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A29470 Brief reflections upon the inconveniencies attending wilful and malitious forgery and perjury with some reasons why such crimes ought to be made felony / by a truly loyal subject, and a sincere lover of his King, country, and the laws of this realm. 1685 (1685) Wing B4620; ESTC R41280 3,996 4

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seven years since to forge Writs against several Catholicks of good Quality privately pretending that the same Writs regularly issued against them upon penal Statutes out of the Courts of Westminster-Hall and thereby affrighted them he being then a common Informer into secret Agreements to pay him several sums of mony whereas in truth there were never any such Writs or Process granted out against those persons from whom he thus vexatiously extorted Money But to resume and give you one or two instances more for all the rest of the great inconveniencies attending the faintness and deficiency of our Statute Laws in point of punishment against wilful and malicious Forgery and Perjury If any person lie in wait to wound or deface another or if a High-way-man rob you though onely of your traveling Coyn he becomes thereby guilty of Felony and according to Statute Law he ought to be hang'd for it besides you have your remedy by the Statute in the last case made and provided to recover of the Hundred wherein you were Robbed the vallue of all that was so taken from you And this is concluded as indeed it is to be both reasonable and just but if a Knight of the Post by premeditated and malicious Forgery and Perjury ruin and undo honest men and their Families by taking away and destroying both of their Lives and Fortunes at once as too too often by sad and lamentable experience it hath happened yet in this case by the Statute Laws as now they are there is no provision made either to punish the malicious perjured person with death as a just recompence and satisfaction to the Law of God for shedding innocent blood or to subject his Estate if he have any to make restitution to the injured persons Family for the loss and ruin of his which prima facie besides the ill consequences of it seems to be a very severe and hard case and wherein in this case doth that just proportion lie which ought to be between the Punishment and the Crime Or how is the punishment proportionable to the Offences in the cases of wilful Forgery and Perjury when after a man shall be thereby utterly ruined and undone he shall have no other remedy or satisfaction left but at the rate of great trouble and expence the empty shouts and laughter of the Mobile and Rabble with it may be the unwarrantable discharge of a few vollies of rotten Oranges and Eggs to the profligate and incorrigeable Villain that stands in the Pillory 'T is therefore and for other weighty reasons too tedious here to be expressed high time with submission to better judgements both with respect to His Majesties Interest and the safety and security of His Kingdoms and People that such inconveniencies should be remedied and redressed and stricter Laws made with greater punishments than yet there are against such Offenders for if it be contrary to principles of Justice and Reason that such Transgressors should be exempt from punishments adequate to their Crimes then 't is both reasonable and just that a Law should be made to punish them according to their demerits for Ratio est annima Legis And in regard the grand Council of this Nation by His Majesties special Grace and Favour are now Assembled in Parliament 't is humbly offered to the serious Consideration of His most Sacred Majesty and His great Counsel assembled that such a Statute Law may be made this Session of Parliament against wilful Forgery and Perjury as may not onely tend to destroy that wicked Herd of perjured Satanists in this Kingdom but to relieve and discharge those that have been oppressed by their malicious contrivances from the Judgments at Law obtained thereby and curb their unbridled insolencies for time to come with Enacting that such Crimes shall be made Felony which certainly notwithstanding what can be rationally objected against it after serious consultation and advising with the learned in the Law concerning the due qualifying limitting and well penning of such an Act will not at all as some fancy discourage honest and good men from a cheerful Swearing the Truth in Courts of Law and Justice for the determination of Controversies their own intorest and that most excellent rule of doing for others as they would that they should do for them indispensibly requiring it but on the contrary for the future will certainly afright and deter all Knights of the Post and hackney Swearers from offering any more to attempt the ruine either of Kings Kingdoms Societies or Families by such their most destructive Practices and Diabolical Crimes FINIS LONDON Printed for Mark Pardoe over against bedford-Bedford-House in the Strand 1685.