First, a bitt and a knock for under-sheriffs, serjeants, bayliffs, setters, and such vermin, catterpillars, and varlets, or, catchpoles, fallen from twenty to one
Subtitle: secondly, with a preservative against fraudulent executors and administrators : thirdly, and for honest executors and administrators from paying more out of their own estates, then shall come to their hands from testators or intestates : fourthly, and for preservation of shiping from wilfull destruction by deceitfull persons to defraud purchasors and creditors of ships : in order to the saving to the people of this nation every year hereafter, a great part of the three millions of money by exacting and monopolizing officers, formerly yearly from them unlawfully exacted, and formerly proposed to be saved for them, and for the abatement of the extreme and unnecessary charges in the proceedings of the law
By: written by William Leach ... and explained by Edmund Leach ...
Contributors: Leach, Edmund, 17th cent.
Publisher: Printed by E. Cotes
Published: 1652
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Sheriffs -- Great Britain.; Bailiffs -- Great Britain.; Executors and administrators -- Great Britain.; Local officials and employees -- Great Britain.
Other titles: Bitt and a knock for under-sheriffs, and their officers, &c.
Notes: BLC, v. 186, p. 297
Wing (2nd ed.) L773
Caption title: A bitt and a knock for under-sheriffs, and their officers, &c.
Signatures: A-C⁴.