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Tit. V. B. Judicial Estab .
Parochial Publicity Courts they bystanders have been let in unawares along with Jurymen
and Attornies , and now there is no help for it. Stone
walls are stronger than orders and less obnoxious . All
mankind being presumed acquainted with the law
and what paper in Courts being that which makes
law all mankind are presumed to be have been always present in
Court and acquainted with all that has ever passed
there .
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Note
The Court of King's Bench when Jurymen
and such Barristers and attorneys as have actual business
there a seated has not a dozen spots in it scan where a man
can sit and hear nor a dozen others where he
can stand . The other Courts in Westminster Hall
are pretty much in the same case. The New Court at the Old Bailey
though far superior in there respect to any of those
more dignified Courts has more architecture in it than
convenience for the public at large . The best Court that was ever built for a Court will bear us comparison in this respect with the worst contrived theatre . If Westminster Hall the Court of King's Bench were Pandaemonium , and Law-Students possessed the faculty
Milton has bestow'd bestow'd by the inventor upon the inhabitants of that
Assembly room ,
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