Poor Relief Act 1662

XVII. Proviso for Persons apprehending Rogues, &c. on the Confines of any County, who had passed through any Parish of another County unapprehended.

And if any person or persons shall apprehend any Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggar att the Confines of any County which passed through any Parish of another County unapprehended it shall be lawfull for such person or persons to goe to some Justice of Peace of that County through which such Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggar passed unapprehended whoe is hereby required (upon a Certificate under the Hand of some Justice of Peace of the County where such Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggar was so apprehended) to grant his Order or Warrant under his Hand and Seale requiring the said Constable Headborough or Tithingman to pay unto such person or persons as aforesaid the su[m]m of Two shillings which if he shall refuse or neglect to doe then such Justice is hereby required to proceed against such Constable Headborough or Tithingman and to cause him to pay Ten shillings or soe much thereof for his Expences and losse of time as the said Justice of Peace shall thinke fitt to such person or persons which he hath forfeited by the Statute aforesaid made in the Nine and thirtieth Yeare of the Queene