1. Disputes between parishes were settled by the justices of the peace at quarter sessions.

2. Coroners often possess both legal and medical qualifications, but the office is sometimes filled by laypersons, including undertakers, sheriffs, and justices of the peace.

3. Coroners often possess both legal and medical qualifications, but the office is sometimes filled by laypersons, including undertakers, sheriffs, and justices of the peace

4. Myothugyis were basically the protecting police officers, public-works commissioners, justices of the peace, Apportioners and collectors of taxes, and recruiters for the armed forces

5. The first official licensing of Alehouses is thought to have been sanctioned by statute in 1495, subject to the discretion of local justices of the peace (Earnshaw, 2000 and French, 1884: 127)

6. ‘The licensing of Alehouses and inns was the responsibility of justices of the peace.’ ‘In England pubs were either inns, providing accommodation and food to wealthy travellers; or taverns, providing only wine and spirits to the local neighbourhood; or Alehouses, selling only beer to a poorer clientele.’