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.

þe kyng be counsellyd to restrayne gyvinge a wey off his londe, off gyvinge off offices, corodeis, or pencions off abbeyis, by suche grete lordes to oþer menys seruantes, sithyn thay most desire such giftes ffor thaim selff, and thair seruantes? Wich thynges considered, and also mony oþer wech shall be shewid hereaftir, hit is thought gode, that þe kynge had a counsell chosen and estableshed in the fourme that ffolowith, or in some oþer ffourme like þerto. Ffirst, þat ther were chosen xij spirituell men, and xij temporell men, off þe wysest and best disposed men þat can be ffounde in all the parties off this lande; and that thai be sworne to counsell the kynge aftir a ffourme to be devysed ffor þer owthe. And in especiall, þat thai shall take no ffee, nor clothynge, nor no rewardes off any man, except only off þe kynge; like as þe Justices off þe kynges benche, and off þe Common place be sworne, when thai take ther offices. And þat thes xxiiij. be alway counsellers, but yff þer be any defaute ffounde in hem, or þat hit lyst the kynge, be the advise off þe more parte off hem, chaunge any off hem. And þat euery yere be chosen be þe kynge iiij. lordes spirituell, and iiij lordes temporall, to be ffor þat yere off þe same counsell, in like ffourme as þe said xxiiij^ti shall be. And that thai all haue an hed, or a cheeff to rule þe counsell, on off þe said xxiiij^ti, and chosen be the kynge, havynge is office at the kynges pleasur; wich mey thanne be callid, Capitalis consiliarius. It shall not be necessarie, þat the xij spirituell men off this covnsell, haue so gret wages as the xij temporall men; be cause thai shull not nede to kepe an houshold in thair contray, while thai ben absent, as the temporell men moste nedes

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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 146
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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