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A63255	The triumphs of justice over unjust judges exhibiting, I. the names and crimes of four and forty judges hang'd in one year in England, as murderers for their corrupt judgments, II. the case of the Lord Chief Justice Trefilian, hang'd at Tyburn, and all the rest of the judges of England (save one) banisht in K. Rich. the 2ds time, III. the crimes of Empson and Dudley, executed in K. Henry the 8th's days, IV. the proceedings of the ship-money-judges in the reign of K. Charles the first, V. diverse other presidents both antient and modern : to which is added VI. the judges oath, and some observations thereupon, humbly dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs.	Philo-Dicaios.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2297; ESTC R3571	28,282	42

forsomuch that before this time the said Offences Extortions Contempts c. might not nor as yet may be conveniently Punished by the due Order of Law except it were first found and presented by the Verdict of Twelve ●●en thereto duely Sworn who for the Causes before Recited will not find nor present the Truth wherefore be it by the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same Enacted Ordained and Established That from henceforth as well the Iustices of Assize as the Iustices of the Peace in every County of the said Realm upon Information Note it was to be without any Presentment or Indictment found by any Grand or Petty Jury for the King c. shall have full Power Authority by their Discretion to hear determine all Offences c. Here you see Matters were left to be determined by Judges and Justices Without Iuries in a Summary Chancery-Method only according forsooth to their Discretion Yet still there was a Proviso THat no such Information should extend to Treason Murder or Felony nor to any other Offence for which any Person should lose Life or Member Nor to lose by or upon the same Information any Lands Tenements Goods or Chatteis to the Party making the same Information Which deserves Particular Notice Yet observe how the same Reverend Lord Coolt in the Place before-cited descants on this Act. By Pretext saith he of this Law Empson and Dudley did commit upon the Subject unsufferable Pressures and Oppressions and therefore this Statute was Justly soon after the Decease of Henry the Seventh Repeal'd by an Act of Parliament 1 H. 8. Cap. 8. A good Caveat to Parliaments to leave all Causes to be measured by that Golden and Strait-Mete-Wand of the Law and not to the incertain and crooked Cord of Discretion It is not almost Credible continues the same Judicious Author to fore-see when any Maxim or Fundamental-Law of this Realm He means as to this particular Case Tryals per Pais that is by Juries is Altered what dangerous Inconveniences do follow Which most expresly appears by this Most Vnjust Strange Act For hereby not only Empson and Dudley themselves but such Justices of Peace Corrupt Men as they caused to be Authorized Committed most grievous and heavy Oppressions and Exactions Grinding of the Faces of poor Subjects by Penal Laws be they never so Obsolete or unfit for the Time Suppose for a Parallel in our Times putting the Statutes against Popish Recusants in Execution against Protestant Dissenters at a Juncture when Popery was just ready to over-run us all by Information only without any Presentment or Tryal by Jury being The Antient Birth-Right of the Subject But to Hear and Determine the same by their Discretion These and other like Oppressions and Exactions by or by Means of Empson and Dudley and their Instruments brought Infinite Treasures to the King's Coffers whereof the King in the End with great Grief and Compunction Repented This Statute of 11 H. 7 We have Recited and shewed the Inconveniencies thereof to the end that the like should never hereafter be attempted in any Court of Parliament And that others might avoid the Fearful End of these Two Time-Servers Empson and Dudley Thus far that Oracle of our English Laws Wherein be pleased to observe First That he sticks not to call even an Act of Parliament most Vnjust and Strange And in the Second Part of his Institutes fol. 51. Vnjust and Injurious because it Altered a Fundamental-Law of the Realm viz. Denyed Tryal by Juries a most Essential Part of English Freedom and never to be parted with Secondly Observe what became of these Two Wicked Men though they had such a Colour of Law to bear them out They were in the Beginning of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth first Indicted for other base Practises in Finding of False Offices for the King to the Dammage and Disherison of His Subjects Which Indictment ran as follows see Cook 's Instit Part the Fourth fol. 198. Juratores praesentant quod Richardus Empson nuper de London Miles c. In English thus THe Jurors present That Richard Empson late of London Knight late Counsellor of the most Excellent Prince Henry the Seventh late King of England on the Tenth Day of May in the Twentyeth Year of the said late King and divers Times before and after at London c. Not having God before his Eyes but as the Son of the Devil imagining the Honour Dignity and Prosperity of the said late King and the Prosperity of His Kingdom of England not at all to Value or Regard But to the end that he might obtain to be a more Singular Favourite of the said late King whereby he Himself might be made a Noble or Great Man and Govern the whole Kingdom of England at his Pleasure Falsly Deceitfully and Treasonably Subverting the La●y of England did amongst other Things the Day and Year afore-said at London in the Parish and Ward afore-said procure and cause to be found divers false Inquisitions and Offices of Intrusions and Alienations of divers Leige-Subject's Mannors Lands and Tenements that they held the Mannors Lands and Tenements in those Inquisitions specified of our Lord the King in Capite or otherwise when in Truth it was not so And afterwards when the said Leige-Subjects of our Lord the late King would have tendered and alledged Traverses to the said Inquisitions in the Court of Him the said late King according to the Law of England they could not be admitted to those Traverses But he the said Richard Empson debar'd and delay'd them from the same 'till they had agreed with him to pay divers Great and Insupportable Fines and Redemptions as well for the Profit of the said late King as for the proper private Advantages of him the said Richard to the great Impoverishment of the said Subjects And that the said Richard the Day and Year afore-said in the Parish and Ward afore-said and several Times before and after divers Leige-Subjects of the said late King holding of out said Lord the King divers Mannors Lands and Tenements by Knight's-Service and themselves being by the Death of their Ancestors under Age and so in the Wardship of the King by Reason of their Tenure when they came to lawful Age and ought to have had due Livery of their Mannors Lands and Tenements according to the Custom and Law of England and would have Prosecuted the same according to the Course of Chancery did refuse them so to do and totally deny and erclude until they had made with him the said Richard divers great Fines and Redemptions more than they could bear as well for the Gain of the said late King as for the private Benefit of him the said Richard Whereby many of the said late King's People were by such Grievances and Vnjust Extortions many wayes vered Insomuch that the Subjects of the said late

Justice was in those days Administred in the Countrey in Neighbouring Courts which yet as appears by the nature of the offences alledged against them had jus vitae necis power of life and death and so may properly be called Judges whose Names and particular Crimes here follow in the words of that worthy Author p. 296. of the French and p. 239 of the English Edition It is an abuse that Justices and their Officers who kill People by false judgment be not destroyed which King Alfred caused to be done who caused Forty four Iustices in one year to be hanged as Murderers fer their false judgments 1. He hanged Darling because he judged Sidulf to death for the retreat of Edulf his Son who afterward acquitted him of the Fact 2. He hanged Segnar who judged Ulf to death after sufficient acquittal 3. He hanged Cadwine because that he judged Hachwy to death without the Consent of all the Jurors for whereas he had put himself upon a jury of Twelve-men because that three would havesaved him against the Nine Cadwine removed the three and put others upon the jury upon whom Hachwy put not himself 4. He hanged Cole because he judged Ive to death when he was a Mad-man 5. He hanged Malme because he Judged Prat to death upon a false suggestion that he committed the felony 6. He hanged Athulf because he caused Copping to be hang'd before the Age of one and twenty years It was against Law then but now nequitia supplet Aetatem 7. He hanged Markes because he judged During to death by twelve men that were not sworn 8. He hanged Ostline because he judged Seaman to death by a false Warrant grounded upon false suggestion which supposed Seaman to be a Person in the warrant which he was not 9. He hanged Billing because he judged Leston to death by fraud In this manner he said to the People sit all ye here but he who killed the man and because that Leston did not sit with the other he commanded him to be hanged and said that he did assist where he knew he did not assist to kill the Party 10. He hanged Seafoul because he judged Ording to death as not answering 11. He hanged Thurston because he judged Thurgner to death by a Verdict of Inquest taken ex officio without Issue joyned 12. He hanged Athelston because he judged Herbert to death for an offence not mortal 13. He hanged Rambold because he judged Leschild in a Case not notorious without Appeal and without Indictment 14. He hanged Rolf because he judged Dunston to dye for an escape out of prison 15. He hanged Frebern because he judged Harpin to dye whereas the July were in doubt of their verdict for in doubtful cases one ough rather to save than condemn 16. He hanged Seabright who judged Athebrus to death because he had discharg'd one that had given a false judgment in a Case Capital 17. He hanged Hale because he saved Tristrain the Sherif from death who took to the Kings use from another goods against his will for as much as any such taking from another against his will and Robbery hath no difference 18. He hanged Arnold because he saved Bailifs who robbed the people by colour of Distresses some by selling Distresses such and others by extortion of Fines because between such tortious Acts and Robbery there was no difference 19. He hanged Erkinwald because he hanged Frankling for nought else but because he taught to him who vanquished him by Battle-mortal to say the word Cravant 20. He hanged Bermond because he caused Garbot to be beheaded by his judgment in England for that for which he was outlaw'd in Ireland 21. He hanged Alkman because he saved Cateman by colour of Disseisin who was Attaited of Burglary 22. He hanged Saxmond because he hanged Barold in England where the Kings Writ runneth for a fact which he did in the same Land where the Kings Writ did not run 23. He hanged Alflet because he judged a Clerk to death over whom he had no Cognizance 24. He hanged Piron because he judged Huntiny to death because he gave judgment in Appeal before the forty days pendant the Appeal by a Writ of false judgment before the King 25. He hanged Delani because he caused Eldons to be hanged who kill'd a man by misfortune 26. He hanged Oswin because he judged Fulcher to death out of Court 27. He hanged Mucdin because he hanged Helgrave by warrant of Indictment not special He hanged Horn because he hanged Simin at days forbidden 29. He hanged Wolmer because he judged Grant to death by colour of a Larceny of a thing which he had received by Title of Bailment 30. He hanged Therberne because he Judged Osgot to death for a Fact whereof he was Acquitted before against the same Plaintiffe which Acquittance he tendred to averre by Oath and because he would not averre it by Record Therbern would not allow of the Acquittal which he tendred him 31. He hanged Wolston because he adjudged Howbert to death at the suit of the King for a fact which Howbert confest and of which the King gave him his Pardon but he had no Charter thereof nevertheless he vouched the King to Warrant it and further tendred to averre it by Enrollment of the Chancery 32. He hanged Oskitell because he Judged Cutlinge to death by the Record of the Coroner where by Replication allowable the Plea did not hold And the Case was such Cutling was taken and Tortured so much as he confessed he had Mortally offended only to be quitted of the pain and Oskitell adjudged him to death upon such his Confession which he had made to the Coroner without trial of the truth of the Torture or the Fact And further the said King caused the Coroners and Officers Accessories to be apprehended who hanged the people and all those that might have hindred the false Judgment and did not hinder the same in all cases For he hanged all the Judges who had falsely saved any man guilty of Death or hath falsely hanged any man against Law or any reasonable Exception He hanged the Suitors of Calevot because they had adjudged a man to death in a case not notorious although he were guilty thereof for no man can Judge within the Realm but the King or his Commissaries except those Lords in whose Lordships the Kings Writ doth not run He hanged the Suitors of Dorcester because they Judged a man to death by Jurors in their Liberty for a Felony done out of it and whereof they had not the Conusance by reason of forraignty He hanged the Suitors of Cirencester because they kept a man so long in Prison that he dyed in prison who would have acquitted himself by Forraigners that he offended not Feloniously 'T is supposed these Suitors of each place were Four in Number which compleats the number of 44. Hanged in all In his time also the Suitors of Doncaster lost their Jurisdiction besides other Punishments because