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THE
Moderate Intelligencer:
Impartially communicating Martiall
Affairs to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND.
From Thursday, Septemb. 13, to Thursday, September 20. 1649.
THose who have beene acquainted with, and fate in those
Parliaments that were in the days of Queen Elizabeth, King
James, and the former part of the reign of King Charles,
say, it was never accounted reasonable, that the makers
of Laws should hear causes, or determine of rights between
man and man; their proper works being to punish such
Magistrates who have not proceeded according to Law, and
their Oaths taken, to give money for publik use, to make
such Laws as the Common-wealth needed, and to repeal such
as time hath made uselesse or inconvenient. Sir Edward Coke, one of the Fathers of the
Law, and Oracle of Parliaments, was used to say, when any motion was made, or Petition
offered, to decide controversies between man and man: Mr. Speaker, pray before
you go to this work let Westminster Hall be shut up; and all other Courts of Justice, and
the Assises twice a year null'd: and he gave reasons, if the Judges be unjust they are
punishable, but if we, from us lies no appeal, against this objections are made, as that I Can
have my cause heard cheaper in Parl. then before a Judge, it may be so, it were to be
wisht Law were cheaper, especially in the new Courts, for it's affirmed, a man may
have as much businesse done in the ordinary way of Law for 40 shil. as he shall pay
at divers of the new Offices, &c.12 li. for, and so in, &c. but my adversary hath too
big a purse, must all that go to Law have purses alike? or is more potent with the Judge:
is not this to asperse Magistrates? doth that Judge delay the poore man, he may complain,