IF they that haue a mat¦ter of cōtrouersie depen¦ding before a Iuge cōe to ye cōtestation of the suite vpon the matter of ye deed which ye lawyers of Eng¦land call ye issu of ye plea:
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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the truth of such an issue by the ciuile lawes must be tryed by the deposition of witnesses, wherein .ii. allowable witnesses are sufficiēt. But by ye lawes of England the truthe of the matter cannot appier euident to the Iuge wtout ye othes of xii. men neigh∣bours to the place where such a dede is supposed to be done. Nowe therefore the questiō is whether of these two, so dyuers pro∣cedinges ought to be estee¦med more reasonable & ef¦fectual for the opening of the trueth, which thus is sought for. For the law yt can more certeinly & bet∣ter shewe the truthe, is in this behalfe of more excel¦lency than ye other yt is of lesse efficacy & force. wher¦fore in the searche of this matter thus we proceede.