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 October 31, 2024.

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TVnc Cācella∣ri{us}. Sūt et alij casus nōnulli ī qui¦bus differūt leges antedictae, Vt qia le¦g{is} Ciuiles iudicāt furtū manifestū {per} reddiciōē quadru∣pli, et furtū nō ma¦nifestū, {per} dupli re¦cōpensationē ex∣piari. Sed leges

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Angliae, neutrum facinorum illorū mitius quam com¦mittentis morte puniri permittunt dummodo ablati valor duodecim denariorū valorē excedat. Itē liber¦tinum ingratum leges ciuiles in pris¦tinā redigūt serui∣tutem: sed leges Angliae semel ma∣numissū, semper liberum iudicant gratum et ingra∣tum. Alij quoque sunt casus huiusce modi non pauci, quos iam studio breuitatis pretereo Et ne{que} in hijs du∣obus casibus pre∣dictarum legum prestancias ego iā describo, cum nō magū sit īdaginis

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eorum qualitates nec diffido inge∣nij tui solerciam eas sufficiēter pos∣se rimari.

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