Archeion, or, A discourse vpon the high courts of iustice in England. Composed by William Lambard, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent
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Archeion, or, A discourse vpon the high courts of iustice in England. Composed by William Lambard, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent
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Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.
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London :: Printed by E. P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, dwelling at the Tygers-head in St. Pauls Church-yard,
1635.
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"Archeion, or, A discourse vpon the high courts of iustice in England. Composed by William Lambard, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04995.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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The Kings Bench.
THe like I may also affirme of that High Court, 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.
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For letting passe those Courts of the Countrie, which I have already touched; and also those other smal Courts of Record, that be in Cities and Townes corporate; yea, and the Pye-Powders Court it selfe, that lasteth no longer than the Faire; I say, that all our Higher Courts at this day, be either Courts of Rights and Law, or else of Equitie and Con∣science, as they then were; although they now require another subdivi∣sion than they then had, and that if you will, may be this.
Notes
The High Court of Justice be∣fore the Conquest for Law and Equity.