. The works of Francis Bacon . THE [ 5(>i JTHE A R G E O F Sir F R A N C I S BACON, Knight,The Kings Attorney-General, TOUCHING DUELS. UPON An InformatioPi in the Star-Chamber aQ-ainfl: Pricft and Wrin; the Decree of the Star-Chamber in the fame Caufe. My Lords, I Thought it fit for my place, and for thefe times, to bring to hearing beforeyour lordfhips fome caufe touching private duels, to fee if this court can doany good to tame and reclaim that evil which feems unbridled. And I could havewiflred that I had met with fome greater perfons, as a fubjeifl for your cenfure,both becaufe
. The works of Francis Bacon . THE [ 5(>i JTHE A R G E O F Sir F R A N C I S BACON, Knight,The Kings Attorney-General, TOUCHING DUELS. UPON An InformatioPi in the Star-Chamber aQ-ainfl: Pricft and Wrin; the Decree of the Star-Chamber in the fame Caufe. My Lords, I Thought it fit for my place, and for thefe times, to bring to hearing beforeyour lordfhips fome caufe touching private duels, to fee if this court can doany good to tame and reclaim that evil which feems unbridled. And I could havewiflred that I had met with fome greater perfons, as a fubjeifl for your cenfure,both becaufe it had been more worthy of this prefence, and aifo the better to havelliewed the refolution myfelf hath to proceed without refpeft of perfons in thisbufinefs : but finding this caufe on foot in my predeceflbrs time, and publifiied andready for hearing, I thought to lofe no time in a mifchief that groweth every day :and befides, it pafTes not amifs fometimes in government, that the greater fort beadmonilhed by an example made i
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