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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	family_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,108	5	11.9710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41753	The Grand concern of England explained in several proposals offered to the consideration of the Parliament, (1) for payment of publick debts, (2) for advancement and encouragement of trade, (3) for raising the rents of lands ... / by a lover of his countrey, and well-wisher to the prosperity both of the King and kingdoms.	Lover of his countrey and well-wisher to the prosperity both of the king and kingdoms.	1673 (1673)	Wing G1491; ESTC R23421	54,704	66

If the Defendant appear and is cast he pays for the Summons and Attachment which is but 2 s. eight pence in the whole But if the Defendannt appear not the third Court day after Attached than the Plaintiff comes and swears his Debt and the Court orders payment thereof at the Plaintiffs own house if he pleaseth which saves 8 d. that must be paid if it be brought into Court to take it out again and this Order costs 4 d. more Of this Order the Officer gives the Defendant notice and that he must meet the Plaintiff in Court the third Court day after the making thereof If the Defendant appear not the third Court day then upon the Plaintiffs request the Courts grants Judgment and Execution against him which costs 2 s. So that the whole Charge of Summons Order and Attachment Second Order for Judgement and the Judgement and Execution executed comes but to 4 s. 8 d. And all is done in three weeks time but the Suit in the Marshalsey White Chappel or St. Katherines or Westminster Courts and Charges incident thereunto costs 4 l. or 5 l. when the Debt or Cause of Action was not worth Five shillings The erecting the Court desired would give a great credit to the Poor For were such Courts erected every Gentleman or person of any considerable estate would lend a poor distressed neighbour Twenty Thirty or Forty shillings to put him in a way to live or to prevent their being cast into Prison if arrested for a small sum whereas now poor men are forced to borrow of Brokers pawn double the value of what they borrow and pay above Cent. per Cent. interest which eats out their profit so presseth and grindes them that they frequently are incapacitated to redeem the Pledges left for the money taken up which is one other great mischief worthy the consideration of the Parliament and fit to be redressed whereas whilst the Law is thus costly men are afraid to lend their Neighbours Thirty or Forty shillings to set them up with or to prevent their being imprisoned because if they repay it not without a Suit the same may cost five or six times as much as the Original Debt and when the Creditor hath Judgement he is not sure of his Debt but in danger through the poverty of the Creditor to lose both Principal Debt Interest and Charges or undergo the hard Censures and Clamours of the poor by confining them to Prison which no ingenuous or generous soul can endure the thoughts of By the erecting this Court there is none can be prejudiced excepting First Bailiffs one of which fellows to arrest a poor man though it be but for three pence four pence or some other very small sum makes the man pay four or five shillings for the Arrest hurries him into an Alehouse and there runs him twelve pence or two shillings on the score and if not able presently to pay the same hurries him to Prison Secondly Several idle Persons falsly calling themselves Attorneys who are as active as the Bayliffs to promote and carry on Suits begun though but for trivial Matters setting people together by the ears and living upon the ruine of the poor make them sell their very Beds from under them or Cloaths from off their backs to pay their pretended Fees and the Fees of the Courts which is too frequently done Thirdly Or the Judges of the Marshalsey Westminster St. Katharines White-Chappel and other Inferior Courts of Record where small Debts under 40 s. may be recovered but certainly they having their places given them gratis and being persons of generous education will not oppose so charitable a work as this proposed though they should lose some profit thereby such profit coming from such miserable poor people that it were charity in them rather to give them as much as their Fees comes to than to exact any thing from them And if they by the Court desired should lose a little profit they will save much time that they now spend in trying these Causes and being Lawyers may certainly spend it to as great if not better advantage than what they will lose by setting up the Judicature proposed Let these consider that such Gentlemen not being Lawyers as shall be appointed Judges of the Courts desired will be greater losers than they are since they must sit and spend their Time and Money without any manner of Compensation at all save the satisfaction they will receive in being instrumental of doing good to the Poor which certainly they will do For whereas now it costs 5 or 6 l. to recover 5 or 6 s. by the way proposed 4 s. 8 d. is all the Charge though the Suits be spun out to the utmost extremity that any Suitor or Defendant can be put unto So by the setting up of this Court Justice will be had speedier and cheaper The ruine of many poor People by multitudes of vexatious Suits for small Matters will be prevented Love and Amity betwixt Neighbours will be preserved Charges of the Parishes lessened Mens Liberties to follow their Callings to their own and Families Comfort will be continued and the Debts they owe be more easily and speedily payed And a Work very pleasing and acceptable to God will be done who hath pronounced a blessing upon all those who consider the Poor for whose relief alone this is proposed X. THe Tenth Thing Proposed is That a bound be put to the extravagant Habits and Expences of all sorts of Persons that Servants and Handicraft Tradesmen's expensive wayes be reduced and no Foreign Manufactures except from Ireland be suffered to be worn in England but that the Importation and Exposing them to Sale be made Felony There is nothing ruines the Gentry and Tradesmen of England so much as living above their Estates or Profit arising by their Trades How much all sorts of men do this I leave the World to judge their Habits and other Expences being more extravagant and vain than ever was known and not only do Masters and Mistresses of Families run to excess in their own dresses but suffer and encourage their Servants also to do the same which costs them dear at last for all comes out of their Pockets and it makes Servants so proud and scornful as to neglect their Duties slight their Superiors and upon every little reproof to go from them How many Gentlemen are there in England that spend their whole yearly Incomes upon clothing themselves their Wives and Children What way then have they to answer their other Familie Expences but by spending upon the main Stock How careless are Parents of their Childrens Education bringing them up idly putting them upon no manner of imployment unless to Musick and Dancing using them to Balls and Playes and to keep vain Company which they get such an habit of that they very hardly if ever can be broken from it but spend-most of their time in Gaming Whoring and Drinking so that by that time they come to