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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54680	The ancient, legal, fundamental, and necessary rights of courts of justice, in their writs of capias, arrests, and process of outlary and the illegality ... which may arrive to the people of England, by the proposals tendred to His Majesty and the High Court of Parliament for the abolishing of that old and better way and method of justice, and the establishing of a new, by peremptory summons and citations in actions of debt / by Fabian Philipps, Esq.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1676 (1676)	Wing P2002; ESTC R3717	157,858	399

Book stiled the Good Old Cause dressed in its Primitive lustre said to have been written by R. Fitz-Brian it was insinuated that the distempers of the Nation being so great as they could not admit of a redress and conserve still their old frame things must unavoidably wheel about and fix themselves upon another Basis Providence united the honest party of the victorious Army so as it was resolved that the poor who had nothing to pay their Debts should be freed from the bondage of a perpetual Confinement the corruption of the Laws were become at once both the shame and impoverishment of the Nation and some Expedient was to be had for the freeing of it from so horrid a Cheat Divine providence did by degrees point out a necessity of the change of Government and Kingship being laid aside as unnecessary chargable and dangerous it was devolved into a Commonwealth It being a certain rule that corrupt and degenerate States cannot be perfectly healed and regulated but by stepping into those forms which are the farthest distant from that wherein they were corrupted Backed by an Anonymous Author who being desirous to try an experiment as well projected as that of the cutting the Moon into Stars to make the greater light and save the expence and trouble of Candles and to contrive a way for the ruining at once of many of our fundamental Laws root and branch doth in a Book entituled a Chaos or frame of a Government by way of a Republick printed by the said Livewel Chapman endeavour a creation of new Laws out of a confusion of his own making wherein as a well-willer to the Publique as he stiles himself but a greater to all at home he doth in order and respect which there will be no reason to believe to the Lawyers profit and to the peoples enjoyment of Magna Charta propound National Provincial Subprovincial and Parochial Registries to which Courts all causes of Civil concernment are to be reduced all Suits in Law or Equity to be determined in six months upon a penalty to the Judges and loss of Cause to the Client whether Plaintiff or Defendant if guilty of delay the Judges in Chancery to sit de die in diem the Itinerant Judges to determine all Causes that shall be tryed before them and a Term of a month to be at Westminster-hall after every Circuit for the determination of matters of Law with rules to be given for the Jurisdiction of each Registerial Court a National Registry to be appointed at Westminster to consist of a Register and six Clarks Assistants or Deputies which may have each as many writing and examining Clarks under him as the business shall require each County of England to be one entire Province and those allotted to the Jurisdiction of the said several six Clarks and Deputies viz. so many Counties as are comprised within the several Circuits of the Judges in every Shire-Town a Provincial Register and he to have two Clarks assistants who shall as to the imployment divide the Province only Yorkshire is to have three Clarks assistants who are to divide according to the Ridings Subprovincial Registers to depend upon the Provincial and to have one Clark assistant every Parish or two where one is too little to have one Register and a Clark assistant every person having Estates in two or more Counties shall enter their Estates and Annual values in the National Registry of each Circuit and all that have any claim or right in possession or reversion of Lands of Inheritance of the yearly value of 1000 l. or upwards shall enter it accordingly and of the yearly value of 100 l. and under 1000 l. either in possession or remainder are to enter it with the Provincial Register all persons having Estates above the clear yearly value of 10 l. and under 100 l. are to enter them in the Registry in the Hundred or Wapentake of the Province and all not exceeding 10 l. per annum to be entred in the Parochial Registry all Debts exceeding 1000 l. to be entred with the National Registry all above 100 l. and not exceeding 1000 l. with the Provincial Registry all above 10 l. and not exceeding 100 l. with the Subprovincial Registry and all under 10 l. with the Parochial Register where the Debtor inhabiteth or his Estate lyeth And when such Entries are perfected the National Register shall within 14 days certifie it unto the Provincial who shall within 8 days certifie it to the Subprovincial and he within 6 days to the Parochial Register And where several claims under several titles shall be made unto one and the same thing the Register shall give notice thereof to the several Inhabitants and Tenants thereof the Parochial Register shall likewise certifie to the Subprovincial the Subprovincial to the Provincial and the Provincial to the National Registry the Seal of the National Registry shall be the Great Seal of England to be kept by the Register and his six Clarks and nothing to be sealed but in the presence of the National Register and two of his Clarks assistants each several Province shall have his peculiar seal whereon shall be the Arms or cognisance of the Province City or Corporation wherein the Registry is and shall be in the custody of the particular Register or his Assistants and in like manner for the Subprovincial and Parochial Registries The several Registers where no double claim is entred shall give Certisicates under their seals of any Entries which shall be desired Claims not entred within three months unless in case of Infancy Death or being beyond Sea shall be an absolute bar Entry to be made within three months after the establishing of the Registries Certificates to be made under seal to any that shall desire it which shall be a sufficient warrant for the recovery thereof without any further trouble to the Creditor then to make his claim thereunto All manner of Bargains and Contracts w●ere any Estate of Inheritance Mortgage or Lease shall be made or any right transferred from one to another all Covenants Conditions Considerations and Times of payment in the presence of the several parties shall be made before the several Registers certified under his seal delivered to the Creditor and Counterparts to the other parties And Entries made of payments and discharges of Bargains personally by the parties in the presence of two known witnesses unless where the parties Bargaining shall be sufficiently known to the Register or his Deputy all Marriages to be entred in the Parochial Register the Covenants and Conditions of the Marriage to be entred and certified under the seal of the Register who is also to enter the Christening of every Child deaths and burials of all persons all Wills and Testaments the hiring and wages of Servants to be entred in the Parochial Registries and Certificates under seal given thereof the Fees for entring any Estate of Inheritance in the National Registry 20 s. per page for the two first pages

in his Comment upon Magna Charta cap. 29. that the Custom of England declared by Magna Charta doth not extend to the imprisonment of any Debtors but the Kings And assisted those his wicked and false Rabshakesmes with another little Book called the Cry of Bloud dedicated to Oliver Cromwell General as he stiled him of the puissant Army of the Parliament of England wherein charging the crime of Murder and of the bloud of the righteous Abel as he is almost frantickly pleased to fancy it upon the Process of Arrest and Outlawry and that innocent and most necessary way of compelling men to Justice he stileth them a course of Sin and the Offices of those who do make them the gift of the Devil and the Lawyers liars although Mr. John Cooke of Grays-Inne before the Devil had entred into him and ingaged him to be a prosecutor of his Soveraign even to the Murder of him did in his Book printed in the year 1646. entituled A Vindication of the Professors and Profession of the Law dedicated to the then Parliament declare that he was confident that the Common Lawyers of England are as understanding rational men as any Practisers of any Profession whatsoever in the world and he durst say that there are more Godly religious Lawyers Attorneys and Sollicitors in England then in all that habitable part of the world called Christendom Mr. William Leach of the Middle-Temple proposed that no Defendant should be enforced to appear unto any Action before a Poenal Summons and a Declaration first filed unless in case of likelihood to depart the Land or to make away his Goods and in such case upon an affidavit to be made before a Justice of Peace by any Officer to be arrested Isaac Pennington the younger the Son of that man of Faction his Father offered in a Pamphlet to assert that the Rights Liberties and safety of the people were in themselves and derivatively in the Parliament their Substitutes and Representatives and that the people ought well to look to their rectifying right that it may have its free current Mr. Henry Robinson in his publick Proposals for a cheap and easie distribution of Justice would have a publick Country Registry for Lands and another for Debts and that in every City Corporation and Division in each County Judges may be appointed with an yearly Salary By a Petition of many calling themselves a Free-people promoted by John Wildman and John Lilburne Gent. they do require that all the Laws Process and Inrolments of England be written in English and a Roman or Secretary hand Hugh Peters a Prompter at a Play-house long before he was a my mick Preacher and the abuse of the Pulpit having made many a Renegado Voyage from England to Holland thence to New-England and from thence in the company of other Birds of Prey pearching here again in England was so unwilling not to be as busie in the ruine of his Country as other men of the Trinkets and new Fangles were as in his Book entituled Endeavours as he saith aiming at the Glory of God that Peace and Truth may meet together undertaketh to prove that Government by succession from Father to Son was none of Gods institution in the first and purest Times that Custom hath worn out Truth but we were to enquire for the old and good ways and Christ saith it was not so in the beginning And in June 1651. in his Book entituled Good Work for a Good Magistrate would have Registers to be setled in every Parish of all Mortgages Alienations c. and from thence transmitted to the County or Shire-Town that in every County every Hundred do choose three men to be Peace-makers for a year to determine all common controversies without Appeal Wills and Testaments to be acknowledged before two next Justices and entred in the Parochial Registries five or seven in every Town or Hundred to be yearly chosen to determine all Debts or Strifes whereof three to give sentence without Appeal that Summons instead of Arrests may be left at mens houses none to distrain for Taxes or Debts but the Debtors outward doors to be taken away and carried to the Town-house and as many other new doors as shall be set in the place every man plead his own cause and if he think himself too weak let him have liberty to take a Friend or Neighbour to plead for him but no Advocates or Seriveners to plead for any man if any Lawyers be continued let them be allowed and paid by the State all Suits in London and great Cities to be determined in a week Which being done it was very advisable to burn all the old Records even those in the Tower the monuments of Tyranny And had so in a short time after haled on his design of destroying all the Records and memorials of the Laws of England to make way for his new contrivances as a Serjeant at Arms of the then miscalled Parliament or one of their Mock-Majesty Mace-bearers had an express order happily diverted by some other affair when it was ready to be put in execution to throw all the Records remaining in the Treasuries at Westminster into the River of Thames And the Law that it might the better be baited and abused as if no Foreigners could ever have occasion to read understand or make use of them must with its Writs Records Process and Proceedings for the time to come be written in English many of the Law-books being in order thereunto by the factious and greedy avarice of many of the Book-sellers and Stationers procured to be mercenarily translated into English and exposed to the rude eyes and hands of the ignorant and the little reason that the Owners of it do use to have whereby to make it a Ludibrium and the wonder of their lesser Intellect which might easily happen where they wanted the keys and assistance of other Learnings and every thing their shallow apprehensions could not reach or fathom was by them supposed to be Norman slavery Antichristian or Idolatry the Records must no more be written in the long-lasting and durable Court and Chancery hands or manner of writing made out of the old Saxon Gothick and Reunick Characters as they were wont to be and had been for many ages before but in a Secretary hand not that strong and legible hand heretofore used but a kind of Jack-an-Apes hand composed of Antick frisking undistinguishable letters so written with the side of a Pen and small slit as that scratching rather then writing hath been often seen not to be able to keep company with the Parchment it was wrote upon the small period of Oliver Cromwells wickedly usurped Dominion Which needless change and novelty with other the doings of the Factious and Rebellious so wrought upon the minds of the ruder sort of the people to the joy and comfort of those who thought themselves to be specially Godly as the Lawyers could not pass in the Streets without many