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A Direct road to peace and happiness in church and state
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which whosoever liveth is accounted dead before God None questions the Kings Legal Power or who made him King but such as are of the Israelites kidney that questioned Moses who made him a Ruler and a Judge and caused him to fly his Country for doing a Brotherly Office The King is a wise Prince and a profest Protestant had he time to read the Case and Petitions of his meanest Subjects he would certainly do them speedy and cheap Justice It is his Misfortune as well as thine That he is busily imployed Circa Ardua negotia regni The Heathen Philosopher that could say We are not born for our selves but partly for our Country Condemns all Free-born and Naturalized Subjects especially such as are under the obligation of Oaths and Associations to be true to his Majesty and his Government that are not as serviceable as they may or can be Can any profest Protestant be ungrateful to His Majesty that calls to mind the many eminent Dangers both by Sea and Land to which his Majesties Sacred Person hath been so often exposed to secure Protestants from Arbitrary Power and Popery and sees how freely His Majesty leaves all things to be setled and done in Parliament for the common Interest of the Crown and People So that if we be not wanting to our selves we may be as happy as we can hope to be in this World and the next Therefore Reader I will offer to thee such things as I conceive necessary to be Communicated for the Service of my King and Country If any thing be disliked or not well approved on let thy Charity pardon me it being well intended and remember it was not the Widows Mite but her willing Mind to Contribute more made her Present acceptable Let not private Interest Favour or Affection sway thy Judgmeent read diligently and judge Impartially and give grains of Allowance to thy weak Brother who exhorts thee in the Apostles words Remember them that are in Bonds as bound with them and them that suffer Adversity as being thy self also in the Body In private Families should the Husband Command unreasonable things or the Wife despute her Husbands reasonable Jurisdiction or the Children their Parents or the Servants be Judges in their own Case what distraction would inevitably ensue in case Law and Equity were not Umpire Art thou compelled to take Oaths and Subscribe Associations thou art bound and thou must obey or suffer what the Law Inflicts for thy disobedience if thou discharge thy Oath and Duty and suffer any loss or damage for thy Obedience the Government is bound to make the repairation and to Protect thee If a Law be attended with Inconveniences which were not foreseen at the time of making and thou art prosecuted by force thereof the King can stop proceedings until the Parliament meet to Annul it or Amend what is therein Amiss Art thou Opressed by the neglect or Non Execution of any wholsome Law the King can Command the due Execution of it Hast thou Consumed thy Estate and contracted great Debts in discharge of Oath and Duty and dost thou want Subsistence for thy felf and Family and will not thy Creditors forbear troubling and restraining thee of thy Liberty and will not the Government relieve thee Commit thy Cause to God he is the relief of the Opressed and can make thy case known to the King as he did Mordecais to King Ahasuerus Doth any in Authority under His Majesty upon any Acount whatsoever opress thee His Majesties Propper Courts can Right thee Are the Judges thereof Parties concerned in point of Interest to favour thy Opressors and wrong thee or do the Judges or such as the King intrusts to do thee Justice deny or neglect to do their duty thou hast a just and wise King to apply unto whose Power and Prerogative is the most essential part of the Law It is saith a Learned Judge A Sanctuary for the opressed to fly unto a Fortress to the weak to retire unto and a Curb to the insolent So that thou mayest depend on Justice at His Majesties hands because His Majesty can do no wrong But the wisdom of the Law knows that His Majesty sees with others Eyes and hears with others Ears and acts with others Hands and that they may be gulty of abusing and wronging thee Therefore the Law inflicts severe Punishment on such in Authority under His Majesty as deceive His Majesty by ill Advice or do or suffer any thing to be done against the Honour and Interest of His Majesty and his People and His Majesty may when he thinks sit Sit in Person and see Justice done to any of his opressed or injured Subjects for His Majesty is Supream Chancellor of England and none is to depart his Courts without relief And had His Majesty time and leasure to make one or two Presidents of Persons exemplarily punished for breach of Oath and Duty it would ease His Majesty of much trouble and make His Majesties Reign Glorious Doth not the King understand the Laws and will not his Councel advise him right thou hast thy representatives in Parliament to make thy Case and Condition known to the King Are thy Friends to Justice out-voted by Parties intressed to favour thy Opressors and wrong thee Thou hast frequent Parliaments to apply unto Art thou affraid the People will chuse the same Members Every body knows that old Brooms being stumpy and stubborn will scratch and leave Filth Rubbish in Holes and Crevises where new Brooms being bushy and pliant will sweep clean However thou may do well to give thy Fellow Electors to understand That the Law allows not Parties interested to be either Judges or Jury-men and that under Sherffs are not allowed by Law to be in Office above a Year at a time because the Law presumes new Shereffs are not so Crafty as the old nor will be guilty of their Tricks and Fallacys And it may be believed that it is as requisite for none but indifferent Persons to have Votes in the High Court of Parliament as to have indifferent Judges and Jury-men in the Inferior Courts and that new Members to represent the People may be as necessary as new Sherriffs in every County let the People know the particulars of thy Case and how thou art Oppressed and by whom and for what and thou mayest happily prevail with them to chuse such to represent them and thee as live among them and do all the Neighbourly good Offices they can For the People of England are naturally Stout Generous and lovers of Justice and will do all things that may suit with the Honour and Interest of their King and Country and though Inhumane Wars Plots and Conspiraces have depraved their natural Tempers and Dispositions Yet in proces of time they will be reclaimed and thou mayest be successful Thou knowest that the unjust Judge in the Parable who neither feared God nor reverenced Man was wrought upon by the importunate Widow to do her
Justice Gutta Cavit Lapidem nonvi sed sepe Gadendo For the supply of good Men to serve the King in Church and State I humbly propose That none for the time to come may be admitted to Holy Orders until he hath taken his degree of Batchelour of Arts in one of the two Universities of Oxford or Cambridge That when a Bishoprick or Benefice is vacant the King or the Patron in whose gift the Benefice is may give notice to the Chancellour or Vice-Chancellour of the respective Universities of the Vacancy And the two Universities may in an Orderly and Regular way as they chuse Members to represent them in Parliament proceed to Elect in each University a fit Person to supply the Vacancy And the King or the Patron may divide by Lots which of the Persons so Elected and Recommended shall be Instituted and Induced to avoid disobliging any body because Lots causeth Contention to Cease and parteth-between the Mighty Prov. 8. ver 8. That all small Livings may be Augmented and made sufficient Maintanance and Subsistance for the Incumbent That all manner of great and small Tyths as soon as Benefices be vacant be sold to the best Advantage by fit Persons to be appointed by His Majesty in the vacancy for that purpose and that all Sums of Money raised by the Sale thereof be laid out in Land that the Incumbant may be free from looking after and gathring in the Tyths whereby all occasion of differences and disputes between Parsons and Parishioners upon Accompt of Tyths may be avoided That so much as may be adjudged requisite to be taken off or away from great Livings may be applyed to and for the Augmentation of small ones or that the Augmentation be made by a general Tax or that the first years Profits of Temporal Offices when they become void as well as the first Fruits of Spiritual Livings when vacant be made a Revenue and applyed to that use That no Person be permitted to hold or enjoy two Livings That the small Salleries of all Offices in Church and State may be Augmented Inlarged and made sufficient that the Officers need not be put to upon Shifts to pay themselves at the Nations Cost That all Discoverers of Officers Undue Practises and such as make proper and advantageous Proposals for the Redress of any Grievance sit to be remedied may be duly encouraged For as Secretaries and Spials of State are allowed to bring in Bills for their diligence in the Inquiry and Discoveries of new Occurrences and Secrets in Forreign Estates So if Encouragement be not given for home National Services you shall never be advertised of many things most worthy to be known Examples enough of this kind in all Flourishing States and Governments may be given to demonstrate the necessity and usefulness thereof That a Regestry may be kept of the Names of all Persons doing good and publick service and that the Poorest sort may according to their Services and Qualifications be advanced to Offices as they become void in the First place and the Richer sort to be provided for afterward in like manner That in case not any in the Registry be Qualified for the Office vold and if the Office be in the Kings Houshold Excise Customs or else where and not in any of his Majesties Courts of Law or Equity and if two or more be Competitors for it his Majesty may for his own ease appoint indifferent Persons to be Tryers and Examiners of the Petitioners Qualifications and if such Tryers find two or more equally Qualified for it the Preference may be divided by Lotts because 't is morally impossible otherwise to Gratifie one of such Petitioners without disobliging the rest And Persons disobliged are apt to be discontented and factious and if Partiality be not avoided in bestowing Offices as well as Benefices the Administration will be Male and Partial Ad Infinitum That upon the Vacancy of a Judge Attorney Soliciter General or other of the Kings Councel at Law the Inns of Court may in every of their Societies Elect one fit to succeed and his Majesty may order Lotts to determine who shall succed That when any Office in any of the Courts of Law or Equity fall void the Inns of Court and Chancery may in every of their respective Societies Elect a fit Person to supply the vacancy and Lotts may in like manner decide which of the Persons so elected shall Succeed the Officer Deceased or Removed That the Judges may have certain and sufficient Salleries setled as the (a) â—8 Edw. 3 St. 4.20 Edw. 3 Chap. Laws intended to support the dignity of their Places in Liew of all Contingent Fees Profits and Perquisites which now arise and increase as Suits and Proceedings multiply That Suitors may not waist and consume their Substance by Fob Bills Feigned Pleas Writs of Error and the like for delay or to Protract time which be expensive and troublesome to Plaintiffs and Defendants the Judges may be impowered to allow such time for the ease and benefit of Suitors as may be obtained by expensive Shifts Tricks and Falacies That no Person unable to pay or satisfy his Creditors their whole Debts may be kept in Prison unless every Creditor at whose Suit the Defendant is deteyned do pay every week the Sum of _____ to and for the Defendants Maintenance and Subsistance because Prisons destroy Debtors willing but unable to Pay their whole Debts and put them out of all Capacity to be serviceable to themselves and others whereby their Wives and Children become Burthensome to the Parishes they Live in As for the Debtors Real and Personal Estates they may be Subject and Lyable to be Seized and Distributed Equally among all the real Creditors But if a Debtor hath no Estate but what is imployed in his Calling Trade or in some Occupation or Lawful Course of Living and doth out of the Product thereof pay to his Creditors what he can reasonably spare over and above his own Wife and Childrens Necessary and Competent Subsistence Then the Creditors to take their Debts in proportion as the same can be raised And the Debtors Estate or Effects so Imployed to be exempted from all Seizures and Executions That the Attorney and Solliciter-General and every other of the Kings Councel at Law may be allowed certain and sufficient Sallarys to Plead and Maintain Actions populer Informations and Pleas of the Crown Gratis and may be Prohibited to Practice and take any Fee in Causes between Party and Party and may be set at work to Correct the Errors and Mistakes in our Law Books and Explain doubtful Points and expunge such things as too often misguide young Students to their Clyents great loss and damage That all Grants or Letters Pattents of Crown-Lands not already Confirmed by Act of Parliament may now be Confirmed because the same are dispersed and gotten into the hands of many Persons by mean Conveyances Statutes Judgments Extents c. and many of the Grantees and