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The Kings Bench.
THe like I may also affirme of that High Court,* 1.1 which then fol∣••owed the King himselfe; and is thereof, till this day, called the Bench of the King. For albeit that many peculiar High Courts be now, sithence that time, advanced, by rea∣son that the multitude of Suits still ••ncreasing with the iniquitie and ••ge of the World, would not suffer them all to be ordered in one place, without both intollerable delay of matters, and great vexation of men: Yet neverthelesse, if you will throughly behold the matter and subject about which all these Courts are now occupied, you shal perceive, that they are but, as it were, so many branches sprung out of that one Tree, or streames derived from the same Spring and Fountaine.