matters of Law than for his strictness of Life in those of Religion From the Conquerors time downwards there have bin attempts of this kind almost in every Kings Reign But the Wars and Divisions and consequently Dissolutions that often happend between the Kings their Parliaments somtimes Lords somtimes Commons about the Liberty of the Subject or Prerogative of the Crown not without good reason concluded to have bin set on foot by the crafty Lawyers by this time grown considerable prevented bringing to pass the intended Reformation of the Law I wil not insist upon al the Kings Reigns where this was desin'd nor go farther back than Henry the Eight's time when ingenious Sir Thomas More was by him set on work to fram a Model But the succeeding accidents frustrated that attempt the Troubles and Revolutions that continued during the Reigns of Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth hindred this work which at wise Burleigh's advise was resolved on by the later Queen The learned King Iames determined to finish it and the knowing Sir Francis Bacon was pitched upon to fram a Schem of new Laws or model the old But the discontents about Religion with the greater artifice of the Lawyers then more numerous diverted that glorious Enterprize Some living were Actors others Spectators of the Troubles that have since happen'd which gave way not to a Reformation but Confusion of the Laws and yet the Long Parliament or rather Conventicle knowing their great and good Master purpos'd it resolv'd upon a new Method of Laws But the Idol themselves had set up as a just reward of their Treason prevented this by turning them out of doors with their beloved Magna Charta calling it in Contempt Magna f Too many in other Countries no less than this have wholly lost their Freedom by endeavoring to enlarge it beyond Law and Reason as it has also somtimes befallen ambitious Princes who striving to augment their Power and Dominions beyond the boundaries of Iustice have instead of new Acquists forfeited their antient and lawful possessions The Gardiners Ass in the Apologue desining to mend himself by changing Masters found at a dear-bought experience none so kind as the first The Observation of the Evil of those days has given us reason to believe That wisdom best which is learnt at the cost of others and to remember the Wise mans advice Meddle not with those who are given to change This I speak as to the Fundamental of the Government which can never be alter'd by the Wit of Man but for the worse But the Superstructures of Hay and Stubble are grown so cumbersom and rotten that they are fit for nothing but the Fire Though I am far from giving credit to any prediction or Prophecy but those of Holy Writ yet I can't but remember you of that old Latin one Rex albus c. on which you know our wishes taught us to fix a pleasing interpretation This hint wil bring to your mind what perhaps has not been there almost these thirty Years That both for his Innocence and the accidental Snow that fel on his Herse the late King Charles was that white King who for some time was to be the last in England That afterwards his Son shoud from beyond the Seas return to the possession of his Crown and that in his dayes Religion and Laws shoud be reform'd and setl'd upon the eternal Foundations of Truth and Iustice. The fulfilling of this Prophesie now wil seem as miraculous an Effect of Providence as that of our Soverain's Restauration and wil as much eternize the Wisdom of the Parliament as the other their Loyalty What remains of this undon we might hope to see finisht as old as we are if they woud be pleas'd to espouse it heartily and defend themselves against the noyse wranglings and opposition of the Lawyers and Clergy who are no more to be consulted in this Case than Merchants concerning Exchange c. because as the Wise Syracides observ'd their Interest woud byass them There is saith he that counselleth for himself beware therefore of a Counsellor and know before what need he hath for he wil counsel for himself There was Law before Lawyers there was a time when the Common Customs of the Land were sufficient to secure Meum and Tuum What has made it since so difficult nothing but the Comments of Lawyers confounding the Text and writhing the Laws like a Nose of Wax to what Figure best serves their purpose Thus the great Cook bribed perhaps by Interest or Ambition pronounced that in the Interpretation of Laws the Iudges are to be believed before the Parliament But others and with better Reason affirm That 't is one of the great Ends of the Parliaments Assembling To determin such causes as ordinary Courts of Iustice coud not decide The Laws of England are divided into Common and Sâ—â—ate Law the Common are antient Customes which by the unanimous and continued usage of this Kingdom have worn themselves into Law Statutes are the positive Laws of the Land founded on particular accidents and conveniences not provided for by the Common Law Civil and Canon Law are of no force but as they are incorporated into the body of one or other of these Laws if either may be call'd a body which has neither head nor foot For they lye scatter'd in som few books Bracton Littleton Glanvil Fleta Cook Plouden Dier Crook c. their Commentaries or Reports or rather in the arbitrary Opinion of the Iudges or som celebrated Lawyers For nothing is in this Trade certain or regular what one gives under his hand for Law another gives the direct contrary Iudgments and Decrees reverst as if that coud be just one day that is unjust another and why in England must Law and Equity be two things Since Reason Conscience in all other parts of the World are one and the same and why cannot Laws be so plainly worded as that men of common sence may without an interpreter discover the meaning if they be not so order'd speedy and exact justice wil at best be retarded But you 'l tel me there woud be no need to complain if men woud follow Christ's advice If any man wil sue thee at the Law and take away thy Coat let him have thy Cloak also the Reason was so plain that it was needless to express it viz. least the Lawyer shoud com between and strip you naked even of your shirt This you see is prudence as wel as Religion as indeed al Christs precepts are in the very affairs of this World Whatsoever was true of the Iewish Lawyers the present practise of some of ours renders them Obnoxious to the censures of the sober the curses of the passionate most men agreeing that to go to Law is like a Lottery or playing at Dice where if the game be obstinatly pursu'd the Box-keeper is commonly the greatest Winner But since som men wil be fools or knaves why shoud not the
it woud be for the advantage of al That the Parliament woud exert its antient Power In regulating the many Abuses crept into inferior Courts Into which if there was ever need of looking there is now at this day when the complaints are loud By which tho perhaps Mole-hills may be made Mountains Yet al this Smoak cannot be without som Fire This I have bin told for certain That their Iudgments are founded as much upon Rules or interpretations of Statutes of their own pleasure introduc'd by the intrest of Lawyers and Officers as upon the strict letter of the Lawes in which your Education tho not your Practice and your long Observation has made it superfluous for me to particularise the many Irregularities in the administration of Iustice which woud fil a larg Volum But to begin with the Courts I think it were convenient that each of the Four at Westminster shoud be reduced to their antient Practice and not suffered to Encroah upon one another to the Subjects great vexation who often quits his Cause rather than follow it thro al the mazes of the several Courts where at last after som years tossing by Writs of Error c. from Post to Pillar if his mony does but hold out to make the Lawyers that sport he may sit down by his loss or have recours to the Arbitriment of two honest Neighbors which at first had bin the speediest and cheapest way of justice In antient days the Kings Bench intermedled only with the Pleas of the Crown But now an Ac Etiam ushered in by a feignd assertion of Force and Arms and by supposing the Defendant to be in Custodia Marescalli or the Plaintiffe privileg'd som other way in that Court robbs the Common Bench whose jurisdiction even by Magna Charta is of al Common Pleas between Party and Party The Common Bench by practice of Atturneys not to be behind hand has likwise of late days introduced an Ac Etiam and several Debts or Promises are suppos'd with intent to bind the Subject to special Bail wheras I am confident it cannot either by Common or Statute Law be evinced that antiently special Bail or a Capias before Summons was in any action required and that therfore it is a meer invention to get mony and to vex and impoverish the Subject The Exchequer was only to hold Plea of such Actions where the Plaintiff was really indebted to the King and perhaps too not able otherwise to pay it or where the Parties were by their Priviledg to plead or to be impleaded in that Court But now by falsly suggesting They are indebted to the King and not able to pay him but out of the thing in demand they are suffered to su in that Court alleadging a Quo minus c. in their Declaration But before such Irregularities were introduced it was not so much Law as Honesty Prudence and skil in Arithmetick that were the necessary Qualifications of the Barons In which Court a Chancery was erected to moderate the Rigor of the Fines and Amerciaments estreated into that Court and to extend to the Kings Debtors those favors which the Barons coud not shew The Causes then remaining for the High Court of Chancery were the Penalties and Forfeitures between man and man which at Common Law were du and al other Causes that for want of Evidence were no where els tryable But such have bin the mighty contrivance of the Practisers in that Court that they have found out a way for the Trial of al Causes there where notwithstanding a mans pretence in his Bil That he wants Witnesses tho that be but a tric to intitle the Court to the action after he has Obliged the Defendant to swear against himself contrary to the Common Law that of Nature Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum which seems to be the possitive intent of Magna Charta he takes out a Commission to Examin Witnesses In the Civil Law the Complainant if required is obliged as wel as the Defendant to swear the Truth of the Bill and sure that is as fitting to be don in the King 's great Court of Equity and Conscience as in the ordinary Courts of Iustice in other Nations Nor woud it be amiss That al Witnesses shoud in that Court as wel as others give their Testimony Viva voce and that there shoud be som unalterable Rules both for the Officers of the Court and the Clients since Conscience and right Reason are alwayes the same and unalterable which woud prevent the Reversing of Decrees a tacit Confession They were unjust and other Inconveniences too many to be recounted only One is so notorious I cannot pass it by The assuming a Power of Impeaching Iudgements at Common-Law which the Statute declares to be Premunire Another Practice as inconvenient as any is The Iudges giving too great an Authority to a former Iudges Report or Opinion It were to be wish'd That in the rest of the Courts the present Practice of the wise Lord Chancellor Finch were observed who considering That a Report is founded upon such Reasons as are not with the Report convey'd to us that only stating in brief the matter of Fact and that the Case is alterable by any one Accident rightly infers That no Report but the Reason of the present Case squared to the Rules of the Law ought to guide his Iudgment To this may be added That in every Court there shoud be a setled Number of Clerks Attorneys Lawyers as wel as Iudges That these how just soever shoud not continu above three Years in any one Court Whatever the Sherifs Power was formerly sure I am That exercised by the Iudges exceeds what now they are possest of and yet the Wisdom of former Ages thought not fit to intrust the former two years together That they shoud be oblig'd to give an Account in public of al their proceedings at the expiration of the said time That they be under a pecuniary Mulct besides an Oath to administer justice impartially in imitation of God who to mind them of their great Duty graces them with his own Title saying Ye are al. Gods and therfore must do as I do ye shal not regard in judgment the Power of the Mighty nor the Distress of the Poor That the Iudges Lawyers Atturneys and Clarks shoud have out of the public Revenu sufficient establisht Salaries To take no Fees or Gratuity whatsoever directly or indirectly It not seeming reasonable that the people shoud pay any thing for Iustice But as that Charge may be included in the public Taxes That no Offices whatsoever be Sold and nothing but Merit to intitle any man For if Offices be purchased by the interest of Friends or Mony it is unreasonable to expect That Iustice too may not be bought and sold And for this Reason it is as fit to make Laws against this practice in others as against Simony in the Clergy No man to have two Offices or to act by Deputy
but on extraordinary occasions That al Causes be determin'd at farthest in six months And that such as thro difficulty or other accidents can't be determin'd within that time the Parliament at next Sessions shoud decide them To oblige the Iudges to proceed exactly according to the strict Rules of the Law made by Parliaments For notwithstanding what the Lord Coke says 'T is their duty only Legem Dicere not Legem dare And therfore where ever any thing comes to be disputed of the meaning of the Statutes or that any Cause happens for which there is not exact and sufficient provision made they are to have recourse to the Parliament whose Power is not only Legem dare but dicere For it appears That in antient times when Iustice was more speedy and Statutes fewer or rather none at al the great business of the Parliament was to give Sentence in al difficult Causes and to correct the miscarriages or sinister Practise of al inferior Courts and Officers and therfore was commonly known by the name of Curia Magna Before the Conquerors time there was no such thing as Courts at Westminster-Hal The manner then of distributing Iustice was both speedy and cheap the County being divided into several Portions there was in every Manner a Court where al the Causes arriving within that Precinct were determined by the Thane and his assistants but if too hard they were removed by Appeal to the higher Court of the Hundred where al the chief and Wise Men within that Territory with the Hundreder or Aldermannus gave Iudgment And if any Cause proved too difficult for this Court then they appeal'd to the County Court where al the several Thanes and Hundreders with the chief of the County call'd Comes and somtimes Vicecomes judged it But such Causes as were too intricat for them were remov'd to the great Court or Parliament then known by several other Names Which jurisdiction was exercized some Ages after the Conquest Whence Sir Edward Coke may be wel suspected a greater Lawyer than an Antiquary or els the liberty they took was the occasion of his exalting the Iudges Power in expounding Statutes above that of the Parliament Having now made it plain That the Parliament has this Power and always had it were to be wished they woud make use of it in strictly regulating the Disorders of al inferior Courts as wel Ecclesiastical as Civil Which perhaps can never be better don than after the manner of the famous Venetian Commonwealth by erecting a new Magistracy or Court of Inspection public Censors men of great Candor and Integrity whose Power shoud extend to the Cognizance of al manner of Actions in Courts great and smal Of the demeanor of al Officers of the State of what degree or quality soever who taking care thus of the Execution of the Laws shoud be oblig'd from time to time to give a ful and impartial Information to the Parliament in whose Power alone it shoud be upon Conviction of the Criminal to Suspend Degrade or otherwise Punish according to the Provisions they themselves make in such cases That it may be lawful for all Persons to address themselves immediately to these Censors whose Information shall by them be fully Examined and neither their Informers nor themselves lyable to any Actions or Sutes upon account of their Proceedings to be accountable to the grand and supreme Court of Iudicature That their Number be such as may serve to go Circuits round the Kingdom These as the other Iudges to be altered every 3 Years And because nothing does more conduce to the good of man-kind next to wholsom Laws and the practice of piety than the Knowledge of things past not any thing being truer then that What is has bin and there 's nothing new under the Sun a perfect relation of which begets a great Understanding and deep Iudgment the sence whereof made a Wise King say None were so faithful Counsellors as the Dead That therefore the Parliament woud appoint two of the most learned of those Censors acquainted with al the most secret affairs of state which if not as Counsellors yet as Hearers under the same obligation of secrecy as Secretaries or Clarks of the Counsel they may understand to write especially the matters of fact of al affairs and occurrences The Annals not to be made public til the Writers and al concern'd were gon off the Stage The fear of Offending and the advantage of Flattery being remov'd future ages woud in the truth of History find that great Rule of Iudgment and Prudence the World has hitherto been deprived of There being a man may safely say no tru profane History in the World save that of the Wise Chineses who have observ'd this practice for several Thousands of Years keeping the Records as an Arcanum for their Princes who by these means have gain'd a steddy judgment in their own state-affairs which is the reason given for the long and prosperous continuance of that great Monarchy When the Laws and Execution of them are thus established every Man will be sufficiently secur'd in the Enjoyment of his Liberty and Property which tho commonly taken for two are in reality one and the same thing I understand by the first that Power Man has reserv'd to himself when he enter'd into Society that is a Liberty of doing any thing except what the Law forbids or of living conformably to the Laws not of speaking contemptuously of the Rulers of the People nor of doing what he please tho the Law restrain it By Property I conceive meant the right of Enjoying peaceably privat Possessions as bounded by Law Liberty then respects the Person and Property the Estate These two I perceive you have joyn'd with Religion as the three great Abstracts of Human Concerns For I presume you consider Religion as it is part of that Policy by which the State is govern'd and as such I shal chiefly take notice of it leaving it as it refers to the Soul and a future Life to Divines whose proper Office it is Taking it then for granted That every wise Man will study that which neerest concerns him and That the Interest of the Soul and eternal Life do's far exceed the valu of this our transitory Being That all Human Laws are therefore binding because agreeable to Nature or Reason that is to the Signatures of the Divine Will That true Religion was the Law of God and its end the Happiness of Man in this Life as well as in that which is to Come That it was divided into two Parts Duty to God and to One another which later to the thinking Man resolves into Love of himself who must find that his Happiness consisting in the Enjoyment of himself cannot be without the mutual Offices and Endearments of Love which obliges him in spite of all his Passions when he fully considers things To do to all Men as he would be don unto This then being Human Happiness and the
think or believe it wil so suddenly or to that height as is said raise the Rents and Valu of Lands To this it can contribute but by accident as it invites Strangers into the Kingdom for I have already told you that the greater or smaller number of People is the only tru cause of the dearness or cheapness of Land and of Labor or Trade yet even this it cannot do without abolishing the Law disabling Aliens to purchase and hold before Naturalization necessary without dispute to be immediatly taken away Nor woud it a little contribute to the general good that all Merchants and Tradesmen breaking shoud be made guilty of Felony their goods to the Creditors if they did not plainly make appear by their true Books their losses and discover what ever they have left and without the unjust and cunning Artifices of composition give way for an equal Divident among the Creditors And that the many abuses of the Kings Bench Prison be reform'd which as now manag'd is made a Santuary and place of Refuge and Privilege for all Knaves that desine their own privat Interest to the ruin of others whose confinement is no narrower than from the East to the West Indies That all Bonds and Bills obligatory statute Merchants and of the staple Recognisances Iudgments c. be enacted transferable and by Indorsement to pass as current as Bills of Exchange and made recoverable by a shorter course of of Law than now practis'd That is to say that upon actual proof of the perfecting and last assigning of the Deed Iudgment and Execution be obtaind This wou'd wonderfully enliven trade make a new species of Coyn lower interest secure in a great measure dealers from breaking and find mony to carry on the trades of Fishing Linnen Woollen c. That til the propos'd regulation of the Laws can be effected to avoid the trouble and charge of Iuries in many cases and other unjust vexations the meets and bounds of the denominations of all Lands Mannors Parishes Commons Hundreds and Countyes all prescriptions usages and customs and the Iurisdictions of all inferiour Courts be fully inquir'd into and truely registred in one Book or Books copies to be Printed and the Original to be and remain of Record as the Doomsday book in the Exchequer By which all disputes concerning the premises may be speedily and cheaply decided There are but two Objections against this public good and were they unanswerable yet since they are but particular and selfish considerations they ought not to take place The first is That the useful and laudable Calling of the Lawyers wil be prejudic'd The next that the many who now live upon Credit wil be undon As to the first by this work the present Lawyers wil be so far from suffering that for ten years to com rather than lessen it wil increase their business which according to the ordinary computation of mens Lives or their hopes of being promoted wil be a greater advantage to them than if things continu'd as they are and for those who propose to themselves this way of living there wil be stil grounds enuff for the Practtise of som and many new imployments for others So that if these Gentlemens present great Practise woud give them leave to look forwards they woud find they are more Scar'd than hurt As to the second sort who likewise believe they may be damnifi'd that fancy wil also vanish if it be consider'd That it wil enlarge rather than destroy Credit For we wil suppose that a young Merchant or Tradesman who has 500. pound stock does not trade for less than 2000. pound the Merchant that sells him the Commoditys upon the belief of his being honest industrions prudent and sober gives him Credit and takes his Bond payable at a certain day this Person that he may be able duly to discharge his obligation in like manner trusts another whom he supposes able and honest for all receive credit as they really are or appear such as soon as his bond becomes du he takes up his own and gives that he receav'd to his creditor who perhaps gives it to another to whom he is indebted At last the mony is call'd for from the Country Gentleman the Country Gentleman gives him an assignment on his tenant who either is or is not indebted if the tenant owes the Mony he payes it in specie or assignes him upon som Merchant for the valu of commodities sold him the fond enabling him to pay his Land-lords Rent and thus perhaps by a Circulation of traffic for all Men from the highest to the lowest are one way or other Merchants or Traders the first man is pay'd with his own paper If the tenant does not ow the Land-lord the Mony and therefore wil not pay the Land-lord is immediately necessitated to sel or Morgage som part of his estate which if he refuse the Law forces him and the Credits of the rest are secur'd The Consequences are plainly these That Men must be careful with whom they deal That they must be punctual thrifty lest they first lose their Credit and afterwards becom Beggars For he that rightly considers wil be convinc'd That every Man in a Society or Common-wealth even from the King to the Pesant is a Merchant and therefore under a necessity of taking care of his Reputation not seldom a better Patrimony than what descends to us from our Parent 's Care That by this Practice the Kingdom wil gain an inexhaustible Treasure and tho there were not a hundredth part of the Mony be able to drive ten times a greater Trade than now it does A Man thus enabl'd to Live and Trade without Mony wil be in no need of running-out his principal in Interest by which too many for want of Consideration are insensibly undon involving many more in their Ruin Without these or som other new Courses you may be assur'd That our Trade consequently our Power wil every Day decay and in a few Years com to nothing But som imagin that we need not trouble our selves in this Matter it wil shortly fal in of Course to our Country for that as Learning took its Circuit thro several parts of the World beginning at the East so must Trade too but who-ever believes this wil com to pass without Human Means Labor and Art entertains wrong Notions of Providence I do believe the great Wheel is always in Motion and tho there be a constant Circumgyration of things yet 't is idle to fancy that any thing but Troubles or War Oppression or Injustice Wit or Industry makes Trade or Learning shift their Places in the same Country or alter their abode from that to any other If we look into Histories we shal find these have bin the Causes of their Migration and that Trade and Learning usually go hand in hand together Having already asserted that Trade and Commerce are to be improv'd and carry'd on the more vigorously by how much the more
thee and sar unto thee Thy way is good and afterwards he stand on the other side to see what shal befal thee Whether this be a Prophecy of what the Lawyers will do or a bare Narration of matter of Fact what they daily Practise I leave to every discerning mans Iudgment The Short of this is to advise That in making of New Laws or in altering or repealing the Old the Members trust not the Gentlemen of the long Robe unless they promise to joyn the Law and the Gospel To give their Advice without Mony or the Hopes of Gain And yet if their Charity or Generosity shoud perswade them to undertake the Cause thus in forma Pauperis That they give sufficient security not to starve it That is not to be back-ward in their giving Advice according to Conscience not Interest When this is don we are not secur'd unless the Parliament provide That no infringer of the Laws be Pardon'd that is to say That equal Iustice be distributed making no distinction between the Persons of the highest and the lowest when their Crimes have made them equal Which can't probably be otherwise effected than by constituting as is don in Venice a new Magistracy of public Censors who shal have inspection into the actions of all the Courts of Iudicature and public Offices whatsoever whose Account shal by the Parliament be receiv'd as Authentic and make the Offenders Obnoxious to degradations and pecuniary Mulcts to the satisfaction of the injur'd and a farther overplus to the Public unless in their judgments the accused fairly acquit themselves That Religion as now manag'd is made an Art or Trade to live by and to enable the Professors to abuse the Credulous and Unwary That if Intrest be not remov'd and not Opinions but a good Life be the Character to distinguish real Christians from those who pretend themselves such we shal never have Peace here nor assurance of Happiness hereafter That in granting Liberty of Conscience Clergy Mens Advice is not to be harkn'd to unless they wil resine their Livings and Dispute only for Truth That Toleration is at this time more especially for three great Reasons absolutely convenient First to unite us at Home next to enable us now and hereafter to resist the Power of France This certainly requires all our Strength which without Union we cannot have The Third and great Reason To Advance our Trade That the French are to be stopt in their Career That to do so it is necessary a large and sufficient Revenu for ever if it be don wisely be fixt and setl'd on the Crown on the State I do not say on the Person of the King for He is indeed if rightly consider'd but God's Steward and has so great a share in the trouble that it is an unresolved Question notwithstanding all his Glory and Power Whether the Roses of the Crown make amends for its Thornes and Whether the Softness of any Lining can ease the weight of the Burden He undergoes whose Nights and Dayes are made restless by the Pressures of that mighty Care to which by the safety of three Kingdoms He is continually sollicited If half a Loaf as they say be better than no Bread 't is more eligible to part with som than to expose all to the Mercy of an Enemy and Conqueror from whom the greatest Favor we can expect is to becom not a subordinat Kingdom but an enslaved Province That Trade is to be promoted by all possible Care and Diligence because by that we must be enabled to pay our Taxes without which we cannot withstand Forrein Violence That Trade is to be better'd by inviting more People into the Kingdom and employing all the idle Hands we already have That this is to be effected by proposing Advantages and Rewards to Strangers fit Employments Threats and Punishments to Natives by ascertaining all Ease and Security in their Persons Estates and Purchases by an uninterrupted and speedy course of Iustice firmly establishing the three great satisfactory Desirables Liberty Property and Religion Salus Populi Suprema Lex From this 4th of Ianuary 1677 8. SIR I am c. FINIS ERRATA The Reader is desir'd before he runs thro this Discourse to mend with his Pen these few Errata's which are all that alter the Sense IN the Title Page for Member in read Member of p. 2. to the Reader l. 2. r. unfashionable rigid Vertu p. 21. l. 15. r. destructive p. 28 l. 3. r. Grace or Policy p. 63. l. 3. r. actual Summons p. 69. l. 4. r. arising p. 91. l. 19. r. a Red Sea p. 118. l. 20. r. finess p. 122. l. 10. for unequal r. uneasy p. 145. l. 7. r. claim a greater p. 149 last Line for make r. may p. 190. l. 9. r. many many De Trinitate Lib. 10. circa finem Epist. Isaac Casaub epist. 316. pag. 385. Tertull. ad Scap. Cap. 2. Lactant. lib. 5. c. 20. Chrysost. Homil. 19. in Matth. Sulpit. Sever. Lib. 2. C. 54 55 c. Athanas. Epist. ad Solitarios Cod. Iust. l. 1. tit 5. de Haereticis c. Cod. Theod. 2. 5. Sulpit. Sever. Lib. 2. C. 65. Optat. Cont. Parmen l. 1. C. 3. Aug. contra Epist. C. 1 2. De Gubernet Dei lib. 5. pag. 142. Of the Rise and Power of Parliaments Origin of Government Of Laws Of the Courts of Iudicature Of Liberty and Property Of Religion The Interest of England in refrence to France Of Taxes Of Trade Magister artis ingeniqque largitor venter