THE
EDITOR's
PREFACE.
IN this Edition Abſtracts of the Statutes relating to the Authority and Juriſdiction of Juſtices of Peace, down to the ſixteenth Year of his preſent Majeſty, incluſive, and ſeveral References have been added. Many Errors, Typographical and others, which had crept into former Editions, have been Corrected; and Expired or Repealed Statutes and frivolous Repetitions ſtruck out. The Latin Precedents are now Tranſlated. The Statute Table in an Alphabetical Order of Heads, inferred by Mr. Nelſon, was thought ſuperfluous, the Statutes being found in that Order in Dalton and in the Appendix; in its ſtead the Reader will find a Table of Statutes in the Order of Time, with the Chapters where they are abſtraded in this Book.
To diſtinguiſh the Additions from Dalton's Text, the Marks (a) and (d) are uſed inſtead of the Italicks and inverted Commas which disfigured the Edition of 1727; the Mark (a) after the Number of a Chapter, as in Page 89 Chap. XLI. (a) ſignifies that the whole Chapter is an Addition to Dalton; in any other Place (a) ſhews all that follows to be an Addition, either to the End of the Chapter or to the Mark (d) where Dalton begins again. This Diſtindion could not be regularly made before the Preſs was advanced to Chap. XLI. becauſe the firſt Edition of 1618, the only one we thought we could truſt in this Reſpect, did not come to Hand ſooner.
