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2G.IIl.c. zo. f. 52. 
Digeft 58. 
2G. IIl.c.20.f. 51. 
Stat. L. vill. 624. 
Digeft 57, 58. 
AP OPEN BD iiex Nee: 
ten pounds, or to agree or contract for any fubftitutes, unlefs 
you fhould chufe to do it yourfelves, or fhould chufe to employ 
any friend to do it for you. 
Anp obferve, that in cafe any of the deputies or juftices, or 
even the lord lieutenant himfelf, fhould offend in ary article of 
the above claufe, you may lay an information againft him, and 
he is liable to be fined one hundred pounds: half of which is to be 
paid to the profecutor, and half to the poor of the parifh in 
which the offence was committed; and you may recover it in 
any of his majefty’s courts of record. 
Ir any deputy or juftice demands and gets from you more 
than ten pounds, the offence becomes the dirty crime of extor- 
tion. ‘Will not the world fay, that the offender finks the cha- 
racter of the generous Briti/h gentleman, or brave officer, into 
that of the recruiting ferjeant; and that he forfeits the confidence 
of his poor countrymen, who look up to him for protection 
from every wrong? But you may have more fubftantial fail 
faction; you may bring an action againft him, expofe him in a 
court of juftice, and recover full damages. ‘This may atone for 
the private injury: but the public wrong is of that moment, as 
only to be expiated before one of our higheft tribunals; and with 
all the folemnity of public juftice. 
Tuere is not one of your fellow-fubjects, let him be ever fo 
great, that can levy on you a farthing more than the law allows. 
One of our kings loft his head for trying to raife money without 
confent of parlement. Surely you have more fpirit than to 
fuffer any private man to tax you of his own authority? At the 
fame time you muft pay quietly the ten pounds penalty; but 
only in cafe you have by law incurred it. But remember, that 
this 
