The governance of England: otherwise called The difference between an absolute and a limited monarchy. A rev. text edited with introd., notes, and appendices by Charles Plummer.

as haue be made off the kynges livelod inconsederatly, as not deseruet, or aboff the meretes of hym þat haue getun hym, were refourmed; so as thai wich haue done any seruice, be not vnrewarded. Wich thynge, as me thynkith, mey not perfitly be done, withowt a generall resumpcion, made be auctorite off parlement; and þat ther be gyven to the kynge by the same auctorite, a grete subsidie, with wich is hyghnes, be þe advise off his counsell, mey rewarde tho þat haue deserued rewardes, and awght not þer|fore to haue parte off his revenues, by wich is estate moste nedis be mayntened; or awght not haue so moch off þe revenues, as thai haue now, or not so grete astate in the same. Considerynge þat all such gyvinge awey off the kynges livelod is harmefull to all is legemen, wich shall þerby, as is be ffore shewid, be arted to a newe charge ffor þe sustenance off is estate. But yet, or any suche resumpcion be made, it shalbe gode þat a worshipfull and a notable coun|sell be stableshed, be the advise off wich all new gyftes and rewardes mey be modered and made, as yff no such gyftes or rewardes had be made be ffor this tyme. Provided alway, that no man be harmyd, be reason off such resumpcion, in the arrerages off such livelod as he shall þan haue, wich shall renne aftir þat resumpcion, and bi fore þe said new giftes and rewardes. And whan such a counsell is ffully create and estableshed, hit shalbe gode þat all sup|plicacions wich shalbe made to þe kynge ffor any gifte or rewarde, be sende to þe same counsell, and þer debatid and delibered; ffirst whether þe supliant haue deserued such rewarde as he askith; and yff he haue deserued hit, yet it nedith þat it be delibered, whether the kynge mey gyve such rewarde as he

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Title: The governance of England: otherwise called The difference between an absolute and a limited monarchy. A rev. text edited with introd., notes, and appendices by Charles Plummer.
Author: Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
Canvas: Page 143
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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