The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

deeth, and this stiward vndir the king, and othere officers and executers vndir the stiward; and alle thei doon in the name and in auctorite and power and stide of the king, so comytting to the stiward, and that the stiward comytte ferther to othere. For whiche treuthe now seid the better to be vndirstonde, it is to wite that al iuging into deeth and al exe|cuting of thilk iugement cometh fro the king and fro his auctorite and power, and not but from him and bi him; so that it is not leeful that eny man iuge into deeth or slee, but he aloon, or thilk persoon to whom he commyttith. And for as miche as it were ouer cumberose to his persoon and not moost profit|able to the comounte, that the king schulde sitte and iuge in ech cause of deeth and in ech other cause of wrong, therfore he committith his power and auc|torite to temporal lordis vndir him forto execute it upon certein noumbris of peplis assigned to hem, and ȝeueth power to tho lordis hem for to comytte fer|thir to stiwardis vndir hem; and he ȝeueth the avauntagis, (as forfetis, eschetis, and mercimentis, and fynys,) to tho lordis for her labour. But whanne it is so, that the king ȝeueth to a bischop or to an abbot into almes or into sum other good deede therbi to be doon the now seid avauntage, which may come honestli and iustli to the king, he comittith not to the same bischop or abbot power forto sitte and knowe and iuge in the court whos avauntage the king ȝeueth to the bischop or abbot; but the king comyttith the power forto sitte, knowe, and iuge to a stiward which in the kingis name schal sitte and iuge and condempne into deeth and execute the sentence or commytte ferther thilk execucioun to othere vndir him in the kingis name; thouȝ the king graunte and or|deyne that the stiward bringe to the bisschop or abbot al the avauntage of the court, which the same stiward schulde iustli bringe to the king him silf, if the king

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Title: The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
Author: Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
Canvas: Page 367
Publication: London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,; 1860.
Subject terms: Lollards; Great Britain -- Church history

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