Once sure it is, that the Terme-suiters
may best speed their businesse, by supporting the former: for the end
of these Sessions deliuereth them space inough [90] to ouertake the
beginning of the Termes.
For the rest, equity beareth more sway, then grauity, at the Cornish
bench, and in confusion they mayntayne equality: for though they
speake more then one at once, yet no one mans speach, or countenance,
can carry a matter against the truth. Neither doe assertions,
but proofes in hearings; nor vouchings, but shewing of law cases,
in deciding, order the controuersies: and as diuersitie in opinions
breedeth no enmity, so ouer-ruling by most voyces, is taken for
no disgrace.
One only Iudge was wont, in three dayes at farthest, to dispatch
the Assizes, & gayle deliuery, at Launceston, the vsuall (though not
indifferentest) place, where they are holden. But malice and iniquity
haue so encreased, through two contrary effects, wealth and pouerty,
that now necessity exacteth the presence of both, and (not seldome)
an extent of time.
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