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 17, 2024.
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Quakers.
A Mittimus of Quakers.
To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County, and to every of them, and to the Keeper of His Majestie's Gaol for the said County at B, in the County aforesaid.
Kent ss. FOrasmuch as I have received in∣formation,* 1.1 That A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. being persons com∣monly called Quakers, and every of them of the age of sixteen years or upward, have late∣ly departed from the places of their several habitations, and assembled themselves at T. in the said County, (under pretence of joyning in a Religious Worship not authorized by the Laws of this Realm: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name.) to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders, and every of you, that you, some or one of you, do cause the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. to come before me, or some other of His Ma∣jestie's Justices of the Peace of the said Coun∣ty with sufficient Securities to be bound with them to appear at the next Quarter-Sessions, in order to their Conviction of the Offence afore∣said; and in case of their, or any of their re∣fusal, or neglect so to doe, that then you do convey such of them so refusing or neglecting, to the aforesaid Common Gaol, and deliver
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them or him so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Keeper of the same, (together with this Precept.) Requiring also you, the said Keeper, to receive them or him into the said Gaol, and them or him there safely to keep, untill they or he shall be bound with such Se∣curities as aforesaid. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under my hand and seal the, &c.
Upon Conviction by verdict or Confession, The first Offence a Fine not exceeding 5 li. The second Offence 10 li.
Upon every Offender on non-payment, first Of∣fence 3. months imprisonment, second Offence 6 months, the third Offence, abjure the Realm. But upon taking the Oaths, Con∣forming, and giving Security not to meet in such unlawfull Assemblies, to be dischar∣ged of all the penalties.