The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-07-26

"A Statute Passed at Parliament
held at Westminster on the Sunday
next before the Feast of the Conver-
sion of st. Paul, A. D. 136O-61
"a Edward III.-That in every CONN
| ty of England there shall be assigned
for the keeping of the peace. one lord.
| and with him three or four of the most
/ worthy of the counties, together with
some learned in the law; and they shall
nave power to restrain offenders, riot
ers and all other disturbers. and to pIIr-
sue, arrest, take and chastise them ac-
cordlng to their trespass or offence:
and to cause them to be imprisoned and
duly punished according to the law and
customs of the realm, and according to
tnat which to them shall seem best TO
do by their discretions and good adj
ylsement; and also to inform them, and
10 inquire of all those that have been
plllagers and robbers in parts beyond
the sea, and be now come again. and
go wandering, and will not labor as
they were wont in times past: and to
take and arrest all those that they NAV
find by indictment or by suspicion. and
TO put them in prison; and to take all
them that be of good fame, where
they shall be found, sufficient surety
and mainprise for their good behavior
towards the king and his people. and
others duly to punish; to the intent
that the people be not of such rioters
troubled nor endamaged nor the peace
blem1shed, nor merchants nor others
passing by the highways of the realm
disturbed, nor beset by the peril which
may happen of such offenders: and also
TO hear and determine at the kings
suit all manner of felonies and tres
passes done in the same county accord
ing to the laws and customs aforesaid:
and that writs of oyer and determiner
be granted, according to the statutes
thereof made, but that the justices
which shall be thereto assigned be
named by the court and not by the |
party. And the king willeth that all !
general inquiries before this time |
granted with any seignories whatever. |
,or the mischief and expressions which |
nave been done to the people by such
Inquiries, shall utterly cease and be re-
)ealed; and that fines which are to be
made before justices for trespass done
~ any person, be reasonable and lust.
laying regard to the quantity of the !
resspass, and the causes for which
hey be made"
1t has not been thought necessary to
other sections of the statute
uHuef WnlcH ldDOfefS deparung from
heir service into another county are to
e branded F on the forehead with a
ed hot iron; and under which any per-
on who conceals a hawk, is liable to
Wo years Imprisonment, and the price '
the hawk, or a longer term of i'm [
risonment-these sections not for the
resent being enforced.
AS the above act (obsolete regarding {
ngland and Scotland) has been re- +
lscitated and is now being put in {
,rce in Ireland this year of grace 1902.
nd as under it many persons are. at
lie summary jurisdiction of police
agistrates, suffering terms of impris-
lment, the same has been diligently
from the copy in the o
orary of Trinity college, compared :
18th others in the library of the Kings. :
ms, Dublin, and is now printed for =
e information of his majesty's lieges. .
God save the king. y
FThe authorized translations here in .
TT mot" The government, in it's in +
rpretation of the act, adheres to the n
iginal. T