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and gratitude of the client : but this I can do ; I 

 know there have used to attend this bar a number 

 of lawyers that have not been heard sometimes, and 

 scarce once or twice in a term ; and that makes the 

 client seek to great counsel and favourites, as they 

 call them, for every order that a mean lawyer might 

 as well dispatch, a term fitter for kings than judges. 

 And therefore to help the generality of lawyers, and 

 therein to ease the client, I will constantly observe 

 that every Tuesday, and other days of orders, af 

 ter nine o clock strucken, I will hear the bar until 

 eleven, or half an hour after ten at the least. And 

 since I am upon the point whom I will hear, your 

 lordships will give me leave to tell you a fancy. It 

 falleth out, that there be three of us the king s ser 

 vants in great places, that are lawyers by descent, 

 Mr. Attorney son of a judge, Mr. Solicitor likewise 

 son of a judge, and myself a chancellor s son. 



Now because the law roots so well in my time, I 

 will water it at the root thus far, as besides these 

 great ones, I will hear any judge s son before a 

 serjeant, and any Serjeant s son before a reader, if 

 there be not many of them. 



Lastly, for the better ease of the subjects, and 

 the bridling of contentious suits, I shall give better, 

 that is greater, costs where the suggestions are not 

 proved, than hath been hitherto used. 



There be divers orders for the better reglement 

 of this court ; and for granting of writs, and for 

 granting of benefices and others, which I shall set 

 down in a table. But I will deal with no other to- 



