command you to give notice to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of A. that they are by us required personally to appear before us at the house of S. M. in C. &c. upon Monday the tenth day of May, at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day, to make and yield up unto us a true and perfect account in writing of all summs of money by them recei∣ved,* 1.2 or rated and assessed and not received, for and towards the relief of the Poor of B. and also of such stock (to set the Poor on work) as is in their hands, or in the hands of any of their said Poor to work, and of all other things concerning their said office; And that hereof they fail not at their perils. And you are farther hereby commanded to signifie unto them, that they do then and there also certifie unto us the names of such other sub∣stantial Housholders of A. as are thought meet* 1.3 to be Overseers of the Poor there for the year ensuing. Fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals at the, &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  43 Eliz. cap. 2. 2 Iustices, 1 of the Quorum. Within one month after Easter.
• * 1.2

  43 E. 2.
• * 1.3

  Dalt. 364.