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SIcoram Iudice cōtendētes, ad litis {per}ueniant con¦testationē su{per} ma¦teria facti, quā le∣gis Angliae periti exitū pl’iti appell’. Exitus hm̄oi veri∣tas
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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{per} leges Ciuiles testiū depositionē {pro}bari debet, ī qua duo testes idonei sufficiunt, Sed per leges Angliae, veri∣tas illa nō nisi .xij. hominū de vicine¦to vbi factū huius¦modi suponitur sacramēto, Iudici constari poterit. Queritur igitur, quis horū duorū {pro}cessuū tā diuer∣sorū rationabilior censeri debeat & efficatior, ad veri∣tatē quae sic queri∣turreuelādā. Quia lex q̄ eā certi{us} me∣lius{que} ostēdere po∣test, prestantior in hoc est lege altera quae nō tātae effica∣tiae est et virtutis, quare in huius rei indagine sic {pro}ce∣dimus.