• The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

    Gilbert Burnet: The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
    Gilbert Burnet, Sir Thomas Burnet (1734). “Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time ...: From the revolution to the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the reign of Queen Anne. To which is added, the author's life, by the editor”, p.658