were consumed wasted and burnt to the great danger of the Bodies of them and their Families and their exceeding great loss and impoverishment And forasmuch as it is a Godly and Charitable deed to further help and relieve such poor needy and miserable persons being of honest name fame and conversation as they who have suffered this great loss And for that the Bearers hereof in the behalf of themselves and their Neighbours are inforced by reason of their Losses to seek for help and succour for their relief And we knowing their Estate to be such as is premised and moved with commiseration of their sad Estate and Condition Have therefore as much as in us lieth given License unto them and every of them to make their repair from Parish Church to Parish Church and to every Parish Church and Chapel Town and Place within the County of K. to ask receive and take Charitable Devotion and Benevolence of all good and well disposed people towards the recovery of their said great Losses And our request further is That you and every of you to whom they shall repair do extend your lawfull favour unto them permitting them without your denial to execute the tenour of this our Licence Desiring all Ecclesiastical Persons to whom these distressed persons shall make their Address in this behalf to declare the tenor hereof to their Parishioners in every of their Parish Churches and Chapels on the Sabbath days or other Festival days exorting them to extend their Charity in this behalf and those whom it concerns to aid and assist them in the collection thereof In Witness c. A Charitable Request made by certain Iustices of the Peace to the Inhabitants of a Division for Relief of F. S. who had been therein lately ruined by Fire K. ss WE whose names are hereunto subscribed his Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County of K. and inhabiting in and neer the division of the said County wherein the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid is situate having received credible information that F. S. of the Parish aforesaid Labourer upon the second day of April last past by a sudden Fire hapening in his said dwelling house in the said Parish had his Flax to the value of thirty and five pounds suddenly burnt and consumed to the utter undoing him his wife and children unless he be relieved by the Charity of well disposed people We therefore taking the said Loss into consideration and much commiserating the same do upon the humble Petition of the F. S. so far forth as lawfully we may earnestly recommend his said sad condition to the charitable consideration and benevolence of all well disposed people inhabiting within the division aforesaid desiring them to contribute what God shall move their hearts unto towards his help and relief therein desiring also the Ministers and Church-wardens of every the Parishes within the division aforesaid to promote the said Charitable work Given under our hands the c. of May 1681. c. Forceable Entry A Warrant to return a Iury to inquire of a Forceable Entry Kent ss R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid To the Sheriff of the said County Greeting On the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King I command you that you do cause to come before me at C. in the Parish of G. in the County aforesaid upon Monday the tenth day of Iune next ensuing four and twenty sufficient and indifferent men of the neighbourhood of L. in the said County whereof every one have lands and tenements of the yearly value of forty shillings by the year at the least above reprises to enquire upon their Oath for His said Majesty of a certain Entry by strong hand made into the mesuage of A. B. at L. aforesaid against the form of the Statute in that behalf provided as it is said And that you do at the said day return twenty shillings issues upon every of the Jurors by you in this behalf to be impannelled Hereof fail not upon pain of twenty pounds to be by you forfeited to His said Majesty and upon such other penalty as by the Statute in that behalf provided is declared if you shall be slack and make not due execution hereof And have you there the names of the Jurors and this Precept Given under my hand and seal at c. the second day of c. A Record of a Forceable Entry K. ss EGO R. K. Armig. unus Iusticiariorum Dom. Regis nunc ad pacem in Comitatu Kanc. praedicto conservandam assignatorum Certifico quod secundo die Februarii Anno Regni dicti Dom. Regis nunc tricesimo questus est mihi A. B. de C. in Comitatu Kanc. praedicto Yeoman Quod E. F. aliae personae ignotae perturbatores pacis dicti Dom. Regis nunc praedicto secundo die Februarii Anno supradicto in unum messuagium unum Atrium cum pertin adtunc adhunc existens liberum tenementum W. I. Gent. ac in possessione praed A. B. pro termino decem annorum adhuc venturorum situatum in C. praedicta in Com. praedicto pacifice quiete intraver intrationem fecer Et postea viz. praedicto secundo die Februarii Anno supra dicto apud C. praedictam in Com. praedicto praedictum A. B. à praedicto Messuagio Atrio cum pertin vi Armis c. illicite manu forti expuler ejecer amover Et praed A. B. sic deinde expuls ejectum amotum à Messuagio Atrio praedictis cum pertin ut praedicitur vi Armis illicite manu forti adtunc ibidem extra tenuer detinuer Ad grave damnum praedicti A. B. contra pacem dicti Dom. Regis nunc c. ac contra formam Statuti in hujusmodi casu editi provisi Et unde praedictus A. B. petiit à me remedium in hac parte relevari Quâ querela petitione praedict per me auditis existen Ego praefatus J. B. immediate personaliter accessi ad Messuagium Atrium praedicta cum pertin Ac in Messuagio praedicto adtunc ibidem inventi praedictum E. F. praedictum Messuagium Atrium cum pertinentiis à praedicto A. B. vi armis illicite manu forti extra tenentem detinentem contra formam Statuti in hujusmodi casu editi provisi super quo ego praefatus J. B. adtunc ibidem causavi praedictum E. F. capt arrestat misi ad Gaolam de M. in Com. Kanc. praed ibid. remanere sub salva custodia donec inveniret coram me sive aliquo alio Iusticiariorum dicti Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. praedict sufficientem securitatem pro personali comparentia ipsius A. B. ad proximam generalem Quarterialem-Sessionem pacis dicti Dom. Regis in Com. praed tenent ad respondendum transgressioni contemp praed Ac quod
the summe of 5 li. and do by and with the consent and direction and for and on the behalf of our selves and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Town of K. acquit release and for ever discharge and free him the said R. E. of and from the said summe of 5 li. and from the keeping or maintaining the said Child and of and from all charges taxes and payments now already or hereafter to be charged or taxed upon him the said R. E. to or for the same In witness whereof we the said E. C. and E. W. have hereunto set our hands and seals c. Prisoner To allow a poor Prisoner Relief To A. B. Gent. Treasurer for Relief of the Prisoners in His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas T. S. now Prisoner in the said Gaol is in very great necessity for want of present Relief for his subsistance there These are therefore so far forth as in us lieth to appoint and authorize you the said Treasurer to allow unto the said T. S. competent Relief during his necessity in the said Gaol Given under our hands and seals the third day of Iune Anno Dom. 1679. A Discharge of a Prisoner to a Gaoler To the Gaoler or Keeper of the common Gaol at A. in the County aforesaid K. ss WE R. K. and A. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid greeting Forasmuch as A. H. of C. c. Barber hath found sufficient Sureties before us for his personal appearance at the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden at C. aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you that forthwith upon sight hereof you discharge the body of A. H. aforesaid if he be detained for no other cause but upon A. B. and C. D. their Warrant and this shall be your Discharge Given under our hands and seals at A. c. Or thus To the Gaoler or Keeper c. WHere 's A. B. being by me committed to your Custody in your Gaol till he put in Sureties for the Peace or good Behaviour as the case requires These are therefore c. as before For a Prisoner to be Bailed THese are to charge and require you that immediately upon your Receipt of this you bring before me the body of A. B. now in your Custody to be Bailed as Law requireth A Warrant from a Judge to bring a Prisoner from a Gaol to give Evidence To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol of N. or his Deputy YOU are hereby required to bring the body of T. S. in safe Custody to Westminster upon Monday next being the seventh day of this instant February by one of the clock in the afternoon of the same day to testifie the truth according to knowledge in a certain Cause now depending in the Court of King's Bench and there to be tried by Nisi prius before the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court Between P. Earl of C. Plaintiff and G. B. Defendant in a plea of Trespass on the case on the part of the Plaintiff and after his Evidence given to remove him back safe to your Gaol Hereof fail not Given under my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1675. Quakers A Mittimus of Quakers To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at B in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as I have received information That A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. being persons commonly called Quakers and every of them of the age of sixteen years or upward have lately departed from the places of their several habitations and assembled themselves at T. in the said County under pretence of joyning in a Religious Worship not authorized by the Laws of this Realm These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County with sufficient Securities to be bound with them to appear at the next Quarter-Sessions in order to their Conviction of the Offence aforesaid and in case of their or any of their refusal or neglect so to doe that then you do convey such of them so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Common Gaol and deliver them or him so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them or him into the said Gaol and them or him there safely to keep untill they or he shall be bound with such Securities as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon Conviction by verdict or Confession The first Offence a Fine not exceeding 5 li. The second Offence 10 li. Upon every Offender on non-payment first Offence 3. months imprisonment second Offence 6 months the third Offence abjure the Realm But upon taking the Oaths Conforming and giving Security not to meet in such unlawfull Assemblies to be discharged of all the penalties Rape A Warrant concerning a Rape To the Constables and Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as we received Information and Charge against A. B. of C. c. touching a certain Felony that is to say with the carnal Knowledge and Ravishment of M. the Wife of C. D. of c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do attach the body of the said A. B. and bring him before us or some of us to the house of c. on the twelfth day of this instant May at one of the clock in the afternoon to be examined touching the premisses and to be further dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. Rates for Hay Oats c. A Warrant to appoint Rates for Hay Oats c. upon His Majestie 's passing through any place To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas we have received notice from the Green-cloath that His Majesty will shortly pass through the Road in this County leading between B. and C. We therefore according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided do set down and appoint the Rates and Prices to be paid during His Majestie 's abode within this Division for Hay Oats and other Accommodations for Horses as is here under written which Rates are to be observed and kept and obeyed by all persons concerned at their perils And we do will and require you and every of you that you
the Peace MEmorandum Quod tertio die Julii Anno 32. Regis Caroli Secundi c. A. B. venit coram me R. K. Armig. uno Iusticiariorum Domini Regis nunc ad Pacem c. Gratis Remisit Relaxavit quantum in se est praedictam securitatem pacis per ipsum versus supra nominatum T. H. petitam In cujus rei testimonium ego praefatus R. K. c. Dat. apud c. And in like sort the Justice or Justices of Peace may doe which took Sureties for Good behaviour if they see cause 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 two of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid to the Sheriff of the said County 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 twenty 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 twenty 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 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 Iusticiariorum 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 tenementi vel viginti sex solidorum octo denariorum 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 si defalt feceris in non retorn personas prâ—…d sive exit in forma praed Et habeas ibi tunc nomina Iur. ill hoc praeceptum Dat. sub Sigillis nostris apud S. ultim die Martii Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia 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 informed by A. B. Gent. that C. D. c. and diverse and sundry other Persons unknown have come upon the Ground of the said A. B. in M. aforesaid and there have been aiding and assisting to these Persons hereunder 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 Discharge Given under c. Rogues For Apprehending and Committing a dangerous Rogue To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a was found and apprehended at C. in the Hundred and County aforesaid in a general privy Search by our command made according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and brought before us this present day at our Assembly at T. in the County aforesaid We do therefore in His Majestie 's name command you the Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do at the charge of the said Hundred convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver him to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there set him to work and labour or otherwise to deal with him according to Law untill he shall be from thence lawfully delivered Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at A. aforesaid the c. A Mittimus of a dangerous Rogue To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a wandring Rogue doth appear to be dangerous We do therefore in His Majestie 's name charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do safely convey the said A. B. to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill the next Quarter-sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at A. aforesaid that he may then and there be farther dealt withall according to the Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. Sacrament A Certificate for Receiving the Sacrament and Oath Kent ss WE A. B. Minister of the Parish-Church of C. in the County of D. and E. F. Church-warden of the same Parish and Parish-Church do
said A. B. was as aforesaid suppressed do as we are informed and believe still remain We have therefore thought fit to suppress him from any longer keeping any Alehouse or Tippling-house or using commonly selling of Ale Beer Cyder or Perry These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith repair to the said A. B. and charge him to surcease from keeping any longer any Alehouse or Tipplinghouse and from commonly selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder and that what you shall doe in the premisses you some or one of you so giving notice do make known unto us or one of us with all convenient speed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at C. in the said County the second day of October 1679. 31 Car. II. Regis A Licence to keep an Alehouse with Articles Articles to be observed and kept by A. B. admitted to keep a common Alehouse or Victualling-house in his now dwelling house in C. in the said County of Kent as followeth viz. Kent ss IMprimis If he here of any Robery or other hainous offence committed against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King he shall certifie to the Constable or Borsholders of the Hundred where for the time he then dwelleth or some of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County of such persons as lodged at his house within two days before or after such Robery or hainous offence committed and what apparrel they had and used and the Christian name or Sirname or names of them or as many of them as he shall know 2. Also he shall not use or keep nor suffer to be used or kept any Carding Dicing Bowling or any other unlawfull Game or Games at any time in his house or yard 3. Also he shall not permit or suffer any person or persons to continue drinking or remain tippling in his house otherwise then is permitted and allowed by the several Statutes in that case made and provided 4. Also he shall not suffer any person or persons to lodge at his house above one day and one night together but such as he will answer for and have forth coming if occasion shall require 5. Also he shall keep one or more beds in his house as also Mens meat and Horse meat during the time of Licence conveniently furnished to lodge any way-faring Man or Travellor Lastly He shall not utter or sell less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer or Ale for one penny and of the small two Quarts for one penny and shall have in his house Beer and Ale of both sorts and also Bread for the Poor and sueh others as will buy the same We whose Names are hereunder written Justices of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King within this County of K. do hereby license and allow the said A. B. to keep a common Alehouse or Victuallinghouse in his now dwellinghouse known by the name of the Sign of the George in C. aforesaid for the space of one whole year next ensuing The said A. B. observing and keeping all and singular the Articles above written for observing whereof he is bound by a Recognizance in 10 li. and two sufficient Sureties with him viz. C. D. and E. F. in 5 li. a piece to the use of our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors Dated at C. the 8 day of Septemb 1671. The Recognizance as in Pag. 3. The Condition The Condition of the Recognizance within written is such That whereas the within named A. B. is by the Justices within named licensed admitted and allowed to keep a common Alehouse or Victuallinghouse in C. for the space of one whole year next ensuing If therefore the said A. B. doe well and truly observe and keep all and singular the Articles contained in his said Licence That then c. Apprentices A Warrant to put out poor Children Apprentices To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you do present unto us or some of us in writing under your hands at the house of A. B. in c. upon the third day of Iune next at nine of the clock in the morning of the same day the names of all such poor Children of your said Parish as are Orphans or whose Parents shall not by you or the greater number of you be thought able to keep and maintain them together with the names of the Parents of the said Children if they have any living and the several Ages of the Children aforesaid And that you do cause such of the said Children as be able to come thither and more especially such of them as by you shall be thought fit to be put forth Apprentices to appear before us at the time and place aforesaid to be by us there viewed And likewise that you do then and there also present unto us in writing as aforesaid the names of such substantial Inhabitants of your said Parish to whom you shall think fit to put the said Children or any of them Apprentices and more especially of such of the said Inhabitants as have not formerly taken such poor Children of the said Parish Apprentices And lastly that you do give notice to the said Inhabitants that they are by us required then and there to appear before us to shew cause why you by our assent shall not bind such of the said Children Apprentices unto them as to you shall seem convenient unless they shall in the mean time consent to take and receive the same accordingly and that you your selves be then and there also present and have there this Precept Of all which you are not to fail at your Perils Given under our hands and seals the c. An Indenture for an Apprentice so put out THis Indenture made the c. day of c. in the year of the Reign c. Between A. B. and C. D. Church-wardens of the Parish of E. in the County of c. and F. G. H. I. Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish c. of the one part and K. L. of c. of the other part Witnesseth That the said Church-wardens and Overseers by the Assent of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose names are hereunto written according to the form of the Statute made in the 23. year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor have put out and bound M. L. a poor Child of the said Parish of E. Apprentice to the said K. L. till the said M. L. shall come to the age of 24 years During which time the said Apprentice his said Master well and faithfully shall serve his Secrets keep his Commandments lawfull and honest every-where willingly shall doe He
shall do no hurt nor damage to his said Master nor consent to be done of others but to his power shall lett the same or forthwith give notice to his said Master thereof He shall not waste the Goods of his said Master nor lend them to any person without his consent He shall not frequent Taverns Inns or Alehouses except it be about his said Master's business there to be done He shall not during the said term play at Cards Dice or other unlawfull Games He shall not either by day or night absent himself from his said Master's service But in all things as a good and faithfull Servant shall demean himself towards his said Master and all his And the said K. L. his said Apprentice shall during the term aforesaid educate and bring up or cause to be educated and brought up in his Trade with due and reasonable Chastisement and find and allow unto him during the said term sufficient wholesome and competent meat drink lodging washing apparel and all other necessaries meet for such an Apprentice And in the end of the said term shall find provide for and deliver unto his said Apprentice double Apparel that is to say Apparel meet for him to have and wear as well on the Lord's days as on the working-days both of Linnen Woollen Hose Shoes and all other necessaries meet for such an Apprentice to have and wear In Witness whereof the parties above said to these present Indentures their hands and seals interchangeably have set the day and year first above written A Warrant against them which refuse to take Apprentices To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of K. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid did by our assent by Indenture bearing date the c. put and bind out unto B. C. of the Parish aforesaid D. E. a poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided in the 43 year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor And forasmuch as the said B. C. doth refuse to take receive and keep the said Apprentice accordingly and doth likewise refuse to seal the Counterpart of the said Indenture These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said B. C. to come before us or one of us or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to enter into Recognizance unto His said Majesty conditioned for personal appearance at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden at E. in the County aforesaid then and there to answer the premisses and farther to doe and receive as the said Court shall then consider of him in this behalf Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant against a Master for abusing his Apprentice To the Constable and Borsholders of H. c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto me by A. B. an Apprentice against C. D. his Master both of the Parish aforesaid That he the said C. D. doth not allow unto his said Servant competent meat drink and apparel and doth immoderately correct him without any cause at all or turneth him out of his house and will not suffer him to return as the Case requireth These are therefore in his Majestie 's name to command you that some or one of you do cause both the said Parties to come before me at H. on Monday the tenth day of this instant Iune at four of the clock in the afternoon to the end that I may examine the same matter Hereof fail not c. Given under my hand and seal this c. A Warrant against a disorderly Apprentice To the Constable c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto me by A. B. Joyner against C. D. his Apprentice both of your Parish of H. in this County That the said C. D. is a stubborn and disobedient Servant and doth very much misbehave himself towards his said Master or that the said C. D. hath departed from his said Master c. These are therefore c. as in the foregoing Warrant A Discharge of an Apprentice K. ss WE R. K. H. D. E. F. G. H. four of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace c. for the County of K. aforesaid Whereas Complaint having been made unto us by A. B. an Apprentice against C. D. his Master both of your Parish of H. within this County That the said C. D. his Master hath not allowed to his said Servant competent diet and apparel befitting such Apprentice and hath sometimes corrected him without any just cause at all and when he had cause corrected him above measure and we having ordered the said Parties to appear before us and having examined the Complainant find it to be true and therefore we do think fit to discharge the said Apprentice of his Apprenticeship And therefore do by these presents under our hands and seals pronounce and declare That we have for the causes aforesaid discharged the said A. B. the Apprentice of his Apprenticehood the eighth day of Iuly Annoque Dom. 1679. Givâ—…n under our hands c. A Warrant against one that departeth out of Service before his time expired To the Constable and Borsholders c. Kanc. ss WHereas Complaint hath been made unto me this present day by A. B. of c. That one C. D. having been bound and put Apprentice to him the said A. B. is now lately contrary to Law departed from his said Master without his Licence or other Lawfull discharge These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you that you some or one of you do attach the said C. D. when and where he shall be found within your several Limits and Precincts And thereupon do further bring him before me or some other of his Majestie 's Justices of and within the said County to answer to the premisses And further to be dealt withall according to Law Hereof c. Bail Recognizances for Bail Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod primo die Maii Anno Regni c. A. B. de c. personalit ' venit coram me C. D. uno Iusticiar ' dicti Domini Regis ad pacem suam in Com' suo praedicto conservand ' assign ' recognovit se debere eidem Domino Regi decem libras legalis monetae Angliae de bonis catallis terris tenementis suis fieri levari ad opus usum dicti Domini Regis haered ' successorum suorum si defalt ' fieret in performatione Conditionis indorsat ' Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod quinto die Octobris Anno Regni c. A. B. de c. G. H. de c. J. K. de c. personalit '
B. in the County aforesaid within the said Parish hath lately been delivered of a Bastard-Child begotten and born out of lawfull Matrimony yet living and chargeable to the Parish aforesaid And forasmuch as the said A. D. upon her Examination taken hath charged E. F. of c. to have begotten her with Child of the Bastard-Child aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do bring the said Woman before us at the house of R. in T. in the County aforesaid upon the tenth day of Iune at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to be by us farther examined touching the premisses and that you give notice thereof unto the said E. F. if conveniently you can to the end that he may likewise be at the time and place aforesaid to make his lawfull Defence therein if he shall so think fit And farther that you some or one of you do give notice to the several persons whose names are here under written that they and every of them are by us required to appear at the time and place aforesaid to certifie their several knowledges touching the premisses to the end that upon the examination of the Cause and Circumstance we may take such order therein as to Justice doth appertain And lastly that what you shall doe in execution of this our Precept you do make known unto us at the time and place aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A. B. of c. C. D. of c. E. F. of c. A Warrant against the reputed Father of a Bastard-Child To the Constable c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon Examination of A. B. of c. Single woman this day taken before me upon Oath it appeareth that she is at present with Child of a Bastard-Child which is likely to be chargeable to the Parish when it shall happen to be so born And forasmuch as upon her Examination she hath confessed that C. D. of c. did beget her with Child of the Child aforesaid and hath before me charged him with the same These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said C. D. to come before me or some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County at c. aforesaid then and there to receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned and also that he shall in the mean time be of good Behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as towards all His liege people Which if he shall refuse to doe that then without expecting any farther or other Warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol of c. and him there deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the aforesaid Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and seal at c. An Order for Releif of the Parish touching a Bastard-Child and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father Kent ss THE Order of us W. B. and R. K. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whereof one of us is of the Quorum and both residing in the limits where the Parish-Church of H. in the County aforesaid is the 19. day of April in the year of our Lord 1672. according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided touching the male Bastard-Child late born in the Parish of H. aforesaid of the body of A. G. of the same Parish Single woman the keeping of which said Bastard-Child hath ever since the birth thereof been and still is chargeable to the Parish aforesaid and so likely to continue chargeable First upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance and due Consideration thereof by us had we do adjudge W. S. late of H. aforesaid Tayler the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child And for Punishment of the said Mother and reputed Father and the better Relief of the said Parish we do hereby order as followeth that is to say We do order That the said Mother shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of Great B. in the said County or by some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way at or near c. in the Parish aforesaid be stripped naked from the middle upwards and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy We do also order That the said reputed Father shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred aforesaid or some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way in the Parish aforesaid over against the dwelling-house of I. S. there be stripped naked from the middle upwards and shall then and there be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be from thence drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed We do farther order That the said Mother shall within three days next after notice of this our Order render her body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo her Punishment before ordered And that the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice of this our Order render his body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo his punishment before ordered We do likewise farther order That the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice given unto him of this our Order pay or cause to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid or to some or one of them twenty shillings of lawfull money of England towards the moneys by them disbursed before the said notice given for or towards the charges of the keeping of the said Bastard-Child from the time of the birth thereof untill the time of the giving of the said notice And that upon every Friday which shall be next after the end of the said six days untill the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his age of ten years the said reputed Father shall likewise pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the time being or unto some or one of them sixteen pence of lawfull mony of England towards the charges by them disbursed towards the keeping of the Bastard-Child aforesaid meaning between the end of the said six days and the
the space of six days and upwards before the day of the date hereof the said Will. Bowman so as aforesaid the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child had notice of the said Order and yet notwithstanding hath not hitherto rendred his body to you the said Constable and Borsholders or any of you according to the purport of the same and so hath not for his part observed and performed the Order aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do attach the body of the said Will. Bowman and him 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 also personally to appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden in the said County And also to add 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 Will. Bowman into the same and him there safely to keep according to the purport and tenour of this Precept Given under our hands and seals at Hawkh. aforesaid the second day of Iune Anno Dom. 1673. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 25. An Order for Relief of the Parish in case of a Bastard out of the Estate of the reputed Father To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of c. in the County of c. and to every of them Kent ss FOâ—…asmuch as upon your Complaint to us it appeareth That A. B. the reputed Father or Mother of a Bastard-Child born in the Parish aforesaid hath lately ran away out of the said Parish and left the said Bastard-Child upon the charge of the Parish aforesaid although A. B. hath Estate sufficient to discharge the said Parish These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you and every of you that you some or one of you do seize and take so much of the Goods and Chattels and receive so much of the annual Rents and Profits of the Lands of the said A. B. as will amount unto the summe of c. which we do according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made order you to take and receive for or towards the discharge of the said Parish for the bringing up and providing for the aforesaid Bastard-Child Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant for Punishment of the reputed 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 Examination of the Cause and Circumstance 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 chargeable 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 provided adjudge W. S. of H. in the said County 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 Constable or by the Borsholder of the Town-Burrough 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 disbursed 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 chargeable to the said Parish discharge the Parish aforesaid of and from all future charges whatsoever for touching or concerning the keeping 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 observed 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 Borsholders 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. A Warrant for sending a Bastard-Child found wandring to the place of its Birth To the Constable and Borsholders of c. K. ss WHereas upon our examination we find That A. B. being the Bastard-Child of C. D. and about the age of five years hath been found wandring and going up and down the Parish of H. and other places thereabouts and was as we are credibly informed born in the Parish of I. as appeareth by the Book of the said Parish These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you That according to the General usage custome and common acceptance of the Law in case of a lost Child you do convey the same Child to the said Parish of I. and that you the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of that Parish do take due care that the said Child may be there provided for Hereof fail not at your perils Gâ—…ven under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant for apprehending a Woman on suspicion of having murthered her Bastard-Child To the Constable c. K. ss WHereas I am informed that A. B. hath had a Child lately born alive of her Body and is suspected to have murthered or made away the said Child since the birth thereof These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you that immediately upon sight hereof you do apprehend and bring the body of the said A. B. before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to answer to all such matters and things as on the behalf of His Majesty shall be objected against her touching the premisses Likewise you are to make diligent search by all lawfull means to find out the truth of the premisses and to bring before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County all such persons as can give any information on the behalf of His Majesty touching the premisses And hereof fail not as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand c. A Condition of a Recognizance for the Appearance of the reputed Father of a Bastard-Child THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. within mentioned did on the day of the date within written complain to the Justice within named that M. H. of the Parish aforesaid Single woman was then with Child of a Child which when born is likely to be a Bastard and chargeable to the said Parish And whereas the said M. H. upon her Examination the day aforesaid before the said Justice did confess the same to be true and charged the within bound I. N. to have begotten her with Child of the Child aforesaid If therefore the said I. N. do answer unto such matters as shall be objected against him by the said M. H. touching the said Bastard-Child then this Recognizance to be void or else c. The Condition of a Recognizance of one charged to be the Father of a Bastard-Child before its Birth to appear at Sessions THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas upon Examination of A. B. in the said County of K. Single woman lately taken before the within named Justice of the Peace it appeareth that she was then with Child which when it shall be born is likely to be chargeable to the Parish where it shall happen to be so born And whereas the said A. B. upon her said Examination did charge the within bound C. D. with the begetting her with Child of the Child aforesaid If therefore the said C. D. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at c. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of good Behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as also towards all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force A Condition to discharge Church-wardens and Parishioners of a Child born in the Parish K. ss THe Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas M. H. hath of late been delivered of a Man-child within the Parish of c. within written to the which Child the within bound E. G. by his own voluntary Confession doth acknowledge himself to be the Father If therefore the said E. G. his Heirs Executours or Assigns or every or any of them do from time to time and at all times hereafter fully and clearly acquit discharge and save harmless as well the within named I. B. and H. T Church-wardens of the Parish-Church of c. aforesaid and their Successours for the time being and every of them as also all the Inhabitants and Parishoners of the said Parish which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being and every of them of and from all and all manner of Costs Charges and Expenses whatsoever which shall or may in any manner of wise at any time hereafter arise happen come grow impose or be imposed upon them or any of them for or by reason or means of the birth education nourishing and bringing up of the said Child and of and from all other Actions Suits Charges Troubles Impeachments and Demands whatsoever touching and concerning the same That then c Good Behaviour A Warrant and Mittimus for Good behaviour To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at C. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Bolsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find sufficient Security as well for his Appearance at the next general Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned as also that he shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as towards all His liege people Which if he shall refuse to doe that then without expecting any farther or other Warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the aforesaid Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely
Peace to be holden for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the Court there shall be then and there enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force Bridges A Warrant to a Hundred for Assessing a proportionable Rate of a Tax appointed by the Body of the County towards repair of the County Bridges To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to C. D. E. F. c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss WHereas several common Bridges of the said County were much out of repair The charges of Reparations whereof was estimated to amount to 750 li. which were ordered to be repaired by the Body of the County aforesaid The proportionable part whereof to be born by the Hundred aforesaid do amount unto 20 li. These are therefore by virtue of His Majestie 's Commission of Oyer and Terminer to us and others on that behalf directed under the great Seal of England To command you the said Constable and Borsholders sorthwith equally to assess and tax the said Hundred by a pound rate upon all Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels both real and personal within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of the Hundred aforesaid as hath usually been done within the said Hundred for publick Taxes And that you do collect and gather the same so that you may have the same ready in the hands of you the aforesaid Constables within one and twenty days next after your receit of this Precept to be paid and disposed of for and towards the purpose aforesaid as we some or one of us shall for that purpose direct And in case of refusal or neglect of any person or persons to pay his her or their proportion or proportions of the said money so by you assessed and taxed within one week next after demand thereof that then you some or one of you do cause the said person or persons so refusing or neglecting to come before us some or one of us to be bound over according to an Order by the said Commissioners in that behalf made to appear at the next general Assizes or Quarter-Sessions for this Western Division of the said County which shall next happen after such refusal or neglect to answer the same and you are hereby further required to make known unto us some or one of us with all convenient speed next after the end of the aforesaid one and twenty days what you have done in execution of this Precept Given under our hands and seals the second day of May 1681. A Warrant to make a Tax for County Bridges repaired To the Constable of the Hundred of A. and to B. C. c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred and to every of them Kent ss WHereas the usual Bridges of c. within the said County were lately in great decay and unrepaired and by an Order made at C. c. the said Decays and Irreparations were ordered to be mended at the Charges of the said County and have lately been amended accordingly the proportionable part of which said Charge thought fit to be imposed upon this Division doth amount unto c. of lawfull money of England and the proportionable part of the same thought fit to be imposed upon the said Hundred doth amount unto c. of like money These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Inhabitants that you or any three of you at the least whereof you the said Constable to be one do forthwith after publick notice before given as is usual in other Taxations make a Taxation of all and every the Inhabitants of the said Hundred as in such cases A Warrant to collect a Tax for repairing County Bridges To A. B. and C. D. Inhabitants of the Hundred of E. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you That you do forthwith collect and gather the several summs of money specified in the Taxation herewithall delivered unto you of the several persons therein mentioned to be taxed upon them for the purpose in the said Taxation specified and that you do pay the same unto R. T. whom we have appointed general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid within this Division of the several Hundreds on or before the second day of May deducting out of the same onely 5 s. as by us allowed unto you for and towards your pains in collecting and paying in of the same and in case of refusal or neglect of payment of any of the said parties so taxed of the moneys taxed upon them as aforesaid after demand made thereof by you or either of you that then you do certify unto us or some or one of us the names of the said persons so refusing or neglecting with all convenient speed to the end that such farther proceeding may be had thereupon as to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant for not paying the same To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as complaint hath been made unto us by R. T. c. by us appointed collectors and gatherers of the moneys imposed upon the said Hundred for and towards the reparations of the several Bridges of D. in the said County that the several persons whose names are here under written have refused to pay unto them the several summs of money adjoyned to their several names being taxed upon them for the purpose aforesaid although the same have been duly demanded of them These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said several persons to come before us or one of us or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to answer the premisses and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain unless they shall forthwith pay the said moneys unto you some or one of you which if they shall so doe that then you so receiving the same do forthwith pay the said moneys so received unto the said R. T. c. or one of them to the end that the same may be by them paid over to the general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid by us formerly appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A. B. C. D. E. F. c. Carriages for the King A Warrant to provide Carriages To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas we have by Warrant from the Green-cloath received notice to provide Carts and Carriages
aforesaid that you or the greater number of you do forthwith make a Tax or Assessment of and upon all and every the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in such manner as hath formerly in such cases been accustomed within the same and to authorize you the said Constable to demand collect and gather the said money so taxed and assessed and in case of refusal of payment thereof unto you that then you do return unto us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County the names of the persons so refusing to the end that they may be farther proceeded against for the same as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not c. Given under our hands and seals at c. the c. To A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. M. and N. O. To appear and shew cause for their not paying the said Charges To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss These are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the several persons whose names are hereunder written to come before some or one of us at the house of T. N. Inn-holder at the George Inn c. in the â—…aid County the fifth day of Iune next ensuing at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to shew cause why they did not pay unto A. B. late Constable of the said Hundred the several summs of money hereunder mentioned added to their several names and severally assessed upon them for and towards his Reimbursement of moneys by him necessarily laid out for and upon the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at H. the first day of Iune 1679 c. A. B. xij d. C. D. vi d. For refusing to appear to shew Cause for not paying the said Charges To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as the several persons here-under named were by virtue of a Warrant to you directed under the hands and seals of us A. B. c. His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid warned to come before us or some of us this present day c. in the said County to shew cause why they did not pay unto A. B. late Constable of the said Hundred the several summs of money hereunder mentioned added to their several names and severally assessed upon them towards his Reimbursment for his necessary Disbursements for and on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty yet the aforesaid persons have refused so to come or to pay the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do bring the aforesaid persons before us or one of us and other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County at the house of c. in c. upon Monday the fifth day of May at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same to shew cause why they do not pay they said moneys and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain unless they shall pay the moneys aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. To levy the Charges upon their refusing to pay the same To the Constable of the Hundred of A. in the said County Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon your Complaint it appeareth unto us That the several persons hereunder named have refused to pay unto you the several summs hereunder specified and severally added to their several names assessed on them according to the form of the Statute lately made towards your Reimbursement of such moneys as you have disbursed in and about the Execution of your said Office according to the Statute aforesaid These are therefore to require and authorize you to levey the said several and respective summs so assessed upon the said respective persons so refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the owners if any shall be Given under our hands and seals the c. A. B. 11 s. C. D. 13 s. c. A Condition of a Recognizance to appear and answer the not paying the same at next Sessions THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas the within bound C. D. hath refused to pay to A. B. late Constable of the Hundred of D. in the within named County of K. assessed upon him the said C. D. for and towards the Reimbursement of the said late Constable of moneys by him necessarily laid out for and on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty If therefore the said C. D. do personally appear before his Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the said County at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the said Court shall be enjoyned touching the premisses That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force A Warrant for levying 3 s. 4 d. upon a Constable for neglect of his Duty in giving an account of Rogues Vagabonds c. To the chief Constables of A. and to the under Constables of H. and to their Deputies greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as at our Assembly at A. the second day of Iune last for the adjusting the accounts of the under Constable according to a Statute made in the reign of King Iames touching Rogues and Wanderers A. B. of H. aforesaid was fined at 3 s. 4 d. for being negligent in his Office and refusing to make such account as by the said Statute is appointed These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you that some or one of you do forthwith upon the receipt hereof demand of the said T. C. the said Fine and if he shall refuse or neglect to pay the same unto you within three days that then you do immediately levy the said 3 s. 4. d. by Distress and Sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring unto him the overplus thereof if any such shall remain And lastly that one of you the chief Constables do pay the same unto the now Treasurer of the Marshalsey at or before the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at B. for these parts and this shall be your sufficient Warrant in that behalf Given under our hands c. A Warrant to sell the Goods of an Offender that refuseth to bear his own Charges to the Gaol To the Constable and
Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto me by the Parishioners of C. in the said County That whereas A. B. being apprehended in the said Parish upon suspicion of Felony and by my Warrant for that cause sent from thence to His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid the charges of the said Parishioners in conveying and guarding him to the said Gaol did amount to ten shillings and the said A. B. hath refused to bear the same And forasmuch as I am credibly informed that the said A. B. hath Goods and Chattels within the Parish of D. in the County aforesaid sufficient to defray the said Charges These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to seize so much of the said Goods and Chattels as shall be sufficient to defray the Charges aforesaid and to cause Apprisement to be made thereof by four of the honest Inhabitants of the said Parish of D. where the Goods are And that you do after the said Apprisement sell the said Goods and that out of the moneys arising of the said Sale you do pay over unto the Parishioners of A. aforesaid the aforesaid ten shillings delivering unto the said A. B. the overplus arising of the said Sale Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to make a Tax for conveying a Felon to the Gaol To the Church-wardens and other substantial Inhabitants of the Parish of A. within the Hundred of B. in the said County Greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. Constable of the Hundred aforesaid hath made Complaint unto us that you refuse to make a Tax or Scot in the said Parish for conveying of C. D. of c. lately attached for Felony in the said Parish to the Gaol not having of his own to bear his Charges thither These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and command you forthwith to make a Tax or Scot for the discharge of such moneys as the said Complainant hath been at in the premisses or to come before us or some of us at the house of c. sale die And then and there to shew cause why you do not so do Hereof fail not c. Conventicles A Condition of a Recognizance in case of an Appeal made touching Conventicles THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas R. G. of R. in the within named County of Kent Gentleman was lately convicted by the within named Justices of taking upon him to teach in an Assembly lately held in the Parish-Church of Sandherst within written under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner then according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England against the form of the Statute lately made to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles and had therefore according to the Statute aforesaid forfeited the summe of twenty pounds And for that in the judgments of the said Justices they did think the said R. G. unable to pay the said summe of twenty pounds they did therefore by their discretions adjudge five pounds thereof to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the within bound W. W. who was also according to the said Statute convicted of being present at the said Assembly contrary to the Statute aforesaid And whereas the said W. W. was also by the said Justices convicted for that he at the time of the said Assembly was one of the Church-wardens of the said Parish and knowing the said Assembly to be holden within the same did not give information thereof to any Justice of the Peace nor endeavour the Conviction of the parties which were at the said Assembly nor of any of them according to the duty of his said Office but wittingly and willingly did omit the performance of his Office aforesaid in the execution of the said Statute against the form of the same by which he forfeited the summe of five pounds And the said two several summs of five pounds have by Warrant of the said Justices been levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. and he hath the day and year within written appealed from the Justices aforesaid to the judgment of the Justices of the Peace of the said County in their next Quarter-Sessions If therefore the said W. W. do prosecute the said Appeal with effect that then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force And forasmuch also as the aforesaid Wife of the said S. B. is a Feme-Covert cohabiting with the said S. B. her Husband These are therefore c. prout c. forthwith to levy the aforesaid five shillings so imposed upon her as aforesaid by Distress c. prout c. And forasmuch as a man unknown did then and there take upon him to preach or teach prout the Record you may levy twenty pound upon any the Offenders as in your judgment shall seem fit A Record of a Conventicle ¶ This Record must be written in Parchment and would be better in Latin according to the Precedent ensuing K. st MEmorandum That upon the tenth day of Iune in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. it was according to the form of an Act of Parliament in that behalf lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles duly proved to us That A. B. being of the age of sixteen years and upwards and a Subject of this Realm was upon the first day of Iune now last past in the Parish of c. present at T. in the said County under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid Of all which we have the day and year first above written made this Record under our hands and seals A Record concerning Conventicles where several persons are convicted Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod J. S. de Sundrich in Com' praedict ' Yeoman Ed. W. de W. in Com' praed ' Generosus Maria uxor G. J. de parochia de E. in Com' praed ' Husbandman Eliz. Williard de Edenbridge praed ' in Com' praed ' vidua J. B. de c. cum multis aliis in toto se attingen ' ad numerum duodecim personarum quilibet eorum die Solis vicesimo sexto die Junii Anno Regni Domini Regis nunc vicesimo secundo ultra â—…tatem sexdecim annor ' subditi dicti Dom ' Regis nunâ—… existen ' praed ' 26. die Junii Anno vicesimo secundo supradicto insimul assemblaver ' praesentes fuer ' quilibet eor ' praesens fuit in domo mansionali ipsius Annae Pelham viduae in praed ' parochia
of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you the faid Constable or Church-wardens do require the said A. B. to pay for the said Offence to the hands of you the said Church-wardens to be by you accounted for to the use of the Poor of the same Parish five shillings of lawfull money of England within one week now next ensuing and if the said A. B. shall refuse or neglect to pay the same as aforesaid that then you the said Constable or Church-wardens do levy to the use aforesaid the said 5 s. of the Goods of the said A. B. by Distress and Sale of the same rendring unto him the overplus of the moneys remaining of the said Sale and if the said A. B. be not able to pay the said summ of 5 s. that then you the said Constable do set him in the Stocks there to remain by the space of six hours Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Convicted upon my view Convicted by his Confession before me The second Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been this present day duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. was upon the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And forasmuch as the said A. B. hath been once before lawfully convicted of the said offence of Drunkenness These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. to come before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to be bound with two Sureties to His said Majesty in one Recognizance or Obligation of ten pound with condition to be from thenceforth of good behaviour according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided which if he shall refuse to doe that then you do him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid and deliver him there to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall be so bound with two Sureties as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Convicted upon my view Convicted by his own Confession before me Excise Note NOne shall meddle with any Office relating to the Excise till they have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before 2 Iustices of the Peace of the County where such Office is or one Baron of the Exchequer and the Oath mentioned in 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. A Certificate upon taking the Oath about Excise Kent ss WE whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid do certify That A. B. of C. in the said County hath before us this present day taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath mentioned in the Statute made in the twelfth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquours for the increase of His Majestie 's Revenue during His life Given under our hands and seals the 2. day of May in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second None shall meddle with any Office relating to the Excise till they have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such Office is or one Baron of the Exchequer And the Oath of an Excise man Vide Title Oaths This Oath is by the Justices to be certified to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded A Warrant to summon those who refuse to pay the Excise To the Constable c. Kanc. ss WHereas Complaint hath been made unto us this present day by A. B. of C. sworn Officer to the Commissioners of Excise of Ale and Beer of the said County That E. F. of G. in the said County Victualler hath Brewed and put to sale certain Barrels of strong Beer since the second day of May last past without paying the duty of Excise in compounding with the Commissioners for this division contrary to an Act of Parliament in that behalf made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said E. F. to be and appear before us at T. in the County aforesaid upon the tenth day of Iune at nine of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day to shew cause why the said E. F. should not pay the duty of Excise as aforesaid Hereos fail not c. Given under c. A Warrant for Distress on Alehouse-keepers for not paying Excise To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto us whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid That A. B. of C. in the said County of K. Alehousekeeper hath not paid or cleared off his Duty of Excise unto such person as by the Statute in that behalf made is appointed according to the Entry of the said A. B. in that behalf made as by the Statute aforesaid is directed and upon examination of the Complaint aforesaid we do find the same to be true These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy the summ of c. upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. being the double value of the Duty so not paid or cleared off and by him forfeited according to the form of the said Statute and to sell the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redeemed within fourteen days and that you pay the moneys so levied to such person or persons as by the said Statute is directed rendring to the said A. B. the overplus if any be And for want of sufficient Distress that you do forthwith certify us thereof to the end we may farther proceed touching the same as by Law is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Mittimus where not sufficient to pay Excise To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas by Warrant under our hands you the said Constable and Borsholders were required to levy of the Goods and Chattels of
there to punish and set on work according to the tenour of this Precept Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Of an idle Person out of Service c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County c. K. ss FOrasmuch as C. D. of c. according to the Crime as below These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do safely convey the said C. D. to the aforesaid House of Correction and him there deliver to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there set him to work and labour from time to time by the space of c. next after such his delivery unto you in the mean time to punish him according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus to the House of Correction of an idle Person that would run away and will not work to maintain his Family To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been proved before us upon Oath according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided That A. B. of the Parish of C. aforesaid being able to work and thereby relieve his Family hath threatned to run away and leave his said Family upon the Parish of C. aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you unless he do put in sufficient Securities for the discharge of the Parish that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the said House of Correction and there deliver him to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there deal with and detain him as a sturdy and wandring Rogue and to be delivered at the next Assembly or Meeting within this lower Division of the Lath of Scray for the better execution of an Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Iames over England intituled An Act for the due Execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other lewd and idle Persons or at the Quarter-Sessions and not otherwise Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A Liberate from thence To the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at A. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas C. D. was by Warrant from us sent to the said House of Correction and is at present in your Custody there Now if the said C. D. is in your Custody for the cause aforesaid and no others We do hereby authorize and command you forthwith upon receipt hereof to set C. D. at large from your said Custody For which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under our hands and seals at A. in the said County the c. Huy and Cry The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way praying an Huy and Cry The Examination of A. B. of C. in the County of D. Gent. taken by E. F. Esq one of the Iustices of the Peace of the County of F. on the second day of October Anno Dom. 1679. upon his Oath Kent ss THIS Examinant deposeth and saith That as he was riding on Saturday the first day of April last past from the Town of A. in the County of B. to C. in the same County he was assaulted in the common High-way leading from one of the said Towns to the other at or near a place there called K at about eleven of the clock in the forenoon of the same day by two Footmen who there seised upon him this Examinant and carrying him into a certain Wood robbed him and bound him And this Examinant farther saith That he is since informed that the said place and Wood are both in the Parish of A. aforesaid and so within the Hundred of A. and D. in the said County And this Examinant farther saith and deposeth That the said Thieves did then seloniously take from him and rob him of 10 l. 17 s. in money and one cloath Saddle with Stirups and Girts worth in all 10 s and two leather Purses two Knives c. in all worth 5 s. And this Examinant farther saith and deposeth That he then did not nor yet doth know the Parties that committed the said Robbery or either of them R. W. Another Kent ss A. B. of C. in the County of D. did upon the present 10. day of October in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. personally come before me E. M. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County of D. inhabiting in the Parish of Saint M. C. in the County aforesaid in the Hundred of R. in the said County and upon his corporal Oath then taken before me did say That upon Friday the 8. day of May last past at about the hour of seven of the clock in the afternoon of the same day in the King's High-way at a certain place called E. F. in the Parish of C. in the aforesaid Hundred of R. in the said County of D. he was assaulted by five men all unknown to him the said A. B and they the said five men did then and there feloniously take and carry away from him the said A. B. 100 li. in moneys numbred of the moneys of him the said A. B. and also his Goods and Chattels that is to say one Ring with a deep Table-stone set in the same one Watch in two gold Cases c. to the value of 30 li. and robbed him the said A. B. of all and every the Moneys Goods and Chattels aforesaid And the said A. B. was on the day and year first above mentioned upon his Oath aforesaid by me examined whether he did know the Parties that committed the said Robbery or any of them And he then upon his Oath did say that he neither at the time of the said Robbery committed nor at any time since did know or doth yet know the said Parties that committed the said Robbery nor any of them In testimony whereof I the aforesaid Justice have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written A. B. The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way by three Persons one of which he knew The Examination of A. B. of C c. sworn
and examined before R. K. one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace of the County of K. on the 2. day of March Anno Dom. 1679. deposeth and saith Kent ss THat about three weeks since he was riding from C. aforesaid towards Feversham in the said County of K. and in the High-way within the Parish of F. in the said County of K. he was set upon by three Persons and was by them robbed and they took from him c. And he saith and deposeth that he doth know one of those Persons and saith that his name is E. F. an Essex man born in c. and of the age as he adjudgeth him of 30 years or thereabouts and the others he saith he knoweth not An Huy and Cry upon the escape of a Prisoner from the Constable To the Constable Borsholders and other Officers as well within the said County as elsewhere within the Kingdom of England to whom the Execution hereof doth or may concern Kent ss WHereas A. B. Constable of the Hundred of M. within the said County having yesterday together with two Precepts delivered unto him the Body of C. D. of c. before charged with the suspicion of his felonious taking of one Gelding to be by him the said Constable and other Officers conveyed to the Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid hath this day as the said Constable hath upon his complaint informed me made a felonious escape from him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the said C. D. being a Person about 30 years of age of a middle stature slender body long black curled hayr having on his body a short coloured close Coat light grey Breeches and Stockings a narrow-brim'd Hat And also that you the said respective Officers do make Huy and Cry after him from Town to Town and from County to County and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen And if you shall find him the said C. D. that then you do convey him before some Justice of the Peace within the County where he shall be taken by him to be dealt withall according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given c. A Warrant for a Huy and Cry after a Felon R. W. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace for the said County To all Constables Borsholders and other His Majestie 's Officers within the said County or elsewhere within the Realm of England whom the Execution hereof may concern Greeting K. ss WHereas I have received Information and Charge against A. B. who is a Person of evil fame describe the Person Age and Apparel who is charged before me to have assaulted and taken from the person of C. D. on the second day of Iune last at c. ten pounds in moneys numbred c. according to the Information And he the said A. B. is very much suspected to have committed several other Felonies and notwithstanding several endeavours for apprehension of him he hath not as yet been apprehended but hath withdrawn himself and is fled These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the said A. B. and to make Huy and Cry after him from Town to Town and from Country to Country and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen according to Law And if you shall find the said A. B. that then you do carry him before some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County or place where he shall be taken to be dealt withall according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to search for a Person who hath committed a Robbery and for Goods stoln R. W. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace of the said County To all Constables Borsholders and other His Majestie 's Officers within the County aforesaid or elsewhere within the Realm of England whom the Execution hereof may concern Greeting Kent ss WHereas I have received Information That a bay Gelding about 15 hands high with a bald Face his Head bigger than ordinary two wall Eyes a short Tail aged about 7 years his paces all Trot being the Gelding of R. G. of B. in the said County Gent. was in the night of the 18. day of this instant Iuly stoln out of his Land in B. aforesaid and that he suspecteth a Person whose name he knoweth not of a middle stature aged about 22 years and in saddishcoloured Cloaths to have stoln this Gelding aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the Gelding and person aforesaid and to make Huy and Cry after the said Person from Town to Town and from Country to Country according to Law And if upon your search or otherwise you shall find the said Person or the Gelding aforesaid or other just cause of suspicion that then you carry the said Person or other Persons suspected before some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County or place where he or they shall be taken to be dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal this c. Inns of Court A Warrant from one of the Judges a Member of an Inns of Court against one of that Society for refusing to observe the Order of the House To all Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and all other His Majestie 's Officers and Ministers whom these presents may concern Mid. ss WHereas I Sir R. R. Knight one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench am informed and fully satisfied by some of the Masters of the Bench of the Society of c. That F. M. Gent. lately a Member of the said Society hath for his contempt of several Orders of Council made for the compelling him to pay his Commons and other Duties amounting to a considerable Summ been by order of Council expelled the Society and his Chamber and Study seized to the use of the House notwithstanding which the said F. M. without performance of any of the said Orders hath contemptuously broken off Padlocks put upon his Chamber door entred thereinto and made use thereof and both in Words and Deeds reproachfully and contemptuously slighted and affronted the Governours and Government of the said Society and that he continues at this present actually and obstinately in his contemptuous Carriage to the disturbance of the said Society in contempt and violation of the Government thereof and as a dangerous example to others if not prevented by a speedy and severe proceeding against him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and every of you that you bring before us or some other of the Justices
from A. to B. by Water All Constables Church-wardens and other His Majestie 's Officers are therefore required to permit the said Gent. to pass without interruption Given under my hand and seal this second day of October 1680. I. C. A Licence to Travel on the Lord's day To all Constables c. THese are to certifie that A. B. of C. c. where he now dwelleth having informed me that he hath a Brother living at C. in the County of H. where he lieth now very Sick and he hath a desire to see him Know ye that for this cause I do hereby license him to travel upon the next Lord's day the direct way to his Brother Willing and requiring you not to molest or hinder him for the same so that he behave himself orderly in his travel Given under my hand c. Misdemeanours A general Warrant for the same retornable before a particular Justice To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause A. B. of C. to come before me to answer unto such matters of Misdemeanour as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Or thus THese are to will and require you in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and either of you that immediately upon the sight hereof or upon Thursday next at two of the clock in the afternoon you bring A. B. of your said Town Barber before me to answer to such matters of Misdemeanours as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him And hereof fail you not at your perils Given under c. The like retornable before any Justice and the Accuser to have Notice To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause A. B. of c. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to answer unto such matters of Misdemeanour as on the behalf of His said Majesty shall be objected against him by E. F. of c. Husbandman and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain And you are farther hereby required to give convenient notice to the said E. F. of the time and place when whither and before whom you shall cause the said A. B. so to come in execution of this Precept to the end that the said E. F. may then and there also be personally present to make appear the Misdemeanour aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Condition of a Recognizance for Misdemeanour UPon this Condition That if you A. B. â—…hall personally appear before our Sovereign Lord the King's Justices of the Peace at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the Liberty of Saint A. and do then and there make answer unto all such things which on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against you and do not depart thence without Licence of the Court Then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in full force c. Murther A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment and to give Evidence at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes to both Iuries in case of Murther THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bound W. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of Kent and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of Indictment against A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. for murther of L. M. Gent. deceased wherewith the said A. B. and C. D. are chargeable before the within named Justice and with suspicion whereof the said E. F. G. H. I. K. are also charged before the Justice aforesaid and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the Murther aforesaid as well to the Jurors as shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. or any of them for the same then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force and virtue A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill and give Evidence at Assizes THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the above named County of C. at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at the Castle of C. in the County aforesaid and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred one or more Bill or Bills of Indictment against M. W. of c. and do then and there also give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the same against the said M. W. to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King that now is That then this Recognizance shall be void and of no effect or else it shall stand in full force A Recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment and to give Evidence to both Iuries at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes in case of an Abettor in Murther THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound W. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of the Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of K. do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of Indictment against Sir P. H. Knight touching his the said Sir P's being an Abettor to the Murther of M. C. deceased wherewith â—…e is charged before the within named Justices and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the matter aforesaid as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said Sir P. H. for the same That then this Recognizance shall be void or else stand in full force c. Nets Dogs and Conies A Warrant to search for Nets and Setting-dogs upon the Statute of 7 Iacobi To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss BY virtue of an Act of Parliament in that behalf made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to authorize and command you and every of you to enter into and search the
of the Peace in that behalf And that you take nothing for your Office of Justice of the Peace to be done but of the King and Fees accustomed and Costs limited by the Statute And ye shall not direct nor cause to be directed any Warrant by you to be made to the parties but ye shall direct them to the Bailiffs of the said County or other the King's Officers or Ministers or other indifferent persons to doe Execution thereof So help you God c. The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. of c. do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other His Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities And do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness His Heirs and lawfull Successors And to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness His Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the world That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm and of all other His Majestie 's Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of His Majestie 's Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any foreign Prince to invade or annoy Him or His Countries or to discharge any of His Subjects of their allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to His Majestie 's Royal Person State or Government or to any of His Majestie 's Subjects within His Majestie 's Dominions Also I do swear from my heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King His Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear saith and true allegiance to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and Him and Them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Contempts whatsoever which shall be made against His or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against Him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full authority to be lawfully ministred unto me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equivocation or mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God A Mittimus for refusing the Oath of Allegiance To the Keeper or Gaoler c. WE A. B. and C. D. two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of K. whereof A. B. is of the Quorum do hereby commit to your custody the Body of E. F. for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance Requiring you to take and safely in Prison to keep him till he shall be delivered by due course of Law and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under our hands and seals this second day of Iune c. The Oath of Abjuration YOU shall swear That you shall depart out of this Realm of England and out of all other the King's Majestie 's Dominions and that you shall not return hither or come again into any of His Majestie 's Dominions but by the Licence of our said Sovereign Lord the King or of His Heirs So help you God The Oath of an Excise-man With this must be taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy YOU shall swear to execute the Office of name the place truly and faithfully without favour or affection and shall from time to time true account make and deliver to such person or persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no fee or reward for the execution of the said Office from any other person then from His Majesty or those whom His Majesty shall appoint in that behalf The under Sheriffs Oath touching the Impannelling of Iuries I A. B. shall not use or exercise the Office of under Sheriff corruptly during the time that I shall remain therein Neither shall or will accept receive or take by any colour means or device whatsoever or consent to the taking of any manner of Fee or Reward of any person or persons for impanelling or returning of any Inquest Jury or Tales in the said Court for the King or betwixt party and party above two shillings or the value thereof and such Fees as are allowed and appointed for the same by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm But will according to my power truly and indifferently with convenient speed impanel all Jurors and return all such Writ or Writs touching the same as shall appertain to be done by my Duty or Office during the time that I shall remain in the said Office So God me help The Oath of a Bailiff I I. D. shall not use nor exercise the Office of one of the Bearers of the Verges of His Majestie 's Houshold and one of the Officers and Ministers of the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King of the King's Palace of
by able and well-armed men every night and Ward by day from Sun to Sun and command them that they do apprehend all such Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle suspicious persons as you shall apprehend by day or night and conceive to be more than ordinary dangerous and bring them before us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the said County to be examined and dealt with according to Law And all persons whatsoever are hereby commanded to be aiding assisting and obedient to you herein Hereof fail not Given under our hands c. A Warrant by order of Quarter-Sessions to set Watch and Ward To the High Constable of the Hundred of A. and the petty Constables and Borsholders within the same Hundred K. ss WHereas there hath been of late several Robberies Felonies and Burglaries committed within this County it was ordered at the last general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County at M. That for the prevention thereof for the future you do from henceforth cause Watching and Warding to be continued duly set and kept in all and every usual place and places within your Hundred by honest and able men within your several Precincts and Divisions and that you do therein apprehend all and every suspicious person and persons and bring them before us or some or one of us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of c. within the said County to the end he she or they may be examined as also proceeded against according to the Law And you are further required to give in to us or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County weekly an Account of your Service And hereof you nor any of you are to fail as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given c. Weights and Measures A Warrant to warn in all Tradesmen and others to have their Weights and Measures examined by the Standard To the Borsholder of the Burrough of F. Kent ss THese are to will and require you and in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you that you warn all persons inhabiting within your said Burrough which have or use any Weights or Measures to be by me tried and examined by His Majestie 's Standard at the late Market place near H. in the County of K. on Thursday the 28. day of this instant Month of August by eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day And that you also warn to be at the time and place aforesaid fifteen sufficient men of your said Burrough that they and every of them personally appear before me to doe and perform such things as for His Majestie 's service shall be then and there enjoyned them And that you your self be there also personally present with this Precept and have there the names of all Clothiâ—…rs Corn-Masters Farmers Vintners Inn-keepers Alehouse-keepers Millers Bakers Butchers Chandlers Mercers Grocers Weavers Drapers Tailors Tanners Land-measurers Smiths Glovers Malsters and of all other Artificers Tradesmen and other persons whatsoever within your said Burrough having or using any Weights or Measures whatsoever Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and the seal of the said Mannor the c. The Clerk of the Market's Warrant To all and every of the Constables of the Parish of A. c. Kent ss THese are in the King's Majestie 's name c. to will and require you and every of you upon sight hereof to summon and cause the several Inhabitants within your respective Wards that buy and sell by Weight or Measure to have their respective Weights and Measures as well Yards and Ells as others used by them to be tried and examined before me on Monday the first day of September next by the hour of eight in the forenoon at the George Inn in A. and that at the said time and place you deliver unto me in writing the Christian-name and Sir-name of every such Inhabitant with their respective Callings Whereof you and every of you are not to fail c. Dated under my hand and seal the 23. day of August Anno Dom. 1680. and in the 32 year of His now Majestie 's Reign Witnesses A Warrant for Witnesses touching Felony To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas I have received information That A. B. was lately robbed at D. in the County aforesaid And whereas I am informed that E. F. of c. can give information on His Majestie 's behalf touching proving the Robbery aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said E. F. forthwith to come before me to give such information and evidence as he knoweth touching the said Robbery to the end that I may farther proceed touching the same as to Justice doth appertain Given under my hand and seal at H. in the County aforesaid the first day of March 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 3â—… For a Witness to appear and give Evidence at the Sessions To the Constable c. K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of c. Barber is thought to be a fit and necessary Witness to be examined on His Majesties behalf These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith warn him the said A. B. personally to appear before the Justices of the Peace at the next Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County at H. then and there to testifie his knowledge on the behalf of His said Majesty to and upon such matters as he shall be then and there examined of Hereof fail not c. Wood. A Warrant against one that stole Wood c. To the Constable and Borsholders of T. c. K. ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me by the confession of A. B. of your said Town of T. That he the said A. B. hath lately unlawfully cut down certain Sticks of Wood within your said Parish belonging to E. F. of your said Town Gent. contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And whereas it further appeareth unto me upon Oath that the said Sticks of Wood were worth to be sold five shillings These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and every of you that in case the said A. B. do not forthwith pay unto the said E. F. the said summ of five shillings that then you do immediately cause the said A. B. to be publickly whipped about the said Town of T. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. To make a general Warrant to search for stoln Wood c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as it is observed in these parts of the said County That Woods Underwoods
Coffin lined or faced with any Cloath Stuff or any other thing whatsoever made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or any other material but Sheeps Wool onely P. S. Sealed and signed by us Witnesses that were present and did hear this Oath made A. B. C. D. The Minister's Certificate for being buried in Woollen I A. B. Rectour of the Parish Church of C. in the County aforesaid do hereby certify That the day and year abovesaid the said C. D. came before me and made such Affidavit as is above specified according to a late Act of Parliament intituled An additional Act for burying in Woollen Witness my hand the day and year first above written A. B. A Minister's Certificate of not bringing an Affidavit of a Corp's being buried in Woollen To the right Worshipfull R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace for the County of Kent the humble Certificate of me A. B. Rectour of the Parish Church of C. in the County aforesaid I Humbly certify That C. D. was lately buried in the Parish aforesaid viz. on the As by the Register Book kept for the same Parish doth appear And further That according to the Act of Parliamâ—… in this behalf I did forthwith after the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 C D. cause notice â—…o be given 〈◊〉 my hand to the Church-warden of the said Parish to bring unto me the said A. B. an Affidavit concerning the burial in Woollen of the said C. D. according to the direction and appointment of the said Act And I further certify That by the space of eight days next after the said Interment of the said C. D. no Affidavit hath been brought to me the said Rectour concerning the burial of the said C. D. in Woollen as by the said Act is required Witness my hand this 10. day of May in the year of our Lord. 1â—…81 A Warrant for levying the 5 li. for not burying in Woollen according to the Act. K. ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me by the Certificate of A. B. Minister officiating in your said Parish to you the Church-wardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the same Parish That the Corps of the Person of C. D. deceased but not of the Plague was buried in Linnen contrary to the Act hereafter mentioned on Monday the second day of Iune and that such an Affidavit and Certificate concerning the Parties being interred according to the direction of a late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for burying in Woollen was not brought to him within the time limited by the said Act And forasmuch as by reason thereof the forfeiture and penalty of five pounds of lawfull money of England is incurred and the Goods and Chattels of the deceased by the said Act made liable to the aforesaid forfeiture to be levied by way of Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of the chief Magistrate in any Town-corporate or any Justice of the Peace or in default thereof by like Distress and Sale oâ—… the Goods of the Person in whose house the said Party died or of any that had a hand in putting such Person in any Shirt Shift Sheet Shroud or Coffin contrary to the said Act or did order or dispose the doing thereof and in case such Person were a Servant and that he or she died in the family of his or her Master or Mistress that the same be levied upon the Goods and Chattels of his or her said Master or Mistress and if such Person died in the family of his or her Father or Mother that then the same be levied upon the Goods and Chattels of his or her Father or Mother in manner and by Warrant as aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name and by the Authority of the said Act of Parliament to will and require you or some of you to levy the said forfeiture by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said deceased or in default thereof of the Goods and Chattels of such other Parties as aforesaid rendring the overplus thereof to the Parties whose Goods you shall so distrain all reasonable charges being deducted And for your so doing this by the Authority of the said Act shall be your Warrant Given under my hand and seal the 10. day of Iune in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Dom. 1679. To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of c. Additional Presidents to the former The form of the Record that is returned of the Alehouses that are licensed K. ss MEmorandum Quod vicesimo tertio die Februarii Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defens vicesimo septimo apud W. in Com. K. praed R. K. G. P. Armig. duobus Iusticiariis dicti Domini Reg. ad pacem in Com. praed conservand assignat quilibet person infra nominat Victuall in person praesent tunc ibidem per nos dict Iusticiar Licenc ad vendend panem Cervisiam in Conditione infra scrip recognoverunt se debere dicto Dom. Regi seperal summas decem librar bonae legalis monetae Angliae quilibet personarum infra nominat manucapt pro praedict person licenc in person praesent tunc ibidem recogn se debere dicto Dom Regi summ quinque librar pro praed person Licenc non in pers praesent in decem libr. consimilis monetae Angl. de Bonis Catallis Terris Tenementis suis cujuslibet eorum ad opus usum dicti Dom. Regis haered successor suorum fieri levaâ—…i si defecerint in conditione sequorum THE Condition of these Recognizances are such That whereas the above and within named Justices have licensed and allowed all and every the Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers whose names are under and within written to sell Ale and Beer in the Town and Houses where they now inhabit and dwell for the space of one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer If therefore they and every of them shall during their time of keeping Alehouses sell good wholsome Ale and Beer a full Ale-quart of their best for one Penny and of their smallest second sort two full Ale-quarts for a Penny nor shall suffer any disorder or unlawfull Games to be used in or about their Houses or Grounds nor lodge any Strangers above one day and one night without giving notice thereof to the Constable or his Deputy nor dress nor cause to be dressed in or about their Houses any manner of Flesh to be eaten or sould at any time prohibited by Law Nor receive into their Houses any manner of Persons suspected or defamed of or for Theft Murther Drunkenness or Incontinency nor shall buy nor take to pawn any stoln Goods
keeping any longer any Alehouse or Tippling-house and from common selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder at his peril And that what you shall doe in the premisses you some or one of you so giving notice do make known unto us some or one of us with all convenient speed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at â—… in the said County the c. For renewing Licenses of Alehouse-keepers To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in his Majestie 's name to command you to warn all the licensed Alehouse-keepers Victuallers and such others within the said Hundred as do use commonly selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder personally to appear before us at the house of I. G. c. upon Friday the ninth day of O. at ten of the clock in the â—…renoon of the same day and to bring with them then and thither as well their former Licences as also a Certificate of the civil Demeanours and Fitness of themselves for that purpose to be new licensed and of the conveniency of Situation and Accommodation of their said respective houses for that purpose The same Certificate to be signed with the hands at least of two substantial honest discreet and civil Inhabitants of the respective Parishes where they do so now dwell And have you there the names of such persons as you shall have so warned together with the names of the several Parishes and places of the said Parishes where their said houses are situate and by what Signs the same are known to the end that such of them may be continued and such of them suppressed as shall be thought fit And have you there also this precept Given under our hands and seals at c. Against an Alehouse-keeper for selling less than Measure To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to the Church-wardens of the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of the aforesaid Parish of C. did lately utter and fell in his house in C. aforesaid less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer for a penny against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided by reason whereof the said A. B. hath forfeited for his said offence twenty shillings to the use of the Poor of the said Parish of C. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy to the use aforesaid the said twenty shillings by way of Distress of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. to be by you some or one of you taken and detained for the same And for default of satisfaction within six days next ensuing that then you presently appraise and sell the said Distress and deliver the surplusage or remainder over and above to the said A. B. And for want of sufficient Distress that then you some or one of you do within twenty days next ensuing certifie unto me the default of such Distress to the end that I may farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus for selling less than Measure for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the common Gaol at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. in the said County did lately utter and sell in his house in C. aforesaid less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer for a penny against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And whereas I did thereupon by Warrant under my hand and seal command you the said Constable and Borsholders and the Church-wardens of the Parish of C. aforesaid that you they or some or one of you or them should levy to the use of the Poor of the said Parish twenty shillings for the offence aforesaid by way of Distress of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. to be taken and detained for the same and that for want of sufficient Distress you they or some or one of you or them should within twenty days then next ensuing certifie unto me the default of such Distress to the end that I might farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain And forasmuch as it hath been certified unto me that no sufficient Distress can be found whereby the said twenty shillings may be levied and that the same is not yet satisfied These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same to be by him there kept untill the said twenty shillings shall be truly paid Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill the said twenty shillings shall be paid accordingly Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. For Suppressing an Alehouse after Suppression at the Quarter-Sessions To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of Marden and West Barnfield and to every of them Kent ss WHereas at the general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden at M. in the said County upon Tuesday in the first week next after the Close of Easter last past it was for the reasons therein mentioned ordered by the said Court That A. B. of G. in the said County should forthwith surcease and be suppressed from selling Ale or Beer in his then dwelling-house or elsewhere and that the Constables of the said Parish of G. or one of them should require him to forbear to sell any more Ale or Beer which if he should refuse to doe that then he should be immediately afterwards dealt withall as an unlicensed Victualler any Licence to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding of which said Order the said A. B. had notice And whereas notwithstanding the said Order at the last monthly meeting of the Justices of the Peace of the said County for this lower Division of the Lath of Scray upon Thursday the fourth day of September last past being the day for new Licensing of the Alehouse-keepers in that Division amongst the multiplicity of business there that day a new Licence for the said A. B. to keep a common Alehouse in the house wherein he dwelt at the time of his aforesaid Suppression was amongst several other such Licences laid down before us and by us signed and sealed in the so doing whereof we were surprized Upon consideration of all which and forasmuch also as the same reasons and causes for which the
time that he shall attain unto his said age of ten years We do farther order That the said Bastard-Child shall be kept and nourished by his said Mother untill he shall attain unto the age aforesaid and that she so far as she shall be able shall during the said time so keep and nourish the same We do lastly order That both the said Mother and reputed Father shall for ever from and after such time as the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his said age of ten years joyntly and severally discharge the said Parish of and from all charges whatsoever for touching or concerning the keeping or relieving of the same In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names the day and year first above written W. B. R. K. A Warrant to be written under the Order aforesaid for giving notice thereof to the Mother and reputed Father To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid and to every of them THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do with all convenient speed give or cause to be given notice of our Order a Copy whereof is herewith delivered unto you both unto the Mother and reputed Father therein mentioned to the end that they and every of them may the better observe and perform the same And what you shall doe in execution of this our Precept you some or one of you do certifie unto us or one of us with all convenient speed next after the Execution of the same to the end that farther proceedings may be thereupon had as the Case shall require and to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at c. aforesaid the c. A Warrant for the Punishment of the Mother and reputed Father of a Bastard-Child To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss WHereas A. G. of Hawkh. in the said County Single woman was lately delivered within the said Parish of a male Bastard-Child begotten and born out of lawfull Matrimony yet living and chargeable to the Parish aforesaid and so likely to continue chargeable to the great burthen of the same Parish and the defrauding of the Relief of the impotent and aged true Poor of the Parish aforesaid and to the evil example and encouragement of lewd life And whereas upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided we have in and by an Order by us this present day made and subscribed under our hands touching the Bastard-Child aforesaid adjudged W. B. the elder late of Hawkh. aforesaid Broad-weaver the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child And for Punishment of the said Mother and reputed Father according to the form of the Statute aforesaid we have thereby ordered That the said Mother shall by you some or one of you upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way at or near the Watch-house at Highgate in the Parish aforesaid be stripped naked from the middle upwards and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dung-court and being so stripped and tied shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy and that the said reputed Father shall by you some or one of you upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way in the Parish aforesaid over against the house of I. B. there be stripped naked from the middle upwards and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be from thence drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed And that the said Mother shall within three days next after notice of that our Order render her body to you some or one of you ready to nndergo her Punishment before ordered And that the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice of our said Order render his body to you some or one of you ready to undergo his Punishment before ordered These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that in case the said Mother and reputed Father or either of them shall so render her his or their body or bodies to you or any of you as aforesaid that then you they or he to whom the same shall be so rendred do with all convenient speed afterwards proceed with effect to execute your their or his office according to the faid purport of the Order aforesaid and do execute the same accordingly And that what is done in the premisses you or one of you do with all convenient speed after the aforesaid c. day of c. make known unto us or one of us to the end that in case of failer by him or her of rendring his or her body to you or one of you according to the said Order such farther proceedings may be thereupon had as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at Hawkh. aforesaid the first day of May 1672. A Warrant and Mittimus against the reputed Father for not obeying the Justices Order To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to the Keeper of the common Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas by an Order by us made and subscribed under our hands the first day of May last past touching a male Bastard-Child lately born in the Parish of Hawkh. in the said County of the body of Anne Gardiner of Hawkh. aforesaid Single woman chargeable to the Parish aforesaid we have adjudged Will. Bowman the elder late of Hawkh. aforesaid Broad-weaver the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child And for Punishment of the said reputed Father according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided among other things in the said Order contained have ordered That he shonld by you the said Constable and Borsholders or by some or one of you upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way in the Parish of Hawkh. aforesaid over against the house of I. B. there be stripped from the middle upwards and then and there should be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied should be from thence drawn to the Watch-house at Highgate in the Parish aforesaid and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed and that he should within six days next after notice of our said Order render his body to you the said Constable and Borsholders or some or one of you ready to undergo his punishment before ordered And whereas it hath been duly proved before us that after the making of the said Order and by
from the places adjacent for the present service of His Majesty according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you and every of you that you some or one of you do cause four sufficient Carriages within the said Hundred each Carriage to consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses to be and attend for the service aforesaid at B. in the said County upon the first of April next ensuing at eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Another Warrant for providing of Carriages for the King's use To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss WHereas we have received notice in writing by Warrant under the hands and seals of for providing of Carriages for the service of His Majesty These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do cause to be sent to A. ten Carriages on the second day of May next furnished with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant to levy the Penalty for not appearing with Carriages for the King upon notice To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOr as much as it hath been duly proved before us That B. C. of C. c. having had reasonable notice to bring one Carriage to T. upon the first day of May last for the service of his Majestie 's Ordnance according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made hath wilfully neglected so to doe by which he hath forfeited forty shillings to the King's Majestie 's use These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do demand of the said B. C. to His Majestie 's use the aforesaid forty shillings and in default of payment upon demand that then you some or one of you do forthwith levy the aforesaid forty shillings to the use aforesaid by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said B. C. rendring to him the overplus upon such Sale if there shall be any the charge of Distraining being first deducted Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Mittimus for one that doth impress or take away any Cart or other thing from the Owner under pretence of power from the Green-cloath for Carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without lawfull Authority To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol at C. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOr as much as it hath been made appear unto me upon the complaint of A. B. of c. in the County aforesaid That C. D. of E. hath impressed a Cart for Carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without consent of the Owner on pretence or colour of a Warrant from the Green-cloath contrary to the intent of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name at the request of the said A. B. to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said C. D. and him deliver to the said Keeper of the Gaol aforesaid together with this Precept Requiring and commanding also you the said Keeper to receive the said C. D. into the Gaol aforesaid and him there safely to keep untill the next Sessions And thereof neither you nor any of you are to fail at your perils Given under my hand and seal the second day of May in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. Certificates A Certificate from the Minister and chief Inhabitants of the Parish of a man's Honesty K. ss WE I. â—… Minister of the Word of God in the Parish of S. in the said County of Kent I. B. of S. aforesaid Constable of the Hundred of S. wherein the said Parish standeth I. B. and G. C. Church-wardens of the said Parish W. V. T. L. T. W. A. W. T. I. and E. H. c. of the said Parish and most of us Freeholders within the same Do hereby certify to all to whom it shall concern That A. B. one of the Inhabitants of the said Parish of S. is and by the space of five years last past hath been a Householder within the said Parish and by all that time hath behaved himself and lived in good sort and reputed a man of honest Conversation and hath paid according to his degree all manner of Scots and Assesments as other the Inhabitants of the said Parish have done In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands the ninth day of May 1681. A Certificate for continuing of an Alehouse-keeper To the right Worshipfull His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace within the Lower Division of L. in the County of Kent WE whose names are hereunto subscribed Inhabitants of the Parish of H. within the Division and County aforesaid do humbly certify That the now Dwelling-house of A. B. Victualler is conveniently situated there for a Victualling-house and that he is of good name and fame and the said House is well accommodated for entertainment of Travellers and that he keepeth good Rule therein And therefore we humbly desire your Worships that his Licence for keeping the said Victualling-house there may be continued A Certificate for the time of the Birth of a Child THese are to certify your Worships That A. B. Son of E. B. Widow was born in the month of August in the year of our Lord God 1679. in the Parish of R. in the County of B. about the latter end of the month In witness whereof we the Neighbours and Godmother of the said Child who were present at the birth of the said Child are ready to testify the same when your Worships shall please to require it and have hereunto set our hands this 30th day of November Anno Dom. 1679. A. B. C. D. c. A Certificate for one that hath not been touched of the Evil. WE the Rector and Ancient Inhabitants of the Parish of A. in the County of B. whose names are hereunto subscribed do upon good Information certify that C. D. the of E. F. of the Parish aforesaid hath not as yet been touched for the Distemper commonly called the Evil. Given under our hands and seals this 10th day of March Annoque Dom. 1680. Chimney-money A Mittimus for disturbing a Collectour To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's common Gaol for the said County at M. in the County
to the great prejudice of the Inhabitants therein For the better prevention whereof for the future and of Robberies Burglaries and other Felonies and Misdemeanours often occasioned thereby These are in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you diligently to observe and perform our Directions in the premisses herewith sent unto you as you and every one of you will answer to the contrary at your perils Giving you farther hereby to understand that we shall from time to time require a strict account of your due observance and execution of the same and in case of negligence of you or any of you therein we shall forthwith upon knowledge thereof proceed with effect according to Law to punish such of you as shall so neglect the same Given under our hands and seals the c. 1. That you do henceforth take special care to apprehend all Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle Persons and punish and pass them away according to Law 2. That you do in one night within every week between the date of the Precept aforesaid and our next meeting make a general search within the said Hundred in all suspicious places for the finding out and apprehending of all Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle Persons And such as in the said search you shall find and apprehend that you do punish and pass them away according to Law 3. That you do cause Watches to be duly kept in fitting places of the said Hundred by honest and able men of the same every night from Sun-setting untill Sun-rising untill the nine and twentieth day of September next ensuing according to the Statute made at Westm. in the thirteenth year of the Reign of the late King Edward the First 4. That you do forthwith bring before us or some or one of us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County all such Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle Persons as you shall apprehend by day or night and conceive to be more than ordinarily dangerous or to be suspected for any Murther Robbery Burglary Felony or other Misdemeanour to the end they may be farther dealt withall as to Justice doth appertain 5. That you do from time to time and more especially at every of our Assemblies or Meetings herein after mentioned present unto us the names of all such Persons within the said Hundred as be masterless or live out of service or be common Alehouse-haunters or expenders of their money in riot not duly labouring for their living and not having whereby so to maintain them And the names of all unlicensed Alehouse-keepers within the said Hundred or notoriously suspected so to be Together with the names of such licensed Alehouse-keepers within the same as are of evil behaviour or do suffer evil Rule Gaming or other Disorder to be kept in their said houses And the names of such Witnesses as can or will testify the keeping of any such Alehouse unlicensed or the evil behaviour of or suffering evil Rule Gaming or other Disorder by any of the said licensed Alehouse-keepers And that you do give notice unto all and every the said Witnesses that they and every of them are by us required to appear before us accordingly to testify their several knowledges touching the same And that you do likewise give notice unto all and every the said Persons so by you to be returned all Persons out of service riotous Spenders unlicensed Alehouse-keepers or disorderly licensed Alehouse-keepers that they and every of them are by us required to appear before us or some of us as aforesaid to answer the premisses and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain 6. That you do from time to time at every of our said Assemblies or Meetings deliver unto us or some of us in writing an account of what you have done in pursuance of the directions before mentioned 7. That taking assistance of sufficient men of the said Hundred you do in the night before every of our days of Assembly or Meeting hereafter mentioned that is to say here name the days of meeting of the Iustices make a general privy search within every of the Parishes Villages and Hamlets within the same for finding out and apprehending of all Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle Persons in and about the said Parishes Villages and Hamlets And that such Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle Persons as you shall then find and apprehend in the said search you do cause to be brought before us or some of us on the day and at the place of our Assembly or Meeting aforesaid at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the same day there to be examined of their idle and wandring life and to be farther dealt withall according to Law And that you be then and there also ready to give account and reckoning upon Oath in writing and under the hand of the Minister of each respective Parish what Rogues Vagabonds and disorderly Persons you have apprehended within the said Search and also between every such Assembly and Meeting and how many have been by you punished or otherwise sent unto the House of Correction according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made in the seventh year of the Reign of the late King Iames and upon such Fines Pains and Penalties as are in the said Statute contained in case you or any of you do neglect to perform what is in this behalf before commanded Lastly That upon some day about three or four days before every of our said Assemblies or Meetings you the said Constable and Borsholders do meet and consult together touching the making of your Return to us of what you have done between every such our Assembly or Meeting and do also then agree how to divide your selves in your then next Search and where to meet in the morning then next following for your more ready giving to us your account of what you have done in the said Search A Mittimus of a Rogue thither taken in the general Search To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me That A. B. of c. is of lewd life c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him or her safely convey or cause to be conveyed to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver him or her to the said Keeper of the same there to be punished and set on work during the space of c. delivering also to the said Keeper this Precept Commanding likewise you the said Keeper to receive A. B. into the said House and him or her
of the Court of King's Bench the Body of the said F. M. to answer to such Misdemeanors Contempts and Misbehaviour as shall be objected against him by the Masters of the Bench or others on the behalf of the said Society to the end that his Insolences may be repressed by such proceeding against him as shall be agreeable to Justice Given under my hand and seal the 24th day of Iune in the 27th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second over England Annoque Dom. 1675. R. R. Irish Cattel A Warrant to seize certain Cattel imported from Foreign parts into England To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand that there are lately Imported into England out of Ireland or some other Foreign parts and are now remaining in your Precinct certain Cattel and Beasts prohibited by the late Acts of Parliament to be Imported These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to give you notice thereof and to will and require you and every of you forthwith after sight hereof to use your utmost diligence and endeavour to enquire find out and discover the same Cattel and Beasts and the same to seize and take into your Custody to the intent the same may be proceeded with as by the said Acts is appointed Given under my hand and seal this c. A Warrant to deliver to the Owners certain Cattel seized as forfeited for being Imported from Foreign parts upon proof that they were not so Imported To the Constables c. ut supra Kent ss WHereas complaint hath been made to me that you or some or one of you have or hath seized and taken into your Custody certain Cattel belonging to or late in the possession of A. B. viz. 2 Oxen 3 Kine 4 Heifers 5 Yearlings 100 Sheep and 6 Swine as forfeited for being Imported out of Ireland into England contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf Now forasmuch as the said A. B. within 48 hours after such seizure hath made it appear to me by the Oath of two credible Witnesses viz. That the same Cattel were not Imported from Ireland aforesaid nor any other place beyond the Seas contrary to the said Acts. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith upon sight hereof to deliver unto the said A. B. the said Cattel aud every of them without delay according to the said Acts as you will answer the contrary Given under my hand and seal c. A Warrant to kill the said Cattel To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them If not them To the Sâ—…izor or Seizors of the Cattel as the Case is Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand That you or some of you having seized within your Precinct certain great Cattel Sheep and Swine viz. here name the Sorts and number of each Sort of the Cattel as the Case is late belonging to or in the possession of A. B. as forfeited for being Imported out of Ireland or some other Foreign parts beyond the Seas contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf And that the Importer or Importers thereof have been convicted of such Importation and Forfeiture of the said Cattel yet nevertheless you the said Seizor or Seizors by the space of six days next after such Conviction and Forfeiture have delayed and do still delay or neglect to cause the same Cattel to be killed whereby the distribution thereof according to the said Act is retarded and hindred These are therefore to require you immediately upon sight hereof to cause the said Cattel to be killed to the end the same may be forthwith distributed as by the said Acts is required And hereof you are not to fail Given under my hand and seal c. A Warrant to levy 40 s. upon the Seizor or Church-wardens that shall fail in killing or making distribution as aforesaid To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand That A. B. having seized within your Precinct certain great Cattel Sheep and Swine viz. here name the Cattel ut supra lately belonging to or in the possession of C. D. as forfeited for being Imported from Foreign parts beyond the Seas contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf And that the same are convicted and forfeited according to the same Acts yet the said A. B. by the space of six days next after such Conviction and Forfeiture have delayed and do still delay to cause the same Cattel and Beasts to be killed and distribution to be made thereof according to the said Acts. Now forasmuch as Oath hath been made before me of the premisses These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith after sight hereof to levy or cause to be levied the summe of 40 s. for every one of the said great Cattel and 10 s. for every of the said Sheep and 10 s. for every of the said Swine which should have been killed and distributed as aforesaid in pursuance of the said Acts by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. rendering the said A. B. the over-plus necessary Charges of destreyning being first deducted and in default of such Distress to commit the said A. B. to the common Gaol of the said County there to remain for the space of three months without Bail or Mainprise according to the Statute in that behalf Hereof you are not to fail Given under my hand and seal c. According to these Presidents may like Warrant or Warrants be made for Fish or other Goods prohibited by the said Acts Mutatis mutandis Lent A Warrant for the observing of Lent To the Constables and Borsholders c. Kent ss THese are therefore in His Majestie 's name and in pursuance of His said Majestie 's late Proclamation to will and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do cause to come and appear before us upon Thursday the second day of March name the place all Inn-holders Tavernors Alehouse-keepers Butchers and all other Victuallers whatsoever within the said Hundred of c. And that you give notice to the said persons that they bring with them two sufficient Sureties to enter into several Recognizances for His said Majestie 's use for the due observation of Lent according to the effects and contents of the said Proclamation and according to the Law in that case made and provided And that you your selves or one of you be then and there present and make a return in writing of all such as you shall have warned by virtue of this Warrant Hereof c. Given c. Licences A Licence for a Badger of Corn. Kent ss AT the general Sessions of the Peace holden at M. in the County aforesaid this present day A.
B. of H. in the County aforesaid is admitted licensed and appointed by the Justices of the Peace of the said County to be a common Badger Lader Kedder Carrier Buyer or Transporter of all manner of Corn or Grain in any Market or Fair within the Realm of England and the same so bought to convert to Meal and the same to carry to the City of L. or the Suburbs of the same or to any other Market or Fair so that he use the same according to the tenour and true meaning of the Statute in that case made and provided against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers and not otherwise The same Licence to have continuance from the day of the date hereof until the next general Sessions of the Peace after the Feast of E. next coming to be holden at M. aforesaid In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this second day of November 1680. R. K. R. H. T. B. A Licence as before may be granted to Drovers of Cattel to Buy and Sell again by the same Statute A Licence for a petty Chapman To the Bailiffs Constables and other of His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Greeting Kent ss KNow ye that we R. K. and G. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid have licensed and by these presents do license T. W. of M. in the County aforesaid Yeoman to be a petty Chapman to wander and go from Town to Town Village to Village and place to place to sell Pins Points Tapes Laces Knives Gloves Purses c. and such other kind of small Wares and also to gather and buy Coney-skins and such kind of small Wares within the County aforesaid and not else-where Provided that this our Licence shall continue in effect only for the term of one whole year coming from the day of the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof c. A Licence or Pasport for a Poor man to his Friends for Relief To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and other His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Kent ss R. K. and T. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the same County greeting Forasmuch as A. B. of C. c. the Bearer hereof being reduced to great poverty and necessity hath desired a Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel unto the City of D. in the County of S. where he saith he was born and hath some Friends yet living by whose Means and Friendship he hopeth to be fully relieved and holpen In consideration whereof Know ye that we the said R. K. and T. B. as far as in us lieth have licensed the said A. B. to travel and pass the direct way from C. unto the said City of D. so that his Journey be not for longer or further continuance than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you not to molest or trouble the said poor man in his travel but to permit and suffer him to pass so that he shew himself in no respect offensive to His Majestie 's Laws In witness whereof c. Another K. ss R. K. and T. B. two of the Justices c. Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. c. having shewing the cause of his travel desired one Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel to the City of D. shew to what place he goeth Wherefore we as much as in us lieth do license the said A. B. to travel the direct way from C. in the said County of K. to the said City of D. so as his Journey be no longer than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you to suffer him to pass in Peace so that he demean himself orderly In witness c. A Licence to Beg. To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and all other His Majestie 's Officers within the County of K. and to every of them Kent ss R. K and T. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid greeting Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. in the County aforesaid being a very poor man and blind by reason whereof he is not able to Labour nor get to live of himself without the charitable Relief of others and being now Resident in the said Town is therefore to be relieved and being likewise informed that the Town is at this present charged with more poor and impotent people than it is able to relieve Know you therefore that we the said Justices have licensed and allowed the said Poor man and his Leader to go abroad and beg gather and receive the charitable Alms of well disposed people inhabiting and dwelling within the Hundred of c. in the said County requiring you not to molest or trouble the said Poor man or his Leader for so doing but desiring you rather to relieve him and his Leader in their necessity as to you shall seem meet This our Licence to remain and be in force for one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals c. R. K. T. H. A Licence to Travel by Water on the Lord's day WHereas by Act of Parliament made in the 29th year of His Majestie 's Reign that now is it is Enacted That no person or persons shall use employ or travel upon the Lord's day with any Boat Wherry Lighter or Barge except it be upon extraordinary occasion to be allowed by some Justice of the Peace of the County or Head-Officer or some Justice of Peace of the City Burrough or Town-Corporate where the Fact shall be committed upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit and lose the summe of five shillings for every such Offence as by the said Act among other things it doth and may appear And forasmuch as A. B. of the Parish of Saint A. in the County of M. Gent. having extraordinary occasion to travel on the next Lord's day to B. in the County of S. and to use and employ a Boat Wherry or Barge in his said Journey hath desired my Allowance thereof These are therefore in pursuance of the said Act to will and require all Constables Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor and all other Officers whom these presents may concern to permit and suffer the said A. B. quietly and peaceaby to perform his said Journey on the next Lord's day as aforesaid and to use and employ any Boat Wherry or Barge at his discretion without any Molestation or Disturbance whatsoever at their peril Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of Iuly Anno Dom. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Another K. ss THese are to certifie that A. B. C. D. E. F. the Bearers hereof have made it appear before me that they have urgent occasions to pass on the next Lord's day
Inquest YOU shall truly enquire and due presentment make of all such things as you are charged withall on the King's behalf the King's Council your own and your fellows you shall well and truly keep and in all other things the Truth present So help you God c. The Oath of those that give Evidence upon Bills of Indictment THE Evidence that you shall give to the Inquest upon this Bill shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth and you shall not lett so to doe for malice hatred or evil will nor for meed dread savour or affection So help you God c. Officers The Nomination of Officers by Iustices of the Peace Kane ss WE His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose hands and seals are hereunto set do nominate and appoint A. B. of the Township of C. in the said County Bailiff of the Township aforesaid and D. E. of the said Township under-Bailiff of the same commanding each of them to take upon him his respective Office aforesaid untill he shall be from thence lawfully discharged and forthwith to repair to one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid before him to take his Oath for the Faithful execution of the said respective Office Given under our hands and seals at F. in the said County the tenth day of Sept. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Orchards A Warrant against Robbers of Orchards c. To the Constable and Borsholders of A. in the said County c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of your Town of A. Weaver hath within three months last past robbed the Orchard or Garden of C. D. of your Parish and carried away great quantities of Apples c. or digged up or pulled up his Fruit-trees to the value of 50 s. And that F. G. of your said Town Baker hath procured and abetted him so to doe and received and bought of him divers of the same things to the great damage of the said C. D. contrary to the laâ—…e Act of Parliament in that case made and provided I do therefore hereby order and require That the said A. B. shall within six days after notice to him given of this my Order pay the said C. D. 20 s. and that the said F. G. do within six days after notice to him given of this Order pay unto the said C. D. 30 s. in recompence to him for his wrongs aforesaid and that these payments he made in the presence of the said Constable hereby commanded upon request to see it done and hereof you are forthwith to give them notice and if either of them shall not pay the same that then you do give me notice thereof to the end they may be farther proceeded against according to the said Statute And hereof fail not c. Given under our c. Upon non-payment to be whipt To c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of your Town of A. Weaver hath within three months last past robbed c. as before so made and provided Wherefore the premisses considered and that I judge the said Offenders A. B. and F. G. unable to make satisfaction for the said wrong I do hereby order that they be forthwith committed to the said Constable of A. to be whipped the which you are hereby required forthwith to doe at your peril Given under our hands c. Peace A Warrant to find Sureties for the Peace To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. hath this present day taken his corporal Oath before me that C. D. of c. And hath therewithall prayed Surety of the Peace against the said C. D. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do cause the said C. D. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find sufficient Security as well for his personal appearance at the next general Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned as also that he will in the mean time keep His Majestie 's Peace towards His said Majesty and all His liege People and especially towards the said A. B. and if the said C. D. shall refuse so to doe that then without expecting any further or other warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to find Sureties for the Peace where an Assault is made upon an Officer in discharge of his Office To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOrasmuch as Complaint was this day made unto us by W. W. Borsholder of the Borough of the Town of C. in the said County That R. L. of C. in the said County Gent. and I. W. the younger of C. aforesaid Shoemaker did in the month of February last past at C. aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid assault and beat several Persons and the said W. W. then Borsholder of the Borough aforesaid being then and there present did then and there in His Majestie 's name command the said R. L. and I. W. to keep His Majestie 's Peace yet notwithstanding they did continue in breaking the same in his presence and then and there assaulted him and threatned to kill him all which he hath maintained upon his Oath before us and that he is afraid that the said R. L. and I. W. will kill wound beat or do him some bodily harm and hath prayed Security of the Peace to be by us granted unto him against the said R. L. and I. W. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do bring the said R. L. and I. W. before us some or one of us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find several and respective sufficient Security for their several and respective personal appearance at the next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for
under the hands and seals of E. F. G. H. c. His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid and for that it now appeareth unto us that the said A. B. hath no Goods or Chattels by Distress and Sale whereof the said moneys can be levied nor will he yet pay the moneys aforesaid We therefore do send you herewithall the Body of the said A. B. commanding you to receive him into the said Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprise untill he shall pay the moneys aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant for removing one come to a Parish To the Church-wardens and others the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas complaint hath been made by you to us according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided That A. B. hath within forty days before the said Complaint come into your said Parish to settle there in a Tenement under the yearly value of ten pounds and that he is likely to be chargeable to the Parish aforesaid and was last legally settled at B. in c. by the space of forty days at the least as a Native there These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you and every of you that you some or one of you do remove and convey the said A. B. to B. aforesaid where he was so last legally settled unless he give sufficient Security for the discharge of your said Parish to be allowed by us Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant to send a Wife and Child to her Husband in the Parish from whence they came To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as complaint hath been by you made unto us That H. the Wife of R. D. an Inhabitant in the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid is lately come into your said Parish of H. and hath brought with her thither a Male-child of the said R. and H. of the age of c. or thereabouts and that both the said H. and Child are likely to be chargeable to your said Parish and you have thereupon craved from us such Relief touching the premisses as by Law is appointed These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to authorize and require you that you some or one of you do convey the said H. and Child to the said Parish of C. and there to deliver them to the said R. in case you can there find him to be with him settled according to Law And in case that you cannot there find him then to deliver the said H. and Child to the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of C. to be disposed of according to Law Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant for apprehending one for returning to the Parish from which he was removed To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas A. B. in May last legally settled as a c. in the Parish of T. came into the Parish of V. to settle in a Tenement there under the yearly value of ten pounds and likely to be chargeable to the said Parish was upon complaint thereof made by the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made by Warrant to the said Church-wardens and Overseers according to the Statute aforesaid directed by them removed and conveyed to the aforesaid Parish of T. there to remain according to the said Statute since which the said A. B. did return of his own accord to the said Parish of V. from whence he was so removed These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. to come before us some or one of us at the house of T. Inn-holder called the George Inn in the said County the fifth day of Iune next ensuing at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to shew cause why he returned to the said Parish of V. and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Against those who come to Work and return not at the end of their Work To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas complaint hath been made by you unto us That A. B. an Inhabitant in C. came into your Parish to work and is not returned upon his finishing thereof These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you and every of you that you some or one of you do convey the said A. B. to C. aforesaid there to remain an Inhabitant as formerly he was Given under c. A Mittimus to the House of Correction of one that refuseth to be removed after his Work finished To the Constables and Borsholders c. and to the Keeper of the House of Correction c. Kent ss WHereas upon complaint according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made That A. B. an Inhabitant in D. came into the Parish of C. in the said County to work and was not returned upon his finishing thereof And thereupon the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish were according to the Statute aforesaid required and authorised to convey the said A. B. to D. aforesaid there to remain an Inhabitant as formerly he was Nevertheless the said A. B. though lawfully required refused to go thither These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you the said Constables and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him convey to the aforesaid House of Correction and there to deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there punish him as a Vagabond Hereof fail you not at your peril Given c. A Warrant and Mittimus for one who runs away and leaves his Family upon the Parish To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before us that A. B. of the Parish of H. being able to labour and thereby to relieve himself and his Family did nevertheless lately run away out of this said
some or one of you do in the Market-town within the said Hundred on the Market-day now next ensuing cause to be proclaimed the Rates aforesaid as also that you do in the like manner cause to be proclaimed the Rates aforesaid in all the Towns and Villages within the said Hundred within c. days now next ensuing to the end that notice may be taken of the same Rates and Prices Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. For a Bushel of Oats c. And so ratably for every greater or lesser quantity c. A Warrant for levying the Penalty forfeited for not observing the Rates aforesaid To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of C. in the said County Inn-keeper hath taken of C. D. Yeoman of the Guards more for his Lodging c. during His Majestie 's late abode within this Division than by the Justices of the Peace of this County was according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided set down and appointed contrary to the form of the Statute aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy to the use of the said C. D. by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. 40 s. by him forfeited to the said C. D. for the Offence aforesaid returning the over-plus to the said A. B. the charge of the Distraining being first deducted Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Recognizances When you take a Recognizance of any it must be in Latine set down the time of making it the Principal 's name and dwelling Place and his Trade or Calling and so of the others his Sureties and bind them in a summ of money to the King and that being done you reade the same Recognizance in English thus viz. for the Peace YOU A. B. of C. c. do acknowledge your self to owe unto our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty twenty pounds And you C. D. of H. c. and E. F. of I. c. his Sureties do likewise each of you acknowledge to owe unto our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty ten pounds apiece to be levied of your several Goods and Chattels Land and Tenements to His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors upon condition That if the said A. B. shall personally appear before our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majestie 's Justices of the Peace at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this Burrough of A. and do then and there make answer unto all such matters which on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him and in the mean time to keep the Peace towards our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty and all His Liege-people but especially towards one G. H. and do not depart thence without Licence from the Court then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in full force The Recognizance being made is to be engrossed in Parchment and subscribed with the Justice's hand onely But he that enters into it need not put his hand or seal to it Note All Recognizances for the Peace are to be stiled At the next Sessions of the Peace And for Felony At the next Gaol-delivery The manner of entring the note of Recognizances in your Book of Recognizances A. B. de C. c. xx li. ad Comparendum ad proximam Sessionem Pacis conservare versus C. D. c. E. F. de C. c. x li. G. H. de C. c. x li. Subscribe the Cause thus Bound over for the suspicious stealing of a Cow being the Goods of A. H. c. as the Case requireth R. P. de Paroch A. c. Victular 10 li. R. S. de Paroch A. c. Victular 5 li. P. S. de Paroch A. c. Victular 5 li. Sub Conditione quod praedict ' R. P. bene fideliter observavit omnes singulos Articulos in Licentia sua pro Tipulatione Content ' Capt ' Recogn ' XX die Maii Anno Dom. 1680. Coram Nobis c. The Recognizance must be certified to the next Sessions or Gaol-delivery where he or they is are or hath been Justices that the Party so bound may be called And if the Party make default the same then there to be recorded and the same Recognizance with the Record of that default shall be sent and certified in the Chancery the King's Bench or into the Exchequer Every Condition of a Recognizance must have these things 1. It may be in English 2. It may have the first words The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bounden A. B. c. 3. It must shew what he is bound to doe As personally to appear at the next Quarter-sessions to be holden for the County of K. and in the mean time to be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all his People or as the case requireth 4. The Close thus That then this Recognizance to be void or else to stand in force All this may be done on the back of the Recognizance or underneath it A single Recognizance taken before Justices of the Peace K. ss MEmorandum Quod tertio die Aprilis anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. venerunt coram A. B. C. D. Armig. Iust. dicti Domini Regis ad Pacem in Com. K. conservand Assig R. H. de S. in Com. praedict Yeoman T. H. de eodem Carpenter ac R. S. de F. in Com. praed Mercer Recognover se debere dicto Dom. Regi viz. quillbet Manucaptor praed Quinque libras praed R. H. decem libras bonae legalis monetae Angliae solvend eidem Dom. Regi in Festo Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae proximo futuro post datum praesent Et nisi fecerint concesserunt pro se Haered Executor Administrator suis per praesentes quod dictae separales summae leventur recuperentur de Maneriis Messuagiis Terris Tenementis Bonis Catallis Haereditamentis ipsorum R. H. T. H. R. S. haered Executor Assign suorum ubicunque fuerint invent Dat. c. Another single Recognizance K. ss MEmorandum Quod quarto die Januarii Anno Regni Dom. nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae c. A. B. de C. in Com. praed Yeoman personaliter venit coram R. K. Armig. uno Iust. dicti Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. praedict Conservand Assign Recognovit se debere dicto Dom. Regi decem libras bonae legalis monetae Angliae de Bonis Catallis Terris Tenementis suis
hereby certify That M. N. of O. in the County of P. Gent. upon the Lord's day commonly called Sunday the 10. day of Iune immediately after Divine Service and Sermon did in the Parish-Church aforesaid receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our hands the 10. day of c. A. B. Minister of the Parish and Parish-Church of C. E. F. Church-warden of the said Parish and Parish-Church H. I. of K. in the County of K. Gent. and L. M. of c. do severally make Oath That they do know M. N. in the above written Certificate named and who now present hath delivered the same into this Court and do farther severally make Oath that they did see the said M. N. receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Parish-Church of C. c. in the said Certificate mentioned and upon the day and at the time in the said Certificate in that behalf certified and expressed and that they did see the Certificate above written subscribed by the said A. B. Minister of the said Church and E. F. Church-warden there and farther that the said H. I. and L. M. do say upon their respective Oaths that all other matters or things in the said Certificate recited mentioned or expressed are true as they verily believe A Certificate of Receiving the Sacrament according to the Act. K. ss MEmorandum That at the Quarter-sessions for the said County holden at C. in the County aforesaid upon Tuesday the 22. day of Iuly in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy three and from thence adjourned to M. in the said County and there holden by the same Adjournment upon Monday the 28. day of Iuly aforesaid R. W. of the Parish of M. in the County aforesaid Esq did upon the said 28. of Iuly in the said Court of Quarter-sessions there deliver into the said Court a Certificate under the hands of I. P. Clerk Minister of the Parish and Parish-Church aforesaid and I. M. Church-warden of the same Parish and Parish-Church by which they certified that the said R. W. upon the Lord's day commonly called Sunday the 18. day of M in the said year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy three immediately after Divine Service and Sermon did in the Parish-Church aforesaid receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England A Testimonial upon the Receiving the Sacrament according to the Act. Kent ss MEmorandum also That at the time and place of the said delivery of the said Certificate A. B. C. D. and E. F. did upon enquiry made by the said Court then and there severally make Oath that they did know the said R. W. in the said Certificate named and that they were present and delivered the same into that Court and that they did see the said R. W. receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the time day and place and in the manner in the said Certificate certified and that they did also see the Certificate aforesaid subscribed by the said Minister and Church-warden and that the said R. W. did upon the 20. day of May then last past and for several years before inhabit and then did inhabit in the above named Parish of H. and County of Kent A Declaration to be subscribed according to the Act. I A. B. do declare That I do believe that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever Scavingers A Warrant for Scavingers to Distrain To the Constables and Headboroughs and other His Majestie 's Officers of the Liberty of A. c. Kent ss WHereas Complaint hath been made unto us That the several Persons whose names are hereunder written being Inhabitants in the Liberty of A. have refused and yet do refuse to pay the summs of money hereunder mentioned being respectively rated assessed and taxed on them for and towards the scouring and clensing of the Streets according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you to bring the said Persons so refusing before us to shew cause for such their refusing And if they or any of them shall refuse to come before us or shall absent themselves or refuse to be spoke withall due notice in writing being left at their respective Houses That then you immediately levy all and every the said several summs unpaid and all the Arrearages thereof of all and every the said Persons so refusing by Distress and Sale of the Offenders goods you rendring to the Parties the overplus that shall remain upon the Sale of the said Goods if any shall be And for your so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under our hands and seals this c. Search A Warrant to Search for stoln Goods To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as I have received Information by A. B. that two Sheep were lately feloniously taken and stoln from him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that immediately upon receipt hereof you do make diligent Search for the said Sheep in all and every such suspected Houses and Places within the said Hundred as you and the said A. B. shall think convenient And if upon your said Search you find any of the said Sheep or other just cause of suspicion that then you bring all such suspected Persons before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to be examined touching the premisses And farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to make general Search for Rogues Vagabonds c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that taking assistance of sufficient men of the said Hundred you do in the night before the twentieth day of October next ensuing make a general privy Search within every of the Parishes Villages and Hamlets within the same for the finding out and apprehending of all Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle persons in and about the said Parishes Villages and Hamlets And that such Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle persons as you shall then find and apprehend in the said Search you do bring before us or some of us on the aforesaid twentieth day of October at the house of Iohn Price in C. at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day there to be examined of their idle and wandring life and to be farther dealt withall according
provided Hereof fail not c. A Warrant against one that departeth out of Service before his time expired To the Constable and Borsholders c. Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do attach C. D. of E. and bring him before me or some other Justice of the Peace of and within the said County to answer for that he is departed out of Service from A. B. of C. his time of Covenant with him made being not expired contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided And farther to â—…e dealt withâ—… according to Law Hereof c. To fetch back a Servant To all Constables Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a Servant to C. of D. Joyner hath gone from his said Master without his lawfull Licence or Testimonial in the County of E. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and command you some or one of you that forthwith upon sight hereof you go with the Bearer hereof and as speedily as may be apprehend the said A. B. and him to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County to the end that such farther proceedings may be thereupon had as by Law is required Hereof fail not c. Given under c. A Discharge of a Servant from his Service within the time agreed upon his absenting himself Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me That A. B. was retained by C. D. to serve him for a term not yet expired And the said A. B. without consent of him the said C. D. hath for the space of c. now last past absented himself from the said Service and is gone into some place unto the said C. D. unknown I therefore upon the consideration of the premisses and of the equity thereof on the part of the said C. D. allow the cause and matter aforesaid to be reasonable and sufficient to discharge the said C. D. from any farther keeping the said A. B. in his said Service and do accordingly discharge the said A. B. from his Service aforesaid Given under my hand and seal at T. the twenty second day of May c. A Testimonial for the discharge of a Servant MEmorandum That A. B. Servant to C. D. of E. Husbandman or Taylor c. in the said County is licensed to depart from his said Master and is at his liberty to serve elsewhere according to the Statute in that case made and provided In witness whereof c. In a Town to be under the Seal of the Town and two Housholders there if in the Counâ—…y under the Seals of the Constable or Constables and two Housholders there where he last served A Master that retains a Servant without such a Testimonial forfeits 5 li. It must be Registred by the Parson Vicar or Curate of the Parish who is to have 2 d. for doing thereof Silk-Throsters An Order for the payment of monies to a Silk-Throster by his Workman who imbezils his Silk Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster made that he having delivered to C. D. of E. of Silk to be by him for the said A. B. and the aforesaid C. D. hath parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that case made hath been made apparent unto me to be true I have thereupon determined the offence aforesaid and do hereby order and appoint that the said C. D. shall give and pay to the said A. B. the summ of 40 s. for his damages losses and charges thereabouts within fourteen days now next ensuing Given under my hand and seal c. Against an Offender for not performing the Order before mentioned To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster to me made That he having delivered to C. D. a to be by him b for the said A. B. And that the aforesaid C. D. had c parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made was made appear unto me to be true And I did thereupon determine the offence aforesaid and did by Warrant under my hand and seal order and appoint that the said C. D. should give and pay to the said A. B. for his damage loss and charges thereabouts 40 s. within fourteen days then next ensuing And forasmuch as the said C. D. did not within the said fourteen days nor at any time since make such Recompence or Satisfaction to the said A. B. as was by me as aforesaid ordered and appointed although he had convenient notice so to doe These are c. to will and require you that you some or one of you do apprehend and whip the said C. D. or set him in the Stocks in the place where the same offence was committed or in some Market in this County near unto the place aforesaid Given under my hand c. The like Warrant against the Receiver Buyer or Taker to pawn Souldiers A Warrant to warn in a Muster at a certain day c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of S. and to every of them K. ss BY Command from the Right honourable H. Earl of W. Lord Lieutenant of the said County I require you to warn all the persons mentioned in a List hereunto annexed to appear compleatly Armed and Furnished with Coats according to former Orders at S. near C. upon Monday the twelfth day of this instant September at eleven of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day at the furthest And every of them is to bring with him four days pay and the Muster-master's Salary The Musqueteers to bring with him one pound of Powder and Match and Bullets proportionable then and there to receive further Orders And you the said Constable to be then and there present to make appear what you have done in execution hereof of what is here commanded No person concerned herein is to fail at his peril Given under my hand and seal the seventh day of May 1681. 33. Regni Regis c. A Certificate for a Trained Souldier THese are to certifie you That A. B. the Bearer hereof is a Trained Souldier of the Burrough of S. for his Majestie 's service appointed under my command and therefore not otherwise to be charged or molested as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand at c. To order an Allowance to a poor Souldier out of the Stock for Maimed Souldiers To the Treasurer of the said County for maimed Souldiers Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made made appear unto us that he hath continued
of them whom it may concern Kent ss THese are to will and require you and in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you forthwith upon receipt hereof to bring before us and other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County to the Sessions of Peace holden for the County of K. at A. in the said County the Body of T. R. c. standing indicted for a Trespass if the Court there be then sitting or if not before some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County then and there to answer the same and all such matters as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him and if he cannot be taken during this present Sessions that then so soon after as he shall be taken you bring or cause to be brought before us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County to find sufficient Sureties for his personal appearance at the next Sessions of Peace to be holden for the said County to answer as aforesaid and farther to be dealt withall according to Justice Hereof you are not to fail at your perils Dated in open Sessions at A. aforesaid the one and twentieth day of April c. Annoque Dom. 1680. Uagrants A Warrant for apprehending Beggars and other Idle persons To the Constable and Headboroughs and others His Majestie 's Officers of any the Parishes in the said County and to all others whom this doth or may concern Mâ—…dd ss WHereas the Suburbs of London and Places adjacent are now infected with many Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars and other Idle persons that can give no good accompt of their life and conversation to the danger of the Inhabitants and contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you and every of you That at all convenient times hereafter taking with you a convenient aid and assistance you make diligent search in the several Places aforesaid and in all other suspected Places within any the Parishes in the said County for all such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other suspected and Idle persons And them to apprehend and bring before us or one of us to be examined and dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not c. Given under our hands c. A Testimonial or Pass for him to the place of his Birth Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant middle stature aged about 30 years was this present day taken at B. in the County aforesaid and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And he is to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straightway to the Parish of T. where as he confesseth he was born there to put himself to labour as he ought to doe and he is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. This must be signed by the Iustice and Minister Constable c. or two of them The like where the Place of his Birth is not known Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant of low stature aged about 20 years was this present day taken at T. in the County aforesaid and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And for that the Parish where he was born is not known though it be demanded of him And for that also he did last dwell before the same punishment by the space of one whole year in the Parish of T. c. as he confesseth He is therefore to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straight way to the said Parish of T. there to put himself to labour as he ought to doe And he is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. The like where neither the Place of his Birth nor last abode is known Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant of middle stature aged about 40 years was this present day taken at T. in the said County and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And for that neither the Parish where he was born nor the Parish where he did last dwell before the said punishment by the space of one whole year is known though both were by me demanded of him He is therefore to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straight way to the Parish of B. in the c. through which he last passed without punishment as he saith and he is to be from thence conveyed by the Officers of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. The like where the Vagrant is apprehended in a general privy Search Kent ss A. B. a Vagabond of small stature aged about 20 years was sound and apprehended at T. in the said County in a general privy Search by our command made according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and brought before us this present day at our Assembly at V. and by our appointment punished according to Law And he is to be conveyed from Parish to Parish c. as before in one of the three precedent Warrants according to the Case To pay two shillings for apprehending a Vagrant To the c. of A. in the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas A. B. did lately apprehend and bring unto me C. D. which did pass through your aforesaid c. in the Parish aforesaid unapprehended These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith to pay to the aforesaid A. B. 2 s. for his said apprehension of the C. D. aforesaid according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made Hereof fail not at your peril Given under our hand and seal at c. Upon not payment of the same To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the aforesaid County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas A. D. did lately apprehend and bring unto T. H. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County C. D. which did pass through the c. in the Parish of T. in the County aforesaid un-apprehended of which said place of apprehension A. B. was then And thereupon the aforesaid Justice did according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made require the said A. B. to pay to the aforesaid A. D. two shillings
Bastard-child and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father Page 37 A Warrant to be written under the Order aforesaid for giving notice thereof to the Mother and reputed Father Page 40 for the punishment of the Mother and reputed Father of a Bastard-child Page ibid. and Mittimus against the reputed Father for not obeying the Justices Order Page 43 An Order for relief of the Parish in case of a Bastard-child out of the Estate of the reputed Father Page 45 A Warrant for punishment of the reputed Father of a Bastard-child for not keeping the Child and obeying the Order Page 46 for sending a Bastard-child found wandring to the Place of its birth Page 48 for apprehending a Woman on suspicion of having murthered her Bastard-child Page 49 A Condition of a Recognizance for the appearance of the reputed Father of a Bastard-child Page 50 of a Recognizance of one charged to be the Father of a Bastard-child before its birth to appear at Sessions Page ibid. to discharge Church-wardens and Parishioners of a Child born in the Parish Page 51 Law-Cases thereon Page 384 Good behaviour A Warrant and Mittimus for Good behaviour Page 52 Causes for Good behaviour Page 53 Another Warrant for Good behaviour Page 54 A Mittimus to the Gaol for one that refuses to find Sureties for his Good behaviour Page 55 A Supersedeas for the Good behaviour Page 56 A Recognizance thereupon Page 57 A Condition of a Recognizance for the same Page ibid. Another Condition Page 58 Condition Page ibid. Law-Cases thereon Page 385 Bridges A Warrant to a Hundred for assessing a proportionable rate of a Tax appointed by the Body of the County towards repair of the County Bridges Page 59 to make a Tax for County Bridges repaired Page 61 to collect a Tax for repairing County Bridges Page 62 for not paying the same Page 63 Burying see Title Woollen Carriages for the King A Warrant to provide Carriages Page 64 Another Warrant for provision of Carriages for the King's use Page 65 to levy the Penalty for not appearing with Carriages for the King upon notice Page 66 A Mittimus for one that doth impress or take away any Cart or other thing from the Owner under pretence of power from the Green-cloath for carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without lawfull Authority Page 67 Certificates A Certificate from the Minister and chief Inhabitants of the Parish of a man's Honesty Page 68 for continuing of an Alehouse-keeper Page 69 for the time of the Birth of a Child Page ibid. for one that hath not been touched of the Evil Page 70 Chimney-money A Mittimus for disturbing a Collector Page ibid. Church A Warrant for not coming to Church Page 71 to levy the forfeiture for not coming to Church Page 72 A Mittimus to the Gaol of one not repairing to Church for want of Distress Page 73 A Warrant to distrain for a Church-Tax Page 74 a Minister for not reading Prayers c. once in a month Page 75 A Mittimus for Preaching whilst disabled Page 76 Coals A Warrant upon complaint touching Coals Page 77 for delivery a moity of such Coals as are sold contrary to the Statute to the Informer Page ibid. touching Prices of Coals Page 78 Constables Charges A Warrant for making of Constables Page 79 Another Page ibid. A Warrant for a Tax for the Constables Charges in the execution of his Office Page 80 to appear and shew cause for their not paying the said Charges Page 81 for refusing to appear to shew cause for not paying the said Charges Page 82 to levy the Charges upon their refusing to pay the same Page 83 The Condition of a Recognizance to appear and answer the not paying the same at next Sessions Page 84 A Warrant for levying 3 s. 4 d. upon a Constable for neglect of his Duty in giving an account of Rogues and Vagabonds Page ibid. to sell the Goods of an Offender that refuseth to bear his own Charges to the Gaol Page 85 to make a Tax for conveying a Felon to the Gaol Page 87 Conventicles A Condition of a Recognizance in case of an Appeal made touching Conventicles Page 87 A Record of a Conventicle Page 89 concerning Conventicles where several Persons are convicted Page 90 of the Conviction of certain Persons taken at a Conventicle Page 92 Memorial of a Record of a Conventicle Page 95 A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Offence Page 97 upon the second Offence Page 98 upon the third Conviction Page 99 A Record against one that suffereth a Conventicle c. to be kept in his House Page 101 A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Conviction Page 102 thereupon upon the second Conviction Page 103 thereupon upon the third Conviction Page 104 A Warrant to levy the Penalty of the Statute upon the Teacher of a Conventicle Page 105 Pro testes to prove the Conventicle Page 106 to levy the money upon the Offenders Page 108 to levy the money upon the Offenders Page 109 to levy money upon a Gaoler c. for suffering one committed upon this Act to goe at large Page 114 The like for suffering one at large to joyn with the Offender in custody in the exercise of Religion Page 115 A Warrant against a Peer of the Realm for being at a Conventicle the first Conviction Page 116 upon the second Conviction Page 117 against a Peer for suffering a Conventicle c. to be kept in his House c. the first Conviction Page ibid. upon the second Conviction Page 118 A Mittimus for a Nonconformist c. Page 119 A Certificate to the Militia c. for aid in case of a Conventicle Page 120 made by a Justice where the Offenders live in a Corporation Page 121 for the taking the Oath according to the said Act Page 122 Law-Cases thereon Page 385 Corporations A Certificate upon taking the Oaths and subscribing the Declarations mentioned in the Act for regulating Corporations Page 123 Court-Leet and Court-Baron A Precept directed to the Bayliff of the Mannour by the Steward of the Court-Baron to warn the Court Page 124 to warn a Jury for a Court-Leet Page 125 for a Borsholder or other Officer to take upon him the said Office and to repaire to a Justice of Peace to take his Oath for his faithfull execution of the same Page 126 to bring in a Scold to be tryed at a Court-Leet Page 127 The manner of making up of Court-Rolls Page 128 The manner of making up of Estreats Page 136 Customs A Warrant against those who abuse an Officer of the Customs in the due execution of his Office Page 140 against carrying away Goods without paying Custom c. Page 141 A Mittimus upon the precedent Warrant for the first Offence Page 142 upon the second like Offence Page 143 Deer A Warrant for Deer-stealing Page 144 to levy 20 li. for stealing Deer Page 145 A Mittimus to the House of Correction for want of Distress Page 146 Another Mittimus
Entries thereof at the Office of Excise within their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices Common Brewer forfeits 10 li. Innkeeper forfeits 5 li. Alehouse-keeper Victualler Retailer of a Beer Ale Cyder Perry Metheglin or Strongwater forfeits 20 s. 15 Car. 2. 11 12. 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. cap. 24. 2 Iustices a Common Brewers forfeit for omitting such Entries for every default 10 li. Inn-keeper 5 li. Alehouse-keeper Victualler or Retailer of Beer Ale Cyder Perry Metheglin strong-water brewing making or retailing the same forfeit for every default 20 s. Brewer for not paying off within a week after Entry pay double the Duty Innkeeper Alehousekeeper Victular or other Retailer not paying off within a month after Entry pay double the Duty 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices Allowance 3 in 23 Barrels of Beer and 2 in 22 Barrels of Ale a Ale Beer c. 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices This upon complaint of false Entries of Liquours 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices a Brewer Inn-keeper Victualler or Retailer of Beer Disteller of Strongwater or Retailer of b Beer Ale Cyder Perry Metheglin or Strongwater over and above the double value pay 5 s. 15 Car. 2. cap. 11. 2 Iustices a bribe or corrupt or give any money fee or other reward whatsoever to any Gager or other Officer b to make false return or report unto the Office of Excise c of any Beer Ale or other Liquours exciseable within his Charge Division or Walk or to forbear or omit the doing or executing of his place or imployment 15 Car. 2. cap. 11. 2 Iustices may set down for charges of levying And so all other Offences mutatis mutandis The date hereof and locus in quo must be upon the day and at the place of condemnation 1 Iustice. 2 Justices 1 Quorum See Title Recognizance â—… Ri. 3. c. 3. Coke 8. 171. Stamf. 162. Br. forf 58. F. Cor. 3. 66. Stam. 193 194. 3â—… Ed. 3. 3. 15 R. 2. cap. 2. The Party grieved shall bear the Costs that the Iustice of Peace shall sustain in the execution of the Statute of Forceable Entries 8 H. 6. c. 9. The second day 40 s. issues The third 100 s. issues Every day after double issues 14 Car. 2. 1 Iustice. 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices Surveyors to be chosen yearly the Monday or Tuesday in Easter-week 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices Not paying within 20 days after demand forfeits double his Assessment 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices Forfeit 10 s. per diem for a Team Labourers 18 d. Vide 22 Car. 2. cap. 12. 2 next Iustices Proof by 1 Witness To be imployed towards mending the High-ways 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 next Iustices Every Labourer forfeits 1 s. 6 d. per diem that he neglects to work Vide 22 Car. 2. cap. 12. 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. fol. 128. 2 Iustices To account in a year after their Surveyorship or to Gaol till they account 14 Car. 2. cap. 6. 2 Iustices 2 Iustices 1 Iac. c. 4. The second part of the Institutes pag. 728. 13 Edw. 1. cap. 4. Watch to be kept in every Town from Michaelmas to Ascention day 7 Iac. c. 4. The search to be made twice in every year at the least 7 Iac. c. 4. Dalt 113. 7 Iac. c. 4. a Is an idle dissolute and disorderly fellow one that will not keep his Service follow any honest course of Life Sturdy Beggar Idle and disorderly Person Of evil and disorderly Life and Conversation Liveth idly out of Service notwithstanding our command to the contrary Will not be reformed of his said idle kind of Life and evil and disorderly Conversation Rogues Vagabonds and other wandring and idle Persons Idle Persons Idle or disorderly Persons Dalt 113. 2 Iustices 730. 7 Iac. c. 4. 7 Iac. c. â—… If run awâ—… and leaâ—… his Faiâ—… to the Parish is adjudged incorrigible Rogue 2 Iustices of that Division 2 Witnesses upâ—…n Oath 27 Eliz. cap. 13. 27 Eliz. cap. 13. 3 Ed. 1. 3 Ed. 1. â—… Iustice. 1 Iustice. 28 Ed. 3. cap. 11. 18 Car. 2. cap. 2. 32 Car. 2. cap. The same Acts. The last Act. The last Act. 6 Ed. 6. cap. 14. 13 Eliz. 25. made perpetual 5 Eliz. 5. 31 Eliz. 5. 21 Iac. 22. 2 Iustices 1 Quorum Not for above a year 39 Eliz. cap. 4. It is convenient that the party be particularly described in this Pasport lest others make use thereof 29 Car. 2. 1 Iustice. Dalt 481. See Title Recognizances 7 Iac. c. 11. 2 Iustices and their hands Pheasants c. to be taken onely between Michaelmas and Christmas 22 23 Car. 2. 1 Iustice under his hand and seal This may be directed to any special person or persons as well as to the Officers 23 Eliz. cap. 10. With this is to be taken the Oath of Supremacy 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3 Iac. c. 4. Upon this Oath the party taking it shall subscribe his name or mark 2 Iustices one of the Quorum 35 Eliz. cap. 1. Stam. 119. Wilk 40. 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. 2 Iustices who must certifie the taking of this Oath to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded 27 Eliz. cap. 12. before two Iustices one of the Quorum The Oath of Supremacy must be also taken by him or forfeit 40 li. 27 Eliz. cap. 12. This Oath and that of Supremacy ought to be taken by every Bailiff that executes any Writ or forfeit 40 li. Can. 6. of 1640. In this Oath is briefly comprehended the whole Duty of a Constable and principal matters of his Office â—…3 H. 8. cap. 5. 43. El. c. 7. 1 Iustice 1 Witness or Consession a or cut or carried away his Corn Grain or Hay growing or cut his Hedges Pales Rales or Fences or cut and spiled his Woods or Underwoods Pools or Trees standing in A aforesaid The Officer upon neglect to suffer imprisonment till the Offender be punished 1 Iustice by the first Assignavimus of the Commission of the Peace Any of these causes are sufficient Lamb. 47. 3 Ed. 1. c. 9. W. 1. 1 R. 2. c. 2. 1 H. 4. c. 1. 2 H. 4. c. 1. 7 H. 4. c. 1. a That he is afraid that A. B. of C. will beat wound maim kill him or burn his house That A. B. of C. hath already assaulted beaten bruised him and farther hath threatned him in such sort that he is afraid that the said A. B. will beat wound maim kill or do him some other bodily harm That A. B. hath already threatned that he will beat wound maim kill or do him some other bodily harm Or burn his house And that he is afraid that he will accordingly so doe Where the Warrant is against two for the Peace say As well for their respective personal
to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesad Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Causes for the Good behaviour Threaten to hurt any in the body of ill name and fame and of very lewd life and conversations or common Barterer or common Rioter or common breaker of the Peace or common Alehouse-haunter or common Drunkard or common Swearer or common Woodstealer or do keep a common Stew or Bawdy-house or common Hedge-breaker or common Tale-bearer or common Slanderer or common Libeller or common Whoremonger or common Whores or common sowers of Discord a maker of strife amongst his Neighbours or common Night-walker common Cheater or common Companions of Thieves or common Messenger for Thieves or common Pilferers or commonly suspected to be Thieves or do commonly practice Poysoning or common Eve-droppers or are commonly suspected of Incontinency or common harberers and entertainers of Whores Rogues or Thieves or common Robbers of Orchards or have sold Ale or Beer without Licence and contrary to the Command of the Iustice of the Peace or are Idle persons wandring up and down fare well and spend much in Alehouses and have no known and visible Estate to maintain it or that A. B. hath begotten a Bastard Child on the Body of C. and is like to be chargeable to the Parish or hath a hand in sending away the reputed Father of a Bastard Child then left to the Charge of the Parish c. Another Warrant for Good behaviour To the Constable and Borsholder of A. c. K. ss FOrasmuch as we have been credibly informed that A. B. of your Town of C. c. is a man of Evil behaviour and one that dayly moveth discord between his Neighbours and a common disturber of His Majestie 's Peace These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon the sight hereof you bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County the Body of the said A. B. to answer such matters as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him by C. D. and also that you require him to bring sureties for his Good behaviour untill the next Sessions And hereof fail not Given under c. A Mittimus to the Gaol for one that refuses to find Sureties for his Good behaviour To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid or to his lawfull Deputy thereof Kent ss I Send herewithall the Body of A. B. of c. for that he refuseth to find sufficient Sureties to be of Good behaviour towards His Majesty and all His liege people and to appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County at M. aforesaid straightly charging and commanding you in the name of our said sovereign Lord the King to receive him the said A. B. into safe custody and him safely to keep in the said Gaol untill he shall find sufficient Sureties as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. A Supersedeas for the Good behaviour R. R. one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace within the said County of Kent To the Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Tythen-men and all other His said Majestie 's Officers and Ministers within the said County and to every of them Greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. in the County of K. aforesaid Yeoman hath personally come before me and hath found sufficient Sureties That is to say C. D. of F. in the said County Yeoman and E. F. of G. in the County aforesaid Gent. either of the which hath undertaken for the aforesaid A. B. under the pain of 10 l. and the said A. B. hath undertaken for himself under the pain of 20 l. that he shall well uprightly and honestly behave himself as well towards His said Majesty as towards all his liege people and especially towards C. D. of K. in the said County Yeoman And that he will personally appear at the next Quarter Sessions to be holden in the said County of K. These are therefore to command you in His Majestie 's name that you utterly surcease to molest arrest trouble or imprison the said A. B. for the said occasion And that if you have for the said occasion and for no other taken and imprisoned him That then you do cause him to be delivered and set at liberty without farther delay Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal c. A Recognizance thereupon Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod primo die Octobris Anno Regni Domini Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. vicesimo nono apud C. in Com' praedict ' A. B. de c. D. E. de c. F. G. de c. personaliter venerunt coram nobis H. J. K. L. Iustic dicti Domini Regis ad pacem in Com' praedicto conservand ' assignat ' recognoverunt se debere dicto Domino Regi modo forma sequen ' viz. praedict ' A. B. viginti libras legalis monetae Angliae uterque praedictorum D. E. F. G. decem libras consimilis monetae separalit ' levand ' de separalibus bonis catallis terris tenementis suis ad opus usum dicti Domini Regis haered ' successorum suorum si defalt ' fieret in performatione Conditionis sequen ' A Condition of a Recognizance for the same THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Assizes of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the Court there shall be then and there enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full sorce Another Condition The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace of K. and M. in the County aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and do in the mean time keep His Majestie 's Peace towards His Majesty and all His liege people and especially to T. A. of C. within written That then this Recognizance shall be void or else to stand in full force Another Condition The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Sessions of the