A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.

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A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.
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Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the hand and starre, by Rychard Tottill,
1567]
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Law -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01080.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 31, 2024.

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ONe only doubt wher∣wt your mind is trou∣bled, remaineth now be∣hīde vndiscussed. And yt is this. Whether as yt ciuile lawz, so likwise ye lawz of

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Englande bee fruytfull and effectuall, these for the royalme of England as the other for the Em∣piere, and whether they may worthely bee iudged fytte and meete. Compa∣risons, most noble prince (as I remember I harde you ones saye) are comp∣ted odious. Wherefore I am lothe to meddle wt them. But whether they bee bothe of lyke worthi¦nes, or that the one de∣seruethe an higher com∣mendation then the other heareof you may gather a pythier argument out of those pointes, wherein theire sentences do differ then by my declaracion. For wher both the lawez doo agree, the prayse of them ys equall.

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But in cases where they disagree, the worthyer lawe is moste prayse-woorthye. Wherefore wee will nowe propound some such cases, to the in∣tent you maye indiffe∣rentlye ponder and weye whether of these doothe moste iustlye and better define the same. And first wee will putte furthe ex∣aumples of cases of much weight.

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