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Certainty Court Ecclesiastical
Of certain Nuances under the name of Courts
and of mockery of by
Law.
"It is perhaps to be wished", says that Author of the Principles of Penal Law "that this
[2g C.2.c.g.] had gone a little further, and taken
from the spiritual Arm every exercise of
Penal Jurisdiction.
A. Z. a poor Welshman, having not that
to pay the of 3superscript text 4superscript text for a fee to a
was excommunicated. Of this foul
crime of Poverty, whereby he had deceived
, and had been deprived by cut off from the
community of Christians, he was abhorred in the
Church of kneeling, by the pronunciation
of a of form of word, beginning
In the name of the Father & of the Son & of the Holy
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Ghost. I mention it not as a matter of blame
to the offices who were concerned in the preparation
& representation of the religious farce, since the
fee might be & probably was partly due, & </lb> there is was no other method of recovering it: it merits</lb> on as a scandal to the Law, while because this </lb> Court happens to have the name of Ecclesiastical</lb> One sees that the plain English of this </gap> </lb> sentence is. The Lawyer has got his </gap> money and </gap> </lb> you may go about your business. But </gap> are </lb> more ways than one of expressing the same </lb> and none have </gap> themselves more </lb> </gap> Ecclesiastics as the art of making </gap> great </lb> things out of small [if unimportant things </gap> of </lb>
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