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and increase of love to you again. And after I had 

 thought of many things, I could find, in my judgment, 

 none more proper for your majesty as a master, nor 

 for me as a workman, than the reducing and recompiling 

 the laws of England.&quot; (a) 



In this tract, having traced the exertions of different 

 legislators from Moses to Augustus, he says, &quot; Csesar si ab 

 eo qusereretur quid egisset in toga, leges se respondisset 

 multas et prseclarus tulisse;&quot; and his nephew Augustus 

 did tread the same steps but with deeper print, because of 

 his long reign in peace, whereof one of the poets of his 

 time saith, 



&quot; Pace data terris animum ad civilia vertit 

 Jura suura, legesque tulit justissimus auctor.&quot; (&) 



From July, 1610, until this period, there had not been 1014. 

 any parliament sitting; and the King, unable to procure ^t. 54. 

 the usual supplies, had recourse, by the advice of Lord 

 Salisbury, to modes injurious to himself, and not warranted 

 by the constitution. Bacon, foreseeing the evils which 

 must result from these expedients, implored the King to 

 discontinue them, and to summon a parliament, (c) 



() See note C C at the end. 



(/&amp;gt;) So, too, Sir Samuel Romilly, who was animated by a spirit public 

 as nature, was no sooner promoted to the office of Solicitor General, 

 than he submitted to parliament his proposals for the improvement of the 

 bankrupt law and the criminal law. &quot; Long,&quot; he says, &quot; has England 

 been a scene of carnage and desolation; a brighter prospect has now 

 opened before us. 



&amp;lt; Peace hath her victories 



Not less renowned than war.&quot;* 



* Multis ille flebilis occidit 

 Nulli flebilior mihi. 



(c) * * * I will make two prayers unto your majesty. 

 The one is, that these cogitations of want do not any ways 



