Excerpt from The Law of a Justice of Peace and Parish Officer, Vol. 2: Containing All the Acts of Parliament at Large Concerning Them, and the Cases Determined on Those Acts in the Court of King's Bench; To Which Is Added, a Collection of Precedents Revised and Settled by Persons of Eminence in the Law Alfo while the.law allowed thofe, who had the benefit of the clergy, to free themfelves from prifon in certain cafes, by making their purgature before the ordinary, it was an efcape in the ordinary, to fuffenfuch per fons to deliver themfelves by it, in foch cafes in which they ought net to have been admitted to it. 2 Hawk. 130. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.