CHAPTER XVI
REMEDIES OF TO-MORROW
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's faggots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.
Knowing this, that never yet Share of Truth was vainly set In the world's wide fallow; After hands shall sow the seed, After hands from hill and mead Reap the harvests yellow.
Thus, with somewhat of the Seer, Must the moral pioneer From the Future borrow; Clothe the waste with dreams of grain, And, on midnight's sky of rain, Paint the golden morrow!
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER: "Barclay of Ury."
I remember in my youth being told in the words of Marcus Aurelius: "Be satisfied with your business and learn to love what you were bred to." At the time I may have resented the advice, but I have lived long enough to see the wisdom of it. Personally, at that period, I should have liked to have been an engine driver or at least a railway guard; later on in years I had thoughts about carpentering; and in course of time water-colour painting, etching, playing the fiddle, and even golf seemed possible of attainment. But when you really learn that these higher ranks of life are closed to you by your own natural limitations and find out that your business in life is to be a drab official in an inferior court, then Marcus Aurelius is indeed grateful and comforting.
One can, after many years of it, learn to love even the County Court. You have much the same outlook and experience of life and human nature as the old bus driver. Every day brings you new passengers who accompany you for a few minutes on the journey of life, and you get to know many old ones and have a friendly crack with them over their domestic troubles. Moreover, at moments your daily job brings you in near touch with the joys and sorrows and trials and daily efforts of poor people, and once in a way perhaps you can be of use, which to a child and to a grown-up who has any of the child left in him is always a jolly thing. When you have really got quite accustomed to enjoying your work the natural garrulity which your friends lovingly attribute to senile decay stimulates you to make them partners in your joy. The narrow circle in which you spend your daily life has become your only world. You find yourself quoting with approval "with aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding," and you begin to believe you are the only person who really does understand. Childlike, you find dragons in your path that you want to slay, pure and beautiful souls are oppressed, and you fancy that you can release them from bondage; there are giants of injustice and persecution in the land whose castles you mean to turn into peoples' palaces. Then you sit down to write your fairy tales again--but no longer for the children nowadays, since they are all grown up. These fairy tales are for journalists, philanthropists and politicians who make fairy tales and live on fairy tales; and believe me, there are no more essential fairy tales than stories about legal reform. Only to the writer are they real, and to one or two choice child spirits who never grow old and still believe in a world where everyone is going to live happily ever afterwards. The way in which Master Ogre, the Law, swallows up the poor is quite like a real fairy tale, and it would have even a happier likeness to the fiction of the nursery if we could tell of a Jack the Giant Killer cutting off the wicked monster's head and rescuing his victims.
I am under no delusions that this little volume is going to do any particular good in any particular hurry. I know by historical study that the way of reform lies through official mazes of docket and precis and pigeon holes, that legislative decisions are hatched out in some bureaucratic incubator that the eye of common man has never seen. I reverence the mystery that surrounds these high matters. It is really good for us that we should know so little of the reason why things are no better than they are. And then how good our rulers are to us in the matter of Royal Commissions and Blue Books! At our own expense we may really have as many of these as we ask for. I wish I could get folk to understand what a lot of sterling entertainment there is in blue books. All the earnest ones, all the clever ones, all the cranky ones of this world set down their views and opinions on any subject at any distance from that subject, and wrangle and argue and cross-examine each other, and then the good Government prints it for us all verbatim and sells it to us very very cheap. Practically, I dislike the shape of a blue book, and aesthetically they do not match my library carpet when they are lying around, which is a disadvantage, but I must own that if I were banished to a desert island I would rather have my blue books than much of what is called classical literature.
The evidence is the best reading--and when one comes to the final report I generally find the minority report to be the thing one is looking for, as it is usually the minority who want to do something. But in some subjects, divorce for instance, things are moving so hurriedly during these last few hundred years that actually there is a majority in favour of legislation and reform.
Not that this makes the slightest difference as to any actual reform being done. The feeling of security that nothing is ever going to come of it makes it a safe and reasonable thing to print the most advanced views at the expense of the State. The physical weight and size of these volumes have been carefully considered and the whole format cunningly designed to repel readers. Nothing ever comes of blue books, and I do not suppose anything ever will come of them. When I turn over their dreary pages I find myself humming Kipling's chorus--
And it all goes into the laundry, But it never comes out in the wash, 'Ow we're sugared about by the old men ('Eavy sterned amateur old men!) That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold men For fear o' Stellenbosh.
Dickens had the same impatience of the heavy sterned brigade and invented his immortal Circumlocution Office, and doubtless genius is entitled to deride these substantial State institutions. Personally, I find them very English and valuable. The more energetic of us may take our pleasure in giving friendly shoves to these heavy sterned Christians, but their inert services to the community are not to be undervalued. But for this immovable official wall who knows what reforms, unnecessary and ill-advised, might have been carried through. If Lord Brougham could have had his way much that I am writing about to-day would long ago have happened. The heavy sterned ones sitting on the lid prevented the opening of the Pandora box with its promises of affliction for the human race in the shape of legal reform. They have left these things over until to-day and brought me amusement for idle vacation hours. At least, let me be thankful to them and sing their praises.
I remember when I was planning out these chapters being the victim of a most terrible nightmare. A newspaper with a King's speech in it was thrust before me and every one of the reforms I had already written about was promised to be passed within the Session. I remember smiling in my dream, knowing what parliamentary promises were, and then as I was gliding down the Strand a silent phantom newsboy handed me an evening paper. There it was in black and white, every bill was passed--there was nothing left to write about. I awoke with a cry. It was a terrible shock, and it was some moments of time before I could realise that such a thing was absolutely impossible. And, of course, when you think of the large number of things that you want done and recollect that nothing ever is done that a man really cares about in his own lifetime it was absurd of me, even in a dream, to believe that anything was coming between me and my little book. Indeed, I have hopes that for many years to come it may be regarded as a popular primer about legal reform for future generations who wish to while away idle hours in the luxury of vain imagination.
I should like to interest the man in the street about legal reform and to see him at work remedying some of the more obvious of the existing abuses I have referred to, but I am under no delusion that such reforms would bring about the millennium. It is good to do the pressing work in the vineyards on the slopes of the mountain, but it is permissible for poor human man to have his day off now and then to climb on the hilltops and gaze out on the limitless ocean of the future and indulge in wild surmises of the after-world.
The remedies of to-day are really tiresome parochial affairs compared to the remedies of to-morrow and hardly seem worth troubling about when one considers that even if you passed them all this year in a century or two your new statutes would be out of date and only fit for the scrap heap.
Bacon tells us that Time is the greatest of all innovators, but he does not explain to us why, unlike all human innovators, Time is in no hurry about it. I have quite distinct beliefs, which to me are certainties, as to how Time will reconcile the law and the poor in the centuries to come, when our social absurdities and wrong-doing will not even be remembered to be laughed at. The law will never be a really great influence for good until it is utterly conquered, put in its proper place in the world and based on the principle of Love. In other words, when the Law of Love receives the Royal Assent no other law will be necessary.
Nineteen hundred years ago a new principle was introduced into the world. It was the principle of unselfishness, and its apostles were labour men. In relation to man's personal life it has made some progress, but in practical social politics its business value is not yet fully recognised. Still, a beginning has been made, and that old snail, Time, is doubtless satisfied with the pace of things. Let us remember hopefully that two thousand years ago unselfishness as a basic principle of life, doing to others as you would be done by, promoting peace and good will instead of strife and ill will--these ideas as business propositions were as unknown then as railways, telegraphs, motor cars, and aeroplanes. A vision of to-day would have been a wild fairy tale to Marcus Aurelius, a vision of two thousand years hence would be incomprehensible to us.
One does not mean, of course, that unselfishness had never before been preached as an ideal, but a society based on the common quality of all its members placing the interests of others above their own was a new notion, and the novelty of it has not yet worn off. Nevertheless, love and unselfishness have achieved sufficient lip-service already to make me hopeful of their future, and I foresee a time when they will be the foundation of the laws of the world, and the preamble to every statute will be "Blessed are the Peacemakers."
Some day when the Chinese send over a mission to heathen England, missionaries will go about the country destroying all the boards on which are written the wicked words "Trespassers will be Prosecuted." But I hope we may not have to wait for a foreign mission to teach us our duty.
This phrase, typical of the law of to-day and eloquent of the claims of the rich to fence the poor off the face of the earth, must utterly disappear when the new spirit of the law is made manifest. We have no sense of humour. On Sunday we intone to slow music our desire to forgive our enemy his trespasses; on Monday we go down to our solicitor to issue a writ against him for the trespass we have failed to forgive. The old notice threatening prosecution is really already out of date. It ought, of course, to read, "Trespassers will be Forgiven." For my part if I met with such a notice, I should hesitate before I walked across the owner's land; whereas to-day, when I am threatened with prosecution, my bristles go up, I scent a right of way, and as like as not proceed in my trespassing out of pure cussedness. There are a lot of other folk besides myself who are built that way. I know a little girl of five whose chief glory in life is to walk "on the private," as she calls it, when the park-keeper is not looking. It is that constant "Don't!" and "You mustn't" that rouses the rebel in us. The less forbidding there is, the easier the path of obedience.
I hold no brief for trespassers. I know it is naughty to trespass. But in the present state of my evolution there is so much of the original monkey in me that when that "monkey is up," to use a phrase dear to Cardinal Newman, I go astray. So do many of my best friends.
I have the same belief in the evolution of the moral world and its onward movement that I have in the revolution of the physical world and its rotary movement. For this reason I expect my great-grandchildren of two thousand years hence to be much better behaved than I am. You can see it coming along in your own grandchildren unless your sight is getting dim. And I am quite clear that my own manners are an improvement on my great grandfathers, who lived in caves, and, when they had disputes, made it clubs, and battered each other strenuously until it was proved which had the thickest skull, when he of the toughest cranium was adjudged to be in the right.
The vigorous legal procedure of the cave men sounds laughable enough to us nowadays, but does anyone think that two thousand years hence superior unborn persons will not be smiling superciliously over the history books that record the doings of our judges, our hired counsellors, our sheriffs, our gaolers, and our hangman?
It was only in the recent reign of good Queen Bess that the ordeal of battle was given up. The abolition of that old-world lawsuit must have been painful to the conservative mind. And there was a lot to say for it. From a sporting point of view, what could be better than to go down to Tothill Fields in Westminster, as you might have done in 1571, to see A. B. battering C. D. to the intent that whichever knocked the stuffing out of the other gained the verdict?
If you look at it from a healthy, open-air point of view, maybe it was better for everybody than sitting in a stuffy court and listening to two bigwigs splitting hairs to the resultant financial ruin of one of their clients. One reason, no doubt, that trials by battle were abolished was that they gave the poor at least as good a chance as the rich.
I remember a good story--it is an old one, but still quite good--of a noble lord and landowner who net a collier trespassing in the neighbourhood of Wigan.
"My good man," said my lord, "do you know you are trespassing?"
"Well, wot of it?"
"You have no right to be walking across my land."
"I'm like to be walking across somebody's land, I've noan o' me own."
"Well, you must not come across mine."
"How do I know it is yours, and who gave it you?"
"Well, this land," replied the noble lord, "belonged to my father and grandfather and his father for many generations."
"But how did thi' first grandfeyther get it?" persisted the collier.
"Well, as a matter of fact, it was granted by the King for services rendered. I may say," my lord added proudly, "that my ancestors fought for this land."
"Did they, now?" said the collier, "then tak off thi' coat an' I'll feight thee for a bit."
One can see from this anecdote that it would never do to return to ordeal by battle. And though individual fighting by violence to assert rights is out of date and not permissible, yet in the affairs of the collection of human beings known as nations the horrible waste of armaments and the menace of war are living evidence of the ultimate tribunal to which we still appeal.
No one really believes that force and violence are sane remedies for the evils of the world, and the whole history of mankind shows a gradual decline in the practice and use of them. In each succeeding generation our children will be nearer the truth than we are, and further on the journey towards the end when the rule of Love and Unselfishness will be the only law of the Universe, and will enforce itself without judges, juries, or policemen.
And lest anyone should say that all this is the mere vague raving of prophecy, let me set down a short, practical catalogue of what I expect the remedies of to-morrow to bring about in, say, two thousand years. In the first place, the disabilities of the poor that I have written about in these pages will all have been abolished and forgotten. Crime will be regarded as a disease, and it will be as inhuman to treat the criminal with harshness as it is to-day to torture lunatics after the methods of a hundred years ago.
Every citizen will have a right to sufficient food, clothing, housing, and entertainment in exchange for reasonable hours of work. The spirit of humanity will so greatly have been improved that it will be very little necessary to extort proper conditions for the lives of citizens or to protect the weak from exploitation by the strong. Litigation and war will be out of date and replaced by conciliation and arbitration. In a word, the reign of love and unselfishness will have commenced.
We may not even see my beautiful world from afar, but this need not dismay us, for we know it is there, and we know that every effort we make to serve the cause of the poor helps to clear the path through the desert along which the coming armies of victory will march in triumph. The cause of the poor has always been the greatest cause in the world, and the generation that has at length understood it, and fought for it and won it, will find itself standing at the open gates of the promised land.
INDEX
Abinger, Lord Chief Baron, his judgment in _Priestley_ v. _Fowler_, 77, 78, 95, 96
Ademantus, 254
Administration orders in bankruptcy, 119-124
Alehouse, the, 252-270
"Alton Locke," slums described in, 238
American judiciary and working classes, 93, 94, 95; and workmen's compensation, 103
Appeals, cost of, 175
Artisans Dwelling Act, 1875, 241
Asquith, Right Hon. Herbert Henry, on workmen's compensation, 87
_Attorney-General_ v. _The Edison Telephone Co._, 83
Bacon, Lord Chancellor, 305
Bail, unnecessary refusal of, 226; statistics of this, 228, 229
Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, on intemperance, 255, 256
Bankruptcy, 106-124; failures due to extravagance, 115-117; not open to the poor, 118; administration orders, 120; exorbitant Treasury fees, 122-124
Bell, Alexander Graham, 82
Belloc, Hilaire, 254
Bentham, Jeremy, on legal evidence, 192
Bias in judges, 96-103
Bills of Sale Acts, 168
Black Act, 1722, 218
Blasphemy Laws, 199, 200
Blue Books, 301, 302
Bradlaugh, Charles, 199
Bridewell, the, 9-10, 213
Bright, John, 99
Brougham, Lord, on imprisonment for debt, 48, 49; on the Evidence Amendment Act, 193; on Chancery reform, 287, 288
Butler, Samuel, 211
Cadaval, Duke de, arrested on mesne process, 46
_Capias ad satisfaciendum_, 37, 39
Carlyle, Thomas, on history, 21; on language, 108, 110; on fools, 153; on land question, 250
Cattle maiming, 216-219
Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, on workmen's compensation, 87-90; on administration orders, 119, 120; is housing work in Birmingham, 241
Chancery Court, and Lord Brougham, 287
Children, treatment of, in workhouses, 280, 282
Closing time, regulations for rich and poor, 263, 264
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 169
Cobbett, Sir William, 186
Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, his description of _peine forte et dure_, 11, 201; on early Poor Laws, 274, 275
Collier, Sir Robert, on imprisonment for debt, 55, 56
"Compleat Constable," The, 4-7
Conciliation in trade disputes, 110
Conciliation, preliminary of, in France, 187
Corporal punishment, advisability of, discussed, 209-212
Costs in police court, abolition desirabie, 222
Cottenham, Earl of, his Insolvency Bill, 1837, 45-47
County Court procedure, expense of, 184
Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, 194, 197, 198
Crabbe, on lawyers, 183
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, on divorce, 125, 126, 127
Crime and punishment, 189-212
Criminal Appeal, Court of, 189
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194-196
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 210
Cruelty to Animals Bill of 1811, 219
Davey, Lord, on workmen's compensation, 92
Deane, Mr. Justice Bargrave, on divorce, 137
Debt, imprisonment for, Old Testament view of, 22; New Testament view of, 24; Greek law of, 27; Roman law of, 31; in Papal Rome, 34; in time of Henry III., 36-39; in eighteenth century, 41, 43; in "Pickwick," 45; mesne process, 45; debates on, in 1837, 46; in 1869, 50-57; evils of, 59-68; arguments against abolition, 69-71; none in Germany, 71; nor in France, 72; wastefulness of system, 72; encourages improvidence, 157-160; in police courts, 220, 222; political views on abolition of, 288-293
Debtors Act, 1869, 41, 49-57, 158
Debtors' prisons, 41-47
Dendy, Mr. Registrar, on divorce in County Court, 146
Denman, Lord, speech on imprisonment for debt, 46
Dickens, Charles, on imprisonment for debt, 45; on the living wage, 108; on the evidence of prisoners, 194; on slums, 238; on inns and innkeepers, 257-259
D'Israeli, Benjamin, slums described in "Sybil," 239-242
Distress, law of, 233
Divorce, 125-151; in time of Edward VI., 125-128; Act of 1857, 131; hard cases of poor, 133-141; necessity of using County Court, 144-146, 297
Dogberry, abolition of discussed, 223, 224
Edalji, 217
Edward VI., 126
Edward VII., 126
Eliot, George, 174
Elisha, and imprisonment for debt, 22, 23
Elizabeth, Queen, her Poor Law, 276
Employers Liability Act, 1880, 86
Erewhon, treatment of crime in, 211
Erskine, Lord, and cruelty to animals, 219
Eviction, 234
Evidence, prisoners right to give, 193; Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, 194; of Crown not available to prisoner, 207-209
Exekestides, 27
False pretences, 202, 203
Fielding, as a magistrate, 213
_Fieri facias_, 39
Fines in police courts, unfair incidence of, 221, 222; time for payment of, 224; statistics of, 225; abolition of, 297
France, no imprisonment for debt, 72; divorce law, 143, 147; preliminary of conciliation in, 187; poor law, 283
Fuller, on burning of heretics, 200
Geographical distribution of crime, 216
Germany, no imprisonment for working men debtors, 71; divorce in, 147
Gilbert, Lord Chief Baron, 37, 39
Goldsmith, Oliver, 13, 14
Gordon, Cosmo, Archbishop of York, on divorce, 128
Gordon, Mr. Justice, of Australian Labour Court, 110
Governor of gaol, charity to poor debtors, 65
Grand jury, 181
Grantham, Hon. Mr. Justice, 101; on poor prisoners defence, 196
Gray, Professor John Chipman, of Harvard, 80; on judge-made law, 81
Haldane, Viscount, 66, 215
Hale, Sir Matthew, Lord Chief Justice, 100
Halsbury, Earl of, on workmen's compensation, 92
Hard labour for unconvicted prisoners, 227, 228
Headlam, John, an old-fashioned Dogberry, 227, 228, 229
Herschell, Lord, on prisoners giving evidence, 195
Hogarth, 10, 15
Homestead laws of America and Canada, 293, 294, 295
Hood, Tom, 108
Horn, Andrew, his "Mirror of Justices," 275
Housing question, 236-251; Royal Commission, 1884, 242; Select Committee, 1902, 244
Identification of prisoners, present methods criticised, 230, 231
Imprisonment for debt. _See_ Debt.
Innkeeper, independence of, 258
Jeremiah, and the living wage, 108, 113
Jessel, Sir George, on imprisonment for debt, 50
Johnson, Dr., 4; on the poor in England, 13, 14; on public executions, 15, 16; on imprisonment for debt, 70; on the formation of laws, 70
Johnson, William, miners' agent, his views on imprisonment for debt, 292
Judge-made law, 79-85
Judgment summonses, statistics of, 60, 63
Judicial irrelevancy, 180
Judson, Frederick N., author of "The Judiciary and the People," 94
Justice of peace, utility of lay justices, 231
Kelvin, Lord, 82
Kingsley, Charles, 108; on slums, 238; on teetotallers, 264-266, 270
Kipling, Rudyard, 303
Landlord and tenant, 233-251
Land transfer system, assists fraud, 183
Leniency to well to do in criminal courts, example of, 205, 206
Licensing, class regulation of, 253; section 4 of Act of 1904, 256; effect of reducing number of licences, 261; extension of hours for rich, 263; prohibition of amusements, 267
Living wage, 108, 109, 110
_Lysons_ v. _Andrew Knowles_, 175
McMahon, M.P., on imprisonment for debt, 55
Malicious injury to property, 217, 218
Manitoba, homestead laws of, 294, 295
Marcus Aurelius, 299, 306
Married Women's Property Act, undesirable use of, 161-170
Matthew, and imprisonment for debt, 24, 25
Maule, Mr. Justice, on divorce, 129
Maxwell, Rev. Dr., 13, 14
Mayence, public beer drinking at, 262
Medical officer of health, status of, 248
Menander, on marriage, 163
Mesne process, arrest on, 45; abolished, 49
Mesnil, M. Henri, on divorce, 143
Moryson, Fynes, 8, 11, 34, 35
Newman, Cardinal, 307
Ordeal of battle, 308, 309
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 11
Overcrowding, 245; census statistics of, 246
Parry, Serjeant, 99
_Peine forte et dure_, 12
Pepys, Samuel, 4
Pickersgill, M.P., on prisoner giving evidence, 196
Pickwick, and imprisonment for debt, 45, 47
Piers Plowman, on debt, 75; on law and poor, 172, 173; on lawyers, 188
Police courts, abolition of fines, 297
Poor law, 271-284; Royal Commission, report of, 272; in time of Elizabeth, 276; in eighteenth century, 276; in 1834, 277; general mixed workhouses, 278-284
Poor man's lawyer, necessity of, 184-187
Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 194-197
_Priestley_ v. _Fowler_, 76-79
Procedure and the poor, 172-188
Public houses, 252-270. _And see_ Licensing.
Railway Conciliation Boards, and their working, 111, 112
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 3
_Regina_ v. _Thomas Hall_, 129
Registrars of County Courts and private practice, 72, 73
"Reformatio Legum Ecclesasticarum, The," 125
Ridley, Sir Matthew White, on workmen's compensation, 87
Rivers Pollution Acts, 248
Roe, Gilbert, author of "Our Judicial Oligarchy," 86, 94
Rogues and Vagabonds, 4-7
Ruskin, John, 108
Sabbatarianism, evils of, 215
Salford quarter sessions in 1824, 17
Salisbury, Earl of, 244, 245
Schuster, Dr., on German system of debt collecting, 71
Scold, common, trial and punishment of, 235
Scots divorce, 126
Scott, Sir William, 15
_Seisachtheia, The_, 29
Selden, John, on marriage contract, 150
Shop lifting by ladies, 204
Sims, George R., his "How the Poor Live," 242, 243
_Sittlichkeit_, 66
Slums, legislation against, 236
Smith, Judge Lumley, on divorce costs, 148, 149
Smith, Rev. Sidney, on prisoners' right to counsel, 190, 191; on prisoners' inability to give evidence, 192
Smith, Sir A. L., Master of the Rolls, on workmen's compensation, 89
Smollett, 9, 42
Snowden, Philip, M.P., and the living wage, 109; on strikes, 111
Socrates, on thirst, 255
Solicitors, speculative, 175
Solon, and imprisonment for debt, 27-31
Starkie, Sir Thomas, 17
Stephen, Mr. Justice, decision in telephone case, 82
Stipendiary magistrates, want of in country, 223; necessary in interests of justice, 231
Sumner, Lord, 180, 181
Swift, on lawyers, 181, 182
Taylor, Jeremy, his prayer for debtors, 75
Teetotallers, persecution of licence holders by, 259; their ideals, 260; Charles Kingsley's views of, 264-266, 270
Telephone, legal position of, 82, 83
Tennant, Mrs., report on divorce, 136
Thackeray, on prisoner giving evidence, 193
Torrens Act, 1868, 241
Treasury fees on Administration Orders, exorbitancy of, 121-124, 298
Twelve Tables, The, 32
Tyburn, 7, 15, 16
Vinogradoff, Professor, 84
Warrington, Harry, imprisonment for debt, 45, 46
Webb, Mrs. Sidney, her report on poor law, 280
Weston, Richard, trial of, 11, 12
Whipping, punishment of, 6-9, 209-212
Witchcraft, 100
Workhouses, 271-284. _And see_ Poor Law.
Workmen's compensation, 76-105; history of the law, of, 76-84; employers liability, 86; in Court of Appeal, 90-93; in America, 94, 103; 162, 286; and conciliation, 298
Wyrley, cattle maiming at, 219
York, Archbishop of, on divorce, 136, 137
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Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
The following misprints have been corrected: " ast" interpreted as "past" (page 18) "suceed" corrected to "succeed" (page 111) "gods" corrected to "goods" (page 138) "absolutley" corrected to "absolutely" (page 184) "Paliament" corrected to "Parliament" (page 248)
Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.
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