Lawyers vnmask'd, or, A discovery of their matchless villanies, intolerable oppressions, and most accursed practizes in perverting the known lawes of England from summons to an illegall capias for debt by which is discovered the great benefit and freedome that will accrew to the people of the common wealth by the reformation of that destructive law : with an appeale to the present power for regulating the law / by John Jones of Neyath in Com. Brecon, Gent. ...

Postscript.

I Hear I am charged w^th using other heads than mine own in these my poor labors. Truly I cite my Autors as the onely heads I dare trust to defend me & mine from the hands of their degenerate succes∣sors, & such others as (regar∣ding their il-gotten wealth more than their souls) ma∣lign my endeavours in seek∣ing to restore those springs that flow from my said autors (the pure heads thereof) to their proper Chanels, & dis∣may such heads & hearts as might and would give me helps, or write better them∣selves; so that all the helps I can get of them, is but to tel me, that they would not write

so plain as I do in this mat∣ter for thousands of pounds.

Wherto I answer, they have so much to lose, and I but my life & labor, which for truth, and its plainness, I am ready to sacrifise to Gods provi∣dence, which I find not care∣less of my protection, having raised me honorable friends without any merit or exspe∣ctation of mine, but only of their own worthines, amongst whom the right nobly mind∣ed, aswel as descended Gen∣tleman William Steward of Loken Heath in the County of Suff Esq affecteth me for my affection in particular to himself, in general to all, heartneth me more than ma∣ny to proceed in my work,

not for its workmanship, but its meaning, not for its plau∣sibility at present, but its pos∣sibility in future, not for its dictaste to angeltong'd Law∣yers, corrupt-lung'd Gaolers, &c. whose exorbitances, not persons, are distastefull to him, & all good Christians; but for its seasonableness, ti∣mously to inform them to mend themselves speedily, or submit to be mended by more indiferent judgments; not for any profit that may ther∣by redound to him in private more than shall to al in pub∣lick; not for any praise he de∣sireth (w^•h I must witness he deserveth above many thou∣sands) to himself; but for the glory of God, which he zea∣lously

lously intendeth in al his stu∣dies & actions, & honor of most worthily-honored per∣sonages (of his kindred and alliance) w^ch he conceiveth will be much improv'd by their accumulating their merits in the accomplish∣ment of this work of Refor∣mation religiously begun, & indefatigably pursued by them, continually promised by others, universally exspe∣cted by al (except those pro∣misers that never meant to be performers) and particu∣larly pointed at in this trea∣tise, & my former, so far a humbly conceive necess•…•… for Law, & Officers need•…•… for the Commonwealth: For which vigeat, floreat, dure•• shalbe my daily praiers. A∣men again.