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A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the year 1619 to 1734. To which is added, a discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great - Britain, in Respect to Neutral Nations. By the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, Secretary at War. The whole being a supplement to A collection of treaties, between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Revolution, in 1688. In Two Volumes.
Great Britain.Date: [1781]- Books
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By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, a proclamation. Tho. Armagh, Con. Phipps. Canc. Whereas by the decease of our late sovereign Lady Queen Anne of blessed memory, the Imperial Crowns of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, are solely and rightfully come to our sovereign Lord George by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For preventing dangers that may arise at this juncture from papists or other persons disastected to His Majesty government, and for preserving the publick peace of this Kingdom. We the Lords Justices and Council, do hereby strictly charge and require all papists licensed to keep and wear arms, forthwith to deliver up their respective arms, and all ammunition in their possession, to the next justice of the peace, or chief magistrate where such persons do reside, who are hereby required to give receipt for the said arms and ammunition, and to keep the same till further order. ...
Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.Date: 1714- Books
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Yorkshire, (to wit) The delivery of the goal of our sovereign lord the King, of his County of York, held at the Castle of York, in and for the said County, on Monday the Seventh Day of March, in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, now King of Great Britain, &c. - Before Sir William Lee, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench, and Sir Thomas Abney, Knight, one of his Majesty's Justices of his Court of Common-Pleas, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to deliver his Goal there of the Prisoners therein being, &c.
Yorkshire (England)Date: 1748]- Books
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At the general sessions of the peace of our Lord the King held by adjournment at the castle of Exon, in and for the County aforesaid, the Tenth Day of June, in the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, now King of Great Britain and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One, before John Burridge Cholwich, Esquire, John Laroche, Esquire, and John Andrew, Clerk, Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King, in and for the County aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers ... Trespasses, and other Misdemeanors committed in the said County.
Exeter (England). Quarter Session.Date: [1791]- Books
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To the constables and churchwardens of the parish of [blank] in the [blank] of [blank] and to each of them. Whereas complaint hath been made unto us, two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said in Writing by of the Parish of in the said that [blank] hath refused to pay his small tythes, offerings, oblations and obventions ... Wherefore we the said Justices being neither of us Patrons of the said Parish of or any ways interested in the said Tythes, Offerings, Oblations or Obventions ... And whereas it appears unto us the said Justices that the said hath had Notice of the said Order and Abjudication, and hath refused and still doth refuse ... That they, you or one of you do make publick Sale of the said Goods and Chattels, and pay to the said so much of the Money arising by such Sale as will satisfy him the said Sums of and to him so adjudged as aforesaid, and retain to yourselves the Sum of for making and keeping the said Distress (which we the said Justices do hereby adjudge reasonable Charges for so doing) and render the Overplus (if any be) to the said and hereof fail not at your Perils. Given under our Hands and Seals this Day of in Year of the Reign of now King of Great Britain, &c. And in the Year of our Lord 17
Date: [1755?]- Books
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The duty and powers of justices of peace, in this part of Great-Britain called Scotland. With an appendix concerning weights and measures. By William Forbes ...
Forbes, William.Date: 1707-08- Books
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The case of Thomas Baker & Wm. Harris, Esqrs. two of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Southampton, defendants in actions brought against them as justices, in causes at the suit of Jane Price and Thomas Howard, in Hilary term 1788: humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislture, and His Majesty's justices of the peace for the kingdom of Great Britain.
Baker, Thomas, active 1788.Date: 1788]- Books
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An Act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the Act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorise and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments.
Great Britain.Date: 1776- Books
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Abstracts of the returns made by the overseers of the poor, in pursuance of an act passed in the sixteenth year of His Present Majesty's reign, Intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the Parliaments."
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Schedule. Questions, to which, by direction of an act, passed in the sixteenth year of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An act for obliging the overseers of the poor, within the several parishes and places within that part of Great Britain called England, to make returns, upon oath, to certain questions, specified in the act, relative to the state of their poor; and to authorize and require the justices of the peace, within their respective divisions and jurisdictions, in the several counties and cities in England and Wales, to take such returns upon oath, and to cause them to be transmitted to the clerk of the parliaments;" answers are to be returned by the overseers of the poor of every parish, township, and place, in wrinting, upon oath, and signed by them; for which purpose the said overseers are to attend the justices of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions, at such times and places as they shall appoint on pain of forfeiting, for every default or neglect, a sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings.
Great Britain.Date: [1776]- Books
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, alphabetically digested under proper heads; from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary to the tenth year of Q. Anne. By William Salkeld, late Serjeant at Law. With two tables; one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters therein contained. In one volume complete. Allowed and approved of by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and all the Judges. Being the most useful Collection of Cases for Justices of Peace, and also for Barristers, Students, and all Practisers of the Law.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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English liberty in some cases worse than French slavery: exemplified by animadversions upon the tyrranical and anti-constitutional power of the Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of Excise, Customs, and Land-Tax, &c. Containing A particular Relation of the barbarous and oppressive Methods made Use of in Raising the Land-Tax of this Kingdom, Compared with An Historical Narrative of the More mild, and equitable Measures pursued in raising the Taxes, call'd the Taillé and Taillon, the most oppressive in France. In a letter address'd to the serious consideration of the lesser freeholders and electors of Great-Britain.
Philalethes.Date: [1748]- Books
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: with Some Special cases in the Courts of Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer, Alphabetically digested under Proper Heads; from the first year of K. William and Q. Mary to the tenth year of Queen Anne. By William Salkeld, late Serjeant at Law. With Two Tables; the one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters therein contained. In two volumes. Allow'd and approv'd of by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and all the Judges. Being the most useful Collection of Cases for Justices of Peace, and also for Barristers, Students, and all Practisers of the Law. The fourth edition, with many thousand additional references by Knightley D'Anvers, late of the Inner-Temple, Esq; Author of The General Abridgment of the Common Law. And the pleadings now first done into English.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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The compleat English copyholder: or, a guide to lords of manors, Justices of the Peace, Tenants, Stewards, Attornies, Bailiffs, Constables, Gamekeepers, Haywards, Reeves, Surveyors of the Highways, &c. being the Common and Statute Law of England, together with the adjudged Cases relating to Manors, Copyhold Estates, Courts-Leet and Courts-Baron, Common Placed; Containing the whole practice of the Court-Leet, Court of ancient Demesne, Court-Baron, and Musick-Court of the Honour of Tutbury, and the Business of a Manor in all its Branches. And Also The Tenures, Customs, and Usages of several Manors in England and Wales, shewing who has Right to attend the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain, or to perform other Scrvices to them, or the Lords of the several Manors, collected from Records, Manuscripts, and printed Books; with Directions for distraining for rent; by the late Sir Bartholomew Shower. ... . By a gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Gentleman of the Inner Temple.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifth session of the sixteenth Parliament Of Great-Britain, viz. to July 12, 1788. To Which are Added, Forms of Warrants, Summonses, and Recognizances; Forms of Conviction and Oaths of Office, and a Compleat Index or Table of Contents. The second edition. By a country-magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Observations relating to British and Spanish proceedings, &c. Wherein due notice is taken of a memorable dialogue between Harry and Will. on the expediency of a continental war: and Proper Inquiry is made after the Motives for taking since that Dialogue was written, some such Measures as Will. therein says, have been the Overthrow of all our Councils. The Whole being intended to shew by what Actings and Doings the Affairs of Great Britain, from being in a State of solid Prosperity, have been brought into such wretched Plight, that the French would not make Peace upon Condition of our restoring to them, the best Fruits of those many glorious Victories which have cost the Lives of Fifty Thousand brave Britons and Fifty Millions of British Treasure. - To which is added, A Proposal for replacing the new Taxes on Malt and Beer. Most humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Parliament and People of Great Britain, By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Serious thoughts in regard to the publick disorders, with several proposals for remedying the same; particularly in respect to gaming, publick-houses, Pawn-Brokers, and Receivers of Stolen Goods. By a country Justice of the Peace.
Country Justice of the Peace.Date: [1750?]- Books
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The Justice of the Peace, and parish officer. By Richard Burn, Clerk; one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Westmorland. The fourth edition. In three volumes.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The justice of the peace, and parish officer. By Richard Burn, Clerk; One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland. ...
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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The justice of the peace, and parish officer. By Richard Burn, L. L. D. One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland.
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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The magistrate's assistant; or, a summary of those laws, which immediately respect the conduct of a justice of the peace: to the end of the fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain. To which are Added, More than an Hundred Forms of Warrants, Summonses, Recognizances, &c. And a Complete Index or Table of Contents to the Whole. By a country magistrate.
Glasse, Samuel, magistrate.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The country justice: containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions. Gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the Study of the laws of this realism. By Michael Dalton of Lincolns-Inn, Esq; And One of the Masters in Chancery. To which is now added, the duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions; an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes, relating thereunto: a large table of the principal matters herein contained; with two other tables, One of the chapters in this Book; And the other of such acts of Parliament, as concern the Office of a justice of peace.
Dalton, Michael, -1648?.Date: MDCCV. [1705]- Books
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The justice of peace's vade mecum: being a compleat summary of all the acts of Parliament relating to justices of peace; ... To which are added, some adjudged cases concerning justices of peace, ... The whole done in an alphabetical method, with an exact table.
Date: 1719- Books
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The justice of the peace, and parish officer. By Richard Burn, L. L. D. One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Westmorland. The eighth edition. In two volumes. ...
Burn, Richard, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]