King upon an Indictment of Murder he shall be Tryed by his Peers that is Nobles but if he be appealed of Murder by a Subject his Tryal shall be by an ordinary Jury of Twelve Free-holders as appeareth in 10. E. 4. 6. 33. H. 8. Brook titl Tryals 142. Stamford Pleas of the Crown lib. 3. cap. 1 folio 152. And in the 10. E. 4. it is said such is the meaning of Magna Charta by the same reason therefore as per judicium parium suorum extends to the King's Suit so shall these words per Legem Terrae And in 8. E. 2. Rot. Parliament memb 7. There is a Petition that a Writt under the Privy Seal went to the Guardians of the great Seal to cause Lands to be seized into the King's hands By force of which there went a Writt out of the Chancery to the Escheater to seize against the form of the grand Charter that the King nor his Ministers shall out no man of Free-hold without reasonable Judgement and the party was restored to his Land which sheweth the Statute did extend to the King There was no invasion upon this personal Liberty till the time of King Edward the Third which was eftsoons resented by the Subjects for in 5 Edw. 3. cap. 9. it is ordained in these words It is Enacted That no man from henceforth shall be attached by any accusation nor forejudged of life or limb nor his lands tenements goods nor chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the grrat Charter and the Law of the Land 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Is more full and doth expound the words of the grand Charter And thus Whereas it is contained in the great Charter of the Franchises of England that none shall be imprisoned nor put out of his Freehold nor of his Franchises nor Free Custom unless it be by the Law of the Land 〈◊〉 is accorded assented and established That from henceforth none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to our Lord the King or to his Council unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of his good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such deeds be done in due manner or by process made by Writ Original at the Common Law nor that none be out of his Franchises nor of his Free-holds unless he be duly brought in answer and forejudged of the same by the course of the Law And if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none Out of this Statute I observe that what in Magna Charta and the Preamble of the Statute is termed by the Law of the Land is in the body of this Act expounded to be by process made by Writ Original at the Common Law which is a plain interpretation of the words Law of the Land in the gâ—and Charter And I note that this law was made upon the Commitment of divers to the Tower no man yet knoweth for what 28 E. 3. cap. 3. is yet more direct this Liberty being followed with fresh suit by the Subject where the words are not many but very full and significant That no man of estate or condition that he be shall be put out of his lands nor tenement nor taken nor imprisoned nor disherited nor put to death without he be brought in answer by due process of the Law Here your Lordships see the usual words of the law of the land are rendered by due process of the Law 36 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 9. Amongst the Petitions of the Commons one of them being translated into English out of French is thus First That the great Charter and the Charter of the Forrest and the other Statutes made in his time and in the time of his Progenitors for the profit of him and his Commonalty be well and firmly kept and put in due execution without putting disturbance or making arrest contrary to them by special command or in other manner The Answer to the Petition which makes it an Act of Parliament is Our Lord the King by the assent of the Prelates Dukes Earls Barons and the Commonalty hath ordained and established That the said Charters and Statutes be held and put in execution according to the said Petition It is observable that the statutes were to be put in execution according to the said Petition which is that no arrest should be made contrary to the statutes by special command This concludes the question and is of as great force as if it were Printed for the Parliament Roll is the true warrant of an Act and many are omitted out of the Books that are extant 36 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 20. explaineth it further for there the Petition is Item As it is contained in the Grand Charter and other Statutes that no man be taken nor imprisoned by special Command without Indictment or other due process to be made by the Law and oftentimes it hath been and yet is that many are hindered taken and imprisoned without Indictment or other process made by the Law upon them as well of things done out of the Forrest of the King as for other things that it would please our said Lord to command those to be delivered which are so taken by special Command against the form of the Charters and Statutes aforesaid The Answer is The King is pleased That if any man find himself agrieved that he come and make his complaint and right shall be done unto him 42 E. 3. cap. 18. agreeth in substance when it saith Though that it be contained in the Great Charter that no man be taken nor imprisoned nor put out of his Free-hold without process of the Law nevertheless divers people make false suggestion to the King himself as well for malice as otherwise whereof the King is often grieved and divers of the Realm put in damage against the form of the same Charter Wherefore it is ordained That all they which make suggestions wall be sent with the same suggestions before the Chancellor Treasurer and his grand Council aud that they there find Sureties to pursue their suggestions and incurre the same pain that the other should have had if he were attainted in case that his suggestion be found evil And that then process of the Law be made against them without being taken and imprisoned against the form of the said Charter and other Statutes Here the Law of the Land in the grand Charter is explained to be without process of the Law 37 E. cap. 3. At the request of the Commons by their Petitions put forth in this Parliament To eschew mischief and damage done to divers of the Commons by false accusers which oftentimes have made their accusation more for revenge and singular benefit than for the profit of the King or of his people which accused persons some have been taken and sometime caused to come before the Kings Council by Writ and otherwise upon grievous pain against the Law It is assented and accorded for the
me committed I Adjourn your Court with all its Arbitrary proceedings for ever and a day Pluto You Adjourn my Court your Mast can have no Cognizance of what I do Const Yes Sir but he has and will take Cognizance of you and your Actions for Coffo-Philo hath delivered him a Petition which was the cause of his sending me Pluto Damn Coffo-Philo and your Mast too Gentlemen stand to your Arms We will not be surprized Proserp Pray hold Pluto let us hear who his Mast is you are the most passionate that ever was Sir M. Const pray tell me the name of your Mast Const Why Madam so I would but Pluto plunders my meaning before I speak as friends and foes were plundred in Britain Welch for that Pluto Dammee Rascal do you speak of Oxford or Newark Sirrah be your Mast what he will he durst not then have stirred I have hanged as good men as you a High-Constable or two in a morning for not dogs must I hear this and wear a Sword Pros Constable Go on pray go on Const I say my Mast is Magna Charta a very old man He was born in Nono of Henry the 3d. and then Christned his Godfathers were the King Lords and Commons thirty Parliaments have since that been Witnesses of his Confirmation and attested his birth and power he hath such a trick in Nature that every Parliament gives and adds strength to his days And I must tell you here of this pretended Court that my Mast hath a small Officer called Posse Comitatus belonging to him that will fall foul with you and disperse you if you resist his Power besides his Children the Commons love him so dearly that they will raise Money Men Armies and all to preserve him and keep his Honour inviolable Enter Venire Facias Ven. Fac. Pluto Pros and you the rest of the black Instruments of darkness I am come to cite you to appear in Mens Michael before my Mast Magna Charta in his great Hall at Westminster to answer Coffo-Philo and 500 younger brothers with Pierce-heart Sir John Morley old Cicel our neighbour at Enfield with many others as the Military ground men and Fitton where you are to answer for many Riots wrongs and high misdemeanors And therefore Constable dis-arm them Pluto You M. Troublesome I will have l'argent per ma foy or else I 'le not part with my Sword He resists and there arises a bustle and in the hurly burly Exeunt Ven. Fa. Const and Tipstaff Proserp Now these vexatious varlets are fled Pray Husband get what money you can I do not like this Magna Charta for I have heard Haly the first and worst say that Magna Charta cares no more for a Lord or Great Man than you do for a petit frepone de la Guard Nay he says That he has prosecuted the highest Subjects and somtimes hanged them as Empson Dudley and 100 more of his Infringers I 'de have you for avoiding danger to buy a Bashaws place in Turky for methinks I could make a rare Bashaw's wife There is no Magna Charta Pluto Pox damn it there is a kind of little Magna Charta that is the Alcoran and Bow strings and I hate choaking besides the Janisaries are as mutinous as our common Soldiers and often knock their Visier on the head Nay the Grand-Seignior if a General do but cheat him in his Muster-Roll sends him a Bow-string and then he may go hang himself Proserp Is it possible fer futre la Gran Seigner what then will you do with this damn'd English Magna Charta Pluto S. Edw. Lack. now we know it is Magna Charta that takes Coffo-Philo's part we had best while we are together to examine our own strengths and weaknesses And therefore Wife I beg your silence till we have examined Cap. Intelligence who is ready to make Report are you not Captain Cap. Intel. Yes Sir but I cannot give an account to the Court of all for one of Shack. setting dogs with M. Want-Practice sit close at Coffo-Philo whence in a little time you will know much more in the mean time I must beg all the Honourable persons of this Court that they will take no exceptions till I have told out my tale Pluto You shall not be interrupted Cap. Intel. Then first for you S. Edw. Lack. there is a man here in Town that knows you ever since your Mother sold Ale and that after you came to be M. Harper's boy at Chester you made Practice which since you have well improved I and he knows of the Letter that got you your Barr-Gown and the occasion and told all the story of your contrivance with Granger and the false Oath you made against C to get his Goods yours is too long a story to relate therefore here is your black Bill of Fare in writing signed and examined by Alex. Fitton Carr and Percival Hart but transcribed by Coffo-Philo For your part M. Practice your name is like an infectious disease honest men never use your name but they do as the Papists at the name of the Devil sign themselves with the Cross or God bless me from that Knave in grain M. Practice As to you M. Instrument you are known in Cheshire ever since you led your Fathers Pack-horse that carryed his Pedlers Ware but known better by the name of Engine Dick that informed against the Cavaliers in S. Geor. Booth's business and then as your Father was made a Sequestrator so you had 3 s. per diem allowed you by those Usurpers to attend the Sequestrator yet they held you but for a silly fellow and S. Edw. Lack. for 20 s. preferred you to be his Instrumant But for you Shackles you are called in London lying broken Dick who cousened all your Creditors and to the great disgrace of the Guards sheltred your self from your just Debts but to hear Coffo-Philo tell the story of your life how often imprisoned and how you were condemned to be boyled alive in Oyl for a Coyner would make one wonder in a word you are hated even amongst your own Comrades For you Brandy your life is generally scandalous and infamous for beating your Wife although she often deserves admonition or something else or her Neighbours do her wrong but laying aside a bushel of ill qualities that which S. Edw. Massey tells of you is unpardonable how you would have killed him when he declared for the King at Glocester and was the last man of the Soldiers that opposed Gen. Monk in Glocester the story is too large to relate therefore take S. Edw. Massey's own Certificate For you Bub you are looked upon as a poor spirited fellow that for a dinner bub and ease will swear any thing the most empty-scul'd cock-brain'd fellow that ever was made a Cuckold your Neighbours call you foul mouth and blew lips Pluto Pray Cap. hold a little what do they say of my Wife speak freely Wife you shall not be angry Cap.
Intel. They say that Proserp though the grey mare is the better horse and wears the breeches playing away her money freely many an undone younger brother hath been set at Humber Picquet in a night Proserp Pray Husband let me speak a word you did allow me the selling of 5 or 6 places in a year and then I had 300 l. a year for my allowance besides other ways of progging for money therefore I may afford to Play 't is my own only I confess I owe Coffo Philo 300 l. which I borrowed on my Jewels as you have heard Pluto Pray where is my Charge Cap. Intelligence Cap. Intell. There it is in writing take it with a comment upon it and a many great Authorities against all your unjust Arbitrary proceedings and I have put you to the cost of one copie of the Statute of Anno tertio Car. and the reason why I brought it is because your Highness is much blamed for sending your two Daughters into France to be bred Papists in a Nunnerie where your eldest daughter Charnock torments her self and cries out she will be a Protestant or else she will destroy her self to the great admiration and pitie of Sir Thom. Arpe who hath sent to have the poor young Ladie sent for away to England Nay Sir should I have paid for all the copies of the Charge against you my 4 s. a day would not have held out but I must have a dead pay for what I have done alreadie or else you may go look Pluto Dear Cap. Intell. read them to me and then we will Adjourn the Court or else this foolish troublesome fellow Magna Charta will secure us all under his Shackles Pract. Give me the papers I will read them Pluto Prithee do and I would have you Sir Edw. Lack. to make notes on what you have read Pract. Anno 9. H. 3. Cap. 29. Magna Charta runs thus No Free-man shall be taken or Imprisoned or be disseized of his Free-hold or Liberties or Free-Customs or be Outlawed or Eriled or any other ways destroyed Nor We will not pass upon him nor condemn him but by lawful Judgement of his Peers or by Law of the Land We will sell to no man We will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right Pluto Read no further of that which is the next Pract. Sir there are so many more that it would be too tedious a work to read all but if you please I will read the Conference between the Lords and Commons concerning this great liberty of the Commons Pluto Pray do but if there be any Latine pray English it as you read because of Sir Edw. and my self Pract. I will read it The Commons having taken into their serious consideration the matter of personal Liberty and after long debate thereof an divers days aswel by solemn Arguments as single Propositions of Doubts and Answers to the end no scruple might remain in any mans breast unsatisfyed they have upon a full seaâ—ch and clear understanding of all things pertinent to the Question unanimously declared That no Free-man ought to be committed or detained in Prison or otherwise restrained by the Command of the King or Privy Council or any other unless some cause of the commitment detainer or restraint be expressed for which by Law he ought to be committed detained or restrained And they have sent me with others of their Members to represent unto your Lordships the true grounds of such their Resolution and have charged me particularly leaving the reasons of Law and Presidents for others to give your Lordships satisfaction that this Liberty is established and confirmed by the whole State the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons by several Acts of Parliament the Authority whereof is so great that it can receive no Answer save by Interpretation or Repeal by future Statutes and those that I shall mind your Lordships of are so direct to the point that they can bear no other exposition at all and sure I am they are still in force The first of them is the Grand Charter of the Liberties of England first granted in the seaventeenth year of King John and renewed in the ninth year of King Henry the Third and since confirmed in Parliament above thirty times The words are thus Cap. 29. Nullus Liber homo Capiatur vel Imprisonetur aut Dissesietur de Libero Tenemento suo vel libertatibus vel Liberis consuetudinibus suis aut utlegatur aut exuletur aut aliquo modo destruatur nec super eum ibimus nec super eum mittemus nisi per Legale Judicium Parium suorum vel per Legem Terrae These words Nullus Liber homo c. are express enough yet it is remarkable that Matthew Paris an Author of special credit doth observe Fol. 432 that the Charter of 9. Hen. 3. was the very same as of the 17 of King John in nullo dissimilis are his words and that of King John he setteth down verbatim Fol. 342 and there the words are directly Nec eum in carcerem mittemus And such a corruption as is now in the print might easily happen 'twixt 9. H. 3. and 28. E. 1. when this Charter was first exemplified but certainly there is sufficient left in that which is extant to decide this question For the words are That no Free-man shall be taken or Imorisoned but by the lawful Judgement of his Peers which is by Jury Peers for Peers ordinary Jurors for others who are their Peers or by the Law of the Land which words Law of the Land must of necessity be understood in this notion to be by due Process of the Law and not the Law of the Land generally otherwise it would comprehend Bond-men whom we call Villains who are excluded by the word Liber for the general Law of the Land doth allow their Lords to Imprison them at pleasure without Cause wherein they only differ from the Free-men in respect of their persons who cannot be Imprisoned without a cause And that this is the true understanding of those words per Legem Terrae will more plainly appear by divers other Statutes that I shall use which do expound the same accordingly And though the words of this grand Charter be spoken in the third person yet they are not to be understood of Suits betwixt party and party at least not of them alone but even of the King's Suits against his Subjects as will appear by the occasion of the getting of that Charter which was by reason of the difference betwixt those Kings and their People and therefore properly to be applyed unto their power over them and not to ordinary questions betwixt Subject and Subject Secondly the words Per Legale judicum parium suorum immediately preceding the other of Per Legem Terrae are meant of Tryals at the King's Suit and not at the prosecution of a Subject And therefore if a Peer of the Realm be Arraigned at the Suit of the
good governance of the Commons That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iusticeâ— or matter of Record or by due Process and Writ Original according to the old Law of the Land And if any thing from henceforth be done to the contrary it shall be void in the Law and holden for Error But this is better in the Parliament Roll where the Petition and Answer which makes the Act are set down at large 42 E. 3 Rot. n. 12. The Petition Item Because that many of your Commons are hurt and destroyed by false Accusers who make their accusations more for their revenge and particular gain then for the profit of the King or his people and these that are accused by them some have been taken and others are made to come before the Kings Council by Writ or other Commandment of the King upon grievous pains contrary to the Law That it would please our Lord the King and his good Council for the Iust government of his people to ordain That if hereafter any accuser purpose any matter for the profit of the King that the same matter be sent to the Justices of the one Bench or the other or the Assâ—zes to be enquired and determined according to the Law And if it câ—ncern the accuser or party that he take his suit at the Common Law and that no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due Process and original Writ according to the antient Law of the Land And if any thing hence forward be done to the contrary that it be void in Law and held for Error Here by due Process and Original Writ according to the ancient Law of the Land is meant the same thing as Per Legem Terrae in Magna Charta and the abuse was That they were put to answer by Commandment of the King The Kings Answer is thus Because that this Article is an Article of the Grand Charter the King will that this be done as the Petition doth demand By this appeareth that Per Legem Terrae in Magna Charta is meant by due Process of the Law Thus your Lordships have heard Acts of Parliament in the point but the Statute of Westminster the first cap. 15. is urged to disprove this opinion where it is expresly said That a man is not Replevisable who is committed by the command of the King therefore the Command of the King without any cause shewed is sufficient to commit a man to prison And because the strength of the Argument may appear and the Answer be better understood I shall read the words of that Statute which are thus And forasmuch as Sheriffs and others which have taken and kept in prison persons detected of felony and oftentimes have let out by Replevin such as were not Replevisable and have kept in prison such as were Replevisable because they would gain of the one party and grieve the other And forasmuch as before this time it was not certainly determined what persons were repleviable and what not but only those that were taken for the death of a man or by Commandment of the King or of his Iustices or for the Forrest It is provided and by the King commanded that such prisoners as before were outlawed and they which have abjured the Realm provors and such as be taken with the manner and those which have broken the Kings Prison Thieves openly defamed and known and such as be appealed by provors so long as the provors be living if they be not of good name and such as be taken for burning of houses feloniously done or for false money or for counterfeiting the Kings Seal or persons excommunicate taken at the request of the Bishop or for manifest offences or for Treason touching the King himself shall be in no wise Replevisable by Common Writ or without Writ but such as be indicted of Larceny by Inquests taken before Sheriffs or Bayliffs by their office or of light suspition or for petty Larceny that amounteth not above the value of twelve pence if they were not guilty of some other Larceny aforetime or guilty of receipt of felons or of commandment or force or aid in felony done or guilty of some other trespasses for which one ought not to lose life or member And a man appealed by a provor after the death of the provor if he be no common thief nor defamed shall from henceforth be let out by sufficient Surety whereof the Sheriff will be answerable and that without giving ought of their goods And if the Sheriff or any other let any go at large by Surety that is not Replevisable if he be Sheriff or Constable or any other Bayliff of Fee which hath keeping of Prisons and thereof be attainted he shall lose his Fee and Office for ever And if the under-Sheriff Constable or Bayliff of such as hath Fee for keeping of Prisons do it contrary to the will of his Lord or any other Bayliff being not of Fee they shall have three years imprisonment and make a Fine at the Kings pleasure And if any withhold prisoners Replevisable after that they have offered sufficient Surety he shall pay a grievous Amerciament to the King And if he take any reward for the deliverance of such he shall pay double to the prisoner and also shall be in the great mercy of the King Pluto Dam me this is a damn'd Argument I do not like it for by this I find I have run into a Praemunire for keeping Coffophilo and his Brother in Prison under Shackles and keeping guard in his house neither can you Gentlemen keep your plunder by this Argument to try by Peers Why there was never the peer of this Shackles Pray Sir who shall Captain Bub and Brandy and my self keep harmless I find the Proverb true He that is born to be hang'd shall never be boyl'd in Oyl Brandy Will swearing do no good to hang this Coffo-philo Pluto Peace Gentlemen we shall have need of all your swearing Oh that a Jury would believe here are arrant Knights of the Post stand to it Shackles you shall all swear and be d Bub. T is true Post Practice you swore home to hang your Country-men when they were for the King at the rising in Lincolnshire Pluto No rubbing of old sores Gentlemen here is a new Ulcer will want curing Bishop Do not quarrel Gentlemen I 'le teach you your Neck-verse Would to Heaven I might have the favour to read mine Such of you as are without benefit of my Function as some of you are and therefore I will make you Paper Wills that shall last seventeen year in the lining of a doublet Pluto Practise Pray read that damn'd Statute against Captains cousening and defrauding their Prince and Souldiers there is two of them read them both the one of Henry the Seventh and the other of Henry the Eighth Pract. I will Anno tertio Hen. 8 cap. 5. Forasmuch as the King our Soveraign Lord
intendeth by the grace of God to send over the â—…a a great Army trusting thereby not only to preserve this his Realm in its ancient â—ante and honour etc. Howbeit many times by the inordinate covetousness of Captains retained with Princes afore this time Great part of the number of Souldiers for whom such Captains have indented with Princes at time of need have lacked of the number of Souldiers whereby great jeopardy hath insued inrecuperable damages may insue if remedy therefore be not seen and had Be it therefore ordained by Authority of this present Parliament That if any Captain be retained or hereafter shall be to serve the King upon the Sea or beyond the Sea or in feat of War which have not his or their whole and perfect number of Men and Souldiers according as he shall bee retained with the King or give not them their full wages without abridgement as he shall receive of the King for them he shall for such default forfeit to the King all his goods and Chattels and his body to the prison and that every Captain and petit Captain and all other having under them retinue of Souldiers at the Kings wages shall upon the pain aforesaid pay to the retinue of the Souldiers and every of them tho wages rateably as is allowed unto them by the King our Soveraign Lord or the Treasurer of his Wars without lessing or withdrawing any part thereof c. The Statute of Anno septimo H 7. cap. 1. is also very strict against your Highness but Sir I will read one Statute more to this particular Anno secundo tertio Edwardi sext Cap. 2. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Captain or any other before named having the Order of any number of Souldiers serving as is aforesaid upon the Sea or Land do at any time after the first day of April demand receive or take of the Kings Highness or any of his Treasurers any wages for any more Souldiers then served in such manner and form as the wages was paid for sr for any more days then such Souldiers served and do not note the day of every Souldiers entry into wages and day of his death and departure and deliver the same in writing to such Treasurers as shall pay the wages c. Pluto Hold this is worse and worse Pract. Give me leave to read but one Statute more and that is against sending Children to be bred beyond Sea in Papist houses Anno tertio Caroli Regis cap. 2. Forasmuch as divers ill-affected persons to the true Religion established within this Realm have sent their Children into forraign parts to be bred up in Popery c. Be it Enacted etc. That in case that any person or persons under the obedience of the King his Heirs and Successors at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall pass or go or shall convey or send or cause to be sent or conveyed any Child or other person out of any of the Kings Dominions into any the parts beyond the Seas out of the Kings Obedience to the intent and purpose to enter into or be resident or trained up in any Priory Abbey Nunnery Popish Vniversity Colledge or School or House of Iesuites Priests or in any private Popish Family and shall be there by any Iesuite Seminary Priest Friar Monk or other Popish Person instructed c. being thereof lawfully convicted in or upon any Information Presentment or Indictment as aforesaid shall be distnabled from thenceforth to sue or use any Action Bill Plaint or Information in course of Law or to prosecute any suit in any Court of Equity or to be committed to any Ward or Executor or Administrator or any person capable of any Legacy or Deed of Gift or to bear any Office within the Realm and shall lose and forfeit all his Goods and Chattels and shall forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents Annuities Offices and Estates of Free-hold for and during his natural life c. Pluto Read no further I am guilty of all these Statutes and many more and therefore Proserpine I will immediately make my Will Call the Ordinary he hath a rare faculty in making Wills in Paper to last seventeen years in the lining of a Doublet Pract. I have not half done give me leave to read all Pluto Read all and be damn'd Pract. Hen. 3. Anno 9. cap. 30. Magna Charta runs thus No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or Free Customs or be outlawed or exiled or any otherwise distroyed nor we will not pass upon him nor condemn him but by lawful Iudgement of his Peers or by the Law of the Land we will sâ—ll to no man we will not deny or deferre to any man either Iustice or Right Pluto Read no further of that which is next Pract. The next is the Learned Conference in Caroli primo between the Lords and Commons concerning the Great Liberties of the Commons Pluto Prithee read but when you come to Latine English it as you go because of Sir Edward and my Self All the Stage being cleared Enters Pluto Sir Edward Lack Latine Bishop Post Practice and Instrument POst Practice Sir I am not satisfied that your Highness should make your will yet for Sir Edward and I have lately consulted and fain would be at the other touch Sir Edw. Right I am resolved to venter my Neck after my Ears 't is but a venture and now you have money good stood store you do not know but Coffophilo may either die or be tired out for want of money Pluto Well let me hear which way now Gentlemen how many Actions is now against him and how many have been tryed Practice We have tryed in all seventeen and there yet remains five more Pluto How many hath he cast us in Sir Edw. All. Bishop I am for no more Tryals till my Trial be over for my Perjury Instrum Bishop let me tell you your Parishioners are now totally your enemies since they heard you was such a Knave to plead the Ingagement in Barre to a poor Cavalier-Minister that sued you in the late Times for money his name was Green a poor sequestered Minister whose Conscience was not free to take the Ingagement and thus the poor Gentleman lost his suit Your Wife may well be mad if half be true as I was told by one of your Parish the child sent in the basket Pluto Hold no more Enter Shackells with a Note from Pluto's Council Shackel SIr pray read this Pluto What is 't Shackel Shackel 'T is Latine Pluto Read it Sir Edw. Lack-Lat Practice give it me Carol. secund Dei gratia How what this attach the body of Pluto Pluto O me Good Behaviour I am a Peer Instrum I there is not the Peer of your Highness now what 's to be done Pluto Did not Proserpine tell us that Magna Charta cared no shore for a Great man