Sentence:  "O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen," ... "Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell," ... "that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees," ... "but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode," To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to <WSD>retrench</WSD> exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cut down or reduce.