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The compleat parish-officer; containing I. The authority and proceedings of High Constables, Petty-Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: with the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens; how chosen, their particular Business in Repairing of Churches, Bells, &c. and Assigning of Seats; the Manner of Passing their Accompts, and the Laws and Statutes concerning the Church in all Cases; and also an Abstract of the Act for building fifty new Churches in London and Westminster, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in Relieving, Employing, and Settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of surveyors of the highways and scavengers how elected, their Business in amending the Ways, &c. and the Duty of others; with the Methods of Taxation, Laws of the Highways, &c. Together with the statutes relating to hackney-coaches and Chairs, &c. The third edition: to which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. His then Majesty's Attorney-General, in the Year of our Lord 1610. declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1723- Books
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The trials on the informations which in pursuance of an order of the House of Commons, were filed by His Majesty's Attorney General against Richard Smith, Esq. and Thomas Brand Hollis, Esq. for having been guilty of notorious bribery, and thereby procuring themselves to be elected and Returned Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the borough of Hindon, tried by a Special Jury on Tuesday the 12th of March, 1776. at the Assize holden at Salisbury for the County of Wilts; Before The Honourable Sir Beaumont Hotham, Knt. One of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Smith, Richard, 1734-1803.Date: [1776]- Books
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John Bayes and Sophia his wife, - - - plts. Richard Bird and Katharine his wife, Sophia Zouch, an infant, by the said Katharine her mother and guardian, the apppellants, and James Feild, gent. since deceased, (father of the respondent James Feild) and others, - - - - - - defts. Thomas Jervoise and Benjamin Rudyerd, Esqs; - appellants. The said Richard Bird and his wife, - - plts. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said appellants, and James Feild, deceased, and others, defts. The said Sophia Zouch, by her next friend, - plt. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said Richard Bird and his wife, the said appellants, and the said James Feild deceased, and others, - - defts. James Feild, gent. respondent. The attorney-general at the relation of Richard Rogers, and others, - - - - plts. The said John Bayes and his wife, the said Richard Bird and his wife, the said appellants, and the said James Feild, deceased, and others, - - defts. The appellants case.
Jervoise, Thomas.Date: 1731]- Books
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio, by the King's attorney general, against John Stockdale; for a libel on the House of Commons, Tried in the Court of King's-Bench West-Minster, on Wednesday, the Ninth of December, 1789, Before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England. Taken in short hand by Joseph Gurney. To which is subjoined, an argument in support of the rights o juries.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Date: [1790]- Books
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio, by the King's Attorney General, against John Stockdale; for a libel on the House of Commons, tried In The Court Of King's-Bench Westminster, ON Wednesday, the ninth of December, 1789, Before The Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice Of England. Taken in short hand by Joseph Gurney. To which is subjoined, an argument in support of the rights of juries.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]