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 June 11, 2024.
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THe Prince hearynge this, and stedfastly be holding ye old man, spake thus to him. I know good Chauncelloure that the booke of Deutronomie whereof you speake is a booke of holye scripture. The lawes also and ordi¦nances therein contained are holy, of the lords ma∣kinge, and published by Moyses: Wherefore the readinge of them is a ple∣sant act of holye contem∣placion. But that law, to the knowledge whereof you counsell me, is hu∣mayne, made by menne, and intreating of world∣lye matters: Wherefore though Moyses bynde the Kinges of Israell to the readynge of goddes law, yet that thereby hee for∣cethe all other Kynges
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to do the like in their own lawes, that standethe by no good reason, seeynge that of both the readinges the cause is not like.
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HEc vt audiuit prīceps, erec∣to in senem vultu sic locutus est. Scio Cancellarie quod liber Deut. quem tu comme∣moras, sacrae scrip¦turae volumē est: leges quo{que} & ce∣rimoniae in eo cō∣scriptae, etiam sa∣crae sūt a dn̄o edi∣tae: & per Moisen promulgatae: qua¦re eas legere sāctae cōtēplacionis dul¦cedo est. Sed lex ad cuius scienciā me inuitas, huma∣na est ab hoībus aedita, tractans & terrena: quo licet Moyses ad Deut. lecturam reges Is¦rael astrinxerit, eū per hoc reges ali∣os
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ad cōssīl’er fa∣ciēdū in suis legi∣bus cōcitasse ōnē effugit rationē, cū vtrius{que} lectur’, nō sit eadem causa.