Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	constable_n	officer_n	peace_n	4,647	5	6.0431	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50205	Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.	Mace, Thomas, d. 1709?	1675 (1675)	Wing M121; ESTC R22537	14,850	35

what Quality soever Who if by such a Law were ordered all of them to keep in one Tract or way No inconvenience for Travellers to keep one Tract which they might so well do as not and no inconvenience to any one of them in the least I say what an inestimable benefit might all Travellers enjoy by such a Law which could be prejudicial to no man nor to the least occasion of Post-hast-business but an assured furtherance For if the wayes were but thus kept certainly firm clean and good if any man had a mind to Travel faster than that person which is just before him how readily and safely might he step out of the way and pass him by and so as readily step into the Tract again at pleasure without the least danger of deep Cart-rutts or such unreasonable high Ridges which now are not possible in many places to be passed over without manifest danger both to Man and Horse Nay I have often known many Travellers ☞ and my self very often to have been necessitated to stand stock-still behind a standing Cart or Waggon in most beastly and unsufferable deep wet wayes to the great endangering of our Horses and neglect of important Business Nor durst we adventure to stir for most imminent danger of those deep Rutts and unreasonable high Ridges till it has pleas'd Good Mr. Carter to Jog on which we have taken very kindly The great necessity therefore of such a Law The great necessity for such a Law I do conceive will be most desirable and gratefull to all Travellers who shall thus be assured to Travel in peace safety and quietness so that in his never-so-long a Journey he shall not once be disturb'd or put out of his way Besides many other pleasures and conveniences which I shall forbear to mention but leave them to Travellers to discourse upon when this most happy Day shall shew it self that then the High-wayes and the Law for Travellers shall make all This and much more complete gratefull and satisfactory The Order of the Law And as to the Order of this Law of Travellers The Law of Travellers if any Person shall happen to be in the contrary way it shall be his part to go out of it and give way to his opposite or otherwise he may be compelled But if any person shall be quarrelsome and oppose or force any other Traveller who is in his Right-hand-lawfull way out of it or injure him upon that account Then that Person so opposed forced hindred or grieved upon just complaint and proof made to the next Justice of Peace Constable or head-Head-Officer of the very next Town shall have his Case immediately heard and adjudged according to the truth of the Evidence And that the Person so offending shall immediately forfeit and be compelled to pay so much to the party grieved or injured and so much to the Poor of that Parish where the case is tried Or for want of such payment his Horse may be distrained upon till such payment be made This or something to this purpose ☞ This Law cannot be too strict cannot be thought too hard for such Vncivil Refractory and Rude Ruffian-like Rake-shames who too often make it their business and boast thus to disturb and abuse honest quiet and weary Travellers which is so great an injury and an occasion to stir up and inflame the Spirits of men so grosly abused that many times most desperate mischiess immediately ensue But by virtue of some such Law all These and many more Inconveniences would be prevented and all Travellers enjoy tranquility and much pleasure Thus much concerning the Law for Travellers Lastly The Conclusion of the first Preparation As to the more easie effecting of the business it cannot but be thought much more feasible Why but two Tracts to maintain only two Tracts which shall constantly lie straight and as it were in a line than to mend and maintain wayes which lie cross intricate and confounded as most of our wayes throughout England do In the mending of which there is such strange irregularity by the common Menders that they in a manner lose the greatest part of their Gravel or Stones now laying one load here and then another quite cross five or six Cart-wayes aside and in a contrary Tract whereas if there were but only two Cart-Tracks they might with far less trouble and cost but infinitely more easily and effectually be mended and most certainly be for ever maintained and with a reasonable Charge As here following most plainly I shall make appear The manner and means by which This so needful and profitable Work may most certainly be effected with much ease and no great cost In all Humility shewing THat Your Majesties High-wayes are not only unpleasant cumbersome and grievous The mischievous dangers which attend the badness of our High-ways but also very dangerous to the Lives and Limbs both of Men and Horses is too obvious and apparent to all Travellers And in that it has been and is still judg'd impossible to have them bettered and to continue them so is still the greater grief The Consideration of which has been an occasion unto me to exercise my Thoughts so far upon the matter as thus to conclude and affirm the contrary viz. That it is not impossible ☞ but very feasible and easie both to have them well mended and to continue them so for ever Yet I must needs say that according to the old common and general way of mending them it is absolutely impossible yea although there were an hundred times the cost and pains bestowed on them as is yearly bestowed My Reason is This because the Matter viz. the cost and pains is not so much considerable as the Manner and Order of doing it The way of doing is the only Thing ☞ Which here presents it self unto the King Now as to a more particular Explanation it is to be considered what and how many Causes there are of the badness of High-ways And they are chiefly four First The four chief impediments to High-ways Mire Slime or Dirt. 2dly Deep Cart-rutts with their High-ridges 3dly Vnevennesses and Holes 4thly and lastly Loose-Stones These four things being rectified the Wayes must needs be Good The first thing therefore to be done which was ever neglected by the old way is to cleanse the wayes thoroughly from Dirt before any Gravel or Stones be laid on Likewise all the Cart-rutts to be cut down and carried quite away they being only the Slime Grease or as I may better say the very Oyl expressed by the continual grinding and squeezing of the Cart-wheels ☞ which according to the old way of mending were seldom or never taken away The old ill way of mending the Ways but only beat down and put into those Deep holes and Cart-rutts which with some small sprinkling of Gravel in some places only or a few Stones or base ill-favour'd Rubbish And all this