King concerning their bodies are likely to arise thereby; therefore on the behalf of our said Lord the King, we command you and every one of you that you omit not by reason of any liberty within the county aforesaid, but that you att ch or one of you do attach the aforesaid A. B. and C. D. So that you have them before us or other our fellow justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace in the county aforesaid, as soon as they can be taken [or, before the justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace within the county aforesaid, and also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses and other misdemeanors in the said county committed, at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the said county], to find before us [or, the said justices] sufficient surety and mainprize for their general good behaviour towards our said Lord the King and all his people, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided; and this you shall in no wise omit, on the peril that shall ensue thereon; and have you before us [or, before the said justices at the sessions aforesaid] this precept. Given under our hands and seals, at in the county aforesaid, the day of, in the 57th year of the reign of our said Lord the King and in the year of our Lord 1817.

J. C.

S. P.

Recognizance for the Peace or Good Behaviour.

to wit. Be it remembered that on the

day of in the 57th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George III. of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, A. B. of — in the county aforesaid, yeoman, C. D. of the same place, yeoman, and E. F. of the same place, yeoman, came before me S. P. Esq. one of the justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace within the said county, and acknowledged themselves to owe to our said Lord the King, to wit, the said A. B. the sum of £20.; the said C. D. the sum of £10.; and the said E. F. the sum of £10. of good and lawful money of Great-Britain, to be respectively made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use

of our said Lord the King, his heirs and successors, if he the said A. B. shall fail in performing the condition hereon indorsed [or underwritten.]

Acknowledged the day and year above written, before me,

S. P.

THE CONDITION of this recognizance is such, that if the within bounden [or, above bounden] A. B. shall personally appear at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the county aforesaid, to do and receive what shall then and there be enjoined him by the Court, and in the mean time shall keep the peace, [or, be of the good behaviour, or, shall keep the peace and be of the good behaviour towards the King and all his liege people, and especially towards L. M. of in the said county, yeoman, then the said recognizance to be void, or otherwise to remain in full force.

in the said county,

to wit. Whereas A. B. of yeoman, is now brought before me S. P. Esq. one of the justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace in and for the said county, requiring him to find sufficient sureties to be bound with him in a recognizance for his personal appearance at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the said county, and in the mean time to keep the peace [or, be of the good behaviour] towards our said Lord the King and all his liege people, and especially towards C. D. of in the said county, yeoman; and whereas he the said A. B. hath refused and doth now refuse before me to find such sureties; These are therefore in the name of our said Lord the King to command you the said constable forthwith to convey the said A. B. to the common gaol of our said Lord the King, [or, to the house of correction] at

in the said county, and to deliver him to the keeper thereof there, together with this precept. And I do in the name of our said Lord the King hereby command you the said

keeper to receive the said A. B. into your custody in the said gaol [or house of correction] and him there safely to keep until he shall find such sureties as aforesaid..

S. P. Esq. one of the justices of our Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace within the county of, -, to the Sheriff, Bailiff, Constables, and others the faithful Ministers and Subjects of our said Lord the King within the said county, and to every of them, greeting.

yeoman, and E. F. of

in

to wit. Forasmuch as A. B. of in the said county, yeoman, hath personally come before me at the said county, and hath found sufficient surety, that is to say, C. D. of -, yeoman, either of whom hath undertaken for the said A. B. under the pain of £20.; and he the said A. B. hath undertaken for himself under the pain of £40. that he the said A. B. shall personally appear at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the said county, then and there to do and receive what shall be enjoined him by the said court, and in the mean time shall well and truly keep the peace [or, be of the good behaviour towards our said Lord the King and all his liege people, and especially towards G. H. of , yeoman. Therefore on behalf of our said Lord the King I do command you and every of you that you utterly forbear and surcease to arrest, take, imprison or otherwise by any means for the said cause to molest the said A. B; and if you have for the said occasion, and for none other, taken and imprisoned him the said A. B. that then him you deliver or cause to be delivered and set at liberty without further delay.

Given at aforesaid in the county aforesaid, under my hand and seal, this day of, in the 57th year of the reign of our Lord George III. of the United Kingdom of GreatBritain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.

S. P.

Release of the Surety for the Peace or Good Behaviour.

to wit. Be it remembered that on the day of in the 57th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. the aforesaid A. B. hath come before me S. P. Esq. and freely remised and released, as much as in him lieth, the aforesaid security of the peace [or, of the good behaviour], by him before me prayed against the above-named C. D. In witness whereof, I the said S. P. at in the county aforesaid, have hereunto set my seal.

Given under my hand, &c.

S. P.

Or the Release may be by itself, thus;

in the

in the 57th

to wit. Be it remembered that A. B. of — said county, yeoman, on the day of year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. came before me S. P. Esq. one of the justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace within the said county, at — in the said county, and there remised and freely released to C. D. of in the said county, yeoman, the surety of the peace [or, good behaviour], by him the said A. B. before me prayed against the said C. D.

Given under my hand &c.

Or if it is before another Justice then say,

S. P.

The surety of the peace [or, good behaviour] which he has against C. D. of in the said county, yeoman.

Given under my hand, &c.

[The first release should be written under the recognizance, and the justice should sign it; but neither of the releases will discharge the recognizance, or prevent the necessity of appearing at the sessions, by which only it can be legally discharged.]

Liberate to discharge one committed for want of Sureties.

S. P. Esq. one of the justices of our Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace in the county of, to the Keeper of His Majesty's Gaol at in the said county,

greeting.

to wit. Forasmuch as A. B. in the prison of our said Lord the King, in your custody now being, at the suit of C. D. of in the said county, yeoman, for the want of his finding sufficient sureties for his personal appearance at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the said county, and for his keeping the peace [or, being of the good behaviour] in the mean time towards our said Lord the King and all his liege people, and especially towards C. D. the said A. B. hath found before me sufficient sureties; to wit, E. F. of ―, yeoman, and G. H. of — -, yeoman, either of which hath undertaken for the said A. B. under the pain of £20.; and he the said A. B. hath undertaken for himself under the pain of £40. that he the said A. B. shall and will personally appear at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the said county, and shall well and truly keep the peace [or, be of the good behaviour] in the mean time towards our said Lord the King and all his liege people, and especially towards the said C. D. Therefore on the behalf of our said Lord the King, I do command you that if the said A. B. do remain in the said gaol for the said cause and none other, then you forbear to grieve or detain him any longer, but that you deliver him thence and suffer him to go at large, and that upon the pain which will fall thereon.

Given under my hand and seal, at

day of

in the said county, in the 57th year of the reign of our said

the Lord George III. of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland King, &c.

S. P.