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you, unless we except that of the Star-chamber, and the attempts of one or two former arbitrary Judges, who wanted to wrest this right from the people.
The doctrine then being extra-judicial and illegal, let all Judges beware of the fate of Trefilian and others, who suffered for their extravagant opinions. The High Court of Parliament adjudged them to be executed as traitors against the Sovereign Majesty of the People, and they suffered accordingly.
The Judges of the land swear faithfully, you know, to serve the People as well as the King, and to do justice to every man, according to the law of the land; and in default thereof, they are to forfeit their bodies, lands, and goods, as in cases of treason.
English Judges are only living pandects, to be consulted and referred to by the jurors in cases of difficulty. But they are by no means empowered to interfere as the Peers of the culprit. The King might as well
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