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Excerpt from Sir John Kelyng's Reports of Crown Cases in the Time of King Charles II: Containing Cases Never Before Printed, Together With a Treatise Upon the Law and Proceedings in Cases of High Treason This is the heft way to have 'all High-ways amended if the Jujiices of Peace would do their Duty. My Lord Hyd1 alj'o told me, that it was refolved by all the Judges in Gaye's Cafe, 2 Car. 1. That if a Recufant who was proclaimed at the AI fizes according to the Statute, render himj'elf the next Aflizes to plead or traverj'e, he mufi ap pear in Perj'on, and he is to be in Cufiody; for the Words of the Statute and of the Proclamation are. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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