JB/058/223/001

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31 May 1805
Evidence

On that same day comes afterwards a petition from the
King's Judges King's lawyers of all conditions classes, Judges as well as Sergeants at law Ad (i.e. Advocates)
and his Attorney General, complaining of all in great distress. The "fees
"and regards" due to them from the King, used to be paid
(they say) half yearly by the Treasurers of England. Instead of that
they had of late been put off with bad bills upon the
Kings insolvent debtors, who would not pay them unless
they joined in cheating him, which as they having as it happened
sworn upon a book not to do so, was a disagreeable mode of payment doing business, and
went against their consciences, they therefore beg to receive
from the Treasury whatever is may be coming to them, as before,
which accordingly is granted. Individuals (they observe in a parenthesis) pay more, pay better, and give them much less trouble.

The one of those Arcs throws light upon the other.
From this anecdote and a volume of others to the same effect
might be quoted brought together, it will be plain enough to any one
who chooses to see, it that not only in those times, but before
and afterwards the chief difference between a Judge and his Pub Officers
on one hand, and a gang kind of Highwayman or kind of Swindlers, on the other, was that the one practiced with, and
the other without a licence.

He who from seeing what a King or a Judge is
now, should conclude, (as upon all occasions, fervent
of thought, men are so apt but too apt to conclude) that the same
sort of tern went by the same names at the time in the time in
which the system of English jurisprudential law, and in
particular the adjective branch assumed its form and character
will never rid himself of those that mot mischievous of all
prejudices, which hold up the improbity and folly of barbarous
ages, as objects of admiration reverence and fond attachment to
more enlightened times ones.

Identifier: | JB/058/223/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	6a continued
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	223	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18892
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