A PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING, &c. 



3. The third, that the grievousness of the penalty 

 in many statutes be mitigated, though the ordinance 

 stand. 



4. The last is, the reducing of concurrent sta 

 tutes, heaped one upon another, to one clear and 

 uniform law. Towards this there hath been already, 

 upon my motion, and your majesty s direction, a 

 great deal of good pains taken ; my Lord Hobart, 

 myself, Serjeant Finch, Mr. Heneage Finch, Mr. 

 Noye, Mr. Hackwell, and others, whose labours 

 being of a great bulk, it is not fit now to trouble 

 your majesty with any further particularity therein ; 

 only by this you may perceive the work is already 

 advanced : but because this part of the work, which 

 concerneth the statute laws, must of necessity come 

 to parliament, and the houses will best like that 

 which themselves guide, and the persons that them 

 selves employ, the way were to imitate the prece 

 dent of the commissioners for the canon laws in 

 27 Hen. VIII. and 4 Edw. VI. and the commis 

 sioners for the union of the two realms, &quot; primo&quot; of 

 your majesty, and so to have the commissioners 

 named by both houses ; but not with a precedent 

 power to conclude, but only to prepare and propound 

 to parliament. 



This is the best way, I conceive, to accomplish 

 this excellent work, of honour to your majesty s 

 times, and of good to all times ; which I submit to 

 your majesty s better judgment. 



