such as were not repleviseable and kept in prison such as were Beasts were distrayned and carried into another County Great men and their Bayliffs did attach and arrest others passing through their Jurisdiction and compelled them to answer upon Contracts covenants and Trespasses done out of their power and Jurisdiction 13 E. 1. cap. 13. Sheriffs did in their Turnes feign men to be indicted before them for felony and Trespasses and imprisoned them and exacted money of them when they were not lawfully indicted by Twelve Jurors Lords of Courts and others that kept Courts and Stewards cap. 36. intending to grieve their Inferiors did procure others to enter Actions in their Courts and to move matters against them and to put in sureties and pledges or to purchase writs and compel men to follow their Countie Courts Hundreds Wapentakes or other like Courts until they had made Fine at their will Sheriffs Hundredors and Bayliffs of liberties did use to grieve such as were in subjection to them putting in Assizes and Juries men diseased and decrepit and such as dwelt in other Counties to extort money from them and Bayliffs intending to grieve their Inferiors to the end they might exact money of them did send Strangers to take distresses by reason that the parties so distrained and not knowing such persons would not suffer the distresses to be taken 33 Ed. 1. Stewards and Bayliffs of great Lords did undertake to bear or maintain quarrels which concerned other parties 38 E. 3. Great cap. 3. men came armed and with power to disturb the execution of Justice 4 E. 3. cap. 11. Diverse as well great men as other made Alliances confederacies and conspiracies to maintain parties pleas and quarrels whereby divers were wrongfully dis-inherited ransomed and destroyed 14 Ed. 3. cap. 16. Enquests and Juries were taken in diverse Counties where no Justice did come to the great mischief of the Parties that did sue as also of the good people that were impannelled and Sheriffs did let their Hundred Courts at great rates to the impoverishing and oppression of the People 17 E. 3. The Rot. Parl. in 38. Commons Petition that excessive Fines imposed on them by such as have Leets might be redressed 20 Ed. 3. cap. 6. Bayliffs of Franchises and their under-ministers did commit maintenance and imbracery of Jurors and took gifts rewards and other profits which they did take to array pannels and to execute them to the subversion of the Laws and disturbance of Common right 31. Ed. 3. cap. 15. Sheriffs held their Turnes in time of Harvest and hindred the people 20 Rich. 2. cap. 10. Notorious Theeves were delivered by favourable inquests procured to the great hinderance of the people Lords cap. 3. and other great men did use to sit upon the Bench with Iustices of Assize 17. Ed. 4. cap. 2. Courts of Pypowder were misused by Stewards Vnder-Stewards and Baylifls holding pleas for contracts made out of the Fairs 1 Rich. 3. cap. 4. Diverse inconveniences and perjuries did dayly happen in diverse Shires of England by untrue verdicts before Sheriffs in their Turns by persons of no behaviour nor dreading God nor the worlds shame cap. 6. Courts of Pypowder were misused by Stewards and Bayliffs upon feigned plaints to trouble men to whom they owe evil will to make men lose their Fair or to get favourable inquests whereby many coming to the Fairs were grievously vexed for contracts made out of the Fair The Lords lost their profits of their Fairs and the People wanted those merchandises would otherwise come to them II. Hen. 7. cap. 15. Great extortion was used in divers Countries by Vnder-Sheriffs Shire-Clerks and other Officers holding and keeping County-Courts and in the name of the Sheriffs by entring Plaints without the Plaintiffs direction against Defendants to the intent that if they appear not they may be amerced or entred Plaints in the name of such as were dead and to that end did not at all attach or summon the Defendants but caused the said amerciaments to be levied 3 H. 8. cap. 12. Great extortions and oppressions were by Sheriffs and their Ministers by impanelling such as will be perjured 26 Henry 8. cap. 4. Juries in Wales gave untrue verdicts because upon indictments of Murder and Felons the Kindred and Friends to such offenders had accesse to them 27 H. 8. cap. 7. Divers oppressions maintenance imbraceries riots trespasses c. were in Chester and Wales by reason that common justice was not administered there as in other places by reason of a diverse ministration of Justice Diverse authorities of justice appertaining to the King had cap. 24. been granted away to the great hindrance and delay of Justice cap. 26. By reason of diversity of Laws and usages in Wales and England great discords variance and sedition have risen betwixt the People Which irregularities of Small Courts so all along from time to time complained of in Parliament were not only the cause of making those many Acts of Parliament in those several years to redresse those grievances but of the making of several other Acts of Parliment As that in 13 E. 1. cap. 30. authorising Justices of Nisi prius to go at certain times of the year into the Counties that of 27 E. 1. cap. 3. and 4. to make those Iustices of Assize Iustices of Gaol delivery and that enquests and recognisances taken before Iustices of either Bench should be taken in time of vacation before any of the Iustices before whom the plea is brought That of 28 E. 1. cap. 10. that against Conspirators false informers procurers of enquests and Iuries remedie should be had by a writ out of the Chancery and that the Justices of both Benches and Justices assigned to take Assizes should when they come into the Country upon every plaint made unto them award enquests Char of 12 E. 2. cap. 3. and 4. that enquests and Juries in pleas of Land that require great examination should be taken in the Country before two Justices of the Bench and that which they shall have done shall be reported in the Bench at a certain day there to be inrolled and thereupon Judgement shall be given And to provide that inquests and Juries should notwithstanding be taken in the Bench if they came That of 2 E. 3. cap. 2. that Assizes Attaints and Certifications be taken before the Justices commonly assigned which be good men and lawfull having knowledge of the Law and none other That of 14 E. 3. cap. 16. that nisi prius shall be granted as well at the Suit of the Defendant as of the Plaintiff and before a Justice of another Court then where the Suit dependeth and if it happen that none of the Justices of the one Bench or the other may go into the Country then Nisi prius to be granted before the Chief Baron of the Exchequer if he be a man learned in the Law and in case he cannot go then before Justices assigned to take
out of one Action into another almost to their utter undoing There have been in every year of those many years many thousands of causes as may be demonstrated to any that will call for a proof of it dispatched put to an end by the Courts of Law at Westninster or in the Circuits that a multitude of People Actions and businesses more than formerly in a Time of more Deceit Falshood Perjuries Secret and cunning combinations and breaches of Trust than ever were may make an increase multiplicity of Suits and yet the Lawiers who in an age have not a common Barretor amongst them be as innocent as the Physicians who are not accused for much practise in a time of Pestilence or when there are store of Epidemical diseases there will be no cause to say that the Law is endlesse Let it be but considered that the greater part of established Fees in the Courts of justice are lesse than what the most common Artificers do take for their labour and as for any which exceed that rate are but that which was allowed one Hundred years agoe when the rate and price of Cloths and Victuals was not one in three so much as it is now that the Attorneys 3 s. 4 d. fee and the Lawiers 10 s. fee would then have bought 3 times more than what may be now for it That the Gentry have since raised their rents two parts in Three the Farmers the price of their Corn and Cattel and the Citizens their Commodities and servants and workmen raised their wages yet the Lawiers except some eminent and great practisers who take but the Free will offering of those that give them the greater Fees to take the greater care of their businesse have but the same Fees were formerly taken by them That the Lawiers who had no worse a name auntiently given to their profession by the most Civilized Nations of Europe than Sacerdotes justttiae the Ministers of Justice and had so right an esteem in our former Parliaments as by several Acts of Parliament made upon several and successive necessities of the People in 2 Edward 3 cap. 2. 14. Edward 3 cap. 16. 34. Edward 3. cap. 1. and 20. Richard 2. cap. 10. It was specially provided that none but men learned in the Law should be made Justices of Assize and Goal delivery and that there should be in every County men learned in the Law made Justices of the peace And in all their Actions either at home in their Counties or at London in the Terms are known to be men of Godlinesse Sobriety and learning and compared with any other profession or part of the People to have fewer men of vice or ignominie amongst them than any other profession Let it be but considered that the Law as it may be demonstrated if an accompt were kept as some Physitians do of their consultations and Cures or as the People of the Bath do of some that are cured in every year doth in every year recover and get in many Thousands of men debts redresse their Injuries preserve their rights secure their estates rescue and take some Innocent mens lives and estates out of the jawes of death or oppression support the hand of Justice and is as eyes and ears unto it puts her Judgement in the right way when it was sometimes allmost carried off ormislead into a wrong and hath kept us and our forefathers in a greater safety certainty of it than Roman Legions could have done and Ten greatet Armyes than we now bear the charge of That in the determination or adjudging of every Action or Suit in Law or Equity one of the parties is discontented and one of them most commonly faulty or much mistaken in the grounds of that Contest Actions of Debt or of other natures where the Plaintiff will not give time and the Defendant only stands out a Suit to gain it only excepted and do all they can to lay the fault upon the Law when it should be charged upon themselves And that the difficulty in the case before Solomon betwixt the true Mother of the Child and the false could not be charged upon any defects of the Hebrew Laws or the Professors thereof but the wickednesse and false pretences of her that had no right to it and that every discontent and every Complaint is not just because the partie thinks it to be so There will be as little cause to say that the practice of the Law as to the Law it self or to the Lawiers is a grievance or that they are worse than Ten Thousand Devils as that Tenterden Steeple is the cause of Goodwyne Sands For most of the things complained of in the Law if impartially and knowingly examined will appear to be neither from the Law or by the Law it Self or of the Essence Nature or Intention of it but meerly proceeding from the people and their own misuse or abuse of them which being not evill in themselves but commanding good things to be done and forbidding evil are no more to be charged with the faults which the people themselves Commit in abusing of them than that great Luminary and comfort of Mankind the Sun can be said to be the cause of darknesse or ill influences because in his journey or execution of his Office he is sometimes orecharg'd with Foggs ill vapours or exhalations from the Earth which he would disperse or carry away or meets with so many Clouds interpositions and Shadows of the Earth Conjunctions of Planets or Malevolent Aspects than the necessary arts of Physick and Chirurgery are to be blamed for the many Errors and mischiefs are done by Montebanks or confident and credulous women that have no skill in them than wine and women for the General abuses of them or Religion and the Sacred Scriptures because the world hath of late been troubled with so many Heresies and Schisms proceeding from the mis-interpretation of the one and practice of the other and may the better be understood and believed to be thus Innocent when those that not long agoe could run to Westminster and cry for justice against the Earl of Strafford but for at most an endeavour to subvert the Laws and cryed out they could have no Trading or subsistence if his head were not taken off cannot now give us a reason why those very Laws and the Courts that administred them should not now be as good as they were then Or why the Old Chancery and Court hands which being made out of Saxon letters or Characters before any Friers or Monks ever came into England have through so many generations come down to us and given such a legibility duration and continuance to all our records as they may yet be plainly seen and read for 7 or 8 hundred years past should be more inconvenient Popish Antichristian than the Secretary other Mungrel and Scrible dashed hands made out of the Roman and Italian which will not as it begins to appear already
wisdom to any that shall so judge of them be thought to have been so to a continual succession did only correct alter and add as there were necessities or occasions but left us our Laws and reasonable customs to preserve our estates and properties Contrary to all the Petitions and pretences of Grievances that ever were exhibited by any of the people before or since the Conquest to any King Parliament great Councel or Assembly for above one thousand years To what our Auncestors did in England Who in the change of governments and succession of Kings from the Saxons to the Danes from them to the Normans thence to the Plantagenet line from the right Heirs to the wrong from the red rose to the white from the white to the red and white united in Henry the seventh from the Catholick religion to the Protestant from that to the Catholick and from that back again to the Protestant from the English line to the Scottish did never find any cause to take away that Court which they found by so long and successive experiments to be the conservator of Justice Contrary to the National Covenant which many have endeavoured to prove to be consistent with the Ingagement to what was done by the late Parliament in their reformation of religion wherein though the Bishops and Book of Common Prayer were put down and abolished and that not at once did not put down all the Doctrine of the Church or all the Discipline or parts of it nor shut up the Church doors Contrary to the many Declarations vows and Imprecations of the late Parliament The many Declarations and Remonstrances of the Army The Course held in the late Conquests of Scotland and Ireland who by enjoying their Lawes and Courts of Justice have yeelded an easier submission to it The Act of the late Parliament in erection of this Commonwealth which declared and promised to the people that they would not alter nor take away the fundamental Lawes The Peoples purpose of their ingagement upon it The Act or order of Parliament for the regulation of the Lawes The regulators Systeme and the Nature of a reformation or regulation The late Act for taking away Fines in Chancery and many of the Petitions that of late have been against the Lawes which desired a regulation but not a total taking of them away CHAP. VI. That the very Being of Parliaments is preserved by the Laws and that so great a distemper and disturbance as will come upon the people by putting down of the Laws will by a necessitie of Justice and of the better ordering of Affairs bring them back again by a revolution of time into their old Chanel WHich for so much of them as have their Principles from the Laws of Nature and right reason and the consent of them or are founded and deduced from them are so interwoven and radicated in the very Being of Parliaments so inseparable from it and so reciprocate to it as that high Court of Parliament which is not by themselves intended to be any standing or ordinary Court or Rule of Justice cannot when it shall sit upon emergencies or matters of greater consequence be without it no more than the people can in the Intervals or absence of it for that the Law of Nature which God imprinted and put into the Hearts of all Mankind and that Law of reason which bindeth Creatures reasonable in this world and with which by Reason they most plainly perceive themselves to be bound and so much of our Laws which out of the Law either of God or Nature or Reason our Forefathers probably gathered and conceived to be expedient which the learned Hooker putting all together calleth the second Hooker 1 lib. Ecclesiastical Pollicy Law eternal are so in some sort immutable as they cannot be taken away or repealed by any Act of Parliament whatsoever but will retorn and grow up again with the nature and reason of Mankind for Laws of men not contrary to the Law of God nor to the Law of reason are to be observed in the Law of the Soul and Doctor and Studient 4 Chap. he that despiseth them resisteth God and that which plain and necessary reason bindeth men unto will upon some inconvenience or necessity at one time or other get it self in again and obtain an allowance or ratification of human Laws for it Which should advise a great inspection and examination into the nature cause and effect of all our Laws before a sentence of condemnation passe against them that so it may be clearly known what and how much of them have their Being from the Law of God or Nature right reason or convenience and a value accordingly put upon them that the Gold may not be cast away for the drosse nor the Saint for his infirmity That we may not be sent to seek after in the rubbidg for that we might have kept or laid by or not seem to have pullen down all the house when some little part of it would have served the turn or to be such ill Husbands as to cast away the materials might have served for the new building and is better or more substantial than any can be gotten instead of it of which opinion were all our former Parliaments who hitherto in their correcting and altering of Laws could never be brought to forsake any thing might be good or fit to Sir Francis Bacon Judge Hutton in his argument against the ship mony and Lord Hobart in his Reports remain of them and all our Forefathers who in their greatest esteem and reverence of Parliaments did beleeve that an Act of Parliament it self enacting any thing against Common right and right reason would be void and of none effect to what end then should these men sollicite a Parliament to take away the matter of its own form and subsistence and its Being or coexistence with the Laws or to take away that which is to be a rule of justice to the people when they cannot themselves intend it or to lay by those Laws which the wisdom of their Predecessors thought they had done the people good service when they did procure them to be enacted and those reasonable customes which the people were wont to swear their Kings to observe when the late Parliament took it to be a good way for the preservation of the Laws and Liberties of the people that Sheriffs and Justices should be sworn to the Remonstrance 15 December 1641. and 26 of May 1642. due execution of the petition of right m Stiled themselves the Conservatory of Lawes took Arms for the maintenance therof appealed to the people touching that imputation which they said was then laid upon them that they which represented all the Commons of England and had so great a share in it should endeavour to take away the Laws and run so great a hazard to make themselves Slaves Wherefore if the Parliament to please these unquiet and proposing spirits and let
which some are content to leave at Westminster to determine Appeals and other necessaries to that contrivement as there will be Counties the yearly allowance or Salarie of whose Judges if they should have but two hundred pound per Annum for every Judge according to the number of Five in every County Court of Fifty will amount to 50000 l. per Annum more charges than the Commonwealth is at already for Judges Salaries And when they shall be thus paid and furnished out will if Lawiers shall be so much excluded from being Judges as hath been proposed be as to Four in every Five of them meer Strangers to the Laws of the Land or know so little of them as not to be relyed upon for their Judgements For we cannot suppose that the eleven Judges in the Courts at Westminster Hall are intended to be any of them or can be at one and the same time at Westminster and in these new County Courts or serve or be enough to make one in every of these Fifty County Courts as some would contrive it to sit with these new County Judges who having as is to be feared not read much of men or books will have no ground or capacity for knowledge to grow in nor any thing of parts or learning to build up an ability withall but be willfull or obstinate in their ways or opinions for want of better understanding or domineering because they shall not be able to know when they do well or ill And if they should be honest which perhaps will not alwayes happen their want of knowledge of the Laws and the rules they should go by their not knowing how to understand what shall be said to them nor what answers to give their inability to expound the Law by other Laws or make a right construction of the words or meaning of Deeds or Parties or to distinguish and divide betwixt truth and falshood right and wrong reason and pretences of it colour or reality or how to find the difference betwixt the Cases or Evidences that shall be urged by the one side or the other or to state the matter of Fact or to sever the point or material part from the circumstances will make them as fruitfull in their oppression as in their errors and mistakes apt to be led or mislead by their fellow Judges that shall be Lawiers or which will be worse to be like wax taking the impression of every mans Seal that shall be last clapt upon them be directed by a Wife or Clerk or some other simple or knavish favourite that shall broak and trade in every cause that shall come before them and be sure to abuse it Trouble and delay the people with needlesse scruples and niceties by making Quaeries or doubts of that which to others would be common and easie and stumbling at every word that comes not up to their apprehensions give advantage to knaves and put men to seek indirect Courses or ways to ballance the Judges because they dare not trust them to do that which they ought to do hurt rather than help such as shall be innocent and oppressed or are not allowed Counsel to plead for them make them be ready to allow of all the reasons given by the Plaintiffs Counsel and as ready to approve of that which the Counsel for the Defendant shall urge against it and for want of knowledge to guide them in their Judgements to be incertain and instable making an order one day at the instigation of the Plaintiff and another the next day quite contrary to it at the request of the Defendant be like Feathers blown with every wind of Doctrine and like Bowls run only according to the Byas shall be put upon them one will like the Mole in the Fable think himself the most clear sighted of all his fellows another help to mislead himself and others by endeavouring to make men believe that which he speaks is from Christ Jesus when he never spake with him or knows how to expound his written word another will have a fancy of the Spirit or think himself guifted when he himself would not trust the most guifted Trades-man to settle a Daughters joynture or make his Conveyance when they shall have nothing of learning or Law to make use of but their own will weak apprehensions will make such kind of Justice as will be had from them more arbitrary than that of a Tyrant whose will and purpose of governing without Laws when he knows them cannot be so lasting and dangerous as the will of those men of ignorance which shall be only guided by the necessity of an invincible ignorance and may prove to be a greater oppression to the people than it those that shall be thus made to be corrupt or to do like unrighteous Judges had been knowingly wicked for that the one sort doth commit numberlesse errors by not knowing them and the other committs but a few because they dare not adventure to do it often Whereas the old constitutions and course of the Laws of England as ill as the proposers think of them knew how to serve the people better by making choice of such men for Judges as by Seven years study in an Innes of Court or Colledge of Law had come to the degree of Barresters And from thence after a great number of years practice and continuance of Study to be Readers of the Law to the Innes of Court whereof they were after that Serjeants at Law and after that for their eminency of parts and honesty to be Judges where by a continual Study observation and practice of the Law from their age of 16 or 17. until they came to be as it most commonly happens before they come to be Judges above Threescore years of age they became to be great Masters of reason and so fully experimented in the whole body of the Law and Customs of the Nation as by their knowledge therein and of the Civil and Cannon Laws which border upon them and so many Cases and experiments as had in all that time passed through the course of their Studies and practice as they were honourable in the gates of their people and appeared compleatly able to contradict or rectifie Hundreds of other Lawiers that moved or pleaded before them and not only to advise the Supreme Authority when they were called to it concerning the making or executing of Laws but to apply fit remedies to every mans action or grievance that came before them and had all their life after no other Trade or profession to divert or call off their thoughts from a continual Study of the Law and right administration of justice But if it shall be said that all that Catalogue of evills will be prevented by a carefull choice or election of such as shall be made Judges out of the best or most knowing of the people that will but little amend the matter when the Lawiers all but such as shall be chosen to make one
8th Commandement in the Decalogue a second time with his own Finger That the Judges and professors of the Law and also all Persons interessed or concerned in any losse may happen by any alteration thereof may be heard or advised withall in what particulars may be charged aâ—â—â—â—â—â— the Laws in being or thought fit for reformation and to take into their consideration That in the reformation in the Body natural the Cure is never gone about by a total dissolution nor any part of it intendedly cut off even in case of Gangrene where there is any hope to keep life or to cure without it That the Petitions which have been against the Laws are not the voice or general outcry of the People in their several Counties or made by the consent or approbation of the major or any considerable part of them but are an Engine or Artifice of some people never made use of till these times of Troubles to advance their designs and conveniences and bring ruine to others by petitioning in the names of a whole County or Province of which many times not one in every thousand of the Inhabitants ever knew or heard any thing before of it Too many of the Petitions concerning publique affairs having been of late and for some years past made and framed by a few in the name of many and many times not in the place or County from whence they seem to come 20000 hands said to be subscribed when there was not so many scores of those many ignorant peoples names or marks put to it that were meerly led or seduced unto it eighty Schools Boys have at once subscribed their names to a Petition by the procurement of their School Master some have had their names subscribed when they were never privy unto it and others that could not write or read have been drawn to suffer their names to go along with a Petition was for other matters than they were informed of And that if all the People of this Nation were but freely called together by Tribes and Wards or Centuries to give their votes concerning our Laws as the People of Rome k were to peruse and approve the Laws of the Ten Tables brought from Athens and to speak and give their voices as freely as they did then there would be one thousand for or to every one that should appear against it would not only consent to the continuance of the Laws and Court of Iustice we have in being but be most earnest Petitioners for them And would be pleased if upon a free full hearing as hath been lately granted in the matters of Tithes any thing shall be found fit to be abrogated or taken away they to consider That in the Acts of Parliament of 27 Henry 8. cap. 28. 31 Henry 8. cap. 13. Touching the dissolution of Abbies there is a saving of all Corodies profits pensions due to any other than the Donors their Heirs Abbots Abbesses c. In the Act for establishing Laws Ordinances in Wales 34 35 Hen. 8. cap. 26. There is a saving for the Kings Officers for their Offices and Fees In the power given by Parliament to Queen Mary in the first year of her reign to dissolve alter unite or put into one the Courts of first fruits Wards Surveys Augmentation and Dutchy of Lancaster there is an expresse saving of all annuities pensions fees stipends or sums of money which they might or ought lawfully to have by any letters patents or grant of the said Court of Augmentation And that if the Queen should annex any of the said Courts to the Exchequer it should be with a saving to all persons of all Offices of keepers of Chases Parks Houses and the profits thereof and all Rents Annuities Fees c. with a provisoe that that Act should not extinguish or take away from any person any Fees or Sums of Money which they Lawfully had before the seventh of Iuly then last past That in the dissolution of the Abhies by Hen. 8. provision was made and pensions given for life to such as had places or imployments in them as to Readers Curats c. and the like and Corodies or provision of diet made into a yearly pension granted out of Abbies and Priories saved to those that had right to them many of which are to this day enjoyed by the purchasers of them That in the Act of Parliament 3 Jacobi cap. 16. For the bringing of the new river water to London recompence and amends was to be made and given before hand to such as should be endamaged by it That in the Act of Parliament 7 Iacobi cap 19 for the continuance repair of a Weare upon the River of Exe near the City of Excester recompence is provided for any that shall be losers thereby for that as the words of the Act are it standeth with the rule of Equity and Iustice that those which should receive so great benefit by it should yeeld competent and sufficient recompence to such as should sustain any losse or detriment thereby That in the putting down of Episcopacy in Scotland in the late King reign the Parliament of Scotland did think fit to allow to the Bishops yearly pensions or maintenance during their lives and suffered them to enjoy it That in the last Parliament of England satisfaction was promised to the Officers and Clerks of the Court of Wards upon the dissolution thereof and so much intended as the Lord Say and Sr Penjamin Rudiard had some thousands of pounds paid or promised unto them and a Committee was appointed to consider of the value of every Clerks place and their losses sustained by it The Wives and Children of Ministers that were put out of their Benefices and of Delinquents were allowed a fifth part of their Husbands estate And that in the Proposals or Petitions for taking away of Tithes there is a desire or intention to give to them a maintenance equivalent by some other way That in the Act of the Parliament 29 May 1649. for the draining of the Lincoln Shire and Cambridge Shire Fenns the Commissioners have power to make satisfaction to such persons whose Interest or Lands shall be made worse in quality or condition by the draining of them proportionable to their losse and damage That 2 Reg. 23. 9. Iosias king of Iuda in his reformation and turning to the Lord with all his Soul and with all his might did breaking down the high places permit the Priests though Causers of grosse Idolatry and more peccant than any which do now belong to the Law to eat of the unleavened bread among their Brethren That by the rule of our Saviour Christ in the Gospel we are to do as we would be done unto And that the promise in the first Act of this Parliament to be as carefull of the Peoples property and liberty as of their own lives and estates will not be performed without having rightly informed themselves before hand of what they would put down or alter hearing those that are concerned and giving them a just recompence for what shall be thought fitting to be taken away Which if for a general good may for such part of the Law as shall be found fit to be abrogated or taken away be done With content to all People and according to natural and common equity By a Publique and general Assessment or some other way of certain satisfaction for it That so there may be a mutual preservation of the people no sighing of multitudes of poor or broken in Spirit nor complaining in our Streets FINIS By the Authors absence from the Presse the Errata's following have escaped the Printer which the Reader is intreated to amend or supply IN Page 9. line 12. adde which in l. 33. dele for in p. 16. l. 7. r. Jesuitical in l. 33. r. and p. 17. l. 6. r. abstract in p. 19. l. 9. r. or for as in l. 10. r. the mistake of the Judges in p. 20. l. 1. r. and in p 20. l. 25. dele but in l. 32. r. now be had for it in p. 25. l. 8. r. may then in p. 26. in l. 3. of the title of Ch. V. r. of this in p. 26. l. 7. r. Syllan in l. 15. r. Reformation of in p. 28. l. 14. r. have been in p. 29. l. 1. r. and from in l. 10. r. they did not p. 31. l. 25. r or fit in p. 32. l. 19. r. it is p. 33. l. 1. r. new modeld in p. 34. l. 5. dele to in l. 6. r. Assistant in the latter end of l. 32. dele the in p. 35. l. 4. r. rightly in l. 10. dele and and r. can no more be kept from in l. 11. dele can no more be kept from and in l. 12. adde and in l. 12. dele save in l. 17. r. should in p. 36. dele and in p. 38. l. 23. adde that in p. 39. l. 26. r. 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