Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A95829
|
Certain proposals humbly presented to the Parliament, in relation to the common good of the people of this nation. By R.V. Esq;
|
Vaughan, Rice.
|
1652
(1652)
|
Wing V130B; Thomason E683_14; ESTC R206817
|
7,847
|
11
|
ordinary Courts of Justice That no Law be made relating to the reformation of any profession or calling whatsoever 10. PROP. Cuique in sua arte nemini in suo interresse credendum without clear and deliberate consultation had with some of the best and wisest of such profession or calling which is to be reformed That Parliament men who are Judges of the Treason of offenders against the State 11. PROP. and consent to pass Laws for the confiscation of their estates may not be purchasers thereof either by themselves or any other to or for their use That no Law 12. PROP. that shall be penal as to life limb or estate do look backward to punish any person for things done or omitted to be done many years before except in cases where a clear and unquestionable malum in se is committed and not where a Law makes a thing formerly dubious Leges debent prospicere non respicere uncertain or indifferent a malum prohibitum afterwards That no Parliament-man whatsoever 13. PROP. may attend to move any Commissioners or Committees deriving authority from the Parliament to give final judgement in causes if he is not a member of the said Committees or one of the Commissioners or hath not some personal concernment of his own before them wherein he may be prejudiced by his absence or be not desired for the benefit of the State to afford his assistance it being supposed an unthrifty course to dedicate time appointed for publique service beneath its high designation That every member of Parliament whatsoever 14. PROP. be enjoyned to receive the requests and petitions of all distressed persons within the Circuits of that County or Corporation where he or they were elected and heartily to endeavor the redress of their elsewhere irremediable grievances in Parliament this certainly being one main end of their election That Commissions of Bankrupt may be issued forth as well against any other persons as a Tradesman 15. PROP. or one that lives by buying o◠selling if he fall under any of the marks of a Bankrupt within the Statutes of d 13 Elik. 7.1 Jac. 15.21 Iac. 19. Queen Elizabeth and King James there being no reason that any Law should be partial to one man and impartial and destructive to another where both are equally peccant And that the charges of these Commissions and cheats in the execution of them may be enquired into which sometimes prove the further ruine rather then the relief of the Creditors That Tenant by the courtesie 16. PROP. do allow one moiety of the estate he holds in the right of his wife to the childe or children he hath by her towards his her or their maintenance whereas now the husband may during his life choose whether he will allow them any thing at all towards their subsistance or education although many such Tenants by the courtesie have nothing to support themselves but what they have from their wives and it is by experience found that many fathers are very unnatural in this kinde That no person whatsoever be amerced for not finding Bows and Arrows 17. PROP. as now many Stewards of Courts do amerce persons every year for the want thereof which the r ◠33.8 c. 9 c. antient laws of this Land did direct should be provided but are now become obsolete and would be forgotten did not some cheating persons disturb their rest and revive them That no Laws at all which relate to the people in general be passed 18. PROP. before first the draughts of them be hung up in a publique place where all persons of wisdom and knowledge experience and integrity may have recourse to view them The 〈◊〉 Tables among the Romans like this See Live in English l. 3. p. 110. and may have liberty to adde to them or give rational exceptions against all or any part of them and fix his or their exceptions to the whole or part of them or adde as cause shall require to the end the Parliament may approve or dislike thereof as it shall see cause when the Laws shall come to be enacted this would prevent many supplemental Acts which now are necessarily made and in a great measure might be spared if the Parliament could see all future accidents and events that follow after the making thereof or could but see as much as all other wise men of the Nation do That a severe Law may be made against all obscene lying and malignant Diurnals 19. PROP. that are now familiarly published to the world which tend not onely to the keeping unfixed of the peoples mindes from a quiet obedience to the Government but do fearfully debauch and corrupt their understandings That if the Parliament should think fit Thirty or Forty of the best and wisest persons in the Nation 20. PROP. may be appointed to sit with them in the House to consult with them de arduis reipublicae and that these may have no voyces but sit as the Judges and Masters of Chancery sate heretofore in the Lords House onely to advise with them for it cannot be supposed that Parliaments are so infallible and clear-sighted as to comprehend all cases in every circumstance as time hath evidently discovered * There sate with the Iewish Iudges men which were called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 schollers of the wise Godwins Anti. l. 5. c. 5. This also would fit other persons for future Representatives by knowing the ways and methods of the present Parliament That all Commanders and Officers of the Army 21. PROP. and all other persons whatsoever that shall threaten or in any way unlawfully sollicite Judges of any Court who have taken oathes for the right administration of Justice and not for fear favor or affection to respect persons in judgement be punished in such severe manner as to the Parliament shall seem just That Treasurers at War 22. PROP. Commissioners of Excise and Customs and all other persons whatsoever that have great sallaries from the State and all Officers of the Army in times of peace and quiet The Souldiery in Holland do pay excise and all other publique duties out of their pay by way of defalcation before it comes to their hands may pay Taxes proportionable to their sallaries and pays towards the defraying of the publike charge for no other persons in the Nation are exempted from it as Tradesmen who live by their labor and industry or other Persons who have real or personal estates Offices or otherwise whereas now an ordinary Tradesman that hath but from hand to mouth pays as much taxes for his house as a great man that hath 1000 l. per annum from the State as a Sallary for his place To conclude It were not amiss if great Persons 23. PROP. whom God hath lifted up many cubits above their brethren in the things of this world would imitate the spirit of that excellent man * Neh. 5.14 15 16. Nehemiah who since he was Governor in Judah together with his brethren did not eat the bread of the Governors and because of the fear of the Lord would not follow the steps of the former Governors who before him were chargeable to the people by taking of them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver For charity seeks not her own 1 Cor. 13.5 FINIS