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VOLUMINOUSNESS The complaints of it.
So long ago as the year 1599 in the reign of Elizabeth <add>close of the 16th Century</add> I find the Law spoken of it observed <add>remarked</add> (and that by a Panegyrist [+]#
Fullbeck's Directive or Preparative for the to the study of the Law printed 1620 - dated 1599
in the way of concession) that "The Law Books are huge and large, and"
"that there is [such] an ocean of Reports || || This Ocean [however] following however were Ocean however could then Articles of which this Ocean of the following Articles] and [such] a perplexed confusion of opinions which so tho this
however it seems ought not to trouble us for the old standing reasons because that Industry would
conquer every thing, and that there were Lawyers very ready to be consulted, & so forth
It was however an observation of a facetious Lawyer, I don't know what facetious Lawyer it was, who was observing about of the Professor towards the beginning of the Century The year Books Vol: in Folio 10 "that when he was a Student, he could
Dyer "carry a compleat Library of [Law] Books in a Wheelbarrow; but that they were so wonderfully"
Plowden "encreased in his time that they could not then be drawn in a Waggon."
The Biographer Fuller, who published wrote in his Book in the year 1660, takes notice that in his time
the Library of a Common- -Lawyer might be published for £40, which that for a Civilian could at the time that it would have taken
not be completed under the enormous Sum of two thousand to have compleated that of a Civilian I would willingly believe, for
the sake of those people the Nations who have the misfortune to be governed by that Law it, that this is in
any sense is an exaggeration: but forbid God forbid it should be otherwise in respect if spoken
of that part which an English Civilian as such, is obliged called upon to consult: since in that case
the price of the whole quantity together of Law with which an Englishman is concerned,
would be 40 added to the 2,000 unless the Law relative to Tythes to Testaments to Administrations
to Marriages to spiritual offence, those extensive & important Titles should be reckoned not to be
of it the number because it has got[ten] the name of Civil. Mr Barrington ╪ ╪ Preface to 5th Modern. It has been with the burthen of our Laws, as with the burthen of our debt. Enured to the encrease of it by degrees we have learnt to bear much more than at one time would have been thought possible. With regard to the one however as to the other our capacity of bearing must have a term: and there are considerations which make this term appear much more and more inevitable with regard to the first, than the second. from whom I take the last-mentioned
state anecdote subjoins adds is borrow'd, adds as from his own knowledge, that before the Publication of Viner's
Abridgment, Mr Osborn of Gray's Inn there (one of the principal Law-Booksellers) undertook to furnish a complete
collection of Law & Equity for £120. Still however this does not include
the 2000£ or whatever is to remain out of it after the due deductions. continued at p [ ][ ]
Ld Coke [he whose merit learning in the knowledge of the Law is of that was mainly sort which is not into contradistinction to philosophy & good sense] I have sometimes thought that if and I have found myself not singular, that Supposing that some conqueror, were to entering upon the exercise of that character with
views [the opposite to those of the men who hitherto have born it, as benign to humankind, as those of most conquerors have been destructive were to undertake an
expedition for the profit benefit of human Nature] he could not pitch upon an atchievement
that would consult promote it better, do it more essential & perpetual service than by burning consuming in one universal conflagration in all these repositories
of ancient rubbish that are to be met with any where throughout Europe, the heads of eternal discord & confusion
to force men to undertake the governors of those respective nations executes anew the work of Legislation conformably to the exigencies and the intelligences
of their own age.
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