JB/050/026/001

Click Here To Edit

PUNISHMENT. RECOGNIZANCES discharged by Kg's Death.

It seemed as if the thread of the Sovereign's life was the only bond that kept the Political
Machine together — Did that happen to be sever'd broken <add>divided</add>? Chaos was to come again. It is so true that in the times- The Sovereign was every thing & the People nothing, that &c No Slaves
indeed were slain to grace the ceremonies of his interment: but no Gladiators expressly
appointed to wash his robes with their Blood

But Enemies- were turned loose against those <add>the salutary Bonds [which are] so happily</add> applied by the Laws for the tying up
men's hands from violence yet they had have offended, were to be shaken off by this universal
concession, that each man might be turned loose upon his Enemy: + + All Recognizances for keeping the Peace & those for being of good behaviour are discharged by the death of the King. this subsists still. v. Princ. of Pen. Law p. 69 Justice was to
shut up her doors — an universal palsy was to seize [upon] every hand employ'd in
the public service — No foot was to stir but the claw of violence & outrage. The tranquillity,
it seems, of the subject was of no importance value, any further than a violation
of it might disturb interrupt the [current serenity of his] pleasures repose of this Lord of Nature favorite person. Why indignation
rises whenever I am forced to observe called upon to take that how the constitution is yet defaced to this hour disfigured with many of
those relicks of the ancient tyranny — To what use, or possibility of use, in compensation
for their [practical] mischief & [speculative] deformity are they maintained?
If the Lord of a Villein might not maim him, it was, not that the sufferings of the wretched individual were of any consequence; but that he would be disabled (says Ld Edw Coke 1st Inst. 127 .) from bedoing the possibility of doing to the King. v. Pr. Pen-Law. 201.

In this auspicious reign why not dismiss them to oblivion with those their fellows that have been gone

---page break---
already? before? Is it, that when the Sovereign under whose protection we live, shall be taken
away from us, our loss will not be great enough without without Justice be taken with
him?

[It would have been well, if Lawyers who are so pleased with with all the pleasure they take in their Idol with-
that of immortality along with the other attributes of the Divine nature, would have brought, in
this instance at least, the truth of things somewhat nearer to a consistency with their
jargon: when they kept him alive for other purposes, they might as well have kept
him alive to keep save Justice from dying with him]

Identifier: | JB/050/026/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::punishment recognizances discharged by k[in]g's death]]
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16017
Box Contents