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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
I HAVE the Honour to meet You on this solemn Occasion, which the Wisdom of Government, for the Sake of preserving Peace and Good Order, has made frequent and regular.
As the Well-being of every Country in a great Measure depends upon the wise Frame of their Laws, to regulate Property, and to restrain and punish Offenders, and on a due Execution of those Laws; it became absolutely necessary for die Sup-[4] port of Government, and the Safety of the Subject, that some Persons should be intrusted with the Inquiry into all Crimes and Offences whatsoever: And it was no less needful for the Security and Quiet of every Man, diat such a Trust should be delegated to Men of Integrity and Indifference, who might not suffer the Guilty to escape Prosecution for dieir Crimes, or the Innocent to be oppressed by false, weak, or vindictive Accusations.
page 403 note 1 This is an interesting new view of the magistrate's responsibilities in his Charge.
page 406 note 1 The Seven Years War, the end of which was the Treaty of Paris, signed on 10 February.
page 409 note 1 The Form of the Oath: “The Evidence you shall give to the Grand Inquest upon this Bill of Indictment Against A. B. shall be the truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth. So help you GOD.”