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To the Third Reason We Reply.
That there is as quick expedition in our Court as in any other Courts, and they may as well object That divers persons commenced severall Suits in the Courts at Westminster for iust debts due unto them by bond and for iniuries committed against them, and yet (it may be for want of good proofe by witnesse or otherwise, as for want of able Councell, or carefull Atturneies to look well to their pleadings and exe∣cutions, or for want of abilitie in the par••ies sued) af∣ter long and tedious suits and much expence have been de∣stitute of any redresse; and therefore this manner of reasoning is not at all concludent, being an argumēt drawne à non causa ut Causa, which if it were of any force, we might easily turne the edge of it upon the Petitioners, by giving instance in a Priviledged per∣son who ha's a Cause now or lately depending in the Town Court, werein he sites divers Cittizens for a just debt upon bond, and though his debt & bond were well proved or ready to be proved by suffici∣ent witnesses, and no defect in his Councell or At∣turney, nor any disability in the Defendants, yet could he not get his money in that Court, after a long and tedious suit neer two yeares, and much ex∣pence. Yet is not the Court to be blamed, but the dilatorie cunning of the Defendants; and we cannot think it reasonable to charge the faylings of men, or other intervening casualties, upon the Law or the Court, either theirs or ours; the due proceedings of which later are in themselves, as compendious as of any other ordinary Court whatsoever.