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 2, 2024.

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AT Cācellari{us}. Scio (inquit) {per} hec q̄ iā dicis, prin∣ceps clarissim̄, quā∣ta adūtētia exhor∣tatiōis mee, tu pō∣deras qualitat’ quo me nō infime cōcī¦tas su{per} inceptis, ne¦dū clari{us}, sed et {pro}∣fūdi{us} quodamodo tecūdisceptare. Sci¦re igitur te volo, quod nō solū Deu¦tro. leges, sed et ō∣nes leges humāe sa¦cre sūt, quô lex sub his verbis diffini∣tur. Lex est sāctio

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sancta iubēs hones¦ta, et prohibēs con¦traria sanctum ete¦nim esse oportet, qd’ esse sanctū dif∣finitum est. Ius eti∣am discribi perhi∣betur, quod illud est ars boni et equi cuius merito quis nos sacerdotes ap∣pellat. Sacerd’ enī quasi sacra dās, vel sacra docēs per e∣thimologiā dici∣tur, quia vt dicunt iura, leges sacrae sūt quô eas ministran∣tes et docentes sa∣cerdotes appellan∣tur. A deo etiam sunt omnes leges editae, quae ab homi¦ne {pro}mulgātur. Nā cū dicat Apostol{us},

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quod omnis potes¦tas a domino deo est, leges ab homi∣ne conditae, qui ad hoc a domino reci¦pit potestatem, eti¦am a deo constitu∣untur, dicente auc¦tore causarū: quic quid facit causa se¦cunda, facit et cau¦sa prima, altiori et nobiliori modo. Quare Iosaphat rex Iuda, ait Iudici¦bus suis: iudicia q̄ vos profertis, iudi∣cia dei sunt, secun∣do Paralipo. xix. cap. Ex quibus eru¦diris quod leges licet humanas ad discere, ē addiscere leges sacras et edi∣tiōes dei, quo earū

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studiū nō vacat a dulcedine cōsolati¦onis sc̄ae. Nec tamē vt tu coniicis, dul∣cedo hm̄odi causa fuit cur Moyses re¦ges Israel Deute∣ro. legere p̄ce{per}at. Nam causa hec, nō plus reges quā ple¦beos, ad eius lectu¦rā {pro}uocat, nec pl{us} Deuter. librū quā alios Pētateucō li∣bros legere, pulsat causa ista, cū non minus libri illi, quā Deutero. sacris a∣būdent carismati∣bus, in quibus me∣ditari {per}sanctū est. quare nō aliā fuis∣se causā mādati hu¦ius, quā quia ī Deu¦tronom̄ plus quā ī aliis libris veteris testamēti leg{is} īse∣runtur,

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quibus rex Israel ppl’m rege∣re obnoxius est, e∣iusdē mandati cir∣cūstantiae manifes∣te nos informant. Quo et te prīceps eadē causa, nō mi∣nus quā reges Isra¦el exhortatur vt le¦gum, quibus popu¦lum in futurum re¦ges, tu sis solers in∣dagator. Nā quod Regi Israel dictū est, omni Regi po¦puli videntis de∣um, ticipè dictum fuisse intelligen∣dum est, an tunc non conuenien∣ter vtiliterque pro¦posui tibi manda∣tum Regibus Is∣rael latū de eorū lege addiscenda?

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Dum nedum eius exemplū, sed et e∣ius auctoritas figu¦ralis te erudiuit et obligauit, ad consi¦militer faciendum de legibus regni, quod annuēte do∣mino, hereditatu∣rus es.

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