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not think there is any thing, a greater &quot; Polycreston, ad 

 multa utile,&quot; to your affairs, than upon a just and fit occa 

 sion, to make some example against the presumption of a 

 judge, in causes that concern your majesty ; whereby the 

 whole body of those magistrates may be contained in better 

 awe; and it may be, this will light upon no unfit subject, of 

 a person that is rude, and that no man cares for. 



Thirdly, if there be no one so much in fault (which I 

 cannot yet affirm, either way, and there must be a just 

 ground, God forbid else) yet I should think, that the very 

 presumption of going so far in so high a cause deserveth to 

 have that done, which was done in this very case, upon the 

 indictment of serjeant Heale, in Queen Elizabeth s time, 

 that the judges should answer it upon their knees before 

 your majesty, or your council, and receive a sharp admoni 

 tion ; at which time also, my Lord Wrey, being then chief 

 justice, slipt the collar, and was forborn. 



Fourthly, for the persons themselves, Glanvile and 

 Allen, which are base fellows, and turbulent, I think there 

 will be discovered and proved against them (besides the 

 preferring of the bill) such combination and contemptuous 

 speeches and behaviour, as there will be good ground to 

 call them, and perhaps some of their petty counsellors at 

 law, into the star-chamber. 



In all this which I have said, your majesty may be pleased 

 to observe, that 1 do not engage you 1 now forbear. But 

 two things I wish to be done ; the one, that your majesty 

 take this occasion much in the main point of the jurisdic 

 tion, for which I have a great deal of reason, which to re 

 double unto all your judges your ancient and true charge 

 and rule ; that you will endure no innovating in the point 

 of jurisdiction : but will have every court impaled within 

 their own presidents, and not assume to themselves new 

 powers, upon conceits and inventions of law : the other 

 that in these high causes, that touch upon state and 



