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 May 18, 2024.
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The Form of a Warrant for the good Behaviour to the Constables, &c.
Bucks.
Forasmuch as A. B. of your said Town, is not of good Name, or Fame, nor of ho∣nest Conversation; a Rioter and Disturber of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, as we are given to understand by the com∣plaint of sundry credible Persons, Therefore on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King, we straightly charge and command you, or either of you, immediately upon sight hereof, you or one of you require the said A. B. to come before me or some other of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, to find sufficient Sureties and Mainprize as well for his good Abearing towards our said Sovereign Lord, and all his Leige-People, until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden in the said County, as also for his Appearance then and there; and if he shall refuse so to do, that then you him safely Convey, or cause to be Conveyed to the com∣mon Goal of the County aforesaid, or to the next Goal of His Majesty's in the said County, there to remain until he shall willingly do the same. So that he may be before the Justices of the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King within the said County, at the next general Ses∣sions of the Peace to be holden for the County, and there to Answer our said Sovereign Lord
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for his Contempt on this Behalf. And see that you certifie your Doings in the Premises to the said Justices in the said Sessions, bringing then thither this Precept with you.
Given at B. un∣der my Hand and Seal the fourth Day of De∣cember, &c.
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