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Law and state proposals humbly presented to the supream authority ,the Parliament of England by William Ball.
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Ball, William.; England and Wales. Parliament.
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1659
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LAW and STATE PROPOSALS Humbly Presented TO THE Supream Authority THE Parliament of England By William Ball Esq LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold at the Key in St. Pau's Church-Yard 1659. PROPOSALS c THe Parliament of England is Intrusted by the People for their Lives Liberties and Estates not with Regular preservation is the true Final Cause of all Intrusted Authority how Supream soever them that is to say for a Regular Preservation of them according to Justice not with an absolute Arbitrary Disposition of them at their Wills and Pleasures as some State-Haereticks have asserted so that the Parliament of England is obliged according to their Trust to propagate for the good of the People Laws Consonant and Consistent with Reason and Justice And it is the hope of all the peaceable People of this Commonwealth that they will accomplish the same In Order whereunto I have humbly tendred these Sequells I. That Jurors between Parties be impannelled of able and sufficiently knowing Men of good Name and Fame for their upright Dealing and not of Mean and Ignorant Persons to the great wrongs and aggrievances of many II. That all Judges whatsoever who shall directly or indirectly take or receive any Bribe or Gift from any who have any Suit Depending before Them shall suffer Death without mercy III. That all Forgers and Falsifiers of Deeds Wills Bonds c. Also Falsifiers and Embezellers of Examinations taken upon Oath in Chancery suffer Death without mercy And that all Suborners and Accessaries be branded in either Cheek with an F. forasmuch as Forgery is a most secret and pernicious Theft IV. That Perjury whereby any one is deprived or in danger to be deprived of His Her or their Lives Estates or Rights be punished with Death without mercy And that all Suborners be branded in either Cheek with a P. forasmuch as Perjury may Violate three Divine Commandements and is most Pernicious and Dangerous in a Commonwealth V. That Perjurors upon answer in Chancery to a Bill of Complaint or otherwise to a Petition of Right be branded in either Cheek with a P. and they lyable if able to pay double Damages to the Party or Parties wronged or to suffer farther Corporal punishment that so the Rights of others may not be concealed nor they wronged or vexatiously troubled therein VI. That all Embezellers of true Wills and Testaments suffer Death without mercy And all concealers of such Wills and Testaments be branded in either Cheek with a W. forasmuch as the Practises and Compliances thereof are high Theft VII That no Will or Testament for giving or settling of any Lands unless where custome prevaileth be deemed valid unless such Will be Signed Sealed and Published in the presence of four sufficient Witnesses that so Heirs at Law be not Dis-inherited contrary to the Law of GOD Numb 27. and Common Law of this Land by Forged or Fraudulent Wills unduly obtained in the time of agony by Force Fear of Flattery and that all Wills so obtained be deemed Null VIII That such as shall be found guilty of Fraud shall pay treble Dâ—mages or suffer severe Corporal punishment Also that all who shall obtain or get into other mens Rights or Estates by fraudulent Practises and Devises and shall afterwards enjoy or possess the same by Collateral conâ—eyances or assurances Also Leaâ—es for Life or Lives and Moâ—gages to be inrolled before the Custos Rotulorum in the several Countiâ—â— shall upon complaint and proof of such former fraud within the space of â— years be outed of such Estates and the Collateral conveyances and assurances made Null unlesse such Collateral conveyances mention some valuable considerarion that so mean and necessitous Persons may not be unduly deprived or wronged in their Rights IX That all Feoâ—fments Deeds of gift Uses and Rent-Charges c. be inrolled in Chancery or in the County where the Lands lye before the Custos Rotulorum c. within three months after their Dates upon pain of being Null and in case the Party or Parties who should acknowledge such Deed or Deeds happen to dye before three months that then the Oaths of three sufficient Witnesses of honest Repute deposing the sealing and delivery of such Deeds within three months after the Death of such Party or Parties who should acknowledge the same shall be sufficient for Caption they being summoned thereunto by Subpaena or by other warrant from the Custos Rotulorum by which means forged srandudulent and suspicious Deeds may be avoyded and the passing of such Estates known and manifested X. That all Lands Rent-Charges c. above per annum exposed to Sale be published three Market-dayes by Bills setting truly forth such Right as the Vendors have and such Incumbrances as are thereon if any be upon pain of forfeiting the valews of one half of them to the Commonwealth or to suffer imprisonment or Corporal punishment accordingly And that such Bills be read by some in the Market-place at the time of Market next adjoyning to the said Lands or in the chief Market-place or so esteemed in or within the County where such Lands lye or where such Rent-Charges are issuing and that such Bills after reading be set up by the Town-Clerk in such Market-place And that afterwards the said Bills or true and exact Copies thereof be Registred in a Book for that purpose appoynted and kept by the Custos Rotulorum of the County the Party or Parties paying 12 d. for every such Bill and in London and other Cities such Bills to be read and set up as aforesaid in some Place and Registred and kept by some sworne Officer thereunto appointed By this means Purchasors if they take any care will not easily be defrauded Concerning Commerce c. 1. THat if it may be Honourable Peace be procured concluded and continuâ—d with all our Neighbour-Nations that so Traâ—e may bâ— promoted Manufactures encouraged the Commonwealth enriched and the People lesse Taxed 2. That the servile People of this Commonwealth transported into the Plantations of America may be more Christian-like and humanly used than as it is credibly reported they usually are 3. That Discovery be made at the Charges of the Commonwealth The Dutch would not have set footing in the hither parts of nova Guinea without expectation of considerable profit c. of that vast Region commonly called Terra Australis incâ—gnita over against China Japon and the Philippina's in the Coasts of nova Guinea and the South Sea or mare del Zur which Regions are commended by Pedro Fernando de Quir and in which 't is probable as Rich and Commodious Plantations may be discovered as in America and from which if Discovâ—red a valuâ—ble Commerce might be held with China Japon and the Regions of the South-Sea however the Discovery will be honourable 4. That severe Penalties be imposed on such as sell by false Scales weights and measures which is too usually done not Divers Persons keep true and false 〈◊〉 measures and fell by either onely in Market-Towns but also in Villages where Shop-Keepers are and that they be subject to be indicted c. for such their defaults and upon sufficient proof subject to such Penalties 5. That Pewterers be not permitted to allay their Tinn so much as they usually do but that they be stinted by a set propoâ—tion for Dishes and such like Utensils and that prices be set thereon according to the rate of Tinn and that by weight 6. That the abuses of Wine-Coopers and Vintners in Sophisticating their Wines be reformed and that prices be set thereon according to their Rates at Importation Customes c. considered 7. That whereas great wastes of Timber and Wood have bin made especially since the late troubles some Order be enjoyned for the Replantation of Wood in Wood-Land Countries by such and the Successors of such who have themselves or whose Predecessors have formerly felled them and this to be done by some Injunction consideration being had to the quantity of Land that so the stock of Wood be not utterly decayed and the Common-wealth thereby Damnified 8. That foâ—asmuch as much Building is composed of Brick Bricks be larger made and better burnt than usually upon some penalty to be imposed by which means Buildings will be stronger and endure longer William Ball. Proposall c. FOrasmuch as Protection and Subjection are Relative and Correlative in regard whereof not only limited a Sir Henry Wotton in his Supplement to the State of Christendome Pag. 17. Kings but also intrusted Potentates and Powers do ordinarily take some Oath or Engagement to Govern the People under them according to Law and Justice I humbly therefore conceive that it would be a great satisfaction to the People of this Commonwealth if the members of b Or Oligarchical Trustees Parliament would vouchsafe to take this or the like ensuing Oath J. A. B. do swear to Protect and Defend according to my best Skill and Ability the People of this Commonwealth of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging in their Just and Legal Rights and Liberties and to maintain and procure just Laws and Ordinances able and upright Judges Magistrates and Officers of Peace and War in Order thereunto agreeable and to maintain and procure the general Safety regular Government and publick Profit of this Common-wealth So c. William Ball. FINIS