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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87640	The new Returna brevium or the law returned from Westminster and restored in brief to its native, antient, and proper habitation, language, power, puritie, integritie, cheapness, briefness, plainness. Rescued out of the sacrilegious hands, barbarous disguises, ænigmatical intricacies, lucrative constructions, extorted verdicts, fals judgments, & bribeful executions of her perjured impostors, fals interpreters, iailers, catchpols, attorneys, &c whereunto is added the Petition of Right, granted by Parliament in the 3 year of King Charls, and confirmed by this (although to bee found in larger volumes) for cheapness to the generalitie to inform themselvs what is their rights. Written by John Jones of the Neyath in com. Brecon Gent.	Jones, John, of Neyath, Brecon.	1650 (1650)	Wing J972; Thomason E1411_2; ESTC R202637	18,638	94

of more English men then all the Wars Plagues and Famine vvhich reigned in their times destroyed vvithout them Witness their Statutes made and mainteined against Magna Charta for their murthering of Debtors in Prisons vvith tortures and famine vvhen their extortions and their Gaolers have left them no means to buy bread And for the unlavvfull divorcing scattering and starving of their Wives and Children by the bargain and robbing their Creditors of those means that should pay their Debts in part or all and for protecting of Cheators that take their Prisons for Sanctuaries to leav so much of other mens estates with the right owners curs and their heirs to their posteritie as their Judges and Gaolers extortions and their own riot cannot consume in their owne time As also their last Acts formerly mentioned for releas of Prisoners which intangle their bodies and souls more then before And many other Statutes to intricate the Laws with such contrarieties as none but such as have the Genius of their makers can reconcile which when it is don tendeth wholly to make themselvs great and rich and the People their slaves and beggers For Remedie whereof it is to be desired in the name and right of the publick that the Hous would bee pleased to bee swept and clensed of such cobs and cob-webs and to vote and vomit out of the sanctifi'd bowells of that sacred Senate those execrable excrements that poison their intrailes and deliver them to publick Justice which their ravenous lives and extorted possessions suffice not to satisfie but may in Gods mercie appeas his wrath stay his Judgement and expiate this Land of that wickedness which they have wrought among us and accumulated upon us This don The work followeth and teacheth it self how it would be don as aforesaid declaring it self that frustrà fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauclora vain is the labor of many workmen where few may serv the Turn with far less charge and more conveniencie And breiflie vain expenceful and too burthensom to this Common-wealth are the severall Courts hereafter mentioned upstarted over us one after another since the first publishing of Magna Charta as Heresies sprung immediately after if not with the first preaching of the Gospel viz. Out of the Court lately called the King's Bench issued the Common-Pleas and the Eschequer which took their leav of it in Magna Charta and left it to follow the King and so I conceiv it ought to do still for that there is no use rightly to bee made of it but to hear and determine the Pleas of the Crown which the Lord Coke upon Magna Charta saith were wont to bee determined by Stewards in their Leets Sheriffs in their Turns Recorders in Corporations and countrey Judges in Signiories which had jura Regalia all which now Justices of Peace having more power in matters determinable by common Law then Justices in Eire had if rid of the sovereigntie usurped over them by their fellow-Justices their Certioraries c. may eas of much labor Moreover the chief Justice of this Court ought to bee but the King's deputie by writ and no King in beeing no such Deputie can bee Hugh de Burgo Earl of Kent chief Justice under King Henry the 3d took his oath with his Master to observ and maintein Magna Charta and soon after persuading the King to break it became the first Perjurer of his place in that point as the Lord Cook upon Art sup Chart. declareth at large Since which time the practice of this Court beeing but to murther debtors over whom it hath no jurisdiction and consequently perjurie and injurie to the Common-wealth why may it not bee spared as well as the King While as saith the Lord Cook afore-said all Majors c. have the Law to guide them and now Englished unto them where then can bee the desect of Justice but in the Justices as before that will not execute them since it is Law it self that the Laws are to bee interpreted so that there shall bee no failer of Justice to the people And few or no Laws besides Magna Charta and it's confirmations will serv to do that without those superfluous number of volumes which Lawyers have contrived for their own Reports of Cases and crastie disputes arguments and cavils pass'd among them but to bee used by such as have minde and leisure to read them as Divines may the Works of the wantonest Poëts to pick out their flowers for their Pulpits and leav their scurrilities to others of their Autor's genius Or as Interludes in which all parts were not all bad and though all prohibited to bee publickly acted yet may Terence bee read in Schools And may not those Statutes that relate to the Justices of either Bench c. bee executed without them aswel as those that relate to the Bishops are without them And this Court thus spared will spare the Common-wealth in fees and extortion above five hundred thousand pound per Annum besides unknown bribes and their known salarie of 4000 ll per Annum as Sir John Lenthal and his 4000 prisoners or thereabouts between Thule and Callicute and Mt Henley with his hoste of Scribes whose Van is at Michaël's mount and Rear at Barwick if convented and compell'd to consess truth can declare at large The Chancerie was no Court of Judicature nor personated by a Lawyer but commonly by a Monk or Bishop as wee have seen lately in England and Ireland whose office was to follow the King with the Seal and to seal Writs gratis at the King 's cost as the Lord Coke affirmeth and Rast fol. 65. citeth the Statute of Art super chart and sheweth that the breaches of those Articles were the first thing given to the power of the Chancellor to judg of who beeing likely a a Bishop had charge as a Bishop by virtue thereof to excommunicate the breakers thereof In the 36th year of the reign of King Edward first cap. 4 to from which little fountain sprung that Nilus that ever since overfloweth all England not onely once every seven years but seven times at least in every year The Chancerie a Court of Conscience forsooth raised upon pretence of equitie and relief to such as complained of oppressions against the breakers of this Statute which vvas the first confirmation of Magna Charta and no sooner thus raised but it despised both its raiser and the caus extolled it self and overtopped all the Courts of England disusing to grant the antient Commissions in Eire to vvhom their Counties chose and of Oyer and Terminer to any that had occasion to use them as lavvful vvas according to Fitz Herbent Nat. brev fo 112. and Cromp. s p. fol. 51. and all Writs to any vvithout excessive sees and extortion contrarie to all laws the Oath of a Judg and the practice of the office it self as it was formerly gratis and neglecting to send Magn. Char. to every Sheriff yearly to bee read