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II. Device the second — Language rendered
unintelligible. — It was by this Device that,
in the first instance, the exclusion was
effected.
To Saxon Judicature succeeded
that of Norman Conquerers: to Saxon
liberalism, Norman absolutism. In Saxon times
reigned, in adequate number, local Judicataries:
not only County shires, but so to speak, still
lesser Judge-shires: Hundred Courts, Courts
Leet, Courts Baron and others.
Then and there people and or lawyers
made no difference, language was the same.
From the presence of the Judge, in any one of
these small and adequately numerous tribunals,
directly or indirectly, was suitor ever
excluded? no more than in a private family,
contending children from the presence of their
fathers.
Under the Norman Kings, grew up
Norman French speaking Lawyers. Whether in
the metropolis or elsewhere, along with his horses
and their grooms one train of these domestic's was
always in attendance about the person of
the King. To this train was given a the cognizance
of all such suits as, from such varied distances
so various and some of them so long, could
be made to come to it.
Quartering himself upon vassal after
Vassal, the King was perpetually on the move;
17.
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