Transcriber's Notes.
This file was derived from scanned images. With the exception of the errors that were corrected and indicated below, the original text is presented.
Licence has been taken in 'block formatting' the quotation within the Preface; the text of: 'An Act for the further Preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, &c.'
Typographical Errors Corrected:
Several minor typographical corrections were made (missing periods, commas, misspelling of 'and', etc.); but are not indicated here. The more substantial changes are:
page v. Goal. --> Gaol. -- their Keepers, and attempting to break Gaol.
page 48. extraordiary --> extraordinary -- serviceable in the most extraordinary Manner,