Westminster 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 impaneling 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 help me God Iurat ' ad utraque Sacrament ' supra dict' duodecimo die Maij Anno Dom. 1680. coram nobis A. B. C. D.. The Oath usually given to Church-wardens YOU shall execute the Office of Church-warden in the Parish where you are chosen for this ensuing year according to His Majestie 's Laws Ecclesiastical So help you God Or thus You shall execute the Office of Church-warden in the Parish where you are chosen according to your discretion and skill in His Majestie 's Laws Ecclesiastical So help you God The Oath of Obedience Canonical I A. B. do swear that I do approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as concerning all things necessary to Salvation and that I will not endeavour by my self or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which is so established nor will I ever give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans and Archdeacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand nor yet ever to subject it to the Usurpations and Superstitions of the See of Rome And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasior or secret reservation whatsoever And this I do heartily willingly and truly upon the Faith of a Christian So help me God in Jesus Christ. If any Ecclesiastical person refuse this Oath the Bishop shall give him a months time to inform which if then denied to be suspended ab officio upon refusal at a second month granted to be suspended ab officio beneficio and after a third month granted to be deprived of all his Ecclesiastical Promotions whatsoever and execution of his Function which he holds in the Church of England The High Constable's Oath YOU shall swear That you shall well and truly serve our Sovereign Lord the King in the Office of a Constable You shall see and cause His Majestie 's Peace to be well and truly kept and preserved according to your power You shall arrest all such Persons as in your sight and presence shall ride or goe armed offencely or shall commit or make any Riot Affray or other breach of His Majestie 's Peace You shall doe your best endeavour upon complaint made to apprehend all Felons Barrettors and Rioters or Persons riotously assembled and if any such Offenders shall make resistance with force you shall levy Huy and Cry and shall pursue them untill they be taken You shall do your best endeavour that the Watch in and about your Hundred be duly kept for the apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds Night-walkers Eves-droppers Scouts and other suspected Persons and of such as go armed and the like And that Huy and Cry be duly raised and pursued according to the Statute of Winchester against Murtherers Thieves and other Felons And that the Statutes made for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds and such other idle Persons as come within your Bounds and Limits be duly put in execution You shall have a watchfull eye to such Persons as shall maintain or keep any common House or Place where any unlawfull Game is or shall be used as also to such as shall frequent or use such Places or shall use or exercise any unlawfull Games there or elsewhere contrary to the Statutes At your Assizes Sessions of the Peace or Leet you shall present all and every the Offences done contrary to the Statute made 1 Iacobi 4 Iacobi and 21 Iacobi Regis to restrain the inordinate haunting and tipling in Inns Alehouses and other Victualling houses and for repressing of Drunkenness You shall there likewise true presentment make of all Bloudsheddings Affrays Outcrys Rescues and other Offences committed or done against the King's Majestie 's Peace within your Limits You shall once every year during your Office present at the Quarter-sessions all Popish Recusants within your Liberty and their Children above 9 and their Servants scil their monthly absence from Church 3 Iac. 4. You shall well and duly execute all Precepts and Warrants to you directed from the Justice of Peace of this County or higher Officers You shall be aiding to your Neighbours against unlawfull Purveyances In the time of Hay or Corn Harvest upon request you shall cause all Persons to meet to serve by the day for the mowing reaping or getting in of Corn or Hay You shall in Easter-week cause your Parishoners to chuse Surveyors for the mending of the High-ways in your Parish or Liberty and you shall well and duly according to your knowledge power and ability doe and execute all other things belonging to the Office of a Constable so long as you continue in the said Office So help you God The Oath taken by the Officers of the Marshal's Court. YOU shall well and truly behave your self in the Office which you now undertake of one of the Bearers of the Virges of the Household of our Sovereign Lord the King and one of the Officers and Ministers of the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King of His Majestie 's Palace of Westminster you shall well and truly execute all process of the said Court that shall come to your hands and which may be by you executed with as much expedition as possibly you can you shall execute no Writ but such as is signed and sealed with the sign and seal of this Court. You shall take no bribe reward or other gratuity for the executing of any process of this Court other than the Court will allow of or the Parties themselves without exaction shall willingly afford you you shall make a true and just return of all such Writs of this Court as shall be by you sued the next Court day after the same are executed You shall not disclose any process of the said Court to the Defendant or any other whereby he may have intelligence thereof you shall not conceal any wrong or injury done or offered to the said Court but shall forthwith disclose the same to the Judges thereof and shall be ready with all
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-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
CHOICE PRESIDENTS Upon all Acts of Parliament Relating to the OFFICE and DUTY OF A JUSTICE of PEACE WITH Necessary Notes and Instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament and other particular Cases in Law adjudg'd therein As also A more usefull method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print By Rich. Kilburne Esq late one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of Kent and Principal of Staple-Inn The second Edition with many usefull Additions Made publick by G. F. of Grayes-Inn Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esquires for Richard Tonson within Grayes-Inn-Gate next Grayes-Inn-Lane 1681. THE Publisher's Preface TO THE READER THE good Reception this Treatise hath met with in the World hath put me upon the Revising of several of the Author's Papers that came to my hands since his Death which for the publick good I have with all Faithfulness and Candour strictly observing his own Method reduced into order But withall I cannot but let the Reader know that tho' the Title Courts be added to this Collection which at first sight may seem something Foreign to the rest of the Matter yet it being collected by the same Author who was an Attorney as well as a Justice of the Peace and his Design alwaies being to improve the Method of making up Court-Rolls in a more succinct and beneficial manner than others understood I thought it my Duty to oblige all Persons concerned in that Practice by incerting that Title in the second Impression of this Book The other Additions the Reader will find extreamly suitable to the first Intention of the Author being Precedents which have received their Forms from late Acts of Parliament and otherwise since the Author's Death to the time of this second Publication Only I must further add that no small pains hath been taken in this second Edition to fit the several Authorities quoted in the Margin to the last Impressions of the Statutes at large and Dalton's Iustice which I hope will find a favourable Acceptance and Esteem from the Purchaser which is the utmost desire of G. F. Grayes-Inn May 12. 1681. OF ALEHOUSES c. A Licence to keep an Alehouse Kent ss MEmorandum That we whose Names are hereunto subscribed Justices of the Peace within the said County have Admitted Licensed and Allowed A. B. Victualler to keep a common-Ale-house in the house where he now dwelleth in C. in the County aforesaid and not elsewhere for the space of one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer Which said A. B. hath entred into Recognizance with two Sureties before us in certain summs of money to the use of our Sovereign Lord the King under Condition that he shall not during the time aforesaid permit or suffer or have any playing at Dice Cards Tables Shovel-board Bowls Quoits or any other unlawfull Game or Games in his House Yard Garden or Backside nor shall suffer to be or remain in his house any person or persons not being of his ordinary Family to drink any Beer Ale or Tobacco on the Lord's day Humiliation or Thanksgiving-day during the time of Divine Service or Sermon nor shall suffer any person to lodge or stay in his house above one day and one night but such whose true Name and Sirname he shall deliver to some one of the Constables or in his absence to some one of the Officers of the same Parish the next day following or such as he will answer for nor shall refuse to lodge any person that shall be brought to him by the Constable or Officer nor suffer any person to remain in his house tippling or drinking contrary to the Law nor shall willingly admit or receive into his House Barns Stables or otherwhere any Players of Interludes Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars Masterless men or any person notoriously defamed for Theft Incontinency Drunkenness or any other notorious Crime nor shall buy or take to pawn any stoln Goods or other of any Wayfaring man or other that shall bring the same to sell but of such as he shall be able always to produce and have forth-coming And also shall sell his Beer and Ale by sealed Measure according to the Assise and not otherwise And lastly shall in all things behave himself according to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom in that case provided In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 6. day of S. in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second of England c. Annoque Domini 1679. Or thus We whose Names are hereunto written His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County do according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided License Admit and Allow A. B. Victualler to keep a common Alehouse or Tipplinghouse in the house wherein he now dwelleth in C. aforesaid Provided always that the said A. B. do not suffer any unlawfull Games to be used in his said House but do use and maintain good Order and Rule within the same Provided also that this our Licence shall not continue in force above the space of one year now next ensuing at the most Gâ—…ven under our hands and seals at c. A License to Brew and keep an Alehouse K. ss WHereas A. B. of C. in the said County of K. c. hath come before us I. Doe and Ric. Roe two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the said County and bound himself in a Recognizance with sufficient Sureties to Brew to Sell and to keep a common Alehouse according to the Statuâ—…e of Brewers made in the fifth year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth Now know ye us the said Iohn Doe and Rich. Roe to have Licensed the said A. B. to Brew Sell and keep a common Alehouse according to the said Statute Given under our hands the 10. of September in the 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 â—…ono 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 '
aforesaid K. ss FOr as much as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. an Officer duly appointed to receive collect and answer the Duty arising by Fire-hearths and Stoves in this County according to an Act of Parliament intituled An Act for collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-money by Officers to be appointed by his Majesty hath been in the due Execution of the said Act by C. D. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and 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 safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 by the space of next after such delivery of him unto you Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Church For not coming to Church To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOr as much as I have received Information That B. C. of D. in the County aforesaid c. did not upon any of the c. Sundays last past resort or repair to any Church or Chapel or other usual place appointed for Common Prayer and there hear Divine Service according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you that you some or one of you do cause the said B. C. to come before me to answer the premisses Hereof fail not at your perils Gâ—…ven under my hand and seal the c. To levy the Forfeiture for not coming to Church To the Church-wardens of the Parsh of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOr as much as B. C. of D. aforesaid c. did not upon Sunday the second day of May nor upon Sunday then next following nor upon Sunday then next following resort or repair to any Church Chapel or other usual place appointed for Common Prayer and there hear Divine Service according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made and being called before me did not make sufficient excuse of his said defaults to my satisfaction These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you that you or one of you do levy by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said B. C. three shillings for his defaults aforesaid to be imployed to and for the use of the Poor of the said Parish rendring to him the overplus of the money raised of the Goods aforesaid so to be sold and in default of such Distress that you do certify me thereof with all convenient speed to the end I may further proceed therein as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. A Mittimus to the Gaol of one not repairing to Church for want of Distress 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 at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas by Warrant under my hand and seal the Church-wardens of the Parish of A. in the said County were lately by me commanded to levy three shillings by Distress and Sale of the Goods of B. C. of the Parish of A. in the said County to be imployed to and for the use of the Poor of that Parish for that he did not upon Sunday the second day of May nor upon Sunday then next following nor upon Sunday then next following resort or repair to any Church Chapel or other usual place appointed for Common Prayer and there hear Divine Service according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made and the Church-wardens aforesaid have returned to me that the said B. C. hath no Goods or Chattels sufficient for the levying of the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you that you some or one of you do take the aforesaid B. C. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the 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 keep untill payment shall be made of the moneys aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. To Distrain for a Church-Tax To the Church-wardens of the Parish of H. in the said County and to either of them Kent ss FOr as much as complaint hath been by you made unto us That the several persons hereunder named have refused or neglected to pay unto you the summs of money adjoyning to their several names being assessed upon them for and towards the reparation and maintenance of the Parish-Church of H. aforesaid and other Church-duties and for doing and performing such things as by an Ordinance of Parliament made the 9th day of Febr. in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty seven are appointed to be done at the charge of the said Parish These are therefore in His Majesties name to command you that you some or one of you do levy the said several and respective summs of money by Distress and Sale of the several and respective Goods of the said several and respective Offenders and likewise the summ of 2 s. more of every of them for and towards the charge and expence in levying of the same rendring to the said several and respective parties the overplus if any be And in default of such Distress that then you or one of you do certify the same unto us to the end that there may be such farther and other proceedings touching the premisses as to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at H. aforesaid the 17th day of May Anno Domini 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Against a Minister for not reading Prayers c. once in a month To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the said County Kent ss FOr as much as it hath been duly proved before us That A. B the proper Incumbent of the in the County aforesaid doth reside on his Living and keep a Curate and hath not himself in person within one month now last past openly and publickly read the Common Prayers in and by the Book prescribed by the Statute made in the thirteenth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making ordaining and consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England in the parish-Parish-Church of C.
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
praed C. B. qui etiam c. prout c. 40 s. inde de bonis c. praed R. C. qui etiam c. prout c. 100 s. inde resid ' c. ut in Recordo In quarum omnium rerum test nos praefat Iustic die anno loco ult mentionat man sigillâ—… nostr praesentibus opposuimus Memorial of a Record of a Conventicle Kent ss A Memorial of the Account of the Moneys mentioned in the Record certified at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid on Tuesday next after the Close of Easter 1679. by Sir I. H. Knight W. C. S. B. and R. K. Esquires four of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County forfeited as in the said Record is mentioned in an Assembly holden in the dwelling-house of R. K. in the Parish of Stapleherst in the County aforesaid under colour of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy of the Church of England upon the thirtieth day of March 1675. His Majestie 's third part of the said Forfeitures by the said Justices tendred into the Court of the general Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County at M. aforesaid on Tuesday next after the Close of Easter 1679. and by appointment of the same by the said Justices paid to Sir I. C. Knight and Baronett Sheriff of the said County to His Majestie 's use Viz. For R. C. 20 d. 20 d. and 39 s. 4 d. All which was levied and paid to the said Justices since the last general Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County at M. aforesaid viz. 02 02 08 Summa patet And as concerning the moneys in the said Record mentioned to be payable by the several persons â—…ere under named His Majestie 's third part whereof cometh to as followeth viz. S. B. 20 d. 20 d. and 3 l. 3 s. 4 d. In all 03 06 08 C. B. 20 d. 20 d. 20 d. and 13 s. 4. d. In all 00 18 04 I. B. 20 d. and 23 s. 4 d. In all 01 05 00 R. K. 06 13 09 In all 12 03 09 The said Justices do say that they did upon the seventeenth day of April 1678. being the day of the Conviction of the persons aforesaid for their Offences in the said Record mentioned make out their Warrants for levying thereof but they have not as yet received the same or any part thereof nor is the same or any part thereof as yet levied that they know of though they have diligently enquired after the same A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Offence 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 C. D. was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of being present in the Parish of C. in the said County at under of exercise of Religion in other manner then is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid And whereas we did upon the said Conviction fine the said C. D. for his said Offence and he did not pay down the said Fine unto us These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command 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 safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 keep without Bail or Mainprise by the space of next after such delivery of him unto you Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Freehold or Copy-hold or 50 li. in Goods A Mittimus upon the second Offence To the Constable c. as in the precedent Warrant Kent ss FOrasmuch as C. D. was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of being present in the Parish of T. in the said County at under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid And whereas we did upon the said Conviction fine the said C. D. for his said Offence and he did not pay down the said Fine unto us And forasmuch as the said C. D. hath been once before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the Act asoresaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command 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 safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 keep without Bail or Mainprise by the space of next after such delivery of him unto you Hereof fail not c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if they be satisfied that the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Freehold or Copyhold or 50 li. in Goods A Mittimus upon the third Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders c. as in the precedent Warrant Kent ss FOrasmuch as C. D. was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of being present in the Parish of T. in the said County at under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid And forasmuch as the said C. D. hath been twice before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the said Act These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command 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 safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 keep without Bail or Mainprise untill the next general Quarter-Sessions for the West-Division of this County the next Assizes Gaol-delivery Great Sessions or Sitting of Oyer and Terminer in the County aforesaid which shall first happen And that you then and there have him to be farther proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if they be satisfied that the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Free-hold or Copy-hold or be worth 50 li. in Goods A Record against one that suffereth a Conventicle c. to be kept in his house ¶ I conceive it fit that this Record be written in Parchment And Quaere if not fit to be in Latin Kent ss MEmorandum That upon the second 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 R. T. of c. did wittingly and willingly suffer under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England to be held in his in the Parish of T. in the said County on c. day now last past 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 Mittimus thereupon upon the first Conviction 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 D. E. was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of wittingly and willingly suffering under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England to be held in his in the Parish of T. in the said County upon the second day of Iune now last past contrary to the Act aforesaid And whereas we did upon the said Conviction fine the said D. E. for his said Offence and he did not pay down the said Fine unto us These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said D. E. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 keep without Bail or Mainprise by the space of next after such delivery of him unto you Hereof fail not at your perils c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Freehold or Copy-hold or 50 li. in Goods A Mittimus thereupon upon the second Conviction To the Constable c. as in the precedent Warrant K. ss FOrasmuch as c. as in the precedent Warrant till you come to these words And he did not pay down the said Fine unto us go on thus And forasmuch as the said D. E. hath been once before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the Act aforesaid These are therefore c. as aforesaid The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis c. as aforesaid A Mittimus thereupon upon the third Conviction To c. as in fol. 102. Kent ss FOrasmuch as c. as in fol. 102. till you come to these words And forasmuch as the said D. E. hath been twice before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the said Act These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said D. E. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's 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 keep without Bail or Mainprise untill the next general Quarter-Sessions for the West Division of this County the next Assizes Gaol-delivery Great Sessions or Sitting of any Commission of Oyer and Terminer in the County aforesaid which shall first happen And that you then and there have him to be farther proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis c. as aforesaid A Warrant to levy the Penalty of the Statute upon the Teacher in a Conventicle To the Constable Borsholders Headboroughs and Tithingmen of the Hundred of M. C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid and to every of them and to all and every other Officers within the said County whom the execution hereof may concern Kent ss FOrasmuch as I did this present day receive a Certificate to me directed under the hand and seal of W. E. of S. in the County of Sussex Esquire one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the said County of Sussex That G. H. of C. aforesaid Tailour was upon the first day of this instant August by him convicted by proof to him made according to an Act of Parliament intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided of being present in the Barn of R. W. of W. in the said County of Sussex Husbandman and there did take upon him to preach or teach at a Conventicle the five and twentieth day of Iuly last past under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England and contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid and that therefore being thereof convicted as aforesaid the said G. H. did forfeit for the said first Offence twenty pounds and that he the said Justice had by virtue of the said Act imposed on him so convict as aforesaid for his said Offence the said summ of twenty pounds as being thought by him
able to pay the same as by the said Certificate appeareth These are therefore by virtue of the Act aforesaid in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith levy the said twenty pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said G. H And that when you or any of you have so levied the said twenty pounds or any part thereof that then you they or he that hath so levied the same do forthwith deliver the moneys so levied to the aforesaid W. E. to be by him distributed according to the Act aforesaid Hereof neither you nor any of you are to fail at your perils Given under my hand and seal at A. in the said County of Kent 10. Aug. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. A Warrant pro testes to prove the Conventicle To the Constable as in the precedent Warrant Kent ss WHereas we have this day received information That several persons upon the 19. day of Iune last past were present in the Parish of S. in the said County at a Conventicle then and there held under colour of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England contrary to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made and provided to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles And whereas we are also informed That the several persons here under named can testify the particulars and truth of the premisses These are therefore in his Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you do give notice to the several persons that they and every of them are by us commanded to appear before us at the house of R. K. Esq in H. in the County aforesaid on Wednesday the first day of this instant August at 8 of the clock in the forenoon of the same day then and there to testify their several knowledges touching the premisses Whereof neither they nor any of them are to fail at their perils And you are farther hereby commanded to appear at the time and place aforesaid to make appear unto us what you have done in the execution hereof Hereof also you are not to fail at your perils Given under our hands and seals at H. in the said County the c. day of c. 1670. 22 Car. c. A. B. of c. c. as many as be C. D. of c. c. as many as be A Warrant to levy the money upon the Offenders To the Constable as in page 105. K. ss FOrasmuch as R. L. of the said Parish of S. Mercer was this present day according to an Act of Parliament to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided by us convicted of his wittingly and willingly suffering an Assembly to be holden in his dwelling-house in the said Parish of S. upon the 30. day of March now last past under colour of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid by which he hath according to the said Act forfeited the summe of twenty pounds for his said Offence These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you forthwith to levy by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said Robert Kite the aforesaid summe of twenty pounds And you and every of you are in his Majestie 's name hereby farther commanded that when you or any of you have as aforesaid levied the summe aforesaid that then they or he having so levied the same do forthwith deliver the same to us or one of us to be distributed according to the said Act. Hereof neither you nor any of you are to fail at your perils Given under our hands and seals at C. c. prout supra A Warrant to levy the money upon the Offenders To the Constable c. prout precedent Warrant Kent ss FOrasmuch as W. W. of the aforesaid Parish of S. Gent. one of the Church-wardens of the said Parish I. H. of the Parish aforesaid Yeoman the other Church-warden of the said Parish T. N. of the Parish aforesaid Chandler one of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish I. W. the elder of the Parish aforesaid Yeoman G. P. c. many others W. H. of the Parish aforesaid Yeoman Headborough of the North Borough in the said Parish c. prout were every of them this present day by us convicted according to an Act of Parliament to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided of being present in the Parish-Church of Sandherst aforesaid in the County aforesaid upon Sunday the nineteenth day of Iune last past between the hours of nine and twelve before noon the same day at an Assembly then and there held under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid and we have by virtue of the said Act imposed upon every of the said Offenders so convicted as aforesaid a Fine of five shillings for that his respective offence These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you forthwith to levy upon every of the said Offenders respectively by Distress and Sale of his respective Goods and Chattels the aforesaid Fine of five shillings And forasmuch as R. Giles of Rol. in the said County Gent. did then and there take upon him to teach in the Assembly aforesaid and did then and there teach against the form of the Act aforesaid and was this present day by us according to the said Act convicted of his said Offence and he hath for the same forfeited the summe of twenty pounds and for that in our judgments we do think the said R. G. unable to pay the said summe so forfeited as aforesaid We have therefore by our discretions adjudged the same to be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the aforesaid W. W. I. H. Da. Pet. and I. C. who as aforesaid were all of them present at the Assembly and are thereof as aforesaid convicted and the same summe of twenty pounds to be levied in manner following That is to say one hundred shillings thereof of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. other one hundred shillings thereof of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. H. other one hundred shillings thereof of the Goods and Chattels of the said D. P. and the other one hundred shillings thereof residue of the Goods and Chattels of the said I. C. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you forthwith to levy one hundred shillings parcel of the said summe of twenty pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. and to levy other one hundred shillings other parcel of the said summe of twenty pounds
of England contrary to the Act aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. ten pounds by him forfeited for his said Offence and that you do pay the moneys so levied to the Church-wardens of the Parish of T. the Parish where the Offender did last inhabit in the said County for the relief of the Poor of the said Parish Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like mutatis mutandis against the Keeper of the House of Correction if he offend in the like case Against a Peer of the Realm for being at a Conventicle the first Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as T. Lord C. a Peer of this Realm was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of being present in the parsh of V. in the said County at under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the Liturgy or practice of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy upon the Goods and Chattels of the said T. Lord C. ten pounds for the Offence aforesaid and that you do pay the moneys so levied to the Church-wardens of the aforesaid Parish of V. for relief of the Poor of the said Parish Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Upon the second Conviction To the Constable c. as in the precedent Warrant Kent ss FOrasmuch as T. Lord C. a Peer of c. as in the precedent Warrant till you come to these words contrary to the Act aforesaid go on thus And forasmuch as the said T. Lord C. hath been once before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the said Act These are therefore c. to levy upon the Goods and Chattels of the said T. Lord C. twenty pounds c. Against a Peer for suffering a Conventicle c. to be kept in his House c. the first Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as T. Lord C. a Peer of this Realm was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of wittingly and willingly suffering under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England to be held in his in the Parish of V. in the said County upon the 12. day of Iune now last past contrary to the Act aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy upon the Goods and Chattels of the said T. Lord C. ten pounds for the Offence aforesaid and that you pay the moneys so levied to the Church-wardens of the aforesaid Parish of V. for relief of the Poor of the said Parish Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Upon the second Conviction To the Constables c. as in the precedent Warrant K. ss FOrasmuch as T. Lord C. a Peer of this Realm c. as in the precedent Warrant And forasmuch as the said T. Lord C. hath been once before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the said Act These are therefore c. A Mittimus for a Nonconformist c. 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. K. ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before us That A. B. upon the 12. day of c. or c. was within five miles of contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided intituled An Act for restraining Nonconformists from inhabiting in Corporations These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you to take the said A. B. and him convey to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the 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 keep for six months without Bail or Mainprise Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Certificate to the Militia c. for Aid in Case of a Conventicle To the Lieutenant any Deputy-lieutenant or any Commissioned Officer of the Militia or any other His Majestie 's Forces the Sheriffs Iustices or other Magistrates and Ministers of Iustice joyntly or severally Kent ss THese are to certifie you That I A. B. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace c. have received Information of an unlawfull under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles at T. in the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid And that I with such assistance as I can get together am not able to suppress or dissolve the same All which I do certifie unto you to the end that you may repair unto the said place aforesaid and doe therein as by the said Act is required and enjoyned Given under my hand and seal the c. A Certificate made by a Iustice where the Offenders live in a Corporation Kent ss S. B. and R. K. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in His County aforesaid To the chief Magistrate of the Corporation of Tenterden in the said County Greeting Whereas W. S. of Tent. aforesaid in the County aforesaid Yeoman was this present day before us convicted according to an Act of Parliament to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided of being present in the dwelling-house of I. B. in the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid upon the sixth day of this instant Iuly at a Conventicle then and there held under colour of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid and we have by virtue of the said Act imposed upon him a Fine of five shillings for that his Offence And whereas also the said I. B. was this present day before us also according to
the moneys so levied collected or gathered in such manner as by the Statute aforesaid is directed and appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A. B. of one day 10 s. C. D. of two days 20 s. c. Against those that refuse or neglect to work in the High-ways To the Surveyors of the High-ways in the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as upon your Complaint it appeareth unto us That the several Persons hereunder named were by you charged to come to labour in the High-ways in the Parish aforesaid according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made and provided and yet nevertheless they neglected so to doe by the space of such number of days as are hereunder mentioned and severally added to their several names 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 collect and gather by Distress and Sale of the respective Goods of the said respective Persons the respective summs of money hereunder added to their respective names being moneys by them respectively forfeited for their said neglect according to the Statute aforesaid rendring to the Parties so distrained the overplus if any be And that you do employ and bestow the moneys so levied collected or gathered in such manner as by the Statute aforesaid is directed and appointed Hereof fail not c. A. B. of A. aforesaid one day 1 s. 6 d. C. D. of A. aforesaid two days c. 3 s. c. To impower the Surveyors to dig Gravel c. upon Wasts or Commons out of the Parish Kent ss FOrasmuch as by the information of the Surveyors of the High-ways in the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid it appeareth unto us that there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand Cinders and Stones within the said Parish to repair their common and publick High-ways We do therefore according to the form of the Statut̄e in that case lately made and provided hereby allow and approve that the said Surveyors or either of them and such Person and Persons as they or either of them shall appoint shall and may dig take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand Cinders or Stones out of any Waste or Common of any Parish Town Village or Hamlet neighbouring to the Parish aforesaid or upon the Sea-coast without paying any thing for the same for the repairing and amending of the High-ways aforesaid so as they fill up the place within one month next after their digging aforesaid if required by the owner of the Soil Given under our hands and seals the c. To appoint what shall be paid by the Surveyors for digging Gravel c. in any man's Ground Kent ss WHereas by the information of the Surveyors of the High-ways in the Parish of A. in the County aforesaid it appeareth unto us that there being not sufficient Gravel Chalk Stones Cinders and Sand or other materials for to amend and repair the aforesaid High-ways within the common or waste grounds of the said Parish they did according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made and provided enter into the ground of B. C. in the Parish aforesaid near adjoyning to the High-ways to be repaired and did dig take and carry away materials which they judged necessary for the said Reparations and for that difference did arise between the said Surveyors and the said B. C. about the Damages by the said B. C. suffered by the digging and carriage thereof We do therefore according to the Statute aforesaid assess the Damages aforesaid at c. of lawfull money of England which the said Surveyors are to render unto him for the same Given under our hands and seals the c. Against Surveyors for not accounting 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 common Gaol for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto us That B. C. and D. E. Surveyors of the High-ways in the Parish of A. in the said County for the year c. have not made such account touching their said Office as by the Statute in that behalf lately made is appointed and upon examination of the business upon Oath we do find the said Complaint to be true These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said B. C. and D. E. and forthwith convey them to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver them to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them into the Gaol aforesaid and them there safely to keep untill they have made such true and perfect account touching their said Office as by the said Statute is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Against the Surveyors who have not paid the moneys in their hands to the next Surveyors To the Constable c. as in the precedent Warrant Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto us That B. C. and D. E. Surveyors of the High-ways in the Parish of A. in the said County for the year c. had in their hands upon their account made touching their said Office according to the form of the Statute in that case made the summ of c. overplus which they have not returned or paid to the next Surveyors or either of them as by the said Statute is appointed and upon examination of the business upon Oath we do find the said Complaint to be true These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said B. C. and D. E. and forthwith convey them to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver them to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them into the Gaol aforesaid and them there safely keep untill they have made payment of the said c. to the aforesaid next Surveyors as by the said Statute is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. House of Correction A Warrant and Directions for general privy Search To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it is observed That for want of due Execution of the good Laws and Statutes of this Realm made and provided for the apprehending and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle Persons the number of them does daily increase within this Division
Poles Young-trees Bark or Bast of Trees Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails Hedge-wood Broom and Furze are unlawfully cut stoln spoiled and taken away from the lawfull Owners of the same contrary to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that you do with all convenient speed enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the houses within the said Hundred of all and every person or persons which you shall suspect to have any kind of such Wood Under-wood Poles or Young-trees or Bark or Bast of any Trees or any such Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze And wheresoever you shall find any such to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person and persons suspected for the cutting or taking of the same and them and every of them in whose houses or other places belonging to them any such Wood Under-wood Poles or young Trees or Bark or Bast of any Trees or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze shall be found to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County to be proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not c. A Warrant to search for stoln Wood c. upon a particular Complaint 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 me by A. B. That were within five days now last past taken out of his Lands in L. in the said County and hath prayed such relief from me therein as by an Act of Parliament in such cases lately made I am authorized to give These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the houses within the said Hundred of all and every person or persons which you shall suspect to have any of the said And wheresoever you shall find any such to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person or persons suspected for the cutting and taking of the same And them and every of them as also those in whose houses or other places belonging to them any such shall be found to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to be proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. An Order against a person apprehended with Bundles c. of Wood c. to make satisfaction c. for the same to the Owner The first Offence Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. was within five days last past apprehended by having a Bundle of and this day brought before me to give account how he came by the said by the consent of the Owner according to an Act of Parllam tâ—… lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroying of young Timber-trees And for that he did not give such account thereof as did satisfie me nor produce the party of whom he bought the same or any other credible Witness to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof whereby he is according to the said Act by me deemed and adjudged as convict of the Offence of cutting and spoiling of the said within the meaning of another Act of Parliament which was made in the third and fourth year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act to avoid and prevent Misdemeanours in idle and lewd persons And forasmuch as it appeareth unto me That C. D. of c. was lawfull Owner of the said I do therefore according to the said first before mentioned Act order and appoint That the said A. B. shall within six days now next ensuing give the said C. D. of lawfull money of England for recompence and satisfaction for his damages and that the said A. B. shall over and above pay down presently unto the Overseers for the use of the Poor of the Parish of T. in the said County wheâ—…e the said Offence was committed of lawfull money Given under my hand and seal the c. For not obeying that Order To the Constable and Borsholders oâ—… the Hundred of A. in the said County and to eâ—…ery of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the Couâ—… aforesaid K. ss WHereas A. B. of C. within eight days last past was apprehended by having a Bundle of and lately brought before me to give account how he came by the said by the consent of the Owner according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees And for that he did not give such account thereof as did satisfie me nor did produce the party of whom he bought the same or any other credible Witness to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof whereby he was then according to the said Act by me deemed and adjudged as convict of the Offence of cutting and spoiling of the said within the meaning of one other Act of Parliament which was made in the third and fourth year of the Reign of the late Queen Eliz. intituled An Act to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in idle and lewd persons And whereas it then appeared unto me That C. D. of c. was Owner of the said and I did therefore according to the said first before mentioned Act order and appoint that the said A. B. should within six days then next ensuing give the said C. D. c. oâ—… lawfull money of England for recompence and satisfaction for his damages And that the said A. B. should over and above pay down then presently to the Overseers for the use of the Poor of the Parish of T. in the said County where the said Offence was committed â—… of like money And forasmuch as the said A. B. did not according to the said order and appointment give or pay the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you forthwith to convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction and him there deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper â—…o receive him into the said House and him there detain by the space of
days next after such your receipt of him Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand aâ—…d seal the c. Note The Iustice may if he think fit not send the Offender to the House of Correction but may make a Warrant to the Constable c. to whip him which may be made with the same recitals as in the last precedent Warrant till you come to these words These are therefore c. And then say thus These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you to whip the said A. B. for the said Offence Hereof fail not c. Note This is onely for the first Offence Now for the second Offence thus A Mittimus to the House of Correction for the second like Offence 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 aforesaid at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas c. As in the former Warrant till you come to these words And whereas it then appeared c. Instead of which you go on thus And forasmuch as the said A. B. was once before convict of the said Offence and was thereof so convicted as before These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders to convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there keep him one month to hard labour Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. An Order against the Buyer of stoln Wood c. to pay treble the value thereof Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon examination by me this day according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees it appeared unto me That A. B. of c. did within six days last past buy of E. F. being a person justly suspected to have unlawfully come by the same and that the same was unlawfully come by and unlawfully taken from C. D. of c. and was of the value of c. of lawfull money of England I do therefore according to the said Act award that the said A. B. shall pay to the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England being the treble value of the Given under my hand and seal the c. A Warrant to distrain for non-payment of the Money according to the foregoing Order To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas lately by examination by me taken according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees it appeareth unto me That A. B. of c. did within c. days last past buy of E. F. being a person justly suspected to have unlawfully come by the same and that the same was unlawfully come by and unlawfully taken from C. D. of c. and was of the value of c. of lawfull money of England I did therefore according to the said Act award that the said A. B. should pay to the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England being the treble value of the And forasmuch as the said A. B. hath not paid to the said C. D. the aforesaid c. according to my said award These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you to levy the â—…aid c. by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. rendring to him the over-plus and after you have so levied the said c. forthwith to pay the same to the said C. D. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my haâ—…d and seal the c. A Mittimus against the Buyer of stoln Wood c. for want of Distress 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 County aforesaid at T. in the said County Kent ss WHereas lately c. as in the last before mentioned Warrant till you come to the words Hereof fail not c. then go on thus And forasmuch as you the said Constable have returned unto me That in default of such Distress you cannot levy the aforesaid summ of c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you to attach the said A. B. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid at his own charge and there deliver him to the 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 keep one month without Bail Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Woollen A Certificate for burying in Woollen K. ss A. B. of the Parish of C. in the County of D. Gent. maketh Oath that E. F. of the Parish of G. in the County of H. Gent. lately deceased was not put in wrapt or wound up or buried in any Shirt Shift Sheet or Shroud made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or other then what is made of Sheeps Wool onely nor in any 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 Dated the 2. day of Iuly in the one and thirtieth year of the Reign oâ—… our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. Annoque Dom. 1679. Sealed and subscribed by us who were present and Witnesses to the swearing of the aforesaid Affidavit A. B. C. D. I H. B. Esq one of the King's Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of D. do hereby certify That the day and year abovesaid the said A. B. came before me and made such Affidavit as is above specified according to the late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for burying in Woollen Witness my hand the day and year first above written H. B. Or this I P. S. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County do hereby certify That A. B. came before me this present second day of Iune 1679. and made Oath that C. D. deceased was not put in wrapt or wound up or buried in any Shift Shirt Sheet or Shroud made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or other then what is made of Sheeps Wool onely or in any
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