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THe first information in any cause, if it a litle fixe it selfe in the mind of the Judge, takes deep root, and wholly seasons and prepossesseth it; so as it can hardly be taken out, unlesse some manifest falshood be found in the matter of Information; or some cunning dealing, in exhibiting
and laying open the same. For a bare and simple defence, thoe it be just and more waighty, hardly compensates the prejudice of the first information; or is of force of it selfe to reduce the scales of Justice, once swayd downe, to an equall waite. Wherefore it is the safest course both for the Judge, that nothing touching the proofes and merit, of the cause, be intimated before-hand untill both parties be heard togi∣ther; and the best for the Defendant, if he perceive the Judge preoccupated; to labour principally in this (so farre as the quality of the cause will admit) to discover some cunning shift and fraudulent dealing practised by the ad∣verse party to the abuse of the Iudge.
Prov. XVIII.