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.

kynges estate shall alwey be kept vnblemyshed. And off somme man is highnes shall haue more thanke ffor money then ffor lande; and also money is the most convenient rewarde to hym þat hath not longe serued. This charge woll all wey be grete, and so inestimable grete, þat in somme yere a grete lordes lyvelod shalnot suffice to beyre it, though he wolde selle grete parte þerof. And trewly, when þe kyng rewardith is servantes in this maner, he shewith grete ffauour to all his reaume. Item, it shall nede þat the kyng haue such tresour, as he mey make new bildynges whan he woll, ffor his pleasure and magnificence; and as he mey bie hym riche clothes, riche furres, oþer than be wonned to fall vndre þe yerely charges off his warderober, rich stones, serpes, bauderikes, and oþer juels and ornamentes conue|nyent to his estate roiall. And often tymes he woll bie riche hangynges and other apparell ffor his howses; vessaill, vestmentes, and oþer ornamentes for his chapell; bie also horses off grete price, trappers, and do other suche nobell and grete costes, as bi sitith is roiall mageste, off wich it is not now possible to the writer hereof to remenbr the especial|liteis. Ffor yff a kyng did not so, nor myght do, he lyved then not like his estate, but rather in miserie, and in more subgeccion than doth a priuate person. Item, the kynge shall often tymes sende his comis|sioners in gret myght, and also his juges, to represse and punysh riatours and risers; ffor wich cause he shall odre whiles ride in his owne person myghtely accompanyed. Wich thynge wolnot be done with owt grete costes; ffor no man is bounde to serue hym in suche cases at his owne dyspenses. Item, yff ther come a sodayne armye vpon this londe by see

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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 125
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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