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B02949 An act for the better suppressing of theft upon the borders of England and Scotland, and for discovery of highway men and other felons. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656. England and Wales. Parliament. 1657 (1657) Wing E1100A; ESTC R228756 4,410 18

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Note of any persons Name and the Names of his Sureties of any that shall require the same nor that any such person or persons to be bound by Recognizance as beforesaid shall be put to the trouble or charge of Renewing his or their Recognizance or Recognizances but the same to continue of force during their Lives except in case of Death of any Surety or Sureties or their declaring their unwillingness to stand longer bound except the Iustices of Peace for the respective Counties in open Sessions of the Peace or Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer at their General Goal-Delivery the Iudges of Assize or Iudges in Criminal Causes in their respective Circuits or some of them shall finde just cause to release such Recognizance or Recognizances For which end all and every of the said Recognizances shall be called once every year or oftner if occasion shall require at the respective private Sessions for every County Hundred Ward and Liberty or Division within any of the said respective Counties Shires and Sheriffdoms and the persons bound to make their personal appearance the Clerk or Cryer not taking above Four pence for calling any one Bond. And be it hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if at any time or times hereafter any person or persons shall commit any offence or offences within the Nation of Scotland which by the Laws of the Nation of England is are or shall be declared or adjudged to be Petty-Treason Murther Man-slaughter Felonious burning of Houses and Corn Burglary Robbing of Houses by day Robbery Theft or Rape and do and shall flie or escape into the Nation of England and be or shall be apprehended within any of the said Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland or any parts or members of the same or within the parts or places lying on the North side of the River of Tyne commonly called or known by the names of Bedlington-shire Norham-shire and Island-shire the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed with the Bounds and Limits thereof That then it shall and may be lawful for the Iustices of Assize or any one of them in absence of the other the Iustices of Goal-Delivery at their Goal-Delivery or any four of them or the Iustices of Peace in their General or Quarter-Sessions or any four of them upon due and mature Examination of the said Offence and Offences in open Sessions and pregnant Proofs of the same by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to remand and send all and every such Offender and Offenders into the Nation of Scotland there to receive their Tryal for any the Offences aforesaid by them there committed And it is hereby further Enacted That if at any time or times hereafter any person or persons shall commit any Offence or Offences within the Nation of England which by the Laws of the Nation of Scotland is or shall be declared or adjudged to be Petty-Treason Murder Man-slaughter Felonious burning of Houses and Corn Burglary Robbing of Houses by day Robbery Theft or Rape and do or shall flie or escape into the Nation of Scotland and be or shall be apprehended within any of the said Counties or Sheriffdoms of Berwick Roxburgh Selkirk Pebles Dumfreeze or Wigton That then it shall and may be lawful for the Iudges in Criminal Causes or any one of them the Iustices of Peace for the respective Shires or Sheriffdoms or any four of them upon due and mature Examination of the said Offence and Offences in open Sessions and pregnant Proofs of the same by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to remand and send all and every such Offender and Offenders into the Nation of England there to receive their Tryal for any the Offences aforesaid by them there committed And for the better and more effectual Discovery and Prosecution of Thieves and High-way Men Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such person or persons who shall at any time from and after the Four and twentieth of July One thousand six hundred fifty seven discover to any Iustice of Peace or any other Officer of Iustice any person that hath committed or shall commit within England Scotland or Ireland any Robbery on the High-way or Burglary or that hath or shall feloniously break open any Dwelling-house or feloniously enter into any such House or there use any violence upon any person or steal any Money or Goods and shall apprehend or cause to be apprehended such Offender upon Conviction of such Offender so apprehended upon such Discovery shall have a Reward of Ten pounds for every such Offender so apprehended and convicted And all and every Sheriff and Sheriffs of the respective Counties or Sheriffdoms where such Conviction shall be had be required upon the Certificate of the Iudge or under the Hands of two or more Iustices of the Peace before whom such Conviction shall be had to pay unto such person or persons who shall discover and apprehend such Offender or upon whose Discovery such Offender shall be apprehended the Reward aforesaid of Ten pounds for every Offender so apprehended and convicted out of the Publick Moneys received by him in that County and the same shall be allowed unto him upon his Accompt in the Exchequer And be it further Enacted and Declared That any person or persons that shall discover any Felon or Felons commonly called or known by the name of Moss-Troopers residing upon the Borders of England and Scotland or any Tories in Ireland who upon such Discovery shall be apprehended and convicted of any Common-Felony Petty-Larceny onely excepted shall upon the said Conviction have the like encouragement of Ten pounds And all Sheriffs of the respective Counties where the Fact shall be committed and the party convicted shall make payment thereof accordingly EDINBVRGH Re-printed by Christopher Higgins in Harts Close over against the Trone Church Anno Dom. 1657.