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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

Title to their rude and indigested Opinions Howsoever from some or all of these Causes not a few of the former wicked and never to be justified Principles ignorant and unwarrantable endeavours and complaints have since Monarchical Government and our Laws and Liberties were so happily restored sprung up again and no sooner was our David brought back over Jordan but many a railing cursing and rebellious Shimei that had done more then cast stones against him and his Royal Father made haste and came with the men of Juda and Loyal party to meet him and as if they had not remembred all the mischiefs which they had done unto him his Brethren Royal Father Family and good people pretended that they had been greatly instrumental in it and having gain'd a very large and extensive Act of general Pardon and Oblivion which as to treason murder felony faction and rebellion the Loyal party needed not an Act of Parliament for confirmation of what their abusive Courts of Justice had done in matters of Judicature betwixt party and party in the inter regnum and times of Usurpation and another Act of Parliament to make honest free many Parents on earth from Adultery or Fornication and legitimate and un-bastar'd many of their Children begotten in a wrong way of Marriage solemnized in despite of the Laws and our Church of England before a Justice of Peace not in a Church but an Hall Parler or Chamber where that kind of Magistrate was a Knight or Gentleman or many times in a Shop when he was a Trades-man which the Kings faithful Subjects abhorred and some of them having warmed themselves by the Farming of the Kings Revenue and those grand and ever to be detested Artifices of Advance and defalcation which have so much cankred decayed and ruined it and others that li●ed their consciences with plundrings and sequestrations and Committee ungodly Emoluments did fall again to their former Trade and Engines of subverting our Laws and turning the Justice of the Kingdom into their Abortive projects and new-found Politiques and hoped in the end to recompence the loss of their possesion of the Lands of the King Queen Prince Nobility Gentry Bishops Dean and Chapters which they having purchased at an easie rate were taken from them and enforced to be restored and their hopes of gaining the Lands and Endowments of the Universities and Colledges which by a failing of Providers and some mistakes as they wickedly thought of Divine Dispensations or some Errors of their new lights they had unexpectedly lost And therefore summoned got together their mis-apprehensions and Invectives against that antient very legal rational custom of Fines to be Pay'd upon Original Writs where the Debt or Damage exceeded Forty Pounds which from the Year 1651. unto his Majesties happy Return unto his Throne had by their Rebellions and ungrounded clamors against the payment of them to make a mis●lead people the more willing and able to continue and contribute to a War against their consciences and eternal happiness been taken away or laid to sleep In order whereunto in a Book Entituled the Wants of England Printed in the year 1667. it was among other things offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament that according to the law of God and other Christian States Christian clemency gentleness and mercy and the antient Laws and Customes of this Kingdom no person be for any new debt cast in prison but be left at liberty to work out his Debt by industry In the year 1669. a Petition was exhibited to the King and both Houses of Parliament that in Actions of Debt there may be no Arrest or Imprisonment of the Debtors Body but a Summons made at his House or hung at his door and for want of an Appearance his Goods and real Estate to be seized and the like in the year 1671. And in the same Year a Bill for an Act of Parliament was with great Importunity desired for the Registring of all Incumbrances of Land and of all Debts and Ingagements then which nothing could have more undone the greatest part of an Impoverished Nobility and Gentry by the late Wars and Taxes nor any thing more have Bankrupted Citizens and Trades-men whose Estates do consist in a great deal more in Credit and Opinion than in reality and substance But the promoters of those Innovations who endeavoured to pull in pieces our wellestablished Laws concerning Arrests and Outlaries did in those their Attempts speed no better then Balaak the King of Moab did by sending for Balaam to curse the children of Israel when notwithstanding his Erecting of several Altars and all his solicitations and promisses of Rewards he could not hinder him from blessing instead of cursing them for the wisdom of the King and Parliament and his Privy Councel did think it to be more for the good of the people to suspend their desires and Devises until the King might understand that there could be any reason cause or ground to alter or forsake the old Fundamental Laws so for many Ages well approved to comply with their humors ill designes but being willing to give what reasonable content he could to that small complaining part of the people without pre●judice damage to the universality greater number of his Subjects did as the fittest expedient and all that the Law could permit and his reason and Soveraignty perswade him to do for the allaying that distemper which had seised upon a sort of ignorant seditious unquiet spirited people whom no reason can satisfie but would set up their new devices which are never like to perform their Promises and Intendments And needed not as touching the taking away of the Process of Arrest Utlary to have troubled his Majesty and Parliament and themselves and others with such unwholsom and improbable Remedies for that which their Ignorance and Vain Imaginations only told them were Grievances but should rather have acquiesced in a due consideration that his Majesty did not hold it to be agreeable to Justice to abolish the Process of Arrest or Outlary or to change or take away the Fundamental Lawes which established or allowed of those Antient and legal kindes of Law proccedings as grant in the Year of our Lord 1664. by the advice of his Privy Councel his Commission for the relief of Poor and Distressed Prisoners under the Great Seal of England to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Bishops of London Winchester Rochester Lord Mayor of London for the time being Judges and Justices of the Courts of Kings Bench Master of the Rolls Judges of the Court of Common Pleas Barons of the Exchequer Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Masters of Requests and Chancery Attorney and Sollicitor-General and Attorney of the Dutchy of Lancaster Deans of St. Paul Westminster Lieutenant of the Tower of London Bishops Chancellors with the Advocats of the Court of the Arch Bishops of Canterbury and Bishop of London for th● time being c.

Jurisdictions being great grievances and oppressions might be taken away the Laws translated into English the Six Clarks Head Registers Masters of Chancery and the Petty-bag Affidavit Office Prothonotaries and all other grand Monopolies and Patentees might be abolished no mans life taken away for Felony unless accompanied with Murther that the eldest Sons in every Family might have a double Portion in the Fathers Estate and the rest be divided amongst the younger Children that no Fines be paid to any Cursitor or upon any Original Writ but may be quite abolished that no mans person might be imprisoned for Debt but his Estate made liable to satisfie the same it being more suitable to the Turkish or Heathenish practice then to Christian English Professors of the Gospel to rack and grind the bodies of men in prison At the heels whereof was brought to that Assembly at Westminster who named themselves a Parliament and to cherish such doings seldom failed by their Speaker to give thanks in the name of the House to all Petition and Declaration-drivers a Petition of the Well-affected in the County of Buckingham said to be a Representation of the middle sort of men within the three Chilterne Hundreds of Disborough Burnam and Stoke and part of Alesbury Hundred declaring That they had waited eight years in the pursuance of their just Rights and Freedom with which God had invested them and the whole Nation kept from them by Arbitrary power and Tyrannical factors of the Nobility Courtiers Episcopal Priests cheating Lawyers Impropriators Patentee men Lords of Mannors and all illegal Courts and other diabolilical interessed parties and desire that all Licences Commissions c. and Grants from the late King whose first predecessor was that Outlandish Bastard William the Conqueror from whence proceeded the original of all their slavery both in Tenures Laws Terms Customs c. in an Outlandish tongue the Lawyers being the chief Instruments of their misery might be abolished and protesting against all arbitrary Laws Terms Lawyers Impripriators Lords of Manors Priviledges Customs Tolls Tithes going to the Terms at Westminster payment of Heriots Quit-Rents Head-Silver Lawyers Fees and the whole Norman power being a burden too intollerable to bear did invite all men to enter upon Commons and cut and fell the Wood growing thereon and desired which they would not be willing to do if they had been Lords of Manors and other the parties struck at to go by the golden rule of Equity viz. to do as they would be done by not to tyrannize over any or to be tyrannized over Another Pamphleteer feared he should be taken to be ill affected to the babe of Sedition if he also should not be doing somewhat in a Modest Plea as he terms it dedicated to the High Court of Parliament which he would have to be the Supreme Authority of the Nations prayed that there might be an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy wherein there is a Lift against the Vniversities Colledge Lands Tenures Hereditary Nobility Church Revenues Churches and Bells Mercenary Lawyers and Tithes with an Apology for Younger Brothers and desires a restitution of the Tenures in Gavelkind In the same year the Lord General Fairfax Lieutenant General Cromwell the Lord Mayor of London Colonel Harrison Mr. Francis Allin Colonel Martin and others were impowred to place and displace any Judges of the Courts at Westminster and all Officers thereunto belonging and all Sheriffs and Justices of Peace Mr. John Hare being unwilling to stay behind such Company in a Pamphlet sent out upon that design desired that the Norman yoke might be taken off and saith that the Norman Innovations are destructive to the honour freedom and other unquestionable Rights of the Nation In the same year the Officers and Souldiers in the Regiments of Colonel Scroope Sanders and Walton and the Souldiers in the Garrisons of Arundel Rye and Chichester did petition the Lord General Fairfax that the abuses in the Courts of Justice be reformed that there be a Registring of Deeds and Contracts Tithes abolished Six Clarks in Chancery taken away and their Clarks sworn Attornies Mr. Sadler a Lawyer and a man in such favour with the Usurper as he was by them made one of the Judges for the proving of Wills and Testaments in his Book entituled The Rights of the Kingdom and Custom of our Ancestors saith that the Writs of Capias as now used were very mischievous did not lye at the Common Law in Actions of Debt cites Sir Edward Cokes opinion in Sir William Herberts Case and declared that in Debt the Mirrour of Justice did pronounce the Outlawry to be a great abuse In the year 1650. S. D. then an Attorney but since his Majesties happy Restauration and the altering of the Scene Knighted and put into several places of Honour and Trust having convened and gathered together some Tides-men and small understanding Clarks and Attorneys that were well inclined to set their Watches by Cromwells new Court-Dial did in order to the Regulation of the Law propound a Law to be made against Fines to be paid upon Original Writs for that the best reason that they could give against it it was against the reason of the Fundamental Laws of England which never imposeth any Fines but against offenders and the like against Vtlaries which were unnecessary and did tend only to Charges and delay and that a second Summons being served upon a Defendant and left at his house and by the Sheriff or his Officer retorned upon Record the first Summons being made seven days before the day of Apparance in which time the Plaintiff may enter his Declaration in Court and if no Apparance entred within eight days after then a new Summons in the nature of a Scire facias to be awarded upon the Imparlance roll to summon him to appear at a certain day to come when not appearing and pleading within eight days after Judgment shall be given by default Mr. John Jones of Nayoth in the County of Brecon in a Book printed and published in the same year entituled Judges Judged out of their own mouths or the Question resolved by Magna Charta who have been Englands Enemies King-seducers and the Peoples destroyers from King Henry the 3d. to King Henry the 8th and before and since stated by Sir Edward Coke late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings-Bench wherein that mighty Cambro-Britain in his own opinion doth with as little Law as Reason charge the Judges and Professors of the Law with the destruction of honest men whom it should save and the saving of all those whom it should destroy or punish for unlawful respects and considerations tending to their own profits and ends And that by Prerogative Statutes devised by mercenary Lawyers to steal from the people their Birth-right contrary to Magna Charta and the Common Law of England they are become an intollerable mischief to the Commonwealth and do deserve exemplary punishments and cites the said Sir Edward Cokes opinion