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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63255	The triumphs of justice over unjust judges exhibiting, I. the names and crimes of four and forty judges hang'd in one year in England, as murderers for their corrupt judgments, II. the case of the Lord Chief Justice Trefilian, hang'd at Tyburn, and all the rest of the judges of England (save one) banisht in K. Rich. the 2ds time, III. the crimes of Empson and Dudley, executed in K. Henry the 8th's days, IV. the proceedings of the ship-money-judges in the reign of K. Charles the first, V. diverse other presidents both antient and modern : to which is added VI. the judges oath, and some observations thereupon, humbly dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs.	Philo-Dicaios.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2297; ESTC R3571	28,282	42

England was to be done whereupon a Scire Facias issued out of the Exchequer reciting the said Writs to warn Mr. Hampden amongst others to shew Cause why he should not be Charged with this Money Upon this he being Summoned Appeared and demanded Oyer of those Writs and Schedule which being Entred he Demurr'd in Law that is demanded the Opinion and Judgment of the Court of Exchequer Whether this Writ were sufficient in Law to Force him to pay the said Twenty Shillings This being a Great and General Case the Barons of the Exchequer desired the Assistance of the rest of the Judges who did Joyn accordingly The Case was argued first by Councel on both Sides and next by the Judges severally of whom Sir Richard Hutton Knight one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas and Sir Richard Crook Knight one of the Judges of the King 's Bench in large and learned Arguments since Printed did shew the Illegality of such Writs and gave their Opinion That the Defendant Hampden ought not to be Charged But the rest of the Judges were resolved to carry the Point for the King and accordingly gave their Opinions That the Defendant ought to be Charged And then it was the Part of the Barons of the Exchequer to give Judgment which was Entred in these Words Quod seperalia Brevia predicta Retorn ' eorundem ac Schedul ' praedict ' eisdem Annex ' ac materia in eisdem content ' sufficient ' in Lege Exist ' ad praefat Johannem Hampdem de predictis viginti solidis super ipsum informa ex causa praedictae Assessae onerand Ideo consideratum est per eosdem Barones quod pr●●…ctus Johannes Hampden de eisdem viginti solidis oneretur inde satisfaciat That the said several Writs and Returns thereof and the Schedules thereunto annex't and the Matter in the same contained are sufficient in Law to Charge the said John Hampden with the Twenty Shillings upon him in the Form and by Vertue of the Assessment afore-said imposed Therefore it is considered by the said Barons That the said John Hampden shall be Charged and shall satisfy the same This Judgment was imposed as such an Infallible Determination of the Law in this Case that no further Dispute would be allow'd thereof to any others insomuch that a Person of Honour having a Case depending in the King 's Bench was denyed any Argument or Debate concerning the Right of Ship-Money for no other Reason but that it had been by the former Judgment decided already in the Exchequer It may perhaps be said This Imposition of Ship-Money was small and inconsiderable Mr. Hampden a Gentleman of a fair Fstare was Assessed but Twenty Shillings And Why should any Body-scruple such a petty Business when the King Commanded it Was not the Remedy far worse than the Disease Why should any Subject exspend a great deal of Money in Law to avoid Payment of so Trivial a Sum Or What Harm could accrue to the Publick by the Judges allowing the King Power to Impose such an Assessment when it was for the Defence of the Realm from Eminent and Imminent Danger and he exerted that Power so favourably c. In Answer to such Objections it must be said That true it is it was then only Mr. Hampden's Case but the whole Nation every individual Subject of England was concern'd in it nay so far concern'd that all his Estate and Liberty was therein given up The Question was not Quantum but Quo Jure If Publick Danger might give the King Title to lay Impositions without a Parliament and He alone were Judge of such Danger When might it not be alledged If Twenty Shillings were Assessed on Mr. Hampden that Year How did it appear but Twenty Pounds might be required the next and Two Thousand Pounds the Year following And What Use what Occasion would the Court have had for ever afterwards of a Parliament But as to the Illegality of these Ship-Writs I refer the Reader to Judge Crook's Argument where the same is Demonstrated to be against the Common-Law against divers Statutes not to be maintain'd by any Prerogative or Power Royal unwarrantable by any former Precedents c. Let us see then what were the Consequences of these Extrajudicial Opinions and this Illegal Judgment of the Judges First As to the King They thereby mis-led him as much as in them lay to Discompose the Harmony of Government to Entrench upon the Property of His Subjects and contrary to his Intentions by Colour of Right to violate the Laws which no doubt that Good Prince meant to have preserv'd Inviolable Secondly As to the Subjects They were not only hereby Injured but their Affections Alienated from their Sovereign which to occasion is no doubt a very High because almost Irreparable Treason The Genuine Sense of these Resolutions being no less than this That the King of England as often as Himself pleaseth may declare the Kingdom to be in Danger and that so often His Majesty for Prevention of such Dangers may by His Writ under the Great Seal of England alter the Property of the Subject's Goods without their Consent in Parliamen and that in such Proportions as His Majesty shall think fit And besides may deprive them of the Liberty of their Persons and that in such Manner as Himself shall please Thirdly As to the Judges themselves It prov'd deservedly Fatal For no sooner was a Parliament Call'd but they were call'd to Account for these their Illegal Opinions and Judgment And after a long Debate on Monday the Seventh of December 1640. these Four several Votes Passed upon them without so much as One Negative Voice to any of them viz. First THat the Charge imposed upon the Subjects for the Providing and Furnishing of Ships and the Assessments for Raising of Money for that purpose commonly called Ship-Money are against the Laws of the Realm the Subjects Right of Property and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Secondly That the Extrajudicial Opinions of the Iudges Published in the Star-Chamber and Inrolled in the Courts at Westminster before Recited in the whole and in every part of them are against the Laws of the Realm the Right of Property and the Liberty of the Subjects and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Thirdly That the Writ to the Sheriff of Bucks particularly Recited and the other Writs commonly called Ship-Writs are against the Laws of the Realm the Right of Property and the Liberty of the Subjects and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right Fourthly That the Iudgment in Mr. Hampden's Case as before Recited in the matter and substance thereof and in that it was conceived that Mr. Hampden was any way Chargeable is against the Laws of the Realm the Right of Property the Liberty of the Subjects and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and to the Petition of Right These