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how any magistrate before whom Mr Bowles may be brought as an offender against the Criminal Laws of this Country by having Obtaind money upon False pretences can on his oath refuse to Convict him & subject him to the Penalties & inflict the Pierce's torments awarded by the Laws of England against the perpetrators of this Crime Commonly known by the name of Swindling, a man who sells anothers Goods of Less value than they appear to be at the Price they appear to be worth is Liable to the Law he has some excuse because all persons who buy ought to make themselves in some degree able to judge of the Quality of the things they purchase but in the Sale of Law opinions [indecipherable] is widely different for so great Care has the Law taken to discourage those who are not professional from studying to understand it that a man who is no Lawyer is guilty of a Crime if he advises another how to Carry on a Suit in which he has no interest after it is once begun the Law will therefore no deal more hardly with a Lawyer who sells unsound Law for ready money that being an article which the purchaser cannot be supposed to understand than in the Case of a Jockey selling an unsound horse for the defect of the horse may be such a one as the buyer might & ought to have noticed
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Mr Clitherow
I consider all the Commissioners of whom Mr. Kirkham was one who refusd to Enter upon the business of my defence in the 4th district meeting against an illegal Precept Issued to me & my Revesby tenants by the said Commissioners, in the Presence of my Steward, at the hazard of refusing the attendance of a Commissioner, as he was & at the absolute refusal of allowing a person absent on just Cause as was my case to be heard by his Steward, as my avowd Legal Enemies I think is therefore very improper that one of these avowd Legal Enemies should be Foreman of my Fen jury & I leave it to your Prudence to find the means of arranging this jury otherwise was any one of these persons to be impanneld on a jury on the verdict of which I had every thing depending I should shew cause direct my Council to shew cause why the said Person should be struck out of the Pannel & I have no doubt with effect he had exceeded his orders twice as Solicitor to the wild mare will first in the notices by including Private Enclosures which the undertaking was never intended to comprehend next in advertising that a Draught of the Bill would be produced at the Horncastle April meeting if he again errs in matters so likely to be of evil consequence I will complain of his conduct publicly.