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ed lett any man who hath fuites there be 
judge, I will not impeach any court in re- 
utation, I yeld tothem all duehonour, but 
tor the truth of this matter, I mut needs 
faye, that in one yeare, every matter if 
eyther the playntiff ‘or defendant will, 
fhall receave end in the Marches, which 
in none of the other courts, in leffe then 
two yeares ordinaryly can be determined. 
If this longe contynuance doth pro- 
ceed from the matter of fuites (for it 
fhould be a wronge to thinke it occafioned 
for any other end,) then when the cauies 
arifmg in the marches fhall come ailfoe 
there to be adjudged m what tyme (thinke 
you) will the fame be decided, 
' Toucheine the difference of chardge 
fufteyned by fuites in the marches & in 
thele courts, the difference of tees -will 
manifeft the truth every fee allmoft 
being doubled & many trebled, & fome 
more then fower tymes foe much in the 
~ Starchamber as they are att the Countell. 
Soe tiat the difpatch of fuites in thefe 
‘Courts being not foe fpeedy nor the 
chardge foe eafy, it mu needs followe 
that it cannot be for the good of the 
countery to have all their fuites removed 
from the marches. Ae 
W hat then hath occafioned this mocion 
fecing it playnely appeareth to be neither 
benchtiall to the Soueraigne nor Subiect, 

truly not any other caufe then the greedy 
covetoufenes of forme perfons in thole 
Couzts above, who defire to gett all And 
prefumptious ambition of fome Gent, 
in. thofe Marcher Shires where they feeke 
to comaunde all, the Court of the Mar- 
ches being hinderfom to the one. forte of- 
thefe in profitt and a bridle to the other 
forte fer opprefling their poore neigh- 
bours having remedy there again# their 
tyrrany, both forts therefore feeke to 
fhorten the Courts jurifaiction. 
But I-hope her Majeftie will give noe 
paffage to thele bad purpofes & foe over- 
threwe a Court very behoofefull to her 
owne fafety & needfull sor the countryes 
quiett, it being greatly to be feared leaft 
the takeing away of that Court. will en- 
boulden thofe under that Goverment to 
returne to their former wildnes, and foe 
put -her Majeftie to the like trouble & 
chardge, which many King's of this land 
have often fulteyned. 
If there be faults in that Court {as 
what Court is free) lett the fault be re- 
formed and not the Court fwpprefled. 
It is cruel] & dangerous furgery to ule 
noe cure but evento cutt from the bodye 
the parte ill affected their prattize is more 
to be comended who purge where is too 
much and cutt none off where is. foo 
litle. ie 
OETA 

MoE . M 
Oo TRS 
OF THE LATE 
HMP.R ES $-onR US S'1 A, 
WITH 
ORIGINAL-ANECDOTES or tHE COURT oF 
USSIA, hardly known. to. the reft of | 
PR 
ih Europe till the clofe of the laft cen- 
tury,* has made fo confiderable a figure 
an the annals of hiftory fince that period, 
that a fuccinét detail of its progreffive 
advancement to its prefent fate of aggran- 
difement and profperity, would coubtlets 
be no lef ufefal than agreeatle to the 
reader ; but the relation of fo many par- 
ticulars as have concurred to that end, 
and the neceflary difplay of the caufes and 
confequences of each, would, with every 
poffible endeavour at brevity, lead us to 
greater lengths than the limits of fuch a 

* Even till aboyt the middle of the prefent 
century the proper name of the country feems 
to have been unknown.—It was called Mut- 
covyy; as if a Tartar, focaking of England, 
fhould call-iv Londony, ae 
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ublication as the prefent can allow.--— 
The travellers, however, who have of 
late years prefented the public with the 
obfervations they were able to make, and 
the infermation they ebtamed, on their 
journies to that country, furnifh fufficient 
accounts ef the times immediately preced- 
ing the late reign, for exeufing. us from 
any farther preliminaries here. 
On the tragical event that terminated 
the life of Peter the third, in 1762, his 
widow, Catharine the {econd, began her 
reign.---She had been married fo that un- 
fortunate prince in 1745, while. Grand 
Duke of Ruilia; being at that time in her 
feventeenth. year. The only iffue of this 
union were Paul Petrovitch, the prefent 
Emperor, born in 1754, and Anne, of 
whom the Grand Duchefs was. delivered 
-§94757, and who died in i761. For fix- 
| bce. 
