Parish law, or, A guide to justices of the peace, ministers, church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of the highways, vestry-clerks, and all others concerned in parish business : compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books as also from some adjudged cases never before published together with correct forms of warrants, commitments, indictments, presentments, convictions, &c. to which is added a choice collection of precedents for justices of the peace, communicated by an able hand with a new and correct table / by Joseph Shaw.

Joseph Shaw

Date:: 1743

Credit: Parish law, or, A guide to justices of the peace, ministers, church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of the highways, vestry-clerks, and all others concerned in parish business : compiled from the common, statute, and other authentick books as also from some adjudged cases never before published together with correct forms of warrants, commitments, indictments, presentments, convictions, &c. to which is added a choice collection of precedents for justices of the peace, communicated by an able hand with a new and correct table / by Joseph Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Parfflj into. CHAP. XIII. Other Ditties of Incumbents by Statutes. I. T} Y feveral Ads of Parliament, an Incumbent is obliged What Ads of to read the Ad of Uniformity of 5 iff 6 Ed. 6. c. 1. Parliament once a Year; the Ad for obferving the fifth of November, 3 Jac. 1. c. 1. after the Morning Service for that Day ; the bencs. Ad for obferving the 29th of May, iz Car. 2. c. 14 the Lord’s Day next before; the Ad againll Swearing of 6 & 7 W. 3. c. 11. on the Sunday next after the 24th of June, 29th of September, 25 th of December, and 25 th of March, un¬ der Pain of twenty Shillings. Alfo the whole Book of Canons 1603, is to be read once every Year, upon fome Sunday or Holiday in the Afternoon before Divine Service, dividing the fame in fuch Sort, that the one Half may be read the one Day, and the other another Day. 2. By Stat. 7 8 W. 3. c. 33. all Parfons are prohibited to marry People, or fufter them to be marry’d in their Churches or Chapels, exempt or not exempt, or at any other Place whatfoever, without the Publication of the Bans, &c. or without Licence. The Penalty is one hundred Pounds for Penalty of each Offence, to be recovered by Adion of Debt, Bill, Plaint, 1 erfons mar» or Information ; one Moiety to the King, the other to the In- withou^^]j|f former; and the Man thus married forfeits ten Pounds, to any cence, Perfon who will inform, fsfr. and every Clerk or Sexton, knowingly affilling at fuch Marriage, forfeits five Pounds to be recovered with Cofts, as aforefaid. 3. By Statute 30 Car. 2. c. 3. the Minifler of every Parifh Parfons Duty is to keep a Regifler of the Burials and Affidavits of Perfons abouc Bmiais. buried in Woollen. Thefe Affidavits are to be brought to the Minifler within eight Days after the Burial, if not, the Mi¬ nifler muft enter a Memorandum of the Default, and of the Time when he gave Notice thereof to the Parifh Officers; which Notice mufl be given in Writing, under the Hand of the Minifler ; and this may be done at any Time; but the beft Way is foon after the eight Days are expired. The Minifler making Default in any of thefe Particulars, forfeits 5 /. The Affidavit mull be taken by a Juflice of the Peace, Mayor, or fuch Officer in the Parifh where the Party was buried ; and if there is none in that Parifh, then by a Minifler in the County, excepting in that Parifh where the Corpfe was buried. He who takes the Affidavit, mufl fet his Hand to it, and it mull be attend by two WitnefTes, who were prefent at the taking it. E 2 4-

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