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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When you take a Recognizance of any* 1.1 it must be in Latine; set down the time of making it, the Principal's name and dwelling Place, and his Trade or Calling, and so of the others his Sureties, and bind them (in a summ of money) to the King; and that being done, you reade the same Recognizance in English thus, (viz.) for the Peace.

YOU A. B. of C. &c. do acknowledge your self to owe unto our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty twenty pounds. And you C. D. of H. &c. and E. F. of I. &c. his Sureties do likewise each of you acknowledge to owe unto our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty ten pounds apiece to be levi∣ed of your several Goods and Chattels, Land and Tenements to His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon condition, That if the said A. B. shall personally appear before our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majestie's Ju∣stices* 1.2 of the Peace at the next general Ses∣sions of the Peace to be holden for this Bur∣rough of A. and do then and there make an∣swer unto all such matters which on His Ma∣jestie's behalf shall be objected against him, and in the mean time to keep the Peace to∣wards our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty

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and all His Liege-people, but especially to∣wards one G. H. and do not depart thence without Licence from the Court, then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in full force.

The Recognizance being made is to be en∣grossed* 1.3 in Parchment, and subscribed with the Justice's hand onely, But he that en∣ters into it, need not put his hand or seal to it.

Note, All Recognizances for the Peace are to be stiled, At the next Sessions of the Peace; And for Felony, At the next Gaol-delivery.

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