FyRg EE le Ey Oru Gi Elwin Sy dc: 
Ir you happen to be fix feet high, and formed as perfect as 
man can be, the magiftrates ought not to refufe a fubftitute in- 
ferior to you in thofe advantages ; it may be your good (or I 
may fay in this cafe) your ill fortune to be fo made: but ftill 
they ought not to refufe any one you offer, who comes within 
the above defcription. Two deputy lieutenants, or one deputy 
lieutenant and one juftice, have power to accept or refufe them. 
If thefe two are refolved to plague you, by the refufal of proper 
fubftitutes; look about the room, and fee if there are any others 
prefent, and perhaps by their interference the former may be 
fhamed into compliance; for there are none but have eyes as 
well as they, to difcern whether a man is five feet four, and 
proper to be accepted; and fenfe enough to know (in cafes 
where a fubftitute is accepted) that a fingle man will be lefs 
burdenfome to a parifh than a married man. A merciful ma- 
giftrate will furely never hefitate to prefer the former? 
Tue poffible abufe of the power of rejection, or acceptance 
of fubftitutes, when lodged in two only, fhews the neceffity of 
refuming the antient mode, and of enlarging the number. At 
prefent, let the power be ever fo much abufed, you are left help- 
lefs in this act, for there is no punifhment for thofe who make 
fo wanton an exertion of it. 
But remember, that in cafe you are at length teized, by the 
refufal of feveral {tout fubftitutes, into the payment of ten pounds 
(which, properly fpeaking, is only to be levied in cafe you refufe 
or neglect to provide a man in your room) remember, I fay, 
that you are to pay the money into the hands of the church- 
wardens and overfeers of your refpective parifhes only, who are 
alfo the only perfons appointed by law to receive and pay the 
ten 
2G. Hi.c. 20. £42. 
Stat. L, viii. 622. 
2G. ll.c.20.f 51. 
Stat. L. viii. 624. 
Digelt 57. 
