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A47352 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 useful 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. Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.; G. F., of Grayes-Inn. 1681 (1681) Wing K429; ESTC R217188 201,245 429

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nostri_fw-la caroli_n secundi_fw-la dei_fw-la gratia_fw-la angliae_fw-la scotiae_fw-la francia_fw-la &_o hiberniae_fw-la regis_fw-la fidei_fw-la defensoris_fw-la etc._n etc._n venerunt_fw-la coram_fw-la a._n b._n &_o c._n d._n armig._n iust._n dicti_fw-la domini_fw-la regis_fw-la ad_fw-la pacem_fw-la in_o com._n k._n conservand_n assig_n r._n h._n de_fw-fr s._n in_o com._n predict_v yeoman_n &_o t._n h._n de_fw-fr eodem_fw-la carpenter_n ac_fw-la r._n s._n de_fw-fr f._n in_o com._n praed_fw-we mercer_n &_o recognover_n se_fw-la debere_fw-la dicto_fw-la dom._n regi_fw-la viz._n quillbet_n manucaptor_n praed_fw-we quinque_fw-la libras_fw-la &_o praed_fw-we r._n h._n decem_fw-la libras_fw-la bonae_fw-la &_o legalis_fw-la monetae_fw-la angliae_fw-la solvend_n eidem_fw-la dom._n regi_fw-la in_o festo_fw-la nativitatis_fw-la sancti_fw-la johannis_n baptistae_fw-la proximo_fw-la futuro_fw-la post_fw-la datum_fw-la present_a et_fw-la nisi_fw-la fecerint_fw-la concesserunt_fw-la pro_fw-la se_fw-la haer_v executor_n &_o administrator_n suis_fw-la per_fw-la praesentes_fw-la quod_fw-la dictae_fw-la separale_n summae_fw-la leventur_fw-la &_o recuperentur_fw-la de_fw-la maneriis_fw-la messuagiis_fw-la terris_fw-la tenementis_fw-la bonis_fw-la catallis_fw-la &_o haereditamentis_fw-la ipsorum_fw-la r._n h._n t._n h._n &_o r._n s._n haer_v executor_n &_o assign_v suorum_fw-la ubicunque_fw-la fuerint_fw-la invent_v dat._n etc._n etc._n another_o single_a recognizance_n k._n ss_z memorandum_n quod_fw-la quarto_fw-la die_v januarii_n anno_fw-la regni_fw-la dom._n nostri_fw-la caroli_n secundi_fw-la dei_fw-la gratia_fw-la angliae_fw-la etc._n etc._n a._n b._n de_fw-fr c._n in_o com._n praed_fw-we yeoman_n personaliter_fw-la venit_fw-la coram_fw-la r._n k._n armig._n uno_fw-la iust._n dicti_fw-la dom._n regis_fw-la ad_fw-la pacem_fw-la in_o com._n predict_v conservand_n assign_v &_o recognovit_fw-la se_fw-la debere_fw-la dicto_fw-la dom._n regi_fw-la decem_fw-la libras_fw-la 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