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.

but yet he dothe it maugre the peple, wich God defende þat the kynge oure souerayn lorde shulde do vppon is peple, with owt thair grauntes or assent. Nertheles with thair assent suche maner off subsidie, yff þer couude not be ffounde a better meane off þe encressynge off the kynges revenues, were not vn|resnoble. Ffor therin and in the gabell off þe salte, euery man shalbeyre þe charge þeroff eyegally. But yet I wolde not þat suche a newe charge were put apon þe peple in owre souerayn lordis dayis, with wich is progenitours charged hem neuer, yff a better remedie coude be ffounde. Kynge Salamon charged is peple with gretter ymposicions than thai were wonned to beyre be ffore his dayis. And by cause his sonne kynge Roboham wolde not ease hem theroff, the x. parties off the peple, devided in xii. parties, de partide ffrom hym, and chese hem a new kynge, and come neuer aftir þat tyme vndre is sub|iection. Off wiche departyng God said hym selff aftirwarde, a me factum est istud. Wiche is an en|sample þat it is not good a kynge to ouer sore charge his peple. Wherfore me thinkith, þat yff þe kynge myght haue is livelod ffor the sustenance off his estate in grete lordshippes, maneres, ffee ffermys, and such other demaynes, his people not charged, he shulde kepe to hym hollych thair hertes, excede in lordshippes all the lordes off his reaume, and ther shulde non off hem growe to be like vnto hym, wich thynge is most to be fered off all þe worlde. Ffor then with in ffewe yeres þer shulde not remeyne lordeshippes in is reaume, by wich þai myght growe so grette. Ner thai myght growe soche be mariages, but yff the kyng wolde hit. Ffor to hym fallen all þe grete mariages off his lande, wich he mey dispose

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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 133
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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