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A34007 The cause of England's misery, or, A brief account of the corrupt practice of the law humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled. Collins, Richard. 1698 (1698) Wing C5384; ESTC R37652 9,714 15

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and serve the Publick with it by the Impartiality of Justice and the Equity of all Law Proceedings provideing carefully for the Preservation of Humane Society for the good of the Whole Community Page 394. In her Progress she was most easie to be approached by private Persons and Magistrates Men and Women Country People and Children came joyfully and without any Fear to wait upon her and see her Her Ears were then open to the Complaints of the Afflicted and of those that had been any way injured she would not suffer the meanest of her people to be shut out of the Places where she resided but the greatest and the least were then in a manner levelled She took with hër own Hand and read with the greatest Goodness the Petitions of the meanest Rusticks and she would frequently assure them that she would take a particular Care of their Affairs and should ever be as good as her Word She by her Royal Authority Protected those that were Injur'd and Oppressed She Punished the Fraudulent False Perfidious and VVicked It has always been my Opinion He that that doth not simpathize with and hath not a Fellow-feeling of the Calamity and Misery of others cannot properly be said to be a Christian for I conceive we are not bron barely for our selves and the Good of our own Families but are strictly obliged by the Dictates of that Holy Religion we profess to do all such Acts as tend to the Good and Benefit of Mankind in general It was a due Apprehension of this general Duty that enduc'd me to appear in Print and however though I may be censured by some Persons yet I call God to witness that what I have done therein has not been out of Malice or Prejudice to any Person or that I propose to my self any Advantage thereby for I neither seek or want any Employ but only a Hearty and Sincere Desire to serve my Country by laying these things before this Most August Assembly being sensible there 's too many that endeavour as much as in them lies to Stifle and Conceal the People's Grievances and keep them from the Knowledge of the King and Parliament hoping there by to escape the Hands of Justice The not punishing Offenders upon the Abdication of the late King James seems to have been one great Occasion of all these Evils and now if those that are Offenders shall escape Punishment the Nation can then expect no Security for the future The punishing Offenders will be doing the People Justice and supplying of the King's Wants and which appears 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the only Means whereby to Re-establish Justice and make ●im and His People happy Feb. 3. 1697 8. Richard Collins FINIS * This poor afflicted Man lodges at one Bardet's in King-street St. Giles's and is one of the greatest Objects of Charity that ever Eyes beheld There 's no Question but a Multitude of such like Crimes have been committed for there plainly appears to have been a Combination to cheat the Kingand Subject the only Satisfaction the King and Kingdom can have is Confiscating the Estates the Spoyles of the People of those who have been the Principal Actors which is a thing would be highly pleasing to all honest Men of what Perswasion soever * There are a sort of Men among us who practice in other Men's Names as Attorneys that are not so it were happy for the People they were suppressd and that all Attorneys were restrain'd in their taking Clerks as several Companies and Trades are in London to prevent their being ●o numerous and not suffer'd to fill the City and Country as they do with Splitters of Causes it 's one of the greatest Evils that can befal a Nation to be over-stock'd as we are with Lawyers *⁎* There 's no doubt there are many worthy Gentlemen that practice the Law who are great Enemies to these Corruptions and would gladly see them Remov'd * These Gentlemen Purchase their Employments or Places which are but for Life with large Sums of Money and having no Lease of their Lives run great Hazards and considering the general Corruption there is in the Practice of the Law and the Temptation they lye under it cannot be suppos'd but that they will be willing to make use of their time as well as other Men by which may be seen what Misery the People are expos'd to by the Buying and Selling Employment † Men bred to Trade as I was have the greatest opportunity of knowing the Decay or Growth of Trade and so are sooner made sensible of the Calamity of the People than those of higher Rank though they are not so well able to Express their Thoughts