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SOlum iam vnū de his quibus a∣gitatur animus tu us restat explanā∣dū, vz an vt Ciui∣les, ita et ang. leges
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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"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 May 16, 2024.
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frugi sint et effica¦ces, isti Angliae re∣gno, vt illae impe∣rio, etiam et acco∣mode iudicari me reantur. Compa∣rationes vero prī∣ceps, vt te aliquan do dixisse recolo odiosae reputan∣tur, quo eas ag∣gredi non delec∣tor, tu an equalis sint ambae leges meriti, vnaue al∣tera celsius preco∣nium mereatur, non ex meo iudi∣tio, sed ex his in quibus earum dif∣ferunt sententiae, efficatius carpere poteris argumen∣tum. Nam vbi cō∣ueniunt Leges ambae, aequalis laudis ipsae sunt,
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sed in casibus vbi ipsae dissentiunt, prestantioris legis preconia digna pensatione reful∣gent. Quare ca∣sus huiusmodi a∣liquos iam in me∣dium proferemus vt quae legum il∣larum eos iustius melius{que} diffiniat, equa lance valeas ponderare, et pri∣mo ex casib{us} maxi¦mi pōderis exēpla preponamus.