Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	plea_n	5,523	5	9.8646	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41193	Whether the Parliament be not in law dissolved by the death of the Princess of Orange? and how the subjects ought, and are to behave themselves in relation to those papers emitted since by the stile and title of Acts : with a brief account of the government of England : in a letter to a country gentleman, as an answer to his second question.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing F765; ESTC R7434	52,609	60

ruin him for they do reckon by what they have robbed and plundered the Nation of under him they shall be able both to purchase their Pardons and to live plentifully upon the next Revolution Nor are most of the Addresses with which our Gazettes are Weekly stufft to be otherwise accounted of then as the Arts and Tricks of Knaves to banter and deceive Fools And they do only act that over again upon the Prince of Orange which was long ago practised upon Manlius Valence of whom Tacitus says Quo incautius deciperetur palam laudatus they court him to his Face that they may the better cut his Throat behind his Back For there are none so weak or unthoughtfull but they must from their own woful Experience allow that to be true which Mr. Pryn observeth in his Preface to Sir Robert Cotton's Records namely That Kings created and set up meerly by Parliaments without any hereditary Title have seldom answered the Lords and Commons Expectations in the Preservation of their just Liberties and answers to their Petitions But if People want bravour to push the Defence of their Liberties and Estates thus far though legally they may let them at least calmly refuse to pay and warn the Officers that if they take any Thing it is at their peril And I shall account those Collectors and Constables both very unwise and very bold who will be so hardy as to break into Mens Houses and to make destraints For let them be assured That whosoever ventureth upon it will ere long be called to a reckoning and besides other Punishments they will be brought to undergo they will feel what it is to fall under Reprizals But should any Frantick Williamite be so far transported as that amounteth unto it becomes every true English Man in that Case to make a Replevin and we shall then see how the Gentlemen in Scarlet will decide the Question Whether this Parliament be a legal Parliament Nor are they ignorant of the Laws as most others are which will make their Crime the more unpardonable as well as the greater if they shall subvert and trample upon them And seeing they know what was the Fate of Wayland Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Edward the First 's time and of Thorpe Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Edward the Third's time and of Tresilian and Belknap and four Judges more in the time of Richard the Second it is to be supposed that they who fill the Benches now will not be ambitious of the like Destiny Nor will it be amiss for them to remember also the Reign of King Alfred who caused hang 44 Justices or Judges in one Year for corrupt and false Iudgments see Mirrour of Iust. Cap. 5. Sect. 6. And being acquainted with Foreign Histories both Ancient and Modern it cannot have escaped them in their Reading with what beautiful Hangings a certain Emperour caused adorn a Court of Jedicature namely with the Skins of corrupt Judges stuff with Straw and hung over the Bunch where they had prevaricated from Equity Justice and Law But if they be loath to look so far back let them only recollect the Proceeding of the Parliament in the Year 1640. against those Judges who in the matter of Ship-money had given Judgment against Mr. Humbden And if that Gentleman being only assessed ●o 〈◊〉 yet rather than pay it when he thought not himself obliged to it by Law chose to undergo great Trouble and to be at vast Charges in order to bring the Validity of the Ship Writs to a legal Tryal What will Posterity say of us if in a Matter of more weight in it self and where all the Law of England is on our side we have not the Fortitude and Generousness through the refusing to pay Taxes to force the Case of this Parliaments being dissolved by the Death of the late Princess into Westminster Hall And I will only say to all true English Men what Germanicus when dying said to his Friends viz. Erit vobis locus querendi apud Senatum invocandi leges That this is the Time if ere there was one of appealing to the Westminster Hall Courts and for calling for the Relief and Benefit of the Laws of the Kingdom And thus Sir I have returned you the best Answer I can to your second Query as I had given you one about a Week ago to your first Nor will I prefume to trouble you any farther at present save meerly to add That as you do still retain an Authority over me and are at Liberty to command me in whatsoever you Judge to be for the Service of my King and Country So I do assure you that I will never in any Thing decline to obey you the highest Ambition I have being to appprove my self SIR Your most humble and most obedient Servant April 24. 1694. ERRATA Page 2. line 4. for 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 p. 4. l. 14. before also r. is p. 5. l. 6. r. insensius ibid. l. 25 before Man r. the ibid. l. 35. before unlikely r. not p. 10. l. 13. for a r. the p. 12. l. 16. for hand r. head p. 15. l. 36. dele his p. 39. l. 23. r. Exercise p. 42. l. 3. and p. 41. l. 24. r. Hypothesis