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instance affected to be disapproved by
Blackstone. But in that instance compared
with this, the scale is that of a garden
pot to that of a field.

Bidding thus high for perjury
is it possible that of the same same man it
should be the sincere with to prevent it?

What then, (says somebody,)
the fear of punishment at the hands of the
Almighty — is it to be set down as nothing?
The answer is — yes: on this particular occasion,
as amounting absolutely to nothing
but of this presently

By the inducting of these
same Reverend, Right Reverend, and Most
Reverend, self styled Perjurers (for so they
are specially declared to be by these their
own statutes,) has been established the
National School of Church of England
Orthodoxy.

These things considered, and
the use made of oaths on Judicial occasions,
— Westminster Hall, not to mention its
near neighbourhood, may it not be stiled
the great national school of perjury?

What then, (says somebody,)
are all tests meant to be thus condemned?

Oh no: tests, for declarations of the party joined,
by a man, on this or that occasion may
be useful: useful and even necessary, and
at any rate unexceptionable: in some
cases by acceptance, in other cases by

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Judicature, with it's expensive prosecution
and severer punishments. Why? because,
while the mode of elicitation employed is
such as needs not the assistance of the ceremony,
it's mode of procedure is such, as is
able to cause the punishment to follow instantaneously
upon the offence. Yet, has it as yet
a weakness, to which consistency will one
day, it is hoped, apply the obvious remedy.
Standing at the highest pitch at the commencement
of each Parliament, it sinks (this
indispensable power,) as the Parliament
advances in age, till at last it is such in
utter decrepitude.

After such a demonstration
of the needlessness of this ceremony, but
for the importance and novelty of the subject,
other proofs might be put aside, as being themselves
needless: important the subject may
well be stiled, or no other is so: for, so
long as this ceremony has place, Justice, to
the prodigious extent that will be seen, is
absolutely incapable of having place.

To the benefit of the testimony
of Quakers, ever since the year 1696, Justice
has, without the benefit of this ceremony,
by various Statutes, been admitted, in cases
called Civil cases: and now, by a statute of
1828, in cases called Criminal and penal
cases. If then, as a security against mendacity,
the ceremony is indispensable in the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	185	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
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