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Advice to Justices.
5. That upon notice of any treason,. or of
any Seminaries, &c. or
of any Agnus Dei, &c. offered, they discover the same to some
of the
Privy Council. Vide tit. Treason. |
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6. That they be circumspect in bailing of
prisoners, viz. that they
neither deny it to such as are bailable, nor yield it where it is not grantable.
Vide hic Bailment. |
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7. If any Felony be committed, and one is
brought before the Justice
of Peace upon suspition for the same, though it shall appear to the Justice
that the Prisoner is not guilty of that Offence, or that it is not
Felony
of Death, yet he may not set him at liberty, but so as he may
come to his Trial. Vide antea tit. Felony by the Statute, and
Evidence
against Felons. |
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8. That all Recognizances taken by them be
in the Kings name. |
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9. That all Recognizances taken by them be
certified at their next
Quarter Sessions, or Gaol-Delivery, according as the case shall require. |
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10. That they meet at every Easter Sessions
at the least. Vide 5 Eliz.
cap. 4. P. Just. 67. And yet their presence and attendance
at every general
Sessions is very requisite. |
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11. That their Examinations taken concerning
the mis-entring of
Plaints in County Courts, or the defaults of gathering the Shire Amerciaments,
be certified into the Exchequer, &c. Vide antea, tit.
Sheriffs. |
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12. That such Offences as the Surveyors of
High-ways shall present
to them, they again present at their next Quarter Sessions. Vide
antea tit.
High-ways. |
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13. That the Oaths taken by them upon the
submission of any Recusant
be certified at their next Quarter Sessions. Vide antea, tit.
Recusants. |
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14. Also that they do justice, and give remedy
to every party grieved
in any thing that lieth within their power to hear, determine or execute,
and that without respect of persons, and according to the Laws and Statutes
of this Realm, Vide antea cap. 4. |
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' 15. He must suffer the Law to have its course,
and not privately stay
' Proceedings, contrary to the Duty of his Place. Lutch 48. |
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' 16. Where they have Jurisdiction by any
Statute which at first was
' Temporary, they are to consider whether the same be continued or
' made perpetual, and so be not expired. |
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Note, that all these former matters are penal to
the Justices of Peace
if they shall offend in any of them, and therefore it is likely they
will
be the more careful therein. But there are certain other things principally
tending to the publick good, and lately commenced from his Majesty
(by the Judges of Assize) to the care of the Justices of Peace; in
all which the Justices of Peace are to imploy also their special care and
diligence: and they are shortly these ten Articles following. |
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1. Ale-houses; The abuses there to be reformed,
and such as be unlicensed
to be suppressed. |
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2. High-ways and Bridges to be amended. |
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3. Hue and Cry and Fresh sute to be duly made
and pursued after Robbers
and other Felons. |
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4. Labourers, sc. idle persons meet
to serve, to be compelled to go to
Service. |
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5. Poor, their Children to be placed Apprentices;
such as are able of
Body, to be holden or set to work. |
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