WHOLE LAW

RELATIVE TO

THE DUTY AND OFFICE

OF A

Jultice of the Peace.

COMPRISING ALSO

THE AUTHORITY OF

PARISH OFFICERS.

Jamis Armistroug

BY THOMAS WALTER WILLIAMS, ESQ.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
AND C. AND G. KEARSLEY, FLEET-STREET,

PAGE.

ERRATA.

262. Line 32, instead of the inhabitants of Welford, read

Worfield.

905. Line 32, inftead of the word during, read doing,

THE

WHOLE LAW

RELATIVE TO THE

DUTY AND OFFICE

O F

A Justice of the Peace.

Quakers.

I. Concerning the affirmation of quakers in general.

II. In what manner quakers are to affirm the effect of the oaths of allegiance, fupremacy, and abjuration.

III. How tithes, church rates, and other dues
may be recovered from quakers.

The privileges which quakers enjoy under the tolera-
tion act, in common with other diffenters, are
treated of under the title DISSENTERS.

I. Concerning the affirmation of quakers in general.

received instead

THE HE 7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 34, after reciting that quakers The affirmation refufing to take an oath in courts of juftice and other of quakers to be places, were frequently imprisoned, and their eftates fequestered, of an oath. by process of contempt iffuing out of fuch courts, to the ruin of themselves and families, ENACTS for remedy thereof, that every quaker who fhall be required upon any lawful occaon to take an oath, in any cafe where by law an oath is VOL. IV.

B

required,