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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44051	The history of the life and death of Sr. Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England in King Henry the Eights time collected by J.H., Gent.; Tho. Mori vita et exitus	Hoddesdon, John, fl. 1650.	1662 (1662)	Wing H2293; ESTC R9021	72,524	216

hear him before another or if his Cause be not all the best yet may I move the parties to fall to some reasonable end by a bitrament howbeit Son this one thing I assure thee on my saith that if the parties will at my hands call for Justice then all were it my Father whom I loved dea●ly stood on the one side and the Devil whom I hate extreamly stood on the other his Cause being good the Devil should have right So offered he his Son he said as much favour as with reason he could possibly require And that he would for no respects digresse from justice well appeareth by a plain example of another of his sons-in-son●-in-law Mr. He●en by name for when he having a Cause depending before him in the Chancery and presuming too much on his favour would in no wise be perswaded by him to agree to any indifferent composition he in conclusion made a flat decree against him Now as sew Injunctions as he granted while he was Chancellor yet were they by some of the judges of the Law misliked which his son-in-law the foresaid Mr. Rooper understanding told his Father of it who answered him that they should have little cause to find fault with him for that and thereupon he caused Mr Crook chief of the fix Clerks to make a Docket containing the whole number and causes of all such injunctions as either in his time had already passed or at that present depended in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster before him which done he invited all the Judges to dine with him in the Councell-chamber at Westminster where after dinner when he had broken with them what complaints he had heard of his Injunctions and farther shewed them both the number and causes of every one of them in order so plainly that upon full debating thereof they all confessed that they in like case could have done no otherwise themselves Then offered he this unto them that if the Justices of every Court unto whom the Reformation of the rigor of the Law by reason of their Office most especially appertained would upon reasonable considerations by their own discretions as they were as he thought in conscience bound mitigate and reform the rigor of the Law themselves there should from thenceforth by him no more Injunctions be granted Whereunto when they resused to condescend then said he unto them For as much as your selves My Lords drive me to that necessity for awarding out Injunctions to relieve the peoples injuries you cannot hereafter any more justly blame me After that he said secretly to Mr. Rooper I perceive Son why they like not so to do for they see that they may be the verdict of the Jury cast off all quarrels from themselves upon them which they account their chief defence and therefore am I compel'd to abide the adventure of all such reports After this he took order with all the Atturneys of his Court that there should no Subpoena's go out whereof in general he should not have notice of the matter with one of their hands unto the Bil which bearing a sufficient cause of complaint worthy a Subpoena he would set his hand to or else cancel it And when on a time one of the Atturneys whose name was Mr. Tub had brought unto Sir Thomas the summe of his Clients Cause and requested his hand unto it Sir Thomas reading it and finding it a matter frivolous he added thereto in stead of his own name these words A Tale of a Tub the Atturney going away as he thought with Sir Tho. his name unto it found when his Client read it but a jest Now was it a great wonder for any one to behold how two great places of Westminster-hall were taken up one with the Son the other with the Father which surely never was heard of before or since the Son to be Lord Chancellor and the Father Sir John More to be one of the antientest Judges of the Kings Bench if not the eldest of all for he was then near ninety years old Nay what a grateful spectacle was it to see the Son every day as he passed through the Hal to his place in the Chancery by the Court of the Kings Bench if his Father had been setere he came to go into the Court and there reverently kneeling down in the sight of them all duly ask his Fathers blessing And if in fell out that his Father and he at reading in Lincolns-Inne met together as they sometimes did notwithstanding his High Office he would stil offer the preheminency to his Father though he for his office sake would refuse to take it such was the piety and submissive mind of this humble man such again was the provident care of the Father towards the Son that one can hardly guesse which of the two were more worthy the father of such a son or the son of such a Father And as little leisure as he had to be busied in the study of holy Scriptures Controversies upon Religion and other such like vertuous exercises being in a manner continually imployed about the affairs of the King and the Kingdome yet such pains took he early and late in setting forth divers learned books in defence of his Religion that the Bishops to whose pastoral care such businesses principally appertained thinking themselves by what he had done wherein by their own confession they were not able to compare with him of their duties in that behalf discharged and considering that for all his Princes favour he was no rich man nor advanced in yearly revenews as his worthinesse deserved therefore at a Convocation amongst themselves and other of the Clergy they agreed together and concluded upon a sum of four or five thousand pounds to recompense him for his pains To the payment whereof every Bishop Abbot and the rest of the Clergy were according to their abilities liberal contributaries hoping this sum would content him Whereupon Tunstal Bish of Durham and Clark Bishop and as is supposed Vessey of Exeter repaired unto him declaring how thankfully they esteemed themselves bound to consider him for his labours to their discharge in Gods bestowed and that albeit they could not according to his deserts so worthily would but must referre that only to the goodnesse of God yet for a small part of recompence in respect of his estate so unequal to his worthinesse in the name of their whole Convocation they presented unto him that summe which they desired him to accept of who forsaking it said That like as it was no small comfort to him that so wise and learned men so well accepted of his doings for which he never intended to receive reward but at the hands of God only to whom alone was the thanks thereof chiefly to be ascribed so also he most humbly thanked their honours for their bountiful consideration When they for all their importunate pressing upon him that few would have supposed he could