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<P> <HI>JUS GENTIUM</HI> OR ENGLANDS BIRTH-RIGHT.</P>
<P>Being a compendious VINDICATION OF THE LAVV of ENGLAND In its Native and Engli&s;h dre&s;s, which is humbly con|ceiv'd (by thou&s;ands of as Loyal &s;ubjects to their King and as real lovers of their Countrey, as tho&s;e of a contrary and more &s;elfi&s;h opinion) to be more fit and proper for the kingdom, then that Lin&s;ey-Wool&s;ey garb, and corrupt mixture of barbarous Lattine and French.</P>
<P>By <HI>S. P.</HI> Philopolites.</P>
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<Q><HI>Lex plus laudatur quando ratione probatur.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>P. L.</HI> and are to be &s;old at the Royal <HI>Exchange,</HI> and in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> Hall. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>England's</HI> Birth-Right, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Bonum puplicum privato preferendum,</HI> is a maxime of &s;uch puplick and grand importance to the well being of a Kingdome that it cannot well be without it, and of &s;uch private concernment to every indi|vidual per&s;on, that he cannot be &s;aid to honour or love his Prince, law, rea&s;on or religion, that does not practice it. What were our late u&s;urpers and oppre&s;&s;ors: but men bya&s;&s;ed by a &s;elf intre&s;ted affection the Rubrik Characters of who&s;e guilt I hope will never be &s;o fare expunged but that both this and af|ter Generations may by them learn to be ware; who&s;e pretended Acts (I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e) ought not to &s;tand for laws, but to be abrogated, as enacted or rather impo&s;ed by a lawle&s;s, illiegitimate and ba&s;tard power, yet I humbly conceive that upon a review (a thing not unu&s;ual in equity) there may be many things ob|&s;erved, which were done by them, in reference to the regulation of the Law, that have no other fault then Original &s;in contracted from their fir&s;t Parents, and I am apt to believe the &s;ame thing, might ere this have been reformed by men in lawful authori|ty, had they not been anticipated by mon&s;ters, u&s;ur|ping an illegal power, who&s;e wils were Laws (e&s;pe|cially as to that which more immediately concerned them&s;elves) beyond <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> which caus'd <HI>O|liver,</HI> (among&s;t the re&s;t in de&s;pite thereof) to cry <HI>Mag|na Farta,</HI> contemning all laws &s;tanding in competiti|on with their corrupt intere&s;ts: (But however give the Devil his due) I &s;ay they did regulate many things (e&s;pecially in the practick part of the law, tending
<PB N="2" REF="3"> much to the redre&s;&s;es of the peoples greivances,) and now, (I hope I may &s;ay without offence) worthy the in&s;pection of their repre&s;entatives.</P>
<P>It is not <HI>John Jone's</HI> new <HI>Returna brevium,</HI> nor yet, <HI>Shepards</HI> regulation that I aim at; wherein for one re&s;onable propo&s;ition, we may find ten unrea&s;onable and ab&s;urd, but it is the &s;ame in effect which King <HI>James</HI> him&s;elf, of ever ble&s;&s;ed memory did propo&s;e to the Lords and Commons of Parliament, at <HI>Whitehall;</HI> on Wedne&s;day the 21 of <HI>March,</HI> in the year 1609, at which time his Maje&s;ty among&s;t other things, taking occa&s;ion to &s;peak concerning the law, &s;aies that he was &s;o far from di&s;&s;allowing the common Law, that he prote&s;ted, that if it were in his hands, to chu&s;e a new law for this Kingdom, he would not only prefer it be|fore any other national law, but even before the very Judicial law of <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> and yet &s;aies he, I &s;peak no bla&s;phemy in preferring it for conveniency to this Kingdom. But yet as to the practick part of it, in the next folio of that &s;peech yet extant, he wi&s;hes it were written in our vulgar language: for now (&s;aies he) it is in an old, mixt, and corrupt language, only under&s;tood by Lawyers; where as every Subject ought to under&s;tand the law under which he lives: for &s;ince it is a plea again&s;t the Papi&s;ts, that the lang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">age in God &s;ervice o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ght not to be in an unknown ton|gue, acco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ding to the rule in the law of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> that the law &s;hould be written in the fringes of the Prie&s;ts garments, and &s;hould be publickly read in the ears of all the people: &s;o me thinks ought our law to be made as plain as can be to the people, that the excu&s;e of ignorance might be taken from them, for con|forming them&s;elves therunto. And more particu|larly as to the Theory he proceeds; next, our com|mon law hath not a &s;etled text in all Ca&s;es, being chiefly grounded either upon old cu&s;tomes; or el&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="3"> upon the reports and Ca&s;es of Judges, which ye cal <HI>Re&s;pon&s;a prudentum.</HI> The like whereof is in all other laws: for they are much ruled by Pre&s;idents (&s;ave only in <HI>Denmark</HI> and <HI>Norway,</HI> where the letter of the law re&s;olves all doubts without any trouble to the Judge) But though it be true, that no text of law can be &s;o certain, wherein the circum&s;tances will not make a variation in the ca&s;e, (for in this age, mens wits encrea&s;e &s;o much by civilitie, that the circum|&s;tances of every particular ca&s;e varies &s;o much from the general text of law, as in the civil law it &s;elf, there are therefore &s;o many Doctors that comment upon the text, and never a one almo&s;t agrees with a|nother; otherwi&s;e there needed no Judges but the bare letter of the law.) Yet could I wi&s;h that &s;ome more certainty were &s;et down in this ca&s;e by Parlia|ment: for &s;ince the very reports them&s;elves are not always &s;o binding, but that diver&s;e times Judges do declaim them, and recead from the Judgment of their predece&s;&s;ors, it were good that upon a mature delibe|ration, the oppo&s;ition of the law were &s;et down by Act of Parliament, and &s;uch reports therein confir|med, as was thought fit to &s;erve for law in all times hereafter, and &s;o the people &s;hould not depend upon the bare opinion of Judges, and uncertain reports.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, there be in the common law, diver&s;e contraty reports, and Pre&s;idents: &amp; this corruption do likewi&s;e concerne the Statutes and Acts of Parlia|ment, in re&s;pect there are diver&s;e cro&s;s and cuffing Statutes, and &s;ome &s;o penned, as they may be taken in diver&s;e; yea contarty &s;en&s;es. And therefore would I wi&s;h both tho&s;e Statutes reports, as well in the Parliament as common law, to be once maturely reviewed, and reconciled; and that not only all contrarieties &s;hould be &s;craped out of our books, but even that &s;uch penal Statutes as were
<PB N="4" REF="4"> made, but for the u&s;e of the time (from breach whereof no man can be free) which do not now agree with the condition of this our time, might likewi&s;e be left out of our books, which under a tyrannous or a varitious King could not be endured. And this reformation might (me thinkes) be made a wor|thy work, and well de&s;erves a Parliament to be &s;et of purpo&s;e for it. Thus far I have thought it worth my labour to tran&s;cribe the words of a King, yea (without flattery I may &s;peak it) of a &s;econd <HI>Solomon,</HI> one of the mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">jous and wi&s;e&s;t Kings &s;ince the Con|que&s;t; he therefore that &s;acrifices &s;o much to his own genious as to pretend to a greater mea&s;ure of under&s;tanding, let him confute the King, who&s;e Roy|al de&s;ire was then to have tho&s;e things rectified, which as yet (by virtue of any lawfull authority) remain unreformed.</P>
<P>It was the &s;aying of an eminent per&s;on (to whom the whole nation is not a little oblieged) in his late <HI>Summary Collection of the Principal foundamental Rights, Liberties, Properties of all Engli&s;h freemen,</HI> that he had many years &s;ince reformed tho&s;e grievances and a|bu&s;es that were in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ractice of our Laws, had not &s;ome army men violently pulled him with other members out of the Hou&s;e. They are &s;ince by Gods wonderful providence) re&s;tored to the exerci&s;e of that tru&s;t their &s;everal Counties and Bourro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ghs have re|po&s;ed in them, and the worthy M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Pryn</HI> (for he tis that in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">articular I mean that con&s;tant a&s;&s;ertor of our Liberties, Properties and Priviledges, even in the wor&s;t of times, is de&s;ervedly among&s;t the number of tho&s;e worthy Senators and Legi&s;lators now a&s;&s;embled to con&s;ult of whole&s;ome Laws for our late Pea&s;ant op|pre&s;&s;ed Nation, who together with our gracious Soveraign (being &s;o ready to conde&s;cend to any thing which tends to his peoples good) will undoubtedly
<PB N="5" REF="4"> produce &s;uch things, that after generations will have ju&s;t cau&s;e to call them ble&s;&s;ed, O the generation of &s;elf &s;eekers will have little cau&s;e to ble&s;s them&s;elves.</P>
<P>But now methinks I hear the voice of <HI>Demetrius</HI> to his fellows * in <HI>haec verba:</HI> Sirs, <HI>Ye know that by this</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">A f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e|quent phra&s;e a|mong the Law Lati|ni&s;ts.</NOTE> <HI>craft we get our wealth.</HI> The&s;e are the greate&s;t number of the old Officers, Clerkes and Practi&s;ers, (as one in that perticular &s;ays very true) by their &s;uper&s;tru|ctures, innovations, additions and other devices, have &s;ubverted the practi&s;e of the Law, and &s;et another face upon it. And thus the workman&s;hip of their own hands is their <HI>Magna Diana,</HI> and image that fell down from <HI>Jupiter,</HI> which has been a plague to the inhabitants of the earth ever &s;ince, and which (under the notion of the ancient and mo&s;t comodious pra|ctice of the Law of <HI>England)</HI> they adore and wor&s;hip, not for the truth of it, but the tediou&s;ne&s;s; not for the Legality but the length, which has been extended in this la&s;t Century beyond mea&s;ure, though un|known to former generations; therfore they that bear a due re&s;pect to the Law as 'tis purely in it &s;elf, can|not po&s;&s;ibly be admirers of tho&s;e difficulties, uncer|tainties, prolixities and extravagancies, that the cor|ruption and covetou&s;ne&s;s of &s;ome men has introdu|ced, who if Authority leaves them once more at li|berty, will be &s;ure for an inch to take an ell, and if they be not re&s;trained, will make all proceedings at law the meere&s;t oppre&s;&s;ion in the world. But to &s;peak no longer as to the abu&s;es of the Law ingeneral, give me leave in the&s;e few particulars following to de|&s;cribe the ju&s;t and &s;erious re&s;entments of many loyall &s;ober and di&s;creet per&s;ons concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="1">1. That as we owe a conformity to the Law, &s;o ought the Law to be made as clear and per&s;picuous to us as may be, that ignorance may not be an excu&s;e; where|as
<PB N="6" REF="5"> if it turns again in every re&s;pect into its late Channell, it will prove but an unplea&s;ant Current of troubled waters, either as to Clients or Practi&s;ers, unle&s;s it be to &s;uch that love to &s;pend much time to &s;mall purpo&s;e, and delight in a &s;lavi&s;h gain.</P>
<P>Secondly, if it be &s;o, none (though otherwi&s;e never &s;o ingenious or learned will be able to under&s;tand a|ny thing of their own bu&s;ine&s;s unle&s;s it be tho&s;e who make it their con&s;tant imployment to &s;tudy that, which in any thing but the practi&s;e of the Law, would be ac|counted non&s;ence, or &s;uch who are greater proficients in fal&s;e Lattin then <HI>Ignoramus</HI> him&s;elf, being de&s;titute of tho&s;e manly faculties of rea&s;on and con&s;cience, like the flaming &s;word to keep them out of their fools Paradice.</P>
<P>Thirdly, at that time when the Laws of this king|dom were altered (for they were in its native lan|guage before ever they were in Lattine or French) it was when it &s;eemed almo&s;t a * reproach to be cal|led <NOTE PLACE="marg">We&s;t. pag. 182.</NOTE> an Engli&s;hman; but I hope we &s;hall not now need to be a&s;hamed of the title, having &s;o lately redeemed our credits, now the truth is the Laws were thus al|tered, fir&s;t of all at the Conque&s;t and then there was &s;ome rea&s;on for it, for that the Engli&s;h Court con&s;i|&s;ted mo&s;t of <HI>Normans,</HI> who having lo&s;t their own anci|ent language, after their coming into <HI>France</HI> learned that tongue which the Frenchmen then &s;pake (who, when they were in &s;ubjection to the <HI>Romans,</HI> had all their Edicts, Proclamations and publick writings in the Lattine or <HI>Roman</HI> tongue, their Conquerours, thereby indeavouring to bring the people to &s;peak that language, by which means they &s;poke a kind of mixt language of barbarous Lattine and French) therefore (I &s;ay.) no wonder that <HI>William</HI> the Con|querer of this I&s;land (&s;hewing little favour, (e&s;pecially at the beginning of his reign) to any but tho&s;e of his
<PB N="7" REF="5"> own nation, and parti&s;ans in the conque&s;t) &s;hould thereupon alter the laws of England, and put upon them the cu&s;tomes of <HI>Normandy</HI> and cau&s;e them to be written and practi&s;ed in that language which he had a de&s;ire &s;hould have been mo&s;t prevalent, and to have become the language of the nation, but &s;o it came to pa&s;s, that (the le&s;&s;er part yeilding to the greater) &s;uch of the&s;e <HI>Normans,</HI> as came to plant them&s;elves in <HI>England,</HI> did there grow to the name of <HI>Engli&s;h-men,</HI> and that with the utter lo&s;s and re|linqui&s;hment of the names of <HI>Normans</HI> (as in <HI>France</HI> they never did) and by degrees &s;pake the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue; and by this means the great heart burning that el&s;e might have remained between them and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> for the conquering of the Coutrey was ta|ken away. And then it plea&s;ed God that Duke <HI>William</HI> died, and his &s;on <HI>William Rufus</HI> &s;ucceded, who&s;e reign endured about 13 yeares, and he dying without i&s;&s;ue <HI>Henry</HI> his brother the yonger &s;on of the &s;aid Duke <HI>William</HI> the Conqueror &s;ucceded him, who was born in <HI>England,</HI> and &s;peak the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> tongue; and was the la&s;t of the Conquerors i&s;&s;ue male that reigned; he married with <HI>Mathild</HI> the daughter of Queen <HI>Margret</HI> wife unto <HI>Malcolme</HI> King of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which <HI>Margret</HI> was the elder Si&s;ter unto <HI>Edgar Ethe|ling,</HI> to whom the right of the Crown of <HI>England</HI> did belong, when <HI>Harold</HI> (who was &s;lain by the Conqueror) had by fraud obtained the regal Scep|ter, the &s;aid Prince <HI>Edgar</HI> afterwards embracing the friend&s;hip of the Conqueror, had an imployment of charge in war to go into <HI>Italy,</HI> but in fine died without i&s;&s;ue. This King <HI>Henry</HI> the younger &s;on of the Conqueror, being born in <HI>England,</HI> marrying with his Queen of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> blood Royal, was the oca|&s;ion that the depre&s;&s;ed <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was rai&s;ed again unto honor, and &s;o by her was the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> blood
<PB N="8" REF="6"> royal brought in again to the enjoying of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Crown, to which, our mo&s;t gratious Soveraign <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;econd (being de&s;cended of the chiefe&s;t blood royal of that ancient race) is by the grace of God re&s;tored; whom God pre&s;erve, and for whom let's all cordially cry <HI>Vive le Roy.</HI></P>
<P>I have now been &s;omewhat large in my digre&s;&s;ion, which was but nece&s;&s;ary, for from hence I &s;hall infer thus much, that we are now a Nation all of one language, which we were not when the laws were altered, tho&s;e that were the greate&s;t men then in power, having a de&s;ign to annihilate the Engli&s;h tongue, and to have introduc'd their own, which (qu&s;tionle&s;s) was the oca&s;ion of the &s;aid alteration, but that de&s;ign failing, I know no rea&s;on why the law &s;hould be not in <HI>&s;tatu quo prius,</HI> and &s;o revert as well as the language; contrary to the de&s;ires of tho&s;e Babel-builders, that de&s;ire nothing more than to practi&s;e that, which at fir&s;t was &s;ent as plague. I do not &s;ay the language in which the Law of <HI>Eng|land</HI> had been practi&s;ed &s;ince the Conque&s;t (till of late years) was one of the &s;eventy and two (for &s;o many are recorded to be by &s;ome ancient Au|thors) that were extant at that grand confu&s;ion of tongues; for though God &s;ent that confu&s;ion a|mong&s;t them at that time as a puni&s;hment for their pre&s;umption, yet I make no que&s;tion but that the &s;tudy of many of tho&s;e languages, have &s;ince been ve|ry beneficial both in Church and State; but as for this mongiel law, language of a latter Edition, I rather think it to be a peculiar plague re&s;erv'd for this part of the world.</P>
<P>Fourthly, That which &s;ome pretend <HI>(viz.)</HI> that the law being in <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Latine</HI> is an incou|ragement to Scholar&s;hip and learning, is an argu|ment as weak, as the language they would uphold
<PB N="9" REF="6"> is fal&s;e; For though I will not &s;ay, but that a Scholar &s;hould &s;ooner attain to the under&s;tanding of it than another, yet I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, tis not meerly &s;chol|ler&s;hip that cau&s;es him to under&s;tand it; for I'll undertake that Dulman &s;hall give a better account of a peice of law Latine, then a Doctor of the Univer|&s;ity, who, in rea&s;on, and according to the rules of Grammer would be ready to correct that, which the other would find cau&s;e enough of bring|ing a writ of Error upon, for be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng &s;o amended; the Law (as 'twas lately practi&s;ed) and fal&s;e Latine, being as coe&s;&s;ential as fire and heat; The truth of which appears e&s;pecially in words run out at length, of which &s;ort there's very few becau&s;e of the trouble&s;omene&s;s of terminations, which cau&s;eth Madam ignorance to thru&s;t her head in a mask, and ju&s;t in the middle of a word to turn up her heeles in the form of <HI>Herculcus</HI> pillars, and that for no other rea&s;on (God knowes) many times, but becau&s;e &s;he is at a non-plus; which anticks being grown into a cu&s;tome, tis by &s;ome thought a &s;in not venial to write <HI>plus ultra,</HI> or to make any further or better di&s;covery. relying rather upon <HI>Ignoramus</HI> his rule <HI>Si non potes &s;cribere rerum Latinum, &s;cribe eum da&s;ho.</HI> But from the general rule are excepted the&s;e which follow: <HI>ho&s;eibus, &s;hoe&s;ibus, morteribus,</HI> which mu&s;t be writ at length, lea&s;t cutting them off in the middle, they &s;hould &s;peak <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> which is contrary to Law.</P>
<P>Fiftlhy, be&s;ides tho&s;e <HI>Egyptian</HI> Hieroglyphicks, and Court-hand Characters, together with that Galla|mafrey of &s;ole&s;ci&s;ms, incongruities, and mixt lan|guages in the law, there's another device that's ten times wor&s;e, and that is Special Pleadings which, though there was a liberty left by the meale act to have u&s;ed them when oca&s;ion &s;erved, yet we &s;ee how little they have been made u&s;e
<PB N="10" REF="7"> of, which &s;ufficiently demon&s;trates how u&s;ele&s;s they are, where the general i&s;&s;ue will &s;erve as well, and the &s;pecial matter given in Evidences, which is neither trouble&s;ome to the Attoruey, nor dange|rous or chargeable to the Cliant, whereas the other are commonly of a &s;tupendious frightful length, which, by that time all the <HI>Items</HI> for drawings, coun&s;el, coppying and entring come to be paid for, will be ju&s;t like buying of a hor&s;e for &s;o much a nail, and doubling of it, which according as the bargain is made, many times comes to ten times more than the jade is worth, be&s;ides many a good cau&s;e is &s;poy|led by &s;pecial pleading wherein every punctillo mu&s;t be proved, and yet not any thing can be brought in evidence (which perhaps might be forgot, or the witne&s;&s;es not known till after pleading) but what is in the plea though the cau&s;e peri&s;h.</P>
<P>Sixthly, That old, formal, unnece&s;&s;ary way of &s;ea|ling Lea&s;es of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ejectment, wherein, the difficulty and danger in actual &s;ealing of them, is many times very prejudicial, be&s;ides the charge of the witne&s;&s;es at the tryal to prove all circum&s;tances; whereas all this needle&s;s labour and co&s;t is prevented by that late way of con&s;enting to a rule, to confe&s;s lea&s;e, entry and ou&s;ter, and in&s;i&s;ting upon the matter of Tytle only, which I think none will deny to be far more &s;afe and commodions then the other, unle&s;s they who (upon what rea&s;on or ground I know not) will needs per&s;wade them&s;elves that all the late cu|&s;tomes and practi&s;es in the law mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity be revived, how di&s;advantageous &s;oever they be to the people: but I hope their ra&s;h and coveteous conjectures will be fru&s;trated by tho&s;e of le&s;s &s;elfi&s;h and more moderate principles.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, There be many other abu&s;es in the law, which were lately, practi&s;ed and are &s;o obvi|ous to every ones under&s;tanding, that it were need|le&s;s
<PB N="11" REF="7"> to particularize either them o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their &s;everal inconveniences; but only to name &s;ome of them in general: which are Writs of error after verdicts. the common Bar and new a&s;&s;ignment, unnece&s;&s;ary ripetitions in Declarations, <HI>cum multis altis &amp;c.</HI> The prolixity of which proceedings procures im|ployment for a number of per&s;ons, that would other|wi&s;e betake them&s;elves to more profitable exerci&s;es in the Common-wealth; &amp; yet I believe they were not tedious end Tautological enough to equallize &s;ome mens coveteou&s;ne&s;s, who could be content to wier|draw them to that length that they &s;hould rather want men to till the earth, then they to lo&s;e their gain of their ten-plough'd reams of paper: but me thinks men of parts and ingenuity &s;hould be of a more &s;pritly genius, then to move alwayes in one Sphear, like a hor&s;e in a mill (which is work com|monly for dulle&s;t Jades) or to trifle away a great deal of time in buzling about that which would admit a quicker di&s;patch. <NOTE PLACE="marg">A Clergy man in the Coun|ty of Suf|fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k, that you may imagine had as un|con&s;ciona|ble pari|&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oners as many law practi&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</NOTE></P>
<P>But to conclude; <HI>Quicquid recipitur, recipitur ad modum recipientis:</HI> to be &s;ure the gal'd hor&s;e will kick, but tis no great matter, for if I have onely grieved the guitly, I care as little for it, as the * Par&s;on did for his &s;piritual pig, that in a frolick he &s;old for a groat, or as he that bought it car'd for the pur|cha&s;e. If I am in an error I de&s;ire to be better in|formed; but till then, give me leave to &s;ay, that many things in the law were ju&s;tly reformed, which &s;hould admit yet a further reformation, or if you will a reformation <HI>de novo</HI> by a lawful Authority: And truly tis my Judgment that if the King him&s;elf <NOTE PLACE="marg">Which though it be ancient, yet it &s;eems tis thought u&s;ele&s;s.</NOTE> can conde&s;eend to the abrogation of his * Court of wards, &s;urely his Subjects may di&s;pence with the aboli&s;hing of impertinent words, which I make no que&s;tion will readily be con&s;ented unto by all tho&s;e
<PB N="12" REF="8"> that prefer not private gain before the publick good. In fine, as concerning the truth of all and &s;ingular the premi&s;&s;es. I &s;hall appeal to tho&s;e that are mo&s;t concerned, and therein give them that advantage of being Judges in their own ca&s;e; and yet <HI>I</HI> am confident that what I have &s;aid, they will in their own language confe&s;s to be <HI>Truthum, &amp; totum tru|thum, &amp; nihil ni&s;i truthum.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Quod &s;crip&s;i, &s;crip&s;i:</HI> What all think of it I know not; what &s;ome think of it I care not, but &s;hall e|poligize with that royal motto. <HI>Honi &s;oit qui mal y pen&s;e.</HI></P>
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