A help to magistrates, and ministers of justice,: also a guide to parish and ward-officers. : Containing, 1. Plain directions for justices of the peace ... 2. To their clerks in drawing forms of warrants, and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers ... 5. The rates of servants wages ... 6. Some directions to coroners and their inquests ... 7. Customs ... peculiar to the city of London in privileges, law-matters ... 8. The office and duty of a high constable ... 9. The office and duty of churchwardens and sidesmen. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of highways, scavengers, &c.

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A help to magistrates, and ministers of justice,: also a guide to parish and ward-officers. : Containing, 1. Plain directions for justices of the peace ... 2. To their clerks in drawing forms of warrants, and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers ... 5. The rates of servants wages ... 6. Some directions to coroners and their inquests ... 7. Customs ... peculiar to the city of London in privileges, law-matters ... 8. The office and duty of a high constable ... 9. The office and duty of churchwardens and sidesmen. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of highways, scavengers, &c.

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P. B., Gent.

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London :: Printed for Nicholas Boddington, at the Golden Ball in Duck Lane,

1700.

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Justices of the peace -- Great Britain.

Criminal procedure -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Officials and employees.

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"A help to magistrates, and ministers of justice,: also a guide to parish and ward-officers. : Containing, 1. Plain directions for justices of the peace ... 2. To their clerks in drawing forms of warrants, and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers ... 5. The rates of servants wages ... 6. Some directions to coroners and their inquests ... 7. Customs ... peculiar to the city of London in privileges, law-matters ... 8. The office and duty of a high constable ... 9. The office and duty of churchwardens and sidesmen. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of highways, scavengers, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76259.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• THE CONTENTS.
• READER, Observe these short Directions to know the Authors being Alledged or quoted, as you find them set down through the whole Book.
• The Experienced Justice of Peace. In Respect to his Power, in and out of Sessions, in many Cases of great Impor∣tance; useful for Justices, their Clerks, and others.
  • CHAP. I. The Antiquity of a Justice of the Peace, his Power, and what he may do, the Execution of his Office in many material Cases.
  • CHAP. II. What may be done by a Justice of Peace, Ex Of∣ficio, &c.
  • CHAP. III. What one Justice of Peace may do by Power and Vir∣tue of his Commission, without requiring to be joyn∣ed with another, or more in Acting, in what relates to his Office.
  • CHAP. IV. The Power of two Justices of the Peace, Acting joyntly within the Compass of their Jurisdiction, by Virtue of their Commission and Office, &c.
  • CHAP. V. What may be done by Three Justices of the Peace, Con∣junct in the Execution of their Office, according to several Statutes, &c. Impowering and directing them thereto.
  • CHAP. VI. What may be done by 4 Justices of the Peace, Con∣junct in the Execution of their Office, as afore∣said, &c.
  • CHAP. VII. What Six Justices of the Peace, Conjunct in the Exe∣cution of their Office may do, &c.
  • CHAP. VIII. What is to be considered and meant by the next Justice in a County, &c.
  • CHAP. IX. Of certain Forfeitures by Statute given to 8 Justices of the Peace.
  • CHAP. X. The Fees of Justices of the Peace, or such as they ought to take in the following Cases, according to Crompt. 176. a. and Dalt. 78.
  • CHAP. XI. Where a Justice of the Peace lies liable to be Fined for Neglecting, or Transgressing in his Office or Duty, &c.
  • CHAP. XII. Where a Justice of the Peace lies liable to Punishment.
  • CHAP. XIII. Some Directions in making out, or granting War∣rants by a Justice of the Peace, and how to be Executed.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of Mittimus's, and their Form, and what is to be considered in them, &c.
    • The Form of the Mittimus see.
  • CHAP. XV. Of Recognizances, what they are, and how, and in what Cases to be taken by a Justice of the Peace, &c.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of Sessions and Matters properly to be done, &c. by Justices therein, &c.
  • CHAP. XVIII. The Justice of Peace his Clerk, &c. his Business rela∣ting to Warrants, Hue and Cry, Order for Bastard-Children, Recognizances, Mittimus's, Releases, Bailments, Supersedeas, &c. in due Form, Latin and English, and other things, with Observations, or Notes thereon for better Information.
    • Instructions for Clerks to Justices of the Peace, contain∣ing many necessary Forms, or Precedents of War∣rants on several Occasions directed to Constables.
    • The Form of a General Warrant for a Misdemeanour.
    • The Form of a Warrant for the good Behaviour to the Constables, &c.
    • The Form of a Warrant immediately in the King's Name, Grantable by Justices of the Peace.
    • The Form of a Warrant for the Peace.
    • The Form of a Warrant to search for Stolen Goods.
    • The Form of a Warrant to search after a Robbery Committed, directed to the High Constables.
    • The Form of a Warrant for a Person who hath dange∣rously Hurt, or Wounded another, &c.
    • The Form of a Warrant for a Reputed Father of a Bastard-child.
  • CHAP. XIX. An Order of the Justices of Peace for a Bastard-child.
    • The Form of a Warrant for a Fugitive Servant.
    • To Bind one to give Evidence.
    • The Form of a Hue and Cry after Robbery, &c.
    • The Form of a Warrant to Attatch a Felon, or for Felony.
  • CHAP. XX. A Warrant for the Overseers of the Poor to give up their Accounts.
    • The Form of a Warrant to the new Overseers to take their Charge.
    • The Form of a Warrant to Distrain such as refuse to pay their Rates to the Poor, &c.
  • CHAP. XXI. The Form of a Warrant for suppressing an Ale-house
  • CHAP. XXII. Supersedeas Grantable by Justices of the Peace to supercede Warrants, &c. their Forms
    • The Form of a Supersedeas by a Justice of Peace.
    • The Form of a Supersedeas to deliver one out of Prison for Trespass, or the like.
    • Supersedeas de Exig. Fac. de Felonia.
    • Supersedeas de capias pro fine.
  • CHAP. XXIII. The Forms of Recognizances on several occasions, to be taken by Justices of Peace, and written by them or their Clerks, &c.
    • The Form of a single Recognizance to be taken before a Justice of the Peace.
    • The Form of a Recognizance for the Peace.
    • The Forms of Conditions of Recognizances to be set under the Recognizance, or Indorsed.
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      • The Form of a Condition for one to appear before the Justices of Peace at their next Sessions.
      • The Form of a Condition for one that hath dange∣rously hurt another.
  • CHAP. XXIV. The Forms of Mittimus's to deliver Persons Com∣mitted to Goal, &c.
    • The Form of a Mittimus to send a Disorderly Ser∣vant, or other Disorderly Person to the House of Correction.
    • The Form of a Mittimus of a Felon after his Exa∣mination taken.
    • The Form of a Mittimus upon Suspicion of Felony, &c.
    • The Form of a Mittimus to send the Reputed Father of a Bastard-child to Goal.
  • CHAP. XXIV. The Form of Bailment by the Justices of the Peace, &c.
    • The Form of the Liberate, to deliver a Prisoner Committed for Felony.
    • The Form of another Bailment, where the Goaler can conveniently bring the Prisoner before the Justices.
    • A Warrant to deliver a Servant out of a Goal.
    • The Form of a Bailment for the Peace, the Party be∣ing in Prison.
  • CHAP. XXV. The Form of Releases by Justices of the Peace, &c.
    • The Forms of the Release of a Justice of the Peace
    • The Form of the Release of a Party before the same Justice that took it.
  • CHAP. XXVI. Somewhat of the Antiquity of Juries. What things they must consider, and how they ought to be Quali∣fied to be Jurors.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of Indictments, Presentments, and the difference be∣tween them; the Oath administred to the Grand Jury, and how they ought to enquire, &c.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Several Material Things to be known relating to Ju∣rys, as the Law directs, and according to the Opinion of the Learned Lawyers.
  • CHAP. XXIX. Challenges to be made of Jurors, and other very use∣ful Instructions tending to Evidence, &c.
    • What is properly a good Challenge.
  • CHAP. XXX. Penalties upon Forestallers of Markets, Fairs, &c. Badgers, Drovers, Butchers, Tanners, Inholders▪ what they may do in some Cases, and what they ought not to do, &c.
  • CHAP. XXXI. Rates of Wages for Servants, according to Statute-Law, &c. And how to be Ordered by Justices of the Peace, &c.
  • CHAP. XXXII. The Office of a Coroner in the Material Things he is to observe in the Executing of it, His Fees, and upon what Statutes, and other Warrantable Au∣thority, he is to proceed.
  • CHAP. XXXIII. Some other Matters relating to the Coroners Office and Duty in View of Dead Bodies, out of Rastal, &c.
  • CHAP. XXXIV. Murther, how to be ta, and what is Observable therein to make it so wilfully, &c.
  • CHAP. XXXV. Homicide and Man-slaughter, Felo de se, &c.
  • CHAP. XXXVI. Involuntary Homicide.
  • CHAP. XXXVII. Customs, Advantages, &c. peculiar to the City of London. Statutes made in its Favour. Of the Court of Request, commonly called the Court of Conscience, &c.
    • Feme sole Merchant.
  • CHAP. XXXVIII. Where an Action will lye before the Day, or Pay∣ment, to find better Sureties by the Custom of London.
    • Covenant without Deed.
    • Concessit Solvere, Upon a Contract made at Sea.
    • Of Mainpernors for the Defendant.
    • Taking Goods to Pledge.
    • Sequestration by Custom of London.
    • Contribution.
    • Debts under 40 s. in London.
  • CHAP. XXXIX. Marking a Cause in the Mayor's Court, after a Verdict given in the Sherriffs Court to be done.
    • Other Customs in London in this Court, &c.
    • Of Foreign Attachments, &c.
  • CHAP. XL. Some Matters relating to Orphans in London.
  • CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Court of Common-Council for London, &c.
    • Of the Court of Wardmoot Inquest in London.
    • The Chamberlain's Court for Apprentices.
    • Briefly of the Court of Conservator, and of the Water of the River of Thames.
  • CHAP. XLII. The Antiquity of a Constable, his Oath, and other things concerning his Office, &c.
  • CHAP. XLIII. The Office and Duty of a Constable, Headborough, &c. in Serving, or Executing Warrants dire∣cted to him by Justices in Commission for the Peace, &c.
  • CHAP. XLIV. The Office of a Constable, &c. How it ought to be ex∣ecuted, relating to Affrays, &c.
  • CHAP. XLV. The Constables Office relating to Arrests, or Escapes of Prisoners, Felons, &c.
  • CHAP. XLVI. The Office of a Constable, &c. In Relation to Hue and Cry, and how he must discharge his Duty therein.
  • CHAP. XLVII. The Constables Office, &c In what more particularly Relating to the Conservation of the Peace.
  • CHAP. XLVIII The Office of a Constable, &c. Relating to the strict Observance of the Lords Day
  • CHAP. XLIX. The Office and Duty of a Constable, &c. required about hired Servants, Labourers, &c.
  • CHAP. L. The Office of a Constable, as to what he is to do re∣lating to Popish Recusants and Conventicles.
  • CHAP. LI. A Constable's Office relating to such as shall disturb Ministers in time of Divine Service, &c. And what relates to Physicians.
  • CHAP. LII. The Duty and Office of a Constable in any Calamitous Time of Plague and Pestilence, &c.
  • CHAP. LIII. The Office of a Constable, &c. Relating to Routs and Riots, and what they are.
  • CHAP. LIV. The Office of a Constable, in what concerns it re∣lating to Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars, &c.
  • CHAP. LV. A Copy of a Testimonial in Manner and Form as in this Case the Law directs.
  • CHAP. LVI. The Constables Office in disposing of the Wives and Children, of Rogues, Vagabonds, or Sturdy Beggars.
  • CHAP. LVII. The Duty and Office of a Constable, &c. relating to Alehouses, Inns, &c.
  • CHAP. LVIII. The Office of a Constable, &c. relating to Weights and Measures in Cities, Towns Corporate, &c.
  • CHAP. LIX. The Office and Duty of a Constable in setting and or∣dering the Watches, Forcible Entries, &c.
  • CHAP. LX. The Office of a Constable relating to Hedge-breakers, Destroyers of Ʋnderwoods, &c.
  • CHAP. LXI. What is required of a Constable in the Performance of his Office, in case of Landlord's Distraining for Rent, &c.
  • CHAP. LXII. What relates to the Office of a Constable in providing Carriages for the King, &c.
  • CHAP. LXIII. The Office and Duty of a Constable relating to the King's Game, Fishery, Excise, and Custom,
  • CHAP. LVIII. The Office of a Constable relating to Clothiers and Irish Cattel, &c.
  • CHAP. LXIV. Rates for the Relief of poor maimed Soldiers, Mari∣ners, Prisoners, &c. How to be gathered and Or∣dered, &c.
  • CHAP. LXV. What particular Things and Matters High Constables ought to return before the Justices in Sessions, and to be return'd to them by the Petty Constables in their Respective Jurisdictions.
  • CHAP. LXVI. The Office of a Constable, &c. Relating to Stoned Horses.
  • CHAP. LXVII. The Constables Office and Duty relating to such Persons as Prophanely Swear and Curse.
  • CHAP. LXVIII. The Constables Office and Duty further relating to Va∣gabonds and Beggars, and Collecting Monies for Building and Repairing Goals.
  • CHAP. LXIX. The Constables Office relating to such as make or put bad Mault to Sale, &c.
  • The Office and Duty of a Churchwarden, Questman, Sidesman, &c. In all respects relating to what concerns them in the due and safe discharge of their respective Trusts. CHAP. LXX. Of the Office of a Churchwarden, &c. Its Antiquity and Dignity. How to be chosen. What they are to do in keeping the Lord's Day, and what relates to them as to Goods of the Church, and well ordering Matters, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXI. What relates to the Office of a Churchwarden in re∣pairing the Pews, about Seating persons in the Church, and keeping good order: What Rates they may make for the repair of the Church, and what not, with o∣ther things of the like Nature.
  • CHAP. LXXI. Their Choice of Surveyers, giving up their Accounts, making Distress. Of Forfeitures, Presentments; and where, and where not they may give them in; with other things.
  • CHAP. LXXIII. The Grounds of Presentments, or usual Articles given whereon to Found their Presentments, that the Churchwardens may know what to do in this Case.
  • CHAP. LXXIV. Several Nice Matters laid down for the Instruction of Church-wardens in their Office and Duty, &c.
  • The Duty and Office of the Overseers of the Poor. CHAP. LXXV. The Office of the Overseers of the Poor; how to be Qualified and Chosen, where they may Act, and what degrees of Poor they are to have regard to, in order to Relieve them.
  • CHAP. LXXVI. What relates to the Office of the Overseers, in taking care to put poor Children Apprentice, and what In∣denture is required to find them, &c.
    • The Form of an Indenture of an Apprentice put out and Bound by the Overseers, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXVII. How far the Overseer is concerned about settling the Por, and what otherways relates; with some nice Points relating to Bastards, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXVIII. The Office of the Overseers of the Poor in making Rates, and how they must behave themselves there∣in; and of making and delivering up their Accounts upon going out of their Offices, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXIX. The Office of the Overseers of the Poor in receiving Fines to the use of the Poor in some Respect; of Destroyers of Game, unlawfully Fishing, also relating to Measures and Burying in Woollen.
  • CHAP. LXXX. Of Fairs and Markets, Toll and Toll-keepers, Clerks of Markets, their Office and Duty in some Parti∣culars, &c. Measures, and Measuring, Sealing, &c.
  • The Duty and Office of the Surveyors of the High-ways and Bridges, Scavengers in London, Westminster, Borough of Southwork, &c. With more particu∣lar Directions what they are to do and observe there∣in, and how to behave themselves, and order Mat∣ters for the due Discharge of the said Office. CHAP. LXXXI. Surveyors of the High-ways, their Office and Duty in mending the Ways, and Rating.
  • CHAP. LXXXII. The Office of a Surveyor, in draining the Roads, ma∣king Presentments; and in what Case a Justice of Peace may Present; how the Surveyor shall be Reim∣bursed for Moneys laid out for Materials, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXXIII. Several Matters relating to Justices of Assize, and Justices in their Sessions of Peace, concerning Sur∣veyors; with Law Matters relating to them.
  • CHAP. LXXXIV. Directions to Surveyors in case of Rescues upon Sei∣zure, and what relates as to Penalties concerning Wains or Carriages on the Road.
  • CHAP. LXXXV. Directions to the Scavengers and Managers of Sewers in the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, relating to their Duty and Office.
  • CHAP. LXXXVI. Within what time Rates are to be made, and by whom. How the Scavengers are to account for them, and the Penalties upon Refusal. Assessment how to be made and levied, &c.
  • CHAP. LXXXVII. Several things very useful to be known to Surveyors, Scavengers, as Commission of Sewers, Weights of Hay. Hay or Straw-carts standing in the Streets, Wheels of Carts, their Size; keeping of Swine, and putting out Lights, Lamp-lights, &c.