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A78010	Advice, sent in a letter from an elder brother, to a younger. Which he missed of by being abscent, since occasionally printed, it relating to remedying and reforming severall abuses in the Common Wealth, by severall practisers pretending equitie and conscience in the High Court of Chancery, and that unsetled, irregular unlimmited Court of Probates, who also act against the law of God, and the law of England, as in the reading thereof may be observed and bewayled, and it is hoped, may be of publick concernment, and profit; wherefore the author hath been at this charge of printing it.	Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing B6140; Thomason E838_8; ESTC R207429	31,328	44

thy Brother trespasse against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him And if he trespasse against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Thus you see by Scripture proved That for false swearings about things lost and concealed or taken deceitfully or violently or wrongfully gotten or if it were delivered one to keep the principall shall be restored to him to whom it appertaineth with a Fift part more also or the next Kinsman and I am sure you know not any so neer as my self nay you binde me in 500. l. and Articles to to you I being the Eldest Son of our Father deceased to sue out Letters of Administration under the seale of the Prerogative Court and therein to Discover the Estate or any part or parcel thereof Wherefore I by these Lines demand from you a true and reall Discovery and satisfaction in some measure porportionable that is Whetstones Mortgage for 100. l. and the use thereof for three Years past at Christmass last restored me and my Dividend of the Mortgage of St. Edmonds Burie and the right and Interest of all Monies or Writings by you concealled that belongeth to our deceased Fathers Estate or did belong thereunto and I require that you receive these Rebukes and Instructions in love and set your self to observe them and shew it by your Answer hereunto that I may receive you and imbrace you and forgive you Jaacob who in his youth by his Mothers perswasions and subtilty subplanted his Elder Brother Esau and caused Isaac thereat to tremble and after was faine to fly and leave both Father and Mother for fear of loosing his Life by his provoked Elder Brother as was told him by their Mother yet many years after he journeying neer Esau his Elder Brother at his return from Prdan Aram Jaacob sent Mess●ngers to call his Elder Brother Esau Lord and to desi●● he might finde g●ace in his sight and sent him a great Pr●sent to appease his Elder Brother Esau that so he might be again accepted and the Messengers were commanded to say It is a Present thy Servant Jaacob hath sent unto my Lord Esau and when Esau had accepted and imbraced his Brother Jaacob and reconciled himself to him I have seen thy face saith Jaacob as if I had seen the face of God in that thou wert pleased with me therefore Experience as well as Scripture teacheth How pleasant a thing it is for Brethren to live together in amity in Vnity and Prov. 18.19 you may read A Brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City and their Contentions are like the Barrs of a Castle and though your abuses to our Father deceased have been very great and those Abuses and Provocations you have offered to me herein related if you will say it repenteth you therefore and submit your self as Jaacob did and receive these my M●ss●ngers to you of Love and Peace for open rebuke is better then secret love for the heart of a man disposing and the Answer of the tongue are both from the Lord Prov. 16.1 These Lines my Messengers penned by Gods Assistance are to desire you You will not let Satan fill your heart with bitternesse or harden it any longer or to conspire against me any more evilly but receive the invitation of Reconciliation that we may keep the Feaste approaching before the Lawyers Terme no● with the old Leaven neither with the leaven of Malice and Wickedness but with the unleavened bread of Sincerity and Truth that God may receive Glory therein our Fathers Name honored thereby and our selves Established to our enemies astonishment that they may say you have demeaned your self as the Son of our deceased Father not delighting in Fraudes or Malice to destroy your Fathers Elder Son and the Estate also which if you thus Declare your self I hope I shall not onely receive you with the Spirit of meekness but I shall receive you as a loving Christian Brother that might be said to be faithful and deare unto me and I shall labour also to restore you in all meeknesse All which will vex your Viperous brood either Henry Wood that mally part fellow or any others who expect to get by keeping you at Discord and flatter you That either Common Law or Equitie will bear you or them out in any fraudulent or unjust Actions for Truth is strong and will prevail above all the Enemies thereof Thus beleeve Captain Nathanael Burt the Eldest Son of his deceased Father from whom he beleeveth oy you proceeded and therefore truely desireth your good in Christ Jesus From my House in Windmill Court Aprill 6. 1655. where I expect your Answer within 6 dayes otherwise expect to have it Printed that truth may appear as it is plain truth declared to publick view By N. B. POSTSCRIPT READER SEe and discern what great advantages Practisers have belonging to that is called Law Justice and Right or Equity to make themselves rich by defending or pleading for Concealers Combinators Defrauders detainers of other mens Profits and rights who labour by Demurring lying and false swearing to colour it and not to be brought to light for every one that doth evill hateth the light least his deeds should be made manifest or reproved and these Practisers do not only labour to extinguish Truth but at length many times themselves possesse that Inheritance or Portion belongs to those whom they have hightened by their Dissentions Let all Fathers be intreated if they have any Estate to leave their Children to dispose of it by Will to avoid discord and disscention among Brethren and the eating up of their Estates by the Ravening Estate destroying Practisers belonging most of them to that Hell fraught with Iniquitie and Lyers called The High Court of Chancery And observe also thus by John Burts Combination am I kept bare of Moneys by the Charge and loss I daily feel am necessitated was fain to render my body to Prison to save my Bayl from the malice of Peter Tomson who red a Daughter of mine in stead of marrying of her who complying also with John Burt forced her to make an Affidavit against me in Chancery without any subpena thereto to please him ●nd her Husband would perswade her also if she obeyed him not herein how should he live in Peace with her or could he love her if she would not be ruled by him and doe what he would have her doe though against her owne Father Is not this unrighteous Brat full of Malignity malitiousn●esse and Envy and is ●e not dissobedient that would combine to stop his Wives Father from receiving severall Monies to dissable him to pay him and then to throw him into Prison Is not such a one without Christianity though he breaketh bread with Mr. Nerton and may he not be said to be without naturall affection without understanding inplacable unmercifull as Rom. 1.28 29 30 31 32. and m●y

ADVICE Sent in a LETTER From an Elder Brother to a Younger Which he missed of by being abscent since occasionally Printed it relating to remedying and reforming severall Abuses in the COMMON WEALTH by severall Practisers pretending Equitie and Conscience in the High Court of Chancery and that unsetled irregular unlimmited Court of Probates who also Act against the Law of God and the Law of England as in the reading thereof may be observed and bewayled and it is hoped may be of Publick Concernmen● and Profit wherefore the Author hath been at this charge of Printing it Who riseth up with me against the wicked Who taketh my part against the evill doers If the Lord had not helped me my soul had been put to silence Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness which imagineth mischief in the Law Mr. Tindalls translation Psal 94. If a Ruler hearken to Lies all his servants are wicked Prov. 29.12 None calleth for Justice nor any pleadeth for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquitie Esay 59.4 Of false Judges assigned King Alfred ordained such Judgement that the wrong they do to God whose Vicegerents they are and have conusance to judge Offenders that first they be judged to make satisfaction to those they have hurt that are parties Plaintiffs The Book called The Mirrour of Justices pag. 207. LONDON Printed for the Author 1655. TO HIS HIGHNESSE O. CROMWELL Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland And to His Honorable Councellors and Assistants O. CROMWELL I Am moved by Gods Spirit this present 24. of May 1655 to write this to You and those that assist You in Council for your leisurely perusal with the other lines that belong thereunto and also to present them by the spirit of God who is the King of all the Earth and reigneth over the Heathen and of a truth will be found no respector of Persons though many that are in places to Judge the People give false Judgement and respect Persons both in the High Court of Chancery And that Illegall Arbitrary Irregular Unlimmited Court now called a Court of Probates c. in which is executed more the will of man then the judgement of the Lord they respecting the Persons and Profitts one of another as they do yet in Chancery although in the Ordinance for Regulating and limmitting the High Court of Chancery it is Ordained fol. 523. That for the future there be no more cause of just Complaints from the People SIR it is hoped good things will be found in You Jehu told Jehoshaphat 2 Chro 19.2 3 For such a thing he had provoked the Lord to be wrath with him Neverthelesse good things are found in thee and that You will set Judges over the People of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland You having accepted the Stile of Lord Protector thereof and sworn to Govern these Nations according to the Lawes Statutes and Customes seeking their Peace and causing Justice and Law to be equall Administred The Lord God of our Fathers enable Your Highness to put in such men to Judge between the People that may be men of Truth fearing God and hating Covetousness as Jethro advised Moses Exod. 18.21 the People have been long abused and oppressed by lying unsatiable extorting unfaithfull unconscionable Lawyers and men in places of Judicature to the dishonor of God and the destruction of the Nations and their great reproach for sin is a reproach to a people or Nation But Justice or Righteousness exalteth a Nation Prov. 14.34 and lying lipps are an abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 2.22 then all lying men in place of Judicature and ●ying Lawyers that deal not truly are an Abomination to the Lord The Apostle who knew all Gods Councell Acts 20.27 For he must first know it before he could declare it Rom. 13.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 saith God ordaines Powers for the Peoples Weale or good and such are called Gods Ministers and are to attend continually for that very end or thing for the Peoples good and well-being if the People do well but they are to take Vengeance if the People do evil and to such ministring Persons ought People to be obedient or subject unto not because of their wrath but for Conscience sake Your Highness assisted with your Council hath begun to limit and regulate that unconscionable Court of Chancery and lying delaying Practisers and to pull down their extortions by your Ordinance made August 22. 1654 though they are loath to obey it Oh judge for the Lord and limmit and regulate that unchristian corrupt Court stiled a Court of Probates c for the Civillians must confesse their Law is a Sea full of Waves and as uncertain as the present Judges mindes thereof but the grounds of our Common Law have from the beginning been lay'd with such deep Wisdom Policy and Providence as they do provide for and meet with almost all Cases that can fall out in our Common Wealth Th' Imperiall Power th'immeiate Power under God and Christ is setled in Your Person with Your Council and all Writts Processes Commissions Patents Grants and other things in Your Name they are to run as the 2 3 33 Articles of Government declared Decem 16. 1653. and from You to be distributed in all Courts they acting and doing in the Name of Oliver Lord Protector should act justly and truely and the Pen-man hereof shall exhort all People with the words of Paul 1 Tim. 2.1 2. to make supplycations for Your Highness c. and all you shall preferr to Judge between the People and deal truly therein that so we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness honesty for false Judges and false lying Practisers about the Law under them must be a more intollerable and ahhominable thing then Warr beleeves Yours while GOD is with you and you with him Cap. Nathanael Burt. AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO Mr. WILLIAM WHETSTONE His hoped for Freind in the Truth SIR THat a man should Dedicate his case to one he is forced to sue in the Law one would think should seem a Juggle or a Paradox but it will not be so found in this and I shall cleer it to you or any else for in the Mirrour of Justices pages 156 157 158. Our Ancestors if the partie would not confesse that had done any falsitie to a man in deed or word where there was no witness to testifie the truth they were suffered to enter Battell if Equalls for Declaration thereof or proof thereof and sometimes they proved by Witnesses saith the Author for if a man hath done any falsity to me in deed or in word whereof he is appealed or impeached in Judgement if he deny it it is lawfull for me to prove the Action either by Jury or by my Body or by the body of one Witness Now that Battell is

all that have had to do therein if they have not found it so without they have been in speciall favour in that Court and then by consent much may be done My Appeal formerly against it hath set forth the iniquity thereof sufficiently printed 1653. a Moneth after the Parliament was dissolved I read in a Book called The Mirrour of Justices made by Henry Horne pag. 293. That the Common people called the Chancery then a Court of Conscience and the Author saith it is to be noted in respect of other Courts the Court of Chancery is a Court of a high nature And the Ordinance made by His Highnesse c. 1654 calls it The High Court of Chancery which Octob. 22. 1654. should have taken place for the regulating and limmiting their excessive Fees and exorbitant practises to the end all Proceedings touching relief in Equitie to be given to that Court may be with lesse trouble expence and delay then heretofore thus the Ordinance declareth f●lio 495 523 unto which all honest Englishmen should gladly shout Amen Amen Amen and which the pen-man hereof hopes to see put in execution by His Highn●ss comm●nd c. as sure as 44 ●ustices who were hanged in one year for oppressing the People by false Judgement Mirrour of Justices pag. 239. that famous law-Book saith It is an abuse of the Common-Law that Justices and their Officers who kill People by false Judgement he not destroyed as other murderers which King Alfred caused to be done who caused 44. Justices in one year to be hanged as murderers for their false Judgements which Judges are in the following Pages perticularly named and their false and Arbitrary Judgements for which they suff●red death or imprisonment or wounding or losse of limbe or member And accordingly he caused mortall rewards to criminall Judges for wrongfull mortall Judgements and so he did for wrongfull Judgemenss venialls Imprisonments for wrongfull imprisonments and like for like with the other punishments pag. 244. It is an abuse of the Common Law to obey the Judge who is appealed of doeing wrong pages 158. 230. And the Penman hereof Appealeth from the false and wrongfull Judgement of Thomas Manby George C●ck Anthony Kous John Hild●sly Joachim Mathewes or all or any other Judges of the Court of Probates and granting Administrations unto the Common Law of the Land for relief herein having by Letters forewarned them severall times that they could not doe it without my consent being personally present and it is verily beleeved some of these Judges would think it judgement contrary to Law and so wrongfull and false Judg●ment if they should have stood in my place and others should have sitten in their places and should have so done by them and judged contrary to Gods Law and Englands Law as they have done by me who have given yon John Burt my yonger B●other by the second ventor Letters of Administration two years after the law had possessed me thereof lawfully and that I had paid in portions taken receits from your self and you had denyed it in Court had not our sister personally testified the same against you shee seeing you receive a part thereof and her self about that time which was about 18 Moneths since given me a release on her part which being produced in Court you having seduced her and by that means defrauded both of us as yet of our parts of 200. l. in your hand and you villanously would have had her to have denyed it as her Act and Deed and the Judges of Probates c. would have perswaded me to have relinqu●shed it I am sure you● Dr. Wiseman can rem●mber this who mis-informed the Judges for you about it severall times and sputtered hard therein against me then personally relating the truth unto the Judges against both his and your lies and your P●octers also Fisher my Proctor either being by you or some of you so corrupted or by others conjured to be dumb in my case that in my absence you and you● Complices might attain your intended ends to null the Administration of the Son and Heire as the severall Orders in Court will yet testifie which were commonly drawne by Dyer your Proctor to speak as that Viper would have them who made the Register enter or signe what he pleased thus would you and your Complices have cast out the sonne long since to have shared the inheritance and yet he had the Power legally and was m●de sole Administrator of all that was his Fathers Deceased and had long before brought in a true and perfect Inventory and an Account Aditionall which the Order of the Court saith the Judges allowed of June 6. 1653. for a true and perfect account as is therein declared and your Oath also then taken which you may be heartily ttoubled for and had you one dram of grace you would but at last you procured an unjust Ord●r and upon that a false and wrongfull Judgement against mee viz. That my Letters of Administration should be null and that John Burt should have Letters of Administration and it was given you of which wrongfull Proceedings of the Judges of Probates I have heard Learned men and Auncient Practisers both of Common and Civill Laws say that it was irregularly and illegally done against both the Civill and the Common Law And that if such Arbitrary Judgements or Sentences be suffered to be Decreed what English man can say he hath any thing his owne or any inheritance by Enlish Law when Judges without the Peoples or Parties consent shall g ve the title right interest dignitie or Estate or Inherritance of the People or any perticular Person or p●oprietie thereunto away from him or them wilfully against Law and contrary to Law And when Judges do passe their ju●isdiction or the bounds of their Delegacies or of their Commissions and I dare jeopard my life to prove Mr. Manby and the rest of the Judges who gave you Letters of Administration have passed their jurisdiction and Delegation and Commission And for such offences King Alfred did not meddle with the judgements In l●sser Off nces he did not meddle with judgements but disinherrited the Justices and removed them according to the points of those Statutes in all points where he could understand that they had passed their jurisdiction or the bounds of their Delegacy or of their Commissions or had released or increased any punishment contrary to Law or done any other wrong in dissalowance of a reasonable Exception of the Parties or to the judgement Mirrour of Justices pag. 245. It is worth the observing and declaring also that the Judges of Probates c. could not be ignorant of my Case and rightfull Cause it having been d●pending though to my grief and losse as long as Mr. Manby or Mr. Cock had been in and out of Commission by Act of Parliament or Ordinance since although I had beleeved that I had ended Septmeber the 28. before the Acted grew vacatt or null October the