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 to the Assessors to make a Tax upon an Act of Parliament for Royal Aid.

K. ss. BY virtue of an Act of this present Parliament, intituled, An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty of 2477500 li. to be raised, levied, and paid in the space of three years in manner following, (that is to say) 68819 li. 9 s. by the month, for thirty six months, beginning from the 25. day of Decemb. 1664. These are to will and require you, and every of you, whose names are hereunder writ∣ten for the purpose aforesaid, for the second

and third quarterly payments of the said six months Assessments, with all care and diligence to assess on all Lands, Tenements, Heredita∣ments, Annuities, Rents, Parks, Warrens, Goods, Chattels, Stock, Merchandise, Offices, (other than Judicial and Military Offices, and Offices relating to the Navy, under the com∣mand of the Lord High Admiral, and Offices within His Majestie's Houshold) Tolls, Profits, and all their Estates both reall and personal, within the Limits, Circuits and Bounds of your Hundred of A. the full and just summ of, &c. by a pound rate wherein you are to assess the Tenant, one sixth part of the whole in respect of his stock upon Land, and you are to assess all other persons for their personal estate, (other then their stock upon Lands and Houshold-stuff) for every 20 li. proportio∣nably to 1 li. by the year in Lands. And you are to take especial care that therein you assess not any part of the said monies upon the Rents and Revenues due, and payable to ei∣ther the Universities, or any other Colleges, Halls, Hospitals, Almes-houses or Free-schools. Nevertheless you are to assess the Tenants of all such Lands and Tenements for so much as the same are worth by the year, over and above what Rents or Revenues they pay to the said Universities, Colleges, &c. And you are here∣by further willed and required that you bring the said Assessment fairly written, exactly cast up, and by you signed unto us at the house of, &c. (tali die) by two of the clock in the afternoon of the same day; Of all which you nor any of you, are to fail, upon pain of 20 li. Given under our hands and seals at A. the, &c.

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