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 Punishment of the re∣puted Father of a Bastard-Child, for not keeping the Child, and obeying the Order.

To the Constables and Borsholders of the Hundreds of C. and B. and to every of them, and to the Keeper of the common Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid.

Kent ss. WHereas upon our Examina∣tion of the Cause and Cir∣cumstance, and due Consideration thereof by us had, touching a male Bastard-Child late born in the Parish of C. in the said County, of the body of I. A. of C. aforesaid, Single woman, (the keeping of which said Bastard-Child was at the time of making of the said Order charge∣able to the said Parish, and hath ever since continued chargeable) we did by an Order by us made, and subscribed under our hands the 19th. day of April last past, (according to the form of the Statute in such case made and pro∣vided) adjudge W. S. of H. in the said Coun∣ty, Tayler the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child; and for the Punishment of the said reputed Father, and the better Relief of the said Parish, we did thereby order, That the said reputed Father should by the said Con∣stable, or by the Borsholder of the Town-Bur∣rough, (within the Hundred aforesaid) upon some day of the Market to be holden in the Town of C. in the said County, (within the Hundred aforesaid) between notice given of that our Order given unto him, and the 12. day of this instant A. (and now lately past) at the

Market-Cross in the Town aforesaid, (between the hours of three and five in the afternoon of the same day) be stripped naked from the middle upwards, and tied to one of the Posts of the Market-Cross aforesaid, (most visible to the said Market) and then and there openly whipped untill his body be bloudy; and that he should in such convenient time after notice of that our Order to him given render his body to the said Constable and Borsholder, or one of them, (ready to undergo his Punishment so ordered) as that the said Punishment might be executed accordingly; And that the said reputed Father should pay to the Overseers of the Poor, or one of them 20 s. by them dis∣bursed hefore the said notice given, for or towards the charge of keeping the said Child from the time of its Birth; And that upon every Friday which (after notice to him given of that our Order) should be during such time as the said Bastard-Child should be chargeable to the said Parish of C. pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid for the time being, or to some or one of them, sixteen pence of lawfull money of England, towards the charges by them disbursed for relief of the Bastard-Child aforesaid; and that the reputed Father should for ever after such time as the said Bastard-Child shall first cease to be charge∣able to the said Parish, discharge the Parish aforesaid of and from all future charges what∣soever, for, touching or concerning the keep∣ing or reliving of the same; And whereas (after the making of the said Order, and by the space of six days and upwards before the day of the date hereof) the said W. S. had notice of the said Order, and yet hath not ob∣served or performed any part thereof on his

part to be observed and performed: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you the said Constable and Bors∣holders, and every of you, that you, some or one of you, do attach the body of the said W. S. and him to deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the Gaol aforesaid, to be by him kept in the same without Bail or Mainprise, (except he shall put in sufficient Surety to perform the said Order, or else personally to appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden in the said County) and also to abide such Order as the Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid, or the more part of them then and there shall take in that behalf, (if they then and there shall take any;) and that if at the said Sessions the said Justices shall take no other Order, then to abide and perform the Order before made as is abovesaid. Commanding also you the said Keeper of the Gaol aforesaid, to receive then the said W. S. in the same, and him there safely to keep, according to the purport and tenour of this Precept. Given under our hands, &c.