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A sure guide for His Majesties Justices of Peace: : plainly shewing their duty, and the duties of the several officers of the counties, hundreds, and parishes, (viz.) sheriffs, county-treasurers, bridewel-masters, constables, over-seers of the poor, surveyors of the high-wayes, and church-wardens, &c. With the heads of the statutes, concerning the doctrine and cannons of the Church of England. Methodically digested into LVIII. chapters, by W. Sheperd, Esquire

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCLXIX. [1669]
Call number: 271095
Creator: Sheppard, William (-1675?)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
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