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Certainty Court Ecclesiastical

Of certain Nusances under the name of Courts
and of mockery of religion established by
Law.

"It is perhaps to be wished", says that Author of the
Principles of Penal Law + + p. 86 "that this statute
[2g. C.2. c.9.] had gone a little further, and taken
from the spiritual Court Arm every exercise of
Penal Jurisdiction.

A.Z. a poor Welshman, having not wherewithal
to pay the sum of 3s. 4d for a fee to a
Proctor was excommunicated. Of this foul
crime of Poverty, whereby he had deserved received <add></add> damnation,
and had been deservedly cut off from the
community of Christians, by the great lenity of he was absolved at length in the
Church of kneeling, by the pronunciation
of a solemn & pathetic form of words, beginning
In the name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy

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Ghost. I mention it not as a matter of blame
to the officers who were concerned in the preparation
& representation of the religious farce, since the
fee might be & probably was partly due, &
there is was no other method of recovering it: I mention
as a scandal to the Law, while because the
Court happens to have the name of Ecclesiastical
It might have been as well if instead of this tremendous sentence they had given the English of it, & said, The Lawyer has got his money, & now you may go about your business.

One sees that the plain English of this tremendous
sentence is, The Lawyer has got his fee, money and now
you may go about your business. But there are
more ways than one of expressing the same
thing: and none have signalized themselves more
than Ecclesiastics as the art of making trivial great
things out of small [if unimportant things out of
the most trivial
that there is an art in making great &c. in which some have signalized Ecclesiastics

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