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warrant; and also to command you the said keeper of the said county gaol to receive the said into your custody in the said county gaol, and him there safely keep until he shall have found sufficient sureties by recognizance [or otherwise] to perform the said definitive sentence and judgment. Given under our hands and seals at in the said county, of our Lord 182.

this

day of

in the

year

TOLLS.

No. 1. Information* against a Toll-gate Keeper for refusing to receive a Ticket for two or more Days, under the 25 Geo. 3. c. 51. s. 37.

County of

to wit.

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of

Be it remembered, that on the

day

in the year of our Lord 182, at in the parish of in the county of before W. R., esquire, one of his majesty's justices of the peace assigned to keep the peace of our sovereign lord the king in and for the said county, and also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors done and committed within the said county, residing near the place where the offence hereinafter mentioned is alleged to have been committed, of the parish of in the said county of yeoman, who prosecutes as well for our said sovereign lord the king as for himself in this behalf, cometh in his proper person and now here exhibiteth to and before me the said justice a certain complaint and information, and herein as well for our said lord the king as for himself, complaineth and giveth me to understand and be informed, that in the said county of

late of

yeoman, after the making of a certain act of parliament made and passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of king George the third, intituled, “ An Act for repealing the duties on licences taken out by persons letting horses, for the purpose of travelling post, and on horses let to hire for travelling post and by time, and on stage coaches, and for granting

See the General Turnpike Act, 3 Geo. 4. c. 136. the schedule to which contains a form of conviction applicable to most cases arising thereon.

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other duties in lieu thereof, and also additional duties on horses let to hire for travelling post and by time,” and after the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and eightyfive therein mentioned, and within six calendar months next before the exhibiting this information, to wit, on the day of now last past [the day on which the offence is committed] at a certain turnpike-gate situate and being at

aforesaid (the said keeper there) did wilfully refuse to receive of and from one (he the said then and there being the driver of a certain carriage with four wheels, commonly called a postchaise, and being then and there about to pass therewith through the said turnpike) a certain stamp-office ticket, purporting to be a note or certificate for two or more days, and being a ticket by the said act of parliament directed to be delivered to and received by the said , so being such toll-gate keeper as aforesaid, the said turnpike being the first turnpike which the said carriage did pass through with the said ticket, and the said having notice of all and singular the premises aforesaid, and being duly required by the said to receive the said ticket, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided; by reason whereof and also by force of the said statute the said hath forfeited for his said offence the sum of pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, one moiety thereof to the use of his majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety thereof to the said who prosecutes as aforesaid, all which the said is ready to prove before me the said justice by credible witnesses, when the said shall be summoned to make his defence touching the same, whereof the said prosecutes as aforesaid, prays that the said convicted of the said offence according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and also prays judgment of me the said justice, and that one moiety of the said forfeiture may be adjudged to our said lord the king, and the other moiety thereof to him the said and that I will proceed thereupon according to law.

then and there being a toll-gate

who may be

No. 2. Conviction of a Toll-gate Keeper for exacting Toll for Sheep driven to Pasture from one Parish to the next adjoining, in the same county, under a Local Act, the 44 Geo. 3. c. (This form is prescribed by the act.)

County of

to wit.

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of

Be it remembered, that on the

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day

in the year of our Lord one thou

sand eight hundred and twenty

in the county of

in the same county,

of

and within the parish of

at

was duly convicted before

me W. R. esquire, one of his majesty's justices of the peace in the county aforesaid, for that the day of 182 aforesaid, at

for the parish of

said

on the

in the parish of in the county of aforesaid, and within the parish of in the same county (he

the said

being then and there the farmer of the tolls

in

aforesaid (did uncertain toll,

in the

payable at a certain toll-gate or bar called aforesaid, and within the parish of lawfully demand and take of and from one to wit, the sum of of lawful money of Great Britain, as and by way of toll for certain cattle, to wit, [sixty-four sheep] which were then and there going to pasture and driven from the parish of aforesaid to the parish of county aforesaid, being the next adjoining parish to the said parish of and which did not pass upon the road hereinafter next mentioned more than two miles in going to pasture as aforesaid, contrary to an act passed in the forty-fourth year of his said majesty king George the third, intituled, "An Act," &c. [set out the title of the act verbatim], and I do therefore adjudge and declare that the said has forfeited for his said offence the sum of

TREASON (HIGH).

Given, &c.

No. 1. Commitment on Suspicion of High Treason.*
[Commence as forms of COMMITMENT, Vol. I.]

For being suspected of the crime of high treason. [Conclude as the same forms.]

* A commitment for treason or for treasonable practices in general is good, 7 T. R. 736. Haw. b. 2. c. 17. s. 16.; and no overt act need be stated, 1 Stra. 3, 4.

No. 2. The like, for High Treason in America.

Being suspected of the crime of high treason committed by him in his majesty's colony of [Pennsylvania] in America. [Conclude as above.]

No. 3. The like, for High Treason abroad.

[Commence as above.] With high treason at [Savannah, in the colony of Georgia, in North America]. [Conclude as above.]

No. 4. The like, in His Majesty's Colonies.

With being guilty of the crime of high treason in his majesty's colonies and plantations in [America], contrary to the statute in that case made and provided. [Conclude as above.]

TREASON (PETIT).

No. 1. Warrant to apprehend a Woman for poisoning her

County of

Husband.

[Commence in common form.] on suspicion of murder; for that the said the day of

to wit. one thousand eight hundred and twenty of in the county of

on

in the year of our Lord at the parish feloniously, traitorously, and wilfully did mix and mingle a quantity of deadly poison called [arsenic] in water gruel, which she afterwards gave and delivered to the said her said then husband, to be drank

by him, and which said water gruel he the said

by the persuasion and instigation of the said his wife, did drink and swallow, whereby the said became sick and greatly distempered in his body, of which sickness and distemper the said afterwards died, against the peace, &c. These are therefore, &c.

No. 2. The like, for apprehending a Servant who strangled

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in the year of our Lord at the parish

one thousand eight hundred and twenty of in the county of

sault the said

, did traitorously and wilfully asand with a certain silk handkerchief about then and there feloniously,

the neck of him the said traitorously and wilfully did fix, tie, and fasten, and him the did choke, suffocate, and strangle, of which said

said

suffocation and strangling he the said

died, against the peace, &c.

See title COMMITMENT.

then and there

TRESPASS.

No. 1. Information for a Wilful or Malicious Trespass,

County of

to wit.

under 1 Geo. 4. c. 56.

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on oath before me, W. R. esquire, one of his

majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, the in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

day of

hundred and

:

instant, at
of

in the

Who says that on the day of in the parish of in the said county, county aforesaid, shoemaker, did wilfully and maliciously [state the particulars of the trespass, the damages for which are not to exceed five pounds in any case; and if not done both wilfully and maliciously, either of those words can be omitted accordingly,] and that the said did not then and there act under a fair and reasonable supposition that he had a right to do or commit the act complained of, and that the said trespass was not committed in hunting, nor by the said then and there being a qualified person, and having duly obtained his certificate authorizing him to kill game, in the pursuit of any kind of game, &c. the property

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