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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	common_a	king_n	land_n	6,506	5	5.9183	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77178	Mr. Bagshavvs first speech with the oath that is given to iudges. Novemb. 7. 1640.; First speech with the oath that is given to judges	Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing B394; Thomason E196_5; ESTC R6945	1,114	6

Mr. Bagshavvs FIRST SPEECH With the Oath that is given to Iudges Novemb. 7. 1640. London printed 1641. I Had rather act than speak in the weighty businesses of the Kingdome which have been so excellently handled by those four Gentlemen that spake last and therefore I shall be short When I do look upon the body of this goodly flourishing Kingdome in matter of Religion and of out Lawes for like Hippocrates twins they live and die together I say when I behold both these in the state and plight as they have been presented unto us Flere magis libet quàm dicere But this is our comfort Master Speaker that we are here met together for the welfare and happinesse of Prince and People and who knowes whether this may not be the appointed time wherein God will restore our Religion as at the first and our Lawes as at the beginning The honour consists in the weal of his people this undoubted maxime his Majesty hath made good by his late gracious Speech and Promise to us to redresse all our grievances the enemies of peace and plenty To make a People rich they must have Ease and Justice ease in their consciences from the bane of superstition from the intolerable burthen of Innovation in Religion and from the racks and tortures of strange new fangled Oathes They must be eased in their persons being liberi homines and not villains from all illegall arrests and imprisonments against Magna charta being our greatest Libertie They must be eased in their Lands from Forrests where never any Deer-fees from depopulation where never any Farme was decayed and from Inclosure where never any hedges were set They must be eased in their goods from exactions and exspoliations of Pursuiants and Apparitors of Projectors and Monopolists Humanarum calamitatum mercatores as an antient Writer finely cals them and if the first have all these easements yet if they have not justice they cannot subsist Justice is to the civill body as food to the naturall if the streames of justice be by unrighteousnesse turned into Gall or Wormewood or by cruelty like the Egyptian waters turned into blood those which drinke of these brooks must needs die and perish The Law saith that all Justice is in the King who is stiled in our book Fons justitie and he commits it to the Judges for the execution wherein he trusts them with two of the choicest flowers which belong to the Crowne the administration of Justice and the exposition of Lawes that he would not trust them without an oath required of them by the stature of 18. Edw. 3. which is so strickt and severe that it made a judge whom I know though honest and stout to quake and tremble at the very mention of it The effect of the oath is that they shall do equall Lawes and execution of rights to all the Kings Subjects as well poor as rich without regard to any person that they shall not deny to do common right to any man by the Kings letters or for any other cause and in case such letters do come that they proceed to do the Law notwithstanding such letters as they will answer it to the King in their bodies lands and goods FINIS