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By 5. Eliz. 28 Itis enacted that the Old and New Testament
and Common Prayer shall be translated into the Welsh Tongue
and shall be kept in every Church in the principality.
Pick. Index Wales.
If the Common People among the Weslh, of whom there are
many thousands utter strangers to the lamguage in which
every thing thatrel;ates to Law is written, know any thing
about it of the Law, it is by inspiration.
They are accused, and it is to be feared, too truly of being
butimperfectly broken to i's obedience but to whom it is to
be imputed?
thereis a Clause in an Act 6.G.2.15.D3. which to obviate
a doubt that had been entertained on the Subject of the
Act 4.G.2.26. expressly declares that the requisitions in
that Act: that all Judicial Proceedings shall be in the
English Language shall extend to Wales.
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[The translation then of the General penal Code and of
some at elast of the Professional ones as that concerning
Husbandmen and other Professsions purely inland,
into that laguage is a work of obvious necessity.]
What must a por Welshman think of the magical jargon,
(jargon as it must be to Him) of a Riot - Act by the utterance
of which, understanding nothing & suspecting nothing,
he should find himself deproved of his property or of his
life in the compass of an Hour?
The Welsh is a manly ancient and venerable language:
as a language on the score of its' merit, it werea pity it
should fall into disuse; But as a language which happens
to be spoken by a very small minority of the peole
of the same nation, it were well for the whole, it were well
even more particularly for that part, that it were no more.
PROMULGATION. Provinical Languages. BR
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The good there would be in preserving it mustyield to a
greater good: the interests of any particular language
must yoild to the ends of lnguage: had it so happened
that the English ha been the language of the smaller
extent, the reasons for wishing for it's disposition extinction would
havebeen the same.
The case is the same with regardto the Irish and the
Erse. I mean that thereis the same reason to wish for
their extinction.
2n. whither it might not be useful to translate the General
Penal Code and a few of the particular ones into Hebrew
for instance those concerning Pawnbrokers: and that part
of those concerning Whitesmith's that relates to coining.
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Local Field of Dominion. This Topic being regulalrly filled up will prevent the occurance
of those doubts and purplexities with which our
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Northern Brethren have been distracted, by the omission deficiency
in so many Laws in leaving it to be collected by vague &
hazardous implication whether a Stat. penned by us &
for us extends or no to them.
the reader may see from a short specimen in Dr. Burn's
views of the Justice Laws in Scotland 8o.p.47. Edit 17th p.46 to what a pitch
they must have been harrassed by this ...
He may perhaps be apt to ask within himself Was there
no one in all these instances to whisper softly to the
Burn 48. D. of Douglas v Lockart B. Dec. 18. 1753.composers of these Laws, that their Island has another
half belonging to it besides that in which they are made,
[ & equally entitled to their case?]
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