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.

possible to putt in certayne, what lyvelod will yerely suffice to beyre ham. Wherfore we nede in this case to vse coniecture and ymaginacion, as to thynk that þer is no lordis livelod in Englond sufficient to beyre the kynges extraordinare charges. Then nedith it þat the kynges livelod, aboff such reuenues as shalbe asseigned for his ordinare charges, be gretter than the livelod off the grettest lorde in Englande. And perauenture, whan livelod sufficient ffor the kynges ordinarie charges is lemitted and asseigned therto, hit shall apere, that diuerse lordis off Englande haue also moch livelode off thair owne, as than shall remayne in the kynges handes ffor his extraordinarie charges; wich were inconvenient, and wold be to the kynge right dredefull. For than such a lord mey dispende more then the kynge, con|sideringe þat he is charged with no such charges extraordinarie or ordinarie as is the kyng, except an houshold, wich is but litle in comparison off the kynges house. Wherfore yff it be thus, it shalbe necessarie, þat ther be purveyid ffor the kyng moch gretter livelod than he hath yet. For manis corage is so noble, þat naturally he aspirith to high thinges, and to be exaltid, and þerfore enforsith hym selff to be alway gretter and gretter. Ffor wych the philo|sopher saith, omnia amamus sed principari maius. Wherof it hath comyn þat oftyn tymes, when a subget hath hade also gret livelod as his prince, he hath anon aspired to þe estate of his prince, wich by such a man mey sone be gote. Ffor the remenante off the subgettes off such a prince, seyng þat yff so myghty a subget myght opteyne þe estate off thair prince, thai shulde than be vndir a prince double so myghty as was thair old prince;—wich encrease any subget

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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 128
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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