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A59721 The justice of the peace, his clarks cabinet, or, A book of presidents, or warrants, fitted and made ready to his hand for every case that may happen within the compass of his masters office for the ease of the justice of peace, and more speedy dispatch of justice / by William Shepard ... Sheppard, William, d. 1675? 1660 (1660) Wing S3190; ESTC R31195 70,352 144

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he shall continue with you and be in his good health you do hold him to work and punish him by putting fetters and gyves upon him and by moderate whipping of him And that you give him no more for his maintenance then what he shall deserve or earn by his labour And that you have the said I S. and this Precept at the said next Quarter Sessions A Mittimus of a vagrant or disorderly person 9 Glouc. ss W S. c. We have sent you herewithal the body of E C. of G. in this County being an idle dissolute and disorderly person and one that liveth idlie and wandreth begging about the Countrey and brought before us by the Constable of Dale whom you are hereby required to receive and him to keep in your Bridewel to work until he shall be from thence duly delivered by order and course of Law And in the mean time you are to keep him to work and see to it that he have no more for his maintenance then what he can get by his work And hereof c. A Mittimus for one thae runneth away and leaveth her Charge to the Town 10 Glou. ss W S. c. We have sent you herewithal the body of I L. of W. in the said County single woman being lately delivered of a child and one that is able to labour and thereby to relieve her self and her said child and hath notwithstanding lately run away and left her child upon the Parish to the charge of the same Parish contrary to the Statute in that behalf provided These are therefore to require you to receive her c. as in the last W S. c. We send you herewith the body of I S. of c. for that she being a poor woman able to work and having a great charge of children and like to charge the Parish she doth threaten to run away from her charge and leave it to the Parish These are therefore c. as in the last A Mittimus of the Mother of a Bastard-child 12 Glou. ss W S. We send you herewithal the body of I C. of W. in the said County single woman lately delivered of a Bastard-child likely to be chargeable to the Parish of W. aforesaid and for that the said I C. is able to labour and that thereby she may the better relieve her self and her said child These are to require you to receive the said I C. in your Bridewel there to be punished and set on work during the term of one whole year acccording to the Statute in that behalf provided Observations upon these three last Presidents These three last Mittimus being grounded upon 7 Jac. 4. it is good to advise upon them for the Statute doth not prescribe any way of Conviction unless it come under the general words of 39 Eliz. 4. that these be taken for idle and disorderly persons for that being proved before by two witnesses before two Justices one of them being of the Qu●rum this is a Conviction of Law For a Mittimus for a forcible Entry see it in Chap. 6. CHAP. XXII About a Supersedeas The Form of Supersedeas 1 Glouc. ss W S. To the Sheriff Bailiffs Constables and other the Officers and Ministers of our Lord the King for the keeping of the peace within the County of Gloucest and every of them Forasmuch as A B. of c. hath personally come before me at Dale in this County and hath found sufficient sureties that is C D. of c. and E T. of c. either of which hath undertaken for the said A B. under pain of ten pounds a piece and he the said A B. hath undertaken for himself under pain of twenty pound that he the said A B. shall well and truly keep the peace towards our Lord the King and all his people especially towards G F. of c. Yeoman and also that he shall personally appear before the Justices of the peace of the said County at the next general Sessions of the peace to be held for the same County Therefore I command you and every of you that you utterly forbear and surcease to arrest take ●mprison or otherwise by any means for the said cause to molest the said A B. And if you have for the said cause and none other taken or imprisoned him that then you do cause him to be delivered and set at liberty without further delay Given at Dale aforesaid under my Hand and Seal c. Another for the same 2 Glouc. ss 2. For the Peace W S. Esquire c. To the Sheriff of the County of Glouc. c. and to all Constables c. Forasmuch as I S. of c. hath come before me and found sufficient surety that he shall keep the peace towards our Lord the King and all his people especially towards I K. of D. aforesaid and that he shall personally appear before the Justices of the Peace of the said County at the next general Sessions of the peace to be holden for the said County Therefore I require and command you and every of you that you do altogether forbear and surcease to attach arrest or imprison him the said I S. or otherwise to molest him by any means for the said cause And if you have upon any Precept for the peace and for that cause and none other already taken and imprisoned him that then you do cause him to be delivered and set at liberty without further delay And this shall be your Warrant Given c. For a Felony There may be a Supersedeas in case of Felony where the prisoner is bailed thus Because A B. of c. hath come before us c. and put in sufficient bail to be before c. to answer the Felony wherewith he is charged c. Or thus 3 Glouc. ss W S. c. To c. Forasmuch c. I do therefore require you that from compelling and imprisoning the said A. and his Wife or either of them any security for the peace towards our Lord the King and all the People of this Common-wealth before you or any of you again to find you do supersede or cause to be superseded And if c. that then you do immediately them out of such prison in which they or either of them are detained deliver or cause to be delivered c. Observations upon these Warrants This last Supersedeas is good though it name ●either the sureties nor the sums wherein they are bound but it is held the better Form to express both 4 Glouc. ss Upon a Supplicavit against an Infant W S. To the Sheriff c. Know ye that I have received a Writ of our Lord the King in these words Charles c. reciting all the Writ word for word Forasmuch as C D. of c. and E F. of c. and the said A B. being the Infant against whom the Writ of Supplicavit was granted have personally
the form of the Statutes in that case provided And therefore I the aforesaid W S. the said I D. E F. G H. did then there arrest and cause to be sent to the next Gaol of his said Majesty for the said County within the Castle of Gloucest as convict of the said forcible detaining by mine own view and record there to abide till he shall make Fine to his said Majesty for his offences aforesaid Dated at Dale aforesaid under my Seal the day and year aforesaid The Record of a Riot upon the view of the Justices 2 Glouc. ss Memor That the first day of March we W S. and K L. Esquires two of the Justices of our Soveraign Lord the King now assigned to keep the Peace in the County of Gloucest at the complaint of I S. of W. in the County aforesaid Yeoman in our proper persons came to the dwelling house of the said I S. at W. aforesaid and there we found certain persons A B. c. and other evil doers and disturbers of the Peace of our Lord the King to the number of eighty persons in a warlike manner arrayed to wit with Swords Staves Bows and Arrows riotously and unlawfully gathered together and the same house so keeping to the great disturbance of the Peace of our said Lord the King and the terrour of his People and against the form of the Statutes in that case provided And therefore wee the said Justices of the Peace the bodies of the said A B. c. did then arrest and to the next Gaol of our Lord the King did then cause them to be carried by our Record of the Trespass aforesaid convict in our presence there to abide till they shall make their Fine to our said Lord the King for their trespass afore said In testimony whereof w● have put our Seals to this Record Dated at W. aforesaid the day and year aforesaid The form of the Mittimus to the Gaol W S. one of the Justices of the Peace of ou● Lord the King within his said County of Gloucest 3 Glouc. ss To the Keepers of his Highness Gaol within the Castle of Glouc. within the same County and to his Deputy there Complaint being made to me this present first day of May of a forcible and riotous detainer of a House made by K L. c. and M N. of c. the which having viewed I find to be true against the Peace of our said Lord the King and the Statutes in that case provided Therefore I send you by the bringers hereof the bodies of the said K L. and M N. convicted of the said forcible holding or Riot by mine own view testimony and record commanding you in his Majesties Name them to receive and safely keep in your said Goal until such time as they shall make their Fines to our said Lord the King for the said trespasses and shall be thence delivered by order of the Law of the Land at your peril Given at W. aforesaid under my Seal the day and year aforesaid The Precept to the Sheriff to return a Jury 4 Glouc. ss W S. c. To the Sheriff of the said County of Glouc. I command you that you make to come before me at c. time and place twenty four honest sufficient and lawfull men of the neighbourhood of W. within this County whereof every one shall have forty shillings of Lands Tenements and Rents by the year at least above reptises or to enquire if A B. c. and other malefactors and disturbers of the Peace of our Lord the King in one Messuage and twenty acres of Land of C D. of c. with a strong hand upon the possession of the said C D. did enter or the same with force do yet hold and occupy to require upon their Oaths for our said Lord the King of a certain entry or detainer made with strong hand in the Messuage or dwelling House of A B. at W. aforesaid against the form of the Statutes in that case provided And you are to see that you return upon every one of the Jurors by you to be impannelled twenty shilling of issues at the same day of return And hereof you are not to fail under pain of twenty pounds which you know you are to bear if you be negligent in the premises Witness me the said W S. the first day of c. The Verdict of the Jurors 5 Glouc. ss An inquisition for our Lord the King taken at Dale in the County of Gloucest the first day of May by the Oaths of A B. C D. good and ●awfull men of the County before W S. one of ●he Justices of our said Lord the King to keep the Peace in the said County assigned and to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other evil deeds committed in the same County who say upon their Oaths that C L. of c. Yeoman was lawfully and peaceably seised in his demesne as of Fee of and in one Messuage c. with the appurtenances in Dale aforesaid and his possession and seisin aforesaid so continued until A B. c. and other unknown persons the first day of May by Force and Arms to wit with Swords and Staves Bows and Arrows into the said Messuage entred and the said C D. thereof disseised and with a strong hand him expelled and him the said C D. so disseised and expulsed from the said Messuage c. from the aforesaid first day of May until the day of the taking of this inquisition with the same strength and armed power have hitherto kept out and yet doth keep out to the great disturbance of the Peace of our said Lord the King and against the form of the Statutes in that case made and provided whereas none of them nor any other whose state they or any of them had or have or any thing in any parcel thereof had or have within three years last before his said Entry nor at any time before to the knowledge of the said Jurors Warrant for Restitution 6 Glouc. ss W S. c. To the Sheriff of the said County Greeting Whereas by a certain inquisition of the Countrey taken before me at Dale in the County aforesaid the day of c. upon the Oath of A B. C D. c. and according to the form of the Statute in that case of forcible entry provided It was found that A B. c. and others c. as it is in the Inquisition under those words in that case provided as by the said inquisition doth more fully appear of Record Therefore on the part of our said Lord the King I command and require you that you all together with the power of the County if need require go to the said Messuage and other the premises and the same with the appurtenances do cause to be res●ised and the said C D. to and in his full possession there of as he was in before the same Entry you cause