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A45577 A charge given at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Surrey holden at Dorking on Tuesday the 5th day of April 1692, and in the fourth year of Their Majesties reign / by Hugh Hare. Hare, Hugh, 1668-1707.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Surrey) 1692 (1692) Wing H760; ESTC R25410 29,639 42

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in relation to your Inquiries and presentments the Duties you owe to God and to the King to the former Fear and Reverence to the latter Honour and Allegiance I now proceed to discourse to you of the Duties owing to subordinate Magistrates which are these A respect to them on the account of the Character they bear and a due Submission to their Legal Orders for our Laws are so careful to preserve the Chain of subordinate Government entire that 't is Murther to kill the meanest Officer in the Execution of his Office and to abuse him in it or for it is a high Contempt and punishable in this Court as are also all Contempts of the under Officers towards us their Superiors in neglecting to obey our Orders and execute our Warrants and likewise all Disobedient Sawcy and unmannerly Behaviour of any other Person that is brought before us These things Gentlemen you are to enquire and Present In the next place Gentlemen you are to enquire and present all Offences against that Civil Justice we owe to our Fellow Subjects and they are these 1. Petty-Treason of which all those are guilty who being Wives Children Servants or private Clergy-Men Murther their Husbands Parents Masters Mistrisses Diocesans or Ordinaries For all these Offenders owe Faith Duty and private Obedience to the party Murthered After Petty-Treason the next Felony you are to present for these and several other Crimes come under the general Denomination of Felony is Murther This when it is committed upon Malice prepense is called willful Murther and the Offender hath no Benefit of his Clergy and within this comes also Malice implyed where a Person suddenly kills another without any Provocation given or stabs a Man who hath no weapon drawn Manslaughter is where a Person kills another upon present heat or a sudden Passion in this Case the Offender is allowed his Clergy The next Crimes to be enquired and presented as ' Felonies are Rapes Burnings of Houses Burglary and all sorts of Robberies whether on the Road or in Houses open or shut stealing of Horses or other Cattel abroad or elsewhere Thefts Petty Larcenaries and the return of any dangerous Rogue into this Realm without License after he hath been Banished is Felony and enquirable in this Coutt as are likewise all manner of Felonies whatsoever You are likewise to enquire and present all Trespasses against the Peace and these are Assaults Batteries Blood-sheds Maihems forcible Entries forcible Detainers Riots Routs and unlawfull Assemblies What these are I doubt not but you all very well know and therefore I shall not spend time in defining them to you but only tell you again that it is your Duty to enquire and present them In the next place Gentlemen you are to enquire and present all Libellers Barretors Extortioners Frauds and Deceits the neglect of all Constables Headboroughs and Tything-Men in doing their Duties especially as to all Matters relating to the punishing and repressing of Vice and Debauchery concerning which I have already discoursed to you at large as likewise the neglect of all Overseers of the Poor and Surveighers of the High ways in relation to whom I desire you to take Notice of the Two Acts of Parliament pass'd this last Session concerning the Poor and the High ways of which I would give you the Heads if the Time would allow me You are also to enquire and present all Disorder between Masters and Servants all Fore-stallers Ingrossers Regrators Destroyers of the Game and disordered Victuallers and you are to enquire and present all Annoyances as Disorderly Ale-house-keepers Cottagers Receivers of Inmates the defaults of High-ways and Bridges and the permission of free Passage to Rogues and Vagabonds who ought to be severely punish'd and sent back to the Places of their legal Settlement Gentlemen I am sensible I may have omitted several particulars of your Duty but since you cannot as I suppose be ignorant of them that will not excuse you from presenting these and all other Offences that come to your Knowledge As to those Points that I have so largely insisted on I must tell you plainly that I expect you use your utmost Diligence I had almost forgot to hint to you one Reason as strong as any that can be drawn from Interest why you should punish all Immoralities with the utmost rigour of Law and that is the daily increase of the Poor in almost every Parish so that in some places the Rates for the Poor exceed the publick Taxes assessed by Parliament for c●rrying on the War Whereas I dare boldly Affirm that if common Swearers prophaners of the Lord's Day Drunkards Tiplers and those Inn-keepers Ale-house-keepers and Victuallers who suffer Disorders in their Houses duly paid the Penalties appointed by Law almost every Parish would be eased of half their Charge or if that continued it would be a light Burthen and a very tolerable Grievance in comparison of the Immoralities and Disorders that have over-spread the Nation You are also to consider that all these Forfeitures do of right belong to die Poor they have as good a Title to them as any Man hath to his Estate and certainly to rob and defraud the Poor is a Crime above the common Level and those who connive at it are undeniably Accessaries to it To Conclude Gentlemen let me once more desire you to remember your Oaths and in order to the discharging your Duty with the greater Sincerity and Diligence let me advise you to fix in your Minds a strong Idea of the general Appearance we must all one day make before the great Tribunal in Comparison of which the most Solemn and August Court of Judicature here upon Earth though it may in some small Measure represent it to our Thoughts is but a piece of formal and vain Pageantry And now Gentlemen without detaining you any longer I dismiss you all to your several Inquiries FINIS ADVERTISEMENT LAtely publish'd a Discourse of Natural and Revealed Religion in several Essays Or a light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth by Mr. Tim. Nourse and sold by John Newton in Fleet-street Gen. 16.12 Hollinsh 8. Stat. 1. E. 3. c. 16. Isai c. 57. v. 21. Isai c. 9. 7. 6. Luk. c. 2. v. 14. Mat. c. 5. v. 9. Psal 85. v. 10. Hierocles Exod. c. 20. v. 7. St. Mat c. 12. v. 37. Stat. 21. Jac. 1. c. 20. Exod. c. 20. v. 7. v. 16. 1 Kings 21. v. 13. St. Mark c. 15. v. 28. Stat. 5. Eliz. c. 9. Prov. c. 25. v. 18. Psal c. 12. v. 1. Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. v. 7. v. 16. Arch-Bip Sharp's Sermon June 28. 1691. p. 22 23. Exod. 31. v. 15 16. Num. c. 15. v. 36 St. Markc 2. v. 29. Stat. 3. Car. 1. c. 1. Stat. 29. Car. 2. c. 7. Stat. 3 Car. 1. c. 1. Stat. 29. Car. 2. c. 7. Stat. 1. Jac. 1. c. 5. Stat. 1. Jac. 1. c. 9. Stat. 4. Jac. 1. c. 5. Stat. 1. Car. 1. c. 4. Stat. 7. Jac. 1. c. 10. Stat. 21. Jac. 1. c. 7. Stat. 3. Car. 1. c. 3. Exod. c. 20. v. 14. Dalton c. 124. S. 3. St. 7. Jac. 1. c. 4. 1 Cor. c. 10. v. 8. Exod. c. 20. v. 3. Stat. 1. Jac. 1. c. 2. Stat. 1. Ed. 6. c. 1. Stat. 1. Eliz. c. 2. Stat. 14. Car. 2. c. 4. Stat. 5. and 6. Ed. 6. c. 4. Zach. c. 5. v. 4. St. Mat. c. 7. v. 12. Exod. 20. v. 12. v. 15. Stat. 25. Ed. 3. Stat. 1. Mar. c. 6. Stat. 1. and 2. P. and M. c. 11. Stat. 13. Eliz. c. 2. Stat. 18. Eliz. c. 1. Stat. 23. Eliz. c. 1. Stat. 3. Jac. 1. c. 4. Stat. 3. and 4. Guil. and Mar. Stat. 27. Eliz 3. c. 1. Stat. 16. R. 2. c. 5. Stat. 3. and 4. Guil. and Mar. Dalton c. 141. Act 54. v. 16. 1. Cor. c. 13. v. 5. St. Matth. c. 7. v. 20. St. Matth. c. 27. v. 21. St. Mark c. 15. v. 13. St. Matth. c. 26. v. 49. c. 27. v. 5. Genes c. 27. v. 22.