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Dalton's The Country Justice, 1690
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Cambr.

Precedents of Warrants.

Another for the Peace.

To to the Contables of, &c.  And to either them.

    FOrasmuch as B. A. the Wife of W. A. of your said Town, Labourer,
hath required Sureties of the Peace against T. B. of your said Town,
Butcher; and withal hath taken her corporal Oath before me, that she
required the same not for any private malice, hatred, or evil will, but
simply that she is afraid of her Life, (or the hurting or maiming of her Body,
or the burning of her Houses:)  These are therefore to will and require
you, and in his Majesties name to charge and command you, that
immediately upon the sigh hereof, you, or any of you, require the said
T. B. to come before me, or some other of his Majesties Justices within the
said County, to find sufficient Sureties, as well for his appearance at the
next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County,
as also that the said T. B. shall in teh mean time keep his Majesties Peace, as
well towards his said Majesty, as towards all his Liege People, and especially
towards the said A. B.  And if he shall refuse so to do, that then immediately
you do convey the said T. B. or cause him to be conveyed unto the
Common Gaol at the Castle of Cambridge, there to remain until he shall
willingly do the same.  And see that you certifie your doings in the Premisses
to the Justices at the said Sessions; and have you there this Warrant,
Dated at, &c.
 

Chap. 174.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

See before
tit. Arrest.

 

Or thus.

    FOrasmuch as B. the Wife of W. A. of your said Town hath personally
come before me (I. C. Knight, one of the Justices of the Peace
for the said County of C.) and hath taken her corporal Oath, that one
T. B. of your Town hath already assaulted, beaten and bruised her the
said B. and farther hath threatned her in such sort, that she is afraid
that the said T. B. will beat, wound, maim or kill her, or do her some
other Bodily harm; and thereupon she the said B. hath prayed security
of the Peace to be had or granted her against the said T. B.  These
are therefore to will and require you, (&c. ut supra) to find sufficient
sureties (or to be bound with two sufficient sureties) for his personal
appearance at the next general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be
holden for this County, then and there to answer the premisses; and in
the mean time that he the said T. B. keep the Peace towards our said
Sovereign Lord the King, and all other his Liege People, and especially
towards the said B.  And if he shall refuse thus to do, that then (ut
supra.
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Cambr.

A Warrant for the Peace upon a Supplicavit.

    CHristopherus Hatton Knight, one of the Justices of the peace within
the County of Cambridge, to the Sheriff of the said County, the
High Constables of the Hundred of R. the petty Constables of the Town
of B. and to all and singular the Kings Majesties Bailiffs and other Ministers,
as well within Liberties as without in the said County, and to
every of them, Greeting.  Know ye, that I have received the Commandment
(or Writ) of our said Sovereign Lord (in these words, reciting
the whole Writ of Supplicavit; or only reciting the effect of the Supplicavit



 
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