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 June 11, 2024.

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Exposita iā for∣ma qua leges Ciuiles de verita∣te facti in iudicio deducti iudicem erudiunt, super∣est vt modū quô leges Angliae hu∣iusmodi facti eli∣ciunt veritatem etiam do ceamus,

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Nam ambarum legum formulis contigué positis, qualitates earun∣dem lucidius emi∣nebunt cum di∣cat Philosophus, quod opposita iuxta se posita ma¦gis apparent: Sed in hoc oratorum more (prohemii loco) quedam p̄∣narrare congru∣et, quorum agni∣tione, deinde trac¦tando clarius pa∣tere queant, qua∣re sic procedim{us}. Regnum Angliae per comitatus, vt regnum Fraun∣ciae per balliuatus distinguitur, ita vt non sit locus in Anglia, quae nō

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sit īfr’ corp{us} alicu¦i{us} cōitat{us}. Cōitat{us} quo{que} diuiduntur in Hūdreda, que alicubi Wapen tagia nuncupan∣tur. Hundreda ve¦ro diuidūtur per villas, subquarum appellatione con¦tinentur et Burgi atque Ciuitates. Villarum etenim metae, non muris, edificiis, aut stra∣tis terminan tur, sed agrorū ambi∣tubus, territoriis magnis, hamiletis quibusdā, et mul∣tis aliis, sicut aqua¦rū, boscorū, et vas¦torū terminis, quae iam non expedit nominibus desig¦nare, q̄a vix in an∣glia est locus ali∣quis,

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qui non in∣fra villarum am∣bitus cōtineatur, licet priuilegiati loci quidam infra¦villas, de eisdem villis pars esse nō censentur. Prete∣rea in quolibet co¦mitatu est officia∣rius quidam vnus regis vicecomes appellatus, qui in¦ter cetera sui offi¦cii ministeria, om∣nia mandata et iu¦dicia curiarum re¦gis ī comitatu suo exequenda, exe∣quitur, Cuius of∣ficiū annale est, quo ei post annū in eodem minis∣trare nō licet, nec duob{us} tūc sequē¦tib{us} ānis ad idē of ficiū reassumetur

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Officiarius iste sic eligitur. Quoli∣bet anno in crasti¦no animarum, cō¦ueniunt in scac∣cario regis omnes consiliarii eius, tā dn̄ispūales, ettēpo¦rales quā alii ōnes iusticiarii, omnes barones de scac∣cario, clericus ro∣tulorum, & qui∣dam alii officiarii vbi hii omnes cō∣muni assensu, no∣minant de quoli∣bet comitatu tres milites vel armi∣geros, quos inter ceteros eiusdem comitat{us} ipsi opi¦nātur melioris es¦se dispositionis et famae, et ad offici∣um vice comitis comitat{us} illi{us} me¦lius

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dispositos: ex quibus rex vnum tātum eliget, quē per litteras suas patētes constitu∣et vicecomitem comitat{us} de quo eligit’ {pro} āno tunc sequēte: sed ipse ā¦tequā lr’ illas recī¦piat, iurabit su{pro} sā¦ta dei euāgelia, in¦ter articulos alio qd bene, fidelit{er} et indifferent{er} exer∣cebit et faciet of∣ficiū suū toto āno illo ne{que} aliq̄d re¦cipiet colore aut causa officii sui ab aliquo alio quā a rege. His iā sic p̄sup¦positis, ad eorū q̄ querim{us} indaginē {pro}cedamus.

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