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A87637	Every mans case, or, Lawyers routed In seven treatises, the titles whereof you may find in the ensuing page. Written by John Jones, Gentl prisoner in the Fleet.	Jones, John, of Neyath, Brecon.	1652 (1652)	Wing J967; Thomason E1406_2; ESTC R209500	13,990	44

do not all such Judges as prefer wrong before Right and falshood before truth Incurr the said penalty Seventhly it is a Maxim of Reason that all nations are or ought to be governed by Just Laws And that their supream Magistrates should want no Power or means to execute their Laws so that their Subjects should have Right at all times without delay or partiallity or more cost than the cure is worth And thus much was agreed upon between the Kings people of England in and by the great Charter cap 29. And is not the great Charter confirmed by above 33 Parliaments corroborated upon the Petition of Right Tertio Caroli and Ratified by this Parliament which if it be so how can it be said that any Statutes made contrary to the Law of God and nature and the great Charter shall stand up against them although not expresly Repealed Or how can they be alleadged to bind the supream Magistrates that are sworn to do and maintain Right and Justice to all men at all times in all places of the land by their proper subordinates in every County from so doing but by traitors to God and the Common-Wealth or how can the Judges at Westminster confine and contract all the Law of England in and to Westminster and into 4 terms yearly to be onely determined by them that surcharged with multiplicity aboundance end not a Rich cause in 7 years nor a poor mans while he lives And when they seem to finish a cause or decree or Judgment it is more to their gain than their necks are worth and cost to their Judicated than their causes are worth nor do they commonly finish any cause at any time but leave it upon a quillet whereupon to revive it at their pleasures without their incurring like penalties as aforesaid Eightly and lastly It is a common Maxim not onely of common reason but also of the express Law of England That by the Law of the Land no man is bound to accuse himself If so what meaneth the Jesuitical Spanish Inquisition Introduced to the Exchecquer and Chancery of England to interrogate men against themselves and imprison them untill to attain their liberties many faint-hearts are forced to perjure themselves to accuse themfelves of things whereof they are guiltless That Judges and Lawyers and their Impes may beget causes to extort Fees as well by Innocent mens forced Oaths against themselves as by their own wilfull and malitious perjuries against all men but themselves Whereby contrarie to Saint Pauls Doctrine that an Oath for confirmation is unto men an end of all strife Heb. 6.15 Lawyers make it a beginning and contrarie to Gods commandment saying love no false Oath Zachar. 8.17 Lawyers love to force procure and multiply them And shall they not incurre the said penalty by this Maxim So much for Law Maxims for this occasion at this time to conclude with Axioms of Philosophy conducing to this matter Health is the greatest happiness man can desire Sphinx Theologica Philosophica de Medicina pag. 539. It is two fold that is to say first of the Soul for which Christ is the onely Physician who to ease man of his sin the chief cause of all diseases both Ghostly and humane took upon himself that had none all the sins of the World And died to redeem all penitents from eternall death the due punishment for sin The second is of the body for which the best man Physician called by God to that vocation and gifted accordingly is to be honoured before many because by his faculty with Gods assistance the Corporal afflictions of many are restored to sound health the agony of others qualified And which is most of all worthy consideration stayes the Souls of many in the prisons of their bodies by Gods Providence untill longer and seasonable times of Repentance amendment of their lives And these are the gifts of God and endeavours of good Physicians Contrary-wise our Judges and Lawyers and their monstrous many headed whelps requite their patient profitablest clients with not onely sickness both of souls bodies but also the death of both so far as in their power lieth as is proved by wofull experience thus Debters not able to pay their debts are committed for their debts upon capiases Latitates and out-laries for trespass by the Judges of the upper bench being no Judges in that case to their marshallsie become there sickned in their minds and souls upon such their commitments considering there is no Law to Warrant such doings but the willfull Customs and practise of the said supposed Judges to murther men in and under the name of their Law for their own gain and superfluities worse than high-way-men that act manfully to relieve their wants By the name and Custom of Lawless necessity for which if convicted of the fact they submit to the Law which Lawyers would defeat by calling their facts misprisions which in effect are prises less lawfull than Robbers and more abusefull to the Law and Common-Wealth because committed under colour of Law and Justice Further the sickness of the minds and souls imprisoned is aggravated with the consideration of the wants and miseries which their wives children and families that were wont to be sustained by their libertie to care and provide for them must indure by their Captivitie their bodies and their families participating of these and more griefs of their souls But more sensible of their hunger and thrist cold and nakedness when they have sould even their apparrell as well for night as day to pay their Goalors and their masters extortions and prolong their own miseries so farr as their abilities last And the cruelty of their Goalers when they fail to bribe them in crouding them in dungeons where they must infect on another with a necessitated Contagion caused by their Goalers covetousness to gain by hiring all the Rooms and liberties of the prison ordained by Law to lawfull prisoners to cheators voluntary prisoners willfull assumers of the denomination of prisoners to defeate their Creditors of their Rights by which they live Riotously upon their Creditours charge their Creditours perish for want of their own Judges Lawyers Gaolers live flourish by the ruine of them both granting liberties to all such said cheatours contrary to all Law to walk and take their pleasures as they list some throughout England and others to the East and West-Indies And thereby feasting their bodies and their Impes upon the fast of their finders and thriving in their wickedness till God rebuke them The Warden of the Fleet I find by Law is no Goaler within the Statute of H. 6. And by experience a Gentleman mercifull and affable to the poor satiable and unburthensom to the Rich compassionate and comfortable to all his prisoners so that by Gods providence and his clemency he and we live wholsom in our bodies and cheerfull in our hopes I write not this digression in flattery but in duty to declare truth as

I find it So returning to my tenet it is the sickness and death of the Souls and bodies of all their Clyents and their Families except those of their Consorts that the Art of our modern Lawyers practiseth upon And if perchance they ease a Rich clyent of some part of his pain for their own extraordinary gain except their deed be taken for their will they shall hardly obtain heaven by their merit These are the instigations of the Devil indeavours of bad Lawyers It is the health of their patients souls and bodies that the art of Physitians worketh upon And although some Medicasters that have not the art Intrude into the profession and kill more than they cure for want of skill not good will their will being taken for their deed pleads more in mercy than Lawyers misprisions It is an Axiom which Theodectes a famous Philosopher Cited by Stobaeus in his 66. Sermon That all men endowed with natural abillities desire 2 things before they have them which many when they have them desire to be rid of That is to say old age and wives Cicero upon Cato Major maintaineth the same in effect The causes of these 2 desires are twofould That is to say in good men for divine ends In bad men for their worldly pleasures Their summum bonum beyond which they have neither hopes nor desires But for the desires of good men to be old men Ambrose Hex lib 1. saith that although old age in most men is most subject to corporal Infirmities It sooner endeth the miseries of this life and openeth the gates to a happier In good manners it is most decent In Counsel most subtile in constancy to imbrace death most stable in Repressing lusts most strong and finally the Infirmitie of the body is the sobriety of the mind In bad men their desire of old age is to prolong their earthly pleasures in their enjoyment of other mens Rights which they possess by force or fraud or both and famishing the Right heirs in dungeons while they pamper their own bodies and their Impes in their sumptuos Pallaces built upon their prisoners Inheritances Living in which Condition we may observe them in their health secure in their sickness timorous and Commonly distracted in their deaths desperate in manners riotous in counsel wicked in lusts insatiable finally the strength of their bodie is the madness of their minds And are not these the true Characters of our Lawyers and their adherents To the next point good men love to meet with good Wives like Isaac and Rebecca to be their Consorts Comforts and helpers in goodness to propagate Saints as well by their examples of life and Conversation as by their naturall endowments to accomplish the end of their Creations that is to say to fullfill the number of the elect to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven by the merits of their Saviour And in the time of their pilgrimage and way thither to indeavour the Increase of the glory of God and the Peace Love and Unity of his people in this world Bad men desire wealthy wanton mercenary Wives to be their Companions and helpers in mischiefs as Isabel was Achabs To incarnatè and multiply Devils as well by their examples of life and Conversation as by their natural endowments to accomplish the end of their miscreancie Briefly to cooperate with them in all endeavours to increase the delusions and dominion of the Devil and the sedition hatred and enmity of this world So that at last they must as brothers in Iniquity with Antichrist become possessed of hell where there is endless sorrow and gnashing of teeth a place provided for them before the world began from which God deliver us But are not these also true characters of our Lawyers Popes that have thought themselves as omnipotent as Common Lawyers never offered to divorce men from their Wives but where they Judged the marriage unlawfull for some Reason or pretence of Reason in their Laws But our Lawyers and their Goalors c by fetching men from the Remotest parts of England to Westminster and Committing and detaining of them for debts or most commonly for supposed debts or trespasses without any colour of Law while their adversaries most frequently Lawyers Attorneys c. Insinuate sollicite and at last by their diligence lies false messages from their husbands and other diabolicall practises overcome their feminine frailties and make them their Whores get their consents to possess themselves of all their husbands estates reall and personall consume part of the personall to feast their Whores at the lower end of their tables where their own Wives sit at the upper and their families between While they contrive Conveyances with fines and proclamations to assure their prisoners Reall estates to themselves and their heirs to which their bewitched Whores give way and their Imprisoned husbands never hear of the matter till too late to be remedied by our Lawyers Law Is not this more and worse than a popish divice Others they fetch from nearer parts Prisoners to their Marshallseas suffer their Wives to boord and bed with them untill they have sould beds and all and then failing to satisfie extortions their husbands are dungened and their Wives cast kept out in the street except yielding to the lust of a turn-key such as he liketh be let in to serve his turn and after turned again to the rest in the street where often they and their children starve not daring when they find any scraps to aneer their husbands and parents to relieve them with any till all be starved In streets and dungeons Husbands Wives and Children Creditors look after your debts what might have payed you part if nor all in time had you taken a lawfull Course Goalers and their partners have parted in fees usurer dye with grief not for the loss of thy debters but the debt and boast of thy Revenge thou hast dice of his bones Is not this more and worse than the Popes divorce yet more and worse then this Judges and Goalers do in diverting and restraining the Saints of God from his service and hearing of his word preached by which faith commeth and is maintained so farr as in them lieth except when in malice to some Orthodox minister not love to the prisoners they cast him amongst them not to the end to better them but to worse himself The premisses considered Let all men assure themselves God hath a greater quarrel with this Nation than can be appeased till the land be cleared of such Achans Parliament spue them out Army drag them out to quarter them is freer for thee than any free quarter in the Countrey Because their wealth filched from the Common-Wealth ought to be restored to it and to thee first that best deservest thy share therein Read the Histories of England and find Lawyers the causes of all our Civil Wars in all ages observe what success we have at this present by imploying men of that profession to