The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq. . l have then committed. By 10 and 11 of William III., this is extended to burglary,and such felonies as are mentioned in the act. By the same act all persons who shall apprehend a felonfor privately stealing goods to the value of 5s. out of shop,warehouse, coach-house, or stable, by night or by day (pro-vided the felon be convicted thereof) shall be entitled to acertificate, which may be assigned once, discharging suchapprehender or his assignee from all parochial offices in theparish or ward where such felony was committed. This cer-tificate is to b
The complete works of Henry Fielding, esq. . l have then committed. By 10 and 11 of William III., this is extended to burglary,and such felonies as are mentioned in the act. By the same act all persons who shall apprehend a felonfor privately stealing goods to the value of 5s. out of shop,warehouse, coach-house, or stable, by night or by day (pro-vided the felon be convicted thereof) shall be entitled to acertificate, which may be assigned once, discharging suchapprehender or his assignee from all parochial offices in theparish or ward where such felony was committed. This cer-tificate is to be enrolled by the clerk of the peace, and cannotbe assigned after it hath been used. If any man be killed by such housebreaker, &c., in theattempt to apprehend him, his executors or administratorsshall be entitled to such certificate. By the 3 and 4 of W. and M.* whoever shall apprehendand prosecute to conviction any robber on the highway, shall lb. vol. i. 582, vol. i. 117. 5 Co. 91, b. Chap. viii. Chap, xxiii. * Chap. viii. ubi .J. d^jn. TirxZ- LATE INCREASE OF BOBBERS, do. 105 receive of the sheriff 40Z. within a month after the convic-tion, for every offender; and in case of the death or removalof the sheriff, the money to be paid by the succeeding sheriffwithin a month after the demand and certificate sheriff on default forfeits double his sum, to be recoveredof him by the party, his executors, &c. And if the person be killed in this attempt by any suchrobber, the executors of such person, &c., are entitled to thereward, under the like penalty. Again, by the same act, the horse, furniture, arms, money,or other goods, taken with such highwayman, are given tothe apprehender who shall prosecute to conviction, notwith-standing the right or title of his majesty, any body politicor lord of franchise, or of those who lent or let the same tohire to such robber, with a saving only of the right of suchpersons from whom such horses, &c., were feloniously t
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