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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsengr0931 and id is 1 raw text is: TRIN. 15 CAR. II. B. R.
30. BULSTRODE against HALL. Ante. Friday, June 26. Siderf. 148, pl. 60.
Sewers.
In evidence to a jury, it was said by Glyn for the defendant, and agreed, that to
the low-water mark, wast may be parcel of a manor, but of common right it is the
Kings.
31.
Peace.
Twisden second Judge, gave the charge to the grand jury of Middlesex, sedente
Curia, Gentlemen of this county, which hath a greater priviledge than any other,
receiving your charge immediately from this Court, which is a pattern to all others,
and so should you in your vigilancy in the punishment of vices here, being a greater
confluence of wicked men than in other places. For particulars, 1. High treason, so
called, as being against the King, and also because all the politick members are hereby
affected, and whosoever doth compass or imagine the death or deposition of the King,
either in his natural or politick capacity, which are inseparably united, and hurt done
to one, is so to the other, it's treason. And if any go about to raise war, under what
pretense soever of reformation, it's as well treason as actual war, and the support of
the Kings person is the fundamental law of the kingdom. All such as counterfeit
his seal, or adulterate his coyn ; or if any indeavour to absolve any subject of his
allegiance, which is as natural as a son to a father; or such as seek to reconcile them
to any forreign power. Also 2. Petit treason, so called, for that it carrieth a rebellion
with it. 3. Of all felonies, murders and manslaughters, more especially of duels, now
so frequent, which, unless looked after, will bring us to the same danger as in France,
that we cannot walk late at night. Of all buggery, witchcraft, poysoning, &c. 4. Of
all robberies, which are now grown into a kind of corporation ; these you must present.
In Alfred's time one might have left his purse on a tree, or on the road, and found
it the next day. Also burglaries, which now go in companies enough to surprise a
little village : these are capital offences, and there-[533]-fore strictly to be enquired.
5. There are others, that like gangreens, if in time not prevented, will soon overturn
the State : this is a Court which is to correct ill manners, and therefore you that are
the eyes of the kingdom must search and find all debaucheries, which are now done in
the face of the sun ; you may not discover what is revealed to you, and what you do
is the act of you all, and therefore you may safely deal with any offenders; especially
you should look to stealers of children, which is not made felony, in regard none could
think men would be so vile; as buggery was not capital till H. 8, his time, for the
same reason these children at best live in perpetual slavery. Also of all that libel
against any particular persons: and such as enter with force, by what title soever;
and of all batteries and injuries to men : also in Courts of Justice, all corruption, as
well in the highest as the lowest ministers: and all extortion in officers, receiving
more then they ought, or before due; or when they ought to have nothing. Of all
perjuries and subordinations, which are now common : as also some persons that will
not swear at all; on the first our lives and fortunes depend; you are inquisitors to
find out these vices, and to present them. Of all maintainers and buyers of titles,
and of forgeries, which thirty years since was rare : and of all frauds and deceits in
bargaining and selling with false weights; or such as by combination endeavour to
inhance the price of victuals, and in particular such butchers as are common grasiers,
which is a great oppression, and in all particular persons whatsoever; also all fore-
stallers, which is now common, these lye out five or ten miles off the city: also
regrators, buying by poulterers, as of carriers, before they unlade to sell again.
Also of all common cheats, and such as live by their wits. Of all defects in officers,
constables, and how they punish vagabonds, and watch duly, and enquire after such
as lodge rogues in barns, and present all, that they may be punisht. Of all inmates,
and offences in high-ways ; and of the number of horses in wagons; of all incroach-
ments made into the streets by shops; after hostlers and horsmeat: of all nusances
and bridges, and alehouses, and offences there, and whether they be supernumerous,
or in inconvenient places, in which cases licence cannot support them. So of gaming-
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