quirable and prefentable only, and are not punish• able.

Or elfe of fuch Things as are prefentable, and are punishable in this Court.

To the firft Head,

You fhall firft Inquire of High Treafons; as if there be any among you that do compass, imagine or intend the Death of the King, or his Children; or if there be any that are Confenters ethereunto, or to levy War against his Majesty, or be adherent to his Enemies.

If any counterfeit the Great Seal of England, or current Coin of this Nation, or do clip, waste or round the fame.

If a Servant kill his Mafter or Mistress, or if a Woman do kill her Husband, it is Petty Treafon, and here inquirable.

If one kill another in his own Defence, or by Accident, it is here to be inquired of as Bloodfhed, &c. Staund. 15, 4.

If any Man ravifh, whether Wife, Widow or Maid, though he doth afterward confent, it is here inquirable as Trefpafs, and their Aiders and Abettors are to be inquired of.

Burglars are thofe, who in the Time of Peace,

or in the Night-time, with a felonious Intent to rob or kill, do break any Houses, Churches, Walls or Gates, and they are here inquirable. Staundf. fo.20. b.

Petty Larceny is the felonious Taking of any Thing under the Value of Twelve-pence, as Capons, Pigs, Hens, and fuch like, or Clothes off Hedges, and is here inquirable.

Putting out of Eyes, cutting out of Tongues, or disfiguring any Member, to the Intent they

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fhould not fee nor fpeak, is here inquirable, as • Bloodshed.

Mifprifion of Treafon is, if any know of Treafon, and concealeth it Four and Twenty Hours, < you are to inquire of it.

The taking away of Ornaments, feloniously out of Churches or Chapels, is here inquirable, as Felony.

The felonious Taking of Doves in Dovehouses, young Pigeons, Gofhawks out of their Nefts, Fifh out of Ponds, Stews or Trunks (but in a common River otherwife) or taking Cignets, Swans marked, Peacocks, or any domeftick Deer, knowing it to be fo, or fetting upon one on the Highway, with an Intent to rob, is Felony, and 6 are here inquirable.

If any one feloniously burn any Dwellinghoufe, Barns or Mows of Corn, in the Night-feafon, it is Felony at the Common Law, and by you to be inquired of.

You are to inquire if any one procure or command another to commit Felony, though he be 6 not prefent when it is committed, he is faid to be an Acceffary before the Fact; or if any receive or aid a Felon, having Knowledge of the Fact which he committed, he is an Acceffary after the Fact. Staundf. 40.

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If any be arrested for Felony, or any other Crime, and afterwards the Party, in whofe Cuftody he is, tolerates him to go at large, this is a voluntary Escape, and here inquirable.

If one be arrested for Felony, and escapeth contrary to the Will of the Arrefter, and is not followed with fresh Purfuit, nor taken before the Pursuer loses Sight of him, this is inquirable.

If any rescue and fet at Liberty any Perfon apprehended and arrefted for Felony, it is Felony f in the Refcuer, and here inquirable.

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These Offences, though they are prefentable in this Court, yet they are not punishable; but the Prefentment must be certified into fome fuperior Court, where the Offenders are to be profecuted and punished according to Law.

The fecond Head takes in Offences that are both prefentable and punishable in this Court, and they are fuch as these.

Charge of the Leet.

First, you fhall inquire if any Perfon within the Jurif diction of this Court-Leet, hath wilfully, or through Malice, drawn Blood from the Perfon of another, it is here prefentable and punishabl.

Judgment.

The Fine for the Offence is according to the Difcretion of the Jury, but commonly it is 3 s. 4 d.

For every fuch Neglect or Default they ought to for

Next you are to inquire if the Conftables, and other Officers, have truly prefented all Things; and par- | feit 20s. ticularly whether they have discharged their Duties in arrefting of Felons, purfuing of Hues and Cries according to Law, and apprehending Vagabonds, Rogues, and Sturdy Beggars.

And you are to take No

If there be not,

tice that there ought to be the Tithing lofeth

a common Pound, and a Pair of Stocks; as alfo a Tumbrel or Ducking-Stool kept in fufficient Repair, within this Manor.

Charge of the Leet. And you are to inquire I into all Breaches of the Peace, Riots, Routs, and unlawful Affemblies.

If any Refcous have been made, that is, where Cattle driving to be impounded for a Trespass, are taken away, or any Pound Breach have been made, and Cattle illegally taken thence, without due Delivery, it is here to be inquired into.

You are alfo to inquire whether any Perfon or Perfons keeping Ale - Houses

Judgment.

See the Act of I Geo. 1. against Riots. Sub Titulo Riots.

Fineable accor ding to the Difcretion of the Jury.

Forfeit 40 s. 33

(without Licence, or having H. 8. c. 9.

Licence) do permit or fuf

fer any Disorders to be committed; and if any fuch, to prefent the Offenders, and Perfons keeping unlawful Gaming Houses, which together with the Frequenters thereof, are here prefentable and punishable.

You are alfo to inquire of and present all Nufances.

Gentlemen, a Nusance is that which is an Annoyance or Disturbance to many; it cannot be faid to one, for it is commune nocumentum, i. e. (common).

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As to the Nufances in the

Highways, if any one incroach upon the King's Highway, by Hedging, Ditching, or otherwife inclofe any Part of the Highway, this is a Nufance, and by you inquirable, prefentable and punifhable.

If any make Layftalls, Dung-hills, or lay any Timber, Wood or other Things in the Highway, whereby the fame is in the leaft obftructed, this is alfo a Nufance, and by you inquirable, &c.

The Party offending ball forfeit for every fuch De

If any do not scower their Ditches, or lop their Trees, and keep their Bufhes low next the King's High-fault 10s. for not way, this is an Occafion of impairing the Way, and by you inquirable, &c.

fcowring the Ditches 12 d. a Rod. 5 Eliz. c. 13. 18 Eliz. c.10.

To be fined at Difcretion of the

If any direct an antient Way, or an antient Watercourse out of its of its proper Channel, this is alfo inquira- | Jury. ble, &c.

If any one lay any Carrion, or other ftinking Dirt in the Highway, and by this Means the Air is corrupted, it is a Nufance, and by you inquirable, &c.

The fame.