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Bad Press for Lawyers in 16th century

Vasco Nunez de Balboa, to King Ferdinand V of Spain 1513

By paulamcc
02 Sep 2013

Bad Press for Lawyers in 16th century

One thing I supplicate, your majesty: that you will give orders, under a great penalty, that no bachelors of law should be allowed to come here (to the New World); for not only are they bad in themselves, but they also make and contrive a thousand inequities.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa, to King Ferdinand V of Spain 1513
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