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a ministerial officer, acting under him:
a written instrument called a Writ, the
mediums of communication through which,
to the subordinates, the command, of his
superordinates, is signified.

In the case of the oath, the
man by whom the oath is administered
performs the part of the Chief-Justice; the
Almighty that of the Sheriff acting under
him, and the kiss given to the book performs
the service of Writ.

I sit by a Country Attorney,
dignified by the title of Master Extraordinary
in Chancery- is it by this personage
that the oath is administered. In this case,
it is the Attorney that the Almighty has for
his Master now; and by the shilling paid
to the Attorney- by the shilling it is, that
the Almighty is hired.

On the expectation of the addition
thus to be produced to the spiritual
punishment appointed by the Almighty for
himself for mendacity - on this alone depends
the whole of the molehill of advantage,
if any such there be capable of
being set against the mountain of evil
that has just been brought to view.

Of mendacity, variable is
the maleficence, on a scale corresponding to
that of the maleficent act, of which it is made

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grounds, or was it groundless.? To stile it
groundless, would be to pass condemnation on
it. If having determinate grounds, and
those grounds appropriate, of what then are those
same grounds composed?

Answer. Of what matters of fact,
and nothing esle; for nothing else is there of
which they can be composed, On the occasion
in question, these same matters of fact, whatsoever
they may be, will respectively either be
considered as already sufficiently notorious
or not: if not, then will the existence of them,
for the purpose of this same act of legislation,
as for the purpose of any sort act of judicature,
be considered as requiring to be established
by evidence. No otherwise than in as far as
thus grounded and warranted can any law,
whatever be any thing better than an act of
wanton despotism. Most laudable accordingly
-un matched in any other Country upon
earth, is the scrutinizing attention and perseverance,
so constantly employed by your
Honorable House in the collection of appropriate
witnesses, and the elicitation of their testimony.
Of their testimony? And in what shapes?
in that which is the very besy possible: oral examination,
subject to counter-interrogation
from all quarters, re-examination of anytime,
and with the maximum if correctness secured
to it by being minuted down as elicited, and
subjected afterwards to corrections by the indivi=

Identifier: | JB/081/184/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	184	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c4 / c13 / c14
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	25971
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