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cry down that unworthy course of late times used, 

 that they should pay monies for it ; it may satisfy 

 some courtiers, but it is no honour to the person so 

 preferred, nor to the king, who thus prefers them. 



14. For the king s counsel at the law, especially 

 his attorney and solicitor general, I need say nothing: 

 their continual use for the king s service, not only 

 for his revenue, but for all the parts of his govern 

 ment, will put the king, and those who love his ser 

 vice, in mind to make choice of men every way fit 

 and able for that employment ; they had need to be 

 learned in their profession, and not ignorant in 

 other things; and to be dexterous in those affairs 

 whereof the dispatch is committed to them. 



15. The king s attorney of the court of wards is 

 in the true quality of the judges ; therefore what 

 hath been observed already of judges, which are in 

 tended principally of the three great courts of law at 

 Westminster, may be applied to the choice of the at 

 torney of this court. 



16. The like for the attorney of the duchy of 

 Lancaster, who partakes of both qualities, partly of 

 a judge in that court, and partly of an attorney- 

 general for so much as concerns the proper revenue 

 of the duchy. 



17. I must not forget the judges of the four cir 

 cuits in the twelve shires of Wales, who although 

 they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of 

 the degree of the coif, only the chief justice of Ches 

 ter, who is one of their number, is so, yet are they 

 considerable in the choice of them, by the same rules 



