A speech made by the Honourable Denzel Hollis esquire at that time, when the judges had their charge, concerning Sir Randol Grew . Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A44199 of text R14514 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H2472). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A44199 Wing H2472 ESTC R14514 13025042 ocm 13025042 96679 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A44199) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 96679) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 259:E198, no 34) A speech made by the Honourable Denzel Hollis esquire at that time, when the judges had their charge, concerning Sir Randol Grew . Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680. [7] p. Printed by E. G. for L. Blaikelocke ..., London : 1641. Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library. eng Crew, Randolph, -- Sir, 1558-1646. Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Sources. A44199 R14514 (Wing H2472). civilwar no A speech made by the honourable Denzel Hollis Esquire; at that time (when the judges had their charge) concerning Sir Randol Crew. Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron 1641 1336 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 B The rate of 7 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SPEECH made by the Honourable DENZEL HOLLIS Esquire ; at that time ( when the Judges had their Charge ) concerning Sir RANDOL GREW . London , Printed by E. G. for L. Blaikelocke , and are to be sold at his shop next Temple Barre , in Fleet-street . 1641. When the Charge went up against the Judges , I was appointed to carry up the desire of the House Concerning , S. R. C. MY Lords , These Gentlemen have represented unto your Lordships the sad object of justice perverted , liberty oppressed , of judgement turned into wormewood , the lawes which should be the barres of our gates , to protect us , keepe us , and all that is ours in safety , made weake and impotent , to betray us into the hands of violence , instead of props to support us , become broken reeds to deceive us , and runne into our sides when we leane upon them , even so many snares to entrap and entangle us . And all this by the perfidiousnesse of those , who are entrusted with our lawes , who call themselves the Guardians and the Interpreters of the Law , but by their accursed glosses have confounded the Text , and made it speake another language , and another sence , then ever our Ancestors the Law-makers intended . Our Ancestors made lawes to keepe themselves , their posterity after them in the possession of their estates ; these Judges could make the Law it selfe rob us and despoileus of our estates . Were we invaded and persecuted at any time for pretended crimes , or rather because they were free from crime ? and did we put our selves upon a legall defence , and shelter our selves under the buckler of the law , use those lawfull weapons , which Justice and Truth and the common right of the subject did put into our hands ; would this availe us ? no , these Judges would make the Law wrest our weapons from us , disarme us , take away all our defence , expunge our answers , even binde us hand and foot , and so expose us naked & bound , to the mercilessenesse of our oppressors ; were our persons forced and imprisoned by an act of power , would the law relieve us , when we appealed unto it ? No , it would joyne hands with violence , and adde bitternesse to our sorrow ; these Iudges would not heare us when we did cry , no importunity could get a Habeas Corpus ; nay , our cryes would displease them , and they would beat us for crying , and overdoe the unjust Iudge in the Gospell , with whom yet importunity could prevaile ? My Lords , The Commons of England finding themselves in this lamentable condition , by the wickednesse of these Iudges ; it is no wonder that we complaine of them ; it is no wonder , if the Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses assembled in Parliament , have sent up some of their members to stand upon Mount Ebal to curse these Iudges ; to denounce a curse upon them who have removed our land-markes , have taken away the bound stones of the propriety of the subject , have left no Meum & Tuum , but he that had most might , had most right , and the law was sure to be of his side . It hath beene the part of these Gentlemen who have spoken before me , to pray for justice upon those men , who would not doe justice to others . My Lords , I come upon an other errand , and yet for justice too , for there is justice upon Mount Gerezim , as well as upon Mount Ebal . It is as great a point of Iustice to give a blessing , a reward , where it is due , as punishment where punishment is due : For reward and punishment , Praemium & poena , be the two legges that Iustice walkes on , and reward is her right legge , the more noble and the more glorious supporter of that sacred and divine body , that which God himselfe the fountaine of justice doth more delight in . Tardior ad poenas Deus est , ad praemia velox , Punishment is good , as Phisick in the consequence , reward as wholesome and nourishing food , in the essence ; the one we do , because we must do it as necessary , the other , because we love to do it as being pleasing and delightfull . Your Lordships then , I doubt not , will as willingly joyne with the Commons , in doing good to a good Iudge , as in punishing of the bad . My Lords , we honour them and reckon them Martyrs for the Common-wealth , who suffer any thing by desending the common right of the subject , when they will not part with their own goods contrary to law ; when indeed their private interest goes along with it , or rather before it , and the publique concernement seemes to come but in a second place , such were those many , whom these Iudges have oppressed ; yet these men we magnifie and judge worthy of praise and reward . But what honour then is he worthy of , who meerely , for the publick , hath suffered himselfe to be divested and deprived of his particular , such a Iudge as would lose his place , rather then do that which his conscience told him was prejudiciall to the Common-wealth : is not he worthy of double honour ? And this did that worthy reverend Iudge , the Chiefe Iudge of England at that time , Sir Randol Crew , because he would not by subscribing countenance the loane in the first yeare of the King , contrary to his oath and conscience , he drew upon himselfe the displeasure of some great persons about his Majestie , who put on that project , which was afterwards condemned by the petition of right , in the Parliament of tertio as unjust and unlawfull , and by that meanes he lost his place of Chiefe Iustice of the Kings bench , and hath these fourteene yeares by keeping his innocency lost the profit of that office , which upon a just calculation in so long a revolution of time , amounts to 26000● or thereabouts . He kept his innocency when others let theirs go , when himselfe and the Common-wealth were alike deserted , which raises his merit to a higher pitch ; For to be honest when every body else is honest , when honesty is in fashion , and is Trump , as I may say , is nothing so meritorious ; but to stand alone in the breach , to owne honesty when others dare not do it , cannot be sufficiently applauded , nor sufficiently rewarded . And that did this good old man do : in a time of generall desertion he preserved himselfe pure and untainted . Temporibusque malis ausus is esse bonus . My Lords , the House of Commons are therefore sutors unto your Lordships , to joyne with them in the representation of this good mans case unto his Majestie , and humbly to beseech his Majestie to be so good and gracious unto him , as to give him such honour ( the quality of this case considered ) as may be a noble marke of soveraigne grace and favour , to remaine to him and his posterity , and may be in some measure a proportionable compensation for the great losse he hath with so much patience and resolution sustained . FINIS .