to the said Parishioners in such order manner and form as in and by the said Book is appointed whereby he hath by virtue of the Statute aforesaid forfeited five pounds to the use of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you and every of you that you or some of you do demand of the said A. B. the aforesaid five pounds to the use of the Poor aforesaid and in default of payment thereof within ten days after such demand that you or some of you do levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. rendring to him the surplusage Hereof â—…ail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. The like Warrant mutatis mutandis if he do not if there be occasion administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church once in every month A Mittimus for Preaching whilst Disabled 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 K. ss FOr as much as we have received a Certificate from the Ordinary within whose Jurisdiction the Parish of T. in the said County is situate That A. B. being by virtue of the Statute in that behalf made disabled to preach any Sermon did during the time that he did continue and remain so disabled preach a Sermon in the Parish-Church of T. aforesaid against the form of the Statute These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him convey to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the said Keeper thereof together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the Gaol aforesaid and him there safely to keep by the space of three months without Bail or Mainprise Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands c. Coals Upon Complaint touching Coals 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 require you to cause A. B. of c. to come before us at the house of c. to answer such Complaint against him for Offences against an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the regulating the measures and prices of Coals as hath lately been made unto us and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. For delivering a Moiety of such Coals as are sold contrary to the Statute to the Informer To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOr as much as A. B. of c. is duly convicted before us according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made intituled An Act for regulating the measures and prices of Coals That he did lately expose to sale forty Chauldron of Coals of the value of c. contrary to the form of the Statute aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you to seize the Coals aforesaid and the double value thereof and that you do deliver the one half of the Coals and value aforesaid unto C. D. being the person prosecuting in this behalf to his use and likewise that you do imploy and dispose the other half of the same to and for the use of the Poor or Repairing of the High-ways of the Parish of M. where the said Offence was committed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. Touching Prices of Coals To the Constable c. Kent ss FOr as much as according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for regulating the measures and prices of Coals we did appoint and judge reasonable that Coals coming into the River of Thames within this County and sold by retail should be sold at the rate and price of c. by the Chauldron And forasmuch as A. B. an of such Coals doth refuse to sell as aâ—…oresaid We do therefore according to the said Act appoint and impower C. D. and E. F. joyntly or severally to enter into the said where the said Coals are stored up and in case of refusal to take a Constable to force entrance which Constable is hereby required to act accordingly And you the said C. D. and E. F. joyntly and severally are hereby farther appointed and impowered the said Coals to sell or cause to be sold at the rate aforesaid rendring to the said A. B. the money for which the said Coals shall be sold necessary charges being deducted For all which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under our hands and seals the c. Constables Charges A Warrant for making of Constables THese are in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you to make your repair unto us or to some other Justice of Peace of this County to take the Oath of a Constable to serve His Majesty within the Town of A. according to the Choice made of you by the Jury at the last Leet holden in your Town And hereof fail not Dated c. Or thus To A. B. C. D. and E. F. c. Inhabitants of C. c. WHereâ—…s A. B. of your Town of C. the now Constable thereof is by reason of his Age and Impotency very unable and insufficient to execute the said Place These are in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you whose names are hereabove written to come and appear before me at my house at H. to morrow being Thursday by eight a Clock in the morning that I may make Choice of one of you to be sworn to undertake the said Office And hereof fail not c. A Warrant for a Tax for the Constable's Charges in the Execution of his Office Kent ss FOr as much as we are informed by A. B. Constable of the Hundred of D. in the County aforesaid That he hath necessarily disbursed for and on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty several summs of money and for his Reimbursement of the same hath craved from us such assistance as hath been in such cases accustomed These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you the Inhabitants of the Hundred aforesaid whose names are hereunder written or the greater number of you to take and examine the Accompt of the said Constable touching the premisses and for his Reimbursement of such money as you or the greater number of you shall find upon the said Accompt to have been by him so necessarily disbursed as
aforesaid that you or the greater number of you do forthwith make a Tax or Assessment of and upon all and every the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in such manner as hath formerly in such cases been accustomed within the same and to authorize you the said Constable to demand collect and gather the said money so taxed and assessed and in case of refusal of payment thereof unto you that then you do return unto us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County the names of the persons so refusing to the end that they may be farther proceeded against for the same as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not c. Given under our hands and seals at c. the c. To A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. M. and N. O. To appear and shew cause for their not paying the said Charges To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred 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 some or one of you do cause the several persons whose names are hereunder written to come before some or one of us at the house of T. N. Inn-holder at the George Inn c. in the â—…aid County the fifth day of Iune next ensuing at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to shew cause why they did not pay unto A. B. late Constable of the said Hundred the several summs of money hereunder mentioned added to their several names and severally assessed upon them for and towards his Reimbursement of moneys by him necessarily laid out for and upon the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at H. the first day of Iune 1679 c. A. B. xij d. C. D. vi d. For refusing to appear to shew Cause for not paying the said Charges To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as the several persons here-under named were by virtue of a Warrant to you directed under the hands and seals of us A. B. c. His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid warned to come before us or some of us this present day c. in the said County to shew cause why they did not pay unto A. B. late Constable of the said Hundred the several summs of money hereunder mentioned added to their several names and severally assessed upon them towards his Reimbursment for his necessary Disbursements for and on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty yet the aforesaid persons have refused so to come or to pay the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do bring the aforesaid persons before us or one of us and other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County at the house of c. in c. upon Monday the fifth day of May at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same to shew cause why they do not pay they said moneys and farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain unless they shall pay the moneys aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. To levy the Charges upon their refusing to pay the same To the Constable of the Hundred of A. in the said County Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon your Complaint it appeareth unto us That the several persons hereunder named have refused to pay unto you the several summs hereunder specified and severally added to their several names assessed on them according to the form of the Statute lately made towards your Reimbursement of such moneys as you have disbursed in and about the Execution of your said Office according to the Statute aforesaid These are therefore to require and authorize you to levey the said several and respective summs so assessed upon the said respective persons so refusing to pay the same rendring the overplus to the owners if any shall be Given under our hands and seals the c. A. B. 11 s. C. D. 13 s. c. A Condition of a Recognizance to appear and answer the not paying the same at next Sessions THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas the within bound C. D. hath refused to pay to A. B. late Constable of the Hundred of D. in the within named County of K. assessed upon him the said C. D. for and towards the Reimbursement of the said late Constable of moneys by him necessarily laid out for and on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the said Hundred in Execution of his said Office in and about the Service of His Majesty If therefore the said C. D. do personally appear before his Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the said County at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive what by the said Court shall be enjoyned touching the premisses That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force A Warrant for levying 3 s. 4 d. upon a Constable for neglect of his Duty in giving an account of Rogues Vagabonds c. To the chief Constables of A. and to the under Constables of H. and to their Deputies greeting Kent ss FOrasmuch as at our Assembly at A. the second day of Iune last for the adjusting the accounts of the under Constable according to a Statute made in the reign of King Iames touching Rogues and Wanderers A. B. of H. aforesaid was fined at 3 s. 4 d. for being negligent in his Office and refusing to make such account as by the said Statute is appointed These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you that some or one of you do forthwith upon the receipt hereof demand of the said T. C. the said Fine and if he shall refuse or neglect to pay the same unto you within three days that then you do immediately levy the said 3 s. 4. d. by Distress and Sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring unto him the overplus thereof if any such shall remain And lastly that one of you the chief Constables do pay the same unto the now Treasurer of the Marshalsey at or before the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at B. for these parts and this shall be your sufficient Warrant in that behalf Given under our hands c. A Warrant to sell the Goods of an Offender that refuseth to bear his own Charges to the Gaol To the Constable and
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
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
Inquest YOU shall truly enquire and due presentment make of all such things as you are charged withall on the King's behalf the King's Council your own and your fellows you shall well and truly keep and in all other things the Truth present So help you God c. The Oath of those that give Evidence upon Bills of Indictment THE Evidence that you shall give to the Inquest upon this Bill shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth and you shall not lett so to doe for malice hatred or evil will nor for meed dread savour or affection So help you God c. Officers The Nomination of Officers by Iustices of the Peace Kane ss WE His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose hands and seals are hereunto set do nominate and appoint A. B. of the Township of C. in the said County Bailiff of the Township aforesaid and D. E. of the said Township under-Bailiff of the same commanding each of them to take upon him his respective Office aforesaid untill he shall be from thence lawfully discharged and forthwith to repair to one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid before him to take his Oath for the Faithful execution of the said respective Office Given under our hands and seals at F. in the said County the tenth day of Sept. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Orchards A Warrant against Robbers of Orchards c. To the Constable and Borsholders of A. in the said County c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of your Town of A. Weaver hath within three months last past robbed the Orchard or Garden of C. D. of your Parish and carried away great quantities of Apples c. or digged up or pulled up his Fruit-trees to the value of 50 s. And that F. G. of your said Town Baker hath procured and abetted him so to doe and received and bought of him divers of the same things to the great damage of the said C. D. contrary to the laâ—…e Act of Parliament in that case made and provided I do therefore hereby order and require That the said A. B. shall within six days after notice to him given of this my Order pay the said C. D. 20 s. and that the said F. G. do within six days after notice to him given of this Order pay unto the said C. D. 30 s. in recompence to him for his wrongs aforesaid and that these payments he made in the presence of the said Constable hereby commanded upon request to see it done and hereof you are forthwith to give them notice and if either of them shall not pay the same that then you do give me notice thereof to the end they may be farther proceeded against according to the said Statute And hereof fail not c. Given under our c. Upon non-payment to be whipt To c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of your Town of A. Weaver hath within three months last past robbed c. as before so made and provided Wherefore the premisses considered and that I judge the said Offenders A. B. and F. G. unable to make satisfaction for the said wrong I do hereby order that they be forthwith committed to the said Constable of A. to be whipped the which you are hereby required forthwith to doe at your peril Given under our hands c. Peace A Warrant to find Sureties for the Peace To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. hath this present day taken his corporal Oath before me that C. D. of c. And hath therewithall prayed Surety of the Peace against the said C. D. 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 cause the said C. D. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find sufficient Security as well for his personal appearance at the next general Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned as also that he will in the mean time keep His Majestie 's Peace towards His said Majesty and all His liege People and especially towards the said A. B. and if the said C. D. shall refuse so to doe that then without expecting any further or other warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol aforesaid 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 Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to find Sureties for the Peace where an Assault is made upon an Officer in discharge of his Office To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid K. ss FOrasmuch as Complaint was this day made unto us by W. W. Borsholder of the Borough of the Town of C. in the said County That R. L. of C. in the said County Gent. and I. W. the younger of C. aforesaid Shoemaker did in the month of February last past at C. aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid assault and beat several Persons and the said W. W. then Borsholder of the Borough aforesaid being then and there present did then and there in His Majestie 's name command the said R. L. and I. W. to keep His Majestie 's Peace yet notwithstanding they did continue in breaking the same in his presence and then and there assaulted him and threatned to kill him all which he hath maintained upon his Oath before us and that he is afraid that the said R. L. and I. W. will kill wound beat or do him some bodily harm and hath prayed Security of the Peace to be by us granted unto him against the said R. L. and I. W. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do bring the said R. L. and I. W. before us some or one of us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find several and respective sufficient Security for their several and respective personal appearance at the next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for
hereby certify That M. N. of O. in the County of P. Gent. upon the Lord's day commonly called Sunday the 10. day of Iune immediately after Divine Service and Sermon did in the Parish-Church aforesaid receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our hands the 10. day of c. A. B. Minister of the Parish and Parish-Church of C. E. F. Church-warden of the said Parish and Parish-Church H. I. of K. in the County of K. Gent. and L. M. of c. do severally make Oath That they do know M. N. in the above written Certificate named and who now present hath delivered the same into this Court and do farther severally make Oath that they did see the said M. N. receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the Parish-Church of C. c. in the said Certificate mentioned and upon the day and at the time in the said Certificate in that behalf certified and expressed and that they did see the Certificate above written subscribed by the said A. B. Minister of the said Church and E. F. Church-warden there and farther that the said H. I. and L. M. do say upon their respective Oaths that all other matters or things in the said Certificate recited mentioned or expressed are true as they verily believe A Certificate of Receiving the Sacrament according to the Act. K. ss MEmorandum That at the Quarter-sessions for the said County holden at C. in the County aforesaid upon Tuesday the 22. day of Iuly in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy three and from thence adjourned to M. in the said County and there holden by the same Adjournment upon Monday the 28. day of Iuly aforesaid R. W. of the Parish of M. in the County aforesaid Esq did upon the said 28. of Iuly in the said Court of Quarter-sessions there deliver into the said Court a Certificate under the hands of I. P. Clerk Minister of the Parish and Parish-Church aforesaid and I. M. Church-warden of the same Parish and Parish-Church by which they certified that the said R. W. upon the Lord's day commonly called Sunday the 18. day of M in the said year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy three immediately after Divine Service and Sermon did in the Parish-Church aforesaid receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the usage of the Church of England A Testimonial upon the Receiving the Sacrament according to the Act. Kent ss MEmorandum also That at the time and place of the said delivery of the said Certificate A. B. C. D. and E. F. did upon enquiry made by the said Court then and there severally make Oath that they did know the said R. W. in the said Certificate named and that they were present and delivered the same into that Court and that they did see the said R. W. receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the time day and place and in the manner in the said Certificate certified and that they did also see the Certificate aforesaid subscribed by the said Minister and Church-warden and that the said R. W. did upon the 20. day of May then last past and for several years before inhabit and then did inhabit in the above named Parish of H. and County of Kent A Declaration to be subscribed according to the Act. I A. B. do declare That I do believe that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper or in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever Scavingers A Warrant for Scavingers to Distrain To the Constables and Headboroughs and other His Majestie 's Officers of the Liberty of A. c. Kent ss WHereas Complaint hath been made unto us That the several Persons whose names are hereunder written being Inhabitants in the Liberty of A. have refused and yet do refuse to pay the summs of money hereunder mentioned being respectively rated assessed and taxed on them for and towards the scouring and clensing of the Streets according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you to bring the said Persons so refusing before us to shew cause for such their refusing And if they or any of them shall refuse to come before us or shall absent themselves or refuse to be spoke withall due notice in writing being left at their respective Houses That then you immediately levy all and every the said several summs unpaid and all the Arrearages thereof of all and every the said Persons so refusing by Distress and Sale of the Offenders goods you rendring to the Parties the overplus that shall remain upon the Sale of the said Goods if any shall be And for your so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under our hands and seals this c. Search A Warrant to Search for stoln Goods To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as I have received Information by A. B. that two Sheep were lately feloniously taken and stoln from him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that immediately upon receipt hereof you do make diligent Search for the said Sheep in all and every such suspected Houses and Places within the said Hundred as you and the said A. B. shall think convenient And if upon your said Search you find any of the said Sheep or other just cause of suspicion that then you bring all such suspected Persons before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to be examined touching the premisses And farther to doe and receive as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to make general Search for Rogues Vagabonds c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that taking assistance of sufficient men of the said Hundred you do in the night before the twentieth day of October next ensuing make a general privy Search within every of the Parishes Villages and Hamlets within the same for the finding out and apprehending of all Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle persons in and about the said Parishes Villages and Hamlets And that such Rogues Vagabonds and wandring and idle persons as you shall then find and apprehend in the said Search you do bring before us or some of us on the aforesaid twentieth day of October at the house of Iohn Price in C. at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day there to be examined of their idle and wandring life and to be farther dealt withall according
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.
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
B. in the County aforesaid within the said Parish hath lately been delivered of a Bastard-Child begotten and born out of lawfull Matrimony yet living and chargeable to the Parish aforesaid And forasmuch as the said A. D. upon her Examination taken hath charged E. F. of c. to have begotten her with Child of the Bastard-Child aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do bring the said Woman before us at the house of R. in T. in the County aforesaid upon the tenth day of Iune at nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day to be by us farther examined touching the premisses and that you give notice thereof unto the said E. F. if conveniently you can to the end that he may likewise be at the time and place aforesaid to make his lawfull Defence therein if he shall so think fit And farther that you some or one of you do give notice to the several persons whose names are here under written that they and every of them are by us required to appear at the time and place aforesaid to certifie their several knowledges touching the premisses to the end that upon the examination of the Cause and Circumstance we may take such order therein as to Justice doth appertain And lastly that what you shall doe in execution of this our Precept you do make known unto us at the time and place aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals at c. A. B. of c. C. D. of c. E. F. of c. A Warrant against the reputed Father of a Bastard-Child To the Constable c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon Examination of A. B. of c. Single woman this day taken before me upon Oath it appeareth that she is at present with Child of a Bastard-Child which is likely to be chargeable to the Parish when it shall happen to be so born And forasmuch as upon her Examination she hath confessed that C. D. of c. did beget her with Child of the Child aforesaid and hath before me charged him with the same These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Borsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said C. D. to come before me or some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County at c. aforesaid then and there to receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned and also that he shall in the mean time be of good Behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as towards all His liege people Which if he shall refuse to doe that then without expecting any farther or other Warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol of c. and him there deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the aforesaid Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find such sufficient Security as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and seal at c. An Order for Releif of the Parish touching a Bastard-Child and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father Kent ss THE Order of us W. B. and R. K. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County whereof one of us is of the Quorum and both residing in the limits where the Parish-Church of H. in the County aforesaid is the 19. day of April in the year of our Lord 1672. according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided touching the male Bastard-Child late born in the Parish of H. aforesaid of the body of A. G. of the same Parish Single woman the keeping of which said Bastard-Child hath ever since the birth thereof been and still is chargeable to the Parish aforesaid and so likely to continue chargeable First upon our Examination of the Cause and Circumstance and due Consideration thereof by us had we do adjudge W. S. late of H. aforesaid Tayler the reputed Father of the said Bastard-Child And for Punishment of the said Mother and reputed Father and the better Relief of the said Parish we do hereby order as followeth that is to say We do order That the said Mother shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of Great B. in the said County or by some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way at or near c. in the Parish aforesaid be stripped naked from the middle upwards and then and there shall be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be there openly whipped untill her body be bloudy We do also order That the said reputed Father shall by the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred aforesaid or some or one of them upon some day between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon in the common High-way in the Parish aforesaid over against the dwelling-house of I. S. there be stripped naked from the middle upwards and shall then and there be tied to the tail of a Cart or Dungcourt and being so stripped and tied shall be from thence drawn to the Watch-house aforesaid and on the way well whipped in such manner as is in such cases accustomed We do farther order That the said Mother shall within three days next after notice of this our Order render her body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo her Punishment before ordered And that the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice of this our Order render his body to the said Constable and Borsholders or to some or one of them ready to undergo his punishment before ordered We do likewise farther order That the said reputed Father shall within six days next after notice given unto him of this our Order pay or cause to be paid to the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid or to some or one of them twenty shillings of lawfull money of England towards the moneys by them disbursed before the said notice given for or towards the charges of the keeping of the said Bastard-Child from the time of the birth thereof untill the time of the giving of the said notice And that upon every Friday which shall be next after the end of the said six days untill the said Bastard-Child shall attain unto his age of ten years the said reputed Father shall likewise pay unto the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish for the time being or unto some or one of them sixteen pence of lawfull mony of England towards the charges by them disbursed towards the keeping of the Bastard-Child aforesaid meaning between the end of the said six days and the
the Order before made as is abovesaid Commanding also you the said Keeper of the Gaol aforesaid to receive then the said W. S. in the same and him there safely to keep according to the purport and tenour of this Precept Given under our hands c. A Warrant for sending a Bastard-Child found wandring to the place of its Birth To the Constable and Borsholders of c. K. ss WHereas upon our examination we find That A. B. being the Bastard-Child of C. D. and about the age of five years hath been found wandring and going up and down the Parish of H. and other places thereabouts and was as we are credibly informed born in the Parish of I. as appeareth by the Book of the said Parish These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you That according to the General usage custome and common acceptance of the Law in case of a lost Child you do convey the same Child to the said Parish of I. and that you the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of that Parish do take due care that the said Child may be there provided for Hereof fail not at your perils Gâ—…ven under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant for apprehending a Woman on suspicion of having murthered her Bastard-Child To the Constable c. K. ss WHereas I am informed that A. B. hath had a Child lately born alive of her Body and is suspected to have murthered or made away the said Child since the birth thereof These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you that immediately upon sight hereof you do apprehend and bring the body of the said A. B. before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to answer to all such matters and things as on the behalf of His Majesty shall be objected against her touching the premisses Likewise you are to make diligent search by all lawfull means to find out the truth of the premisses and to bring before me or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County all such persons as can give any information on the behalf of His Majesty touching the premisses And hereof fail not as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand c. A Condition of a Recognizance for the Appearance of the reputed Father of a Bastard-Child THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. within mentioned did on the day of the date within written complain to the Justice within named that M. H. of the Parish aforesaid Single woman was then with Child of a Child which when born is likely to be a Bastard and chargeable to the said Parish And whereas the said M. H. upon her Examination the day aforesaid before the said Justice did confess the same to be true and charged the within bound I. N. to have begotten her with Child of the Child aforesaid If therefore the said I. N. do answer unto such matters as shall be objected against him by the said M. H. touching the said Bastard-Child then this Recognizance to be void or else c. The Condition of a Recognizance of one charged to be the Father of a Bastard-Child before its Birth to appear at Sessions THe Condition of this Recognizance is such That whereas upon Examination of A. B. in the said County of K. Single woman lately taken before the within named Justice of the Peace it appeareth that she was then with Child which when it shall be born is likely to be chargeable to the Parish where it shall happen to be so born And whereas the said A. B. upon her said Examination did charge the within bound C. D. with the begetting her with Child of the Child aforesaid If therefore the said C. D. do personally appear before His Majestie 's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid at the next general Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County at c. in the County aforesaid to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be enjoyned and shall in the mean time be of good Behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as also towards all His liege people That then this Recognizance shall be void or else it shall stand in full force A Condition to discharge Church-wardens and Parishioners of a Child born in the Parish K. ss THe Condition of this Obligation is such That whereas M. H. hath of late been delivered of a Man-child within the Parish of c. within written to the which Child the within bound E. G. by his own voluntary Confession doth acknowledge himself to be the Father If therefore the said E. G. his Heirs Executours or Assigns or every or any of them do from time to time and at all times hereafter fully and clearly acquit discharge and save harmless as well the within named I. B. and H. T Church-wardens of the Parish-Church of c. aforesaid and their Successours for the time being and every of them as also all the Inhabitants and Parishoners of the said Parish which now are or hereafter shall be for the time being and every of them of and from all and all manner of Costs Charges and Expenses whatsoever which shall or may in any manner of wise at any time hereafter arise happen come grow impose or be imposed upon them or any of them for or by reason or means of the birth education nourishing and bringing up of the said Child and of and from all other Actions Suits Charges Troubles Impeachments and Demands whatsoever touching and concerning the same That then c Good Behaviour A Warrant and Mittimus for Good behaviour 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 A. B. c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you the said Constable and Bolsholders that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to find sufficient Security as well for his Appearance at the next general Session of the Peace to be holden for the said County at T. aforesaid then and there to doe and receive as by the said Court shall be injoyned as also that he shall in the mean time be of Good behaviour as well towards His said Majesty as towards all His liege people Which if he shall refuse to doe that then without expecting any farther or other Warrant you some or one of you do safely convey him to the Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the said Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the aforesaid Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely
A. B. of C. in the said County c. by him forfeited according to the form of the Statute intituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquours for the increase of his Majestie 's Revenue during His life and you the said Constable have this day certified us that the said A. B. hath not sufficient Distress whereby the said c. can be levied 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 take the said A. B. and him convey to the Gaol aforesaid and there deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there imprison till satisfaction be made of the aforesaid c. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. To levy the Forfeiture for not making a due Entry 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 D c. hath not made such due and particular Entry of as by the said Statute is required 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 Statute aforesaid and do 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 aforesaid 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 oppointed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Warrant to levy the double value of the Excise on a Brewer for not paying according to Entry made 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 County aforesaid common Brewer hath not paid nor 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 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 Statute aforesaid 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 aforesaid A. B. the overplus if any be And for want of sufficient Distress that you do forthwith certify us thereof to the end that we may proceed touching the same as by Law is appointed Hereof fail not c. Loss of Allowance for making false Entries Kent ss FOrasmuch as by the Statute in that behalf made it is enacted That all common Brewers and makers of Beer or Ale not selling the same by retail for and in consideration of waste by fillings and breakage of their Beer and Ale shall have and be allowed out of the returns made by the Gagers upon every three and twenty Barrels of Beer whether strong or small returned by the said Gagers three Barrels and upon every two and twenty Barrels of Ale whether strong or small returned by the Gagers two Barrels And forasmuch as A. B. of C. in the said County common Brewer hath this present day been duly convicted before us that he hath wittingly and willingly made a faulse Entry of as in Margent by him lately brewed contrary to the form of the Statute aforesaid We do therefore adjudge that the said A. B. shall forfeit and lose for his Offence aforesaid over and besides the Penalties in the said Act mentioned the said Allowance so to be made for six months now next ensuing Given under our hands and seals the c. Upon Complaint of false Entry to appear To A. B. of C. in the said County Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto us That you A. B. of C. c. as above contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you to appear before us at the house of D. in E. in the County aforesaid upon the 22. day of May to answer the premisses Hereof fail not at your peril Given under our hands the 18. day of May c. Not suffering to gage the Vessels 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 whose names are hereunto subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County That A. B. of C. in the County aforesaid hath refused to permit C. D. a Gager appointed according to the Statute aforesaid to enter into his c. to gage or take account of his Margent And having been by the said Gager thereupon forbidden to sell carry out or deliver to any of his Customers any Ale c. as in the Margent yet notwithstanding the said A. B. after such warning given hath sold and retailed c. as in the Margent not having paid or cleared the Duty of Excise And upon examination of the said Complaint 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 upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. five pounds for his Offence aforesaid and sell the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redeemed within fourteen days and that you do pay the moneys so levied to such person or persons as by the said Statute is directed rendring to the aforesaid A. B.
and examined before R. K. one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace of the County of K. on the 2. day of March Anno Dom. 1679. deposeth and saith Kent ss THat about three weeks since he was riding from C. aforesaid towards Feversham in the said County of K. and in the High-way within the Parish of F. in the said County of K. he was set upon by three Persons and was by them robbed and they took from him c. And he saith and deposeth that he doth know one of those Persons and saith that his name is E. F. an Essex man born in c. and of the age as he adjudgeth him of 30 years or thereabouts and the others he saith he knoweth not An Huy and Cry upon the escape of a Prisoner from the Constable To the Constable Borsholders and other Officers as well within the said County as elsewhere within the Kingdom of England to whom the Execution hereof doth or may concern Kent ss WHereas A. B. Constable of the Hundred of M. within the said County having yesterday together with two Precepts delivered unto him the Body of C. D. of c. before charged with the suspicion of his felonious taking of one Gelding to be by him the said Constable and other Officers conveyed to the Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid hath this day as the said Constable hath upon his complaint informed me made a felonious escape from him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the said C. D. being a Person about 30 years of age of a middle stature slender body long black curled hayr having on his body a short coloured close Coat light grey Breeches and Stockings a narrow-brim'd Hat And also that you the said respective Officers do make Huy and Cry after him from Town to Town and from County to County and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen And if you shall find him the said C. D. that then you do convey him before some Justice of the Peace within the County where he shall be taken by him to be dealt withall according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given c. A Warrant for a Huy and Cry after a Felon R. W. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace for the said County To all Constables Borsholders and other His Majestie 's Officers within the said County or elsewhere within the Realm of England whom the Execution hereof may concern Greeting K. ss WHereas I have received Information and Charge against A. B. who is a Person of evil fame describe the Person Age and Apparel who is charged before me to have assaulted and taken from the person of C. D. on the second day of Iune last at c. ten pounds in moneys numbred c. according to the Information And he the said A. B. is very much suspected to have committed several other Felonies and notwithstanding several endeavours for apprehension of him he hath not as yet been apprehended but hath withdrawn himself and is fled These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the said A. B. and to make Huy and Cry after him from Town to Town and from Country to Country and that as well by Horsemen as Footmen according to Law And if you shall find the said A. B. that then you do carry him before some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County or place where he shall be taken to be dealt withall according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal at c. A Warrant to search for a Person who hath committed a Robbery and for Goods stoln R. W. Esq one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace of the said County To all Constables Borsholders and other His Majestie 's Officers within the County aforesaid or elsewhere within the Realm of England whom the Execution hereof may concern Greeting Kent ss WHereas I have received Information That a bay Gelding about 15 hands high with a bald Face his Head bigger than ordinary two wall Eyes a short Tail aged about 7 years his paces all Trot being the Gelding of R. G. of B. in the said County Gent. was in the night of the 18. day of this instant Iuly stoln out of his Land in B. aforesaid and that he suspecteth a Person whose name he knoweth not of a middle stature aged about 22 years and in saddishcoloured Cloaths to have stoln this Gelding aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you to make diligent search within your several Precincts for the Gelding and person aforesaid and to make Huy and Cry after the said Person from Town to Town and from Country to Country according to Law And if upon your search or otherwise you shall find the said Person or the Gelding aforesaid or other just cause of suspicion that then you carry the said Person or other Persons suspected before some one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County or place where he or they shall be taken to be dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal this c. Inns of Court A Warrant from one of the Judges a Member of an Inns of Court against one of that Society for refusing to observe the Order of the House To all Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and all other His Majestie 's Officers and Ministers whom these presents may concern Mid. ss WHereas I Sir R. R. Knight one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench am informed and fully satisfied by some of the Masters of the Bench of the Society of c. That F. M. Gent. lately a Member of the said Society hath for his contempt of several Orders of Council made for the compelling him to pay his Commons and other Duties amounting to a considerable Summ been by order of Council expelled the Society and his Chamber and Study seized to the use of the House notwithstanding which the said F. M. without performance of any of the said Orders hath contemptuously broken off Padlocks put upon his Chamber door entred thereinto and made use thereof and both in Words and Deeds reproachfully and contemptuously slighted and affronted the Governours and Government of the said Society and that he continues at this present actually and obstinately in his contemptuous Carriage to the disturbance of the said Society in contempt and violation of the Government thereof and as a dangerous example to others if not prevented by a speedy and severe proceeding against him These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and every of you that you bring before us or some other of the Justices
B. of H. in the County aforesaid is admitted licensed and appointed by the Justices of the Peace of the said County to be a common Badger Lader Kedder Carrier Buyer or Transporter of all manner of Corn or Grain in any Market or Fair within the Realm of England and the same so bought to convert to Meal and the same to carry to the City of L. or the Suburbs of the same or to any other Market or Fair so that he use the same according to the tenour and true meaning of the Statute in that case made and provided against Forestallers Regrators and Ingrossers and not otherwise The same Licence to have continuance from the day of the date hereof until the next general Sessions of the Peace after the Feast of E. next coming to be holden at M. aforesaid In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this second day of November 1680. R. K. R. H. T. B. A Licence as before may be granted to Drovers of Cattel to Buy and Sell again by the same Statute A Licence for a petty Chapman To the Bailiffs Constables and other of His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Greeting Kent ss KNow ye that we R. K. and G. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid have licensed and by these presents do license T. W. of M. in the County aforesaid Yeoman to be a petty Chapman to wander and go from Town to Town Village to Village and place to place to sell Pins Points Tapes Laces Knives Gloves Purses c. and such other kind of small Wares and also to gather and buy Coney-skins and such kind of small Wares within the County aforesaid and not else-where Provided that this our Licence shall continue in effect only for the term of one whole year coming from the day of the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof c. A Licence or Pasport for a Poor man to his Friends for Relief To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and other His Majestie 's Officers of the same County and to every of them Kent ss R. K. and T. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the same County greeting Forasmuch as A. B. of C. c. the Bearer hereof being reduced to great poverty and necessity hath desired a Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel unto the City of D. in the County of S. where he saith he was born and hath some Friends yet living by whose Means and Friendship he hopeth to be fully relieved and holpen In consideration whereof Know ye that we the said R. K. and T. B. as far as in us lieth have licensed the said A. B. to travel and pass the direct way from C. unto the said City of D. so that his Journey be not for longer or further continuance than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you not to molest or trouble the said poor man in his travel but to permit and suffer him to pass so that he shew himself in no respect offensive to His Majestie 's Laws In witness whereof c. Another K. ss R. K. and T. B. two of the Justices c. Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. c. having shewing the cause of his travel desired one Testimonial or Licence for his safe travel to the City of D. shew to what place he goeth Wherefore we as much as in us lieth do license the said A. B. to travel the direct way from C. in the said County of K. to the said City of D. so as his Journey be no longer than twenty days next after the date hereof praying you and every of you to suffer him to pass in Peace so that he demean himself orderly In witness c. A Licence to Beg. To all Constables Borsholders Bailiffs and all other His Majestie 's Officers within the County of K. and to every of them Kent ss R. K and T. H. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid greeting Whereas the Bearer hereof A. B. of C. in the County aforesaid being a very poor man and blind by reason whereof he is not able to Labour nor get to live of himself without the charitable Relief of others and being now Resident in the said Town is therefore to be relieved and being likewise informed that the Town is at this present charged with more poor and impotent people than it is able to relieve Know you therefore that we the said Justices have licensed and allowed the said Poor man and his Leader to go abroad and beg gather and receive the charitable Alms of well disposed people inhabiting and dwelling within the Hundred of c. in the said County requiring you not to molest or trouble the said Poor man or his Leader for so doing but desiring you rather to relieve him and his Leader in their necessity as to you shall seem meet This our Licence to remain and be in force for one whole year next ensuing the date hereof and no longer In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals c. R. K. T. H. A Licence to Travel by Water on the Lord's day WHereas by Act of Parliament made in the 29th year of His Majestie 's Reign that now is it is Enacted That no person or persons shall use employ or travel upon the Lord's day with any Boat Wherry Lighter or Barge except it be upon extraordinary occasion to be allowed by some Justice of the Peace of the County or Head-Officer or some Justice of Peace of the City Burrough or Town-Corporate where the Fact shall be committed upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit and lose the summe of five shillings for every such Offence as by the said Act among other things it doth and may appear And forasmuch as A. B. of the Parish of Saint A. in the County of M. Gent. having extraordinary occasion to travel on the next Lord's day to B. in the County of S. and to use and employ a Boat Wherry or Barge in his said Journey hath desired my Allowance thereof These are therefore in pursuance of the said Act to will and require all Constables Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor and all other Officers whom these presents may concern to permit and suffer the said A. B. quietly and peaceaby to perform his said Journey on the next Lord's day as aforesaid and to use and employ any Boat Wherry or Barge at his discretion without any Molestation or Disturbance whatsoever at their peril Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of Iuly Anno Dom. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 31. Another K. ss THese are to certifie that A. B. C. D. E. F. the Bearers hereof have made it appear before me that they have urgent occasions to pass on the next Lord's day
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
under our hands and seals at Maidstone in the County aforesaid the tenth day of September c. A. B. C. D. c. A Warrant to make Overseers of the Poor impowering them and the Church-wardens to collect the Poors Tax and upon non-payment to destrain Kent ss WHereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament intituled An Act for Relief of the Poor in the 43. year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth We whose names are subscribed His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace in the said County of K. and one of us of the Quorum dwelling in or near the Parish of Saint A. B. in the said County of K. have nominated and appointed A. B. and C. D. together with K. L. Church-warden for the time being according to the said Act of Parliament to be Overseers for the Poor of the said Parish and receiving of the several summs of money taxed and assessed by them on the several persons on the nineteenth day of Iune instant These are therefore according to the said Act of Parliament to authorize you the said Church-warden and Overseers of the Poor or any of you to collect and receive all such summs of money as aforesaid and the same respectively to levy of all such persons as shall refuse to pay the aforesaid Assessment by way of distress and sale of their Goods for so much rendring the over-plus if any be to the party or parties destrained and for default of distress We require all Constables and other Officers to bring before us or some other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County the Bodies of all such persons where no distress can be had that further course may be taken with them according to Law Dated the 23. day of Iune in the 32. year of His now Majestie 's Reign Annoque Dom ' 1680. A. B. A Confirmation of the Rates for the Poor Kent ss SEen ratified and allowed by us whose names are hereunder written two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace within the County aforesaid And we do hereby authorize the present Church-wardens and Overseers for the Poor within the Parish of A. and every of them to levy by way of distress and sale of the Goods of all such persons as shall refuse or neglect to pay the several Taxations aforesaid upon them imposed rendring to the Owners the overplus which shall remain upon the said Sale according to the Statute in that case made and provided Given under our hands and seals c. A Warrant to levy the Arrears due to the Parish from the former Overseers Account by Distress To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as upon your complaint it appeareth unto us That A. B. and C. D. Church-wardens of the Parish aforesaid and E. F. and G. H. Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty six upon their Account by them made and yielded of and for the moneys by them received and disbursed for and in execution of their said Office according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided were in arrear and behind to the said Parish five pounds and have not yet paid the same over unto youâ—… These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy the said five pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. C. D. and E. F. rendring to them the overplus And in default of such Distress that then you do forthwith certifie the same unto us to the end that we may farther doe therein as to Justice doth appertain Hereof fail not Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant against an Overseer of the Poor for not keeping of Monthly Meetings To the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of H. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before us That A. B. one of the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid for the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy six did for the space of c. within the said year absent himself from such monthly Meetings as by the duty of his aforesaid Office he was by the Statute in that he half made injoyned contrary to the Statute aforesaid whereby he hath forfeited five pounds for his absence aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do levy the aforesaid five pounds by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. and the same to imploy and dispose of to the use of the Poor of the said Parish and such other uses as by the said Statute is appointed And in case of default of such Distress do you certifie the same to us to the end that there may be such farther proceedings touching the premisses as by Law is required Given under our hands and seals at c. A Warrant to distrain for the Poors Tax To the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of B. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as complaint hath been made by you unto us That the several persons here under-named have refused to pay unto you the several summs of money adjoyning to their several names being assessed upon them severally for and towards the necessary Relief of the Poor of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith levy the said several and respective summs of money by Distress and Sale of the several and respective Goods of the said several and respective Offenders rendring to the parties the over-plus And in defect of such Distress that then you some or one of you do certifie the same unto us to the end that there may be such farther proceeding touching the premisses as to Justice doth appertain Given under our hands and seals at A. the c. A. B. 1 s. 6. d. C. D. 1 s. 8. d. A Mittimus where there is not sufficient to Distrain To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto us That A. B. of c. was assessed and rated at the summe of c. for and towards the necessary Relief of the Poor of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and that for his refusal of payment of the same a Warrant was according to the form of the said Statute directed to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid
the summe of 5 li. and do by and with the consent and direction and for and on the behalf of our selves and the rest of the Inhabitants of the said Town of K. acquit release and for ever discharge and free him the said R. E. of and from the said summe of 5 li. and from the keeping or maintaining the said Child and of and from all charges taxes and payments now already or hereafter to be charged or taxed upon him the said R. E. to or for the same In witness whereof we the said E. C. and E. W. have hereunto set our hands and seals c. Prisoner To allow a poor Prisoner Relief To A. B. Gent. Treasurer for Relief of the Prisoners in His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas T. S. now Prisoner in the said Gaol is in very great necessity for want of present Relief for his subsistance there These are therefore so far forth as in us lieth to appoint and authorize you the said Treasurer to allow unto the said T. S. competent Relief during his necessity in the said Gaol Given under our hands and seals the third day of Iune Anno Dom. 1679. A Discharge of a Prisoner to a Gaoler To the Gaoler or Keeper of the common Gaol at A. in the County aforesaid K. ss WE R. K. and A. B. Esquires two of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid greeting Forasmuch as A. H. of C. c. Barber hath found sufficient Sureties before us for his personal appearance at the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden at C. aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and authorize you that forthwith upon sight hereof you discharge the body of A. H. aforesaid if he be detained for no other cause but upon A. B. and C. D. their Warrant and this shall be your Discharge Given under our hands and seals at A. c. Or thus To the Gaoler or Keeper c. WHere 's A. B. being by me committed to your Custody in your Gaol till he put in Sureties for the Peace or good Behaviour as the case requires These are therefore c. as before For a Prisoner to be Bailed THese are to charge and require you that immediately upon your Receipt of this you bring before me the body of A. B. now in your Custody to be Bailed as Law requireth A Warrant from a Judge to bring a Prisoner from a Gaol to give Evidence To the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol of N. or his Deputy YOU are hereby required to bring the body of T. S. in safe Custody to Westminster upon Monday next being the seventh day of this instant February by one of the clock in the afternoon of the same day to testifie the truth according to knowledge in a certain Cause now depending in the Court of King's Bench and there to be tried by Nisi prius before the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court Between P. Earl of C. Plaintiff and G. B. Defendant in a plea of Trespass on the case on the part of the Plaintiff and after his Evidence given to remove him back safe to your Gaol Hereof fail not Given under my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1675. Quakers A Mittimus of Quakers To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at B in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as I have received information That A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. being persons commonly called Quakers and every of them of the age of sixteen years or upward have lately departed from the places of their several habitations and assembled themselves at T. in the said County under pretence of joyning in a Religious Worship not authorized by the Laws of this Realm These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do cause the said A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. and I. K. to come before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County with sufficient Securities to be bound with them to appear at the next Quarter-Sessions in order to their Conviction of the Offence aforesaid and in case of their or any of their refusal or neglect so to doe that then you do convey such of them so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Common Gaol and deliver them or him so refusing or neglecting to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive them or him into the said Gaol and them or him there safely to keep untill they or he shall be bound with such Securities as aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon Conviction by verdict or Confession The first Offence a Fine not exceeding 5 li. The second Offence 10 li. Upon every Offender on non-payment first Offence 3. months imprisonment second Offence 6 months the third Offence abjure the Realm But upon taking the Oaths Conforming and giving Security not to meet in such unlawfull Assemblies to be discharged of all the penalties Rape A Warrant concerning a Rape To the Constables and Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as we received Information and Charge against A. B. of C. c. touching a certain Felony that is to say with the carnal Knowledge and Ravishment of M. the Wife of C. D. of c. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you and every of you that you some or one of you do attach the body of the said A. B. and bring him before us or some of us to the house of c. on the twelfth day of this instant May at one of the clock in the afternoon to be examined touching the premisses and to be further dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. Rates for Hay Oats c. A Warrant to appoint Rates for Hay Oats c. upon His Majestie 's passing through any place To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas we have received notice from the Green-cloath that His Majesty will shortly pass through the Road in this County leading between B. and C. We therefore according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided do set down and appoint the Rates and Prices to be paid during His Majestie 's abode within this Division for Hay Oats and other Accommodations for Horses as is here under written which Rates are to be observed and kept and obeyed by all persons concerned at their perils And we do will and require you and every of you that you
provided Hereof fail not c. A Warrant against one that departeth out of Service before his time expired To the Constable and Borsholders c. Kent ss THese are in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do attach C. D. of E. and bring him before me or some other Justice of the Peace of and within the said County to answer for that he is departed out of Service from A. B. of C. his time of Covenant with him made being not expired contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided And farther to â—…e dealt withâ—… according to Law Hereof c. To fetch back a Servant To all Constables Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. a Servant to C. of D. Joyner hath gone from his said Master without his lawfull Licence or Testimonial in the County of E. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require and command you some or one of you that forthwith upon sight hereof you go with the Bearer hereof and as speedily as may be apprehend the said A. B. and him to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County to the end that such farther proceedings may be thereupon had as by Law is required Hereof fail not c. Given under c. A Discharge of a Servant from his Service within the time agreed upon his absenting himself Kent ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me That A. B. was retained by C. D. to serve him for a term not yet expired And the said A. B. without consent of him the said C. D. hath for the space of c. now last past absented himself from the said Service and is gone into some place unto the said C. D. unknown I therefore upon the consideration of the premisses and of the equity thereof on the part of the said C. D. allow the cause and matter aforesaid to be reasonable and sufficient to discharge the said C. D. from any farther keeping the said A. B. in his said Service and do accordingly discharge the said A. B. from his Service aforesaid Given under my hand and seal at T. the twenty second day of May c. A Testimonial for the discharge of a Servant MEmorandum That A. B. Servant to C. D. of E. Husbandman or Taylor c. in the said County is licensed to depart from his said Master and is at his liberty to serve elsewhere according to the Statute in that case made and provided In witness whereof c. In a Town to be under the Seal of the Town and two Housholders there if in the Counâ—…y under the Seals of the Constable or Constables and two Housholders there where he last served A Master that retains a Servant without such a Testimonial forfeits 5 li. It must be Registred by the Parson Vicar or Curate of the Parish who is to have 2 d. for doing thereof Silk-Throsters An Order for the payment of monies to a Silk-Throster by his Workman who imbezils his Silk Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster made that he having delivered to C. D. of E. of Silk to be by him for the said A. B. and the aforesaid C. D. hath parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that case made hath been made apparent unto me to be true I have thereupon determined the offence aforesaid and do hereby order and appoint that the said C. D. shall give and pay to the said A. B. the summ of 40 s. for his damages losses and charges thereabouts within fourteen days now next ensuing Given under my hand and seal c. Against an Offender for not performing the Order before mentioned To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas upon the complaint of A. B. of C. Silk-Throster to me made That he having delivered to C. D. a to be by him b for the said A. B. And that the aforesaid C. D. had c parcel thereof which complaint upon my examination of the same according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made was made appear unto me to be true And I did thereupon determine the offence aforesaid and did by Warrant under my hand and seal order and appoint that the said C. D. should give and pay to the said A. B. for his damage loss and charges thereabouts 40 s. within fourteen days then next ensuing And forasmuch as the said C. D. did not within the said fourteen days nor at any time since make such Recompence or Satisfaction to the said A. B. as was by me as aforesaid ordered and appointed although he had convenient notice so to doe These are c. to will and require you that you some or one of you do apprehend and whip the said C. D. or set him in the Stocks in the place where the same offence was committed or in some Market in this County near unto the place aforesaid Given under my hand c. The like Warrant against the Receiver Buyer or Taker to pawn Souldiers A Warrant to warn in a Muster at a certain day c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of S. and to every of them K. ss BY Command from the Right honourable H. Earl of W. Lord Lieutenant of the said County I require you to warn all the persons mentioned in a List hereunto annexed to appear compleatly Armed and Furnished with Coats according to former Orders at S. near C. upon Monday the twelfth day of this instant September at eleven of the Clock in the forenoon of the same day at the furthest And every of them is to bring with him four days pay and the Muster-master's Salary The Musqueteers to bring with him one pound of Powder and Match and Bullets proportionable then and there to receive further Orders And you the said Constable to be then and there present to make appear what you have done in execution hereof of what is here commanded No person concerned herein is to fail at his peril Given under my hand and seal the seventh day of May 1681. 33. Regni Regis c. A Certificate for a Trained Souldier THese are to certifie you That A. B. the Bearer hereof is a Trained Souldier of the Burrough of S. for his Majestie 's service appointed under my command and therefore not otherwise to be charged or molested as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand at c. To order an Allowance to a poor Souldier out of the Stock for Maimed Souldiers To the Treasurer of the said County for maimed Souldiers Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made made appear unto us that he hath continued
of them whom it may concern Kent ss THese are to will and require you and in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you forthwith upon receipt hereof to bring before us and other His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County to the Sessions of Peace holden for the County of K. at A. in the said County the Body of T. R. c. standing indicted for a Trespass if the Court there be then sitting or if not before some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County then and there to answer the same and all such matters as on His Majestie 's behalf shall be objected against him and if he cannot be taken during this present Sessions that then so soon after as he shall be taken you bring or cause to be brought before us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of this County to find sufficient Sureties for his personal appearance at the next Sessions of Peace to be holden for the said County to answer as aforesaid and farther to be dealt withall according to Justice Hereof you are not to fail at your perils Dated in open Sessions at A. aforesaid the one and twentieth day of April c. Annoque Dom. 1680. Uagrants A Warrant for apprehending Beggars and other Idle persons To the Constable and Headboroughs and others His Majestie 's Officers of any the Parishes in the said County and to all others whom this doth or may concern Mâ—…dd ss WHereas the Suburbs of London and Places adjacent are now infected with many Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars and other Idle persons that can give no good accompt of their life and conversation to the danger of the Inhabitants and contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you and every of you That at all convenient times hereafter taking with you a convenient aid and assistance you make diligent search in the several Places aforesaid and in all other suspected Places within any the Parishes in the said County for all such Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other suspected and Idle persons And them to apprehend and bring before us or one of us to be examined and dealt with according to Law Hereof fail not c. Given under our hands c. A Testimonial or Pass for him to the place of his Birth Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant middle stature aged about 30 years was this present day taken at B. in the County aforesaid and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And he is to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straightway to the Parish of T. where as he confesseth he was born there to put himself to labour as he ought to doe and he is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. This must be signed by the Iustice and Minister Constable c. or two of them The like where the Place of his Birth is not known Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant of low stature aged about 20 years was this present day taken at T. in the County aforesaid and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And for that the Parish where he was born is not known though it be demanded of him And for that also he did last dwell before the same punishment by the space of one whole year in the Parish of T. c. as he confesseth He is therefore to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straight way to the said Parish of T. there to put himself to labour as he ought to doe And he is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. The like where neither the Place of his Birth nor last abode is known Kent ss A. B. a Vagrant of middle stature aged about 40 years was this present day taken at T. in the said County and then and there by my appointment punished according to the form of the Statute in that case provided And for that neither the Parish where he was born nor the Parish where he did last dwell before the said punishment by the space of one whole year is known though both were by me demanded of him He is therefore to be conveyed from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same the next straight way to the Parish of B. in the c. through which he last passed without punishment as he saith and he is to be from thence conveyed by the Officers of the said Parish according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and is limited to pass thither within c. days now next ensuing at his peril Given under my hand and seal at c. The like where the Vagrant is apprehended in a general privy Search Kent ss A. B. a Vagabond of small stature aged about 20 years was sound and apprehended at T. in the said County 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 V. and by our appointment punished according to Law And he is to be conveyed from Parish to Parish c. as before in one of the three precedent Warrants according to the Case To pay two shillings for apprehending a Vagrant To the c. of A. in the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas A. B. did lately apprehend and bring unto me C. D. which did pass through your aforesaid c. in the Parish aforesaid unapprehended These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith to pay to the aforesaid A. B. 2 s. for his said apprehension of the C. D. aforesaid according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made Hereof fail not at your peril Given under our hand and seal at c. Upon not payment of the same To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the aforesaid County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas A. D. did lately apprehend and bring unto T. H. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County C. D. which did pass through the c. in the Parish of T. in the County aforesaid un-apprehended of which said place of apprehension A. B. was then And thereupon the aforesaid Justice did according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made require the said A. B. to pay to the aforesaid A. D. two shillings
for his said apprehension of the aforesaid C. D. Nevertheless the said A. B. hath neglected to pay the same These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. ten shillings by him forfeited and lost for not 〈◊〉 the aforesaid C. D. to be punished and convicted according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made And that out of the moneys by you so levied you do pay to the said A. D. the aforesaid 2 s. and c. more which we think fit to allow unto him for loss of his time and that you do imploy and dispose of the residue of the said 10 s. to the relief of the Poor of the Parish aforesaid Hereof fail not at your perils Given under our hands and seals the c. A Certificate of apprehending a Vagrant in the confines of another County To A. B. one of His Majestie 's Iustices of the Peace of the said County of C. Kent ss THese are to certify you That C. D. having passed through the Parish of T. in the said County of C. un-apprehended was upon the second day of Iune apprehended at T. in the said County of C. in the confines of the County aforesaid by R. W. Given under my hand the c. To pay the two shillings thereupon To c. of A. in the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas I have received a Certificate under the hands of A. B. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County of K. That C. D. having passed through the Parish of T. in the said County of C. un-apprehended was upon the second day of Iune apprehended at T. in the said County of C. in the confines of the County aforesaid by R. W. which said Parish of T. was then in your These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you forthwith to pay to the aforesaid R. W. 2 s. for his said apprehension of the aforesaid C. D. according to the form of the Statute in that case lately made Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon non-payment of the same To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss WHereas I lately received a Certificate under the hand of A. D. one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the County of K. That C. D. having passed through the Parish of c. in the said County of K. un-apprehended was apprehended at T. in the said County of K. in the confines of the County aforesaid by R. W. of which said Parish A. B. of C. was then And whereas I did according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made by warrant under my hand and seal require the said A. B. to pay the aforesaid R. W. two shillings for his said apprehension of the aforesaid C. D. according to the Statute aforesaid nevertheless the said A. B. hath neglected to pay the same These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. ten shillings by him forfeited and lost by not causing the aforesaid C. D. to be punished and conveyed according to the form of the Statute in that behalf made And that out of the moneys you have so levied you do pay to the said R. W. the aforesaid 2 s. and c. more which we think fit to allow him for his expences and loss of time and that you do imploy and dispose of the residue of the said 10 s. to the relief of the Poor of the said Parish of T. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Waggons and Carts An Affidavit to be made before a Warrant granted for destreining for 40 s. forfeited for drawing with six Horses in length in a Team Cart or Waggon K. ss G. R. of the Parish of c. in the County of c. Upholster making Oath That I. D. did upon the fourth day of this instant Febr. travel his Waggon through the common High-way in the said Parish of c. drawn with six Horses at length contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 22. year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An additional Act for the better repairing of the High-ways and Bridges And that the Waggon was not imployed in and about Husbandry and managing of Lands nor in the carrying of Hay Straw Corn unthrasht Coal Chalk Timber for Shipping Materials for building Stones or such Ammunition or Artillery as shall be for His Majestie 's service G. R. Iurat ' 15 Feb. 1680. A Warrant to destrain upon such as travel with a Waggon or Cart drawn with six Horses at length To the Constables Surveyors of the High-ways and other the Officers of the Parish of K. whom these may concern Kent ss WHereas G. R. of the Parish of c. in the County of c. Yeoman hath this present tenth day of Feb. made Oath before me one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid that M. D. of the said Parish of K. did upon the fourth day of this instant Feb. travel with his Waggon through the Parish of c. in the said County drawn with six Horses at length contrary to the Statute in that case made and provided for which offence he hath forfeited the summ of 40 s. These are therefore to authorize and in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you forthwith to levy the said summ of 40 s. upon the Goods and Chattels of the said M. D. rendring to him the overplus if any be reasonable Charges of Destraining first deducted And the same monies so by you levied you are to pay as followeth viz. one Third part to the Surveyors of the High-ways within your said Parish to be imployed in the repairs of the said High-ways one other Third part you are to pay to the Overseers of the Poor within your said Parish to be to the use of the Poor there and the other Third part you are to pay to the said G. R. for discovering the same Hereof fail not Given under my hand and seal this c. Watch and Ward A Warrant to the High Constable for putting in Execution the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Renting the Statute and for keeping good Watches upon His Majestie 's going to Oxford To A. B. one of the High Constables of the Hundred of C. in the County of M. M. ss WHereas His Majesty having commanded us whose names are hereunder written and others His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the
by able and well-armed men every night and Ward by day from Sun to Sun and command them that they do apprehend all such Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggars and other wandring and idle suspicious persons as you shall apprehend by day or night and conceive to be more than ordinary dangerous and bring them before us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the said County to be examined and dealt with according to Law And all persons whatsoever are hereby commanded to be aiding assisting and obedient to you herein Hereof fail not Given under our hands c. A Warrant by order of Quarter-Sessions to set Watch and Ward To the High Constable of the Hundred of A. and the petty Constables and Borsholders within the same Hundred K. ss WHereas there hath been of late several Robberies Felonies and Burglaries committed within this County it was ordered at the last general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County at M. That for the prevention thereof for the future you do from henceforth cause Watching and Warding to be continued duly set and kept in all and every usual place and places within your Hundred by honest and able men within your several Precincts and Divisions and that you do therein apprehend all and every suspicious person and persons and bring them before us or some or one of us or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of c. within the said County to the end he she or they may be examined as also proceeded against according to the Law And you are further required to give in to us or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County weekly an Account of your Service And hereof you nor any of you are to fail as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given c. Weights and Measures A Warrant to warn in all Tradesmen and others to have their Weights and Measures examined by the Standard To the Borsholder of the Burrough of F. Kent ss THese are to will and require you and in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you that you warn all persons inhabiting within your said Burrough which have or use any Weights or Measures to be by me tried and examined by His Majestie 's Standard at the late Market place near H. in the County of K. on Thursday the 28. day of this instant Month of August by eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day And that you also warn to be at the time and place aforesaid fifteen sufficient men of your said Burrough that they and every of them personally appear before me to doe and perform such things as for His Majestie 's service shall be then and there enjoyned them And that you your self be there also personally present with this Precept and have there the names of all Clothiâ—…rs Corn-Masters Farmers Vintners Inn-keepers Alehouse-keepers Millers Bakers Butchers Chandlers Mercers Grocers Weavers Drapers Tailors Tanners Land-measurers Smiths Glovers Malsters and of all other Artificers Tradesmen and other persons whatsoever within your said Burrough having or using any Weights or Measures whatsoever Hereof fail not at your peril Given under my hand and the seal of the said Mannor the c. The Clerk of the Market's Warrant To all and every of the Constables of the Parish of A. c. Kent ss THese are in the King's Majestie 's name c. to will and require you and every of you upon sight hereof to summon and cause the several Inhabitants within your respective Wards that buy and sell by Weight or Measure to have their respective Weights and Measures as well Yards and Ells as others used by them to be tried and examined before me on Monday the first day of September next by the hour of eight in the forenoon at the George Inn in A. and that at the said time and place you deliver unto me in writing the Christian-name and Sir-name of every such Inhabitant with their respective Callings Whereof you and every of you are not to fail c. Dated under my hand and seal the 23. day of August Anno Dom. 1680. and in the 32 year of His now Majestie 's Reign Witnesses A Warrant for Witnesses touching Felony To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of H. in the said County and to every of them K. ss WHereas I have received information That A. B. was lately robbed at D. in the County aforesaid And whereas I am informed that E. F. of c. can give information on His Majestie 's behalf touching proving the Robbery aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do cause the said E. F. forthwith to come before me to give such information and evidence as he knoweth touching the said Robbery to the end that I may farther proceed touching the same as to Justice doth appertain Given under my hand and seal at H. in the County aforesaid the first day of March 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi 3â—… For a Witness to appear and give Evidence at the Sessions To the Constable c. K. ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of c. Barber is thought to be a fit and necessary Witness to be examined on His Majesties behalf These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith warn him the said A. B. personally to appear before the Justices of the Peace at the next Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County at H. then and there to testifie his knowledge on the behalf of His said Majesty to and upon such matters as he shall be then and there examined of Hereof fail not c. Wood. A Warrant against one that stole Wood c. To the Constable and Borsholders of T. c. K. ss FOrasmuch as it appeareth unto me by the confession of A. B. of your said Town of T. That he the said A. B. hath lately unlawfully cut down certain Sticks of Wood within your said Parish belonging to E. F. of your said Town Gent. contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided And whereas it further appeareth unto me upon Oath that the said Sticks of Wood were worth to be sold five shillings These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straitly to charge and command you and every of you that in case the said A. B. do not forthwith pay unto the said E. F. the said summ of five shillings that then you do immediately cause the said A. B. to be publickly whipped about the said Town of T. Hereof fail not at your perils Given under c. To make a general Warrant to search for stoln Wood c. To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to every of them K. ss FOrasmuch as it is observed in these parts of the said County That Woods Underwoods
to the Gaol for want of Distress Page 147 A Warrant for a Buck Page 148 Law-Cases thereon Page 385 Drunkenness A Warrant for Drunkenness the first Conviction Page 148 the second Conviction Page 149 Law-cases thereon Page 386 Excise A Certificate upon taking the Oath about Excise Page 151 A Warrant to summon those who refuse to pay the Excise Page 152 for Distress on Alehouse-keepers for not paying Excise Page 153 A Mittimus where not sufficient to pay Excise Page 154 A Warrant to levy the forfeiture for not making a due Entry Page 155 to levy the double value of the Excise on a Brewer for not paying according to Entry made Page 156 Loss of allowance for making false Entries Page 157 A Warrant upon complaint of false Entry to appear Page 158 not sufferage to gage the Vessels Page ibid. against one that procureth a false Return to be made in the Office of Excise Page 160 A Mittimus to the Gaol for want of Distress Page 161 A Warrant against several Persons to distrain for the duties of Excise c. Page 162 Felony A Warrant to apprehend a Felon Page 165 A Mittimus of a Felon Page ibid. Another Page 166 A Warrant to search for a Felon on suspicion Page 167 for apprehending of one that hath dangerously hurt another Page 168 A Liberate to deliver a Prisoner committed for Felony Page 169 A Warrant to bind Persons to give in evidence against a Felon Page 170 Another Page ibid. A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill and give evidence against Principals and Accessary in case of Felony Page 171 of a Recognizance where two Felonies are committed to give evidence Page 172 A Condition to give evidence for Felony Page 173 of a Recognizance to appear upon Felony Page ibid. to appear upon suspicion of Felony Page 174 A Bond Page ibid. A Condition to save one harmless who was bound for the appearance of a Person suspected for Felony Page 175 A Condition for Felony or suspicion of Felony Page 30 The Examination of a Felon himself Page 381 Fire A Testimonial from Justices of the Peace for poor men that have had loss by fire Page 176 A charitable Request made by certain Justices of the Peace to the Inhabitants of a Division for relief of F. S. who had been there lately ruined by fire Page 178 Forceable Entry A Warrant to return a Jury to inquire of a Forceable Entry Page 179 A Record of Forceable Entry Page 180 A Warrant to the Sheriff for Restitution Page 182 A Mittimus upon view of Forceable Detainour Page 183 Foreign Wares A Warrant to search for and seize Foreign Manufactures prohibited c. Page 184 Gaol Law-Cases Page 386 High-ways A Warrant to levy 5 li. on the Inhabitants of a Parish for not choosing Surveyours of the High-ways Page 185 to distrain for High-way Tax Page 186 for not sending in Teams to work in the High-ways Page 187 against those that refuse or neglect to work in the High-ways Page 188 to impower the Surveyours to dig Gravel c. upon Wasts or Commons out of the Parish Page 189 to appoint what shall be paid by the Surveyours for digging Gravel c. in any man's Ground Page 190 against Surveyours for not accounting Page 191 against Surveyours who have not paid the moneys in their hands to the next Surveyours Page 192 Law-Cases thereon Page 386 House of Correction A Warrant and Directions for general privy Search Page 193 A Mittimus of a Rogue thither taken in the general Search Page 197 of an idle Person out of Service c. Page 198 to the House of Correction of an idle Person that would run away and will not work to maintain his Family Page 199 A Liberate from thence Page 200 Law-Cases thereon Page 385 Huy and Cry The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way praying an Huy and Cry Page 201 Another Page 202 The Examination of a Person robbed on the High-way by three Persons one of which he knew Page 203 A Huy and Cry upon the escape of a Prisoner from the Constable Page 204 A Warrant for a Huy and Cry after a Felon Page 205 to search for a Person who hath committed a Robbery and for Goods stoln Page 206 Law-Cases thereon Page 387 Inns of Court A Warrant from one of the Judges a Member of an Inns of Court against one of that Society for refusing to observe the Order of the House Page 208 Irish Cattel A Warrant to seize certain Cattel imported from foreign Parts into England Page 210 to deliver to the Owners certain Cattel seised as forfeited for being imported from foreign Parts upon proof that they were not so imported Page 211 to kill the said Cattel Page 212 to levy 40 s. upon the seisour or Church-wardens that shall fail in killing or making distribution as aforesaid Page 213 Lent A Warrant for observing of Lent Page 214 Licences A Licence for a Badger of Corn Page 215 A Licence for a petty Chapman Page 216 A Licence or Pasport for a poor man to his Friends for relief Page 217 Another Page 218 A Licence to beg Page ibid. to travel by Water on the Lord's day Page 219 Another Page 220 A Licence to travel on the Lord's day Page 221 Misdemeanours A general Warrant for the same retornable before a particular Justice Page 221 Another Page 222 The like retornable before any Justice and the Accuser to have notice Page ibid. A Condition of a Recognizance for misdemeanour Page 223 Murther A Condition of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment to give evidence at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes to both Juries in case of Murther Page 224 of a Recognizance to prefer a Bill and give evidence at Assizes Page 225 A Condition-recognizance to prefer a Bill of Indictment and to give evidence to both Juries at the next general Gaol-delivery alias Assizes in case of an Abbettor in Murther Page ibid. Nets Dogs and Conies A Warrant to search for Nets and Setting-dogs upon the Statute of 7 Iacobi Page 226 The like upon the Statute of 22 and 23 Caroli Secundi Page 227 A Mittimus against Persons that refuse to enter into Recognizance to appear at Sessions for their keeping Ferrets and Nets to kill Conies Page 229 A Warrant for one that hunts with Spaniels in Eared-corn Page 230 Oaths The Oath which is usually ministred to a Justice of the Peace in the several Counties of England Page 231 The Oath of Supremacy Page 232 The Oath of Allegiance Page 233 A Mittimus for refusing the Oath of Allegiance Page 235 The Oath of Abjuration Page ibid. The Oath of an Excise man Page 236 The Under-sheriffs Oath touching the impannelling of Juries Page ibid. The Oath of a Bailiff Page 237 The Oath usually given to Church-wardens Page 238 Another Page ibid. The Oath of Obedience Canonical Page ibid. The High-constables Oath Page 239 The Oath taken by the Officers of the Marshals
or Meeting b under colour or pretence of exercise of c. other than c. c by the Liturgy or practice of c. d in House Out-house Barn or Room Yard or Back-side Woods or Grounds 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices By Confession of the party Oath of Witness or notorious Evidence of the fact a Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b under colour or pretence of exercise of Religion other than 〈◊〉 by the c Liturgy or practice â—…f c. d in House Out-house Barn or Room Yard or Back-side Woods or Grounds e not exceeding 5 li. f not exceeding 3 months 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. as in the precedent Warrant Not exceeding 10 li. not exceeding 6 mon. 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. This is by way of Certificate where the Offender lives in another County made to a Iustice of Peace 1 Iustice enough Note You must make your Warrant into the several Hundreds and Liberties where the Offenders inhabit and use their addition prout the Record 22 Car. 2. cap. 4. compared with 41. 2 Iustices Confession of the party Oath of Witness or notorious Evidence of the fact 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices Confession of the party Oath of Witness or notorious Evidence of the fact 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices of the place or division where the Peer dwels one of the Quorum a an Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b colour or pretence 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices of the place or division where the Peer dwels 1 of the Quorum a an Assembly Conventicle or Meeting b colour or pretence c Liturgy or practice d in House Out-houses Burns or Rooms Yard or Back-side Woods or Grounds 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices c. as in the precedent Warrant 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices a Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer or other person in Holy Orders Stipendary or other person who hath been possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual promotion who hath not declared assent to the Common Prayer prout the Act of 14. of this King cap. 4. or Preacher in Conventicle b not be within five miles of a City Town-Corporate or Borough that sends Burgesses to Parliament or of any Parish-town or place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion been Parson Vicar Curate Stipendary or Lecturer or taken upon them to preach in a Conventicle Nor shall any teach School take Boarders to be taught till he take and subscribe the Oath in this Act prout c. and frequent Divine Service 22 Car. 2. cap. 1. 1 Iustice upon his information or knowledge a an unlawfull Meeting or Conventicle held or to be held b under colour or pretence of the exercising Religion c. or prevent c Liturgy or practice c. d dissolve dissipate This will serve to a particular Iustice in another County mutatis mutandis 15 Car. 2. cap. 1. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 Iustices * name the Office The Title of a Court-Baron Ad inquir ' jur ' Ammerc ' in ipsos qui fecer ' defalt ' Alienatio pro qua solvit Domino relevium Al' alienatio pro qua c. Et quod cepit in virum alienaver ' c. Solv Dom. rel c. Praecept ' Ball ' distr ' Rel. super alienation ' Cui sic alienat ignorant petunt diem ad inquirendum Praecep ' distr Alienatio Sed cui ignorant Petunt diem Praecept distring Jure ux Obiit seis unde accidit rel c. Haeres inde accidit Dom. c. Praecept distr separalia relevia Et faciend sidelitatem Relevium super Alienation Praecept distr Praecept quod tenement nativum dirut existit Et quis ten toftum terras pet diem ad inquir Prim. Proc. facta ad clam tenement praed sec. etiam ad prox cur Obiit seif Et quis haeres ignorant Pet. diem ad inquir Prima proclamatio ad clam tenement illud c. Petunt ulteriorem diem ad inquirend quis est haeres c. Concedit Ad ultimam Cur. Bar. Jur. impanell petierunt c. quomodo c. tenuit c. Ven. protulit in Cur. quoddam scriptum sub manum sigill Dom. Manerii Per quod satis liquet Cur. c. quod dimis c. est pro 90. annorum legitime devenit per volunt legavit term suum adhuc ventur Sup. tert Procl c. ad clamand c. Ven. clam prescript dimis per Dom. Man concess Protulit in Cur ' Indentur c. Recitando c. Quod Dom. hujus Maner dimis c. Sursum reddit Per al. Indent Dimissit in consid Maritagii Usus Maritagii Obiit sine exit intestat Secunda Procl fact ad clamand separal tenementa Si aliqui venirent audirentur 14 Car. 2. cap. 11. 1 Iustice. a Persons appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs Officers of the Customs or their Deputies b hindred affronteâ—… abused â—…aten or wounded to the hazard of their lives c armed with Clubs or any manner of weapon either on board any Ship or Vessel or upon the land or water And such as act in their aid and assistacce 14 Car. 2. cap. 11. 1 Iustice. 2 Witnesses a Carman Porter Waterman or other person b taking up landing shipping off or carrying away of c goods wares or merchandizes prohibited or whereof the Custom Subsidy or other Duty are due and payable to the King d without the presence of any of the Officers of His Majestie 's Customs thereunto appointed e or at hours and times not appointed by Law Or goods passing by Certificates Waste Coquet or otherwise without the presence of or notice given to one of His Majestie 's Officers 14 Car. 2. cap. 11. 1 Iustice. 2 Witnesses for the first Offence Be committed to Gaol till he find Sureties for Good behaviour 14 Car. 2. cap. 11. 1 Iustice. 2 Witnesses for the second Offence pay 5 li. 13 Car. 2. cap. 10. 1 Iustice. By Confession or one Witness within six months a unlawfully coursed killed hunted or taken away any Red or Fallow Deer b in any Forrest Chase Purlieu Paddock Wood Park or other Ground where Deer are or have been usually kept Or shall be aiding or assisting therein 13 Car. 2. cap. 10. 1 Iustice 1 or more Witnesses 6 months hard Labour or 12 months Imprisonment and Sureties for Good behaviour for a year then following 13 Car. 2. cap. 10. 1 Iustice. 4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. View Confession 1 Witness within six months Upon Conviction pay 5 s. to the Poor 4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. View Confession 1 Witness within six months Vide Title Oaths 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices 12 Car. 2. cap. 23. Confirmed cap. 24. 2 Iustices Innkeeper Alehouse-keeper Victualler and Retailer of Beer Ale Cyder Perry Metheglin Strong-water brewing making or retailing the same Every month make particular
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
aforesaid and him there deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep untill he shall find sufficient surety to be of Good behaviour for so long time untill he be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellour Under-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Upon the second like Offence To the Constable and Borsholders of c. Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That C. D. hath assisted in the c. as in the Warrant last but one And forasmuch as the said C. D. hath once before offended in the like kind These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do convey the said C. D. to his Majestie 's Gaol aforesaid and him there deliver to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep for the space of two months without Bail or Mainprise or untill he shall pay the Sheriff of this County the summ of five pounds for the use of His Majesty or untill he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellour or Under-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal c. Deer A Warrant for stealing Deer To the Constables c. of T. and to every of them Kent ss WHereas information hath been given to me that A. B. of H. within your said Parish of T. hath lately within the space of six months last past coursed killed or taken forth of a Park situate in this County certain Deer contrary to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name straightly to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon sight hereof you bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for this County the Body of the said A. B. to answer the aforesaid premisses and be proceeded against according to Law And hereof fail not at your perils c. A Warrant to levy 20 li. for stealing Deer To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath been duly proved before me That A. B. of C. hath unlawfully Deer in of E. F. against the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you and every of you that you some or one of you do levy by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. the summ of 20 li. by him forfeited for the Offence aforesaid the one moiety thereof to the use of C. D. who informeth of the said Offence and the other moiety to the use of the said E. F. Owner of the Deer aforesaid And in case of want of sufficient Distress that you certify me thereof forthwith Given under my hand and seal this second day of May Anno Dom. 1679. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi c. 31. A Mittimus to the House of Correction for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the County aforesaid Kent ss WHereas by my Warrant you the said Constable and Borsholders were lately required to levy by way of Distress of the Goods and Chattels of A. B. of C. the summ of twenty pounds by him forfeited for an Offence by him lately committed against the form of the Statute made in the thirteenth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act to prevent the unlawfull coursing hunting or killing of Deer And you the said Constable have returned unto me thereupon that the said A. B. hath not sufficient Distress to be taken for the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the aforesaid House of Correction and deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said House and there detain and put him to hard labour for six months Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. Another Mittimus to the Gaol for want of Distress To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of C. in the said County and to every of them and to the Keeper of His Majestie 's Gaol for the said County at M. in the County aforesaid K. ss WHereas by my Warrant you the said Constable and Borsholders were lately required to levy by way of Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of A. B. of c. the summ of twenty pounds by him forfeited for an Offence by him lately committed against the form of the Statute made in the thirteenth year of His now Majestie 's Reign intituled An Act to prevent the unlawfull coursing hunting or killing of Deer And you the said Constable have returned unto me thereupon that the said A. B. hath not sufficient Distress to be taken for the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and require you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you that you some or one of you do take the said A. B. and him safely convey to the Gaol aforesaid and deliver him to the aforesaid Keeper of the same together with this Precept Requiring also you the said Keeper to receive him into the said Gaol and him there safely to keep for the space of one whole year without Bail or Mainprise and farther untill he hath given sufficient Security for his Good behaviour for one whole year next ensuing after his inlargement Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. A Warrant for a Buck. To the Keeper c. UPon sight hereof you are to kill and deliver to I. B. Esq one fat Buck of this Season for which this shall be your Warrant A. B. Drunkenness A Warrant for Drunkenness the first Conviction To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to the Church-wardens of the Parish of c. in the County aforesaid Kent ss FOrasmuch as it hath this present day been duly proved before me That A. B. of the Parish of C. was on the fifth of May last drunk in the Parish contrary to the form
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
faithfull to his trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise And hath repaired to W. in the said County being the place where he waâ—… last settled before he took Arms We do therefore according to the said Statute assign for his Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County of K. which you are hereby required to pay unto him Given under our hands and seals c. The like for Allowance to Wife or Orphan To the Treasurer of the said County for maimed Souldiers Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. hath according to the form of the Statute in that behalf lately made made appear unto us that A. B. late of C. continued faithfull to his trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise We do therefore according to the said Statute adjudge that over and besides such relief as shall gain by work and labour and shall be allowed by the charity and benevolence of the Parish of A. where is now settled Given under our hands and seals this c. Swearing To pay 1 s. for Swearing in the presence of a Justice of the Peace To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of D. in the said County and to every of them and to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of B. in the County aforesaid and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of c. in the County aforesaid Butcher being of above the age of twelve years did in my hearing this present day in the Parish aforesaid prophanely swear one Oath for which Offence he forefeited and was to pay to the use of the Poor of the Parish the summ of 12 d. These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you to levy to the use of the Poor of the said Parish the aforesaid 12 d. by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said A. B. rendring to him the over-plus And in defect of such Distress that you the said Constable do set the said A. B. in the Stocks by the space of three whole hours Hereof fail not c. A Warrant to levy Monies for prophane Swearing To the Constables and Borsholders c. K. ss FOrasmuch as it was this present day proved before me that A. B. of c. did in the said Parish offend by profane Swearing four Oaths by reason whereof he hath forfeited to the use of the Poor of the said Parish the summ of c. that is to say 3 s. 4. d. for every time he did so offend according to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to command you that you some or one of you do forthwith levy the said forfeiture of c. upon the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. by Distress and Sale of the same returning the over-plus And that forthwith after your levying of the said forfeiture of c. you pay the same to the Church-wardens and other the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish or to some or one of them to the use of the Poor aforesaid And in case no sufficient Distress shall be found and that the said A. B. shall not pay the said forfeiture or give security for the same That then you do set him in the Stocks there to remain the space of three whole hours Hereof fail not c. A Certificate of Conviction for Swearing Kent ss I R. K. Esquire one of His Majestie 's Justices c. do hereby certifie to the Clerk of the Peace of the County of K. that the persons whose names are hereunto subscribed were since the last Sessions committed before me for Swearing one prophane Oath a piece Given under my hand and seal this c. Tax A Warrant to the Assessors to make a Tax upon an Act of Parliament for Royal Aid K. ss BY virtue of an Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the King's Majesty of 2477500 li. to be raised levied and paid in the space of three years in manner following that is to say 68819 li. 9 s. by the month for thirty six months beginning from the 25. day of Decemb. 1664. These are to will and require you and every of you whose names are hereunder written for the purpose aforesaid for the second and third quarterly payments of the said six months Assessments with all care and diligence to assess on all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuities Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattels Stock Merchandise Offices other than Judicial and Military Offices and Offices relating to the Navy under the command of the Lord High Admiral and Offices within His Majestie 's Houshold Tolls Profits and all their Estates both reall and personal within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of your Hundred of A. the full and just summ of c. by a pound rate wherein you are to assess the Tenant one sixth part of the whole in respect of his stock upon Land and you are to assess all other persons for their personal estate other then their stock upon Lands and Houshold-stuff for every 20 li. proportionably to 1 li. by the year in Lands And you are to take especial care that therein you assess not any part of the said monies upon the Rents and Revenues due and payable to either the Universities or any other Colleges Halls Hospitals Almes-houses or Free-schools Nevertheless you are to assess the Tenants of all such Lands and Tenements for so much as the same are worth by the year over and above what Rents or Revenues they pay to the said Universities Colleges c. And you are hereby further willed and required that you bring the said Assessment fairly written exactly cast up and by you signed unto us at the house of c. tali die by two of the clock in the afternoon of the same day Of all which you nor any of you are to fail upon pain of 20 li. Given under our hands and seals at A. the c. To A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. The Preamble of the Tax Book The Hundred of A. c. Kent ss A Tax made the second day of May Anno Dom. 1664. and in the sixteenth year c by us whose names are hereunder subscribed in pursuance of a Warrant to us directed under the hands and seals of A. B. C. D. E. F. Esquires and others Commissioners nominated in an Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for granting c. as before We are required to assess upon the said Hundred on all Lands Stock Goods c. the summ of c. by a pound rate wherein the Tenant is to be assessed one sixth part of the whole which we have accordingly assessed viz the Landlord at 5 d. in the pound Rent
Poles Young-trees Bark or Bast of Trees Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails Hedge-wood Broom and Furze are unlawfully cut stoln spoiled and taken away from the lawfull Owners of the same contrary to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you and every of you that you do with all convenient speed enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the houses within the said Hundred of all and every person or persons which you shall suspect to have any kind of such Wood Under-wood Poles or Young-trees or Bark or Bast of any Trees or any such Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze And wheresoever you shall find any such to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person and persons suspected for the cutting or taking of the same and them and every of them in whose houses or other places belonging to them any such Wood Under-wood Poles or young Trees or Bark or Bast of any Trees or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze shall be found to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for the said County to be proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not c. A Warrant to search for stoln Wood c. upon a particular Complaint To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County and to every of them Kent ss FOrasmuch as Complaint hath been made unto me by A. B. That were within five days now last past taken out of his Lands in L. in the said County and hath prayed such relief from me therein as by an Act of Parliament in such cases lately made I am authorized to give These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to will and command you and every of you that you some or one of you do enter into and search the Houses Out-houses Yards Gardens or other places belonging to the houses within the said Hundred of all and every person or persons which you shall suspect to have any of the said And wheresoever you shall find any such to apprehend or cause to be apprehended all and every person or persons suspected for the cutting and taking of the same And them and every of them as also those in whose houses or other places belonging to them any such shall be found to bring before me or some other of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace of the said County to be proceeded against as by the said Act is directed Hereof fail not at your perils Given under my hand and seal the c. An Order against a person apprehended with Bundles c. of Wood c. to make satisfaction c. for the same to the Owner The first Offence Kent ss FOrasmuch as A. B. of C. was within five days last past apprehended by having a Bundle of and this day brought before me to give account how he came by the said by the consent of the Owner according to an Act of Parllam tâ—… lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroying of young Timber-trees And for that he did not give such account thereof as did satisfie me nor produce the party of whom he bought the same or any other credible Witness to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof whereby he is according to the said Act by me deemed and adjudged as convict of the Offence of cutting and spoiling of the said within the meaning of another Act of Parliament which was made in the third and fourth year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act to avoid and prevent Misdemeanours in idle and lewd persons And forasmuch as it appeareth unto me That C. D. of c. was lawfull Owner of the said I do therefore according to the said first before mentioned Act order and appoint That the said A. B. shall within six days now next ensuing give the said C. D. of lawfull money of England for recompence and satisfaction for his damages and that the said A. B. shall over and above pay down presently unto the Overseers for the use of the Poor of the Parish of T. in the said County wheâ—…e the said Offence was committed of lawfull money Given under my hand and seal the c. For not obeying that Order To the Constable and Borsholders oâ—… the Hundred of A. in the said County and to eâ—…ery of them and to the Keeper of the House of Correction for the said County at B. in the Couâ—… aforesaid K. ss WHereas A. B. of C. within eight days last past was apprehended by having a Bundle of and lately brought before me to give account how he came by the said by the consent of the Owner according to an Act of Parliament lately made intituled An Act for the punishment of unlawfull cutting or stealing or spoiling of Wood and Under-wood and destroyers of young Timber-trees And for that he did not give such account thereof as did satisfie me nor did produce the party of whom he bought the same or any other credible Witness to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof whereby he was then according to the said Act by me deemed and adjudged as convict of the Offence of cutting and spoiling of the said within the meaning of one other Act of Parliament which was made in the third and fourth year of the Reign of the late Queen Eliz. intituled An Act to avoid and prevent divers Misdemeanours in idle and lewd persons And whereas it then appeared unto me That C. D. of c. was Owner of the said and I did therefore according to the said first before mentioned Act order and appoint that the said A. B. should within six days then next ensuing give the said C. D. c. oâ—… lawfull money of England for recompence and satisfaction for his damages And that the said A. B. should over and above pay down then presently to the Overseers for the use of the Poor of the Parish of T. in the said County where the said Offence was committed â—… of like money And forasmuch as the said A. B. did not according to the said order and appointment give or pay the moneys aforesaid These are therefore in His Majestie 's name to charge and command you the said Constable and Borsholders and every of you forthwith to convey the said A. B. to the aforesaid House of Correction and him there deliver to the Keeper of the same together with this Precept Commanding also you the said Keeper â—…o receive him into the said House and him there detain by the space of
Bastard-child and for punishing the Mother and reputed Father Page 37 A Warrant to be written under the Order aforesaid for giving notice thereof to the Mother and reputed Father Page 40 for the punishment of the Mother and reputed Father of a Bastard-child Page ibid. and Mittimus against the reputed Father for not obeying the Justices Order Page 43 An Order for relief of the Parish in case of a Bastard-child out of the Estate of the reputed Father Page 45 A Warrant for punishment of the reputed Father of a Bastard-child for not keeping the Child and obeying the Order Page 46 for sending a Bastard-child found wandring to the Place of its birth Page 48 for apprehending a Woman on suspicion of having murthered her Bastard-child Page 49 A Condition of a Recognizance for the appearance of the reputed Father of a Bastard-child Page 50 of a Recognizance of one charged to be the Father of a Bastard-child before its birth to appear at Sessions Page ibid. to discharge Church-wardens and Parishioners of a Child born in the Parish Page 51 Law-Cases thereon Page 384 Good behaviour A Warrant and Mittimus for Good behaviour Page 52 Causes for Good behaviour Page 53 Another Warrant for Good behaviour Page 54 A Mittimus to the Gaol for one that refuses to find Sureties for his Good behaviour Page 55 A Supersedeas for the Good behaviour Page 56 A Recognizance thereupon Page 57 A Condition of a Recognizance for the same Page ibid. Another Condition Page 58 Condition Page ibid. Law-Cases thereon Page 385 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 Page 59 to make a Tax for County Bridges repaired Page 61 to collect a Tax for repairing County Bridges Page 62 for not paying the same Page 63 Burying see Title Woollen Carriages for the King A Warrant to provide Carriages Page 64 Another Warrant for provision of Carriages for the King's use Page 65 to levy the Penalty for not appearing with Carriages for the King upon notice Page 66 A Mittimus for one that doth impress or take away any Cart or other thing from the Owner under pretence of power from the Green-cloath for carriage of His Majestie 's Provisions without lawfull Authority Page 67 Certificates A Certificate from the Minister and chief Inhabitants of the Parish of a man's Honesty Page 68 for continuing of an Alehouse-keeper Page 69 for the time of the Birth of a Child Page ibid. for one that hath not been touched of the Evil Page 70 Chimney-money A Mittimus for disturbing a Collector Page ibid. Church A Warrant for not coming to Church Page 71 to levy the forfeiture for not coming to Church Page 72 A Mittimus to the Gaol of one not repairing to Church for want of Distress Page 73 A Warrant to distrain for a Church-Tax Page 74 a Minister for not reading Prayers c. once in a month Page 75 A Mittimus for Preaching whilst disabled Page 76 Coals A Warrant upon complaint touching Coals Page 77 for delivery a moity of such Coals as are sold contrary to the Statute to the Informer Page ibid. touching Prices of Coals Page 78 Constables Charges A Warrant for making of Constables Page 79 Another Page ibid. A Warrant for a Tax for the Constables Charges in the execution of his Office Page 80 to appear and shew cause for their not paying the said Charges Page 81 for refusing to appear to shew cause for not paying the said Charges Page 82 to levy the Charges upon their refusing to pay the same Page 83 The Condition of a Recognizance to appear and answer the not paying the same at next Sessions Page 84 A Warrant for levying 3 s. 4 d. upon a Constable for neglect of his Duty in giving an account of Rogues and Vagabonds Page ibid. to sell the Goods of an Offender that refuseth to bear his own Charges to the Gaol Page 85 to make a Tax for conveying a Felon to the Gaol Page 87 Conventicles A Condition of a Recognizance in case of an Appeal made touching Conventicles Page 87 A Record of a Conventicle Page 89 concerning Conventicles where several Persons are convicted Page 90 of the Conviction of certain Persons taken at a Conventicle Page 92 Memorial of a Record of a Conventicle Page 95 A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Offence Page 97 upon the second Offence Page 98 upon the third Conviction Page 99 A Record against one that suffereth a Conventicle c. to be kept in his House Page 101 A Mittimus thereupon upon the first Conviction Page 102 thereupon upon the second Conviction Page 103 thereupon upon the third Conviction Page 104 A Warrant to levy the Penalty of the Statute upon the Teacher of a Conventicle Page 105 Pro testes to prove the Conventicle Page 106 to levy the money upon the Offenders Page 108 to levy the money upon the Offenders Page 109 to levy money upon a Gaoler c. for suffering one committed upon this Act to goe at large Page 114 The like for suffering one at large to joyn with the Offender in custody in the exercise of Religion Page 115 A Warrant against a Peer of the Realm for being at a Conventicle the first Conviction Page 116 upon the second Conviction Page 117 against a Peer for suffering a Conventicle c. to be kept in his House c. the first Conviction Page ibid. upon the second Conviction Page 118 A Mittimus for a Nonconformist c. Page 119 A Certificate to the Militia c. for aid in case of a Conventicle Page 120 made by a Justice where the Offenders live in a Corporation Page 121 for the taking the Oath according to the said Act Page 122 Law-Cases thereon Page 385 Corporations A Certificate upon taking the Oaths and subscribing the Declarations mentioned in the Act for regulating Corporations Page 123 Court-Leet and Court-Baron A Precept directed to the Bayliff of the Mannour by the Steward of the Court-Baron to warn the Court Page 124 to warn a Jury for a Court-Leet Page 125 for a Borsholder or other Officer to take upon him the said Office and to repaire to a Justice of Peace to take his Oath for his faithfull execution of the same Page 126 to bring in a Scold to be tryed at a Court-Leet Page 127 The manner of making up of Court-Rolls Page 128 The manner of making up of Estreats Page 136 Customs A Warrant against those who abuse an Officer of the Customs in the due execution of his Office Page 140 against carrying away Goods without paying Custom c. Page 141 A Mittimus upon the precedent Warrant for the first Offence Page 142 upon the second like Offence Page 143 Deer A Warrant for Deer-stealing Page 144 to levy 20 li. for stealing Deer Page 145 A Mittimus to the House of Correction for want of Distress Page 146 Another Mittimus
Court Page 241 The Oath of a Constable Page 242 of an Ale-caster Page 243 of a Commissioner of Sewers Page 244 of a Searcher in the Custom-house Page 245 The Oath given to a Jury before Evidence given in against a Prisoner at the Bar Page 245 given to a Bailiff or Serjeant that attendeth on any Jury or Inquest at an Assize Page 246 of him that craves the Peace against another Page ibid. Another Page 247 Another Oath to give a man upon examination or upon information Page ibid. The Oath of him who gives information Page ibid. Another Page 248 The Oath to be given to any Jury by whom a Nisi prius is to be tryed Page ibid. to be given to such as are to give evidence between a Party and party at a Nisi prius Page ibid. of a great Inquest Page 249 of those that give evidence upon Bills of Indictment Page ibid. Officers The nomination of Officers by Justices of the Peace Page 250 Orchards A Warrant against Robbers of Orchards Page 251 upon non-payment to be whipt Page 252 Overseers see Title Poor Peace A Warrant to find Sureties for the Peace Page 253 to find Sureties for the Peace where an Assault is made upon an Officer in discharge of his Office Page 255 A Supersedeas of a Warrant for the Peace Page 257 A Mittimus for breaking the Peace Page 258 A Release of the Peace Page ibid. The Condition of a Recognizance to appear at Sessions and keep the Peace Page 259 Law-Cases thereon Page 388 Plague A Pass or Certificate in the time of Plague Page 260 Poor A Warrant for the Overseers of the Poor to account and name other fit Persons Page 261 for the making new Overseers of the Poor Page 262 to make Overseers of the Poor impowring them and the Church-wardens to collect the Poors Tax and upon non-payment to destrain Page ibid. A Confirmation of the Rates for the Poor Page 263 A Warrant to levy the Arrears due to the Parish from the former Overseers Account by Distress Page 264 against an Overseer of the Poor for not keeping of monthly Meetings Page 265 to destrain for the Poors Tax Page 266 A Mittimus where there is not sufficient to destrain Page 267 A Warrant for removing one come to a Parish Page 268 to send a Wife and Child to her Husband in the Parish from whence they came Page 269 for apprehending one for returning to the Parish from whence he was removed Page 270 against those who come to work and return not at the end of their work Page 271 A Mittimus to the House of Correction of one that refuseth to be removed after his work finished Page 272 A Warrant and Mittimus for one who runs away and leaves his Family upon the Parish Page 273 A Mittimus on the foregoing Warrant Page 274 A Warrant to the Overseers of the Poor to pay Arrears and continue weekly relief to poor Persons Page ibid. to levy Relief for the Poor Page 275 A Bond and Condition to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor to save a Town harmless upon inhabiting there Page 276 A Release from the Overseers of the Poor to one that paid five pounds to be freed from keeping a Bastard-child Page 277 The manner of seâ—…ling and making up the Overseers Accompts in their Books Page 370 Overseers Warrant Page 380 Law-Cases thereon Page 387 Prisoner A Warrant to allow a poor Prisoner relief Page 279 A Discharge of a Prisoner to a Gaoler Page ibid. Another Page 280 A Warrant for a Prisoner to be bailed Page ibid. A Warrant from a Judge to bring a Prisoner from a Gaol to give evidence Page 281 Quakers A Mittimus of Quakers Page 282 Rape A Warrant concerning Rape Page 283 Rates for Hay Oats c. A Warrant to appoint Rates for Hay Oats c. upon His Majestie 's passing through any Place Page 284 for levying the Penalty forfeited for not observing the Rates aforesaid Page 285 Recognizances Directions thereupon Page 286 A Condition for the Peace Page ibid. The manner of entring the note of Recognizances in your book of Recognizances Page 287 Directions for drawing Conditions of Recognizances Page 288 A single Recognizance taken before Justices of the Peace Page 289 Another single Recognizance Page 290 A Recognizance to prefer an Indictment or to prefer a Bill and give evidence Page ibid. for two to give evidence Page 291 to give in evidence against a Prisoner Page ibid. for the Good behaviour Page 292 Another Page 293 A Recognizance to give in evidence against one that is suspected of Felony Page ibid. A Recognizance for keeping of a Tavern Page 294 for one that is bayle for a Boy that lay under a Bed in the night Page 295 for Bastardy where two are Manucapters for the man in custody Page 296 for a married Woman upon rescue Page ibid. for one that hath hurt another and on the Warrant of Behaviour Page 297 for the Peace Page 298 for Felony Page 299 A Release of a Recognizance written under the Recognizance thus by the same Iustice or by some other c. Page ibid. The Parties Release of the Peace Page 300 Riot A Precept to the Sheriffs to return a Jury to enquire upon a Riot Rout or unlawfull Assembly Page 301 The like Precept in Latine Page 302 A Warrant for certain riotous Persons Page 303 Law-Cases thereon Page 399 Rogues A Warrant for apprehending and committing a dangerous Rogue Page 304 A Mittimus of a dangerous Rogue Page 305 Law-Cases thereon Page 388 Sacrament A Certificate for receiving the Sacrament and Oath Page 306 for receiving the Sacrament according to the Act Page 307 A Testimonial upon the receiving the Sacrament according to the Act Page 308 A Declaration to be subscribed according to the Act Page ibid. Scavengers A Warrant for Scavengers to distrain Page 309 Search A Warrant to search for stoln Goods Page 310 to make general search for Rogues Vagabonds c Page 311 Servants A Warrant for sending a Servant to his Service to serve the time agreed to prevent charge on the Parish Page 311 A Mittimus against one that returneth into a Parish after he was removed Page 312 A Warrant to levy 40 s. on the Master for putting away his Servant before the end of his Term Page 313 for not paying wages Page 314 for relief of a Man-servant that is out of service Page 315 A Warrant against one that departeth out of service before his time expired Page 316 to fetch back a Servant Page ibid. A Discharge of a Servant from his service within the time agreed upon his absenting himself Page 317 A Testimonial for the discharge of a Servant Page 318 Silk-Throsters An Order for the payment of moneys to a Silk-Throster by his Workman who imbezils his Silk Page 319 A Warrant against an Offender for not performing the Order beforementioned Page 320 Souldiers A Warrant to warn in a Muster at a certain day Page
321 A Certificate for a Trained-souldier Page 322 A Warrant to order an Allowance to a poor Souldier out of the Stock for maimed Souldiers Page ibid. The like for Allowance to Wife or Orphan Page 323 Law-cases thereon Page 389 Swearing A Warrant to pay 1 s. for swearing in the presence of a Justice of the Peace Page 324 to levy moneys for prophane swearing Page 325 A Certificate of Conviction for swearing Page 326 Tax A Warrant to the Assessors to make a Tax upon an Act of Parliament for Royal Aid Page 326 The Preamble of the Tax-book Page 328 A Warrant to the Collectors of the Tax upon the Royal Aid Page 329 A Warrant to levy 5 li. upon the Collectors for neglecting to collect their Assessment Page 332 Testimonials A Testimonial for conveying a Rogue who hath been punished Page 333 A Testimonial for one that hath suffered shipwreck Page 334 Tiling A Deputation for Tile-searchers Page 335 Trespass A Warrant upon Hedge-breaking c. where the Party 's not able Page 336 A Warrant or Order to pay where he is able Page 337 to whip where not paid according to Order Page 338 from the Justices at a Quarter-sessions for apprehending one indicted for a Trespass Page 339 Uagrants A Warrant for apprehending Beggers and other idle Persons Page 341 A Testimonial or Pass for him to the Place of his birth Page 342 The like where the Place of his birth is not known Page ibid. The like where neither the Place of his birth nor last abode is known Page 343 The like where the Vagrant is apprehended in a general privy search Page 344 A Warrant to pay 2 s. for apprehending a Vagrant Page ibid. Upon non-payment of the same Page 345 A Certificate of apprehending a Vagrant in the Confines of another County Page 346 A Warrant to pay two shillings thereupon Page 347 upon non-payment of the same Page ibid. Waggons and Carts An Affidavit to be made before a Warrant granted for destreining for 40 s. forfeited for drawing with six Horses in length in a Team Cart or Waggon Page 349 A Warrant to destrain upon such as travel with a Waggon or Cart drawn with six Horses at length Page 350 Watch and Ward A Warrant to the High-constable for putting in Execution the Statute of 13 Car. 2. reciting the Statute and for keeping good Watches upon His Majestie 's going to Oxford Page 351 Another Warrant upon the same Statute Page 354 A Warrant for Watch and Ward and to apprehend idle Persons Page 355 by order of Quarter-sessions to set Watch and Ward Page 356 Weights and Measures A Warrant to warn in all Tradesmen and others to have their Weights and Measures examined by the Standard Page 358 The Clerk of the Markets Warrant thereupon Page 359 Whores A Mittimus for Whores Page 382 Witnesses A Warrant for Witnesses touching Felony Page 360 for a Witness to appear and give evidence at the Sessions Page 361 The Information of a Witness when no Confession Page 382 Wood. A Warrant against one that stole Wood Page 362 A general Warrant to search for stoln Wood Page 363 A Warrant to search for stoln Wood c. upon a particular complaint Page 364 An Order against a Person apprehended with Bundles of Wood c. to make satisfaction for the same to the Owner the first Offence Page 365 A Warrant for not obeying that Order Page 366 A Mittimus to the House of Correction for the second like Offence Page 368 An Order against the buyer of stoln Wood c. to pay treble the value thereof Page 369 A Warrant to distrain for non-payment of the money according to the foregoing Order Page 370 A Mittimus against the buyer of stoln Wood c. for want of Distress Page 371 Woollen A Certificate for burying in Woollen Page 372 Another Page 373 The Minister's Certificate for burying in Wollen Page 374 A Minister's Certificate of not bringing an Affidavit of a Corp's being buried in Wollen Page ibid. A Warrant to levy 5 li. for not burying in Wollen according to the Act Page 375 The Return made by one Justice of Peace when he swears another Page 380 THE END ADVERTISEMENT The Parson 's Monitor consisting of such Cases and Matters as principally concern the Clergy Collected from the Statute and Common Laws as also the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical Confirmed 1 o Jac. Anno Dom. 1603. Together with the Articles of Religion Authority of the Convocation Privilege of Churches and Church-yards Payment of First-fruits and Tenths In whose Name and Style Ecclesiastical Courts are to be kept and the Process issuing out of the same are to run in and with what Seal to be sealed With several other Matters never before Extant very material and necessary to be known by the Clergy in general and all persons concerned either as Patron oâ—… Incumbent By G. Meriton Gent. Newly printed for R. Tonson 1681. 5 6 Ed. 6. cap. 25. 2 Iustices 1 of the Quorum 5 6. E. 6. cap. 25. Two Justices one of the Quorum Observe to bind the Principal in 20 li. and each of the Sureties in 10 li. Inn-keeper Victualler or Alehouse-keeper 1 Iac. c. 9. 21 Iac. c. 7. View Confession 1 Witness that can or will justifie 1 Car. c. 4. Vintners within the Statute And I conceive by 1 Car. c. 4. it must be 2 Witnesses for suffering a stranger to tipple The Alehousekeeper is disabled for 3 years 7 Iac. c. 10. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iac. c. 9. 4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. View Confession 1 Witness Within six months In Inn Victualling-house or Alehouse 4 Iac. c. 5. 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iac. c. 9. 1 Iustice. 2 Witnesses forfeit 10 s. to the use of the poor 5 6 Ed. 6. cap. 25. 2 Iustices one of the Quorum Pay 20 s. 2 Witnesses This Conviction is to be certified to the next Sessions 3 Car. c. 3. 1 Iustice. View Confession 2 Witnesses that can or will To keep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house To use commonly selling of Ale Beer Cyder or Perry 3 Car. c. 3. 1 Iustice. View Confession 2 Witnesses that can or will To keep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house To use commonly selling of Ale Beer Cyder or Perry 3 Car. c. 3. 1 Iustice. View Confession 2 Witnesses that can or will To keep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house To use commonly selling of Ale Beer Cyder or Perry 3 Car. c. 3. 1 Iustice. Keep a common Alehouse or Tippling-house To use commonly selling of Beer Ale Perry or Cyder Dalt 34. 2 Iustices 1 Quorum Imprisonment Fine and Bond for the good Behaviour Dalt 34. 2 Iustices 1 Quorum 1 Iac. c. c. 9. 1 Iustice. 1 Witness View or Confession by 21 Iac. c. 7. Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler Disabled for 3 years 21 Iac. c. 7. 1 Iustice. 1 Iac. c. 9. Dalt 162. 1 Iac. c. 25. 21 Iac. 28. 3 Car. c. 4. 2 Iustices 1 of the