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
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
said A. B. was as aforesaid suppressed do as we are informed and believe still remain We have therefore thought fit to suppress him from any longer keeping any Alehouse or Tippling-house or using commonly selling of Ale Beer Cyder or Perry These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith repair to the said A. B. and charge him to surcease from keeping any longer any Alehouse or Tipplinghouse and from commonly selling of Ale Beer Perry or Cyder and that what you shall doe in the premisses you some or one of you so giving notice do make known unto us or one of us with all convenient speed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at C. in the said County the second day of October 1679. 31 Car. II. Regis A Licence to keep an Alehouse with Articles Articles to be observed and kept by A. B. admitted to keep a common Alehouse or Victualling-house in his now dwelling house in C. in the said County of Kent as followeth viz. Kent ss IMprimis If he here of any Robery or other hainous offence committed against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King he shall certifie to the Constable or Borsholders of the Hundred where for the time he then dwelleth or some of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County of such persons as lodged at his house within two days before or after such Robery or hainous offence committed and what apparrel they had and used and the Christian name or Sirname or names of them or as many of them as he shall know 2. Also he shall not use or keep nor suffer to be used or kept any Carding Dicing Bowling or any other unlawfull Game or Games at any time in his house or yard 3. Also he shall not permit or suffer any person or persons to continue drinking or remain tippling in his house otherwise then is permitted and allowed by the several Statutes in that case made and provided 4. Also he shall not suffer any person or persons to lodge at his house above one day and one night together but such as he will answer for and have forth coming if occasion shall require 5. Also he shall keep one or more beds in his house as also Mens meat and Horse meat during the time of Licence conveniently furnished to lodge any way-faring Man or Travellor Lastly He shall not utter or sell less than one full Ale-quart of the best Beer or Ale for one penny and of the small two Quarts for one penny and shall have in his house Beer and Ale of both sorts and also Bread for the Poor and sueh others as will buy the same We whose Names are hereunder written Justices of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King within this County of K. do hereby license and allow the said A. B. to keep a common Alehouse or Victuallinghouse in his now dwellinghouse known by the name of the Sign of the George in C. aforesaid for the space of one whole year next ensuing The said A. B. observing and keeping all and singular the Articles above written for observing whereof he is bound by a Recognizance in 10 li. and two sufficient Sureties with him viz. C. D. and E. F. in 5 li. a piece to the use of our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors Dated at C. the 8 day of Septemb 1671. The Recognizance as in Pag. 3. The Condition The Condition of the Recognizance within written is such That whereas the within named A. B. is by the Justices within named licensed admitted and allowed to keep a common Alehouse or Victuallinghouse in C. for the space of one whole year next ensuing If therefore the said A. B. doe well and truly observe and keep all and singular the Articles contained in his said Licence That then c. Apprentices A Warrant to put out poor Children Apprentices 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 THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you do present unto us or some of us in writing under your hands at the house of A. B. in c. upon the third day of Iune next at nine of the clock in the morning of the same day the names of all such poor Children of your said Parish as are Orphans or whose Parents shall not by you or the greater number of you be thought able to keep and maintain them together with the names of the Parents of the said Children if they have any living and the several Ages of the Children aforesaid And that you do cause such of the said Children as be able to come thither and more especially such of them as by you shall be thought fit to be put forth Apprentices to appear before us at the time and place aforesaid to be by us there viewed And likewise that you do then and there also present unto us in writing as aforesaid the names of such substantial Inhabitants of your said Parish to whom you shall think fit to put the said Children or any of them Apprentices and more especially of such of the said Inhabitants as have not formerly taken such poor Children of the said Parish Apprentices And lastly that you do give notice to the said Inhabitants that they are by us required then and there to appear before us to shew cause why you by our assent shall not bind such of the said Children Apprentices unto them as to you shall seem convenient unless they shall in the mean time consent to take and receive the same accordingly and that you your selves be then and there also present and have there this Precept Of all which you are not to fail at your Perils Given under our hands and seals the c. An Indenture for an Apprentice so put out THis Indenture made the c. day of c. in the year of the Reign c. Between A. B. and C. D. Church-wardens of the Parish of E. in the County of c. and F. G. H. I. Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish c. of the one part and K. L. of c. of the other part Witnesseth That the said Church-wardens and Overseers by the Assent of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose names are hereunto written according to the form of the Statute made in the 23. year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor have put out and bound M. L. a poor Child of the said Parish of E. Apprentice to the said K. L. till the said M. L. shall come to the age of 24 years During which time the said Apprentice his said Master well and faithfully shall serve his Secrets keep his Commandments lawfull and honest every-where willingly shall doe He
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
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
of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you the faid Constable or Church-wardens do require the said A. B. to pay for the said Offence to the hands of you the said Church-wardens to be by you accounted for to the use of the Poor of the same Parish five shillings of lawfull money of England within one week now next ensuing and if the said A. B. shall refuse or neglect to pay the same as aforesaid that then you the said Constable or Church-wardens do levy to the use aforesaid the said 5 s. of the Goods of the said A. B. by Distress and Sale of the same rendring unto him the overplus of the moneys remaining of the said Sale and if the said A. B. be not able to pay the said summ of 5 s. that then you the said Constable do set him in the Stocks there to remain by the space of six hours Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Convicted upon my view Convicted by his Confession before me The second Conviction 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 it hath been this present day duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. was upon the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And forasmuch as the said A. B. hath been once before lawfully convicted of the said offence of Drunkenness 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 A. B. to come before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to be bound with two Sureties to His said Majesty in one Recognizance or Obligation of ten pound with condition to be from thenceforth of good behaviour according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided which if he shall refuse to doe that then you do him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid and deliver him there 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 he shall be so bound with two Sureties as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. Convicted upon my view Convicted by his own Confession before me Excise Note NOne shall meddle with any Office relating to the Excise till they have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before 2 Iustices of the Peace of the County where such Office is or one Baron of the Exchequer and the Oath mentioned in 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. A Certificate upon taking the Oath about Excise Kent ss WE whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid do certify That A. B. of C. in the said County hath before us this present day taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath mentioned in the Statute made in the twelfth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquours for the increase of His Majestie 's Revenue during His life Given under our hands and seals the 2. day of May in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second None shall meddle with any Office relating to the Excise till they have taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such Office is or one Baron of the Exchequer And the Oath of an Excise man Vide Title Oaths This Oath is by the Justices to be certified to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded A Warrant to summon those who refuse to pay the Excise To the Constable c. Kanc. ss WHereas Complaint hath been made unto us this present day by A. B. of C. sworn Officer to the Commissioners of Excise of Ale and Beer of the said County That E. F. of G. in the said County Victualler hath Brewed and put to sale certain Barrels of strong Beer since the second day of May last past without paying the duty of Excise in compounding with the Commissioners for this division contrary to an Act of Parliament in that behalf made These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said E. F. to be and appear before us at T. in the County aforesaid upon the tenth day of Iune at nine of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day to shew cause why the said E. F. should not pay the duty of Excise as aforesaid Hereos fail not c. Given under c. A Warrant for Distress on Alehouse-keepers for not paying Excise To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto us whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid That A. B. of C. in the said County of K. Alehousekeeper hath not paid or cleared off his Duty of Excise unto such person as by the Statute in that behalf made is appointed according to the Entry of the said A. B. in that behalf made as by the Statute aforesaid is directed and upon examination of the Complaint aforesaid we do find the same to be true 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 the summ of c. upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. being the double value of the Duty so not paid or cleared off and by him forfeited according to the form of the said Statute and to sell the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redeemed within fourteen days and that you pay the moneys so levied to such person or persons as by the said Statute is directed rendring to the said A. B. the overplus if any be And for want of sufficient Distress that you do forthwith certify us thereof to the end we may farther proceed touching the same as by Law is appointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Mittimus where not sufficient to pay Excise 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 WHereas by Warrant under our hands you the said Constable and Borsholders were required to levy of the Goods and Chattels of
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
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
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 '
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
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
Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto me by the Parishioners of C. in the said County That whereas A. B. being apprehended in the said Parish upon suspicion of Felony and by my Warrant for that cause sent from thence to His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at Maidstone in the County aforesaid the charges of the said Parishioners in conveying and guarding him to the said Gaol did amount to ten shillings and the said A. B. hath refused to bear the same And forasmuch as I am credibly informed that the said A. B. hath Goods and Chattels within the Parish of D. in the County aforesaid sufficient to defray the said Charges These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to seize so much of the said Goods and Chattels as shall be sufficient to defray the Charges aforesaid and to cause Apprisement to be made thereof by four of the honest Inhabitants of the said Parish of D. where the Goods are And that you do after the said Apprisement sell the said Goods and that out of the moneys arising of the said Sale you do pay over unto the Parishioners of A. aforesaid the aforesaid ten shillings delivering unto the said A. B. the overplus arising of the said Sale Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to make a Tax for conveying a Felon to the Gaol To the Church-wardens and other substantial Inhabitants of the Parish of A. within the Hundred of B. in the said County Greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. Constable of the Hundred aforesaid hath made Complaint unto us that you refuse to make a Tax or Scot in the said Parish for conveying of C. D. of c. lately attached for Felony in the said Parish to the Gaol not having of his own to bear his Charges thither These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and command you forthwith to make a Tax or Scot for the discharge of such moneys as the said Complainant hath been at in the premisses or to come before us or some of us at the house of c. sale die And then and there to shew cause why you do not so do Hereof fail not c. Conventicles A Condition of a Recognizance in case of an Appeal made touching Conventicles THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas R. G. of R. in the within named County of Kent Gentleman was lately convicted by the within named Justices of taking upon him to teach in an Assembly lately held in the Parish-Church of Sandherst within written under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner then according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England against the form of the Statute lately made to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles and had therefore according to the Statute aforesaid forfeited the summe of twenty pounds And for that in the judgments of the said Justices they did think the said R. G. unable to pay the said summe of twenty pounds they did therefore by their discretions adjudge five pounds thereof to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the within bound W. W. who was also according to the said Statute convicted of being present at the said Assembly contrary to the Statute aforesaid And whereas the said W. W. was also by the said Justices convicted for that he at the time of the said Assembly was one of the Church-wardens of the said Parish and knowing the said Assembly to be holden within the same did not give information thereof to any Justice of the Peace nor endeavour the Conviction of the parties which were at the said Assembly nor of any of them according to the duty of his said Office but wittingly and willingly did omit the performance of his Office aforesaid in the execution of the said Statute against the form of the same by which he forfeited the summe of five pounds And the said two several summs of five pounds have by Warrant of the said Justices been levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said W. W. and he hath the day and year within written appealed from the Justices aforesaid to the judgment of the Justices of the Peace of the said County in their next Quarter-Sessions If therefore the said W. W. do prosecute the said Appeal with effect that then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force And forasmuch also as the aforesaid Wife of the said S. B. is a Feme-Covert cohabiting with the said S. B. her Husband These are therefore c. prout c. forthwith to levy the aforesaid five shillings so imposed upon her as aforesaid by Distress c. prout c. And forasmuch as a man unknown did then and there take upon him to preach or teach prout the Record you may levy twenty pound upon any the Offenders as in your judgment shall seem fit A Record of a Conventicle ¶ This Record must be written in Parchment and would be better in Latin according to the Precedent ensuing K. st MEmorandum That upon the tenth day of Iune in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. it was according to the form of an Act of Parliament in that behalf lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles duly proved to us That A. B. being of the age of sixteen years and upwards and a Subject of this Realm was upon the first day of Iune now last past in the Parish of c. present at T. in the said County under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England contrary to the Act aforesaid Of all which we have the day and year first above written made this Record under our hands and seals A Record concerning Conventicles where several persons are convicted Kanc. ss MEmorandum Quod J. S. de Sundrich in Com' praedict ' Yeoman Ed. W. de W. in Com' praed ' Generosus Maria uxor G. J. de parochia de E. in Com' praed ' Husbandman Eliz. Williard de Edenbridge praed ' in Com' praed ' vidua J. B. de c. cum multis aliis in toto se attingen ' ad numerum duodecim personarum quilibet eorum die Solis vicesimo sexto die Junii Anno Regni Domini Regis nunc vicesimo secundo ultra â—…tatem sexdecim annor ' subditi dicti Dom ' Regis nunâ—… existen ' praed ' 26. die Junii Anno vicesimo secundo supradicto insimul assemblaver ' praesentes fuer ' quilibet eor ' praesens fuit in domo mansionali ipsius Annae Pelham viduae in praed ' parochia
receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely keep without Bail or Mainprise untill the next general Quarter-Sessions for the West-Division of this County the next Assizes Gaol-delivery Great Sessions or Sitting of Oyer and Terminer in the County aforesaid which shall first happen And that you then and there have him to be farther proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if they be satisfied that the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Free-hold or Copy-hold or be worth 50 li. in Goods A Record against one that suffereth a Conventicle c. to be kept in his house ¶ I conceive it fit that this Record be written in Parchment And Quaere if not fit to be in Latin Kent ss MEmorandum That upon the second day of Iune in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. it was according to the form of an Act of Parliament in that behalf lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles duly proved to us That R. T. of c. did wittingly and willingly suffer under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England to be held in his in the Parish of T. in the said County on c. day now last past contrary to the Act aforesaid Of all which we have the day and year first above written made this Record under our hands and seals A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at C. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as D. E. was this present day according to the form of an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles convicted by Record by us made of wittingly and willingly suffering under of exercise of Religion in other manner than is allowed by the of the Church of England to be held in his in the Parish of T. in the said County upon the second day of Iune now last past contrary to the Act aforesaid And whereas we did upon the said Conviction fine the said D. E. for his said Offence and he did not pay down the said Fine unto us These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said D. E. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely keep without Bail or Mainprise by the space of next after such delivery of him unto you Hereof fail not at your perils c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis to the House of Correction if the Iustices think fit to send the Offender thither which they must not do if the Offender or her Husband if Feme-Covert have 5 li. per annum Freehold or Copy-hold or 50 li. in Goods A Mittimus thereupon upon the second Conviction To the Constable c. as in the precedent Warrant K. ss FOrasmuch as c. as in the precedent Warrant till you come to these words And he did not pay down the said Fine unto us go on thus And forasmuch as the said D. E. hath been once before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the Act aforesaid These are therefore c. as aforesaid The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis c. as aforesaid A Mittimus thereupon upon the third Conviction To c. as in fol. 102. Kent ss FOrasmuch as c. as in fol. 102. till you come to these words And forasmuch as the said D. E. hath been twice before that time convicted of the like Offence contrary to the said Act These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said D. E. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely keep without Bail or Mainprise untill the next general Quarter-Sessions for the West Division of this County the next Assizes Gaol-delivery Great Sessions or Sitting of any Commission of Oyer and Terminer in the County aforesaid which shall first happen And that you then and there have him to be farther proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like Mittimus mutatis mutandis c. as aforesaid A Warrant to levy the Penalty of the Statute upon the Teacher in a Conventicle To the Constable Borsholders Headboroughs and Tithingmen of the Hundred of M. C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of C. in the County aforesaid and to every of them and to all and every other Officers within the said County whom the execution hereof may concern Kent ss FOrasmuch as I did this present day receive a Certificate to me directed under the hand and seal of W. E. of S. in the County of Sussex Esquire one of His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep His Peace in the said County of Sussex That G. H. of C. aforesaid Tailour was upon the first day of this instant August by him convicted by proof to him made according to an Act of Parliament intituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles lately made and provided of being present in the Barn of R. W. of W. in the said County of Sussex Husbandman and there did take upon him to preach or teach at a Conventicle the five and twentieth day of Iuly last past under pretence of exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England and contrary to the form of the Act aforesaid and that therefore being thereof convicted as aforesaid the said G. H. did forfeit for the said first Offence twenty pounds and that he the said Justice had by virtue of the said Act imposed on him so convict as aforesaid for his said Offence the said summ of twenty pounds as being thought by him
' 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
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
of the Court of King's Bench the Body of the said F. M. to answer to such Misdemeanors Contempts and Misbehaviour as shall be objected against him by the Masters of the Bench or others on the behalf of the said Society to the end that his Insolences may be repressed by such proceeding against him as shall be agreeable to Justice Given under my hand and seal the 24th day of Iune in the 27th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second over England Annoque Dom. 1675. R. R. Irish Cattel A Warrant to seize certain Cattel imported from Foreign parts into England To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand that there are lately Imported into England out of Ireland or some other Foreign parts and are now remaining in your Precinct certain Cattel and Beasts prohibited by the late Acts of Parliament to be Imported These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to give you notice thereof and to will and require you and every of you forthwith after sight hereof to use your utmost diligence and endeavour to enquire find out and discover the same Cattel and Beasts and the same to seize and take into your Custody to the intent the same may be proceeded with as by the said Acts is appointed Given under my hand and seal this c. A Warrant to deliver to the Owners certain Cattel seized as forfeited for being Imported from Foreign parts upon proof that they were not so Imported To the Constables c. ut supra Kent ss WHereas complaint hath been made to me that you or some or one of you have or hath seized and taken into your Custody certain Cattel belonging to or late in the possession of A. B. viz. 2 Oxen 3 Kine 4 Heifers 5 Yearlings 100 Sheep and 6 Swine as forfeited for being Imported out of Ireland into England contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf Now forasmuch as the said A. B. within 48 hours after such seizure hath made it appear to me by the Oath of two credible Witnesses viz. That the same Cattel were not Imported from Ireland aforesaid nor any other place beyond the Seas contrary to the said Acts. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith upon sight hereof to deliver unto the said A. B. the said Cattel aud every of them without delay according to the said Acts as you will answer the contrary Given under my hand and seal c. A Warrant to kill the said Cattel To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them If not them To the Sâ—…izor or Seizors of the Cattel as the Case is Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand That you or some of you having seized within your Precinct certain great Cattel Sheep and Swine viz. here name the Sorts and number of each Sort of the Cattel as the Case is late belonging to or in the possession of A. B. as forfeited for being Imported out of Ireland or some other Foreign parts beyond the Seas contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf And that the Importer or Importers thereof have been convicted of such Importation and Forfeiture of the said Cattel yet nevertheless you the said Seizor or Seizors by the space of six days next after such Conviction and Forfeiture have delayed and do still delay or neglect to cause the same Cattel to be killed whereby the distribution thereof according to the said Act is retarded and hindred These are therefore to require you immediately upon sight hereof to cause the said Cattel to be killed to the end the same may be forthwith distributed as by the said Acts is required And hereof you are not to fail Given under my hand and seal c. A Warrant to levy 40 s. upon the Seizor or Church-wardens that shall fail in killing or making distribution as aforesaid To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss WHereas I am given to understand That A. B. having seized within your Precinct certain great Cattel Sheep and Swine viz. here name the Cattel ut supra lately belonging to or in the possession of C. D. as forfeited for being Imported from Foreign parts beyond the Seas contrary to the late Acts of Parliament in that behalf And that the same are convicted and forfeited according to the same Acts yet the said A. B. by the space of six days next after such Conviction and Forfeiture have delayed and do still delay to cause the same Cattel and Beasts to be killed and distribution to be made thereof according to the said Acts. Now forasmuch as Oath hath been made before me of the premisses These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith after sight hereof to levy or cause to be levied the summe of 40 s. for every one of the said great Cattel and 10 s. for every of the said Sheep and 10 s. for every of the said Swine which should have been killed and distributed as aforesaid in pursuance of the said Acts by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. rendering the said A. B. the over-plus necessary Charges of destreyning being first deducted and in default of such Distress to commit the said A. B. to the common Gaol of the said County there to remain for the space of three months without Bail or Mainprise according to the Statute in that behalf Hereof you are not to fail Given under my hand and seal c. According to these Presidents may like Warrant or Warrants be made for Fish or other Goods prohibited by the said Acts Mutatis mutandis Lent A Warrant for the observing of Lent To the Constables and Borsholders c. Kent ss THese are therefore in His Majestie 's name and in pursuance of His said Majestie 's late Proclamation to will and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do cause to come and appear before us upon Thursday the second day of March name the place all Inn-holders Tavernors Alehouse-keepers Butchers and all other Victuallers whatsoever within the said Hundred of c. And that you give notice to the said persons that they bring with them two sufficient Sureties to enter into several Recognizances for His said Majestie 's use for the due observation of Lent according to the effects and contents of the said Proclamation and according to the Law in that case made and provided And that you your selves or one of you be then and there present and make a return in writing of all such as you shall have warned by virtue of this Warrant Hereof c. Given c. Licences A Licence for a Badger of Corn. Kent ss AT the general Sessions of the Peace holden at M. in the County aforesaid this present day A.
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
of the Peace in that behalf And that you take nothing for your Office of Justice of the Peace to be done but of the King and Fees accustomed and Costs limited by the Statute And ye shall not direct nor cause to be directed any Warrant by you to be made to the parties but ye shall direct them to the Bailiffs of the said County or other the King's Officers or Ministers or other indifferent persons to doe Execution thereof So help you God c. The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. of c. do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other His Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities And do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highness His Heirs and lawfull Successors And to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness His Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the world That our Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm and of all other His Majestie 's Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of His Majestie 's Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any foreign Prince to invade or annoy Him or His Countries or to discharge any of His Subjects of their allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to His Majestie 's Royal Person State or Government or to any of His Majestie 's Subjects within His Majestie 's Dominions Also I do swear from my heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King His Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear saith and true allegiance to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and Him and Them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Contempts whatsoever which shall be made against His or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against Him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full authority to be lawfully ministred unto me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equivocation or mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God A Mittimus for refusing the Oath of Allegiance To the Keeper or Gaoler c. WE A. B. and C. D. two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of K. whereof A. B. is of the Quorum do hereby commit to your custody the Body of E. F. for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance Requiring you to take and safely in Prison to keep him till he shall be delivered by due course of Law and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under our hands and seals this second day of Iune c. The Oath of Abjuration YOU shall swear That you shall depart out of this Realm of England and out of all other the King's Majestie 's Dominions and that you shall not return hither or come again into any of His Majestie 's Dominions but by the Licence of our said Sovereign Lord the King or of His Heirs So help you God The Oath of an Excise-man With this must be taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy YOU shall swear to execute the Office of name the place truly and faithfully without favour or affection and shall from time to time true account make and deliver to such person or persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no fee or reward for the execution of the said Office from any other person then from His Majesty or those whom His Majesty shall appoint in that behalf The under Sheriffs Oath touching the Impannelling of Iuries I A. B. shall not use or exercise the Office of under Sheriff 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 impanelling 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 God me help The Oath of a Bailiff I I. D. shall not use nor exercise the Office of one of the Bearers of the Verges of His Majestie 's Houshold and one of the Officers and Ministers of the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King of the King's Palace of
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
diligence to perform the uttermost you shall be commanded by the Judges of the Court aforesaid So help you God The Oath of a Constable YOU shall well and truly serve the King's Majesty in the Office of a Constable of the Parish of A. all Commissions Precepts and Warrants that are directed to you and shall come to your hands you shall to the best of your power cause to be duly and truly executed all Riots and Misdemeanours and breach of the Peace suppress You shall punish all Rogues Vagrants and idle persons according to the Laws of this Land in that case made and provided you shall diligently pursue all Hues and Cries you shall see that the King's Majestie 's Watch within the said Town of A. be duly and truly set according to His Majestie 's Laws you shall also do your best endeavour to suppress Drunkenness within the said Paâ—…ish and to see the Laws and Statutes concerning the same to be duly put in execution and all other things belonging to the Office of Constable so long as you shall continue in your Office you shall well and truly perform and doe so near as you can So help you God The Oath of an Ale-caster YOU shall swear that you shall well and truly serve the King's Majesty in the Office of an Ale-caster or an Assiser of that Liberty or Hundred for this year to come you shall duly and truly see from time to time that the Bread brought to be sold be truly weighed and that the same do contain such weight according to the prizes of Wheat as the Statute in that case hath provided likewise you shall have diligent care during the time of your being in office to all Brewers and Tiplers within your Liberty that they and every of them do make good and wholsome Bear for man's Body and that the same be not sold before it be assayed by you and then to be sold agreeable to the prices limited and appointed by the King's Majestie 's Justices of the Peace and all faults committed and done by the Bakers Brewers and Tylers or by any of them you shall make known and present the same at the next general Sessions to be holden for the said County you shall likewise present all Offences of Drunkenness and haunting of Inns and Ale-houses by the Inhabitants of the Parish or of any other neighbouring Parishes whereby due punishment may be inflicted upon them for their Offence accordingly and in every other thing you shall well and truly behave your self in the said Office for this year to come so help you God and by the Contents of that Book The Oath of a Commissioner of Sewers YE shall swear that you to your cunning wit and power shall truly and indifferently execute the Authority to you given by this Commission of Sewers without any favour affection corruption dread or Malice to be born to any manner of Person or Persons And as the case shall require ye shall consent and indeavour your self for your part to the best of your knowledge and power to the making of such wholsom just equall and indifferent Laws and Ordinances as shall be made and devised by the most discreet and indifferent number of your fellows being in Commission with you for the due redress reformation and amendment of all and every such things as are contained and specified in the said Commission and the same Laws and Ordinances to your cunning wit and power cause to be put in due execution without favour meed dread malice or affection as God you help and all Saints The Oath of a Searcher in the Custome House YE shall swear That ye shall serve the King well and truly in the Office of the Searcher-ship in the Port of N. and doe the King's Profits in all things that belongeth to you to doe by way of your Office and well and truly ye shall make due search of all the Ships and Vessels coming in or passing out of the said Port and truly answer the King of all that shall belong unto him in your said Office without fraud or malign after your wit and power As God help you The Oath given to a Iury before Evidence given in against a Prisoner at the Bar. YOU shall true deliverance make between our Sovereign Lord the King and the Prisoner at the Bar as you shall have in charge according to your Evidence as near as God shall give you Grace So help you God and by the Contents of this Book The Oath given to a Bayliff or Serjeant that attendeth on any Iury or Inquest at an Assise YOU shall well and truly keep this Inquest from Meat and Drink Fire and Candle you shall not suffer any man to speak with them neither shall you your self speak with them more than ask them if they be agreed untill such time as they be agreed So help you God and by the Contents of this Book The Oath of him who craves the Peace against another YOU shall swear that the surety of the Peace which you crave against A. B. is not for hatred or malice which you â—…ear him but for safety of your Body from harm which you fear he will doe or procure to be done unto you So help you God Or thus YOU shall swear that the surety of the Peace which you crave against A. B. is not of any private malice hatred or evil will but meerly that you are afraid of your life or the hurting or maiming of your Body or the burning of your houses So help you God Another Oath to give a man upon examination or upon information YOU shall true answer make to all such matters as shall be demanded of you concerning the beating of A. B. you shall speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth So help you God The Oath of him that gives Information THE Information that you shall give on the King's Majestie 's behalf against A. B. shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth So help you God Sometimes you pump a Witness by this Oath thus YOU shall true answer make to all such questions as by me shall be demanded of you So help you God The Oath to be given to any Iury by whom a Nisi prius is to be tryed YOU shall truly try this Suit of Nisi prius between Party and Party according to the Evidence as shall be given you in Court as near as God shall give you Grace So help you God c. The Oath to be given to such as are to give Evidence between a Party and Party at a Nisi prius THE Evidence that you shall give to this Inquest concerning the matter in varience shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth so near as God shall give you Grace So help you God c. The same Oath that your Foreman hath sworn you of your part shall well and truly keep So help you God c. The Oath of a great
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
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
County of Middlesex to attend him in Council the 25. day of February last past did by Himself and the Right Honourable the Lord President acquaint us That His Majesty was in a short time to remove His Court to Oxford and did require and command us to use our utmost endeavours with care and industry to preserve the Peace of this important County during His Majestie 's absence and in particular to put in Execution the Statute made in the 13. year of His now Majestie 's Reign For the preservation of His Majestie 's Sacred Person whom God preserve with long life in and by which said Statuâ—…e it is enacted That if any person or persons whatsoever during the natural Life of our most gracious Sovereign Lord the King that now is shall within this Realm or without compass imagine invent devise or intend death or destruction or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction maim or wounding imprisonment or restraint of the Person of the same our Sovereign Lord the King or to deprive or depose him from the Stile Honour or Kingly Name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm or of any other His Majestie 's Dominions or Countries or to levy War against His Majesty within this Realm or without or to move or stir any Foreigner or Stranger with force to invade this Realm or any other His Majestie 's Dominions or Countries being under His Majestie 's Obeysance and such compassings imaginings inventions devices or intentions or any of them shall express utter or declare by any Printing Writing Preaching or malicious and advised Speaking Every such Person and Persons so as aforesaid offending shall be deemed declared and adjudged to be Traytors and shall suffer pains of Death and also lose and forfeit as in cases of High Treason And that if any Person or Persons at any time during His Majestie 's Life shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm the King to be an Heretick or a Papist or that he endeavours to introduce Popery or shall maliciously and advisedly by Writing Printing Preaching or other Speaking express publish utter or declare any words sentences or other thing or things to incite or stir up the people to hatred or dislike of the Person of His Majesty or the established Government Then every such person and persons being thereof Legally convicted shall be disabled to have enjoy or exercise any Place Office or Promotion Ecclesiastical or Civil or Military or any other Imployment in Church or State and shall be likewise liable to such further and other punishments as by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm may be inflicted in such Cases And we having taken into consideration His Majestie 's most gracious Speech then made unto us and his commands laid upon us Do therefore hereby will and require and strickly charge and command That you do forthwith issue forth your Warrants to the several petty Constables within your Division thereby commanding them that they do with their utmost diligence and endeavours apprehend and secure all persons so as aforesaid offending against the said Statute and bring such person or persons before us the said Justices at our petty Sessions to be held weekly on Tuesday in every week at or in A. c. in the said County of Mid. by nine of the clock in the forenoon of the said days to the intent they may be proceeded against according to Law and Justice And we do hereby will and require you that you do survey the Watches that are kept by the petty Constables in your Division and order them the said petty Constables that they do within their respective limits for the future keep their Watches from nine a clock at night untill six in the morning to the intent that the King's Peace may be the better secured And we hereby further will and require you that you do in your said Warrants command the said petty Constables that they do for the future take an Account in writing of all the names of those persons they Summon to be upon the Watch and that they take particular notice of all and every person that shall after such Summons given make default and not appear himself or send some able and fit person to watch in his stead And that they bring the said Account fairly written to us who shall be assembled at the said petty Sessions to the intent they may be proceeded against according to Law And hereof you and the said petty Constables are not to fail at your perils Given under our hands and seals the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord 1680. and in the 33. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England c. Another Warrant upon the same Statute To all Constables and other His Majestie 's Officers whom these may concern within the Parish of c. M. ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to will and require you to take notice of and to apprehend and bring before us at our weekly Meetings all manner of persons that shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm the King to be an Heretick or a Papist or that he endeavours to introduce Popery or that shall maliciously and advisedly by Writing Printing Preaching or other Speaking express utter or declare any words sentence or other thing or things to make or stirr up the People to hatred of the person of His Majesty or the established Government to be dealt with according to Law And further from time to time to appoint and settle sufficient Watches to meet at nine at night and not to depart till six in the morning amongst whom a competent number of good House-keepers are alwaies to be present And you and every of you are to bring us the Names and Conditions of your respective Watches at our said weekly Meetings that the performance of your Duties herein may be the better known and taken notice of His Majesty in Council having given us strict command herein You are likewise to give us an Account of all such as Arm themselves beyond their Qualities and to use your utmost endeavours by all the ways imaginable to preserve His Majestie 's Peace during his absence from this City Dated this eighth day of March 1680. A Warrant for Watch and Ward and to apprehend idle persons To the High Constable of the Hundred of A. and the petty Constables c. within the said Hundred Kent ss FOrasmuch as information hath been given unto us that very many suspicious idle persons do wander about the Country without Controlment or Question for the better prevention thereof for the future and of Robberies and other Misdemeanours often occasioned thereby These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you to look to your Offices herein and to see that you keep and cause Watches to be duly kept in all the Parishes and places within your said Hundred of A.
days next after such your receipt of him Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand aâ—…d seal the c. Note The Iustice may if he think fit not send the Offender to the House of Correction but may make a Warrant to the Constable c. to whip him which may be made with the same recitals as in the last precedent Warrant till you come to these words These are therefore c. And then say thus These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you to whip the said A. B. for the said Offence Hereof fail not c. Note This is onely for the first Offence Now for the second Offence thus A Mittimus to the House of Correction for the second like Offence To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County aforesaid at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas c. As in the former Warrant till you come to these words And whereas it then appeared c. Instead of which you go on thus And forasmuch as the said A. B. was once before convict of the said Offence and was thereof so convicted as before These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders to convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there keep him one month to hard labour Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. An Order against the Buyer of stoln Wood c. to pay treble the value thereof Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon examination by me this day according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees it appeared unto me That A. B. of c. did within six days last past buy of E. F. being a person justly suspected to have unlawfully come by the same and that the same was unlawfully come by and unlawfully taken from C. D. of c. and was of the value of c. of lawfull money of England I do therefore according to the said Act award that the said A. B. shall pay to the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England being the treble value of the Given under my hand and seal the c. A Warrant to distrain for non-payment of the Money according to the foregoing Order To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas lately by examination by me taken according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees it appeareth unto me That A. B. of c. did within c. days last past buy of E. F. being a person justly suspected to have unlawfully come by the same and that the same was unlawfully come by and unlawfully taken from C. D. of c. and was of the value of c. of lawfull money of England I did therefore according to the said Act award that the said A. B. should pay to the said C. D. c. of lawfull money of England being the treble value of the And forasmuch as the said A. B. hath not paid to the said C. D. the aforesaid c. according to my said award These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you to levy the â—…aid c. by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. rendring to him the over-plus and after you have so levied the said c. forthwith to pay the same to the said C. D. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my haâ—…d and seal the c. A Mittimus against the Buyer of stoln Wood c. for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the County aforesaid at T. in the said County Kent ss WHereas lately c. as in the last before mentioned Warrant till you come to the words Hereof fail not c. then go on thus And forasmuch as you the said Constable have returned unto me That in default of such Distress you cannot levy the aforesaid summ of c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you to attach the said A. B. and him safely convey to His Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid at his own charge and there deliver him to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely keep one month without Bail Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Woollen A Certificate for burying in Woollen K. ss A. B. of the Parish of C. in the County of D. Gent. maketh Oath that E. F. of the Parish of G. in the County of H. Gent. lately deceased was not put in wrapt or wound up or buried in any Shirt Shift Sheet or Shroud made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or other then what is made of Sheeps Wool onely nor in any Coffin lined or faced with any Cloath Stuff or any other thing whatsoever made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or any other material but Sheeps Wool onely Dated the 2. day of Iuly in the one and thirtieth year of the Reign oâ—… our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second c. Annoque Dom. 1679. Sealed and subscribed by us who were present and Witnesses to the swearing of the aforesaid Affidavit A. B. C. D. I H. B. Esq one of the King's Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of D. do hereby certify That the day and year abovesaid the said A. B. came before me and made such Affidavit as is above specified according to the late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for burying in Woollen Witness my hand the day and year first above written H. B. Or this I P. S. Esq one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County do hereby certify That A. B. came before me this present second day of Iune 1679. and made Oath that C. D. deceased was not put in wrapt or wound up or buried in any Shift Shirt Sheet or Shroud made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or other then what is made of Sheeps Wool onely or in any
Coffin lined or faced with any Cloath Stuff or any other thing whatsoever made or mingled with Flax Hemp Silk Hair Gold or Silver or any other material but Sheeps Wool onely P. S. Sealed and signed by us Witnesses that were present and did hear this Oath made A. B. C. D. The Minister's Certificate for being buried in Woollen I A. B. Rectour of the Parish Church of C. in the County aforesaid do hereby certify That the day and year abovesaid the said C. D. came before me and made such Affidavit as is above specified according to a late Act of Parliament intituled An additional Act for burying in Woollen Witness my hand the day and year first above written A. B. A Minister's Certificate of not bringing an Affidavit of a Corp's being buried in Woollen To the right Worshipfull R. K. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace for the County of Kent the humble Certificate of me A. B. Rectour of the Parish Church of C. in the County aforesaid I Humbly certify That C. D. was lately buried in the Parish aforesaid viz. on the As by the Register Book kept for the same Parish doth appear And further That according to the Act of Parliamâ—… in this behalf I did forthwith after the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 C D. cause notice â—…o be given 〈◊〉 my hand to the Church-warden of the said Parish to bring unto me the said A. B. an Affidavit concerning the burial in Woollen of the said C. D. according to the direction and appointment of the said Act And I further certify That by the space of eight days next after the said Interment of the said C. D. no Affidavit hath been brought to me the said Rectour concerning the burial of the said C. D. in Woollen as by the said Act is required Witness my hand this 10. day of May in the year of our Lord. 1â—…81 A Warrant for levying the 5 li. for not burying in Woollen according to the Act. K. ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me by the Certificate of A. B. Minister officiating in your said Parish to you the Church-wardens and Overfeers of the Poor of the same Parish That the Corps of the Person of C. D. deceased but not of the Plague was buried in Linnen contrary to the Act hereafter mentioned on Monday the second day of Iune and that such an Affidavit and Certificate concerning the Parties being interred according to the direction of a late Act of Parliament intituled An Act for burying in Woollen was not brought to him within the time limited by the said Act And forasmuch as by reason thereof the forfeiture and penalty of five pounds of lawfull money of England is incurred and the Goods and Chattels of the deceased by the said Act made liable to the aforesaid forfeiture to be levied by way of Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of the chief Magistrate in any Town-corporate or any Justice of the Peace or in default thereof by like Distress and Sale oâ—… the Goods of the Person in whose house the said Party died or of any that had a hand in putting such Person in any Shirt Shift Sheet Shroud or Coffin contrary to the said Act or did order or dispose the doing thereof and in case such Person were a Servant and that he or she died in the family of his or her Master or Mistress that the same be levied upon the Goods and Chattels of his or her said Master or Mistress and if such Person died in the family of his or her Father or Mother that then the same be levied upon the Goods and Chattels of his or her Father or Mother in manner and by Warrant as aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name and by the Authority of the said Act of Parliament to will and require you or some of you to levy the said forfeiture by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said deceased or in default thereof of the Goods and Chattels of such other Parties as aforesaid rendring the overplus thereof to the Parties whose Goods you shall so distrain all reasonable charges being deducted And for your so doing this by the Authority of the said Act shall be your Warrant Given under my hand and seal the 10. day of Iune in the 31. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Annoque Dom. 1679. To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of c. Additional Presidents to the former The form of the Record that is returned of the Alehouses that are licensed K. ss MEmorandum Quod vicesimo tertio die Februarii Anno Regni Domini nostri Caroli secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defens vicesimo septimo apud W. in Com. K. praed R. K. G. P. Armig. duobus Iusticiariis dicti Domini Reg. ad pacem in Com. praed conservand assignat quilibet person infra nominat Victuall in person praesent tunc ibidem per nos dict Iusticiar Licenc ad vendend panem Cervisiam in Conditione infra scrip recognoverunt se debere dicto Dom. Regi seperal summas decem librar bonae legalis monetae Angliae quilibet personarum infra nominat manucapt pro praedict person licenc in person praesent tunc ibidem recogn se debere dicto Dom Regi summ quinque librar pro praed person Licenc non in pers praesent in decem libr. consimilis monetae Angl. de Bonis Catallis Terris Tenementis suis cujuslibet eorum ad opus usum dicti Dom. Regis haered successor suorum fieri levaâ—…i si defecerint in conditione sequorum THE Condition of these Recognizances are such That whereas the above and within named Justices have licensed and allowed all and every the Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers whose names are under and within written to sell Ale and Beer in the Town and Houses where they now inhabit and dwell for the space of one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer If therefore they and every of them shall during their time of keeping Alehouses sell good wholsome Ale and Beer a full Ale-quart of their best for one Penny and of their smallest second sort two full Ale-quarts for a Penny nor shall suffer any disorder or unlawfull Games to be used in or about their Houses or Grounds nor lodge any Strangers above one day and one night without giving notice thereof to the Constable or his Deputy nor dress nor cause to be dressed in or about their Houses any manner of Flesh to be eaten or sould at any time prohibited by Law Nor receive into their Houses any manner of Persons suspected or defamed of or for Theft Murther Drunkenness or Incontinency nor shall buy nor take to pawn any stoln Goods