OR, A G UIDE TO Juftices of the Peace, Minifters, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Conftables, Surveyors of the Highways, Veftry-Clerks, and all Others concern'd in Parish Business : COMPILED From the Common, Statute, and other Authentick BOOKS; as alfo from fome adjudged CASES never before published: TOGETHER With correct Forms of Warrants, Commitments, A Choice Collection of Precedents for Juftices of the By JOSEPH SHAW, Efq; The Eighth Edition, in which are inferted many CASES from Lord Raymond and other new Reports; the Acts of Parliament continued to the prefent Time; Obfervations on the last Vagabond Act; and a Table of the Names of the CASES. In the SAVOY: Printed by HENRY LINTOT, Law Printer to the King's moft Excellent Majefty; for R. Mare, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill; 3. Hodges, at the Looking-Glas facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and J. Hourle, at the Lamb, oppofite Katherine-fireet in the Strand. MDCCLIII. (Price bound 5) To the Honourable Sir John Fortescue Aland, K. One of the Justices of His MAJESTY'S Court of Common Pleas. SIR, TH HIS Treatife is laid at your Feet as a small, but publick Acknowledgment of the many Obligations you have been pleafA ed ed to confer upon me. It is not from the Vanity of Thinking, it can either contribute to your Inftruction, or merit your Approbation. I know both you and myself too well ever to give into fuch Prefumption; for who can write so well as you can judge? Few, if any, ever fhone brighter in the Seat in which GOD and the King have fo juftly placed you; nor is it my fingle Opinion, fince one of the most learned Bodies in Europe, by their late Diploma, have publickly confirmed my Sentiments. Not only the eminent Charges of the Kingdom which you have have paffed through, and the Figure you have made in them, intitles you to the juft Efteem and Admiration of wife and good Men; but alfo the Social andChriftian Virtues which you poffefs, and which you fo carefully conceal from the Eyes of all the World, except from those who havethe Honour havetheHonour and Happiness of attending near your Person, and who confequently have, as well as myfelf, an Opportunity of daily observing them, which I fhould here have taken an Occafion of particularizing, did I not know that by fuch a Publication I should as much offend |