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A76259 A help to magistrates, and ministers of justice, also a guide to parish and ward-officers. : Containing, 1. Plain directions for justices of the peace ... 2. To their clerks in drawing forms of warrants, and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers ... 5. The rates of servants wages ... 6. Some directions to coroners and their inquests ... 7. Customs ... peculiar to the city of London in privileges, law-matters ... 8. The office and duty of a high constable ... 9. The office and duty of churchwardens and sidesmen. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of highways, scavengers, &c. P. B., Gent. 1700 (1700) Wing B150A; ESTC R172533 117,286 226

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none come within the Year to make Claim that then they shall be Appraised for the Duty and there a feme sole Merchant may be Sued without her Husband as has been said before and every one in London claims to have a Market in his Shop and his Shop is his Market for such Goods as belong to his Trade either in Buying or Selling. As if a Goldsmith buy Stolen Plate in his Shop openly not knowing it to be Stole and give for it a Lawful Marketable Price he may maintain it but if he buy it in an Ale-house or any other Tradesman's Shop or in the Street the Case is altered it is Unlawful buying not in the proper Market Sequestration by Custom of London By the Custom of London in an Action of Debt the Defendant shall have four Defaults and if he cannot be found but hath shut up his Shop and is gone a Precept shall be to the Sergeant at the Plaintiffs Request to Sequester the Goods of his House 11 Hen. 7. 2 P. 2. Contribution Debt was upon the Custom in London because the Plaintiff and 3 others were bound joyntly and severally in one Bond and one Pays all the Debt or part or the whole is recovered against him he may have an Action of Debt for Partition against the other Obligors Enter 1660. Debts under 40 s. in London Every Citizen and Freemen of London and every other Person Inhabiting or that shall Inhabit within the City of London and Liberties thereof being a Tradesman Victualer or Labouring-man which have or shall have any Debts owing to him or them not amounting to 40 s. by any Citizen or Freeman or by any other Person or Persons being a Victualer Tradesman or Labouring-man Inhabiting within the the said City or Liberties thereof should or might cause such Debtor or Debtors to be Warned to appear before the Commissioners of the Court of Request in Guild-hall and the said Commissioners or any 3 or more of them shall have Power to set down such Orders between Plaintiff and Defendant Creditor and Debtor touching such Debts not amounting to 40 s. as they shall find to stand with Equity and good Conscience And also the said Commissioners or any 3 or more of them have Power to Administer an Oath to the Creditor or Debtor and to such Witnesses as shall be produced on either part and also to commit to Prison in one of the Compters such Creditor or Debtor as shall not appear upon lawful Summons or not perform such Order as the said Commissioners or any 3 or more of them shall set 1 Jacobi 1. 3 Jacobi 1. the first Act being strengthened by the latter and by it the Court of Requests commonly called the Court of Conscience is Established to this Day happy for the poorer sort keeping them from many Misfortunes that would else befal them to the farther filling and crouding the Goals by Strifeful Vexations for small and trivial Matters were not this Court a Bar to restrain them to the great Ease and Security of poor people It is held before the Commissioners at the East end of the Guild-hall Wednesday and Saturday Weekly beginning usually about 11 in the Morning and sometimes if Business require it it may be sooner CHAP. XXXIX Marking a Cause in the Mayor's Court after a Verdict given in the Sherriffs Court to be done THere is a Practice in London called Marking a Cause before the Lord Mayor which is after a Verdict given in the Sheriffs Court for the Plaintiff in this Case the Defendant is to get the Cause mark'd before the Lord Mayor's Court and is like an Injunction in the Chancery to stay Judgment and Execution until the Matter be Examined in Equity where the Lord Mayor doth oftentimes if Cause be Mitigate the Damages or give the Defendant time to pay it Other Customs in London in this Court c. The Custom of London is if a Plaint of Debt be entred in the Sheriffs Court upon Suggestion of any of the Parties the Lord Mayor may send for both of them and Examine them upon the Truth of the Matter before Judgment and if he find that the Party is satisfied so much of it he may bar him but not after Judgment 10 Hen. 6. Chap. 14 15. Where he in the Reversion upon a Lease for a Year is impleaded of Lands in London and makes Default the Lord Mayor is to enquire by Neighbours in the presence of the Termor and Demandant whether the Plea be moved by a good Right or by Fraud to make the Termor to lose his Term and if it be found upon a good Right the Demandant shall have Judgment presently and if not the Termor shall have his Term and the Execution of the Judgment shall be suspended Stat. Glouc. Chap. 11. Deceit 1. Of Foreign Attachments c. By the Custom of London one may Detach either Money or Goods of the Defendants either in the Plaintiffs own hands or in the Custody of a third Person in either the Mayor or Sheriffs Courts and there if the Defendant appear not the Goods or Money may be Condemn'd The Attachment is entered in the Office as Actions are but with this Difference they enter the hour of the day when the Attachment is made for if many Attachments be made and come against one Man's Goods the first is first served He whose Goods are attached in another Man's hands may come and offer himself to Prison or put in Bail and dissolve the Attachment and after have a Writ of Priviledge though he render himself to Prison gratis because he was is there by Virtue of a Plaint But the Plaintiff may have a new Plaint against the Defendant and attach him by his Goods and then the Defendant may remove it by Certiorari and when the second Plaint is removed to the Common-Pleas the Justices shall Examine if the Goods were attached for Costs of Suit and then the Defendant may be discharged but if it be found by Oath that they were attached for Merchandizes or for any Cause than before it shall be Remanded But if the Party were in Execution in London and afterward Suit is commenc'd in the Common-Pleas A Writ shall go to the Mayor and Sheriff to have the Prisoner there and make an Attorney and then he shall be sent back but if he were impleaded in the Common-Pleas and afterwards Arrested in London and the Mayor's Court send for the Party he shall be Discharged of the Suit in London by the Priviledge of the Mayor's Court M. 38. Hen. 6.12 P. 2. When an Attatchment is made in the Hands of a third Person there after a Default the Defendant within a Year and a Day may put in Sureties to Answer the Plaintiff the Duty or may render his Body to Prison if he cannot find Sureties and therefore in a Writ of Priviledge after he had yielded his Body to Prison he was Bailed because the yielding his Body to Prison was after the Su●t in the
it were Summoned by two and Stiled by their Names but two sufficient Justices Warrants Sealed Quorum c. Vide Dalton c. Quarter Sessions are to be held 4 times in the Year viz. The first Week after St. Michae● The Epiphany the close of Easter and after the Translation of Thomas the Martyr which is July 7. 2 Hen 5. Chap. Lamb. 597. Dalt 531. Justices of the Peace shall hold their Sessions 4 times in the Year viz. One within the Octaves of Epiphany the second in the second Week of Lent the third between the Feasts of Pentecost and St. John Baptist the fourth within the Octaves of St. Michael 36 Edw. 3. Chap. 12. Dalt 531. Crompt 123. B. Nu. 15. c. The place where Sessions is to be held is Arbitrable and therefore though by Summons they are to be kept in one place yet they may be kept in another but then there can be no Amercement for Default of Appearance Lamb. 383. 384. But they must be kept within the County Dalt 531. So in a Town Corporate but not to intermeddle Two Sessions at one time for one County Lawfully Summoned at two Places are good but Appearance at one shall excuse the default of an Appearance at the other and Presentment taken before either of them shall stand good Lamb. 384 But Punishable without notice At a General Sessions all Matters Enquirable by Justices of the Peace either by Statute or their Commission ought to be given in Charge otherwise at special Sessions Lamb. 613. And may be held 3 Days 606. 12 R. 2. Chap. 10. At the Quarter Sessions Officers and Ministers of the Court and Jurors of the County owe their Attendance Lam. 386. Jurors not appearing according to Summons are Punishable for loss of Issues the usual part of Estreats Constables making Default are Fineable The Justices of the Peace if need require may keep a special Sessions by Virtue of their Commission or by the Statute 1 Hen. 5. Chap. 4. Lamb. 623. All Matters within the Commission or Statute may at a special Sessions of the Peace be given in Charge yet they are at liberty to give in Charge either all or any of them Lamb. 623 624. If two Justices of the Peace one being of the Quorum make a Precept to the Sheriff for the holding a Sessions at such a Place and Day and to return a Jury before them other Justices cannot by their Supersedeas Inhibit it Crompt 126. B. But the King by his Writ of Supersedeas may Discharge it Ibid. All that come to the Sessions for publick Service or upon Compulsion upon Complaint and Examination of the Matter upon Oath shall be freed from any Arrest upon Original Process Lamb. Cro. 190. B. Lamb. 402. Indictments are many times Tried the same Sessions wherein the Persons were Indicted yea the same Day before Justices of Goal Delivery or Justices of Oyer c. Dalt 537. 1 Cro. 315 438 448. But in Case of Felony it seems very reasonable to be deferred to the next Sessions upon Cause shewn it being so in an Indictment of Nusance generally and life is more to be valued and favoured c. Dalt 537. Many things of great Import cannot be done but at the Sessions and some but at such a particular Sessions Dalt 537. Of the first sort are the Discharge of Apprentices Ill-used Badgers Licensed Officers Sworn after the Sacrament received proved and declaring against Transubstantiation c. Dalt 538. The second is taking Accounts for Maimed Soldiers of the Treasurers and for Charitable Uses c. 43 Eliz. in Easter Sessions the Rates of Wages in Easter Sessions and 6 Weeks after Dalt 538. Making Order in the Chamber after the Adjournment of the Sessions as for the Bastard-Children and Settlements and some other Things and Matters But not to be tedious to the Reader I shall hear close Treating of Matters of this Kind and proceed to others Executed CHAP. XIV Of Mittimus's and their Form and what is to be considered in them c. A Mittimus must contain the name of the Party or Parties his or their Offences and the time of Imprisonment that it may appear whether the Prisoner be Bailable or not Lamb. 297. Dalt 439 406. Crompt 153. A. Num. 11. If one be Committed without Bail or Main-prise and the Cause be expressed in the Mittimus and yet is Bailable other Justices may Bail him yet Quaere seeing their Authority is equal Dalt 439. But if no Cause be expressed other Justices shall not do well to Bail him without the Privity of the first Justice or Justices because the Cause of Commitment probably may not be Bailable Dalt 439. If the Mittimus be General the other Justices that Bail must take notice at Peril Ibid. There is a Writ called a Mittimus for removing Records of Outlawry Judgment in the King's-bench c. Unto the common Place or an Act of Parliament unto the King's-bench c. See of this 1 Cro. 134 298. Hob. 111 135. The Form of the Mittimus see To send Rioters to Goal Lamb. 321. To send Shooters in Pieces to Goal 229. Dalt 515. To send upon Forcible Entry c. Lamb. 150 520. To send to the House of Correction Dalt 513. To send an Ale-seller without License Dalt 512. To send a Reputed Father of a Bastard Ibid. CHAP. XV. Of Recognizances what they are and how and in what Cases to be taken by a Justice of the Peace c. A Recognizance of a Bond of Record Testifying the Recognizor to owe a certain Summ of Money to some other and that Acknowledgment of the Summ is to remain of Record and none can lawfully take it but a Judge or Officer of Record Dalt 457. Every Recognizance taken by a Justice of the Peace must be made by these words Domino Regi and great Care to be had in so doing for it is Imprisonment for any Person to take it otherwise For these Words Domino Regi import and Imply the Recognizor is bound to our Lord the King and not to any other 33 Hen. 8. Chap. 9. Crompt 196. B. Num. 11. Lamb. 162. Dalt 276. Sureties in Recognizance ought to be Subsidy Men and they must be two besides the Party himself Dalt 276. Lamb. 101. It is in the Discretion of a Justice of the Peace if he take a Recognizance Ex Officio to appoint the Number of the Sureties their Sufficiency in their Goods and Lands and the Summ of Money and how long the Party shall be bound Dalt 275. Lamb. 100. Recognizance for the Peace unless the words be expressed for keeping of the Peace seemeth void Lamb. 103. Dalt 204 276. Coram non Judice So it is if a Recognizance be that the Recognizor shall not Beat or Maim B. without the Expressing the keeping the Peace in it Ibid. A Recognizance expressing no Time of Appearance but generally to keep the Peace is good Ibid. And so these few may serve to give a Light into others for