Lawyers.
These are they that lade men with heavie burdens grievous to be born, and they themselves touch not the burdens with one of their fingers.
These are they that have violently oppressed by spoiling and robbing, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they afflict the just, they take reward, and oppress the poor in the gate.
Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievous things which they have prescribed, to turn aside the needy from judgement, and to take away the right from the poor of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their Offices full of deceit: thereby they are become great, and waxen rich. Jer. 5. 27.
Commissioners for the Monthly Assesments, with their Col∣lectors and sub-Collectors.
These are they, that when for want of money we fail at any time to pay our own or our great Landlords Assesments, (for they make us pay them, long before any rent be due) then by their commands we have our Cows driven away, or our clothes taken from our backs and beds, with great violence, by their Collectors or sub-Collectors, and either sold for half or a third part of their worth, or otherwise forced to pay most grievous exactions for distraining, over and above our Asses∣ments; and some mens goods carried quite away, worth 20 l. when the Assesment was under 4 l. without giving any ac∣count at all for the same. Thus we are pill'd and poll'd on all sides most intolerably, and no law or justice can be had or obtained against them.
These are they that obstruct the regulated course of justice,