coining halfpenny, against principal and accessary before fact,

107

coining bank tokens, on 52 Geo. III. 107.

having coining tools in custody, 108

concealing coining tools, 110

having dye in custody for coining shillings, 110

clipping monies and uttering them, 110

putting off counterfeit shillings and sixpences for less than no

minal value, 111

uttering counterfeit shilling, 112

uttering counterfeit shillings twice within ten days, 113

for a third uttering, 114

for uttering counterfeit half-crowns, having others in possession,

114

uttering counterfeit shilling, having before been convicted as common utterer on same day, 115

uttering, &c. guineas filed and diminished, 116

uttering counterfeit half-guinea, 116

uttering counterfeit sixpence and having another in custody, 117 having counterfeit money in possession with intent to utter it,

117

putting off false copper at lower rate than its nominal value, 117 buying guineas, 118

selling counterfeit Dutch guilders for good guilders, 120

importing counterfeit or light coins, 120

sending counterfeit coin out of kingdom, 120

offences against bullion, what are, 120

CHAP. VII.

OFFENCES AGAINST REVENUE.

Preliminary notes.

as to the offence, indictment, evidence, judgment, and rewards,

122

Indictments and informations.

for assembling in order to aid the rescue of smuggled goods from

excise officer, 122

for actually aiding and assisting, &c. 125

for aiding, &c. in rescue of goods that had been seized, 125

for assembling armed to assist in running uncustomed goods, 126

for assaulting and obstructing excise officer in execution of duty
on shore, 126

for assaulting excise officers who had entered defendant's house
under warrants to levy penalties he had incurred, 127
for assaulting officers in execution of their office generally, 132
for assault on prosecutors, not stating their character as officers,

132

common assault, 133

for riotous obstruction, 133

for obstructing officers in execution of office, in levying sum of money by virtue of warrant from two justices, 134

riotous assembly, &c. 135

for obstructing officers of excise generally in execution of office,

135

for assaulting excise officer in execution of duty, and rescuing smuggled goods, 136

for assaulting custom-house officer, 137

for assaulting excise officers whilst endeavouring to make seizure, 137

for assaulting excise officer in execution of his duty, 138

for assaulting custom-house officer, and obstructing him in securing goods, 138

against surveyor of king's taxes for persuading collector to secrete money, 139

for cutting off stamps from deeds with intent to put them upon others, 141

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FOR OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE.

FOR OBSTRUCTING AND NOT ASSISTING PROCESS.

Preliminary notes as to offence and indictment, 144, 5
Precedents of indictments and informations.

for obstructing person aiding constable in execution of warrant,

144

for assaulting deputy gaoler in execution of office, 146

for assaulting sergeant at mace and preventing arrest, 146

for obstructing justice's warrant by seditious words and disobe

dience, 147

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for writing letter to person who had obtained verdict on his son's evidence, threatening to indict son for perjury, unless verdict was given up, 149

for not aiding headborough when called, 151

against constable for refusing to assist in securing offender, 153 for felony in assaulting, &c. with intent to obstruct arrest, 154 the like for cutting with intent to resist an arrest, 157

FOR ESCAPES.

1. Against prisoner himself.

for escaping from constable, being in custody under warrant, 158 against felon for breaking prison, 160

against two felons for escaping from prison, and against third for assisting, 160

for breaking prison, and for aiding felons' escape, 162

for breaking gaol, and assisting transportable felon to escape, 163 the like in a modern form, 190

against prisoner in gaol, under a ca. sa. for attempting to escape, 164

2. Against third persons.

for felony in conveying files into prison, in order to facilitate escape of prisoner, 165

for conveying instrument into gaol to prisoner whose judgment had been respited, 168

for felony in assisting prisoner to escape from Clerkenwell prison, 169

for assisting the escape of a prisoner committed on exchequer process, 169

3. Against officers.

for permitting convict to escape, 171

for permitting escape of clergyable felon, 173

for permitting escape of prisoner committed by justice for robbery, 175

against turnkey for aiding prisoner committed by justice for petit larceny to escape, 176

against gaoler for permitting prisoner to escape out of his custody brought by habeas corpus, 177

against constable for escape of prisoner committed for rape, 178 against constable for escape of prostitute committed to him by watchman, 179

against headborough for suffering persons to escape from watchhouse, and compounding with them for money, 180

for extorting money from one of them, 181

against constable for escape of prisoner arrested by him, 181

FOR RESCUES.

for rescue of prisoner in custody of constable, on justice's warrant, 182

for assault on officer, and rescue of prisoner taken, under warrant backed into another county, 184

for rescue of prisoner charged with having game nets, &c. in his possession, 185

for rescuing rioter from justice of peace, 187

for rescuing person charged with affray at playhouse, 188

for breaking out of K. B. prison, after committal for conspi

racy, 190

for rescuing person in custody of headborough, 193

for rescuing person taken on bill of Middlesex, 193

for rescue of person arrested on ca. ad res. and latitat, 194
for rescue of prisoner in custody under process of marshalsea
court, 196

for assaulting gaoler, and rescuing prisoners in custody, in pur-
suance of sentence of court of great sessions, 197

for rescuing person under charge of sending letter without name, demanding money, 200

for rescuing goods distrained for rent, 201

for the like, and also assaulting bailiff, 201

for rescuing goods distrained, after fraudulent removal, 202
for rescue of cattle taken damage feasant, before impounded, 203
for rescuing cattle out of pound, taken as distress, damage
feasant, 204

for breaking pound, and letting out mare, 205

for pound breaches by cutting down corn impounded for rent, 206

for pulling down Cage prison and Ramsgate stocks, 207

CONTEMPTS OF COURT.

information for riot and striking in open court, 208

for riot and forcible intrusion and assault on commissioners of taxes, 214

FOR RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.

for returning from transportation, 215

for being at large before expiration of term, 216.

for being at large after sentence of death, respite, and mitigated punishment of transportation, 318

FOR TAKING MONEY TO RETURN STOLEN GOODS.

for receiving money to help person to goods stolen privily from person, 218

FOR COMPOUNDING FELONY.

for compounding felony, 220

for prevailing on a woman to compound for rapes committed on her, 221

FOR COMPOUNDING PENAL ACTIONS.

for compounding qui tam action for simony, 223

for compounding penal action for selling wine without li

cence, 225

for compounding offence against another penal statute, 229
for taking money to compound qui tam action, 230

for compounding action for penalty, for evading stamp duties on
receipt, 231

FOR MISPRISION OR CONCEALMENT OF FELONY.

for misprision of felony, 232

FOR BARRETRY.

indictment for barretry, 232

FOR MAINTENANCE.

for maintenance of action of debt, 234

for maintenance of ejectment in exchequer, and bill in equity, 234

FOR DISSUADING WITNESS TO GIVE EVIDENCE.

dissuading from giving evidence against a prisoner, 235

AGAINST JUSTICES FOR OPPRESSION, &c.

for causing a woman to be whipped as disorderly person without proof adduced, 236

for imprisoning for offence out of his jurisdiction, 238

for illegally releasing a vagrant, 239

for preventing arrest of person charged with offence against vagrant act, 243

for taking insufficient sureties for appearance of person charged with seducing manufacturers into foreign parts, 244

for granting license for alehouse after same had been refused by the sessions, 249

for partiality in refusing to grant licence, 253

AGAINST CORONERS FOR NEGLIGENCE.

for refusing to take inquisition, 255

for not returning inquisition according to evidence, 255 against township for burying body without notice to coroner, 256

AGAINST INFERIOR OFFICERS FOR MISCONDUCT.

against high constable for not issuing precepts, &c. 257

against headborough for refusing to obey a justice's mittimus, 260 against constable for not appointing watch, and absenting himself, 261

for neglecting to return presentments, 261

for not presenting highways out of repair, 262

for not executing justice's warrant, 263

against bailiff for absenting himself at an election, 263

against constable for not attending at election of burgess, 265

AGAINST MINISTERIAL OFFICERS FOR NOT ACCEPTING OFFICE, &c.

against constable or headborough for not taking upon him the office, 266