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 '
to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesad Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Causes for the Good behaviour Threaten to hurt any in the body of ill name and fame and of very lewd life and conversations or common Barterer or common Rioter or common breaker of the Peace or common Alehouse-haunter or common Drunkard or common Swearer or common Woodstealer or do keep a common Stew or Bawdy-house or common Hedge-breaker or common Tale-bearer or common Slanderer or common Libeller or common Whoremonger or common Whores or common sowers of Discord a maker of strife amongst his Neighbours or common Night-walker common Cheater or common Companions of Thieves or common Messenger for Thieves or common Pilferers or commonly suspected to be Thieves or do commonly practice Poysoning or common Eve-droppers or are commonly suspected of Incontinency or common harberers and entertainers of Whores Rogues or Thieves or common Robbers of Orchards or have sold Ale or Beer without Licence and contrary to the Command of the Iustice of the Peace or are Idle persons wandring up and down fare well and spend much in Alehouses and have no known and visible Estate to maintain it or that A. B. hath begotten a Bastard Child on the Body of C. and is like to be chargeable to the Parish or hath a hand in sending away the reputed Father of a Bastard Child then left to the Charge of the Parish c. Another Warrant for Good behaviour To the Constable and Borsholder of A. c. K. ss FOrasmuch as we have been credibly informed that A. B. of your Town of C. c. is a man of Evil behaviour and one that dayly moveth discord between his Neighbours and a common disturber of His Majestie 's Peace These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon the sight hereof you bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County the Body of the said A. B. to answer such matters as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him by C. D. and also that you require him to bring sureties for his Good behaviour untill the next Sessions And hereof fail not Given under c. A Mittimus to the Gaol for one that refuses to find Sureties for his Good behaviour To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid or to his lawfull Deputy thereof Kent ss I Send herewithall the Body of A. B. of c. for that he refuseth to find sufficient Sureties to be of Good behaviour towards His Majesty and all His liege people and to appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County at M. aforesaid straightly charging and commanding you in the name of our said sovereign Lord the King to receive him the said A. B. into safe custody and him safely to keep in the said Gaol untill he shall find sufficient Sureties as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. A Supersedeas for the Good behaviour R. R. one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace within the said County of Kent To the Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Tythen-men and all other His said Majestie 's Officers and Ministers within the said County and to every of them Greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. in the County of K. aforesaid Yeoman hath personally come before me and hath found sufficient Sureties That is to say C. D. of F. in the said County Yeoman and E. F. of G. in the County aforesaid Gent. either of the which hath undertaken for the aforesaid A. B. under the pain of 10 l. and the said A. B. hath undertaken for himself under the pain of 20 l. that he shall well uprightly and honestly behave himself as well towards His said Majesty as towards all his liege people and especially towards C. D. of K. in the said County Yeoman And that he will personally appear at the next Quarter Sessions to be holden in the said County of K. These are therefore to command you in His Majestie 's name that you utterly surcease to molest arrest trouble or imprison the said A. B. for the said occasion And that if you have for the said occasion and for no other taken and imprisoned him That then you do cause him to be delivered and set at liberty without farther delay Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal 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 nono 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 ' A Condition of a Recognizance for the same THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Assizes of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the Court there shall be then and there enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full sorce Another Condition The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace of K. and M. in the County aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and do in the mean time keep His Majestie 's Peace towards His Majesty and all His liege people and especially to T. A. of C. within written That then this Recognizance shall be void or else to stand in full force Another Condition The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Sessions of the
the said Act convicted of his wittingly and willingly suffering the Conventicle aforesaid to be held in his aforesaid dwelling-house contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid for which his Offence he hath forfeited the summe of twenty pounds And for that we do in our judgments think the said I. B. poor and unable to pay the said summe of twenty pounds by him as aforesaid forfeited We have therefore by our discretions adjudged one hundred shillings thereof to be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the aforesaid W. S. who as aforesaid was present at the same Conventicle And forasmuch as the said W. S. is an Inhabitant in the Corporation aforesaid we do therefore hereby certifie you of the premisses to the end you may proceed thereupon as by the said Act is required Given under our hands and seals at C. in the said County the one and twentieth day of Nov. An. Dom. 1679. 31 c. A Certificate for the taking the Oath according to the said Act. Kent ss I A. B. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County of K. do humbly certifie That D. E. did this present day before me take the Oath mentioned in an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles in these words I do swear that I do not hold the taking of an Oath to be unlawfull nor refuse to take an Oath on that account In testimony whereof I the said A. B. have hereunto set my hand and seal the c. Corporations A Certificate upon taking the Oaths and subscribing the Declarations mentioned in the Act for Regulating Corporations Kent ss MEmorandum That A. B. of C. did upon the 21. day of May last past before us whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County take the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and the Oath appointed to be taken by the Statute made in the 13. year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations and did likewise before us subscribe the Declaration in the said Statute mentioned In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the c. Court-Leet and Court-Baron A Precept directed to the Bailiff of the Mannor by the Steward of the Court-Baron to warn the Court. To the Bailiff of the said Mannor Kent ss THese are to require you to warn all the tenants of the said Mannor whose names are here under written and all other the tenants of the same personally to appear at the Court-Baron to be holden for the Mannor aforesaid at the place accustomed upon Thursday the tenth day of this instant Month of August at eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day then and there to doe and perform their several Suits and Services according to the custom of the said Mannor and have you there the names of such persons as you have so warned and this Precept Given under my hand and seal the first day of August 1676. 28. Regni Regis Caroli Secundi A Precept to warn a Jury for a Court-Leet To the Constable c. Kent ss THese are to will and require you to give publick notice within the said Hundred That His Majestie 's Court-Leet and view of Franck-pledge for the same shall be holden at the house called the Red Lion in B. upon Thursday the seventeenth day of this instant October at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same day And that you warn all persons that do owe any Suit or Service to the said Court That they and every of them personally be and appear at the time and place aforesaid then and there to do and perform the same And that more especially you warn four and twenty honest and lawfull men of the said Hundred to appear at the time and place aforesaid to enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King of those things which to the said Court do appertain And that you your selves be then and there also personally present and have you there the names of such persons as you have so warned and this Precept Given under my hand and seal the second day of Octob. 1680. 32 Regni Regis Caroli Secundi A Precept for a Borsholder or other Officer to take upon him the said Office and to repair to a Justice of Peace to take his Oath for his faithfull execution of the same To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of F. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as at His Majestie 's Court-Leet holden this present day for the said Hundred of F. you are elected Borsholder for the year to come These are therefore to will and require you upon receipt hereof to take upon you the said Office And forthwith to repair to one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County of K. before him to take your Oath for your faithfull execution of your said Office Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the second day of March Anno Dom. 1680. Regni Regis Caroli Secundi tricesimo secundo A Precept to bring in a Scould to be tried at a Court-Leet K. ss RIchard Kilburne Esquire Steward of His Majestie 's Court-Leet holden this present day for the said Hundred to the Constable of the Hundred aforesaid and Officer of the said Court greeting Forasmuch as E. P. of the Parish of C. in the said County Spinster otherwise called E. the Wife of R. T. of the aforesaid Parish of C. in the County aforesaid Labourer was at His Majestie 's said Court holden before me this present day by the Oaths of twelve honest and lawfull men of the Hundred aforesaid presented for her being a common Scould at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid within the Jurisdiction of the said Court as well with her Neighbours as with other the Liege people of the King whereby they are much molested disquieted and grieved against the Peace of the said King his Crown and Dignity to the great disturbance and disquiet of His Majestie 's Liege people and against his Peace These are therefore to command you to cause the said E. P. to come before me or my sufficient Deputy at the next Court-Leet of our Sovereign Lord the King to be holden at C. aforesaid in the County aforesaid within the Jurisdiction of the said Court upon Saturday the second day of Octob. next ensuing to answer the premisses And further to do and receive as the said Court of the said King shall consider of her in that behalf And have you there this Precept Given under my seal at C. aforesaid the tenth day of April in the seven and twentieth 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. The manner of making up of Court-Roles Cur ' Baron ' Thomae
were consumed wasted and burnt to the great danger of the Bodies of them and their Families and their exceeding great loss and impoverishment And forasmuch as it is a Godly and Charitable deed to further help and relieve such poor needy and miserable persons being of honest name fame and conversation as they who have suffered this great loss And for that the Bearers hereof in the behalf of themselves and their Neighbours are inforced by reason of their Losses to seek for help and succour for their relief And we knowing their Estate to be such as is premised and moved with commiseration of their sad Estate and Condition Have therefore as much as in us lieth given License unto them and every of them to make their repair from Parish Church to Parish Church and to every Parish Church and Chapel Town and Place within the County of K. to ask receive and take Charitable Devotion and Benevolence of all good and well disposed people towards the recovery of their said great Losses And our request further is That you and every of you to whom they shall repair do extend your lawfull favour unto them permitting them without your denial to execute the tenour of this our Licence Desiring all Ecclesiastical Persons to whom these distressed persons shall make their Address in this behalf to declare the tenor hereof to their Parishioners in every of their Parish Churches and Chapels on the Sabbath days or other Festival days exorting them to extend their Charity in this behalf and those whom it concerns to aid and assist them in the collection thereof In Witness c. A Charitable Request made by certain Iustices of the Peace to the Inhabitants of a Division for Relief of F. S. who had been therein lately ruined by Fire K. ss WE whose names are hereunto subscribed his Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County of K. and inhabiting in and neer the division of the said County wherein the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid is situate having received credible information that F. S. of the Parish aforesaid Labourer upon the second day of April last past by a sudden Fire hapening in his said dwelling house in the said Parish had his Flax to the value of thirty and five pounds suddenly burnt and consumed to the utter undoing him his wife and children unless he be relieved by the Charity of well disposed people We therefore taking the said Loss into consideration and much commiserating the same do upon the humble Petition of the F. S. so far forth as lawfully we may earnestly recommend his said sad condition to the charitable consideration and benevolence of all well disposed people inhabiting within the division aforesaid desiring them to contribute what God shall move their hearts unto towards his help and relief therein desiring also the Ministers and Church-wardens of every the Parishes within the division aforesaid to promote the said Charitable work Given under our hands the c. of May 1681. c. Forceable Entry A Warrant to return a Iury to inquire of a Forceable Entry Kent ss R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid To the Sheriff of the said County Greeting On the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King I command you that you do cause to come before me at C. in the Parish of G. in the County aforesaid upon Monday the tenth day of Iune next ensuing four and twenty sufficient and indifferent men of the neighbourhood of L. in the said County whereof every one have lands and tenements of the yearly value of forty shillings by the year at the least above reprises to enquire upon their Oath for His said Majesty of a certain Entry by strong hand made into the mesuage of A. B. at L. aforesaid against the form of the Statute in that behalf provided as it is said And that you do at the said day return twenty shillings issues upon every of the Jurors by you in this behalf to be impannelled Hereof fail not upon pain of twenty pounds to be by you forfeited to His said Majesty and upon such other penalty as by the Statute in that behalf provided is declared if you shall be slack and make not due execution hereof And have you there the names of the Jurors and this Precept Given under my hand and seal at c. the second day of c. A Record of a Forceable Entry K. ss EGO R. K. Armig. unus Iusticiariorum Dom. Regis nunc ad pacem in Comitatu Kanc. praedicto conservandam assignatorum Certifico quod secundo die Februarii Anno Regni dicti Dom. Regis nunc tricesimo questus est mihi A. B. de C. in Comitatu Kanc. praedicto Yeoman Quod E. F. aliae personae ignotae perturbatores pacis dicti Dom. Regis nunc praedicto secundo die Februarii Anno supradicto in unum messuagium unum Atrium cum pertin adtunc adhunc existens liberum tenementum W. I. Gent. ac in possessione praed A. B. pro termino decem annorum adhuc venturorum situatum in C. praedicta in Com. praedicto pacifice quiete intraver intrationem fecer Et postea viz. praedicto secundo die Februarii Anno supra dicto apud C. praedictam in Com. praedicto praedictum A. B. à praedicto Messuagio Atrio cum pertin vi Armis c. illicite manu forti expuler ejecer amover Et praed A. B. sic deinde expuls ejectum amotum à Messuagio Atrio praedictis cum pertin ut praedicitur vi Armis illicite manu forti adtunc ibidem extra tenuer detinuer Ad grave damnum praedicti A. B. contra pacem dicti Dom. Regis nunc c. ac contra formam Statuti in hujusmodi casu editi provisi Et unde praedictus A. B. petiit à me remedium in hac parte relevari Quâ querela petitione praedict per me auditis existen Ego praefatus J. B. immediate personaliter accessi ad Messuagium Atrium praedicta cum pertin Ac in Messuagio praedicto adtunc ibidem inventi praedictum E. F. praedictum Messuagium Atrium cum pertinentiis à praedicto A. B. vi armis illicite manu forti extra tenentem detinentem contra formam Statuti in hujusmodi casu editi provisi super quo ego praefatus J. B. adtunc ibidem causavi praedictum E. F. capt arrestat misi ad Gaolam de M. in Com. Kanc. praed ibid. remanere sub salva custodia donec inveniret coram me sive aliquo alio Iusticiariorum dicti Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. praedict sufficientem securitatem pro personali comparentia ipsius A. B. ad proximam generalem Quarterialem-Sessionem pacis dicti Dom. Regis in Com. praed tenent ad respondendum transgressioni contemp praed Ac quod
from A. to B. by Water All Constables Church-wardens and other His Majestie 's Officers are therefore required to permit the said Gent. to pass without interruption Given under my hand and seal this second day of October 1680. I. C. A Licence to Travel on the Lord's day To all Constables c. THese are to certifie that A. B. of C. c. where he now dwelleth having informed me that he hath a Brother living at C. in the County of H. where he lieth now very Sick and he hath a desire to see him Know ye that for this cause I do hereby license him to travel upon the next Lord's day the direct way to his Brother Willing and requiring you not to molest or hinder him for the same so that he behave himself orderly in his travel Given under my hand c. Misdemeanours A general Warrant for the same retornable before a particular Justice To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause A. B. of C. to come before me to answer unto such matters of Misdemeanour as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him 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. Or thus THese are to will and require you in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and either of you that immediately upon the sight hereof or upon Thursday next at two of the clock in the afternoon you bring A. B. of your said Town Barber before me to answer to such matters of Misdemeanours as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him And hereof fail you not at your perils Given under c. The like retornable before any Justice and the Accuser to have Notice To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause A. B. of c. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to answer unto such matters of Misdemeanour as on the behalf of His said Majesty shall be objected against him by E. F. of c. Husbandman and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain And you are farther hereby required to give convenient notice to the said E. F. of the time and place when whither and before whom you shall cause the said A. B. so to come in execution of this Precept to the end that the said E. F. may then and there also be personally present to make appear the Misdemeanour aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Condition of a Recognizance for Misdemeanour UPon this Condition That if you A. B. â—…hall personally appear before our Sovereign Lord the King's Justices of the Peace at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the Liberty of Saint A. and do then and there make answer unto all such things which on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against you and do not depart thence without Licence of the Court Then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in full force c. Murther A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment and to give Evidence at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes to both Iuries in case of Murther THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bound W. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of Kent and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of Indictment against A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. for murther of L. M. Gent. deceased wherewith the said A. B. and C. D. are chargeable before the within named Justice and with suspicion whereof the said E. F. G. H. I. K. are also charged before the Justice aforesaid and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the Murther aforesaid as well to the Jurors as shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. or any of them for the same then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force and virtue A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill and give Evidence at Assizes THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the above named County of C. at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at the Castle of C. in the County aforesaid and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred one or more Bill or Bills of Indictment against M. W. of c. and do then and there also give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the same against the said M. W. to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King that now is That then this Recognizance shall be void and of no effect or else it shall stand in full force A Recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment and to give Evidence to both Iuries at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes in case of an Abettor in Murther THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound W. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of the Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of K. do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of Indictment against Sir P. H. Knight touching his the said Sir P's being an Abettor to the Murther of M. C. deceased wherewith â—…e is charged before the within named Justices and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the matter aforesaid as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said Sir P. H. for the same That then this Recognizance shall be void or else stand in full force c. Nets Dogs and Conies A Warrant to search for Nets and Setting-dogs upon the Statute of 7 Iacobi To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss BY virtue of an Act of Parliament in that behalf made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to authorize and command you and every of you to enter into and search the
the said County at M. aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the Court shall be injoyned and in the mean time to be of good behaviour as well towards our Sovereign Lord the King as all His liege People And in case that they the said R. L. and I. W. or either of them shall refuse so to doe that then without expecting any further or other Warrant you do convey him or them so refusing to the Gaol aforesaid and them or him to deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper in His Majestie 's name to receive them or him so delivered unto you into the said Gaol and them or him there safely keep untill they or he shall give such Security as aforesaid Given under our hands and seals at c. A Supersedeas of a Warrant for the Peace To all Iustices of the Peace Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and other his Majestie 's Officers to whom it shall or may concern within this County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as R. I. of H. hath personaly appeared before me and hath found two sufficient Sureties viz. A. B. of C. and E. F. of G. either of them in the summ of ten pounds and the said R. I. in twenty pounds which they have acknowledged before me by Recognizance to His said Majestie 's use upon condition that the said R. I. shall appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County and in the mean time to keep the Peace towards His said Majesty and all His liege People and especially towards L. M. of c. Therefore these are in His Majestie 's name to command and require you and every of you That you do forbear and surcease to arrest attach take imprison or otherwise by any means for the said occasion to molest the said R. I. And if he be or hereafter shall be for the said occasion and for none other taken or imprisoned that then immediately upon sight hereof you do cause him to be delivered and set at liberty without further delay Given under c. A Mittimus for breaking the Peace Kent ss I Send you herewithall the Body of A. B. whome I charge and require you in His Majestie 's name to take into your safe custody for divers Misdemeanours committed by him against His said Majestie 's Peace untill he shall procure two good and sufficient Sureties to be bound with him in a Recognizance to His said Majesty either of them in the summ of ten pounds and himself in twenty pounds to appease His said Majestie 's Justices of the Peace at the next Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County and in the mean time to be of good behaviour towards His said Majesty and all His hege People Whereof fail not c. Given under c. A Release of the Peace Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod Tricesimo die Octobris Anno Regni Domini Nostri Caroli secundi Dei Gratia Angliae c. Tricesimo praefatus A. B. venit coram me praedicto C. D. Gratis remisit relaxavit quantum in ipso est praedictam securitatem pacis per ipsum versus infra nominatam Prudentiam Pell coram me petitam die anno supradictis The Condition of a Recognizance to appear at Sessions and keep the Peace THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the within named County of Kent at Maidstone in the County aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and do in the mean time keep His Majestie 's Peace towards His said Majesty and all His liege People and especially towards C. D. of c. That then this Recognizance shall be void or else to stand in full force Plague A Pass or certificate in the time of Plague To the Constables Borsholders and all and every other His Majestie 's Officers within the said County to whom these Presents shall come respectively Kent ss WHereas A. B. of C. having occasion to go unto F. and several other Places in the said County to dispatch business in which he is imployed hath this day desired a Pass from us that he may go and return without molestation or interruption These are therefore to certify all whom these Presents may concern that the Parish of C. aforesaid is free from the Infection of the Plague And also to will and require you and every of you to permit and suffer the said A. B. peaceably and quietly to go into and return from F. aforesaid and such other Places as the said A. B. shall go unto by reason of his business aforesaid The said A. B. in his passage to and from the Places aforesaid demeaning himself civilly without disturbing or interrupting the King's Majestie 's Peace Given under our hands and seals at c. Poor A Warrant for the Overseers of the Poor to account and name other fit persons To the Constable and Borsholders of A. in the Hundred of B. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you to give notice to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of A. that they are by us required personally to appear before us at the house of S. M. in C. c. upon Monday the tenth day of May at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to make and yield up unto us a true and perfect account in writing of all summs of money by them received or rated and assessed and not received for and towards the relief of the Poor of B. and also of such stock to set the Poor on work as is in their hands or in the hands of any of their said Poor to work and of all other things concerning their said office And that hereof they fail not at their perils And you are farther hereby commanded to signifie unto them that they do then and there also certifie unto us the names of such other substantial Housholders of A. as are thought meet to be Overseers of the Poor there for the year ensuing Fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at the c. A Warrant for the making new Overseers of the Poor Kent ss ACcording to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided We whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County do nominate and appoint you whose names are hereunder written to be together with the Church-wardens of the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the year to come and to doe and perform all such things in and touching the said Office as by Law is required Whereof you are not to fail at your perils Given
the Peace MEmorandum Quod tertio die Julii Anno 32. Regis Caroli Secundi c. A. B. venit coram me R. K. Armig. uno Iusticiariorum Domini Regis nunc ad Pacem c. Gratis Remisit Relaxavit quantum in se est praedictam securitatem pacis per ipsum versus supra nominatum T. H. petitam In cujus rei testimonium ego praefatus R. K. c. Dat. apud c. And in like sort the Justice or Justices of Peace may doe which took Sureties for Good behaviour if they see cause Riot A Precept to the Sheriff to return a Iury to inquire upon a Riot Rout or unlawfull Assembly Kent ss W. B. and R. R. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid to the Sheriff of the said County Greeting On the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King we command you that you do cause to come before us at H. in the Parish of G. in the said County upon Thursday the 10. day of Iune next ensuing four and twenty honest sufficient and lawfull men dwelling within the said County whereof every of them have to Lands and Tenements within the County aforesaid to the yearly value of twenty shillings of Charter-hold or Free-hold or twenty six shillings eight pence of Copyhold or of both over and above all charges for to inquire for His Majesty of some Riots Routs and unlawfull Assemblies committed and done at S. in the said County as it is said And that you do return upon every Person so by you impannelled in issues at the first day twenty shillings at the second day forty shillings to be by them forfeited if that they appear not and be sworn to inquire the premisses at the first day All which you shall in no case omit upon pain of twenty pounds which you shall forfeit to His said Majesty if you shall make default in not returning the said Persons or issues in form aforesaid And have you then the names of the said Jurors and this Precept Given under our hands and seals at T. in the said County c. The like Precept in Latine K. ss T. C. R. K. Armigeri duo Iusticiariorum Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. suo praed conservand assign necnon ad diversas felonias transgressiones alia malefacta in eodem Com. perpetrat audiend terminand assignat Vic. ejusdem Com. salutem Ex parte Dom. Regis tibi praecipimus Quod venire facias coram nobis apud S. in Com. praed die Iovis 26 die Aprilis prox sequen ad horam octavam ante meridiem ejusdem diei viginti quatuor probos sufficientes legales homines infra Com. praed commorantes quorum quilibet habeat terras tenementa infra eundem Com. ad valentiam viginti solidorum per chart tent sive liberi tenementi vel viginti sex solidorum octo denariorum terrae per copiam rotulorum Curiae tent ultra omnia onera Ad inquirend pro Dom. Rege super sacram suum de quibusdam Riotis Routis illicitis aggregationibus commiss perpetrat apud H. in Com. praed ut dicitur Quodque retornes super quamlibet personam per te impanellat in exitibus viginti solidos per ipsos forisfaciend si non compareant ut jurati sint ad inquirend de praemissis ad diem illum omnia quae nullatenus omitt sub paena viginti librar quam noveris te forisfactur eidem Dom. Regi si defalt feceris in non retorn personas prâ—…d sive exit in forma praed Et habeas ibi tunc nomina Iur. ill hoc praeceptum Dat. sub Sigillis nostris apud S. ultim die Martii Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensor c. 27. A Warrant for certain Riotous Persons To the Constables c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as I am credibly informed by A. B. Gent. that C. D. c. and diverse and sundry other Persons unknown have come upon the Ground of the said A. B. in M. aforesaid and there have been aiding and assisting to these Persons hereunder named in forceable manner to carry away the Wood and Timber c. there of late growing being the Wood and Timber of A. B. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to arrest as well the said Parties hereunder named as the said Parties unknown being shewed unto you by the said A. B. and to bring the same before me and this shall be your Warrant and Discharge Given under c. Rogues For Apprehending and Committing a dangerous Rogue To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a was found and apprehended at C. in the Hundred and County aforesaid in a general privy Search by our command made according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and brought before us this present day at our Assembly at T. in the County aforesaid We do therefore in His Majestie 's name command you the Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do at the charge of the said Hundred convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction 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 House and there set him to work and labour or otherwise to deal with him according to Law untill he shall be from thence lawfully delivered Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at A. aforesaid the c. A Mittimus of a dangerous Rogue 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 M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a wandring Rogue doth appear to be dangerous We do therefore in His Majestie 's name charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do safely convey the said A. B. to the 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 to keep untill the next Quarter-sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at A. aforesaid that he may then and there be farther dealt withall according to the Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. Sacrament A Certificate for Receiving the Sacrament and Oath Kent ss WE A. B. Minister of the Parish-Church of C. in the County of D. and E. F. Church-warden of the same Parish and Parish-Church do
keeping any longer any Alehouse or Tippling-house and from common selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder at his peril And that what you shall doe in the premisses you some or one of you so giving notice do make known unto us some or one of us with all convenient speed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at â—… in the said County the c. For renewing Licenses of Alehouse-keepers To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to every of them Kent ss THese are in his Majestie 's name to command you to warn all the licensed Alehouse-keepers Victuallers and such others within the said Hundred as do use commonly selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder personally to appear before us at the house of I. G. c. upon Friday the ninth day of O. at ten of the clock in the â—…renoon of the same day and to bring with them then and thither as well their former Licences as also a Certificate of the civil Demeanours and Fitness of themselves for that purpose to be new licensed and of the conveniency of Situation and Accommodation of their said respective houses for that purpose The same Certificate to be signed with the hands at least of two substantial honest discreet and civil Inhabitants of the respective Parishes where they do so now dwell And have you there the names of such persons as you shall have so warned together with the names of the several Parishes and places of the said Parishes where their said houses are situate and by what Signs the same are known to the end that such of them may be continued and such of them suppressed as shall be thought fit And have you there also this precept Given under our hands and seals at c. Against an Alehouse-keeper for selling less than Measure To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to the Church-wardens of the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of the aforesaid Parish of C. did lately utter and fell in his house in C. aforesaid less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer for a penny against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided by reason whereof the said A. B. hath forfeited for his said offence twenty shillings to the use of the Poor of the said Parish of C. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy to the use aforesaid the said twenty shillings by way of Distress of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. to be by you some or one of you taken and detained for the same And for default of satisfaction within six days next ensuing that then you presently appraise and sell the said Distress and deliver the surplusage or remainder over and above to the said A. B. And for want of sufficient Distress that then you some or one of you do within twenty days next ensuing certifie unto me the default of such Distress to the end that I may farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus for selling less than Measure for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the common Gaol at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. in the said County did lately utter and sell in his house in C. aforesaid less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer for a penny against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And whereas I did thereupon by Warrant under my hand and seal command you the said Constable and Borsholders and the Church-wardens of the Parish of C. aforesaid that you they or some or one of you or them should levy to the use of the Poor of the said Parish twenty shillings for the offence aforesaid by way of Distress of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. to be taken and detained for the same and that for want of sufficient Distress you they or some or one of you or them should within twenty days then next ensuing certifie unto me the default of such Distress to the end that I might farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain And forasmuch as it hath been certified unto me that no sufficient Distress can be found whereby the said twenty shillings may be levied and that the same is not yet satisfied These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same to be by him there kept untill the said twenty shillings shall be truly paid Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill the said twenty shillings shall be paid accordingly Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. For Suppressing an Alehouse after Suppression at the Quarter-Sessions To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of Marden and West Barnfield and to every of them Kent ss WHereas at the general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden at M. in the said County upon Tuesday in the first week next after the Close of Easter last past it was for the reasons therein mentioned ordered by the said Court That A. B. of G. in the said County should forthwith surcease and be suppressed from selling Ale or Beer in his then dwelling-house or elsewhere and that the Constables of the said Parish of G. or one of them should require him to forbear to sell any more Ale or Beer which if he should refuse to doe that then he should be immediately afterwards dealt withall as an unlicensed Victualler any Licence to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding of which said Order the said A. B. had notice And whereas notwithstanding the said Order at the last monthly meeting of the Justices of the Peace of the said County for this lower Division of the Lath of Scray upon Thursday the fourth day of September last past being the day for new Licensing of the Alehouse-keepers in that Division amongst the multiplicity of business there that day a new Licence for the said A. B. to keep a common Alehouse in the house wherein he dwelt at the time of his aforesaid Suppression was amongst several other such Licences laid down before us and by us signed and sealed in the so doing whereof we were surprized Upon consideration of all which and forasmuch also as the same reasons and causes for which the
venerunt coram nobis C. D. E. F. Iusticiar ' dicti Domini Regis ad pacem suam in Com' suo praedicta conservand ' assignat ' recognoverunt se de bere eidem Domino Regi modo forma sequen ' viz. praedict ' A. B. viginti libras legalis monetae Angliae uterque praedictorum G. J. decem libras consimilis monetae de separalibus bonis catallis terris tenementis suis separalit ' fieri levari ad opus usum dicti Domini Regis haered ' successorum suorum si defalt ' fieret in performatione Conditionis indorsat ' A Condition to prefer a Bill and give Evidence The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of Kent and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of indictment against W. T. for the matters wherewith the said W. T. is charged before and do also then and there give such evidence as he knoweth concerning the same as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said W. T. for the same That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force If at the Sessions then say Do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of Kent at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid and do then and there prefer c. as in the foregoing Condition A Condition to give Evidence The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if thé within bound A B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of Kent and do then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth against I. K. concerning the matters wherewith he is charged as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said I. K. for the same That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force If it be to appear at the Sessions then say Do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid and do then and there give such Evidence c. as before A Condition for Felony or suspicion of Felony The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of Kent then and there to answer our Sovereign Lord the King for and concerning the Felonious taking and stealing of wherewithall he standeth charged before c. and to doe and receive c. and do not depart the said Court without licence for the same That then this Recognizance to be void or else it shall stand in full force If it be to appear at the Sessions then say Do personally appear before His Majastie's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the within named County of K. at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holded for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid then and there to answer c. as before If the Fellon be in Prison These are to charge and require you that immediately you bring before me the body of A. B. now in your Custody to be Bailed as Law requireth Whereof fail you not c. Given c. Bastards For the apprehending and conveying the Woman to the House of Correction To the Constables and Borsholders of the Hundreds of B. and C. in the said County and to every other His Majestie 's Officers in the County aforesaid whom the Execution thereof may concern Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do apprehend I. L. of B. in the said County Single woman and her safely convey to the House of Correction for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid and there deliver her to the Keeper of the same together with the Mittimus herewithall delivered unto you Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at H. in the said County the second day of Iune 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. A Mittimus of the Mother of a Bastard-Child to the House of Correction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as C. D. hath lately had a Bastard-Child These are therefore in his Majestie 's name to 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 her safely convey to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver her to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive her into the said House and there punish and set her on work during the term of one whole year according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals c. A Warrant against the Mother for the second Offence to commit to the House of Correction and find Sureties of good Behaviour To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath lately had a Bastard-Child And for asmuch as she hath before offended in the like kind These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to 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 her safely convey to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver her to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive her into the said House and there punish and set her on work untill she do put in good security for her good Behaviour not to offend so again according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. To convene the Mother and reputed Father To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as we are informed That A. D. of the Parish of
from the places adjacent for the present service of His Majesty according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided 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 cause four sufficient Carriages within the said Hundred each Carriage to consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses to be and attend for the service aforesaid at B. in the said County upon the first of April next ensuing at eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Another Warrant for providing of Carriages for the King's use To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss WHereas we have received notice in writing by Warrant under the hands and seals of for providing of Carriages for the service of His Majesty These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do cause to be sent to A. ten Carriages on the second day of May next furnished with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant to levy the Penalty for not appearing with Carriages for the King upon notice To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOr as much as it hath been duly proved before us That B. C. of C. c. having had reasonable notice to bring one Carriage to T. upon the first day of May last for the service of his Majestie 's Ordnance according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made hath wilfully neglected so to doe by which he hath forfeited forty shillings to the King's Majestie 's use These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do demand of the said B. C. to His Majestie 's use the aforesaid forty shillings and in default of payment upon demand that then you some or one of you do forthwith levy the aforesaid forty shillings to the use aforesaid by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said B. C. rendring to him the overplus upon such Sale if there shall be any the charge of Distraining being first deducted Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Mittimus for one that doth impress or take away any Cart or other thing from the Owner under pretence of power from the Green-cloath for Carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without lawfull Authority To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol at C. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOr as much as it hath been made appear unto me upon the complaint of A. B. of c. in the County aforesaid That C. D. of E. hath impressed a Cart for Carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without consent of the Owner on pretence or colour of a Warrant from the Green-cloath contrary to the intent of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name at the request of the said A. B. to will and require 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 deliver to the said Keeper of the Gaol aforesaid together with this Precept Requiring and commanding also you the said Keeper to receive the said C. D. into the Gaol aforesaid and him there safely to keep untill the next Sessions And thereof neither you nor any of you are to fail at your perils Given under my hand and seal the second day of May in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. Certificates A Certificate from the Minister and chief Inhabitants of the Parish of a man's Honesty K. ss WE I. â—… Minister of the Word of God in the Parish of S. in the said County of Kent I. B. of S. aforesaid Constable of the Hundred of S. wherein the said Parish standeth I. B. and G. C. Church-wardens of the said Parish W. V. T. L. T. W. A. W. T. I. and E. H. c. of the said Parish and most of us Freeholders within the same Do hereby certify to all to whom it shall concern That A. B. one of the Inhabitants of the said Parish of S. is and by the space of five years last past hath been a Householder within the said Parish and by all that time hath behaved himself and lived in good sort and reputed a man of honest Conversation and hath paid according to his degree all manner of Scots and Assesments as other the Inhabitants of the said Parish have done In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands the ninth day of May 1681. A Certificate for continuing of an Alehouse-keeper To the right Worshipfull His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace within the Lower Division of L. in the County of Kent WE whose names are hereunto subscribed Inhabitants of the Parish of H. within the Division and County aforesaid do humbly certify That the now Dwelling-house of A. B. Victualler is conveniently situated there for a Victualling-house and that he is of good name and fame and the said House is well accommodated for entertainment of Travellers and that he keepeth good Rule therein And therefore we humbly desire your Worships that his Licence for keeping the said Victualling-house there may be continued A Certificate for the time of the Birth of a Child THese are to certify your Worships That A. B. Son of E. B. Widow was born in the month of August in the year of our Lord God 1679. in the Parish of R. in the County of B. about the latter end of the month In witness whereof we the Neighbours and Godmother of the said Child who were present at the birth of the said Child are ready to testify the same when your Worships shall please to require it and have hereunto set our hands this 30th day of November Anno Dom. 1679. A. B. C. D. c. A Certificate for one that hath not been touched of the Evil. WE the Rector and Ancient Inhabitants of the Parish of A. in the County of B. whose names are hereunto subscribed do upon good Information certify that C. D. the of E. F. of the Parish aforesaid hath not as yet been touched for the Distemper commonly called the Evil. Given under our hands and seals this 10th day of March Annoque Dom. 1680. Chimney-money A Mittimus for disturbing a Collectour To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's common Gaol for the said County at M. in the County
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-Church of C.
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
' Jacobum procreat ' intestat ulterius idem Richardus protulit hic in Cur ' quandam Indenturam manu sigillo Richardi Edwards Administratoris bonorum catallorum quae fuerunt praefatae Elizabethae tempore mortis suae signat geren dat sexto die Martii Anno Regni Domini Regis nunc vicesimo per quam satis liquet Cur ' hic quod praedictus Richardus per Indenturam illam assignavit eidem Richardo Cox executoribus administratoribus assign suis praemissa praedicta cum pertin totum residuum termini praedicti de in eisdem ad tunc ventur ' Ad hanc Cur ' secunda Proclamatio facta fuit quod si aliquis legitime clamare potuit separalia tenem hic postea mentionat ' videlicet Quoddam tenementum nativum videlicet unum cotagium unam peciam terrae cum pertin in Breede prope Parochiam de Udimer ad terras modo vel nuper Danielis White Arm. adjungen per Nicolaum Summons nuper tent Quoddam tenementum nativum videlicet unum mesuagium dimidium unius acr ' terrae cum pertin in Breede ad vel prope quendam locum vocat Stonelepe per Johannem Jervas defunct nuper tent Quoddam tenementum nativum videlicet unum cotagium unam peciam terrae cum pertin in Udimer ad quendam locum ibidem vocat Cotham Greene per Johannem nuper tent Et quoddam tenementum nativum videlicet unum Toftum cum pertin nuper per Richardum Lindfield tent Sive eorum aliquae vel aliquod quod veniret audiretur nullus venit Ideo fiat super inde tertia Proclamatio ad prox ' Cur. Baronis ejusdem Manerii hic tenend The manner of making up of Estreates The Estreates of the Fines Forfeitures and Amerceaments at the several Courts-Leet holden for the said Hundred on the several days and in the several years herein after mentioned That is to say Monday 12 Octob. 1668. XX. Regni Regis Caroli Secundi Iohn B. of the Borough of Combwell for that he did not appear at this Court to enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King of those things which to the said Court do appertain though summoned so to do 12 d. T. H. of the Borough of C. for the like 12 d. N. F. of the same Borough for the like 12 d. c. as many as be In all c. Monday 18 Octob. c. prout N. F. for that he did not amend his six Rods of Ditch in the Borough of C. Adjoyning to the High-way between Struecrouch and Tiseherst within the time at the last Court limitted 3 s. c. as before In all c. Thursday c. prout C. I. Borsholder of the Borough of B. for that he did not appear at this Court to doe those things which to his said Office do appertain 5 s. c. prout In all c. Sum. total c. R. K. Arm. Senesc ibidem To make up a Rentall A Rentall of the Mannor of Stone for one Year ended at the Feast of S. Michael the Archangel in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy six as followeth viz. Katherine A. Widow For one Mess. and Lands in Cran. near upper Wilsley late of Richard A. her Husband deceased 7 s. Robert H. Gent. For one Mess. c. in Cr. c. late of c. 3 s. And for one Mess. c. late also c 10 d. In all 3 s. 10 d. The Owners of one Mess. c. 2 s. c. as many as be in such form In all 39 s. 41 hens 2 capons and 2 cocks In case where several Mannors then say at the top A Rentall of the several Mannors hereafter mentioned for one year c. and begin one first and go through with it then another c. In case where custom for Lord to have draught of Fish yearly or such like you must mention it in the Rentall both when you come to the Tenant and in Sum. total And where several Mannors at the end of them severally you must say In all c. prout and when they are all done at the end you must say R. K. Arm. Senescallus ibidem So these Rentals come to as followeth viz. Stone 00 11 01 q. 1 hen c. Sislingherst c. Copton c. In all c. and here you must mention the custom for Fish Customs A Warrant against those who abuse an Officer of the Customs in the due execution of his Office 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 said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been made appear unto me That A. B. and C. D. have lately been forceably in the due execution of Offices in the said place by E. F. G. H. armed with 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 E. F. G. H. and them convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and them there deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them into the said Gaol and them there safely to keep till the next Quarter-Sessions there to be dealt withall as by the Statute in that behalf lately made is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Against carrying away Goods without paying Custom c. 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 That A. B. hath assisted in the taking of Goods at E. in the County aforesaid without at hours 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 apprehend the said A. B. and him bring before me to answer the premisses and farther to doe and receive as by the Statute in that behalf lately made is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. A Mittimus upon the precedent Warrant for the first 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 His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at C. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That B. C. hath assisted in the c. as in the last Warrant 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 convey the said B. C. to His Majestie 's Gaol
command you that you some or one of you do attach the said A. B. of c. and him bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to be Examined touching the premisses and to be farther dealt withall according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus of a Felon To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and H. the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid or his Deputy and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid A. B. of c. and him there safely to deliver to the Keeper of the said Gaol or his sufficient Deputy according to the tenour of the Precept in that behalf herewithall declared unto you Delivering also to the said Keeper the Precept aforesaid Given under our hands and seals at c. Another To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid K. ss I Send you herewithall the Body of A. B. of c. brought before me this present day and charged with the Felonious taking c. commanding you in His Majestie 's name to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep till he shall be from thence delivered by due Order of Law Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to search for a Felon on suspicion To the Constable and Borsholders of F. Kent ss WHereas complaint hath been made unto me by A. B. of C. that of late he hath had feloniously taken from him certain Goods six Cows c. as the Case is and that he hath in suspicion divers evil disposed persons within your Parish of F. These are to require you that immediately upon sight hereof you make diligent search in all and every such suspected houses and places within your Parish as you and the said A. B. shall think convenient And if upon your search you find any of the said Goods in the hands of any person or shall have any other just cause of suspicion of any person that then you bring such suspected person before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of Kent to answer such matter as shall be alledged against them Hereof fail not c. A Warrant for apprehending of one that hath dangerously hurt another To the Constable and Borsholders c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as I am credibly informed That A. B. of your Town Ioyner hath now lately dangerously hurt one C. D. of your said Town Bricklayer by a blow which he hath given the said C. D. on the Head and another on the Stomach so as the said C. D. is in danger of Death thereby These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you that immediately on sight hereof you or one of you do bring the said A. B. before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find sufficient Sureties as well for his appearance before the Justices at the next Gaol delivery to be holden for this County then and there to answer unto the premisses and doe and receive therefore what the Court shall enjoyn on him As also that he the said A. B. shall in the mean time keep the Peace towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all His Liege people but especially towards the said C. D. And hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at this c. A Liberate to deliver a Prisoner committed for Felony To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol in A. c. Greeting K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. c. Black-smith hath before us found sufficient Mainprise to appear before the Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden in the said County there to answer to such things as shall be then on the behalf of our said Sovereign Lord objected against him and namely to the feloniously taking of two Sheep for the suspicion whereof he was taken and committed to your said Goal We command you on the behalf of our said Sovereign Lord that if the said A. B. do remain in your said Gaol for the said cause and for none other then you forbear to grieve or detain him any longer but that you deliver him thence and suffer him to go at large and that upon the pain will fall thereon Given under our hands and seals c. A Warrant to Bind persons to give in Evidence against a Felon To the Constables and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and every of them K. ss THese are to require you upon sight hereof to warn to be before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County within two days next following A. B. C. D. E. F. c. to the end that they may be bound to make their personal appearance at the next general Gaol-delivery or Quarter-sessions to be holden for this County then and there to testifie their knowledge concerning a Felony supposed to be done by R. H. now a Prisoner in the Castle of K. and that you do then go with them to the Justice with this Warrant Hereof fail not c. Or thus To the Constable c. Kent ss YOU are hereby required forthwith to warn the persons undernamed of your Parish to be before me at my dwelling house in D. c. upon Thursday next by eight of the Clock in the morning to testifie their knowledge concerning certain felonious acts supposed to be done by A. B. C. D. of c. and that you your self be then there with this Warrant to shew how you have executed it Hereof fail not Given under c. A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill and give Evidence against Principals and Accessary in case of Felony THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound A. B. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of K. and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred a Bill of Indictment against A. R. and I. R. for the felonious taking and stealing one Goose and two Hens from the aforesaid A. B. wherewith the said A. R. and I. R. are charged before the within named Justices and against M. R. Wife of A. R. as Accessary to the Felony aforesaid with which she is also charged before the Justices aforesaid and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth concerning the Felony aforesaid as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof on the behalf of
house or houses of any person or persons within the said Hundred other then such person or persons which have Free-Warren or is Lord of a Mannor or is such Freeholder which is seized in his own right or the right of his Wife of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of forty pounds or more by the year over and above all charges and reprises of some estate of inheritance Or of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in his own right or in the right of his Wife for term of life or lives of the yearly value of fourscore pounds over and above all charges and reprises Or which is worth in Goods or Chattels four hundred pounds suspected to have Setting-dogs or Nets for the taking of Pheasants and Partridges And that wheresoever you or any of you shall find any such Setting-dog or Nets the same you take carry away and detain kill destroy and cut in pieces as things prohibited by the Act aforesaid and forefeited to such of you as shall find out and take the same as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at M. in the said County the c. The like upon the Statute of 22 and 23 Caroli Secundi To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss BY virtue of an Act of Parliament in that behalf lately made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to authorize and command you and every of you in the day time to search the houses out-houses or other places of any person or persons within the said Hundred other then of such person as hath Lands and Tenements or some other estate of inheritance in his own or in his Wife 's right of the clear yearly value of one hundred pounds per annum or for term of life or which hath a Lease or Leases of ninety nine years or for any longer term of the clear yearly value of one hundred and fifty pounds or which is the Son and Heir apparent of an Esquire or other person of higher degree or which are Owners or Keepers of Forests Parks Chases or Warrens being Stocked with Deer or Conies for their necessary use in respect of the said Forests Parks Chases or Warrens as upon good ground shall be suspected to have or keep in his or their custody any Guns Bows Grey-hounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Cony-dogs or other Dogs to destroy Hares or Conies Hays Tramels or other Nets Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Engines for the taking and killing of Conies Hares Pheasants Partridges or other Game and such Guns Bows Grey-hounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Cony-dogs or other such Dogs as aforesaid Hays Tramels or other Nets Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Engines aforesaid as you or any of you shall so find to seize detain and keep to and for the use of the Lord of the Mannor or Royalty where the same shall be so found or taken or otherwise to cut in pieces or destroy as things by the said Act prohibited to be kept by persons of their degree And what you shall doe in the premisses you shall make known unto me with all convenient speed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus against persons that refuse to enter into Recognizance to appear at Sessions for their keeping Ferrets and Nets to kill Conies To the Constables c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. and C. D. of E. in the County aforesaid being this present day brought before me by Warrant by the Constable of E. aforesaid and being examined did upon their examination confess that they had kept and used Nets and Ferrets for the taking and killing of Conies by the space of a year last past contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided And being required to enter into Recognizance for their appearance at the next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County they did both refuse so to do These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you that you receive into your Custody the Bodies of the said A. B. and C. D. whom I send you by H. T. one of the Constables of E. aforesaid and them safely to keep untill they shall enter into such Recognizance as aforesaid or that they be otherwise discharged according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal c. A Warrant for one that Hunts with Spannels in Ear'd Corn. To the Constables and Borsholders of the Hundred of c. K. ss FOrasmuch as complaint hath been made unto me That A. B. of your Town of C. Gent. did in September last past Hunt with his Spannels in the Ground of R. H. where Corn did then grow at which time the same Corn was Eared or Codded and Standing without the consent of the said R. H. then Owner of the same Ground contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided by which he hath forfeited forty shillings to the said R. H. the Owner of the said Ground These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that some or one of you do warn him the said A. B. to come before us at T. the second day of Iune next to answer the premisses and to be then there your self with this Warrant Given under our hands and seals c. If he appear not then say to put in Sureties for his appearance at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County to answer the said offence and pay the penalty And in case he refuse so to doe that then you some or one of you safely convey him to the Gaol of c. 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 to keep untill he shall find Sureties as aforesaid Given under my hand and seal c. Oaths The Oath which is usually ministred to a Iustice of the Peace in the several Counties of England YE shall Swear that as Justice of the Peace in the County of K. in all Articles in the King's Commission to you directed you shall doe equal right to the Poor and to the Rich after your cunning wit and power and after the Laws and Customs of this Realm and Statutes thereof made And ye shall not be of Council of any Quarrel hanging before you And that you hold your Sessions after the form of the Statutes thereof made And the Issues Fines and Amercements that shall happen to be made and all Forfeitures which shall fall before you ye shall cause to be entred without any concealment or imbeziling and truly send them to the King's Exchequer ye shall not lett for gift or other cause but well and truly you shall doe your Office of Justice
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
under our hands and seals at Maidstone in the County aforesaid the tenth day of September c. A. B. C. D. c. A Warrant to make Overseers of the Poor impowering them and the Church-wardens to collect the Poors Tax and upon non-payment to destrain Kent ss WHereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament intituled An Act for Relief of the Poor in the 43. year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth We whose names are subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace in the said County of K. and one of us of the Quorum dwelling in or near the Parish of Saint A. B. in the said County of K. have nominated and appointed A. B. and C. D. together with K. L. Church-warden for the time being according to the said Act of Parliament to be Overseers for the Poor of the said Parish and receiving of the several summs of money taxed and assessed by them on the several persons on the nineteenth day of Iune instant These are therefore according to the said Act of Parliament to authorize you the said Church-warden and Overseers of the Poor or any of you to collect and receive all such summs of money as aforesaid and the same respectively to levy of all such persons as shall refuse to pay the aforesaid Assessment by way of distress and sale of their Goods for so much rendring the over-plus if any be to the party or parties destrained and for default of distress We require all Constables and other Officers to bring before us or some other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County the Bodies of all such persons where no distress can be had that further course may be taken with them according to Law Dated the 23. day of Iune in the 32. year of His now Majestie 's Reign Annoque Dom ' 1680. A. B. A Confirmation of the Rates for the Poor Kent ss SEen ratified and allowed by us whose names are hereunder written two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid And we do hereby authorize the present Church-wardens and Overseers for the Poor within the Parish of A. and every of them to levy by way of distress and sale of the Goods of all such persons as shall refuse or neglect to pay the several Taxations aforesaid upon them imposed rendring to the Owners the overplus which shall remain upon the said Sale according to the Statute in that case made and provided Given under our hands and seals c. A Warrant to levy the Arrears due to the Parish from the former Overseers Account by Distress To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon your complaint it appeareth unto us That A. B. and C. D. Church-wardens of the Parish aforesaid and E. F. and G. H. Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty six upon their Account by them made and yielded of and for the moneys by them received and disbursed for and in execution of their said Office according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided were in arrear and behind to the said Parish five pounds and have not yet paid the same over unto youâ—… These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy the said five pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. C. D. and E. F. rendring to them the overplus And in default of such Distress that then you do forthwith certifie the same unto us to the end that we may farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant against an Overseer of the Poor for not keeping of Monthly Meetings To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before us That A. B. one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid for the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy six did for the space of c. within the said year absent himself from such monthly Meetings as by the duty of his aforesaid Office he was by the Statute in that he half made injoyned contrary to the Statute aforesaid whereby he hath forfeited five pounds for his absence aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy the aforesaid five pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. and the same to imploy and dispose of to the use of the Poor of the said Parish and such other uses as by the said Statute is appointed And in case of default of such Distress do you certifie the same to us to the end that there may be such farther proceedings touching the premisses as by Law is required Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant to distrain for the Poors Tax To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of B. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as complaint hath been made by you unto us That the several persons here under-named have refused to pay unto you the several summs of money adjoyning to their several names being assessed upon them severally for and towards the necessary Relief of the Poor of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith 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 rendring to the parties the over-plus And in defect of such Distress that then you some or one of you do certifie the same unto us to the end that there may be such farther proceeding touching the premisses as to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at A. the c. A. B. 1 s. 6. d. C. D. 1 s. 8. d. A Mittimus where there is not sufficient to Distrain To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto us That A. B. of c. was assessed and rated at the summe of c. for and towards the necessary Relief of the Poor of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and that for his refusal of payment of the same a Warrant was according to the form of the said Statute directed to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid
some or one of you do in the Market-town within the said Hundred on the Market-day now next ensuing cause to be proclaimed the Rates aforesaid as also that you do in the like manner cause to be proclaimed the Rates aforesaid in all the Towns and Villages within the said Hundred within c. days now next ensuing to the end that notice may be taken of the same Rates and Prices Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. For a Bushel of Oats c. And so ratably for every greater or lesser quantity c. A Warrant for levying the Penalty forfeited for not observing the Rates aforesaid To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of C. in the said County Inn-keeper hath taken of C. D. Yeoman of the Guards more for his Lodging c. during His Majestie 's late abode within this Division than by the Justices of the Peace of this County was according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided set down and appointed contrary to the form of the Statute aforesaid 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 to the use of the said C. D. by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. 40 s. by him forfeited to the said C. D. for the Offence aforesaid returning the over-plus to the said A. B. the charge of the Distraining being first deducted Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Recognizances When you take a Recognizance of any it must be in Latine set down the time of making it the Principal 's name and dwelling Place and his Trade or Calling and so of the others his Sureties and bind them in a summ of money to the King and that being done you reade the same Recognizance in English thus viz. for the Peace YOU A. B. of C. c. do acknowledge your self to owe unto our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty twenty pounds And you C. D. of H. c. and E. F. of I. c. his Sureties do likewise each of you acknowledge to owe unto our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty ten pounds apiece to be levied of your several Goods and Chattels Land and Tenements to His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors upon condition That if the said A. B. shall personally appear before our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majestie 's Justices of the Peace at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this Burrough of A. and do then and there make answer unto all such matters which on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him and in the mean time to keep the Peace towards our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty and all His Liege-people but especially towards one G. H. and do not depart thence without Licence from the Court then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in full force The Recognizance being made is to be engrossed in Parchment and subscribed with the Justice's hand onely But he that enters into it need not put his hand or seal to it Note All Recognizances for the Peace are to be stiled At the next Sessions of the Peace And for Felony At the next Gaol-delivery The manner of entring the note of Recognizances in your Book of Recognizances A. B. de C. c. xx li. ad Comparendum ad proximam Sessionem Pacis conservare versus C. D. c. E. F. de C. c. x li. G. H. de C. c. x li. Subscribe the Cause thus Bound over for the suspicious stealing of a Cow being the Goods of A. H. c. as the Case requireth R. P. de Paroch A. c. Victular 10 li. R. S. de Paroch A. c. Victular 5 li. P. S. de Paroch A. c. Victular 5 li. Sub Conditione quod praedict ' R. P. bene fideliter observavit omnes singulos Articulos in Licentia sua pro Tipulatione Content ' Capt ' Recogn ' XX die Maii Anno Dom. 1680. Coram Nobis c. The Recognizance must be certified to the next Sessions or Gaol-delivery where he or they is are or hath been Justices that the Party so bound may be called And if the Party make default the same then there to be recorded and the same Recognizance with the Record of that default shall be sent and certified in the Chancery the King's Bench or into the Exchequer Every Condition of a Recognizance must have these things 1. It may be in English 2. It may have the first words The Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the above bounden A. B. c. 3. It must shew what he is bound to doe As personally to appear at the next Quarter-sessions to be holden for the County of K. and in the mean time to be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all his People or as the case requireth 4. The Close thus That then this Recognizance to be void or else to stand in force All this may be done on the back of the Recognizance or underneath it A single Recognizance taken before Justices of the Peace K. ss MEmorandum Quod tertio die Aprilis anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. venerunt coram A. B. C. D. Armig. Iust. dicti Domini Regis ad Pacem in Com. K. conservand Assig R. H. de S. in Com. praedict Yeoman T. H. de eodem Carpenter ac R. S. de F. in Com. praed Mercer Recognover se debere dicto Dom. Regi viz. quillbet Manucaptor praed Quinque libras praed R. H. decem libras bonae legalis monetae Angliae solvend eidem Dom. Regi in Festo Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae proximo futuro post datum praesent Et nisi fecerint concesserunt pro se Haered Executor Administrator suis per praesentes quod dictae separales summae leventur recuperentur de Maneriis Messuagiis Terris Tenementis Bonis Catallis Haereditamentis ipsorum R. H. T. H. R. S. haered Executor Assign suorum ubicunque fuerint invent Dat. c. Another single Recognizance K. ss MEmorandum Quod quarto die Januarii Anno Regni Dom. nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae c. A. B. de C. in Com. praed Yeoman personaliter venit coram R. K. Armig. uno Iust. dicti Dom. Regis ad pacem in Com. praedict Conservand Assign Recognovit se debere dicto Dom. Regi decem libras bonae legalis monetae Angliae de Bonis Catallis Terris Tenementis suis
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-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
several Persons whose names are hereunder written upon each of them the summ of 5 li. for such his neglect and refusal as aforesaid by way of distress and sale of his Goods according to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided Hereof fail not at your perils And for so doing this shall 〈◊〉 your sufficient Warrant Given under our hands and seals at c. Testimonials A Testimonial for conveying a Rogue who hath been punished A. B. a sturdy Vagrant Beggar of middle personage Black haired having a Scar in the right Cheek aged about 30 years was this 10. day of Novemb. in the 32 year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second over England c. openly whipped at T. in the said County according to Law for a wandring Rogue and is assigned to pass forthwith from Parish to Parish by the Officers thereof the next streight way to R. in the County of H. where as he confesseth he was born or dwelled last by one whole year c. if the case be such and he is limited to be at R. aforesaid within twelve days now next ensuing at his peril Given at T. under the hand and seal of R. K. Esquire one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County of Kent and R. H. the Constable of T. aforesaid A Testimonial for one that hath suffered shipwreck R. K. of M. in the County of Kent Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices c. To all Constables Borsholders c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as the Bearer hereof A. B. aged about c. having lately been at Sea in a Ship called c. hath suffered Shipwreck and got to land at G. in the said County of K. upon the 10. day of March last past as I am credibly informed as well by the report of the said A. B. as also by the testimony of divers of the Inhabitants of G. aforesaid and for that the said A. B. hath not wherewithall to relieve himself in his travel homewards to T. in the County of S. where he saith he was born or hath a dwelling c. These are therefore to pray you and every of you to whom these Presents shall come not to molest or trouble the said A. B. in his travel to T. aforesaid where he is limited to be within 20 days next after the date hereof but to desire you rather to relieve him in his necessity as to you shall seem meet and withall you the Constables and Borsholders of every Town where he shall come to help him with Lodging in convenient time so that he travel the direct way to T. aforesaid not doing any thing contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm Given under my hand c. The like may serve with alterations for a poor Souldier c. Tiling A Deputation for Tile-searchers Kent ss 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 behalf made in the seventeenth year of the Reign of the late King Edward the Fourth ordain assign and depute A. B. of C. and D. E. and either of them during our wills and pleasures to search and examine the digging casting turning and ordering of Earth for all Plain-tile Roof-tile Corner-tile and Gutter-tile to be made within the Division of the seven Hundreds in the County aforesaid and to search and examine all the Tiles aforesaid that the same be good reasonable and very sufficient and thoroughly whited and anealed and do contain such length breadth thickness and deepness as by the said Act is required and generally to doe and perform all such other things as to the Office of Searchers do by virtue of the said Act appertain and to receive and have such Fees and Salaries for their and either of their labour in the premisses as by the said Act is appointed Given under our hands and seals at c. Trespass A Warrant upon Hedg-breaking c. where the Party 's not able Kent ss FOrasmuch as it was this present day duly proved before me That A. B. hath lately unlawfully a of C. D. at H. contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And forasmuch as upon hearing and determining of the said matter I have ordered and appointed That the said A. B. should forthwith give and pay unto the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England in and for recompence and satisfaction for his damages which he hath sustained by occasion of the Trespass aforesaid And forasmuch as the said A. B. is thought in my discretion not able nor sufficient to make such recompence or satisfaction as aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do whip the said A. B. for the Offence aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant or Order to pay where he is able Kent ss FOrasmuch as it was this present day duly proved before me That A. B. hath lately unlawfully a of C. D. at H. contrary to the form of the Statute made and provided Now upon hearing and determining of the said matter I do order and appoint That the said A. B. shall within ten days now next ensuing give and pay unto the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England in and for recompence and satisfaction for his damages which he hath sustained by occasion of the Trespass aforesaid Given under my hand and seal at c. To whip where not paid according to Order To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of K. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas upon the 10. day of Iune it was duly proved before me That A. B. had then lately unlawfully of C. D. at H. contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And whereas upon hearing and determining of the said matter I did then order and appoint That the said A. B. should within c. then next ensuing give and pay unto the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England in and for recompence and satisfaction for his damage which he hath sustained by occasion of the Trespass aforesaid And forasmuch as it doth now sufficiently appear unto me that the said A. B. hath not hitherto given or paid unto the said D. the aforesaid c. according to my said order and appointment These are therefore in His Majestie 's name â—…o command you that you some or one of you do whip the said A. B. for the Offence aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant from the Justices at a Quarter-sessions for apprehending one indicted for a Trespass To all Constables Headboroughs and all other His Majestie 's Officers and Ministers within the County of K. and to every
B. in the County aforesaid within the said Parish hath lately been delivered of a Bastard-Child begotten and born out of lawfull Matrimony yet living and chargeable to the Parish aforesaid And forasmuch as the said A. D. upon her Examination taken hath charged E. F. of c. to have begotten her with Child of the Bastard-Child aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do bring the said Woman before us at the house of R. in T. in the County aforesaid upon the tenth day of Iune at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to be by us farther examined touching the premisses and that you give notice thereof unto the said E. F. if conveniently you can to the end that he may likewise be at the time and place aforesaid to make his lawfull Defence therein if he shall so think fit And farther that you some or one of you do give notice to the several persons whose names are here under written that they and every of them are by us required to appear at the time and place aforesaid to certifie their several knowledges touching the premisses to the end that upon the examination of the Cause and Circumstance we may take such order therein as to Justice doth appertain And lastly that what you shall doe in execution of this our Precept you do make known unto us at the time and place aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A. B. of c. C. D. of c. E. F. of c. A Warrant against the reputed Father of a Bastard-Child To the Constable c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon Examination of A. B. of c. Single woman this day taken before me upon Oath it appeareth that she is at present with Child of a Bastard-Child which is likely to be chargeable to the Parish when it shall happen to be so born And forasmuch as upon her Examination she hath confessed that C. D. of c. did beget her with Child of the Child aforesaid and hath before me charged him with the same These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said C. D. to come before me or some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County at c. aforesaid then and there to receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned and also that he shall in the mean time be of good Behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as towards all His liege people Which if he shall refuse to doe that then without expecting any farther or other Warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol of c. and him there deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the aforesaid Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and seal at c. An Order for Releif of the Parish touching a Bastard-Child and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father Kent ss THE Order of us W. B. and R. K. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whereof one of us is of the Quorum and both residing in the limits where the Parish-Church of H. in the County aforesaid is the 19. day of April in the year of our Lord 1672. according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided touching the male Bastard-Child late born in the Parish of H. aforesaid of the body of A. G. of the same Parish Single woman the keeping of which said Bastard-Child hath ever since the birth thereof been and still is chargeable to the Parish aforesaid and so likely to continue chargeable First upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance and due Consideration thereof by us had we do adjudge W. S. late of H. aforesaid Tayler the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child And for Punishment of the said Mother and reputed Father and the better Relief of the said Parish we do hereby order as followeth that is to say We do order That the said Mother shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of Great B. in the said County or by some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way at or near c. in the Parish aforesaid be stripped naked from the middle upwards and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy We do also order That the said reputed Father shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred aforesaid or some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way in the Parish aforesaid over against the dwelling-house of I. S. there be stripped naked from the middle upwards and shall then and there be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be from thence drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed We do farther order That the said Mother shall within three days next after notice of this our Order render her body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo her Punishment before ordered And that the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice of this our Order render his body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo his punishment before ordered We do likewise farther order That the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice given unto him of this our Order pay or cause to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid or to some or one of them twenty shillings of lawfull money of England towards the moneys by them disbursed before the said notice given for or towards the charges of the keeping of the said Bastard-Child from the time of the birth thereof untill the time of the giving of the said notice And that upon every Friday which shall be next after the end of the said six days untill the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his age of ten years the said reputed Father shall likewise pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the time being or unto some or one of them sixteen pence of lawfull mony of England towards the charges by them disbursed towards the keeping of the Bastard-Child aforesaid meaning between the end of the said six days and the
Peace to be holden for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the Court there shall be then and there enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force Bridges A Warrant to a Hundred for Assessing a proportionable Rate of a Tax appointed by the Body of the County towards repair of the County Bridges To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to C. D. E. F. c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss WHereas several common Bridges of the said County were much out of repair The charges of Reparations whereof was estimated to amount to 750 li. which were ordered to be repaired by the Body of the County aforesaid The proportionable part whereof to be born by the Hundred aforesaid do amount unto 20 li. These are therefore by virtue of His Majestie 's Commission of Oyer and Terminer to us and others on that behalf directed under the great Seal of England To command you the said Constable and Borsholders sorthwith equally to assess and tax the said Hundred by a pound rate upon all Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels both real and personal within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of the Hundred aforesaid as hath usually been done within the said Hundred for publick Taxes And that you do collect and gather the same so that you may have the same ready in the hands of you the aforesaid Constables within one and twenty days next after your receit of this Precept to be paid and disposed of for and towards the purpose aforesaid as we some or one of us shall for that purpose direct And in case of refusal or neglect of any person or persons to pay his her or their proportion or proportions of the said money so by you assessed and taxed within one week next after demand thereof that then you some or one of you do cause the said person or persons so refusing or neglecting to come before us some or one of us to be bound over according to an Order by the said Commissioners in that behalf made to appear at the next general Assizes or Quarter-Sessions for this Western Division of the said County which shall next happen after such refusal or neglect to answer the same and you are hereby further required to make known unto us some or one of us with all convenient speed next after the end of the aforesaid one and twenty days what you have done in execution of this Precept Given under our hands and seals the second day of May 1681. A Warrant to make a Tax for County Bridges repaired To the Constable of the Hundred of A. and to B. C. c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred and to every of them Kent ss WHereas the usual Bridges of c. within the said County were lately in great decay and unrepaired and by an Order made at C. c. the said Decays and Irreparations were ordered to be mended at the Charges of the said County and have lately been amended accordingly the proportionable part of which said Charge thought fit to be imposed upon this Division doth amount unto c. of lawfull money of England and the proportionable part of the same thought fit to be imposed upon the said Hundred doth amount unto c. of like money These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Inhabitants that you or any three of you at the least whereof you the said Constable to be one do forthwith after publick notice before given as is usual in other Taxations make a Taxation of all and every the Inhabitants of the said Hundred as in such cases A Warrant to collect a Tax for repairing County Bridges To A. B. and C. D. Inhabitants of the Hundred of E. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you That you do forthwith collect and gather the several summs of money specified in the Taxation herewithall delivered unto you of the several persons therein mentioned to be taxed upon them for the purpose in the said Taxation specified and that you do pay the same unto R. T. whom we have appointed general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid within this Division of the several Hundreds on or before the second day of May deducting out of the same onely 5 s. as by us allowed unto you for and towards your pains in collecting and paying in of the same and in case of refusal or neglect of payment of any of the said parties so taxed of the moneys taxed upon them as aforesaid after demand made thereof by you or either of you that then you do certify unto us or some or one of us the names of the said persons so refusing or neglecting with all convenient speed to the end that such farther proceeding may be had thereupon as to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant for not paying the same 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 us by R. T. c. by us appointed collectors and gatherers of the moneys imposed upon the said Hundred for and towards the reparations of the several Bridges of D. in the said County that the several persons whose names are here under written have refused to pay unto them the several summs of money adjoyned to their several names being taxed upon them for the purpose aforesaid although the same have been duly demanded of them These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said several persons to come before us or one of us or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to answer the premisses and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain unless they shall forthwith pay the said moneys unto you some or one of you which if they shall so doe that then you so receiving the same do forthwith pay the said moneys so received unto the said R. T. c. or one of them to the end that the same may be by them paid over to the general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid by us formerly appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A. B. C. D. E. F. c. Carriages for the King A Warrant to provide Carriages To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas we have by Warrant from the Green-cloath received notice to provide Carts and Carriages
aforesaid and him there deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find sufficient surety to be of Good behaviour for so long time untill he be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellour Under-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon the second like Offence To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That C. D. hath assisted in the c. as in the Warrant last but one And forasmuch as the said C. D. hath once before offended in the like kind 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 convey the said C. D. to his Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep for the space of two months without Bail or Mainprise or untill he shall pay the Sheriff of this County the summ of five pounds for the use of His Majesty or untill he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellour or Under-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal c. Deer A Warrant for stealing Deer To the Constables c. of T. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas information hath been given to me that A. B. of H. within your said Parish of T. hath lately within the space of six months last past coursed killed or taken forth of a Park situate in this County certain Deer contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon sight hereof you bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County the Body of the said A. B. to answer the aforesaid premisses and be proceeded against according to Law And hereof fail not at your perils c. A Warrant to levy 20 li. for stealing Deer To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of C. hath unlawfully Deer in of E. F. against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided 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 by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. the summ of 20 li. by him forfeited for the Offence aforesaid the one moiety thereof to the use of C. D. who informeth of the said Offence and the other moiety to the use of the said E. F. Owner of the Deer aforesaid And in case of want of sufficient Distress that you certify me thereof forthwith Given under my hand and seal this second day of May Anno Dom. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi c. 31. A Mittimus to the House of Correction 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 the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas by my Warrant you the said Constable and Borsholders were lately required to levy by way of Distress of the Goods and Chattels of A. B. of C. the summ of twenty pounds by him forfeited for an Offence by him lately committed against the form of the Statute made in the thirteenth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act to prevent the unlawfull coursing hunting or killing of Deer And you the said Constable have returned unto me thereupon that the said A. B. hath not sufficient Distress to be taken for the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require 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 the aforesaid House of Correction and deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there detain and put him to hard labour for six months Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Another Mittimus to the Gaol for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid K. ss WHereas by my Warrant you the said Constable and Borsholders were lately required to levy by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of A. B. of c. the summ of twenty pounds by him forfeited for an Offence by him lately committed against the form of the Statute made in the thirteenth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act to prevent the unlawfull coursing hunting or killing of Deer And you the said Constable have returned unto me thereupon that the said A. B. hath not sufficient Distress to be taken for the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require 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 the Gaol aforesaid and deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep for the space of one whole year without Bail or Mainprise and farther untill he hath given sufficient Security for his Good behaviour for one whole year next ensuing after his inlargement Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. A Warrant for a Buck. To the Keeper c. UPon sight hereof you are to kill and deliver to I. B. Esq one fat Buck of this Season for which this shall be your Warrant A. B. Drunkenness A Warrant for Drunkenness the first Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to the Church-wardens of the Parish of c. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath this present day been duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. was on the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish contrary to the form
our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trial of the said A. R. I. R. and M. R. or any of them for the same That then c. T. G. A Condition of a Recognizance where two Felonies are committed to give Evidence THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That if the within bound I. W. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the within named County of K. and do then and there prefer or cause to be preferred one or more Bill or Bills of Indictment against I. B. for the felonious taking and stealing of one Shirt and one pair of â—…ustian Drawers from the aforesaid I. W. wherewith the aforesaid I. B. is charged before the within named Justices for the felonious taking and stealing of six Napkins and one Table-cloath from Sir R. B. Baronet with suspicion whereof the said I. B. is likewise charged before the Justices aforesaid and do also then and there give such Evidence as he knoweth against the said I. B. touching the several Felonies aforesaid as well to the Jurors that shall enquire thereof for our Sovereign Lord the King as also to the Jurors that shall pass upon the Trials of the said I. B. for the same That then c. A Condition to give Evidence for Felony thus UPon Condition That if you A. B. shall pursonally appear and do then and there persue and give such Evidence as you know against C. D. now prisoner in the Gaol of the Liberty aforesaid for and concerning his felonious stealing of an holland Apron of the Goods of one E. F. and do not depart c then c. A Condition of a Recognizance to appear upon Felony THE Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas at the last general Gaol-delivery holden for the within named County of K. it was ordered that the within bound E. R. shall give very good Security in such summes as is within mentioned before the Justice within named for his personal Appearance at the then next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the County aforesaid to answer a Felony and Robbery on the High-way whereof he stands indicted in the said County as by the Record of the said Court reference thereunto being had may more fully appear which Security he hath given as in the said Recognizance is mentioned If therefore the said E. R. do personally appear at the aforesaid next general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the said County to answer the Felony and Robbery aforesaid That then c. A Condition to appear upon suspicion of Felony UPon the Condition That if the said A. B. shall personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace at the next general Sessions of the Peace and Gaol-delivery to be holden at A. and do then and there make answer unto all such matters which on the part and behalf of His said Majesty shall be objected against him for and concerning the suspicion of his felonious stealing of a Horse or of the Goods of one C. D. and do not depart thence without Licence of the Court. Then your Recognizance to be void or else to stand in force A Bond. NOverint universi per praesentes nos T. G. de C. in Com. K. N. B. de C. in Com. praed Yeoman teneri firmiter obligari W. P. de C. praed Blacksmith in quadragint libris legalis monetae Angliae solvend eisd W. P. H. C. aut eorum alteri vel eorum certo Attern Executoribus vel Administratoribus suis ad quam quidem solutionem bene fideliter faciend obligavimus nos utrumque nostrum per se pro toto in solid Haeredes Executores Administ nostros utriusque nostri firmiter per praesentes Sigillis nostris sigillat Dat. c. Anno Dom. c. Annoque Regni c. A Condition to save one harmless who was bound for the appearance of a person suspected for Felony THE Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas the above named W. P. and H. C. at the special instance and request of the above bound T. G. and N. B. in and by one Recognizance bearing the date above written taken and acknowledged before S. B. and R. K. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the above named County of K. do each of them the said W. P. and H. C. stand bound to His said Majesty in c. of lawfull money of England with Condition that if the said T. G. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices of general Gaol-delivery at the next general Gaol-delivery to be holded for the said County to answer unto His said Majesty in and upon such matters as shall be then and there objected against him touching the felonious taking and stealing of c. with suspicion whereof he standeth charged before one of the Justices aforesaid and farther to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and do not depart the said Court without licence of the same That then the said Recognizance to be void c. as by the same and the Condition thereof may more certainly and at large appear That if therefore the said T. G. do in all things perform the said Condition of the said Recognizance that then this Obligation shall be void or else shall stand in full force and virtue If any man be Arrested for Felony his Goods shall not be seised until Attainder or Conviction upon pain to forfeit the double value to the Party grieved for the Party grieved may sell them bona fide for his maintenance in Prison before Conviction After Conviction the Town presently stands Charged for the Felons Goods if then in his possession and shall answer the Impairing of them except they shew who detained them and that they could not have possession of them Fire A Testimonial for Iustices of the Peace for Poor men that have had loss by Fire Kent ss TO all Christian people to whom this present Writing or Testimonial shall come to be seen heard or read A. B. C. D. and E. F. Esquires three of the Justices of the Peace within the said County of K. send greeting Whereas it is both Godly and consonant to Christian Charity in matters doubtfull and ambiguous to certifie and report the truth We have thought it our duty at the earnest and lamentable Suit and Petition of our loving Neighbours the Bearers or Bringers hereof G. H. I. K. c. to publish and declare unto your common knowledge That on the twentieth of M. last past between two and three of the clock in the morning by casualty and great mischance by Fire as well their several dwelling Houses to the number of c. and all other Edifices and Buildings to every of their said dwelling Houses belonging and also all their Corn and most of their several Goods and Houshold-stuff
interim se bene gereret in cujus rei testimonium ego praefatus J. B. praedictae Certificationi manum sigillum meum apposui vicesimo die Maii Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. Tricesimo secundo Annoque Dom. 1680. A Warrant to the Sheriff for Restitution Kent ss R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid To the Sheriff of the said County Greeting Whereas by a certain Inquisition taken before me at A. in the County aforesaid the second day of Iune c. upon the Oath of A. B. C. D. E. F. c. according to the form of the Statute in Case of Forceable Entry made and provided it was found that G. H. c. and others as in the Inquisition as by the said Inquisition of Record doth more fully appear These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you with the power of the County if need require to go to the said Messuage c. and other the premisses and do cause the same with their appurtenances to be reseized and the said C. D. to be restored in and-to his full possession thereof as he was before the same Entry according to the form of the aforesaid Statute And hereof fail not c. A Mittimus upon view of Forceable Detainour Kent ss R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid Greeting Whereas upon Complaint unto me by A. B. of L. in the said County I did this present day go to the dwelling house of the said A. in L. aforesaid and there did find C. D. of c. E. F. of c. forceably with strong hand and armed power holding the said house against the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King and against the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided I do therefore herewithall send unto you the Bodies of the said C. D. E. F. and G. H. convicted of the said forceable holding by my own View Testimony and Record commanding you in His Majestie 's name to receive them into the said Gaol and them there safely to keep untill they have made fine and ransome to His said Majesty for their said trespasses and shall be thence delivered by the order of the Law of this Land Hereof fail not c. Foreign Wares A Warrant to search for and seize Foreign Manufactures prohibited c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss Forasmuch as I am informed That great quantities of foreign Bone-lace Cut-work Imbrodery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons of Thread of Silk and Needle-work made of Thread or Silk have been lately brought into this Kingdom from parts beyond the Seas against the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you and every of you that you some or one of you do enter and search for such Manufactures in the Shops being open Ware-houses and Dwelling-houses of such person or persons within the said Hundred as shall be suspected to have any such Imbrodery foreign Bone-lace Cut-work foreign Bandstrings Buttons or Needle-work and to seize the same Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. High-ways A Warrant to levy 5 li. on the Inhabitants of a Parish for not chusing Surveyors of 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 the Church-wardens Constables Borsholders and Inhabitants of the said Parish did not chuse Surveyors of the High-ways aforesaid for this present year of our Lord but made default of such choice against the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made and provided 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 the summ of five pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said Church-wardens Constables Borsholders and Inhabitants rendring to the Parties so distrained the overplus if any be And that you do imploy and bestow 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. To distrain for High-way Tax 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 have not paid unto you the several summs hereunder specified and severally added to their several names assessed on them for the repairing and amending and enlarging of the publick and common High-ways in the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made and provided 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 double so much money as was so as aforesaid respectively assessed on them rendring to the Parties so distrained the overplus if any be And that you do imploy and bestow 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 A. aforesaid 2 s. C D. of A. aforesaid 3 s. c. For not sending in Teams 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 Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon your Complaint it appeareth unto us That the several Persons hereunder named were by you charged to send each of them a Team to work 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 neglects according to the Statute aforesaid rendring to the Parties so distrained the overplus if any be And that you do employ and bestow
there to punish and set on work according to the tenour of this Precept Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Of an idle Person out of Service c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County c. K. ss FOrasmuch as C. D. of c. according to the Crime as below These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do safely convey the said C. D. to the aforesaid House of Correction and him there deliver to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there set him to work and labour from time to time by the space of c. next after such his delivery unto you in the mean time to punish him according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Mittimus to the House of Correction of an idle Person that would run away and will not work to maintain his Family To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been proved before us upon Oath according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided That A. B. of the Parish of C. aforesaid being able to work and thereby relieve his Family hath threatned to run away and leave his said Family upon the Parish of C. aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you unless he do put in sufficient Securities for the discharge of the Parish that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the said House of Correction 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 House and there deal with and detain him as a sturdy and wandring Rogue and to be delivered at the next Assembly or Meeting within this lower Division of the Lath of Scray for the better execution of an Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Iames over England intituled An Act for the due Execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other lewd and idle Persons or at the Quarter-Sessions and not otherwise Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A Liberate from thence To the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at A. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas C. D. was by Warrant from us sent to the said House of Correction and is at present in your Custody there Now if the said C. D. is in your Custody for the cause aforesaid and no others We do hereby authorize and command you forthwith upon receipt hereof to set C. D. at large from your said Custody For which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under our hands and seals at A. in the said County the c. Huy and Cry The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way praying an Huy and Cry The Examination of A. B. of C. in the County of D. Gent. taken by E. F. Esq one of the Iustices of the Peace of the County of F. on the second day of October Anno Dom. 1679. upon his Oath Kent ss THIS Examinant deposeth and saith That as he was riding on Saturday the first day of April last past from the Town of A. in the County of B. to C. in the same County he was assaulted in the common High-way leading from one of the said Towns to the other at or near a place there called K at about eleven of the clock in the forenoon of the same day by two Footmen who there seised upon him this Examinant and carrying him into a certain Wood robbed him and bound him And this Examinant farther saith That he is since informed that the said place and Wood are both in the Parish of A. aforesaid and so within the Hundred of A. and D. in the said County And this Examinant farther saith and deposeth That the said Thieves did then seloniously take from him and rob him of 10 l. 17 s. in money and one cloath Saddle with Stirups and Girts worth in all 10 s and two leather Purses two Knives c. in all worth 5 s. And this Examinant farther saith and deposeth That he then did not nor yet doth know the Parties that committed the said Robbery or either of them R. W. Another Kent ss A. B. of C. in the County of D. did upon the present 10. day of October in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. personally come before me E. M. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County of D. inhabiting in the Parish of Saint M. C. in the County aforesaid in the Hundred of R. in the said County and upon his corporal Oath then taken before me did say That upon Friday the 8. day of May last past at about the hour of seven of the clock in the afternoon of the same day in the King's High-way at a certain place called E. F. in the Parish of C. in the aforesaid Hundred of R. in the said County of D. he was assaulted by five men all unknown to him the said A. B and they the said five men did then and there feloniously take and carry away from him the said A. B. 100 li. in moneys numbred of the moneys of him the said A. B. and also his Goods and Chattels that is to say one Ring with a deep Table-stone set in the same one Watch in two gold Cases c. to the value of 30 li. and robbed him the said A. B. of all and every the Moneys Goods and Chattels aforesaid And the said A. B. was on the day and year first above mentioned upon his Oath aforesaid by me examined whether he did know the Parties that committed the said Robbery or any of them And he then upon his Oath did say that he neither at the time of the said Robbery committed nor at any time since did know or doth yet know the said Parties that committed the said Robbery nor any of them In testimony whereof I the aforesaid Justice have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written A. B. The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way by three Persons one of which he knew The Examination of A. B. of C c. sworn
B. of H. in the County aforesaid is admitted licensed and appointed by the Justices of the Peace of the said County to be a common Badger Lader Kedder Carrier Buyer or Transporter of all manner of Corn or Grain in any Market or Fair within the Realm of England and the same so bought to convert to Meal and the same to carry to the City of L. or the Suburbs of the same or to any other Market or Fair so that he use the same according to the tenour and true meaning of the Statute in that case made and provided against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers and not otherwise The same Licence to have continuance from the day of the date hereof until the next general Sessions of the Peace after the Feast of E. next coming to be holden at M. aforesaid In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this second day of November 1680. R. K. R. H. T. B. A Licence as before may be granted to Drovers of Cattel to Buy and Sell again by the same Statute A Licence for a petty Chapman To the Bailiffs Constables and other of His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Greeting Kent ss KNow ye that we R. K. and G. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid have licensed and by these presents do license T. W. of M. in the County aforesaid Yeoman to be a petty Chapman to wander and go from Town to Town Village to Village and place to place to sell Pins Points Tapes Laces Knives Gloves Purses c. and such other kind of small Wares and also to gather and buy Coney-skins and such kind of small Wares within the County aforesaid and not else-where Provided that this our Licence shall continue in effect only for the term of one whole year coming from the day of the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof c. A Licence or Pasport for a Poor man to his Friends for Relief To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and other His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Kent ss R. K. and T. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the same County greeting Forasmuch as A. B. of C. c. the Bearer hereof being reduced to great poverty and necessity hath desired a Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel unto the City of D. in the County of S. where he saith he was born and hath some Friends yet living by whose Means and Friendship he hopeth to be fully relieved and holpen In consideration whereof Know ye that we the said R. K. and T. B. as far as in us lieth have licensed the said A. B. to travel and pass the direct way from C. unto the said City of D. so that his Journey be not for longer or further continuance than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you not to molest or trouble the said poor man in his travel but to permit and suffer him to pass so that he shew himself in no respect offensive to His Majestie 's Laws In witness whereof c. Another K. ss R. K. and T. B. two of the Justices c. Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. c. having shewing the cause of his travel desired one Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel to the City of D. shew to what place he goeth Wherefore we as much as in us lieth do license the said A. B. to travel the direct way from C. in the said County of K. to the said City of D. so as his Journey be no longer than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you to suffer him to pass in Peace so that he demean himself orderly In witness c. A Licence to Beg. To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and all other His Majestie 's Officers within the County of K. and to every of them Kent ss R. K and T. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid greeting Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. in the County aforesaid being a very poor man and blind by reason whereof he is not able to Labour nor get to live of himself without the charitable Relief of others and being now Resident in the said Town is therefore to be relieved and being likewise informed that the Town is at this present charged with more poor and impotent people than it is able to relieve Know you therefore that we the said Justices have licensed and allowed the said Poor man and his Leader to go abroad and beg gather and receive the charitable Alms of well disposed people inhabiting and dwelling within the Hundred of c. in the said County requiring you not to molest or trouble the said Poor man or his Leader for so doing but desiring you rather to relieve him and his Leader in their necessity as to you shall seem meet This our Licence to remain and be in force for one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals c. R. K. T. H. A Licence to Travel by Water on the Lord's day WHereas by Act of Parliament made in the 29th year of His Majestie 's Reign that now is it is Enacted That no person or persons shall use employ or travel upon the Lord's day with any Boat Wherry Lighter or Barge except it be upon extraordinary occasion to be allowed by some Justice of the Peace of the County or Head-Officer or some Justice of Peace of the City Burrough or Town-Corporate where the Fact shall be committed upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit and lose the summe of five shillings for every such Offence as by the said Act among other things it doth and may appear And forasmuch as A. B. of the Parish of Saint A. in the County of M. Gent. having extraordinary occasion to travel on the next Lord's day to B. in the County of S. and to use and employ a Boat Wherry or Barge in his said Journey hath desired my Allowance thereof These are therefore in pursuance of the said Act to will and require all Constables Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor and all other Officers whom these presents may concern to permit and suffer the said A. B. quietly and peaceaby to perform his said Journey on the next Lord's day as aforesaid and to use and employ any Boat Wherry or Barge at his discretion without any Molestation or Disturbance whatsoever at their peril Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of Iuly Anno Dom. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Another K. ss THese are to certifie that A. B. C. D. E. F. the Bearers hereof have made it appear before me that they have urgent occasions to pass on the next Lord's day
the summe of 5 li. and do by and with the consent and direction and for and on the behalf of our selves and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Town of K. acquit release and for ever discharge and free him the said R. E. of and from the said summe of 5 li. and from the keeping or maintaining the said Child and of and from all charges taxes and payments now already or hereafter to be charged or taxed upon him the said R. E. to or for the same In witness whereof we the said E. C. and E. W. have hereunto set our hands and seals c. Prisoner To allow a poor Prisoner Relief To A. B. Gent. Treasurer for Relief of the Prisoners in His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas T. S. now Prisoner in the said Gaol is in very great necessity for want of present Relief for his subsistance there These are therefore so far forth as in us lieth to appoint and authorize you the said Treasurer to allow unto the said T. S. competent Relief during his necessity in the said Gaol Given under our hands and seals the third day of Iune Anno Dom. 1679. A Discharge of a Prisoner to a Gaoler To the Gaoler or Keeper of the common Gaol at A. in the County aforesaid K. ss WE R. K. and A. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid greeting Forasmuch as A. H. of C. c. Barber hath found sufficient Sureties before us for his personal appearance at the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden at C. aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you that forthwith upon sight hereof you discharge the body of A. H. aforesaid if he be detained for no other cause but upon A. B. and C. D. their Warrant and this shall be your Discharge Given under our hands and seals at A. c. Or thus To the Gaoler or Keeper c. WHere 's A. B. being by me committed to your Custody in your Gaol till he put in Sureties for the Peace or good Behaviour as the case requires These are therefore c. as before For a Prisoner to be Bailed THese are to charge and require you that immediately upon your Receipt of this you bring before me the body of A. B. now in your Custody to be Bailed as Law requireth A Warrant from a Judge to bring a Prisoner from a Gaol to give Evidence To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol of N. or his Deputy YOU are hereby required to bring the body of T. S. in safe Custody to Westminster upon Monday next being the seventh day of this instant February by one of the clock in the afternoon of the same day to testifie the truth according to knowledge in a certain Cause now depending in the Court of King's Bench and there to be tried by Nisi prius before the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court Between P. Earl of C. Plaintiff and G. B. Defendant in a plea of Trespass on the case on the part of the Plaintiff and after his Evidence given to remove him back safe to your Gaol Hereof fail not Given under my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1675. Quakers A Mittimus of Quakers 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 said County at B in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as I have received information That A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. being persons commonly called Quakers and every of them of the age of sixteen years or upward have lately departed from the places of their several habitations and assembled themselves at T. in the said County under pretence of joyning in a Religious Worship not authorized by the Laws of this Realm These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County with sufficient Securities to be bound with them to appear at the next Quarter-Sessions in order to their Conviction of the Offence aforesaid and in case of their or any of their refusal or neglect so to doe that then you do convey such of them so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Common Gaol and deliver them or him so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them or him into the said Gaol and them or him there safely to keep untill they or he shall be bound with such Securities as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon Conviction by verdict or Confession The first Offence a Fine not exceeding 5 li. The second Offence 10 li. Upon every Offender on non-payment first Offence 3. months imprisonment second Offence 6 months the third Offence abjure the Realm But upon taking the Oaths Conforming and giving Security not to meet in such unlawfull Assemblies to be discharged of all the penalties Rape A Warrant concerning a Rape To the Constables and Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as we received Information and Charge against A. B. of C. c. touching a certain Felony that is to say with the carnal Knowledge and Ravishment of M. the Wife of C. D. of c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do attach the body of the said A. B. and bring him before us or some of us to the house of c. on the twelfth day of this instant May at one of the clock in the afternoon to be examined touching the premisses and to be further dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. Rates for Hay Oats c. A Warrant to appoint Rates for Hay Oats c. upon His Majestie 's passing through any place To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas we have received notice from the Green-cloath that His Majesty will shortly pass through the Road in this County leading between B. and C. We therefore according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided do set down and appoint the Rates and Prices to be paid during His Majestie 's abode within this Division for Hay Oats and other Accommodations for Horses as is here under written which Rates are to be observed and kept and obeyed by all persons concerned at their perils And we do will and require you and every of you that you
provided Hereof fail not c. A Warrant against one that departeth out of Service before his time expired To the Constable and Borsholders c. Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do attach C. D. of E. and bring him before me or some other Justice of the Peace of and within the said County to answer for that he is departed out of Service from A. B. of C. his time of Covenant with him made being not expired contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided And farther to â—…e dealt withâ—… according to Law Hereof c. To fetch back a Servant To all Constables Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a Servant to C. of D. Joyner hath gone from his said Master without his lawfull Licence or Testimonial in the County of E. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and command you some or one of you that forthwith upon sight hereof you go with the Bearer hereof and as speedily as may be apprehend the said A. B. and him to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County to the end that such farther proceedings may be thereupon had as by Law is required Hereof fail not c. Given under c. A Discharge of a Servant from his Service within the time agreed upon his absenting himself Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me That A. B. was retained by C. D. to serve him for a term not yet expired And the said A. B. without consent of him the said C. D. hath for the space of c. now last past absented himself from the said Service and is gone into some place unto the said C. D. unknown I therefore upon the consideration of the premisses and of the equity thereof on the part of the said C. D. allow the cause and matter aforesaid to be reasonable and sufficient to discharge the said C. D. from any farther keeping the said A. B. in his said Service and do accordingly discharge the said A. B. from his Service aforesaid Given under my hand and seal at T. the twenty second day of May c. A Testimonial for the discharge of a Servant MEmorandum That A. B. Servant to C. D. of E. Husbandman or Taylor c. in the said County is licensed to depart from his said Master and is at his liberty to serve elsewhere according to the Statute in that case made and provided In witness whereof c. In a Town to be under the Seal of the Town and two Housholders there if in the Counâ—…y under the Seals of the Constable or Constables and two Housholders there where he last served A Master that retains a Servant without such a Testimonial forfeits 5 li. It must be Registred by the Parson Vicar or Curate of the Parish who is to have 2 d. for doing thereof Silk-Throsters An Order for the payment of monies to a Silk-Throster by his Workman who imbezils his Silk Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster made that he having delivered to C. D. of E. of Silk to be by him for the said A. B. and the aforesaid C. D. hath parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that case made hath been made apparent unto me to be true I have thereupon determined the offence aforesaid and do hereby order and appoint that the said C. D. shall give and pay to the said A. B. the summ of 40 s. for his damages losses and charges thereabouts within fourteen days now next ensuing Given under my hand and seal c. Against an Offender for not performing the Order before mentioned To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster to me made That he having delivered to C. D. a to be by him b for the said A. B. And that the aforesaid C. D. had c parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made was made appear unto me to be true And I did thereupon determine the offence aforesaid and did by Warrant under my hand and seal order and appoint that the said C. D. should give and pay to the said A. B. for his damage loss and charges thereabouts 40 s. within fourteen days then next ensuing And forasmuch as the said C. D. did not within the said fourteen days nor at any time since make such Recompence or Satisfaction to the said A. B. as was by me as aforesaid ordered and appointed although he had convenient notice so to doe These are c. to will and require you that you some or one of you do apprehend and whip the said C. D. or set him in the Stocks in the place where the same offence was committed or in some Market in this County near unto the place aforesaid Given under my hand c. The like Warrant against the Receiver Buyer or Taker to pawn Souldiers A Warrant to warn in a Muster at a certain day c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of S. and to every of them K. ss BY Command from the Right honourable H. Earl of W. Lord Lieutenant of the said County I require you to warn all the persons mentioned in a List hereunto annexed to appear compleatly Armed and Furnished with Coats according to former Orders at S. near C. upon Monday the twelfth day of this instant September at eleven of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day at the furthest And every of them is to bring with him four days pay and the Muster-master's Salary The Musqueteers to bring with him one pound of Powder and Match and Bullets proportionable then and there to receive further Orders And you the said Constable to be then and there present to make appear what you have done in execution hereof of what is here commanded No person concerned herein is to fail at his peril Given under my hand and seal the seventh day of May 1681. 33. Regni Regis c. A Certificate for a Trained Souldier THese are to certifie you That A. B. the Bearer hereof is a Trained Souldier of the Burrough of S. for his Majestie 's service appointed under my command and therefore not otherwise to be charged or molested as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand at c. To order an Allowance to a poor Souldier out of the Stock for Maimed Souldiers To the Treasurer of the said County for maimed Souldiers Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made made appear unto us that he hath continued
faithfull to his trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise And hath repaired to W. in the said County being the place where he waâ—… last settled before he took Arms We do therefore according to the said Statute assign for his Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County of K. which you are hereby required to pay unto him Given under our hands and seals c. The like for Allowance to Wife or Orphan To the Treasurer of the said County for maimed Souldiers Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made made appear unto us that A. B. late of C. continued faithfull to his trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise We do therefore according to the said Statute adjudge that over and besides such relief as shall gain by work and labour and shall be allowed by the charity and benevolence of the Parish of A. where is now settled Given under our hands and seals this c. Swearing To pay 1 s. for Swearing in the presence of a Justice of the Peace To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of D. in the said County and to every of them and to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of c. in the County aforesaid Butcher being of above the age of twelve years did in my hearing this present day in the Parish aforesaid prophanely swear one Oath for which Offence he forefeited and was to pay to the use of the Poor of the Parish the summ of 12 d. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you to levy to the use of the Poor of the said Parish the aforesaid 12 d. by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. rendring to him the over-plus And in defect of such Distress that you the said Constable do set the said A. B. in the Stocks by the space of three whole hours Hereof fail not c. A Warrant to levy Monies for prophane Swearing To the Constables and Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as it was this present day proved before me that A. B. of c. did in the said Parish offend by profane Swearing four Oaths by reason whereof he hath forfeited to the use of the Poor of the said Parish the summ of c. that is to say 3 s. 4. d. for every time he did so offend according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith levy the said forfeiture of c. upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. by Distress and Sale of the same returning the over-plus And that forthwith after your levying of the said forfeiture of c. you pay the same to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish or to some or one of them to the use of the Poor aforesaid And in case no sufficient Distress shall be found and that the said A. B. shall not pay the said forfeiture or give security for the same That then you do set him in the Stocks there to remain the space of three whole hours Hereof fail not c. A Certificate of Conviction for Swearing Kent ss I R. K. Esquire one of His Majestie 's Justices c. do hereby certifie to the Clerk of the Peace of the County of K. that the persons whose names are hereunto subscribed were since the last Sessions committed before me for Swearing one prophane Oath a piece Given under my hand and seal this c. Tax A Warrant to the Assessors to make a Tax upon an Act of Parliament for Royal Aid K. ss BY virtue of an Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty of 2477500 li. to be raised levied and paid in the space of three years in manner following that is to say 68819 li. 9 s. by the month for thirty six months beginning from the 25. day of Decemb. 1664. These are to will and require you and every of you whose names are hereunder written for the purpose aforesaid for the second and third quarterly payments of the said six months Assessments with all care and diligence to assess on all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuities Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattels Stock Merchandise Offices other than Judicial and Military Offices and Offices relating to the Navy under the command of the Lord High Admiral and Offices within His Majestie 's Houshold Tolls Profits and all their Estates both reall and personal within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of your Hundred of A. the full and just summ of c. by a pound rate wherein you are to assess the Tenant one sixth part of the whole in respect of his stock upon Land and you are to assess all other persons for their personal estate other then their stock upon Lands and Houshold-stuff for every 20 li. proportionably to 1 li. by the year in Lands And you are to take especial care that therein you assess not any part of the said monies upon the Rents and Revenues due and payable to either the Universities or any other Colleges Halls Hospitals Almes-houses or Free-schools Nevertheless you are to assess the Tenants of all such Lands and Tenements for so much as the same are worth by the year over and above what Rents or Revenues they pay to the said Universities Colleges c. And you are hereby further willed and required that you bring the said Assessment fairly written exactly cast up and by you signed unto us at the house of c. tali die by two of the clock in the afternoon of the same day Of all which you nor any of you are to fail upon pain of 20 li. Given under our hands and seals at A. the c. To A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. The Preamble of the Tax Book The Hundred of A. c. Kent ss A Tax made the second day of May Anno Dom. 1664. and in the sixteenth year c by us whose names are hereunder subscribed in pursuance of a Warrant to us directed under the hands and seals of A. B. C. D. E. F. Esquires and others Commissioners nominated in an Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for granting c. as before We are required to assess upon the said Hundred on all Lands Stock Goods c. the summ of c. by a pound rate wherein the Tenant is to be assessed one sixth part of the whole which we have accordingly assessed viz the Landlord at 5 d. in the pound Rent
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
Quorum 43 Eliz. cap. 2. 7 Iac. 3. 43 Eliz. cap. 2. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum Man-child till he shall come to the age of 24 years Woman-child till she shall come to the age of 21 or the time of her marriage On refusal to be bound to good Behaviour or Indicted for a Contempt and thereupon to be Fined and Imprisoned Dalt 163. 5 Eliz. 4. 5 Eliz. 4. 5 Eliz. 4. If it be taken before 1 Justice say uno Iusticiarior ' Domini Regis c. Anno Domini not necessary If it be taken before 1 Justice say uno Iusticiarior ' Domini Regis c. Anno Domini not necessary a The Iustices within named or the within named Iustices 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum If charged but with suspicion then say a the suspicion of his c. b as the Case is whereof he stands charged 7 Iac. c. 4. May be chargeable to the Parish 2 Iustices Quaere if not fit one to be of the Quorum according to 18 El. c. 3. If she put in security to discharge the Parish she cannot be punished by the Statute 7 Iac. but by that of 18 Eliz. Coke Magna Charta fol. 733. 7. Iac. cap. 4. c. May be chargeable to the Parish 2 Iustices if not fit one be of the Quorum according to â—…8 El. c. 4. If she put in surety to discharge the Parish she cannot be punished by the Statute 7 Iac. but by that of 18 Eliz. Coke Mag. Ch. fol. 733. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum 18 Eliz. cap. 3. Dalt 39. Lamb. 122. Cromp. 196. 18 Eliz. cap. 3. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum The same Justices 18 Eliz. cap. 3. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum 18 Eliz. cap. 3. It is not expresly said what Iustices shall commit But I conceive it fit to be the 2 Iustices that made the Order But likewise conceive that other Iustices may so doe mutatis mutandis But I also conceive it fit that then it should be done by 2 Iustices whereof one of the Quorum 14 Car. 2. cap. 12. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum This Order must be confirmed at the Sessions 18 Eliz. cap. 3. 3 Car. c. 4. 2 or 3 Iustices Lam. 119. First Assignavimus in the Commission of the Peace 2 or 3 Witnesses 34 E. 3. c. 1. Dalt 290. to 297. First Assignavimus in the Commission of the Peace 34 E. 3. c. 1. Dalt 290. to p. 297. Either of these are sufficient Lamb. 120. 1 Iustice. Crompt 237. 5 E. 6. c. 25. Two Justices one of the Quorum Observe to bind the Principal in 20. li. and each of the Sureties in 10 li. a If at the Assizes then say at the next Assizes and general Gaol-delivery to be holden for the said County to doe and receive c. In allusion to the Statute of 22 Hen. 8. cap. 5. I conceive it fit to have 4. Iustices whereof 1 of the Quor In allusion to the Statute of 22 H. 8. cap. 5. I conceive it fit to have 4 Iustices whereof one of the Quorum When moneys received as much as you can get As aforesaid 13 Car. 2. cap. 8. 2 Iustices 13 Car. 2. cap. 8. 2 Iustices a Lord High Admiral of England or 2 more of the principal Officers or Commissioners of His Majestie 's Navy or Master of His Majestie 's Ordnance or Lieutenants of His Majestie 's Ordnance b Service of the Navy or Ordnance 13 Car. 2. cap. 8. 2 Iustices by oath of the Officer or two credible Witnesses a Refuse or wilfully neglect 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. Settled the 13. of the same King cap. 8. Provision for His Majesty or the Queen or any of the Children of the King or Queen Or impress or take any Cart Carriage or other thing without the consent of the Owner 2 Iustices a Son or Daughter 16 Car. 2. cap. 3 1 Iustice dwelling near the place Proof upon Oath a violently opposed or injured b for any time not exceeding a month 1 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Iac. c. 2. 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. 1 Iustice of that Division 1 Witness within a month after default made 1 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Iac. c. 4. 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. 1 Iustice of that Division c. 1 s. per Sunday 1 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Iac. c. 4. 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. 1 Iustice of that Division 13 14 Car. 2. c. 4. 2 Iustices Confession or 2 Witnesses a Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice with Cure The Ordinary may allow an Impediment 13 14 Car. 2. c. 4. 2 Iustices Sermon or Lecture 16 17 Car. 2. c. 2. 2 Iustices 16 17 Car. 2. c. 2. 2 Iustices Sea-coals brought into the Thames must be sold by the Chauldroâ—… containing 36 bushels heaped up according to the Bushel sealed at Guild-hall London And Scotchcoals and other Coals sold by weight after the proportion of 112 li. to the hundred of Avoirdupois weight without fallacy or deceit a sold or exposed to Sale Half to the person prosecuting or complaining Parish where the Offence committed or any other adjoyning Parish or Parishes 16 17 Car. 2. c. 2. 3 Iustices of the Quorum a Ingrosser or Retailer b Wharf or place where the Coals are stored up 2 Iustices * If not chosen at the Leet this Clause is to be omitted I conceive that it is fit to have 2 Iustices and one of them of the Quorum Dalt 165. I think 2 Iustices best Quorum 1. Best 2 Iustices Quorum unus 14 Car. 2. 2 Iustices See Title Recognizances 7 Iac. c. 4. 3 Iac. 10. 1 Iustice. He that committed him For any offence or misdemeanour Must bear the charges of himself and of those appointed to guard him thither or that shall so guard him thither If the Offender be unable to bear his Charges the Parishoners must do it See Title Recognizances Where Offender is a Feme-Covert levy upon her Husband Where Teacher is a man unknown 22 Car. 2. Regis c. 1. 2 Iustices By Consession of the party or Oath of witness or notorious evidence of the fact Assembly Conventicle or Meeting a under colour or pretence of exercise c. b other then is allowed by the Liturgy or practice of the Church of England Where five persons are present more than those of the same houshold Quaere if there must not be two Justices 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices a an Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b colour or pretence c Liturgy or practice d not exceeding 5 â—…i e noâ—…x exceeding 3 months 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices a an Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b colour or pretence c Liturgy or practice d not exceeding 10 li. e not exceeding six months 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices a an Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b colour or pretence c Liturgy or practice 22 Car. 2. Regis c. 1. 2 Iustices By Confession of the party Oath of Witness or notorious Evidence of the fact a Assemb Conventicle