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case of all other men, can it be needless or
safely omitted in the case of these?

Moreover, on any one of these
occasions, what is there to hinder a non-quaker
from personating a Quarker? Cloathed
in the habit, and speaking the language of
a Quaker, suppose a non-Quaker, by his
evidence, giving success to Doc, in a case
in which, otherwise, it would have gone
to Roc. The imposture afterwards discovered,
would success change hands?

On the evidence of an impostor
of this sort, suppose a man convicted of
murder and executed. The imposture, being
afterwards discovered, would the felony be
transmitted into a non-felony, and the
hanging operation be in law language,
declared void?

Not only in the case of a class
of men so well known as this of Quakers,
but in the case of a class comparatively so
little known as that of Moravian, has justice
been in possession of this same benefit
ever since the Year 1749, by State 22d Geo
2d, Ch 30.

Of detriment to Justice from
this allowance, in what instance was any
suspicion ever entertained? Was not the
assuredness of the absence of all increased
danger of mendacity from this admission
in civil cases — was not this the case of the

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altogether irresistible. Such is the effect of Test
Oaths. Of these Oaths, some are or may be assertory, some promissory, some assertory and promissory
in one: declaration of opinions entertained: declarations
of course of actions determined to be pursued,
or of opinions determined to be entertained:
to be entertained, spite of all conviction and
persuasion to the contrary. For perjury in
this shape, premium the highest given for good
desert in any shape; for appropriate aptitude,
in the official situations the most richly remunerated.
Of the whole of the expenditure
of Government, a vast proportion thus employed
in raising annual and continually increasing
crops of perjuries: and while such is the reward,
impurity is absolute and secure.

Oh the admirable security! A
man who, with or without pecuniary reward
has, for any number of years together, as above,
been leading a life of perjury is to be regarded —
not only as capable, but as almost sure, of
being stopt from giving his acceptance to any
of the very richest rewards, the Kings gift. Stopt,
by the fear of no more that what if any thing, may
follow from one single instance of perjury, and
that of a compleatly unpunishable one: made to
refuse for example, an Archbishopoprick of Canterbury,
with its £25,000. a year, and it's etceteras
upon etceteras!!!

Sowing oaths and reaping perjuries etceteras is a mode of husbandry, in a particular

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Identifier: | JB/081/185/002"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	185	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c6 / c11 / c12
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