SEd licet non in fimè Cancel∣tarie, nos delectet forma, qua leges Angliae in conten∣tionibus reuelant veritatem, tamen an modus ille sa∣crae repugnet scrip¦turae vel non, pau∣lulum agitamur. Ait namque do∣minus phariseis. Ioh. viii. In lege vestra scriptum est, quia duorum hominum testimo¦nium verum est, et huic applaudēs dominus inquit,
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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"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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ego sum qui tes∣timonium per∣hibeo de me ip∣so, et testimoni∣um perhibet de me qui misit me pater.
Pharisei quippe iudei erant, vnde idem erat dicere in Lege vestra scriptum est, et in Lege Mosay•••• (quae a domino {per} Moysen filiis Isra∣ell prolata fuit) scriptum est.
Quare huic legi cōtraire, legi ē di∣uin̄ refragari, quô sequit’, qd’ lex An¦gliae si ab hac lege discedat, a lege di¦uina, cui reluctari nō licet, ipsa disce∣dít. Scribitur etiam Math .xviij.
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Quod dominus (loquens de cor∣rectione frater∣na) inter alia sic ait. Si autem non te audierit frater tuus, adhibe te∣cum adhuc vnum aut duos, vt in ore duorum vel tri∣um, stet omne verbum. Si in ore duorum vel tri∣um dominus om∣ne verbum statu∣erit, frustra pluri∣mum hominum queritur in du∣biis veredictum. Nemo enim po∣test melius aut a∣liud fundamen∣tum ponere, quam posuit do∣minus.
Hec sunt Cancel∣larie quae me de
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legis angliae pro∣cessu in probatio¦nibus aliquantu∣lum conturbant. Quare q̄d his res¦pondendum est a te doceri deposco