'Procrastination there, is seldom know,
'The Judges soon award each one his own.'
And, tho they seem'd to wonder, Vulcan swore,
'They oft dctermin'd thirty suits[1] an hour.'
Of sim'lar Courts we've many in the land,
Whose laws, like those of Medes and Persians, stand;
For when the JUDGES set their hand or seal,
From their decision, there is no appeal.
'Th' Inhabitants,' he said, 'take old and young,
"Might then amount to Eighty Thousand strong.
'Of Churches[2] there are Two, of Chapels Four,
'And of Disenting Meetings near a score."
Of Public Charities we have our share,
To which all freely give, who ought can spare;
For independent of the Levies[3] clear,
Which net, near Thirty Thousand Pounds per year,
There's various Institutions,[4] where, indeed,
Relief's afforded to the poor in need,
Who oft, with grateful hearts, those gifts receive,
Which lib'ral donors oft so freely give.
- ↑ The Court of Requests, for the recovery of any sum under 40s.-The Author has often known above 100 causes determined in leſs than three hours.
- ↑ St. Martin's and St. Philips Churches. The Chapels of St. Bartholomew, St. Mary, St. Paul, and St. John, in Deritend.
- ↑ Levies for the Poor are collected about eighteen times per annum, at the rate of 6d, in the pound each levy, on all houses above six pounds.
- ↑ The General Hospital, the Dispensary, the Blue Coat Charity School, and one belonging to the Diſsenting Meetings, all supported by Voluntary Contributions; also the Benevolent Society, and Subscriptions for Bread, Coals, Soup, &c. &c. which are distributed amongst the lower order of the people, every week, during the winter.
