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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Title: 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.
Author: Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.
Publication: 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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Riot.

A Precept to the Sheriff to return a Iury to inquire upon a Riot, Rout, or unlawfull Assembly.

Kent ss. W. B. and R. R. Esquires;* 1.1 two of His Majestie's Ju∣stices assigned to keep the Peace in the Coun∣ty aforesaid; to the Sheriff of the said Coun∣ty, Greeting. On the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King we command you, that you do cause to come before us at H. in the Parish of G. in the said County, upon Thursday the 10. day of Iune next ensuing, four and twen∣ty honest, sufficient and lawfull men, dwelling within the said County, (whereof every of them have to Lands and Tenements within the County aforesaid, to the yearly value of twen∣ty shillings of Charter-hold or Free-hold, or twenty six shillings eight pence of Copyhold, or of both, over and above all charges) for to inquire for His Majesty of some Riots, Routs, and unlawfull Assemblies, committed and done at S. in the said County, (as it is said.) And that you do return upon every Person so by you impannelled in issues, at the first day twenty shillings, at the second day forty shillings to be by them forfeited if that they appear not, and be sworn to inquire the premisses at the first day: All which you shall in no case omit upon pain of twenty pounds.

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which you shall forfeit to His said Majesty (if you shall make default in not returning the said Persons or issues in form aforesaid.) And have you then the names of the said Jurors, and this Precept. Given under our hands and seals at T. in the said County, &c.

The like Precept in Latine.

K. ss. T. C. & R. K. Armigeri (duo Iu∣sticiariorum* 1.2 Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. suo praed. conservand. assign. necnon ad diversas felonias, transgressiones & alia malefacta in eodem Com. perpetrat. audiend. & terminand. assignat.) Vic. ejusdem Com. salutem. Ex parte Dom. Regis tibi praecipimus, Quod venire facias coram nobis apud S. in Com. praed. die Iovis 26 die Aprilis prox. sequen. ad horam octavam ante meridiem ejusdem diei viginti & quatuor probos, sufficientes & legales homines infra Com. praed. commorantes, quorum quilibet habeat terras & tenementa infra eundem Com. ad valentiam viginti solidorum per chart. tent. sive liberi te∣nementi, vel viginti & sex solidorum & octo de∣nariorum terrae per copiam rotulorum Curiae tent. (ultra omnia onera) Ad inquirend. pro Dom. Rege super sacram. suum de quibusdam Riotis, Routis, & illicitis aggregationibus commiss. & perpetrat. apud H. in Com. praed. (ut dicitur) Quodque retornes super quamlibet personam per te impanellat. in exitibus viginti solidos per ipsos forisfaciend. si non compareant ut jurati sint ad inquirend. de praemissis ad diem illum, omnia quae nullatenus omitt. sub paena viginti librar. quam noveris te forisfactur. eidem Dom. Regi

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si defalt. feceris in non retorn. personas pr•…•…d. sive exit. in forma praed. Et habeas ibi tunc no∣mina Iur. ill. & hoc praeceptum. Dat. sub Si∣gillis nostris, apud S. ultim. die Martii, Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi (Dei gra∣tia) Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae Regis (Fidei Defensor. &c.) 27.

A Warrant for certain Riotous Persons.

To the Constables, &c.

Kent. ss. FOrasmuch as I am credibly in∣formed* 1.3 by A. B. Gent. that C. D. &c. and diverse and sundry other Per∣sons unknown, have come upon the Ground of the said A. B. in M. aforesaid, and there have been aiding and assisting to these Persons here∣under named, in forceable manner, to carry away the Wood and Timber, &c. there of late growing, being the Wood and Timber of A. B. These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you, and every of you, to arrest as well the said Parties hereunder named, as the said Parties unknown, being shewed unto you by the said A. B. and to bring the same before me, and this shall be your Warrant and Dis∣charge. Given under, &c.

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* 1.1

2 Iustices. 13 H. 4. cap. 7. To be inqui∣red within one month after the Riot. 19 H. 7. cap. 13.

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2 Iustices. 13 H. 4. cap. 7. (To be in∣quired within a month af∣ter the Riot.) 19 H. 7. cap. 13.

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* 1.3

His Maje∣sty shall bear the los∣ses that the Iustice of Peace shall sustain in the execu∣tion of the Statute. 13 H. 4. cap. 7. Of Riots, &c. 2 H. 5. c. 8.

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