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- Title
PART II: THE DIARIES.
- Abstract
I think great deference ought to be paid to this claim of parliamentary relief that lays by a settled practice, or lays by the Law I of the i Land. to go [now] in the present case, undoubtedly this wh I ich i is now treated as the most ideal of all phantoms, a mere Chimera raised by wicked Booksellers was the Law I of the i Land for several years, f I rom i the time the Judgment I of the i Court of King's bench unappeald to. it was his business not the Booksellers to appeal f I rom i it: it was not in their power, theref I ore i I say f I rom i that time; I look upon it as the Law I of the i Land. Eighty seven booksellers, & Printers of London, that is of one class, the other all the Booksellers, & Printers I of the i rest I of the i Kingdom. these two sets of men h I ave i differd in apprehending I of the i Law. the one thought the law one way, the other thought the law another way. Mr. Woodfall is the man who complains &c. Mr. Woodfall B {261} b thinks that p I eople i do not understand any thing I of the i conduct of Newspapers. the Proprietors I of the i Newspapers are the Petitioners for the bill. they can do more to connect the licentiousness I of the i Press than the whole Legislature &c. they may lay their Commands upon Printers. they dine together July, & August, they h I ave i a book, they drink the staining of papers. Booksellers are not Lawyers, they might easily mistake the actions of their Ancestors to be agreeable to law. by no means contending that the Judgment I of the i H I ouse i of L I ords i was not extremely right. do not set up one H I ouse i against the other, the determination I of the i H I ouse i of L I ords i was made by them as a Court of Justice, not as a part I of the i Legislature. they may determine this upon a very different matter as Legislators, than what they determine as Judicators.
- Subjects
DECEPTION; PETITIONS; LAW reform; CONSTRUCTION laws; LEGAL history; GOVERNMENT policy; JUSTICE
- Publication
Parliamentary History, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 1, p164
- ISSN
0264-2824
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1750-0206.12655