. The works of Francis Bacon . Laltly, you fliall inquire whether the good ftatute be obferved, whereby a man Manufaflures,may have that he thinketh he hath, and not be abufed or mif-ferved in that hebuys : I mean that ftatute that requireth that none ufe any manual occupation but sEliz. c. 4,.fuch as have been feven years apprentice to it; which law being generally tranf-grefled, makes the people buy in effedt chaff for corn j for that which is mif-wrought will mif-wear. There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the formerparts, which it were over-long in particular to recite
. The works of Francis Bacon . Laltly, you fliall inquire whether the good ftatute be obferved, whereby a man Manufaflures,may have that he thinketh he hath, and not be abufed or mif-ferved in that hebuys : I mean that ftatute that requireth that none ufe any manual occupation but sEliz. c. 4,.fuch as have been feven years apprentice to it; which law being generally tranf-grefled, makes the people buy in effedt chaff for corn j for that which is mif-wrought will mif-wear. There be many more things inquirable by you throughout all the formerparts, which it were over-long in particular to recite. You may be fuppliedeither out of your own experience, or out of fuch bills and informations as fliallbe brought unto you, or upon any queltion that you fliall demand of the court,which will be ready to give you any farther 4ire6tion as far as is fit: but thefewhich I have gone through, are the principal points of your charge •, which toprefent, you have taken the name of God to witnefs; and in the name of God;perform A\ [ 56o }A CHARGE DELIVERED BY Sir FR A N C I S BACON, Knight, The Kings Solicitor-General, A T The Arraignment of the Lord Sanquhar, In the Kings Bench at Weftminfter. THE ARGUMENT. ^he Lord Sanquhar, a Scotch nobleman, having, in private revenge, fuhorned RobertCarlile to murder John Turner, majler of fence, thought, by his greatnefs, to havthorn it out; but the King, refpeHing nothing fo much as juflice, would not fuffer no-bility to be aflnlter for villainy ; but, according to law, on the i^th of June 1612,the faid Lord Sanquhar, having been arraigned and condemned, by the name of RobertCreighton, Efq; was before IFeflminJler-hall Gate executed, where he died vety peni-tent. At whofe arraignment my Lord Bacon, then Solicitor-General to King James,made this fpeech following : IN this caufe of life and death, the jurys part is in cffccl difcharged -, for aftera frank and formal confelTion, their labour is at an end : fo that what hathbeen faid by Mr. A
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