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Excerpt from History of England From the Accession of James I, Vol. 4 of 10: To the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642
If we wish to know what the views of Bacon and other officers of state really were, the first thing to be done is to cono sult the original patents. No doubt there is much which will not be learned there. We shall not find any light thrown on the personal motives of those through whose in?uence they were obtained. But if we find a large number of official declarations spread over a long series of years, and emanating from men who differed from one another in character, in posi tion, and in political Opinion, we shall be able to discover whether they contain indications of a settled policy, or are mere makeshifts put forward to cover the greed of unprincipled courtiers.
Of the patents subsequently complained of there were two, the patent for inns and the patent for alehouses, which were specially objected to, partly as encroaching upon the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace, and partly as having been made the excuse for gross injustice and oppression.
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