Note 96 — CHAP. XIII.
Reading edition
In the Preamble of the Statute on 3 & 4 William and Mary cap. 11. and particularly § 11 of that Act, in which the sense entertained by Parliament, of the shocking abuses of the Statute of Elizabeth, "through the unlimited power of Parish Officers," is very forcibly expressed—the truths there stated are found to have full force, even at the distance of more than a Century.