An abridgement of penal statutes, which exhibits at one view, in the following manner [electronic resource] : The offences Punishments or penalties Mode of recovery Application of penalties, &c. Number of witnesses What Justices The enacting statutes by William Addington, Esq; one of the assisting magistrates of the police, at the publick office, Bow-Street. N.B. This book contains near four thousand different articles, to which are prefixed several observations for the proper exposition of the statutes; and, as a farther improvement to it, great pains have been taken in collecting all matters on the same subject under their proper heads, and in adding at the end a very correct and compleat index of the whole, with some references to those excellent reports of Sir James Burrow, on particular cases relative to the conduct of magistrates