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Ch. Shewing how a Lawyer [while he] keepsing his own Head above Water may drown those that follow him. — — — — — —

I am a Country Clergyman — I wish to
have some Acquaintance with the Laws under which
I live. I hear from all with whom I converse quarters that of that there
is a Book by the Help of which I may compass it
with a pleasure which can only be surpassed by
the Solidity of the Instruction. I wask whether I may
lay my Account with understanding it? For Lawyers
having by Dint of Toil arrived at the Understanding
of the Current Language of their Profession, are
too apt to suppose the same of others, who have
had something else to mind. I am answered in
the affirmative; for the work being that it was peculiarly calculated
for the Instruction of such Persons as have no more
than that share of preliminary Knowledge which
I flatter myself to possess. It contains I am told not indeed, the
whole Law — for of this there are four hundred: but that so much however as it does contain may be depended upon for true — I




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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

073

Main Headings

law in general

Folio number

001

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

[[titles::ch. [ ] shewing how a lawyer keeping his own head above water may drown those that follow him]]

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f2 / / /

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23841

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