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.

doo, ffor thair wyffes and childeren. By wich con|sideracion the spirituell juges in the courte off par|liment off Parys, taken but cc. ffrankes by þe yere, where as þe temporell juges þeroff taken by the yere ccc. ffrankes. The said viij.^te lordes also, wich be reason off þer baronyes and estates bith to þe kyng, consiliari nati, and þerfore awghton to counsell hym at all tymes when he woll, nede not to haue gret wages ffor thair attendance to is covnsell, wich shall last but ffor a yere. Ffor temporell men, wich be reason off þer enheritaunce and livelod bith made shyreffes ffor a yere, taken off þe kynge litle, and all most nothyng ffor thair seruice off þat yere. And thoughe þat wages off the said xxiiij.^ti coun|sellers seme a newe and a grete charge to þe kynge, yet when hit is considered, how gret wages the grete lordes and other men, wych were off the kynges counsell in tymes passede, toke ffor thair attendance therto, wich maner off counsell was nothynge so behouefull to the kyng and to his reaume as this will be, wich wages shall than forthwarde cesse; þe wages off þe xxiiij.^ti counsellours shall apere no gret charge to the kynge. And I can suppose, þat some kynges be ffor this tyme, haue gyven to some on man þat hath serued hym, also moche livelod yerely, as the said wages wyll com to. And if the same wagis be thought to grete charge vnto þe kyng, þe forsaid counsellours mowe be in lesse nowmbre, as to be xvj counsellours off privatis personis, with ij lordes spirituell, and ij lordes temporell; so as then thai be in all but xx.^ti persones. Thies counsellors mowe contenually, at soche owres as shal be as|seigned to thaym, comune and delibre vppon the materis of defeculte that ffallen to the kynge; and

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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 147
Publication: Oxford,: Clarendon Press,; 1885.
Subject terms: Political science; Monarchy; Constitutional law -- Great Britain.

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